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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06

At a late hour last evening a futtel-
ing Of wind-stirred cloth outside the
front window OF d frs; floor apartment
at e093 Vysc Avenue. The Bronx, and
ii janitor who lurked in his lair below,
muttering that he was a patriotic citI-
zen." gave proof TO Pcrcival G. Rhine
that his flag was still there.
Whereupon Mr. Rhine turned out the
light in his parlor, locked the ~indo"
opening on the fire escape and went 20
bed after q last look 70 assure himself
that the banner Of his country was in
position 70 greet the dswn's early
light. no matter what further conflict
with janitors that dawn light bring.
But as for J. +. Wecscs. the janitor.
he sat dazed in his subterranean home,
muttering over and over. i never told
him 10 take II down. | only asked him
70. I'm d patriotic citizen. only told
him it looked foolish
Shins Were Barked
For few hours before Mr.. Weekes
had walked with careless feet all over
the patriotic sentiments Of red-not
American. and his shins TO pursue
the metaphor were badly barked IN
consequence.
The moment that he suggested to
Mrs. Rhine that she take the flag out
Of the window. trouble began 20 gather
above him. Before tho strife which
this proposal started had been called
on account Of d9rkness, Mrs. Rhine,
Mr. Rhine. the American Defence so
cietv and numerous neIgHbors mad
been called upon TO give their opinion
Of Mr.. Weekes.
On SUNDAY the news from Washing
ton had made Mr.. Rhine more than
usually red hot in his love Of country.
He was filed with a longing to DO
something for his native land, and the
only idea that occurred to him was 70
90 out and purchase a flag. This ne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
New High Record for APP
pIicationS Set at Nat
uraIizatiOn Bureau
MANY AUSTRIANS
ASK FOR PAPERS
One Petitioner Wants To
Be Subject of Most
Patient" Nation

There was great rush yesterday oil
Germans and Austrians TO become
Americans. The Naturalization Bureau
Of the County Clerks oAice, in the
Hall Of Records, was crowded all day,
the applications for first and second
papers far outnumbering previous rec
ords.
This hurry of the Germans and Aus
TRANS 20 foreswear allegiance 20 their
sOvereigns was interpreted IN various
ways. One argument was that u
proved the loyalty of the German and
Austrian born residents TO the United
States, although many had been here
much longer than the necessary period
for citizenship. Another view was that
some Of the applicants considered that
their action would protect them from
molestation in case OF hostilities. Some
of the applicants were German and
Austrian reservists. Not all knew that
as soon as they had declared their in
tention 20 become American citizens
they made themselves liable 20 call
for military duty if the President
should issue a call or If universal ser
vice Is adopted.
Louis Leibeitz, who has been here
since 1898 without taking out papers
was an applicant yesterday.
IT'S not so much that | wish 20
escape" said Leibeitz. Il know that j {
war did break out and they sent me 10
A camp with my wife the American
government would see that We were well
cared for. But ! want 70 be citizen
of a country that has been more patient
than any on the globe. | want 20 show
my admiration of the United States by
taking out papers and placing myself
liable 10 draft in the army 4,
Al the Naturalization Bureau eighty
five Germans and seventy-three Aus
trians, including Hungarians, yester-
day recslved hrst papers. There were
petitions by fourteen Germans and
eight Austrians for second papers. In
cluded in the two groups we're about a
dozen women.
In the Federal Naturalization Blu
reau, in the Postoffice Building, the
rush for citizenship also was unusually
heavy. Of 40 applicants for first pa
pers. "a were Germans and 81 Aus-
TRANS. while Of the ID petitioners for
final papers II we're Of the two ma
tionalities and included two women.
Germans and Austrians also FREEDOM
mated In the applications for citizen
shin made at the Office Of the County
Clerk in Brooklyn, where there wa
also a great increase Of applicants.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
S30,0O0,O00 RUIN
WROUGHT ON SHIPS
OF GERMANY HERE
Machinery Battered with Axes
and CrowbarS by Embassy
Orders, Is Charge

Every engine IN every German vessel
lying informed in New York Harbor
had been wrecked by axe and crowbar
By tho time that the government had
given Won Bernstorff his passport sc-
cording TO this mornings issue of THE
Sun"
The story which it prints asserts
that German merchant officers delib-
erately sacrificed S50,000,000 worth of
machinery when they received an adj
vance warning that the break between
the two nations had come.
The report relates further that the
message which gave the order for the
destruction was delivered IN person
aboard the liners by an emlssary OF
the German Embassy at Washington.
This person, it IS said, boarded each
Of the ships last Wednesday and gave
the orders TO the officers in charge.
Men Of the crew were then sent into
tho engine rooms 70 smash everything
that would break.
To-day, "The sun says. there is rot
A ship belonging TO Germany IN New
York Harbor that is anything more
than a helpless hulk.
For months past the engines Of the
liners have been chalkcd with signs
known only TO the engine room crews.
4. is said that all except the most
massive portions of the engines will
have to be replaced before the vessels
can put TO sea again. The damage done
TO the machinery Of the Vaterland alone
is said 20 amount 20 S5,O00,000.
Collector Malone has suspected that
the engines have been damaged, but
since ne has been guarding the ships
none of his inspectors has been allowed
below decks. Orders from Washington
held them back from a thorough in
spection Of the craft.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
70 PROTECT SWEDISH SHIPS
hns Gustav Urges State to Insure All
Vessels of Nation

London Feb 6.-"The Morning Posts"
s.oekho.m correspondent says that,
.'th view 20 encouraging Swedish
i'ppng King Gustav has suggested
o TIE R.ksdag that a state war insur-
teee eommi sion should cover the en-
re values Of Swedish ships, accept
.sss for foreign vessels trading with
sssaen and insure captains and crews
'zainst accidents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
CREW OF TORPEp0ED SHIP
RESCUED OFF GIBRALTAR
Fighting Gale in Open Boats, japanese
Seamen Are Exhausted

Galveston, Tex, Feb. Captain Al
de~son of the Norwegian steamship
Agereon. which arrived here to-day
from Gibraltar, reports having pickcc
up. on January >. the captain and ere"
of forty men Of the japanese steam
ship Chinto Maru 220 miles from the
nearest land. The Chinto Maru had
been sunk By submarine shell FIRE on
January 4, according TO members Of
the crew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
Nineteen at Ellis Island.
Others Guarded; Protest
Against Detention
HOBOKEN'S MAYOR
TAKES PRECAUTIONS
Puts Additional Men in
Public Buildings and
Watches Munitions

Nineteen members OF the crews OF
the warbound German liners, deprived
Of their former shore leave privileges
went to Ellis Island yesterday. They
had insisted on their right 20 land and
had been informed that their right in
that respect was the same as that Of
any other alien-they could enter the
United States by the usual Ellis Island
route if they were eligible.
Eighteen Of those who spent dis
contented night at the expense Of the
government were seamen. The nine
teenth and most Indignant member Of
the band. was the matron Of the Water
land. Miss Elsie Schwartz. D.. Otto
Ecker. physician Of the Naterlsnd, was
permitted 10 land as a tourist and take
quarters in a hotel. About 600 OF the
original $500 members Of the crews
still remain on board the vessels.
The Secretary OF Labor issued a
statement defining the status Of Ger
man seamen IN American ports. SO
long as they remain on shlpbosrd they
are on German territory and not with
in the jurisdiction Of United States Of
fcials. IF they want 20 land they must
do so under the same conditions as
other aliens.
Naval Crews Guarded
The crews OF informed auxiliary
cruisers or similar craft belong TO the
military or naval forces Of the German
Empire. They are being taken of their
ships and placed under guard.
Miss Schwartz thought that the De
partment of Labor was too fussy and
declared that she saw no reason for her
detention. Germany. she said, was not
az war with America She tramped the
visitors corridor at Ellis Island under
the eve of an immigration matrOn and
ate her evening meal under protest.
I've were asked ny INN grafton Off
cials if we wished 70 leave our ships
said Miss Schwartz. I'm that event, We
were instructed 20 pack mp our belong
ings and make ready TO 90 20 Ellis
Island. a. We had 20 90 through some
kind OF examination before we could
land. We never dreamed that there
would be so much trouble
Miss Schwartz and the others are
held a. persons subject 20 a special i'm
curry before boards composed Of three
immigration inspectors each. All were
deferred. but not excluded. Relatives
or friends. particularly the former
must call and prove 10 the government
that they are persons able and willing
TO care for the aliens before the latter
will be released.
Men in Locked Room
b. order of Assistant Commissioner
Byron H. Uhl and Superintendent
Baker. the eighteen men were locked
in a separate room. They were only
permitted 20 leave when supper was
ready. The crew members will eat at
the governments expense until they
are released. If any OF these nineteen
should he excluded and ordered deport
ed an appeal may be taken to the De-
partment of Labor.
WHY" was the one word repeat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06

Hungarian Foreign Minister, Count
Czcrnin, after which 10 was announced
that the relations between the United
states and Austria-HJngary were not
yet affected
The news OF the rupture of relations
between Germany and America was re-
ceivcd by the press here with great
calm. Confidence was expressed by the
newspapers that President Wilson's de-
ciSion did not find the German. and
Austro-HuEgarian governments UMPIRE
pared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
SHIPS TO AND FROM
N. Y. IN WAR ZONES

The passenger liners nor IN or
approaching the UGr zone are:
Vessel. Departure.
Holland america
Ryndam CO... y. !. Jan. IS, Falmouth
White Star
Baltic. .....N. y. Jan. 20, Liverpool
American
New York. Liverpool, Feb. 3. y. \.
Norwegian
B'r'gnsfj'rd y. Y. Jan. -, Bergen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
s11.66l in Gifts for Columbia

Gifts of Sii, SOL were announced yes
terday afternoon by the trustees OF
Columbia University. The honorary
degree of IL. d. was conferred upon
George L. Rives, retiring chairman Of
the board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
American Envoy Sees
Austrian Foreign Minister

Vienna. Feb. 5.--After the receipt OF
news of the breaking off Of diplomatic
relations between the United states
and Germany on Saturday, Freoer,ick
{. Penfeld, the American Ambassador
had a long conference with the Austro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06
Saws u. s. Action, Forerun
ner of Teuton Isolation,
Brings End Nearer
DECLARATION OF WAR
IS THOUGHT CERTAIN
Other Officials Regard the
U-BOat Threat as Ber-
Inns Last Gasp

Petrograd. Feb. 5.-"The end Of the
rr is now I'm sight" said Michael v.
goGzianko. president Of the Duma, to-
ay
In welcoming Americas decisive
SEP am not only speaking for my
,slf, but expressing .he attitude Of the
Allies. whose representatives discussed
With me at yesterdays reception by
he Duma the rupture Of German
American relations. feel that an
American declaration OF war on Ger
many must follow and in that case the
scandinavian countries and Holland
would undoubtedly follow the lead Of
me United States, resulting in the
complete isolation Of Germany end her
allies from the rest Of the world. This
Undoubtedly would end the war.
America Can Aid Allies
The breaking of Of diplomatic re-
haOns with Germany by the greatest
-eutral. whose patience has been Sc
yereiy tested, VIII have a most depress
ing efee. on the Central Powers. I an
rot overesrimating Americas military
strength, but with eer feet and avail
aoIe merchant tonnage she can De OF
invaluable assistance 20 the AlIes,
while Germany viii be cut OF from
ufther supplies to the point OF COM
,.ete exhaustion.
Frankly. we as q nation did not ap-
wovs OF President Wilson's trst mes
re. L. was TOO capable of being in
.srpreted a. Intervention more iaEor-
BE- 70 Germany than 20 ourselves. But
as last measure Of the United states
Governuent sounds the knell OF Ger
zsa ambitions. History will Justly ap-
rsse President Wilson's stand.
The Foreign Minister. VI. Pokrovsky
aid:
The breach is Of undoubted advan-
sre for gs. Germany has set against
.srself the most powerful OF the neu-
raj nations. President Wilson made
Tery effort 20 put sense into the heaos
q the Germans, without avail
Germany's Last Stand
Germany must have foreseen that
III declaration or merciless submarine
vsrfare against the world would call
Ut more Than protests from the neu-
.rals. 50 that the decision 20 take the
s,ep shows that she considered she had
loiAing further q lose
Sszgius sazonof, the former Foreign
Eak;er. sees Germany grasping az "a
~ out He says that Germany hav-
~ surrounded herself with powerful
enemies. viii make gesture and then
aeEaow.edge her inability 70 resist
9ngsr.
The Petr0grad newspapers devote
zach space 20 a discussion OF the
breach. and a majority Of them declare
nat war Is likely 20 follow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-06

"The rail
roads are the
sick man of
American bust
ness" says Edward
Hungerford and he
tells why, and what
should be done, in
THE Railroad Prob
lem,' a tWO-part
article starting in
this weeks issue of
Golfers
NATIONAL vLsHLr
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07
AT LAST

There is One Who Knows When the
War is Going TO End
Absolute knowledge l have none
Put my aunt's washerwoman's sisters
son
Heard policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last week
Written in the finest of Greek
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo
Who said the niggers in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in Texas town
Who got it straight from circus
clown
That man in Klondike heard the
news
From gang of South American Jews
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard a man who claimed to
know
Of a swell female society rake
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove that her seventh husbands
sisters niece
Has stated in printed piece
That she has son who has a friend
Who knows when the war is going to
end. Selected.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07
A DIGNIFIED LETTER
(DeLand News


Chris. o. Codrington, county COM
missioner from the DeLand district.
on Wednesday received the following
dignified letter from the governor of
the state of Florida:
Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. %, 1917.
Mr.. Chris o. Codrington, DeLand, Fla.
Dear Sir: | note that you will not
be present at the trial You say YOU
do not feel financially able to spend
$40 or $50 to make the trip. You can
do as you wish in regard to this mat
ter as this is free country but I do
not like the tone of your letter. You
say if the charges are real you are en-
titled to copy of them, no inkling
having yet been given you as to their
nature. You are summoned here to
knew the nature of them, but you re-
fuse to come. In case you are sus-
pended you will certainly know the
reason why. In case you are not sus-
pended / do not think that / will send
you a copy of the charges for you
have plainly declared that you will not
come before me.
Yours very truly,
Sidney ]. Cats, Governor.
That this letter was written and
signed by the chief executive of the
great state of Florida when no
charges were on file in the governors
Office, can indicate only one thing
that Governor Cats is in the hands of
a set of politicians who are leading
him on to the fate of Sulzer of New
York and Ferguson of Texas.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

/ AS was expected, Gov. Cats declin-
ed the public debate to which Con-
gresham Clark challenged him, and
as was also expected, his reply was
without dignity and full of the brag-
CART spirit the public looks for now
whenever his excellency "gits proper
ly het up agin his enemies" He
wouldn't debate with Mr.. Clark, but
he threatened to "wallop him" with a
hickory stick if he "ever NEEDLES with
my business again." Great state pa
pers like that, profound in thought,
scholarly in verbiage, lifty in senti-
ment and full ola noble appeal to the
highest intelligence of the people of
Florida, make us all proud of our gov
ernor. Some rich Floridian, in the
fullness of his state pride, should put
up the money to have this sweet docu-
ment printed in pamphlet form and
circulated broadcast just to show the
outside world what a polished and
erudite statesman we have at last sue
ceeded in evolving down here to put
at the head of our state government
and go into some future hall of fame.
Quincy Times.
The dear friends of Cats in this
community will declare the foregoing
from the Quincy Times was dictated
by prejudice.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07
MOSS BLUFF

Moss Bluff, Sept. 6.-Miss Della
Harkey of Muclan Farms and Miss
Selma Mckinney were the guests of
Miss Alma Fort Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harkey and children
of Muclan were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
A. N. Taylor Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Griggs and
family were Sunday visitors of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Mckinney.
Miss Frances Ramsey who taught
here last year, and is teaching at
Spar this year was visiting Miss
Martha Fort and Miss Mary Hoyt
Martin last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Oliver Fort and others went to
Blitchton Sunday to hear Governor
Cats preach.
The farmers here are busy picking
cotton while the sun shines. When
wet weather begins the farmers look
little sad for they know that their
pretty white cotton is getting wet.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

The DeLand News, telling of the
case of the Volusia county commits
sioners, whom Cats. summarily sus-
pended, says: "A telegram received
this morning from Tallahassee states
that SholtZ, Sparkman, Stewart &
Stewart presented their case against
members of the board of county COM
missioners to the governor yesterday
afternoon, concluding at o'clock
Judge Fish, county attorney, asked
that he be given four days in which
to secure affidavits and testimony in
which to rebut Sholtz and Stewart
demanded that he be given only two
hours, while the governor would grant
no time whatever. Thereupon, Judge
Fish declined to make any effort at
defense. The nature of the charges
are unknown here. The News will
make an effort to secure a copy of the
charges, and if it can do so, will pub
lish them in full If the charges were
in writing, there should be no diff
Guilty in securing copy of them; if
they were verbal only, so as to avoid
damage suits where they are untruth-
full, it will be impossible to secure a
copy of the charges. Dave Sholtz has
been very busy getting some one in
DeLand to agree to accept the COM
missionership here. He has called up
several people on the phone and of
fered' them the position; at least two
have declined. F. M. Curry is said
to be his latest candidate. Curry will
make good one, and if appointed
will not be Dawes tool. But why not
consult Senator Alexander and other
DeLand citizens? What right has
Dave Sholtz of Daytona to name the
DeLand commissioner ?"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

We hear much discussion pro and
con about opening Main street to the
rev union station. Some people think
it isn't being done because some of
the councilmen own property on Mag
nolia. We don't see why another good
street alongside Magnolia should hurt
people who own property on that
thoroughfare. It would probably make
them better off. The truth is that
the city hasn't the money to open
Main street at present. 1t is not near
so necessary an improvement as put
ting in good order some of the streets
already open, and it should be remem-
bered that the vast bulk of city taxes
is paid by property holders who have
10 special interest in either Magno-
liza or Main. We think Main street
should be opened as soon as it can be
done, but there is whole lot Of
things more necessary just now.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

The Russian peasant has always
been driven into the army; now he is
told he is free and his first use of his
freedom is to leave the army into
which he had been driven by the
knout. You can't make a citizen by
relieving him of tyrant; you must
wait till his mind has appreciated the
fact that a good citizen accepts the
obligations of duty and obeys the
law.-Times-U Union.
The foregoing is one of the chinks
CT wisdom the T-U. hands out once in
awhile.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

From the secret archives of the de-
posed Tsar Nicholas of Russia, Her.
man Bernstein, special correspondent
of the New York Herald, has obtain
ed and cabled to the Herald secret
kilograms which passed between the
tsar and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
during 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907,
which reveal the willy kaiser using the
tsar as dupe, in carefully laid pro-
gram to form an alliance between
Germany, Russia and France for the
crushing of England. France was to
know nothing of the project until a
treaty between Germany and Russia
had been consummated, when, it was
believed. France would be obliged, as
an ally of Russia, to enter the combi-
nation. All through this correspond
ence the kaiser is shown skilfully
bending Nicholas to his will. his APP
parent purpose being first to crush
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

The Ocala Star says Marion county
il; as near self-supporting as any part
of the civilized country, then in the
list of a few things the county does
not raise is sugar. Marion county
should be selling sugar to the rest of
the country.-Tampa Tribune.
Wonder if our esteemed contempor-
airy has figured on the cost of putting
in sugar refinery? A farmer can
raise and make his own sugar, but
pays him better to raise something
else to buy the sugar with. Marion
county can supply itself if cut off
from the rest of the world, but as
long as it isn't it had better do like
ether civilized communities and carry
on commerce with the rest of the
world. A Marion county farmer can
buy with hog that he can raise for
"a few dollars more sugar than he can
make by home methods in a year.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

Have your prescriptions filled at the
COURT PHARMACY, where you can
be certain that they are compounded
of the best drugs, the utmost care and
without delay. 17-tf
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07
ODD FELLOWS

, Tulula Lodge No. %, l. o. o. F.,
meets every Tuesday evening in the
Odd Fellows hall on the third floor of
the Star office building at o'clock
promptly. A warm welcome always
extended to visiting brothers
Oscar Andrews, N. G..
w. L. Colbert, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

The Germans make great claims of
their superior "kultur," yet it is the
the French and British, but our own
Americans, that they defiled homes
and inns in France, which they were
compelled to leave, with unnamable
filth. Even the most ignorant, of our
American negroes would recoil with
instructive disgust from the acts of
nastiness that German troops have
committed in the homes of refined
people.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-07

The Lakeland Telegram appropri-
ately says: "The drafted men are GO
ing away without any great flourish
of trumpets, but they nevertheless
bear with them the respect and re-
gard of the communities from which
they CO."