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years back to make New York harbor
and its connecting waters disable to Il
greater extent was good advice, and
action. and speedy action too. is being
taken to lessen somewhat the discom-
fort TO trade which the lack OF interest
in the ports needs has caused. APP
propriations have been made for deep
ening He'll Gate and the East River to
Its entrance into the Sound. This action
would indicate that the Government sees
the speedy solution of New Yorks dis
comforts in the upper East River and
the broad Sound. Washington seems
particularly interested In Flushing Bay,
perhaps one OF the finest landlocked
basns of any great area within the
reaches of the port.
During the last week the Harbor Line
Board considered a new bulkhead survey
Tor Flushing Creek, and in the next ten
days the Board of Estimate will be
asked 10 pass on the line, since II is
understood that the Government repre-
sentatives have accepted the pier line
which the Typographical Bureau of the
Borough of Queens laid down for the
creek. Then the State has shown its
interest in Flushing Bay by locating
there one OF the terminals of the new
State Barge Canal. which Is the dlrec,
waterway route not only upstate but to
Canada and the great West Private
interests have done much to improve the
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are worldwide. For instance. College
Point, located on the east arm of the
horseshoe in which the bay nestles. is
the site of half hundred factories
which employ from rs TO $500 men
each. There will he found the makers
Of rubber goods. airpla mes, printing
presses, silk, dyestuffs dress shields
chemicals, shoes. metal doors, varn.snes
and paints, oxygen and Il score of other
things. College Point is the first home
OF the rubber industry. The American
Hard Rubber Company came there
sixty years ago and has continued to
manufacture there and grow each year
until to-day several thousand workmen
are employed within the walls of it,
buildings. This is only a corner or the
great area which seems destined to come
under the influence Of the great COM
mercial expansion bror,ht about by the
war and which is going TO do for Flush
ing Bay more perhaps than for any
other location within the compounds Of
II e port of New York.
1t is the first large body OF water of
the roadstead. which the Government
Is preparing to dredge through He'll
Gate. connecting the lower East River
with the broad arm of the Atlantic
ocean, as Long Island Sound may
Justly be termed. II is at the point
where the river meets the Sound so
that there is plenty OF water right OF
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO MAKE FLUSHING BAY IDEAL
SITE FOR H4PBUILDINC AND INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

maica Is another rapid transit facility
which should he placed In operation dur
Ing the coming year. There Is no more
important matter to the Third ward OF
he borough than the early consumma-
ion of the proposed lease OF the tracks
u the Long Island Railroad for the OPP
,ration OF the rapid transit trains TO
Flushing, College Point, Whitestone'
Bayside. &C.
IAN improvement which is greatly
needed, and which we hope Will be
brought about this year. Is the estab-
lshment Of a local service with 10
cent fare on the Long Island Railroad
between Long Island City and Jamaica
and a FIVE cent fare between Woodside
and Jamaica. our transit committee
has worked on this matter for sererS
years. Now that the rapid transit OK
tension to woodside Is In operation the
time Is opportune TO secure the estab-
lishment Of this needed service, which
will make both the Woodside station
and the Hunters Point avenue station.
where the railroad and rapid transit
lines intersect, as important traffic CEN
tres as the f'latbush avenue station IN
Brooklyn.
'Ne must continue the work TO Sc
cure the Improvement OF the East River
water frontage, fIusnlnS nay anu
Flushing Creek and Newtown Creek, and
also to advance the Improvement OF ia
maica Bay.
During the current year the New
York State Barge Canal will be placed
IN operation, and IT is essential that the
three barge canal terminals In the Bor-
ough Of Queens be improved so that
freight can be received and shipped al
these points.
The improvement OF Queens Boule-
ward from Long Island city to Jamaica
must be started. The Improvement OF
Rockaway turnpike. which will shorten
the distance from Jamaica to Far Rock
away, must be fastened; the connection
known as marlborough Parkway. from
Brooklyn to Queens. should be built
without delay: several other important
highway matters are urgently needed
for the best interests of the development
of the borough.
Now that some Of our rapid transit
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York is hard to secure. II also puts to
rout the argument that 1t requires time
to build factories in these times. The
nearness OF the Long Island Railroad
and the Sunnyside yard OF the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, one of the great
Eastern freight terminals OF this rail-
road system Is assurance that fuel and
raw material could not be denied the
Flushing Bay district. The railroad taps
the richest coal fields Of Pennsylvania,
which is a feature which manufacturers
cannot help but consider as a very i'm
portant factor In deciding the selection
of a factory site.
II Is planned to build marginal rail-
road around the bay and along Bowery
Bay to Astoria, connecting with the sun
nyside yard. OF the railroad would be
spurs leading into every section that
would be Influenced by the development
of Flushing Bay as a great shipping and
manufacturing place
The New York Connecting Railroad
and bridge to Long Island connects
Long Island City and Flushing with all
the factory centres of New England and
vast raw material centres. Business
interests are pulling for a speedy de-
velopment Of the Flushing Bay project
because ii will prove big addition to
harbor facilities and bring into imme-
diate demand a great area of very de-
sirable property for commercial use.
The housing and labor facilities In
the Flushing Bay district compare more
favorably than most sections Of Greater
New York, ! lushing being one of the
oldest established Colonial towns, boast
Ing of two centuries OF development.
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aims of the business men, the landown-
ers and the jewellers of this great bor-
ough will not be attained. Everything
seems to point to success. Tho remaTk-
able business expansion, the increase
in population and the large amount Of
money which has been invested in in
dustrles and homes are coupled with the
completion Of the many promised munic-
inal improvements. chiefly transit. which
the commercial interests and the home
owner have demanded,
What the future holds for this Land
of Promise" was told recently by George
j. Ryan. president OF the Chamber OF
Commerce OF the Borough OF Queens.
Mr., Ryan said:
During the current year we must Sc
cure the operation of the Second avenue
elevated road across the Greensboro
Bridge and over the extensions to
Astoria and Corona. We must see that
no delay occurs in the completion and
operation of the new tunnel under the
Fast River at SIxteth street for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway trains
I'VE must work In cooperation with
the Brooklyn organizations to secure the
construction Of the crosstown rapid
transit line that will give "A direct rapid
transit route between Queens Borough
with its elevated extensions, and those OF
the Borough of Brooklyn
THE operation of Jamaica avenue ele-
waited road from Cypress Hills to ia
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edge OF the Degnon Company property.
When he finished he had cut channel
thirty-five feet deep through the bay
Il ON the Sound down the bay to the
small river which winds back through
the country for miles to jamaica Bay on
the other side Of the island and the loca-
ton of future shipping terminal Of
great proportion.
The connection shows the reason for
the Government interest in FLUSHING
Bay and Flushing Creek. The widening
and deepening Of the creek would have
the effect OF cutting the west end OF
Long Island from the eastern end and
would connect two projected business
terminals and Join the waters OF the
Sound with the Atlantic Ocean. The
strategical value of such a plan from
"A military as well as commercial
standpoint In not hard to appreciate. II
would be to New York what the KEEL
Canal Is to Germany. Its greatest
value would be from the business stand
point, because all the acres for miles
along the creek and around the Bay
would be claimed for factories and ware
house purposes. Big ships win be en-
abled to 20 through the creek " the
Government will do all 1t has said It will
do. At present Its plans are not so am
bilious. But there Is everything to point
to the utilization of the waterfront
property on Flushing Bay within the
next few years at the very latest by con-
Germs which would require deep chan
nels as part of their business locations.
Bargcs Of the greatest depth can now
he brought into the Bay and to the
side OF any of the several thousands
acres along the shore now being pre-
pared for commercial development
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a time when It can Ill afford to have
weaknesses In disclosing the short
comings OF the port the crisis has dis
closed its wonderful possibilities. Sur
veys Of every nature have developed the
fact that New York is n greater port
than many people thought II to be.
Several days ago large party OF Con-
gressmen was taken OH n tour of in
spection Of the harbor and the adjacent
waterways. What they saw and the
facts they heard caused them to think
seriously. When n port of New York
bill or appropriation comes up again
there is a certainty that these men will
vote favorably in the matter. having
come to realize. some of them for the
first time. that New York Is choking,
and in choking the entire commercial
fabric Of the nation is seriously endan-
gered
Official Washington now realizes that
the urging Of business men for many
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bay, and now that the Government Is
ready to deepen the creek Just as soon
as the city has completed the bulk
heading Of the shore line. II seems that
Flushing and the country for miles about
this waterway is destined as the site
OF great commercial and manufac-
turing section. Aside from the water
way improvements projected and those
rumored the wonderful railroad facilities
almost at It's door would sooner or later
bring about the utilization of the many
acres around the shore OF the bay and
along the creek. The Long Island Rail-
road cannot be considered in any other
light but n continuation Of the Pennsyl-
vania system. which ties all the indus
trial centres of the country as far West
as the Pacific with the great Eastern
market and shipping point of America.
This factor alone has led to the To-
eating In the Flushing Bay section of
number of concerns whose regulations
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along the upper East River, that part
q: the river where IT tunnels out to meet
the Sound, would have been lined with
riers and wharyes that would accommo-
date many ships From the point OF
safety the skipper would sooner put
into cove or landlocked bay such as
Flushing Bay, where his ship and Its
cargo would not be subject TO the whims
OF the currents and the storms
The pee1on companies. with the fore
sight which led to the development Of
the Degnon Industrial Terminal In Long
Island City a wonderful commercial
addition to New York. lave had an eve
on the future of Flushing Bay for many
years. Several years ago Mr. Degnon
decided 10 I~epare his acres more than
1000 in area, on the south shore OF the
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the bay. The completion OF this road
stead means that Long Island Sound
would be linked by n deep channel with
New York Bay by way or the East
River. 1t requires no stretch OF the
imagination to see large steamships,
the cargo carriers OF the world, steam
ing past He'll Gate and into Flushing
Bay or down the Sound to Flushing.
Years ago the battleship Massa chu-
eetts sailed up the East River from the
navy yard and out through the Sound
At that time this northward passage
from New York was not as roomy nor
as deep as II Is to-day. because It was
before the start Of the urging for better
waterways. II the marine insura nee
companies could be prevailed upon to
lift the restraint placed on shippers
from steaming north a certain distance
In the East River there would not be
10 many ships lying in the lower bay
awaiting berths. The owners OF property
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Large Acreage to
Be Made Avail.
able for Manu-
facturers Always
Has Jagged Be.
hind Rest Of CITY
Nov Expected
to Become Most
Important Indus,
trial Centre

lines are IN operation. attention mus
be called to the advantages that this
community offers to builders ~ homes
OF every type. One OF the creates, needs
Of the Borough OF Queens to-day Is a
larger amount OF building operations to
house both the employees of the large
number OF new industries and tho grea,
influx OF population that Is hound IN
come with the operation OF these RAPID
transit lines"
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with modern factory and the plants
In operation.
The facility with which this property
can be improved gives reason for ques-
tioning the sincerity OF the claim that
waterfront property convenient 10 New
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bay running along Jackson avenue, the
main highway from Flushing to Long
Island city. He set dredges at work in
the bay and they sucked up tons and
tons OF bottom which was dumped be-
hind a bulkhead erected at tho water
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QUEENS BOROUGH
LAND OF PROMISE

Queens has often been called the
Land of Promise" Since most OF the
big things which have been planned or
prophesied for 1t have been realized
there is no reason to believe that the
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BUYS IN MOUNT VERNON.

Frederick Brown has bought from
client OF A. q. Nelson the one and two
story buildings on plot 11oNlo5. on
South sixth avenue near West Fire.
street. Mount Vernon, y. Y.
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TO SPEND $4,000 on DWELLING

The dwelling at +3 Park avenue IL 10
have new front and rear wall N-c.
proof floors and a rear extension for !
T.. Berwind as owner. Walter Lund l.
the architect and has estimated the cos.
at $4,000.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
Need More Houses.

[ United Press Leased Wire Servfce.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Real es-
tate prohteers, operating around ship
building plants, are cutting the ex-
pected output of ships in half, declar-
ed Admiral Bowles, head Of the Emerg-
ency Fleet corporation, before tho
house merchant marine committee to-
day. He urged immediate passage Of
the bill authorizing the corporation to
provide sufficient government housing
for ship workers wherever needed.
The measure has passed the senate.
we could double the number OF
employees ~ many of our plants If we
had quarters to house the men"
Bowles said. at one plant alone we
can turn out 1900 additional tons Of
shipping this year, il we are given the
authority to build the houses necessary
for the additional workers needed
there"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25

Eg Nowadays We get this famous mix
ture improved by the addition OF other
ingredients by asking at any drug
store for bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound" which darkens
the hair so natur lily, so eyealy, that
nobody can possibly tell it has been
applied. You just dampen a sponge
or soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time. By morning the gray
hair disappears: but what delights the
ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound is that, besides beautifully
darkening the hair after few appli-
cations. it also brings back the gloss
and lustre and gives it an appearance
Of abundance.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is a delightful toilet requisite
to impart color and youthful appear
ance to the hair. 1t Is not intended
for the cure, mitigation or prevention
of disease.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
London View Of Speech.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
LONDON, Jan. 25.-Comment Of
the London press on Czernin's and
HertIing's speeches today showed
wide divergence.
The Westminster Gazette declared:
'1f Chancellor Hertling's speech Is
what it appears to be, the next word
is not for us, but for Czernin, the
Austrian parliament, and the people.
Regarding freedom of navigation,
Hertling appears to seize upon this
point in an attempt to drive wedge
between Britain and America regard
ing Gibraltar, and other British points
d'appui. We think we are justified in
saying this is not President Wilson's
view"
The Standard says:
THE governments Of Berlin and
Vienna are spiritual twins; the only
cure for their moral disease Is defeat
in the field or domestic revolution.
The war must go on until one or the
other thing happens
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
Russian Ship is Held.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
A PACIFIC PORT, Jan. 25.-Be-
cause the United States has not given
recognition to the Lenine-Trotsky gov
eminent Of Russia, the Russian volun-
teer fleet corporations steamer Mini
Novgorod was held in port here today
while officials tried to decide course
of action.
The owning company is Russian
government concern which still Is 10y
al to Kerensky.
Two other vessels OF the same line
are enroute here from Japan, it is
said. and probably will be detained on
arrival Federal officials fear the yes
sells would be seized by the Bolsheviki
II allowed to sail.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
unmritten Law Fails.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.J
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 25,-"The
unwritten law" and public confession
of misconduct by his wife failed tn
save Peter ]. Pearson. charged with
the murder OF William J. Collins. A
Jury, after six hours deliberation
Yesterday returned verdict OF guilty
of murder in the second degree. The
maximum penalty Is life imprison-
ment.
The Pearsons lived in Fargo. N. D..
in 1916, when Mrs. Pearson met Col
Inns on a train and an intimacy be-
gan, which according to testimony
was disclosed to the husband IN
dream. Pearson found Collins In De
troit. and shot him November IA. last
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
M.,,.d Nv Warm Weather.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. S5. The
freight congestion in the east is melt
ing away under the influence Of warm
er weather and the embargo on un-
necessary freight shipments over
three big trunk lines. 1t was an.
nounced today that II a cold wave
does not return before Monday, the
temporary embargo now in effect will
be lifted at that time.
Orders were issued to reroute east
ern bound freight SO as to avoid the
embargo on certain lines.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25

spoustbility for views expressed bs
correspondents. Writers OF commuhf
cations must furnish their names
NOT necessarily for publication. but
for the information OF the sditoI.I
Where Diseases Originate.
To the Editor of The Gate CITY:
Common sense" seems to have
had fight of imagination. Every
medical man in this city and else
where. whose experience entities MN
TO give an opinion of any Vaiue'
knows that children contract smail-
box, diphtheria, measles, wnooplhG
cough, scarlet fever, ETC., at school
and carry it home; that they 90 ho'
get il at home and carry 1t to school.
Why? Because fifty-four per cent. VI
all children attending school nave
tho bacillus of certain diseases in
their noses or threats. As long as
the opsonic index (the Vitality or
the person is normal, the person Is
Wen. the bacillus harmless. But let
the vitality of the person become
lowered by bad ventilation or escape
of sewer gas in the crowded schooi.
room then the bacillus in some OF
rnsn, q e,eAe5nfss enU4sa '-: "a sa.ie><aes
is the result.
AT the present time there are cases
of scarlet fever in every ward OF the
city-an mild cass>s>wItn posi-.
bility OF some OF them becoming
malignant
schools We're closed ksia.rF:
ing the holidays the cases decllneo
thirty-three per cent.
The scales during desquamauon
from a case of scarlet fever contain
the poison and this poison has long
vitality, unaffected by freezing OF
thawing; hence, thorough fumisauon
is absolutely necessary to prevent
the spread of disease. At the pres
eut time the schoolhouses are not
f,1miested oftener than once every
two weeks. To do any good they
should be fumigated AT least twice
per week and in addition sprayed
with an antiseptic fluid daily.
The city sewers should be thor
oughly flushed. there having been no
rain for several weeks. The sanitary
condition of the schoolhouses should
be frequently carefully Inspected by
a fearless medical man to get the
proper result
DR.. H a. KINNAMAN.
Keokuk, Iowa, Jan. 25, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
Why Chilly Weather
Brings Rheumatism
Says skin pores are closed and
uric acid remains
in blood.

Rheumatism IS no respecteT OF age,
sex. color OF rank II not the most
dangerous of human Affections, it is
one Of the most painful Those sub
=ecI TO rheumatism should eat less
meat, dress as warmly as possible,
avoid any undue exposure and, above
all. drink lots o. pure water.
rheumatism is caused by uric acid
which is genrated in the bowels and
absorbed into the blood. It is the
function Of the kidneys to filter this
acid from the blood and cast 1t out
in the urine, the pores OF the skin ara
also q means OF freeing the blood Of
this imY1-ity. In damp and chilly,
cold weather the skin pores are
closed, thus forcing the kidneys to do
double work. they become weak and
sluggish and fail TO eliminate this
uric acid. which Keeps accommodating
and circulating through the system,
eventually settling in the joints and
muscles, causing stiffness, soreness
and pain called rheumatism.
At the first tvinge OF rheumatism
get from any pharmacy about four
ounces OF Jad Salts; put a tablespoon
fore breakfast each morning for a
week This is said to eliminate uric
| acid by stimulating the kidneys to
normal action. thus Kidding the blood
! OF these impurities.
! Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless
and is made from the acid OF grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia
and is used with excellent results by
! thousands Of folks who are subject to
rheumatism. Here you have z pleas
ant, effervesceut lithia-water drink
which overcomes uric acid and is ben.
eficial to your kidneys as well
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
stole 500 Goats.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service
Ell PASO. Texas, Jan. 25.-Three
bandits crossing from the United
States side of the Mexican border at
a point near Pelea, Mexico, tied three
terders to trees, drove a herd OF f1ve
hundred goats to Ell Paso where they
sold them and after loading them on
freight cars, escaped, according to
word received here today from Juarez
customs officials.
The herders, found after being tied
to the trees for thirty-six houYs, are
said to be dying.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25

pay his share. Don't let him get
away scot free. He is the only pro-
fiteer under the Garfield order"
When Earl Dean Howard den,,,,,
fuel administrator of Illinois. speaker
of the day, had finished his tall,
about the organization, work and
difficulties of the administration and
hurried away to his office, the famea
burst and motions. and Resolutions
and floods Of talk poured out.
THE landlord suffers nothing at
ALL" declared A D. Ranstead. He
even makes money. We shut down
our factories, lose money and nav
him rent. He shuts down his fur.
naces and boilers and saves on the
coal. 1t is all one sided. The land.
lord is the favored one"