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New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Three New Workers
Get Commissions
IStaf CoyYespondencel |

WASHINGTON, March T. Reserve
corps commissions issued to- day by the
War Department included the following
to New Workers.
s1anus Emmanuel Ornsteil. 615 West
143d Stree., and William II. Field,
Brooklyn, first lieutenants, Medical
Corps.
Charles H. Jones, 20 Broad Street,
first lieutenant. Railway Iransporta-
ton Corps, National Army.
Improved Medical Services at the
base hospita! at Camp Wadsworth,
Spartanburg, $. c., where the New
York National Guard is in training,
was ordered to-day by the War De-
pGrtment. Major Lawrence Ltchtied
was assigned to confer With Majo
Licwel!yn Sale. medical officer at Spar
pital facilities there with view to
recommending Improvements necessary
to the surgeon general of the army.
The War Department to day assigned
Major Frederick NJ. Waterbury. for
merly Of the New York National Guard,
as depot ordnance officer of tho pro
visional corps and army troops being
formed out Of the surplus New York
Guard at Spartanburg. .Lajor Water
bvry has been instructor OF small arms
firing at Camp Wadsworth for the
past month.
Tho following New Yorkers we're
designated to-day BY the department
To take the entrance exam nation d.
West Point Military Academy this
month Wilton II. Mears, .i06 Monroe
Street. Brookivr; James 5. Collins, 175
Fast 1i6th Street. Albert Benjamin
Kurtz, % East l09th Street; George
T. Rohntoa. 1904 Lexington Avenue;
Jacob Cussak, $40 East 1t3d Street;
George Crowley, 202 Fast Sixty y-cighth
Street. and William j. R2hman, 195
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Three Women Perish
When Dwellings Burn

Three oncn died yesterday and a
number OF persons were overcome by
smoke in fires that gained such head
way that they could not escape.
One was y .,ray- haired music teacher
known as Mrs Ryan, who vas suf-
focatcd by smoke IN the brownstone
rooning house at 235 West Twenty
second Street
The others were ncgrcsses, who
were burned TO death AT IA West
139th street. One Of them was Mrs.
Mabel ST. Claire, Of Larchmont. n. Y.
The other has not been identified
All 5f the occupants Of the house in
Harlem we're negroes. and by ques-
tion!ng them the police believe that
the unidentified woman was Miss Mil
Ter. who is missing.
The flames ate their way from the sec
ond floor till they were bursting from
the windows and shooting out above
the roof. All the other occupants
escaped
In Twenty-s4cond Street the fire
started whcn Mrs. Maria Gonzales up
get an oil stove and tho tank burst
gpreading the flames. She got out
with hex nine. 'nontlis-old baby and
gavc he ainfm.
Oenor 'csauiz ran ~ lhc street, but
Sjlss Julia pcgtou 'tartod oacA =
sioip ft.o 4aos;r euchcf and tgas over
como by emoNe. fIfonefl. got her out
and found TINT Mrs. Rynn "as dead.
rharicg !irraer.. oiq6ty-shrec yenr'
old. formerly ar actor, was overcome
aud carried out.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
PostoHce Station
For Airships Sought
Dyker Heights May Be Eastern
erminus Of Proposed Mail
Route

he eastern terminus of the New
York and Washington aeroplane mail
route will probably be located at Dylzer
Beach Park, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn,
postotfice officials announced Yesterday.
An inspection of several available To-
cations was made during the day by
Postmaster Walter c. Burton, Park
Commissioner John Harman, an. avia-
tion officer from Mineola and repre-
sentative of the Second Assistant Post
master General, Otto Praeger. Definite
decision will be made within a few
days.
According to plans, the aerial mail
service viii start on April Is. One
trip day will be made each way. The
postal authorities estimate the trip
from one terminal to the other at
three hours. with allowance made for a
stop-over at Philadelphia
Each aerial postman will be able to
carry 300 pounds of mail, or approx
mately 1900 letters. Special postage
rates have been made for the air SER
vice. so that to send 4 letter from
Washington to New York in that way
will cost "a cents
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08

ward added, Mr. Redmond said to him:
For the sake Of the old days on the
Leinster Circuit, let's have good hand
shake"
Honorable Opponent, Says Carson
after the rebellion of 1916" con-
tinued Sir Edward, ~ had several con-
versations with John Redmond. In
deed. we were not very far apart in our
attempts ut q settlement Of the Irish
question. remember him Saying to
me: Unless We can settle this inter
n1inable business you and Will be dead
before anything is done to pacify Ire
land
"IIc was a great Irishman and an
honorable opponent, and as such
mourn his loss"
The death of Mr.. Redmond at the
moment when the convention which is
to settle the future of Ireland is hay
ing its most momentous sessions is
considered in political circles to be al
most a disaster: During the weeks
in which the Irish convention has been
busy trying to find a solution to the
Irish problem. to which he gave his life,
Mr.. Redmond exercised a great mod
Grating influence.
Since he took over the leadership of
the Irish Nationalists on the retirement
of Parnell. Mr.. Redmond had been
among those lrshmen who fought for
a settlement of the Home Rule question
by parliamentary means, and when the
act granting self-government finally be-
came law in 1914 it was Il great tri-
umph for him.
The war prevented the act from
being put into force. and while this was
a great disappointment to Mr.. Red
mond he nevertheless stood by the
English government or, as he would
have preferred to say, "thc English
democracy" which he always said would
see that Ireland received justice.
Sacrifice for Ireland
Mr. Redmond declined seat in the
Coalition Cabinet Of 1915 because he
feared that to take it might injure Ire
land and his party
Since then. his illness and family be,
rcavements. which included the death
of his brother William at the head OF
/ the public eye except on occasions
when Irish questions required his at
tcntion.
With the exception of the last few
meetings he was a regular attendant
at the sessions of the Irish conven.
ton and took a leading part in the de-
lberations.
The Irish convention adjourned fol
two hours to-day when it heard of Mr.
Redmond's death. Later it passed q
resolution of sorrow, which said:
"Throughout the proceedings of the
convention his wise counsel was an in
valuable aid for our guidance. He re
garded the work Of the convention anC
lis outcome as fraught with the mos
rtal interests of the Irish people an.
the whole empire.'
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
To Honor Flying Hero
Memorial Services To Be Held
for Man Killed Abroad

Memorial services are to be held in
St. Patrick's Cathedral next Monday
for William Hallett Taller, twenty
three years DID, the son of Mrs. Clara
Wright Taller, Of Roslyn, L. L., who
was killed while fighting an air battle
in France, near Verdun, February s.
Mr.. Taller was a member of the
Groupe de Cigognes. S. CT. TO which
Captain Guynemer belonged. He had
been flying for several months.
lie left this country for France in
July, 1917. and began flying a little
more than month later at Avord. He
was sent to the front in December.
His mother received letter from him
dated February 3, two days before he
was killed, in which he described a
fierce air battle from which he had
just returned.
Before leaving for France, Taller
was a member of the 7th Regiment
n. G. n. Y
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08

life work was over. he had ad-
vised Nh. Burrell first that the I'll
ster drilling and, secondly that the
SIM Feln drilling was not to be taken
seriously. and IN influence he had to
pay the penalty. In a sense he shared
Mr.. Burrell's fall
But he fought on bravcly. Entering
the conference, he labored for settle
ment. Marked out for the position of
First Prime Minister at Dublin, he was
ready to stand aside and give prefer
ence even to the Unionists. He cared
not who started Home Rule provided
'that it was Home Rule.
When the conference agree that Ire
land should DC enc united whole it
looked as il success would come. but
there remained the thorny question of
revenue. Ulster has always feared lest
Catholic and agricultural Ireland would
unfairly tax her industries and the
only possible compromise was to keep
customs in the hands of the imperial
Parliament while excise cor internal
duties. so important TO the liquor
trade) was transferred to the Parlia-
ment at Dublin.
This did not quite please any party
and when Redmond died the position
was, broadly. that the Cabinet had to
pass some solution over the heads OF
the extremists.
The general conviction has been that
with Home Rule in any tolerable form
Slnn Fein would soon die down into an
intellectual cult, devoted to poetry
Erse. drama and semi-Futurist paint
ing. But Ulster is different matter
and Sir Edward Carson. until recently
in the Cabinet, has had to face an
awkward predicament. He now knows
that Ireland must have some kind OF
self governmental either Home Rule or
what is the same thing under anothe,
name, autonomy.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Lloyd George and Asquith
Pay Tribute to Redmond
Memory of Irish Nationalist Leader Honored in House of
Commons Gave Up Everything for Ireland, Says
Premier; Honorable Opponent, Carson States

LONDON, March 6.-Thc House of
Commons paid tribute to the memory
CT John F.. Redmond to-day, when Pre-
micr Lloyd George and various party
readers expressed their sense of the
loss the House had sustained.
Mr.. Lloyd George said the House
was shocked profoundly by the unex-
pcctcd news Of the death of one of its
Oldest. most respected and eminent
members. Mr.. Redmond had been a
member of the House for thrty-scven
years, and during that period, the Pre-
mier said, he had grown in the esteem,
admiration and affection of the mem
bers Of all parties
That was a great thing to say of any
member, Mr. Lloyd George continued,
but it was the greatest thing to say
OF man who had been engaged in one
OF the hercest controversies of our
time. There might be difference of
opinion as to the policy for which he
stood and fought, but there was alb
solutcly no difference of opinion as to
the ability. judgment, dignity and hon
orableness which he devoted to that
rolicy.
Devoted His Life to Ireland
The Premier said that Mr.. Redmond
gave up everything in service for Ire
land, and it was one of the tragedies
OF that land that he was struck down
before he achieved the great purpose
of his life. Warm tribute, he said, had
been paid to the Nationalist leader by
his political opponents in the Irish con-
ventlon, who trusted and believed in
him
Mr.. Redmond's last words to the Pre-
mler when he saw him few days ago
broken man, were plea for concord
between the two races chat Providence
had decided should work together for
the common aims of humanity" For
mcr Premier Asquith added his tribute
saying:
"We in this House, even those who
differed most acutely and deeply from
him, agree without reserve or qualifca-
ton that he was at once great parla-
mentarian and true patriot. The
House OF Commons, Ireland. Great
Britain, the whole empire is impover-
ished by his DEATH"
Sir Edward Carson. recalling that he
had known Mr.. Redmond for thirty
five years, said he could say with alb
solute sincerity that during the whole
of that time II cannot recollcct that
one bitter or personal word ever passed
between John Redmond and myself
During the conferences on the Irish
question at Buckingham Palace just be-
fore the outbreak Of The war, Sir Ed
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Mrs. Stotesbury Gives Boat


Announcement was made last night
at the regular battalion drill of the
New York post of the Junior Naval
Reserve in West Fifty-seventh Street
that Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, of
Philadelphia, had presented the Junior
Reserve with the submarine chaser
Nedeva II, now in a Philadelphia
shlpyard. The boat was originally
built for Mrs. Stotesbury's son. He
is an ensign in the United States
Navy now, however. and the boat has
been out Of commission some time.
The gift was largely prompted by
the fact that Mrs. Stotesbury, who has
always taken keen interest in the
Junior Reserve, knew that the bows
were handicapped by lack Of boat
on which they might make practice
cruises. The Nedeva II will probably
be seen a great deal this summer in
and near the harbor.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Jersey Convicts Give >$193
To Dead Inmates Famil,

TRENTON, March 7.-Lcarning to-
day that Vinccnzo Turro, a "lifcr"
whose term recently came to an end in
states prison here, had left widow
and three children. his fellow convicts
raised a fund of S193.50 for them.
Turro was one Of the most popular
men in the prison. The small amounts
which the prisoners have on deposit
in the prison bank were drawn upon
to raise the fund for his family.
In the same way the prisoners have
raised 81, 900 for war work, $500 of
which went to the Red Cross.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Army Doctor Put on Trial
For Death cf Soldier

LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 7-Major
Milton Board, of Louisville. in charge
of the ward for the treatment of men
tai and nervous diseases at the base
hospital at Camp Zachary Taylor, went
to trial before a general court martial
at the National Army cantonment here
to-day on charges growing out of the
death last November of Private Otha
Murray, a selectman from Cumberland
County, Ky.
Murray, after apparently recovering
from an attack of measles. developed
paralysis. Relatives complained that
he had not received proper care and
that when his illness became desperate
he was sent to his home, at Glasgow
Ky, insuhiciently clad.
The case has attracted wide atten-
tiOn
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08

They Open Hut for Entertain
ment Of Soldiers and Sailors

The Gould boathouse, at l15th
Street and Riverside Drive. was opened
yesterday as a war hut under the
Barnard College Central War Relief
Committee for the entertainments of
uniformed men.
The "war nut" is a place where
soldiers and sailors may go when they
want to read, write. hear music, or
talk to a pretty girl. Mrs. c. c. H.
Baldwin IS chairman OF publicity
committee Of chaperons. Miss Marion
Alleman, 1918, has charge of the War
Relief Committee which has opened
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08

hfty-three saloons and twoptvoo,
wholesale liquor houses ont ~ IeSen hss;
ness. torty-two saloons and twelve
wholesale liquor houses we're left IN
operation. The district affected bv ~
the hve-mile zone includes all Of poc,
Island Moline, East Moline. III and
davenport, Iowa Soldiers stationed AZ
.ne camp have been restricted to the
PEORIA, Ill, March 7.-"I welcome
an al inyeSt'gation," Deputy United State :
Marshai Waiter Williams said this
AFTERNOON, when advised of his sus-
torney generals inquiry into cond;-
tIons in Rock Island, near the army
camps '' ~
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
Red Cross Institute Plans
To Aid Crippled Soldiers

A movement to look after the eco
nomic welfare OF the men who come
back from the war incapacitatod for
heavE manual laber was started yes
terday by the Red Cross Institute for
Crippled and Disabled Men. at 81
Fourth Avenue. \ farm advisory com
mittee was organized for the purpose
OF placing the returning men in posi-
tions where they may do such agricult
ural work as they are able.
The members OF the committee are
Albert Lewis, chairman; Harvey MUIR
dock, Charles w. Leavitt, Alexander
Wilson, Henry b. Walbridge. Dunlevy
Milbank and. ex-otfcio. Douglas G.
McMurtrie, director of the Red Cross
InstitUtc
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
oV Liquor Concerns
Fuf Out of Business
In Rock Island Zone

s..a3. I'm iSLA&D, III, March r. A. a
dr. Of an investigation Of yico cor.
sn.ns around t6c Rock frlapd arsenal
s,aa asrs several hundred zoldiers 4ro
~ ssssSanped, by Department N Juytjee
h h.i. sfmy officials, ali saloons within
~, sn mile Of the cntranrp - .ln ,.,'
~ ~ and all disorderIy house within
Ts2Fuary "a. zs'' were 'f'efs' closed -
enforcement Of the order pos
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08
suspended Official
declares He Is Ready
10 Ansluer CHARGES

PEoRfA, H., March TINTED States
2elstrict Attorney =. c. Knots. Of
s'p''.ns"eid, Immediately following the
ssspsnaion If Assistant District Attor-
d.: .D:oaKncrty, who had charge Of this
ns'fies, ordered the closing Of six va
,s01s in East Peoria within half a mile
u camp Herring
,yCiAcf, H.. March :. Assistant
Pic Ps'ie' Attorney John f. Dougherty, Of
s.5sla' announced tonight tina. he was
ays. sI . answer all charges brought
s..s' MN m connection With .hc en-.
sp.'nsn, n pln pf Federal liquor regulations
ln.' ''"eH lsfand. lie zaid he was at a
70 account for his suspension.
psn... Dougheriy said he closed up
r>a.i. IN compliance with the Federal
s'Iationz On htn own inItiatfxo-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-08

ward added, Mr.. Redmond said to him :
For the sake Of the old days on the
Lenster Circuit, let's have good hand
shake"
New Britain herald., 1918-03-23
TO AMERICA.
----O--->

What is the voice ] hear On the winds of the western sea :? Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear And say what the voice may be. Iris a proud free people calling loud
 to q people proud and free And if says to them: ''Kinsmen, hail; We severed have been too long. Now let us have done with a. worn
 out tale--
 The tale of ancient wrong And our friendship last long as love
 doth last and be stronger than
 death is strong" Answer them, sons of the self same
 race,
 And blood of the self-same clan Let us speak with each other face
 to face
 And answer as man to man, And Loyalty love and trust each other
 as none but freemcn can. Now fling them out to the breeze, Shamrock, Thistle and Rose And the Star-Spanglcd Banner unfurl
 with these
 A message to friends and foes Wherever the sails of peace are seen
 and wherever the war wind
 blows A message to bond and thraI to
 wake,
 For whenever we come. we tw ain, The throne of the tyrant shall rock
 and quake, And his menace be void and vain For you are lords of a strong land
 and we the lords of the main. Yes, this is the voice of the bluff
 March gale:
 We severed have been too long. But now we have done with q, worn
 out tale
 The tale of an ancient wrong- And our friendship shall last as love
 doth last and be stronger than
 death is strong.
 ALFRED AUSTIN.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-23
Different Kinds of Patriotism,

The patriotism which today regns In the world is rather mega tive thing; it consists much more in hat ing enemies than In loving friends, It is smoky, dusty. bloody, angry sf- fair. It calls up every heroism and every ugliness. There is so much drama in the world that our sentj- ments grow dramatic; and we come to depend for our patriotic feelings upon the daily stimulus of newspa- pers, uniforms, and bands. All that is ephemera1 because if lacks exal- tatioa. The Germans enjoy a rather more romantic patriotism, because they are the most aggressive and the In ost guilty of what is happening and 1t is an irony that in this guilt should be found the ancient stren gth that made the unjust man flourish as the green baE-tree. But their patri- otism is, perhaps, the most shoddy, the most artificial of all: rhapSodies about the ancient German gods are ridiculous when we think that Ger
 many is mainly a country of aniline factories; when they call trench line the Siegfried Line (why not the Schopenhauer Redoubt?) they are ridiculous. Patriotism is not found
 ] more than 1t is found in the constant courage of those who defend. Pa triotis17, is in the brain, not in tI7e body; it is love rather than hatred, i, a, builder not destroyer It opens It's eyes toward fair horizons and plans cities in the clouds. It is an ! eter1allv young man who dreams ] dreams Patriotism sailed With Col
 un bus into your seas; held the hand
 of Necker and Witte. striving to re- 1 form their countries; it was lh Grant
 rather than the gallant Robert Lee,
 Patriotism so conceived does not l haunt the streets for it Is a arab af- ! fair to give all ones energy 10 make { the justice of ones country clean, to 1 provide for it's aged and it's sick, to
 help it to grow learned or liberal. In j peace times there are no patflots; 1 there are only partlsans'~-". l. 1 George ill Harper's Magazine
New Britain herald., 1918-03-23
Employers and Employes.
(kansas City Starr.

Why is the cost of living up? Be cause of the war, of course. Beca use millions of men are withdrawn from useful occupations and are destroy ing wealth instead of creating it. Be cause millions of others are making war munitions and building canton ments. Because pretty much every thing is being taxed to help pay the expense of the war.
 If Smith and Jones and Brown are cast away on desert island and are able to work, they will have certain comfortable standard of living. IS ut suppose wild animals threaten thelil and Smith has to give mp WorK all" guard the plantation against ae'''oN- Then Jones and Brown must Suppo'' Smith as well as themselves ana none Of them will have as good a lVlnS as he had before when all three were in nroductive work. That means the cost of living will have gone up.
 Exactly this condition has arisen in the civilized world today The
New Britain herald., 1918-03-23
THE RED GROSS.

|his is not by way of praise for
 Red Cross. That organization |ls no praise and ii it did our pen It of any would be equal to the ot doing it justice. Our inten- is merely to prepare the people New Britain for q new demand h to be made on their generosity |the Red Cross. No man in this can consider himself excused h contributing, when the time ! es, on the grounds that he gave the last fund. If he contri buted last time he had good reason for |1oing and he'll have q better req than ever for giving again. At present time the Red Cross is lost at the end of it's resources. work must go on, and to keep 1t there is need of more money of it. If we can give five cents, should give it. IF we can give five lars, let US give five, or ten, or a Adred, or five hundred, according bur circumstances There are men New Britain who have not only S Stributed cheerfuliy and generous S to every Red Cross appeal, but Nhe Knights of Columbus fund and #every other worthy war cause as 4l If such men are ready to go 8vn in their pockets again. why E u1d otheBs who have not been so Rral let 8 few carry the whole den? The benefits derived from Red Cross are not for a few ssen ones. We all know the scope sits work. and knowing it, we are bnd to assist in 1t. The next Red bss drive will begin very shortly bpare for it.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-23

IS the electric rammer." It's official duty is to punch the HOO poundr shell into the gums mouth with such crashing rapidity that a green man , lodges when it passes
 Bags are up, four of them. Back po1ses over the trough, each in tl1a r hands of half-stripped sailorman< Back races the drummer. Thud, a4 one, drop the four bags into tha trough, And home they go behind the waiting shell.
 Again the rammer is out. And ths trough comes out. folding up clean of the breech. The breech swings again this time shut. It goes homs with a sharp metallic smack, crunch es and grinds as the screw threads take.
 Here, look for a moment Sed those figures stamped in the metal7 Yes. they mean that the plug weighs 1s42 pounds. Some cork, eh? But think of the size of the bottle and, the medicine it holds, Medicine that will cure the Worlds most terrible lll--at least so we hope
 See again the men under the gun. They are crouching lower and lower. One is lying down flat on his face, me gun m u2ZIe IS eIeVatfng for Erf ing. The breech is going lower and lower, Only a few inches are Jeff between it and the deck below. Wills , it crush the men under the gun No: it can, but it won't. They hava been trained to hug the margin paper thin but safe. Everything is now very still. None of the men even whispers. A strangs . clicking comes out of the small metal box just over the pointers head. Fig- ures on the front of it change from time to time. They indicate the : range, Deep in the turret's belly huns a motor. More powder and shell are being got ready. Suddenly 7 No, I*cannot Only q genins could-describe seven San Francisco earthquakes trying to occupy the same few cubic feet
 But the men under the gun, arS they fragments? No. ! hear thetr voices. What's that he says ?--t..All night in. Bill, and beans for break fast!" A religious remark, l assure you, because he is talking about tho sailorman's idea of heaven -. s