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New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Coney Mardi Gras
Will Open Tonight
In War ime Garb

The mard gras at Coney Island has
suffered q war change this year. 1t will
begin tonight with all it oldtime
festival garb and jolity, but its pur-
pose and its name have changed. Under
the guise of war benefit, staged and
directed by the Knights of Columbus
tor their war fund, it will serve to
coax dollars into the chest of this or
ganlzation to buy comfort and cheer
for the soldiers and sailors.
From the concourse at the Shelburne
Hotel thousands of members of frater-
firms will start the festivities tonight
at 1920 with parade just as President
wilson, by pressing button in Wash
lngton. turns on the lights at Coney.
The procession on the island will be an
historical pageant, with floats depicting
United States soldiers going cover the
top" sailors sinking a U-boat, scenes
in and around the K. of C. huts and
other incidents of the war
service flags will be unfurled-one for
the boys of Brooklyn and Long Island
and one for the policemen of Brooklyn
in the war. The flags will be hung on
Surf Avenue near the X. of C. head
quarters. Sheriff Daniel j. Griffin will
speak at the raising of the Brooklyn
Long Island flag and Borough Presi-
dent Riegelmann at the ceremonies for
the police. Alfred E. Smith, President
of the Board of Aldermen, will preside
at both ceremonies, which will be fol-
lowed by a reception in Stauch's, on the
Bowcry.
The festivities, which have been ar
ranged by the Long Island Chapter of
the knights of Columbus, will last all
week. million and half persons
are expected to attend. Tomorrow
there will be a parade of city employees,
of which Mayor Hylan will be the re-
viewing officer, and a reception at
Somers's afterward, at which the police
band and Clee club will be heard.
On Wednesday night Governor Whit
man and his staff Will review a parade
Of the State Guard, and there will be
reception at the Shelburne Thurs
day is to be Navy Night, when 5000
sailors and marines will parade in
charge of Father Chadwick, chaplain
of the Maine when she was blown up
in Havana Harbor. Three thousand
soldiers will be guests the following
night. On Saturday Federal employees
will have their day.
The management has arranged com
bination tickets with a value of almost
50 to be sold for 81, admitting the
holder to many attractions on the
island. Soldiers and sailors will be
admitted free to the island showplaces
as guests of the knights of Columbus.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
School Gardens Add
$50,OO0,OOO in Crops
Especial Dispatch to The T,lbur.

- ~oAUe''e 20 L fIS 1 1TIOHHeJ
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The United
States school gardens are now far
enough along to enable n estimate to
be made of the children's contribution
to the food supply. One million five
hundred thousand boys and girls are
enrolled in the garden army. the De-
partment of the Interior announced to-.
day.
They are cultivatinx more than
100000 war gardens-the discrepancy
between this number and the total Of
the wearers Of the L. S. S. G. insignia
being the aggregate of gardens that
have failed from various causes.
The crop reports indicate that the
average patch cultivated by the young
sters is a little over one fifteenth of
an acre. The products average ap-
proxima ately $500 an acre. In other
words, the school children of America
will have this year contributed not less
than S50,000000 worth of food products
toward winning the war. Because this
food Is consumed at home or marketed
IN the immediate vicinity of where it
Is grown 1t is calculated that the chill
dren have given Railway Director Nc
Adoo the equivalent of $4,000 freight
cars for the transportation of coal and
other war necessities
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Germans Supplied
Rifles to Ulster,
TT 0'Connor Says
Noted 1rishman Replies to
Address Sent Wilson by
Sir Edward Carson

LONDON. Aug. 25.-At the request
of John Dillon, chairman of the Irish
Nationalist party, 7. P. O'Connor has
sent to America reply to the recent
address forwarded to President Wilson
by Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster
leader and head of the War Aims Com
mittee.
Mr.. O'Connor complains that, while
lamenting the alleged Sim Fein pro-
German plots, Sir Edward omits to
mention that he and his associates be-
fore the war, in speeches and in news
papers, declared that they would prefer
the rule of the German Emperor to
Home Rule, and that he and his friends
were supplied from Germany with
10000 rifles, which "they still hold for
the purpose, now as before the war, of
making war upon an act Of the British
Parliament"
Mr.. O'Conor further charges that it
was Sir Edward Carson's rebel move
ment which precipitated the war by
creating in the German mind the mis-
calculation that England would be too
embarrassed by the Ulster rebellion to
enter the war.
Blames Carson for Unrest
Mr.. O'Connor contends that it was
the action of Carson, when holding up
home rule and preaching the doctrine
of revolution and accepting a place in
the Cabinet, that transformed Ireland
from enthusiastic support of the war
to its present attitude of sullen de-
tachment. He concludes in these
words:
sIn every avenue leading to peace
the formidable figure of Sir Edward
Carson stands blocking the way. When
Sir Edward Grey tried to persuade Ger
many to desist from loosing the dams
that have deluged the world in blood
the shadow of Carson promising a diA
tracted and impotent England haunted
and deranged the kaisers judgment.
when the British people, in cleo
tion after election, signtied their de-
sire TO give Ireland and England peace
Sir Edward Carson blocked the way.
When the House of Commons twice
carried home rule Carson blocked the
way. When Premier Lloyd George
wanted to carry home rule Carson
blocked the way. Every time our great
Ambassador at Washington seeks to
bridge over the gulf between his coun-
try and the millions of the Irish race
in America by craftsmanship and tact
Carson blocks the way.
Cites Wilson's Appeal
"When a greater than these, in the
person Of the President of the United
States, the true leader of the worlds
democracy to-day, makes his constant
and consistent appeal for the rights
and liberties of small nations, Sir Ed
ward Carson blocks the way.
There is a Carson administration in
Ireland to-day. There is, as far as its
Irish policy is concerned, Carson ad-
mnistration in Downing Street.
$50 long as Carson controls the whole
policy Of England and Ireland it will be
as hopeful to expect Ireland TO return
to her old enthusiasm for England s
fight for the worlds freedom as to ex-
pect the Czecho- -Slovaks to fight for
Austria or the Alsatians to fight for
Germany wnile the spirit of both these
countries is embodied in Won linden
burg and Won Tirpitz."
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Aviation Schools Merged

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Concentra-
tion of all ground school training of
army aviators at four universities has
been determined upon by the Division
of Military Aeronautics, according to
an announcement to-day by the War
Department.
The schools at Princeton and at the
Universities of California, Illinois and
Texas are to be retained, but those at
Cornell, Ohio State and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology will be aban-
doned. their facilities being more
urgently needed for other work. Ex-
tensions on a large scale will be made
at the schools retained
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Ten Terms Of Peace Sub
mitted by the Rev. Mark
A. Matthews
Would Danish Kaiser
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Congregation Stirred. to
Rounds Of Applause

A picture of Germany debarred from
the peace table and watching the pro-
ceedlngs from a cage of culprits, drawn
by the Rev. Mark A. Matthews, of Seat
tie, brought rounds of cheers aud ap-
plause from a congregation last night
in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church
In advocating war without let-up
or mercy, the Rev. Mr.. Matthews urged
that Germany be ostracized and treated
as a dangerous outlaw for hundred
years after the war. He proposed that
the ofhcer who sank the Lusitania be
given up to Allied justice. tried by
court martial and shot; that similar
tate be dealt out to all other Germans
involved IN atrocities. The Kaiser. he
said, must be banished. and the Ger
man people forced to do heavy penance
The following ten terms of peace
were submitted to the congregation:
/: Germany shall not sit ct the peace
table: She may only look on from her
seat in the cage of culprits.
:. Who were the officers in command
when Red Cross boats were DESTROYED,
hospitals bombed, nurses killed. Bel
glum raped-who sank the Lusitania >
These men must be delivered up, court
martialed and shot
). Germany must demobilize her
army and surrender her navy The Al
hes Will guarantee her ample police
protection
a. Germany must restore Belgium.
return Alsace and Lorraine. free Po-
land, restore Rumania, Serbia and all
parts of France and Italy injured and
held by her. She must relinquish all
claims on Russia and give adequate
financial compensation for every in
jury everywhere.
5. She must relnquish all hope of
again possessing her colonies. She is
not competent to govern colonies. Pal
estlne and Asia Minor must be free of
Germany and the bloody Turk.
6; Germany must live on herself,
within herself and to herself. She
Her crimes have barred her from
membership in the political and com
lnerclal league of nations
:. She shall not be recognized as a
trader among civilized nations. Any
citizens of this government or our al
lied governments who buys an article
made in Germany for the next 100 years
should be counted as traitor to
humanity and righteousness.
8. Germany shall submit to a pro-
tectorate over her mind and conscience
for an indefinite period-say, twenty
five years.
g. The Kaiser shall be exiled to some
lonely island, there to spend the rest
of his life.
10. The seas shall be free. The world
shall enjoy liberty Militarsm shall
be crushed, and representative, right
eous government shall be established
on earth.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Silk Robbers Still Are
Sought as Slayers of
Man and Girl
Janney Funeral Held
Morbid Crowd Blocks Street
at Perth Amboy Home of
Hotel Cashier

The police of Perth Amboy and Rah-
way. n. j., admitted yesterday that
tbev had abandoned hope of finding the
kew TO the cause of the murder of Aur-
thur Kupfer, cigar factory superin-
tendent, and Miss Edith Janney, Hotel
Madison cashier. his companion on a
midnight automobile ride.
The murdered girl was buried yester-
day in the Alpine Cemetery. near Perth
Amboy, after crowd of morbidly curl
Gus had blocked the street in front of
her mothers home during the funeral
services. Among the mourners we're
Isaac Sake, proprietor of a Perth Am
boy womens garment store, and one of
his saleswomen, Mrs. Genevieve Hen
erickson. Both were with Kupfer and
Miss Janney in the automobile during
the early part of the fatal ride.
Both were compelled to submit de-
tailed account of their actions on
Wednesday night. They convinced the
police that Kupfer had taken them to
their homes before II o'clock.
Chief of Police Burke of Perth AM
boy ard other policemen in plain
clothes attended the funeral with q
vague hope that the murderer might
be unable to resist the lure of a last
look at the girl victims features and
betray himself through an excess of
emotion. but they were disappointed.
Soldiers Are Questioned
John Callahan, chief of the Union
County prosecutors detectives. went
to the base hospital at Colonia, on
the outskirts Of Railway. yesterday to
request Of the commanding officer the
rames of soldiers who were absent
from the post that night.
kupfer must have driven his auto
mobile along the Lincoln Highway on
the night of the murder on his way
back from the Osterwald road house,
where they had been until 1:15 a. n.
During the day utomobilists fire.
quently are stopped by soldiers asking
Gift" One Ct the police theories
is that men in uniform got into kup-
fer's car through this means.
The police have advanced numerous
theories to supply motive, but with
one exception after checking them
have found serious flaws in their logic
that caused them to reject in turn the
idea that the crime was inspired by
jealousy of Miss Janney or kupfer or
robbery. The exception is that the
murderers were the same men who
held up and robbed the drivers of an
auto truck containing $4,000 worth
of silk in daylight on the day Kupfer
and Miss Janney started on their ride.
Silk Robbers Are Sought
The robbers held up the truck in
broad daylight, near Bound Brook
Wednesday afternoon. They shot and
killed the driver and beat up his as
sistant, Frank Mayer, whose descrip-
ton of the men tallies with that Of
the murderers of Miss Janney and
Kupfer. as supplied by the Rev. Mr.
Moore, superintendent of the New Jer-
sey Reformatory. in front of whose
home Kupfer's body was dropped.
A study of road maps of tie towns
where the two crimes were committed
shows that it would have been easy for
the robbers to have made their way
from Aldene, where they abandoned the
motor truck, to the Lincoln Highway
where they might have held up Kupfer
with the idea OF compelling him to aid
them to escape from New Jersey.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Whitman Reviews Fight
Against the Hessians
142 Years Ago
Loyalty Plea Made
Former Aliens Are Reminded
"One Flag, One Country"
Is Nations Slogan

More than 10000 persons Joined in
the celebration of the 142d anniversary
of the Battle Of Long Island yesterday
afternoon on the slopes of Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, where the battle was
fought. The exercises were held under
the auspicies of the Kings County
Historical Society, whose president,
Charles Andrew Ditmas, introduced the
speakers. Many other patriotic socie-
ties and organizations attended.
governor Whitman, the speaker Of
the day, drew many parallels between
the conditions of a century and half
ago and the present world war. He
LAID especial emphasis on the fact that
it was in this battle that the first
Hesslan troops were employed to fight
against Americans.
Hessians Still Slaves
AAs at the present time" he said
they were slaves to their princes.
They did not possess sufficient respect
for or knowledge of their inherited d
rights effectively to resent the action
Of their sovereign
German princes fattened on the
blood money derived from this use of
their subjects, but such action is en-
tlIely III heeplnE with WnaC mas Deen tn e
attitude of the supreme rulers of the
German peoples for many generations.
Their principle of action has been to
increase their possessions and their
wealth without reference to moral. per-
sonal and national rights.
This is the primary purpose for
which Germany has imposed the pres
ent war. with all her brutality and all
the suffering that goes with it, upon
the world.
America Pledges Her All
"Germany has received the answer
of America and other liberty-loving
countries of the world to her impudent
and arrogant assumption. To this end
America renews to-day the solemn OBJ
legation of the fathers-"We pledge
cur lives. our fortunes and our sacred
honor"
Mrs. May M. Gooderson, of Brooklyn,
said that "the spirit of Washington is
going over the top with our boys in
France.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Acceptance Of Agreement
Indicates Growing Pro-
Ally Sentiment
$100,0OO,O 900 Involved
America Can Now Purchase
War Supplies Without Trou-
bic of Foreign Exchange

MADRID, Aug. 25.-"El Liberal" to-
day announced that negotiations were
proceeding for a commercial loan be-
tween Spain and the United States.
Spain" the newspaper declared, "is
opening credit of 3OO,OOOOOO or 5OO,-
100000 pesetas (s60,OO0,0OO to $780,
100000 at par), the United States Civ
ing as guarantee the signatures of
American firms exporting cotton to
Spain. With this credit the United
States will be able to purchase in Spain
some of the products necessary for it's
army in France without the necessity
of changing dollars into pesetas, thus
avoiding the reduction in exchange
Ambassador Willard and other
American officials have had several in
terviews with the members of the Span
lsh government, and it is believed that
the basis of an agreement has been
reached. The interest payable on the
loan has been the subject of discus
sion, the United States objecting to
paying per cent. America offers to
pay the balance remaining of the loan
in Mexican gold on the day of liquda-
ton"
The reported loan would seem to
show the Spanish government has at
last taken decidedly pro-Ally atti-
tude. This is in line with the swing
in sentiment of Sweden and Holland.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
NeWspaperrnen OF
Nation Loyal, Creel
Tells City Editors
State Association Formed
at National Meeting in
Hotel Majestic

George Creel, chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Information, ad-
dressed members of the City Editors
Association of the State of New York
yesterday, soon after it was organized
under the auspices of the National
Association of City Editors at the
Hotel Majestic. Not one violation of
the instructions and requests issued
from Washington, he said, could be
charged against the press of the
country.
"There has been no truer patriotism
than that shown by the newspaper men
of America" said Mr.. Creel. "There
is, however. much that they can do yet.
After all, the city editor is the man in
the coming tower; the editorial writer
is sort of silkworm. He sits in his
cage and weaves an opinion which he
puts forth as though it were fact. The
city editor, the man who studies out
the strategy of the news situation and
gives out ass ignments, with his re-
porters who go out and get the facts,
is combination which no man can
dethrone.
at has come to be believed by many
of the people-and hope soon will be
by all-that the newspapers print what
they have good reason to believe is the
truth, and the truth only But it is
essential that careful scrutiny of the
headlines be made. Heads which mis-
represent the story merely to catch
the casual eye and sell papers, do
great injury to the press as a whole.
though fortunately this kind of cheap
device is not as widespread as formerly.
THE working newspaper men are the
ones who must counteract that secret
German propaganda, not now in the
open, but secret German whisper
scandalmongerlng Get the truth, print
it, and then stand back of it to the end,
and you will be doing great service
to your country"
William G. Shepherd. United Press
war correspondent, expressed the opin-
ion that threatened diselption of
Austria Hungary would cause the col
lapse of the Central Powers before the
Allies obtained a decisive battlefield
victory. The people of the Dual Mon
archy, he said. were beginning to learn
that the carefully fostered fear and
hatred of Russia had been inspired by
nursery tale propaganda and that they
were left without reason for fighting.
The following officers Of the state
association were elected: President,
NJ. T. Sammons, THE Observer" Utica;
president, A. B. Bishop, "The
News" Ithaca; secretary, Walter F.
Hine, "The Leader Republican," Glo-
versville; treasurer, William D. Nc
Namara, "The Journal Beacon; d-
rectors. James F. Gavler. "The Evening
Journal Albany; S. F. Head, The
Enquirer" Buffalo; c. A Hebb, The
Eagle" Brooklyn, and Kenneth Lord,
THE Sum-" New York
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Cent-a-Pound Raise in
Cost of Sugar Forecast

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Prospect
for a slightly higher price for sugar
TO the consumer in the near future
was forecast by the food administra-
ton to-day in announcing that the
sugar equalization board, in order to
minimize inequalities between priccs
Of the old and new crops, will purchase
all sugar at the old price and resell
TO the holders at the new price. The
increase to the consumers. it has been
said, will not amount to more than b.
cent
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Wife Lost on Way Home

Charles H. Moon. of Lakehurst, Nj.
asked the Jersey City police yesterday
to help him look for his wife, Eliza
beth, from whom he became separated
on Friday on the way home from New
ark.
Between Newark and Jersey City, he
said, his wife complained of a head
ache, and took some tablets. He sup
posed that she was close behind him
when he boarded q train for Lakehurst
in Jersey City, but found that she was
not in the train nor in the station. He
took another train to Lakehurst, but
she was not there
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Two Hurt as Car Hits Auto

rive occupants Of touring car were
Aufied TO the street last night when
ne machine was in. collision with a
ns..eiisy car, al Broadway and Kcap
gsfset, Brooklyn. Two women were 30
yyanIy injured they remained at the
n.&s'ern District Hospital after rccciv~
mz treatment.
ne machine was owned by Frank
cfsesanapm, Z75 South First Street.
.asrlss Weinoart, 40 Kossuth Place.
~ ariv'ng the automobile, in which
Y.ss Yass @r. and Mrs/ Jacob Appel, of 20>
~ ssfeet, Hartford; Mrs. Cussie
tnksf, of ~ Norfolk Street, Manhat-
~, shd her nine-rnonth ths- old daughter,
T. ~ ~ motnrman said the machine tried
sot sercss ahead OF his car.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Fl. G. Reimer Drowned

UTICA, n. Y, Aug 25.-While going
in canoe across Fourth Lake, Fulton
Chain, to church this morning Henry
Clay Reimer, of the New York Office
Of the United States Steel Corporation,
was drowned the boat being over
turned by swells of passing motor
boat.
Mrs. Reimer clung to the canoe until
help arrived. Mr.. Reimer sank at once
and and his body has not been recovered
RroOklVr
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
Bible Glasses Are Ended

More than 5000 children finished the
course of the daily vacation Bible
schools Of New York, which closed the
summer session yesterday.
The vacation work, originated on the
East Side by the Rev. R. G. Boville,
was intended primarily to utilize empty
church buildings and keep children off
the streets. The movement has spread
throughout the United States and even
to Japan and China.
Several thousand college students
have acted as volunteer instructors.
The classes have been coached in pa
triotism,- Bible history and domestic
work. Russell Colgate, of New York, is
president of the international associa-
finn
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
The Weather Report

WASHINGTON. Aug 25.-The tropical disturb
ance of the last few days is probably in the
neighborhood OF Swan Island in the Western
The cyconis depression of Ha.teras Saturday
night is no7tns very slowly northeastward and
is probably central sunday night about $50 miles
low in Eastern Canada and The Middle Mississippi
and lower Ohio valleys with hish h pressure over
Thunder showers have occurred in the OHIO VAL
ley. Western Tennessee. Arkansas Texas and south
Temperature is above the seasonal average gen
Mountains and north plateau resions.
shovsry weathsr Is probable MONDAY and TUESDAY
and the Ohio Valley
The temperature will not change materially except
storm warnings are displayed from Delaware
Breakwaer Nantucket.
Forecasts for Special pIstrlots.-southern New
England and Eastern New loss. partly cloudy Mon
Sew Jersey. partly cloudy Monday Tuesday fair
Northern New England. Eastern Pennsylvania
- western SSS-A Pennsylvania Western New York ,air
Monday and probably Tuesday. not mucs. change
IN temperature
ord from the Weather Bureau shows temperatures
during M the las: gsa.y-tols !, hours in comparison
1918. 1917 1918 ls!,
8 a u III 5 ? nl..-...... so
Q a. m......-- I3 10 3 p. r--....... 13 II
IL noon........ II Soll .. n1.......- So
Highest temperature yesterday. 81 degrees "a. 230
p m1 lowss r. .st 80 a a'esase !s
for thirty three years, H.
Humidity
a. m.--..e4 ?. m.....77 .. m- 30
.+ Barometer Readings
a. NJ. 9.97 p M. 81 S o. N 90 90
Local Ofnclal Forecnst-Partiy cloudy to-day and
tomorrow: fresh northwest winds to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
18 Hurt When Cars Crash

An eastbound trolley car on the
Manhattan Bridge which was halted
and in darkness because of short
circuit, was rammed by another about
$3.50 last night. Eighteen persons were
slightly hurt and traffic was delayed
for an hour.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-26
8 Killed on u. S. Transport

One member of the crew. besides
seven coal passers, was reported yester-
day to have been killed by the explosion
of steam pipe on an American trans
port at an Atlantic port Saturday
night. Naval officials would not give
out the name of the dead sailor,