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New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Oliver, J Just Whale, Does I His Bit;
Capn Saw the U-Boat' Relics
The Mammal Who, by the Way, Is Fond of Whiskey, Is
Carrying the Raiders Life Preserver and Eight Boche
Caps; if Fish Wasn't, Story Is a Whale

Cap'n Edward johnson of the fifty
ton fishing schooner Mabel E. Bryson,
which tied up at the Fulton fish dock
yesterday with ten tons of sea bass
and porgies under her matches, mod
estly declared, as he ordered round
after round Of lemonade at Jimmy
Burke's place, on Front Street, that
the phenomenal catch, which meant
$4,000 in his pocket and $3.50 for each
of the crew, was not his work, but
divers.
"Not a season goes by" said Cap'n
Johnson, "and hasn't for twenty years,
that | haven't met up with Oliver some
where about 200 miles sou'-sou'east O.
the Hook. He's got to be quite
whale, Oliver has. now-'bout 25O feet
long and blacker'n the Liberian Cabi-
net. Twas on the 18th O. July, in
'oS, that first met him. The Mabel
vas splashin' bit in a capful O. wind
having had no luck an not carrying
much ballast, and cask o. prime whis-
key, the best Jimmy Burke carries
had slid overheard Oliver gulped it
down in one swallow and grinned till
his face looked like the broadside of
an old-time frigate with all her ports
open.
Right after that we began to haul
in fish till our arms ached, and since
that day I've never put out from New
York without hooker aboard for
Oliver, and every season we've met up
with him at least once.
Bang! She's Coming On
"'Twas last Wednesday, about sun
up, only it was that thick and greasy
you couldn't tell east, from north.
was pacing the deck uneasy like, be-
cause we'd been cruising a couple o.
days without smcllin' fish or hearin
from Oliver, and was mighty nervous
about U-boats. too. All of sudden
there come bang like four-point-
seven out O. the haze off our starb'rd
bow an big gray shape loomed up,
headin' straight for us and carryin' a
bone in its teeth like the surf on the
Catalinas.
II got our auxiliary going and put
couple O. men at the seacocks, with
orders to open her up at the word, for
| see that thing was comm at thou
sand-knot clip, an the Mabel f. Bry-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Walsh Is Installed
AS Trenton Bishop
Governor Edge and Staff Are
at Ceremony Receiving
New Catholic Prelate

TRENTON. N. j.. July 31.-The Rev.
Thomas j. Walsh, former rector of St.
Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo. N. Y, was
installed to-day as Bishop of the Dio~
cese of Trenton. The ceremony took
place in ST. Mary's Cathedral, which
was decorated with the American flag
and the Papal colors. Archbishop
Dennis J. Dougherty, of Philadelphia,
celebrated solemn ponthcal high
mass. and the sermon was delivered
by Bishop Thomas F. Hickey, of
Rochester.
Governor Edge and his staff attended
the mass. Cardinal Farley made an ad-
dress in which he praised the work of
the new bishop and extended his best
wishes for his efforts in the Trenton
diocese. Ex-Governor Stokes and ex-
Senator James Smith, jr., were among
those who attended the ceremony.
After the mass there was dinner at
the Trenton House. at which Bishop
Walsh was the guest Of honor. 1t was
attended by 500 members of the clergy.
Bishop Walsh will hold public re-
ception tomorrow night at the knights
Of Columbus Home
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Wife of British Major and
Christian Science Practi-
toner Are Questioned
Had Collected $4,000
Funds for "Drake Section
Sanitaire" To Be Turned
Over to Jusserana

Acting on information furnished Nv
the Army Intelligence Bureau, District
Attorney Swami has been investigating
the activities of Miss Ethel Lancdon
Drake, Christian Science practitioner
and Mrs. S. j. Symons, wife Of major
in the British army, whc have been
raising funds in New York for tn.
Drake Section Sanitaire" on their rem.
resentation that the money would be
used TO furnish ambulances equipped
with trained young women drivers for
the Sixth Army of France. Both
women have promised to stop their
activities. and $4,000 which they have
raised will be turned over to Anbassa.
dor Jusserand in Washington.
Miss Drake had established camp
at Bayside, Long Island, at which
young women from the Womens
League for National Service were to
receive their training in driving am.
balances. The camp was dismantled
yesterday and the seventeen girls were
turned over to the league to be rein
stated in their cid ambulance corps in
that organization. Most of them had
paid SITS to Miss Drake for tuition and
had furnished their own uniforms, SIM
liar to those worn by the male ambu.
lance drivers.
According to Assistant District At
torney Edwin P Kilroe, Miss Drake was
! born in Lincoln, Mass, jn 1873. She
failed in the millinery business in Chi
cago several years ago and took up the
study of Christian Science She said
she did not practise it until she went
to Europe in 1909. IN 1917 she met
Mrs Symons in London. The latter
during her hospital work in France
was decorated with the CroiX de
! Guerre.
Early this year. Miss Drake said. she
and Mrs. Symons quit nursing in
France and came to New York. They
established the headquarters of the
Drake Section Sanitaire' at the Ritz
Carlton, and sert ont prospectuses ir
which appeared a letter from General
Petain thanking them for their gift Of
twenty-five ambulances for the Sixth
Army. Miss Drake admitted to Mr..
Kilroc that the ambulances had not
been purchased. General PGtsin's let
Ter was merely reply to their offer to
furnish the ambulances.
Mrs. Symons told Mr.. Kiiroe that she
had given s1,500... n quarter of her in
come, to Miss Drake. They travelled
together and were inseparahle.
The girls camp at Baysids was in
charge of Captain" Virginia K. Chand-
Ter, OF 146 East Fortyninth Street. 1t
was situated on a knoll near the Oak
land golf links, and the commissary
headquarters was in a farmhouse
near by.
According to Mr. kilroe Miss Drake
obtained the consent of Mrs. William
A. Gavin. the amateur golf champion,
to turn over certain receipts from her
exhibition games throughout tne coun-
try, and they were on their way
East with $4,000 which was raised in
San Francisco. ". A. Ryar, assistant
manager of the Ford automobile plant
in Detroit, gave Miss Drake $1,000,
which is on deposit in bank there.
An account in the Bankers Trust Com
pany showed $4,000 OF deposit, and an
other IN the Fifth Avenue branch Of
the Guaranty Trust Company showed
S2,790
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
800 Red Cross Nurses
Get aste of the Sea

Three hundred Red Cross nurses had
their first voyage on the brinv deem
yesterday. 1t wasn't VOYAGE to
France: merely to Staten Island, but, as
most OF the nurses come from the South
and West, it was their first expert.
ence with the sea. camouflaged var
ships and the Statue of Liberty.
Arriving at Staten Island, the nurses
were taken in ambulances of the Ma
tional League for Women's Service to
the home of Mrs. Lewis Nixon, where
they were met by Major General Gorgas
and Mrs. Gorgas. Refreshments were
served on the lawn overlooking the har-
bor and there was singing Of Dixie"
in honor of the Southern girls. Ten
nursing sisters. belonging to the order
of st. Vincent de Paul, were in charge
of 100 nurses who expect to sail soon
for Italy.
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and
Mrs. Nelson Herrick Henry, of the
Mayors Committee of Women, assiste. /
Mrs Nixon in receiyinp
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Wild Beast Hunt at Coney

The big game hunting squad of the
Police Department bagged a bear in
Central Park yesterday and wolf at
Coney Island The bear was Niger,
sociable infant of eighteen months
that got out OF its cage, to the conster-
nation of early-morning strollers in the
park. Lieutenant Milhauser captured
him with the aid of a cracker.
About 100 volunteers hunters joined
in the wolf hunt at Coney Island
though both they and the police sup
posed the beast to be stray dog win
chicken stealing proclivities until Pa
trolman John P. Marx: who had pur'
sued it under & bungalow at Neptune
Avenue and West Twenty seventh
Street, killed it with shot from his
revolvcr and dragged its body into the
open 1t is believed that the woif e.
capped from one Of the shows at the
claD6
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01

son amt good for more'n eight; but
just as | was goin' to give the word
1t heaved up out o. the water an
Winked its port eye, am | see it was
Oliver: The sound like gun was
when he Topped his tail, I guess.
well, Oliver run alongside less'n
two cable lengths off, an see for sure
that he was gray an not black like
he used to be, and had a pretty uppity,
skittish way about him. TOO. don't don't'
know, but maybe black whales turn
gray as they get old, but got my
suspicious that Oliver had gone and
camouflaged himself somehow on ac-
count O. the Uboats. Anyhow, here
he come as proud as rum punch. an
when he got alongside he give a kind
of cough like an spit something out.
an backed of and looked at It, an
cooked an eye at me, just like kit
ten that's caught its first rat.
Up Come Eight Boche Caps
First off | couldn't make out what
1t was, but | whipped out nv glasses
and seen it was life preserver. I
spelled out the printin' on it. am it
was Unterseeboot U-53. Oliver. he
grlnned couple O. rods wide when he
see how fabbergasted | was, an then
he give another little 'ahem,' an up
Ho'he cISHI Sailors caps, an the print
ing on them was just the same as on
the life preserver.
Il hollered to Olafsen, who was out
IN dory lookin' at the nets, to 20
over an pick up the stuff, but the
words was no more'n out O. my mouth
when Oliver he shook his head violent
an went an swallowed the fife pre-
server an the caps down again SO
quick that Jonah himself woulda been
surprised.
81 see then that he knowed what
he'd done an meant to keep the relics
himself. We heaved over his whiskev.
and was that proud of him we chucked
in the crews cask too, and Oliver
smiled Just like man a long time at
sea who's got his foot on brass rail
again.
"Just then Olafsen hailed me an said
the nets was fair draggin' at the buovs'
SO we had our work cut out for. U.S.
tor | never, even in the twenty wears
been buyin' drinks for Oliver. sec
more fish than was in them nets
certainly am proud of Oliver. an
when the wars over Pm going to give
nm a couple o. barrels O. good water
proof black paint SOS he can renew
his youth"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Boy Is Killed, Two Children
Hurt in Days Auto Accidents

Robert Cohen, six years old, of I'll
East Eighteenth Street, was killed yes
tcrday near his home by motor truck
owned and driven by Henry Groshans,
OF Hudson. Groshans was arrested.
John Rohrcy, Of z01 West 135th Street,
Whose automobile Knocked down and
eeriously injured Patrick Kilsallop,
twelve years old, Of z752 Eighth Ave
rue. was held for examination IN the
Warrington Heights police court. Will
IAN Eiackcrt, Of 1899 Amsterdam Ave.
nue. mas arrcstcd after his car had
Knocked down Anna Frawlcy, three
years old. She Was taken to Harlem
Hos pita. The child Was hurt in
tcrnally.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
.
Pseudo Hero Of the War Drops
Senseless After Guilt Plea

Robert Davis, negro of Nashville.
Tenn. who collected s3l.50 after lcct
ure, in which he posed as Sergeant Henry
johnson, Of Albany, who was cited for
bravery in France for routing twenty
four Germans with basket of gre
nades and a bolo knife, pleaded guilty
Of petit larceny yesterday in the Kings
County Court.
A few minutes later he fell uncon-
scious in his cell and was taken to
Long Island College Hospital, suffering
from cerebral hemorrhage. Davis lcct-
ured on Going Over the Top" in the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, on
Carlton Avenue Rronklvn
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Medal and Son Same Day

The chest of Peter Mcneil, known as
"Buck" around the Battery, where he
is dockmaster, expanded another frac-
tion of An inch yesterday when he pre-
serted himself at the Office of the
Benevolent Association of Underwrit-
ers, 81 Wall Street. to receive an addi-
tion to the array of lifesaving medals
which he owns. For back at his home.
$50 Canal Street, Dockmaster Mcneil
had just left Raymond Daniel Mcneil,
born few hours before.
The arrival of Raymond Daniel Nc
Neil makes nine children in the Mcneil
family to play with their fathers fas-
cinating gold, silver and bronze medals.
The gold emblem which the dockmaster
received yesterday was for saving sew
cnty lives with his row boat in 1915,
whom the steamer Keyport foundered
at the Battery
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Stock Watering Charged

The Commonwealth Mortgage Com
rany, Delaware corporation, filed a
suit yesterday in the Supreme Court
to recover s2O4,0 900 from Leroy Sar-
gent, Harry +. Martin, Laurence Swami.
John X. Peakc and Leroy Sargent e.
Co., Inc
1t is alleged that after the defend
ants had organized the plaintiff com
pany in 1915 they watered the stock
by increasing its capital from $500.
600 to s3,300,00O and gave Mr.. Peake
S1,500,000 in the new stock of the cor
poration for his services in the work
of organization. These services. it is
alleged, were not worth the compensa-
tion paid Mr.. Peake The S2O4 .OOO
sued for represents commissions paid
for the sale of stock of the Common
wealth Mortgage Company.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
B.R. T.Women to Organize


All the conductorettes now employed
on the b. K. T. and on the trs. asit lines
of Manhattan and The Bronx are to be
organized into the ranks OF the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees Of America,
according to a plan announced yester-
cay by Patrick Roche. of the American
Federation of Labor.
This step is being undertaken, Fir.
Roche said, in order that the men and
women may act as a unit if any dis
putes arise with the companies.
number of the Brooklyn conductor
cites have already Joined the Brooklyn
Central Labor Union. John p. Cough
lin, president of that body, SAID ycstcr-
day that many Of them have been DIS
charged on this account. but that big
union organization campaign will oc
waged among the women conduc s3 rs
notwithstanding.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
France Makes Otto Fl. Kahn
Legion of Honor ChevaleI

The decoration of Chevalier Of the
Legion Of Honor, an honor accorded 10
few civilians in war time, has been
conferred upon Otto H. Kahn by the
French government, it was announce
Yesterday. in recognition Of his as
tinguished service to the Allied cause
before and since the United States Ell
tered the war. ...
Mr.. Kahn was born in Germany, ous
has been a citizen of the United Sta'e'
for many years.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Mineola Flying Field
Named After Mitchell

WASHINGTON, July 31.-Army avi-
alton fields at Wantagh and Mineola,
L. L., have been named, respectively,
in memory of Major Victor Raoul Luz
berry. killed recently in combat in
France, and Major tohn Purroy
Mitchell, who died in an aviation ac-
cident at Gerstner Field, La.
The War Department also announced
to-day that the new field at Babylon,
L. l., has been named Damn Field, and
that at Commack, l.. l., Brindley Field
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Cheaper Bread Is Planned

=, Mrs. Oliver Hartman, chairman of
Committee of Women on National De-
fence. is planning to reduce the cost
OF bread for the poor. Instead of the
usually large loaves at high prices Mrs.
Hartman plans small loaves of va
rious sizes that will be sufficient for a
family of four, five or six without
waste.
The bread will be made at the Food
Conservatlon Kitchen in the old City
College Building, at Twentv-third
Street and Lexington Avenue. where it
will be on sale.
There is great waste in bread among
the poorer classes" said Mrs Hartman
and this may be done away with pro
vidlng loaves can be turned out that a
family may be able to consume while
they are still fresh
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Girl Shot Going to Theatre;
Police Find Only the Pistol

Anna Murphy, thirteen years old, be-
came an involuntary actress in n street
drama last night while on her way
from her home, 1896 Hudson Street, to
motion picture theatre.
The girl was going through Carminc
Street when there wAs shot, and she
fell with bullet through her neck.
She was taken to ST. Vinccnts Hos
pital, where it was said that the woune
is not serious. The police found a
revolver in the street, but could not
learn who fred the shot.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
To Shoot at Sea Cirt

The Old Guard Veteran Battalion
will hold its annual outdoor shoot the
week beginning August 10, Governor
Edge, of New Jersey, having offered the
use Of the Sea Girt ranges during that
week. Twcntyseven new members
have been elected to the Old Guard
since its recruiting drive started on
july
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Our Choice for Gar
of all the Russias-
WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN

~>->
Being new and bashful at this col
umn game, we hesitate to start any
thing with "B l.. t." the dean of
them all. But after scanning "The Bos-
ton Herald we feel that something
really ought to be done about fren-
zied paragrapher who transplants to
an adjoining state the metropolis of
New Mexico in this fashion:
THE FRENZIED WEATHER OF
ARIZONA
IFrom the Albuquerque Journal)
summary of local weather conditions for
the "a hours ended at 6 p. m. yesterday fol-
lows: Maximum temperature. As deg.; ; mini
mum, 60; range, 35; temperature. 81.
Six-count 'em-sX badly fright
ened young women were shepherded
into the Jamaica Police Court yester-
day by patrolman who tried to look
grave and important and made a bad
job of it.
Ranged before Magistrate Doyle.
they fixed their eyes upon him with
the pleading gaze of persons vino hope
for life sentence yet fear the chair.
"Charged with poker playing, your
honor" said their marshal, and then
snickered loudly before he could get
his hand to his mouth.
Neighbors of the seXtet, accord
ing to the police, complained that fem
L.
pot" disturbed their slumbers The
raided the back porch of a Waverly
avenue house, where the game was in
progress, they confscated $3.50 in cash.
WELL said Magistrate Doyle, run
nlng his eye over the victims, what
have you to say?"
ut was for the Red Cross" came the
reply in fearful chorus
Dismissed" remarked the magis-
trate, and retired to have his laugh
out in peace.
The American Press Humorists have
/ elected to membership one whose gift
at funny writing bushes too often un-
seen amid columns of drearier reading
His name is not known, but they electe;
him anyway. under the title, "The Mar
muniques."
The author has not yet been informes
of the honor bestowed on him, and doe.
not know that Douglas Malloch, presi
dent of the humorists, was his sponsor
I'VE are glad to take him in," sal,
Mr. Malloch, "although he has not bee,
able to take US in yet. His is the fun
niest stuff l have seen on the war.
For example, this statement, that
having accomplished our purpose-t,
bring on French counter attack-w
ere row goose stepping it for the rear
II that was the purpose of the German
generals, you'll have to admit they 90
results. And, if you will read a littl
further, II you are not laughing to-
hard you will learn that the German
won thrilling victory by getting ava
without being Observed If they con
tlnuc to meet with success i. looks lik
they would soon take Berlin
Unless a certain family on Prospec
Park Terrace hereafter ties up it
youthful progeny the police of Brook
lyn are going to have their hands full
For the aforementioned progeny. one
two and the other three, started ad
,venturing yesterday, got lost, and final
~ came to anchor on the steps Of IN,
drug store of S. B. Tetz, Mayor o
"Me're lost the elder said calmly.
Whlle he telephoned for the polio
the youngsters devoured uncounted ic
cream cones, supplied by their tempo
rary host. Finally they departed unde
the guidance of a patrolman.
We're going to get lost again." the
shouted back to Mr.. Tetz, as they jour
neyed homeward
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Nearly 200 Autoists Fined

Nearly 200 persons we're arraigned in
the Traffic Court yesterday, charged
with driving on the wrong side of the
street; Most of them were fined $40
each ny Magistrate House, who said
mat the crusade against careless mo-
torists would continue.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-01
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax

In view of what happened to the
,erman Ambassador to Russia; in
Jew, also, of what has just occurred
o the German dictator of the Ukraine,
we come out strongly thus:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-11
HUN CLERGY KEEPS
 DOWN DISCONTENT

Amsterdam. Aug. 10.-The services of the clergy have been enlisted in various parts of Germany to assist in keeping down the growing popular discontent over food difficulties. In the diocese of Munster, Westphalia. the official .."War food department has arranged for special lectures throughout the diocese. at which the local priests and clergy will preside and emissaries of the department will furnish information. instruction and arguments to answer the complaints regarding scarcity of food and against the severity of punishments for small transgressions of the food regulations.
 There are many complaints in the country districts over the intricacy and inadequacy of the food regula- tions, and these complaints generally reach first of all the ears of the parish priests. The Rhenish Vest phalian Gazette in an editorial ap- proving of the scheme to enlist the assistance of the clergy. says:
 The last few months before the harvest will be the most trying time of all. Therefore the food depart. ment should remain in constant touch. with the priests and benefit by their observations among the common peo. ple." ..1 :. :. !
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-11
GERMAN WHO SANK
 LUSITANIA IS DEAD
Lieutenant Commander Schweiger Died in 1917 But Admiralty
 Kept It Secret.

London, Aug. 10.-Lieutenant Com mander Schweiger, who commanded the submarine which sank the Lusi- tania, is dead. His death occurred in 1917, but has only been admitted by the German admiralty according to reports received here.
 Last September Schweiger, in com mand of the U-88 was in the blight of Helgoland with another submarine. The Uboats submerged and the oth- CT commander felt chain sweeping along the side of his boat and believ- ed he had run into an unknown Brit ish mine field. A terrific explosion under water followed. The second bota rose rapidly and signalled for the other. There was no response. A vain watch was kept for the U-88 and she has not been heard from since. There is little doubt the reports say that she sank.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-11
LIEUT.. CHRISTOPHER
 WINS A PROMOTION

Second Lieutenant Freelin Christo- pher, son of MT. and Mrs. B. H.. Christopher of Pine Bluff has been promoted to first lieutenant, accord ing to telegram received by hts pArents Lieut. Chrid'obher is in Company G, 347th regiment. S7th di- vision, now stationed at Camp Dix. ..,.New Jersey. He. won his commits sion at the first officers training camp at Fort Logan H. Roots. lie IS a, graduate of the Pine Bluff High school and attended the University Of Arkansas where he was a member of the football team.