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board yesterday. Paul Bonynge, counsel
for the boat owners, told Chairman
Squires that before such appointment be
made the boat owners first wanted to
know what the attitude of the Railroad
Administration was toward this arbitra-
ton board. Mr.. Squires answered, that
the Railroad Administration desired to
cooperate.
That's JUST It," replied the boat own
ers' lawyer. the Railroad Administra-
ton Is sitting on the fence, reserving the
right to accept or reject any award your
board makes. and will not consider II
binding but Irecommendatory only. That's
our position, too. We feel the same as
the Director General. If the award Is
satisfactory we may accept 1t, and II not
we may reject it."
As soon as the hearing was over the
Harbor Board tried to get in touch with
Washington and have the Railroad Ad-
ministration appoint a member to the
board. The boat owners refused partici-
patio in the hearing on the ground that
the board was incomplete. since there are
but four members out OF the original
seven.
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STATE GAVE LUNATIC
A DRIVERS LICENSE
Chauffeur, Out on Probation,
Taken to Wards Island.

The thoughtful care OF the sovereign
State for the humble pedestrian was
illustrated in open court yesterday in
the case OF George J. Lesser. a chauffeur.
who, having pleaded guilty to a charge
Of reckless driving was turned out OF
court on a suspended sentence that he
might be sent back to the asylum for
the insane on Wards Island from which
he was released on probation last spring
Lesser was In the Traffic Court
charged with being responsible for a
collision between two automobiles at
Sixty third street and Columbus avenue
on Thursday. He admitted II. Then
by a probation officer who had been as
signed to look into his past. Lessers
record for the last three years was laid
before Magistrate Cobb as follows:
Inmate Of Manhattan State Hospital
for the Insane for twenty months from
September. 1916. following two attempts
to shoot himself. Six prior traffic
charges against him, two Of them hav-
ing been brought for speeding, three for
driving on the wrong side of the street,
| and one for driving without a license.
Despite his record and his obvious ir-
responsibility 1t was shown that four
months after leaving Wards Island no
possessed a chauffeur's license and had
another one issued to him for 1919.
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TELLS OF GALLANT
FEAT BY DOUGHBOYS
Comrade Of Wounded New
York Captain Describes Cap
ture Of Meuse Hill.
HELD 1T UNDER IRON HAIL
Commander Of Co. d, 32Oth
Infantry, Now in Military
Hospital Here.

When the Light Brigade" went to
glorious death II charged to the wild ac-
compartment of clashing sabres and
thudding hoofs. A frenzied drive, a Jew
moments OF wars grandeur, then all was
over and an immortal page had been
written in history.
In vivid contrast was the gallant &C.
ton when Company D of the 32Oth In
fantry. U. s. A, carried Hill No. - on
the bleak morning of October 10 during
the battle Pf the Mouse. While the
doughboys held the hill from A. NJ. I'M
Ill T. NJ. some OF them may have
thought a bit wistfully that the Light
Brigade" only had cannon to the right
volleying and laundering.
Machine Guns on All sides.
Playing on the infantrymen from all
sides were the tireless German machine
guns. From far away Boche lines there
came shells containing the explosive that
tears a hole in the ground big enough to
hide a two family house. Overhead
Terry was flying very low. searching for
the alignment OF olive drab figures. pros
trated to blend with the brown, FROST
killed grass and clods OF earth. He was
seeking to set the perfect range for
the cropping batteries. While pursuing
this deadly quest the airmen kept up a
running fire, punctuated by aerial torpe-
pedoes dropped among the Americans.
Eight hours the Yankee line grimly
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NO THREAT OF PORT
TIEUP In WAGE ROW
Employers and Men Likely to
Accept Decision of Har-
Dor Board.
DEMANDS ARE REVIEWED
Boat Owners Refuse to Name
Representative to Sit at
City Hall Hearing.

The New York Harbor Wage ADJUST
ment Board. or what there Is left Of It.,
met yesterday afternoon in executive
session to mako an award in the dis
pute between marine workers of the
port of New York and the narbor boat
owners over demands for the eight hour
day and a wage increase. The result of
the conference probably will be an
nounced to-day by Chairman b. NJ.
Squires, who represents the United
States Department of Labor.
Whatever the award will be there is
at this date no threat OF a tieup of the
port. II the award includes a slight in
crease in pay boat owners will not re-
ject It, and 1t Is possible a working
schedule satisfactory to the employers
will be adjudged by the harbor board.
Eek Parte Hearing Held.
An ex parte hearing was held in City
Hall yesterday by the board. With Mr.
Squires sat T. V. O'Connor. representing
THO boat employees: T. l.. Delahunty
acting for the railroad employees, whose
representative resigned; GeorgelR Put
nam of the Department OF Commerce
and Keyes Winters of the Shipping
Board. c. Il. Lindsey of the Board OF
Railroad Wages and Working Condi-
tons, sat in an advisory capacity.
The boat owners, who were present as
onlookers rather than as participants
refused to make an appointment to All
the place of Frederick A. Bishop their
representative on the arbitration board
His resignation was accepted by the
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held the position. waiting and hoping for
an infantry attack. Eagerly anxious
they were to repay with steel and bullet
the gruelling punishment SO patiently en-
dured.
The attack never materialized, but the
Germans we're kept in check until the
American forces, artillery and men, con-
solidated in the woods behind, making
the hill worthless to either side.
Capt. Harry A. Sabiston OF 66 Bank
street, commander OF the gallant band,
now IA a patient at Base Hospital No.
in this city. Ho has a hole in his left
hand where a sniper's bullet carried
away a couple OF knuckles and two
Inches of bone Near the shoulder OF his
other arm are two deep red scars the
trails Of machine gun bullets. He still
coughs a bit from gas. These he consid-
ers mere incidents mot worth mention
Ing" as he puts 1t.
"Oh, yes, we werc there" he said yes
terday when asked about the battle, had
quite a tea party, and you should have
SEEN Then he entered into eulogy of
some comrades who had passed TO eter-
nal glory over the bloody pathway of the
hill.
Judgment saved Lives.
Tine Captain doesn't menuOn now ne
consolidated positions, acted as several
officers in one and saved many lives by
his excellent judgment" remarked a
wounded mate who was sitting near by.
''Oh, bosh," answered Sabiston, red
dening slightly, II simply did my duty,
same as thousands OF others. Don't pull
any of that hero stun. Every man In
the company was q fighter from way
back. There's the whole story. S'long,
l thing scent a game Of dominoes," and
away he went
That's about as much of the story as
period" the other said, 'for to tell the
truth, Hill No. was one of the
nerviest stunts of the war. Just to
prove it, here are a few OF the facts
On the previous evening the company
lay in the wood, Just back from the
Brieuelles- Cunel road, after a hard days
fighting. About O'Clock in the morning
an order came TO take the road and the
hill and the barrage was laid. AS the
barrage lifted from the road the boys
pushed forward.
AT first 1t was easy going The
Boche who held the hill were driven out
Those who were left alive fled to their
brothers in the woods and heavy under
brush that practically surrounded the
position.
Immediately after the capture Capt.
Sabiston placed his men to command
every approach. molding his formation
TO take all advantage of the ground with
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$4,000 u. S. TROOPS
WERE HOME DEC. Fl
Return at Rate of 300, 900
Monthly Planned.

WAsIINGToN, Dec. 27.-Sixty-eight
th1c"sud American soldiers had been
returned from overseas December 81 and
slightly more than 500.00o In this eoun-
my had been mustered out of service,
members OF the House Military Commit
''' were told to-day at their weekly
GO ference at the War Department.
Officers are being discharged rapidly.
'na.rma1 Dent said, $4,000 having been
released since the armistice was signed.
me largest number was in the chemical
service and the fewest in the medical
section
Troop movements from abroad on
thps now controlled by the United States
are limited to 10000 men month,
IbNt the Department hopes to increase
'H.s 70 200, 900 or 100000.
war Department officials also told
members OF the committee that an inves-
ugaton by tho British OF $4,000 German
prisoners captured in October In
""itAern France and Belgium revealed
Na' their ages ranged from IS TO GO
gclrs Thirty per cent. were 10 TO 90.
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TINT DUMPED OFF SOUTH AMBoY
Vast Quantities owned by Allies
Goes to Waste.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-By order OF
the railroad administration, some hum
dreds of thousands of pounds OF high
explosive material including INT and
picric acid, the property of the French
and Italian Governments. is being towed
out to sea from South Amooy, n. j..
and dumped overheard, thirty-f1ve miles
from the Scotland Neck lightship.
This plan has been adopted as the
only practical and immediate method
of getting rid of 22S carloads OF the
material which has been parked outside
of Wilmington. Del. for some time
awaiting transportation. There are
now only few cars left, but the own
ing Governments have saved some of the
material in the last few days by having
1t loaded aboard ships.
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particular care not TO disturb natural
objects. thus avoiding attracting atten'
ton. In a word. he camoufaged his
troops by blending them into the land
scape. And a darn good joke on the
Boche It was, too.
"All of this time the grand march was
playing. The enemy threw over every
thing but the cat Jerry was on the Job
right away. He buzzed so low at times
that some one winged hier with re-
volver shot, but the Captain put a stop
to that, fearing that It might help the
range providers.
The Hardest Thing.
hang on and walt, and waiting Is the
toughest kind of a game under those
| circumstances. When you see COM
rade, terminate or maybe brother
give one of those pitiful means, writhe
bit and then turn over and you can't
start right out and get the Boche who
did it-well it's he'll, that's all. You
can see the white face, the open un-
seeing eyes making their mute appeal
and It simply turns the world into a
place not fit to live in. It's maddening.
AhVh Sdpt' cdDiotOH bSBoh " oShN
back his runners. Volunteers they were,
| as brave lads as the army produced.
No. l got away for ten yards, then
dropped on his face, the regular pro-
cedure. He seemed a likely chap. but a
sniper winged him as he started on.
THE eighth man reached his des-
| tination. Four were severely wounded 4;
the rest never were heard from.
1T was about 3 :45 that we heard the
Yankee guns, or rather Yankee shells,
covering our position. The Germans
were so enraged at not being able to
force the position that they just hung
around splitting machine gun bullets and
suffered a considerable loss from the ar
tillery as well as from our own fire.
But do you think that they would
charge US? oh, no. they knew the taste
| OF doughboy steel too we'll, and when
We were ordered to rejoin the main line
every man in the command was GUESSING
mad because we didn't get real chance
to give 1t to them.
| And as for the Captain. well he's a
good soldier, but there are times when
a man is ready to fight and wants TO
| fight and has purred with Joy over
thought of good fight, and some one tells
| him it is all over but the shoutihg-at
such times that man is likely to have
a word to say within the innermost re-
| cesses of his innermost heart, and that
word. take it from me. isn't the 'Maiden's
| Prayer"
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Some Results of
Packard
1907 War Work

The 5oo0th Liberty Motor
: built by the Packard Company !
was shipped on November 81, a
week after its final assembly in
the Packard shops, and a week
ahead of the first anniversary Of
the completion of the first Lib
erty Engine ever made from
standard tools.
It was on Thanksgiving Day,
1917, that the first Liberty Motor
to come from an organized pro-
duction line came from the pro-
duction line of the Packard.
Wrapped in an American flag, it
was shipped the same day to the
American aircraft forces.
Between Thanksgiving and the
following March, the process of
the new war engines develop
ment vas that of the accommo-
dation of tool to design and design
to TOOL, always necessary in the
preparation for quantity produc-
ton of a quality motor. The
work of pioneering this develop
ment was either given by the
government to the Packard or
assumed by the Packard for the
Government. Consequently, as
late as February Is, Packard had
produced the only Liberty En-
gines in operation, and to date
Packard has built more Liberty
Motors than any other manu-
facturer has made.
The great results of that de-
velopment period are measurable
by the fact that the improve
ments effected raised the horse
power of the Liberty Motor from
367, at which the government
had accepted it for production,
to more than $50. Another re-
suit was that large scale produc-
ton rapidly followed final stand
ardization of tools and design,
so that by the end of the war,
eight months later, Uncle Sam
had more than $4,000 Liberty
Engines.
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Living Cost shown.

Chairman Squires asked Paul Vaca-
relli and the employees representatives
what change in living conditions since last
July required an increase in wages. and
it was claimed that the cost OF living had
increased 16 per cent. in that time. The
only real argument for the eight hour
day was made by Capt. Maher for the
Marine Engineers. He said that when
the award was made last July 1t was
during war period, when labor was
scarce. Now, he said, with the return of
the soldiers and sailors, there are enough
men to permit an eight hour schedule.
John Brennan of the boatmen facetiously
referred to the employers as the Ulster
Huckleberry Association, and was called
to order by the board for It.
Edward A. Kelly. for the owners Of
coastwise lines, said the shipping inter-
ests he represented would in no way be
| bound by any award made by the board.
ExPresident William Howard Taft
who as head of the War Labor Board. a
week ago ordered boat owners to recog-
niZe the New York board, was in commu-
nication with Chairman Squires yester-
day on the situation.
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Nutmeg staters Are Thrifty.

HARTFORD. CONN, Dec. 27.-That in
a year of high wages residents OF Con-
necticut were thrifty. Is shown by the
report OF State Bank Commissioner E
j. Sturges, for the year ended Sep
TENDER 80. made to the Governor to-day
Deposits for the year In savings banks
and trust companies increased $l4,1s1..
245 over the previous year. bringing
deposits in these institutions TO S405.'
l46,s34. The number OF depositors in
creased 1897, making the total $40, 233
The dividends paid on savings account;
totalled S14,034,051.
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RIDGEwooD BOY WINS CROSS.
Private Vail Sends News as Birth
day Present TO His Mother.

As birthday gift TO his mother. First
Glass Private Carl Waldemar Vail, an
ambulance driver assigned to the French
army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl NJ Vail
NJ Upper Boulevard, Ridgewood. n. j.,
and whose father is a partner OF Henry
r. Kent. president of Henry r. Kent &
Co, engineers. 141 Broadway, New York,
sent her letter telling how he won
the French Croix de Guerre. The cita-
ton says of Private Vail:
Excellent leader and technician. has
always proved cool and of remarkable
courage, notably on June ., 1918. at st.
Maur. where he entered a zone under
violent bombardment 10 search for an
officer grevously wounded whom he sue
oeeded in bringing back to the lines.
Distinguished himself during the often
siye OF July IS and "a in assuring repairs
10 vehicles at most advanced posts"
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Police Department
Orders

PENSIONS.
The following members OF the force are
relieved and dismissed and AWARDED the
following pensions To take enect IL
P. NJ. December "a:
PATRoLMEN.
John I. Wood. No si9s. 4eth Prec.. at
ss25 per annum. Appointed October rs.
William Filan. No. 1895. Traffic Div.
sub-Div. A. at .s?5 per annum. APP
pointed October ls, 1855
James F. Beatty, No. 1851, Bridge Prec.
at .s25 per annum. Appointed April H.
TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS.
SURGEON
Arthur Nnsen. 18th Surgical Dis. in
charge OF 18th Surgical Dis, in addi-
cembep Is to il P. II December 81.
during absence OF Surgeon on vacation
LIEUrENANTs.
william ]. Morris. 18th 1nsp, Dis. 20
I'd Insp. Dis. assigned to desk duty, also
to NIL vacancies in Marine Div, for 20
Frederick schlottman, lith Insp. Dis.
TO l2th Insp. Dis. assigned to desk duty.
for 20 days from Il p, NJ December -.
PATRoLMEN
Ferdinand c. Flick, 4jth Prec. TO Head
quarters Div. Division OF transportation,
A NJ, December -. 20 : A NJ. January 2.
Charles witscher, 18th Prec.. to Head
to duty in automobile repair shop. from
'' From DIVISION Of National Defence tspe-
cial war pay rolD. 10 precincts indicated,
for 20 days from 1901 A. NJ. December
"a Indefinite leaves Of absence are hereby
Joseph p. oliver. /; George ]. Colgan.
8; Peter j. McNulty, 90: Gustave A. Mes
sail. IS; Joseph Hartman, ll6.
ASSIGNMENTS DISCONTINUED.
LIEUTENANT.
william J. Morris, 18th Insp. Dis. to
18th Prec temporary. from u P. NJ
PATRoLMAN
Charles witschef 18th Prec TO LIST 1nsp.
Dis. TO duty In raided premises tem-
The following leaves of absence are
authorized. with full pay:
SURGEON
Dudley II. Morris, lth Surgical Dis;
from IL noon, December rs 80 IL p. NJ.
December 81, on vacation.
Without pay.
LIEUTENANT
Edward P Mulrooney, 9Th Insp. Dis.
for / day from 4 p. NJ, January l.
SERGEANTS.
Daniel y, o'Grady, 9TH Free, for day
Patrick Dee. 18th Prec. for day from
1901 A NJ December 25
An AmG ,S."i CLanSy' 18th 3Sth P1sc for day
PATROLMEN.
Charles Rose. ssth Prec.. for day
from 1901 A. NJ. January e.
James NJ, Culley. 42d/Prec., for 2 days
from p. II. December %.
William Delaney. b7,h Prec,. for 30 days
John Faulkner, Traffic Div. spb-DIyy.
Rocco r. Brindizi. 18th Prec,. for l
day from 4, NJ January l.
Thomas p. Hallgan. 18TH Prec.. for
day from p. NJ January l.
Charles d. Sands 18th Prec., for 1 day
from I p. NJ. December q.
Edward X. FrIel. 26th Prec., for l day
from 2:01 A. NJ. December &C.
Charles Burkhardt. 2gth Prec., for 1
day from A. NJ December rs
Charles w. Herold. 2gth Prec., for 5
days from A NJ December 81.
Jacob Greenberg, 29th Prec, for days
from Il p. NJ. December 90
The following applications for full pay
are approved while on sick report:
PATROLMEN
Francis Kane. Hath Prec.. from Feb
ruary l to February 10. 1917
While under suspension:
John p l.. Klintworth. 10th Prec.. from
1858 P. NJ. September to 1886 A. NJ.
November l6.
RETIRED PATROLMAN
William Beard, formerly attached to
seth Prec, residence 6s3 West ls5th
street, died at $3.50 p, NJ. December "a
from natural causes. Funeral from his
late residence 10 A. NJ December 81,
lnterment Calvary Cemetery.
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Boston, Dec. 27.-The largest total Of
new influenza cases recorded in a single
day was reported here for the twenty
four hours ending at 3 A. NJ. to-day.
The totals were asa new cases and 2S
deaths: 16 cases of lobar pneumonia
and deaths
The record., 1918-03-07
The Labor Question.

The Tn ted States employment
service. branch of the department
of labor, after reviewing &C niitions
the last of January made this state
ment of the situation:
Taking the country as a whole,
there is no apparent short ge of
labor. The number Of workmen
being sought by EMPLOYERS and the
number of wolkmen seeking en-
ployment are substantially eqnal.
GA the face of the returns, if labor
were properly distribute ed every man
would have a job and every job
would have a man. vExcept fer
temporary lnConvenCes, 1t adds,
uthe Uni ed States employment
service believes that practically
every willing and able worker can
be We employed du ms the current
year and that the needs Of every III
dustry can IL reasonable time lie
filled practically up to 100 per cent"
Saturday Evening Post.
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Waiting.

vWhen a bCche aerOplane comes
over we chase him with Wheelbar
row." SAID an American sergeant in
the trenches in France after Ger
man aviator had made a lelsurely
tour OF the American sector at low
altitude, photographiug everything
thu interested him and waving q
sarcastic greeting to the soldiers
from 4 height Of 200 feet or so.
A little later the German artillery
SEQ, rged the sector with we'll placed
shells, evidently having proFted by
the avi'tor's photographs.
Secretary Baker assures the
American put'ltC that "the first
American built .>attie planes are to-
day en- route to the ..ront in France {"
Though there is not now an Amerl-
can aviator flying there to aid In pro.
tecting the American troops in the
trenches, it is to be assumed that
the dav of chasing German avIat0rs
with wheelbarrows will pass present
ly.
1t cannot pass too soon if We are
making war for something m IRE tbsn
exhibition purposes. Chicago News
The record., 1918-03-07
The Contrast.

Some man is freezing In trench,
while | sit by the FIRE, and tune up,
with monkey wrenc1, my bargain
couuter Tyre. The FIRE is warDl, the
room is bright, and easy in my chair;
and some one, in the bitter night, is
freezing in despair. Some soldier,
far from home and friends, tolls on
through snow and Ice; and be my
coy home defends, at what a ghast-
ly price! OF course that soldier
must be fed, but 60 not ask, l beg,
that | shall cut out my wheaton
bread, my steak or MY morning egg.
With soldiers brave | sympathise, |
weep for all their woes; but | can t
do without my pies, my roasts; and
things like those. | go to bed at o
O'Clock, and feel no cold or storm;
the midnight blast the house may
rock, but l am snug and warm.
Some soldier, on wlndswept moor,
this night is stricken low !. that | may
rest IN bed secure. He's wounded,
dying, in the night; no lpvlqg voice
he hears. I'm truly sorry for his
plight; I'll she'd nine kinds Of tears.
But do not ask me, I beseech, to
help the Red Cross cause; I'll glad
ly shudde5 weep and preach, sprir G
maxims and wise saws: but when
you ask me for PUNK, why, that's
another tale; IN free with words
and kindred junk, but cannot spare
the kale. WALT MASON.
The record., 1918-03-07
ViCtrOla Dominance Grows.

Vlctrola dominance is greater to-
day than ever before. The latest IN
the field of standard machines, it
quickly emerged from the rest. 1t
has added many vital and exclusive
features OF construction, and has
overtaken everything except demand
and while the Victor Co. IS annual
ly expanding millions in buildings,
machinery and equipment, the world
calls for more in greater degree each
year. Roark places orders many
months ahead, and that IS why you
can place an order now and get what
you wish from him.
The record., 1918-03-07
Save the Hens.

Every laying hen sold from the
farms before the first of May means
. loss of about 80 eggs to the food
supply of the Nation. These eggs
are valuable food, manufactured
largely from insects, weeds, and
grass, garbage waste. The eggs,
therefore, are almost wholly a net
gain IN human food. Moreover, the
hen is just as good meat after she
has laid these eggs as before. "Save
the hens" is the message that the
United States Department of Agri-
culture is sending broadcast
through press notices and posters,
and through its county agents, es-
peclally in the southern poultry
raising sections.