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New-York tribune., 1918-02-05

Dornness and procrastination in put
ting off the day of adopting and using
this Lewis gun by this government, and
people who know what an efficient arm
1t is cannot understand why the Ord
nance Department or the War Depart
ment has not had it supplied in large
numbers to our troops long before this.
"No Perfect Machine Gun"
"rhc Browning gun (adopted off
cially by the United States following
the outbreak Of the war last June)
may be very good gun. 1t may be
fine gun; it may be better than the
Lewis gun, but at this juncture--and
this has been true for the last year
1t is not entirely case of the best
arm; time is the essence of the whole
situation. There is no perfect machine
gun any more than there is perfect
motor. The thing to do is to do the
best you can. The Lewis gun could
be manufactured in large quantities;
1t was being made for the English gov
ernment, and there is no reason on
earth why this government should not
have used it. 1t should have acquired
as many Of them as possible.
"The time is too critical to sit down
and look at blueprints and make tools
and experiment with new guns like the
Browning gun. You might just as we'll
have found this building full of smoke
and then talk about the building up
of fire department. You would have
to use the buckets and what you have
here, because time would be the essence
of the whole situation. Time is the
essence of the situation with the Ger
mans, and that is why we have so much
qualification all over this country"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Yale and Princeton
Clubs Are Merged
Organizations Consolidate for
Duration of War, Begin
ming March

The members of the Princeton Club
of this city voted last night to con-
soldate with the Yale Club for the
period of the war This action was
taken for purposes of conservation at
a meeting in the Princeton clubhouse,
l21 East Twenty-iirst Street Earlier
in the evening the Princeton Club
council had approved the move.
The Princeton Club will close its
quarters on March L. During March
and April tho Princeton men will be
extended. the courtesies Of. the Yale
quarters, Fortyfourth Street and Van
Gerbilt Avenue. On May l the actual
consolidation will begin.
Both clubs have suffered considerable
loss Of members since America en-
tered the war. The Yale Club sug-
gested the consolidation several weeks
ago, and pointed out that the Yale
quarters were large enough for the
present combined membership of both
clubs and that considerable saving of
food and fuel and general running cx-
pcnses would result from a cons olida-
ton for the period of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Son Of Gatline Gun Inventor
Says Father Condemned Crozier
war Department Always Inefficient and Always Unpre-
pared Declared Famous Designer Whose Experiences
Were Repeatedly Colonel Lewis Many Years Later

WASHINGTON, Feb. Efficiency is
TO be found in the War Department in
Dut one placc--the Office dictionary
according to Richard Henry Calling.
son OF the inventor of the Gatling gun.
and student Of conditions both here
and abroad. Mr.. Gatling testified be-
fore the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittcc some time ago, but his testi-
mony was not made public until to day
The younger Gatling drew upon his
fathers cpigram in making this state
mcnt as a witness before the Senate
committee, but he used it to sum ur
conditions as he found them in the de-
partment at present. Specifically, he
called attention to the ordnance de-
partmcnt and General Crozier, it's head,
whom he mentioned several times by
name.
"Always Been Unprepared'
"Whcn it comes down to our own
War Department and the ordnance de-
partment," he said, "to use the Ian
euagc Of my father-who dealt with it
for great many years, covering prob
knew General Crozier- he said he had
never found efficiency in the War De-
partmcnt except in the dictionary; that
we were always unprepared; that we
were unprepered before the Spanish
Amrican War and we were unprepared
after tho Spanish American War.
ut seems to have been the policy Of
General Crozier that he has never been
we'll, my father used the words
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05


never been progressive man. There
always seem to have been plenty Of ex-
cuscs why machine guns should not be
Dought. My father found that so in
trying to sell his guns to the govern
ment. lie sold many more guns to the
English government than he sold to the
American government, and yet it was
purely an American invention and nv
father was an American citizen. He
sold two or three guns to England for
every gun that he sold to this country.
ne never could get General Crozier to
give him the assistance he thought he
was entitled to.
Lewis Gun Neglected
"The situation here in Washington.
so tar as | have been able to observe
1t, is that it has been one of the most
significant things that the Lewis gun
has not been adopted by this govern
ment. | have no interest whatever
IN the Lewis gum The Lewis gun ia
recognized as a most efficient weapon
and a weapon that has given excel
lent service in it's use by the English
army. If my information is correct.
they have ordered and used 10000 Of
themxand there is no good reason whv
this government should not have
adopted it and had manufactured 25..
600, 10000 or 10000 of them before
we even got into this war. If we had
been really careful to have our FIRE
department in readiness when this FIRE
took place we would have had 5000
to $4,000 of these guns.
ITO people who have followed the
situation at all it seems most signif-
cant that there has been so much stub
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05

tne government, were largely for for
eign consumption. Father Daniels said.
IN actual fact, he said it was impossible
TO purchase food and clothing at the
prices fixed by the government. In evil
dence he pointed to his own shoes,
p'ain and cheap in appearance, and
sald they had cost $50. Leather shoes
Tor women cost $50. he said.
Certain farms. nc continued were
exempt from tho regulations that were
supposed to apportion the national
!ood supply among the nation with
out favor. From these and similar
clandestinc sources, he said the
wealthy were able to buy what food
they wanted and did so at handsome
prices: For the poor there was horse
meat if they could afford it---80 drains
a day. 1t cost $1.26 n pound. Eighty
drams Of butter are allowed in week
and 1t costs $3.40 a pound Pork is
$3.50 a pound and flour $1.15. One
pound of potatoes and $50 drains of
flour arc the daily allowance of those
foods. The women who subsist on it
work twelve or fourteen hours a day.
Starving Made Thieves
of one asks permission to buy a
little extra milk or an egg for a sick
person. he said, ''he is asked imme-
diately, How old is the sick man?' If
he is beyond the age Of active military
service permission to buy extra food
or deicacies is refused.
an half an hour in court of minor
jurisdiction Father Daniels saw fif-
teen emaciated persons sentenced for
thefts committed in the desperation Of
starvation. Prison sentences for such
offences, even if n man was stealing
bread for his children. averaged three
or four weeks.
"That is German Kultur,'" said
Father Daniels.
Just prior to his departure for Swift
zerland and the United States, Father
Daniels was arrested and served a Jail
sentence for championing President
Wilson against street corner orator
who had declared that the President of
the United States was despot, fore
ing the American people into war
against their will. Father Daniels was
amazed at the freedom granted to Ger
mans in this country.
IL have had to stand slurs and sneers
from German officials because of my
nationality" he said, "and if the peo-
pie here could know the way their
countrymen in Germany are treated
they would not be quite SO easy with
alien enemies"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Germany Trying to Hide Economic
Crisis, Declares Priest Just Back
ather Aoysius Daniels Just Returned Says Middle Class
fias Been Swallowed Up by War, Leaving Rich and
Poor, With Latter More Miserable-Kaiser
Cursed by Soldiers, He Adds

ELIZABETH. N. j., Feb 4-Thc Rev.
Aloysius Daniels, of the Catholic Order
Of the Alexian Brothers, who reached
the United States on Saturday from
Germany, said to-day that Germany was
striving with might and main to de-
ceive the world concerning her eco
nomic condition.
During his long stay in Germany. for
the most part in Westphalia, Father
Daniels came to know the German pco-
pie as only priest could know thcw.
The middle class had been swallowed
up by the war, he said. 1t no longer
existed. There were only the wealthy
and the poor, and the lot of the poor
daily became more miserable. Among
them the desire for peace rapidly was
and civilians alike longed for it as for
nothing else.
The feeling against the government
Is most bitter with the soldiers who
go nome on furlough every six months.
and at each visit find conditions more
intolerable. ! have heard them cursing
the Kaiser. the Crown Prince and the
nlshest olnclals. The men are shot
down like dogs upon the slightest prov
ocatlon. however, and so they return
to the trenches to fight for something
they hate" 9
Calls "kultur" Fiendish
81 know what German .Kultur'
means" he continued, "and there is
nothing too fiendish to class under it.,
1t means taking schoolboys. placing
guns in their hands and sending them
to do mems work in front line trench.
1T means devitalizing German women.
putting them to cleaning the streets,
making munitions, and, at the same
time, starving them. 1t means making
a starved and diseased generation Of
the children of Germany. 1t means de-
sertlng the aged men and women, re-
tuslng even to give them nourshment
because they cannot help the Kaiser
carry on his war.
"lf any man who is spreading Ger
man propaganda in this country and
secretly praisng the Kaiser had to live
under the conditions l have seen for
the last three years he would welcome
the first opportunity to return to the
United States, and would thank God
thereafter for the blessing of demo-
cratic government"
Germany's food prices, as fixed BY
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Bronx Landlords
Plan Counter Blow
Meeting Raises Fund to Fight
Tenants in Courts


Considerable heat was injected into
the landlords and tenants row in The
Bronx last night, but it did not come
through the steam pipes. 1t made it's
entry at the Hunts Point Palace, 163d
Street and Southern Boulevard, where
200 landlords assembled and launched
the first bolt in what promises to be
very lively retaliative campaign.
The occasion was the first official
meeting of the Bronx Real Estate As
soclation, which, representing the land
lords OF more than $50 900 900 worth of
property in The Bronx, was formed last
week.
In outlining the purposes of the or
ganizaton NJ. Morganstein. Bronx
real estate operator, who acted as chair
man, told a hugely appreciatve audi
ence that the landlords had been Gin
dlcted at the bar of public opinion"
solely because while the tenants have
been vocifcrously airing their griev
ances. they have had no means of put
ting their case adequately before the
public.
1--WE must be heard!" he cried. and
IN .he audience, feeling that money talks
promptly subscribed 81 500 by way of
a starter toward campaign fund to
be devoted to advertising and to de-
Tending the landlords in court.
The meeting adopted resolutic.
against continuance of verbal azree-
ments between landlords and tenants.
insisting that leases covering the heat
issue must be drawn up, even if they
covered only one month. Bernard
~
teered their services, gratis, as attor-
neyS.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Unionist M. P. Fined
For Hoarding Food
MacCaw Pays $4,000 Penalty
for Stores Found in
Home

LONDON. Feb. q. William John
MacGeagh MacCaw. Unionist member
of the House Of Commons for West
Down, was fined $4,000 and sl75 costs
to-day for food boarding.
Mr.. MacCaw was tried in the Oxtcd,
Surrey, police court. According to the
attorney for the food committee of the
Godstone Division of Surrey. this Mem
Der of Parliament had in his larder at
Rocks Nest "a pounds OF tapioca. 154
pounds OF rice, SO pounds of scmolina.
100 pounds of biscuits, So pounds of
tea, 100 pounds OF sugar, "a pounds Of
golden syrup and II pounds of honey.
Although it was not conrended that
people living in country houses should
come to London daily for their sup
plies. this stock of goods was held to
constitute a hoard
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Campania Trasatlantica
Ships to Resume Sailinps

Agents of the Campania Trasatlan-
tica announced yesterday that it's SER
vice to Spain, which had been tempo
rarily suspended by this government,
had been restored, and that clearances
had been granted for the steamship G..
Lopez Lopez, which will sail this
morning.
1t was further announced that the
Alfonso XII will depart for Spain to-
night, followed by the Manuel Calvo on
Wednesday and the p. de Satrustcpn:
on Thursday. The Isla de Panay and
the Alicante, the line annouced, were
now taking cargo and would sail when
loaded.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
F Forty Carloads of Flour
For Allies on Wav Here

= A solid trainload of forty cars of
flour bound for the Allies is due to ar
rive in New York over the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad early this morning. 1t
left Buffalo Sunday. On it's arrival at
Constable Hook the flour will be nut
on the ship Immediately.
1t is stated that this is probably the
first solid trainload of flour for the
Allies to reach New York,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05
Polish Nation Demanded
Popular Party Will Insist ON
Unification of Terr;tor;e.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-Deputies of
the Polish popular party in Austria
have announced that they will insist
upon Polish nation, according to an
official dispatch to-day from Switzer-
land. They hold that the sole solution
New-York tribune., 1918-02-05

of the Polish problem is the unifcation
of all Polish territories as an inde-
pendent state, with access to the sea.
Any other solution, they said, would
be dangerous to the peace of the world
Polish representatives to the peace con-
ference also are demanded.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
WAR ADV|CES BOOM
STOCK TRANSAC TONS
Prices Advance, and Wall Street
Shows Increasing Activity,
at Change Opening.

by Associated Press 20 Every Evening
New York Wall Street. juno s.
Advances Of one 10 three points were
scored in the active early period Of to-
days stock market
All sections of the list participated IN
the rise which was accelerated by further
encouraging foreign news.
Specnltics and similar issues. notably
those controlled by pools, displayed
greater strength
lndustr ials. and rails were in demand
with signs of hurried short covering, cspc-
clally III L. s. Steel and Reading
Liberty Bonds were steady
PRICES TUMBLE, IL NOON REPORT
Noon-Proft taking offset the further
buying power of the first hour and prices
reacted quite generally Speculative
ISSUES. like Baldwin locomotive, StImatra
Tobacco and tobacco products. also
Marine and Atlantic Gulf fell back one
10 two points L s. Steel and coppers
lost the greater part Of their gains and
rails became irregular or heavier New
Haven was freely offered Mt two-point
concession
Liberty 3i5's sold nj 90 so tn % 70
first Is nj az 30. second Ia at % 20 and
Al g at o5 AZ to 95 - International
war ISSUES were active IN strong. espe-
ciallv Paris 6's and Anglo-Frcnch SIS
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05

yesterday when one mine was picked up
by naval mine sweepcrS operating oil the
Delaware Capes near the place where
the Pratt was damaged, The discovery
of this mine, coupled with the statement
made by the master of the Pratt that
he was not certain whether he was tor
pcdoed or mined, strengthens the belief
that IL was mine that damaged the
Pratt
The fact that the Pratt was damaged
by an explosion very near the entrance
to the Delaware without trace OF any
submarine in that ncighborhood Mt the
time Of the explosion which occurred
Monday afternoon left little doubt IN
the minds of naval officers that the Pratt
was mined and not torpcdoed. IT
not the belief that the submarine was
anywhere near the entrance TO the Del
aware as late ~ Monday afternoon.
The finding of another mine off the
entrance 10 the Delaware yesterday,
in mne-sweeping operations, rs considered
n satisfactory indication that the U-l5l
or some other German submarine had
dropped mines before disappearing. The
announcement regarding the discovery
Of the mine follows.
THE Navy Department has received
"A report from tho commandment OF the
Fourth Naval DiFtrict that ut | / o'clock
Tuesday morning a naval mInc-swceper,
operating off the Delaware Capcs, picked
rp one mine This is the same general
location az that in which the tanker
Pratt was sunk Monday afternoon.
The movements of shipping are being
carefully regulated. and the mine -ewceping
is, of course, being continued.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
OFFICIAL REPORT BY NAVY
DEPARTMENT

Washington, June 5 There was much
satisfaction in the navy over the saving
Of the steam tanker Herbert L. Pratt.
which was among the ships reported
originally az destroyed by a German
submarine The official announcement
reads:
The Navy Department has been in
formed by the commardant Of the
Fourth Naval District that the steamer
Herbert ]. Pratt which was sunk yester-
day off the Delaware Capes, has been
raised and is berg towed in She will
be dry-docked and repaired Immediately "
The search for the U-l5l and her con
sorts has broadened 1t now embraces
a hunt for mines that may have been
planted or strewn along the coast and
search for possible secret submarine
supply or wireless bases on this side Of
the Atlantic
ThS s----cA for mines produced results
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05

ny Associated Press IN Every Evening
Chicago, June ; Hogs, receipts. 5000.
left over 5000; stockyard employees, in
cluding freedmen. dockmen and scale
men all an strike no trading being done
pending developments, yesterdays clos
ing weak at the early advance Of ten
cents; bulk, is 50ai8 90, top. II 10
Cattle, receIpa 5000 Yesterdays clos
ing steady for good veighty cattle, others
weak Ia ten cents lower. stockers and
fceders. unchanged
sheep. receipts. 5000, Yesterdays cioa
ing firm at morning advance
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
OBITUARY.

John ] Clifton, aged "A wears died at
the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital
OF rnitral reorganization On June 3
Mrs. Alice P. Brown, wife of Henry
" Brown died on Saturday evening at
her husband home, the Oak road
Germantown.
Funeral services for Mahlon BRYAN.
formerly of Wilmington, now of Cam
den, y j.. were held from Arch Street
NJ Z, Church, Philadelphia y+sterdav.
Interment wa private in tins
city MIR Bryan died Sunday al the home
OF his niece Mrs +. q c. Blakeley BIS
Cooper street, Camden He was So
years old.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05

: You face this question three times
: q day, every day Of your life If
: you are woman and the head OF a
: home you must decide il for the
! whole family i Is one of the most
! important questions in the world
: Every Evening today offers You a
I free copy Of a new book thaC will
: help you greatly in deciding what
: you or your family should eat This
: book Classics the ninety commonest
: articles Of food into five Glasses. II
: you eat food from each class every
: day, your diet is just about properly
! balanced Such knowledge is worth
! having you will agree
! THE WAR COOK BOOK IS FREE.
! And that is only one of the many
! things you can learn from this
! valuable free book For this is the
! new War Cook Book, 80 pages.
! which should be in every American
! home
! IT explains the food situation.
! II shows you how TO serve your
! country and yourself at the same
! time. 1t contains more than a score
Of new recipes. II suggests sample
! war menus. IT is q handbook for
! practical patriots II is issued by
the United States Food Admins
tTatIon.
Every Evening will send YOU a
copy free Simply send your name
! and address, with 2-cent stamp
for postage 10 Wilmington Every
Evening Information Bureau,
Frederic J Haskin, Director, " ash
ington, ID c,
Observation-Disclosures
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05

EOGERS-In this city. on June 3 1915.
Matthew F. husband of Anna NJ Rogers
Relatives friends and members Of Water
Witch Fire Co. No ;. L '. l.. and du Pont
Post. No ,. q A K. are invited 10 attend
the funeral from his late residence.
723 West Ninth street on Thursday morn
ing June g. al q o clock Requiem mass AZ
Sacred Heart, lnterment at Cathedral
cemetery.
WALSH-In this city on June 2 1915
Nellie G.. daughter Of Thomas and the
late Bridget Walsh.
Relatives friends and the immaculate
Conception Sodality are invited TO attend
the funeral from her late residence No
1925 Chestnut street. on Thursday morn
ing June g. at O'Clock Solemn requiem
mass al St. Paul's Church Interment at
Cathedral cemetery. Automobiles
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
POWDER QUOTATIONS.
Reported Daily at Noon by George p.
Bisseil, du Pont Building.
WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT.

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
ATLANTIC CITY. NJ
-CONTINENTAI.HOTFI,
THE AMERICAN

Tennessee Ave near boach piers ana I'll
arm enroonrg Npfrrato rates
MRS " CpTffsT8
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
STEAMBOAT LINES
To Philadelphia
and Chester

FROM FOURTH STREET WHARF
Schedule until further notice. subject to
change
Leave Wilmington for Philadelphia. daily
except Saturdays and Sundays at 80
100 a. m. 80. Ais. 900. ZOO and $50
Leave Philadelphia for Wilmington
80. 900. 90 a. m 800. Ais. 10,
. 80 y. -
Saturdays Sundays and holt
both Philadelphia and Wilmingto
900 1890 a m. II O'Clock
800 / Is, 90. Z 90. 5 80 an
SUMNER RATES OF FARE
TIVE MAY lST.
To PHILADELPHIA
Daily single. 25c = ing f5c
sat sun & Holiday single SOC y sing l5c
To CHESTER
Daily including saturday Sunday and
Holidays. single. l5c: half single l0C
No excursion tickets will be issued. The
single ticket will be good ither way
NlLMINGTON- PENk'S GROVE ROUTE
Leave Wilmington. $50. 100 500. 100.
1000. 100 a. IN. II o'clock noon, ,O0.
200. 100. 400. 800. 600. 700. 500. 900.
1000. II 90 and 1900 .. IN.
leave Penn's Grove at 600. IS. s 90.
300. 90. 90 u m. IL O'Clock noon.
loo. 2. IS, 800. 400. 90, 600, 90, 500.
300 ID, / | 90 aud 200 .. m.
FRENCH'S GROVE PENIS GROVE
open dates for Sunday school excursions
Apply Fourth Street Wharf.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-05
Hercules Powder Dividend

The directors Of the Hercules Powder
Co. yesterday declared a regular quarterly
dividend o, 2 per cent on common stock
and An extra dividend of per cent
both payable June Is on stock Of record
June IS.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-13
WELL KNOWN MACON
ATTORNEY [. DEAD
A. W LANE SUCCoMBS At TIE
WILLIAMS 5ANATORiUM AFTER
SEVERAL WEEKS ILLNESe.

Macon, Ga, Jan. -, -.tndrcE W.
Lane, we'll known Macon lawyer. nem
Der OF the firm OF Jordan { Lane, died
Williams Sanatorium Sat,rja@ mora
ing after an illn >, OF sc;eral weeks
lie had been at the sanatorium for
several weeks being treated for mcla-
gic and rheumatism wher he suffered
. stroke OF paralysis last 5unda". It's
entire left side was parayzed Since
then his condition was practically "
changed until Friday nigllt wien he
began to sink
Mr. Lane formerly was city attorney
here He also had represented Blpl
county in the legislature and was wen
known throughout the state. lie was
one of the most prominent members
OF the Macon bar here.
lie was forty-ninc years Oh and j.
survived by his wife and several chill
dren Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.