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New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Gen. johnson to Aid
Boy Scouts Drive
Camp Upton Commander to
Speak at Campaign Lunch
TODAY

Brigadier General Evan NJ. Johnson,
commanding officer at Camp Upton, will
speak to-day at lunch at the Hotel
Astor of the Boy Scouts of America,
who yesterday launched caml aign to
double tleir membership in a week and
TO enlist 400 new scoutmasters.
Another object of the drive will be to
raise a fund of 100000 through sub
scriptions and dues. No official esti-
mate of the first days results was made
last night, but John Roy, the executive
secretary, with headquarters at 50 Wall
Street. announced: Subscriptions arc
coming in very rily-bcttcr, in
fact, than was expected on the first
day"
The real start of the campaign will
be made at the Astor lunch. Besides
General Johnson, James E. West, chief
scout executives; Patrick Francis Muir
ply, Alexander J. Hcmphill, president
Of the Guaranty Trust Company, and
several Boy Scouts will speak.
Members of the campaign executive
committee include William S. Kies, vice
president Of the American international
Corporations: Arthur B. Leach. Alexan-
der j. Hemphil, l.. L. Clark, George c.
Taylor W. W. Price, r.. J. F. Schwar-
Zcnbach and Alrick H. Man
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
David Worth Bagley
Will Wed Here To. dav

David Worth Bagley, commander Of
ehe American destroyer Jacob Jones.
which was sunk by German subma-
rine in the war zone on December G.
Will be married to-day in New York
to Miss Marie Louise Harrington.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Tenant uaA
rington, Of Colusa. Cal.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the
Secretary of the Navy, and sister Of
Commander Bagley, is expected to at
tend the ceremony, which will be per.
formed by the Rev. DR.. Herbert Ship
man. The place and hour Of the we'd
ding were not indicated in the applica-
ton Tor the marriage license, which
was granted yesterday in the CITY
City Clerks office, Municipal Building.
Commander Bagley is thirty-tive
years old, with residence in Washing
ton. When the first reports of the
sinking of the Paul Jones we're made
1T appeared that the commander of the
destroyer had been lost. 1t was later
learned, however, that he had escaped
in motor boat with five other> men.
all of whom were picked up and landed
at the Scilly Islands. After the Jones
was hit Commander Bagley saw that
every man on the destroyer had left
her before he himself left.
Miss Harrington and Commander
Baglcy had planned to be married last
summer, but he was ordered to sea
just prior to the date set for the ccre-
mony. Miss Harrington is relative
Of Secretary Daniels, and is twenty
two years of age.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

ton continued. There were in all be-
tween twenty-five and thirty curtain
calls for the diva; and the audience
would not begin to disperse until all
but the exit lights had been extin-
enished in the house.
The second performance Of ia
Prophete" at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night. with the same east.
brought back to fascinated audience
.hose spectacular delights which the
skilled entertainment mongers of mid
century Paris devised with such un-
canny accuracy
New York thrills like Paris to the
singing phrases of John Of Leyden. as
sung by Mr.. Caruso. II applauds the
colors. musical and pictorial, Of the
coronation scene. 1t PERHAPS does not
appreciate Nine. Matzenauer's great
skill in her double octave cadenza since
it is used TO cadenzas ending on high
notes, and it is amused by the skating
ballet. doubtless rejecting that Fred
Stone could do better.
But for all that. it is not free from
Meyerbeer's spell. Who, that has ears
and eyes, is,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

1t took Violetta Valery to bring out
the full genius of Nine. Amelita CALI
Curci. Hitherto her most exquisite
singing had been in "Dinorah," and in
THE Barber Of Seville" while her "Ro-
sina" had also revealed her talents as
q: comedienne. But last night she sang
Violetta as it has not been sung since
the halcyon days of Marcella Sembrich,
and in addition gave a dramatic per-
Torrance which would have done credit
to any of the great Marguerite Gau-
tier of the past.
In the first act, Nine. Galli-Curci
was vivacious, witty, fascinating. Her
hoopskirt of the 40's became her as
1T has become no other soprano within
recent memory. She was a picture, and
an exquisite one, of Paris which can
never be again.
Her tenderness and pathos in the
following acts were equally fine, and no
acting to be seen in America to-day
could surpass her scenes with Germont
and Alfredo. Both her impersonation
and that of Mr.. Stracciari was art Of
high order.
Marvellous Singing
And Nine. Galli-Curci sang with u
facility, warmth, a color such as she
had not shown before, while her in
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
'kettledrum' Given
For Home for Aged
Society Attends Entertainment
for Benefit Of Long E.stab-
Iished Charity

One Of The most notable Of the many
entertainments given for charity this
winter is the annual ST. Valentines
Kcttiedrur, for the benefit of the Sa-
maritan Homo for the Aged. at Ala
West Twenty-sccond Street, which is
one of the oldest charities in New York.
The affair was held yesterday at Sher-
rvs and was largely attended by the
older and younger sets in society.
There We're moving pictures, grab bag
and other amusements for children, and
Tor the older people tables for auction
bridge and coon can were placed in a
separate room.
The officers Of the home are Mrs.
Richard Irwin, presidents; Miss Amy
Townsend and Mrs. Gustav Kissel, vice
presidents; Mrs. Rudolph II. Kisscl. as
sistant treasurer, and Mrs. Alfred War-
staff, financial secretary.
Among the managers are Mrs. Clar-
ence G. Dinsmore. Mrs. G. Hermann
kinnicutt. Mrs. William Barbour. Mrs
Francis c: Huntington, Mrs George
Blagden, Mrs. Henry G.. McVickar,
Mrs. James Speyer, Mrs. Paul d. Cra-
vath, Mrs. Archibald G. Thachcr, Mrs.
Newbold Lc Roy Edgar. Mrs. Hibornc
/. Roosevelt and Miss Louise B. Will
lard
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
City Has More Than 10000 Agents
To Sell War SAVINGS Stamps
$4,000 Expected Before Next
Liberty Loan-Total OF
Sales Here to February | ;
Was $4,360,652. 36-F or
Whole Country, $50,0OO,~
600

The aim of the War Savings Commit
tee of New York to make the thrift
stamp sign ubiquitous is fast being
realized. l.. Seton Lindsay, agency
manager OF the committee, announced
yesterday that in the drive to get
1o,600 stamp agents before February
II more than 10000 already have been
enrolled. He prophesied the number
would be raised to $4,000 before the
next Liberty Loan campaign begins.
These agents who sell way savings
and thrift stamps have been enlisted
through the efforts Of the War Saw
lngs Committee. the Police Department,
life insurance solicitors and the yari
Gus trade organizations helping in the
drive. Already. according to Mr.. Lind
say, the war stamps can be purchased
in every bank, postoffice branch. tele-
phone, telegraph and lighting office,
confectionery shop, milk station, gro
Gerry. hotel and restaurant in New
York.
The announcement of the swelling of
the ranks of the agents was made at n
meeting OF bankers in t& headquar-
ters of the War Savings Committee, at
81 Chambers Street. at which Pierre
Jay. head of the Federal Reserve Rank
here. presided. Plans we're made to
form war savings societies In the
financial section of the city.
"The era of high wages" said Mr..
Jay, chat is now spreading over the
country would normally lead to great
increase in the demand for luxuries.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Theatre Assembly Entertains
Soldiers and Sailors at Astor

Mary Ryan transferred actors and
scenery yesterday afternoon from the
Playhouse to the ballroom OF the Hotel
Astor. where she gave the first act Of
"The Little Teacher" for soldiers and
sailors at the Theatre Assembly,
Army and Navy Day.
Mrs. J. Christopher Marks, pres-
dent of the assembly. arranged other.
numbers. and entertained the navy
band and soldiers in the Louis XIV
room at the conclusion of the pro
gramme.
Daniel Frohman, the Fleming Trio.
the Eugene Cowles Quartet. Ethel
mary Oakland. Lieutenant Wright and
Captain Charles Adams were the
speakers.
Captain Adams spoke in favor of cor
servation. and begged tiaat families
ransack their garrets in search of for
gotten bino culars and field glasses, Of
which. he said. the navy has need.
Captain Adams served with Dewey
and is now in charge of the naval re
cruiting station in New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

people nave no comprehension Of the
overwhelming passion Of the French
peasant for his own lands. Old men
we found in The devastated regions liv-
ing in pigstys. the only farm build
lngs left standing, rather than leave
their homes.
"The Germans destroyed all the farm
implements, taking the same part Of
each, so that parts Of two could not be
recombincd. We had to get the COOP.
Grafton OF the army and have some
parts altered at the army forge before
we could reconstruct any. Then we got
some secdcrs from the south of France.
and now we have tractors, too. We
have planted $500 acres. Last fall we
put in 1900 fruit trees. We have a
dairy of seventeen cows and sell the
milk. Soldiers do the milking for u.s."
Miss Morgan's committee live in
portable houses in the shadow of the
ruined chateau at Blerancourt, in the
village of st. Paul-aux- Bois, and their
example, she said, was encouraging to
the peasants, accustomed to stone cot
tages, who look with considerable
doubt upon the fragile buildings pro-
vidcd for their temporary accommodate
tion by the French government.
houses cost SI4 Year
81 shall never forget our first day.
when we interviewed fifteen old men
and women from the villages round
about" she said. "It was a lovely day
in June. and we sat out under the apple
trees, telling these old people they
could have the portable houses for Slt
4 year, the rent to be taken from the
amount Of their war indemnity.
"Thc old men shook their heads
doubtfully, but there was one women
sixty-livc if she was day-~and she
was good sport. She was willing to
take a chance in a wooden house. Then
she made known her burning desire in
life. which was for a bellows. She had
no teeth and she couldn't manage to
blow out her candle at night without a
bellows. We moved heaven and earth
to get her the bellows. This same
good old sport volunteered to run the
grocery shop for the village, SO now
they don't have to be fed by the army
The eighteon women in Miss Nor
gan's staff have charge of twenty eight
villages and spent $4,000 month last
year. Part of her purpose in return
ing to America is to raise funds to en-
large the work during the summer.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Springfield Denies Hall
To Boston Symphony

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 15.-The
representative here of the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra refused to-day to
state what course would be taken rela-
tive to the scheduled concert of the or
chestra in view Of the conditions at
,ached by the City Property Board to
Hs use of the Auditorium.
The board voted unanimously last
msht not TO allow the use Of the Audi
forum unless the members of this or
chestra who are citizens of Germany or
austria Hungary are eliminated for
'hls occasion" 1t is understood the
ofchestra includes twenty-five Germans
and eight Austrians.
The board is willing to accept the
gnlcAestra management's statement that
ns. harl Muck is Il Swiss. although he
/, to appear.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

tonation was nearly fawless. Her "Ah
fors e lui," her "Sempre Libera," she
gave with exquisite finish and exquisite
feeling. AS violetta Valery, Nine. Cali
Curci has proved herself equally adj
mirable as a singer and an actress. As
Singer she was an aristocrat. as ar
actress a woman OF infinite charm and
infinite pathos.
Piccardo Stracciari sang Germont far
better than he sang his opening Rigo-
lttto. His voice had iost It's throati-
ress and sounded resonant and full.
His singing of "Di Provenza" vas
mastery in phrase and color. though
he foolishly repeated it, and repeated
it badly. In force and bearing he was
Germont such as New York has not
seen since the days of Maurice Renaud.
In the hands of Nine. Galli-Curci and
Mr.. stracciari "Traviata" became the
music-drarr1a that it really is.
Well Conducted
Of the Alfredo of Juan Nadal the
best is silence. The other characters
went through their parts acceptably,
and NJ. Sturani showed that he knew
the score.
The audience was the largest that
has yet attended performance of The
Cnlcago opera company. Nearly three
thousand people were turned away
from the doors. The police arrange
ments were utterly inadequate to mold
the huge crowd in any sort of order,
and the result was that for nearly .he
whole of the first oct the lobby and
street outside were packed by an OK
cited and shouting mob, which fle-
quently attempted to rush the doors.
Inside, the enthusiasm was tremen-
dous. After the first act Nine. Cali
Curci was presented with "A gold
wreath, given by number Of her
admirers, among whom was her teacher,
William Thoener
One of the most remarkable demon
strations ever witnessed in New York
came at the fall of the final curtain.
AZ least half the audience remained in
their seats and those at the rear Of the
house rushed toward the orchestra pit.
Men and women alternately cheercd
and waved handkerchiefs. Repeated
calls were made for "Home, Sweet
Home" and after perhaps twenty min
utes had elapsed. piano was brought
out in front Of the curtain and then
Nine. GalliCurci, playing her own ac-
compartment. sang as they wished
Even after she had finished, the ova-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Benefit for Artists

A concert for the benefit OF the
Union des Artists of Paris was held in
the ballroom of the Ritz-Carton yes
terday afternoon. Nine Melba, Lucien
Muratorc, Miss Ethel Barrymore
and John Powell were the ar
lists. Among those who took an
active interest in tho affair were
Mrs William II. Crocker, Mrs. Otto
H. Kahn, Mrs. Charles +. Hotf
man, Mrs Alfred Anson, Mrs. Thomas
Victor, Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs.
w. Rathbone Bacon, Mrs. John Magee,
Mrs George Grant, Mrs. Edward S.
Harkness. Mrs. Gardiner Gayley, Mrs.
McDougall Hawkes. and Mrs. Nicholas
r. Brady.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Anne Morgan Seeks Girls Here
To Till the Fields of France
+ Fnanciers Daughter Back From Devastated Region
Urges Women Farmers to Go Over and Raise Crops,
Thereby Saving Space on Ships

"lVomted--Americdn girls to
raise acheut IN France. Enlist
ment for the duration of the acar.
apply Anne Morgan, American
Fnnd for French Wounded, 73
Paris Arcnue."
This call for a new kind of war SER
vice for women was issued yesterday
morning by Miss Morgan, daughter Of
the late J. P. Morgan, who re. med
from France on Wednesday. She de-
scribed the work of American recon-
struction in the "Aisnc devaste," as
the French term the region from which
the Germans were driven out last
spring. and declared that there was
great need for women farmers to plant
the waste fields Of France.
why should we raise food in this
country and fill up precious space in
our ships sending it over there when
it might as we'll be raised therc?" she
asked.
Women Farmers Wanted
81 would like TO take back with me a
lot OF women graduates Of Western
agricultural colleges women who
wouldn't be afraid to get right out in
the fields and do the work Themselves
Every applicant would have to pass a
strict board Of managers before she
would be accepted. She would have to
speak French French women young
and strong enough to do farm work are
working for the army, and there is no
one else but old men and women.
America must send the workers"
Miss Morgan explained that the
whole purpose of her committee, the
civilian relief committee Of the Amer
lean Fund for French Wounded, was to
help establish the French people on
the farms from which they had been
driven away. She has had the coopera-
ton Of General Petain and the French
government.
"Their one desire is to get back to
their own fields. their own little farms.
where their families have lived for
generations" she said. "The American
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Music
Mayo Wadler, Violinist, is
Forced to Respond to
Many Encores

a young and unusually promising
violinist, Mayo Wadler, played for the
first time last night at Aeolian Hall.
A pupil of Willy Hess and con-
scientous musician, he possesses the
fundamentals of virtuoso equipment.
His tone is solid and expressive, his
intonation generally good. and his
finger technique equal to all the de-
mands Of his programme. He is still
immersed in his technical problems,
and hence lacks the tleXibility of bow.
the imagination in phrasing and some
times the scnsitiveness 20 rhythm
he played the Vitali Chhconne honestly,
the Wieniawski "Faust Fantasy" with
much of the desirable prilliance and
the varied pieces which concluded the
that the large and genuinely delighted
audience demanded repeated oncores.
With much care and understanding
the Brahms quartet of women's voices
sang its first New York recital yester-
day afternoon at the Princess Theatre
The charming programmc-w which
ranged from seventeenth century
Italian madrigals through Brahms's
lovely song d Opus 44~ 10 Deems
Taylor's arrangements of French chan.
sons-was initial evidence Of the mu-
steamship of these young ladies, who
confirmed the favorable prejudice thus
created by singing with accurate pitch
and excellent taste and no little mu-
steal imagination.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Elihu Root 73 Years Old
Ex-senator Spends the Day
Quietly at Home

1t was Elihu Roots seventy-third
birthday yesterday. He passed it
quietly at home at o9S Fifth Avenue.
In the evening few friends were in
vited to dine with the ex-senator and
his wife.
Since his return from the mission to
Russia Mr.. Root has led comparative
ly quiet life. Before his departure on
that mission he had addressed many
huge meetings, endeavoring with youth
fUl enthusiasm and consummate ora
tory to arouse the nation TO the crisis
that confronted it. Mr. Root was
graduated from Hamilton College in
1864 and was admitted to the bar in
1867. Prior to his election to the Unit
ed States Senate he was Secretary of
State,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Margaret Landon to Wed

Colonel and Mrs. Thomas D. Landon
of Bordentown, N. j.. announce the en-
gagemcnt Of their daughter, Miss Mar
garet Landon, to First Lieutenant Hen
ry Evans Gray. son of Mr.. and Mrs
+. W. Taylor Gray, of Montclair, n. J.
Miss Landon's father was in command
OF one of the New Jersey infantry rcg-
ments stationed at Camp Mcclellan
Admission, Ala, but is at present on
duty in Texas. Lieutenant Gray is with
Battery f, 112th Heavy Field Artillery
Of the 18th Division, at Camp McClel-
Ian, which is made up largely of men
from Montclair and vicinity.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Reckless Ride Cost
Publisher License
(. II. Young Also Fined $lOO
for Adventure in Stamford

STANFORD, Conn, Feb. 15.--Court-
land II. Young, president Of the c. II.
Young Publishing Company, of New
York, which publishes breezy Stories"
and other magazines, had breezy little
adventure here before dawn this morn
ing which cost him 500 and his auto
mobile driving license.
The adventure began last night when
Mr.. Young and Miss M. +. Kutchiss,
who gave her address as East Forty
fourth Street, dined at roadhousc.
On their way to Mr.. Young's home
here, after dinner. their automobile
crashed into a lamp post on top Of
Clark's Hill.
The lamp post was broken OF short.
The electric light wires short circuited
Gas in the conduits was ignitcd There
was an explosion which shook that sec
tion of the city. Mr.. Young and Miss
Kutchiss were not hurt. The former
was arrested. Reckless driving cost
him $50 and driving while under the
influence of liquor an equal amount.
His license is cancelled for a year.
The address given by Miss Kutchiss
is that Of DclmOnicos
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16


1t is imperative. therefore,, that the
need for thrift be brought home to
people whose first instincts are to
spend newly acquired wealth. The
Federal Reserve Bank has established
war savings societies in each of its
departments.
Frederic W Allen. in charge of the
campaign in New York State. declared
that there are in the United States
some eighty million persons who have
never owned securities of any kind nor
possessed any savings. The committee
hopes TO induce them to buy war saw
ings stamps.
The committee announced that
through error it had placed the total
national sale of the war stamps up to
February IS at $4,000 900 instead of
SbO0O0,O 900. New York's contribution
to this aggregate was $4,360,652.36 or
approximately 8 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Workers Got More
Than They Asked

Notice this disturbing sequence Of
local cure, whereby labor troubles
broke out ali over the shipbuilding
body from ocean TO ocean: In Sc.
attic there is a shipbuilding yard,
that of Skinner & Eddy, that is the
speed marvel of the Whole shipbuild-
ing enterprise. This yard got re-
suits by giving its employees about
everything that they asked for, and
more. Presently every other ship
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Hands to War
! ocal Solution of Labor Problem Causes Trouble
Question, Shown in Shipping Disturbances,
Must Be Settled as Whole

yard In Seattle, and some thereafter
on the Pacific Coast, was seething
with agitation for the same kind of
treatment for the men that the en-
ployes of the Skinner & Eddy yard
had.
Then followed the great Pacific
Coast shipbuilding strikes. The
Shipping Board rushed the Federal
Wage Adjustment Commission to-
San Francisco to settle the trouble
The commission raised the general
wage level 81 per cent, but didn't
come up to the Skinner & Eddy
level.
Labor complained Of a settlement
that established a minimum below
any existing wage. Then the Ship
ping Board met that objection with
"a war premium Of 10 per cent, to
be paid indirectly by the board to
every workman who worked six days
q week. This 10 per cent bonus for
shipworllers looked so good to the
Pacific Coast metal trades workers
outside of shipyards that they struck
for an extra wartime 10 per cent.
When the metal trades got their 10
per cent-wfich in their case comes
out Of private pockets-thc men Of
allied industries began to demand
the same, and presently even the
workers who were previously con-
tent may everywhere insist on that
10 per cent bonus. In shipbuilding
alone it will cost the government
s65, 100000.
The Pacific Coast settlement up
set things on the Atlantic Coast.
Now every yard insists on the same
deal the Pacific Coast yards get. The
Shipping Board has authorized the
war premium everywhere, but now
the men want general readjust-
ment of wages so that Eastern and
Southern merchant shipbuilding
yards shall have the same scale as
the Pacific Coast.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Rev. and Mrs. Lowrie to Sail

The Rev. and Mrs. Walter Lowrie,
who were married early in the month
at Princeton, N. j., will sail soon for
Rome, Italy, where Mr.. Lowrie is rec
tor Of St. Paul's American Church.
They havc been spending their honey
moon at Newport, where lie was at one
time connected with Trinity Church
Mrs. Lowrie is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Armour, of Princeton
She recently completed course of
nursing at tho Presbyterian Hospital
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Son Born to Mrs. E. A. Hurd

Lieutenant and Mrs. Edward A. Hurd.
- oo West Fifty eighth Street, are re-
celVing congratulations on the birth of
son on Wednesday. Lieutenant Hurd
= = now serving with the cavalry in
france rance Mrs. Hurd was Miss Elise
froyoss Smith.