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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10
HUBERT PORT PLAN
ONCE MORE IGNORED
Craig, Hylan and Smith Centre
Efforts on West Side
Development.
POSTPONE ALL ACTION
Await Engineers Report on
Tunnel and Elevated
Freight Line.
POSTPONE ALL ACTION

Anything resembling Immediate &C
ton toward the provision Of more
piers and better shipping facilities in
the port Of New York seemed more
,romote than ever yesterday.
Mayor Hylan has held that a def
mite programme with regard to the
West Side improvement must be
adopted before the dock and pier i'm
provemen1s, urgently advocated by
Dock Commissioner Murray Hubert
can be acted upon. But at confer
ence yesterday in the office Of Comp
troller Craig, at which Mayor Hylan,
the Comptroller and Alfred II. Smith.
Regional Director of Railroads, were
present, the whole matter was put
over indefinitely, or until such time as
Mr., Smith might produce engineers In
support of his advocacy Of an ele-
waited rather than an underground
freight track system down the West
Side.
Meantime Commissioner Hulberts
plans for better port facilities have
been withheld from consideration de-
spite the fact that 1t was at his sug-
gestion that the. Mayor. Comptroller
and Regional Director. with others,
first met to consider them. The net
result of yesterdays meeting seemed
to be an indefinite postponement OF
consideration of any plans the Dock
Commissioner has.
II was understood after the confer
ence at City Hall last Wednesday that
two engineers were to be present yes
terday to give their views on the
question Of a tunnel or an elevated
freight line from Fifty-ninth street
south. One was to be designated by
Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig,
representing the Board Of Estimate,
and the other by Regional Director
Smith. Comptroller Craig favors a
tunnel line and Mr.. Smith wants an
elevated structure.
Yesterday no engineer was present
and Mr.. Smith, who is also president
of the New York Central Railroad. ar
ranged to have further consideration
postponed.
Although he contends that Mayor
Hylan is with him in his general
scheme for port development Dock
Commissioner Hubert does not agree
with the Mayor that the subway or
elevated system Of freight handling
must be decided upon first. Commits
sloner Hubert has pointed out re-
peatedly that whatever plan may
eventually be agreed on for the West
Side will At into his general plan for
additional pier accommodations.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10

lengthy news stories respecting the
seizure and fears are frankly ex-
pressed that the action OF Postmaster
Burleson may cause Canadian inter-
ests to suffer. 1t is pointed out that
quite apart from Canadian financial
interests involved the Commercial and
Western Union cables are used in the
transmission Of British and Canadian
news and Government dispatches. and
some fear is expressed that precedence
for American business may mean de-
lay or interference with Canadian
cables.
Surprise is generally felt that Mr..
Burleson, before taking such drastic
action, did not even notify the Domin-
lon Government.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10
PACIFIC CABLE SUES
TO ENJOIN SEIZURE
Asserts Senate Powers Would
Be Infringed by Making
Foreign Treaties.
BRITAIN SHOWS INTEREST
London Office of Commercial
Company Asked to Submit
Proposed Changes.

The Commercial Pacific Cable Com
pany filed suit yesterday in the United
States District Court petitioning for
an Injunction to restrain Albert S.
Burleson. as Postmaster General, from
assuming control or possession of its
10000 miles OF submarine cable in the
Pacific Ocean. In challenging the or
der OF seizure. an order which up to
this time has not been applied prac-
tically, the company asserts that to
maintain landings in China and Japan
the Postmaster-G General would have to
make treaties" and tnat this would
be an infringement on the powers Of
the Senate.
The Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pony, like the Commercial Gable Com
pany and the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, Is one of the Mackay COM
panies. The bill OF complaint follows
in part that Of the Commercial Gable
Company. In both suits ii is alleged
that the seizure after the signing Of
the armistice would be an exercise Of
war powers when the war was over
virtually II not technically 1t Is
argued further that the seizures would
be in violation of the constitutional
provision against the taking of pri-
vate property without due process OF
law and proper compensation.
In commenting on the recommends
ton Of Theodore n. Vail. head OF the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company (the Bell system), to Post
master-General Burleson that all land
lines and submarine cables be con.
solidated into one system, William ].
Deegan. secretary Of the Mackay Com
panies, said:
"Mr Wallis ambition has been to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10

amalgamate all OF these companies
He secured a controlling interest In
the Western Union in. 1909 and was
later compelled by Attorney General
McReynolds, now an associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court. to relinquish It.
Such a monopoly as Mr.. Vail proposes
would create combine more powerful
in its possibilities for the destruction
OF competition in trade and more wide
reaching in its effects on a free and
untrammelled press than the world
ever has SEEN"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10
Special DeIpdtch to THE Sun.

bpttIW DetpuEcH 70 HE GUN
PORTLAND, Ore. Dec. "a man iden-
titled by papers in his pockets and
bank accounts as James w. Foley
poet and newspaper man, was rescued
here to-day from the Willamette
River.
Foley had been engaged in Y. NJ. C.
A. work and was in a state OF nervous
exhaustion. His wife also is reported
to be seriously Ill. He Is in a Port
land hospital. where his condition is
reported as serious.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10
CANADA AWAITING
BURLESON POLICY
Fear Action Is Menace to
British Interest.
Special Despatch to Tnn srN.

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 9.-The Dominion
Government is awaiting more infor.
nation respecting the terms and con-
ditions under which Postmaster Gen.
eral Burleson has taken over the Com
mercial and Western Union cables be-
fore taking action. 1t Is admitted
however, that the question has been
before the Cabinet.
Canadian newspapers to-day contain
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-10

IND KENNETH
y - Times Square. Comedy Anins,aSNIs
20-3O-6O. tRIATTn n ~ ~ Is w
rOLUNIBIA. Is way 4 attn Jean Bedioi A
VTwice Daily, Pop. Prices. his "Puss PlIss'(So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-27

American and French labor
united. Albert Thomas, at the left,
labor representative of France,
greeting Samuel Gompers, the
American labor representative, just
before the opening of the inter-al-
lied labor conference at Central
Hall, Westminster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-27

Miss Kitchener, sister of the late
Lord Kitchener, is among the
prominent Englishwomen engaged
in war work. She has given her
services to the Red Cross and has
been active near the battle line.
The photograph shows her distrib-
uting comfort kits to French SOL
diers in a storeroom at Oman.
photo from Western Newspaper Union.)
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he had been extracted from his home BY
pinrers."
Yet there is far maze pathns than
huGIOr in Chekov, more tragedy than com
edy. There Is the tragedy of hopeless
poverty, of frustrated lives. OF unreason-
ing discomfort. If bitter wrangling. of
cruelty, of seliishness. The reader feels
that vodka mast be the explanation of
much Of Russian raisery. If one may
Judge by Chekov'S writings, despite his
humor. there is little happiness in Russia.
ChckOv Is great realist. His stories
are pictures of life as he has seen 1t, a,d
they reveal what Russia actually Is. He
sees things a. they are upon tine surface,
and he has As well the poets eye 10 dis
Germ the meaning. 50 that he has passages
of extreme beauty and sensitivencss of
feeling.
His style has commingling of beauty
and horror. is may be Illustrated from the
description Of the sinking of body
buried at sea.
After that another dark body ap-
peared It WAS Il shark IL swan under
Grsey WITH dignity and no show of in
tcrest, Us though it did not notice him,
and sank low upon It's back. then ii turned
belly upward. baskIng IN the warm. trans
parent water and languidly opened It's
Jaws with two rows of teeth. The harbor
pilots are delighted, they stop to see what
viii come next. After playing htt!e
with the bod, tie shark nonchalanlly puts
its Jaws under it, cautiously touches it
with It's teeth, and the sailcloth is rent its
full length from head TO foot; one of the
weights falls ont and frightens the harbor
pilots. and striking the shark on the ribs
CUES heavily - the bottom.
Overhead IT this time the clouds are
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TONSTANCE GARNETT Is doing
~ notable service to EngiISii
readers by her translatIoI4s from the Rus
sian. She has made II possible for us 10
enjoy Turyeniev and Dostoevsili. and now
she is giving Us thekov. Tins series now
being Issued will he the only complete
edition OF thehuv IN English. Mrs Gar
nett, work as "A translator II admirable,
for she takes no undue liberties with the
original. but reproduces 1t rs accurately
as Dussible IN IA smooth and polished style.
The latest numbers Of the series Of
Chekov's stories are The Wfe and Other
Stories, and The ITitch asd Other stories.
Chrknv is recognized rs one of the
best short story writers of RuSSIa. he
Is frequently compared with DE MaupaS-
SAINT. SINCE has stories have much of the
realism and dramatic descrlpnveness OF
the French artists. Yet he has more
sympathy. more humanity than De Mau
pa SAINT, and his work has less aloOtness.
These present volumes. while not contain
ing the best known nor the best of Che
koy's tales. are illustrative of his style
and his material.
Many readers viii thid Chekov more
on jovable to read than other Russian
writers accessible IN translation brcauSc
ot ilS sense OF humor He reflects the
National gloom. If X true. bnt his melan-
chply is lightcned by mlrth, by irony and
by Imaginable pictures Of character and
situation For Instance. how amusing he
makes the Greek high school teacher
whom the caricalurist called "AHhropos
in love" ia The Man "a the Case. the
little man that Always wore goloshrs 40
matter what the weather was, and that
sat la a box NJ the theatre looking A. If
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pect the adult German commoner sooner
or LATER to see hght-he who, like the
fish oi The Mammoth Cave. has been bred
up blind in the dark.
The DerEs fradie makes no bones of
seeking Il popular audience. At the same
time it makes no debasing concessions.
Mrs. Sidgwiek will not pander to that mob
war passion which would 50 sreedily swal
low any sort of vilitication of the enemy.
Her sense of humor keeps alive unpois-
oned, and painstakingly purposiye rs her
crayun IS the portraiture is never black
and savage. She quite abstains from vii
iains, knowing better than the sentimental
villain or Lucfer view Of the Kaiser and
his associates and their followers.
Dcutschtum, TO her, is the monster. and
the familiar footless question whether the
national perverslon Is legacy from mad
philosophers or the symptom Of barbar
Gus racial quality is sensibly left out. (Sr
is TIE superman business, by the way
All her detestabIe characters pig
headed old Count Won Hohcnroda. his
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her, but not even those youthful sages of
broad vision" who are trying Ia tell us
that our insistence upon reducing Ger
many to unconditional! surrender would be
unealightened can dispose of her author
itv with a smile Ii would be like them
to accuse her Of "animus" and naturally.
she is No serene surveyor of Germanlsm
from Pisgah height. She also betrays
some social mot racial antipathy. But
she preserves her sense of responsibility
for justice.
The resulting portrayal is more than
little impressive The impression made
simply confirms what Intelligent observers
who have lived among them have stated
again and again about the Germans.
namely, that not even their overlords are
free agents but have themselves been
bond slaves from birth 10 the dominant oh
session. that this malady cannot be
knocked out of tie national head, but the
head itself will have to be Knocked off. anI
that Germany, meanwhile, Is all of one
piece, and it is perilous nonsense TO ex-
The sun., 1918-07-28
Books OF Russian Tales by Anton ChekOV

Is setting; one cloud like triumphal
arch, another like lion, third like a
pair of scissors. From behind
the clouds a broad. green shaft of light
pirrces through and through and stretches
to the middle of the sky; little later an
other. violet eolored. lies beside Il: next
to that, one Of gold, then one rose coiored
The sky turns a soft lilac. Look
ing at this gorgeous, enchanted sky, at
The sun., 1918-07-28
"Wraiths and Realities"

THE public is familiar now with the
Il work of Gale Young Rice. and has
long since pronounced him Il poet Of
merit. His latest volume of poems,
FTGiihs and RpaiaieS, seems better than
any Of lis predecessors to express the
peculiar individuality and the personality
OF the man himself The title is happy
cpitome of the subject matter. II there is
to be choice in the matter the wraiths
are perhaps better than the realities. since
Mr.. Rice - most successfut as an inter
prefer of the dim bortierIand of the emo
tons In To a Solitary Sea GHH the sad
ness and inarticulate loneliness of a sea
gull's flight Is well communicated:
Lone white gull with the sickle wings,
You reap for the heart inscrutable things:
sorrows of mists ami surf of the shore.
Winds that sigh of the nevrrmore;
Fret of foam and furry of rain,
Swept far over the troubled tide;
Maths Of mystery and grey pain
The sen ) voice ever yields, beside.
Lone white gull, you reap for the heart
Life = most sal and inscrutabe part.
The book is full Of lines of imperturt-
The sun., 1918-07-28
"The Devils Cradle" by Mrs. Sidgwick

muttonhsaded hausfrau of Countess,
their grandson's tyrant tutor, Herr Put
yer; Colts priest, the village pastor and
his wife; the maid caught splitting in tho
Englanderin's Englishwomans soup,
soldiers and the mob maltreating prison.
ers-would, relieved of Deutschland ueber
Allies and the impending and the actual
war, be but mildly and amusingly dlsa-
greeable.
Even the blackguard Baron Won Ost-
hofen, Indicated as representing the Won
Kissing species, is credible blackguard
of kidney which, the Baron's Germanism
apart. is not restricted to Germany.
An Almost Decent Hero.
Unlike the husband in Salt of the Earth,
Count Wolfram, welded to the English
girl narrator, IS more or less sEthp|
thetic character meant to stand Tor the
hest of his caste But he shares IN Tie
national psychosls. and he suffers fufzer
10 cram the delicate son OF ms lorihet
marriage till the boy attempts one OK
those juvenile suicides for which, long DC
fore the war, the German educational sys-
TEN was notorious.
The hoy himself Is lovable there are
plimpses of kindly German Doctor there
is comic rather than od.ous household
of thoroughly German Jews, and sketch
of one of the great mineral wafer cures
as attractive as the opening picture In
The Pentecost Of Calamity.
Mrs. Sidgwick's presentation OF the war
rabies and the suffering of the prisoners
could have been worked up from accounts
like Mr. Gerard's Her interchangeable
personal testimony Is to the anteoenum
spirit--the arrogance, the provinciallsm,
the soddenness Of the arstocratS; the
muttonheaded credullty and docl!lty Ok
the populaee: the general religious bellet
in the rottenness of England. and the
anticipation OF The Day.
Neither IN inspiring masterpiece nor a
profound social study But an .uneom-
monty interesting undertaking, and a
more than readable book Its progress
with the pubIir will h. worth keeping
track of. Should these novels OF Mrs
Sidgwicks find 4 large circulation. and
should the next Presidential election ap-
pruach with the issue compromise peace
w. thorough destruction of Deuisrhtnm. IL
reaIIy is not too fancItul to think that the
novels might have considerable political
effect.
That is the point of the reference made
above TO Mrs. Stowe.
THE DEVIL CRADLE. III MKS. ALFsED
SIpGwICX w. J. Watt & Co. $l.3o-
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EOR the present Mrs. Alfred Sids
L wick is a novelist with a war mis-
SION which dovetails with that of Mr..
James Gerard in authorship She illus
trates his honest narrative. She IS out to
show US all the obsessed German at home.
especially before ne war. and to give
us his human measure for future refer
ence, perhaps at the time when he offers
peace that some of us may be tempted to
cunsidpr
Enthusiastically from residence in Ger
many, and residence with an unusual en-
tree, Mrs. Sidgwick knows its domestic
interior from 1910 or whereabouts to 1911
al least. She novelties her knowledge ca
pably, producing looks that not only are
very fair fiction, but as intimate revela-
lions of the Junker caste (their greater
interest of coursel are remarkable in the
circumstances for L strong, convincing
quality. sometimes as II they were real
memoirs of Englishwomen who, like the
protagonist heroines, had been wives Of
German nobliiaies and officers
Better Read Her!
Her seeand such novel, The Derit's Cya-
die, is the subject of this notice The other
Is Salt Of the Earth Everybody who
learns what they are viii probably want
TO read both, and j; may be good thing
If everybody does now that the great
L., 3
ineonelusive peace.
Readers should not I've misIed by the
rather lurid title of the newer novel.
Something prosaic and obvious, like
"What We Must Fight" would have been
better. Neither should they, on picking
it up, jump at reaplient conclusions from
the unfortunate colored picture on its
swathing-a picture which, whatever the
artist meant. suggests nothing under
heaven but the iInminenee of i schreck
hch violation.
Those whom il allures to buy will be dis
appointed Nothing of the kind ~ be
tween the covers Mrs. Sidgwirk Is no
cheap sensaiionalist. and the best service
her publishers can now do her. her work
and themselves will be To tear this atrocIty
of all copies not yet put out.
Like Mrs. Stowe
In way she is, Or eoneeivably might
be, a Harriet Bceehar Stowe of the later
stages of the conflict. Bui rs writer, a.
propagandist and in every other aspect
she is thousand times superior to the
Stowe type. Instead of imagining Ger
many from afar and having Mysteries over
it. she draws from life. cOolly and ration
ally.
Any one who can read can understand
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able beauty that feed the senses \ few
lines from The Imperial C,fp (Pckial are
sufficient "a illustrate:
Water, under white bridges, LIED water.
under the MARBLE still; with tbc heavens
III 1t \ bird \ MARBLE.
Green limbs drifting . Stork out Of
the shadows under the arches, suddenly
lifting.
As to the realities. the volume opens
and closes with examples. In a,preface
The poet explains that these long poems
are meant more as an object lesson than
anything else. since ii is his belief that
writers Of narrative verse are too IN
familiar with the technique of the modern
short story But decidedly narrative
verse is not his sphere Wrath rood Hin.
however. besides living mp to the canons
Of the short story, deals with the esea-
pades Of drlInkard effectively. The
Unborn. rightly called Il phantasy. takes
the reader INTO a region where the souls
Of little children, having presciencr of
birth, plead III VAN for their former state
Of nonentity rather than pass through the
gate that leads to a world of SORROWS.
tWRAITfFS AND REALITIES. Nv CALI
YOUNG RICE The Century Company. sl.25.
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first the ocean scowiS. but soon it. too,
takes tender. joyous. passionate coIors for
which If Is hard 10 find name in human
speech"
We can but wish that Chekov we're alive
now to reproduce and 10 interpret the
scenes Of to-day.
THE WIFE AND OTHER STORIES, and
THE WITCH AND OTHER STORIES.
BIZ ANTON CHEKov. The Macmillan Com
pany. Sl.j0 each.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09
UNCLE SAM NEEDS
MANY MORE CLERKS

The United STATES Civil Service
Commission Announce an open com.
petitive examination for file clerk
for both men and women ON October
is, 1918, at Wheeling W. Va. yacan.
eies in the Department. service al
Washington. d. G. viii be filled from
this examination.
The usual entrance salary for this
position will range from $1,000 ia
1920 year. but persons usually
qualified may be appoinled al 3 high
.er entrance salaries
For the position Of general file
clerk the applicant mus have been
employed as a flle clerk for al least
six months OF have done Cling IN con
neciion with other office weel, toe al
least one year.
For the position Of Gle clerk quad
fed in a decimal system OF fling. q
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09
WILLIAMSBURG BOY
BAlK FROM FRANCE

! Corporal Glenn H. Fritz, son of
BENJAMIN Fritz, of Williamsport, who
VAS wounded in action'some time ago
in france, has reached America, ac-
coraing to a letter received from him
hv his sister, Mrs. Della Lindsay. Ha-
serstown. He is now at Ellis Island,
n. V, and writes;
Il am in hospital here for few
DAYS: then i will be sent to a. hos
,ital closer home My wounded Leg
ia doing fine. but is about anssfifich
shorter than the other l do not re-
ere, my wound or the times spent
in France, as ] saw some wonderful
things and was in couple of hard
fights. ] was wounded between Cha
,eau.Thierry and scissors by a ma
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09

least three months of experience
which applicant has had. must have
been actual practyal experience
which applicant has had must have
been actual practical experience in
fling by decimal system.
A copy of Announcement No, 5Sl.
containing detailed information con
corning this examination and copy
OF application form 1872 viii Be mail
ed upon request
All inquiries concerning this exam
nation shbuId he addressed to the
Secretary of the local Board of Civil
Service Examiners Post Onice
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09
SENATE PROMPTLY
SPURNS HUN PEACE

Germany's peace offer was peremp.
torily spurned Monday in the senate.
In spirited discussion of the latest
enemy proposals, Senators pariici.
Hpating ina two hours debate. declart
ed II an insflious attack and voiced
q common demand for its imunediaie
3sre1ectlon inreighing especially as.t
inst The. proposal for an. armistiee
.fhe speakers were unanimous in dS.
'eimine that a crushing military vie.
tory must be preliminary to peace
negotiations.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09
MISS APPLE WILL
AID GEN. PERSHlNG

Miss Miriam Apple, daughter OF
Or. Joseph n Apple, president of
Hood College. Frederick Md, has
joined a unit Of II young women in
New York who will be sent to France
TO be attached to General Pershing's
STAFF as eataloguers and indexers.
Miss Apple. who is a graduate of
Hood College has been librarian
since 1914. Last year she took a
course of library science al simmons
college and WAS offered an advanced
salary or furloueh TO take mp gov
ssplnent work. She chose the latter
and joined the unit TO sail for France.
Miss Florence Tran Davidson. a
graduate OF the colicgee, has been
apsolnted librarian during her
sence
Read the Martinsburg Journal.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-10-09

licenses could hottie allowed under the
b No comment other than this state.
ment was TO be had OFFICIALLY al she
Var Trade BOARD soffiess concerning The
allied officials no end OF perplsxitv'
Although mol so.sisuated. geogrsphicAify
as 10 1hip supplies readily into Cer>
many charger have been made THAI
goods from Spanish Morocco thave xone
through the Swiss port OF entry sin
France tntt SwitzerIand and thehec into
Germany. j Charges also have bean made
that the German SPY, system hea used
municate With the Central Pom rs
"a considerable element IN the Spaniah
0overnlnept. II well known. u German
'nssen.z sAarsAa NJ Aasiias!2nA = inf1s