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New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Wars HOrrid Front

A great change has come over Madi-
son Square Park. At night its benches
used to be filled with q motley assort-
mcnt-beery buns, soiled doves OF the
streets, professional beggars and other
dregs OF the underworld The gress
wars back-tre has burned out shs
human rubbish. The "work or fight
order gathered in many ard the Others
Just deserted out of sheer humiliation
When stalwart soldiers and sailors.
waiting to go across, made the PARK
their rendezvous. Now the square
looks like small army camp. Officers
and men congregate there and I'll the
benches. Instead of obscene mutter-
lngs against fate and coarse stores
that polluted the very night ar
there are now patriotic songs, clean
conversation and an air of ultra re
spectability. Even the soap box pacifls'
who used to make his stand under me
gasolene torches has moved to other
parts.
Over on Long Island there is gas
mask factory alive with welfare actv,-
ties for its workers. Hence the 1ci-
lowing invitations: "The ladies of the
Nose Clip Table will give tea on
Saturday at A."
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax
ions town

Lines by an Insomniac
To thou, bewhiskered autocrat,
Prince of the house of Alleycat,
/ dedicate these lines,
Who, midnocturnally inspired,
Last night the sober moon admired
In squawks and squeaks and whines.
Upon my desk reposeth now
A clock both bright and new Oh, how
| hate to smash its face!
But If once more my peace you wreck
It's going to amputate your neck,
And what is more, if you haven't any
more sense than to sit under the win
uow of a struggling literary person who
is doing his darndest to write a sonnet,
you deserve to be buried in Paupers'
Field DON PEDRO.
A dour and suspicious person is
Felix" who wonders whether there is
any connection between the fact that
the buglers arouse our troops early in
the morning and the frequency with
which they appear On the cas- uajty lists
Opportunist burglars entered the Y.
Nj. c. A. Building al Tarry sown night
before last on plumber bent: But there
wasn't any, apart from furnishings too
4eavy to cart away, except an alarm
clock.
SO they set the alarm for O'Clock
and slumbered peacefully upon the "Y''
couches until that time, when they de-
parted.
Russia and Germany are about to
make three more treaties. dispatches
state, thereby proring that the aohite
paper shortage Is only local.
And speaking of tho u'ustc Of
paper, aoe 1uonder il the restrictions
mo'c IN force entend to "The Con-
gressional Record"
Sad is the state of mind to which
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
u. S. to Save Through
Ticket Office Combine

George A. Cullen, chairman of the
Consolidated Ticket Office Committee,
announced yesterday that the govern
in rentals by substituting 'f've0 five general yua
ticket Offices for forty eight individual
Offices formerly conducted in New York
by various railroad and steamship
companies. The combined rentals Of
the five will be 100000.
The government ticket Offices will be
at Cd Broadway, 81 Chambers Street
ia West Forty second Street, 81 West
Forty-second Street, and, in Brooklyn
336 Fulton Street. They will be opened
September 3 and will remain open
from $3.50 a. m. until $3.50 p. m. except
on Saturdays, when they will close at
1880 p. M, and Sunday, when they
will remain closed
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Prohibition Taken Up
By State Labor Body

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 28.-A
resolution from the floor, presented at
the fifty-fifth annual convention of the
State Federation of Labor this morn
ing, protesting against national or
state legislation eliminating beer or
light wines, was referred to the reso-
lutions committee. The resolution was
presented by John c. Hilsdorf, of the
Central Federated Union, Greater New
York.
State Industrial Commissioner James
NJ. Lynch, of Syracuse, announced that
he was not opposed to the resolution,
but objected to its form and the man.
ner in which it was presented. He de-
livered an impassioned address against
prohibition and his remarks were an.
plauded throughout the hall. The
resolutions committee, Of which he is
chairman, will report the resolution
without delay
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Wild Motor Eats III" Rails

A wild motor on car of an ex-
press train in the Lexington Avenue
subway yesterday added to the
general decentralization of the service
on the new "H" system. Trouble de-
veloped in the motor at the 125th
Street station The wheels revolved
backward while the train was stand
ing, grinding into the rails to depth
of an inch. This was repeated at all
the express stations as far south as
Wall Street, where the motor was cut
out.
The trouble occurred early in the
day and trains had to be run slowly
over the tracks at the express stations
until repairs had been made.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Newsboys Ask for
Defence Funds

THE newsboys and news
dealers request contri-
buttons to legal
defence fund. They have
engaged counsel to take their
case to court. Checks should
be made payable to Lemuel
Ely Quigg, 81 Liberty Street,
New York, Temporary custo-
dian Of the fund.
Mr.. Quigg acknowledges re-
ceipt of the folloaoimg comtribu-
tions to the Newsboys' Union to
be used By them IN the payment
of their expenses. Mr.. Quigg
will make no charge for his SER
a1ces and the money avill be de-
Toted solely to the payment of
such necessary expense as Is
otheracise incurred:
Ogden Reid $4,000
G. Y. Rogers. rs........... $4,000
"Suilor'" ................ 200
A. H. B.. B.............,... 800
F. N. Fassett. ........... rs
NJ. b. Patterson. ...... 600
I. Sheldon Tilney. 1000
F.. c.. FarnsWorth. ...... 500
Margaret NJ. Mitchell. 500
Richard GottheI ..... 200
Previously acknowledged. 1850
Total .$654.25
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Women Poker Players Show
Game Was Red Cross Benefi,

A Red Cross "kitty" beats the old
fashioned maltese kind when it comes
to poker game, and the fact that the
dozen women whom detectives found
playing poker at 3A4O Broadway on the
night Of August were "kcking i'm
for the benefit Of the Red Cross re-
suited yesterday in the dismissal of
the charge Of common gambling which
had been made against Lillian Rosen-
berg, in whose apartment the "kitty"
throve.
When she was arraigned in the
Washington Heights police court Mag
istIatc Simpson could find no evidence
that she was playing for profit.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Hearst Publications
Barred in Oregon City
Newsdealers of Eugene Not to
Handle Magazines or
Newspapers

EUGENE, Ore, Aug. 27.-Newspapers
and periodicals published by William
r. Hearst will not be offered for sale
by any of the newsdealers in the city
of Eugene, after the September issues
of these publications have been taken
from the shelves, according to an an
nouncement made to-day following a
conference of dealers. The action of
the dealers is result OF Hearst's at
titude toward the United States and
the Allies, which they regard as un-
patriotic.
The newsdcalers in their action have
the support Of the Patriotic League of
the City of Eugene, which has a mem
bership Of several hundred, including
the city's leading citizens.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Fuel for Homes to
Head Priority List

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-Fuel for
the heating of homes will head the
new priorities list being prepared by
the War Industries Board, Chairman
Baruch announced to-day.
The list, which will contain sixty
four classifcations of industries to be
given priority in fuel, transportation
facilities, material, labor and finance,
will be divided into four basic groups
for the order in which they will re-
ceive preferential treatment. The pres
ent list contains thirty-two classfica-
tions, but the position of an industry
on the list does not determine its or
der of priority.
The new list, to be announced in a
few days, will serve as guide for dis
trict draft boards in determining in
dustrial exemptions.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
The Great Rent Feud
Mouing Into "Cold Water" Flats Is Likely
To Be the Fall Fashion in The Bronx
BY Kenneth Macgowan
Tenth Article

Tenth Article
%HE BRONX larger freer, stranger than Harlem u
winds laden with surprise, and they blow from
points of the realty hardly the word
the rents and the rent problems of the that Tenants
League birth ans
single afternoon Avenue Third Avenue and p
Road turned housewives raised M
thorough exploration produced goody per cent %
facts and figures the easter realty mans pos
an exodus out of seamheaed flats into od rent r
OF the passive resistance" variety and other things
The first Bronxite with stationary full of r
confidence and hope: sn'
They haven't raised rent in the papers thew ms.
reduce it. That couple Of s s
The other fortunate France But she a h
good landlord AS she has been six in the apartment
Now, with her boy she "coId-wa~ n
The Fall Fashion-"Cold Water Flats
Moving into the "cod likely be the fall fashion N IT,
union put S " a00r
"a lot of people moving the steamheaed flats ~
they want to make getting sounds @
But last winter the the improved had weeks I
weeks OF no heat at ano mention leaking ppesbecaue M
landlord couldn't raised rents nav M
plumbers bills and thing another some of them %
promising heat and lot of the decided it's b
a0c 70 start by paying for something they they're
moving cold laying or two the
This still trusting his landord-but His own r
has from $23 to $26 to per cent
The rent raise he "i II avea,
Is The are kicking and wh @
get few BITS OF union business cleared we're swing
another further up Willis Av +
other out marketing testified to smaller of os
had from from s2 to s2s with
further raise coming in October.
All Kinds of Rent Raises
The second labor official reported general increase
1en but with smaller of cent His
own rent had gone from ST to $19. No repairs
This mans impressions rorson,
experiences OF the painters union official with headquarters in Harlem
but living in The Bronx landlords were dono
redecorating and flat oan
from Slohe when he moved while soum
apartments the building Street had advanced
from to
Progress up Third Avenue from its at 14sh
Street showed the diversity and experiences
except testified
that regard Some raises
S0 wanderer from University further
west at about 10 cent. The Third ne
toward the Boston Road was $21 to $24-14 per
In the Boston Road district the again The smallest
dollar $2 "No kick nav
the this tenant looked the Almost next door how
of dollar and six dollars
apartments renting 500 to
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

subway conditions have brought the
public. Yesterday afternoon a Brit
lsh naval officer in summer uni
form stood upon the platform Of
the Times Square station and fought
off crowd of bewildered citizens who
appealed to him for information on
how to get to Chambers Street and
elsewhere. And if the mentality Of
the public had not been befogged by
much privation they wouldn't have
taken him for a subway employe. He
mad on clean uniform.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
To Build Ships at Jamaica Bav

The Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Com
pany, owners of Mill Island, Jamaica
Bay, announced yesterday that within
the next few days it would begin con-
structlon of eight large three -masted,
ccal carrying schooners for the Emer,
gency Fleet Corporation. United States
Shipping Board. The ships are to be
built of wood furnished by the Ship
ping Board. They will be 24O feet in
length and of $500 deadweight tons.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Man Under Bed Arrested

A man who said he was Samuel Sill
verman, of Gil Vermont Street, Brook
lyn, was found early yesterday under a
bed in the home of Paul Thomas, 100
East Eighteenth Street, Brooklyn. Ac-
cordng to the police he had $500 worth
of jewelry. some silverware and a
list Of addresses in the neighborhood
He was held for the grand jury in the
Flatbush police court on charge of
unlawful entry.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Elevator Operator Killed
Just After Starting Work

Isador G. Kahn, sixty-cight years old,
Of 619 Bergen Avenue, The Bronx, an
elevator operator and porter in ten
story loft building at 230 Fourth Ave
rue, was crushed to death between
the elevator and the wall of the shaft
early last evening.
Kahn had reported for work fifteen
minutes before he was killed.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
u. S. Bars German
Propaganda in Films
Special Dispatch to The Ty1bu,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The War
Department struck another blow
against German propagandists in this
country to-day when the military cen-
sor asked that immediate reports be
made to the military intelligence
branch of the army here of any per
son attempting to exhibit still and mo-
ton pictures for "the glorfication of
the German cause and German
method
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Ohio Republicans Vote
For National Prohibition

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Aug. 28.-By an
overwhelming viva voce vote the Re-
publican state convention, in session
here, to-day adopted platform strong
ly indorsing state and national pro-
hibition, woman suffrage and vigorous
prosecution Of the war to victorious
close.
The prohibition plank was carried
over the protest of Cincinnati dele
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Red Gross to Open Home
Service Course in Fall

The duties of home service worker
Of the Red Cross will be taught at an
jnstitute TO be opened October is in
the New York School Of Philanthropy,
i05 East Twenty-aecond Street, under
the management Of Miss Margaret
Leal.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

would be an insult even to have them
displayed in the hotel.''
He was asked whether any of
Hearst's agents had come to see him
regarding the sale of Hearst's publica-
tions. He said no, nor did he want
any to come, but if they did come he
would "be fully able to take care of
them -
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
What Is Going On To-day

I.IGHTT.ESS NIGHT
ONE MEAL NHEATIFSS
WAR SAVINGS STAMP DRIVE
Free admission 10 the American Museum Oh Ns ~,
History the Metropolitan Museum Of An snA
Aquarium
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
The Dense Oriental.

At dinner in Edinburgh, says e. V.
Lucas, Baron Kickuchi, principal Of
Toxic university, was guest. An
Englishman present told the story of
Scotsman who went to his dentists
with an aching tooth and was asked If
he would have gas; he replied that he
would, but should like to count his
money first. Everybody laughed but
the baron. A Scotsman attempted to
explain the joke as to the alleged fol-
bles of his race; the baron remained
impassive. Others tried, but the baron
said, 81 do not understand" Finally
he stopped the explanations. Gentle
men," he said, you do not understand
what do not understand" His lis
teners gave rapt attention. "What I
do not understand" he went on, els
not why the Scotsman said what he
die, but how any Scotsman should not
know, at any time, without having to
count it, how much money he has in
his pockets" The laugh was on the
hosts of the "dense" oriental.-From
Outlook.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
Fitted for Officers.
Endemic Record of 1917,

In the orient during 1917. Cholera pre-
vailed in southern Asia from Asiatit
Turkey to the Philippines, striking
down $4,000 in the Indian region; there
were $50 cases in the Philippines and
ma ~ deaths in Burmah. BubOnit
plague belted the tropical world from
Peru to Hawaii and New Caledonia. Ir
British India the largest mortality took
place; there were $4,000 cases. with
100000 deaths. The disease area ex
tended as far north as Egypt and Sen.
egal. Yellow fever appeared in AT.
RIGA, Mexico and South America. The
deaths were not above several hun
dred
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
Dog RECOGNIZES Portrait.

In his "reminiscences "Spy" sketches
my credulity. He had painted a full
length portrait of his host at a country
house. When it was just finished he
came down early one morning to in
spect it-and found his hosts dog sit
ting up begging before the portrait Of
his master.
1t was Apelles, the ancient painter,
l think, who depicted grapes so realis-
tically that the very birds pecked at
them. But in a long association with
dogs have never found one who could
recognize figure or a landscape In q
picture.
The nearest approach to such intel
ngence is when l have set looking
glass on the floor end confronted dog
with his own likeness. He grOwls sus-
piciously, uncomfortably, until he
walks behind to find the other dog
that isu't there London Chronicle.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
Facts Concerning Red Cross.

In 1864 an international conference
OF II nations was held in Geneva,
Switzerland, the outcome of which was
the Treaty of Geneva, known rs the
Red Cross treaty. This treaty provid-
ed that hospital formations and their
personnel should be treated as neu-
trails; that each nation signing the
treaty should have an association of
volunteers to assist and supplement
the medical service of its army; that
the emblem Of service common to all
nations should be a red cross on a
field OF white. This emblem, which
Is the Swiss flag with the colors re-
versed. was adopted in recognition Of
the fact that the Red Cross was found
ed at Geneva, Switzerland.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
Interesting List of Requisites Which
Men in Commercial Occupations
Should Have at Command.

In recent issue American Mag
azine draws up an interesting list
Of requisites for various commercial
occupations. For instance, it states
that the head of a. department should
possess the following: Keen sense of
justice, sympathy, tactfulness, cour-
tesy, teachableness and knowledge Of
human nature. The boOkkeeper needs
most: Accuracy, speed, perseverance,
concentration and mathematical ability
figures. To, be successful in going
after new business, the trade solicit
tor should have: Tact, courtesy,
verbal expression, personality, opti-
mism, self-confidence and knowledge
Of human nature. An auditor is in
danger of proving a misfit, and fail
ure unless he possesses in marked de-
gree: Love of details, perseverance,
patience, judgment, elaboration, calm
ness. accuracy and analytical ability.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
Muscular Greek Porters.

AS porters and laborers, the Greeks
of SalOnica are unrivaled. You eSpy
a grand piano or a gigantic wardrobe,
apparently promenading the streets for
it's own pleasure, and search reveals
a small Greek of no particular phys
ique supporting it without apparent
effort. There seems no limit to the
burdens they can shoulder. During a
fire, two men were seen go up steep
stairs carrying huge safe that would
have needed cranes and pulleys in any
other country. They are very useful
for road making and on the quays, re-
ceiving fixed rate of 81 day.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
Church Services

Reformed church, a. m. the mis-
sion festival will begin in the Sunday
school, At 10 a. m. mission festival Of
the congregation. Offering for home
mission in the United States Rev. E.
P. Nuss Of Waukesha will preach the
sermon. At 7:3O p. m. harvest thanks
and mission festival services The To-
cal pastor and the festival speaker
will take part in this service. Mem
bers of the church, young and old and
al friends of Gods kingdom are most
cordially invited to all services.
German Baptist church-Rev. O..
Hauser will preach Sunday morning
and evening. Morning service at 1914
will be in German and the evening
service at 8 o'clock will be in Eng
| fish. Rev. Hauser is an interesting
speaker. He has the old time gospel
He will surely please all who come to
| hear him and a cordial invitation is
| extended to the public. Before the
| evening service, at 7:15, the Y. P. S.
| will meet for song service
Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel
church, North Ninth street, Rev. G.
SandrOck, pastor-German service ev-
cry Sunday and church holiday at 10
a. M; English services every second
Sunday Of the month at 1880 p. M;
every last Sunday at Ills a. m.
| st. Johns church-German services
at 10 a. M; English services the Sec
ond and fourth Sundays of the month
at 1870 p. m. The Young Peoples So
ciety meets every first and third
thursday in the month at o'clock.
| German NJ E. church, North Fifth
and Madison streets-Sunday school at
9 a. M. morning service Germany at
1O:15; Epworth League (English) at
1870 p. M; evening service English)
at 8 o'clock. All are welcome.
Trinity Lutheran church, auditor
ium st. Marks school-Sunday school
| at $50 a. M; services at 10:45 a. M
Cathechetical instructions commence
Monday, September 80 at p. m.
| Moravian church-9:15 a. NJ, Sun
| udJ oSAOOl, 1O on ILL.,,
preaching; p. M, English services
All friends cordially invited. We are
glad to welcome strangers and visitors
| st. Paul's Episcopal church-Holy
communion at 8 a. M; Sunday school
at 10 a. M; morning worship and SER
mon at 1920 o'clock; evening prayer
at 1880 D. m.
| Advent Christian church-Sunday
school at 10 a. M; preaching service
at II a. M; Loyal Workers at $50 p.
M; preaching service at 1870 D. m.
| st. Bernard's church-Low mass at
8 a. M; high mass and instructions at
10 a. M: evening devotions at 7:3O.
| ST. Marks Lutheran church-Sun-
day school and bible class at a., m. :;
services at 10 a. M
| st. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran
! church-Sunday school at a. M !;
| services at 10 a. m.
| st. Henry's Catholic church-Low
mass at 8 a. m. high mass at 10 a. m. !;
vespers at 3 y. m.
First Church of Christ Scientist, 500
Fifth street-Services at 10:45 a. m.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20

Two measures will come before the
special session Of the Wisconsin leg
islature, which convenes at the call Of
Gov. E. L. Phillip on Tuesday. One
measure asks for appropriations fol
the erection of barracks at state nor
NAL schools, Stout institute and the
University of Wisconsin in which stu
dent soldiers are to be housed The
other asks that counties, cities, vii
lagos and towns be authorized to in
vest in the securities of the United
States government The governors
call went out late on Thursday to all
members of both houses
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-20
A Poets Inspiration,

Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was a
great, friend and admirer of Gold
smith, came upon him unexpectedly
one day when he was writing ''The
Traveller" Sir Joshua, approaching
the door, heard Goldsmith discours-
Ing most earnestly as If delivering a
sermon. Entering, the artist friend
found the writer lecturing a little dog
which was trying to balance himself
on his hind legs. Looking over Gold
smiths shoulder, Sir Joshua found
that the ink of the last line of ''The
Traveller" was still wet, indicating
that dog may be an inspiration to q
poet