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HENRY A, McCOMAs.

HAGERsTowN, Md, March l0.-Henry
A. McComas. brother of the late Senator
Louis r. McComas, and father OF Rev.
Dr. Joseph +. McComas, rector of st.
Pauls Chapel. New York, one OF the
leading business men OF Hagerstown,
and a pioneer in the insurance business
in this section. died to-day in his home
here He was ~.
Mr.. McComas was born in Springfield,
Ill, November 2. 1912. In 1866 he was
appointed by Governor Swami assistant
grain inspector Of the Port OF Baltimore,
and held this position until the following
year. when he engaged in the insurance
business in Baltimore. In 1853 he re-
turned to Hagerstown and established
himself in the insurance business and
was actively engaged under the firm
name of H. A McComas & Co. until
his death,
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JAMES r. o'HALLoRAN.

Mrs. Margaret O'Halloran of 350 West
Thirty first street, received a War De
partment message yesterday announcing
the death from pneumonia at Reimagen,
Germany, February 81, of her son, James
+. O'Halloran, 2S. a mechanic attached
TO the l66th lnfantFy-the old sixty
ninth. - Yors~.tLs. Hai isssed safely
through all of the heavy flghting which
the regiment had experienced.
Mrs. O'Halloran received her son $ last
letter February 81. nine days after his
death, II was dated January 26. II he
had lived Though this month he would
have rounded out eleven years OF mill
tary service. Young OHalloran served
with the SiXty-ninth on the MeXicar.
border and was made corporal before
the command was federalized. lie leaves
three bCothers and four sisters.
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JOHN A, sONNTAG.

John A Sonntag, who. 1t IL said. was
the first hotel man to introduce the
cabaret type OF amusement in this coun-
try, died yesterday afternoon in his
home, 75 North Thirtieth street, Flush
ing. For many years he was proprietor
OF large hotel on the northern end OF
Central Park at 10th street and Lenox
avenue. II was there that he intro
duced the cabaret. After Mr.. Sonntag $
venture was found 30 be a success the
idea was adopted by other places in
New York.
Five years ago Mr.. Sonntag gave up
his place on 10Th street and leased a
hotel at Fifty-ninth street and Ninth
avenue and had conducted IL ever since.
Mr.. Sonrtag WAS n member or the
Masonic fraternity. His wife survives.
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WEST SIDERS BOOK
'FROCKS AND FRILLS'
New Musical Comedy's Chief
Note Is Anticipated
Water Cooler.

Some one--maybe Il was a member OF
the Street Cleaning Department-rushed
down TO tho Offices Of the great metro
politan dailies last week and, white faced
told the editors that the Standard Thea
tire, usually the first stop on the subway
circuit, would give this week the upper
West side its first opportunity 10 see a
real opening night right in its midst. SO
tho editors sent UP tho dog show experts
last night to Broadway and Ninetieth
street and this is what they recalled
after they came to:
A newly formed producing firm, the
Rialto Musical Comedy Company, with
Joseph l.. Herman having the RESPONSE
bility for tho presidency fixed upon him.
had brought to life a so-called musical
comedy, "F'rocks and Frills," though this
seemed one instance where birth con-
troll would have been justifiable. Helen
Beach was docketed on the programme
with the music and Fred C. Cross was
entered on the same blotter for the book.
The two acts were laid in the lobby
and the banquet hall OF the Climate
Hotel. though perhaps II would be
wisest not TO say anything at all about
them. The piece de resistance In the
motel lopby was an anuquaNeu wafer
cooler.
Altogether the production seemed as
frantically inebriated az the drunken
scene perpetrated by Tommy Allen, who
was the leading actress. She did her
best TO wiring some humor out OF the
play as the busting hotel proprietress.
In the preliminary announcements 1t is
stated that Miss Allen comes from the
West, and that she has n sense Of humor
which will take her far
II is also announced that "it is not
known just what will be done with this
play after II leaves the Standard" Many
of the upper West Sides motion picture
set had gathered for this first night in
their full dress business suits. After
trying TO get little pleasure out OF
guying tho show they began dribbling
out before the end of the first act.
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DAVID LANES kING.

David James King. member. OF the
New York Stock Exchange since 1872,
died yesterday In his home at 5tl Mad
ison avenue. He was the eldest son %
tho late Edward J. and Rosalie King,
whose home was on the present site OF
the Altman store, at Fifth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street In 1870 he mar
ried the late Adelaide Balm, daughter
OF Eugene :. Balm. the international
banker. Mr.. King leaves two daughters
Mrs. Louis ]. Rockford and Mrs. +.
Loeb. He spent his summers at Bar
Harbor, Me. for many years, and was
member of the Mount Desert Reading
Room and the New York Club.
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NOTES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD,

The first of a series OF supper dances
under auspices of the Evening Dance
Club, will be held tonight in the Della
Robbia room of the Vanderbilt. The
proceeds will DO given to tho American
Fund for French Wounded, for the sup
port Of their hospital in Nancy. Among
those who have taken tables are Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt. Jr., Mrs. Robert
l.. Stevens, Mrs. Charles Mather Mac
NELL, Mrs. w. Miller Graham and Mrs.
j. Philip Bernhard.
Major Theron II. Strong, L. s. A, and
Mrs. Strong. who arrived from France
on Sunday. are with her mother, Mrs.
Henry a. Robbins, 763 Fifth avenue.
They will leave for California, April ].
Mrs Theodore p. Shonts, accompanied
by her grandson, the young Duke de
Chaulnes, is with her daughter. Mrs,
Rutherford Bingham, at the Country
Club in Havana, Cuba.
Mrs NJ. r. Brown Dieterich. 105 East
Ftfty-third street, returned yesterday TO
Pinehurst, \. c., to remain for several
weeks.
Mrs. David Magic OF Princeton, y. j.,
has Joined her son. James McCosh
Magic, at the Gotham, where she Will
remain until next month. Her husband
Prof. Magic, has gone to Paris for the
Peace Commission.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Matthiessen have
come from their country place in irving
ton and are at the Chatham.
Lawrence c. Phipps. accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence c. Phipps, Jr.,
has come from Denver to the Vanderbilt
Mr.. and Mrs Hamilton Carhartt, who
have been In New York for the winter
have leased for the summer the villa
Arleigh. in Newport, belonging to Mr.
and Mrs II. Ruthven Pratt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan r. Hanna have
come from their country place in Lenox
to the st. Regis
Mrs. Richardson Glover OF Washing
ton. Is at the Plaza for brief stay.
Gen. Pau was the guest of Mrs. Leroy
Edgar at the Metropolitan last evening.
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DIED.

sANGs.-At his residence. 80 East Sew
cnty-second street, on Monday, March
IN, Fletcher II. Bangs.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
Observation-Disclosures Gilbert, March 2, at
his residence, Indian Neck Hall, Oak
dale. l.. J., in his siTty-eighth year
son Of the late Rev. George Washing
ton Bourne and Harriet Gilbert.
Funeral private. Foreign papers please
copy.
BROWN.--On Sunday. March o. Virginia
Post Brown. age "A. daughter of Char
lotte Post and Donald W. Brown and
granddaughter of Ellen Babcock and
William Reynolds Brown.
Service at ct. Bartholomew Chapel,
Park avenue and Fiftieth street on
Wednesday morning at 10 O'clock In
terment private.
CLARK. suddenly, at Cleveland, Ohio
Sunday, March .. 1919 Mary f.
Spencer. beloved wife Of william L.
Clark of Psssaic, y. j.
Funeral services will be held at her late
residence, l35 Lafayette avenue. Pas
sale, y, j., on Thursday. March 10,
1918. at 3 i. NJ.
DYER.-Philip Sidney, aged 81, on March
10, 1919. at his residence, / West Sixty
fourth street.
Solemn requiem mass at St Patriol's
Cathedral Wednesday. II A ". Kindly
omit flowers and direct inquiries to
Frank e. Campbell, broadway and
SiNty-sixth street.
JUssEN.-csrl. suddenly. on March s.,
1919. at IS Manhattan avenue, New
York city
MAcHoLD.--suddenly. on Monday, March
40. at the Fairmont sanitariunl, Jer-
soy City, William MaohoId, late resi-
dent 62s Hudson street, Hoboken,
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MISS MARJORIE II. vRooMAx.

The death OF Miss Marjorie r. Vroo-
man OF Clyde, y. Y. Y. NJ. c. \. score
tary abroad. was announced yesterday.
She died OF pneumonia March Al
Cauterets, France, where she was in
oanteen service for the American troops.
Miss Vroomon sailed for France in
October She was graduate of the
New England Conservatory Of Music,
Boston. She had been for two years
in Porto Rico az a social settlement
worker at san Juan and as teacher of
English and music at Toa Alta.
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YONKERS GIRL is BETR0THED.
Engagement Announced of Miss
Walsh 10 Ensign Mitchell.

The engagement of Miss Rosetta
Walsh. 81 Livingston avenue, Yonkers,
TO Ensign Walter II, J. Mitchell. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. +. Mitchell also OF
Yonkers mas been announced. Miss
walsh IL the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
M!cnacl !. Walsh. He- father & NON
Der OF the state Tax Commission and
until recently was postmaster at Yon-
keis He served two terms as Mayor Of
Nonkers.
Miss Walsh has been attending Trim
ity College In Washington. She Is a
81 adratc OF the College 90 New Rochelle
and OF Seton Academy, Yonkers.
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MISS FaANCEs BENNETT.

New BRUNSWICK. n. j., March 10
Miss Frances Bennett, 30, a bacteriolo-
gist died OF pneumonia Yesterday In
the Middlesex Hospital after II brief III
ness She IN survived by her mother.
Mrs John Bennett OF Greenwich, Conn.
two brothers, Or. A. q. Bennett, hac-
teriologist OF the Greenwich Health De-
psrtment. and Arthur Bennett Of New
Zealand. and one sister. Miss Huonida
Bennett of san Francisco
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pleasant sureness. indeed. The paint
strokes, too, have been economically
used. 1t is n good example. Miss Ce-
celia BeauX Is TO be tested upon the
auction block, with clever study of n
girl In white. called THE Fledgling." and
William NJ Chase by an oval pastel of
a pretty girl in an old world costume.
The Ellhu Nedder picture, "a Water
Boy" In small but has much OF his stur-
diness of style. John r. Weir, who is
one OF the oldest OF our academicians,
shows an early study of roses that has a
vast amount of agreeable painting in II.
Paul Dougherty has painted n sombre,
threatening aspect OF the ocean, and the
late Robert a. Elchelberger shows the
restless sea that has been lately released
from storms. Irving II. Wiles's Yacht
Basin. Greenpoint, l.. L." Ia nicely COM
posed with a direct, Chase-like manner
IN the painting. z. L. Henry's contribu-
ton Is Gay Coaching Party" in the
days of long ago. The "Gatherer of
Chips Is by the early American artist
Thomas Sully. and another historic
name, Rembrandt Peale. is signed to a
portrait OF Miss Charlotte Richards.
AnSong the foreign pictures, a brill
liant Elem stands out, and there IL a
Velasquez like Ribot, de Neuville,
Japanese Curios.
The japanese curios OF Mr.. Moore dis
play taste OF the highest order. There Is
constant succession OF Japanese art
dispersals during the season, but there
Is not succession OF collections like
this. 1t suggests the happier days of a
generation ago, when there was not so
much competition among collectors and
when discerning students seemed TO
have more Of chance. II Is replete
throughout with specimens that artists
will rave over Large pieces are rare in
1t. The ceramics are the kind that the
japanese wrap In damask covers, and
whose glaEes are so rich and individual
that they seem to invite touch.
There are a few divisions in the col
lection, but it is impossible to say which
Is most important. since all reach the
same standard. There are exceptional
pieces OF Satsuma and fine old pottery
tea jars there are kakemonos, bronze
censors and vases. swords and daggers,
lacQuers, inros and ivory netsukes. The
swords are marvels of art and ingenious
workmanship, and most OF them are
object lessons in design. The pottery
bowls are frequently invested with rich
black or soft brown and gray glazes
the shapes betraying the naive and low
ing touch OF the early Oriental potters
Among the cabinets is one used by
writer that bears upon itself the air OF
fine associations, and there are boxes
in lacquer of great elegance. Among
the curios are a group of buddhas
remarkable carved flsh. silver pipes and
an elaborate gilt bronze pagoda.
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MRS. BAKER SINGS AT PARTY.
Wife OF Secretary of War Is Guest
of Honor Mt Banquet.

WASHINGTON. March 1O.--Mrs. Baker,
wife OF the Secretary OF war, was guest
Of honor this evening of the Ohio Society
at q banquet at RauscheCs She sang
some solos after tho DusIness meeting
and Miss Mabel Boardman spoke on
"The Greatest Mother in the World"
Justice Day. president OF the society.
presided and Mrs. William Howard Taft
and Mrs Alice Pomerene were among
the hostesses at different tables
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Ruis Is Going 10 England.

Mexico. CITY, March 10.--The estab-
lSshment OF closer diplomatic relations
with England by Mexico IL seen in the
appointment OF Rafael Ruiz as Second
Secretary Of the Mexican Legation AZ
London It IL expected that Senior Ruiz.
who will act as Charge at the Mexican
Legation, will discharge important du-
ties In the United States and France
before assuming his post.
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RICHARD Ia TOJRETTE.

Richard La Tourette retired banker,
died at his home in New Brunswick. y,
J.. Yesterday after being sick about
week. He was formerly a member Of
the Common Council before Commission
Government was adopted. He leaves
widow
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FREDERIC VI. TURNER.

Frederic Martin Turner, sales man
ager of the Celluloid Company in Man.
haitian and we'll known as a churchmAn
in Brooklyn. died yesterday In his homa.
646 St Marks avenue He was 70 years
old and had only few days before re-
tired from business. lie is survived ~
a wife and three sons.
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Court-MartiaI sentence. Inset.

WAsHINGroN, March O.-.Disapproval
by President Wilson OF death sentences
PASSED b T!i.S,ly ooutL-martiai AT
Camp Funston, Kan. upon Privates
Mayer Bernstein, julius r. Greenburg
and Samuel Solnitsky for refusing to
obey orders was announced to-day by
the War Department President Wilson
in each case ordered the soldiers re-
stored 10 duly.
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of pneumonia here to-day.
Mr.. kearney had been al the head OF
the Wabash since 1915. He was born
in I.ogansport. Ind. - years ago. After
being educated in the public schools there
he entered the employ of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad as a telegraph operator
in 1882. He became chief clerk TO the
superintendent and was made train
master at indianapolis December /, 1899.
A couple OF years later he left the Penn
sylvania for better position. In 1905
he became superintendent OF terminal
of the Missouri Pacific at St. Louis and
in 1919 he was made general sperm
tendent In May Of that year he was
elected first ice-president OF the Texas
and Pacific Railroad. retaining the posi-
ton until he left TO become president
OF the Wabash.
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ROBERT DEsHLER

Robert Deshler prominent local con-
tractor. died yesterday in his home IN
New Brunswick, y. j.. after a brief III.
ness. He was SO. He leaves q widow.
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John r. DALTON, L. :. y.

Lieutenant commander John +. Dal-
ton, one Of the greatest football players
ever produced at the United states Ma
val Academy, died of pneumonia yester-
day in the Naval Hospital in the Brook
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In the later group of Americans moth
ing attracts more attention than the
Girl in Hammock, Reading" by Theo-
dore Robinson. This artist was not
always so at ease with himself and the
world as he shows himself TO be in this
picture. The color Is good. and the
drawing has been achieved with a very
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T.. r. KEARNEY.

Sr. LOUIS, March 1O.--E. F. Kearney
president OF the Wabash Railroad, dieo
Of pneumonia here to-day.
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worthy, and proves his ability as an
actor of no small worth. The comedy
situations are handled daintily by Mr..
Hughes and Miss Rica Hughes, and
clean, wholesome, musical comedy,
with genuine plot, is the result of
"Unsettled Weather"
Some beautiful costumes will be
worn both by the lady members and
the dainty chorus girls. The scenic
mountings are very attractive; in fact
the show is an all around good one,
and worthy of large patronage.
The motion picture program is well
selected and will include Bert Lytell,
who opens a two-oay engagement at
the Orpheo tomorrow. in his latest
screen success: 'Blackie's Redemp-
ton" 1t is powerful crook story
and Mr.. Lytell is seen in role that
calls for some wonderful dramatic
acting, in fact the star is seen in the
best work Of his screen career.
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or 7 am going to die. Give me your
hand and will kiss it. Forgive me
ANYTHING | have done wrong TO you.
goodbye" Her brother was shot
down before Victoria's eyes.
Butcher Women and Children
She declared also that she saw Ar
stakes through them, that two were
buried alive by the Arabs, and that
eventually the Circassians began TO
xiii all the women and children with
their knives. Her description OF TINS
massacre is too awful to be told, TOR
she gives details of the fiendish man
ner in which it was accomplished.
Afterward Victoria was separated
from her mother and sent to the tent
of an Arab where she renamed TOT
two weeks. In that period, she sald'
she saw two hundred small boys from
Meskeneh, brought through DER rs
Tor to Shadadieh, and saw these chill
dren killed in various ways and thrown
or kicked into the river.
She escaped from the Arabs tent
was recaptured by the Arabs with
two other girls from Harput, put
later was allowed to go her way. Al
ter a year and half she reached Alep'
DO, where her story was told. she
has been informed that her mother
and one brother had escaped from
the Circassians or Arabs.
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VOICE
CHARMS HEARERS

Men and women go to great pains
and spend more or less money in an
effort to improve their personal APP
pearances. They keep the beauty doc
tors and the BARRIERS busy to main
tain their skins and their hair in good
condition. The masseurs make good
living out of almost all Of US.
This is, of course, perfectly proper
1t is all right that we should look as
we'll as it is possible for US to do. We
should even be urged to wear very
good clothes. Shakespeare, who said
everything, said that we should wear
good clothes. "Costly thy apparel as
thy purse can buy" said he, "the ap-
parel oft proclaims the man." And,
certainly it proclaims the woman.
But there is one very great charm
about men and women that they me-
glect to cultivate as rule. 1t is
their voices. If God gives us good
voices to start with, all we'll and
good, but if we are not so blessed. by
nature we seem to make no effort
to cure the i'll. And it is surely a
misfortune for anyone to go through
life with disagreeable voice.
1t does not seem TO be a matter of
general knowledge that person with
an unpleasing voice can improve it
wonderfully under an instructor as
well as by simple, though self i'm
posed efforts.
If there be any man to whom, a
good voice is necessity. it is the or
ator. Well, the greatest of all ora.
tors, DWemonthenes. was q stutter-
er. He cured himself by rolling peb-
bles under his tongue.
Let women, particularly, remember
that no matter how plain or homely
their physical features may be, no
bodies, they can still make themselves
bodies, they can still make themselves
infinitely charming by possession of
a pleasing voice.-Los Angeles,
Times.
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PLANT LATE POTATOES

Hundreds of farmers are 60
ing to plant a patch Of late pota-
toes large enough to supply the
family needs through the win
ter and to furnish seed for the
spring planting. They will keep the
soil stirred and prevent the escape
of moisture which may be needed
badly later on. Lack Of moisture is
responsible for more Of our late pota-
to failures than anything else. The
Lookout Mountain variety is gaining
in favor as late cropper and those
who have not been successful with
Bliss Triumph are going to give it a
trial. One bushel of potatoes will
usually seed a patch large enough
for family use. Plant any time from
July / to 80, says Sam Knox, Hor.
ticulturist with the Agricultural ex.
tension division of the University OF
Arkansas.
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AWFUL STORY Of
TURK CRUELTY
TOLD BY GIRL
Young Armenian Describes the
Massacre of Hundreds OF
Her PEOPLE.

New York, June 21.-One Of the
most pitiful stories of savagery prac-
ticed by Turks or Circassians upon
the Armenians deported during the
war from their homes to the country
of the Arabs, is told by Victoria Var
shabdian, a girl of eighteen years.
Her story has been made public here
by the American Committee for Ar
menian and Syrian Relief. The girl
was daughter of well-to-do mer-
chant who had shop in CONSTANT
nople and another at Nevsher, Tur-
key, where the family lived.
In her narrative to British ply
sician, she said that her father and
four brothers were deported and that
her father died while on the journey,
from a blow inflicted by a gendarme.
Carrying their little fortune of 1000
pounds in gold, they were marched
south to the vicinity of DeirEs -Zor
(probably on the Euphrates River).
There they found great congre-
cation of refugees said to number
1000 families.
300 Shot at One Time
While at Deir-Es -Zor, Murad or
Suvar, the girl, said twenty Armen-
ian priests were taken from among
the refugees, bound together, sent
away and killed.
In the river at Suvar, she saw
one hundred bodies of men, women
and children, some with their heads
off.
After collecting ransom, the Mu-
tessarif ordered the men of the ref
ugees brought before him to "sign
paper" The next day she said she
saw the Circassians shoot down 300
of them. Then the Mutessarif, Zeki
Bey, ordered nine of the bodies of
the Armenians placed in the road and
drove his carriage over them. He
announced that he was going to kill
all the male refugees over two years
old. Up to that time her brother
had escaped death by bribery, but he
was taken away with the others, anc
on leaving, said to his mother: "Moth
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HAUBER THEATRE.

A woman-hater thought that the
young person he had taken an inter
est in way boy! But the boy was
a girl! This striking situation pro-
vokes many laughs in the World Pic
ture. "Phil-for- Short" in which
charming Evelyn Greeley is starred.
The whole picture is pleasing. enter
tanning, delightful 1t is damned
with smiles and chuckles and with
thrills and tense moments, too. "Phil-
for-Short" is splendid vehicle in
which to inaugurate Miss Greeley
appearance as full Pledged star.
Everyone who ENJOYS good picture
is invited to see this production at
the Hauber theatre Monday.
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The clerks in Kingston, Canada.
have established an eight-hour day
for five days in the week and nine
hours for Saturday.