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Evening star., 1921-08-25

incredulous things that are said TO
happen there"
"Kind Of Scandal"
Ambassador Page wrote:
VI course l am open to the criti-
G,sm or having taken the place at all.
but was both uninformed and mis-
informed about the cost as well as
ing no embassy. It's kind of scan
dal in London and it has it's serious
eHcct. Everybody talks about it all
the. time. will you explain to me why
II is. that your great government has
no embassy: it's very oddr What Il
frugal government you have" IT'S a
damned mean outfit. yonr American
government
The king keeps lccturing me. Mrs
rage collapseS many an evening
when she gets to her room. If they'd
only quit talking about it" The other
amba ssadors. now that were coming
to know them fairly well. commiser-
ate us.
ITS constant humiliation OF
course this aspect OF it doesn't worry
ire much--lVe got hardehed to 1t.
But 1t is "A good deal of a real handi-
weight that Il man must overcome: ::
and il greatly lessons the respect in
which our government and it's am
bassador are held. If I had known
this fully in advance I would not
have had the courage to come here.
Now. of course, I've got used to it.
have discounted it, and can bull it
'hroush--could bull it through If l
could afford 10 pay the bill But l
wouldnt advise any friend of mine to
come her" and face this humiliation
without realizing precisely what it
means wholly apart. of course. from
the cost Of'it
My dear House. on the present
Evening star., 1921-08-25
TRIALS OF u. S. ENJOYS TOLD
NPAGE LETTERS FROM MLONDON
Failure to Have American-Owned En-
bassy in Great Britain One of
Subjects of Criticism. :.>' = !.

Trials of the ambas ssadors from the
United States to Great Britain. on ac-
count of the fact that the former
country did not own it's embassy in
London. are related in letters written
by the late Walter Fl. Page, ambassa-
dor to the court of st. James, as pub
lished in the Worlds Work for Sep
tember.
His letter to Col. Edward n. House.
dated February 13, 1914, is particu-
larry appealing in it's depicting the
peculiar position in which the Amcri-
can ambassador found himself by
reason of the fact that the American
government provided no official resi-
dence for its am AMBASSADOR. and no ade-
quate financial allowance for MAIN
tanning the office.
Shadows In Background.
In the letter "the two shadows in
the background" of his otherwise
satisfying position are given as fol-
lows
The constant reminder of the
American ambassadors homeless po-
sitien tto this government and 20 this
whole people) shows that the Ameri-
can government and the American
people know nothing about foreign
relations and care nothing-regard
them as not. worth buying a house
for. This leaves a doubt about any
continuity of any american policy.
1t even suggests sort Of fear that
we don't care.
The other is the dispiriting expe-
rtenee of writing and telegraphing
about important things and never
hearing word concerning many of
them. and the consequent feur of some
dead bad break IN the State Depart
ment. The clubs are full Of the. silly and
Evening star., 1921-08-25
AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE.
Unidentified Driver Smashes~ Into
Car Parked Along River.

Robert NJ. Greenwood. 1916 Irving
street, and young woman NARROWLY
escaped serious injury last night
about O'Clock. while seated in an
automobile parked near the river
front In. East Potopac Dark The au-
temobile was. struck by a speeding
touring car driven by an unidentified
cofored man and occupied by four
colored women.
Mr.. Greenwood's car was thrown
fully three feet from the roadway and
damaged. but its occupants escaped
with practically no injuries. A physi-
clan from Emergency Hospital ap-
peared on the scene and treated one
of the colorea women for slight in
juries. The driver of the touring car,
colored man. bandoned his car and
disappeared.
Representative Frank W. Mondell of
whose automobile was TAX
en- by joyriders several days ago and
abandoned after being badly damaged.
was out Last night fer a drive in his
wife's electric car. Near Scott Circle.
according to police report, he lost
control of the car and it landed
against the curb. The car was. dam
aged to the amount of 500.
Morris Singer. ten years old. 112S
7th street, ran in front of an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon, was
struck by the machine and slightly
injured.
Evening star., 1921-08-25

basis much Of the diplomatic bust
ness is sheer humbug-tich men with
ambitious women playing the game OF
social display-never for day set
ting forth the aims and ideals OF. the
American republic. 1t will always
be sd till we have our own embassies
and an established position in coHse-
quencc. Without home or house
or a fixed background. every man
has to establish his own position for
himself: and unless he be unusual,
this throws him clean out of the way
of giving emphasis to the right things.
Comment ON Bryan.
The announcement in London
paper that William jennings Bryan
would deliver an address in London
on peace drew the following comment
to Col. House:
Now. God restrain me from say
ing. much more from doing. anything
rash. But If J've got TO 30 home at
all. I'd rather go before he comes.
Jt'll take years for the American am
If he carries out this plan. They
now laugh at him here. Only the
Presidents great personality saves
~the situation ia foreign relations. OF
course the public here doesn't know
how utterly unorganiZed the State
Department is-how we can't get an
swers to. important questions, ana
how they publish most secret dis
patches or allow them TO leak out.
But bad breaks like this occur. MI
Stewart of the 100 years peace COM
nittee came here "a week ago. with 4
letter from Bryan to the prime min
lister. Stewart told me that this 100
year business gave chance 10 pihd
the nations together that ought not
10 be missed. Hence Bryan had asked
him to take up the relations OF the
countries with the prime minister!
Bryan sent "a telegram to Stewart to
be read at a big 10e-year meeting
here. AS for the personal indignity
to mel overlook that don't think
he means it. But if he doesn't mean
it. what does he mean? That's what
the prime minister asks himself.
Fortunately Mr.. AsqIith and I get
along mighty well. He met Bryan
once, and he told me with smile
product of your. country. But the
Secretary is always doing things like
this He dashes off letters of intro
duction to people asking me to pre-
sent them to Mr.. Asquith, Mr.. Lloyd
George, etc.
Tn the United States we know Mr..
Bryan. We know his good points, his
good services. his good intentions.
We not only tolerate him, We like
him. But when he comes here as the
John. All that We've tried to do to
gain respect for our government (as
they respect our great nation) Will
disappear in one day. OF course
they'll feel Obliged to give him big Off
cial dinners. etc. And
NOW you'd just as we'll abandon
your trip if he comes; and Il confessl
I'd rather be gone. No member Of
another government ever came here
and lsctured. y T. r. did it as a pri-
vate citizen. and even then split the
heavens asunder. Most Englishmen
will regard it as a piece of effrontery-
OF course, I'm not in the least con-
cerneds about mere matters OF taste
It's only the bigger effects that I
have in mind in queering our govern
ment in their eyes: He must be kept
at home on the Mexican problem. or
some other"
Evening star., 1921-08-25
ASKS OMISSION OF FLOWERS.

According to the will Of Cornelius
T. Belt. dated May 1. last. which has
been fled for probate. direction is
made thar "fowers be omitted" at
st. Thomas Church. that mo hymns
be sung" but that the choir be asked
to sing GQunod's "Sanctus ct Bene-
dictus." The testator leaves his pat
ent and trade mark business. includ-
ing. office furniture and effects. to
Simonds. "in consideration of their
Miss Simonds is TO
have one-third OF the proceeds of the
f1rm and Mr.. Lansdale two-thirds.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
TWO HELD IN LIQUOR CASE.

Frank Doye. colored. thirty-one
years old. and Ella Doye. his wife,
forty years old. were arrested at their
home, 2042 Government court, by
Detective Rarbee and Policemen Bull
lock and Murphy of the~third pre-
cinct, and charged with Illegal pos
session of intoxicants. The police re-
ported the seizure of two quarts of
whisky and two quarts of gin.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
ASKS FOR $4,000 DAMAGES.

Julia A. Moore filed suit yesterday
in the District Supreme Court against
the Whitelaw Apartment House Com
pany for $4,000 damages for alleged
personal injuries. Through Attorneys
Hughes & Hayes. the plaintiff claims
that on May 23 last she was seriously
injured by tripping and falling in a
passageway in the Whitelaw Hotel at
18th and r streets a.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
MAJ. GEN. WADE DIES.
AsHTABULA, Ohio, August 25.-

AsHTABUIAA. Ohio, August 25.-Maj.
Gen. James F. Wade. seventy-eight, re-
tired, died at his home In jefferson, near
here, after q long illness. He en-
tered the Army during the civil war
and was in continuous service for
forty-six years. retiring fourteen
years ago. When William H. Taft
was governor general of the Philip
pine Islands Gen. Wade was In COM
mand in the islands.
Evening star., 1921-08-25

quality for dish towels;
also an excellent quality
for use by barbers and
dentists. Fast color, red
border.
Evening star., 1921-08-25
MUST PAY FOR DAMAGE.

Postal employees damaging govern
ment property, through carelessness
or negligence, stand to pay for the
entire cost of repairs, under ruling
made by the solicitor of the Post Of
fee DEPARTMENT.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
SHIPPERS GOODNESS
SAVES LINER CELTIC
Captain Averts Collision With
Collier When Crash Seems
to Be Inevitable.

Swift handling by their shippers saved
the White Star liner Celtic. in yesterday
from Liverpool and Queenstown. and
the big collier Everett, bound from Nor
folk to Boston, from collision that
might have been disastrous. when the
two vessels were off Nantucket light
ship in dense fog at II o'clock on
Sunday morning. Many of the Celtic's
1856 passengers. mostly steerage. wit
messed the close shave. and later ex-
pressed their admiration for the mas
terly skippership of Capt. L. b.
Howarth.
The collier was making about half
speed and the Celtic doing likewise, each
blowing fog sirens. when they came
within earshot of each others signals
It was not until the Everett was within
hundred feet of the starboard side or
the Celtic. aiming at her amidships.
that Capt. Howarth saw her oimly
through the murk. He stopped and sent
propellers whirring astern full speed
When the liner stopped she was within
fifty feet of the collier. which also had
started backing.
Max Grau. impresario, who returned
by the Celtic, and who has been getting
musical talent abroad, said he was the
guest of several former New Workers in
Berlin, and that when he went alone to
play golf on the links outside the city
he was told that as Germany was still
at war with the United States ana rs
he was an American citizen they would
not let him play.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
FOUR SUBDUE WOMAN
IN GRAND ST. II FIGHT
Escaped Reformatory Inmate
Centre of Real Battle.

After a fight which two Bedford Re-
formatory probation officers and two
policemen almost lost, Victoria Marko-
xitz OF Bridgeport. Conn, was removed
in a patrol wagon from the Third ave-
nue elevated station at Grand street to
Police Headquarters. She Is not wanted
at the reformatory. but she escaped
from there, so her captors say. and must
20 back.
Tho battle began when the probation
officers, Miss Skeehan and Miss Engle.
caught sight OF Victoria at Ninth street.
fhey recognized her by her large
knuckles. At Grand street Victoria was
winning the fight when Policemen Doo-
ley and Coffey mixed In and swung the
scales TO victory. But Il took three
pc ople 10 alt on the woman until the
patrol wagon arrived.
According TO the police the woman Is
a servant girl who has been convicted
Of larceny. She Ia said to resemble a
weman wanted for series OF robberies.
Including one OF $1,000 from Washing
ION Heights home.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
JULES STEINER ASKS
ALIMONY CANCELLED
Finds Alleged LarOyer Too In
innate With Wife.

Jules Steiner. former partner in
Joseph Steiner & Bros, furriers. OBJ
tained yesterday from Supreme Court
Justice Delehanty an order for his wife
to show cause why the $500 a month ALI
mony granted to her in her separation
action should not be cancelled. The or
der Is returnable tomorrow. In apply
ing for 1t Mr.. Steiner set forth that the
commencement of the action by his wife
caused him to lose his partnership. and
ne now is only an employee, at $500 a
year.
He alleges also that with others he broke
into his former home in ais West Nine
ty-zecond street April and found a
stranger coming out of his wife's
boudoir. An affidavit by Miss Helen
Zohn, former servant OF the Steiners.
was attached to his petition. 1t reeited
personal and telephone calls of a man
who represented himself to be Mrs.
Steiners lawyer, but who grew so inti-
mate as TO leave his shaving and other
articles in Mrs Steiner's home. In op-
posing the granting OF the motion Mrs.
Steiner denied the new allegations
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
WHITE WAY LURES
YOUTH INTO CRIME
Roaring .Forties Got Me Into
Pickle Lyle Van Horn Says
in Confession.

In an effort to keep his end UP on
Broadway, Lyle Van Horn, "a years old,
the son of a respected Brooklyn family,
committed twenty-eight robberies in
rooms Of members of the Bedford branch
of the Y. NJ. c. A., according to detec-
,ives who arrested him last night.
Van Horn was leaving the Bedford
avenue building with four suits OF
clothes in a black travelling bag and
with six valuable scarfpins when Detec-
tives Harrington, Mccormack and Boyer
closed in on him. He confessed imme-
diately, they say. that in the past two
months he has taken between $4,000 and
$4,000 worth of loot from the building.
The clue by which both Van Horn and
Donald Buttle. 81, said to be his part
ner, were caught was a girls letter to
Buttle which he dropped In one OF the
rooms which, 1t is alleged, he robbed
with Van Horn. The letter, which began
Dear Donald" was signed by Miss Mil
dred Ireland of 556 Hancock street, the
daughter of Major In the Twenty-third
Regiment. State Guard. The detectives
called on the girl and learned that she
had a casual acquaintance with Donald
Buttle whose address on Bedford avenue
she was able to give them.
Buttle was arrested Saturday as he
was leaving the Y NJ. c. A. with some
loot and admitted his share OF the rob-
berries, the police say. From him they
learned of Van Horn and trailed him
until they caught him with the stolen
property.
II needed the money to spend on
some girls along the Gay White Way"
Van Horn said. according to the detec-
tlves. "I had good time while II
lasted. but i guess it's ell over now.
This is the pickle the roaring forties
have gotten me into"
The young man said he was an auto
mobile salesman, living in furnished
room at 215 Jefferson avenue, Brook
lyn. His parents live at 40 Putnam
avenue. Van Horn took all the blame.
and said Buttle had merely followed
his instructions.
He will be arraigned to-day in the
Gates Avenue Police Court.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
OYSTERS DEATHBED WILL
PROVIDES FOR YOUNG BRIDE
Atlantic City Reports That Washington Merchant Had
Cut Her Off in Codicil Are Denied His
Body Arrives Home.

night She remained in her apartments
in the Wardman Park Hotel and did not
go to the station TO meet the body. II
was a question whether she would at
tend the funeral. which Is to be held
from an undertaking establishment to-
morrow. The body was accompanied by
Mr.. Oysters brother. ID. M. Oyster.
The interest manifested in the Oyster
wedding-based principally on the faci
that the bridegroom was 70 and the
bride only 28-was revived recently by
reports that they had separated. The
reports met with denial. Mrs. Oyster
however, remained in the Flamingo Ho-
tel. at Miami, when her husband came
North, and then came to Washington
when he went to Atlantic City.
Late Sunday night, 1t has become
known. word reached Mrs. Oyster that
her husband was very H. She commu-
nlcated with the Atlantic City Hotel by
telephone and was told that his condition
was critical She said she wo6ld leave
Immediately for his bedside. but when
this was reported to his physicians she
was told that he was not expected to live
until morning and that his condition was
too serious to permit any one to see him.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
O'RYAN GETS LEAVE
AS HEAD OF THE GUARD
Announcement Made as He
Takes Oath as Commissioner.
Special Despatch to TIE New YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.

New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, April rs.
On taking the oath of office as New
York Transit Commissioner to-day
Major-Gen. John r. Organ received a
six months leave of absence without pay
as commander OF the New York State
National Guard The leave can be re-
newed at the pleasure of the Governor.
Gen. Organ said he had intended to
resign from the Guard but agreed to
the leave of absence plan at the request
Of many officers.
do you expect to return to the Guard
after finishing your duties as Transit
Commissioner
That is looking a long way ahead"
the General replied.
Gen. James W. Lester, senior briga-
dier of the state. will command the
Guard In place OF Gen. O'Ryan.
Col. Charles r. Pooley Of Buffalo and
Major Charles r. Blakeslee OF Bing-
hamton. who were sworn In as Public
Service Commissioners and are also
members OF the National Guard, will re-
tain their commands. Col. Pooley Is
the commanding officer OF the Eighty
fourth Regiment Of Buffalo. and Major
Biakeslee OF the First Battalion OF the
First Field Artillery. Gen. O'Ryan said
they both saw service in the war and
are highly trained officers
II am glad that the Guard will not
have to lose their services" he said.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
SETTLING ORDERED OF
MRS. SAGES ESTATE
J. J. SIocurn Gets 81 y531 ,877 ;
Executors, $50, ,3O6.

Surrogate Cohalan gave official APP
proval yesterday of the accounting rem
dered by Joseph j., Herbert J. and
Stephen L. Slocum, Robert w. and
Henry w. De Forest, as executors of the
estate OF Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage.
widow Of Russell Sage. His order d.
rects that they pay themselves s5S.306
each as commissioners. In addition to
amounts heretofore paid them. 1t d.
rects the payment of balances on vari-
Gus legacies to beneficiaries and char
table institutions and OF sl.63l,M to
Joseph ]. Slocum. nephew and a benefi-
c'ary, who. as one OF the executors. held
off payment of his legacy till others
we're settled.
The executors are directed to retain
out OF the s17. .106,6T residue of the estate
before turning 1t over to the residuary
legatees sufficient TO pay the F5O.Ooo
claim to the American bible Society in
case that organization's objection to the
accounting is sustained.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
100 ARE MADE CITIZENS.
Justice Morschauser "stts In" to
speed Naturalization.

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Nor
schaussr of the Ninth judicial district,
where he Is presiding over the Stillman
divorce case. is sitting in" for week
or so in the naturalization term In the
New York County Court House to re-
lieve pressure on the First district JUS
tices. In his first day yesterday he
signed final papers and administered the
oaths of allegiance to more than 100 ap-
licants.
In the last three years Justice Nor
schauser set a record as a naturalizer.
admitting upward OF $4,000 men and
women to citizenship. He presided at
naturalization terms In Camps Upton
and Mills, West Point, Forts Wright,
Terry. Siocum. Totten and Wadsworth,
and at Otisville and Poughkeepsie.
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
speeiaI Despafch . TNE sew YoaK HERALI
New York Herald Bureau.
WnShinQfnn. ID. O.. Anril o5.

Special Despatch 20 THE NEW YoaK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., April e5.
A deathbed codicil written into the
will OF George NJ. Oyster. Jr.. aged pro-
vision merchant OF Washington. who
died Sunday night at Atlantic City. Is
understood to provide for the future OF
his 26 year old bride, Mrs. Cecil Oyster.
Coincident with the arrival OF the body
here tonight it was learned that Mr..
Oyster provided for her less than twen-
ty-four hours before his death. adding
the codicil. in which she Is named with
a Washington attorney. nurse and en-
ployee of the Ambassador Hotel, In
which he died. as witnesses.
The details of the codicil will not be
known until Wednesday, when the will
is to be filed for probate. 1t is under
stood. however. that the codicil takes
into consideration certain settlements
made by Mr.. Oyster at the time of his
on January Is. Mr.. Oysters
attorney. f. G. Brandcnburg, refused to-
night to discuss the case.
Mrs Oyster could not be seen to-
The New York herald., 1921-04-26
$15,o 100000 FOR NEW SCHOOLS
Estimate Board Committee TO RE-
port FavorabIy.

The finance and budget committee Of
the Board of Estimate decided yesterday
TO report favorably on the request OF the
Board of Education that s15.000,000 be
made available now for construction of
new school buildings.
The amount asked Will come from an
appropriation OF s52.o00.00O which has
been set aside for school construction.
Plans for se,000.0O0 worth OF buildings
already are completed and other plans
are In process OF completion.