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The New York herald., 1921-10-06
The sentry Of Sleepy Hollow.

October. 17s0-f921.)
Along the road that Andre came
a shadow lay at noon,
The brooklet sang among the stones
A melancholy tune.
Though frost upon the wayside grass
Had spread It's silver sheen.
The dusty tulip tree retained
It's uniform Of green.
Three yeomen from the thicket rose
And stopped the rider bold,
Three simple rustics lowered with souls
OF true heroic mould.
Three patriots who held no brief
For kings across the sea.
But seized the traveller and saved
The cause OK liberty.
Along the road that Andre came.
October sunshine lies.
The trees triumphantly unfurl
Bright banners to the skies.
And there immortslized In bronze
The master yeoman stands
on guard for Freedom evermore,
His musket In his hands.
MrrNA 1Rvrro
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Rostrum Club meeting to discuss municipal
election; Rumford Hall, 80 East Forty-flrst
Secretary Hoover will speak at banquet Of
the Manufacturers Export Association, Wal
Ne@ York academy OF Medicine meeting.
~ West Forty-third street, 3 80 r. M.
American Nlmismatic Society meetIns,
museum. Broadway. between 155th and io0th
N New Yorxi and New Jersey Tunnel, Com
missions joint meeting. Hall Of Records,
Legislative League of New York meeting.
stuyyesant Polytechnic meeting. Hotel Astor,
international Acetylene Association con-
vention. Hotel Commodore; dinner, r. NJ,
Forty-eightn stres;. 10 A M. entertainment
New York University League Of Women
meeting. Judson Memorial Church. Washing
ton Square South.
Matthews. rival candidates for County Reg
ister viii speak before the Legislative
Electrical SHOW. seventy-first Regiment
Armory. to IL p. NJ.
Mayor Hylan. Comptroller. Craig. Commits
American Federation Of Labor will be lunch
con guests Of the Associated Motion Picture
Adyertisers. Cafe boulevard. 1880 P: NJ
National Wholesale Lsrocers' Association
meeting. wnldorf-Astorfa. 10 A. M.
New York Architectural Alumni. Uniyer-
ward, 1890 l.. NJ.
American Union Bank Club dinner. Cafe
Boulevard, r. M.
National Automobile Chamber OF Com
nierco meeting 500 Madison avenue, 10 A. NJ:
luncheon. 2 II. M. lfst.
Arerican Engineering Standards Commit
tee meeting. Engineering Societies Building.
20 West Thirty-ninth street, 1880 A. NJ
Miss Amy Cryan VIII speak on English
Women in Public Life.'' Brooklyn Academy
of Music, afternoon.
Major curran and other Fusion candidates
will speak At a meeting of the Womons
Harding and Coolidge Club, 222S Broadway.
near Bighteth street. +. M.
DR. Henry G. Metcalf viii lecture on ''The
Field Of Personal Administration" under tho
auspices of the Bureau OF Personal Admil-
istration,. Engineering Societies Building. 20
West Thirty-nnth street, O r. NJ.
Dr. John II. Finley will speak on "Ameri-
cas- Making" under the auspices Of the Sons
Of the Revolution. Washington Irving High
School. 40 Irving place, T.. M.
Frank w. Skinner will speak on Erection
of Steel and Concrete Spans" Brooklyn
Academy OF Music, 3 p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Three to Nothing.

A large and orderly gathering OF
the. citizenry on the village green, or
common, is always an impressive
sight. Yesterday the people were out
in force. in and about the northern
end Of City Hall Park, which Is our
second oldest common.
A traveller from the heart of the
Cobb Desert, standing on the roof of
the Stewart Building, might have
wondered whether the citizens had
collected to consider the unemploy-
ment problem, to impress ruler
with their power, to debate the boun-
daries of Burgenland or to hail the
discoverer of a method of squaring
the circle.
The man from Asia would still have
been mystified when, at 2.20 p. M,
the assemblage, its eyes glued on
the score board Of THE New YoRK
HERALD, burst into plea:
"Oh, you Babe! Knock it over
the fence! Kill IT."
Would it have been easy to explain
to the Cobb man that the eager cry
of the crowd in City Hall Park rep
resented, in a minute degree, the
American passion Of the moment;
that, translatedrin into detail, it meant
that the Behemoth of Baseball had
stepped to the plate for the first time
in the world series; that the Sam
son Of Swat was about to swing his
mace; that the Baleful Bambino was
expected to soak the pellet on the
snoot for homer? Probably not.
Mankind on the village green has
been like this long time. A cave
man who could stun sabre tooth
tiger with one fling OF his club un-
doubtedly had a big following of
cave boys. The Judge of Israel who
rent the young lion in the vineyards
of Timnath "as he would have rent
a kid" had crowd at his heels -un-
til the fatal cutting of his hair. So
It will be long after the bat of the
Babe is humus with its fathers.
Some day all the world may unite
on what is real and earnest. We
shall observe the brotherhood of man.
Cosmic urge will be delivered with
the milk. There will be no boundary
disputes, for there will be no boun-
daries. The lamb will lie down with
the lion and discuss the benefits of
vegetarianism. Then the descendants
Of those who yesterday watched the
scoreboards will spend a sunny Oc-
tOber afternoon listening to lecture,
by wireless from planet of Aide
baran, on the "Outposts of the Inf
mite" Meanwhile, however,
"RUTH singles, scoring MILLER"
+ The, populace rocks with interest.
The cosmic urge, despondent, jumps
In the Park fountain. G'boy, Babe.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
American Art.
Mr.. Elwell Sees Signs Of Reaction
Against Foreign Ideas.

To THE New YORK HERALD The
scientific art of Jay Hambridge may
produce the same results as the So
called higher education of our univer-
sties--the loss Of the man.
Art as presented by the renowned pro-
fessor of the Ecole des Beaux Arts
Jean Joseph Alexander Falguiere, has
but three laws-no more, no less-spfrit,
mass and line. We would add one more.
balance.
Professor Falguiere impressed upon
our minds that the technical or .scholas-
tic training of an artist might rob him
of his genius, while the three great laws
Of spirit, mass and line always hold him
up to the highest in him.
Your correspondent Mr.. Bowers adds
one more to the gathering throng OF
sane. thoughtful and patriotic minds who
do not regard calling attention to the
splendor Of American art genius as an
unbalanced attitude of mind.
Setting aside the benefit of the pure
religious side of art. there Is purity
of ideals in the minds of American ar
fists SO far above anything in Europe
or elsewhere to-day that one wonders
at the submission of a credulous public
to being bamboozled into even going to
our museums to see the unbalanced ef-
forts of those who cannot possibly be
in sympathy with the clean ideals OF our
race.
1t Is a pleasure. therefore, to see evil
dences that IL we are to have the best
results from American art genius 1t mus,
be defended without fear of any caoai
of art sharps who may do all in their
power to hinder American art opportu-
nifty. Col" +. EDWIN ELwELL,
Scalptor.
DAatrN Conn October &
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
The Rule of Three.
Bispham's Death Makes an operate
Superstition Come True.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The rule
of three has been completed: Enrico
Caruso. Joseph Mann and now Bispham.
/ quote the following from an article
by Lucicn Cleves in your paper last
Sunday:
Opera singers are superstitious lot.
There Is not one among them who does
not have perfect faith in the idea that
everything follows the rule Of three.
Indeed. everything goes in threes. 1t
might be added that they are especially
prone to believe this succession about
death.
1T Is for that reason that the tenors
In the Metropolitan Opera House are
considerably upset. Two of their choir.
Enrico Caruso and the newly engaged
Joseph Mann, have died recently. Who
will be the third from their number?
This is the question that disturbs them
to such a degree that every arriving
tenor shows unnistakable signs Of the
nervous strain through which they are
passing" II. .
NEW YonK. October 8.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Passports in Holland.
1t Is Denied That Mrs. Ryan Was
Detained by Undue Restrictions.

To THE New York HERALD: On Sep
tember 80 you printed despatch from
your Paris Bureau to the effect that be-
cause of an error in the passport OF
Thomas Fortune Ryan. which did not
specify that his wife was to accompany
him over the Dutch frontier into Hol-
land, Mrs Ryan experienced certain
difficulty at the Dutch frontier. and that
thereupon Mr.. Ryan asked the interven-
tion OF the American Minister at The
Hague. who made strong representa-
tions to the Dutch Government" as a
result OF which Mrs. Ryan was allowed
to enter Holland
That restrictions are causing tourists
to shun Holland" as your correspondent
states cannot be true, as passport reSu-
lations for Holland are such and have
been since the middle Of August. long
before Mr. Ryan's visit to Holland. that
no one should find it difficult to enter
or leave Holland with the exception OF
Bolshevistic or anarchistic agitators and
the like. In fact, these regulations are
far less restrictive than. those In force
for European visitors to the United
the filing out of questionnaires and the
furnishing of photographs on passports
of intending visitors to- Holland have
been abolished, and all that Is now re-
quired Of such visitors is to appear be-
fore Holland consul and to give their
name. place of birth. profession and ma
tionality, date when and period for
which the visum has been granted, all
matter Of less than Ave minutes time
and no trouble.
Belgian subjects can come and go as
they please without the formality of a
passport visum.
No Netherland visum on passports is
required for transoceanic travellers who
wish to pass through the Netherlands on
their way to their destination. provided
such passports have been vised by the
authorities Of the country to which the
person in question Is travelling. This
applies to all except Russians.
Hollands passport regulations are
perhaps the most liberal and least trou-
blesome Of any country in Europe and
far less burdensome than those of the
United States. The result Is that large
numbers Of foreign tourists. Americans
included, are visiting Holland without
having to complain about restrictive
passport requirements. This is proved
by the fact that a movement Is now on
foot in The Hague to have the Hotel
De Twee Steden, which has not been oc-
cupied for number Of years, remodelled
in order to take care Of the constantly
growing influx of tourists.
The NETHERLANDS CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE IN NEW YORK, Inc.
L. wITTgRr VAN HoooLANp;
Secretary.
New York, October 5.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
In Bryant Park.
A Job at So a Day and Board ScOrned
by the Unemployed.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Looking
out of our windows into Bryant Park
we see several hundred men sleeping on
the grass in the day time. We cannot
imagine what they. do at night. From
newspaper stories one might suppose all
this aggregation was made up of ex-
service men.
One Of our friends who runs restau-
rant near Bryant Park solicited the en-
tire aggregation in order. to employ a
dishwasher at SO day and board. II
might be thought he would be mobbed
In Offering such job to a bunch Of un-
employed who had to sleep in the park.
Instead Of that he was laughed at and
derided.
1t is easier for some Of this bunch OF
hoboes to go on Fifth avenue, and beg
than to work. This is an Indication OF
the true situation sas far as sthe spub-
1icfty end of the. unemployment bugaboo
is concerned. But as a financial factor
1t has impressed a great many. c..
New York, October s.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
The Monitors Design.
The Tablet to John Ericsson and the
Credit Due T. II. Timby.

To THE New YORK HERALD: My at
tentIon has lately been called to an illus
tration in your paper Of Sunday. Sep
tcmber IL last. portraying tablet to be
placed upon the residence Of John Erics-
SON at his old home in Beach street.
Manhattan. A reading Of the inscrip-
ton appears to show that he is credited
with the invention of the turrct for war
purposes
This note, accordingly, is to say that
Theodore Ruggies Timby took out pat
cnts for the turrct about 1s45 or little
later, as you will see fully set forth In
Haypcr's Magazine in u number. think.
appearing before the civil war. In view
of this public record the persistence OF
the error Is little short Of astonishing. /
was privileged to attend the funeral of
Timby in Brooklyn circa 1908 and re-
member distinctly the review and pres
entation of the case at that time: on
the old mans breast as he lay in his
coffin was a model of the turret.
II may not be out of place 20 add the
opinion that the fame of Ericsson is so
large. so secure. that he stands In need
of no error to perpctuate or establish
II: and he himself, as believe. would
be tho last to claim anything that did
not belong to him. Perhaps Il might not
be too late to recall that portion OF the
Inscription on the tablet set for erection
on March next. The illustration gave
no name of person or persons RESPONSE
bic or In charge. 80 address you In the
hope OF being able 20 right the matter.
All Of which is submitted In the name
OF historic truth. DANIEL GIBBONS.
BROOKLYN, October 8.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Winter Prophets.

The crop of predictions concerning
the forthcoming winter is large and
the picking apparently is good. The
long list of weather .terribles for the
last nine months has started on its
rounds and gathers as it goes. But
if anybody has the disposition to pad
die through the sea of meteorological
statistics which Mr.. ScAER navigates
supreme the flotsam and jetsam gath
cred will indicate just about the
same number of dreadfuls that has
occurred every year since the food
of floods landed Moan and his me-
nagerie on Mount Ararat. Cold
waves, hot spells, tornadoes and sew
enteen year locusts come quite as reg
ularly as rent raising and the pre-
cession of the equinoxes.
Nevertheless, as time goes, the
years In and out split pretty evenly
as to warmth, cold and rainfall. All
this in spite of the popular notion
that winters are growing warmer.
The belief in original sin is not more
firmly ingrained than this. Many
years ago another Noah--he of die.
tionary fame-fortunately possessed
OF the surname Of WEBSTER, prepared
an exhaustive monograph showing
that the winters of his time were
neither warmer nor colder than
those of the century preceding. He
had been teaching school in Goshen,
in Orange county, and, having the
good fortune to escape with his life.
was able to write authoritatively and
feelingly on cold waves and hot
spells.
Rain and sunshine, droughts and
floods vary but little over the earth
as a whole from year to year but
droughts, hot spells and cold wives
are likely to happen in spots; and
when a densely populated region is
the centre Of maculation the profess
sional rainmaker gets busy and the
rest OF the world hears the sound
thereof.
The average temperature of a given
locality varies but little from year to
year. In round hundred years In
New York city IL has not been more
than three degrees above or four be-
low the average OF So degrees The
coolest month--19.6 degrees--was re-
corded against January, 1857; the
warmest was 81 degrees--July, 1895.
Hot summers seem to be more or
less local from the fact that the re.
gions OF excessive heat are compara-
lively small Cold winters, on the
other hand, are quite likely to be gen.
eral, as the lower temperature GOV.
ers the whole earth. The summer OF
1S1S-"eighteen hundred and froze to
death" 1t was called throughout New
England--was long remembered.
The upper air was full OF fine vol
canic dust which intercepted so much
OF the heat of the sun that frost oc-
Cured in every month of the year
and several inches Of snow fell In
June In Massachusetts.
The presence Of large qs.onsities
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Paris Sets an Example.
Inspiration From Abroad TO Abolish
the Old Post Office

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In read
Ing your despatch headed Paris VIII
Spend Millions at Once on City Bcauti-
fur wondered why the American people
should neglect and allow disflgurements
in city as beautiful as ours.
I claim the right OF an old citizen to
protest against that inartistic. depress-
ing structure, the MulIett post office. No
such hidcous building should be allowed
to deprive us OF light and air.
Restore It's own TO City Hall Park
and so procure happiness for those old
enough to know what they lost and for
the young to be inspired with civic
pride. JUSTINE ABBOT.
NEW YoRK, October 5.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Cause of Sleeping Sickness.
Investigation to Discover Response.
bility of Big Game for It's Spread.
ON the Manchester GuordioN.

From the Manchester Gudrdion.
1t Is n good many years ago now that
form Of sleeping sickness which at
tackled horses and cattle In Zululand was
discovered to be spread by tsetse fly !;
the disease was due to the activity of
blood parasite known as a trypano-
some and 1t was carried from the sick
to the healthy by the tsetse fly.
1t was this discovery which had such
fertile consequences when sleeping sick
ness ravaged the population on the
shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza in
Uganda for one of the members Of the
investigating commission had studied the
subject in South Africa and was able to
set their inquiries on the right track. AS
IL turned out the tsetse fly of Uganda.
the Glossina palpalis. was easier to deal
with than his southern tribesman. the
Glossina morsitans. For the former
only iourishes by water. and. after 200.-
900 lives had been lost In Uganda. the
population was saved by being removed
inland.
But Glossina morsltans is independent
of water II fourishes anywhere. and Il
Is SO far from being suppressed or
evaded at the present time that, accord
ing 10 to-day's Reuter- telegram, 1t Is
devastating stocks in Zululand until
many OF the young settlers have been
brought near to. ruin. The primary
question Is. From what source. what
large and constant reservoir. does the
fly procure the infection which 1t car
ries? Tho Zululand settlers maintaia
that the big game for which certain re-
serves are maintained are the hosts
which feed the fly. and the Minister of
Lands Is stated himself to have made
some rapid Investigations which bear
out this view.
An elaborate inquiry was made into
this subject In Rhodesia by a commits
sion which included representatives of
the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi-
cine. and the commission found that GER
tain animals. especially the antelope,
were heavily infected with the trypano-
some. The news from South Africa
now Is that large herds of antelopes
move in the neighborhood where cattle
have been attacked, and that the tsetse
fly has been found in great quantities
aiOht Ahtih. iitAt 10 n pretty DrODicul
for the South African Government. and
there arc two faces to it--frst. to make
a Systematic investigation in order to
place 1t beyond doubt that the big game
enable the fly to spread the disease, and.
secondly. II II be so. to find remedy.
DR. Warrington Yorke. member of
the Rhodesian Commission, suggested
that after careful analysis of the
present conditions the big game in the
affected quarter should be driven off and
kept at a distance for two years. and
that then another analysis should be
made. after which the connection of big
game with the disease in that area.
whether among human beings or cattle,
would be finally established. A drastic
remedy. but 1t is for the South African
Government to say.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
rHANSEL UND GRETEL'
AT THE MANHATTAN
Late Engelbert Hunnperdinck's
Opera Performed.

Moved by the needs of deserving
charity, Fortune Gallo, impresario Of
the San Carlo Opera Company. went
roaming yesterday afternoon into for
eign realms. At special matinee at
the Manhattan Opera House he gave a
performance of "Hansel und Grctel" the
best work Of Engelbert Humperdinck,
who passed away few days ago. The
opera used to be familiar to patrons of
the Metropolitan, but the inclusion Of it
ir. the repertory of the San Carlo com
pany might be regarded as experimental
and probably transitory. MIR. Gallo's
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
AMERICANS ON WAY HOME.

Special Cable 10 THE New York HEnALD.
Copyright. 1871, by THE NEW IoBK HERALD
~ New York Herzsid Bureau,
M Paris, Oct. g.
Brig Gen. Robert X. Evans. U. S..A.,
left Boulogne to-day aboard the steam
ship Nieuw Amsterdam Of the Holland
America Line for New York.
Among the passengers aboard the
steamship Olympic Of the White Star
Line from Southampton for New York
to-day were w. r. Bigelow Of Philadel-
phia Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Libby OF
Toledo. Ohio; William Martin. educator,
rnd Mrs. Martin of Bristol, Va: Miss
Ruby Norton, actress; Percy Rockefeller
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Speyer of New
York.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06

o. volcanic dust in the upper air has
been shown to be a very important
factor in temperature: and perhaps
in the future dust surveys Of the air
may enable the weather forecaster to
give definite information in advance
concerning the probabilities of a
forthcoming winter. Unofficial opin-
ions concerning the winters Of 1908
and 1912 based on dust surveys were
fully borne out.
The New York herald., 1921-10-06
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New YorlS--Fair to-day
end Tomorrow; warmer to-day; mod
crate to fresh southwest and west winds.
For New Jersey-Fair to-day and to-mor-
row warmer to-day. moderate to, fresh
southwest and west winds.
FOR. Northern New Enthusiastically
iair to-day and tomorrow. not much change
Winds ~
For Southern New England-Fair to-day
anu to-morrow; warmer to-day, fresh SOUTH
west and west winds
For Western New. York--Fair to-day and
tomorrow; warmer In southeast portion to-
cay cooler to-orrow. fresh southwest and
WASHINGTON. Oct E-.A disturbance Of
marked intensity was central over the Ca
hauiah maritime Provinces Tonight, and an
other disturbances is apparently developing
over the Rocky Mountain and plateau re-
gions. Pressure WAS high from the Ohio
valley southward and over the north plains
states and the Canadian Northwest. Cen
eraiy lair weather has prevailed during the
last twenty-four hours, except that there
were local rains In the north Atlantic States
the upper Ohio Valley and southern Florida
The temperature continued below normal
In the Atlantic and east Gulf States and
the Ohio Valley, while II became cousider-
ably warmer In the lake region, the middle
mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and
the southern plains States.
Generally fair weather Will prevail to-Inor-
row and Friday In the States east of the
mississippi River. except that local rains
are probable III extreme southern Florida
Thursday and western Michigan Friday. The
temperature win rise in the Ohio Valley.
Tennessee, the east Gulf states and the
Atlantic States Thursday. while cooler
weather viii overspread the lake region
Thursday night and Friday.
Observations at United States Weather
Bureau stations, taken at p. NJ Yesterday.