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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-28


quently corrected.
Although there had been many
local Investigations and some general
observations, it is only about twenty
years ago that the government de-
cided to keep thorough record of all
aspects of magnetism as it shows it.
self in our land area; and in making
the first complete magnetic survey of
the country.
The Carnegie Institution has un-
dertaken similar survey of the
oceans. The Carnegie, which the
magnetic experts of the institution
use, is one of the oldest ships aAoat
and the only one ever built for the
purpose. She is nonmagnetic. In
building her only few pounds of
iron and steel were used; even the
gasoline engine carried in the hold
for emergency use-the Carnegie is a
sailing vessels of bronze, and the
men aboard are not permitted to wear
shoes that have nailed soles or metal
eyelets. That is to insure full ac-
curacy in using the instruments with
which magnetic observations are
made. Iron and steel make COM
pass "groggy."
The Carnegie spends her time wan
dering round the seas and observing
the magnetic force. The aim of
course is to make travel and COM
merce by sea safer for when clouds
cover the sky and make the sextant
useless, the captain of ship must be
guided by his compass, and unless his
magnetic charts enable him properly
to correct the pointings he may be
carried out of his course, perhaps to
disaster.
The mariners magnetic compass of
today does not differ in principle from
the compass that the Chinese used
1900 years ago. Although men know
much better how to utilize the COM
pass, it is not so much mechanical i'm
provement that has increased the
value of the instrument as study of
the natural force that governs it,
study that began in the days of
Columbus. He was the first Euro
pean to learn the ftful ways of the
magnetic needle. On his great jour
ney westward, when he was few
days sail from Gomera, one of the
Canary Islands, his companions no
ticed with great CONSERVATION that
during the evening of September Is,
1892, the needle veered to the north
west. On September II the pilot
took the amplitude of the sun and
found that the needle varied to the
northwest a whole point of the COM
pass. The Seamen were terrified, but
not Columbus.
"The admiral" an account runs,
discovered the cause and directed
them to take the amplitude again the
next morning, when they found that
the needles were true. The cause
was, he explained, that the star (Po-
laris) moved from its place, while the
needles remained stationary"
Ingenious Columbus! We know
that he knew that the polestar never
moves; being unable to explain the
fact, he told the most plausible story
he could. Modern investigators be-
lieve that he made the compass point
true" by manipulating page g. COL 81
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-28
A TRUE WORLD MYSTERY
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may discover that they run according
to some law, and then they will be
able definitely to compute them far
into the future. That they cannot
do now except in a very general way.
All they can do is to record the vari-
ations and wait.
Thus one of the government OBJ
servers comes to your county seat and
sets up little tent in the town square
or in vacant lot. Into the tent he
puts several peculiar instruments that
tell him just what magnetism is doing
there. He finds, let us say, that it
causes the compass to point five de-
grees west of true north. He records
that fact and other facts, as we shall
see. He leaves as a memento of his
first visit sunken cement post to
which he fastens brass cap that says
that the post is placed there by the
United States Coast anA Geodetic
Survey, and that persons who disturb
it run the risk of going to jail. That
constitutes an occupied magnetic sta
ton. Several years later another
government expert will come, hunt
round in the grass until he finds the
brass marker and then on the same
spot repeat the former observations.
The second observer will find, say,
that the compass now points six de-
grees west of true north. Then the
government knows that in that place
the needle shifts one degree in a per-
iod of, say, five or ten years, though
the shift is rarely so rapid and from
that rate of change it can estimate
the variations for future years. But
it can only estimate; it cannot tell
exactly.
Before the visit of the second OBJ
server the county surveyor, let us say,
had job that called for extreme
accuracy; maybe it was to settle dis
pute over town lots, worth hundreds
of dollars square yard. He could
write to Washington and get the
compass readings" made by the ex-
pert and use them in correcting the
readings of his own compass; and
often he can test his own compass and
find additional variations by the "true
meridian" which the government OBJ
server, if requested, will always mark
out at the county seat.
But the government observer does
a great deal more with reference to
magnetism than merely to find in
each neighborhood how accurately it
indicates north and south. He OBJ
serves also the "dip" and the intensity
of the force, and he makes many
special Investigations in communities
where variations are extreme. For,
as you will see if you observe the
capers of the needle in an ordinary
pocket compass, magnetism pulls with
varying force both downward and
forward. To do accurate work with
the compass the surveyor must know
about both the downward and the
forward pull. Like all the NANTES
tations of magnetism they are con-
stantly changing. All the facts known
by the government are published in
books and represented on strange
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-28

magnetism to man; it enables him to
find direction when little else can
help him. But so long as the under
lying mystery is unsolved the use of
magnetism is beset by so many diff
culties that correctness can be OBJ
tained only when multitude of facts
bearing on its vagaries are available.
About 1900, for example, the
astronomer HALEY, who first discov-
cred the famous comet that bears his
name, made trip from a port in the
south of England to Newfoundland
and back just to see how the compass
worked; and he kept record of the
readings of the compass. A few years
ago the Carnegie, the vessel that the
Carnegie Institution built for use in
studying the mystery, made the same
trip for the same purpose. Had the
vessel been guided by the reading of
the compass as recorded by HALEY
two centuries before, she would have
landed on the return trip in the north
of Scotland. The change was not the
fault of the compass; it>was owing
to variations in the magnetic currents
that control the compass.
In many old American towns the
streets. were run north and south or
east and west, as the compass indi-
Gated at the time; now the compass
indicates that they do not run that
way at all. Those old streets have
been of great help to the experts of
the government in finding how mag
netism has varied in certain neighbor-
hoods; and sometimes, when the ex-
perts know the past variations they
can take compass and from its point
ings figure out almost to year when
the towns in question were estab-
lished.
Hence to do accurate work every
land surveyor must know the varia-
tions of magnetism in the neighbor-
hood where he surveys; and every
master of vessel that sails the seas
must frequently consult magnetic
charts that show him how to correct
the readings of the compass.
Only in comparatively few places
on the earth does the compass point
exactly north, and those places are
ever varying, though slowly. In the
United States at the present time they
are situated on ri gag north-to-
south line that passes near Columbus,
Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina.
East of that line the compass points
west of true north, and west of the
line east of true north. In New
York City, for example, the inclina-
ton to the west is ten degrees and
steadily increases. Some day the
needle will stop moving westward,
then recede' and in the end probably
point almost toward the true north.
When it reaches its eastern limit, it
will turn again and swing to the
west. The swing, as the cycle of
change is called, varies; at London
it covers period of about $50 years,
at New York about 24O years. But,
so far as recorded, the swings are
never twice alike; still, perhaps
thousand years hence, men of science
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Girl Cashier, Beaten.
Leads Chase of Thief
Helps Capture Youth After
Being Knocked Down and
Robbed of Firms &1SO

Miss Augusta Ohlhorst, cashier for
the firm Of Joseph F. Weisbecker on
gravers,. Is Cedar Street. after return
Ing yesterday afternoon from the Irv-
ing National Bank with $3.50 in a bank
BOOK belonging to her EMPLOYERS. was
ABOUT to enter the building in which
the firm is located when she was struck
on the head and felled. A man snatched
the handbook and ran.
Miss Ohlhorst screamed. got IN.
screamed again and thea led the chase
west in Cedar Street. At Broadwav
and Cedar Street, hundreds of persons
had taken UP the chase, including Pa
trolman Bowling, of the Old Slip sta
ton. He finally caught a young man
VINO Is said to have been the bankbook
snatcher He described himself as
Charles Boenkdorf, nineteen. Of 153
yA@e~s~n Street He was locked IN
charged with robbery.
Y in currency and the bank
book we're found on the sidewalk near
where the chase ended. Miss Ohlhorst
told the police that she saw two men
running after the money had been
snatched. Boenkdorf later admitted.
the police said, that he had an ac-
complice and. on inform alton he gave
them, the police arrested Joseph Kolb.
twenty, of 507 Greene Avenue. Brook
!yn, charged with acting in concert in
)he robbery.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Girl Reunites Couple
Split by Prison Walls

AUBURN, N. Y, Dec. 10-Fourteen
years ago two Italians, man and wife,
were received in Auburn prison to serve
life sentences for murder. The man went
to the mems prison, his wife to the
women's prison. They have not seen
each other since that day, although
within hundred yards of each other,
separated by one wall. When they first
went to prison a baby daughter was
taken to an institution. In time the
infant was given a home and disap-
peared from the lives of her parents.
Yesterday Warden Jennings of Au-
burn Prison received letter from
priest who said he had fifteen-year-
old girl who wanted to see her parents
the couple so long within prison
walls. Warden Jennings will not give
out their names. He went over to the
women's prison to-day and told the
mother that her long-lost daughter hac
been found, and his hand was smoth
cred with kisses and benedctions were
poured upon him by the excited mother
Tomorrow Warden Jennings will en-
tertain the mother, the father and the
daughter at Sunday dinner in the
warden's quarters.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Sister Flies With Letter
To Gen. Mitchell at Sea

A letter of congratulation was de-
livered to Brigadier General William
Mitchell. assistant chief of the United
States Army Air Service, on board the
liner Rotterdam off Sandy Hook by a
flying boat yesterday. This is the sec
ond time that the transfer of mail from
aircraft in flight to steamship has
been successfully achieved
Mrs. Arthur Young, of Milwaukee,
sister of General Mitchell, was in the
flying boat at the time the transfer
was made. She had arrived in the city
too late to bid farewell to her brother
Mt the pier and made the flight to wave
adieu to him.
The test was made in one of the
Aeromarine flying boats, piloted by D..
G. Richardson and Mechanic E. Grie-
singer. The other passengers on board
it were Major l.. D. Gardner and H. A..
Bruno, sales manager Of the company.
The letter was from C. r. Redden,
president of the flying boat company,
congratulating General Mitchell for
his work in furthering aviation and
wishing him bon voyage. By prear-
rangement the General stood on the
bridge while the flying boat was over
the liner. Mrs. Young said she clearly
made him out and could see him way
ing to her.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Woman Goes to
Doctors Office
And Kills Him
tconsInusd from pso. one,

She closed it behind her and walked
swiftly through the waiting room to
the hall leading to the street entrance
AS she went down the steps to the
sidewalk she passed Mrs. Annie Click
stein, the physicians's wife, who was at
the basement door. A shrek from the
office floor caused Mrs. Glickstein to
rush upstairs hurriedly. Her husband
lay at full length across the threshold
Of his private Office. There was a
trickle of red on the polished floor.
Mrs. Glickstein tainted.
Hemorrhage Suspected
Hardly had the outside door closed
behind the tall woman in the brown
coat than DR.. Glickstein had flung open
the door of his private office
my God, get me help!" he cried
hoarsely.
three patients crowded around him. One
of them, catching sight of the blood.
cried that he had had hemorrhage.
Newberger ran to the street, where
he found Patrolman Alster, of the Cly-
mer Street police station, whom he
asked to call an ambulance.
DR.. Jacobs, who came with the am
bulance from Williamsburg Hospital,
was the first to discover that DR.. Click
stein had been shot. The bullet had
gone close to the heart, if it had not
penetrated it.
There was nothing he could do for
DR.. Glickstein and he gave his atten-
tion to Mrs. Glickstein, who was pros
trated. She was unable to give any CO.
herent account of the affair last night.
The only other member of the house
hold. maid, was on the top floor and
knew nothing about it until it was over.
Florence. DR.. Glickstein's fifteen-year-
old daughter, was at matinee.
Leaves No Trace
As/soon as it was discovered that DR..
Glickstein had been shot, Captain Van
Wagner, of the Clymer Street police
station, got out the reserves and
patrolled the streets in the vicinity
without catching sight Of the slender
dark woman who had been DR.. Click
who remembered seeing her.
Detective Knowles, Of Captain Daniel
Carey's staff, found the muff and re-
volver across Bedford Avenue, near the
old Knapp mansion. There was no
silencer on the weapon and the police
were at q loss to account for the failure
of the three in the outer office to hear
the shot.
DR.. Glickstein was forty-eight years
old and had been practicing in this
city for twenty yeah He was gradu-
ated from the. College of the City Of
New York and from Bellevue Medical
School. After obtaining his medical
degree in 1897, he was attached to
Beth-Israel Hospital in Manhattan.
Until he moved into his present quar-
ters, three years ago, his home and Office
were at South Fifth Street and Marcy
Avenue, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Flossie Willing, a daughter,
lives at Bay Twentieth Street in the
Bath Beach section of Brooklyn. An
other daughter, Mrs. Laura Feister,
lives in Edgewater, N. j.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Roosevelt for
CovernorUrged
BY Party Leader
New Hampshire's Republi-
can Stalwart, Frank Knox,
Says New York Would DO
Well to Nominate Colonel
Cites Miller's Position
Contends Putting Forward of
Presidents Son Would
Be a National Ten-Strike

Frank Knox, Republican leader Of
Now Hampshire and editor Of "The
Manchester Union and Leader" ia out
for Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, As
sistant Secretary of tho Navy, for Gov
ernor of New York to succeed Gov
ernor Nathan L. Miller.
Mr.. Knox was close personal
friend of President Roosevelt, and in
the 1912 campaign had a big hand in
the Michigan campaign, when he was
associated with Chase S. Osborn, the
Progressive, who was elected Gov
ernor of Michigan. Mr., Knox lately
has been in Washington, where Repub-
licans told him that Colonel Roose-
Welt was making good as forceful
executive in the Navy Department.
under Secretary DENLY.
Itself" Mr.. Knox in "The Manchester
Union and Leader" on Monday re-
viewed the political situation in the
Empire State, citing the published re-
ports that Governor Miller is not a
candidate for denomination, supported
by the Governors own statement that
aspirants for the nomination will find
clear field next year.
"The situation in New York state
at the moment" says "The Union and
Leader" "is not without q parallel in
New York's political history. Twenty
three years ago the Republican or
ganlzation faced defeat unless a new
and attractive candidacy, free from the
onus OF too close association with the
existing Republican machine, was
found. At that time the astute leader
OF the Republican hosts of the Empire
State journeyed to Montauk Point and
rendered the nomination to Theodore
Roosevelt The maneuver proved sue
cessful, and the state, which under
normal conditions surely would have
gone Democratic, was saved to the
Republican party"
n, After discussing Governor Miller's
~tactlessness and ineptitude," Mr..
Knox continues:
Happily, should such counsels ap-
peal to the leaders in New York, they
may, like Platt, turn to Roosevelt to
serve the party as titular chieftain at
Albany. They will find him occupying
with signal ability, marked success
and characteristic energy a post which
his famous father occupied before him
the Assistant Secretaryship of the
Navy. They will likewise discover him
possessed Of a military record, which,
because Of the greater conflict in which
the younger Roosevelt served, quite
overshadows that of his father. They
will also find in him all Of his fathers
single e-hearted devotion to the ideals
Of popular government and all of his
great sire's courage in fighting for
those ideals. The name of Roosevelt
is a name with which to conjure, par
ticularly when that name is borne by
q son fully worthy of the great legacy
his father left him.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Trio Trapped in Spanish
Drug-Smuggling Plot
Woman Among the Prisoners
Taken Here as Police Seize
$4,000 in Narcotics

Detectives Boylan andMoog, attached
to the narcotic squad, who have been
investigating report that large
quantity of drugs recently had been
smuggled into New York City from
Spain, yesterday arrested three persons
as they were leaving a Spanish board
ing house in West 126th Street and
seized quantity of heroin and cocaine
valued at more than $4,000.
The prisoners gave their names as
Maria and Roman Verche, of 80 West
l26th Street, and Emanuel Gonzales.
Of 28 East 127th Street.
According to the detectives. thew
were negotiating with Roman Verche
to purchase q quantity O drugs. They
met him in Brooklyn on Thursday and
they arranged to conclude the deal on
Saturday. They met by appointment
at 127th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Verche is said to have declared that
he had had some difficulty in obtaining
the drugs and would see them later.
he walked away and the detectives
followed
Shortly after entering the house in
West 126th Street Verche emerged, ac-
companied by his sister and Gonzales.
Each was carrying a large package.
Tney were just placing these in q taxi
cab when the detectives arrested them.
Inc packages are alleged to have con-
tanned bottles of heroin and cocaine.
In the boarding house, according to
the detectives, they found large num-
Der Of labels and sealing wax with
which the bottles had been sealed.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Two Widows Revealed
By Newark Death Notice
William Stickels, Ex-Police-
man, Declared to Have Left
One Wife and Wed Another

Two Newark newspapers published
notices yesterday of the death Of Will
liam Stickels, former policeman Of
that city. Each contained the name Of
his widow, but IN each notice the name
of the widow WAS different.
One described him as the husband
of Sarah Stickels and the other as the
husband of Louise Quinn Stickels. His
sister, Mrs. Ella Young. Of 105 Pros
pect Place, Brooklyn, went to Newark
to take charge of the funeral arrange
ments and sent word to Mrs. Louise
Quinn Stickels that she need take no
part In the services.
Mrs Louise Quinn Stickels said she
was married to Stickels in Jacksonville,
Fla, twenty-five years ago, and did not
learn until last year that he had been
married before. She has no children
by her marriage to him.
Peter Stickels, son Of the former
policeman by Mrs. Sarah Stickels, said
that his parents were married In 1879
and that his father left their home in
1902 and never had returned. His
mother. he said, never had inquired
as to where he was or what he was
doing, nor had she instituted divorce
proceedings. Stickels was dismissed
from the Newark police force about
twelve years ago.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Probers
Seek 100000
More Expenses
Original Appropriation Ex-
hausted, and Lawyers
Have Not Been Paid for
Work i'm City Inquiry
Miller Demands Economy
Legislature to Pare Money
Claims to Limit; Clash
Over Municipal Program

The Meyer committee, it was learned
yesterday, 10 preparing to ask for about
100000 more. The expenses Of the
committee, without counting counsel
fees, have passed the original appro-
preparation Of 100000 and nothing has
been done to remunerate Elon r. Brown,
chief counsel, and Leonard M. Wall
stein and Samuel Berger, associate
counsel. for their hard work during tho
last eight months.
1t is admitted that IL is not going to
be an easy year for appropriation bills
at Albany this coming session. Gov
ernor Miller is setting hard pace for
economy and tho word has gone around
chat no emo need expect anything more
than ordinary compensation for their
services In connection with the work Of
the Meyer committee.
Bills To Be Scrutinized
Speaker Machold was in town yes
terday to confer with members of the
committee. He made it clear to those
WIN WHOIH no tdlheu eHae cVcAy HoAcy.
claim will be sharply scrutinised and
that exorbitant bills will not be hon
ored.
Senator James ]. Walker, Tammany
leader Of tho State Senate, took offense
yesterday at the statement by Samuel
S. Koenig, president of the New York
Republican County Committee, that mo
local bills, unless of the emergency
ho ,v,@r A nvt
winter for the reason that the Charter
Revision Commission will, in it's report,
cover all important needs Of the city.
cit seems to me remarkable that the
Republicans have the nerve to say
there will be no legislation in Albany
during the coming regular session that
affects much moro than half Of the to-
tai population of the state" said Sem
ator Walker. "What is the Legisla-
ture for? II New York City members
offer needed and proper legislation
why should they be either delayed or
stifed? The people of this city voted,
only a month ago, that they wanted
home rule and that they wanted to
control their transit facilities. The
Hylan majority against Mr.. Koenig's
and his kind was unmistakable notice
that they did not accept Mr.. Koenig's
or Governor Miller's advice, and if they
have any regard for government by the
people they will not accept Mr..
Koenig's advice now"
Democrats Have Program
Assemblyman Donohue said that the
Democrats in the lower branch of the
Legislature would have a full legisla-
tive program ready when the regular
session begins. and will demand con-
sideration for bills carrying out the
principles advocated by the Democratic
candidates In the recent campaign.
When Chairman George A. Glynn of
the Republican State Committee was
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Woman Leader Collapses
Under Strain of Politics

While urging that the women be rep
resented in each election district by CO.
leaders, Mrs. Beatrice V. Stevenson,
woman Republican leader of the 9th
Assembly District, of Brooklyn, tainted
at the meeting yesterday of the execu-
tive committee of the Kings County Re-
publican Committee.
United States Senator Calder. who
was near Mrs. Stevenson, rushed to her
side, and with the aid of several wom-
en- in the room, carried her to sofa.
Anna Martin Ralston revived Mrs. Stew
enson, who was found to be suffering
from an acute attack Of indigestion.
Last night at her home, 1918 Eighty
fifth Street, it was said she was rest
ing comfortably.
Some Of her co-workers in the orpan-
ization declared that it was the hard
work done by Mrs. Stevenson in the
recent campaign which was responsible
for her collapse.
The committee, which met at Repub-
lican headquarters, 26 Court Street ad-
journed when Mrs Stevenson was strick
en- without taking further action on her
proDOSal