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Proves Champion Cleaner of
Firewood for Party in
Mountain Storm.
CLAD ONLY IN sHEN-SKINS'
Sister of James A. Stillman
and Her Friends in No Dam
ger, but Are Cold.

Special Dispatch to THE New YonK HERALD.
CopY, Wyo.. July s.-Members Of an
automobile party headed by Mrs. Percy
A. Rockefeller, sister Of James A.
Stillman. started to climb Mount
Washburn last Saturday, the heaviest
clothing they had on being "hen
SKINS" which is the local name for
those thin mackintoshes that keep the
rain out but do not have much effect
against the cold.
About mile from the top a sudden
blizzard came up. the temperature
dropped to about 25 degrees above
zero. and the Rockefeller party was
held up for more than an hour, taking
refuge in deserted cabin on the
mountain side.
Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, her son
Avery. her daughters winifred and
Faith. the members Of the party were
the Right Hon. Arthur George Child VII
Tiers. second SON of-the Earl OF jersey;
Mrs. Harry E. Byram. wife Of the pres.
ident OF the Chicago. Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad; Rudolph vietsch, traffic
manager Of the road, and Griffith Mark.
steel manufacturer Of Chicago.
Two rangers were with the party when
the motorists set out for Mammoth Hot
Springs and to climb the mountain. They
climbed 1t In automobiles, as a motor car
road runs to the summit. where there
Is also a station OF the forest fire SER
vice. The blizzard caught them when
they were about a mile from the top,
but fortunately they bad reached the
vicinity Of the cabin. into which they
hurried. There was no firewood In the
camp. so the entire party turned out in
their ''hen skins" and collected firewood
from the mountain slips, the forest be-
hind the cabin and along the roadway.
Mrs Rockefeller, members of the party
said. was the champion wood collector Of
the lot.
Mrs. Rockefeller and the others built
their fire on stone lookout platform
used by the forest rangers. This and
the shelter Of the cabin kept them from
being chilled.
The storm subsided after about an
hour. and the motorists went on to the
Mammoth Hot Springs But they. said
next time they went mountain climbing
whether In automobiles or on foot they
would wear something heavier than
hen skins"
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Rockefeller Feels Fine,' Poses
for Photographs After Church

tinancier sprang another surprise on the
young man by inviting him to attend
the services In the church.
About 900 people were In the church
when Mr.. Rockefeller entered and he
greeted them with polite mods of the
head. With several Of hts more inti-
mate aoquaintances he stopped to shake
hands.
Mr.. Nelson's sermon characterized ma
ture as a great healer Of wounds. and
while no mention OF Mr.. Rockefeller
was made, 1t was evident that the SER
mon was especially for the consolation
Of Mr.. Rockefeller over the loss of his
brother. William Rockefeller, two weeks
ago.
Mr.. Nelson said thousands of years
ago there was an upheaval Of the earth
creating the hills and valleys. and that
later this was a region of polar desola-
ton and mountains Of glacier Ice. and
that time alone has healed the scar.
1t is likewise. ne said, when we lose
our dearest friend, and It seems we
shall never forget the great loss. but
as time rolls on. We find that while we
may not be able to forget II. we are
better able to stand the loss.
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TROOPS OUT IN SIX STATES;
RAIL SHOPS OPEN TODAY;
ALL MAIL TO BE GUARDED
Gang Beats Two Deputies; !;
Railroad Guard Doubled

TINE guard on all properties of
the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad that
are affected by the strike was
doubled yesterday after an out
break of violence had been reported
from the East Hartford yards. Two
deputy sheriffs who had been sworn
in especially for strike duty were
waylaid late Saturday by a gang.
presumably Of striking shopmen.
who had waited for them just out
side the company's property. and
were severely beaten after they had
been disarmed Their assailants,
who used only their fists, escaped
as policemen. who had been at
tracted by the cries OF the deputies,
approached.
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KILLS MAN IN FIGHT
OVER 1OCENT MELON
Customer Eats It and Pays for
1t, but Tells Fruiterer He
Doesn't Like It.
FIRES TWICE AND FLEES
Victim, Wounded, Gives
Chase and Is Shot to Death;
Fugitive Is Caught.
FIRES TWICE AND FLEES

Joseph Milano, 4s. of 329 East 107th
street, who was the proprietor Of n
small fruit store at 2097 First avenue.
was shot to death early last night by
customer who was dissatisfied with
a slice of watermelon which he had
purchased. Gataino Russo. 36, a car
penter. of 2040 First avenue. who is
alleged to have done the shooting, was
arrested on charge of homicide when
the police found him hiding on the
roof OF shed in the rear OF a house
in East 10th street
After buying slice OF melon Russo
ate 1t and paid 10 cents for IT. but
complained to Milano that he was not
satisfied either with the melon or the
price. The men became involved in
an argument and Russo finally made
a pass at Milano and the latter re-
taliated with a blow on the jaw. Russo
then drew revolver and fired two
shots and ran out of the store.
The first shot penetrated the fruiterer's s
right hip and the second went wild, but
Milano. despite his wound, started in pur-
suit. Russo turned and fired another
shot. Milano dropped to the pavement
with a bullet in his neck. He was dead
when DR.. Jester OF Reception Hospital
arrived. His wife. Amelia. was in the
store and saw Russo shoot her husband.
she said. Patrolnan Carr of the East
l04th street station saw Russo run
through tho hallway of house in East
10Th street and went in pursuit of him.
finding him on the roof of the shed. He
had thrown the revolver away. 1t was
found in the street. The shooting at
tracted large crowd and ten policemen
were sent from the station house to break
IL I'm
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TO ASK GRANDFATHER
IF OSER MAY WE'D HER
Mathilde Mccormick Will Ap-
peal to Mr.. Rockefeller.

CHICAGO, July 9.-Mathilde McCor-
mick. seventeen-year-old daughter OF
Harold F. Mccormick. head Of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the International
Harvester Company, will visit her
grandfather, John d. Rockefeller. when
she accompanies her father to New York
late this week.
1t Is reported that she will make a
last attempt to win Mr.. Rockefeller's
consent to her marriage to Max Oser.
Swiss riding master. which he. as well
as his daughter. Mrs. Mccormick. has
opposed.
Mr.. Mccormick. who has recovered
from a recent operation. will sail for
Europe. accompanied by Mathilde and
his son Fowler, soon after his arrival In
New York, according to plans.
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Clinton Is Calm er.

CLINTON. H.. July Associated
P-ess) With three companies Of State
troops on duty here. Clinton was quiet
to-day after Yesterdays disorders, which
resulted in the death OF twelve-year-
old youth and the wounding OF his father
and another striking railway shopmsn
following clash between striking shop
men and guards employed by the Illinois
Central Railroad.
Officials OF the federated shop crafts
demanded to-day that local civil author
tiles request Adj j-Gen Carlos r. Black
10 withdraw tn soldiers. while william
r. Smith, States Attorney. said that
yesterdays shooting will be investigated
by the regular Grand Jury. meeting Sep
tenber II. He said II might stir the
smouldering sentiment Of resentment to
a dangerous pitch to call a special
Grand Jury.
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A Prophetic Warning

proud strong people may suffer reverses at arms.
but time fights their side for victory. An indie
pendent and self-reliant nation may undergo the mis-
fortunes of war; but their character and their purpose
win ultimate triumphs. But nation whose citizenship
has been ugged and debauched by bonuses gratuites
and subsidies has entered upon road which
nation yet has beaten a successful retreat
United States Senator William, e. Borah
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HERRIN is FIRM IN BELIEF
MURDERS WILL BLOW OVER
AND CRIME GO LJNAYENGED
France TO Leave Hague
Conference, Is Report

HARIS July 10 (Monday. Asso-
ciated Press) of
the French representatives
from The Hague conference to-day
(Monday). owing to the attitude Of
the Russians, is declared probable
by this mornings newspapers. In
structions sent to Frances delegates
yesterday by Premier Poincare are
said to support this assertion.
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co 20 the Pennsyivania Hotel ballroom
st 2 p. N. or 8 p. NJ To-day
and attend Joseph p. Days auction
sale Of Forest hiljf West lotA-Adu.
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Theatrical aud Hotel and Restaurants.
Advertising will be found on Page 4.-Adv.
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Continued on Page Three.

READ page i6 70 find out how to make
money In Real Estate To-dAy.--AdO.
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Answer Called False.

The statement continued:
THE only answer by the Attorney
Generals Office is in a statement issued
yesterday afternoon. unsigned and un-
sponsored by any specific individual
Each para graph Is a falsehood. For
instance
They say that this sudden action was
taken because OF certain suits filed by
tho Chemical Foundation with only a
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WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and warmer to-day; tomorrow I
settled, probably showers.
Highest temperature yesterday, 81; lowest.
Detailed weather reports will be found editorial
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

When the time drew near for the
Seventy first to enter upor the final
training course destined to make it
fit for service in France the regiment
was concentrated at Van Cortlandt
Park, where already its strength had
been cut down by the sending of $50
men to the Rainbow Division, which
at that very time was preparing to
sail for Brest.
/, The disarmament order which
broke many hearts within the regi-
ment was stoically accepted as a
part of the sacrifice which a regi-
ment must make long before its
arrival on the fighting fields. But,
as Mr. Sutliffe states, there were
many sad faces and much depres-
sion among the men and officers
when the day came for old company
commanders to tell their boys good
bye for the last time as members
of the Seventy-first. Perhaps most
of the men will rememte- to-day
how unsteady were their voices when
they gathered in the company street
and sang that old army song. Good
bye, Captain. Am Going"
Of the men remaining in the regi-
ment 1875 enlisted men and ap-
proximately fifty officers We're trans
ferred to the 105th Infantry of the
Twenty seventh Division. The actual
transfer was made at Camp Wads-
worth, Spartanburg, s. c., October l.
1917. From that time on the Sew
enty-firs ceased automatically as
regiment.
Merging it's men with those of the
Twenty-seventh Division it went
through the months of pioneer train
ing days in camp which according
to the statements of the men was
anything but ideal. In the anecdotes
and stories contributed to this book
by such officers as Capts. Stanly
Bulky, Raymond d. Hcgcon and
Henry Maslin; Lieuts Harry Merz,
Charles H. Scott and Sergt. H. ].
Cochrane, there is ample evidence
from which to draw the conclusion
that the Seventy-first men enjoyed
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Is the American
Cowboy Passing?

and is accomplishing. The cowboy Is
the most faithful man and the least
faithful; the gentlest and the most
savage; the most humorous and the
least humorous if his pride is Of
Tended An Anglo Saxon in his brav-
cry. but a Spaniard in his ability to
break in ten seconds a friendship OF
ten years. He has the warmth and
the coldness and the lack of conceit
and the vanity and egotism of the
artist. I am also. speaking in modern
terms. not at all sure that like most
lonely and adventurous men, men
who have left their homes, he has
not exhibited and does not still ex-
hibit some characteristics of the
mother complex" 1t is an interest
ing research.
This especial book about him will
have a wide appeal. Some one once
remarked that wyoming wasn't a
State, but club" And what is true
of Wyoming is true more or less of
all the Far Western States; and the
membership of this club is by no
means confined to those who still
live near the Rocky Mountains. 1t
is a far flung fraternity scattered all
over the world. A good many of
these latter members will read "The
Cowboy" with something like tears
close to their eyes.
Another large element of the COM
munity who will read the book with
interest and use it as a text book
are university undergraduates-M
Rollins is a Princeton man himself
of the class of 'S9-who despite what
the New York critics and even Mr..
Rollins himself say about the pass
ing of the real West" go out every
year by hundreds, just as their un-
cles and fathers did, and find the
real West"
/ have only one serious objection
to "The Cowboy" 1t is exactly the
sort of book that every man familiar
with the West and of literary lean
ings has always promised himself
that one day he would write; and
now Mr.. Rollins has gone and
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followed the fortunes of the Twenty
seventh, because the Forty-second
was one Of the very first American
divisions to go into action and it
played very heroic part in the
Champagne sector, at Chateau Thier-
ry and in the Argonne.
Those of the Seventy-first who
fought with the 1o6th Field Artil-
lery, which did not support it's own
Twenty-seventh Division infantry,
but saw service along the banks OF
the Meuse and near Verdun, are rep
resented in the book by a story from
the pen of Sergt. Herbert H. Foster.
He has told in a very glowing way
all Of the disappointments of the
Seventy first men who left the in-
fantry to sit astride of a horse, and
as he says, look and feel like a
regular general" Sergt. Foster inti-
mated that the former doughboys
soon yearned for their packs and long
foot hikes after playing personal
maid to a string of wild horses.
On the whole the volume is happily
devoid of any approach to dry, sta
tistical narrative of military stra-
tegy, or cut and dried stuff such as
former service men read in tactical
books and orders issued from
G. H. @. 1t is on the contrary col
lection of many personal points of
view.
tempt to be literary in any of the
stories supplied to the volume by the
men whose experiences before and
after the regiments disbandment are
recited. They are straight-from-t the
shoulder accounts rendered by men
who had but one purpose in mind
when writing them, and that purpose
was to state squareiy and without
flourish what their comrades and
friends may wish to preserve in print
as examples of the spirit of the
Seventy-first. Yet, in spite of this,
there are in the $40 pages of this
history many flashes of fine dramatic
writings that reveal in striking
language the humor and pathos of
the life they describe, many graphic
paragraphs of battle field descrip-
tions and the heroism and sufferings
that inhabited such places.
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Continued from Preceding Page.

1873 to 1920. Mr.. Rollins himself left
ranehing about 1892, think; bnt,
fairer than most. he admits that the
real West" is, after all. matter OF
blood, environment and tradition.
This being the case and there still
being vast tracts of lonely country
where stock is still handled not so
very differently from the way it used
to be, and homesteading. if anything,
being an exploded bonanza, why
should the "real West" disappear?
The answer is that it hasn't, but that
it always seems so to the man who
saw it in one of it's especial periods
of development. Even / am begin
ming to feel that the West isn't what
it used to be in those dreamy, far on.
mythical days of. say, twenty years
ago. But when / think it out clearly
j see that the trouble lies not with
the West but with me.
However, getting down to really
old fashioned ranch talk" / have
found one really splendid subject,
and one that could be taken up and
dropped and taken up again and
continued for years. / would like to
debate with Mr.. Rollins, under any
conditions and with no regard to ir-
regularity in weights or measure
ments. his statement that it doesn't t
make any difference whether you
stake horse out by his neck or his
foot. As the opening blow OF the
contest / can say that ten years ago
I staked a horse out by his neck and
that only the grace of God prevented
him from killing himself. Since then
I have staked all his successors out
by the feet and have never even seen
a scratch on them.
/ also wish that Mr.. Rollins had
dwelt more on the genesis of the
cowboys character, and / hope some
day he will in another book. The
West. like all frontier countries, was
settled by a race of inartieulate
poets. and IL is interesting to see
what that fact. coupled with dry air
and q high altitude, accomplished
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the front line existence In Belgium
and France much more tran those
cold, winter days of intensive train
ing in poorly equipped Southern
camp.
At Camp Wadsworth Col. William
Graves Bates. commanding officer of
the Seventy-first Infantry QS99-
191O, was assigned to the command
of the Fifty-fourth Pioneer Infantry,
and quite number of his men were
transferred with him. At different
intervals other officers and men were
transferred to newly formed outfits.
and thus within a short time not a
vestige of the old Seventy-first was
left as a regiment. BY June of 1918
80 per cent. of the former New York
contingent was on French soil.
III.
The spice and flavor OF personal
narrative runs through the several
sketches that outline the adventures
of Seventy-first men in France and
Belgium. One who was over there
will find in the reactions of the
writer's of these sketches the, self
same Impressions and feelings they
themselves experienced, as for in
stance, when they enjoyed their first
pay day among the cafes of the
quaint little villages, or the sensation
Of cramped discomfort attending a
two days trip in the side-door Pull
mans marked 40 Homm.s-S Che
vaux." In the lingo OF the A. E. F.
there is "beaucoup' in this book to
bring back those days of hiy:. adven-
ture when men looked upon a
canned willy" and hardtack as
feast, when drink of water was
something to be achieved and the
idea of a bath and clean clio: hing was
too far fetched for consideration.
IT seems a pity that Mr.. Sutliffe
did not see fit to devote a. least
few pages to the experience of the
$50 men who served with the famous
Rainbow Division that baycnete6 its
way through the Rheims pivot of the
German army in the Second Battle
of the Marne. The men who fought
with that outfit really saw much
more active service than those who
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when the fatal days came, and the
deeds that they did that resulted in
calling for the Grey Riders.
Miss Mayo in her book has no need
to deal with the history of the Penn
sylvania State police, now more
than fifteen years old and world
famous. She plunges into the history
of the kidnapping of Baby Blakely
Coughlin from the home of his par
ents in Norristown, Pa, and the
subsequent tracing of the kidnapers
by the troopers. The story is told
in a matter of fact, simple way that
pleases, although it must be admit
ted that it gives one the impression
of being based on documents and
records amplified a bit by what is
called literary flavor In the am
plifying, by the way, Miss Mayo has
been rather hard upon the newspa-
permen who covered the case and
on whose stories the author appar-
emily leans heavily for her leading
chapter. The writer by a coincidence
was on the ground at the time and
recalls no real persecution by news
hunters" nor eavesdroppers listening
beneath windows and stealing close
to the home of the family while i'm
pOrfant conferencac u.o.o - r. :.
his recollection, in fact, that no SINH
lar assignment was ever handled
with less bothering of the persons
concerned. This is just an instance.
of course, but Miss Mayo had no
need sof the reference unless to fiji
out the facts directly bearing on the
case and If she had made the chapter
little more brief there surely could
have been no complaint
Other cases dealt with in the bool.
include the rounding up of the
"Neill brothers." Abe and Bill, who
plundered and ruled and bullied the
hills of Franklin county, close to the
Maryland border. "Neill," by the
way, is not their true name. Miss
Mayo has a fondness for substitute
ing names of persons and localities
and telling all about it in foe tnotes.
The books contain the history Of
a number of other sensational cases
handled by the Pennsylvania troop
ers in recent years. Not one of the
stories is lacking in interest and
thrills and all of them, as in "The
Grey Riders" make reading wholly
as interesting and fascinating as
many works of fiction-with the
added advantage of offering the
reader the pleasure of recalling To-
calities and incidents in connection
with the true tales, all of which are
based on cases that occurred within
his memory. ,
The New York herald., 1922-05-21
A Survey by HUGH A. LEAMY.

here is a record from the book Of
which the troopers may well be
proud:
Yet in 1920 this handful of
quiet gray horsemen arrested some
1900 persons, an average Of
about fifty per man. In the same
year the New York city police,
who are fond of hailing themselves
as 'the finest" made an average
of twenty-four arrests per man.
From these arrests the city police
obtained 80 per cent. convictions.
Troopers got from theirs 94.6 per
cent.
Mr.. Van de Water is a finished
writer dealing with a fascinating
subject. His chapter on 1.-The
Frightened People"-a tribe of ig-
norant men and women in the hills
not far from Hudson, N. Y, who
have slipped with each generation
little further from man made law;
little nearer those elemental stat
utes framed by cold and hunger and
the mating cry" will be revelation
to many who believed that the near
est of such unfortunate settlements
was down in Kentucky or North
Carolina. These people weave bas-
kets in texture and workmanship
'as superior to the rickety contain
ers in which the grocer keeps pota-
toes as is carpet of Ispahan to
the rag rug of New England farm
house" In this, one of the most
fascinating chapters in a fascinating
book, Mr.<Van de Water tells of a
visit to- these queer, strange folk.
"After all they're just animals
said the sergeant that night at
supper They've slipped so far
that you couldn't bring them back.
Better if the flu had wiped them
all out"
A tea tray stood on a side table.
Its base was delicately plated
withes; its rim of finer fiber, per-
fectly woven. A handle of braid
ed sweet grasses curved gracefully
above it. The lines and workman
ship were beautiful and fine.
"The bushwhackers (the Fright
ened People) made this for me-
our hostess said, from a sketch
] gave them"
There is the tale of how Trooper
George of Troop A managed to ar
rest a vita dangerous fellow
by singing at the top of his voice
in company with the crazy man as
they sped across country in a rickety
f1ivver. There is the story of Sam
Pasco, the man, and the only man so
far, the troopers had to kill to get.
There is another tale equally thrill
ing of so-called queer but harm
less" farm hands and similar folk
who proved not to be SO harmless