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The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Marines Early Mail Guards.
Intrusted During the Revolution
With Dispatches and VaIuables.

From the Army and Navy Journal.
American Marines guarded malls for
George Washington during the Revolu-
tion when important dispatches and val
liable packages were sent, according to
an address by Major-General Wendell c.
Neville. former commanding General of
the Marine Brigade in France. in an ad-
dress at a meeting of the Military Or
der of Foreign Wars in Hartford, Conn,
on February 3.
According 10 General Neville, even In
those carly days Marines had earned
such a reputation for fidelity and efii-
cheney that when mall and treasure were
to be dispatched to Washington's army
the Continental Congress and the Gov
ernors Of colonies anticipated by nearly
$50 years Postmaster General Hays's ac-
tion in calling for Marines as mail
guards.
The first authentic record OF Marines
acting as mail guards deals with Ma
rines OF Connecticut from the city of
Hartford. 1t occurred in May. 17c5.
when reenforcements together with mail
dispatches and chest containing 500
pounds of specie were sent to Fort
Ticonderoga, which had been captured
from the British a short time before.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18

arrangement of their scheme. Fear
of publicity enforces silence as rule
on the part of the victim.
Everybody should be familiar with
this particular swindle. 1t is less than
year since a ringleader in the game
which has disgraced Florida was shot
to death in the dining room of one
of st. Augustine's most prominent
hotels. lie had quarreled with some
OF his associates over a rich haul
they had made at Daytona. Still an
other of the crew was killed last No
vember as he sat at dinner in hotel
at Orlando. The details of the crimes
and the events leading up to them
had wide publicity at the time. Yet
the same old methods are. finding
fresh dupes in the State where the
crimes were committed. In neither
murder was a conviction obtained.
The appeal to the covetous instinct
in human nature which is the funda-
mental principle of confidence games
seems to dull the good sense of some
men who are ordinarily shrewd in
business matters. There may be lit.
tie sympathy for victims of stupidity,
but there should be no place in the
United States where such practices
can be carried on successfully.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
The Living Deadwood Dick.

To the present day sober minded
citizen who in the sos absorbed ro-
nance from dime novels and to the
succeeding generations OF boy read
ers OF the same literature il may be
surprise to know that one of their
greatest heroes, Deadwood Dick, is
still alive. In the person of RICHARD
CLARK, whom Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, dispatch describes as the
only and original embodiment of the
character, Deadwood Dick attended
recent meeting of the Society Of
Black Hills Pioneers and made a
speech.
The distinction thus conferred
on Mr.. CLARK is not likely to go
unchallenged. WALsHs Heroes
and Heroines of Fiction" makes
Deadwood Dick the nickname Of
ROBERT DrcKEY, who was a scout
under General GEORGE Crook and
General ALFRED TERRY, a plainsman,
Indian fighter, trapper. fur dealer.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Vote Getting by a Bonus.
Ancient Rome Knew Adjusted Com
pensatiOn as DOnatiye.

To THE New YORK HERALD: Accord
Ing to Washington dispatches there is
a difference of opinion between Senator
Jones and Senator Borah as to whether
the Congress proposes TO make distri-
button Of an adjusted compensation or
gratuity. There are also those who
refer TO such distribution as bonus.
Why this variance in terms when there
has long existed in the English lam
guage word which precisely describes
such an event?
During the decline of the Roman Em-
plre, as related by Gibbon. when the
administration changed the suffrages Of
the legions were purchased. or at least
sought TO be, by means Of a donative
made by the candidate for office who
was so fortunate as TO be at that time
in control Of the public treasure.
This term cannot be offensive TO those
opposed TO the proposed distribution. nor
can It's advocates fail TO see the advan-
tage OF being in a position to taunt Mr..
Fordney with being more niggardly than.
say, Caracalla, who used in a donative
to the army all the public treasure ac-
cumulated by his predecessor.
There is something delightrully mouth
filling about the phrase liberal donative.
How thin and poor by comparison is adj
justed compensation
THEoDoRrc SMITH.
NEW NonK, February Il.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Miss Muzio Protests.
She Points to u Possible Menace to
Health I'm n City Street.

To THE NEw'YoRK HERALD: Both for
the protection of others and myself
feel bound to call attention to condl-
tion which would be deplorable at any
time, but particularly now when sick
ness is so prevalent, so that the neces-
sary steps may be taken by those re-
sponsible for its existence.
on Tuesday of last week I passed the
corner of Fifty-eighth street and First
avenue and saw two dead cats lying up
against the curb, where some street
cleaner had evidently showed them. 1t
so chanced that l was obliged to pass
that same spot on three consecutive
days and saw those same two cats, ly-
ing in exactly the same position on each
of those days. The rain washed them.
the snow covered them and the hail beat
on them. but still they remained.
] believe the danger of spreading dis
ease in this way is greater than through
kissing, regarding which DR.. Copeland
warns US, and either the Board of Health
OF the Street Cleaning Department,
whichever is responsible, should be held
to account. CLAUDIA MUzTo.
NEW YORK, February II.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
British Aid for Austria.

British credit pumped into the
economic veins of Austria to the ex.
tent of f2,OO0,00O, or $9,500,000, is not
enough to set that stricken country
back on its feet in the flush of indus
trial prosperity and financial health;
but it will go part of the way in that
direction. Announcement at Vienna
on Monday that British credit for
this amount was assured sent the
Austrian crown to nearly double the
price at which it was quoted on the
Vienna boerse on Saturday. Con-
versely, as when soft money goes up
and gold goes down, the paper money
price of stocks and shares went down
with a bang, because the stocks and
bonds represent gold values. Specu-
lators in this wild game of paper
profits and hard money losses stood
by and saw their fortunes wiped out
as clean as whistle, not on bad news
but on the good tidings that help for
Austria was at last on the way.
Readjustment and Topping off
ciphers from the end Of the astro-
nomical figures representing Aus
trias paper money circulation have
only begun. British control and
management will accompany the
British credit. For every shilling of
English capital that goes to build up
Austrian industry a bale of worth.
less paper, stamped as Austrian
crowns, will go down the chute TO the
furnace.
Mondays crash was like a pinprick
on the surface of huge balloon. But
it was the forerunner of saner and
more settled times in country
which has been made to suffer far
beyond its deserts.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
The Swindlers In Florida.

Exposure of the methods by which
swindlers are robbing visitors at
winter resorts in Florida, reported in
the news columns of THE NEW YORK
HERALD. will avail little as long as
the rogues are allowed to operate.
1t is the duty of Governor HARDEE to
rid his State Of the presence of the
so-called wire tappers and bunco
steerers who have been preying upon
tourists for years.
That a sum approximating $780,
900 should have been taken already
this season by methods which ought
to be transparent to men with sufIi-
cient acumen to achieve success in
business will amaze many persons
who read about these swindlers. The
Newark man who lost $4,000 re
Gently after being told by friends
that he was being cheated showed a
degree of credulity which may seem
surprising after the event but which
is common enough. If IL we're other
wise swindlers would find it harder
to rob their victims. Leave me
alone. ! am twenty-one and know
what l am doing" was this mans
reply to the warning Of friends. That
is the attitude which enables swim
dlers to prosper year after year.
That others will undergo the ex-
perience of the Newark victim is GER
tain unless tho swindlers are ban
ished. The appeal made by the ras.
Gals to the cupidity Of their dupes
is subtle. The man who engages in
the wire tapping game in the belief
that the telegraph operator in the
makebelieve poolroom is giving adj
vance information on a race already
run is taking part in a crooked game
This fact furnishes one of the best
safeguards the swindlers have I'm the
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
More of Untermyer's Work.

Mayor HYLAN. who spends his
spare time at Palm Beach in calling
SAM UNTERAfYER names, will have a
new excuse for abusing the lawyer.
Former Alderman KENNEALLY, one
of the Tammany leaders in the AS
sembly district of the Mayors dear
friend MURPHY, has been indicted
Jointly with the notorious BRrNDELL
on a charge of extortion.
The indictment is the direct result
of SAM UNTERNIYER activities as
counsel for the Lockwood committee.
1t charges that KENNEALLY, as one of
the labor bosses, wrung $4,000 from
builder who was threatened with
labor trouble.
We read that KENNEALLY was as
tonished by his indictment. No
doubt he was. A man who had the
honor for years of being MURPHY S
Alderman" and who has job for life
at 500 week as business agent of a
union must consider himself pretty
well beyond indictment.
But KENNEALLY had the grace not
to burst into a TRADE against
UNTERMYER. Perhaps he thought
Mayor HYLAN does that sort of thing
better than anybody else.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18

fails. He is learning that the inten-
sive cultivation of a small field is
more profitable than slipshod cutiva-
tion of a large field. 1t means the
difference between the fourteen
bushel crop of the United States and
the thirty bushel crop of the British
Isles.
Not so much is known about the
seed, however; and an important ele-
ment of selected seed is fecundity.
This characteristic is hereditary.
The corn farmer has learned this
fact and he is making the most of it.
The seed which will reproduce more
than 700 of it's kind is to be pre-
ferred to that which, other things
being equal, will produce only half
as many.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
EVENTS TO-DAY.

chief Justice Taft win be the chief guest
at n dinner of the New YORK County Law
yers Association. Hotel Astor' T. NJ.
Testimonial breakfast Va honor OF Mrs.
Grace Strachan Forsythc. iIotcl Commodore.
noon.
New York University School of Commerce
Alumni Association. dinner, Hotel Bi-'more'
L. NJ.
princess cantacuzene VI. Derajensity and
William c. Redfield will discuss Russia;
the Radical Menace" luncheon National
Republican Club. 81 West toruen stree''
4. NJ.
Dr. Joseph Redlich and Norman II. Davis
viii discuss ''The Genoa Conference" lunch,
con OF Foreign Policy Association, Hotel
Astor. IL :i5 i. NJ.
Wcstchcster County Realty Board. annus
dinner Hotel Commodore, r. NJ.
Wheatley Hills Golf Club. annual dinner.
Hotel Bossert Brooklyn, 1880 J.. NJ.
French Alliance of New York, dramatic
evening. Hotel Plaza, $3.50 i. NJ.
New York University chapter. Delta Chi
fraternity, dance. Hotel Pennsylvania. $3.50
T. NJ.
osteopathic Society of New York, dinner
Waldorf-Astoria, G:15 +. NJ.
Clason Military Academy. annual roview
and exhibition. 1o2d Enslneers' FOR WASH
ington avenue and i6sth street, i. II.
JIrempIoyment demonstration. auspices OF
tJncmployment Council Second avenue ana
Tenth street, L. NJ.
Naver c. Goldman and Terence J. Nc
ManuS
Defender in Criminal Cases." Cooper Union.
S:15 l.. NJ.
Newspaper Club. meeting. County Court
House, room 214, 2:30 p. NJ.
senator +. NJ. Davenport. lecture. The
Human Side Of Politics." Town Hail. l23
West Forty third street, II a. NJ.
Ex-Gov. James =. Goodrich of Indiana will
speak at a luncheon OF the Brooklyn Chamber
OF Commerce. 81 Court street. Brooklyn,
IL 80 l.. NJ
Carroll Club, Valentine dance. 100 Madison
avenue, S 80 +. NJ.
portia Club. anniversary luncheon. Hotel
Astor, / l.. NJ.
National Motor Boat. Ship and Engine
Show. Grand Central Palace, IL A. NJ to
10 T.. NJ.
American Institute OF Banking, dinner.
Hotel Commodore, T:S0 +. NJ.
Rubinstcin Club. musical, waldorf-Astoria.
. r. NJ.
Carlisle Club, dinner. Hotel McAipin.
Z. NJ.
Trend of the Times public lecture by
Prof Nelson =. Mead, Townsend Harris
Hail. College OF the City of New York. Ans
terdam avenue and 13Sth street. S:15 =. Nj.
Amos o. Squire. lecture. "Radium,' Amer
,cnn Museum OF Natural History. Seventy
seventh street and Central Park West, S:f5
T.. NJ.
Twcn,y-third Regiment, n. @. n. Y, ami
versary dinner. armory, Bedford and Atlantic
avenues. Brooklyn. Il. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18

his Continental wanderings appear like
sentimental journey, Oliver Goldsmath
was u tramp. "The Traveller" Is the
reracious diary of vagabond. The
lines: "Or onward where the rude Car
lnthian boor against the houseless
stranger shuts the door" are probably
the record OF an experience that the
traveller saw no reason to suppress. but
which hurt the sensitive nerves OF his
historian.
Even Josiah F'lynt, writing OF vaga-
bondia---a wanderer who confessed TO
consorting with blown in the glass and
gay cat tramps. who once stole a horse
and buggy to appropriate the proceeds
was read and relishcd by estimable
citizens who wouldn't drop him nod
II they met him on Broadway. So
much for snobs refusing to recognize a
brother.
have lugged in all of these distin-
gushed and extinguished tramps to show
that there are tramps and tramps.
FINDLAY SAcKErT.
SUMMIT, y. j., February II.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Increasing the Wheat Yield.

Statistics concerning the fecundity
OF animals and plants possess a fasci-
nation for jugglers of figures. Cheer
full romancers tell us that IL all the
spores of all the puff balls produced
puff balls and none was wasted
sooner or later the earth would puff
itself to the limits of the solar system,
finally to engulf the Pleiades and
smother the dog star. And If all the
eggs of all the Goldfish were to hatch
cod and still more cod a man flying
from the earth with the velocity of
light would eventually be overtaken,
salted and picked in a universe of
cod. Such is the romance which the
statistician who uses his imagination
unreels about fecundity.
Nevertheless some practical les
sons concerning the fecundity OF
wheat were recently illustrated in a
striking manner at the School OF
Agriculture at Valladolid, Spain. Sc
lected wheat was planted grain by
grain, and two crops were grown
from the original seeds. In the first
crop each kernel developed an aver
age of twelve shoots producing sixty
five kernels each. The second crop
averaged eight shoots, each produc.
ing fifty kernels to the head. That
is. the original kernel produced 312,-
900 other kernels.
OF course such q yield cannot be
obtained in an ordinary crop. Com
parative statistics show nevertheless
that in the United States the yield to
the acre may be materially increased
In 1920 the average yield of winter
wheat throughout the United States
was nearly 14.7 bushels to the acre
Averages, howeve~, may be mislead
ing. Thus the -crage yield to the
acre ia Arkansas and Tennessee fol
1920 was 9.5 bushels; but in ter
other States the yield average was
more than twice as great. In thC
last fifty years. taking ten year aver
ages. wheat production has increased
from 1879 to 14.4 bushels to the acre
In 1866 the average was less than 1C
bushels; in 1915, the banner year, il
was II bushels.
The yield OF wheat or of any other
grain involves several factors. The
science Of soil. of cultivation and OF
climate is pretty well understood
The wheat farmer has learned that
the mineral elements and the nitro
gen which the wheat takes from the
soil must be replaced or the croT
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Greenwich Village.
Before Street Car Days 1t Had Its
Lines OF Stages and SIeighs.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Please
allow me as one who was born in
Greenwich Village in 1S4S to take a few
exceptions 10 the statements of Mr..
Kerr. He mentions Washington Square
previously Potter's Field, afterward
Washington Parade Ground--as 1.-The
very center of Greenwich Village" Ac-
cording to that the village was bounded
on the east by Broadway.
The recognized center was really
Abingdon Square, with at that time the
slaughter house and village house on
the Bank street corners and the marble
yard and a low frame building on the
Bleecker street corners. AS for the
wooden pavement around Washington
Square, that is beyond me. The first
Nicholson wooden pavement was laid
on Nassau street, Pine street and Wall
street in the SOS.
The street cars he mentions We're con-
sdered modern institutions. The Knick-
erbocker Stage Company ran through
and Eighth avenue years before cars
were thought OF, in evidence whereof
see the old minstrel song:
Hc swung a saucy whip,
For ne was bound to shine
Like a high salaried driver
On the Knickerboclscr line.
Well do I recall when we boys used
to steal a ride behind those stages until
some ofiicious boy yelled to the driver
"Cut behind - In fact the steal was
known by that term. Swish came the
whip over the top. But we were gen.
orally on the alert and out of revenge
would pull the door wide open with a
sudden jerk. causing the drivers knee
almost to meet his chin. mis- foot being
in the loop of the door strap.
The stage companies in those days
were equipped with long stage sleighs
for winter. oh. what times we had
riding to the Battery and back! The
sleighs were open. with straw on the
floor and drawn by four horses, and IL
kept you busy lodging the snowballs
from the pedestrians all the. length OF
! the route.
We knew nothing OF West Tenth
street in the days Mr.. Kerr refers to.
but we did know Amos street. at the
foot of which John Morrissey and Bill
Poole fought. Hammond street, now
West Eleventh street. was the street
north of II, and at the foot OF it the
steamship Great Eastern first docked
in the United States.
Those were the happy days! w. p.
GREENWICH, Conn, February II.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18

Indian agent and United States mar
shal. DIcKEy made fortune or two,
lost them and died in poverty ten
years ago. His name belongs with
the group which included KIT CARSON,
WILLIAM +. Copy, BAT MAsTERsoN
and Wild BILL HIoKoK, and it might
truly be said that IF there was a
Deadwood Dick in flesh DIcKEY fitted
the character ideally"
EDWARD l.. WHEELER, who Wrote
the Deadwood Dick stories. was for
years before his death in Philadel-
phia besieged with inquiries regard
ing the original of his hero. He
gave a somewhat dubious approval
to the claim of EDWARD HARRIS, a
Massachusetts boy who in the early
sos went into the Northwest in
search of adventure. A few years
ago RICHARD BUTLER, who had been
a messenger on the bullion run be-
tween Lead, South Dakota, and
Omaha, laid claim to the sobriquet.
He died at Venice, California, and
some person who looked up his his
tory said that he was really Dead
eye Dick, a somewhat noted char
acter of the Black Hills region.
RICHARD CLARK's career was not
unlike that of ROBERT DICKEY's; he
was a Regular Army scout. messen-
ger, stage driver and guide for
wagon trains coming into the Black
Hills. With the disappearance OF the
wild Indians and frontier bad men
he became station agent at Lead,
South Dakota. 1t was a pretty tame
life, he said some time ago, and 'if
7 was footloose I'd strike out to-
morrow" What held him down to
the quiet life was a wife and three
young Clarks. When called upon
at the Pioneers meeting to tell
his experience he said. "The vet
eran who has been through it all
couldn't tell of it if he wanted to
it cuts too Deep" and stopped. He
had at least one of the hero's quail
ties, brevity of speech.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
CONTRALTO GIVES RECITAL.

Miss Elaise Gagneau. contralto, was
heard In recital yesterday afteynoon
in Aeolian Hall. Her program was am
bilious, perhaps injudiciously so. for
some of the numbers appeared to tax
her powers severely. The air 20 don
fatale," from don Carlos" was one of
these. The singer seemed to be suffer-
ing from relaxed vocal cords, though il
is possible that the frequent hollowness
and occasional unsteadiness OF tone
may have been due to incorrect technic.
However. Miss Gagneau proved to be
the possessor of beautiful voice, which
under more favorable conditions might
be made TO give very excellent results
She showed taste in her phrasing and In
some of her interpretations. but In the
operate number mentioned she ap.
peared to be somewhat out of her ele-
ment.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Origin of the Snowdrop.

The gems of Winter one by one
Were stolen by the robber sun.
He saw his diamonds melt away
Beneath the searching solar ray,
Each cloudy moonstone disappear,
Each opal turn into tear.
Impotent TO prevent the theft.
Some icy pearls alone were left.
He hid them in a corner where
Green blades were feeling for the air,
But when next morning, high and low,
He sought his precious pearls of snow
Behold! no trace of them he found
Where they had rested on the ground
The little snowdrops blossomlng
Announced the presence of the spring.
MTNNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-02-18
Cause and Effect.
prlnce of nessimists

lie is the prince OF pessimists
And all to-day he kept on wailing
That lifes all wrong and he insists
There is no sea that's worth the sail.
ing
There's no sport worth indulging in;
There Is no art that's worth pursuing
There IS no book that's worth a PIN
There Is no maiden worth the wooing
There arc no songs that comfort bring
There is no play that's worth the see.
ing;
There is no friend worth cherishing--
, In short. there's no excuse for being
Yet once his hopcfuness was great,
lie looked for Joy and meant to grab
IT,
But late last night. alas. he ate
4 double portion OF Welsh rabbit
NATHAN NJ LEVY.