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Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
Flirtatious Islands.

French grammar is right, for once,
when it designates islands as feminine !;
many of them appear and disappear
like face behind a fan, and have
to be wooed ferveHly before they are
won.
Charcot's recent landing on the
lost island of Rockall, east of the
Hebride". recalls other elusive islands,
says the Scientific American. Jan
Neyen modestly wells herself in mist,
nd is seen but once in 80 years, while
u islct in the Behring straits sur
,unds herself with water so hot that
shermen say approach is impossible
erweniwater has Il bathing nymph ol
N island that floats for six weeks
hen coyly submerges. Lenge, the ex-
,t!orer, made his home on IA simila.
one at the mouth of the Amazon, un.
til the island capsiZed in an attempl
to get rid of her guest.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Pencader Hundred

The taxable residents of Pencader
Hundred. and all persons liable to paw
tax in said hundred, are hereby notified
that the County and School taxes for
the year 1921 are now due, and the
undersigned Tax Collector for said
hundred will be
AT MY RESIDENCE AT IRON HILL, MD.
During the month of MARCH, 1922
Extract from the Laws of Delaware,
governing the collection of Taxes of
New Castle County, Section 3, Chapter
30. Volume Fl, Laws of Delaware, as
amended.
SEC 3-That on all county taxes paid
before the first day OF October there
hall be an abatement of five per cent
um. On all taxes paid before the first
day of december there shall be an abate-
ment of three per centum. On all taxes
)aid during the month of December
here shall be no abatement what
ever. And on all taxes unpaid on the
irst day of January there shall be added
one half of one per centum per month
until the same shall be paid.
EDWARD O. WALTON
Collector of Taxes for Pencader Hundred
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
Big Nova Scotian Industry

The iron and steel industry Of Noys
Scotia centers about Cape Breton Is.
land and the county of Pictou, where
coal deposits are available and the
necessary ores most easily imported
Apart from this area the principal in
dustrial points are Halifax, Dart
mouth, Truro, Amherst and New GIas.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
The Mutual
Loan Association
MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE

MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE
The Stated Annual Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Mutual Loan Asso-
citation of Middletown, Delaware, will.
be held at the Office of Daniel W.
Stevens, South Broad Street, in Middle
town. delaware, Tuesday, March 81 A.
D. 1922, at seven o'clock P. M, al
which time President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer will be elected
to serve one year. and three directors
will be elected to serve three years.
The Stockholders will also vote upon the
reccommendat on of the Board of Di-
rector S, to amend the Character of the
Corporation, raising its authorized cap
ital stock 20 five thousand shares.
D. ". STEVENS, Sec'y
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
"T00 MUCH LIVING"
Large Amount Of Food Consumed Each
Year by Average American,

year by Average American.
Excessive eating may play promi-
nent part in the high cost Of living,
Secretary of Labor Davis has init
mated In making report showing
that the average American eats more
than ton Of food year.
The average person eats 1904
pounds of food year. A working man
lives on i,775 pounds, according to the
report. The American soldiers, dur
ing the World war, lived on that al
lowance.
"The average Japanese consumes
e05 pounds Of food year." says Sec
retary Davis. 'The average Japanese
adult gets only 30 pounds Of fruit, as
against 250 pounds, the average for
uE"
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18

and eastern Maryland.
1t is planned to hold another auction
at Winterthur again this year and
March 18th has been selected MS the
date. Something over 80 young bulls
and five high-class heifers will be sold
to the highest bidder at that time.
Middletown transcript., 1922-03-18
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Red Lion Hundred

The taxable residents of Red Lion
Hundred. and all persons liable to pay
tax in said Hundred are hereby notified
that the County and School Taxes for
the year 1921 are NOW due, and the un-
dersigned Tax Collector for said Hun
dred, will be
AT MY RESIDENCE IN ST. GEORGES.
During the month of MARCH, 1922
Extract from the Laws of Delaware,
Governing the Collection of Taxes of
New Castle County. Section 3. Chapter
30, Volume 81, Laws of Delaware, as
Amended.
Sec. ). That on all county taxes paid
before the first day of October there
shall be an abatement of five per
centum. On all taxes paid before the
first day of December there shall be an
abatement of three per centum On all
taxes paid during the month of Decem-
ber there shall be no abatement what
ever. And on all taxes unpaid on the
first day of January there shall be add
ed one-half per centum per month until
the same shall be paid
JAMES n. BATTEN
Collector for Red Lion Hundred.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
FIRE AT CIRCUS;
BUCKET BRIGADE
SOON PUTS|T OUT
No Alarm Among Crowd
Entering Garden Not a Curl
Of Smoke In Arena,

While the tide Of youthful iumanS
ity entering Madison Square Garden
TO see the circus was in full food at
l,30 o'clock to-day, a watchuian In
the third floor corridor outside the
ushers' dressing room smelled q Whit
Of smoke. He blew n whistle. with
in half minute all the circus EN-
ployees, ushers. women performers
and messengers on that floor were
flremen, each taking a station with
buckets and hand extinguishers and
small army, quietly but swiftly
was swarming up from below.
There was fire in a box of ushers'
uniforms in a corner of the room. 1t
lasted less than two minutes after 1t
was discovered. Not so much as a
curl OF smoke escaped into the arena,
which was already beginning to fill
with the thousands coming up from
the menagerie below.
On tn eprincipre of safety first" a
fire alarm had been sounded and ap-
paratus began to jam into the crowd
ed streets around the Garden before
IL "Fire is out" message could follow
it. The stream pouring into the Gar
den was hardly interrupted. 1t takes
more tina ma battalion of fire appara-
tus to keep Riddles and their grown
ups away from the circus.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
civic VIRTUE"
IN CITY HALL PARK
GETS HYLAN FROWN
"Rough Guy" and Mayor Have
Birthday His Honor 81
Years Older Than Statue.

Civic Virtue arrived in City Hall
Park to-day. It is therefore the
first birthday Of the new statue.
Up in Greene County a red.
haired baby was born fifty.four
years ago to-day. He was chris
toned John r. HyIan and now is
the Mayor Of New York.
Civic Virtue is with US, He stole
into City Hall Park aboard a motor
truck during the witching hour be-
fore daylight and this morning re-
posed face downward on a block o.
stone alongside the pedestal from
which he shall henceforth match his
virtue with that of the TammanJ
tenants of City Hail.
Incidentally, there are two fishy
looking ladies with Civic Virtue. AL
though they were supposed to share
the same canvas blanket with him
their scales and tails Gor they are
y'know) were exposed tC
the cruel weather.
The ladies at first glance appeared
TO be manicuring Civic's classic toe
Continued on Second PageD
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DAUGHTERS SEEK
TOBREAK WILL OF
JUDGE HOTCHK|SS
Accuse Woman Cousin and
Say Jurist Was Not of
Sound Mind.
CUT OFF BY FATHER.
Widow Made Executor of ES-
tate Pending Contest Over
BequeSts in Document.
CUT OFF BY FATHER.

Florence Strong Hotchkiss and Mrs.
Helen Ehlerman. who reside with
their mother at No. 315 West 18th
Street, to-day filed objections in Sur
rogate's Court to the probate Of the
will of their late father. Supreme
Court Justice Henry d. Hotchkiss.
They accuse their cousin. Mabel
Hotchlxiss Roche OF No. 81 West Seth
Street, or some one acting in concert
with her. of causing their father to
fail to mention them in his will,
They asked for a jury trial. and also
charge their father was of unsound
mind when he made his will.
Mrs. Alice C. Hotchkiss, widow of
the jurist. and the Bankers Trust
Company, to-day were appointed
temporary administrators of the $3.50, =
900 estate, pending the contest of the
will. The widow furnished bond of
$3.50, 900.
Justice Hotchkiss died OF pneumonia
on March 6 after only a few days
illness. He had been sitting on the
bench in Supreme Court during the
early part Of the week in which he
died
His will left $500 shares of stock
of the City Investing Company with
the Bankers Trust Company, as truS-
tee. The income from 5000 of these
shares is to be paid to the widow dur.
ing her lifetime and the income on
500 shares to his cousin, Mabel HotcE-
kiss Roche.
The income from the remaining 1GO
shares was left to my faithful
friend" Ida Wahlstrom. The residue
of the estate was left to the widow.
The will made no mention of the two
daughters, who are represented in the
contest by Attorney Thomas O'Calla-
CHAN of No. 115 Broadway.
At the time of her husbands death
Mrs. Hotchkiss was in France with
her daughter, Mrs. Ehlerman. Flor
ence Strong Hotchkiss, one of the pc
TONERS, was with him at the time, ac-
cording to reports, she and her two
children having made their home with
her father.
Justice Hotchkiss was prominent in
politics and was for a time personal
counsel for Richard Croker.
Justice Hotchlliss will was executed
Feb. IT. 1922. At that time he was
apparently in good health and or
the bench.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
CITY TEAM
OF BALL PLAYERS
THREATEN STRIKE

Fearing the jibes of jolSers,
members of the Jersey City Base
ball Club of the international
League have threatened mutiny
if Joseph f. Moran. club owner,
insist on their wearing a peg-leg
emblazoned on their uniforms in
honor of Peter Stuyvesant. The
wooden pin of the Dutch Colonial
Governor was absent when the
team appeared to-day for its OPP
ening game of the season.
Moran planned TO use the
emblem as part OF the advertising
campaign which the city at pres
ent Is conducting. Several prom
inent citizens have tried in vain
TO get the players to chance their
minds.
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LLOYD GEORGE ANNOUNCES
PLAN TO PAC|FY EUROPE BY
ANTEWAR TREATY At GENOA
Premier in Message to World
Declares Cornerstone of
Peace Has Been Laid and
Success Is Now Assured.
RuSSo-German Obstacles Will
Be Overcome, He Asserts,
by Agreement Probably to
Be Reached by Tonight,

GENOA. April 90 Omitted Press) -
''The success of the Genoa Conference
Is assured - Premier Lloyd George de-
clared to-day, addressing the press
Of the world at San Giorgio Palace.
Gods in his heaven, and the con-
ference still exists he said in open
ing his address.
1.-THE corner : ston& Of European
peace and reconstruction has been
laid.
Both the Russian and German
obstacles will be overcome. Probably
they will be settled to-day
Lloyd George announced the con-
ference would take up consideration
of a European treaty of non-ag
Iression under which nations will
guarantee not to attack each other
without consideration of their diff
cu.ties
The British Prime Minister sum
nloned the correspondents from every
country to the San GiOrgio Palace
and spoke to them at o'clock.
The aggression treaty shg-
fested by Lloyd George would be for
Europe what the Four-Power Treaty
signed at Washington is to the Pa
Eific.
Referring to the Russo-German
treaty signed at Rapallo, Lloyd
George said:
Tvs have reasons to believe Ger
snany will withdraw from this
treaty.
Had any other nation represented
here at Genoa so signed behind our
backs it would have broken up the
conference"
Lloyd George was most optimistic
I'm his predictions.
we are overcoming all our diff
tulties," he repeated. I'VE are haV-
tng the greatest success"
The Premier declared his confidence
fhat the "other difficulty" regarding
esussia would be removed with re-
relpt of the Soviet reply to-day.
'I am confident this conference Will
end with all nations entering into q
NON aggression treaty" Lloyd George
declared,
=, "Otherwise, the conference will
have been failure"
He indicated he did not believe
Russia and Germany were trying tc
wreck the conference.
In closing his speech, the Premier
referred indirectly to the United
States.
The League of Nations, he said
Continued on Second Page.)
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
HYLAN HASN'T READ
GOV. MILLER'S SPEECH

Mayor Hylan was asked to-day If he
had any comment to make on the
speech of Gov. Miller IN which he vir-
tually threatened to oust the Muyor and
the remainder OF the Board OF Estimate
unless they appropriated money for the
completion of subways In which the
city is a partner.
II haven nau a chance 10 read II,
said the Mayor I'm f1fty-tour to-day
and feeling very happy. / bear animua
toward no man. Many congratulatory
letters and kilograms are reaching me. -
Comptroller Craig said: Il will issue
a statement later"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
MOTHER AND BABE
SAVED AT FIRE
Policeman Carries Them From
Room Directly Above Burn
ing Bronx Store

More than 200 occupants of the
hve-story apartment house at No.
259 East 151st Street, Bronx, among
them woman who had recently be-
come a mother. were driven to the
street in scant attire early to-day
when fire broke out in a musical in
strument store on the ground floor
and partly burned through to the
second floor.
Patrolman Michael Tally ran to the
apartment of Mrs. Jennie Scanzelli,
directly above the store, and found
Mrs. Scanzelli was In bed, her nine
day-old infant at her side. Assisted
by the woman's husband, the patrol
man carried Mrs. Scanzelii and her
child to the street and into the homl
OF neighbor.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
CITY'S LARGEST
"WALK-UP" HOUSE
Plans Are Filed for Washington
Heights Building With 24S
Apartments

Plans were filed to-day for the
largest walk up" apartment house
ever built in New York. It is to be
eercted on the south side of Sherman
Avenue between Thayer and Arden
Streets, Washington Heights, where
it will cover a ground space 200 by
S3s feet.
The building will be five stories
high and will have 2iS apartments
with total of 926 rooms. The apart
ments will be Of three, four and five
rooms. The Cost is estimated 1t
81, 200, 900.
The builders will be the Essawea
Corporation. No. 103 Park Avenue ,
and the architect is Edgar q, Motil.r
OF the same address.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
AMERICAN TREATY
WITH GERMANY SET
UP AS PRECEDENT
Separate Agreement Justified
in View of Washington
Authorities.
BY David Lawrence.
Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ming World

WASHINGTON, April 20 Copy
/ right. D.-Although on the surface the
American Government gives the i'm
preston that the Russo German
Treaty has no particular meaning
20 the United States, the truth is the
| wish is father to the thought.
Officials hope it has no meaning.
They would be es disturbed as Eu-
ropeans if II turned out that the Rus
| so German agreement meant a poll
| teal upheaval in Europe and a con-
sequeut delay of reconstruction. Any
| thing which makes the world horizon
cloudy has its reflex here, try as Of
fcials may sometimes to conceal their
concern.
But the consensus here is that
when all is said and done the Russo
German treaty will literally be found
to have very little meaning, that il
can be a source Of disturbance only
| if the other Governments choose to
pursue a policy which drives Ger
many and Russia into each other
arms and makes them interpret their
| treaty more or less as an offensive
and defensive alliance.
On the subject of concluding sep
arate treaties without consulting the
otler powers little is said in Wash
ington, for the United States nego.
tiated a separate treaty with Ger.
| IA,
closed whether the Allies had an,
advance copies of it. In fact, the
evidence has been all the other way
that the treaty was made without
the consent of the Allies, on tn.
theory that Germany and the Unitec
States could do as they please. This
precedent is cited here to-day as JUST.
fication for a German treaty will
Russia, another former member o.
the Allied group.
The burden of thought here is tha
the Allied powers can find plenty O
flaws in the German Russian treaty
plenty of grounds for charging a VIC
lation of the spirit of the Versailles
i Treaty, and they can at a later da,
insist that admission of Russia an,
Germany to the League of Nationl
cannot be permitted without an agree
ment on the part of Russia or Ger
many to renounce the new treaty.
But it is not the later day inter
probation or use of the Russo German
treaty which is at the bottom of tn
problem at this time. The official
of the United States Governmen
whose specific responsibility it is I,
watch the Genoa proceedings are in
clined to attribute much more i'm
portance to the results which tn,
Russo German agreement will pre-
cipitate rather than the substance o
the treaty itself.
In other words, If the treaty makes
the Allied group realize they canno
invite Russia and Germany into thei
Continued on Second Page.)
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2-YEAR-OLD SHOOTS SELF
WITH FATHERS RIFLE

BRIDGETON, N. j., April 2o.-Alex-
ander Talazona. two years old, is in
the hospital to-day with severe wounds
after shooting himself with his fathers
rifle. The weapon had been left stand
Ing beside the house. the father said.
Police authorities are puzzled as TO
how the boy was able to discharge 1t.
No one was near and no one In the
house remembers hearing the shot
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
BRIT. ASKS COURT TOCOMPEL
CITY TO BUILD SUBWAYS AND.
PAY S3O,0OO,0OO IN DAMAGES.
Receiver Garrison Sues for
"Non-Performance of Con
tract" and for Losses Due to
Delays by Estimate Board.
Concrete Examples of Tardi-
ness Pointed Out in Com
pany's Complaint, Together
With Damages Sustained.

Lindley NJ. Garrison. receiver Of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com.
pany, filed a suit against the City OF
New York to-day, asking 10000. coo
damages for non-performance oi
contract and asking for an order %
compel the city to complete subways
and installation of equipment called
for by Contract No. 4. entered inte
in 1913.
The suit is brought on behalf OF
the New York Municipal Railway
Corporation and the New York COM
solidated Railroad Company, subsidii
aries of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company. b
The $40, 900. 900 asked for Is de
scribed as 'ascertainable damages UP
TO date" and the complaint relates that
the damages will accumulate until the
city has completed it's part Of the con !
tract.
The 14th Street crosstown sub I
way to the Eastern District of Brook
lyn. mentioned by Gov. Miller iri
his speech yesterday in connection
with his threat to remove Mayor
Hylan and the Board OF Estimate Is
one Of the uncompleted sections. The
members OF the Transit Commission
are made party defendants with the
city for technical legal purposes only
In connection with the city's FAIL
ure to complete the 18th Street East
ern District Line, the complaint al >
leges that approximately 100, 0,00e
passengers per day. who now traves
between the vicinity Of East New
York in Brooklyn and the vicinity OF
14th Street and Broadway in Man :
haitian. via the Broadway tBrook
lyn) Elevated Line, have been, are,
and will, until the 14th Street East L
ern Line is placed in operation, bo
required to change cars between this
line in the Centre Street Loop and
the Subway Line in Broadway. Man /,
haitian. instead OF being carried
through to their destination without,
change OF cars.
The failure OF the city to construct q
the Nassau Street subway deprives thel
operating company of the full use {
all the tracks at the De Kalb
Station and also prevents th
OF through service on trains
both the Williamsburg and MANDATORY
Bridges through lower Manhattan TO a
connection with the whitehall Mon
tague Street Tunnel near the Battery,
the complaint points out.
The complaint also alleges that
there was a delay of three years and
eight months in completing the
Broadway (B. r. T.) subway from
Times Square to Greensboro Plaza,
Long Island City; a delay of two
years and eight months in the com
pletion OF the Whitehall Montague
Street tunnel and the Brighton Beach
subway under Flatbush Avenue; ana
complete non performance of / h Z
contract by which the city was to fur
nish the New York Municipal Rail
way Corporation trackage rights over
the Corona and Astoria elevated lines
in Queens.
The complaint alleges further that
the companies were compelled by
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
KILLED BY DIVE
IN TURKISH BATH
Newark Man Meets His Death
in Partly Emptied Swimming
Pool

Eugene DAILY, financial manager OF
the Guarantee Egg Corporation,
Newark, was found dead to-day in a
Turkish bath at No. 10 West Park
Street, Newark.
The police decided death was acci
dental and was caused when DAILY
dove into the swimming tank which
was being emptled ana had little
water in it.
Mr.. Daily attended the funeral yes
terday for Mrs. Maude Fancher, ano
her baby, whose husband is an EN-
ployee OF the Egg Corporation
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UNDATED, UNSIGNED
WILL HELD VALID
Barstow Left 100000 and no
One Witnessed the Docu-
n1ent.

The undated, unsigned and unwit-
messed will disposing of the estimated
So, 900, 600 estate Of William a. Bar.
stow, who was President of the Union
Tank Car Company. was admitted to
probate today by Judge Flanagan In
Orphans Court, Newark. Since Bar.
stow, two days before his death, duly
executed a codicil, Judge Flanagan
held that the will itself was valid.
BY it's terms, one-half of the estate
goes to the widow, the remainder to
be divided among four children.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
HUNDREDS of CHILDREN DIE
AND 1900 SOLDIERS BURIED
IN EXPLOSION AT MONAST|R
Thousands Believed Lost as War
Material Blows Up, Wrecking
Church and Barracks-Fires Drive
Inhabitants From City.

ATHENS April 20 ASSOCIATED PresSAdvces from Salonca
to-day report great loss of life result of explosion OF
era stored 200 from the Monastir railway station
Hundreds children buried in the ruins of church
which shells fell and believed 800 soldiers buried in the
ruins of their barracks which demolished the adyce state
The disaster occurred Yesterday Details of the damage
done and the number of victims lacking but the despatch received
here said it known that the death toll was large
SHE'LL hundreds of which flew in all directions following the
first explosion burst after hitting church 5 ~
Hundreds of persons mainly children said to have been
buried
Part of the where the explosion occurred is in pins
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u. S. is READY TO BEGIN
REFUND NEGOTIATIONS

WASHINGTON. April 2O.-,All!ed
Governments to which the United States
extended loans during the World War
have been advised by the State Depart
ment that the American Debt Refund
ing Commission Is prepared to begin ne
gotiations for conversion of the various
loans, amounting to sll.OOO. 900. 900. into
long time securities.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-20
ALL IN COURT ROOM PRAY
FOR JUDGES RECOVERY
Justice siIEer's Illness Causes sus-
pension in Jersey Tribunal

George S. Silzer of Metuchen, Judge
Of the New Jersey Circuit Court for
mer Prosecutor of MlddleseI County
and former State Senator, is seriously
i'll at the Middlesex General Hospital
at New Brunswick following an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Word OF his condition WAS received
at the Court House and Judge Peter
F. DAILY directed a suspension Of one
minute during which all in the court
room rose in silent prayer for Judge
Sllzcr's recovery.
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MILLER OFF TO-DAY
ON 3 WEEKS VACATION
Governor VIII Play Golf. but
Won't Say where.

Gov. Miller attended a theatre last
night and then went to his apartment
az the Plaza. He announced he would
start this morning on a three weeks
vacation and that he will play golf. He
declined to say where he is going. but
locked forward to a good rest and some
play thrown in. He said:
II guess my golf could be improved a
good deal"