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New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

had cherished from the beginning Of
bis long service as commissioner, and
Borough President Edward Riegelmann
said that the motoriEation Of the de-
partmont In. Brooklyn marsed a step
in that borough's growth. adding an
expression Of his gratitude for the
bravery Of the Brooklyn hre-ighters
in the past.
Replaced BY Motor
The new combination motorized
pumping engine which takes the place
Of Company 205's horse-drawn appa-
ratus was parked az the sidewalk near
the spot where Firemen George Muir
ray and John Foster halted their teams.
After the speaking was over Captain
Howard and his men left the old en-.
ginc and tender and mounted the new
machine; Fireman Raymond MeGill
started its powerful engine and the re.
constituted company roared It's way
back 10 the Pierrcpont Street house,
which first became the home Of No 205
In the old volunteer days Of 1886. Pen.
rose, Danny Beg, Billy Grifin, Water
boy and Buckncll trotted OF, heads
high, toward the Fire Department. re-
pair shop in Manhattan.
The five horses are % De retired 90
one Of the upstate charitable institu.
tions operated by the city. The apps-
ratus will probably be sold 10 some
smaller city, and thus the glory 10 de-
parted. Little children and older ones,
whose hearts have thrilled bit when
the horses went BY, will perhaps be
sorry. So will old Jiggs. the eompany's
spotted coach dog. The hremen, whose
efficiency has been increased fivefold
and whose work has been cut In two By
the change. are not sorry, though down
in their hearts some Of them will miss
their f6ur-footed companions Of many
blaze. And the horses-well, they arc
all around nine years old; they have
done their duty faithfully, and perhaps
" they could speak they would say
that there are worse things than being
taken to a place where lush green grass
replaces asphalt and where sundown
means the end Of days work
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Mrs. Hirsh Goes on Trial
For Shooting of Husband
Refine Davies Too III to Appear,
but Her Father Testifies
al MineOla

Mrs. Hazel Hirsh, who enliyened a
party at the home Of RENE Davies.
sister OF Marion Davies, in Freeport.
L. L. last June by shooting her hus-
band, Oscar Hirsh. known as "Wallie," /"
vas placed on trial yesterday in
County Court. Mlneola. l.. l.. charged
with assault in the frs; degree.
Miss Davies. IL was said, was TOO
III 70 appear and probably would not
be able 20 be present to-day. Il IL ex-
pected the case viii 70 10 the jury to-
day.
The party at Miss Daviess home
took place June q. Magistrate
Bernard ]. DouIaB. Miss Dayies's
father, testified that about 1880 p. m.
he heard a shot and heard a man yell:
II am shot, this - did it," Magis-
trate Douras said he found Hirsh
wounded on the lawn and that Hirsh
said TO him; "She shot me; she swore
that she would get me-"
Mrs. Hirshr he said, was running
about on the lawn crying: II had 10
do ~ He made me do I'll"
Similar testimony was given by
George Van Cleave, a son-in-law OF
Magistrate Douras and then officials
we're called to tell what they learned
when they reached Miss Davies's party.
Captain John II. Hartman, OF the
Freeport police. said that when he ar
rived Hirsh WAS saying that "a man"
had shot him and that later he heard
him refer 20 the individual by name.
calling him Luke McGluke. Sheriff
Charles W. Smith testified along the
same line.
Assistant District Attorney Elvln ".
Edwards rested his case and the de-
fense will open this morning.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Miller PGrdOns Seren
In Time for Christmas

ALBANY. Dec. 2O.-Scvcn con-
victs in state prison, serving
terms varying from five years 10
life, were ordered freed to-day by
Governor Miller, in Christmas
combinations. Their crimes
ranged from second degree mur-
der to arson. All were recon-
mended 10 the Governor as model
prisoners.
The names Of those freed are
John Shepherd, Of Kings County;
Eugene Norris, Of New York
County and Frank Berchman, Of
Bronx County. second degree mur-
der; Aniello Mauri, OF New York
County, first degree manslaugh-
ter; Edward +. Stoeckle, OF Mas
sau County, second degree man
slaughter; Michael Merenda, Of
New York County. arson; Stanley
Frost Of onondaga County, rob-
berry.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Naturalization
OF Daugherty
Is Expected
Committee Ends Hearings
To-day, Will Report After
Holidays Holding Charges
Improved, II Is Predicted
Cases Here Reviewed
Hayward Tells Of Lockwood
Building Trade Inquiry
and Rum Ship Seizures

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. - Public
hearings on the impeachment charges
brought against Attorney General
DAugherty probably will end to-mor-
row before the House Judiciary Com
mittce. which Is expected 10 report 70
the House that II found no evidence
on which 10 base an impeachment pro-
eeeding. The report will not be made,
however, until after the Christmas
holidays because Of the absence OF
members from Washington.
When the committee adjourned TO-
night after two long sessions there
remained 70 be heard only a half dozen
witnesses.
Department Heads Heard
Examination OF the department ofh-
GERS began late to-day over the protest
Of several committeeman, who insisted
that the Attorney General should not
be asked 70 offer witnesses 10 testify
concerning charges IN support Of which
no evidence had been presented. Chair
man Volstead insisted. however, that
the witnesses be called.
Representative Woodruff, Repub-
llean, Of Michigan, laid before the
committee evidence which he con-
tended showed "unnecensAry delay" by
the Department Of Justice in bringing
suit against the Wright-MArtin Air
craft Corporation FOR the recovery Of
s3,60i,7i5 growing out Of alleged over
payment OF war claims. Assistant At
torney General Seymour announced
that suit for the recovery OF this
amount soon was 70 be fled, and
Colonel Guy ID. Gof, former Assistant
Attorney General. who has had charge
OF the case, denied the charge OF un-
necessary delay.
Most OF the remaining time Of the
hearing to-day was taken up with an
inquiry into the building trade eases
growing out OF the lockwood commit
tee investigation In New York. Colonel
William Hayward. Federal District At
torney at New York, vent into details.
Questioned about the release OF the
schooner J. B. Young, seized az New
York for an alleged violation Of the
prohibition laws, Colonel Hayward dis
closed that the order stopping the seiz-
ing OF rum" ships outside the three
mile limit unless such vessels had es-
tablished contact With the shore by
means OF their own boats or crews was
issued after "insistcnt demand" by
Secretary Hughes.
"Dled Hard" Says Hayward
"The Attorney General, Mrs. WILLIE
brandt Ian Assistant Attorney General
In charge Of prohibition enforcement
eases), and myself died hard on that
proposition" said Colonel Hayward,
explaining that he believed that the old
Law against ships "oitering' outside
the three-mile limit for the purpose Of
landing eontraband applied TO such
cases
With specific reference 20 the J.. B.
Young. which was seized six miles from
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Pupil, ScOIded, Takes Iodine

Because she had been reprimanded
by her teacher for a supposed offense,
Anna Tagliarisno, fourteen years old,
OF 1918 Thirteenth Avenue, Brooklyn,
darted from the classroom yesterday
in Public School 176, Twelfth Avenue
and siXty-eighth Street, and swallowed
the contents Of bottle Of iodine. She
was removed TO the Coney Island
Hospital, where II is said she will re-
cover.
The girl, who is in class 7-B, had
taken nid-term examinations in the
morning and Is said 20 have told the
questions % pupils who were TO take
the same quiz In the afternoon. Her
teacher, Miss Genevieve Miller.
reprimanded her for this and sent
her TO SEQ the principal. A few
minutes later she was found in heap
In the hall.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Woman Runs FrOmCourt,
Scared at Judges Fines
Caught After Eluding Arrest,
Wife of Coal Operator Pays
S25 for Speeding

Geneva l.. Lewis, twenty-five years
old, who said she was the wife Of
George A. Lewis. a coal operator, with
Offices az 500 Fifth Avenue, and home
at 10 Riverside Drive, was much per-
turbed yesterday IN '1rafie Court and
had no hesitation in telling Magistrate
House she was afraid Of him. She was
brought TO the court after she had
oluded warrant officers and the police
for almost two months and WAS fined
$25 for speeding.
She was given q summons on DC.
tober %, Ieturnable October 2s, and
she told the magistrate whep she went
20 the court on that cay and heard the
heavy inos and jail sentences handed
out, she hurried from the courtroom
before her namo was called and had
TO 20 to a drug store to get something
fer her nerves. ,t
Later, when a warrant was issued
for her arrest, il was found she had
moved from the address given the po-
lice and IL was only on tuesday night
she was located at tho Riverside 'ad-
dress. She gave $1,000 diamond ring
70 guarantee her appearance In court
yesterday and paid her fine from q
diamond-studded purse, then almost
ran from the court.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Inquiry Asked in State
Hospital Patients Death
Aged Mans Daughter Charges
AIistreatment; Superintendent
Invites Investigation
spsciol Diipaich 10 Tie Trlb1ns

ROCHESTER. n. Y, Dee. 2o.-In.
vestigation into the circumstances sur
rounding the death Of Joseph II. Jenne,
seventy-fve years old, at Batavia, is
sought By DR.. Eugene II. Howard, su-
perintendent Of the Rochester State
Hospital, whore, il is charged, Jenne
was 90 abused that his death resulted.
Or. Howard has requested the state
hospital commission 10 make the In
yestigation.
Mrs. Roy II. Keyes, Of $50 East Main
street, Batavia. declares Jenne, her IA
ther, was mistroated at the hospital
His death last Sunday az her home was
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Mail Autos Cannot Speed

WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.-speed gov
ernors fxed az tho speed limits of
motor vehicles In the mail service,
the Postoffee Department announced
to-day as a development Of It's cam
pAign for yesr-round safety in the
service.
The governors automatically estab-
lish the speed limit b. stopping the
supply Of gasoline 20 The earburetor
after = certain point is reached.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Campus Residents Increase
Columbia University Reports
5000 Gain in 8 Years

T. Ludlow Chrystie, chairman Of the
standing committee Of the alumni,
said yesterday in his annual report
that campus residence at Columbia Uni
versity had increased nearly 800 per
cent in the last eight years. More
undergraduates now live on the campus,
he said. than the total undergraduates
besides ct Ahmerst, Wesleyan or Will
liamB.
The report indicated that the per-
centage was expected to increase even
more, FOR the reason that Columbia IS
constantly drawing more and more Of
her undergraduates from the country
"a large.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

requisition was received from tie Navy
Yard for supplies listed as worth, say,
81 900, the foreman Of the department
receiving the consignment would write
in pencil over ink figures, adding
ciphors to any desired sum. The goods
ordered by the Navy Yard then would
be loaded on a truck or trucks and sent
out with supplies added to the raised
total. Once outside the gates the added
ciphers would be erased, the original
requisition delivered and the added
goods disposed OF TO fences"
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

shore. Colonel Hayward denied that
her release had been brought about
through the influences Of Thomas H.
Fielder, Of New York, counsel for the
owners Of the craft, as had been
charged In Mr.. Kcller's specifications.
The release had been ordered, nc as
serted, because tho law officers were
not satisfied that ther0 was sunicient
evidence for = case In court.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

due 20 internal injuries, according 20
an attending physician.
Dr.. Howard declared that tho staff 40
the Rochester State Hospital welcomed
the investigation. He saidi
"We are not running a secret instltu-
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Ouebc College Set Afre

MONTREAL, Dec. 2O.-An attempt
was made last night to burn the Pres
byterIan College at Pointe Aux Trem-
bies, whero go French boys and girls
receive religious training, Chief Bou-
Nanne, Of the FIRE department there
announced to-day.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

tIon. II an investigation is nads ~
our personnel the ehargs vouid u
made that u II biased AZ . eonst0
qusneo We are ssking The state beepitd
commission 10 ascertain the fsstu.s
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
Kansas City OH Lookout
For Denver Mint Bandits
Two Cars Reported Speeding
East, u. 5. Agents and PO-
lice Guard Roads

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Dec. 2o.--Fed-
eral agents, private detectives and Kan
sas City, Kan, police, armed with riot
guns, are guarding every road entering
Kansas City, Kan. to-day on tho look
out for the bandit band which on Mon
day robbed tho United States Mint ~
Denver Of 100000 and six days before
took $4,000 from the Drovers National
Bank here.
A report to-day from tho Sheriff AZ
Topeka that two auto loads Of men
one car bearing a California license,
the other without iicense-had passed
through Topeka at high speed, sent
the officers TO their posts along the
road
DENVER, Dec. 20.-A stolen auto
mobile or a stolen license plate, and
another car abandoned near the scene
Of the 100000 United States Mint rob
bery. we're the chief objects Of inyesti-
CATION by the police to-day In their
search for the three bandits IN Mon
days hold-up. Photographs OF finger
prints on tho abandoned car are being
taken, in the belief that the bandits had
IL placed there for use in emergency.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21

There will be much feasting and
merrymaking on Christmas Day
and much cracking and eating OF
Cash's mee-tee Nuts. Our wish
is that no one may be disappoint-
ed through forgetting to get his
or her supply until the latest pos
sible moment has come and gone.
You all know-just as well as
we do-that a Merry Christ
mas" means a Christmas with
plenty Of Cash's mee-tee Nuts
in the shell, shelled or salted.
But Just to make sure that none
of you will forget, or leave your
nut purchase until too late, we
will here, as gentle reminder,
and to make your mouth water,
print the names OF some Christ
mas favorites:
Calf Fancy Extra oeleeteo
Wsinuts Filberts
Extra Large Brazil Paper Shell
N,,tg Almonds
D. eh.ii peeans Black Wslnuts
rarev psradise Hickory Nuts
Nuts Bgttertuts
Read that list again and then
remember that every day, IN
every way, they are sound, de-
licious and wholesome. Get
yours without deiay-in tn G
she'll, shelled or salted.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-21
CHARLES S.CASH INC
Every good nut that grows

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900 Madison Avenue. at t2d strest.
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~ Liberty street, at Church.
$50 W. ieist 81, bet. B'wHy A Nad3Hofth'
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blue eyes with their long black lashee.
eyes set rather wide apart in strong
fair face-white and clean as girl $
her blood tingled ana her tongue re-
fused her.
never refused before in Ladys
Choice She felt it was a childish
Il knew it. forgive me-" pleaded
Terry, but I had you wrong, and
was bitter that night over Irish news"
"Ah, might have known, said Pa
trtcia contritely. What a dear sentl-
mental lot of silly fools we Irish are!"
yourself has said it! I'd not be-
1ieve it from anyone else" he returned
tenderly. and his blue eyes held her
brown ones and his lips twisted into
an adoring smile. Patricia felt the
blush burning her cheeks and hastily
looked away. He handed her into the
car and mechanically took the wheel
Patricia smiled when he realized what
he had done.
He graxely laid his hand over hers.
Its the way-our way hereafter ana
when I've heard all about the little
mothers fright I've something to say
to you"
Patricia timed her narration and her
observations thereon to the time OF
their arrival at her own home she
was not going to be proposed to in a
car, not even a chummy roadster. But
when. in her parlor, he said to her;
Now I've made up my mind to this
The Byrne household may have trou-
bles of its own. but they're going TO
be American troubles, domestic. not
international nor altogether Irish"
How about home rule?" teased
Patricia as she sought to elude an out
stretched arm.
Yes" he nurmured as he gathered
her to him, "if youn agree to be the
Saint Pat of that home, you shall
rule it,
And thus it was that on the ceie-
brated 18th of March, Patricia, other
wise Saint Pat, really came into her
own.
Newspaper Syndicate
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! Probably few persons who have
reached middle age or beyond have
Jailed to note the change which
church architecture has undergone
since the days of their childhood. A
sElance around this city at the
churches which have been erected in
fhe past dozen years will reveal that
they have taken on the appearance of
municipal or lodge buildings Posi-
bly, the Christian Scientists largely are
responsible for the new style, which
apparently has come to stay 1t has
the merit Of affording more space
for a given expenditure than was pos
'sible in the old style church. But
.even this modern style now seems to
be giving way to the business block
idea. A seventeen story hotel with a
.cRurch occupying part of the first
sthree floors and a school for mission
aries on the fourth is to be erected in
Nov York within the next few
1nonths. according to plans just an
bounced. It will be more than q
church and hotel; it will be church
hotel. There will be strict supervision
of it's guests so that the moral tone
'Of life will be assured. Church menu
beers will be particularly catered to;
cards and dancing are to be prohib-
ited. and general decorum will be pro-
.nounced.
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O.. Has a British ambassador been
handed his passport in this country in the
A Sir Lionel SackviiIe- West was handed
his passports in 1855 At that time Bel
6ains re FepreesfnfaIlEs was minister not
that CIeveland's reelection would be ad-
vantageous to England, wherenpon Presi-
dent Cleveland felt it necessary TO hand
Sir Lionel his passports.
O. How does the New York clearing
a. The operations Of the New York
clearing house are exactly the same in prin-
ciple as those Of bank clearing house.
with the exception that stock certificates
are exchanged (cleared) instead Of checks
and drafts. A sheet is made out by each
house every day before p. m. On one
side is entered the list of stocks to be de-
on the other side is entered the list of
stocks to be received and their full mar
Q. Do wire performers use a round
wire a flat wire7 J. r.
IA; A. The stage manager Of local ya .gs,
wire artists never use fiat wire for stage
performances.
odorous" to be found in Shakespeare? w.
A The old proverb Companions are
odious" was used in Much Ado About
Nothing" where in Act III Shakespeare
caused Dogberry to, misquote it and say
@ How many Catholic bishops and
priests are-there in the United States
A. There are es Roman Catholic bishops
in the United States and 21,0I9 clergy,
including bishops
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Bureau cannot give advice on legal. medi-
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEIE PAPE

I was coming home from skool this
aftirnoon and all of a suddin 1 saw a
pin rite in frunt of me on the pave
ment, me thinking, Herray, good luck.
ing glad and then 1 quick stood up
strate agen feeling sorry. because
something ripped all of a suddin and
put my hand back and heer it was a.
big place in the sect of my pants, me
thinking, Heck, good mite, wat kind of
good lucks that?
WITCH jest then saw Mary watkins
coming and I quick sat down on some
bodys frunt steps with a Impression as
if my pants dident have enything to do
with it, and Mary Watkins came up
saying, Hello Benny, watts you sitting
there for?
I'm waiting for somebody. I'm wait
ing for some fellow lives in heer, 7
sed, and she sed, I dident know eny
boy lived in there, never saw eny go
in or enything.
He jest moved heer. he's a friend
of mine, I sed. and Mary Watkins sed,
o, watts he like. is he nice, Ill jest wait
heer a little and wen he comes out
you can interduce us.
Ne thinking, Good mite, gosh. And
I sed. There's no use waiting, you
wouldent like him. you'd think he was
fearse, and she sed, Wy. wy would I.
watts he like? and I sed, o. he's the
limit, he is he's ony got teeth and
? of thems loose so he ony Expects to
have soon, and holey smoaks you
awt to see the way his clothes look.
his shoe laces is always undid and
he never wears a tie and G wig you
aWt to see how derty his neck gets.
Wen how do you happin to know
sutch caracters, you sed he was
friend OF yours. if that's the kind of
friends your trends are well then I'm
not one of them. sed Mary Watkins.
And she wawked away proud and I
threw the pin away hard as enything,
thinking, o yes. good luck all rite, o
yes And I quick ran home the back
way, running sideways wenever went
past enybody in case they mite hap
pin to look Ground
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got on a suit watts mos perzactly like
yourn, and I don't pay but ten dollahs
fun mine. Somebody shore film
TANNED you"
The possessor of the forty dollar
suit took hold of one of the coat
sleeves of the ten dollar suit and pulled
on it. It stretched. Then straighten-
ing up he said; See here, boy, the
fust big rain yo gets ketched out in
dat coat of yourn is gwine to say,
Goodbye, niger, fom now on Use
gwine be you vesti'
That all people do not have the
same slant on humor is illustrated in
the following story:
One of the Wealthiest men in
Youngstown recently said to a
friend:
Il had a funny dream last night
What was it all abopt?" the friend
encouraged.
81 dreamed I got into little Ford
that climbed up a telephone pole,
turned a somersault on the wires, and
then slid down another POLE
well, that certainly was some
dream"
Yes" the rich man exclaimed.
Imagine me in a Ford
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+ The senate has voted to extend
twenty-five years the date of pay
ment on $5o.oOo.OoO lent our late
enemy, Austria. since the war. This
action is in marked contrast to that
of our associates in the war. They
are bearing down on our other van
pushed enemy for every penny that
can be got cut OF her. or course. it
IS a little unusual 20 whip an enemy
and then lend him money. But I'm
Gle Sam has an established record as
a generous adversary. After whip
ping Spain he made her a present of
sac. 900, 900.