Evening star., 1932-03-02
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

recently decided that the insurer can
not be compelled to pay compensation
in the case of John Driscoll, team
ster, whose wooden leg was broken
when his horses SHE'D and threw him.
The case was bitterly fought, three
judges dissenting from the majority OF
the bench. II was urged that loss of
an artificial member was a real dis
ability. The majority held that a de-
ciSion favorable to the workman would
open the door to claims for damage
to crutches, eyeglasses and false
teeth.
@. When did Mrs. Minnie Maddern
Fiske appear in The New York Idea?
It. Z. @.
A. In isoe.
G. Has DR.. Lorenz an office in the
United States?-R. Z. S.
A. DR.. Adolf LOrenZ. the Viennese sur
! geon, maintains an Office at 160 East
Seventy-second street. New York City.
@. Is the institution for bows known
as DR.. Barnardo's Home still in ex-
iStence? Through this institution many
boys were emigrated to Canada
A. j. w.
A. DR.. Barnardo's Homes. established
more than so years ago, are still op-
Grating both in England and Canada.
According to recent report more than
100000 children have established them
selves as first-claSs citizens through
the agencies of this charity, 1873
children passing through the homes in
single year. The average number In
residence in the homes is 1900.
@. What was the highest rank held
by the Confederate general, Joseph
Wheeler?-S. A.
A. Wheeler was lieutenant general
in the Confederate Army, and on the
outbreak of the War with Spain he was
commissioned and served as major
general in the United states Army.
Q. What railroad was the first to do
away with the system of indiseriminate
issuance of free passes?-S. D.
A. The Pennsylvania is believed to
have been the first. Its directors took
action to discontinue the issue Of passes
and free tickets of all kinds on Deem
Der l3, 1905, the order taking effect on
January following.
@. What was the War Finance Cor
poration?-P @. H
A. The War Finance Corporation,
created during the World War, was set
up as war emergency measure. Ad-
vances were made out of its $500 ,000,-
900 revolving fund to industries olassed
as essential to the conduct of the war
and to producers of food. Interest was
negotiated on the basis of each loan.
The corporation has been liquidated.
@. How can newspapers afford to pay
cable tolls on columns of news from
China and other far-of places? Are
the war stories manufactured at home?
W. A. N.
A. Single newspapers could not af-
ford to pay the huge sums spent in OBJ
tanning news from Shanghai, Paris,
London and other distant places. Press
associations. serving hundreds of tndi-
vidual newspapers, gather the news at
the source and cable it to New York.
There the press association sends
duplicates to each newspaper member.
a press association with 1000 newspa-
per members can thus supply Shanghai
dispatches at one-thousandth of the
cost to each paper.
O. What is Italy's plan for giving
popular training in the Sciences?-G. S.
A. The institution of a free popular
school in Italy desires to popularize
the most reliable conclusions of SCI
ence and make them accessible to those
who have not received a special SCI
entifc training. Rome and Bologna
took up this movement almost con-
temporaneously. In upper Italy there
are four of these institutions in Pied
mont and Liguria, seven in Lombardy,
five in Veretia and one In Naples.