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14 THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1917. ORPHANS-SEE WILD WEST A Recruit For The Best-Brains Division. JOFFRE MAY VISIT CITY Mayor Plans To Invite French Commission To Baltimore. TELLS OF HUNT FOR POLE Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleton JIake3 His Audience Shiver.

MAYOR IN FIGHT FORFUND Summons 100 Citizens To Discuss Plans For Getting Money. 1 iClfcJ? vj 1 1 ASKS PERMIT TO GET TO CLUB German Subject Seeks Entrance To Prohibited Zone. Erich B. Stein, who says he is a German subject and lives at 205-4 Linden avenue, is the first one in this city to apply for a permit to go within the territory adjacent to munition plants and Government works prohibited to aliens under thejecent instructions of President Wilson. In a letter which he handed to District Attorney Samuel K.

Dennis yesterday Stein stated that he was born in Germany on July 3, 1SS7, and was educated in that country. He came to the United States in July, 1910. remaining here until October, 1913, when he went Germany on a visit. Since he came back on June 15, 1914, he has been in the employ of the Baltimore Bargain House, which also employed him before he returned to Germany. For a number of years, Stein states in his letter, he has been a member of the Maryland Swimming Club at Dun-dalk, and he would like to continue his membership.

The clubhouse and grounds are within the area "enemy aliens" are prohibited from entering. The letter was handed by Mr. Dennis to Marshal Stockham, who is authorized to act in such cases, after consulting with the District Attorney and the Government's special agent. PRAISES WORK FOR NAVY Secretary Daniels Writes Goodnow Thanking Committee For Aid In Raising Quota. Dr.

Frank J. Goodnow, chairman of the Maryland recruiting committee, which helped so greatly in getting Maryland's quota of 800 men for the navy, within the time nameu by the Navy Department, yesterday received a letter from Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in which the committee was warmly thanked for its aid. The letter is as follows "The Department wishes to express its hearty appreciation to you, and through you to the members of the citizens navy recruiting committee and all others who co-operated in the recent recruiting campaign, for the valuable assistance rendered the Navy Recruiting Station in Baltimore, in filling the quota alloted that station within the prescribed time, namely, by April 20. Without the untiring effort of the citizens v2 Baltimore, the task of obtaining 800 recruits for the navy with'- so short a time would have been insurmountable. Respectfully, "Josepiius Daniels, "Secretary of the Navy." At a meeting of the committee held yesterday afternoon in the rooms of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, Dr.

Henry Barton Jacobs reported that authority' had been given to place the roll-of-honor tablet, bearing the names of the 807 men who enlisted in the navy at Baltimore station, in the State Uouse at Annapolis. A location will be selected soon, and it is expected that the tablet will be placed within a relatively short time. LED ALL CITIES IN EAST the post offered him by President Wilson of chairman of the American item in The Sun. WILL CALL UP LANSING: TODAY Delegation Oft Prominent Men Will Go To Washington If Answer Is Favorable. Mayor Preston intends to telephone to Secretary of State Lansing this morning to ascertain whether there is probability that M.

Viviani, Marshal Joff re, the Marquis de Chambrun and the other members of the party of the French commission to this country will accept invitations to visit other cities than Washington while in the United States. If he receives an affirmative answer the Mayor will immediately name a delegation of the city's foremost men to go to Washington and formally invite the commission to visit Baltimore. In this city, as throughout the nation, the most intense interest and enthusiasm is being, manifested for the French commission, especially for General Joffre, Marshal of France, who "saved civilization" when he stopped upon the banks of the Marne the German march against Paris in the fall of 1914. Seemingly all the reverent admiration for Lafayette winch leaps in the the soul of every American schoolboy when he first reads the story of the Revolution has flamed anew in the breasts of the men and women of this country in the war-crowded months of the last two years has lavished itself upon the whole French nation. Certainly since the landing at Washington of Joffre and his: colleagues the people of Baltimore have been vibrant in laudation of these" messengers from the nation across the waters which aided America in its supreme hour.

The presence of General Joffre and his associates in Baltimore as the guests of the city unquestionably would be a source of great joy to the people, and an honor to them which would be realized in the keenest degree. The Mayor is sensible of this, and if it is at all possible to have the French Commission as the guests of the city there is no doubt that he will leave nothing undone to convey to the commission the sentiment of the people of the city, and to do them all honor upon their visit. Invitations to the commission from other cities are beginning to reach Washington, and Philadelphia has sent a committee, headed by Mayor Smith, to extend its invitation. The committee was in Washintgon on Wednesday, and it hopes to have the commission become the guests of its city next The Philadelphia committee called on Assistant -Secretary of State Phillips and Counselor Polk, of the State Department, and the French Ambassador. M.

Jussserand. THIEF IN CITY HALL Got $1,051 From Cashier's Cage In Collector's Department Other Larcenies Reported. Headquarters Detectives Hammersla and Dunn went to the City Hall yesterday and investigated the disappearance of $1,051 Tuesday afternoon from the cashier's cage in the City Collector's department while Charles T. Jenkins, the cashier, was at lunch. The money was in three bundles 75 $10 bills, 50 $5 bills and 51 $1 bills and lay on a counter near a small steel door through which taxes are received when paid in cash.

Information gathered by the detectives led to the statement that a sneak thief is supposed to have opened the door by sticking two fingers through the wire frame and turning the key, which Mr. Jenkins inadvertently left in the lock. Collector William C. Page authorized the statement that no one connected with the department was under suspicion. Tire detectives said they could find no evidence that would lead to the recovery of the money or the arrest of the thief, but the investigation will be continued under orders from Mayor Preston.

Mr. Jenkins has been in the department for 17 years and has always been regarded as a conscientious and painstaking employe. He will make good the loss to the city, it was stated, without the necessity for calling upon his bond. Considerable petty thieving at the City Hall has been reported of late. It was stated that recently the salary of an employe of one of the departments disappeared in a mysterious manner from a box in which it had been placed by the chief clerk.

SAYS HE TORE ROOSTER'S COMB Wife Accuses Hnsltand Of Mntilat-ins; Pet From Spite. Accused of tearing the comb of a Rhode Island red cock. Frank Wankie-wicz, 500 South Bethel street, was arrested by Sergeant Paine and Patrolman Schamberg, of the Eastern district, and locked iip at the Eastern Police Station last night. Late yesterday afternoon Mrs. Rose Wankiewicz.

wife of the accused, carried the mutilated rooster to the police station and showed Justice Gerecht what her husband had done. She said that, to spite her, Wankiewicz seized the cock and tore off its comb. Justice Gerecht issued a warrant charging Wankiewicz with cruelty to animals. He will have a hearing today. Thirteen Trolley Cars Full Take In Afternoon Performance.

TREAT OF THE EVENING SUN About 1,000 Inmates Of City Asylums Have The Time Of Their Von ii Lives. ROITTE OF" PARADE AT 10.30 A. 31. TODAY. Eastern avenue to Broadway, to Fairmount avenue, to Washington street, to Lombard street, to Sixth street, to Eastern avenue and thenco to circus grounds.

Little Orphan Annie and her brothers and sisters and their little orphan chums started last night to break the untamed spirit of every chair and broomstick in 14 Baltimore orphan asylums, and to rope and hog-tie every wild bedpost in sight. Tribes of wild Indians sprang up shortly before supper time, and Custard's last stand was staged at 14 orphan supper tables. They even out-sat Sitting Bull by annihilating Toast and Tea in addition to Custard. For this uprising the Jess Willard and Buffalo BiU Wild West show and The Evening Sex are responsible. They entertained about 1,000 father less and.

motherless boys and girls yesterday afternoon, who never saw an Indian except on a copper cent (and very few at that), and who thought that a cowboy wa.rs a cow in short trousers. Filled 13 Special Cars. The orphans boarded their own priv ate cars which waited for them near the institutions they call and they filled 13 of them on the way to the show grounds at Edmondson avenue and Bentalou street. In the show tent they filled one whole section of the blue- slat bleachers. The United Railways furnished the cars, which waited on sid ings until the show was over to take the youngsters back home.

Each car bore a placard with the name of the asylum whose inhabitants it carried. Never have the wild folks of the West had a more cordial reception, especially the Indians. They probably appreciated the cheering and howling more than anybody else in the show because they are orphans too, most of them. Uld Iron Tail and Flying Hawk and Cross-eyed Buzzard have been orphans for years and years, and they expect to die as orphans. Tastes Of Boys And Girls Differ.

Little Orphan Annie liked best the cowgirls and the pretty lady in red who made the baby "elumphunt" dance jigs, and the fat Indian ladies with fat papooses in their arms, who stood in a row and shuffled their feet while their husbands banged on galvanized wash-tubs in lieu of tomtom drums, they being modern Indian husbands and tle wash-tub being a modern musical instrument. Little Orphan Johnnie liked the cowboys best and the men who whirled the lassoes; and to the man who carried a satchel around his neck and went around whining ballads and ragtime through a tin contrivance in his mouth, they rose with open arms and handed out their last nickels. He was an eloquent man and he was used to seeing his audience dig in its jeans after he had pictured in words the "bew-ti-ful mew-zik" obtainable from the "wonder of the age," but he was, totally unprepared for the wild clamorings that followed his speech yesterday afternoon. He sold out and had to jump in and help the peanut butcher, only to find that the audience's mouth was too full of tin to bother with peanuts. It was a great day, but the orphan asylum superintendents fear that Little Orphan Annie will be so busy for the next two weeks lassoing the neighborhood cats and practicing the Sioux war dance that she won't have time to "wash the cups and saucers and put the things away." Today is the last day of the Wild West show, and it will end its stay in Baltimore out at Eastern avenue and Sixteenth street.

There will be two performances, afternoon and night, with Jess Willard and Walter Monahan in a three-round love-making scene! A religious service for the Indians of the Wild West show was held on the show grounds Testerdav afternoon bv the Bev; Philip Cook, rector of St. Michael and All Angels' Church, and John A. Addison, religious director of the Young Men's Christian Association. CO. OF FIFTH, LEAVES Capt.

Black's Command Assigned To War Duty Outside The State. Company II of the Fifth Regiment, under Capt. Walter Black, left its armory and the State last night for war duty somewhere in America. It was the first company of the Fifth to go au active Federal duty, and its future post will be farther away from home than that of any Maryland National Guard unit yet called out. With the train" that was to take it away from Maryland waiting at Union Station.

Captain Black's company paraded in the armory with the other companies of the Second Battalion, under Major Hancock, and then marched out and down the street, while the men of the other companies stayed and danced with their girls. The girls of the men of II Company were there, but they didn stay to dance. They marched along the sidewalk all the way to Union fetation with the departing troops. There are 100 men in Company, which has reached its maximum peaee strength, but it left with only about 150 service rines. Enough rifles to supply its shortage and that of other companies of the Fifth are expected today, and a supply of tents is expected by May 1.

Major Walter V. Shipley has been working since Monday on estimates of the cots and method of establishing the mobilization camp on the Lewis farm at Havre de Grace. RED MEN SUPPORT PRESIDENT Resolutions Are Passed At Annual Great Council. The eighty-second annual Great Council Fire, Great Council of Maryland Red Men was held at the Junior Order United American Mechanics Temple on Wednesday and yesterday. The session was largely attended and the following great chiefs were elected: Great prophet, Abram M.

Watson, of Baltimore great sachem. Henry M. War- renfeltz, of Emmitsburg; great senior sagamore, Marion L. Tyndall, of Salisbury; great junior sagamore, Charles H. Butler, of Baltimore great ehief of rec ords.

Dr. James C. Littleton, of Baltimore, and great keeper of wampiim, Jo seph 11. tIoanof Llkton. James T.

Rogers, of Binghampton, X. Great SVnior Sagamore of the Great Council of the United States was present, and spoke. The Great Council will meet again on the fourth Wednesday in ApriL 1918, in Baltimore. A feature of the session Wednesday evening was the adoption of a resolution offered by Dr. Littleton supporting President Wilson, which was in part as follows "Whereas the Congress of the United State, under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson, declared that a state of war exists between the United States and Germany, and the Government of the United States has thus become a participant in the terrible straggle which has been raging in Europe for the past two and a half years, and is now making warlike preparations upon a scale calculated to startle all the people of the civilized world and "Whereas, the Improved Order of Red Men was organized as a patriotic organization and has given proof of its devotion to the flag of our country upon every battle field of the republic.

Therefore be it "Whereas the Improved Order of "Resolved the Improved Order of Red Men of the State of Maryland bi our annual convention as-semoled around our great council fire, That we have the most implicit confidence in the patriotism and the wisdom of President Wilson and In the justice of the American cause in this great conflict." $228,762.89 ALREADY PLEDGED Day's Work Xets 87,920 Keports Bring: Cheers From Those At Luncheon. Mayor Preston yesterday sent out letters to 100 representative citizens asking them to meet him at his office at 3 o'clock today. lie will present to them plans for an active campaign looking to 'an immediate completion of the Baltimore Fund and it is expected that this action will add a tremendous impetus to its collection. A big jump was recorded yesterday when the largest day's total of the campaign was turned in. A last-minute contribution of $4,500 brought the total for the day to and the grand total to $228,702.89.

"I venture to say that tin's is the most significant idea in the United States today," was the way in which Ernest I. Iticknell characterized yesterday the gathering of the Baltimore Fund. lie is Director-General of Civilian Relief of the National Red Cross and was one of two distinguished guests at the head table at yesterday's luncheon meeting. The other was II. Minnis, secretary to Lieut.

Sir Ernest II. Shackleton, who lectured here last evening. Tells Of Red Cross Work. Mr. Bicknell said he had iome over from Washington not to find out about the Baltimore Fund, but to have the pleasur of meeting the men and women responsible for this idea.

lie told of the functions of the Red Cross and showed why it was particularly interested in the success of the Baltimore Fund. He thought the idea worthy of adoption in many other cities, and said that as he was called about the country to give counsel in the organization of relief iMf nsures he should take pleasure in telling people of the Baltimore Fund movement. Mr. Minnis, who was one of the explorer's party on his memorable trip into the Antarctic, acknowledged the applause, that greeted him by saying that Lieutenant Shackleton, who left Australia a month ago to rejoin his naval command in the North Sea, was making a special stop in Baltimore to lecture because of his deep interest in the Baltimore fund. The reports of the team captains at the luncheon were, punctuated by constant roars of applause, for it was by all odds the best day of the campaign.

As the big sums were posted on the blackboard the spirits of the U00 workers present rose minute by minute, so that when the Committee of Fifty's report was called for everyone was in a mood to yell. The largest single gift announced by this committee was $15,000 from a friend of the. fund who wished to bave his identity kept secret. Other large contributions were $10,000 from the Tinted Railways and Electric Company and $1,500 from Ilochschild, Kohn Co. In making the announcements for the Committee, of Fifty B.

Howell Cris-wold; called particular attention to the action of the German-American Hank in making a pledge of $750. A Have of cheers swept through the big room before he had completed his announcement. There was another outburst when he read the following letter from Thomas A. Cross, president of the United Railways: United Aids Employes. The stockholders of the United Railways and Electric Company of lialtiniore, on April 11, approved a resolution adopted by the executive committee appropriating the necessary money to pay the wages of any of its men who were called into the service of the Government or who volunteered to the colors.

This, it is estimated, under existing conditions, will cost the company between $35,000 and $40,000 a year. If the war continues for long the burden will increase greatly, but at all events there will be no necessity for the Baltimore Fund to be called upon to take care of the families of any of the 'employes of the United Railways and Electric Company serving in the army or navy of the United States. We believe, however, in the wise policy of the Baltimore Fund and strongly commend the plan of placing money in the hands of the board of trustees of that fund to make provision for the abnormal situation which will result in this city, due to the conditions brought about by the European war and by the fact that this country is itself involved. With this object in mind and as a patriotic duty, as well as with a sense of obligation to the people of this city in emergency times, the company will contribute to the lialtiniore Fund a total of $10,000 when called upon by the trustees, divided over the period of three years referred to in the plan. This contribution will be in addition to the company's own plan to make provision for the dependents of its employes serving the nation duringMhis crisis.

Many- Of Spi.OOO Murk. Seventeen of the 35 teams making reports yesterday brought in more than $1,000. Jacob W. Hook's team was at the top of the list for the day, with Next was Gen. Lawrason Biggs, captain of team No.

1, with Others in the "high class" were T. Tongue, Charles W. Maydwell, John L. Alcock, Mrs. James Locke.

Hans Froelieher, Dr. Robert W. Johnson, Mrs. E. A.

-Park, Alexander Payson Knapp, James Piper, George B. Sirn- fiaons, Carroll Tubman, L. S. Zimmerman, Mrs. B.

Powell Harrison, Dr. Charles B. Thompson and W. D. Young.

YOUNG GIRL SEEKS BOND ErHtrice Levin, 12 Years Old, Will Invest $50 She Saved To Buy Furniture, Evidence piled up yesterday that the great masses of the good people of the country are going to put their shoulders to the wheel when their dear old Uncle Samuel opens the window and cills out that he has reached the point where he really needs that $7,000,000,000. Of course th great bankers and the wealthy people ore going to do a lot, but the man, and the woman for that matter, with anywhere from $100 to $1,000 in bank is going to be legion, when the list of contributions made up. The War Information Bureau of The Sure, located in the lobby of The Sun Building, yesterday received a considerable number of inquiries from men and women here and there in the State who evidently had not much knowledge of financial matters, but who wanted to help their country by putting all or a part of their savings into the bonds and were anxious to know just when the bonds would be on sale, the terms and the like. So constantly do these inquiries come, by letter or personally, that it is perfectly plain that when the bonds are actually put on the market they will be taken in great quantities, in the aggregate, the small fellows. Among the letters which came to the bureau yesterday was one from Beatrice Dorothy Levin, 1427 West Baltimore street, a yourg lady about 12 years of age.

Her letter rang bell. It seems that she has been saving her money to buy a nice set of bedroom furniture, and had accumulated $50, but she has decided that she would rather lend that $50 to her country. Her letter ran like this "You will kindly reserve me a $50 war bond. This money I had been saving for a sot of furniture for my bedroom, but I think I can wait a little longer. If I had mote to give, I would cheerfully give it.

I am 12 years old." HIS ACCOUNT WITHOUT FRILLS Enslisli, He Ie-Kcrilies Calmly The Perils And HardMliips Endured. Before an audience that shivered in a warm hall as they "oh-ed" and "ah-ed" at his recital, Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackle-ton, the distinguished Antarctic explorer, told the story last evening at the Lyric of his unsuccessful search for the South Pole. English to his finger tips, with every peuliarity and trait of the race markedly accentuated, Sir Ernest was a delight to his hearers. He is the Englishman that has visited these parts for some time.

Even in his lecture he exhibited the qualities for which the natives of the tight little isle are famwis. Without a trace of "swank" or vainglory, he unfolded a tale of hardships, piled one on another, that made his listeners squirm in their seats. And he didn't seem to think what he and his little band had passed through was at all remarkable. Cold Is Intense. Almost incredible cold, exposure that would send an ordinary person to his grave in a few hours and disappoint" nients in rapid and disheartening suc-.

cession were the lot of the little band' of o(J men that set out in 1914 to wrest the secrets of the Autarctic from their enshrouding ce. Five thousand volunteers were examined before those were chosen, and the way they stood up under what befell them indicated that he who selected them was "some picker." Right at the start Sir Ernest and the 27 who were with him were hemmed in by an unusual cold spell. They were to try to cross the Antarctic continent and unite with the other half of th expedition coming from New Zealand on the other side, but the ice "nipju their ship and they were helpless. How they stood by. day after day.

and watched the "pressure" of the grinding ice floe tear tlieir vessel pieces was portrayed by the speaker i.i langua.se so simple and so devoid of pose that his hearers were forced t. weigh his words carefully in tj grasp the heroism that lay beneath. A last "nip" and a crash and the relentless ice had taken away their ship and they were adrift on a large cak. of ice hundreds of miles from land. Thev had three small hoats and as the cik drifted with the floe they attempted travel over it to open water, carrying the boats with them.

In live days they progressed nine miles, working i.ho'irs a day. At last they made the open water, or what they thought was open, but as they put in for the uight the ice closed around them again. When they awoke nothing but the floe Mas to be seen on the horizon. "Thought I ii Little of it." Sir Ernest climbed a pole and tried to find the open water. "It was then," he said, "that I felt the penalties of leadership.

There was I up on that pole and below me were my men looking up at me to see what I thought of it. And," with a wry face, "I thought little of it, if you ask me." They found the water again finally and managed to get to Elephant Island. It was the first time they had been off the ice and on real land for nearly a year. But they were out of the track of the relief ship. Many were ill and someone must get to the whaling station at South Georgia and bring aid.

With five men, Sir Ernest pet out in an open boat for the station, SOO miles away. After days of sailing and rowing they reached South Georgia just as their water gave out and just as the boat collapsed. But they were on the wrong side. The whaling station was on the other coast and South Georgia never had been crossed. It was nothing but a rib of mountains and scientists had said it could not be crossed.

Slrnsgled Over Monntalns. But they crossed it. Sir Ernest and two men, leaving the other three under the ruins of the boat, climbed the mountains four times in one day before they were able to get across a tremendous canyon in the middle of the island. Arriving one the other slope, they saw the whaling station in the distance and heard the 7 o'clock whistle blow, the first sign of human habitation for almost 18 mouths. In order to get down to the station from the tops of these "impassable mountains it was necessary.literally.fr descend in a waterfall.

The rope they had was 50 feet long. The waterfall was CO feet high, and at its base a pool. They slid down to the end of the rope and dropped into the pool. inis was their spectacular re-entrance into the light of semi-civilization. "They were glad to sec us," said Sir Ernest, and added with true British literalness and a striving to avoid heroics, "and they asked us to come in and get warm.

The rest of the story dealt with the rescue after four attempts of those left behind, but the audience by this time was as much interested in the lecture as in the story he had to tell. lie the genuine article. Compared with the efforts of some more finished speakers, his address might be said to have been unpolished in spots, but it was this feature that gave it interest. Sir Ernest talked as to a group of friends. When some noise occurred at the rear of the hall he stooped and said "What's that?" quite naturally.

When he became "a bit tired" he remarked: "Now look here. I say, let's rest a bit, eh what?" and his hearers laughed and "ehwhated" with him. Praises Men Highly. Praising his men and in particular his lieutenant, Frank Walde, whom he described as the "calm, quiet, blue-eyed little man who sat for 32 hours at the rudder with unruffled face," Sir Ernest slid over the parts of the story that might have added lustre to his own performances. But he was unable to conceal th indomitable leadership that kept his men together with almost certain death star-' ing them in the face, every minute of the day and night.

Ilis audience left the Lyric profoundly impressed. They were sure that Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton was a leader of men, a "regular fellow" and an Englishman. $3 WHEAT PREDICTED Present Priee At Chamher Of Commerce Is It has not been many years since farmers spoke of "dollar wheat" as almost a myth and something that would never be realized. It then meant a big profit to the growers, as it was estimated that farmers in Maryland could grow wheat at about CO cents a bushel. Soon after the European war started wheat advanced above SI and then the talk of 52 wheat commenced as something away in the future.

Today the dealers in wheat are predicting that a bushel and more may be obtained for this grain before the present rise ceases and before the next crop begins to move freely. Wheat was quoted at a bushel on the Chamber of Commerce yesterday and reports reached here that spot wheat had sold at 'i a bushel in St. Louis. The close was somewhat below the top price, or at but the undertone was firm. There is practically no trading in the Baltimore market, as those who hold the wheat are unwillinz to part with it even at the prevailing high prices.

Bishop TellM Of South America. A lecture on South America was riven yesterday afternoon in the assembly hall of St. Catherine's Normal Institute, 1 Tfl Tl iiTV anil A flin rrt-rn tt--i no I ---iv iiimiuu Bishop Charles Warren Currier. There were present members of the facultv, alumnae, senior classes, friends of the in stitute and sisters from other houses. Bishop Currier will give a talk to the faculty at o'clock this afternoon.

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Park ave. and clay su Baltimore Only One That Raised Quota For Navy In Time Specified. Of the big Atlantic Seaboard cities, Baltimore was the only one to meet the President's call for more men for the navy in the specified time. Figures are beginning to become known about what happened in other parts of the East and in the country at large. New York was called upon for 2,000 men and raised only 960, not many more than Baltimore.

Philadelphia's quota was 1,200 and she contributed but 590, over 200 fewer than this city. Four cities arrived at their goal in time. They were Baltimore, with 800; Kansas City, with 800; Cincinnati, with 400, and Portland, with 800. Since the expiration of the time limit, Minneapolis has completed her 800, but several other large cities such as Boston and Cleveland have not yet reported. It is believed that the navy at the present time is nearly up to the emergency complement of 87.000 required by the President's call, but it will not stop there.

A bill which has the approval of the President and has been favorably reported by the committees of both branches of Congress authorizes a further increase to 150,000. This will provide plenty of men for all the navy's, needs the work on shore at the navy yards and the manning of the new ships, including the "mosquito fleet." If this new. force is authorized, the drive for more men will start all over again, regardless of whether the Selective Draft bill passes Congress, as the machinery for conscription will require some time to be put in working order. Lieutenant Wilson is chiefly concerned at present with the gathering of 30 hospital apprentices who arc needed badly and with the enlistment of machinists and firemen, of whom there is a dearth in the navy and whose promotion is correspondingly rapid. FASTS 4 DAYS IN MONTH Physician Of 80 Thinks Food Scarcity Won't Hurt Americans.

STILL RIDES HORSE OH VISITS Dr. Daniel E. Stone, Of Frederick Connty, Yonng'ster Octogenarian, Gives Recipe For Iiong-evrty. It won't hurt American people to drop several courses from their meals during war time and consequently reduce their waistlines a few inches or so. In fact, Dr.

Daniel E. Stone, of Mount Pleasant, Frederick county, says they are apt to grow stronger and live longer on that account. And Dr. Stone, who has been attending the annual session of tire Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, should know, for he fasts four full i days every month. At the age of 80 i VOIr'c 1 y-k ia 1 vrr nnrJ curWXT OG I'll majority of those 25 years his junior.

Beginning the sixteenth or thereabouts of every month, the Doctor for 06 hours doesn't touch a morsel of food. He has been practicing this custom for 20 years, and, instead of showing any ill effects from it, seems to be getting a firmer grip on life all the time. He says he drinks plenty of water on those four days, but never touches anything stronger. Nor does he smoke. Still A Practitioner.

The Doctor is probably the oldest active physician in Maryland, a hardy specimen of manhood, a keen philosopher and one who believes in enjoying the world to the limit. "Let George do the worrying," is the way he puts it. Some 00 years or more ago Dr. Stone thought he was going to die young. His father, three brothers and a sister had died of tuberculosis and his uncle's 10 children had died of the same disease.

One day he picked up an" English book on medicine and in it read that horseback riding was a good preventive against tuberculosis and other diseases. The young man bought a horse and has been riding many hours a day ever since. For 53 years as a physician Dr. Stone has made many of his calls on horse- back. Even now, when he is called out 1 1 1 1 in zne late nours oi tne nigni or cany in the morning to make trips in the mountains to patients, he rides his horse.

The Doctor decided tp retire from ac-tice practise after 50 years, but the people of Mount Pleasants wouldn't let him. Some of those who send for him say that he cared for their grandmothers the grandmothers were babies and that they won't have anybody else. That's why the Doctor sticks to his job. Some of these days, he says, when he gets eld, he will settle down on his big farm, on which he raises corn and wheat and other things. Blames Overeating: For Ills.

"The trouble with us Americans." declares Dr. Stone, "is that we go to banquets, to the houses of friends, to picnics and other things and eat everything that is placed before us. We enjoy ourselves for many years, but those who don't eat so much will enjoy themselves longer. They will be thinking what a shame it is that John or Dick or Harry is resting beneath the pfirth wlifn hp should hp', gmnnf hia old chums, singing and joking and hav ing a good time. "This war will do good by teaching the people to let the flour sink slowly in the barrel and let the body bear no fat.

We will find that economy in eating is the best thing possible." It may be remarked the Doctor is about 6 feet tall, as straight as Washington's monument, has only a few silver strands in his hair and a nice, long patriarchal beard, that won't be white for many years. WAY CLEARED FOR BIG PLANT May Announce Plans For Xew Shipyard Today. Those at work on plans for the establishment of the immense industrial and shipbuilding plant on the property under option in the Marley Neck section of Anne Arundel county were still in New York yesterday. Emory M. Newton, the chief promoter of the enterprise, is expected in Baltimore today.

It is said that he will return in 'full possession of the views of those who are behind him in the financial end of the deal. If these are satisfactory a formal announcement may be made of the plans and purposes of those backing the project. AGREED ON BAZAR FUND Booths For Specific Purposes Must Share Expense. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ACTS Victory Over Women Who Wanted Half Of Gross Receipts Tloney To Be Apportioned, The disagreement over the distribution of the Allied Bazar Fund of about $120,000 having been settled yesterday afternoon by a resolution requiring booths conducted for specific charities to share the expenses, the money will be paid over next week to the board of trustees, headed by Cardinal Gibbons, and. finally apportioned throughout suffering Europe.

The resolution, a victory for John It. Bland and the executive committee of the bazar over the women who wanted 50 per cent, cf the gross receipts of their booths, was adopted unanimously by a quorum of the committee, and reads as follows Resolved, That the executive commit tee ratifies and confirms the terms and conditions named in the minutes of the general meeting of December 1. 1916; and in order to emphasize this more clearly, the executive committee hereby construes the said resolution to mean that the said designated booths shall each pay their nro rata share of the general expense of conducting the bazar before any division of the receipts from holding the bazar shall be made and "in accordance with this construction, Mr. John R. Bland, president of the National Allied Exhibition Association, is hereby authorized to pay to the chairman of each designated booth 50 per cent, of the net receipts of said booth so ascertained, as provided in the record of December 1, 1916 and he is also authorized to notify Mr.

Eugene Levering, treasurer of the National Allied Exhibition Association, to hold the balance of the fund from the designated booths and all other receipts not so designated, subject to the order of the board of trustees, heretofore named. And be it further resolved. That said board of trustees is authorized, if it deems proper to do so. to apportion to said designated booths an additional percentage; but the responsibility for such action must rest upon said board of trustees. MOTOR BATTERY TO DRILL Preliminary Work Indoors Will Precede Road Problems.

In accordance with orders issued by Capt. Charles F. King, commandant, the members of the Motor Arms Bat tery will meet in the gymnasium of the Garrett Building tonight and preparation for active service will begin. The men will be put through infantry drill and taught the small arms manual and within a few days outdoor work will be started. As many of the members own motorcycles, it will not be necessary to wait for the full equipment before beginning the preliminary work.

A series of runs to familiarize the men with the highways, roads and lanes of Maryland will be made. This work will be done in a systematic way, so that the various problems of reaching points in the State in the quickest possible time may be worked out. The work of securing funds to purchase the necessary equipment is going right along, though the finance committee let up in its efforts this week so as not to conflict with the Baltimore fund. It is hoped that several wealthy men and women will become interested in the plans and subscribe largely to the $70,715, which is necessary to buy the equipment. The idea is to place a fully equipped and organized motorcycle machine gun battery at the disposal of Governor Harrington and President Wilson as the gift of the people of Maryland.

EMERSON LN AUTO ACCIDENT Machine Skids Into Cnrh, Break Ins Two Wheels At liobn. Capt. Isaac E. Emerson, of Brook-landwood, narrowly escaped injury yesterday jnorning when his automobile skiddeff rm the wet paving at Beech avenue and Thy-ty-third street and crashed against the curb, breaking two of the wheels at the hubs. John Lastett.

the chauffeur of the machine, lost control of it while making a turn. Captain Emerson was shaken up, but was uninjured. Elihu. Boot has accepted Commission to Russia. News OWENS AFTER JUDGESHIP Former State's Attorney Out With Formal Announcement.

"NOT WILLING TO SCRAMBLE" F. 1 Este Fisher Expected To Enter Arena. Soon Friends Hopeful of Organization Support. Former State's Attorney Albert S. J.

Owens announced last night that lie will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for judge, to fill the place now held by Judge Robert F. Stanton, who is expected to be the Republican candidate to succeed himself. Mr. Owens, who has demonstrated in previous contests that he possesses a personal following, said in making his announcement that he had. been requested to become a candidate by Democratic lawyers and laymen, in and out of the organization.

He made the following formal statement: "From my earliest interest in public affairs I have been a consistent advocate of the primaries, and it has been my lifelong effort to arouse the Demo-racy to general participation in the making of nominations for public office. "While I have never been defeated at a general election, I have, owing to the opposition of the organization, ben defeated several times in the primaries; My defeat, on each occasion, was fully anticipated by me, and my candidacy, upon each occasion, had in view the stimulation of popular interest in the primaries. Sees Voters In Control. "In the last Democratic primary in this city approximately 50,000 votes were cast, thus demonstrating that the Democratic voters had taken control of the party nominations. I then determined it was no longer necessary for me to continue to fight after the battle was won, and I did not think I would ever again be a candidate for public office.

"Recently, however, a number of my Democratic friends, lawyers and laymen, both in and out of the organization, have requested me to become a candidate for judge. Coming from all Democratic sources, as this request does come, I feel it is in some sense a command, and I have therefore determined to- announce my candidacy for that office, subject to two conditions: "First "While I am over the conscript have volunteered toerve the country at this crisis in any capacity, either civil or military, in which my services may be deemed desirable. Should that call come, I shall consider it my paramount duty to obey. "Second I am not willing to scramble for the nomination, and if, prior candidate enters the contest who is, to the day of the primary election, any apparently, more acceptable to the Democracy than myself, I shall give him the right of way." Fisher Announcement Soon. It is likely that D.

K. Este Fisher will announce his candidacy within a short time. As stated yesterday in The Sun, Mr. Fisher is being urged to become a candidate by members of the bar, and it is understood that he practically has made up hi? mind to do so. His friends are very hopeful that he will have the support of the organization.

Charles F. Harley, who is close to the organization leaders personally and through his partner, John B. A. Wheltle, an intimate friend of John J. Mahon, has been foremost in the movement to bring Mr.

Fisher into the fight and is looked to as the agency through which the organization's support can be obtained Whether George "Washington Williams, a member of the Park Board, who declared hirv.self a candidate some time ago, will see the fight to a finish is not known. He is said to be the personal choice of Mayor Preston, but all the indications are that the organization will not take him up. OBJECT TO NEGRO COLLEGE Lauravllle Property Owners Don't Want Morgan Xear By. Every effort is being made by citizens of Lauraville and property owners in the neighborhood of Hillen road, near Lake Montebello, to block the move of the trustees of Morgan College to move the institution to that locality from Fulton and Edmondson avenues. They object to the negro colony which it is proposed to develop around it.

and the negro element it would inject into that section of the crunty. The first intimation that the college was looking that way for a site stirred up things without a moment's delay, and already an indignation meeting has been arranged by the Lauraville Improvement Association to be held Tuesday night in tle hall of the Lauraville Volunteer Fire Company. The proposed site is on the east side of the Hillen road, between the Ivy Mill property on the north and the city filtration plant on the south. It is understood that the college has secured one tract of land and has an option on the 70-acre Ivy Mill property. To the west of the Hillen road is the new site of the Bryn Mawr School and to the west and north are the Garrett and Abell estates.

The Lauraville development is to the east. A few years ago the college had practically perfected plans for moving to the neighborhood of Mount Washington, and was about ready to close the deal when the concerted action of the residents and property owners blocked th way, i I WATCH THE BALTIMORE FUND GROW! Each Canceled Square Represents An Addition Of $10,000 To The Fund. lOjX) Jz 6oc yfyv 80 TGfyc lioo ttyfyo jfa jfac ifyfapc $qoc 1 RESERVE YOUR WAR LOAN BONDS AT THE SUN OFFICE NOW Information from Washington indicates that the first offering of the popular war loan will be for and that the installment feature may be used. It is expected at Washington that definite plans for the sale of bonds will be announced not later than May 1. Secretary McAdoo is known to be desirous of having the proceeds of the first issue of bonds, or a portion of them, in hand not later than June 30.

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