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THE BOSTON GLOBE SXTURDXY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1921' gldlu (globe. MARINE DISASTERS By WILLARD DE LUE ments. the situation becomes merely spiritual regeneration and miracles of physical prodigy. Unfortunately, our i humorous. Yet Germany is printing age has been fatally and almost solely more marks.

She is subsidizing coal, ppoiyio ln th lattep klnd. The reBUlt3 iron and steel business so as to in- are before us. crease output that she may increase Give us miracles, by all means But her ability to pay. This subsidization let them be miracles of spiritual birth, of Bocial readjustment to changed results immediately in further infla-J living conditions, of man ruling his tion of her currency So she Is the of those devastating I. M.

M. SUBMITS NEW BRITISH AGREEMENT Would Except Vessels Under American Flag Shipping Board to Give Hearing in! Total for 202 Class I Roads NET RR OPERATING INCOME GROWING July Figures 4A Percent on Federal Valuation VI A Tale of Horror in the Pacific DIVISION OVER MELLON PLSH Senators Fail to Agree on Taxes, in Long Debate May Drop Relroaciiva Clajss on Profils, Says Penrose spirit and no more miracles which we have seen wrought of late man all hut destroyed by the mechanical Inventions of his own brain. THE ESSEX STRUCK BY A WHALE (From a rare old woodcut printed in 1834 in The Mariners Chronicle) AHE Nantucket whale-ship Essex, Capt George Pollard Jr, sailed from her home port Aug 12, 1819, rounded the Horn without Incident, and in the morning of Nov 20 foupd herself close a school of whales in theNoi-th Pacific Ocean, more than 10QJ mffs from the nearest mainland. There she was wrecked by a bad whale. The captain and second mate were out in the boats.

Owen Chase, first mate, was on deck. He saw a whale plowing at full speed for the vessels bow and yelled to the helmsman to sheer off to avoid the attack. In vain. The infuriated whale struck the ship with his head. He gave us such an appalling jar as nearly to throw us qff our feet.

The ship brought up as if she had struck a rock, and trembled like a leaf. Soon it was discovered that the Essex was filling with water and settling by the head. Owen set the signal flags to recall the boats. I had scarcely done this, he wrote in his story of the wreck, when I saw the whale apparently in convulsions about a hundred rods to leeward. He was continually thrashing about and smiting his Jaws together, as If ln anger.

I was aroused by a cry that he was coming for us again. He was about 100 yards ahead, coming for us at full speed, and again struck the ship directly under -the cathead, and completely stove In the bow. He passed under the ship and was seen no more. A few minutes later, as Chase and Capt George Pollard Jr, sailed' hind. He said he might as well die Hhere as at sea.

William Wright and Seth Weeks, both of Barnstable, Mass, determined to remain with him. Jan 10, 1820 Fifty-one days since the loss of the Essex. M. P. Joy, second mate, died.

Two days later Chases iboat became separated from the others in a storm and did not see them again, but we will hear of them later. Now to follow Chase: The allowance of bread was reduced to 1 ounce a day. Jan 20 Richard Peterson, a colored seaman, died add was cast into the sea. Feb 8 Our sufferings were now drawing to a Close, says Chases Journal. A terrible -death appeared to await us; hunger became extreme; our speech and reason seemed to be impaired.

That day Isaac Cole became a raving maniac and died. A conference of ths survivors was held. The awful decision was made that their dead comrade must be served as food. Chases account: We separated his limbs from the body, cut off allthe flesh, took out the heart, sewed up the remains in canvas and committed it to the deep: and making a fire, partook of it, and preserved the remainder for future use. In this manner we dispose of our fellow-sufferer, the painful recollection of which brings to my mind some of the most revolting ideas that it Is capable cf conceiving.

We knew not to whose lot It would fall next, either to die or to he shot. Humanity shudders at the recital. The $69,485,000 WASHINGTON. Sept 9 Railroads of the country had a net operating Income In July of $69 485,060, the largest since last October, and $17,000,000 more than in June, the Association of Railway Executives announced tonight on the basis of reports filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The earnings, a statement by the association said, were at the annual rate of 4t4 percent on the tentative valuation fixed by the commission for rate-making purposes.

Tne compilations were based on reports from 202 Class 1 railroads, having a total mileage of 235,641, Roads falling to earn their operating expenses and faxes for the month numbered 57, as compared with 72 in June. In the -pastern district the operating revenues represented a decrease of 13.8 percent, while the expenses decreased 32.5 percent. The net operating income was $27,336,000, as with a deficit last year, derating revenues of Southern roads decreased lOpercent anl their expenses decreased 26.1 percent. Their net operating income was as compared with a deficit last year. Operating expenses of Western roads decreased 11.8 percent and their expenses 26.7 percent in July.

Their net operating income was $33,781,060, as compared with $9,104,000 in July, 1320. The total operating revenues for July, the statement said, amounted to $462,953,000, which was a decrease of $60,000,000, or 12 percent, as compared with July, 1920, although the rates are now on a higher basis. Operating expenses were $362,776,000, a reduction of $151,000,000, or 23.4 percent. The net operating income compares with a deficit of $11,878,000 for July, 1920. BOSTON MEN OFF FOR MOROCCO TOMORROW Spanish Consul Denies They Are to Serve in Spain While the names of the Yankee and Canadian veterans who have cast their lot with the armed forces of King Alfonso of Spain are withheld by Pedro M.

del Almeida, the Spanish consul, it tvas learned yesterday that 29 of these soldiers of fortune will be in the first detachment to leave Boston to fight the Spanish monarchs battles with the Moors. They will go on the Fall River boat t9 New York tomorrow night, and they will report to the Spanish Consul General In that city on Alonday. In a statement to the Globe Air Almeida positively denied that the men will be called upon to serve in Spain or that their recruiting bears any relation to rumors contained in a special cable from London representing that King Alfonsos throne is in danger because of demands being made upon the Government by Spanish Liberals. These men are all intended to fight the Atoors in Alorocco, said he. and not for duty in Spain.

These stories about trouble in Spain, in my opinion, are far from the truth. They are making a mountain out of a molehill." Though the lists are closed in this city for the present, the consul having no authority to accept any more recruits at this time, it is understood that already about 300 Yankee soldiers of fortune are on their way to Spain, and would-be recruits continued to pour into the Spanish consuls office at 244 Washington st all day yesterday. BLAME CHILDREN FOR WOLLASTON CHURCH FIRE QUINCY, Sept 9 An investigation made by Sergt George W. Fallon of the Police Department Into the ire and vandalism at the Wollaston Unitarian Church yesterday afternoon, today revealed the fact that the work was done by two 5-year-old boys and a 4-j ear-old girl. The police reported that the parents of these children admitted they were in the church and est the gas stove going while playing at housekeeping, and that the fire which followed and burned part of the wooden sheathing over the wall of the kitchen of the church was accidental.

The mother of one of the children told the police that her boy came running home saying he had set a fire in the church and that the boys father ran into the church and extinguished the blaze. Despite the explanation made by the mothers of the children, the members of the Fire Department don't believe the fire was accidental. The mass of cloths which were found on the floor of the church kitchen was too far removed from the gas stove, they say, to be the result of catching accidentally from the gas range. But. admitting this might be possible, the firemen say, what caused the fire in the assembly room ln which there was no stove at all? In this assembly room a chair had been set on tire and when the cane bottom burned through the fire fell to the floor and burned over quite a space.

AUT0ISTS CASES UP IN COURT AT HINGHAM HINGHAM. Sept 9-In District Court today. Judge George XV. Kelley presiding, Henry A. Neveiux of Hulljcharged with failing to provide a horse, six hens, ttiree cats and two raboits with proper food, drink and shelter, was found guilty and sentenced to the House of Correction for three months.

He appealed and was held lor the Superior Court under $300 bonds. Henry F. Albiani of 147 Train st. Dorchester, and Hull, was charged with driving an automobile at Hull in such a manner as to endanger the lives and safety of the public, with going away after causing injury to a person without making himself known, and with assault and battery. Miss Elizabeth Haskell and a girl companion were walking on Nantasket av, Hull, Aug 17, when, it is alleged, she was knocked down and seriously injured by a car operated by Albiani.

Miss Haskell is still in the hospital. Today AlLianl testified that at the time of the accident he did not see the girls or know he had hit anyone until lie heard a scream from under his car. The counsel for the defendant asked the judge. What would you do if an accident of the kind happened to you and nobody was near for you to report to? Id hunt somebody up, was Judge Kelleys reply. Your honor, said the defendants lawyer again, the ordinary man who drives an automobile does not know all about the automobile laws.

My experience in this court. replied the judge, is that the ordinary man who operates an automobile doesn't know much of anything. Albiani was found guilty of driving an automobile in such a manner as to endanger the lives and safety of the public and was fined $50. He was also found guilty of going away after causing injury to a person without making himself known. On this charge he was sentenced to one month in the House of Correction, but the sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation, the case to be continued to Dec 9.

The third charge, that of assault and battery, was dismissed on motion of counsel for the Government. In the Juvenile Court Howard Swig, a son of Simon Swig, was charged with delinquency by reason of driving an automobile at Iluli about a week ago without a license and in such a manner as to endanger the lives and safety of the public. The case was continued to Sept 2S. According to the testimony, the machine went through a fence and over a bank, about 30 feet, but no one was seriously hurt. John J.

Campbell of Boston was fined $15 for breaking the Metropolitan Park rules Jin NantaskeL Guiseppe Gegleo of Southampton was fined $5 for driving without a license. SATURDAY, SEPT 10, 1921 The Globe Mans Daily Story A man rushed into a big Berlin news agency one night 30 years ago and excitedly shouted: Moltke is dead!" that old ass, the editor in charge exclaimed. I. And soon he fell to at a supper of beer and lieberwurst. Afterward, as he 'smoked his pipe, he muttered: Ach Got 1 wonder what that fool cf a Hans meant by interrupting roy work with the announcement that cur janitor is dead.

But it was not Janitor Moltke who had died, and the Berlin papers the next morning had not a word of the death of the great Prussian General. i THE BULLFROG IN THE POOL A PRETTY fable has come down to us from our fathers of a frog who sat in a pool and tried to enlarge himself. Up to a certain point he won success. The fox on tho bank couldnt help expressing his admiration at the feat (thinking that a larger frog would mean, eventually, a larger feed). The bull, watching the stunt, was also impressed, and so was the crow perched ln the tree overhead.

Their chorus of approbation was checked only when one of them figured out that if this kept on, the frog would be larger than all three together. So worry replaced the hosannas. But just as the distress was at its height the frog blew up with a loud report, and nothing was left but a few small pieces. During the past weeks we have heard a deal about Germany and her rapid strides back to power iu trade and finance. Many tell us (with wise nods) that she is getting in on the ground floor of world trade; that she has a distinct advantage over us with her money as cheap as it is; that folk3 in Germany are able to live almost for nothing, and, finally, that she really won the war after all.

Request for data brings forward the response that Germany has paid her billion gold-mark instalment of reparations, due August 30, without even a quiver of an eyelash. Where, demand our friends, did she get that money unless from trade and taxes? Travelers who have been in Germany tell you that the German people are right on the job, dont they? And hard at work, and (most sinister of all) everybody there is quite cheerful. The fact that Germany did pay her billion is undenied, nor can it be denied, either, that it came largely from trade balances. But it came from other sources, too. One of these was the sale of marks, and just here the problem complicates.

The easiest way to see the true situation of Germany in finance and it is this which Indicates her possible recovery or the reverse is to take a group of simple facts and consider them. The unit of Germanys money is the mark. Let us take a look at it. At full value, in the old days, inside Germany and out, the mark was worth almost $.24. That is its present par value.

Presumably that is the value it must approach before Germany really recovers. But that Is not all. The mark has two other values: one is Its purchasing power within Germany today, and the other its listed value in the exchanges of the world. One can live in a fine hotel in Germany today for 70 marks, breakfast included. Similar accommodations ln Boston without breakfast would cost at least $4.

On that basis, the mark in Germany is as good as 6 cents In American money; that is to eay, gold. But the listed exchange value is neither 6 cents nor 24 cents. The Berlin Bourse closed Thursday because speculation hammered the mark down below one cent, and cluttered the exchange with business. For labor, seeing money shrink, immediately demands more of It, which sends wages soaring. The man who holdd- seeing their value shrivel away, scrambles to put his wealth into some other form of prop-.

erty, and the orgy of buying sends everything else balloonlpg. Try to reconcile a unit which represents $.24, $.06 and all at once and I you have the problem clearly outlined. What is the chief cause of this i problem? The answer lies in the official report of Germanys floating debt, exclusive of her bonded debt. It is more than 200,000, marks. When a floating debt reaches that figure, and the printing pressw con-1 tlnue to turn out more paper money, while the basis of currency, gold, Is diverted to meet war Indemnity pay- frog in the pool.

Germany still seems to be in the midst of the period of inflation that we were In during 1919. But with this difference: the economic snarl laid over her effort by the reparations and Indemnity payments demanded by the Allies tends to her to still further inflation, much as the chorus urged the frog. What happened to the frog is history. What will happen to Germany will be history. It is plain that to get her currency wrung out she must begin, to wring it some time.

She cannot do this now because, first, the Allies have specified, dates for further enormous payments op the Indemnity within the next few months; second, because her efforts to find this money lead to further inflation of her financial body, which can scarcely stand much more wind before it blows away entirely; and, third, because attempts to gathei that money mostly by taxation would be trying to force pedple below the standard of living which human beings must have to exist. After the Civil War we bumped along on the ties with several distressing jolts ourselves while trying to get back to specie payment. Germany has this period to go through, and with additional handicaps. How well she will succeed is a question increasingly insistent in the minds of those qualified to know. Mr J.

M. Keynes, the British economist, Is among the dubious. So is Mr Frank Vanderlip. Mr Keynes declares that Germany must eventually blow up, and even goes so far as to set the exact month when this will happen: February next. In the face of all this, it does not look as If fears of Germany beating the world market were justified.

If those fears were justified, then all arguments for sound money would he futile, fit only for the wastebasket. But the cheers on the edge of the pool over Germanys apparent indications of growth will not help Germany, or the Allies, or ourselves. Nor will they increase the repast for the onlookers when the limit is reached Uncle Dudley. FAUST IN EAST BOSTON TRAGEDY is a word which is badly overworked. But tragedy is the only word to designate a happening in East Boston.

An unmarried Italian girl, 20 years old, newly come to this country, gave birth to a baby. The childs body was found crushed to death between the mattresses and the spring of the bed. The girle brother is ln jail facing a charge of assault to kill, and the girl herself is In a hospital hardly expected to live. The supposition is that the brother played Valentine to her Margaret and made himself the avenger of the family honor. The Faust of the piece remains as yet unknown.

Who Is the Devil, the Mephlstopheles? Here, on Webster st, ln East Boston, are the materials of that classic 18th-century drama the betrayed girl, the murdered infant, the outraged brother. The argument of that drama was this: Society attaches a profound social stigma to a child born out of wedlock. But that stigma has been so emphasized that, rather than face it, many a woman would rather kill herself or her child. The only conceivable value of frowning upon illegitimacy of birth is to conserve the values of human life and morality. When, therefore, the enforcement of this social penalty grows so severe that people will commit murder and suicide rather than face it, we are safe in saying that it has grievously overshot lti mark.

That was the conclusion to which Goethe, the foremost poet and thinker of the 18th century, arrived In his study of the problem. It Is sorry comment on our rate of social advance that the same tragedy which he made so piteous more than a century ago should be enacted in our midst. What if society, in this case, were the Mephlstopheles? ENOUGH OF MIRACLES A TIME Is coming (if It Is not already here) when It will make us as sick to hear that one about We live ln wonderful age as It does when some bonehead gets off, Is It hot enough for you? The point being that the "wonderful age has been gettings rather too hot for us. At a convention of chemists a scien- fr tist suggests that the next source of energy to be tapped will be the rays of the sun. If we could feel that man had made a little better use of the scientific discoveries already poured Into his lap by the last half century, this suggestion might be refeelved with a little more enthusiasm.

As things are. It is much as if a well-meaning but ill-advised uncle had come ln, bringing JPommie another bushel basket full of fireworks. Just after that youth had all but killed himself with those he had. 4 We are assured that we live In an age of miracles. It so happens that miracles are of two kinds: miracles of New York Oct 4 and 5 WASHINGTON.

Sept 9 The International Mercantile Marine, through its president? P. A. S. Franklin, today submitted to the Shipping Board a new agreement entered Into with the British Government supplementary to the 1903 agreement which bound the corporation to pursue no policy injurious to the interests of the British Mercantile Marine or of British trade. The new agreement provides that vessels operated by the International Mercantile Marine under the American flag shall not be regarded as affected by the original agreement.

The new agreement was presented in compliance with a request made last March by the board, which conducted an extensive inquiry after Senator Jones of Washington, in an address before the National Merchant Marine Association. directed attention to the corporations contract. Mr Franklin discussed the supplementary agreement at length with the board today and at the conclusion of the conference the board announced that hearings would be held Oct 4 and 5, in New York, at which the original as well as the supplementary agreement would be up for consideration. tm- The agreement was signed by Rear Admiral F. L.

Field and Vice Admiral Sir Osmond De B. Brock, as two of the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, by Stanley Baldwin as president of the British Board of Trade, and by officers of each of the subsidiary companies involved. It specified that the agreements of Aug 1, 1903; Oct 1, 1919: and Sept 1, 1913, shall be read and construed as if there were excluded therefrom any and aH vessels documented under the laws of the United States of America which are at any time operated by the parties hereto of the second part (the I. AT. or by any company under their control which is not a British company.

In the preamble it was set forth that the agreement had been drawn to satisfy doubts which have been raised in the United States of America as to whether Great Britain controlled vessels of the I. M. M. which operated under the American flag. SUN DIAL PRESENTED TO PILGRIM SOCIETY Colonial Daughters Are Donors at Plymouth Special Dispatch to the Globe PLYMOUTH, Sept 9 This afternoon a sun dial was "presented to the Pilgrim Society by the Society of Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century, which has its headquarters in Brooklyn, The exercises were held at 4 oclock and were opened with an invocation by Rev Dr Theodore E.

Busfleld, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth. The former president, Mrs Robert Franklin Ives of Brooklyn, read an original poem, The Pilgrims. and Mrs Arthur M. McCrillis presented the greetings of the Rhode Island branch of the organization. Airs Ives then made the dedication speech, which was responded to by Hon Arthur H.

Lord, president of the Pilgrim Society. The singing of America closed the exercises. The dial is erected in the parkway in the rear of Pilgrim Hall and is of bronze on a white granite pillar, on which is a bronze table, inscribed: Presented by the Society of Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century. 1321. GOSTA RIGANS TAKE COTO PEACEFULLY U.

S. Marines Will Go to San Francisco, Then Home PUNTA ARENAS, Costa Rica, Sept 9 Occupation of the Coto region by Costa Rican troops, in pursuance to a declaration from Secretary of State Hughes, upholding the regions award to Costa Rica by Justice White, was carried out without intervention from the American battleship Pennsylvania, which was sent from Philadelphia on Aug 22, with 4.0 Alarlnes, in case of resistance on the part of Panama. i Inhabitants of the region joyfully greeted the Costa Rican troops. The roops found long lines of deserted trenches and many public buildings which had been burned by the Pana-inans usjore evacuating the area. WASHINGTON.

Sept 9 The battalion of Marines ordered to Central America to guard against violence incident to occupation of the dsputed Coto region by Costa Rican forces will remain aboard the battleship Pennsylvania, which i3 proceeding to San Francisco, -Navy Department officials said today. It was said that on arrival at San Francisco the battalion probably would be held lor return to its station at Quantico, Va. aboard the transport Henderson, sailing for the Atlantic Coast in November. The State Department was advised officially today that Costa Rica has occupied the Coto district without opposition of anv kind. RECEIVED 237 CALLS FOR HELP DURING AUGUST Alore applications for help poured In from needy families to the Family Welfare Society, which was formerly the Associated Charities, during August than have been received in anv one month for 42 years, according to a statement made last ninght by the society.

Reports for August from the 13 district offices, submitted at the meeting of the directors yesterday, showed 237 new applications. Unemployment was the chief factor in the difficulties of 119, while sickness, old age, widowhood, desertion, nonsupport, mental defects, domestic infelicity and imprisonment of the wage-earner were the problems most often met in the others. Drunkenness was responsible for but two applications. The Welfare Committee for Men, conducted jointly by the Family Welfare Society and the Boston Provident Association, the directors were told, received 135 new applications In August, all but 10 of which eame from men who were in trouble chiefly because of unemployment. Henry B.

Cabot, treasurer, announced the receipt of a $100 legacy to the society from Miss Alary Alma Co, who for 30 years was a member of the star, and who died last August in Florence, Italy, and also the receipt of $100. under the will of Mrs Lina Frank Heclit, late of Boston. John F. Moors said after the meeting that the society expects to eontinuo ito efforts to meet the unprecedented demands which are being made upon it. but that generous support from tpq people of Boston is urgently needed.

DR SULLIVANS LAST SUNDAY THIS SEASON AT ST PAULS At the Cathedral Church of St Paul next Sunday evening the tenor aolo. "If With All Your Hearts You Truly Seek Him." from Mendelssohns oratorio. Elijah. will be sung by James A. Montgomery of the cathedral choir.

The subject of the address bv ltev Dr Edward T. Sullivan will be: Ia There Balm in Gilead; or. Shall th Main Question Now Be Put? At the morning service at 11 o'clock, lr Sullivan's subject will be: The Hidden Heroisms of the Obscure. This win be Dr 8ul- it.Vlt?unolay at th cathedral church for this bummer. EDITORIAL POINTS --We do not read that that indignant Boston woman who called at the Church of the Unemployed to protest vigorously against the simulated slave auction sale on the Common left behind her any contribution to help the unemployed.

With Ellhu Hoot called Into conference with President Harding and Secretary- Hughes, 1 the President has two strong advisers. That the President and Mrs Harding are good sailors Is shown by their starting on a week-end cruise on the Mayflower, which will take them uip the coast as far as Bar Harbor, to visit the McLeans at their cottage on Mt Desert. Perhaps if there Is rough weather the yacht may put In at Boston. Has Prof David Todd considered whether It Is ethical and In consonance with the fundamental principles of etiquette to intrude thus upon the Martians privacy? Dr Little believes that in time the suns rays will be utilized to provide light, heati and power, although the time may be many years away. If the leading scientific minda of the world should combine to solve this Important problem, couldnt the time of waiting be reduced? Japan certainly seems to be striving to get some troublesome problems solved before the time set for the Armament Limitation Conference.

Canada, urging the elimination Article from the covenant of the League of Nations, has no fear of any encroachment on her boundaries. The banks, of will oversubscribe the combined issues of Treasury obligations offered by Secretary Mellon, amounting to about $600,000,000, dated September lS, and consisting of three-year 6V4 percent Treasury notes, six-months 6 percent Treasury certificates, and one-year 6 percent Treasury certificates. If 2.75-percent beer is not at all intoxicating, as Senator Calder says, why do so many yearners long for it? The chemists ln convention in New York, predicting in their addresses new achievements in chemistry and physics that will open up a new era, in which the suns light, the tides, the earths rotation, and the atomic energy In ordinary matter will be transmuted to an extent almost incredible, are showing us again that scientific men are great dreamers. Mr McAdoo. formerly Secretary of the Treasury, doesnt stop half way.

"Reduction of naval armaments, he says, -is not enough; the world should be made navyless. Then who would police the seas? The Danish girl who swam the 143 miles-from Albany to New York city in six days, hours and 35 minutes actual swimming time, lost six pounds ln weight, but she has 146 pounds left, so that there is still enough of her to congratulate. The Coto region is a part of Costa Rica now, and the Cotoites seem to be content. It is pointed out to Japan that she may become the leading Nation of the world if she is prepared to free Korea and Formosa, withdraw from Manchuria and Siberia, and cease pressure on China. What should we have to do then to regain our prestige as a great, magnanimous Nation? The noticeable increase of drunkenness in Italy, a wine-drinking country, supports the argument of those who maintain that even light wines are too heavy for many of those who undertake to carry them.

In Bavaria the Elnwohnerwehr has been disbanded, in compliance with the Entente ultimatum, but Bavaria has a new Emergency Force, the Notbann, which is said to be in effect the old organization under a new name. Anyhow, the new name is shorter. New Zealand has set the unemployed at work reforesting, and expects to get more than 100 percent return. Why isnt something like that practicable ln this country? Inventive gfenius is always active, and now a combined lamp and phonograph is offered for a household furnishing. The lamp Is the piano-lamp size, and may or may not have a pedestal.

The lamp, with its phonograph base alone, to be placed oiv a table, costs only $100, but with a pedestal extra it will set you back $125. For all practical purposes now it is alt right to reckon German papei marks now at a cent apiece. How long would it take Mile Gade to swim from New York to Albany- The Stuart-street extension also means more than a Winters President Harding at least has stirred Japan to action. Rhode Island scallops, only $1.50 a quart! -s WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor will any notice be naid those of nndue length. Denominational or sectarian Questions aro not acceptable, Halifax Explosion James H.

McCurdy The number of lives loat at Halifax, 8, In the disaster caused by the explosion of a munition ship in the harbor on Dec 6, 1917, was officially placed at 1800, while the seriously injured numbered about 4000. The property loss was estimated at more than $22,500,000 and 20.000 persons wire made homeless About $13,000,000 was provided for relief of the sufferers, and in addition the Dominion Government later donated $7,000,000 more. Population of United States Robert H. Boyd The population of the United States, according to the census of 1920, is 105,683,108. The growth of population in the last 50 years was ns follows: in 1870 the population veas in 1880 It was an increase of 80.1 percent; ln 1890 It was 62,947,714, an increase of 24.9 percent; in 1900 it was 75,994,573, an Increase of 20.7 percent; in 1910 it was 91,972,206, an Increase of 21 percent; in 1920 it was 105,883,108, an increase of 14.9 percent.

Capt Vernon Castle L. W. K. Vernon Custle. the noted stage dancer, who, during the World War, was a captain in the British Royal Flying Corps, was Democrats Rap Reduction on Great Incomes WASHINGTON.

Sept -total tax of $3.200 for year is the aim of th- members of the Sena'e Finance mittee In revising the hou tax fc-s Chairman Penroe said today a'-r conference of majority This is approximately S9nvr, than Treasury experts have fgjrei House measure would but total which Secretary M-Iion ha, the committee will be rereej-j. conduct of the Govemmer.t the economies in departmental exr-l tures agreed upon at the wv. -conference last month are Neither the whole committee, av, met this morning, nor t-e who were in tj. emoon, reached any agreement on eifle revisions proposed yesterda- fer Secretary Meon. There gas r-oic-ert discussion of some of them at both s-.

sions, with the Democratic member launching their fight against retread tive repeal of the excess profits tax. reduction of the income surtaxe, t0 5 percent, and restoration of the portation taxes at half the present rate Urges Limiting Incomes of $500X00 After the meeting of the mavn-y members. Senator Penrose -'ad tha-while the drift of sentiment among fa Republicans seemed to be in Lv or' of repeal of the prods ut as H-t the situation was such that drift might change in the rf as of next Jan 1. as provided for r'ti House measure. Senator Simmons of N'nrih speaking for the mx Democrat bers of the commif-e.

retroactive repeal of th.s mi actertzed as indefensipit t-e rm- -i of Secretary Mellon to come surtax rates from ne-ce-i tn. eectJve Jan L-ilie that the 32 percent maximum rai in the House biU was too 1 During the day Senator Nebraska, acting Democrat, l-a-4 issued a formal statement afack proposals to repeal the profits taV cut the surtax rates, deoanng tion very objections. H- ai that such incomes as 0. were 'contrary to ti.e put he could be limited and restnme- it taxation. Clear Atmosphere, to Vote Togee Actual revision of the House be undertaken tomorrow.

Penrose said. Declaring that tre-- i been a pleasant and terchange of views" at the the majority members, i-er-ator P-rose asserted the indications wr these members would vote "fairlv together when we come to r.r.i: i cisions. While no action was taxtn bind those present, he added. s.t.-ti tial progress wax made in clear the atmosphere." Official Treasury figures prepared the committee show that with the changes recommended ye'terdxv Seer, tarrilelon. the House yield this f-cal ieM than the in us present form, and $2 7C7.

the calendar year or than tho House bill. 1 Losses from the House hi! fr- fiscal year would he jr through repeal of the pro--. gains would be a ti. Corporation tax tncreve i transportation, fcJ9.Uiv perfumery. pnetary medicines.

$3 In the calendar year PJ p. p5-rptp the House bill would t- f- AtoO.Oo.OiO profits tax and capital stock tax and the ra.ns a -be $4 090, as follows. Increased corporation tax transportation tax. $321 perfumery, cosureties ana p-i prietary medicines. $6 LOWELL BOY LOSES LEG IN TRAIN ACCIDEV LOWELL, Sept 9 Arthur P.a.T-:l 14.

was struck by a movtfiS fre'ght trx; on Prince st tonight. Hj left i amputated below the knee the poration Hospital. Advice your friends to use tte Globe's Want and Clatsiisd columns. For orcr 39 years tie Globe has been the leadtni iTcnf anf Classified medium ts You England. September Accountancy classes Pace Institute Day or Evening- sessions.

rite for bulletin and hclpJ-booklet, Making Good. Pace Pace Tremonl Temple. Botton 9 Boston (Ulofcf SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY GLOBE mg 1 2 iDluUttuc all of Ne Kxr Cfpt Maio. New crL parts of New Vvrk. 447- Uod eJ tU of New JrfKj- ier IVr TLe rema ader of the Zooe 4.

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AJi -hrttbt of tiecUl dlpttflx rf referred Tti Glob aau bo Anall biliiy b'C typi-amt-avsl trrar urmto. bet id r-fcial tB o.i Is. IlWI next morning, 10th we found the flesh spoiling' and made a fire to cook it to prevent its being wholly lost. For six or seven days we lived on It, not using of our remnant of bread. On the 15th our stock of flesh was exhausted we were down to the last morsel of our bread, consisting of two cakes.

On the 17th we saw Indications of land, which we hoped might be Massafuera. The next morning a boy named Thomas Nicholson lay down to die. Early on Feb 19 the 91st day in the boat a sail was sighted, and the three survivors. Chase, the boy Nicholson and Benjamin Lawrence, were soon on board of her. She was the brig Indian, Capt William Crozier of London.

Revolting as were their experiences, that of the men in Capt Pollards boat were far worse. After separation from Chase, the two other boats kept together for a time. Four colored men died and two of them were used for food, the flesh being divided between the two boats. Jan 28 a storm separated the little craft. The third boat was never heard from.

One can only imagine what happened. By Feb 1 there was not a scrap of food in Capt Pollards boat. Four men survived. They decided that one of them must be shot to provide food for the- others. Lots were drawn.

It fell to Owen Coffin, 'a. cousin of Pollard, to make the sacrifice. It is told that Pollard wished to talce Coffins place, but that the latter claimed the right to give himself to save his mates. The musket was loaded. Lots were drawn again to pick the executioner.

The task fell to Charles Ramsdale. Ten days later Brazilla Ray, a colored man, died. On the bodies of Cdffln and Ray. the captain and Ramsdale subsisted until they fell in on Feb 23 with the whale-ship Dauphin, Capt Zimri Coffin, of New Bedford. Thus, of the 17 men who set out from Dueies Island, five were saved.

Relief was sent to the three who had remained behind. They were taken off April 5, living skeletons. Small birds, caught as they rosted at night In the trees, an occasional turtle, and a few tiny berries had kept them alive. The spring, it seems, was either dried Op or lost. For drink they had occasional rainwater and the blood of the birds.

It is remembered on Nantucket that when Pollard and his men returned home the cliffs were lined with silent crowds to greet them, and that they walked to their homes through a lane of awe-stricken people. Pollard went to the sea again, was wrecked on a. reef in the Pacific, and quit the sea forever. He became a police jfficer on Nantucket and died in 1S70 at the age of Owen Chase became a successful whaling captain. He died in 1S69.

aged 73. In that same year died Benjamin Lawrence. Nickerson, who was only 15 at the time of the until 1882. 1 Six Spurious Spooks The Drummer of Tedworth. Reform' law applies to Federal Government Itt Wn hy Congress dur ing the Administration of President Chester A.

Arthur. H. B. The Boxer Insurrection, with Its consequent troubles, in Chiua occurred ln 1900. Lr7lle TaIue tho Japanese yen In united States money Is about 50 cents.

Business addresses are not given in this column. Consult the- Boston directory. Air Lernmie Peters, whose graduation essay, Weve Left th Bay an th Ocean Lies Before Us, back ln 1913. Is fresh In th memories of our people, has accepted a position as landscape gardener fer th Acme fillin station. Iks Lark wuz held up last night, an robbed $102 on a gold as luck would have it, hed left a half pint at home on th piano.

the men on board of her clambered 1 over the side Into a whale boat, the Essex turned over on her beam ends. Here, then, were 20 men, in open boats, afloat in the mighty Pacific. There had been saved from the wreck only compasses, navigating Instruments and the captains and mates sea chests. First, they must get food. The ships masts, that lay flat on the water, were cut away, and the hull, relieved of this weight, was somewhat righted.

Holes were chopped through the deck and a supply of hard bread, water, some live turtles, and a musket, powder and some nails were taken out of For two days the boats hovered about the wreck. Theyv were rigged with sails made from canvas and spars of the Essex and their sides, low down In the water, were raised with planks to keep out the seas. At noon on Nov 2, 1819, they set sail for the coast of South America. They could not sail a direct course; trade-winds and equatorial current were against them. They headed into the southeast, to find favorable winds.

A torrid sun beat down upon their heads. Their thirst was intense. Yet the daily allowance of water was only a half-pint one ordinary glassful. And for food they had one hard ships biscuit a day. Nov 26 Rough weather.

The boats shipped water and some of the precious bread was soaked. Nov 28 Terrible suffering from thirst caused by eating the watersoaked, salty bread. Nov 30 Onq, of the turtles killed and eaten raw. Dec 8 Heavy gale. Masts unshipped and no attempt made to keep the boats on their course.

Dec 9 Some flying fish fell Into Chases boat, and were devoured, bones, scales and all. Dec 16 They were now 26 days in the open boats. Food was running short and the allowance was cut down to a quarter-pint of water (half a glass) and a half a biscuit. It was suggested that if they bathed In the sea'Iheir bodies might absorb some of the water. It was tried.

No relief from thirst, but the bathers discovered barnacles on the boats bottom. They were carefully scraped off and eaten. On the 20th land was seen, Dueies Island, a low, uninhabited outpost of the great island-continent of the Pacific. The storm, it seemed, had driven them far to the west. They were now farther from South America than when ihey left the wreck.

The famished seamen devoured the few birds, shellfish and egs they found. In two days the supply was exhausted. There were no fruits or vegetables, and the only water a tiny spring exposed only at extreme low tide. They must set sail again. To the west, they knew, lay the Island Archipelago, with men and food, comparatively near at hand.

Yet they feared running among cannibals. So they turned into the east, toward the islands of Juan Fernandez, 1700 miles away. Thomas Chappel, an Englishman, being extremely weak, decided to stay be-, killed ln an air accident at a flying Held at Fort Worth, Tex, on Feb 15. 1918. Ilia body was taken to New York and funeral services were held at The Little Church Around llie Comer (Church of the Transfiguration).

burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Capt Castle had been decorated with the war cron for bringing down two German aviators. Phillips Academies Inquirer Both academies were founded by John Phillips, who was born ln Andover Dec 27, 1719, was graduated from Harvard College and accumulated a large fortune in mercantile pursuits. He founded Phillips Academy at Andover, with his brother Samuel in April, 1778, giving It $31,000, besides a third interest in his estate. In -1781 be founded Phillips Academy at Exeter, H.

endowing It With the sum of $134,000. He alxo founded and endowed the Phillips professorship of divinity at Dartmouth College ln 1782, serving as a trustee of the college from 1773 to 1793 and also as a trustee of the academy at Andover from 1778 to 1705. He died in 1795 at Exeter, H. Requests and Answers Thomas Gorm ley Labor Day is a legal holiday in every State and Territory of the United States with the exception of Wyoming and the Philippines. Joseph Kearns The National Civil Service.