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31 40,000 TONS OF CARGO ON 3 SHIPS THROUGH WAR ZONE IN 3 DAYS Adriatic and Manchuria as Well as the St. Louis Have Arrived Safely. ADRIATIC HAD 15,000 TONS. Manchuria Is One of the Biggest American Vessels Afloat and Carried 18,000 Tons. The safe arrival in ports of the American steamship Manchuria British, and the British steamships Adriatic, reported today, makes with the St.

Louis, whose arrival was reported Monday, three big ships, carrying about 40,000 tons of cargo, to successfully have passed through the German U-boat zone three days. The arrival of the Manchuria, which belongs to the American Line and flies the American flag, was reported in a cablegram to the New York offices of the line today, and wag announced by P. S. A. Franklin, head of the International Mercantile Marine, which owns the ship.

The International Mercantile Marine also announced the Adriatic's arrival. The Adriatic is one of the largest cargo carriers in the transatlantic service, and since the outbreak of the war has been used for the transportation of war supplies and munitions almost exclusively. It is estimated that. her cargo on the voyage just completed amounts to more than 15,000 tons. The Manchuria is one of the biggest American vessels afloat, is 600 feet long, 65 feet in the beam and has a depth of hold of 31 feet.

Her gross tonnage is 13,638, and on the trip now reported ended carried approximately 18,000 tons of cargo. The capacity of the American liner St. Louis, whose safe arrival was reported yesterday, is about 10,000 tons, but it was stated that the vessel on her last salling from New York carried no contraband of war. The Manchuria, which was formerly owned Pacific Mail Steamship Company and plied in the transpacific trade, sailed Friday, March 16, the day before the sailing of the St. Louis.

Among the crew of 159 men, 90 were American citizens, and all but were native born Americans. The steamer carried no passengers. Adriatic carried in addition to about tons of cargo about 80 passengers, including a number of Americans. The arrival at an Atlantic port of the White Star Line freighter Cretic from a European port was announced today. The Anchor Line steamship Tuscania, with a heavy cargo, sailed this morning for Glasgow.

No information regarding the sailing of the ship was given out at the offices of the line. MORAHT AGAINST GERMAN DRIVE ON RUSSIA NOW Berlin, March 27 (via London, March 28)-The idea of a great offensive. against Russia in order to take advantage of her supposed demoralization is not regarded with favor by Major Moraht, the widely known military expert of the Tageblatt: Major Moraht writes: "The foreground of interest still lies in the situation on the western front. From a purely military standpoint, I must say that for the time being no change need be expected. Political consideration, which our military authorities must take into account, will probably not be influenced events in Russia.

This must be emphasized, because many politicians already see the sun of peace rising in the East, and peace at that which we are to win through operations of force. "I would consider it wiser to give the conflict between the Russian army and the provisional government more chance to develop. This weakening of our enemy can continue without our help and yet without precluding our attack at the moment when an inclination is shown to give up resistance." AUSTRALIA MAY AGAIN VOTE ON CONSCRIPTION Ottawa, March 28-Announcement by Premier Hughes of Australia that the question of compulsory military service might be submitted to the electorate was greeted by prolonged cheering at a large meeting he addressed yesterday in Bendigo, according to a dispatch received here from Melbourne by Reuter's Ottawa agency. Mr. Hughes appealed, the dispatch says, for whole-hearted co-operation in the war by Australia with money, men, supplies and production, urging organized efforts to increase the food output for the Empire.

He denounced the methods of the Labor party caucus, declaring that all loyal Australians felt humiliated because the Laborites in the Senate had prevented Australian representation at the Imperial Conference in London. To refute false statements made, he said, in regard to the soldier vote on the conscription referendum, Mr. Hughes announced the correct figures as 72,000 for and 58,000 against. SEES MEXICO NEUTRAL IF U. S.

ENTERS THE WAR Boston, March 28-The opinion that Mexico would remain neutral in case of war between the United States and Germany was, expressed a by Gerza Consul here, statement made pubZertuche, recently appointed a Mexican lic today. "I am basing my opinion," he said, "on the feeling of the people and the Carranza Administration, but in this matter I am not their mouthpiece. I am inclined to think that my country's leanings are for the Allies. Our feeling toward the United States will be most cordial." $1,175,000 FOR NEW L.I.R.R. EQUIPMENT Up-State Public Service Commission Approves $940,000 Trust Fund Certificates.

LIGHT CONCERN MERGER O. Long Island Lighting Company to Take Over Four Smaller Corporations. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, March 28-Equipment trust certificates for purchase of new equipment by the Long Island Railroad Company have been approved by the up-State Public Service Commission. It will spend $1,175,000 in the purchase of eighteen steel passenger cars, four steel parlor cars, one steel passenger and baggage car, ten steel baggage and express cars, seventy steel trailer cars, fifteen refrigerator milk cars, four switching locomotives and The six company freight will locomotives. issue $940,000 of per cent.

certif.cates at to net $925,900, paying the balance of in cash from its treasury. Its certificates will mature semi-annually for ten years. Part of the plans of the Long Island Lighting Company for tying together small independent concerns on Long Island have been approved by the upState Public Service Commission and the company will now proceed with the acquisition of the Suffolk Gas and Electric Company, the South Shore Gas Company, the Huntington Light and Power Company and the Huntington Gas Company. The company has announced that it will improve and extend the service throughout and between the territories now served by these companies. The company's application for the acquisition of the Suffolk Electric Light end Power Company, North Shore Electric Light and Power pany and Suffolk Light, Heat and Power Company is still before the Commission.

The Long Island company is authorized to buy all of the $200,000 stock of the Suffolk Gas and Electric Company, issuing a like amount of its own stock par for par, and merging the dered to write company off and amortize serially Suffolk into a itself and is of the book value of the merged company. The same procedure will be followed in the acquisition the $63,300 stock of the South Shore ref Gas Company, in which case $21,651 must be amortized. In the case of the Huntington companies the Long Island company is authorized to acquire all of their property and assets. For this purchase the Long Island company may issue $206,000 of its 5 per cent. twenty-fiveyear first mortgage bonds, to be sold at 92, netting $189,000 and $120,000 of Big Contractors Offer Their Services to the U.S.

The big contractors of this city, with thousands of men and a thorough equipment of engineering tools at their disposal, have offered their services to the War Department in the of war. The tender of the services of the contractors was made through a committee of which Frederick L. Cranford, the well-known Brooklyn contractor, is the chairman. The contractors decided to hold themselves at the disposal of their country, the moment Count Johann von Bernstorff, former German Ambassador to this country, was recalled. The General Contractors' Association, numbering about 200 of the foremost IT'S UP TO U- "FAIRCHILD SERVICE" is maintained upon the principle the interests of its Patrons are its interests, and every effort is made to render the best service, with the greatest possible saving to its patrons.

Fairchild Sons FUNERAL DIRECTORS 86 LEFFERTS PLACE MANUAL TRAINING JOINS EAGLE BEE Nine Brooklyn Schools Now Enrolled for Current Events Contest April 27. EDUCATORS BACK PROJECT. High School Students Have Chance to Do Better Than University of Chicago. of the nine Brooklyn high schools--the Poly Prep and the preparatory school of St. Francis College, as well as Newtown High School of Queens Borough, have announced that they will participate in the Brooklyn Eagle Current Events Bee, which is to be held at the Girls High School on April 27.

The Manual Training High School is the last school to come into the contest. Every educator recognizes the cultural value of such a contest, although in all the high schools current events form an important part of the work in history. Eagle is convinced that in no Brooklyn or Queens secondary school would the students, without preparation, be found to be so ill-informed as some of the students at the University of Chicago, who were quizzed a few days ago on "past and current topics." It is said that 50 per cent. of the questions in 'the quiz were answered correctly, but here are some of the questions and the answers: Q. Who was Disraeli? A.

An Irish patriot. Q. Who is Gerard? A. (1) A German statesman. (2) Name of a cigar.

(3) An English statesman very in the present war. (4) The arctive "Cloister in the Hearts." Q. Who is Lloyd -George? A. King of England. Q.

Who is Zimmermann? (1) A ballplayer. (2) A prize fighter. (3) A restaurant keeper on Dearborn street. Who is Joffre. A.

A prominent Russian soldier. Q. What is referred to in the quotation: "A Niobe of nations, there she stand." About three-fourths answered: "The Statue of Liberty." Q. Who is the "Wizard of Menio Park?" Alas for Thomas Edison's name! not one correct answer. Q.

What was the Alhambra? A. A theater in London. ATTACKED BY U-BOAT The British steamship Ruahine, from a port of Europe, was attacked by a submarine on March 17, when a torpedo missed her stern by about twenty feet, her officers reported when the the ship Atlantic finished her voyage across today. Nothing was seen of the U-boat. WAR LOSSES BRING A MUSHROOM FLEET Continued From Page 1.

not have time to dry. coat of shellac was given her finonlitone. ishing. Everything about her is just as cheap as they could make it." Thrown Together: and Furnished Like a Flat. He showed The Eagle man through the 'captain's quarters.

The woodwork was all of thinly shellaced Canadian fir, which looks like our white pine. There was little suggestion of the sea about the cabin. n. lt was more like a tiny room in a temporary mountain hotel. Bright oilcloth covered the sloping floor.

An iron pot stove, not a ship stove but a "house" stove, stood in the middle of a square of zine, a and a "house" stove pipe curled toward a hole in the ceiling. The lamp hanging over the table was a "house" lamp. A tin alarm clock ticked on a tiny shelf. In the sleeping quarters stood single beds with casters on; beds made for landlubbers to sleep in. The doors had come from a factory and had been made for houses.

In the hurry of getting the Letitia T. Mackay off on her maiden voyage her owners had had no time to hunt for regular ship hardware and woodwork. They bought what could be delivered quickest and sent her to sea. "Schooners are the cheapest and quickest to build. I guess nobody is building any other kind of wooden ships," commented Skipper Butler.

Inquiry proved that Captain Butler was right. In the Navigation Bureau's summary of wooden shipbuilding not one square-rigged ship was listed. When builders stopped making oceangoing vessels of wood more than twenty years a ago they had been turning out barks and barkentines, ships with one or two masts rigged with little square sails and the mainmast rigged with one big mainsail slung out on a spar and a boom. Old shipping men say that at the same time ocean builders stopped building square-rigged vessels the men on the Great Lakes stopped building schoonShips of iron and steel were 80 artich bigger and faster that no one wanted to send freight in a little slow "wind-jammer" any more. The tables are turned now.

Steel mills are behind in orders for ship plates. The shipyards cannot get enough men to speed work on what steel they can get. Every shipyard is full of orders that will require several years to complete. All the floatable wooden ships in the world have been fitted up and still there is a tonnage famine. Practically every one of the left-over schooners from the old Great Lakes fleet has been sent to the seaboard, and now new schooners are being hurriedly rushed together.

Many of the bigger ones are for transoceanic trade, but the majority are to supply the famine in coasting tonnage. Until the war is over and the millions of tons of requisitioned ships are released for merchant service, and until the ships sunk by the U-boats have been replaced by new ones, the schooners will be fortunemakers for their owners. When peace brings quiet to the water front again the schooners will be consigned to the limbo of old-ship graveyards, where long since the fleets of Baltimore clippers and barks have rotted away. There they will wait for whichever comes first, another war or "the conqueror But now they are in their herday." DR. WILLIAMS FACES FIGHT FOR DEPUTY HEALTH OFFICIAL Office Is Under Civil Service Rules, but Dr.

Emerson Appointed Him. HEARING NEXT WEDNESDAY. Rumor That There Will Be a Warm Fight Before Dr. Williams Is Confirmed. Dr.

Linsly R. Williams of 884 Park avenue, Manhattan, recommended for appointment as Deputy Health Commissioner by Dr. Haven Emerson and the Board of Health, will face a fight in the Municipal Civil Service Commission, it is understood, before he wins the $6,000 post. The place, which is really that of Sanitary Superintendent, is under civil service rules and Dr. Williams cannot named unless the Commission concurs be, in the son recommendation.

According to civil service regulations, a public hearing must be held before Dr. Williams gets the Deputy Commissionership. This is because his designation is asked under a rule of the Commission which permits appointment without examination on the ground of the "special fitness" of the candidate. It was said today at the office of the commission that the hearing in the Williams case would come up in the ordinary course next Wednesday. The recommendation asking the commission's approval did not reach its office in time for action today.

Civil Service Commissioner Darwin R. James said that he had heard of no opposition to Dr. Williams, either in the commission or out of it, but said that it might exist without his knowing of it because the nomination of the doctor had come in only this morning. Pom If there was opposition, said Commissioner James, full opportunity for hearing it would be given next Wednesday. In other quarters the rumor was persistent that there would be a warm fight in the commission before Dr.

Williams' name went through, and it was said to be even possible civil service approval might be indefinitely held up. If Dr. Williams' name is blocked there will be another opportunity for Brooklynites to urge the appointment of a Brooklyn physician. BLAME PALL FOR ACCIDENT. Doctor Says He Ran Auto in Front of Ambulance.

On complaint of Dr. Wallace Dukeshire, ambulance surgeon of the Norwegian Hospital, George F. Pall, 29, an upholsterer, living at 3910 Fifth avenue, was arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees in the Fifth avenue police court today, on a charge of reckless driving. The appearance of Pall followed a crossing accident at Seventeenth street and Sixth avenue, when the automobile ambulance, in which the doctor riding, ran on the sidewalk and crashed into a plate glass. Dr Dukeshire's hand was painfully cut.

The doctor blamed Pall for the accident, saying he drove his automobile through Fifth avenue and paid no heed to the ambulance bell, while the hospital vehicle was going through Seventeenth street, and approaching the crossing. Pall told Magistrate Voorhees the ambulance driver was responsible for the accident. Magistrate Voorhees paroled him for a hearing, April 9. MRS. JANE R.

KIMBALL DIES Church and Charity Worker for Many Years in Brooklyn. Mrs. Jane R. Kimball, wife of the late Rev. Henry D.

Kimball, D.D., well remembered as a Yale man, with strong convictions in favor of Christian Socialism, and who for many years acrried on philanthropic work in the lower wards of New York City, died on Sunday at the residence of her brother, Edward S. Wilson. Mrs. Kimball was born in Brooklyn and was a member of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church for twer years, before that being an attendant of Plymouth Church when Henry Ward Beecher was its pastor. She for some time conducted many of her hus- Mrs.

Jane R. Kimball. band's charitable interests, only relinquishing them when broken health came, and she was ill for eight years. The funeral service was held at her brother's residence at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning and was conducted by the Rev. Dr.

John G. Bacchus, rector emeritus of the P. E. Church of the Incarnation. The interment was in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Kimball is survived by a son and two daughters, Henry D. Kimball, Mrs. Edward E. Borrowes and Mrs.

Frank Gottsch. BRITISH AGENT KILLS SELF Munitions Expert Commits Suicide at Bethlehem Company. Allentown, March 28-William J. Morris, proof commissioner for the British government in the United States and Canada, committed suicide early today in the office building of the Bethlehem Steel Company by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. yesterday after visiting the munitions Morris he arrived in South Bethlehem his office part of the plants in Canadarenter was engaged in night.

Telephone operators for the steel company heard a shot and investigators found the commissioner dead in his chair. There is no known motive. He was a 45 years old and leaves a widow in England, SALTS IS FINE FOR KIDNEYS, QUIT MEAT Flush the Kidneys at once when Back hurts or Bladder bothers. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority, Meat forms uric they sluggishly filter only acid which clogs the kidney, pores so part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness, 'bladder disorders come from sluggish kidneys.

The moment you feel a dull ache in kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts any reliable pharmacy and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes a irritation, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which all regular meat eaters should now then to keep the kidneys take, clean and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney FOUR MORE GUARD REGIMENTS CALLED ENT Nils Handing its common stock at par, realizing in all for the Huntington properties $309,520. The Patchogue Electric Light Company has been authorized by the upState Public Service Commission to issue $60,000 of its common stock at par; $1,768.78 will be used in part payment for a new 750 K. W.

steam turbo-generator and the balance for the reimbursement of the company's treasury for expenditures heretofore determined to have been properly made for fixed capital, PARIS TO PROVIDE GOOD SITE FOR LINCOLN STATUE Paris, March 28-The statue of Lincoln which America is giving France will be erected in Paris, the City Council having accepted the offer of it made by Premier Ribot. Adrien Mithouard, President of the Council, in his letter to the Premier on the subject says: "The City of Paris is happy to be honored with such an offer, in which we see a new and precious pledge the traditional friendship, and I beg you to transmit to the organizing committee our acceptance and our cordial thanks. "As to where the statue will be put, it will be decided when we receive it, but our American friends may be sure we shall give to the statue of President Lincoln a location worthy it." FRENCH SENATOR DIES ON WAY TO GERMANY Paris, March 28-Charles Sebline, Senator for the Aisne Department, is reported to have died of grief and privation while being taken to Germany as a hostage. Senator Sebline, who Was 71 years old, remained in his home at Montercourt, among his constituents, the German ocpany the Germans after cupation. Hetreatinfor to accomseeing his sugar plant destroyed and his estate ravaged.

ADMIRAL J. H. OLIVER FOR DANISH INDIES Islands Will Be Taken Over on Saturday and 000 Paid for Them. FORTS TO BE BUILT THERE. Two U.

S. Naval Vessels Ordered to St. Thomas--Flag to Be Raised. Washington, March 28-Rear Admiral James H. Oliver, Chief of Naval Intelligence, today was named by Secretary Daniels as Governor of the Danish West Indies, which are to be taken over Saturday by the United States.

The ceremonies of transfer will take place at St. Thomas and in Washington on the same day. Secretary McAdoo will deliver to the Danish Minister the Government warrant for $25,000,000 in payment for the islands. Important fortifications will be constructed and the islands used as a the Panama general naval base for cafurthena protection of military purposes. Rear Admiral Ollver will leave Saturday for his new post.

He will serve until a permanent form of Government is fixed by Congress. Secretary Daniels announced that, two naval vessels, the transport Hancock and the cruiser Olympla, have been ordered to St. Thomas for the tranater ceremonies. Captain B. B.

Bicrer, commanding the Hancock, will officiate as the ranking naval officer. The acquisition will be marked by the lowering of the Danish flag and the raising of the Stars and Stripes and Aring of salutes by the two ships. 74th N. Y. Infantry of Buffalo Among the Organizations Mustered in.

SECOND NEW JERSEY ALSO. General Wood Orders Co. E. Ninth Massachusetts to Go on Active "Duty. Washington, March 28-Four additional regiments of the National Guard were called into the Federal service today by the War Department.

They are the First West Virginia, Seventy-fourth New York, Second Connecticut and Second New Jersey infantry regiments. WRECKER ARRESTED NEAR FORT TOTTEN Cargo of Dynamite on Motorboat Aroused Woman's Suspicions. PLOT THEORY TAKEN LIGHTLY. Perth Amboy Man Says He Was Following His Trade-Release Expected. The discovery of what was at first believed to be a plot to destroy Fort Totten, yesterday, gave the police considerable trouble, and resulted in the arrest last night of Mathias Johnson, 39 years old, of 19 Smith street, Perth Amboy, N.

J. Mrs. Frank White, the wife of the captain of a scow lying near Ward's Basin, at Flushing Creek, observed a small motorboat that had been lying in the basin all day, only about a mile from Fort Totten, Her suspicions becoming aroused she made a visit to the craft to investigate. She found, she declared, 40 pounds of dynamite and a number of detonating caps in the craft a and at once the matter to. the police.

night reported, Johnson was boarding the boat when he was arrested. Today he was arraigned in the Flushing court, but the only charge the police could make against him was that he had violated the city ordiI nance which prohibits the transportation of explosives without a permit. He was held in $500 bail until Friday, until the police may have opportunity to investigate the story he told in court. The police take the plot theory very lightly. Johnson, who is an American of Danish parents, declares he is a wrecker, and was on his way to the Bronx River to dynamite a wreck in order to recover the iron work.

He declares he put his boat in at Ward's Basin yesterday on account of the bad weather. He declared that he had been in the wrecking business for years, and had never required a permit. It is expected that after his friends in Perth Amboy have been i located he will be released. FOR WAR ADVERTISING Government to Co-ordinate Work Through Advisory Board. Washington, March 28-Preliminary arrangements for co-ordinatin of all Government advertising of national scope through a national advertising advisory board were made today at the War and Departments.

Details will be out through Director Gifford of the National Defense Council. The purpose of the board, the services of which have been offered to the Government the without cost, is to determine advertising medium be employed in campaigns to secure soldiers, sailors or workmen of any kind in the present emergency. As a measure of preparedness in the event that a big volunteer army is raised, copies of all the posters and literature used for this purpose 1 in England are now enroute from London. The committee, which called on Secretary Daniels and Secretary Baker today, is headed by Herbert S. Houston, president of the Associated Advertising Association, and included William H.

Rankin, president of the Western Advertising Agents Association, Chicago; O. J. Gude, New York; Thomas H. Moore of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, and C. C.

Harn of the Association of National Advertisers. Columbus, Ohio, March 28-Adjutant General Wood today issued a call for the organization at once of another regiment of infantry for the Ohio National Guard. It is hoped to recruit the new regiment in Eastern Ohio. "Somewhere in Ohio" was the only information available today as to the disposition of the seventeen companies of Ohio guardsmen called out late yesterday by Governor Cox for use in guarding strategic points. Boston, March 28-Company of of National Guard regiments the Ninth, Regiment is the first unit mobilized in this State, to be assigned to active duty.

Orders were received last night from Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the Department of the East, that one company of this regiment be detached for duty in protecting property. Colonel EdLogan selected Company commanded by Captain James J. O'Brien, and early today the company was ready to be mustered into the armory. Federal service and to leave the Boston, March 28-Two days of recruiting for the National Guard showed 1,800 applicants and 773 enlistments by men physically ft, it was announced at the Adjutant General's office today. Some of the applicants had not been examined when the reports were sent to the Adjutant General last night.

PLEADS TO SWINDLE. Man Who Sold "Dinner" Tickets to Be Sentenced Friday. Edward McGuinness, the gental 300- pound man, who is alleged to have harvested a tidy sum by securing subscriptions a and advertisements for a supposed dinner to be given at the Astor, pleaded guilty today before County Judge Hylan to grand larceny, second degree, and will be sentenced on Friday. McGuinness is 32 years of age and lives at Hoyt and Baltic streets. He was arrested on complaint of Charles Asche of the Hotel St.

George, who accused McGuinness of swindling him out of $100 for the "dinner" to be given under the auspices of the "State and County Civil Employees Association." DR. CORISH SENT HOME. Ordered to Institution Following Wife's charge of Intoxication. Dr. John L.

Corish, 56 years old, of 1252 Baker avenue, Jamaica, and formerly a Brooklyn physician, was sent to the Home of the Aged and Infirm, Manhattan, by Magistrate Kochendorfer, at the Jamaica Police Court today. This action was taken on the recommendation of the Kings County Hospital, where Dr. Corish has been under observation during the past week. His wife, Eliza, alleges that the doctor is a habitual drunkard. BROOKLYN-L.

I. DIRECTORS. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, March 28-With a capital of $25,000, the Gray, Dowd Company, of the Borough of Queehs, was chartered today, to do a realty business. The directors are Grace D. Wood of Bayside, Mary D.

Wood of Glen Ridge, N. and Newman Raymond of Woodhaven. Samuel Perlman and Rose Perlman of Brooklyn are directors of the International Sponge Company, of New York City, Incorporated with a capital of $10,000. W. H.

Smith of Brooklyn is among the directors of the corporation styled C. L. Morgan, of New York City, formoll with a capital of $10,000, to manufacture furniture, etc. R. P.

Huddleston and D. W. Walker of Flushing are directors of the HuddlestonMarsh Mahogany Company, of New York City, organized with a capital of $15,000 to deal in woods, etc. Moses Small of Brooklyn is a director oz the Perfect Underwear Company, of New York City, capitalized at $10,000. The Kings County Cigar and Stationory Corporation of Brooklyn was chartered with a capital of $10.000.

The directors are JoHeph Block, Solomon Kaufman and Samuer Rockmuller of Brooklyn. John H. Easterday of Brooklyn appeara as a director of the Direct Shipping Corporation of New York City, organized with capital of $10,000. contractors of the city, were unanimous in their decision to take steps to help the War Department in case of need. A committee representing the contractors waited upon the Engineering Department of the War Department and offered to mobilize their great Industrial forces as well as attend to such emergency matters as might lie within their sphere.

Just what they offered to do, members of the association refused to say today, on the ground that it was ftting that all such information should come from the War Department, but one of the most prominent contractors in the city, when asked if they could build trenches, replied with a laugh: "We bulld trenches from here to Hades if need be." 2 WANTED-HELP-FEMALES. NURSE for baby 10 mouthy old: good references; carfare paid; phone 187 Flatbush. Men. DUNCAN, 463 Ocean av. 28-3 For other Classified Adv.

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