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uuooivLyn. itew YoitK city. Sunday, april 1917. TUB DAILY STANDARD if Tf some future time connect the west side tracks with the Grand Central LEROYW. ROSS OFFERS HOME DEFENSE SERVICE BiQ EUCHRE TO AID CIIDIWVC I Vf(Z ST.

VINCENT'S HOME OUui iHI LlliilLlI TAXPAYERS' BH KWm TO BEGIiJ IIILI II station by way of a tunnel under- neath Fifty-sixth, or some adjacent street. Were such a connection made. If used for express service. It FOB, SAYS WIFE, SUING FOR RELIEF IS would be possible to operate more AT TIMES SQUARE Ex-Assistant District Attorney Le-roy W. Rom yesterday called at Borough Hall to offer his services for whatever capacity ha, might be local trains on the Park avenue tracks.

Nevertheless, the Commission is under the duty of pointing out, as I explained above, that the Central should long ago have provided additional access to the Grand Central station throush another route than Parle avenue. "Preliminary, therefore, to the enti-of any order in this case, the suggestion Is made that the New York Central Railroad Company be requested to inform the Commission promptly what Its intention is In respect of securing the right to and the actual construction of a connection from the Grand Central station with the tracks on the West Side of In concluding his opinion. Commis required In connection with home oe- sioner Whitney says: ITS JUBILEE TO-DAY Dr. Hillis' Easter Sermon Opens Celebration of Seventieth Anniversary. fowie.

Mr. Rosa Is an officer In the Rnrfv Wantprf I flW Fare P. S. C. Approves of Plan for "The committees tn charg-o ct the euchre, five hundred, bridge and pinochle- for the benefit of St.

Vincent's Home for Friendless Boys, Boreum place and State street, to be held at Prospect Hall, Friday night, April 27, have received many valuable rrlzes. On the committees are Mrs. John F. Hart. Mrs.

Nelson O. Wall, Miss Elisabeth Welty, Mrs. John J. Gillen, Mrs. Daniel McNamara, Miss Mary Shea, Mrs.

Oantel Murray, Mrs. Vice-President ac of -tha New Porn PnJlnH Pending a York Central in a letter, dated March 15, 1917, to Commissioner Hervey and Wide Mezzanines at Station call to duty he desires to assist in drilling Brooklynltes who are organizing for defense, or to give other and More Service From N. Y. Central. myself strikingly says: understand to Aid Traffic Congestion.

Othern have notified Borough Pres. ident Pounds they are subject to call. that under the law of your appointment the primary duty devolving upon you is to see that the facilities of public service corporations are reasonably adequate; that the service shall meet so far as powible the pub John J. Robinson, Mrs. E.

Bolton, Miss Loretta Anna Rush, miss uirran Anna xiusti, One of the first volunteers was James Mrs. Madeline Olson, of 204 Forty-second street, was yesterday awarded $12 a week allany by Supreme Court Justice Benedict pending trial of a suit for separation against Charles J. Olson, owner of a liquor business at 202 Forty-second street. Mrs. Olson says that on Oct 23 her husband grasped her around- the throat and attempted choke her.

She says he has an income of $400 a week from his business. She -adds that part of her duties necessitates the making of a midday meal for from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five men, and that in 'addition sbe must take care of the rooms of boarders. Olson says a twenty-one-year-old son of his wife is one of the chief WHITNEY GIVES OPINION. liirn nr'llr-r-lT mo utMiuw-i a Miss Madeleine Sheerln, Miss Mar- WILL BENEFIT MANY LINES.TT- Hollo, secretary of the Manufac PLAN SERIES OF MEETINGS. turers' and Business Men' is Associa tion.

lic requirements, and that the rates shall be eella Guinan. Miss Mary K. Murphy, Miss Ursula Donovan, May F. McCaffrey, Miss A. Hughes, Miss McLaughlin.

HEBREW ASYLUM ALUMNI PROVIDES "LIFE BED" A meeting of the Alumni Society of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylim Commission Wants Additional Also Provides for Extensions in "In recognition of such primary UNION WAR COMMITTEE Historic Church Now Meeting Its New Problems. 1 Future. Access to Grand Central. MEETING ON TUESDAY duty and of the admissions of the officers of the Central of the Inadequacy of Park avenue. It is, in my opinion, the duty of the Commission to insist that the Central shall find was held in the offices of President ARTILLERYMEN WILL GET MEDALS NEXT SATURDAY Dr.

I. H. Kogow, 75 Broadway, I Believing it wilt be greatly to the immediate means of relieving Park avenue. The only ad-xjuate manner that appears possible is by the con Presentation of medals for advantage of those traveling by cither subway route, the Public Ser causes of friction. On March 13 Mrs.

Olson upbraided him, he- adds, for staying away at night despite the fact that he had attended a wake. There is a daughter, Hilda, thirteen. With an Easter Sunday sermon by the Rev. Newell Dwlg-ht Hillis on "What Plymouth Has Stood For." Plymouth Church this Rioming will begin a week's celebration of its seven The Union Ww1 Committee of 200 delegates from organizations in the Fifth Assembly District will meet next Tuesday night la the Jefferson Democratic Clubhouse, Patchen avenue and Hancock street, to organize and plan work to Bupport tho Government in the present war. struction of additional tracks along the west side of Manhattan with a iaf umuuBs means to appro-1 priate money for a "life bed" tn the) Jewish Hospital.

A motion to this! effect was made and 'lnaninitMsly carried. A committee of hreo, to be known as the "Life Bid Committee-1-, was appointed. All casH In need will service to members of th Second Field Artillery, by the Cltixens' Committee, which was to have been held vice Commission has approved a plan, worked out by Its -engineers, by connection with the upper portion of An opinion by Commissioner Travis H. Whitney has been approved by the Public Service Commission in ithe case brought by the- Taxpayers' Alliance of the Bronx to compel the New York Central Railroad to reduce Its fares for local service on-the Harlem Division within the city limits, and to Increase the amount of service. The "opinion finds the which the 'north and south mezza tieth anniversary, the recapitulation last night at the armory, has been postponed "until next Saturday-night.

nines at Fortieth street and near of a growth from a mere handful of FLAtlANDS TRADE BOARD-MEETS NEXT TUESDAY orty-second street, over the Times Brooklyn churchmen to the nation Square express station on the NEW SI 00,000 GIFT the Grand Central station. "The Commission cannot, at this time, make any order either reducing the fares to a universal five-cent fare or requiring a substantial increase in the service or requiring that the Central and the New Haven shall give up the use of the tracks of the" New York and Harlem Ptallroad and secure other means of access to Manhattan. LECTURES ON AFB1CA Broadway subway, in Manhattan, will be connected and a wide mezza al Institution that old Plymouth is to-day. Tuesday evening thore will be an be referred to and investigated by this The members are Dr. I.

H. Rogow, Miss Mary Boretz and HerberfZlanrkaue. The society will hold a mass meeting the first Sunday in October at the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 373 Ralph avenue. Commission cannot comply with the The regular meeting of the Flat-lands Board of TraUe will be held Tuesday night at 1327 Flatbusb xnibiuon 01 Plymouth talent, ac FOR BELGIAN RELIEF companied by a reception, with re request of the complainant. The Commission has not yet adopted an order In the case, but has sub LEAD SCHOOL SERIES nine built to cover substantially the whole station area.

Both wide and narrow mezzanines have been under consideration, but the Commisaios has decided in favor of the wide type as offering tho best traffic advan freshments. On Thursday evening there ls tit be aHMmaust by the trus-' mitted a copy of the opinion to the New York Central, and the attention of the railroad company has been Rockefeller Foundation Makes tees at which Dr. Lyman Abbott, successor to Henry Ward Ueecher, and Plymouth's second pastor, is to be the -hlf RTWlirai T-r-il i nlcrHt la Vi tages. Stories of Diamond Fields, the called to the concluding paragraph It is estimated that the work will cost about $150,000. but that the re- of the opinion, in which Commissioner Whitney points out that the company Money Immediately Available for Children's Meals.

should find some method of access to Uganda Railroad and Tribes Should Prove Interesting. suiting: advantages to traffic will be more than sufficient to warrant this expenditure. In construction of the mezzanine as a con tman the Grand Central Station In addi tlon to its Park avenue tracks. Reports have been in circulation tinuous platform over the whole station. Acting Chief Engineer Turner that -the railroad company might at friven t-ver to reminiscences of the church's past glory.

Dr. Rossiter W. Baymond, Geo. Horatio C. King and Frederick W.

Starr are to bo the speakers, with representatives of other churches. Plymouth's greatest glory lies in its first pastorate, held by Henry Ward Beecher, and in Dr. Abbott's opinion, one of the greatest orators the world has ever known. Becoming its minister in 1847, he increased his membership to 2,500, and led the church through three revivals. His work reported to the Commission as Announcement was made yesterday at the offices of the Commission lor Relief in Belgium, 120 Broadway, Dr.

Louis U. Wilkinson, of Cambridge University, England, will lecture on "George Washington The "The construction of a continuous Manhattan, of the recaiot of $100,000 Pimples Covered Birth of the United States," in 'his mezzanine over the Broadway subway, between Fortieth and Forty- second straets, will be of great ad course on "Masters of Destiny and Heroes of Liberty," to-morrow night. vantage to the city and the operating company and to the traveling public at Manual Training High School, Sev in abolition circles and his rjleas in Fflce and Neck from the Rockefeller Foundation. The money is available immediately. This is one of the largest gifts that has been received from a single source during the present year, and according to W.

L. Honnold, director of the Commission in New York, it will be appropriated at once to the purpose of furnishing- supplemental in general by adding to the facilities for entrance and' exit. It will also be enth avenue and Fifth street. Thursday night, at the same centre, John of greet advantage to the adjoining properties, especially in the future. Henry Frome will speak ori "From the Nebular Hypothesis to Man." when these properties ara fully uevel oped.

noonday meals to Belgium children. Also Blackheads. Spread Into Sore England in 1S63 for his native land constituted his greatest work, and raised Plymouth from a local church to an Occidental mecca, attracting its thousands of pilgrims annually. To-day Plymouth is adjusting to a new problem. Situated in the midst of a boarding-house district, it is offering the advantages of Arbuckle Institute, built in 1912, for the young men and women of the lower Heights district, to afford them the physical, mental and spiritual equipment necessary to the type of life for which Plymouth -stands.

Provides for Extensions. 'The wide mezzanine permits of the At tha Eastern District High School, Marcy avenue and Keap street, Thursday night, Charles Johnson, secretary of the State Board of Charities, will lecture on "What Are the Consequences of Feeble-mindedness Eruptions. Itched and Bt'rned. Could Hardly Sleep. Finally Completely Healed by Cuticura.

American aed Imported Lingerie and Skirting Materials (ALL WHITE) will be on sale, commencing Monday, aFjSiuch less than greatest possible extension of facili ties for traffic and will convenience the future construction of entrances from adjacent bull ling. I therefore recommend that the wide mezzanine be adopted, with the end in view that to The present effort ofthe commission isdirected toward bringing the dally ration of each Belgian child up to at least the minimum medical requirement. To accomplish this it is necessary to provide 1 1.25O.OO0 a month. This is at the rate of one dollar a month per child. The Executive Committee for New York State has rlready undertaken to raise $500,000 a month to secure the additional ration for 500,000 children.

Of this amount it is hoped that 300,000 children wilLbe taken care of by Greater New York and vicinity. The Lectures on Africa will be a feature "My face and neck were all covered with pimples and blackheads. They spread into large, sore eruptions and of the week's programme, no Jess than five being scheduled. At the when adjoining properties, which are Eastern District High School to-morrow nifrht Matthias J. Boehmke's sub especially benefited by the wide mezzanine construction, desire to make a direct connection with the mezzanine regular prices for Qualities.

ralitfc ject will be "Things Worth Knowing Concerning South Africa." Leon De- they be charged pro rata with the WOMEN WILL HELP RECRUITING IN AUTOS difference in cost-between the wide machy will speak at Public School committee is actively engaged in al and the narrow mezzanines." 155, Herkimer street near Eastern It was estimated that a narrower would itch and burn. 1 could hardly enjoy a night's sleep. I had to scratch very often which made them spread very quickly, and I can not explain the pains I had. I suffered for about six months. I saw a Cuticura Soap and Ointment adver-tisementand sent forafree Parkway, to-morrow "night on "Kim lotting to cities, groups and individuals the responsibility of raising these funds.

mezzanine would cost in, the neigh- herley and the Diamond Fields oi jorhood of or about half as bouth Africa. much as the mezzanine over the whole "A Trip to Central Africa" will be station. 3 8 inch American Nainsook 39-iech American Striped Nainsook 42-inch English Cambric 66inch French Organdie (stiff finish) 38inch French Cotton Crepe piece of 10 yards $2.10 piece o'f 10 yards 2.50 piece of 10 yards 2.25 per yard 48c. per yard 28c The large mezzanine will give ac Dc itt C. Snyder's topic Tuesday night at Public School 30, Conover and Wolcott streets.

Mrs. Eleanor DEMOCRATIC BATTERY ENDORSES PRESIDENT An paraue to aid recruiting will be held in Brooklyn Tuesday. Lesvinsc the recruiting station at 361 Fulton street at 11 A. the will lecture or. "The Uganda Kajlroad eanesday Klght at Public sample.

I then bought more, and I was completely healed in a few weeks." (Signed) John Barbato, 25 Thompson N. Y. City, August 29; School 174, Pumoct and Alabama cess to the mezzanines over the station of the Seventh avenue subway The Broadway subway is for operation by the New York Consolidated Railroad Company (B. R. under Contract No.

4 of the Dual System while the Seventh Avenue At a -meeting Friday, night of Knickerbocker Battery memhers hv unanimous vnto nassixi avenues. Stops will be made in every section. Luticura aoap not only works wonders At Public School 147, Bushwick avenue and McKibbin street, Friday resolutions upholding the action of in all cases of skin troubles but its prop- Assorted Skirtings, 36 to 44 inches wide per yard 48c. All of the above are in white only. night Leon Deniachy will tell of "A Visit to the Diamond Mines and the Hne will form a part of the new west trunk line subway, in connection with the upper portion of the first subway, for operation by the Interborough.

Victoria Kalis of the Capt. Patrick Tremaine, recruiting officer at 361 Fulton street, will be in charge. He will be assisted ty a number of youngr women under the leadership of Miss Mary Kreyer. They have 'donated the use of automobiles as well as their services. -A large sightseeing car has been promised by the Cook Transportation Company.

'Beneatli the Blazing Aurora" ij the President and Congress. The erties are so mild and so delicately corn-tickets for the coming reception and bined that it is also ideal for every-day ball were distributed. Henry Scbniid ase the toilet was elected recording secretary. For Free Sample Each by Return Mail; address post-card: "Cuticura, One pent CTery day. The Standard Dept.

Boston." Sold everywhere. Union seven aysr-wT the subject on which Frederick Benefits Many lines. Both" the stations on the 'Seventh Johnson Will speak Friday night at Public School 171, Ridgewood and Lincoln avenues. The lecture -de avenue and Broadway lines are for express as well as local trains; and in scribes Labrador, Hudson Bay, Northern British Columbia and addition to the intercommunication above related will have access by means of passageways and. mezza Alaska.

BROOKLYN'S BEST KNOWN COMMITTEE OF LAWYERS FOR PATRIOTIC WORK nines to the stations of the Queens- PIANO HOUSE ONE PRICED-NO COMMISSIONS UNIVERSITY CLUBMEN boro subway and of tha Forty-second street shuttle line. Whtn the east WILL ATTEND SERVICE ana west irunx lines are completed which is expected to be some time during the coming fall, two of the present tracks under Forty-second street will be utilized, after certain alterations are made, provide for Pursuant to resolutions passed by the Lawyers Club Friday, approving the recent address of the i President, the action of Congress in declaring a state of war, and providing for appointment of a committee to carry out the intent of the resolutions, the president. William Allen Butler, yesterday named the following: Robert Morris chairman: William Allen The members of the University Club ill attend a choral service at the Church of the Incarnation next Sunday out of compliment to their fellow member, Edward J. A. Zeiner, who is organist and choirmas the continuation of the Queensboro subway west to Timen 3quare from STERLING SERVICE Exchanging Pianos Fark avenue.

ter of the church. Mr. Zeiner is con The two remaining tracks under Forty-second street will be employed ducior of the University Glee Club. The service is set for 4 o'clock. to make the Forty-second street shut Next Saturday evening will be devoted to the Russian revolution.

The club will have as its guests John Harold Snodgrass, exI-ConsUl-C-cneral tle cpnnection between the east and west trunk lines. Operation of through express and local service under Forty-second street will be discontinued when the trunk lines are completed for through north and south operation on the east and west sides. to. Russia, aad J. Ladislas Wolden old piano that you would like to a brand new Piano, or Player- berg.

Ther3 w'ill oe. stereopticon Have you an exchange for piano? views of Russian scenes. Bntler, ex-officlo; Perley Morse, soc- retary; Morgan J. O'Brien, Alton Parker, Charles Evans Hughes, John B. StanchfJeld, George L.

Ingraham, Edgar M. Cullen, John A. Stewart; Job E. Hedges, R. A.

C. "Smith. Ed. ward W- Hatch, H. S.

Black. George T. Wilson, W. C. Deraorest, It.

j. Caldwell, A. H. Spencer, Charles D. Hilles, Ormsby McHarg, Walter B.

Walker, Eugene C. Worden. Ernest Hall, George McAneny, John. Hays Hammond, Jacob HT Shaffer, R. c.

Babbage. George B. Compton, Thom- as Murtha. E. J.

Beinecke. Charles Tuttie, Hamilton Fish, Bryan L. Kennellyv This committee will meet shortly The nominating committee, of which Dr. Homer E. Fra.er is chairman, has chosen John J.

Kuhn to head the ticket for the annual election, sue BLIND ARE TO GIVE ceeding George F. Allison, who has declined a renomination. The com plete ticket will be posted -in a few days. The election will be held on EXHIBITION AT SALE Saturday, May 12. wnen a aeiinite plan will be submitted and active work begun.

TO CHANGE NAMES The Exchange anil Training Rnhnnl -The Department for Woollen Dress Fabrics, on the First Floor, is showing Semi-made Skirts FOR DRESS AND SPORTS WEAR in several new and highly attractive models (especially featuring the new plaited effects) variously developed in French serge in white or navy blue, plaid worsteds, and Mackandwhite check materials, specially priced at $5.75 A Monday Sale in this Department will comprise Several Thotnsaed Yards of Fieetwill Navy- Bltuie Serge 48 inches wide, In the popular weight for Spring wear, at the exceptional price (considering quality) of $1.45 per yard Excellent Valines io Misses' Tailormade Siiiits .1 'v- J'" will be offered on Monday In several models selected from the general stock and arranged in three groups, priced respectively at $32.00, $38.00 $45.00 This offering presents an unusually advantageous purchasing opportunity. (Misses Department, Second Floor); PUBLIC LIBRARY PAGES. OF RIVER ISLANDS for the Blind of the Brooklyn Asso ciation for Improving the Condition State' Engineer Dowilng proposer of the Poor, the Industrial Home for to change the name? of the" city East the Blind, the Headquarters for Blind River institutions on Rikers Island to 'I Editor of Thm Standard Union. Please tell -me the necessary application to become a pare in public library; as to what age the applicant should he. "A READEiL" Applicant, If under age, should have -working papers.

Application the Municipal Farm, on Harts to the Women of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities announces their annual sale for the blind at Matthews' old department store from April 1 to 2L Reformatory Prison, and on Black- wells to tha Correction Hospital, cropping the former names by which Churches, clubs and organizations such as the X. W. C. W. C.

T. TJ-, to be made to Superintendent of the islands and buildings on them have been known. Branches, 28 Brevoort Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage parties, will be represented by women acting as hostesses in a room every af ternoon. Women prominent In the rip Wff Wl 1 lj I Iffll t1 TfyttTTTTT'Wrri social Ufa of Brooklyn ant using their utmost efforts to make this third annual sale a festival and a big event. Among the hostesses are Mrs.

James 8. Waterman and Mrs. B. C. Collins, chairmen; Mrs.

Divine T. Burtis, Mrs. Ernest Pilsbury, Mm Frank Dlller, Mrs. Edwin Cragin, Mrs. Sargent and Miss Allca Mew comb.

All articles for sale at this bazaar will be the product of the blind, who have received their Instruction at Xhe Industrial Home, the Exchange and This is a good time to get the largest allowance for it. Used pianos are in demand for seashore and country, therefore they are worth more to us now than later in the year. If 'you don't want a new piano at once, rather than go to the expense of storing or moving your -old instrument, let us take it and give you a due bill to be used at any time that will suit your convenience. Repairing Pianos If you have a piano that you wish repaired or rebuilt, let us do the work this Summer. As it will keep our shops busy during the dull season we make special prices for the work done and return your piano in perfect order in-th We can furnish parts for any make of piano or playerpiano.

No charge for examining and. submitting an estimate. Tuning Pianos Pianos require systematic attention, regular tuning, tone regulating, outside and inside cleaning, ination for moths, mice, accumulation of dust, dirt, etc While this involves some expense, it is comparatively small and will certainly save a much, larger one if neglected. Our service system regularly tunes and cares for your piano, relieving you of watchfulness and anxiety and our terms are reasonable. Moving Pianos We move pianos, rain or shine.

Our men are care- fully trained and do the work safely and promptly. Our auto vans are covered and padded and assure the very best service possible. We safely box and ship pianos to all parts of the You will find our terms reasonable. Th Sterling Piano c- Manufacturers, Sterling Building 518-520 Fulton Street, Cor. Hanover Place, Brooklyn, N.

T. Telephoat IMM Mala Ceanerta All Departments, OPEN EVENINGS BT APPOINTMENT. Training School and tho Headquarters for Blind Women. Tea will bo A Special Exhibition of a Willys-Knight Eight-Cylinder Cut-Out Chassis is being held at our salesroom during this entire week served and a special programme has been arranged for each afternoon from 4 to o'clock, and each night from 8:80 to 9:80 o'clock. Demonstrations in chair caning, re- stringing lawn tennis rackets, basket making, rug weaving ana dictaphone operating will be given.

MUSEUM MOVIES. You are -cordially invited to attend Tha Brooklyn Institute Museum SAFE STORAGE-FOR FURS, RUGS AND DRAPERIES moving picture propamine for chiN dren, at JiSO P. M. to-morrow, includes: "Bird Life In Springtime," Open Evening "Life tn the Alps," "Lakes of SlBan." "With Swedish Girt Scouts," "The Little Match Seller's Christmas' and "The rafters," a comedy. Willys-Overland, Inc.

Corner Fulton Street and Bedford Avenm S. B. STRONG TO ADDRESS 3fftfil AiJaut-iHabtemi Atmuw, Stem $nrlt FIRST A. D. REPUBLICANS Tha First Assembly District Reoub Ucan Club will meet to-morrow night Eljirttj-fimrtli tmt at US Schermerhorn street.

Burro TELETHONS 7000 MURRAY HILL gats Relah B. Strong, of Suffolk -iffw County, will spoilc on "Publio Offl cers.".