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'ti ll: DAILY 4 111 EDAHI) ins I OX BCOOKLYX, NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY. AUGUST ID. 1C17. -25a MMJOES 'iiim WaUon also ran.

In lJ'M) Ilt'nry Caraway Davis, of West Virginia, a on the ticket with Bry1' And tested by McKinley and Rooaevelt It was in 1908 that John Worth Kern, who had twice unaucceaafully ought to be Governor of Indiana aided by "Tom Taggart, wa, made the Bryan aasociate on the ticket, which Taft and Sherman defeated, In 1911 Senator Kern wai elected by the Legislature to the Senate, but he was' defeated in the popular election last year by Harry S. New. At the time of hi retirement he was the Majority Floor Leader. He was trongly talked of for Democratic candidate for President in 1912. tivfren them in Montague ktrect, and a passageway to Myrtle avenue, Court and Fulton streets.

An underground ramp to this station from Henry street is also promised but not provided for in the contract. It. of 12514 Twenty-eighth Brooklyn Heights station of the In-' street, were arrested yesterday charged with stealing coupling terborough route to the new East pins from the freight trains atanding River tunnel is to be centered at at the foot of Thirtieth street Henrv find ClarV streets with an en Matthew Kelly, of 72 Fifth ave-ttenry and utark streets, with an en- nu(. caught them taking the pins and trance on private property west called a policeman. They will be Henry street A Willoughby street ltakcn t0 he Children Court to-.

I morrow morning. station on the B. R. T. subway is also' hoped for.

On the Manhattan side the subway' through the Clark street tubes will have stations in William street at Wall and at Fulton streets and at Broadway and Park place. At the latter street and West Broadway this line links with the new West Side TWO BOYS CHARGED WITH THEFT OF COUPLING P1N3 Joseph Itussino, 14 years old, of 144 Thirtieth street, and James Mo- Saying (hey were on the way ploitation have been tried and mostly failed at Rockaway, until at last the war came along, and apparently that was the opportunity for which the speculators had been waiting and they seized it with both hands, determined not only to unload at the time, but to cash in, at face value with Interest and arrears, all the disappointments and losses of bygone year. Upon no other theory can the extraordinary and preposterous advance in values be explained. A white elephant, eating its head off for every owner in the last twenty-five yeara, must be unloaded promptly on the people of the United States, the only purchaser able to bear the load, for like opportunities will be rare and this, soms say, ia fo be the last war. Coming to tb personal and Immediate political aspect of the case, every official, capitalist and citizen concerned in the Rockaway Faint transactions of the recent past ought to welcome the most thorough and exhaustive investigation.

If what its champions and defenders say is true, they will come out of th ordeal with credit and a stronger hold on public confidence. If they cannot make good, then they should make restitution of that to which they have no just right and ths public will distribute the blame where it belongs. It is not likely that any atate of facts will be disclosed in which criminal prosecutions will lie, for the Rockaway manipulators are master of their arts, but these grave charges are not to be whistled down the wind by flippant sarcasm, affected indignation or thinly veiled indifforence. The people of New York must put up their share of the colossal and extortionate price of Rockaway Point, and if their fellow citizens of the other States are not sufficiently Interested to know what they ae getting for their money. New York may settle its account in the transaction next November, possibly earlier, for Rockaway, Dreamland, the Marginal and West Side railroads and other matters like them have exhausted credit and patience.

The odors of Barren Island have been reasonably suppressed, but they seem lately to have been transferred over the way, across the bay emment of an essential duty to society. Ordinary Insurance Inadequate. "Militaty service is now obligatory; those who imperil themselves have no election. The Insurance companies do not and cannot permit this fact to affect their calculations. They must protect themselves by charging premiums 90 high that they are secured against loss no matter how severe the rate of mortality may be.

Consequently the very men who are called Into the service because their physical condition of the best and who as civilians would for that reason be able to secure the most favorable insurance rate In peace time, are denied as soldiers the necessary life insurance to enable them to protect their families and dependents The tremendous rates charged by private Insurance companies to protect them against the extra-hazardous risks of war put insurance entirely beyond the reach of the conscripted soldier. "Military necessity has, therefore, subjected the most fit subjects for insurance to an Insurmountable discrimination unless the Government itself supplies Insurance at cost and upon a pence basis. It would, in fact, be dastardly and undemocratic If the Government should penalize the soldier who is forced to render the highest duty of the citizen by Its failure to provide war insurance upon peace terms and atv net cost, first, because the pay of the enlisted men in the army and navy is less than the wages and salaries generally earned In private life, which reduces their Investing capacity: and, second, because Government insurance is an essential war and emergency measure, inaugurated for the specific benefit of our military forces, and cannot aud should not bs conducted for profit. "Huch overhead charges as agents' commissions, advertising, promotion, local rentals, are eliminated- The Government must assume the cost of administering this benevolent agency, Just a a It bears the costof administering all other Government agencies established for the benefit of the people. Liberal Protection Afforded.

"This legislation will be a great step forward in the recognition of the Republic's duty to its heroes. I consider it the most significant and progressive measure presented to Congress since the declaration of war. It immediately affects the well-being of a greater number of persons than any act with which I am familiar. It deserves the earnest and vigorous support of the country. It provides the brondest and the most liberal protection ever extended by any government to its fighting forces and their dependent families.

The United States, the most progressive and prosperous nation on earth, setting an example In the ideals for which enlightened humanity is fighting, shouk set ths highest example of all the nations tn the treatment of thos who do and die for their country ano for wor'd freedom. "We are proposing to expend during the next year more than ten billion dollsrs to create and maintain the necessary fighting forces to re-establish justice in the world. But Justice must begin at home; justice must be done to the men who die and suffer for us on the battlefields ard for their wive and children and dependents who sacrifice for us at home. To do Justice to them requires only a tithe of the money we are expending for the general objects of the war. Let it not be said that nobie America was ignoble In the treatment of her soldiers and sailors and callous to the fate of their dependents In this greatest war of all time.

The pending war insurance bill gives compensation, not pensions; it fixes Amounts definitely In advance Instead of holding out the mere chance of gratuities after the conclusion of peace, It saves the dependents from want and gives them the necessaries of life while their men are at the front. It deals with Its heroes liberally for the sufferings that result from their disablement on the field of battle, and. If they die. It makes just provision for the loved ones who survive them. It fosters the helpless and dependent, the maimed and disabled, and recognises the immensity of the Nation's debt to the valor and patriotism of her heroic sons.

subway, the new stations of which downtown are at Rector and Cort-landt streets, and uptown in West Broadway, Varick street and Seventh avenue, at Chambers, Franklin, Canal, Houston, Christopher, Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-third and Twenty-eighth streets and the Penn, sylvania etatlon at Thirty-third street, before the route merges into the present one a Times Square to go on uptown. On the Manhattan side of the Montague street tunnel the B. R. T. subway will have its stations st Whitehall, Rector and Cortlandt streets, and in Broadway above Vesey street, at City Hall (between Warren and Murray streets), Canal, Prince, Eighth, Fourteenth (Union Square), Twenty-third, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-fourth and Forty-second streets, and In Seventh avenue at Forty-ninth and Fifty-seventh streets and in East Sixtieth street at Fifth and at Lexington avenues.

There will also be another Canal street station between Manhattan Bridge and Broadway. The Eastern District subway will have sixteen stations between Union Square and East New York, On this side of the river the new B. R. T. subway stations, in addition to the existing ones on the Fourth avenue subway, include those at Atlantic avenue and at Seventh avenue in Flatbush avenue on the Brighton Beach line.

On the Interborough subway to run up Flatbush avenue there will be stations at Bergen street and at Prospect Park Plaza, and on the Eastern Parkway five more, with seven on Nostrand avenue and a like number on Livonia avenue. The new Gravesend avenue elevated branch of the South Brooklyn subway will have twelve stations, while the New Utrecht avenue branch, now in use, has thirteen, and the Fourth avenue route has fourteen. The Lexington avenue route In Manhattan has ten below the Harlem River, with fourteen on the route to Wood-lawn and eighteen on the way to Felham Park. The White Plains road extension of the first subway to Mount Vernon has eleven stations. In Queens the new stations on elevated extensions number forty-six.

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Main 5300, or ct any nowadealefs. Steel Cara Should Replace Wooden Ones in Loop. One of the important measures of safety finally sdopted by the Public Service Commission wt the elimination of the so-called composite carl part wood and part metal from the Interboroug-h or first subway and substituting therefor the all-steel cars since in use on all its lines in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. The composite ears wore regarded as partially fireproof and safer than the wooden cars in general use on the elevated tinea. But with the operation of the Centre Street Loop eubway In Manhattan, by the B.

R. T. Company, wooden cars were introduced on in underground line and the ride was taken of serious accident in connection therewith. Thu far no disaster has occurred In the continuance of their use from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Chgjjiberi street terminal, but that the danger connected with their operation should be wholly avoided as toon as possible is obvious. These cars form part of the equipment of the elevated lines operated over the Williamsburg Bridge end their replscement by the heavier steel ears was not regarded as feasible as long as the elevated structures were not strengthened.

But with the thlrd-trscklng done, the use of steel cars Is now entirely a matter of providing them to take the place of the wooden 6nes, The taking up- of the matter by the Public Service Commission Is a wise move In the Interest of the people called up cm by the daily demands of business to use the cars now operated. A light wooden railing has been placed between the new bridle path and the walk on the Flstbush avenue side of Prospect Park, from the main or plaza entrance to the point halfway down th hill to FUtbush, where the route for equestrians enters the park to pass under the east drive on the way through the great pleasure ground. It was decided that to have an Iron fence with sharp-pointed pickets close to the bridle path would Incur too much danger to riders if they should crowd against the fence. But aome line of demarcation was found necessary when the paths for horseback riders and pedestrians -or bicycle riders paralleled one another for so great a distance. Thera Must Not Be a Coal Shortage New York skated on the edge oi a coal famine last winter, and it Is not comforting to hear reports of shortage existing ones more in various parts of the country.

Th cause Is principally the occurrence of strikes by miners. Shortage of railroad can has something also to do with It. The railroad difficulties will be overcome by good management. Before the winter is upon us, the Government will be exercising its power to control the priority of shipments. But strikes are like a sudden disarrangement of machinery.

Lvcrythlng else has to wait upon them. Th mining industry ss well as the railroads may hava to receive share of Government regulation. Public feeling has been tested out aa regards war powers, and has responded with a degree of approval quite surprising to nearly all politicians, and discomfiting to some. Government regulation of mining would not mean giving all the miners everything they might ask. But it would be designed to keep the operation of the mines uninterrupted Lor the safety of a country at war, t.

al production is Just as essentia! as the production of high explosives er the construction of warships. The lute ex-Sentor John W. Kern was one it the three running-mates of Jennings Bryan In hi 1 1 me fui national campaigns for Mtorv I 4 3 ir Sew nil, tn i r-1 1 3 I i 1 1 thtp homes in Bridgeport from the automobile races at Bhcepshead Bay, two wealthy youths' were arrested yesterday afternoon as they stopped on Williamsburg Bridge to take pic turea of the Navy Yard from their machine. Special Officer Wishnesky and Policeman Llpsky apprehended them. Taken to polico headquarters In Manhattan the young men were croes-examlned by Acting Capt Tunny, of the bomb squad.

One said tie was Ira F. Warner, son of a manufacturer of corsets, living at Sound-view, a suburb of Bridgeport. Ira who is six feet tall with a splendid physique, said he was 15 years old. The other described himself as Bad ford arner, of Falrfidld, Conn. Bad ford declared he was a nephew of his companion.

Two chauffeurs accompanying the youths gave their name as Charles F. Dixon and Edgar W. Wells. Although the boys said they did not know they were taking pictures of the Navy Yard, their cameras were con fisotted and the flms will be devul oped shortly. They were later taken to the Federal Building and questioned by Deputy United Htates District Attorney Stanton, then allowed to go.

ATHLETICS AND DANCES AT BROOKLYN CLUBS The rpffular Saturday night dance of the Atlantic Yacht Hub was held last night at tho pavilion at be a Gate. An interesting programme waa arranged by the entertainment committee. At the Marine and Field Club, Gravesend Hay and Hay Thirteenth street, about one hundred members enjoyed a dance lnet night, following a programme of water eporta and a dinner. Tennla and other athletic sporte hohl ewny at the (reecent Cluh country houee, Ray Ridge, yesterday. Heveral hundred Crescent member took part In a house dance at night FIANCE TRIES TO SAVE Ml ACCUSED OF THEFT Ir.

Claude Chamberlain, 32 year old, of 2213 Ryor avenue, tAe Bronx, a drntiHt, wuji held in ball for examination on a charge of ffrand larceny In the Bong laland City Court yeaterday. Dr. Henry Barga, of 347 Jamaica avenuo, Long Island City, says that while Dr. Chamberlain was In charge of hie dental office from July 16 to July 30 he stole $125 in cash and An ounce of gold. Dr.

Chamberlain, it la said. Is engaged to marrv a wealthy widow of the Bronx. When he arraigned, a stylishly dressed, attractive woman was in court. 8he held a conference with lr. Harge.

lr. Marge then asked the court to allow him to withdraw the charge, as he had been promised restitution. Magistrate Doyle refused the request because the charge is a felony. they thi quarter you gave frr a tip About 400,000,000 Be Lacking for the Allies and Neutrals. URGES USE OF LESS FLOUl War Bread Likely to Become Part of American Diet.

WASHINGTON', Aug. lg. North America's 1917 wheat crop will not come within 400,000,000 bushels of supplying the shortage of European nnd neutrals, Herbert Hoover announced to-night. As a partial remedy he suggested that every person in the United Htates use one pound less wheat flour per week, a reduction of 20 per cent, in present consumption. Substitute other cereals, of which there are plenty, he saya If these cereals, corn, oats, barley and rye, are substituted in the American loaf, it means that "war bread" becomes part of the American diet.

Hoover suggested that this conservation "will be no privation to us and will reduce the privation of our allies." His estimate of the shortage is based on normal consumption la a three-year war period. France, Italy and the United Kingdom, he says, must import 677.000,000 bushels of wheat and 674,000,000 of other cereals if normal consumption lequirement are to be met. The United Htates and Canada art the only markets this wheat can come from, the Houth American crop having been practically a failure, Bulgarian and Roumanian supplies being cut off hy the Teutons, and the- Australian and India crops being too far away and too subject to U-boat perils to be counted on. To meet this 677.000.000 wheat shortage, the United Htates will have and Canada 120.000.000 bushels, leaving an actual shortage to our European allies of 809.000,000 of wheat. Hoover estimate that wheat to neutrals, from whom wo receive other vital supplies in return, and enough for need, will bnng the shortage to 400,000,000 bushels of wheat.

An excess of other cereals. Hoover estimates, will be sufficient to mako Europe's war bread, materially reducing her wheat c4nsumptlon. and also make America's and Canada's war bread, reducing their wheat consumption. Reduction of a pound of wheat flour pep week per person In the United Htates will triple our conti i-button, now 88,000,000, bushels, to the shortage. As showing how necessary I theP cutting down of American conaump-j tlon of wheat, Hoover cites that Belgium, the relief commission ha been compelled to reduce the con sumption of cereals by nearly 60 per cent bringing the food supply a- low that the population are lnoapt ble of labor." LAW CONVENTION TAKES IT All eyes In the law profession ar focussed toward Saratoga as the tim draws near for the annual conventloi of the American Bar Association an' affiliated organizations.

The import) ant conference, which is schedule! from Aug, 29 to Sept. 7, will be take( up with international law question and Issues, national and State meaJ ures, discussions on the Improveme of practice and procedure In court i and the recommendation of reforn in law practice. Maltre Gaston de Leva counsel Edith Unveil, the English marty nurse, will make an address on "Pru elan Law as Applied In Belgium5 and speeches will be made by Chari-K. Hughes, Elihu Root and (Jeon Sutherland, of Utah. The lawye' will give a reception at Saratoj Springs on Sept.

4, an excursion Lnke George on Sept 6, and a baf quet on Srpt. 6. TWO SLACKERS REMOVED FROM SHIP ABOUT TO SA! A the steamship United States about to leave port yeaterday ti nen a ho had registered under the leetlve draft taw last June were rr rested a slacker by Agent 1 rhamlt of the Department of Juati They aatd they were Carl J. John nnd Henry J. Hernber of Worceat i Mas.

Vnlted States Commtmloi Samuel M. Hitchcock held each 55,000. A passport Issued by the 8w, ish Consul-General In this city found on each. SIGNED J. P.

MORGAN'S NAT TO CHECK, NOW IN BELLE VI Presented with a check, imou ing to 93 65, for a meal in a halt an restaurant jesterday, Thor Uorcoran. 65 years old, of 191 "i mont avenue, with a summer ho at Allenhurst, N. affixed hi nature and finished It off by si Ing J. P. Morgan name.

It refused as pavment, and a coran apparently had no cash him to settle with the waiter Poll inan Gleason, of the West Fox seventh station, wa called. Ho waa taken before Magistr Cobb In the West iide court, wife having been summoned in meantime. After hi wife made hn affidavit that he had been aci strangely lately Corcoran wa mated to Bellevue Hospital for day for observation. ETIENNE LE GRAND. The French Government return the Roumanian mission In Paris other day with impressive public monies in the Sorhonne the tnn of Etienne the Great, the princ Moldavia who repulsed the Tur invasion in 1475, which was foun Gen.

Sarrail in th recently cat Bulgarian convent of Zogrorho Mount Athos. In Macedonia. The is of red velvet, bordered with ai on which I represented the imap St. George seated, armed, and crow by two angels, one of whom him a sword and the other a while his feet rest on the th headed dragon prostrate before throne. A prayer in Slavonic scribed or.

the flag. President I car of France was present at ceremonv, and P-u1ert of the Chamber of Deputies nnd ister of War Thomas sms the 1 1 1 a vh n-s ''re flrnr' i "The 1- f1 Greet." I McAdoo Says Proposed Legislation Will Protect Soldiers NATIONS DEBT TO HEROES. Entire Family Is Drafted With the Wage Earner. WASHINGTON, Augr- 18. Secretary of the Treasury W.

C. McAdoo today Issued a statement to allay the fears of the dependents and families of the soldiers of the National Army. Discussing the duty of a Just government, he takes up the questions of family allowance, indemnity and insurance for soldiers and sailors and defends the pending war insurance bill as recognition of the immensity of the nations debt to the valor and patriotism of her heroic sons. Secretary McAdooa statement follows: "The number of claims for exemption from military duty under the draft law has caused a painful impression in many quarters, but after all, does not the fact that ns provision has yet been made by the Government for the support of the wives and children, mothers or fathers, of the men who have been drafted explain many of these claims for exemption? "Under the draft law the Government has the power to require every able-bodied man between 21 and 21 years nf age to perform military duty. Thousands of the drafted men are wage-earners who married years ago and are the sole support of dependent families.

Ho long as the Government has made no provision for the care of these dependents, It is natural that such drafted men should seek to protect their loved ones bv staying at home, I am sure that If the Uongrees should promptly enact the pending war Insurance bill, which makes definite allowances for the support of the dependent wives and children, fathers or mothers, of our soldiers and sailors, claims for exemption on that score will cease. This is an imperative duty of the Government. We cannot deprive helpless women and children of the support of the wage-earner by forcing him Into the military service of the country unless the Government substitutes itself as their support. Xcglort Would Be Crime. "Imagine the emotions of the man who is called Into the military service of his country with full knowledge that his loved ones are left without means of support and may be reduced to want unless the charity of the community In which they livo corirs to thetr relief.

It would be nothing less than a crime for a HHi and Just Government to treat Us fighting men so heartlessly and to subject their dependent wives and children, who are unable to fight, to greater suffering than if they could fight. "The morale of sn army is aa essential to Its effective fighting power ns guns, ammunition and other Instrumentalities of war. Of equal importance is the morale of the civil population which must support the armies In We cannot have this essential morale unless the Nation comforts the men In the ranks with the knowledge that everything possible will be done for them, and their families, and renders to the civil population at home the nssNtance which will make It most effective In upholding the Government and the fighting forces. "The purpose of the war Insurance bill now pending in the Congress Is to secure the future of Americas soldiers and sailors by Insuring their lives and providing adequate com-ncnPYstloni and Indemnities for loss of life and total or partial permanent disability; also to protect their families against poverty and want bv providing them with sufficient means of support during the absence of ths men at the front. The nation, having been forced to resort to the draft In order to create quickly an army to save the country, is under a higher obligation to do these things for its fighting forces than If a volunteer army only was created.

This great and rich republic cannot Afford to do less, and it must do what Is proposed in a spirit of gratitude and not as charity. Every soldier and sailor who serves his country In this war will earn everything the proposed war Insurance bill provides; to be a beneficiary the proposed law will be a badge of honor. Family Called to the Flag. "When we draft the wage-earner we call not only him but the entire family to the flag: the sacrifice entailed la not divisible. The wife and children, the mother, the father, are all Involved in the sacrifice they directly share the burden of defeneo.

They suffer Just as much as the soldier, hut In a different wray, and the nation must generously discharge as a proud privilege the duty of maintaining them until the soldiers and sailors return from the war and resume the responsibility. "We have drawn the sword to vindicate America's violated rights, to restore peace and justice, and to secure the progress of civilisation. We cannot permit our soldiers, while they hold the front, to be stabbed in the back by uncertainty as to what Is being done for their loved ones at home. Our to-morrows are In their hands theirs in oura The national conscience will not permit America's soldier and thetr dependents to go unprovided with everything that a just, generous and noble people can do to compensate them for the sufferings and sacrifices they make to serve their country. "Aside from the care and protection of their dependents whtle the soldier is alive, the proposed war ineursnee act provides for definite compensation for hi dependents in cae of death, for definite and adequate Indemnities In case of total or partial disability, and for re-education of the maimed and disabled man, so that he may take up a new occupation end make himself a useful member of society.

We must restore their effiriercy and adjust their ilabie faculties and function to suitsble trades and vocations. which the Injuries of the tMttie. field hane not wholly destroyed. -The heavy depletions In man-power resulting from this conflict, which is without precedent In history or Imagination, wilt place new and greater value upon all forms and degrees of human energy, and demand as a first duty of Intelligent government that every remaining useful sense and limb of the blind and crippled shall be reclaimed under the benevolent processes of education and reapplied to economic uses for the benefit of society. Tha millions we shall be called upon to spend to support the dependents of the soldier while they are in the fighting-line, for Indemnities and for re-education of the crippled, are in the Imt analsis investments of the ftoit; they are sum of uipitol Aihamoil bv ths Nation to pninute' uullh if rr-Mwt and omnium.

ce- iii. ii tU Uhy bin, ard in 4 Let There Be Light," on Rockaway. Now that the Rockaway Point scandal is again irv violent eruption, one of the most surprising fact i the apparent indifference of the party most Interested. Whetheiythe people of the United States nave lately become so accustomed to thinking in Billions and handling public loans and appropriations in those terms that smaller figures are to them trifles unworthy of notice, or Whether a sit which makes New York City and harbor safe from foreign attack la cheap at any price ex plains the situation not altogether clear, but it is indisputable that no transaction which stands athwart the road of common safety and public welfare and demands a profit of 2,400 per cent, ought to go unchallenged. Public policy is invoked as defense or excuse for many things in these exceptional war times, but even that highly adaptable and comprehensive shield is not sufficient for this emergency.

Add to the aspects of the matter which concern every end business methods of the Government, the direct bearing th transaction has on the pending Mayoralty campaign and on the character and political fortunes of some of the chief actora in the drama, and the situation becomes imperative. Governor Whitman may or may not have in the ex parte presentment, which hla legal adviser is said to be considering, sufficient warrant and material for moving in the matter In the interest of everybody concerned, federal, state and city governments, corporations and individuals, It would be far better and more effective if the investigation had its initiative In Washington and commanded official sanction and authority, adequate to go to the bottom of things and through them, from centra to circumference, to the end that the whole, simple, actual truth may be known; "Addle Roberts" and other dummies and evasions and nominal consideration swept away, and the business, noisome and mysterious, cleared up for all time to come. The Job would not be difficult for anyone who really wanted, to do It, and went about it In earnest with ordinary intelligence, backed by official powers sufficient to follow hot trails and compel persona and papers. Senator Calders mild resolution of inquiry, which has been apparently put to sleep somewhere by the legislative wayside, and introduced fur that purpose, Is not likely to amount to anything, but if Chairman Fitzgerald of the Committee on Appropriation would ssk two or three members of his sub-committee on fortifications, to whom It properly belongs, to go thoroughly into the mutter with competent counsel, the lid would very surely and quickly como off. Nobody in Brooklyn has forgotten the Union Bank investigation by a District Attornoy who now has another job, with a still greater in sight, which ended, despite all legal and other obstacle, in conviction, despite a defense believed Impregnable, and Rockaway Folnt wants precisely that sort of treatment.

That District Attorney has a competent successor; other Brooklyn lawyers are available, and the Boston counsellor who found and stopped the Tom Lawson leak of news might find a congenial field for his talent, though lack of knowledge of local men and things, of combinations and Interests, of the wheels within wheels, which always exist in such cases, would be something of a handicap. Once started, though there should be no hanging back, no shutting of Col. Black's mouth by a fictitious telegram that he ia wanted immediately in Washington or any similar contemptible trifling with truth and its consequences. The Rockaway Point story, properly handled, might be made almost as Interesting as a romance, and the material for the Investigation la ample on every hand; executors and heirs of C. Huntington would tell how the Southern Pacific took it over from th wreckage of that magnificent project a quarter of a century or more ago, which blossomed, one summer, in the largest hotel ever on the Atlantic coast, which opened only its bar and cafe, while the long trains of furniture stood on sidings awaiting lifting cf liens, which were' never released, and, next season, the whole vast caravan was dismantled and dismembered, inglorious end of a proj-rt which was to put Manhattan Brighton and Coney Island into the dit-card anil make a greater Atlantic Ci'v at Rwkawav.

Firm Hat day Jo this, litigation, fiuei'-it is i nil fvhU) sorts I oi 1 ''( ex THE PUBLIC VIEW. One puzzled old-timer demands to know how. If Crotch kilts are adopted, a man la going to strike a match. Chicago Newt. It'e ail right for Mr.

Hoover to order a beetles Tuesday, but there are some people who Jut simply can't atop beefing even one day week. Boston Transcript. The knowledge that they are flghtlngr for-HueMa now, and not the Csar. ahnuld enable the Ruaslan troop, to maintain their winning streak. Birmingham Age-llerald.

Tammany Hall hue adopted for the municipal enmpnlgn a platform which provide for city ownership. Tammany formerly owned the city and would lik to do ao again. Troy Time. Many people wilt be relieved to team that they are not going to be compelled to eat the hops and bnriey that the breweries now ue. One must grow accustomed to such food by degree.

Chicago New. The Gorman paper ay that the Kaler didnt end any cablegram through Mr. Cterard hut the message was cabled. They ay that the cablegram was a fake and nevor existed, and the Knlser onlv talked with Mr. Uerard, who wrote down what he thought the Kaiser said hut the cablegram was in the Kaiser handwriting.

They say that the Kaiser couldn't ha.ve sent It to the President hut It was addressed In the Kaiser' writing For the President personally." They sav that it doe not agree with Gorman official atatementa, and that the variation must be due to mistranslation but th Kaiser wrote the cablegram in English. Still, the German editor are doing what they can. Boston Globe. Even the bees have shown unwonted activity in this season of urgency In the production and conservation of food supplies, and a record-breaking amount of honey is promised as their output Besides the quantity for home use it is expected that there will be a large surplus sent to Europe for the use of the soldiers in the Allied armies. A Step Toward Efficiency.

Complaint is made that duplicate and triplicate inspection of ths laying of lines of pipe underground sometimes costs more than the job of pipe-laying. There must be an inspector from the Borough authorities and one from the city department, as well as the Inspector from the corporation itself, and the cost of all these inspections must be paid by the corporation. Thus a water-pipe job cost 24.900 and the inspections while a certain $36 Job cost for inspection $453. Of course the public has to pay in the end for all this. Perhaps the public would better be cautious about agitating the matter, lest it put too many Ideas into the heads of those in authority.

The Mitchel Administration has ovar four months more to run. Who knows but a expert on inspection, and some advisers on inspection, may be picked up out West and put on the payroll without civil service examination? Three inspectors for one job msj be classed as Uplift; but unless the Inspectors are supervised it cannot really be called Efficiency. hfany New Subway Stations When the new subways of the dual system, with their elevated extensions and the extensions of the elevated roads are all completed and in operation, there will be over 200 new station added to those now In use upon the underground and overhead lines at operated at present. Some of these will possess especial importance, being placed at strategic points of travel, where great numbers of persons will take trains or alight from them or transfer from one line to another. Of especial Interest to the traveling public in Brooklyn will be th new subway stopping places in the vicinity of Borough Hall.

The present subway station Is on the Jorale-non street side of that structure, with entrances st Court street and near Boerum placo, or Court Square, xs well ss in the centre. Another borough Hall station will be on the street side of Borough Hall Park, connected with the other one mderground. It will be centered between Myrtle avenue and Joralemon street, with entrance from Mon-ague and Court streets and from 'Myrtle avenue and Fulton street Both of these stations are for pas--engers on the Interborough lines. Connected with the new Borough Hall station by a mezzanine will be he Court fctieet station of the Montagu street B. R.

subway. This mil bs centered between Coutt ii Linton THE WIDE WORLD. Seaweed obtain their nourishment from the water tn which grow, not from the ground In whlqh they may he rooted. The Rockefeller Foundation has appropriated 96,426,872 since Jan. 1 for work In American army training camps, surgical research and humanitarian projects, a statement issued by tha Foundation yesterday declared.

The war relief appropriations Include 209,000 for the Y. M. (J, 9100, VOO for the Y. W. C.

920.000 for playground and recreation asso elation and 930.000 for the Ameri can Social Hygiene Association. Threa hundred thousand dollsrs has been act aside for the War Demonstration Hospital in New York, where war surgery is taught bv Dr. Alexin Carrel), The sum of 925.000 Is appropriated for mobile hospital In France, where Instruction of students from the war hospital may be continued, and $6,000,000 has been given the Red Cross, the statement said. In addition, varying sums have been contributed to Armenian and Syrian relief. Belgian relief, tuberculosis control in France and prisoner-of-war work.

COCAINE FOUND ON MAN POSING AS MAJOR IN ARMY A hypodermic needle and cocaine were found on a man arrested at the Monterey Hotel, Manhattan, yesterday by agents of the Department of Justice charged with wearing the uniform of an officer of the Untied States army wtth intent to defraud. Though he sometimes used the name F. C. Abrecht the man aatd he waa Homer H. Lee, 27 years old, Sn electrician, nnd a graduate of the Medical Uoffeg at Washington.

He waa posing as a major when caught, but said ne had successively worn the uniform of a private, lieutenant and captain, finally promoting himself to the rank of major last Friday. He asid he did not know what he was doing when under the influence of the drug. Lee stated he intended to go to Prance by walking aboard a steamship about to sail. Officials said the bogus officer had passed a worthless check for 9100 on a lieutenant-colonel in the army. The prisoner admitted this, but declared he had returned the money.

United States Commissioner Hitchcock held him for further examination. ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY HELD ON ROSS STREET The residents of Ross street, be-tweyn Wythe and Kent avenues, held their annual block party last night. Japanese lanterns were strung across the street, and the resident turned out in force. There wa plenty of mi sic tt'id the vounrer people danced itithi a 1 hour vr tiff he i no At' out ii thrdr froi tni Dumber h' i i 7 1 Expert of the Forest Service estimate that the farm woodlot of the United State contain from two to thre hundred billion board feet of lumber and from one to one and one-half billion cord of wood. Georg Eliot, the English novelist, wa nld to have written her novels with her feet tn hot water.

Mlrnbeau, the French orator. It waa said, thought ut hi speech with his feet In cold water, the object being to drive the blood ik) his head. The San Francisco Post Office received a postcard the other day which wa simply addressed "Park 2969." Investigation reveulcd the fact that It was Intended for Carl Oalbreath, and the address wa hi telephone number. Ho hud befriended a man In Sonoma while on a vacation and the atrnnger had forgotten Gulbreath's name and address, but had remembered his telephone number. The big problem o( clothing the greater navv I being solved rapldtv, tn spite of the difficulty of seeming the cloth required for uniforms.

The navy' clothing factory at Uharlexton, 8. which Is manufacturing about 4 0,000 suits of white clothes a month, wilt be able, it tn estimated, to produce 100.900 suits a month when the larger building, now nearing completion, 1 In full operation. The New York clothing factory and contractor during May turned out about 20,000 suits of blue clothing. THE SUNNY SIDE. Exons m' Raid the waiter, 'hut la Thl, wild the goat, as he turned from the tomato can and began on tha broken mirror with relish, this Is indeed food for reflection.

Harvard Lampoon. He We'll have to give up our Intended summer trip. My account at the bank Is already overdrawn. 8he Oh. John, you are such a wretched financier.

Why dont you keep youraccount In a bank that has plenty of money? Boston Transcript. Little sister and brother had quarreled. After supper mother tried to eatabli'h friendly relations again and quoted to them the Biblical Injunction I set not th sun go down upon your wrath." Turning to Kdward, the older, she said: "Now. Edward, are you going to let the sun go down upon vour wrath9 Edsnrd squirmed a little as he looked up Into her pleading face, Well, how can I atop he ankd Harper's, ThV were rtiniMinT ih.n joke ateut getting down off an elerhitnt "Hew dn Mti got Uosn1 nsked tSe oKcmi ii for the fourth time. "oi dovui ViO)a' "You his enV ird cb'" "Yu no ft I PI i i n.

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