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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. XEW YORK. SATURDAY. AUGUST 28. 1915.

mark and Holland and would like tc hand them to the I'nited Statea The point to. will the American Govern- GOLFERS START I DYKMAN DEFENDS BATTLE FOR TITLE! THE TANNER BALLOT1 QUESTIONS Of fact and logic puzzle us In every day's news. Questions equally hard may lie hidden In the title to your real estate. When we Insure you, wo assume the burden of answering them correctly. LAWYERS TITLE A TRUST COMPANY 160 Broadway, New York Court Bkn ment be sal For German excuses Imply neither repentance nor Intention not to re-lapee.

Wllbelrastrasse expecte that will be quiet for a platitude. But the German pitcher has gone to the American well too often: It is too bad- Cold Weather Likely to Play Havoc With Cards in Preliminary Round. TRAVERS GETS A 78 SCORE. "Expected Murmurs From Little Band From Brooklyn," He Says. LEGISLATURE IS CRITICIZED Champion Equals Par on tbe Out By Leader Wickers ham for Abolishing State Department of Efficiency and Economy.

SOOTHING retary Lansing will no longer he satis- 1 Red wllh empty words. Berlin Is well WL" i' ware of it and to doing everything to -t Journey, But Fares Badly Coming Homo. (Special to The World.) lbany, August 2 8 Delegate Wllli-N. Dykman of Brooklyn, defended (Special to The Eagle.) Golf Links. Detroit, Auguet 28 The preliminary qualifying round teur Golf championship begin today in chilly weather.

The sky was overcast when the play began at 9 o'clock, and a raw breese from off Lake St. Clair caused collars to be turnede up JULIAN ELTINGE IN i ftWmmm tea; "Nothing now a. yflHP- A'SKItHBmJ((ff'3trrM Infantry fight- fi i'MST LV urtillery of our wine destroyed JrSr CeMaHassssp IjflBsB LassY I of the enemy's trenches. From "i mjfc-', AHBHu HsV THE GERMAN STATEMENT JBMHBKH Hg Berlin, August 28 (via ffiSKffinflH Teutonic pressure against the Russians iWJwSaaaaPgaSfll IHeWl in eastern Galecta has resulted in the Hf nierclng of the Russian lines along the WKBI7 Zlota Lipa River. It was officially an- Sy iiounoed today hy the German army -J.

BBlfy'K'OSlSTB TTy '''Bf Narew, about twenty miles south- I 'feSJF'fC I tance nst of Blalvstok. had been occupied1 I S. but iy the Germans. 1 I V.A vfia, 'Tr7 '-SeefAM Mrs. Adcle DUlard Sow.

ACHAS. KLEIN PLAY Female Impersonator Appears in "Cousin Lucy" at th' Cohan Theater. JANE OAKER MAKES A HIT. Dallas Welford Also Does Good Work In a Patterned Play With Songs. toorHS KdtthnHanbur obvious and frequently Inane comedy, presented In the George M.

Cohan Theater last night for the first time, was an extraordinary success for Jane Oaker, an actress who won some fame In "The Dummy." As a demimonde, with convivial and black- iling penchant, she plucked honors from Julian Eltinge In "Cousin Lucy" -that 1 that easily to Dallas Welford, who ma. part for himself where none had been provided by the author, the late Charles Klein. The comedy i nothing to the laurels of the victim of The Brirtacl Is talkly, and unnece? sarily so, for it is apparent from th first line that Eltinge again is to forced by any handy set of circum stances to disguise himself as a git to get out of some difficulty in thi case, bankruptcy. The second act i a large dressmaking establishment, i which Cousin Lucy, as Mme. Lucette.

modiste, affording a well-availed-of opportunity to stage a rasnion with gowns by Melville Ellis. third act and the last is a champagne jamboree, distinctly not a stag afTair, although It threatens in every other line to become so In point of story telling-. Its main effect waa to crown Miss Oaker's very able acting with such acclaim that it seemed the appearance after she had "brought down the house'' with a maudlin exit. It was done admirably, naturally, vincingly, despite that the lines th she and Mr. Welford were the only ones who really acted, and the exit had merely a cumulative effect, forcing such applause that it seemed the Inula knowledged it.

Only the shouting Of served to quiet the audience. Mr. Welford had a slim part rial for prominence in it; but he made ii details that were virtually impercep tible, that ne appeared never to ue caught the fancy of the audience. Thev arc "Those Come Hither Eyes," "Society" and "Two Heads Are Better Than line," Credit for the music given also to Percy YVenrich and i unusually pleasing. Julian Eltinge those who never have seen Julian El tinge play a woman part, the com-edy may be very entertaining.

HELD IN JEWELRY THEFT Bail Fixed at $1,500 for Two Flatbush Boys. Court today by Magistrate McGuIre I $1,500 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of grand IarC(ny They are Arthur Berry, 20 years old, of 2408 Bedford avenue, i anrt Edmund Renden. 1 6 years old. I of 21 1 Beverley road, Last. Thursday they called at the home of Frederick C.

Main at 169 East Thirty-second street, and invited his son Beverly to join them in a swim at Coney Island. Beverly left them 1 while he got his bathing suit. That a gold tuck chain and fob, value $0. Detective Albert Owens ft The other Jewelry, Owens says, he found In Berry's home. Both boys croutly asserted their innocence when arraigned today.

BARTSCHERER NUBS PETITIOW, Only one petition filed in the Board of Elections this moving of Alderman Jacob Bartschew, Republican, wso seeks re-electlu from the Sixtieth Aldermanlc Distrie 'a Kings County. The last day for the Tanner short ballot nronosal on the floor of the Constitutional Con- today. He of Cove 8tate Officers Sommlttee, of which G. u. v.

Htate Chairman Frederick C. Tanner Is chairman; had voted to re port the first short ballot mmwi and also voted to report the amended form. I expected that the first one would amended," he said. "I expected there would be murmers from a little band from Brooklyn because the shal- murmur while the deeps are Former Senator George A. Green of Bingham ton, spoke against the short ballot during the forepart of the morn ing, and in the course of his speech, a cross fire of question from delegates Baldwin and others, said a hlngs about the Kings County Republican with reference to their kerlng in the convention.

Floor Leader George Wickersham, Republican, during his speeth in of the Tanner proposal, severely tlcisd the winter Legislature for abolishing the Department of Effl- H. Delaney of Brooklyn was the head and Charles F. Kerrigan, another Brooklyn man was the secretary. Kererring to a report of that de partment which he was using as an i said: "This is a treatise on the organiza-n and functions of the Government, prepared by the Bureau of Research. Efficiency and Economy, which, I re- by I Leelslature of the State just atinea us existence Dy bringing attacked Brooklyn Republican gates and Controller Travis In ipeecn against tne snort oanoi "The Controller of this State." said Brackett, "found out that if the sacred natrnnaze of his office was undis turbed his convictions against the plan Wre not nearly so strong, and the people for the next twenty Mrs.

Emily Matilda Hodges. rs. Emily Matilda Hodges, 62 years of age, wife of Frederick P. Hodges of 89 St. Mark's avenue, died suddenly Thursday, and the funeral ice will be held this evening at clo6k with the Rev.

Thomas J. Lacev. rector of the Church of the ating, and the interment will be made Mrs. Hodires was born in England. She leaves her husband, two daugh- C.eraldlne Hodges; two sisters, Annie erlck in India and Albert in England.

Joseph Walters. loseph Walters of 68 7 Classon ave- died suddenly yesterday from irt trouble and his funeral will on Monday morning with intcr- Ing a requiem mass In the Church of eresa ai ,1 -lock. He was 40 years ago in Manhattan, and Brooklyn Furniture Co. He leaves Mary; a son, Thomas James; two ster, Mrs. Catherine Mrs, Susan Jane Bloomer.

Mrs. Susan Jane Bloomer, for sev eral years a resident of Brooklyn, died ednesday at Bellmore. L. at on-in-luw's residence. She was 64 years of age.

Her funeral was held today from Milton Reeves Cha- belng conducted by the Rev. Dr. Mills cemetery. Mrs. Ellen Donovan.

s. Ellen Donovan, nee of Cornelius Donovi yesterday after a brief illness at her 362 Forty-ninth street. She Brooklyn childhood. She is lveo Dy two daugnters. tANTis JOSMN managing editor 1" nflMW "alSltOTlSt ISrtiula' thS'infoa" rr, 1 tica Henldand trey Time van bom tn Frankfort, N.

about 59 I Ko. lie a graduate of Hamilton it GORDON HAYES. GERMAN AEROPLANES MAKE RAID ON PARIS; FRENCH BEAT THEM OFF Paris, August 28 Four German military aeroplanes attempted to nv.fce a raid on Paris this morning. They were attacked by a French air flotilla and one of the German machines was shot to pieces in midair. be blown on.

All the flyers wore Jackets or sweaters. The first pair off were C. G. Com-Dck Jr. of Sleepy Hollow, N.

and C. Dllworth of Alleghany. That the Id weather had stiffened i by th that off first pulled and three to rough. The pairs went off vals of five minutes. and J.

Harold Slater of Fox Hills, defaulted. Jerome D. Travers. the open champion, started ahead of his scheduled time. His partner was Robert A.

Gardner of Chicago, former national champion. EvervPodv at the first tee droDned behind Travers, as no other player vhen Chick Evans was sched- ed to begin. Travels started poorly. He topped is opening tee shot and had to play i iron safety short of the traps at the right hand entrance of the green. His third was on.

fifteen feet from the pin. id two putts gave him a 6, one over On the 447 yard second, the cham-on's wooden tee shot was straight it was 40 yards of Gardner's dls- Travers had to use Ihs brassle illght hook left him 40 yards A nP looked for nut of these deadly Traverslsn approaches, but disappointment was their portion when Jerry's second, weakly hit, was stopped by the slope and came to rest chipped up for a 6-foot putt and got it for the par 6. saved himself with a 'single putt, is brassle second, milled fur the sec ond time, fell mi yards shy of the Going to the 341 -yard, fourth, i. but he was out to the green i the short fifth over the ditch ipn the His i left him a tricky slde-hlll six-foot Gardner here ran down a 20-footer Travers' fine drive and Iron second nit him on the 424-vard sixth for a lar 4. He had been even par from the hlrd.

but could not get under till big ditch, twenty feet wide Here the side of the green, but he dropped the thirty-foot putt for a 2. i the 515-vard elehth. Travers hole high. The hall lay on the grass il his Schenectiuly l. banged hard to hit the bank I to the This hound I I did i 37.

Gardner i 40. Colli 5. 5. 4. 4, 3, 4.

2, The tenth was an orthodox 4 for ith. On the BS6-yard line each took I'ie n. 1 1 I i ii the ditch. Travers' third was just the slope. He wf shed his cream-colored "Now look out for Jerry' shirtsleeve golf," said H.

W. Perrln i i. hi I li, di the twelfth, the champion sliced Iron second to a trap green high, 1 was out barely on the green. He Vor did his looser attire help Trav-i on the thirteenth, for after a fine ve, he skied his iron second and ided In the big cross bunker 40 yards irt of the green. Out of the sand was still 20 yards green.

20-foot putt. He missed and took 6. Travers was 4 over the in par, but his friends in the gallery did not worry, as It believed 84 or 8o will qualify today for Monday's 36 holes of stroke play. Travers' 37 out was regarded as making him safe. Ith regulation play, but Travers lost stroke on the fifteenth by missing four-font putt and taking 5 after being nicely on tne green in him ten yards short of the self Ay sinking a ten-foot putt for Trave sine wood on the tee of all long holes, which fact may be due as mi The seventeenth cost the champion mother stroke, wnen, aner a nne Irlve he hooked his Iron second to a trap at the corner of the green, tak- HIs Iron tee shot at the eighteenth n.no p1I nlnved to within fifteen feet from the cup, and two putts gave a 3 for 42 in find 79 for tha rouad.

Travers' In card follows: general nervous breakdown. The fu neral services win De neia tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mr. Street- on's home, 1041 Prospect place, with the Rev. Dr. George Church, offlclat- chairman of the house committee of the old Brooklyn I nlon League Club, and held membership He was a member of Joppa Lodge and A.

and In May last rounded out twenty-five years of affiliation with old Williamsburg. 64 years ago, a was ii graduate of Public School i on North Fifth street, and illness alone prevented his nl 'association of that school. Mr. dine Council. R.

A. He Is survived by his widow, Anna E. Quick, his mother, Mrs. Anne E. Streeton; a son, James W.

vice president and secretarj of TWO BOYS KILLED BY AUTOS; TWO HURT Two hoys wer the I 'ark Slope section yesterday after- The dead are George old. of 2112 old. of See-n. The Knaut lad was playing Jtomobile owned and operated by C. Bates of 374 Clinton street, little fellow was thrown a dis- of ten feet when he was struck, at once picked him up and ushed him In the machine to the st Episcopal Hospital, where boy died four hours later.

Joseph Schlaefer met his death hile riding a bicycle on Second reel yesterday afternoon. He ran Leone Bourgeois of id) i street. The boy escape, bruises. Lavinski, 10 years old. of corner of Twenty-third 10 o'clock today.

He re- scalps ami The iladslcky of 664 AMI SI MI "NTS BROOKLYN. MILLION DOLLAR DOLLS STEEPLE 0 HAS fc THE WjflftS LUNA j3M Free DancingrontestJChun. Nighti. wl I SI I NTS MANHATTAN. S-S'MandalayjNG HARRIS Ss SlSZksIIS "SSRoIKiig Stones! hudson JLTVi r-g." 5 iif UNDER FIRES FULTON 3: SOME BABY! BELASCO TJ'SZ', THE BOOMERANG' IT A rA nivjwpL.

THEATRE SYLVESTER SCHAEFFER. SI.50 nrlahton D. W. Griffith'! Twice Including BEATS i ix; ai" ag 4 WEEKS 1 ADVAJVCK. Two Bliow, DtHj ll I'l l.

Tills'' s'vi I illlM LABOR OPPRESSED, SAYS WALSH REPORT Finds Industrial Unrest Menaces Social Good Will and Peace of Nation. LOW WAGES BASIC CAUSE Asserts Workers Have Suffered Ex ploltatioii. Courts and Have Defeated Justice. of i st rial i i the 1'. Walsh, ,1 Commission on Industrial Relations, and the labor of that body will present to investigation into the The report, embodying the personal findings of Mr.

Walsh and concurred in by Commissioners John B. Lennon. James O'Connell and Austin B. Garretson. was made public here "The of through compulsory and oppressive methods, legal and illegal, are denied the full product of their toil." it was declared in the report, and the resulting industrial dissatisfaction was said to have reached "proportions that already menace the social good will and the peace of the nation." Responsibility for the condition marlly upon the workers themselves, who, "blind to their collective strength and oftentimes deaf to the cries of their followers, have suffered exploitntion and the Invasion of their most sacred rights without resist- The report In part follows: "We find the basic cause of industrial dissatisfaction to be low wages, or stated in another way.

the fact that the workers of the nation, through compulsory and oppressive methods, legal and Illegal, are denied the full product of their toil. "We further find that unrest among the workers in industry has grown to proportions that already menace the social good will ana tne oence of the nation. Citizens num bering millions smart under a gense of Injustice and oppression. State and national conventions of labor organizations, numbering many thousands of members, have cheered the names of leaders Imprisoned for participation in a campaign or violence, conducted as one phase of conflict with organized employers. "Employers nav these forces to Intimidate and suppress their striking employees by deporting, imprisoning, assaulting and killing their leaders.

Elaborate spy systems are maintained to discover and forestall the movements of the enemy. The use of Htate troops in policing strikes has bred a bitter hostility to the militia system. The Very Institutions of the Country IVrvcrtcd by Power of EBffcqrota, legislatures and governors have been rightfully accused of serv ing employers to the defeat of justice. employers and their agents, with almost negligible exceptions, it is the wage-earners who believe, assert and prove that the very institutions of ihelr country have heen perverted bv the power of the employer. 'The unrest of the wage-earners has been augmented by recent changes and developments in Indus- trv.

Chief of these are the rapid and universal introduction and extension of machinery by which unskilled workers may be substituted for the skilled, and an equally rapid develop- merit of means of rapid transporta Uoa and communication, by which private capital has been enabled to than the profits serviee lo tiply in i "We call upon our ss of politics or jns, to use every COMMENT BY CITIZEN SOLDIERS MAY BRING REBUKE Continued from Page 1. i acted through Mr. Garrison, of periectij well Knew. eneial Wood has devote, every for hi, fo and for they know he had not the smallest, responsibility, was not excusable. "As for what the Administration, through Mr.

Garrison, says of my speech, I again call attention to the fact that I never mentioned the name of the President, and that I never spoke of the Administration In the speech. But I did make the strongest kind of plea In favor of preparedness. we of this country act as Americans and as nothing else, and tha power may be able to bring "It is an unconscious commentary by the Admlnistratiin Itself upon Its should at once denounce a plea for 7reparedness as an assault upon the oi tne war Department the object to the officers and th- listed list.nlng to an appeal against undivided allegiance to the flag of United States. "Let it be remembered that whole speech was a speech In fa' of preparedness and against any mon flag. The tl ai I I I 1 i 3 Mrs.

Adele Dillard Boss, wife of David W. Ross, vice president of the Interborough and of the New York Railways Company, died of heart failure at her home, at the Hotel Plaza, yesterday. Besides her husband Rosi of the late Captain John W. a well known hanker of Memphis Tenn. The body will be taken tt Memphis, and the interment will hi there on Sunday afternoon.

Henry Allen Saver. Henry Allen Sayer, lawyer and nes writer, died last night after at Virginia place. His death was a resul of heart trouble. Mr. Saver was bon jat (Jreycourt, New York, January 18.

ne son or isamucl and Kalhenne Sayer, who survive him. He graduated from the Cornell University Law school in tnoi and shortly afterward lie had practiced his profession here i his pro Mrs. Rlmda Downs. Funeral services for Mrs. Rhoda Downs of Aquebogue, L.

I who died at Shelter Island Wednesday morning, were conducted in the Old Steeple i 'lun ch there vesterdav afternoon In- the Rev. George H. Smith. Mrs. Downs Mrs.

Jesse Richards. Martha Seaman Wnrnock Richards, wire or jesse Kicnards, of 153 Washington street, Hempstead, L. died on Thursday in the Flower Memorial Hospital. Manhattan. Mrs.

44 years old, and was the of Mr. i-aiea. 1 I Mrs of I. held I Interment will he in Greenfield Ceme tery. Mrs.

Richards Is survived by her beth, and three sons. Jesse Thomas and William W. Edward Sclirclner. Edward Schrelner who was born In old New York City seventy-two years ago, died Thursday at his home, 310 Jefferson avenue, produce commissi yean, He lerved during the civil war with the Seventy-first New York Volunteers, and was a member of Grant Post, G. A.

R. He was connected with th- hurcn or our Iaay of Victory. The funeral was held this afternoon at his late home, burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. WlSlam Bayer. 61 Hamburg avenue, died at Detroit was born in Brooklyn thirty-five years sister, Mrs.

Catherine Bachert, i four brothers. The funeral was li this morning, and a requiem mass i said at St. Leonard's Church, with terment at St. John's Cemetery. James W.

Slreeton. James W. Streeton, president of the ,1. W. Streeton Co.

i silk ribbons, with a plant at 171 Wal- labout street, died yesterday from Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage proves it 25cat all druggists. Labor Dey Tours If you have not made up your mind about where to go, read the announcements under Travel and Resorts in TODAY'S EAGLE..

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