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THE BROOKLYN DAlMf VOTE. NEW YORK. 8ATCBUAT, MAY 2fi. 1917. A JUDGMENT vital records haIS 233 LOCAL RECRUITS IN 1ST ENGINEERS Quakers Here Bar Slackers; Some Ewn Ready to Fight PLATTSBURG MEN GET SUNDAY OFF USE HORSE SERUM FOR CHILD PARALYSIS Doctors Are Much Pleased With the Results of Their Experiments.

More Than 1,000 of 1,061 Men Required Already Secured for Regiment. 1 Till FRONT. MY I poet 1.. Obtain Balunoe of Hermits Williln a IV Days Om Com-)uny in Training. OM lnmdred and sixty-two Brook- land have enlisted the First Reserve En- gineer Regiment, which will probably I Mr.

Ha Vila ml said that toere had been more than the usual number of applications tor membership, but that some of the applicants were over the military age. The Government, said he, was undeniably right in making war on Ger-manv, which had "tremendously offended." and he indicated plainly that ceased to be a virtue and nothing could be done except light. James Wood, president of the New York Society of Friends, will Introduce a resolution on Monday at the yearlv meeting which would exclude men of conscript age from the Church for the period of the war. Mr. Wood said yesterday that there were Indications that young men who were not seeking admission to the Friends Society.

"We will not stand for slackers," said he. In the resolution which Mr. Wood has framed, young men of conscript age are advised not to Join the Church "I use the word 'advise' advisedly, however," said Mr. Wood. "That Is a pollle way of saying that they will not be allowed to join iho Society.

It will, in effect, be and no 'slacker' will find refuge among the Friends of New York." The Friends are making ready to helo the Nation bv working on farms V-nV men as have Joined the More than 1.0 00 of the 1.061 men leiimied hnvo been recruited and the yet. balance will be secured within the' shall proceed very cautiouslv next few days. One of the captain SJSSffLt already appointed is from Brook.yn. ma 0" ufiK'Sl-Kv be! He is fuptuin c. k.

Drew. Two of fore we accept them. Wo do not in-ihe lieutenants. M. Marshall and tend to be defrauded.

In the case of C. Anderson are also from this strangers we shall probably let the ornilh I application lie over for a little while, oorougn. until we are satisfied of the sincerity Major Aithur S. Dwlght of Great 0( tne gppucant llll.VK THEY Ant PROMISING. Scrunr Is Isrd Ipoa With Very pated the campaign tha poliomvclitis, or infantile epidemic of last summer were greatly interested today in an article appearing in the Journal of the American Association chronicling what Health Commissioner Bawraon characterizes as a "promising develop, ment" in the starch for a cure for Infantile paralysis.

The article details experiments carried on for six months by Hi. II. Neu-slaedter and Dr. K. J.

Kiinzahf in tha Health Department laboratories, and shows that they have had such favorable results with the use of a serum derived from the blood of horses that Dr. Neustaedter says: "The five neutralization experl- positlve without excep tion. piot addition of nvpsin, was injected i a horse at intervals. After five jeetions, which apparently tiad effect on the health of the horse lire in'icc't'ed hit'iT the "mot! keys. Tin.

nit of the live showed no ill effect) me remained for six days and the lecame' blind, and the fifth died. An disclosed in the due oeiiiis and in the olhc there were no signs that death ha. been causi'd by polio. A sixth monke; was given injections of the mixtur and later received Injections of th scrum alone. He showed weak lies? but entirely recovered and Is now a It is the opinion of Dr.

Knierson tha if there is any curative vahiJMU n11 serum are decidedly greater. Dr. Kilns H. Hartley, Dr. K.

Rodne; Flske, Dr. William Lints and Dr. Bur Burton Mosher were among th Brooklyn physicians who exprcssei their great interest today in the re port of the experiments. They wer agreed that It. was too Wrly 10 express any definite opinion on the re suits, although believing that I marked an advance.

The promts-held out that an immunising serun might be arrived at was cspeciall: commented on by Dr. Lintz, who said "If we're going to arrive anywher-in poliomyeltitis it's going to he alom immunological grounds." BURGLAR GETS FOUR YEARS Angelo Flasso, 25. of Ut York street, who pleaded guilty to burglary, was today sentenced to four years ami ten months in Sing Sing by County Judge Dylan. Judge llyhin also sentenced to Bltnira Albert Kugel, -'7. of 349 Grove street, on a charge of burglary.

Other sentences were: Hi- Henry a 3 Fleet street, carrying dangcrou-fl nth street, grand in jail. ANOTHER ANTHRAX CASK. Another anthrax case Is under treatment in Bellevuc Hospital, Manhattan, the fifth case there in two years. The patient is William -Mar-mock, 50 years old of 411 Kast 160th street, the Bronx Jamaica, and Lieutenant Hazen Hoyt Jr. of Great Neck are the officers from Long One company of 164 men is now training at Fori Totten, and another will shortly follow.

Another training camp is to be established at Great Neck. The First Reserve Engineers has been recruited by the War Department with the co-operation of the engineering committee of New fork. The otllcers of the regiment Colonel II. McKinstry, Major Milium Bart-lav Parsons, Manhattan; Major Arthur S. Dwlght, Great Neck.

L. Captains John i'- Hogan, C. R. Hulsarl, H. W.

Hudson, Manhattan; 0. H. Gifford, Jamaica; J. D. Irving, New Haven, C.

p. LM-ew, Brooklyn; Alexander Maxwell. Lieutenants A. Price, Manhattan; J. M.

Marshall. Brooklyn; E. K. Caiiey, East Oraneg, X. F.

W. Toerner. Manhattan; C. M. Anderson.

Brooklyn; Hazen Hoyt Great Neck. The I Lung Island is as follows; BROOKLYN. orn 115 824 SI Friciiu-. their real puipo.se la discovered, will get the cold shoulder in Broklyn. Henry If.

Havlland. chairman of the Board of in charge of the applications for church membership, made It plain today that while the Quakers not believe In their fellow men. they have no Fa. wiui me KuiKing type or man who means to dodge his duty by the exercise of subterfuge. Mr.

llaviland also revealed the fact that a number of young mon who are members of the Society of FriendK are also identified with militarv orzanlza- tions such as the Twenty-third Regi- men' ami A ami ut the First Cavalry. "I shall personally use my lnflu- 1 by the church. None of then, KF.tv tunOENS-rtone Brooklyn Boy, Registered by Syracuse University Unit, Declares He's Thoroughly American. WANTS TO GO TO THE FRONT. He) Says, to State That He Has Gorman sympathies.

Will Appeal Case. (Special to The Eagle.) Syracuse, N. May 26 certainly cannot help having a German name," declared Chris Schlachter of Brooklyn today, commenting on his rejection for service with the Syracuse I'niversity ambulance unit because of his Teutonic origin. "It is ridiculous to say I have German sympathies," the football star continued. "I was born In the United States, educated here, and my ideas and sympathies are entirely with my power to be of assistance.

It was due to my efforts that the block dinner was turned Into a patriotic affair, and I traveled around the State getting military men as speakers. I tried to get Into the Oltlcera Reserve Corps, and failed, hut have been drilling daily for weeks with the students here. "It was on the advice of Lieutenant 1'rivett of the Canadian Army app bought I could be of help there be- well as I do English, willing to help, and do what-can. and want to go where I 3 of the greatest service to the and where my line of activity Schlachter conferred today with Horace S. Wilkinson, chairman of the committee backing the unit.

The rejection of Schlachter has caused an uproar in university sporting circles. Schlachter was rejected because of his German sounding name it was stated today, and for that reason alone. Rumors that he would not be accepted have been going the rounds since he made application for membership some time ago, but nothing definite was decided until yesterday, when it. was decided to drop him. The universitv unit is headed bv Cyril B.

Smith and Harry S. Wiard, both of whom have been receiving applications. Horace S. Wilkinson, former Bull Moose up-Statet leader, is chairman of a committee that is backing the unit. Mr.

Wilkinson, Mr. Wiard and Mr. Smith were all out. of of the decision will i nade. Professor Irene Snrgeant of the Fine irts College, who lias also been work-ng in the interests of the unit and is member of the committee having it i chare-, refused to comment on the use.

although she admitted "(here .,,1 been some talk of it." PLEADS FOR STEEL SHIPS The meeting of the American Iror Steel institute was closed ImI light with a dinner Ul the Waldorf- Of la, al which Major General Seorge W. Goeth.ils was one of the he principle of the selective i the Government'! service and with the proposition to one thousand 3. 000-ton ships in i-igtihteen months ecause it was not possible to 1 and because they could he When on Ships ml a the Fnited Slut court that your t'tle is I good is not so valuable as our policy. Your judgment binds only the par ties to the suit on the questions litigated; our policy protects you jj againstall possible claims. LAWYERS TITLE TRUST COMPANY I 160 Broadway, New York 188 Mental Bkn.

44 Coort Bka in putting Walsh Into the Regular physical examination with flying colors and is now in the Regular Army Cavalry awkward squad. Walsh said this morning that his family had been against his Joining the regulars, and he thought he could up the deception, at least for awhile, that lie was training here for a commission. Instead of training he will work for It In the regular service. Of the eighteen men commissioned recently Archie Roosevelt, who had taken the examination for captain, was handed his commission and sworn in as a second lieutenant. He is serving in the First Company, Second Provlilonal Regiment, of which his brother, Major Theodore Roosevelt, is acting as first sergeant.

Charles tiollvart, a Virginian, came here asking enrollment. He had a letter of recommendation from Secretary Tumulty. It Is not likely that he can get in unless there may be a vacanev among the New York State National Guardsmen when they arrive on May. 31. Walsh might have waited for this chance also, but he did not think It promising.

ALL GERMAN ALIENS MUST HAVE PERMITS Cannot Reside or Work ir Brooklyn or Queens Without License. I is TIME LIMIT. Power's New Rule Follows Conference at Washington to Factories Here. Following a conference with the authorities at Washington, United StateB Marshal James M. Power has decided that every Gtrman alien living in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens which comes directly under his supervision will require a permit from his office before June On and after that date no tinman alien will be allowed to reside, continue his employment or be found anywhere in this borough and Queens unless ho has a permit.

All German aliens violating Ibis ruling of the Mc.rshal will be subject to arrest and internment until after the war. This order was Issued following the discovery that almost every factory in the two boroughs is engaged In trie manufacture of material for the army and navy. In order to meet the demand for permits the Marshal's office in the I ost mice Building will remain open he ir-. of Decoration until ii o'clock, with he excep-of Wednesdays and Fridays, when intil ll o'clock will All (lei-man aliens tiling their Hons for permits before Juno themselves sale so far interfered with. No action i tile 1 the HELD IN SHOOTING CASE Patrolman Victim May Lose Leg Assailant Not Caught.

Walter A. Hayes. HO years old. a clerk, employed by tho National City iniiiglia of the The actual assailant of Cunningham was still at largo this morning, while his victim lay in St. Laurence Hospital, where surgeons reported that his leg might have lo be ampu- ood 'family, an I on charges N.

arrested wil tilt and criminal assault small of Hie hack, where one of Cunningham's bullets took effect, and the police expect to locate him before the end of the day. PERSONAL. Nl.I.AHF.TH 1 i IX5ST and found. LOST On Friday. AUTOMOBILES I OR HIRE iMBB'-R UR'W l' hour.

or nlsM M-itM. JUL-. avoV Mn TO LET WAR At.F,. Piivato Garage for period of the War 1 Alfred. Elizabeth f'Koe Aviles.

Kuh Brown. Charles E. Mai Clapp. T. McL, Cruser.

V. 11 Uun Eicklu.lT. in il. 1'iaff Fltzpuu i. li.

I'hiiij. Sine Gerhard. Katlh rlnaV un ALEKKl) i Saturday KT, ut hv borne of bar mm. Macon mi. ELIZABETH PHOENIX, widow of Richard Alfred.

Funeral notice later. AVILES- SIMON, aged I :i.loiado. on ly 17. of loienmon.a CHARLES EL'WARI. doarlv beloved son of William A.

and Rebecca I-: Brown of Hrooklvn and Qreeiiport, I. Funeral services w.ll at 3 the i Mrs. John R. Bene. First st.

Brooklyn CLAPP On Friday, May 25. IS 17. at her residence. Columbia Heights. Brooklyn.

1I.L1F. CUAWI-'oRD widow of Dwight 1. Clapp. aged 75 vcars. Funeral services on Sunday.

Mav 27, at 3 p.m. Interment at P.el.-htrtow Mass. i CLAPP The Brooklvn Woman's Club announces with sincere the death Its member, Mrs. DWIGHT P. CLAPP.

on 15, 1917, at her residence, 1 6 1 Columbia Heiglits. Mis. PERCY CHITTENDEN, President, CRESER On Friday. May 25, 1917. CHARLOTTE K.

IB il.MEs, beloved wife of William Cruser, in her 72d EICKHOFF On KITPATRICK On Mav 25, PHILIP, beloved husband of Elizabeth nee Kennv). and father of Bessie ,1. Funeral from his lale residence, 760 Nostrand av, Moii-iay at thence to St GERHARD KATIIERINA. Services THE FFNERAL CUTROU, Broadway Sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh sts (Frank Campbell Huiidmgi, Sunday afternoon. 2: 111) o'clock.

GRAINGER Suddenly, on Mav 26, 1917. REBECCA ELIZABETH, widow of Captain Charles M. Grainger. She was born Greenwich Village, forty-six years ago, member of the TJ. N.

B. the L. C. B. A.

St. Ignatius Branch; the Ladies Auxiliary of St. Ignatius Church and Holy Cross Church. Funeral from her late lesldenee. i Fail view place, on Monday.

May 28. 9:30 a.m.; thence to Holy Cross Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul. Interment in the family pint in Greenwood Cemetery. 1 Philadelphia papers please copy.) I KELLET On Saturday, Mav 1917. SARAH JANE, widow of Austin Kelley.

Funeral services at her late residence, 2S3 Backside av, Brooklyn. Monday evening at o'clock. KOEHLER on Mav 25. 1917. CHARLES KOEHI.HU aged 17 years.

Funeral from his late residence. 171 Sterling place. Brooklvn. on Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.

KOLYER On Thursdav. Mav 24, 1917, HEN It c. KOLYER, in his r.Slh year, at his home. 442 Lafayette av. Funeral service Saturday.

8 p.m. Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery. MacMI'RR A At Sterling, X. on Friday. May 25.

1917, SAM I 'EL, son of Samuel ami Margaret R. Mac-Murray, aged 22 years. Services pri- McLAUGHLLV- On May 24, 1917. at he- residence. J47 Somers st.

ELIZABETH McL 'M 1 1 LIN. beloved wife of William .1 McLaughlin. Funeral Monday. May 28, at 3 p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery.

I MOXEYPENNY ROBERT ffd 50. Services THE FFNERAL CHURCH (Frank E. Campbell Building), Broadway, Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh sts, Saturday evening, at 8:30 o'clock. Relatives-, friends and members Onyx Hosiery Company Invited. PFAFF On Thursdav, Mav 24, 1917, MAUDE ETTA PFAFF.

dearly Beloved daughter of Frederick and Lillian H. l'faff. Funeral services her late residence. 429 Classon av, Sunday, May 27, at 2:30 p.m. SHEEHAX Suddenlv on May 25, 1917.

EDWARD SHEEHAN, at his home, 315 President st. He was born In Brooklyn twenty-five years ago. and was employed by th New-York Telephone Company. Funeral Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.

I VAN VECHTEN" Suddenlv, on May 25, 1917, FRANCIS H. VAN VECHTEN. Notice of funeral hereafter, I WHITING At Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, X. on Saturday, May 26, 1917, GILBERT WHITING, in his 83d year; brother of Robert M. Whiting.

Funeral private. I WILK On May 24, 1917. In her 5th year, MARIE, beloved wife of Carl Wilk. Funeral services at her late residence, 220 Clarkson av, Flat-hush, on Sunday. May 27.

at 2 n.m Interment, Evergreens Cemetery. 25-: NO X. Y. v. COMMENCEMENT, New York I'niversity will have tu commencement, exercises this year.

St AMERICA'S BURIAL PARK. Col. Wolf Will Give Them Leaves of Absence Only on That Day. ATKINS GETS COMMISSION. Brooklyn Man Will Draw Second Licit-truant's Ray, but Serve as Private.

isfted i the the iher iff i (raining Only and camp for thirty hours. Colonel Wolf, camp commander, will penult of the eeinpelled to stav CHtiip because of physical examinations and Inocu lation against typhoid fever may depart at noon ami remain away until mn'n'n' "'iinday night A back here within those hours may ob- lain pass; nut It la to be only on occasions like this that a leave of absence will be granted, except under exceptional circumstances, and that means a death in a man's famllv or a Supreme Court order. There have been so many requests for leaves of absence that the Secretary- of War has had to step in with an order In that regard, and this morning Colonel Wolf sent to every company com-iiiander the notice: "The Secretary of War directs that no more leaves of absence he trranted except under exceptional' circum- from the Secretary of War. the granting of leaves of absence to members cept under exceptional circumstances." rrom trie candidates of the two regiments a committee has been selected to prepare an athletic program for Memorial It is proposed to have baseball games, basketball, tennis, hurdling and other events. This afternoon there will be a baseball game at the camp, the teams to be made -up from good players from the two regiments.

There will also be baseball tomorrow afternoon. Arthur K. Atkins of j4 Hawthorne street, Brooklyn, who served here last year in Company 1. fifth Training Regiment, gaining one non-coin position after another during his one month of training, and who is here now in the ranks of the First York Company, was today called to headquarters and given his commission as second lieutenant of infantry. during the lour of duty, but draw a lieutenant's pay, dating from the opening of camp.

Atkins is an energetic young officer, a mechanical engineer In civil life and knows no quitting time here in tho field. The band of the Twelfth Coast Af front Fort Totten, and it is planned to keep tho musicians at the camp for the three months. A concert will be given this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. waish KniistH in Regular, ceptlonally lino physique, the son of well-to-do parents, who is supposed to bo a Brooklynlte and has made every attempt to conceal his name and residence from newspaper men, came here four or five days after the camp had started and asked to be enrolled. Because of the start the companies had had he was denied enrollment.

Captain Baehr. camp adjutant, express- the kind of a man the 1'nited 'states Army officers lake to. Walsh remained discovered thai Troup I. Second 1'nited States Cavalry, stationed here ns a guard for the camp, was shy half a dozen men of its full quota. He called upon Captain Baehr again.

of I Troop and there was no time lost Tomorrow's Eagle Some of the Features in the News. PEN PICTURE OF ROBERT W. Wooley, the live wire behind the selling- of the Liberty Loan Bonds. AN INTIMATE SKETCH OF Alan Seegcr's life at the Mac-Dowell Colony by one of his associates. SOCIETY GIRLS AT THE TEL-ephones campaigning for Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross.

PASSING OF OLD DIME SAV-ings Bank building recalls Hooley's Minstrels Days. SHORT STORY CONTEST FOR Junior Eagle readers. GEORGE B. FORD TELLS HOW France is planning new cities on the sites of those devastated by MARGARET WADE WRITES her weekly letter from Washington on Fashions at the Capital. Woman's Page feature.

WHAT THE CIVIL WAR VET-erans will do Decoration Day-Only twelve left of Old Victory Guard. DR. WILLIAM BRADY'S W1DE-ly read Questions and Answers on Health matters. B. R.

ABBOTT, GOLF HANDI-cap expert explain his new method of computing the difference in handicaps. THE NEW DRAFT LAW Special article telling just what you want to know. COLONEL WASHINGTON A. Roebling. HO years old, builder of Brooklyn Bridge, talks about famous structure built thirty-four years ago.

LIFE WITH THE BROOKLYN boys at Plattlburg and Madison Hniracks. officers' training and (loins Red Cross work. FIRE IN STOREHOUSE THREATENS HOMES Families Flee as Smoke Invades Hotel and Houses. LAZE DOES $4,000 DAMAGE. Firemen Have Hard Fight to Save Fulton Street Supply House Filled With Oils and Paints.

the part of tl fire- that broke out early today in the painter1 supply house of George Pool Son, at 70 and 72 Fulton street. The building is of brick, four stories In height, and it was stored to the limit paints, varnishes, oils and auto-mobilo supplies. The flames were dis covered by a citizen, who told a passing policeman. Deputy Chief O'Hara Ho- Ki" ir.d fis as the first engine came, and saw the need for apparatus, so he sent out a second alarm. The (Ire was apparently confined to he cellar and the store floor.

When he firemen broke open the Iron latches leading from the sidewalk to ho cellar they were driven back by-he pungency of the smoke. After two three attempts to get to the cellar this way it was found imperative to mash the show windows, and thus ret an entrance to the place. The itore was deluged and after half an tour's sham work the unner tiart of the building and the stock stored there were saved. The loss is estimated at about During the progress of the tire there was much excitement in the lodging house known as the Fulton Hotel, next door, at the corner of Hicks and Fulton streets, and I ho unlucky uccu-pants hud to hustle into their clothes I number of the tenants of the houses riven from their home! for the time -elng by the smoke, and the fear that the flames would spread. NEW LIBERTY BOND CLUB A Liberty bond club was launched at a special meeting of the Eighteenth Assembly District Republican Club in the Church avenue clubhouse last night.

In a few minutes orders for bonds aggregating Sa. in, I neen re ceived. At the suggestion of Com missioner of t'ni tits and Structures Frederick J. H. Kiacke a committee was appointed headed by William E.

Soper for the purpose of advising residents of the district of the various plans under which Liberty bonds, can be purchased in part payments and to establish a headquarters at the clubhouse to receive bond subscriptions. was called was the presentation to the club of a group photograph of the three "Lincoln Republicans" of the club. Judge Peter W. Ostrander. Colonel William Patton Griffith and Colonel Timothy H.

Roberts. Charles A. Ditmas made the presentation. UNCLE SAM NEEDS COOKS A scarcity of cooks for the army and navy has caused the two branches of service tfi send out a hurry call for re- The Quartermaster's Department at Governor's Island lias sent out an urgent call for bakers to enlist in its Reserve Corps. Some of tho positions open for experienced bakers pav as high as $45 a month, which rate Is to be increased by the new- army bill.

The navy has also sent out a call rine chasers. Only a knowledge of good, plain cooking is required. Applicants should enroll for the latter service at 26 Cortlandt street, Man- RESERVIST IS ACQUITTED John W. Safford. a member of the Naval Reserves stationed at Newport, It.

whose home Is In Huntington, was acquitted today of the charge of manslaughter In the case of Seaman Charles O. Weigand of St. Louis, a college chum of Safford. who was thrown from the latter's automobile last April, landing on his head. He died shortly after in the Newport Hospital.

Bafford bail been held In $5,000 BAFF WITNESS ESCAPES Carmine De Taola, star witness for the people in the Ball murder case, escaped from the House of Detention, at 40 Lafayette street, some time this forenoon. His disappearance was noted shortly after 8 o'clock, when guards discovered that a window fac- street was open and De Paid. i YOt NT; PIANISTS DEBI T. Brnerto Berumen, a young pianist. has been studying abroad, made its Manhattan debut yesterday at irace Church parish house, which is be followed in the fall with I to the nior-ckint marine If they fol'mil1 "Ppeaiancp In Aeolian Hall, the submarine the should be.

The young soloist played magnificent possible. construe- I numbers II, Siatance the Structural ileel he instanced Fmil Sjoegren in his have got to have the CO-op-4 "ftonetn Frank La of manufacturers, makers of (Forge, in a -iiavotte and Musette" mery. mains, wire cables- in nnd a Koimlnce." Nerini, Cyril wrything that (ne. to make 1 he Scott aid Cm mill Ohevlllard wci ship, and if what Lhnd- nhly interpreted. Rachmaninoff, in snid Is true- that ships -re I three new preludes, majestic and to win the war- r- rvb.ly v.

ho plaintive turn, was exploited in 'wil ships tvill help win masterly wnv I.inpounow's "l.ullabv 'and cam. trt ftjpty iRttrprttt THE KENSICO CEMETERY, 111 Fjrk itJI few Vorlt dtr..