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TILLAFRANCA, who seE in Rome was the first to make public the fact that by the aid of salt, water could be quickly frozen. He immersed a bottle of water in a pail of snow, into which he threw unrefined salt, turning the bottle constantly until the water was frozen. At Knickerbocker Ice plants, galvanized containers are sunk in the floor and tightly covered. They are sur. rounded by brine hasten the frees.

ing, but the water inside is as carefully protected as that in Villafranca's bottle. Knickerbocker ICE NASSAU TO DINE HOOKER Garden City, L. June County Republicans will attend a dinner at the Garden City Hotel, in honor of Elon H. Hooker of Rochester, N. this evening.

Mr. Hooker has aspirations for the governorship. He is spending the day in Nassau County meeting Republican friends. Those who have accepted invitations for the dinner tonight are: County Judge Lewis J. Smith, Surrogate Leon D.

Howell. Robert Low Bacon, County Clerk Thomas G. Cheshire, County Treasurer William E. Luyster, Supervisors G. Wilbur Doughty, Chester Painter, Hiram R.

Smith, Cornelius E. Remson, Controller Earl J. Bennett, District Attorney Charles R. Weeks. Sheriff Charles W.

Smith, McKnight, Byron C. Gould, R. E. Allen, George L. Hubbell, William S.

Pettit, Robert G. Anderson, Jeremiah Wood, William Cornell and William N. Ridge, IN DOUBT OF $4,200 DEBT Riverhead, L. June 1-Robert N. Redpath, a nephew of the late Frederick Lawrence Upjohn of Huntington and a trustee of his estate, asked Surrogate Strong to judicially determine whether or not he owed the estate $4,200.

He said the debt had been cancelled, but there was no record of it, and Surrogate Strong agrees with him that he owes the estate nothIng. Marriage Licenses Arthur Land. 27.... .744 Park ave Ida Leventhal, 23... .744 Park ave David Brittin, 23...

Elizabeth. N. J. Gladys Pitcher, 853 President st Irving Salpeter, 27. .578 Jerome ave Jennie Bloomfeld, 23...

891 Essex st Sam Hilburg, 28......43 W. 112th st. Mhtn Minnie Wolis, 19... 698 Sheffield ave Harry Cleary, 24.... 192 Milford st Margaret Reckholder, 22.263 Montauk ave Stephen Otton, 24...

.36 Hopkinson ave Mae O' Rourke, .190 Hull st Hyman Dubrofsky, 219 Herzl st Dora Ledina, 21... 219 Herzl st Hyman Cohen, 27... .505 Jerome st Rose Rubin, 21. 589 Cleveland st Clarence Martens, 26... Woodhaven, L.

I. Constance Leddin, 22 ..574 Macon st Thomas Burlison, 43. .269 Eldert st Regina Martini, 30. 131 Noll st Irving Liebers, 24.. .2086 Fulton st Ethel Rothman, .453 Stone ave James Burke 25.....

.13 Brevoort pl Bernice Austen, 21....... 446 Ocean ave Robert Clark, 52. 95 Elton st Grace Sauker, 23. :136 Oakland st THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, AULSDAY, JUNE 1, 1920.

7 113 Veterans of '61 March To Honor Their Comrades Their numbers dwindled by time to 13, members of Germain Metternich Post No. 122, G. A. stood yesterday in the meadow of the Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, listening to an eulogy by Jared J. Chambers on their 54 comrades at rest in the cenietery, Still erect, these gray-haired defenders of 'the Union, with the hundreds who came with them to honor their comradesmembers of.

Dupont Camp No. 160, Sons of Veterans, and the Ladies' Auxiliary No. 60, 0. S. U.

-marched to the post's monument in the cemetery. Mr. Chambers reviewed the carly history of the post. which was ized in 1871, and commented sadly on the remaining few members left to honor their dead comrades. "Strange doctrines are being taught by demagogues and false leaders of the people, who have no conception of our country's past," he said.

"What Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Roosevelt and thousands of other fullblooded Americans cans. stood for should not be forgotten a single moment. Memorial Day is a day of triumph far more reaching than any. other GRIM PURPOSE. "Arise!" we said in a tone admirably adapted for declamatory purposes, addressing the sluggard, who was still slugging at an unconscionably late hour.

"The lark is up to meet sun. The bee is on the wing. Remember the manner in which the experienced schoolboy read aloud the admonition to Lucy. He had been taught that when encountered two letters of the same kind he should pronounce them or whatever they might be, instead of So he. sternly recited, not 'Up, up, as it was printed, but 'Double up, Lucy! The su'n is in the and so forth.

Why do you not double up, and to your tasks away?" "That is a very good story." replied the sluggard, "but it does not move me. We are told that Nature does most of her repair work on us while we are in bed. It is my intention lie here until she fixes me up so that feel like going to -Kansas City Star. HIS EXCUSE. Blank is the greatest blunderer making excuses we ever knew.

The larly care for met him and said: other day lady he did not a shall be back from the beach pretty, soon, and I'd be glad to have you come in and lunch with us. Suppose we make it Thursday, three weeks from today." Wishing to get out of it, Blank stammered: me see--three weeks from today, you say? Oh, I shall be going to a funeral on that Transcript. HISTORY OF THE U. S. S.

LEVIATHAN 220 pages, 6x9 inches in size, profusely illustrated, bound in full navy blue stamped in gold on front cover. $1.50 by Mail POSTAL MONEY OKDER $1.00 to Men in the Service At the Office of the Publishers The BROOKLYN EAGLE JOB DEPARTMENT 305 Washingion Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. single event in our history, Let us all pledge our allegiance to American ideals and to the American flag." The exercises, which were under the auspices of the Germain Post, G. A.

Dupon Sons of Veterans, and the Ladies Auxiliary, O. S. began with the singing of "The Star Spangled. Banner." Assembly was called by Col. Louis Finkelheimer, commander of Germain Metternich Post, who then addressed his comrades and those who joined with them in the exercises.

George Renz, chaplain of the post, read the prayer, which was followed by the singing of "Amerand "'The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by the male chorus of the Hessischer Saengerbund, Felix Jaeger conducting. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech was read, by Fred F. man, commander of Dupont Post. The benediction was given by the Rev. Charles Phillipbac.

of. St. John's Evangelical Church, and, with the audience answering to the strains of the post. band, the veterans leading, the march led to the burial plot of Germain Metternich Post, where, while the women decorated the graves and the monument, the veterans saluted in unison their dead and the bugle pronounced I TENANTS ARE TO BLAME FOR HIGH RESORT RENTS That the tenants themselves are responsible for the present high rents lat summer resorts is the opinion of I. Bain, one of the largest property owners and real estate men of Rockaway Beach.

Mr. Bain said: "The landlords are not to blame. People come to the beach to make money and if they see a place they like they will overbid any other person who may be interested in the same residence. had many cases where I have been offered $2,000 for a certain place, and when another party heard of it they would offer a boost of several hundred dollars in order to secure it. Of course I accepted the latter bid." At the present time over six hundred bungalows and cottages out of every 2,000 are vacant, while in former years eveery available room or house has been occupied by Decoration Day.

OBITUARY FRANCIS. J. LEWIS, aged. 64 years, lifelong resident of Elmhurst, died at his home, 217 Denman after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Catherine Lewis, a son, William J. Lewis, and a daughter, Mary E. JULIUS T. GROH, aged 57 years, a rebrewer, died suddenly from apoplexy while sitting in his chair at his home, 175 Hampton Elmhurst. Three sons, Theodore, Albert and Edwin, and one daughter, Miss Ethel E.

Groh, are the immediate survivors. MRS. KATHERINA GRAFF, aged .71 years, a resident of Corona for 30 years, died at her home, 9. Junction on Sunday after a long a illness. She was the widow of John Graft and is' survived by three children.

Graff, Mrs. Barbara Buchner and Ernest Graff. HARMONY AND FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY. (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, June 1-A charter has been issued to the Harmony and Friendship Society, Brooklyn. Its objects are of a benevolent and social nature.

Directors are Harry Pearlstone, Joseph Goldstein, Samuel Goldstein and others, Brooklyn. Summer Turniture For Homes of Every Station Like true friends, furniture and the other home furnishings that make for comfort, should be chosen carefully. Here at Namm's one enjoys the best that the world has to offer. From far-off Japan and China come dainty, yet serviceable, porch suites that will instantly fascinate the eyes. The best of leading American manufacturers have also contributed their finest to make our display supreme.

Reed Porch Suites, $98.95 Reed furniture is now accepted for every room practically in the home. This handsome suite i is finished in a dainty Baronial or Ivory, with exotic Japanese cretonne upholstery. High, luxurious backed Settee, Arm Chair and Rocker. The individual pieces can be procured separately if desired. $116 Reed Porch Suite, $77 A substantial brown finished suite, consisting of three pieces.

Settee, Arm Chair and Rocker, all nicely upholstered in cretonnes, and loose cushions. $12.48 Chinese Rockers- Chairs, $10.50 Imported some months ago at a price impossible now. The much sought folding style for small homes or porches. In the natural color, well reinforced. Round Reed Tables, $17.95 An attractively designed table that will complete your summer porch or sunroom suite.

Substantially made in Baronial or Ivory finish. -Fifth Floor. A. I. NAMM SON BROOKLYN.

N. Y. Rugs, Curtains and Electric Home Needs are being featured in comprehensive. displays. Come and see them.

8 BROOKLYN SOCIETY Miss Murray to Entertain Omega Gamma Sigma. Miss Regina Murray, vice president of Omega Gamma Sigma, will entertain sorority at her home, 1078 Dean on Friday. The members include Miss Helen Maurer, Miss Regina Murray, Miss Marie Brautigam, Miss Bessie Cheadle, Miss Edith M. McNamara, Miss Palmeri and Miss Eva Hess. Mrs.

O'Mara To Be Hostess for Betsy Ross Bazar. It has been announced that the Betsy Ross Chapter, Juniors of the Long Island Society, D. will conduct a bazar on Saturday to raise funds for its Americanization work. The event will be held on the porch of Mrs. John E.

O'Mara's home, 165 Argyle rd. SCHOOL SETTLEMENT MUSICALE. The final recital for the season of the Brooklyn Music School Settlement, and also the last affair to be given in the present building by the Settlement, took place Sunday afternoon, at Grand ave, and Pacific, st. Oliver. Denton, the well-known pianist, was the guest of honor, playing with fine interpretation Schumann's "Symphonic Preludes' and several Chopin numbers, which he brought out with poetic feeling and clear technical outline.

The students' numbers were unusually well presented. Edward. Wrynn played a Prelude and Nocturne by Chopin; Maurice Bayshauer was heard in the second movement of the Schumann Sonata in A Minor, with Anna Stein at the piano. Bernard Kugel's violin work in "The by Saint-Saens and "Valse Bluette." by Drigo. were in turn mellow and brilliant.

Following the musicale a reception was tendered Mr. Denton, and a tea concluded the afternoon. A large company of wellknown society and musical people attended the affair. MIDWIFE IS ARRESTED AFTER 2 WOMEN DIE Following the death yesterday of Mrs. Rose O'Keefe, 35 years old, of 463 Third Astoria, and Mrs.

Jessie Ball, 23 years old, of 188 Woodlock Long City, in John's Hospital, Long Island City, as the result of illegal operations, Mrs. Johanna Hackenberg, a midwife, 50 years of 311 East 49th Manhattan, was arrested last night and locked up in the East 67th st. station on a charge of homicide. According to the poltce, both women before they died told who performed their operations. THRONG AT GREENWOOD Although no official exercises were held at the Greenwood Cemetery yesterday, a steady throng of visitors kept coming there all day.

Sorrowing mothers and relations by the 'hundreds of dead war heroes placed wreaths and American flags on their graves. Delegations from the G. A. R. posts also- visited the cemetery and decorated the graves of their fallen comrades.

GUARD CAPTAIN ARRESTS MAN. Charged with parading about Jamaica in a soldier's uniform, which he had no authority to wear, William Hackett, 29, a machinist, of 86 Montauk was arrested yesterday by Capt. Harry S. Best of 816 96th Woodhaven, a. member of the National Guard, Hackett will be arraigned today in the Jamaica police court.

-WANAMAKER'S- Broadway at Ninth, New York Telephone Stuyvesant 4700 Store Hours 9 to 5 A new 20 per cent. (with the exception of a few price-restricted Summer Frocks for Misses 14 to 20 Have never been so lovely Frocks of crisp and dainty dotted to $50 Tissues and voiles in foulard to $69.50 Organdies in exquisite pastel tones; dark colors, to $65 Ginghams in tiny checks and attractive to $55 If we were to illustrate the models this advertisement would look like several pages from a Paris fashion magazine. NOTE, PLEASE-20 per cent. will be deducted from all of the above quoted reasonable prices. Second floor, Old Building.

Tenth Street. New Sports Hats from France yes--less French Hats Made of soft woven straw in beautiful soft rose and green, are light, shades of blue, gay and extremely' smart. English Hats The ever popular moufflon braid eminently practical and equally becoming is found in a great variety of shades and shapes. Duvetyn Hats The newest of the season. Made in soft pliable shades of brown, blue, chenille and silk combine originality and correct- month---and still off everything articles and our separate catalog stocks) Framed Pictures at half-less 20 per cent.

We have taken 300 framed pictures from our large stocks--pictures in a variety of sizes, particularly well adapted to the summer home--and have reduced their prices one-half. Off these half prices you will deduct 20 per cent. when you buy. For example, a picture that was $2.50 will be $1.25 Wednesday; deducting 20 per cent. brings the price you pay down to $1.

The half prices are $1.25 to $25 Among the 300 are French prints from old plates--designs by Boucher and others of his type; modern etchinenchw posters in warm colors; mezzotints, woodcuts; Japanese prints, among them some of Helen Hyde's interesting work; colored photogravures and etchings. All the pictures are framed -mostly of gilded wood, many of them hand-carved-in a most charming -the frames are inconspicuous, yet they will add greatly to your enjoyment of the pictures. 200 reduced one-third Mezzotints, water colors, and colored photogravures be beautifully framed this collection; $2.50 to $100 (were $3.75 to $150). Oil Paintings reduced- -less 20 per cent. -too, have been radically reduced.

Marines by Sherien and landscapes at each of the seasons and in varying localities are quite interesting. The French artists -Dauphin, Larpenteur and Leve--are represented. The prices range from $65 to $200 (were $100 to $375)-less 20 per cent. Spirited English hunting and coaching oils, simply framed in gold frames, have also been reduced to $100 (were $150)-less 20 per cent. Eighth Gallery, New Building.

French Silk less 20 per Fine quality black all silk stockings two weights; very sheer and medium. with high spliced heel and Paris Sizes to 10-not every size in all sizes in the lot. $8, and 60c-less 20 per cent. First floor, Stockingscent. and England 20 per cent.

Gingham and Organdie are used for the most becoming of all hats--those that match the light summer frocks. Large hats of gingham with pleated brims and flat bows or small hats of organdie are equally smart and attractive. The list of new sports hats is almost endless. To appreciate fully the charm these hats you must Special purchase of Printed Voile from Paris, in Full fashioned clock. each weight, but Old Building.

ness with great success. see them for yourself. this voile will make! First floor, Old Building. Main floor, Old Building. It Happened at Men's All -Silk and Silk- Mixture Shirts Down to $5.65 Less 20 per cent.

(tax 15c) Something we've waited patiently to announce This is an event that makes us happy because it shows exactly. what we have been able to do. you start out to accomplish something worth while, to help cut down the cost of something that thousands of people need and want, there is genuine pleasure in being able to say: "Here is the evidence." Every Man Knows -the prices that silk shirts have been sold in New York and elsewhere for during the past year. He knows also that cotton shirts are still marked at prices higher than this sale price for silks. What further argument is necessary to emphasize the saving in this case? Note These Facts: 3.000 of these shirts are all silk.

1,200 of them are silk mixtures and artificial silk. Some men prefer all silk because it is so soft and agreeable to wear. Others prefer artificial silk because it withstands so much hard laundering and keeps EXTRA its rich luster so well. The Exact Variety 6,000 Men's -includes colored silk crepes; white satin-striped crepes; white jap. silk; imported pongee silk; plain silk mixtures; Silk Cravats fancy silk mixtures And some of the fancy silk mixtures' are -rich stripes in various colorings.

Which means that YOU PAY $4.52, and a government 20 per cent. 50c tax of 15c-TOTAL, shirts of the better kinds. Less 20 per cent. Every one of these 4,200 will be on the tables and in Large open-end four-in-hands, plain view on made of crepe faille in fancy colorings. Wednesday Morning at 9 o'Clock These are good ties underprice.

Sizes 14 to 17. Don't wait too long for yours. 8,000 yards, of the quality we sold in our stocks during May 75c and 85c yard, will be put on sale Wednesday at 65c yard-less 20 per which brings purchaser's cost down to 52c yard. Lovely quality of voile, printed in silk designs on white and tinted grounds. Very pleasing color combinations.

What charming summer frocks AUTO RACES AT RIVERHEAD (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, N. June More than' 5,000 people came to Riverhead yesterday afternoon to witness the motorcar races. The track used was half-mile horse-racing, track with short, low. banked turns, making great speed hazardous. In spite of this Frank Gumbus drove an Essex in the one-mile free-for-all in beating Courtney Rogers in a Ford by one second.

The five-mile small car rice went to Bert Lane in a Chevrolet in the he five-mile large car race. went to o- man 'n an overland 7 In 25-mile race went to Frank Gumbus's Essex in 33.02. Bert Lane crashed through the fence near the stand in the 25-mile event. Riverhead won the baseball game on the same grounds, defeating Sag Harbor 11 to 3. AT ATLANTIC CITY.

Among those from this boro who spent Decoration Day at Atlantic City, N. were George L. Titus, Miss. Alice Mulvehill, Miss Anna Mulvehill. Miss Mary MeAfee, Miss Agnes Nagle, Miss Veronica.

M. Carr. Miss Cecelia M. Carr Mrs. A.

Michaels and J. vhom stayed at the Ho Tonight's Events Recital, Tollefsen pupils, Memorial Hall. o'clock. Talk by Elisabeth Marbury, 8th A. D.

Democratic Club, 335 Union o'clock. Graduation of Nurses, Long Island College Hospital. o'clock. Swedenborgian Convention, Church of the New Jerusalen, afternoon and evening. Meeting to organize Veterans Association Home Defense Imperial, 8 o'clock.

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