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EDITORIAL and FASHIONS THE EAGLE SOGETT and FINANCIAL Si 'T'C NEW YORK CITY SUNDAY JULY 16 1910 THREE CENTS QUEENS BOY ADRIFT HE SEES MANY LANDS New Giants in Wall Street STRAUS MILK DM OPENED IN BROOKLYN COLONEL EDWARD II GREEN WITH HIS GIRL STARTED SMITH OFF AMD STILL GOING 4 Ridgewood Youth Haa Been in prieon and as Far as Calcutta In a Year i Vacation Sales Importance "Than It was Home Bwuet Home for Drops In at Home Then Off Again crossed the Atlantlo In balleet CtmLTco was Christmas I could hava left then the officers on board had been so decent to mo that I decided stick the boat I ran horns for a visit over Christmas white they loaded her and then went right back' "Wa crossed to Italy with tha grain and after we had unloaded at Naples got orders to go to "Any cargo?" "No cargo When we got to Bom I BOY SENT TO HOUSE OF REFUGE William Irwin Admited That He Stole Anto Tools William Irwin It year old of 441 1 Maura avenue Richmond Hill who I pleaded guilty In the Jamaica Chil dren's Court teat week to the charge that ha broke Into a barn at Church bay I was taken 111 and had to go to a street and Metropolitan avsnu Rlch-hoepltal for twenty-four days When I mond Hill and stole suto tools was got out my ship waa gone and as I sentenced by Justice Hoyt yeeter-there were about a million other poo- day to tha House of Refugs 1 like myself who wanted to get Georg Ados IT of 14 Bhaw arena tack to Europe saw there was no I Union Course charged with being chance for me so I bought a railroad Implicated with Irwin In tha robbing ticket overland to Calcutta hoping to I of a number of garages In tha fssh- li Y-l f- f) ii i- A I to rfi- 8 F- KlM 1 ha a useful cittern lie te not such biased party man that ha will not lend hte powerful influence to holp along a good cause which- has been entrusted to a Democrat When he came North ha supported Mayor boom for that never-to-be-forgotten nomination of 1111 forgetting hte Republlcenlam for the time being He has supported for lorn campaigns In politics for a long while but ha never gives up Ha te not in the gems for the fruits of rt tory lie believes above all things that an active opposition te one of the strongest stimulants for good govere- tnent that can be administered to any party In power It wee this pat riot le spirit which led him Into many a political fight In Texas where chance party aucceea was hopeless Lengham London England was slumbering peacefully in Us complacent prosperity on Auguat II 11(1 the day that Edward Howland Robinson Green made hte first appearancs Hte parents were traveling In England tha tlms No ordinary parentage aponeored Edward's path Into this world Hte mother waa the leading woman financier of tha world and her fortune added up far Into tha millions Bhe was of long Now England descent Jier ancestors having been early settlers Hte father Edward II Green was well known In Wall Street and waa philanthropist and traveler Ford ham College was hte alma mater Ha waa a member of the class of 'll and waa popular then aa he later became In Dallas Texas Ha calved hte degree and studied afterward being admitted to tha After hla mother set him to work with pick and shovel ha developed a will and capacity that carried him from promotion to promotion' until he had served in every office as a rail road man except those of auditor and general freight agent He Introduced the electric headlight on hla engines of tha Texes Midland ahortly after ha became Its president Other Improvements revived this nearly defunct collection of debts and antiquated equipment and now It te one of -the finest and most valuable pieces of transportation property in that section of the Southwest Important Interrate Given to Colonel Green by Hte Mother Having proved hte metal In tha management of the Texas Midland Hetty Green called her eon back homo and handed over Important Interests to hte keeping At the time of her death Just recently he waa president tel Seaboard National Bank tho Columbia Treat Company tha American Exchange National Bank of Dallas Texas tha American National Bank of Terrell Texas the Dallas A Saga Company tha Murray Company tha Terrell Company and a treat of tho New York Produce Exchange Safa Deposit and Stonge Company Now that ha become practically tha sola heir to hte mother's huge fortuns he will undoubtedly become a director In many of tho leading railroads and industrials Although Colonel Green haa only one teg haring lost tha other through an operation te active and takes a keen Interest In outdoor sports Fishing and yachting are among Us' favorites Ha te a devoted tarpon fisherman and organised tha first Tarpon nub In Texas He also brought tha first automobile Into Texas Ha te not afraid or trying out any sort of car provided It rune on four wheels and can hit sixty miles an hour without failing to places Ha knows an automobile engine as ha knows a railroad Inside and out and all between The hot summary climate of Texas ha prefer to tha Unsteady weather noted out to New Yorkers And then In Texas -Colonel Green owned hte own baseball club and te ardent baseball Iks In tho days when Paris waa playing for Colonel Green he took hte friends with him on 1 hte private car over tha Texas Midland and tha parties lie which the players aa well aa guests mingled freely did more to cement Colonel Green to Texas and TOxaa to Colonel Green than almost any of tho ether numerous feats and seta that hava made Hetty Green's eon ona of the Lon Star's favorite son Art literature science muato'and the drama find him an anthuaiaaUe devote Colonel Green te a big man with a keen mind that has a marvelous breadth and grasp Being red-blooded and aetlv he te not content unleee he keeps It occupied The result 1a that ha owns a dinky wireless outfit and several patents thereto and nan run It himself He talks a good many foreign 'language collects all sorts of art object te a student of aerial navigation and an economist of tho kind that rarely sees hte theories exploded because they are the evolution of practical expsrtonc Ha belongs to many club among them the Union Club of Now York the Union League and Chicago Athletic Clubs of Chicago th St Louie Club of BL Louis the Dallas Club of Delia Tex and the Tarpon Oub of Texa Ha te not th type of clubman commonly pictured in the movie Tail hate and hearty with a marry amlla that lights up hte face until ha breaks out into a wholesome laugh suoh as a genuine Texan own Colonel Green te reedy for anything that promise fun but at tha same time he can square hte jaw peel off hte coat and plunge Into any sort of work from gardening to signing check Although rich and powerful Colotisl Green haa as yet been unable to find a woman that meats tha Ideal haa set np In hte fancy Because he has trunkloada of photographs and reama of violet -scented note all breathing devotion and panned by hands ha haa never and never hopes to women have become hte pet aversion Ha has confessed that If tha right on cams along ha might not prove Unresponsive to her charm But ah must marry him not hte money At th present time however ho te much more Interested In discount rates oa London and tha crop report RED CROSS SHIPMENTS Tha American Red Cross during the week made a ahlpment to tha Belgian Rod Cross consisting of twenty-two cases of hospital supplies valued at 91llTlt To th British Rod Cress there wee sent a ahlpment of two cases or hospital supplies valued at 9tllll Tha largest shipment of th week was mads to th Philanthropist Rushes Aid Sections Where Paralysis Hu Gained Foothold to PLENTY OF MILK FOR ALL Eaph Depot Will Reach ZOO Families Representing About 1004 Children Daily Nathan Straus has rushed to tha aid of sufferers from infantile paralysis In Brooklyn- by establishing two of hte milk stations In afflicted -one at 4(1 Marcy avenua near Flushing avenua and tha other at IIS Rlverdals avenue near Watklna Street In Brownsville There will be enough milk to supply all demands a special automobile being held In readiness at ShJS'rfthi The Federation of Jewish Chsrttlee through Its agency the United Jewish Aid' Societies with headquarters at Til Flushing avenue and also tha Brooklyn Bureau of Charitlea in Bchermerhorn street have charge of the distribution of milk tickets which are free throughout Brooklyn It te expected that each station will reach 100 families repreaenting about 1000 children dally Coupons will be given to each mother entitling her to one quart of the Nathan Straus Pasteur teed milk free The United Jewish Aid Sootettea ere making a campaign In co-operation the Mayor and the Health Com- SChrinTsnd htL tenable Kaw Gardens section waa re-1 cently held In the Jamaica Polios Court to await the action of tha Grand Jury to them moot ovary day Thera wars I fifty-four of "What were they In Jail for?" "They said they had refused to work la -the French ammunition factories and had been given ten twelvs fifteen yeara penalties for balking" "Art yon aura they had been Jailed for refusing to work in the ammunition Germans lied to Him to JaO la what they told ms Far-' haps they lied Anyhow they were not worrying They would Just aa soon have had twenty-fly years They have had twsuty-flvs year tenghed and-wstt they would betfUt aa I soon os the war te (Til wrtlas that Gar mss orison-1 (The assertion that German prisoners are compelled to work in French ammunition factories te officially dented by the French Government through the Frees BUregu I have made Inquiries in reference to Mr story) did the Germans com "From the Rhine province became acquainted with one fat little fellow a regular Dutch comedian aa bread a he waa high He cam from Frankfort-on-the-Maln" "How had they been captured?" "They said a whole division had bean out off by the French who ware making an attack a little to one side think it waa at Yprea but I am not euro At the time they aald the French nnd English papers had aald that three divisions had been cornered but that" waa not true only ona dirt slon I was surprised to see how well those men knew what waa going on They are not allowed to see any papers but they knew more about what waa happening than I did "I saw those prison era get their prison packages from home and I think It can ha true that the fill 0f Germany are starving other- wUm they could never afford to send they much food out of the country There were all things to eat bread cheese cakes sausage candles The bolonga sausages were eefioclally good It look like starvation fare to ma Severed also got money German 19 mark did you hare to sat in the "It wasn't bad Wa got a bowl of soup and a piece of bread twice a day and that soup waa much bettor than any I hare ever had on board of any ahlp Tha Germans liked- It fine They they were better fed than the prisoners outside who hare to work twelve hours a day digging canals unloading goods doing stone masonry and other heavy labor They would all be in here if they knew how well we are treated aald tha fat little fellow from Frankfort "Honestly it bad in that fortress The guards were ao polite to you If they stood In your way whan yon wanted to go out Into the yard they bowed and apologised Coming from an English tramp steamer was quite surprised didn't hare to do any work wa could sleep all day If wa wanted to and could be out In tho courtyard almost all day When time was up wa went In by ourselves nnd If wa closed the door ourselves no one came to lock It If we left It standing too wide opon the guard slammed it too but we could almost always go out and get water In the yard Every day wa got paid cents for every man I took mine out In ohoeoteto St tho "HoW did yon get -How Smith Got Oat iff XMson station I happen to bo near I care X- guess I'U get hack and get a regular job do some straphanging on the and If I get sick of that I may do some more traveling Good 1 by" and hte toll slender figure disappeared out of th door to join the maetetroip on the boulevard 1 NABOTH HXDXN a of It up Taxes consists of a population and prairie It haa a noble history Years back it braved Bents Ana tha Mexican It braved tha lonely expanse rolling plain that waa home to desperadoes cattle prairie dogs and rattlesnakes It te a State of bravo people te Tessa Brave though Ite people era yet ones they flinched and turned back waa when Colonel Edward Howland Roblnaon Green tried to- bo Republican Governor of Texae All of whieh shows the powerful Influence of i religion Colonel Green wee brought in the Republican faith and Texas was brought up at tha altar of Democracy Texans would have laid down their lives for Colonel Green but not their honored place In tha sacred covenant of tha South However Texas and Colonel Green Jemainei rory good friends Colonel Green liked polities and Texas poll- tics are better because he did Then Colonel Green put Paris Texas on tha baseball map He built up the dub followed It In hte private ear and rooted for tt In the bleachers But what makes Texas prouder of him than all hte other works te the Texas Midland Tha Texas Midland begtna Just north of sunrise and ends a little to tha south of sunset At one' end te located Paris and at tha other Ennis In tho early days an express train of a few baggage care a smoker and an angina ran from terminus to terminus once a- day and It te aald that If a stray atear lay -down to sleep on the tracks the engineer lit hte pipe and waited for tha obstruction to wako up Then Colonel Green went South HUjnother Hetty Green rent him that steer to wake up Tha Texas Midland woe then the Joke of tho countryside Its fortunes were a minus quantity Its rolling stock was In tha advanced etagee of depravity Its tracks flirted shamelessly with tha tall grass while Us ties sighed and pined away Into this unhappy railroad Colonel Green Injected some of hte good nature and hte boundless enthusiasm sad Bines 1B0I the Texas Midland aaa been a new read Now It te tha model read of Texas with trunk Ilnse respectfully taking lesson from It Colonel Green after tearing college and gaining admission to tho Bair followed np hte scholarly attainment aa a railroad section hand- Hte mother had large holdings In railroads and It woe fitting that nor son should know railroading as he sometime would govern her huge estate Tho bottom wee tho wily place Hetty Green would consider and for that matter Edward himself did not fancy presidential chair as yet From esetlqn hand worked up In tha employ of different railroads In ItOI ha be-cams the head of the Texas Midland Texas Midland Monument to Ooloncl Green There te not a better managed rood In the country today Ite roadbed although tha line te of no great length te kept up In excellent shape Under Colonel Green's guidance tha rood has bean extended to connect trunk lines which 'has multiplied business over tracks Hetty Green sent her son South to make hte way Tha handicap of money aha knew to bo tho ruination of man who were capable enough but lacking Incentive were content to luxuriate In the ease of their millions Mrs Green had no of turning her millions over to any such management -Today Colonel Gram te in the North Millions comprise hte fortune That ha will manage them well aa hte mother would have wished te almost certain Whlla In Texas he breams affiliated with any enterprise that promised to make money -in a conservative manner One of hte hobbles te Sowars In Dallas he te Interested in a huge nursery where everything from a pear tree to an American Beauty rose te bred Ha haa mad a mint of money out of this adventure Real aetata particularly Chicago real estate has also Interested him deeply Cattle tends wheat fields mince bust nice blocks livery stables and lea cream stores are on hte list The rare aspect of hte enormous holdings Ilea in tha foot that hte interest In real estate goes beyond the monthly rent roll and the yearly tax budget In Texas as ha himself declares he learned to be sociable People were contented when they helped other people to bo contented Colonel Green haa always plunged into any undertaking oiojisnavr ui down there to rescue the train had stopped to wait for a dead Hh HI of th Republican State Committee Of Texa which haa since ceased to be an empty tttl Texas te forgetting Its ante-bellum grudge and whlla a good Texan atlll votes for tho party of Jefferson ho now at least listens to the other add' Colonel Interest In polities te not selfish He haa a worthy desire 1 to a of nt a Of Great See Pages 6 and ART TREASURES LOST TO MUSEUM BY DELAY ON FINISHING TOG Collections Stored in Basements Because Board of Estimate Holde Up Funds BROOKLYN FUBUO BUFFERS Years and I 04004 Exhibit la Looked rp During tha two years the Board of Estimate haa deferred appropriating tha funds necessary to complete the Washington avenue win of th mu-edum of th Brooklyn Institute of Arte and Sciences pictures art objects eurioa and other exhibits conservatively valued at D0000O hav been collected by the museum and Morsd away In basements and storerooms for want of speoa to exhibit them to the publte 1 The museum authorities ft ted that tha scarcity of exhibition space has lost tha city many valuable art treasures A number of collector about the city have offered tha temporary UK- of art objects to th museum tipaiaUng that suitable exhibition be made of thorn Tho lack of room for these objects haa mad It Impossible to accept th offers and when the owners made permanent disposition of tho objects the took of space for their exhibition was remembered and they went elsewhere The shell of th wing haa toon erected by th city at a coat $40-OOB and since November 1B14 all work on It has been at a standstill complete th I Tb work naciasary to asomplwtw the I building ao it eas need will rest 915000b and It te about providing this sum that tha Board of Estimate has hesitated for two yu Tha 9110099 coven the coat of Installing heating ventilating and lighting systems in tha new wing together with plumbing and other Interior finish -work Members of tho Brooklyn Inatltate ore wondering whether the shell of the museum wing will stand aa long aa did the foundation of the Central Library Building a few hundred feet away before th Board of Estimate decides to do anything toward completing It eo that tha dttaene of tho city may derive some benefit from th money that haa already hera expended upon 11 Th museum wing hue deteriorated somewhat just as th library foundation did because It waa left in an Incomplete stale for so long Th wing however haa been protected from tho extrema wear and tear of the elements by Its roof and the temporary board screens In Ite window cursory examination of tho museum now In un shows that every possible foot of exhibiting space in It has been availed of and tha museum authorities declare that If they are forced to -crowd any more exhibits Into th present building tha museum will be converted into a stars hous rather than an exhibition ulaaa T)to pOMMlOllf Ok th Oitt" Kum a for ilcoed tho exhibition space avaMahWYor use that approximately onarquartar of the treasures are now in storage Conditions hav reached the stage where even storage room In tho museum te difficult to find Completion of New Wing Would Take Care Treasures Now Blared -Prompt work In completing the new wing would relieve th situation Tho Washington avenue wing it te estimated will almost double the present space available for exhibition purpose Conservative estimates are that tha new wing contains about 19 per cent of the space In the present museum Th art treasures that tha museum now has stored away la Its basements and storeroom together with the objects now Improperly displayed In tha overcrowded museum wW fill at least 40 per cent of tho space In the new wing wharf te completed The need of additions? apses for exhibition purposes was emphasised In tha spring when th Swedish Minting 'were on view The crowds STe to view these works of art -ally congested the building The new Eastern Parkway subway will ha completed In a little more than a Ifltne WONDERFUL ADVENTURES la st Eagle Furls Burras and gteUa Experiences Since He Left Brooklyn Easts Bureau SI Kuo Cambon fartai July I New York Bordeaux Uoa Croaa behind battts line Havre Its Lemnos Gibraltar ytHadelphla Naples Bombay Chains Marseille military prison Faria 1 Theee are but a few way its-yes la the Odyeaey of Charles A jyith i of 111 Woodward svenu la tbs Ridsewood section of Queen wtfiio last Easier The tem-Miary detention In a Marseilles for gwi a gunshot from the Chateau fjt of Count Monte Crlato fame was Isa to the lose of American pswpoit Of this more anon How did you coma to leave home these troubled times?" ho waa he related his adventures sblle making a call at Tha yarla Bureau Wall you see had a tiff with a 4 but as this Is not a tala of legos the love details will ha left out the spotlight te on Mr Smith who btsO fair and good-humored Hsv-ag had a taste of travel lie will see of the world before ha returns Is woodward avenue What ha came The Eagle Information Bureau for atginally was a weakly shipping ftyrtiai which telle what ships are luring port whan and where for 1 left homo on Easter unday began Mr Smith you ever sailed tha mala be-tost" No never For two years steady ted worked la the advertising departed of a Manhattan newspaper" "lad then there waa that tiff with fte girir "Is and aald going to disk around any longer see things Here Imagine business of broken ad TU show long-suppressed Mrs for adventure shattered Ideal if love In a Rat of two ate dona In Be bi-monthly fiction style But (Mi Is an adventure Interview not a )m story then what did you do to gat geay from the Long Island and Man-fcutss shore?" 1 knew a fallow who waa shipping knee to France: Ha Used to say to ru Why do you keep plugging away Why 'flonTryoirfo on a tent boat and sea some of the places mu tbe warP Balia te Bordeaux on Hone Boat "And then after tha tiff you took hi apr "Exactly I aald to him TU go on 'nt of your boras boats Show ms craft Urn your The next scene opens in Bordeaux I on tha terrace of a oaf comae French scene There appear Charles A Smith of Brooklyn three I I hla companions from the lima boat ad then an English Jockey out of regular work on aecount of tha nr Hte nemo te Ivy Business of niter serving mixed French drinks Indual acqualntane a of American tens tendon and English Jockey Hr Ivy now a director of the tost war charity tha Blue Cross (object: care of horses wounded In batik): "Why you chap coma and nrt for the Blue Cross? Easy work Mod pay soft living and than you got Mar the battle Arguments twwhslmlng especially test All her lads sign up sue Blue Cross men Been shifts to Moret picturesque Btle village near Fontalnbleau Old ane-yard fitted up aa "Blue Cross Boepltel" Mr Ivy director On pay-nu twenty Jioetlare or hors nurses te stables thirty-five old nags ap-Nnehing the sausage meat stags Other characters: dlatlngutened via Patrons and patronesses enthusiasts philanthropists eager te contribute to any "worthy vhborhooft farmers casting nunpl-tea glances at distinguished visitors eg philanthropists and spavined Enter Char lee A Smith lata Woodward avenue and three com-Malon all wearing spick and span ew Blue Cross uniforms jWhat did you do for the Blue "Not much of anything Tha first jr aa we wer standing round Ivy us and mid wa might go out find some sand and fill up tha I te tha barn-yard ao the horses stumble when taken out for airing Ha said ha wanted tha Me aa smooth os a race course we walked down the road a bit wa came to a gravel bank Then a went back to get a wheelbarrow tehea tried to load on some of a farmer came up and mid to ue we understand that he objected to our away any of hte dirt Wo told Re cam back with us mw tha pnner and quieted him down by glv-0n a slip of paper" pa a requisition bond?" "Maybe It look like real then' you carted back tha Mr 1 "Tag but Ivy mid there was no 2JT- and we moneyed to keep buoy Stettlny a wheelbarrow each before another before tea and a third dinner it waa a nice walk and Mopped and talked as met on It was eyey work making TTterei-yard Into a jitel vhy didn't you stick at Hospital Work Had a Weak Appeal l7 like the way It waa run S-terecd There wer two hospitals and we moved the eld nags from place to place there were visitors coming eet know as there waa anything It looked queer that te alL" much were you paid to send and to move those about?" franca a day and keep Every night we got 15 decided you to n'ell Ivy wanted ma to live In ona "wn and come towork In a hospital That 'mad about three p1! to walk to my meats so I said We Blue Cross and bought ticket to there you once more boarded a xryosy of commerce to wit k-TmP steam or loaded -with eontra-Jjof -Y' wn' '1 wandered about the PH- picked nut a boat they would leave for -New York and Wwt board They were vorjr but by we I a to 1a 7 This Section and corridor of th miteeum hade born pressed Into service to exhibit to the publte some of tha treasure that otherwise would be stored In cellar Ante-roome In the upper galleries have been converted into galleries eo that aa many pictures and paintings as possible might he displayed Even these makeshifts nnd overcrowding havt not helped In any way to empty th storeroom Soma of the Valuable Colloctlonq Stored Away There are more than 104 paintings stored away at the present tim in six storerooms at tha museum There -pictures are appraised at more than MQOQUO There te a constantly growing collection of Colonial and early American furniture stored away la other cellar A similar fate haa befallen the William Wallace Tooker collection of Long Island Indian relics and archaeological exhibits which were purchased by popular aubeorlps lion about ten yeara ago There are between 1009 and 4100 separate object In this collect Ion Sixty tone of ethnological exhibit brought from tho British East India about a year ago at great expense are atlll crated and packed In tha storeroom! of the museum as they arrived from tha (Steamer which brought them This collection which te on of tho most aomptet and valuable of Its kind in this country haa never even been exhibited bar because of th lack of space A collection of stamp books mad maps worth 911004 a collection of birds worth -11000: pieces of statuary valued at 9I00B the Oeb-hardt collection of fossil purchased In 1BBB at a east of l009 and MW worth much more and miscellaneous art object valued at 9BI00 are all safely hidden In the wceeeea of storeroom Tha department of ethnology has exhibits valued at 110404 improperly displayed about th Mre don and in the auditorium Profs- sor collectoa iff Til photo graphs of cathedral showing nn- usual architectural detail consigned to the storehouse This collection iff photographs te at 91500 Many of tha art objects bow la storage have been exhibited nt differ-ent time end have hern tucked away In th storehouse to permit tho exhibition of other tree sure This system of rotating tha exhIMta te at- tended with grave danger especially to tho more frog A art object which are exposed to damage and whose -value te Impaired by the wear1 and tear Incidental to their transfer from tho exhibition rooms to tho storehouse CONCERTS IN THE PARKS The following programs of mule hav been arranged for the concerts today In tha publte porks: nuMPnrr park TWRNTT-THIRD RKOIMKHT BA NIX SsleloUs "The Star SvsnsM Ovwtur an4W' lUsswt S-mms fwi 'ts Bofcnae" FeeeHtl Dvorak Wsuerstss No I AM Niwtwrn RsMnsisis R-mlnlscsneM Twit IMioA solas (a) (bl (s) IV sty's nrm" (4) "paesvw sad Kerr" (d) "Hid Ms "Deem et Ike fma OUeood" fro "Mrsss Ksrrrplo frsui lo Haiti borg "Tbo Hmvsbs Aro Tolling" from "Tha tTaallns' i -Haydn Plnalr "Amwlra'' inaw) McCOba Mutlesl director Thomas Bbaneu TOMPKINS PARK mNTRRNO'a OfNTRRT BANIX SsIsUlloa "Tbs star Spa noted Bannsa Marrh Hon-w" uUnsfea Ovmiire "Th Hobomlnn Bblfn "PMIsb MMrwaeke CVmerrt Walla rolls Otars mil Chntame Ovarlnra Dsnlnstd Dosrrlntlre Psnusl tbs Plante-- tireliiitrMMse a eatosos sB oi tsiPtitVMf AW lfilPttM4MIIIHlltlMkk(t9 Walls "Ms WaldmuM March "tafsyatu PM MX a A Liglilka CbhUpm Pint Is (new) MoCilp Musical director UlavasU tt Oasis invixo nqiiARg park PRRRTS MILITARY RAND Sal ult tlsn "Tbs Mar gpanglad Banasr 9 March "Kins Karr' EHsubfrg Overt sra "Jolly Sanaa ttenrret Walla "Lnvo'a (Twraewnstle "A I'avalry Ludsre M-dl-y st Ssalbreii Ptartatlaa Boos-Lamp Ksrarpts (Mm Medley Fspvltr Snnec Scsaen from "11 the Hlue and Orer" Bendls lb) "Wakr-np FWst "Tbs Prophet" "Coroealion March" Plnale "Amriira" (new) MeCSbb Musical director Chartea Peril -WIXTH HOP PARK 'Y2 ms MrxtnrALvfrintT hand ftBlutilkm Th Bur Clpnfl4 fUftMT Itoirh "9M OltryiiMsttMMittiimitilkiMit Ovrtrlur eesf le eb Wits Walt "Romany" Kaiser "Album l-ear UfagwO (ni "Mother -Itslt SI Voter of Kah rdley Overt ara Rnir'aol frem Dellbaa Kscerpta tram "Chimes af i Ptanqasti Dvorak Papular bit (a) "Taka Ma te the MldntsM Cskatnilh Ball" Abra hams (b) "On lha llnka Mtka Jsla''H Vsu Tllssr Plnale new I MoCabs Maoieal dlrector Jamea Mnrphy j- SUNSET PARK (TCIWR CONCERT IflKP Snlntnlhm "Tbs Star Spangled Banner Hlftki Mtiwiters(rrMmWtNF Overt Concert Walts "Artistic Uf WaJdtonM "Be boa frem MatrapolIMn Opera Myddlstoa Fantasia AIMse oa Boateb IrlMi a ad Rag- Ui Airs saaaaosanci'0slthl BNNN frOM tllBMlMlQ'daedbehssdsSiCVM( MMN fM iHUnWlM of "Obim Final (ml WomAe Muriaai director Anihear CWw flnd a ship there for America" that coat a lot of money traveling overland from Bombay to Calcutta much Travel te cheap In Xn-dls My ticket came to about In American money It waa well spent like to tako a railroad trip through country and see what It te Ilka in tha Interior after being on hoard ahlp ao long "In Calcutta found no ahlp going Americs but did get a Job on a ahlp going to England" 'And then you returned to Lon-don?" Thrown Into Jan at Marseilles "No 1 never got that far She stopped at Marseilles and there te TV h) hlmuM I numavt I I my PP0rt maple I that a "No but I had trouble with some English Bailors and they aald I waa a German Thera was a fellow from ha ap Zurich on board and ha spoke German better than anything ala On day ha had a fight with tha English They had called him a Hun and a Boohs and a Dutehla and ha talked hack atthem in Gorman the only language he knew well There te where I made my mistake told him that I understood what ha aald That what got ma into trouble for tbe Bwlsa turned to mo and In German reeled off such a Una of abuaa against the English that It made me dtexy 1 atop him All I did waa to listen He hod so many things stored up In hte mind that there waa no way to stop him ones ha got going After that 1 waa a marked man Tha Cockneys accused me of being a German too and aa hod no passport to prove my nationality was when we arrived at Marseilles" The next scene te the military prison at Marseilles an old fort at the entrance to the old harbor a fort without military value except aa a prison In a large circular room with ton I walls and a high vaulted colling hav-1 lrg a grated air holt in tha center are a group of men among whom te Charles A Bmivh of Ridgewood There te no furniture In the room except a long sloping bench used as Bleeping quarters for all hands The stone floor la bare and there te no beading except a blanket for each man wire about a thousand Ilea to every square inch of floor and wall says Smith and aa ha there two weeks he ought to know first man I became acquainted reports Smith a Norwegian who was a deserter from the United States Army He thought I waa a Swede or soma kind of a Scandinavian on account of my light hair suppose and eo ha apoka to ma In hte native but told him get him and that tha only foreign language I knew waa German and as that had gotten ms into tha place I would careful about slinging that round any Predicament of a Deserter from Unde Navy "'All' right aald let's talk United States and I knew he had lived In Chicago He had been In there five months and a half Aa he had no papers he had tried to get the United States authorities to certify that ha woe a deserter from the United States Army and tha reply had come that waa a deserter right and good hut that tha United States want him any more He then appealed to tlio Norwegian Consul and the day left he was -going to appear In court again know how he earns out place was full of deserters lrcm all parties There wer some Ateatlons that had deserted (Tom the Frrnoh Army sad there were Englishmen who had refused to work on ships One Frenchman who had been I 1 wrote to tho Consul at Bordeaux where I had registered the year before and sent a letter saying he had my name on hte book but not tho number of my paaeoprt The lot- brought over from Algeria refused to I ter got out just tho asm They I perhaps picturesque than hte political co to tha front First they convicted I were very decent about It 1 ti and gave him a life term then I "Did you go they led him off In shackle to the front where they were going to let "Te I did after got out and ho him have a chance to redeem himself told me would have to hava some Greeks were brought In all tha time I kind of a paaa to go to Pari for on thing or another end there was I bother with that that promised to better the community In which ha lived This naturally Introduces Colonel Green the politician In hte varied career no phase te more interesting Hie parents were New Englander Republicanism to them wee the rock on which the Constitution waa founded and Ilka all New Englander this rock wee most surely Plymouth Rock The two were synonymous Plymouth lot of Italians who had refused to go the station bought a ticket to Part I Rock and Republicanism New Eng-home and fight Tha Norwegian waa I and no ona aald a word I could hav land and th United State Bo ood company all right I rejoined my ahlp She was still there I ward Howland Roblnaon Green went -Then there were plenty of German whan I got out but wanted te coma to South filled with tho ideate of Lin and get my paper Now the) coin Embassy people have cabled for me to I The Republican party In Texas was Washington and ae soon as they get I then an Infant In sore need of pro-word hack they- will give mo a tempo-1 taction 1 Every election a Repub-rary Jlcan ran for Governor and ovary elee- "What are yon going to do TU taka a train to soma sea port never saw I Havre or Bordeaux or some other It depends on what railroad ccle at least that ta what I waa told they wer While was there two women epleo oere ehor -Yen dldn but I heard tha ihota "How did you know they "I waa told they wer ft plaod tlon a Republican woe defeated Nothing daunted Colonel Green ran for Governor and waa defeated He was consoled with the chairmanship American Relief Clearing House Paris rwmt consisting of 441 eases of hospital rap- tlcipate a large Increase In attendance plies valued at 91MBT-IB In this I after that event oa there te a station ahlpment there wer large quantities located right at th museum door of bandage gauss adhesive piaster I making tbe museum more accessible and rubber good to many Prt of Manhattan There waa shipped to Piraeus a read I even th Metropolitan Museum wagon which te to bo need by tho Bor-1 Ae tt will take at least a year and Man army In transporting relief sup-1 half to put the necessary finishing 1 touches upon th museum oven after the contract are 1st th museum authorities will be able to meet tha Increased demands that will Inevitably bo mads upon it within two year Tha new addition te also absolutely for th proper and natural irowth of the museum which lecon-atantly acquiring new art object and could acquire many more If tt had sufficient epee to exhabit them At th present time auditorium pile A shipment constating of forty cases of hospital supplle valued at 11119 was consigned to the Italian Red Cross Another carload of sup piles has Just been received from our Chicago office which will forwarded to France next week The equipment for three baas bos- Sltals of B00 beds each te being aaaem-led at th -Buah Terminal station ao that tha past week has bean the bust set on since the war began year sad th 9tlS1fl What nationality were they?" tell you but there were plenty German prisoner of war ther I talked to them During the day time we could walk about the courtyard as wo th Norwegian said to me go ever and talk to th German prison-erg and did After that talked i ''I 'I 1.

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