New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN' DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1914, D PUBLISHING COMPANTY. Froprietors. | dén)y (Sunda, excepted) st 4:15 p. m. Herald Bullding, 67 Chucch 8t at the Post Office at New Britain Becond Class Maii Matter. [vered by carrier to any part of_the oity 15 Cents s Week, 65 Cents a Month. pticns tor paper to be sent by mail Payable in advance. 60 Cents & 3 th, $7.00 & year. | only profitable wdvertising medium in o Cirowlation books and prevs " reim slways vpen to advertisers. |Heraid will be found on sate at Hota- )g’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- , New York City; Board Walk. tic City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONA CALLS. - Omce ' FIVE MINUTE RECESSES. here is no desire to make any un- indly comment on the action of the city administration, but it will do harm to suggest that recesses for b minutes for the purpose of study- new ordinances ought to cease be- some wag begins to associate the f period allowed for consideration limportant matters with the admin- ration itself. When the council ap- nts a committee for any purpose it buld see that the work .of the com- ftee is carried-out and that ample he be allowed for the consideration all questions. / ['he council should never have ap- inted a committee on salaries to ch the-question of the salaries of beials should be referred before final lon is taken by the council. That ! tion should have been left with the ra of finance and taxation because first requisite should be the rais- of the momey, and if the council not care to fix the amount as sug- kted by the board of finance the sney could be left in the treasury, under the new method the council es the salaries, as it has a right to |, but does it at a’time when it makes lcompulsory on the part of the board finance and taxation and the city seting to provide the money.whether Jlikes to or not. |The idea has always been to have city meeting pass upon the esti- jates without being hampered in any By and that is not being done under e new method of doing business. ow the common council is repudiat- g its own decision, {llustration being owr last evening when it was pro- bged to increase the salary of the engineer to $3,600 without even insidering the committee on salaries all. A point was raised on this ture of the question and airecess las taken for five minutes so that the” mittee Tight see the proposed kange in the ordinance. Of course it plain to every one what the plan the administration is, but the ques- on which causes the dispute is the mner with which the change is ping made. There is no one who jously believes that the proposed i girieer can do all the work laid out him by the suggestiops already ade, Too much is to be expected om him and those who are his rjends now will evidently be the cans of killing him in the end, MORE APPOINTMENTS, | Mayor Quigley has almost completed list of appointments and taken as Wwhole they make a good lot of men, fhe most important of the appoint- ents yet to be made being lessened day by the selection of Mr, Alling r public safety commissioner. . Mayor Quigley has shown good judgment in retaining the services of portant city officials. When a man as been in oflice for any length of fime so that he has familiarized him- oIf with the work and has shown an ptitude for public service it is a mis- ¢ to supplant him with one who knows nothing about the work and that is more may never learn. A w "administration is always handi- pped with new men and were it ot for the retention of older officials der the law the spoils system would rate disastrously for the city. It is stated that the mayor has had imany applicants for some of the of- es and that it has been difficult for im to make a selection. It will be a relief to him when it is all over the new men get down to bus- s, The board of public works blem has attracted the most at- tion and the people generally are ’ as to how it will work out. is ‘a very important department city and like the board of pub- safety it requires the attention of The common council has referred, : , contract back to the is another uct which provides that all contracts must have the approval of the council in order to . make them effective and the action taken last night simply means that the contract must come back at the next meeting for rati- fication. This same question has been Lefore the council on at least two former occasions, once for the print- ing of the municipal record, when a council committee awarded a contract which it had no right to do and simply reported to the council what'it had done, and last year when the case of | the fire auto question came up. The ordinances state that the gar- bage question shall be under the di- rection of the board of health but the law also plainly states that contracts shall not be valid unless ratified by the common council, so that when the ee-sawing between the council and the health committee is over it will be the council that will be obliged to decide who shall have. that Jjob. It- was thought at first that as the new health board will pass upon the question this time that the conditions might be changed but the new law simply pro- vides for a change in the makeup of the board and does not make any great change in its powers and duties. looks as if the council will meet frequently and consequently there need be no great delay in getting the garbage collecting under the new agreement under way. The time | specified, for the contract to begin is June 1. It | | fice, of course. | favored politician. TFACTS AND FANCIE! 1t is a question in many cities where street cars shall stop. ~Most cities in- | sist on.their stopping about a guartcr of a mile from where anybody wants to get on or oft.—Middletown Penny Press. Isn't it a trifle premature to al- ready class’ Mr. Wilson as “a war president?” If it were fair to as- sume that he is willing to accept the title, it is by no means certain that it would mean honor for him. And “an almost war president”—that were an appellation better left unsaid.— New Haven Register. When the average citizen learns that war means a stamp tax placed upon all of the necessities of life by a paternal government, which is in urgent need of funds, some of the enthusiasm for cleaning up Mexico will die away. The direct tax that ly separates one from his money by a painless and invisible process. It is easy to see Why the government does not wish to try the stamp tax until it is forced to do so by stress of cir-*| cumstances.—Ansonia Sentinel, Rumors that Secretary Bryan is about to leave the cabinet are denied stoutly. Such rumors are apt to be denied. Quite frequently, however, they are proved to be forerunners of the fact, if also frequently they ex- pire as rumors. Mr. Bryan has no mandate from the people in his of- He is simply a highly Three times re- jected for president, his unapprecia~ | tive fellow-countrymen behold him at NATIONAL GAME ATTACKED. We have always been inclined to| admire the sporting blood of Meri- | den. We have restrained ourselves | with difficulty from cheering outright for Dan Budd when he used to run as | fast as he could and sometimes when | he didn't run as fast as some others | thought he could, again when we read | of the pitching of “Big Bd” Walsh of the Chicago White Sox and of the fast work of Jack Barry, shortstop of the Philadelphia Athletics, but we learned with regret today that the baseball players on the special police force have been.removed, not even for | cause, but on the ground thét they | were not active. Meriden used to know how to play ball but military spirit has taken the place of sport and the chief of police who has spent a portion of his life hunting Spaniards and has betome a war veteran doesn’t care the dust of his ‘official shoes.for ball players | and as a result he recommended that the six supérnumeraries who ~have placed the Meriden police on the base- ball map be dropped froii the roll. It is the opinion of the chief that while | these men could catch flies they were not strong on catching law’ breakers; it was the latter he Wwanted.. The com- missioners agreed with him and out went the athletes.: | There is no doubt but that Meriden will suffer for this act. It will have its honor trailed in the dust beforey the year is over. Humiliation has al- ready started Wallingford and Yalesville have already thallenged it with its few constables and Officer Scheurer, the Meriden team, has had a conference with Of- ficers Jim Grady, Jim Burke and Ser- geant Thayer and they have decided in. manager of that it would be impossible to beat | anything with what is left on the | Meriden police force. A cash paid for rag man has been sent for and when he arrives he is to be given several blue and white uniforms. Removable Pavements. (Engineering Record.) Pavement piercing for petty repairs by public utilities is so universally practiced in our larger cities that the public has become inured to the spec- tacle of seeing the paving materials on the sidewalk or piled in the gutter. The Engineering Record suggests that engineers look into the feasibility of a removable type of pavement which can be picked up in large blocks ex- | tending from the curb to the car track and laid to one side while the delver after conduit troubles pursues his task. Inquiries in Chicago and talks with practical pavement men indicate. that the idea has merit and presents few, if . any, insurmountable difficulties. Rough calculations indicate that con- crete blocks of ten inch thickness, reinforced, might cost upward of $2.70 per square yard, exclusive of hauling to place. They could be transported at night over the street railway tracks and unloaded by a crane directly on to previously pre- pared longitudinal reinforced founda- tion walls at curb and car tracks. Blocks would seem to be specially suited for the part of the street that the railway companies are required to pave, as in most cases foundations for the blocks already exist. The al- most inevitable necessity of remov- ing the pavement prior to its life limit should make the removable, re- versible and interchangeable features worthy ~of detailed study by street railway engineers. Exhaustive inquiry has established a president’s right hand. If he is not the power behind the throne he is firmly séated on an arm of it. And there is no provision for a recall The democratic party thought it had | | chosen Woodrow Wilson in preference ' to William J. Bryan to be its standard bearer, but the latter has hold of the ; stick, too.—Providence Journal. The Record is in no position to state. that illness and death may not result from vaccination. In the very nature of things it is reasonable :o suppose that there aré exceptions to the general rule which history has shown has proved efficacious. the virus were not absolutely fresna is easy enough to see that serious re- sults might occur from vaccination. It does not signify, however, that.be- cause of these exceptions, the idea of vaccination in general 1s not good. Statistics show how the disease has been almost stamped out. Where it used to be general, it is now only oc- casional, Where it was formerly viru- lent, it is now, in the main, light in character.—Meriden Record. The Prehistoric Horse. (Chicago Inter Ocean)) South American naturalists have revived a controversy over-the wild horse which is likely to.spread to this country because of the interest here in the same question. The ques- tion is: Are the wild horses of Ar- gentina descended from the horses brought over by the early Spanish conquerors, or from horses indigen- ous to the country? The same ques- tion has been argued here as to our wild western horses. If memory serves correctly, fossil remains have been found in the west of a small animal which is believed to be that of the prehistoric horse. Nevertheless, the opinion has been practically unanimous that our wild western horses were not descended from this prehistoric horse, but were the de- scendan: of Spanish horses of the early day We .know the Spanish brought over horses and used them in the southwest, possibly as far north and east as Kansas. The South American controversy hag been rather one-sided to date in favor of the Spanish horse side. It has always been regarded as an his- torical truth that the natives had never seen a horse of any kind up to the time of the (first Spanish expedi- tion into the wilds of Argentina— that of Don Pedro de Mendoza in 1535. Now comes Senor Cardoso of the Argentine national museum to the rescue of the prehistoric horse theory. | He shows geological remains of the Pleistocene equus erectus. Moreover, | he produces writings of members of Mendoza’s expediton which | recite that wild horses were occasionally en- countered by them in the Argentine wilds. Sound Manhood Wanted. (Washington Star.) The army, navy and marine corps standard of physical manhood is one to which comparatively few Ameri- cans measure up. This fact should turn people’s minds to the question of good and wholesome living, which means clean living, clean eating and plenty of clean exercise. Because of the martial uproar recruiting of- fices of the army and navy have been besieged by applicants for en- listment. It is reported that at a recruiting office in New York city one day last week 200 applicants were given physical examinations and of these, only twenty-five were en- listed: There are two ways of con- sidering this condition. One is that the military physical standard is very high and the other that the gen- eral physical average is very low. The the fact that lightning ranks next 10 railroads as a source of forest fires. Forest officers say that the increasing re with fire on the part of, the and the public generally : the largest ~—Middle- | truth lies between these extremes. However, there is in ‘it a hint that boys should take such care of them- selves that they shall grow up into sound and strong meén, and that men should take such ‘eare of them- selves as to preserve their strength and vigor. hits !everyone every day hurts mor® | i than the indirect method, which deft- If the ! system were not in good condition, it | and pure, if the wound were not prop- | | erly cared for to prevent infection, it GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Mechanic Arts. English Industries of the Middle Ages. By L. F_ Salsmann. “An introductory treatment of cer- tdin industries, mining, quarrying, metal working, pottery, clothmaking, leather working and brewing. Takes up each industry separately’, and shows its chief center, its chronolog- ical development during the Middle Ages, and the conditions and meth- ods of work.” T Forgecraft. By C. P. Crowe. “For the student, the apprentice and the artisan who works at the forge. Gives clear, simple directions and information about tools and ma- terials and their use, about welding wrought iron and steel, about the treatment of steel and the making of common types of tools, emphasizing { always the need of actual work and experience.” s %% i | Hand-forging and Wrought Iron Or- namental Work. By T. F. Goo- gerty. “Though dealing largely with in- Kl.t:riol' work, it points out the princi- ! ples and methods underlying all forge . work.” oo Lightships and Lighthouses. Talbot. “A readable, popular description of how notable lighthouses have i been built, how both vessels and | houses are equipped, and what meth- | ods are used for the ‘protection of | navigation.” % % Manual of Shoemaking. Dooley. “A practical survey of .the shoe- making industry, from the treatment of hides to the finished product, and a history of footwear, written by the principal of the Lowell (Mass.) Industrial school.” . % Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel. By H. H. Campbell. PR Motor Car Principles; the Gasoline Automobile. By R. B. Whitman. P Flights. By W. H. » My Three Big Beaumont. By Audre s Practical Bricklaying Self-taught, By F. T. Hodgson. e S Story of Textiles. By Perry Walton. “A very interesting book. The best part of the book, however, is the story of the struggle to make the southern states take up the cultiva- tion of cotton and of the hard United States had to establish their industries and to make them pay, with the subsequent inventions, ‘im- provements and developments. is a tale fully as exclting as stories of battle or politics which ought to be told in much greater detail”— New York Sun. 2 *x % Sturtevant Heating and Ventilation. A gift. .o Textbook of Horseshoeing. By Anton Lungwitz. “Professor Adams, the translator, had added many new illustrations and some new material, and has revised | considerable of the text of the last | edition to take account of the pro- gress of farriery during the past ten years.” s Literature. Ballads and Lyrics of Love. Edited by Frank /Sidgwick. . % 0% Chitra. A play in one act. By Rabin- dranath Tagore. “Its stateliness of diction and move- ment commands admiration through- out, although the prevalence of more or less conventional imagery becomes to the western mind at times distinct- ly cloying. Here, as in the ‘Gitan- jali’ Mr. Tagore stands forth as a poet in the full sense of the word.” —Athenacum. “We did not look for an oriental, even though a seer, to write a book that might serve as evangel to the most advanced among | modern occidental women—vet this is just what Rabindranath Tagore has done. It is at once as clear and as profound as a mountain pool.”— | New York Times. | PP | Crescent Moon. Child poems by Rabindranath Tagore. .o | | Buripides and His Age. By Gilbert Murray. (Home University Li- brary of Modern Knowledge.) “A charming little study which worthily sustains the claim that the hooks of this library are written by recognized authorities. Prof. Murray is that rara avis, a scholar who can write to be understanded of the peo- ple. He wears his vast learring lightly in this brilliant and seminal little book.”’—-Boston Transcript. PR Fugitive. By John Galsworthy. four act play. \ PR A 1dol-breaker. day in' five,acts. nedy. “It is marked by uncommon liter- ary ability, vivid characterization, and intense if not always profoundly philosophical earnestness. In many ways it is a notable addition to the A play of the present By C. R. Ken- It has a message, and delivers it potently. But it has the defects of its virtues. In his zeal for the cause of the proletariat and the brotherhood of man Mr. seems to ignore the fact that in the social economy there are productive agencies besides physical labor.”— Nation. ed dramas. .. » In Cambridge Backs The vacation thoughts of a schoolmistress. By M. T. Blauvelt. By the author of “Solitude Letters.” x5 % Intruder; The Blind; Seven Prin- By F. A. | | Rev. Monsignor Francis Bickerstaffe- | | Drew, senior chaplain to the Forces, | fight the first manufacturers in the } That | rapidly growing list of modern print" Kennedy | Death of Tintagiles. Maeterlinck. . e Poetic New-world. By L. H. Humph- T cesses; By Maurice PR Post Office. By Rabindranath Ta- gore. An idealistic drama. PR Princess Maleine. Maeterlinck. PR By Maurice Tragedy of Pompey the Great. By John Masefield, PRI Fiction. Business of a Gentleman. Dickinson. i { “This is a novel with a very- useful moral. For it aims at showing, by means of a brightly written story ad- mirably true to life, how much may be done by the landed proprietor who is willing to take the trouble to look after his own estates and not leave the business to underlings.”—Satur- day Review (English.) N Hyacinth. By G. A. Birmingham. s . By H. N. Monksridge. By John Ayscough. “A quiet picture of English rural sceneg and the life of gentle infused with rare humor.”—Nation. “John Ayscough” is in real life Rt. | Salisbury Plain. He is the author of | several nmovels of distinction of {which “Dromima,” “Facutula,” | “Gracechurch,” and ‘“Mezzogiorna,” !and “Marotz” are in the library. “Saints and Places” is a volume of travel sketches in Italy. . x Remington Sentence. Ridge. i “A quaint and ‘quiet humor, the { leisurely progress of an unaccented plot, stress placed on minor detail, and a wide range of characters— these are familiar characteristics of Mr. Ridge which his readers expect and which they find in the present volume. The vicissitudes of a sister and three brothers condemned by the terms of a dead father’s will to “hard By W. Pett | of plot there is.”—Nation. e Rocks of Valpre, by E. M. Dell. “Another story of the woman, really a child, who thinks she has married the wrong man but finds that he is the right one after all. She gives the public just what the pub- lic wants—healthy fare, plentiful in- cident, highly coloured and heroes, a heroine, a villain, who are thorough. Sentimental, yet not insincere.”—Bookman, *w o Shallow Soil, by Knut Hamsun, “The author of this story has been famous in Norway for a quarter of a century, and well known through- out Europe for many years. ‘In Russia,” savs the translator, ‘his pop- ularity exceeds that of many of its own inimitable writers.’ German criticism has dealt Seriously with him. Yet he is now first introduced to the inglish-reading public. Out of his thirty volumes—novels, plays, book of travel, essays, poems—‘'Shallow Soil’ seems to have been chosen with some care, as an entering wedge, being in some respects the most con- tained of Hamsun's works.”—Nation. . aa Sword Hand of Napoleon, Brady. by C. T. Credit to Tawmakers, (Newport News.) The lower branch of the legislature has done a commendable act in the I passage of the amendment to the con- stitution prohibiting members of the general assembly from accepting civil offices. This is the more praiseworthy because at present there are, it is said, at least twenty-five members of that were in force today, would be obliged to give up eihter their positions in the legislature or the offices they hold. Of course, this action by the house is not final, for the amendment must be | passed also by the senate, and then must be adopted at still another sess!on of the legislature, before it can become effective. It is, however, a step in the right direction and ex- ccedingly encouraging as showing the strength of feeling that there should not be a continuance of the custom which has been so long established in |in the legislature a stepping stone:to lucrative office under the state gov- ernment. That practice has been well known and is revealed forcibly in the statement that at least twenty-five members of the present assembly hold such positions. The evils possible under such cir- cumstances are easily understood and there has been a growing feeling on the part of the public that it was un- seemly that the conditions should continue. It is a surprise to many, however, to discover that the members themselves hold that opinion to such an extent that this measure to pre- vent the practice could be passed by one branch of that body by so large a vote. There may be some who will fail to believe that ‘all of those who voted in favor of the act in the house would have done so if they had thought the senate would concur and another legislature would indorse the measure, but the members who voted for the amendment should be given full credit for what they did, unless it is shown that they were not sincere, What action the senate will take on | the bill is a matter of interest and the i subject of much doubt. It is to be hoped, however, that the upper branch will show as much progres- siveness as the lower and that the measure will be fully indorsed by this legislature. Time was When the state police couldn’t come to town and find any- one doing business after they made their first call. There must be some new faces in the squad.—Waterbury Republican, folk | labor for five years,” create whatever | sentiment, | body who under the amendment, if it | Rhode Island of making membership | WHAT OTHERS Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. SAY Those “Bad Taste” Folks. (Philadelphia Record.) Those provincial and childish peo- ple in New York, who are making merry over the fashions of a few years ago in what they call an exhibit j of bad taste, giggled and snickered and squealed over what is described as a “mustache cup tea.” The mustache cup is not in style now, and these metropolitan imbeciles imagine that everything that is out of style is bad taste. Does any rational ptrson suppose that the plug hat of 1914'and the skirt so tight that it has to be slit to allow ¢f walking are in good taste, while the plug hat of the civil war period and the hoop skirt are .in bad ‘taste? Of course, one fashion is just as good taste as an- other. It is not the style now to eat with the knife, but it is impossible to eat peas with a two-tined fork, and old custom sanctioned the use of such eat- ing implements as there were. There is no more question of good or bad taste than there is of good or bad morals in eating with a fork. By all means let us do what is proper and { stylish and good form, but do not let us be foolish enough to suppose that we have better taste than our parents and grandparents, whose ap- parel and table manners differed | from ours. Forty years hence there will be people in New York capable of laughing themselves into fits over the bad taste of 1914. Why not mustache cups? There are still some mustaches, and there used to be cream on the coffee, which was liable to be strained out by the | mustache, with painful consequence to the appearance until removed by the napkin. Women, who dictate the fashions, seldom wear mustaches, and decree that one shall sip soup from the edge of the spoon. No person ! with a mustache ¢an do that without leaving the more solid portions of the soup on the outside of the mustache. Many a man who wears a mustache wishes he could take it off for the soup course, but he is obliged to elect between defying woman-made rules of deportment and defying appearances, | Which in this case are not deceitful; they are only too true- No question of taste is involved in the use of the mustache cup. It has not fallen a victim to improvement in manners; it has simply been crushed | under the French heel of feminism. It is a fundamental principle of the prevailing cult that the' occupations, the costumes and the habits and ap- pearances of men and women shall be as nearly alike as possible. Syd- ney Smith’s remark that he liked Prof. Grote because he was so lady- like, and Mrs. Grote for she was a | perfect gentleman, is reminiscent of distinctions which the feminist 1s trampling out. At a time when the mustache cup was in vogue an American dealer or- dered a quantity from a German manufacturer who did . not possess even an Ollendorf acjuaintance with English, and the decorations were embarrassingly confused. Mustache cups arrived emblazoned With the legends, “Mother,” and “For my dear Aunt.” As these beloved relations do not wear austaches, feminism has set its face against mustaches on men —or has ceased to set its face against them. Hence the vogue of the safety razor. Hence the relegation of the | mustache cup to the exhibit of bad taste. Mark Twain’s War Prayer, (New York Evening Post.) Dr. Henry Neumann, in an address at the Brooklyn society for ethical culture, at the Brooklyn academy of music Sunday, quoted from an un- published article by Mark Twain on the subject of war. He said: “A few years before his death, Mark Twain wrote an article entitled ‘The War Prayer.’ It describes how a regi- ment gathers in a church before it de- purts for the war and prays for vie- tory. As the prayer ; concludes, a white-robed stranger enters the church and says: ‘I have been sent by the Almighty to tell you that he will grant your petition if you still de- sire it after I have ,explained to you its full import. You are asking for more than you seem to be aware of. You hdve prayed aloud for victory, over your foes, but listen now to the unspoken portion of your prayer and ask yourselves if this is what you de- ire.” “Then the stranger speaks aloud these implications of their words: ‘O, Lord, help us to tear the soldiers of the foe to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of thein patriot dead: help us to wring- the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief. Blast their opes, blight their lives, water their way with their tears. “Mark Twain never published this article. His friends told him it would be regarded as a sacrilege. Is it really cacrilege to say that men cannot pray for victory in war without asking for these inevitable implications of their petition? What would it mean if we remembered this when the war-spirit is abroad?” Government Rations a Cure. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) “I can’t blame the young women for falling in love with the members of the National Guard,” said the neigh- Lor. “They look so fine and manly in their uniforms and so capable of deeds or heroism!"” “Neither do answered the cother woman, who was considerably clder. “My husband is a Spanish war veteran, and I made a hero of him when the boys went away in 1898, And I have never regretted it.” “Ah! So there is a lasting quality behind all the glitter and uniform!” “Yes, indeed. A few months of gcvernment rations were enough to keep him from complaining about heme cooking for the rest of his natural life. Let the girls fall in love s McMILL Phenomenal Sale of HOSIERY for Men, Women and Children AT A PAIR Three Days Only, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, This Week All our regular two for a quarter Stockings will be sold for these three days, for 9¢ a pair. Limit 6 pairs to a customer, We inaugurate this sale for one reason, and one only, , and that is to get you to know how good a Hesiery Dept. we have, and to introduce to you the values we offer from day to day at 12';c a pair A7 Remember this 9c¢ price is for 3 days only and our entire stock of 1215¢ Hosiery go at 9c a pair. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. with the boys who go to the front— but let them insist that they really so to the front.” ACTRESS HAS RELAPSE. Madame Nordica Rapidly Sinking at Batavia, Java. Batavia, Java, April 30.—Madame Lilllan Nordica, who arrived here quite i1l nearly a month ago, hag had a relapse and is sinking. The doc- tors give up all hope of her recov- ery. She had engaged passage rnr' Genoa, where her husband, Georgs W. Young of New York, had expect- ed to meet her. Madame Lillian Nordica and her company left New York on a tour of the world last April. They wers on board tHe Dutch steamer Tasmun, ' December 28, when this vesse] went ashore in the Gulf of Papua, neag Thursday Island. Several days later the Tasman was pulled off and made her way to Thursday Island. AMme. Nordica was suffering from nervous prostration us a result of her experi- ence, Subsequently she developed pneumonia and remained under a physician’s care at Thursday Igland until April 1, when she left for Ba- tavia on the steamer Houtman. She took passage for Batavia against the advice of her doctor. & «