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% ONS OF DESTRUCTION USED BY WARRING NATIONS ARE OF AMERICAN ORIGIN “Submarines, Airships, Field and Magazine Rifles, Smokeless Powder and Siege Guns All “Made in America.” “Mnée-in America’ ts the invisible trademark stamped on practically every anticle.ot warfare now in use in Burope. ‘The greatest neutral nation has devised by the far the greatest number of munitions and devices for carrying on the confilet, ‘Thie war is waged under the sea and im the air as well es on the earth —ta other words, by submarines and by airships, both of them American imventions. Nearly every weapon used in the land battles was either in- vented ty an American or is a variation on an American invention. ' But for Yankee genius, the revolver and the swivel gun and the efegid Gre cannon and the gatling and a half score other modes of destruc tiem might never have been devised. Haé not two American brothers Nghtened their labors in a bicycle repetr shop by evolving an airship—end improving on it until on Dee. 17, . , 1908, they made the first successful “the airahip might not now figure as France. \ Had net « North Carolina dreamer ried te invent a labor-saving con- trtvance whereby one bullet-spitting machine could do the work of an in- fantry regiment the gatling and its Geacendants would not be mowing own whole ranks in one volley. Except for a naturalized American's queer theory that metal ships were peactieable in battle, Europe's navies , might, perhaps, still be of inflam- mable wood. (Yes, and but for a New Yorer’s crasy notion that steam could propel a ship they might atill be using unwieldy canvas on those same shtpe.) PAT@NTS OF DEATH AND DES- TRUCTION. ¥2 e Boston carpenter had not be- come interested in perfecting another ‘Yamtes'e patent whereby a rifle could | Senty ‘te Sire several times without reload- | cartri “Gag w-day’s repeating rifle it never Bave been born. @ame applies to metal cart- @mokelees powder, the eleo- gear for big guns, the gun,” the Hotchkiss shell, “Made in America” is for them all. and nearly al! (raced the credit for mak- ‘war co deadly; a list headed uc names as Colt, Gatling, Win- bs ad Wilbur ‘Take, for example, the rapid-fre gun fm all its dozens of varieties, from howitzer ¢0 mitrailleuse. It was born, more ¢han @ half century ago, in the tT wented,” he wrote, “to make a @at would do the task of a months, the firet ready for use. It @ in 1861 and proved it A fire late Reduce Your War Taxes by éedking to increase your business or tacome. Opportunities for posi- theme, bargains, real estate Invest- ments and business deals. 6,853 WORLD ADS. LAST SUNDAY Ae Many More in the Great Sunday World To-Morrow Get Your Sunday World Ad. in Early mechanical aerial flight in history— scout and destroyer in Belgium. and | V teuin, “And when the gun, was awsin 5 on gun was ready the United States Government gravely decided it was of no tical use. (By this time its ¢! had been increased to 1,200 shots a minute.) GEN. BUTLER ADOPTED QGAT- LING GUN. Gen. B. F. Butler did not agree with the army experts. At his own ex- pense, he bought twelve Gatlings and used them in the campaign of 1862. T success made the Government hasten to adopt the new invention. And every other government the world over quickly, followed suit. Anotht jeath dealer of modern days in the shape of the repeating rifle had its baptism in the civil war. Oliver F. Winchester, a carpenter and builder in Boston, became inter- ented in a device of a Na ps reeset ed ny Q He took over the patents and founded the ‘Volcanic Repeating Arms Company.” One improvement followed another and at last the concern’s name was to “Win- oh from “Volcanic” chester.” A Ban chinist named Hiram Maxim, mere youth had won fame by in- venting @ gas machine and an !ncan- descent light. Im boyhood he once { { | i undertook to fire his father’s muzsie- | loading musket. The recoil or “kick,” knocked him down. incident stayed in his memory. When he grew to manhood he decided that the kick of a gun wasted a lot of power that might better be utilized in add- to the efficiency of the shot. ‘orking along this line he made the first Maxim in 1882, a gun which fired 770 @ minute "bd: the power of previously ‘wasted foros.” The Maxim-Nordenfelt ('om- pany was formed, and the rattling purr of its guns was heralded around the world. Next year Maxim trio training gear large gune— since used everywhere—and in 1889 made atrides in bringing the oli-time “flying machine” nearer on. His patent for smokeless gunpowder also did much toward revolutionising warfare. Along the general trend of Gatiing ree en eleo- and Maxim, moved a Watertown <oean machine shop man, Benjamin . Hotehkiss. His first venture was the famous old “rifle field gun,” which in 1866 he sold to Mexico. Four years later came the “Hotchkiss shells” (in murderous efficiency second only to those of Parrett, another American), and he followed this with the “re- volving cannon.” One day, in while he was rid- ing in @ railway train, an idea for a new of gun flashed into his mind. In fifteen minutes he had sketched on the margin of a news er the com~- plete plan of the Hotchkiss ne rifle an arm that the United States si and England and France at once adi THE COLT REVOLVER AN EPOCH MAKER, Perhaps the firearm man to whom the Buropean war owes most was the Hartford (Conn.) pistol king, Samuel Colt. Asa youngster of twelve—back in 1826—Colt shipped before the mast for a voyage to Calcutta and back. It was a tedious journey. He whiled away the time by working on a rough plan of a revolver, Tor the next ten years, off and on, he labored at it. Our Government laughed at the wea- m and said a revolver would never of practical use in war. Not ttil Zachary Tay! ordered 1,000 of the newfangled 9 for hia cavalry did ony one take the invention as serious. ‘The Colt pistol’s fame has clouded the public memory to the fact that Samuel Colt the first man to foresee the use of the torpedo as a means of harbor defense, by far ante- dating Whitehead, and he was the first man to blow up ships by means of mines touched off at long distance by electric buttons. The Government could not see ahead far enough to appreciate the use of these con- trivances, and rejected them. “Tt took me twenty-three years to educate the United States Govern- ment ‘to the idea of submarines,’ wrote John P. Holland, father of the under-water peril that just now is sinking so many gallant warships, Holland, Irish by birth, came here to plan a type of boat that should move t will under water, | | — E EVENING WORLD, RK, SPECIAL The Story of a New Yorker's St Girl SATU DET vange Methods of Solving AY, OCTOBER 17, ECTIVE 1914. a Crime Mystery By JOHN T. M’INTYRE 8, Mrs. Atherton Says You’re Monkeys You Ape Foolish Styles! How About It? “Silly Clothes Are Result of Girls’ Passion for Copy- ing Absurdly Dressed Older Women,” Declares ««What One Monkey Does, Another Must Dol!’’ Noted Authoress. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “What one monkey does another monkey must do.” That is Gertrude Atherton’s epigrammatic summary of the fads and follies of modern dress. spoken. appearance. For years Mrs, Atherton's work as a novelist has won her distinction wherever English is: read and She somehow combines analytic insight with rare dramatic expressiveness—already her newest book, erch of the Devil,” {s being prepared for the stage. And since the searchlight of her mind is turned most often upon the modern woman, it seemed to me that no one better than Mrs. Atherton could estimate at their true worth the current criticisms of feminine dress and Les The latest of these criticisms comes from Mrs. Car- jeg Oline B. Buell, President of the Connectiout Women's Christian Temperance Union. | why we make guys of ourselves?" she inquired plaintively the other day. wersville, Me., genius, a ma-| “Is it becoming Christian women, mothers of daughters? as @ that the fashion makers across im any one tell me I am hoping the seas are so busy with other thoughts and doings that this country can choose its own fashions and possibly strike a happy medium between the ultra and the commonplace.” FINDS FASHIONS NOT RIDICU- LOUS IN THEMSELVES. “Fashions are not ridiculous in themselves,” reasoned Mrs. Atherton, “but enly when worn by the wrong people, or when we are startled by @ swift and drastic change. Sudden novelty of any sort seems absurd un- til we are used to it. “What we do not generally realize is that every fashion and every change of fashion is based on utility. The narrow skirts and clese, tight-fitting gowns whieh have been so much criti- eleed are undoubtedly due to the need for moving about In crowd- first submarine was a failure. Dis- usted, he sank {t in the Passaic ‘iver, where it still lies, But he lived to sell his boats to our Govern- ment at $176,000 each, and to see the nations of the world adopting them. Simon Lake, the New Jersey man whose submarine boat formed the model for many another now ia the war, got his ideas submarines by reading Jules Verne's “Twenty Thou- sand Leagues Under the Sea.” Ericason, in building the Monitor, at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and sending her forth to battle without « single trial trib, made possible the existence of every armor-plated warship now afloat—or at the bottom of the Nortn je So much for sea and land. As to air, the aerial fleets of Europe owe all to America: To the American Cur- tss (winn.. of The World's $10,000 aviation prize), whose aeroplanes the Russian Government is now using; above all to Orville and Wilbur Wright, who first solved the problem of aerial filght by machine motive power; and to vther Yankee airmen of lesser note, There ts n» need to dv more than mention “American-born” armor plate. Yos—take away the ‘made in Amer- fea goods, and Germans and allies alike would be doing their wholesale slaughter in a far less finished and far more primitive fashion, eaten RESCUES CHILDREN IN FIRE. man Carries Three From While Ferdinand Sesolar of No. 440 Bast Fifty-fifth street was = mixing paint In August Hackenbure’s shop at No, 1045 Sixth avenue at 7 A. M. to- day a candle tipped over and ignited some bengine, Sesolar's clothing caught fire and he was badly burned about the hands, arms and face. The flames spread rapidly and filled the two-story building, which ts between Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets with smoke. Policeman Hins of the West non the sec- the three children in thetr night clothes. Sar- wife followed without wait- The fire did only $160 ed streets, conveyances and halle. Even the slit skirt wae a logical development when the diminished skirt circumference made it im- Possible to walk with comfort.” “When Poiret was over here,” 1 remarked, “he said that hoop akirts would never return go long as we had automobiles, “Of course," she smiled, “and when we remember hoops and bugtles and the Grecian bend and the big sleeves and the pinched waist, I think we must admit that modern dress has its points, “IT can't think that the narrow skirt 1s immodest. Ono sees less on a muddy day than when a full skirt is worn, Personally, I have my skirts cut as wide as I can, without looking noticeable, because I walk deal and take a long strid Atherton added. And I wasn’t sur- prised, for only the health that comes from sane outdoor exercise can have kept untarnished the daffodil glory of her hair, She bas more than a hint of the Viking woman about her, with her combination of strength and fairness, DOUBTS IF MEN STAND AROUND CORNERS WATCHING STYLES, “Modern dress as a whole ts con- stantly being criticised for its vul- garity and immodesty,” 1 reminded her, “The only feature to which f have any objection,” she observed, “is the wearing of really low-necked gowns on the street. They do seem out of place. The custom 1s so closely as- oelated with the ballroom and elec- > ght. Under the sunlight the seems Wrong. But it’s perfectly absurd to ‘3 or does not ar.” '# been charged against her," 1 sald, “that she ts oversexed and that she betrays herself in her costumes and in her dancing.” “L think the new dances are per- feclly beautiful!" cried Mrs, Ather- ton, “Any dance can be done vulgar- ly, even a waltz, but as I've seen them the tango and the rest are delightful, And the woman of to-day, speaking generally, 18 not oversexed. Of course, we all meet girls, women, too, who are man-crazy. But they are exceptiona, A generation ago women had nothing to think of except men and the beat ways of attracting them. Then we were oversexed, we did devote a din- proportionate amount of time and a tention to clothes, But now we are really thinking leas about men and frocks than ever before, are thinking about Jo and charities and how we “Yet, there are the young gir! said, “whom one sees everywhere fia with ridiculously elaborate clothes and make-up to boot.” “That's not their fault,” she cham- joned. “Young girls have neither com- a sense nor imagination, and ey are the most imitative bein; in the world. One, with a little ind an admiration resses her- friends S8ED THAN SISTERS. plenty of young boys ireased than their sisters, These girls are said to be swayed by & precocious sex instinct. Nonsenbe! They simply want to be grown-up and stylish, Why I myself,” Mra, Atherton mentioned placidly, “mar- ried several years earlier than 1 would have done because I wanted to wear a train and a velvet turban, [ wanted to have twins, also, but I felt that I couldn't along without the turban and train. The silly clothes of girls, and of women, for that matter, are a result of the passion for copy- ing. What one monkey does another monkey must do. A costume that is beautiful on a slender woman may be a grotesque horror when worn by @ woman who is stout.” “You don't ay with those fem- iniate who tell us to disregard fashion and adopt a uniform dress? I ques- tioned. “No woman ever talks about # uniform drese unt! hy doned every ali tracting a mi young and pretty wom: ate a drese reform movement, and you never will.” “Do you believe that the Fashion ——$—<———— declare a truce for Christmas Day. Hundreds of girls aided Russian tigers, 70 trained polar bears, 100 hyei has become a problem because food is pened to need it, | The troops fighting about Montene | but bands of rapacious wolves as well. to young, sonny,” he said, patting the realized, the first destroyed. “The coolest thing I ever saw in who milked a cow under rifle and "| wounded mates to drink when the water ran out,” says Private the King’s Raya) Bises in « letter home, Oddities in the War News For carrying letters between Berlin and London, Edward Wolfsohn, an American teacher of languages, was fined $406 in London. GERTRUDE ATHERTOW Fete next month will prove that beautiful fashions can be designed in New Yor! “Indeed 1 exclaimed = Mrs. Atherton. “I am a member of the Committe of Mercy, which will re- ceive the money raised by the Fash- fon Fete, in trust for the destitute wives and children of the soldiers of all the warring nations. And I am muoh interested in the Fete itself. My own dressmaker told mo that every French model which comes to America has to be modified for the American woman. The Paris styles are always more extreme than any- thing worn here, After their long experience in adapting French fash- fons, our dressmakere ought to cre- ate with ease designs that are both beautiful and appropriate for Ameri- can women, “May the right women wear the right styles!” ended Mrs. Atherton, and I breathed a fervent amen, —_—— PLAN “COTTON DANCE.” janobys Will Give Unique Af- fair Oct. 31 and 23, Andre and Jacques Bustanoby have inaugurated a series of solrees such as they had last year for their Thirty-ninth street and Sixtieth street restaurants, this fall and winter, The first will be a “Bale of Cotton” dance at the Bixtieth street restaurant on Wednesday and ‘Thursday, Oct. 21 and 23, Everything will savor of the Bunny South—plantation songs and dances, a ight girls cach dressed in cot- 101 of cotton will be cotton will y prom= frent New Yorkers and o' rons have accepted Invitation: town pat- a A move has been started In America to have the warring nations all soldiers by digging trenches to keep the Germans from crossing the Vistula. The Hamburg wild animal firm of Hagenbeck, because of the war, in unable to fill many contracts and in said to have on its hands 75 Hons, 45 nas and 67 elephants. Feeding them getting scarce, A new charge made against the Germans {s that they had ammunition buried all over France and were able to dig it up most anywhere they hap- gro not only have to fight the enemy, Reginald Smith, a small boy, walked from Ramsgate to London to join the army. He called first at Buckingham Palace and then at Scotland Yard, where Lord Kitchener happened to sce him and get his story. “You're most boy on the head. Then “K of K" ar- ranged to scnd him to a military training school so his ambition may be M. Houbert, Burgomaster of Bilsen, was released by the Germans s0 he could collect a $20,000 gold war levy, If he does not his house is to be action was that of a big Highlander, shell fire to get something for his [MRS MPKINNEY [HAE GIVES SURPRISE Her Husband, Andrew, Well Known Stockbroker and Yachtsman. With the greatest secrecy—her clos- est friends were not aware of it Mrs. Ida B. Riley McKinney hae filed suit for diorce against Andrew McKinney of the banking firm of MoKinney & Co, The papers, which are sealed and under lock and key in the County Clerk's affice, were filed on Oct. 5, and Mr. McKinney has not put tn his answer, The name of the woman who figures as the co-respondent is unknown, so far as the papers dis- close, The simple and ofttimes usual allegation is made that the infidelity complained of by Mra, MoKinney was committed with “an unknown woman at divers times and places.” The com- plaint was served upon Mr. McKin- ney at the Knickerbocker Hotel, where he has been making his home for several months. Mrs. McKinney is eaid to be living at her home, No. 26 Bast Seventy-sixth street. Society was no even aware that the couple, so aften seen together at Piping Rock, at the affairs of the New York Yacht Club and other so- olal functions, had separated. There was not the slightest hint given that differences arisen between the couple, although recently Mrs. Mc- Kinney has been seen alone on Fifth avenue in her big limousine. Mra, McKinney, who ts known as ©: ) of the smartest dreasers in so- clety, attracted much attention along with Mra. Preston,Gibson, Miss Harriet Ferry and Mrs. J. Dougias Gordon for the wonderful creations she wore at Newport. They were known as “daring success” because thay wore creations of their own design, Mra, McKinney, however, had one gown was not to be outdone, Mr. McKinney Club. has an office at No. 52 Wall street. The couple were maried in 1908, and just before the wedding McKinney gave a big bachelor dinner at the New York Club. Mrs. McKinney was Miss Ida Black- stone Riley and her sme was in Washingtor. Whether the suit will be contested by Mr. McKinney could not be learned to-day, It may be one of the un- defended actions which are reeled off like so much ticker tape on Friday of each week during the Supreme Court term. Mrs. McKinney's lawyer is John 8. Wise jr. $1 FOR $3.50 LEMONS SAVED FROM METAPAN From Liner Sunk in Am- brose Channel. Sheepshead Bay, along the water front, has been turned into one big selling at prices which would move & commission merchant to tears. The stock i# the cargo of the United Frutt liner Metapan, now sunk in eighteen feet of water off the entrance to Ambrose Channel as the result of collision last Thuraday with the lowan. ‘The fifty or sixty small fishing boats which put out from the Bay daily are no longer equipped with bait and tackle. Instead, their own- ers search the water for floating bunches of bananas and boxes of lemons. Hundreds of each have been salvaged and peddlers hawk them along the shore. Lemons worth $3.50 a box bring $1 or less and one can buy a bunch of fifty-odd bananas for a quarter. poate Rae Gertrude Atherton, the famous novelist, will repor. the Carman Murder Trial for Pe The World, mon, . Atherti mal tienee Boarhi Hie Wi te Gre. of English c “Ral 14 Daughter Vine he Valiant Runeware” A fore,” "Tower of Tvot o Gorgeous Weft" and “Perch of the Devil Look for This Stamp on Cloth BY DIVORCE SUI that cost only $276 which for simplic- ity, grace and effectiveness of line je a well-known member of the New York Yacht He has been a conspicuous figure on the Stock Exchange and great numbers of Fishermen Salvage Frujt Cargo’ market and bananas and lemons are) hooks scream discovered that she had ad. THEY NO MERCY? | DIT ST. CLAR GRES FO EL TOMBS Actress Accused of Perjury Says She Did Not Understand Affidavits She Signed. Tn a state bordering on complete collapse, Edith St. Clair, the actress who in one breath acoused Abraham L. Erlanger, theatrical magnate, of having agreed to pay her 975 a week for life and in another sal@ her lawyer, Max D. Steuer, in@uced her to commit perjury, occupied @ cell in the Tombe to-day. “I am being made a scapegoat,” she cried. “I am told that I am being held here on two indictments eharg- iS perjury. My bail has been @xed at $7,600. “What can I do? What shall I do? T am being ground between two mill- stones. Isn't it all perfectly plain? On one side one man whe despises me is trying to crush me, and en an- other side another man is trying te do the same. “I have not wilfully told @ ite in my case. I simply did not understand what was taking place. The whole thing begins with a woman's igto- rance of the law. It ends with an at- tempt to crush @ woman, “Will they ever atop? Have they no mercy? It ie true I had & griev- ance against Mr. Erlanger. It got into court. “After that I began losing track ‘of everything. There were charges aad counter charges. I wag kept busy signing documents about which I knew absolutely nothing. And at last I was told I had committed perjury. “It is a shame—an outrage! But I am partly to blame for not having thoroughly understood what was hap- Dening when I signed certain afl- davite.” Mise St. Clair wae arrested yester- day afternoon in a boarding house in West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. The perjury indictments were returned against her after hearings had been held before Former Judge Holt on allegations made against Mr. Stouer Lea the Bar Association. The witnesses who before the Grand Jury against Bt. Clair were Mr. Erlanger and Mr, Steuer. In the afternoon Alfred Franken- thaler and Benjamin Eisler, at No. 35 Nassau street, visited St. Clair, Mr. Frankenthaler at once arranged to have her released under It was said members of her family were ready to furnish the security. i Mr. Elsier said that as soon as the actress is released she will be sent sanitarium to take a “rest cure.” H je In a etate of nervons col- lapse,” he said. “When she has re- she will make a gained her si hb Matement and then will have highly interesting things to eay.” —— ooo REGISTER TO-DAY. To-day ie the last day of Polls open from 7 A. M. te 10 P. M. If you do not register you cannet vote, when you regleter or you cannet vote at the primaries next year. GRANDMOTHER GIVES CHILD POISON DOSE Mistakes Disinfectant for Cough Mixture and Ma’ Die From | Shock Herself. | Mrs. William Meyers of No, 146 |Ten Fyck street, Williamsburg, went |marketing at 10.80 o'clock to-day, leaving her three-yedr-old daughter |Gertrude at home in charge of ber mother, Mra, Sarah Demarest, | Returning within an nour, Mra, eyers found that her baby had been taken to St. Catherine's Hospital, dy- ing from the effects of poison auci- dently administered by the gran: mother and that Mrs. Demarest was in such @ condition from shi ari distress that her recovery is ‘imubt- ful | The child had a cold and was seized with a coughing spell at 11 o'clock. Mra, Demarest went to a cupboard and got wh: @ thought wan a bottle of cough mixture, She gave the little one a spoonful, and t when the child began to writhe and ministered a dose of @ disinfectant polson. Neighing hearing her ertes ard the screams of the child broke into the house and summoned a policeman. 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