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> TOPUSH UP AR OF LITLE WL His Finger Will Point to Clock Dial Registering $200,000 Raised by Boy Scouts. HE IS 50 FEET TALL, TOO. Fynd to Finance Three Years’ Activity to Be Raised in a Week. “Quite @ boy, adout the largest over @een in this city, he being Mfty fect tall and a chesty person with a long reach, may be seen next Monday at Broadway and Chambers Street pointing to a dial which will be in front of the Stewart Building in Chambors Street. His finger will point at frures on the dial, and these figures, after the $18 and $20 Tailored Suits, $12 Women's and Misses’ Sizes Plain and fur trimmed models, choice of broadcloth, serge, carious other materials. ranteed trimmings. Very special at ‘ $12 1} Smart New Blouses---Very Special Useful and Acceptable Xmas Gifts Blouse Illustrated on the Right Is Made of a Crepe Georgette, fashioned to give a interlined with chiffon, and panelled with silk radium lace; tiny black silk buttons trim the front and back, while Georgette and fur finish the collar in novel fashion; colors of wheat, flesh and white. Excep- V9 tional value al Packed in Hand Painted Holly Boxes match, Special at Value $15.00 $Q-75 ‘Sale pretty fichu in all high shades, stitching and pearl buttons, Exceptional value at Trim’d French Serge Dresses, $9.75 Womren's and Misses’ New belted model, Russian blouse serge dress, trimmed with beaver plush and buttons to Has box pleated shirt. ae 208 wa fashion of hours on a clock, will mark up to $200,000 which the Boy Scouts of America hope to ritise In a week's campaign—a fund to ihnance their ac- tivities for the next three years. As fast as the coritributions come fn Little Willte’s avm will go up= @ocurately, he having: mechanical in- nirds—until at the end of the week it is hoped tt will point in fine tri- umi ph to $200,000. Lilttle Willip will have four broth. ors, just as high and husky, who will be stationed at headquarters in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Richmond and Queens, where campaigns have peen mapped out. At 12.30 P. M. to-day sixty teams of friends of the Boy Scouts, six to a team, mpresenting all boroughs, will Meet in the Stewart Building head- quarters and will select lists from 12,900 names of New Yorkers who are all rated as possessing more than $100.0. The Boy Scout enthusiasts will then go after these plutocrats person vily for subscriptions, In the Wanamaker A commission of the E s day held «t concert, with an address by Fverett H, Tomlinson, an author of historical Lwoks for boys. To-day et 2.80 P, M. TYornton W. Burgess, an- other writer @f juvenile books, will speak, Saturday at 14 there is to be a Scout} rally in the Aud\torium, and the boys will have a chaiy pot the au- thors of by beoks—Ralph Henry Barber, Joseph A. Alisheler, William Helloger, Alfred Bishop Mason, Jo- It belonged to a James - | Coffey who had been sent to the work house for three months for dis- ‘HELD AS SUSPECT IN | THEFT OF PAINTINGS James Coffey Is Arrested After Second-Hand Man Tells of Buying Stolen Art. “The Hog Market” and “The ‘Tip- pler,” the two antique Dutch paint- lings stolen from hall of the | Washington Irving High School June 11, 1918, were sold to Joseph Langer, a | second-hand goods dealer at Seventh Avenus and Twenty-eighth Streot, for $1. He bought them from a man who signed the receipt book as James Coffey. | Detectives McGann and Donlan, in looking over the signatures of the James Coffey which are filed with |finger prints and photographs at | Police Headquarters, fou ne which j mbled that of the seller of the paintings. the orderly conduct and who lived at No, 430 Hast Seventeenth Street. He was arrested there to-day and denied all knowledge of the theft, but Langer {dentified his photograph and Supt William Edwards of the High Schoo! said he resembled a man loitering around the school The paintings were to a picture deale and Fortieth § sold by Langer rk Avenue each. The seph B. Ames, Irving Crump, Paul To.dinson, Perey K. Fitzhugh and Dan Beard. ee FULTON 1329-1331 4810-12 FIFTH AVENUE January Clearance Sales Now Thirty Days Ahead of All Others Continued Mild Weather Compels Us to Reduce All Our Winter Stock for Immediate Clearance. $25 Trimmed Plush Coats $15 Coat illustrated is of fme quality seal plush with a wide border of stripe beaver plush, chin chin collar and cuffs, also finished with the same mate- Formerly or high chin chin $22.50 and $27.50 Fur Trimmed Suits, $15 Women's and Misses’ Sizes Choice of broadcloth, poplin, serge and whipcords, trimmed with skunk, opossum or beaver fur. Special at $15 effect, $4.97 Blouse Illustrated on the Left Is Made of a Rich Lustrous Washable Satin, exceptionally smart blouse, shown with clever convertible collar and novel cuffs of white taffeta. Quite original are its petite fob pockets, outlined with The finishing details are faultless. $3.97 Silk Crepe Meteor Dresses, $15 Women's and Misses’ Sizes Exceptional value is this new crepe meteor dress, with long pointed tunic and bolero waist, with embroidered tabs. Sizes at Three Brooklyn Stores give this garment a very smart effect $50 Winter Coats Reduced to $12.00 Remarkable assortment of Women's and Misses’ Winter Coats, new models and new fabrics, roll trimmings, half, lined, special for this sale at $12 | Police are the two together are actually va at about $1,000 Coffey was taken to West Side Court STREET, COR. BRIDGE At Subway Station BROADWAY Near Gates Avenue | Bet. asth & agth Sts. rial. Wide detachable belt and plush buttons collar. Some with fur three-quarter and full $30 to $40 Dressy Suits, $20 Women's and Misses’ Sizes Copies of Paris models; ma- terials of broadcloth, velve- teens, imported gabar- dines; mostly fur trimmed. $20 This Waist $4.97 Very special at $ l 5 Value $25.00 \ \ su wind, £elvVAL | To All Who Have Not Bought BAM RL ii 1915. Christmas Jewelry At Lamberts have your gifts securely laid away in our vaults to be paid for when they are delivered, as late in the TD have is still time to purchase in comfort and to Christmas season as you please. But if you look the calendar squarely in the face you will realize that there is no time to lose. ness engagemesits, domestic concerns, the unexpected things that are always happening and you see you have no days to throw away. All anybody could ask for in Diamond Platinum and Solid Gold Jewelry, Diamond and Platinum Rings, Brilliant Disimond Rings Let us talk a little while on Rings, of which so many in astonishing varie!ty of shape and style will be given as Christmas presents, Solitaire Diamond Iingagement Rings Let us begin with We sell them at the same prices, $10.00 to $1,500.00, that prevailed before the supply of Diamonds from the mines to cutters was almost shut off. We have continued our Direct Impor- tation of Diamonds through all these troubled months, and we shall not add a cent to Diamond prices until we must. So far, the Diamond Market fas continued firm and experts only see signs of in- creasing cost. Please Tale Netice That Lamberts Sel! Diamonds of Fine Seay Only and Guar- antee the Exactness of All Statements Made | Concerning Thers. Diamond Ring Novelties If only honest black ink could reproduce the | brillianey and the pure color of these Diamonds and the delicate art of the mountings, little more would be necessary beyond quoting prices. Here | are a few new ideas 2 Diamond Fancy Rings, appropriate for engagements or for Christmas giving. Other Diamond Rings from $10.00 up. Hand-made mountings, platinum and solid gold, , from the Lambert factory. | 0 Ct fii | ao. “ The mounting is hace eee 'n panes Ls fi" Solitaire diamond set in all platinum One of our new- est creations in ring e 01 e desig: | delicacy pierced scroll ring, ‘lborate design of | ‘ , with = Very effective and Perey D eeu curity of setting. ar wor usual ef- | Extra fine diamond °&t design. and ® fect, Fine diamond aspicement ting, remarkable value cogagement tne, $260. at this price. $300. $340. Bride’s Best Christmas Gift ‘ Ey» We will not say that nothing better | 440 up lek $5.50 up of its kind can be “karat, $4.40 0 -karat,$5.50uP oa Fel estar sone Ié-karat, $6.76 up made than a Lam 22-karat, $7.00 up 22-karat, $8.75 up bert Seamless Solid Gold Wedding Ring, but we do say that nothing | better has been made. ; No joints; no solder; no charge for engraving. Solid workmanship; all styles and thicknes: and a polish as bright and lastmg as the happiness of an ideal marriage. Popular Forms of Bar Pins Sy Solid Gold and Platinum Bar Pins Odd design bar pin of all platinum, set with stand 1 large and 10 small diamonds, $85. high among the useful gifts of Jewelry. That a form so simple as that of a Bar Pin can be varied so much 8 s eine genuity and taste of the Solid 14-karat gold Roman finish nail design bar pin, set with 1 fine diamond, $10.78, designers whose work is sold at Lamberts. Call and see for yourself, Other Solid Gold Bar Pins, $3.00 Up. Other Diamond Platinum Bar Pins, $35.00 Up. Scarfpins—Platinum and Gold Solid Extra fine E ngine- 10-Karat amethyst, turned pol- Gold garnet oF to- ished Solid peer Pins YE paz and pear, 14 - Karat pune Pe in solid 14 Gold Scarf with T real karat Gold Pin, set Searf Pin, with full ire and 2 whole wee TB. bd $7.50, cut diamond, $17.50, Christmas Scarf Pin of Platinum, set with seven fine, full eut Diamonds, $42.00. Other Solid Gold Scarf Pins with semi- recious stones, $2.50 up. Designs for all fancies, Wives, mothers and sisters please take notice, Store Open Daily Until 6 Allow for busi- bad weather and Signet Ring Service Long centuries ago signet rings served to identify their wearers. ‘To-day Lambert Solid Gold Signet Rings from $2.00 up, as Christmas gifts, identify the givers as persons of taste and are worn with pride by men and women, boys and girls. Variety to please everybody. No charge for engraving, but Christmas orders should be placed soon to guard against possibility of disappointment. Solid 14-karat Pierced sides, Heavy solid 14- gold signet ring octagonal top, solid karat Gold Signet with carved sides, 14-karat Gold Sig- Ring, with pierced $7.50 net Ring. $9.00. sides, $12.00. Japanese style Signet Ring, with | fine diamond y solid 14 Heavy solid 14- karat Gold Japan- ese style Signet Ring, rose finish, carved dragon en: hand-hammered Streit icy SB twining and grip- shield, $8.50. ctfect, $12.78, Ping oblong shield, ‘Any of these Japanese signets with applicd makes one of the newest productions. ts iS & Ladies’ solid 10- Solid 10-karat Heavy solid 14- karat Gold Signet Ring, Japanese style, rose finish, leaves and Japanese letters Amethyst, set in 10k karat gold ring, gold ladies ring; ladies’ solid 10-ka- floral carved sides per arses and rat gold ring, oddly set with garnet, set wi sardonyx, * amethyst or topaz, $3.50. carved sides, $6.75 $8.75. _ These are days when Lambert Fancy Stone Rings for ladies are much in request. They are guaranteed Solid Gold and are set with Agate, Bloodstones, Garnets, Topazes, Sardonyx and other handsome semi-precious stones. Every one of these rings is a good Christmas value. $3.00 up. Solid Gold Em- hlem Rings for Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Colum- bus and other secret Gold Knights of Ring,ch: sides, and fraternal socie- Columbus Ring, polished, $8.50. ties, From $9.00 up. Polished, $8.00. Men’s Solid Gold Initial Rings, $9.00 up. Value in Lavallieres ‘The t experienced of Christmas shoppers never saw anything more dainty, delicate in design than Lambert Solid Goid Lavallieres or Pendants here- with illustrated. Because we sell so many of them in a store where rents are low we are satisfied with a small profit. Hence, Lavallieres and Pendants from $2.75 up; with Diamond, $9.00 up. To Go With Lavallieres and Pendants. Solid Gold Neckchains, $2.00 up; Platinum Neck- chains, $7.50 up. y Ly Solid 10-Karat Gold Masonic atic. 10-Earet dP \. @ Fine Ame- thyst and Pearl Lavalliere and One fine diamond set in hand- made _plati- num LL liere. with chain, 2.00. solid 14- karat gold chain, One fine Amethyst and eight fine half Pearls, $8.00. D Al platinum Lavalliere and + odd de- sign set with cutdiamond, 1 large and 55 Price with small diamonds, chain,$45.00 $265.00. Come Early for Bracelets A really elegant Solid Gold Bracelet, guar- anteed, for $7.50, is a specimen of Lambert Christmas value. Such prices for such bracelets would be quite out of the question if we did not buy of the manufacturers direct and never through middlemen. No charge for engraving. Fine Diamond Bracelets, $15.00 up. Pierced effect plati- num Laval- liere, one full —_—_—_-—— LAMBERT BROTHERS Diamonds—Jewelry—Watches Third Avenue, Cor. 58th Street Fine Gold and Silver Watches from famous makers who guarantee all they turn out, Sterling and Plated Silver- ware and Clocks for all purposes, is at Lambert’s. ND the Prices marked always in figures as plain as the sign above our door, are without exception the lowest for which Jewelry up to the standard can be sold. built up so large a business for us, and sustains us so steadily, we are satisfied with a small profit. T IIS means a saving of your money on all you buy | am bert Because an appreciative public has at Lamberts, whether your purchase be $1 or $5,000, or any sum between. | Cuff Buttons for Men of All Tastes If you have not bought a pair of Solid Gold Cuff Buttons at Lamberts lately you can have no idea of the variety of new patterns we are offering, from which a few selections are made here. Always in order as Christmas or birthday gift. Would be welcomed, for example, by the boy from college who will spend Christmas holidays at home vH-LIPOC tgreen Solia 14-karat gold Cuff Solia 14-karat fold Cuff Links.bas- Buttons, bright polished fold plain pot Plain diagonal Center, engraved Tinks. stripe, $11.80 scroll border, $6.50 pair, $5.50 Other patterns in Solid Gold from $2.00 a pair up; with directly imported diamonds, $10.00 a pair up. Brooch Prices Attractive and Why _Ina “stylish” store where “overhead charges” are high, such a Solid 14-Karat Gold Brooch as Lam- berts sell for from $2.00 up would cost much more. But as a Christmas gift it would carry no more pleasure. A few moderate priced Brooches are here pictured, Please ask to see other styles, Sotid 14. gold Cuff Li Solid 14-karat green gold Brooch; one real’ sapphire, two whole pearls. Brooch is bright Brooch of solid 14karat gold; real amethyst and two fine baroque pearls. $10.50, bet e turned and polished. $8.50. SOOO Delicately wrought all Platinum Brooch set with one fi i i nee KS ae white diamond. Faithful Christmas Watches If you give a watch as a Christmas present, of courte you yee? to know that it will confer the pleasure and render the service you intend, So ) |. So you uy the watch at Lamberts, where there is ioe room for good watches only, where every watch is minutely examined by expert’ watchmakers, so that the Lambert guarantee may be ¢ ‘onscientiously added to the manufacturers’ guarantee, ¥ Ladies’ Solid 14-karat Gold Watch, engraved hunting case with guaranteed Wal- tham movement, $20.00; sterling silver case, $10.00 up, You Should See at Lamberts the © Extra heavy solid 14- karat gold ladies’ watch, hunting case, with guar- anteed Waltham move- ment. Plain polished case. Monogram en- raved free. $30.00. j Sterling Silver Watches, Swiss Movements, $7.50 Up Bracelet watches are too convenient to go out of fashion, so that you who give them at Christm: give pres- ents of lasting useful- he works in watches are and reliable and the styles—octagonal and other—are a joy to the eyes, Solid 14-karat Gold Vest Chains for men, $9.75 up. Pocket to Pocket Chains, $10.00 up. Small handy | pocket gifts in solid gold, $5.00 up, | Sterling silver for men, such as Knives, Pencils, Key Rings, Foun- tain Pens, etc’, in large assortment, Ladies’ Solid 14-karat Gold Watch, engine turned hunt- ing case with guaranteed Waltham movement, $1 sterling silver case, $9.00 Man's hea watch cas lid I4-karat gold ith full jewelled Wal- tham works, $50.00, A large as sortment of sol) 14-karat gold men’s watches from $25.00 up, re Store Open aturday Nights Until 10 al say