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Stetson . Davies $10,000 & ©o., for whom they ex- ‘the legal aspect of the bond read from the Of the meeting of the Inter- directors on Sept. 17, 1918, at gift of $50,000 was given to Reid Rodgers of the Inter- borough counse!, Tho record was: “The President (T. P. Shonte) stat~ e@ that all legal matters in and about the contract for the subway exten- sions and third-tracking the elevated Jines had been attended to by Mr, Rodgers, whose work in the matter was Jong, arduous and exacting and was Gone in addition to bis other duties and without ensasing associate counsel, thereby saving expense.” SAVED $950,000 BY THEIR $50,000 GIFT. @. You wiil agree that that weo an inaccurate statement by your Presi- dent? A. I think he meant all mat- tera of negotiation leading up to the contract. If outside counsel had bee engaged for that and they had charged the company what they usu- ally charge their bill would have been 1,000,600, Q. Ho they saved $950,000 by their $50,000 gift to Mr. Rodgers? A. You. “Ita & good town for « lawyer to tive in,” exclaimed Senator Thomp- som, “if he can get himeeif retained by the right kind of people.” Counsel Colby read that sixty-six individuals and law firms had con- nection with the dual contracts dur- ing three years. “T ind,” said Mr. Colby, “that there are four or five annual payments of $10,000 to Breed, Abbott & Morgan.” “I understand Mr, Morgan repre- sents us at Albany,” said the witness. Senator Thompson declared that lawyer Morgan always asked for a hearing before the Legislature when any bill affecting railroads came up. “He's registered as a lobbyist.” the Senator added. “That's an unfortunate term,” ex- claimed Counsel Quackenbush for the Interbotough. “Mr. Morgan appears before committees as he would appear in court.” “When a man appears openly,” said) Senator Thompson, “and advocates either side of a bill, he should be paid; but when a man appears clandestinely it is Amproper.” PAID DELEGATE TO CONSTITU- TIONAL CONVENTION. Q. 1 find hore a charge, “Constitu- | Monal Convention, $2,750." ‘hat for? A, I don't know, Q. Was any salaried member of your legal staff a member of the Con- wtitutional Convention? A. No, air. Q Wasn't Lemuel Ely Quigg ao member of the convention? A. I don't think fo. Mr. Quackenbush: No doubt Mr. woe @ member of the Constttu-' ition. The question. is: nee he was a salaried employee. @ What mum ts paid by the Inter- borough annually to: Mr. Quigg? A. $20,000. Q. Has he ever received more? What Js A. Yes. In 1910 he received $30,000; but | Islands, on Jan. 24, and was later due Powers in their native city 48 soon as that was to make up a difference, In/to touch at Lisbon on Jan, 26, before | Mey were old enough to vote, 1908 and 1909 he had received $9,500! and What's respectively. Quige’s department mvs Tnterborough ? A Trial law- "S. That exclusively? matters beside. Q. Under the direction of what of- me of the company? A. The general A. General torney. Q. Does he confer with the Presi-| dent? A. Not to my knowledge, you pay Lemuel BE. Qui during bis attendance »bon the Con- atitutional Convention? A. I couldn't , There is no reason to mppose he did not receive his salary, THOMPSON TO HUNT FOR SUBWAY GRAFT IN BOOKS OF THE B. R. 7. ‘Phe Thompson Investigating Com- mittee is going to follow the trall of the subway graft into the B. R. T. as soon as it has exposed the detalis of how the millions of dollars were wcattered in the Interborough’s ex- ‘tensions and improvements. “The committee doesn’t want to/ \ awa examine them with care. It will be interesting to nee how the Brook- | iyn company acted in the situation | which ‘started a flood ‘of milifons of dollars running out of the Interbor- ough treasury, ‘“ “Comptroller Prendorgit will have his chang® to ‘educate’ this comrittes, aa he has offered to do. He has been mubpoenasé. Maybe he will ‘educate’ Us as he ‘educated’ the people of New York about the great advantages that they would derive from the city’s dual contract with the transportation com- Panties. I believe the ofiginal figures an to that contract were made in the Comptrolier'a office. He ‘educated’ the people of New Yotk to beileve that within seven years after the dual contracts were signed they would be drawing profits from them. Wé shall welcome the ‘education’ Comptroller wrgneeraast ON ica: us” CRUISER ROON IS REPORTED CAPTURED | BY ENGLISH CRUISER (Uontinued trom Firat Page.) received at the consulate rem it. Barly in the war naval v reported such events directly to tie Pritish authorities here, but of lute) the reports have been made directly to the British Admiralt The Roon displaces 0 tons and! not only is considerably amailer than the Drake, but is outclassed by the! Britisher in armament. She carries! four &2-inch guns against the two} 92-inch guns of the Drake, and as} secondary armament ten 5,9-ineh funs, as compared with the Drake's sixteen 6-inch guns. —naaee BIG LINER ORISSA REPORTED SEIZED OR SUNK BY'A RAIDER. Marine insurance circles in this olty to-day expressed the belief that the FORMER CITY pat en WHO DIED SUDDENL IN BIS OFFICE 10-4 DAY, set $4$04946-00000000030004 WITH BAD FAITH Thorne cade i Lawyer, Favoring Higher Rates, Be- trayed His Trust. jHE QUOTES A LETTER. Scores a Point with Sen- ate Committee. WASIIINGTON, Feb. 9. Louis D. Brandeis is guilty of breach of faith,” declared Clifford Thorne, | Towa Ratiway Commissioner, first wit- ness before the Benate sub-comt PEPPHH SE J-C-SHEEHAM. + eed ore eter oro JOHN C: SHEEHAN DIES SUDDENLY IN OFFICE; ONCE TAMMANY HEAD matinee, Stricken With Heart Failure and Succumbs Before Med- ical Aid Arrives. fitness of Brandeis for the United States Supféme Court, this country,” cane, Thorne's sensational declaration | and the defeat of an effort to send! the hearing back to the whole Ju- diclary Committec, were the features of the first session. The Judiciary Committee is regarded as unfriendly to Brandeis and he was considered |to have won a victory when Senator Clark's motien was defeated. the 5 per cent. = Former Poles Comriasioner John ©. Sheehan died suddenly at 11 o'clock this morning in his office on the sixth | shippers in 1910, said Thorne, while he ner's office showed that heart failure was the cause. Mr, Sheehan reached his offlce at 10.80 o'clock this morning from his home, No. 108 Centre Avenue, New Soon after sitting down at titled to more revenue, and If so, from | what source? In 1913 Brandeis was retained to present the shippers’ side of the case. Rochelle. Commerce Commission to Bran- steamship Orissa of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line has been sunk or cap- | tured by the German sea raiders op- erating in the Atlantlo. Similar fears ore expressed inj cablegrams received from the offices of London and Liverpool under- writers. The work of the German raiders has caused Insurance rates on Yeanels and cargoes to soar, and if the allied fleets fail to put a atop to the Operations rates may rise to proi tive prices, | Tte steamship Orissa left Antofa- gasta, Chill, on Dec. 26 for Liverpool with a valuable cargo and passerigers. The vessel touched at Montevideo his desk he called to his gerk, John Instructing him to see that the) de, who Was in anothe® room. shippers’ side was fully presented, yin,” he said, “I fecl iM, Send for] yur not to attempt to prove any par- stance Meade ran into Mr,} ticular side of the cage, ‘Thorne held | this letter obligated Brandeis to pre- Te TOR RAF. On Hie donk sent the public side of the case. sent a call to the Hot EELACLS iaaul Phorum /"acapina when an ambulance with Dr, Biddl{¢hese inetructions, committed himself in it reachéd the building Mr. Sheehan} ¢4 the proposition that the return of ws di 7% per cent. on a railway investment Mr. Sheehan was one of the leading big inadequate; to use his own term, figures in local politics from 1890, four | Niggardly.’ He took this stand while years after his arrival in New York! special counsel for the Interstate from Buffalo, until 1902, when he re-| Commerce Commission. tired from practical politics to devote |. 7 charge he is guilty of a breach of Bimseif to his extensive business in- | faith, a betrayal of bis trust, by un- terésts and the practice of law. — | professional conduct in one of the han's room and found him lean-j The clerk and iatér Rid Janofro. Bhe left Riv on Jan. 10 and has not been heard | from or reported since. The Orissa was due in Las Palmas, the Canary Mr. Sheshan was born in Buffalo in gravest and most Important cases He and his brother, Willlam F.| eyer tried in this countr),” piesa “Btud-¢yed Billy” — were} Brandeis had complimented him, Matural politicians and were ward! Thorne said. and told him he had been greatly impressed by his testi- | mony and exhibits. proceeding to Liverpool, She has not| © Wis arrival in New York Mr.| “A few days later, in Des MM. been reported at Las Palmas or Lis- | chan settled in the old Thirteenth | said Th “Brandeis wired m bon and, according to her achedale, in | District on the west side and joined | the railways had asked $ the Tammany Hall orgas on. He 7 : v a ly to the arguments, and aski He enge at saver soe ane Lheelnad aber Mae ce arrenr aouierln nd Bed y. te Leth rm ane sking ported at Cape Verde on'Jan, 34. Thirtecath and in 1894, on the firat| M¢ tf 1 would return and repeat my Rumors spread about New York to-|reurement of Richard Croker, became | testimony in summary to a full sos- day that the vessel which “met a ter-jJeader of Tummany Hall. sion of the Interstate Commerce Com- i rible accident,” according to cen- sored cables from London, was the Cymrie of the White Star Line. Tne White Star Line has a oablegram | stating that the Cymrle arrived in| Liverpool from Now York at 1 P. M. last Monday, ‘The only other passenger vessels af the International Mercantile Mari: fleet on the Atlantic are the Adriat which left Liverpool for New York on Feb, 3, and the steamship Lapland, which ‘lett New York for Liverpool on Feb, 3. | BRITAIN MAKES READY FOR CONSCRIPTION LAW Notice Served on Bachelors That They Must Begin Service | on March 2. disappoint the B. R. T.," said Sena- tor Thompson to-day. “We simply LONDON, Feb. 9%.—Governmental against him in 1898 and he resigned y Commission | to the Morning Post, “ mission, as only one Commissioner had heard me previousl: THREAT TO BLOW UP | MONTREAL CITY HALL | names Tho influence of Croker was thrown from the organtzation, Four months after his arrival in New York in 1886 Mr. Sheehan was made Secretary to the Acqueduct Ho resigned from that office to become a member of aad Board of Police Commissioners. BULGARIANS WILL NOT OPEN SALONIGA ATTAGK Nothing Happens at Hour Named, but Mayor Has Police in Readi- ness for Trouble, MONTREAL, Feb, 9—-Information Athens Hen They Refuse Unless|received by the police that the City Assured Possession of Hall was to be blown up at 12.80 the Port o'clock to-day spread alarm through- out the city this forenoon and caused LONDON, Feb. %—"News from|the hurried return from Quebec of Bucharest,” says an Athens despatch Mayor Martin, The hour, however, ‘confirms the| passed without any untoward occur- report of a radical disagreement be- | rence. tween the Austrians and Bulgarians,) The Mayor on his arrival went into INRAILWAY CASE in} Nominee for Federal Bench |quickiy determined to save bimselt, if | ‘charm | tee to-day in the {Investigation Into the The Presi-| dent's nominee, Thorne declared, be- trayed a trust in “one of the gravest | and most important cases ever tried in rate Brandeis represented the Seaboard | roprer a‘ed the Western shippers and | floor: of No, 253 Broadway, An inves-|the public. Two questions, he said, tigation which was made by the Coro-)were at stake: Were the railways en- ‘Thorne read a letter from the Inter- | {unmediate conference with the police van't investigate the Interborough | ™#chinery for the enforoament of the and neglect the B. R. 'T., which was Conscription Act was set in motion partner with the Interborough and| to-day. The King’s ppeciamation, the City of New York in the big bond | ©#!/tng upon all eligible bachelors be- james, We shall subpoena all the! tween the ages of twenty and thirty books and records of the B. R. 'T.| Years to report for service beginning —————— edtetees PEDO 608 EG ; OPEN NOSTRILS! END ACOLD OR CATARRH | Hlow To Get Relief When Head ! and Nose are Stuffed Up, a 3 ate Count fifty! Your cold in head or vatercth Your clogged nos- {elie Bt epee, the sir passages of your will clear and you can breathe pak No more ‘snuffling, hawking, wucous cling for bret or headache; $ ne a night, { ragrant antiseptic cream in pe nostrils. It penetrates through \ raya pang ff hed sx af the swollen or inflam March 3 was placed in the mails and thdre who failed to enlist voluntarily Will recelve coples to-morrow, In London alone 40,000 copies of the proclamation were distributed. Large posters with final recruiting appeals appeared in Trafalgar Square and other prominent places in the city. ‘They read: “Will you march, too, or watt until March 27" ‘The day was marked by @ lessoning of activity among the recruiting wergoants, al TOSS eS SAYS GERMANS WANT PEACE! Norwegian Writer Asserts Know They Can't Heat Ungland, COPENHAGEN (via London), Feb. —The realization that Germany's ene- mies, expeclally Great Britain, cannot be crushed has caused in Germany a} nationwide yearning for ai early peace, ov Bali giving you instant Head colds and catarrh yield, like: Sengie. Don't stay sitletp and istianta, iisera Relief © sympathizes with the Gemen ts that the desire for peace ts not based on Germany's safely, becuuse everybody” la convinced that Germany |a safe, but merely on the 3 z rey i i i according to Dr, Halvdan Koht, the ated historian, who ts con- { urticles to the So- Norwet find awakening to the fact that Eng- and ts invincible SPECIAL Notices, THE ORIGINAL , MALTED MILK HORLICK’S Mhich bas delayed the ettack on Salo- | yo and the City Hall wos, placed in a state suggesting siege. A large squad of police was placed on duty in and around the building, while quantities of new hose were brought to supplémont the regular fire fi All Valuable papers were transferred to fireproof safes, OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb, 9,—Inves- tigation by the provincial authorities of the fire last Friday night in tho Grant-Holden-Graham munitions fac- tory here has revealed the fact laat there were three separate Sires ‘on dif- ferent floors of the building HATZFELDT DIDN'T MEAN WE ALONE ARE STUPID: Friend of Counsellor of German Embassy Says Word Applied to All Peoples, WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Prince von Hatafeldt-Trachenberg, counr ‘lor of the German Embassy, and the official accredited with having called the American public stupid in a letter last summer, hesitated, blushed and then xrinned ruefully when questioned today about the matter, “Tt 18 waid M, Radoff, the Bulgarian Minister in Bucharest, has stated ‘to Persons tn his confiaence that no Bul- earlan Government would undertake an attack upon the allied positions at Salonica without a definite promise that ity should be annexed to Bulgaria, “The hurried departure from Thracs of Turks to reinforce Braerum, the Daily News sa “has up- net the plans for an Immediate attack on Salonica. It ls considered certain that if the attack i not made within 4 week it will mean the central pow- ers realize Salonica is too strong.” ——>—__— | BELEAGUERED BRITISH AT KUT-EL-AMARA SAFE! Townshend Could Cut Way Out of Turkish Town, but Will Hold It. LONDON, Feb, 9.—Gen, Towns- hend's forces at Kut-el-Amera are in no danger of capture, according to despatches recelved here to-day from ing apparatus, countries wand not only of the United could cut his way out and join the} fiitgy main force under Gen, Aylmer twenty miles to the ea losses, it was si Towns- hend, however, has been ordered to |hold the position at Kut-el-Amara, ————— Dutoh Ship's Mat) Held. LONDON, Feb. %—A despatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from! Amsterdam gaya the mail on board 1 Fesbeasdea. 6 per cent, on same stock headquarters of the Indian army, Later, friends of the Prince ex- | previous y ar” Though entirely surrounded by the plained that in referring to the “stupid | ds os |Purks, the British garrigon ‘at Kut, Public” ho meunt the public of all) Ny Yo O, & St. te dividend of 6 per] THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916. BRANDEIS CHARGED \BAFF SLAYERS ARE RUN DOWN, __GUNMEN'S DRIVER CONFESSES (Continued from Firat Page.) hen the detectives invaded his home thie morning and clapped handoufts | on hie wrists that they had a compar: | atively easy time with him. To Ferrata the knowledge of the de- |tectivea that he had driven the mur- der car wan little short of marvel- lous. When le got to Police Head- quarters he was almost in a atate of) collapse, and, not knowing how much evidence was held against him, | possible, | He told a story that sent detectives! | scurrying out in all directions, Later he repeated the tale of murder to District Attorney Swann and Assist- jant District Attorney O'Malley. The detectives anticipate that others in | the plot wil! be ax surprised ax was Ferrara when they are placed under urrest and will be as willing as Fer- rata to confess. 1 Ferrara and his accomplices were promised $500 for the job of killing Baff. They trailed him for months land made six attempts to get ne: | enough to shoot him, but on five oc ions Baff's guards foiled them. It was the sixth time that found Baft | momentarily off his guard. When the time came for the as-) leassins to ‘collect their blood money the Intermediary appeared with only $200. He said that was al) the chief ie sis of the conspiracy would pay. Some-/ Lecnmotie |body died on account of that §300'4 shrinkage and the detect know who It was, Out of the solution of the Buff mys- tery may grow the solution of a chain of Harlem murder mysteri« pears that a gang of gunmen i Italy almost openly solicited emplo: ment as assassins. Two of them killed Raff, ELMIRA INMATE SAID TO BE ONE OF GANG. Immediately after Ferrara was [taken to Police Headquarters a de- ‘tective was sent to Elmira Reforma- [tory to lodge a warrant charging! | murder against Giuseppe Arcola, who | was sent there in Webruary, 1915, after he bad been found gulity of violating the Sullivan Law. A ple- ture of Arcola has been identified as that of one of the gunmen who shot Baft. The third man will be arrested during the day, {t ts expected jto 85 and genoral advances secured WALL STR STREET Interest whteh promised to develop | in railroads and copper stocks shortly after opening aimost immediately, petered out. Prices in these lines hald fairly firm, but in general market | again resolved jtself into a profes-! sional see-Ka Alcohol suffered a severe sittmp. Car Foundry and Beet ugar advanced, Steel stocks gained and became weak on later transaé- tions, Discussion of strike situation among railroad workers and coal miners tends to cause uncertaintics a8 to price movement. Market was dull and narrow at midday. People’s Gas! declined 3 1-2 points to 100 1-2, United Statex Steel steady: at 84. per atocks moved up in early noon, Mackay common gained points. s moved up and down| within narrow limits until the last hour when improvement was shown both in activity and strength. Copper issues advanced with Steel and Indus- trials. United States Steal advanced throughout * 2| For months before he was shot Baff had earned the enmity of the vo- called Poultry Trust and of the];} market. In the height of the Thanks- giving rush he was called to the tele- atreet. Hewitt and Thirteenth Avenues two men stepped up to him and shot him They jumped into a waiting automo- | bile and got away. Scores of butchers § known have followed the that several murders which Baff killing we: Gresco, the owner of the stable, was) murdered a few months ago and the police have learned that he was killed because of his knowledge of the mur- der of Barnet Ba. NO LET UP IN HUNT FoR| 3 SLAYERS. ‘There were many arrests following | the Baff murder and several men were held for months, only to be discharged for lack of evidence. Capt. Carey of} the Homicide Squad and Acting Capts. Wines and Jones have persisted im the search for the murderers, and during the past few months came on clues which brought the several mur- ders in the “murder stable” and the Baft murder into significant relation. At the time of the murder some of the witnesses said the number of the murder car ..18 No. 24,719. This num- ber was found to be wrong, and when the new information came to the po- lice it was decided to try all the combinations df the number, Several detectives were assigned to to this work, and the police say they found an auiomobile identified as the murder car in the garage of Patsy Garofot, at No. 4g5 East One Hun- dred and Fourth Street. __ ‘TEMS FOR INVESTORS, Erie Railroad proper, not including | Chivage and Erle, December gross errn- creased $1,328,081. Net {i ‘Bix months’ gross | Net, after (ax, Incr for per | Kelly-pringtield Tire Company. the year 1916, reports 29 67-100 cent, earned on commnon stock, ex pared with 23.15 per cent, the previous | Year, on $834,000 teas stock. | | Motor Company regular atari dividend of 3 ae er cents on iret preferred, Yo aa April 1 to wiock of record March ¥. w. | Woolworth Company, for the | Net sales, Bal- “preferred dividends, equal per cent, of Common stock. cent, on first preferred out 19:5 earnings, payable March 1 to stock | « of record ¥ " the Dutch steamship Hollandia, = arrived at Amaterdum yesterday from | wore Ayres, Was detained at Fal- mou It is of immense strategic value for future offensive operations in Meso- |potamia, and if surrendered to the | Turks ovight be so strongly fortified as to halt future British attempts to | Chee eubetivuter com YOU enme price march on Begdad, ‘wate March j Aly Bosses pare b fetetrerietrent 2 SaSuncss Mase det pelts: q Mer. Petr ot! z M g “ “Poultry Pullers” who worked in the Sereda Jeft the teleplione and hurried to the f A hundred feet from his stall at har Co Te witnessed = thi shooting hut were ae helpless. Taird Are. With the new information whieh | [ntl True Letom Paeltie has come to the police it was made|t. § related directly to it. The murderers | Yavunt if Mit have been traced to the so-called Westin % “murder stable” at No, 227 East One| *%; } + Hundred and Eighth Street, where a) 14! wt o half-dozen men have been killed! ¢H1CAGO WHEAT AND CORN within the past few years, Ippolito| MARKET. Lead Covent... Alpina Content, Coe Peete | i++ Ea Ke Indus, Ateo’* 8. Rutter Steet pt eres WHEAT, i fe July. DEMANDS OF MINERS REJECTED IN WHOLE MOBILE, Ala, Feb. %—The de- manda formulated by the United Mine Workers of America at thelr recent convention at Ifidianapolis were to- day formally rejected as a whole by the operators of the central compet!- tive bituminous coal fields and the joint conference of employers and employees at once took up for discus. sion the eleven demands seriatim. This is the usual rmality followed in the interstate conference HeLooked Well on Horseback ~—-but that was about the only kingly attribute he had. Read about him in A Little Journey to Servia by Elbert Hubbard Your copy is waiting for you free at any sta- tion of The Hartford Lunch A Store in Every Locality See "Phone Book Cerro de Pasco directorn declared an initial quarterly dividend of $1 a share, jpayable March 1. i NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. Low. FOUND AND. REWARD, OMT—Vob 8, Ad St. off roadway quai’ favaliter Vhabera Yrowards “crimes, m 110g, AA. West kid et, | Lose area cat | bar pin. ene rn | if retumed | ee | formation POULTRY DEALER WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY GUN MEN IN AUTO BELGIUM REJECTS GERMAN OFFER 10 RESTORE FREEDOM Rome Reports That Sugges- tions Made Through Vatican Included Indemnity. LONDON, Feb, 9.—Belgium has re fused separate terms of peace offered by Germany, according to a Rome de- — to-day, quoting the. Gitonale ment, which Is understood to have obtained trough’ Vatfoan sources, {9 said to have conveyed this informa- | tlon to Pepe Benedict during his com- ferences a few days ago The Kaiser, the report said, agreed to a complete restoration of Belgium, with the Germans granted certain privileges at Betgian Channel ports. Germany further agreed to pay & large sum for tho rebutiding of de- stroyed structures in Belgium in re- turn for a pledge of Belgian neutral- ity for the rentainder of the war. | King Albert, it was declared, tndig- nantly rejected these terms and an- nounced that he would consider no peace until the allies were victorious nd Germany beaten The Rome report, coming close on the heels of advices from German jources to the effect that new Ger- TO ATTACK ALLIES WITH NEW BOMBS Aerial Torpedo peta ol Ca Great Power to Be Fired From the Sky. BERN Switserland, Feb. %— Eighty Zeppelins are now the German vervice, it appears from tn: developed at Friedrich hafen, where the Zeppelin works are located. One of the latest type that | #00" peace atforta “Are under ‘way; is having a trial trip this week i) roused the greatest interest here. LZ-95, which is taken here to mean) Though Belgian official few weeks | age denied a repert that Germany Mat tt is the ‘ninety.Atth in the submitted peace terms, de- series dating from the beginning ot | Penn from Tho Hague on Satur-~ the war, fifteen having been lost, it Is day carried Berlin reports that the said. peace negotiations were progressing The newest model seems consider. | *4tisfactorily from the German stand- ‘ : point. ably longer than previous typen. Tt P°Ci oe tne recent announcement that is of fish-like shape and gray-tinted sir Douglas Haig had gone to Havre by means of aluminum powder.| to moet, King Albert a “special Tho gondolas aro of plated. steel, | Mission.” no announcement has been Each has six machine guns in ai | made by the press bureau on the re- quick-fire battery and apparetus for | malts of the trip, tinasalaaalpeinnigns throwing bombs and air torpedoes. | It is reported that a new alr torped: GOULD WAS ON THE 40B. more powerful than any. previously | used is about Ht to be part into use, See. ke MAGA end in t ¥. Gould of "Sl the Thirtieth District, Manhattan, wae French Alr Chiet Mestane Pie Rage), sasembivean. Timothy After € PARIS, Feb, Rene’ Bestiara, | Under-Secretary of State tor Avia-| tion and Aeronautics, has resigned. The realgnation follows nuimerous| i) “orror his name crept into the iit criticisms of the administration of | of Assemblymen who failed to attend lis department by some members ot | n 5 the Chamber of Deputiox and by| newspapers. ‘ ‘The Government has decided not to appoint a successor to M, Besnard The Aviation Department hereafter will be under the control of the Min- ef of War, who will choose a di- Lor | Premier Briand requested M. Bes- } nard to reconsider his decision to re sign, but ho dectined to do 80, Gen. Gallieni, the Minister of War, sent M, Besnard a letter expressing regret that he had given up his post. A HELP! The Government 4s asked to put a blanket on a threatened uprising of the Navajos ‘oye of the members of the Legisiatura who attended the Mayor's conference et the Cl Hall last Frida; ported as present in TI of Saturday and Monday, ivman from the Thir- importance of hs con- t par Cepation In the Mayor's was gyidence thar he is 07% of the city’a leg: {slators Who appreciate that they Teproseuting constituencies “In Greater ew York, SEES REC SET FIRE TO BARRACKS. Sentries Guard Sleeping Soldiers at Fort G . NEWPORT, RK. L, Feb. 9.—Two fires of unexplained origin in the bar. racks of the Fourteenth Coast Artil- ‘Nery Company at Fort Greble have | caused extra sentries to be di for duty about the property, it was Jearned. to-day Tho tires were found last week in the cellar, while 125 men were asleep overhead, Officers at the fort declined to discuss the occurrences. Special for Rhee AND CHOCOLAT aa eee ARDY ole ee RervletsPineat er, tamaerines we ereien, ae thele “THE WO WORLD Best Re jal Estat Medium to Reach th Bonafide Bayers” aad LILLIAN M. SUMMERS REAL ESTATE SROKER ny Aflington, N. Jy Feb. 4, ° 1916, The New York World, New York ( Dear Sir: Words are inadequ to express my appreciation fo services rendered me through one sinall four-ling advertisement which 1 bd sorted in a recent issue of your New York World. he day after the ad, was inserted | received two phone cails, number ot, fetlers, aabing. tor informastn: shout ine howde adveriitea, ‘aise Two days later | secured a cash deposit, ment to purchase the property advertised Thiy clearly proves that The World is THE BEST real estate me reach the bonafide buyers and get quick results, ee te Inclosed you will please find check to cover cost of ad say that I am inore than pleased. Yours truly (MRS.) LILLIAN M. SUMMERS During the Month of anuers The World Printed 5,166 ‘Scnarcia Real Estate Ads., or 876 More Than the 4,290 Printed in the Herald, and the buyer signed an agree 1 can heartily IKING FOR THE ALLIBS. \Said He Would Not Make: Peace Until Allies Were, Victorious. Cardinal Mercier of Belgium ~