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NM OEPARTHENT oAOKE TEST ON telephone and wireless eervices of the United States will be on a war basis. They will bo directly and entirely un- der the control of the Navy Depart- ment. The United States, from 4 o'clock next Saturday afternoon until Mon- day morning, will take over both the wire dnd wireless services of this country, Through the co-operation of the Americar, Telephone and Telegraph Company, all of the telegraph and telepbono facilities of the Nation, as jary of the| well as the wireless, will be at the the Lusitania and the date! disposal of the department. it has been reported Presi- on looks for a settlement nany, the entire telegraph, SUNDAYS 4 and June 11 at nie 3" It is the plan of the Navy Depart- ment to be in constant touch with | naval stations on the Atlantic and Pa- =| cific, and the battleship New Hamp- shire, which will cruise off the At- lantic Coast. This plan is announced officially as @ test of the country’s wireless facil- ities. The test was arranged several weeks ago, before the German crisis, and Secretary Daniels says it has no connection with the subinarine issue, This is an undertaking never before attempted by any country. Chiefs of bureaus having to do with defense problems and their execution in time of war will carry on all business with naval stations by telephone. A special Navy Department. Wires lead from it to the office of the Secretary, the As- sistant Secretary and »ureau chiefs. From these branches direct communi- cation can be had with any point in the United States and with American warships far out at sea, The wires used for telephonic com- telegraph Instruments, and telegrains ‘over them at the same time. Four switchboard has been installed in the | sert munication will be connected with |! and telephone messages will be sent | ft, iy aA Me telephonid printing machines will bo uit_on the wire connecting the New ‘ork Navy Yard with the Navy De- partment, Throw Away Your Eye-Glasses A Free Prescription You Can Have Filled and Use at Home. Do you wear ginsses? Are you @ victim of eye-strain or other eye-wenknesses? If 90, you will be glad to knew that there {9 real hope for soa. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eves restored through the principle of this wen- erful free prescription, One man says, after trying it: “I was almost blind; could Rot see to read at all; now I can read everything without any glasses, and my even do not water any more, At night they would pain dreadfully; now they feel fine all the time. 1¢ wae like @ miraci to me.” A indy who used it aye: “The atmosphere seemed hazy with or without Glasses, but efter using this prescription for fifteen days everything seems clear. can even read fine print without It ts believed that thousands wear Glasses can now dincard them in @ reason~ able time, more will \ the tro expense getting glasses. Eye trouble of many de- iptions may be wonderfally benefited by following the simple rules. Here ts the prescription: Go to any active drag store and ® bottle of Optons. Fill a two ounce bottle with warm water, drop in Optona tablet and allow ¢o dissolve. this Haquld bathe the eyes twe to four times daily, You shonld wutice your eyes clear Wd perceptibly right from the and inflammation will quickly eyes are bothering you even a to save them now before _BROOKLYN_ OPPENHEIM. CLL! Important Suit Sale Thursday * e e Women’s and Misses’ Suits Taken from the Reserve Stock About 750 Women’s and Misses’ tailored, smartly trimmed and braid bound models, in a select assortment of plain and novelty materials. Style, make, collars; also FAND RAPIDS URNITURE RREDIT TERMS Down on $50-” “ “6 75.00 «6 100-% 46 150.00 « 200-0 ISHE} FROM $50 TO $500 | ) nday & Saturday Evenings | iL STATION AT CORNER nf THER BROS i UMBUS AVE. 1 | '.103&104 ST. (ATED IRON aire Coarse for be ‘stor The World may oe lets os othice lu the city a meente bald NS&C Fulton and Bridge Sts., Brooklyn At Reduced Prices Formerly Sold to $35.00 ~ 20.00 materials and Unusual Values Offered in Women’s and Misses’ Coats Half and Full Silk Lined, of Serge and Gabardine, semi-fitted, belted and flare models; detachable silk Coats of Tweed Mixtures. practical 18.00 Suits, in plain linings represent the usual Oppenheim, Collins & Co.'s high standard of quality. A? Ae dresses. rack, Can’t cost excess. market. Sake Lugsase fl Saks & Company Neverbreak Hundred WARDROBE TRUNK Roomy—not bulky. small enough. Holds six suits or twelve Only trunk with a removable garment Guaranteed not to break. The most-for-your-money trunk on the Big enough—yet Department Furs Repaired Let us repair your furs in the dull season, when we have plenty of time to devote to the work. Lowest charges are obtainable now. Broadway at 34th Street THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1916. SLL AT TTT CT LI Acc ccc ccc ‘Saks & Company Fur Storage _We clean, with compressed air, all furs sent to us for cts is praraes are remarka' iow, ni Greeley £620, ae Telephone 2626 Greeley For tomorrow—extraordinary values in Women’s Plain and Fancy Tailored Suits at $23.50 Reproductions of late foreign models and copies of our own successful lesigns, usually sold at higher prices. There are tailored suits, some braid bound; fancy after- noon suits, hand-em- * broidered and but-/ ton-trimmed suits, 4 introducing many new notes in collars and sleeves. Especially attrac- tive are the coats with full flare or rip- ple, and the new long cutaway with vestce of silk. The fabrics are new mohairs, men’s wear serges, gabar- dines, taffetas, silk $23.50 and combina- I tions, silk or wool aie je and worsted Gabardine chee! Sizes 34 to 44. Each suit an unusual value at this very moderate price. Special attractions for Thursday in The May Sale of Undermuslins rpukoucHouT the month, and especially tomorrow, we shall offer most unusual economies in every kind of un- dergarment, very carefully made in the latest styles and fabrics, at prices made possible only by careful planning far in advance of this great annual event. Extra Size Underwear for Stout Figures As dainty and attractive in styles and trimmings as garments usually found only in regular sizes. We Lienert! in nightgowns, and carry a won- derful assortment, from the simple to the most elaborately trimmed, in every material, including the popular pink batiste. @5 Styles in extra size Nightgowns............from $1 to $4.98 15 Styles in extra size Chieeataes:: from $1 to $2.00 19 Styles in extra size Drawers.... .from 50 to $2.00 10 Styles in extra size Combinations. .from $1 to $2.98 15 Styles in extra size Petticoats...... Generee from $1 to $3.98 Regular Size Undergarments Special at $1 Featured at this popular figure are a multitude of garments, fashioned in cotton crepe, cross aerea materials and batiste, with trimmings of dainty laces, embroideries, hemstitching, picot edges and hand embroidery. Pink Batiste Nightgowns, $1 Nainsook Nightgowns, $1 With scalloped yoke and sleeves. Em-| With lace insertions and ribbon beading, broidered in floral design and trimmed | or with edges of embroidery. with lace inse Also Empire model, Pink Batiste Envelope on. ith embroidered floral de- hed edges. Chemises, $1 Lace trimmed with picot ed feath Cotton Crepe Nightgowns, 3 Loe trimmed with plcot edge or feather vith i d st] titchi: Te cack’ whi tamed col cole, © Cotton Crepe Envelope Chemises, $1 Nainsook Envelope Chemises, $1 With lace and embroidery insertions. Some in Empire effect with ribbon beading. | Of heavy crepe; lace trimmed with rib- bon beading. White Petticoats, $1 Of cambric, with full flounce. ‘Trimmed SINE AE White Petticoats, $1 Of cambric, with founce of wide embroidery | and insertion. Combination Garments at $1 Of uainsook, with neat lace edges or lave and embroidery trimmed, in elaborate de- signs, Drawers at $1, Circular a lodels Corset Covers at $1 With lace and ribbon or neat embroidery | Lace trimmed, with medallions or combined trimmed. with embroidery. A special display and sale tomorrow of Women’s Ultra Fashionable Washable Kidskin Pumps at $7 These pumps are of a super- lative character from every standpoint they are the very newest footwear for women in town today, and at this price one of the yreat- est values offered this sea- son, 8 In three distinct models designed exclusively for Saks & Company Models 1 and 2 are in washable kidshin, | Model 3 may be had in white buckskin, | in white, pearl, dove and smoke grey, brown, | tan Russia calf, gun inctal calf, and patent | ivory, green and champagne, coltskin, | New Brassieres Attractively Priced At 95¢—Brassieres of pink China silk, with top and bottom of Cluny lace, Hooked and eyed down front. At 50e—Brassieres in flesh or white, Several makes, At 69¢—Brassieres in new materials and designs, several 210 Women’s Silk Dresses : Sharply Reduced to effect an immediate clearance : These dresses are from our regular stock, reduced to these*y low prices because the size and color assortments are broken. 55 Taffeta, crepe de Chine and Georgette-and-Taffeta I $12 50 Dressee—reduced from $20 to le 75 Embroidered Georgette Crepe, Taffeta and Georgette $14.50 $18.50 and Taffeta Dresses—reduced from #22.50 and $25 to..... 80 Brocaded Taffeta; Georgette with taffeta, foulard or crepe Dresses—reduced from %29.50 and #35 to A Special Offering on Thursday of Women’s Summery Tub Dresses $5.95 $8.50 $10 Made of light and fluffy summery materials, such as flowered or plain* voiles, French linens, with hand-embroidered voile guimpes. In light or dark colors. Sizes 34 to 46. sa We shall feature tomorrow Women’s Sport, Street and Dress Coats, at $15 oe In a most attractive collection of new models and fabrics This assembly of coats is representative of the originality of couturiers well known for creating garments most becoming and suited to the, needs of American women. , Some are exacts reproductions, while others are adaptations of the most fuvored Paris models for Spring. The materials are serge, gabardine, checks, water - proof tweeds, taffeta, and serge -and-satin combinations. Unlined, half lined or lined through- out with peau de cygne. In the most popular colors and all sizes. Women’s Newest Washable Skirts at $2.95 $3.95 and $5.00 In twenty-five new models, in button front or side effects, showing new pockets. Fashioned in pique, striped or plain gabardine, and honeycomb, linen, khaki, cotton corduroy, Bedford cord, Russian cord, ratine, Bengaline, crepe cloth and cordeline, in white and the new high shades. Waistbands to 36. Blouses in New Frill Effects especially prepared and _ priced for the May Sale of Blouses. At $1.00 — Frilled Blouses of voile in del- icate shades of flesh Nile green, light blue and coral, in fichu ef- fect, with picot edged frill and turn back cuffs, Fastens with large pearl buttons, At $2.00 —Erilled Blouses of fine white voile with broad ble frills edged with fine Val. lace. Dainty em- broidered panels of sheer organdie have touches of color. Deep square collar and turn back culfs are edged with lace. At $5.95 - Beautiful Blouses of Georgette crepe, with broad, ills, deep collar and smarts tuen ed with Venise lace. Fronts ed in hemstitehing. arl buttons. The May Sale of Corsets In which the Regaliste and La Vida Cor: pronounced savings on regular stock prices. Regaliste Corsets at $2.85 Made of light weight white French coutil, trimmed with lace. inserts at hips and heavy silk hose supporters. La Vida Corsets at $2.85 Made of fancy broche, with medium top. In flesh or white, and two new models, pleated are offered at For tomorrow; Models for e very figure. Tomorrow, Thursday, we shall hold a Clearance Sale of Trimmed Hats Rubber | E& at $2.95, $3.95, $7.00 150 Hats that were formerly priced $10 to $14.50 300 Hats that were formerly priced $5.55 200 Hats that were formerly priced $5.00 Tn a variety of styles, including small sailors, pokes, mush- room effects, turbans, etc,, trimmed with flowers, wings, ostrich and novelty trimmings. In white, black, navy, and other fashionable colors, vem © Qa a ee ee re ree cee ne ne ITT I I ETE OE ea