The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1916, Page 3

HOURS, FINALLY before tt bel © chance te stati tewt aenient @ treleht train whieh be pened te th peening the memeret There @ere other ram Ared nartee eecapee ~ bier bees ee tolied, the mitiiten lithe jee Une Theme, ewe petrotied the to _— W asehale were wont tte the reel 1 Ww eve around for sus Regiment at Front Afier Day tere The moun dida't show wotu efter iy « we end tnete and Night of Devious rece ownage Ben Wanderin compe hen the evidiers whe bad been of lteve te *e Se vee | Wee guards in the darkness. 7TH MEN ON A HIKE The impression prevelont emeng ermy effeers that the otueten Hh et dynamite wi Strengthened lnet night when @ Fepert reached MeAlion th munition in large quent been emuggied inte Temeup County ty e ecrene the Rie Grande trom thie district epent ut fifteen miles south: eaet of MeAlien, ‘Tue river banks there are precipl- tate, but t roar te fordavie at the average at of water aad (he | desert streches back from the river on bo for several miles. There are not enough evidiere ta the disirict ty maintain a proper patrol Ring Battle to Settle istic Championship of the New York City Regiments, By Martin Green. (peste! Stal! Correspondent of The Evening World.) MALLEN, Tes, July 16-—The His- tyrainth Regiment, efter © day and @ wight of devious wandering back @n4 forth over the ratiroad betwe hére 204 Drownevilie, at the bebest eof @ transportation system whieh Would in the Kast start « body of | #84 more men will be rent there to- ten for Philadelphia aod lnnd t day, A brush between troops and fa Bridgeport, came alone the b jamununition smugglers would put a lut of life into the militia forces Mine thie morning and weut into camp at Mission. fretting under camp routine in Mo- ‘The lost train reached camp at 9) Allen, Mission and Mhare, @olock, Although the boys were)TWO COMPANI OF SEVENTH tired, they loudly expressed their Joy at getting to the front, ‘Their fret inquiries were about the possibility of trouble with Mexico: Many years ago tho Whitechapel Club of Chicago, In sardonic mood, Nominated Frederick Upham Adaima, better known us “Grizaly,” now of New York, for Mayor on this plate form. “No gas, no water, no police.” Mr. Adams received over 2,000 votes, | which vote represented approximately the population of McAllen, OFF ON LONG HIKE, Companies K and L of the Seventh Hegiment started out for a long hike along the border lust night, K Com- pany golng west and L Company east, E Company of the Beventy- Oret has returned from @ sunilar hike with ali (he men as brown as Indians and feeling Letter than whea they wlurted, umerous accidents with the auto. matic 46 calibre revolvers used by the cuvairy have brought about orders whieh will jead to the discardiag of that weapon in favor of the old-time SH cube Coit, This is a change will extend to all ‘The framers of the Adams platform would have been pleased at conditions fo McAllen last night. The Municipal shut down to and the town atreets, #toren The pros ar in these parts apparently remote, the spirit of com. but ts alive all three o are buzzing about uw boxing con ranged between “Sailor” L Patchogue, Lt, am pany, Twenty-thir Brooklyn, and Joe pany, same regin was without ilght ip and dwellings except that furnished by candies and kerosene lamps, The engine at the electric light works also furnishes power to pump water from artesian wells into the town stand- pipe, and the wi.ter supply fatled at 7 fi o'clock in the evening, There wasn't a drop of water in any of the McAllen camps except what the soldiers, who had been forwarned, had accumu- lated in their canteens, The only lighted place in town was the combination undertaking estab-| Beilows, before the regiment lefc Mahment and telegraph office. This Brookiyn, caused to be printed an an- room, with a acore of busy telegraph | nouncement that he could outbox any operators busily working against a ot H Com. nt Kid" McCoy of the Seventy-first went to Pharr, where the Twenty-third is encamped, esterday afternoun and helped Corpl. Bailey of M Company arrange the match, Already $2,500 has been bet on the mill, Not real money, because the boys are anxiously awaiting for pay day, but every obligation is as | good as currency, PRINTED CHALLENGE TO ANY TWO N.Y. CITY MILITIAMEN, militia, The preliminaries for the rough boxer, ts lighted by the West- ern Union's private plant. \ The main street of McAllen, two blocks long, was jammed with | soldiers, horses and automobiles dur- ing the evening and there was such excitement as might be should the lights suddenly go out in Madison Square Garden in the middle of a bie political meeting. RUNAWAYS CAUSE MUCH EX- CITEMENT, NONE HURT. A horse belonging to a cavairyman from Avon, N, Y., which was tied to 2 scantling in front of the undertak- ing shop, became frightened at the antforms worn by soine of the war correspondents and dashed up the street, taking the scantling with him, @ome modent hers grabbed the nag week, but it was not until Yesterday that the encounter was. cinched. Sailor Brooks is considerably over weight. He 18 also suffering from a trifling injury to hig left foot, resulting from |the tnaccuftey of a fellow soldier's jwielding a pick, Instead of hitting ‘the ground with the pick Sallor | Brooks's compatriot hit tho sailor's competent prop and punctured It to @ considerable dep:h, However, the Patchogue soldier 1s sweating off a couple of pounds a day and says he can lick Bellows on one foot. The Bellows backers have yet to leara that Sailor VUrooks won the light heavyweight championship of the navy at Guantanamo, Cuba, in 1912, when he was serving Uncle Sam afloat. “AMT wish," said the sailor to The Evening World man, after the match, by the skilful guidance of Private Kid" MeCoy, had been made, “is that B. Altman & Co. Leather Travel Goods . at special prices to-morrow, for the week-end or vacation trip. Suit Cases of black enameled duck, cretonne lined: Sizes 18 and 20 inches Sizes 22 and 24 inches $4.50 4.75 Traveling Bags of black walrus-grain leather or dark russet cowhide; sizes 16, 17 and 18 St é inches soe es Ce «68828 Weekeend Cases of black enarneled duck, A cretonne lined, with tray, hat partition and | shoe pockets; sizes 24, 26 and 28 inches, i at : A A os 5.50 Women’s Hat Boxes of black enameled duck, cretonne lined, 18x 17x11 Motor Luncheon Cases of black enameled duc { With service for four persons . - $7.00 With service for six persons . . 8.5 Fifth Avenue, New York |two men In the whole New York City | background of polished caskets and | match have been in preparation for a! TEE BVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1916. Women Mobilize the Militia of Merce For War and Organize the Gentler Sex to Succor the Needy in. of Strene and to Become a Potential Force Tin in the Nation Mra, John Hays Hammond Is President and Women of National Promi- nence Are Her Lieutenants and They Expect a Membership of Millions, | “When the Presid at vrdered the National afd to the border, ble oA the ofet of moviligng the gr 4 of ai) the mations! forse wid Shieh, however, the Commenter bief of the army od navy bas wothing to do I reer be power and, j euessy of American ent “Wheeever a ie impertiied the woman j who sees bustend end Ler sone making cheer | y teady to defend thelr country ashe herself maturally, What can § dof It ts to enewer thie the Women's Am le prepared wt The new Mobilize this militia of women. we league can 40 for the chouy, erento & per diers—who will be soldiers of life ond WOMEN OF NATIONAL PROMI- NENCE IN IT, In these words Mra, John Hays Hammond explained to me the pur xen of the newly-organiaed Wom Leakue, of which whe in Prevideat and in which Mra. 1 Goelet, Mrs, Charles b. Champ Clark, Mrs Goorge Wickersham, Mrs, Willian | Cummings Story, Mrs, Lindley M Garrison and Mra Harry Payne Whitney are members. I saw Mrs, Hammond at the hoad- quarters of the league at No, ¢ West Forty-ninth Street, a how lent to the members by Mra, Onden Goelet When you talk with Mra, John Hays Hammond about anything you hi the pleasing consciousness that an executive and not a theorist con~ fronts you. Mrs, Hammond has a first-hand knowledge of war, She | Was in South Africa with her hus. | band when the great American engi- neer was imprisoned and sentenced jto death by "Oom Paul" Kruger as @ result of the Jameson raid, and tt | was duo to her personal efforts that the death sentence of her husband | was remitted, Mra, Hammond's son, | John Hays Hammond $r., has recently | sold to the United States Government | his inventions of a torpedo controlled | by wireless, | FINE THINGS THE SOCIETY PRO- POSES TO DO. “War with Mexico seems averted for ‘tha present,” Mrs. Hammond said, | “put our soldiers are still at the bor- der and the timo to interest American | | women in forming thja militia of mercy, which will be equally helpful in time of peace, 1s NOW, when the sol- | diers are in the public eye and the! | public heart. Tho immediate object | of our league ts to supply necessities to the men at the border and in | mobilization camps, such things as Bob Edgren of The Evening World could coine down here and act as ret- eree, Not that i'm afraid of getting ‘the worst of 1: from any referee, be- cause I won't need any referee in this entertainment. But I'd just like to ‘have Hob Lidgeep referee so I could show him right in front of his face that I'm an all-around land and sea fighter, even if T do miss an occa- sional duck on Great South Ba: The Third Brigade at Pharr, has the cleanest, neatest, most orderly camp in the division, Brig, Gen,| Wilson Is @ fanatic about flies and) mosquitoes, He has more screening and mosquito bar in the camps of the Twenty-third of. Brooklyn and the Seventy-fourth of Buffalo than there js in the camps of the Seventh, Seventy-first and Twelfth, and all the artillery and cavalry at McAllen, and, the Fourteenth and Second Regiments at Mission combined, The surf of every pool within) a mile of Ge Wilson's camp is} covered daily h crude oll and the! low ic are being Miled in, Regiment, the remaining unit of the brigade, arrives the men will find a camp As smooth as the walk tn Cen tral } convention, The big probe Pharr is the disposition of surf water from shower baths and 1 dries, but this problem {8 alr the hands of Major Hutchinson of the Seventy-first, who Is destaning a sewage system for all three camps. 53,941 GUARDSMEN SENT TO THE BORDER York Div 2,875 Men New ision Still Short nd Pennsyl- vania Lacks 7,221, 1 Major Gen, Leonard W mand of the D: nent of t gave out the fixures to sent to th tn com om the number at the border or on FROAL | ork Notlonal Guard, 17,12 pylvar al Guard, New York division is silt short of the requisite number by 2,875 men, and Pennaylvania liwks New Yor! and Pe States tn | theis sions. Anvintant, Nationa! Ret halrman Wills cox to-dey announced appointment Wan! St. Paul P Apapers, AS Beulat- ant tg the Chairman, question for Ameongan women (hat women, & militia of merey need, whether caused by war, earthy We won who have time or money to # By Nicola Greeley Smith, formed ean Bupply league No country bh feaves unobiliced ite miiitte of tn wll tin jake of Boods of whieh J am President alms to summon to cooperate with um all ive to forward our aime We hope w hooks and Jed wanint~ tere in the ban comfort kite, mame to furnteh tr ance to the families of » Way of relief, to furninh howpital eup- plies to the Red Cross and other wal rellef agencies, and to ereate and de- velop in the United States a militia of patriotic women trained and pre- pared for suoh service an women can render tqward national needs, Lut wo alin to make the league even wider in its scope eventually,” Mrs, Hammond added. “Woe hope the day will come when at a few hours’ notice the militia of mercy can mobl- line for service in any national calam- ity, for such catastrophes as the Gal- veston flood or the San Francisco tire. We expect to have a membership run- ning Into the millions, because we ex- pect to furnish & permanent answer to the question, ‘What can women do to defond America?’ For this league will be permanent, and 1 expect to ace it grow and grow until it becomes,a part of the national life, “We want women of all professions and trades as well as women whose personal fortunes give them more leisure to devote to public work. We want a dime Just as much as we want a check for $5,000, “The other day a poor woman came here with @ sinall hoard of nickels, a dollar in all, which she told us she had saved from hor week's wajres, $6, to ‘give to America,’ as sbe expressed it, She was a foreignor, and she told us that she had gone without her dinner one night and without luach al days to get tho money to- gether, ‘It is nothing,’ she said. ‘Shall I not do without one dinner for Amer- fea, when America gives me all my dinners?” “We think that little handful of nickels the most beautiful and the most precious tribute that has come to us. MRS. RUSSELL SAGE HAS HER INTEREST AROUSED, “Anotuer voluntary cuntrivution to the lecgue came from Mrs, Russell Sage,” Mra, Hammond continued, “you know the windows of her home overlook the league rooms, Bhe waiched us in her second story window, saW Us scurrying about here, answering telephones, sending of holding executive mestings, week sho weut her maid in to say that she had seen how busy we Were und how heiptul we were trying to be, and 80 she too wanted to help In the only way she could with a check for §250, and Mra, Bago has said that she would give us fure ther assistance later on.” “What must a woman do who wants to Join the militia of mercy?” Tasked Mrs, Hainmona, “Just give something,” Mrs, iam- id, “Later on, dues, but tha not been decided yet. It will be dis- cussed at a meeting on ‘Thursday afternoon, — There are su women,” M thoughtfully, talked, who re turea and speeches concer don’t know how to take movement themselves. We think we have found something for them to do in this militia of mercy which will enlist their energies and patriotism, “L know there are many women who feol us I do that the ocoupition and preoceupation of those in middie life should be serv for others. Life hax siven me a great doal. Mr. Hume mond and I have had love and great happiness In our ehildren, In later years wealth has come to Us and now we both feel tha only way in which we can pay for our personal happl- noss is by U, 8, TAKES OVER AUTO TRUGKS ORDERED ASROAD Wall Strect Hears Packard and Peerless Plants Will Deliver 1,200 Machi According to rer in Wall reet to-day, the War Department motor t “ Packard, Peeriens and at other trite ifactucera um ls needed nor vice at the t Tt te wnderviged that which follows an au Will give to tho t ot : : * + £OC0-40-+> 644 65400405508 > poeweerrers ett ee beta te ONE JAI-BREAKER RECAPTURED BY CAMDEN POLICE) TRAIN, ARE SAVED Prisoner Who Escaped After Shooting of Keeper and Guard Caught in Hotel. CAMDEN, N. J., July 18.-—Wilson Ashbridge, who jecaped from the Camden County Jail last night with George EB. Thompson, after killing one of the guards and mortally wounding another, was arrested with his wife at Chester, Pa, at noon, Thompson in still at large. He and Ashbridge sep- arated after they escaped, The men killed Isaac Hibbs, a keep- or, sixty-five years old, and wounded, probably mortally, Joseph Ellis, an- other guard of the same age, The shooting and escapo bore # striking resemblance to the attemot recently made by Oreste Sbillitant, a Sing Sing convict, who fied after mortally wounding one keeper and shooting another, but was recaptured and later executed, ‘Two women, according to the jatl authorities, recently visited Ashbridge and Thompson and are suspected of having smuggled them a revolver. Both men were confined tn an upper rection of the Jail, awaiting trial, Asd-| PT a aiitmore, where six persona loxt bridge on a charge of having killed ®} n61r tives, reports from other districts chorus girl in Camden last January and Thompson on a charge of at- tempting to utter forged paper. Hibbs was passing along the cor- ridor last night, just after locking up time, when Ashbridge called: “Open the door; I want to show you this note.” Unsuspectingly, the olf man shot the bolt from an end of the cell tier, Ashbridge stepped out of his cell. holding a revolver pointed at the koeper and exclaimed’ “Throw up your hands!" Thompson as quickly emerged from his cell, a few feet away, and swod directly buck of Ashbridxe. “Why, what does this mean?” asked Hibbs wonderingly, “What! Before tue aged jailer cuuld com- plete his sentence Thonyaon, with «a oath, grabbed the revolver from Ash- brid hand and fired three shots into Hibbs's bod As Hibbs fell Ashbridge bent over him and took from his pocket the bunch of keys to the various doors of the Jalil, Then he took tho re- volver from Thompson, ¢ the door giviug egress Irom the corrida: and both ran out, id of this corridor they rand with Avabr the only a few fe . for the runaway prisoner fired nat nin und he tell - Cartoontat and Writer Wed. Friends learned to-day of the inate ae Menty), the Oncor He, Ces car Hoth are art editor of “Baurt Stories,’ SPREE RE ERG EERE ROE Fe 250 PASSENGERS, Pestilence, Fire and Flood UXCESPASSMESF RS Jolin mtarre Pen mt sD. TWO DAYS ON LOST Women and Children in Party Marooned Without Food by Flood in North Carolina, ASHEVILLE, N.C, July 18.—Two hundred and fifty passengers on th Southern Railway Florida Specta! stalled by the flood near Nocona sine Sunday morning, were supplied wit | food late lant night and to~ \being brought here in Twenty-flve autos were secured b: the railway to ply between the tral and Asheville, and ft is believed all o} the passengers, which include man | brought here by to-night. ATLANTA, Ga, July 1 Corolina floods slowly re mided to-da serious, down from the mountain many streams were out of their bank: and tho State was threatened by th most destructive floods in its his tory. The death Hast from high waters In five Southeastern States to-day stood at fifteen, with thirteen or more miss- ing. ‘The property loss was put a $15,000,000, While the situation was greatly tm. proved in the region around Ashevil! showed damage far in excess of tha first reported. ——— LAWYER FREED OF CHARGE. Washington Heights Court ratrned on an affidavit charging #us picton of attempting felony, Chambers admitted having asked th complainant ag fending if “something couldn't be done’ to deop the charge, but denied he ha witness to chang 1 either the complainant or an} Dis teotiinon, Used Resinol for Bad Skin-Trouble Considers Hor Cure Remarkable 4 ¢ aad ay were automobiles, women and children, will have been the situation in South Carolina grew High waters were sweeping regions, when are to compound ao & man he was de- | WILSON AT cL. LAG BL r “nt Also Asks Action on Wowk Compe nj) Act Shelved, °° _ wan rata | UGHES SEEKS 6.0. P, ‘| HOUSE AND § tat " whic would have One love of Campaign Wil pinastin Act | Mab ation leaders, W # renohed t that he os to work 4 Capliot f «be wont direct wo compaien wot only for hie room, 9 * # as ne one to meet then, | n bot for the election of @ Bite 1 at Ue 1 & Benaie mitemdant | pot majonty sn both the Hematite i Ue dow The Vrewldeat called and Me . v begian * of the olnete : ’ man” eald the President,| campalen Wo elect a Republican aie + sid You wet Renator Kern for me?) jority in the Senate will be maae z clerk returned with the majority! Thuretay, when Mr Hurhes t@ 0.08 4 and othera joconfor with © committee of Menaterat ” 3 Jon talked with Benators| headed by Kenator Weeks of Mages . artin jets, which has in charge the G | Me anked also, it te onderste biican National Benatorial came! @ eatly ediournment of Congress. n. Later on the nominee expects cauoun date of Aug, 20 9 satistactory Bw be urged the. the Chiid 1! and the Compensation Act (led In the programme to be 1 vy that the, der vite every to confer with the Republican Come greamional Committee Mr, Hughes worked on his came palgn plans to-day and the speeche@ he expects to deliver on his Wenterm him, Labor be ti comple Orne conslicratton. trip, He will go to New York tos | Vrenidont Whison informed teadern | morrow, 4 of the Senate that he did not wish to “iar Sane " \be notived of his nomination and to | NICKEL NOT WORTH 6 CENTS) begin bis campaign until the Child we Labor and Workmen's Compensation | *eetiaters Whe PF mote Oe Bila bad been penned Cont Coins for Gain Get a Jolt. WASHINGTON, July 18.-Geteriehé After the cou! co with the Prest-| quick men who are harboring plans te dent, Be Kern said he believed melt B-cent pleces to foil the nickel tm them, reported to be worth 6 conts, will be disitiusioned by « neat from the © ‘Tronsury Department to-day, vias “Abe surd on the face of It.” any necessary changes in the legisla Uve programme could be effected with- out further caucumng. The President tn his talk with Mare tin, who ts Chairman of the Appro- priations Comtatttee, asked that the committee aid in speeding up the pro- #ramme, ‘The fact of the President's call rap- idly clroulated through the Capitol, The smoking rooms were crowded with curious, puzzled and, lal angry Senatot ‘The President talked with Senators Kern, Martin, Simmons, Williams, Hughes and Owens, Some of them were culled from their lunches, The Senate floor iteelf was deserted for Senators who were mak- ing set speeches to vacant seats on the Navy Will, Republicans were disposed to poke fun at the obviously disconcerted ALWAYS USE: o yhes om 1, ° h abicarat. leadaed POWDE De: the President's visit, a flight on the Child Labor Bill is assured, y n ft y HEALS &. SOOTHES “CHILDRENS: SKIN ONO BOX PROVESAT 25¢ Benator Smith of South Carolina, leader of the opposition to the bill, said the visit of the President had made not the aslichtest change in his ww ding & Ca. 666 Fifth Avenuc. 461 ano 471 STS, Our Wardrobes are Being Cleared of BEAUTIFUL SUMMER APPAREL At the Height of the Season, just When It Is WEARING TIME FOR YOU Many of these BEAUTIFUL SUMMER GOWNS, CHARMING WRAPS, SMART SUITS and COATS, SEPARATE SKIRTS, DAINTY BLOUSES and “CHIC” HATS are the y Be 564-666 ano “ e t tametocinne teatimonre |! “LAST WORD” in Summer styles—of which many} 18 Lasko Siront, White inion with of |! have but recently been made from exquisite imported} to-day by Magistrate Groe hi tn ro matenals, We shall name from day to day the most interesting items from our sales—and would suggest PROMPT SELECTION, as groups are in many instances small, $75 to $150 Demi-Tailleur Suits at $28 Beautiful Styles of Silk and Cloth for Calling and Informal Wear, $45 to $85 Cloth Suits, $18; Linen Suits, $15 $65 to$145 Day and Evening Wraps, $38, $55 0 4] y | "Seni | dune @5.—-"For almost six monthy I | suffered fra severe case of skine aoe ere ee ot net | Beoutiful styles; of taffeta, charmeuse and crepe meteor, many of | and knee. ¥ swelling, with | “hich are enhanced by touches of embroidery or richly lined with severe pains it, followed by | chiffon, > constant itching. My leg then beeame water blisters and {sity Oy aeont anit Ai this | $45 to $145 Afternoon Dresses, $25, $38, $58 s time my leg was ot least one-third above wad the sensation wa stied a nom wy t S but gained no relief until Leon meneed Resinel Olntment « Itestiul Soap, from which F obtained of hy the firt application Jeoutinued use of Besinel Gintinent au vol, Ha nor continual iteh- renee yles for calling, matinees, dinners, dances and similar be $45 to $65 Coats, $22 and $32 Hing, ete. Handsome informal oc: n a For street wear, motoring, beach wai $10 to $25 Outing Skirts, $6 and $8 Beautiful Garden Hats, $10 and $18 £25 to $30 Tailored Hats, to close at $6 Limited elections of amart styles, many of which et dictions of the season's traported models. Pro-