The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1917, Page 3

} CALSONNATIONS Bs, PREACHERS TO AD NAVY RECRUITING Rev. George E. F. Stevenson | to Mobilize Churches—En- } istments Brisk To-Day. 4 tre Rev. George EF. 1. Stevenson 4, formerly attached to the U. 8. batt Whip Texas, and who for the past few BPE" weeks nas been touring the country aa @ “naval evangelist,” this after noon offered his services to Licut.- Commander Grady, of the Hastern Reoruiting Division, to form an or- ganization of naval chaplains to ald dn recruiting. Btevenson's plan is to co-operate ‘with church and clergy throughout the country to boom naval enlistments Sergeant Edward A. Cullen, of the U. 6. Marine Corps, has umed active charge of “Jjacking-up" t Marriage bureau = slackers here i , Among tho first of his duties will be | t6 find out who toro down the marine | Tecruiting posters placed yesterday in the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, — | Considerable excitement wus catised et the headquarters of Licut, Com.| Fleer. for the Third District, when | Of Course, incre ith, pursued by Patrolman McCann,| 488 not grown correspondingly. fugitive was James A y, 128 East Twonticth Street. He | Jeasly explained he was sixteen in the last year. é Sms of the “The iner LOWER BIRTH RATE GENERAL @4, and wanted to join th } ALL OVER THE WORLD. Just then his mother rushe! into] “The decrease in the number of 4 the .bureau. It was sho who had) births is a world tendency which had , demanded his arrest. Your Frey | become ap even in Germany was informed that, being raged tidal a h could not enlist without hi Au t-Hungary before the war ither’s consent. Only Kussia was untouched @ reported appearance of enemy | b: Je number of births per 1,000 marines off the coast has stl ; Heeane: ens th folic Bj iated enrolment for the Naval Hye rlthotap heN eshte gerve mosquito fleet at No. 2 Jate ws fiave, Wa Mea dtd Gendt Strect. Commander John the r of children born was 36 "Patten announces t! guard this! in istrict (which extends fr¢ n Now phe th rate for the City of Paris London, Conn, to barney N. J : . 4 considerable additions are eded te)! 1300 was 21 per 1,000; in 1909 It had the 300 boats already en An- declined to 18, a been a sim- other difficulty is to tind men for the ilar lowering in most American cities. bests, At least 10,000 are needed riglt\in Now York Cily the birth rate Recruiting, while not showing any|™oeng native Americans ts lower great impetus, showed a brisk in-/than the death rate, In the Itallan, Orease during the lunch hour at the | Iussian and Hungarian quarters of BAVA! stations to-day. John D the city the birth rate is as high a gan of 4 motor car company wa to bring forty ex 40 or 30 per 1,000, In a Ru: enrolmeay in th Bring ‘om alone, F Charles I, Chase N. Ju yoluntected to « Patten ahd offered the serv! es of hin four ¢Rephews, who are now in Florida but oT ; er hand, a 8 ig incite, ird Division tion of the city where A P. C. Filly, mate of the merchant C#O4 5 rate te steam Isabella, cabled from Porto between Sixty-tb and Seve leo that | ate Join the re f I Aver rve. Ho w chief mas ‘eal Cras éter-at-arms on the Nahant ete ‘ ewhich Lieut. Meld now whieh wever, im ytioned at No. « Any Ku an a v commanded during t i For t ty ai American w assy “Every new 8 Bian” in the al Sp ast ye $ among Tofficers are using n I them. Sey tors must man who enlists between now aiid th | be taken 4 unt in constdering time a formal call is issucd for vol-|theso ures: ‘The greater age « unteers will be able to say: ‘If of-] z : fered myself before + cou jente in this section for one thin, formally called me. I was one of the|the fact that this population of 3,000 1917 Minute Men, includes many domestic servants, But | Up to sundown yesterday the total] te deficit of American births is start. yarmy enlistments for the New York [ing nevertheless | district since April 1 were 1,150, Yes. | UNH navive American woman | ) terday's reports won drop from cont Dr. She has one or she pursues are too often the high record established last Mon day. Up to noon to-day there a Ittle more than the usu around the substations onal exploitation and Hatment is expected to go t play x ‘arried to a 200 mark. these ideals we ‘To-morrow will be a banner work- Haibane Pa dct ing day elty. in every sub-district of the WHAT IS GOOD FOR BUFFALO) We ought to get at least 500 to MAY BE GOOD FOR MAN. morrow,” sald Capt. Dice. "I hope] sy Sar Interest. you in a the young men will be stirred A ject. which rT have nad baait néver before by this wake-up day|} ne tine,” L interrupted Dr celebration. Paul Revere’s memory | FM UNe ; DPetipanl may be a good omen for all of us on April 1 bi ‘William Guerin, a lawyer of No. ie Broadway, at fef of the] Bureau of Fir ention, wrote | Mayor Mitchy ¢ to-day offering $100 to a po! or firem taining the erults for the ? ( Guerin says: le ‘ “If our men and firemen cor ; stituted y t geants, New pace In gnlistm country to follo Mayor Mitchel s tlon: “This shows the The susgestion will be t consideration.” Heirs servation of un, When the of extinetion ves or parks idden shoe native Ameri r measure vd for us, We ldren into ANKE led tn pr 4 > y him. ry ‘ity ow “ order uri t survive And 1 which had reache Every package—every tablet of Genuine Aspirin bears “The Bayer Crose— Your Guarantee of Purity” There is and Only One True Aspirin The trademark “Aspirin” (Reg. U.S, Pot. Off.) is a guar antee that the mono» aceticacidester of salicylicacid in these tablets and capsules is of the reliable Bayer manufacture, birth By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 0 Ras number of marriages per 1,000 In New York City has increased The number of births has decreased during the same period. An article in the current Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Health of New York calls attention to tho lowering of the birth rate, despite more numerous marriages, and attributes this vital deficit to the shut- ting off of immigration by the war. jam II, Guilfoy, Registrar of Vital Statistics, told me yes- terday afternoon that the curtailment of is only one of several factors in this result. IE EVENING WORLD, 10,000 MEN AND MORE BOATS ‘New York’s Birth Rate Going Down Same as Rest of War-Ridden World; Due to War, or Living Cost, or Both? | Whatever Causes It, Fact Remains That While Marriage Here Has Increased, Additions to Population Have De- creased—Dr. Guilfoy Notes an Alarming Slump in Native American Families, Where Birth Rate Is Not So High as Death Rate—Which Leads to Thought, Shall Native American Be Segregated for Protection and Propagation, Same as the Native Buffalo? However, Dr. Will- immigration Equally important, Dr, Gullfoy believes, are the postponement age of marriage due to wasteful national ideals and the practice of birth control by native American women. e in marriages in New York in the past two years means, d prosperity,” Dr. Gullfoy said. The city “But the birth rate | rate reached its high-| ent years in 1908, when it was 28.38 per thousand persons. In 1916 the birth rate was only 24.57 per thousand. __DRWHGULFOY. URGES HUGE AERIAL FORGE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1917. _ JEEDED FOR MOSQUI TO FLEET VERBECK PLACED IN GUARD RESERVE _ WITH HIGH RANK Militia Ctrcles Stire Stirred by Gov-| ernor’s Action Toward Lead- ing Figure in Old Feud. Announcement that Gov. Whitman has placed Wiliam Verbeck on the reserve list with the rank of Briga- dier General caused a sensation at) National Guard headquarters to-day. | The re-entry of Verbeck recalls ono | of the bitterest feuds in the history of New York National Guard, During | the term of Gov. Dix Verbeck, an Adjutant General with Brigadier General, was put in the place of Maj.-Gen. O'Ryan as head of the State's militia forves. O'Ryan'a friends claimed the action of the Governor was a blow at the stability of the State guard. When Sulzer be- came governor he immediately reap- Pointed Maj.-Gen, O'Ryan to his old position, which he has held ever since, Although some National Guard offi- cors believe the hatchet has been burled by O'Ryan and Verbeck, others suspect that Verbeck is destined by the Governor for still higher military | honors. Announcement the rank of was recelved from $2,628,063,320 COST TO MAINTAIN BRITISH ARMY FOR ONE YEAR. LONDON, April 17.—It cost Great Britain $2,628,063,320 to main- tain the British army during the financial year of 1915-16, according to the accounts just made pubite The pay of the soldiers aggre- Kuted $490,000,000; the medical es- tablishment cost nearly $40,000,000 transport, remounts and quarter- Ing cost $480,000,000; supplies and clothing, — $1,065,000,000; ordnance and general stores, $245,000,000; armaments, engineers’ stores and aviation, $115,000,000, and payments on account of prisoners of war to- taled $6,104,970. 28 MORE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK IN LAST WEEK Nineteen of Them of More Than 1,600 Tons—Twelve Fishing Ves- sels Also Sent to Bottom. LONDON, April 18.—The weekly re- port of British shipping losses issued to-day, shows nineteen vessels of more than 1,600 tons sunk and nine Vessels of less than 1,600 tons, Twelve fishing vessels also were sunk. During the last seven weoks, the period in which statements of the losses of British merchant vessels | have been mado tn their present form, the figures show that 168 such vessels DISMISSES CROPSEY WRIT AGAINST WEST SIDE PACT Justice Manning Refuses to Injunction Permanent—Uphold City Officials. Justice Manning Court, Brooklyn, ternoon a — temporary granted by Justice in the dismissed Supreme this af injunction Cropsey restrain Ing Mayor Mitchel, Comptroller Prendergast and other city officials from signing the proposed contract with the New York Central Ratiro: for the west side improvement, 1 decision was based on a three day hearing in which Mayor Mitchel and the Comptroller wero the only wit nesses, Justice Manning held from the be |ginning of the proceeding that city loMclals cannot be restrained from Proposed official acta by persons who do not the complexion of tho acts, Hoe repeatedly called on William M, Bennett, counsel for the plaintiffs, to stato whother thee was a charge that fraud, bad faith or corruption |had been practiced by the elty oMelais named as defendants, No such charge was made The Court ruled that the Mayor and other City Officials at all times faith. fully performed their duty and safe guarded the interests of ‘he City In ‘negotiating for the Wet Side im. provement, THREE TROY FIREMEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION Make | von Blesing is again ill and the Em- peror has appointed Gen. von Zwehl his successor for the time being. Gen. von Zwebl ts at present Governor of Ant. werd. L. M. HIRSCH Sample Shoe Co. | $5.00 4 Champagne Kid, Turn Sole, Covered Heel. Same in Gray Kid. 404-406 Sixth Av., N. Y. 5% 24he th Ste, 20m « a ns FACE POWDER. ive ee Swearing Gr Looks gembiond TO PROTECT NAVAL BASES | the Aasutant Generat's oftce to-day parte Bae a | ect with be ay Fay 0 acon iain that the census of New York to re he total for vessels of more than | festaiies arm cl worn inlurnc, 2 — cord the men of military ao would | +000 tons Was 116 and for vessels of Eight Others Are Injured When ‘Semel mated free" sor, at any mate which SIE had | Major Davis Says Adequate Scout | be taken between May 10 and May 25, |!¢88 than that tonnage, 62. This the Ammonia Tank | yi The Freemae Perfume Ca, reached in Jatge numbors until th ‘ y q The follow! ; : week's losses of twenty-elght mer- | Devt. 90 war caine, Lai one of those persons! Service Would Detect Enemy secsshtard ohn. dM eta odeeainice chad | ‘ ightly in exe t Lets Go, : and Burope by soctalizing all tho (00 Mile jtlonal Guard were to-day mado at|{the seven weeks hin twenty-four for! ‘TROY, N. Y., April 18—Battalton| OL believe, thes war, will bring us| MaJor Hoary C. Davis of the United | Division Headquarters bi anh ae Chief Hailey and two other firemen back to ideals of simpler living,” Dr. | States Marine \ expert on] Capt. Hamilton Fish jr. has been were killed and eight others, includ. Guilfoy it will scouting fMichts, has much that is! relieved from duty as Battalion Adju NORWAY INDIGNANT ing Chicf Patrick Byron, were ser tons eet it will t inter to say concerning aerial|/tant of the Fifteenth Infantry and eat ae early to-day by the ox-| more simply, to be contented, to serve | which there are man both tho] pany K, same regiment. William & fire in the Mohican Grocery Com. less food a to waste lens food. 1) Atiantic and Pacitle coasts, Major! Shepherd jr having obtained the paeepite Fay | eae . The fire caused a YANN & aoe ee eee phexuse ho earned only |D&Yis Fecommends that atr seouts be| commission of second lieutenant in| One-Third of the Merchant Marine | !** estimated at $ partied sak aGhe sould Hot pive nie [atatoned all important 3{the regular army, has been dis- : és — Hoe eee ee coett anaes vuee | Rolin Simiamayiee ot ae strategio| charged from ‘Troop C, davedron A. Destroyed and 450 Sailors Yon Massing 11, bs oo at : iii hed Capt. Alfred Wendt has been placed Lille April 18.—Accordt Eros nat in cuales Guan addition of air craft to the!on the reserve list with his former Killed, ram Governor Generel a se laid Maree of the defenses of our naval bases ts an rank, a OHRISTIANLA, Norway, April 18 , gctining birth rate, mperative neveslty nehitted N; Benedict, having avalt-| (vig London).—Norway, which has rupted, “the increa cost ¢ “Assuming seven hours’ endurance, | "ed a4 es babar te UP eerige od Bots lceply at 1 by America’ You have cited the postpon Corps, is assigned to. the heen most deeply atirred by America’s the age of murrlage as ¢ ar scout, at say seventy-five for duty. Capt. Charles H,|declarhtion of war against Germany, | <P hursday Offering rN that Is merely a ¢ an hous, will be @ abled to merve List, hus been placed |is showing Increasing tndtgnation at r axed prices ages hu 04 three hours and return y_with the Depot 5 Ss ahectan ened ok "i . but not fi proportion to Ute, loaving. one hour for | (lon of tie Third Intantry, Cape |e varus of the: Garena eubmari ne . i 1 and clothes, Cons . oF any, Herbert Slaiburn, who was honor. | War as affecting Norweigian shipping, © to wait longer safety margin, At an elevution of} 4 discharged from the Twelfth|and the shipping men are becoming rin ul a e inrey, an longer ail 5,000 fect in cle weather the cout] Regiment in October, 189%, has, upon | more and more inwiwtent for the arm afford children Should have a circle of vision the| Ms own application, been placed on = 5 ite would not have to wait so tone | radius of whlch ts approximately [ie Heagrve List with nis former |'ME.o¢ Norweian alma. ‘ ‘ Sethe birehol housewife venty iniles, He ought to be able!" iirst Lieut. Robert L. Russell, Rat-| merchant marine has been destroyed nelu ing aifeta Stik: ( sald; “if many women’ were te an enemy fleot or al tery 1, First Field Artillery, hus been | PY Le Mec agi aay Py 6 wrapped up in. th eal m transports at distance | promoted to Captain in command of Shipping men declare i to be unwillit ‘ a enrth at © distance | tye same battery. Krnowt. ¥ t the submarines are now doliber Belated Arrivals or their pase from sen is appointed a captain in ately shelling the survivors of te t nc ni rted, Assuming the ust Artitlory and goes to the Ninc red Norwegian craft in order to Meet Reductions \ And on this pala fact the dis- #my 1 to be twelve knote—it is nth Company, Ninth © De vont reports of the outrages \ n 1 rate mor to be ton—we havo thirty |fense Command reaching Norway d ince notice of his approach, Joh Vico Admiral Sparre, formor head 50 ’y i ity of a much enlarged Lyon of the navy, will Interpellate the Cab: for the Marlen Corps cuss i ner-|inet in the Storthing to-night. [tis the ttor to Commany Tt, Seventy. [the question of the defensive rrming rs fantry. The resignation oflof shi will be energetically urged . FREIGHTER FOR TWO HOURS FIREMEN CARRY RY DOWN THREE| !*" Mionant of tne Reserve Lint | Gack his clever Just arrived — peel Hort Wheden, has been accepted. saiy : ” ; : Mother Lowers Children from Fifth rhe s bean Gorn hardly out of their Submarine With False Superstrue- ' 1 rent Blase, nant In th | GUARD LIEUTENANT HALL boxes to mect a ‘ seuten real ce tag ture and Masts Outdistanced by |, Mrs, 1 rena Darmine and her Molioneie | special price tag t two childr mes, tWO youre old, and ‘0 Firat which will keep them Southerndown Ott Por Anne ni onths old. © carried ompany Four ¥ moving in harmony A German sun ai 1 ay GOW an extension ladder from the 1 Mt ¥ 6 0 : PHY oe ag cabana ab a day of N Wost One Hundred and hrook has heon com-| Charged With Seeking a Comn with their youthful a sailing ship carry Aree MASE | nt anti ot when a fire in aptain of npany C, ry vivacious lines. Was sighted by tho Uritish steamship tne naliway of the tenement hone eur] Fourteenth Tafantry Tieut sion From Mex and “Lo: ee sick Southerndown on April 4 when about of ¢ dababe' ai Rees HM] Henry Gallup Paine has resigned of United States Maps Straight Line Skirts 300 int n, and for two |: und aldren wen am the Reserve Corpa, | Jamen Van su Plaited Models 4 ‘ has heen placed in the Mid NGTON, April 18--Hecond | Jhours’ tho elghter was Ae put out otter it tad| iit Cons Meserve of tho “Gira | uINaTO Pe nil Hae Norfolk or ¢ iro oF destruc. | burned 1 f talrense with his rank of captain, Wirat | a i, Ha iret Ifa } " al iReelaeeRtaearet r did not Liout. Geo Gatley, who'left the | Indiana ional Guard, has been af” Pointed Jackets pela a eanik re whieh M | Sixty -Firt y, now the Third | sentence enka -veare’ UNDA e nae attain a ide ie Bitenitn eee MW Artillery, heavy, in Mareh, 1904, | on yn vaste hae Designs which have been given the friendliest eee naan in f nen aware tp ihe ree Aa eee N80 py SPAT ear) welcome by smartly groomed women—in serges, infamy orete Ae CADDROAGH Ana Han fen on a8 first Heutenant in Squadron | Mextean Gov ent twills, poplins, oxfords, gabardines, burellas, i Dr ind Ba : ‘ The alles iso Inchided Summer velours and beautiful suit-quality taf- within a . ts wil “Ee. Rrady has heen com or dispost n ‘ fet Ih ¢ What appeared (bo a falvo sup FAMOUS FLYER KILLED, |! and assigned. to the|awindiing, vleamy, oe the masts, was on und Firat} melee White Berey | monks dlsobod of stand No Charge for Alterations y rei va assigned to the Fourteenth Infantry. leourt inte 1 desl being ¢ 1 Major Rerry the border the ed) States penitent t Jeck gun to & Cant n the ath but had tol Leavenworth, Kan., aa the place X rere a mm hemp tho Infantile | Hall's confinement ale at Fashion t K being pla t Tdeutenant John re fr four Shops ‘ ne. : a W fiett icy| GREEK CABINET TO RESIGN. | Pp Y 1 —_ ¥ bor ipaital igang eA ‘6 | Tnfantre,| Premier Lambros ‘Tells King He| t r ad Will Give tp Offlee, | y r 9 v 1 the steamer irew | Senate Nes rear Nineteen West 34th Street ’ 1 ow ’ gnation = p a th ALBAN et Kk Ca D be Y Downtown: Brooklyn: Newark: <- a r Reu 1 . ) da is- 16 W. 14th St. | 460-462 Fulton St. [Broad & W. Park OO tie ; u | Lambros, 1 sstons and! ‘ ttn tindestrat n i lune, | ! | wast : ri ‘ole| ‘The presen f Ain} prey 1 f : min 1 } {pe . iN Cab “ | ‘ “ ut 1 r . ary nt nve mommy, «3 of it v4 "DR. JAS. P. CAMPBELL’ ind | i - amen { finial Hasape baer eite Ey ree n _ ARSENIC COMPLEXION WAFERS saa and a man employed in|! Repu Morgan Fir ys 810,000,000 Content | American Upholster feta Soe Notes, nt nd floor of 61 Went ex would guard ana one al $10,000,000 on ar note nth Street we Sse ag eT oth © Grant-| ' York Central to J.P, npe when a fire sta Be ot wart 4 Miners : ‘gar ree fod id vb {the United States or remains | f th run and Company was unded | mit pate ; Abas As Ay Pe tt me | crowd 1 along | 16- STORY HOTEL | UPTOWN, |e... : h v aes i ct he; | teur Buys Astor Market aa) will "i ss ad . dowith wd fire was | Henao eranono tee ae bad al fi fe at Ts, Y Ss WoMrNS eS ht) Seer aire TEMPTS LO : 5 tte} Ad, SPRING ~—>—— | will be Qe day announced, through Arnold rt emda le 4 tailor working yrne 6 reper An ja! € h f ere the best product of the benchman’s skill—in Hei finish, FOR COAST DEFENSE 18 St. Marka A S th. Bure a deal | in the fit, and service, Created in the Jantzen work-rooms, they The Naval Coast Defense R mick Crees fe feet Xtuen-story hotel, an | ec footwear, A wide range of fashionable Spring models tor | erve needs engineers, firemen, oil poll o 08 building material | every possible occasion. Prices $6.00 to $15.00 ers, water tenders and electrician os More will be needed later “A good foot-rule for you--wear the Jantzen Shoe." Trained men should en LW rmmitteor « War Loan Is at No, 26 Cortlandt Stree he WASHINGTON, April € 0,000, | or ou Rook nike Abuse of tne Bie 7 oa” a 2 PROS ENTE IP ; ee LEAD AiO: io] CAMETRRUAM, Al H | 660 Sixth’ Ave., above sth St. WLI i an wanted for active servic $500,000 evelopn the the cond: i ing to. inform om’ Berlin | Bootmukery Over 50 Years eh esuurces of the nator W to-day. —