The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1918, Page 18

' | WEDNESDAY, 1918 When They Dug theSubways They Found Deep Mysteries MARCH 20, et ~ * In Underground N New York Jf England’s ‘Food Rations System Were A Adep ted Here— FOUR COUPONS EACH WEEK WOULD LIMIT YOUR MEAT ALLOWANCE, i YOUR BREAD, BUTTER AND SUGAR WOULD BE RATIONED, AS THESE PICTURES SHOW. » Whe'd Think That New York, Big'as It Is, Could Hide Away a Ship, a Swamp, and a Whole Cemetery Without Some One Missing Them? All Is | Not Treasure That’s Buried. | By Hazel V. Carter ea Copyright by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | OME diggin’s. Now that the lack of money has suspended work on S y subway, the Public Service Commission is taking an in- of the relics of the Manhattan underworld—honest-to- goodness underworld—for a change. The “diggings” include everything, from the famous eighty-foot vessel found in tunnelling under the East River to a corset steel from the Straight Front of a Colonial dame who lived near Nassau Street—or at least: disposed of her stays in that vicinity. Every member of the Public Service Commission owns at least one buried treasure, and the “may-have-beens” that they relate in connection ‘with their relics would make Victor Hugo’s dope on Paris sewers look Yike a bromide in comparison. James B. Walker, Secretary, pulls a piece of ore from the top of his * Wesk and tells you it’s solid “speigeleisen’—whatever that may be. It sounds German. It isn't—it's Swedish and strictly neutral, He tells you that when the first pickaxe, picking | one . down under the Bast River, dropped | C*tended in a line comparable to the Ine of Greenwich Street. down through the oak hull of the ‘As the digging went on in that buried ship, the glittering cargo of! vietnity the picks and shovels of @peigeleisen looked Ike a Fifth Ave-| workmen were suddenly ‘halted by The the stout oak keel and braces of an workmen, he says, al! stopped work, i918 pannnenny nue silver service shop window, old ship. ‘The braces showed « edges that ind pd the big had caught fire and burned at the water's edge. It must have lain at carried off tons of spelgelelsen on their backs with visions of flooding| the mint—and found, as we remarked Wefore, that it was solld spelgelet- Ben. Assistant Secretary Robinson rolls | * @eolid fron cannon ball out of the} o© top drawer of his desk and tells you »* @hat the deadly thing was un-| ot» earthed down at the Battery and es Gesigned especially for redskins and| the Yottom of the creek for genera tions, for layers of sand, washed up by the river's action, are eleven feet above :the keel of the ship, and at the time of extraction each Inyer was perfectly defined, thus establishing its antiquity. The vessel was prob: ably elghty feet long with a beam of twenty-five feet, It was in excellent ae: Fedcoats—way back yonder in the| Preservation. Down in tho hold Bwe History Book. And maybe it| Were found old pieces of crockery, Oe was. |clay pipes and utensils which be- “3 ‘The only thing the Publte Service |!onged probably to the ship's cook. Commission didn't present to the It 1# estimated that this old hulk Historical Society or rttain as Teposed there for at least 300 years 4: gouvenire was the bones of some poor| Workmen digging on the Park ae ‘Antediluvian Villager, excavated in| Place, Williams and Clark Street ati the nelghborhood of Greenwich, Os-|&Ubway unloosed a chunk of clay. It » teopaths and other bone spectalists, | after a thorough examination, voice the opinion that the victim dave worn his hair long and that death was probably due to starva- tion. must | ‘ag the kind of a chunk that geolo gists spend thelr lives looking for, | but the workmen only stopped to it because 1t had “funny on It. ‘The engineer, how recognized in the | look ever, “funny Come take a look at a few of the) things you've been walking over In Manhattan these hundred years, more or less. For instance, who would have wk thought of digging up any further | history of old Aanon Burr? Yet, in right down on William Street, digging the Willlam Street sub) they unearthed lengths of Aaron's old wood water pipes. Back in 1799 ‘Aaron was unable to get from the Legislature a much desired tran chise for a bank, and he formed the Manhattan Water Company, Its charter contained a Mttle joker per- %* mitting surplus carnings to be tn- mo ‘vested in any lawful way. The com- oy « pany erected an tron water tank at Chambers Street and lald twenty miles of wood water pipe in the * gowntown district, supplied with tins well-pumped water, The profits, by 7" the way, were used to found the ot") present Manhattan Bank ® An old Connectleut penny, by the mox way, led to the discovery of the em cannon dalls, When they were dig ,, &ing down in Front Street under. neath the north roadway O14 Slip on the Old Slip Cle " Btreet tunnel work, some digger o gound a Connecticut penny It wasn't 60 badly corroded that tt couldn't be deciphered, and the date was 1787. It probably one of the coins from the last year of the old Connecticut mint The diggers began to look for more, In the search they excay @ number of cannon balls, undo edly dating back to the Revolution and very likely further back, The were solid shot welghing from ten to wi, forty pounds, Six twelve-pound 2) ghot were discoverpd in one spot “'$ Ot te believed that they were lost | from a boat that was unloading or dropped to the river bottom by the overturning of a skiff, ©. M. Hol| Jand 4s Of the romantic opinion that they may have belonged to Wash fngton’s army lost retreat to Manhatts of Long Island Here's the real dope on the hulk of the old ship that was unearthed, and on im You know at one tlme the shore Mne Sloot Manhattan J land Jay far inland from prese bulkhead lin Along (ue weet aie the river front following the battle | waves” fossilized wave ripples of an Janclent beach, dating back poxsibl \thousands of years to that period |when this part of the country was glacier covered It »9 delicate that within a |few hours after exposure to the air Hit crumbled and fell a A pho |tographer snapped it before tt crum bled, was however, heaviest mo traffic of the city has di, and all around it some of the city's highest buildings have founda- tlons, Midway between Reado and Duane | Streets, north to the centre of the block between Franklin and North Moore Streets, there was once an tm- mense marsh, In excavafing for the subway, roots and trunks of cedar trees, which were uncovered, gave the first eign of the marsh. The next tn-| aication was marsh gas, #9 strong that many of the workmen were at| once overcome by the effects, The largest root dug up was 24 feet long, 4.5 feet across, and % feet at the bot- tom the trunk, In some parts { the Franklin Street subway sta tion the position of the bog 1 such | hat the subgrade of the tunnel ructure still rests upon ft In the nelghborhood of Greenwieb Village back in 1800, the Duteh Re ormed Church, on the corner of| Bleecker and West Tenth Streets, was | too small to hold the congregation. | hurch was b pt Mot the Bed! Episcopal ford Church odtst And the graveyard grew al! around, | One hundred feet equare the ceme- ree of the coupons used to purchase meat—a total of thirty cents worth for one adult each week, Lay MortLED FRuIT CAEESE Your use of all the articles illustrated above would be limited to your actual needs. N Bngland, under the regulation prescribed by the Ministr card, with coupons attached d for ond week's supply of meat, each adult reevive it ration a me I of these coupon limited jto what they will purchase. Only three of the prepared meats, der this syst and preserved, rs meat. Ur yoked or equivalent to tive tem the average ‘DaiLy BREAD RATION SAAN = 1 tb, of Food, ; adult is a pound and a quarter in weight, Four | ration. | coupons may be used to buy butcher's meat, and It was only twenty feet beneath |each has a purchasing value of Sd., equivalent to 10 cents in our money. the curb Hne on Wall Street and The fourth coupon, which has a weight value, or all four coupons If | coffee over it, for generations, some of the | desired, will buy other such as bacon, ham, poultry, game, rabbits | ounces of BACON AAM oz. COOKED, CANNED, OR PRESERVED MEATS, PovirRyr OR GAME & Oz, To o2 All four coupons could be used fo buy meat in the forms illustrated above, allotted by weight. Fig- ures show the amount each coupon would buy Children, half quantity, «2 WOMANS 9 ou VEGETABLES FISH The foodstuffs in the group here shown are the only ones you could use freely. Children receive half an adult Sugar, butter and margarine are rations for bread being as yet on a voluntary basis, slightly more than women, Voluntary conservation 1s requested of milk, cheese, cereals, and canned or bottled fruit and preserves, Eggs, fish, ve and fresh fruit may be consumed freely The ple shows how this rationing officially rationed, the em of men being allowed tea and stem would affect us if it re weekly meat ration ot an! were employe din this country. Turkish Spies and Atrocities Mme. Fateema Deespepza Has ¢ a Perfect Alibi, for While the Hair That Divides the True From the False Is Generally a Blond Hair, the Madame From the Bosporus Is a Brunette, So That Lets Her Out, BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyright. by the F that HBY 1 ut it ain't a at you have stubt hats than there are than below tho s Publ Is only a step from t And © more New York Eventr sublime to the stumble shing & fe World) ous, a stumble doesn't mean that 4 in © the neck your toe, There stumbles conceal in shoes, There are more stumbles ab are iin stumbles and «& mbles. After you have stubbe ur toe you eat regain your balance, but when you stub kul, t rk blooey. They also s ta hair divides the true from the f: h ts correct G , its a blond hatr, jn the case of this beautiful Turkish spy, who was recently collected by tha Sn re rvico while aiming her lorgnetto at the armadillo tnt ! nx Zoo, tt was a brunette Unlike Turkish cigaret Turkish rugs, ! Pateema Deespepza wos not t aon She {9 one of the m 1 Turkish atrocit! » r fluttered it Dardan les. Bhe was an accomplice of the famous Hi: ind, well known as a horseman, and whose summer b is y L annually by wealthy barge owners. The Sneakret Serv is making a 1 tion of aples and now has almost a complete in Alabama they while making If they can catch a Repub hird class Postmaster w Baron 1 have an e ire edition, nd was tagged apher tryin | of @ left-handed atenc o eat his oe wal | Discults off # right-handed ehatr in a one-armed tune! ha Sneakre Beneath the cemetery, with the! garvice fears that the Tar, ereivae iia ae legen jase of SI che | © Baron intended to utilize the drawings tn the ie ‘ " Bape, Yaul manufacture of @ deadly weapon of warfare that would violate The of dead were placed in subterranean| stage ruling against t s Implements of tome in 1810 th eh arch was torn) » sme, Fateoma Decapepea has been rattling around America ever : bial ; ia te arti were] wince rattling has \ stylish, She had more disguises and allases never disinterred | She ay unger sienk, And Hamburger teak ts leading the alias i | league, Among the nom do eats of Hamburger eteak are Vienna roll, When the diggers dug down under| yrpench loaf, meat cakes fricadelles, bury steak, its re eyard, one of the wor | , : os SU EN Braveyard, one of the workmen| croquettes and a flock-of others, Mme, Deespepza wan flapping around struck a human skull. More than © 48 Mosquito biter and as loose as ashes until the fifty persons, Durfed at lenst seventy: | forened her thal ah wan berasna*an err five years ago, were excavated—and| had a Aingrim of ali the stops a subway train makow during rush hout all in @ remarkable state of preser nnd some stops that it shouldn't make, Khe alan had Galonian bore dates trom 183) to 18u5, | There dw wosvivivly no doubs (ual Ming, Laiscma ip @ Tuyeb spy, a i a sample of tho F TY roadbed was found In one of her beautiful T sible deduction was that she was on her w y back urkishburg to show the Turkerines what an American railroad stem looks like, An Erle cinder In the hands of a Turk would be almost as dangerous as an Erie cinder in the eye of & necticut politician, Among other incriminating evidence discovered In the beautt ful Turkette was an Interborough white enamelled strap. If the Sultan ever got a ground floor plan of a subway strap the effect would bo te Ly shooting a million subway straps into the Amer back on the Interborough, While were hanging on the straps, the 4 map of Fifth Avenue and 424 Street, showing a secret method enemy aliens disguised as 7 ous pedestrians navigate ing wi smeared by a limousine or tripped up by a filvy This 19 a very important map, as the Fifth Avenue-42d Street erossis has boen considered impregnable by experts on 42-centimetre tram Germany to rush If the troop hud This map in the hands of a fore! troops ecross Mfth Avenue at the n foe would enw of one an bh a clgar for the cop on the 1er he might get across twice in an , but what does anybody want to cross Fifth Avenue tw anyway? One of the most dangerous secr din the possession of the deautiful ‘Turkaline spy was a set of Long Island skeeters, It sur mised that d to smug Tarkish Luther Byrbank. that a hornet hi nten he skeetérs to Ala Bulla, th Ala Bulla was the first scientist to dis a skeeter x a hornet and ter, the Turks would have the deadly skeeterhorn, a Turkish variation of the ferocious netskeoter, which is equipped with a stinger on each end. alted States and charging us 6x ©. B, Constantinople, the Turks could fam ver a8 his stinger on the southern end, wht has his stinger on the northern, By cros! By importing millions of skeeterhorns into the 1 orbitant Import duties on ‘em, F make us feel as uncomfortable iry fish, Getting chased by a two pronged raint any fun y fooled before abe bad » cUamcy fy syaporale oul of the Werkay 1918 — MARCH 20, Markets for ‘Substitutes’ Planned by Housewives WEDNESDAY, Aiding Food Conservation: | | a | Miss Sarah Field Splint, Food Administration Adviser, Tells | of New Project to Help Save Certain Foods,and How | Group of Women Worked Out Recipe for “Victory Bread.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | ILLIONS of housewives all over America are following rules of food conservation which have‘been formulated, tested and given publicity by women who are themselves housewives, and who |from the very beginning have held important executive positions and tood high in the councils of the Food Administration, Miss Sarah Field Splint, editor of Today's House- wife, was for ten months Director of the Home Con- servation Division at Washington, and sat daily in every council held by Mr. Hoover and his food division heads. individual in mapping out a plan for reaching the Ameri- can housewives with Mr. Hoover's message. This divi- sion now is in charge of Miss Martha Van Rensselaer of Cornell University. Another important executive post in the Administration which has heen held by women is that of Director of Home Economics. That job is now in the capable hands of Miss Elizabeth Sprague, dean of the Home Economics School of the University of Kansas, Miss Sprague was pre- ceded, at various times during the last year, by Miss Abby Marlatt of the University of Wisconsin; Miss Mary Sweeney of Kentucky, and Miss Isabel Bevier of Illinois, de B, editor of mA n’s Home Companion, {s|!¥ the women of the country. Mr. Publicity for the Food| Hoover and the men have remained | sors tration, and has been spend-| her time in Washington er part of last June. n Louise Arnold, dean of Simmons College, is the “flying dron” of the Administration, ng it in direct touch with State branches through personal trips all over the country. The Lecture Bureau of the Food Joard is in charge of Mrs, Minna Van Winkle, and the Photographic inco the Miss Sar Service is directed by Mrs. Alice Al- len. Besides these women there has been appointed in every State a woman Director of Food Economics, | who deals directly with the house- wives of the State, just as the Fede-| ral Food Administrator deals with the merchants and provision dealers. | This method of procedure is so ad-| mirable I do have it, Perhaps the tration’s women are not d so obvious—-tha more peop not heard Yood Admin better press agented simply because they all, Including the publicity di | they have. in charge of the commercial side of | the work, and I, for one, am glad I do not want to arrest a profitee smiled Miss Splint. “There have been moments in my marketing experience when I could not say that I agreed with you,” I told her, “May I ask if the women in the Food Administration are themselves practical housewives™ “Tam,” sho declared promptly. “T have kept house since I was fifteen, and I love it. And, as a housewife, I have passed on the instructions to others sent out by the Administra- tion, and I believe them to be prac- tical for the majority. “It is perfectly true that in the large cities there are many persons who simply cannot afford to buy ex- pensive substitutes, who must pro- curo the cheapest possible food. I think that Mr. Hoover and all of us appreciate their problem. And we plan to establish in all the large centres Federal Food Headquarters, where patriotic housekeepers who rector, are competent folk who pre-|must count thelr pennies carefully fer to do things rather than talk) may purchase at a reasonable cost about what they have done |the substitutes for the foods we But [ corralled Miss Splint yester in her editorial office after absence on war duty of nearly day an a year, | “There le z Robinson rado, publi torial Rev Miss Splint “which he Food Administra- tion of segregating women away from | its executive service, Miss Lane as- sured me that you were the best person in the world to dispute the truth of this statement, which T, and was by Helen Senator from Colo- n the Pi an arti Fi ( ed recently "1 told ed th many other women, have’ believed.” | “Women have held executive posts with the Food Administration from the very beginning,” tall, slender, | brown-eyed Miss Splint said quietly “Mr, Hoover always has sought their co-operation. If I could show you ja letter which he wrote from Lon- don before he ever took up his work jin this econntry, you would e he said that 9 food-saving even then campaign must stand or fall by the women. “Nearly a year ago~ the last week of May, 1917- when there were only \six men in Mx, Hoover's Adm tion and he had one small s if I umoned to Washing c¢a’s women, and T sat in the confer e hose 1, When Mis w smoned a month later did th f on every day I not true that Mr, Hoover n only in an advisory ea welty, Women executives have been upreme in all work touching direc | f Matsue ae peeve ere 1 until sa named Jis had possessed for uM | y wh | gener on um, the origin of }known, It ¢ red a 1 | Jirst submit t to the Tokio 1 Unive ! ' wo Jn of the suirlegnty cpalusa. divuby Way ~| tor want to save. ‘There is no charity in the plan, for the Federal Adminis- tration bas special opportunitics of buying and therefore can sell at a | low price, “I did map out the general plan reaching American women through all their affiliations—clubs, | churches, colleges and many others,” Miss Splint admitted when I asked her, “and all down the line the conservation work has been in the hands of women, ‘You know the Victory bread, made with fifty-fifty substitutes for wheat flour, which women have been asked to use, Well, before that sug- gestion went out @ group of us women worked for hours in the Food Administration laboratories at Washington testing the values of potato flour, barley flour and the other substitutes and working out recipes by which they could be made both nourishing and appetizing Those the recipes which now distributed by the Food are being Administration “to anybody who wants them. “There has been such a splendid response from American women everywhere in the food-saving cam- paign,” concluded Miss Splint, her har expressive face aglow with pride in women. “They are re- ponsible for our accumulating such 4 surplus of meat that we have beeg able to suspend many of the meats less meals, American housewives have n wonderful, and I think the men are trying hard, too.” This Scrap of Paper Brought $50, 000 the Nichiren Sect was informed that nal manuscript by founder of the one by his own y-elght years old, ed so valuable that an Nlehiren u and when It was pronou p noervatively estimated i ‘but by no means least Tipanese secte of nu led Nichirem aud belie Ws aig, She is admitted to have been more active than any one ,