The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1918, Page 3

JAMES STILLMAN LEFT $20,000,000; ALL TO RIS FAMILY Trust Funds of $3,500,00) Each for Daughters — Sons Share Rest of f Estate. James Stillman, multi-milifonatre and Chairman of the Board of Di- rectors of the National City Bank, ‘who died March 15 at his home, No. 9 East 72d Street, left his vast for- tune to his three sons and two daugh- ters, Nothing was bequeathed to charity, according to his will, filed to-day in the Surrogate's Court, While no estimate of the value of the estate is given other “than it 1s worth more than $10,000," one clause of the will would indicate the deced- ent himself had estinated it around $20,000,000, His two daughters and RUDDERLESS LINER IN GALE 1S HELD 10 COURSE BY SIX MEN Mrs. Harriman, a Passenger on Storm-Tossed U. Ship, Brings Message of Cheer. @ AN ATLANTIC PORT, March 23. ~An American ship from a, British port arrived here to-day with 137 torm-shaken passengers. The trip took ten days, during three of which a hurricane raged. The rudder chain broke and for eight hours the vessel was held in her course by sheer muscle, six men gripping the hand wheel at once and working short shifts, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of the Advisory Council of National De- fense who has inspected the war _THE -EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, MARTIN GREEN'S THRILLING ACCOUNT . OF NIGHT SPENT IN! FRONT TRENCHES 1918, In om Dug-ot wo American Front Line “, ‘Trench an ni Lothicfnal or flares, The mule train had disape Peared in the soft, frosty night mist which was arising from the damp |eround. We all turned toward the sound grinding and rasping sound that reverberated most uncannily im the Impressive absence of the booms of the guns, The Major began to swear. He is a veteran officer in the Regu- lar Army and has seen service all over the world. He was with the British Army in Gallipoli and Eqypt and on the western front, representing our army for nearly three years before he was called , to his old regiment to fight under . (Continued from First Page.) teeta da ae the Stars and Stripes. He swears Lives e6ne ares work and the battle fronts, and mie ie THO Ree anteman | in seven languages, three colors Elsie G. Rockefeller, wite of Wille fas probably been under fire—al-! veins the ruins of another village which bas been shelled by the Germans Ghd tho Wwillght toranuther olty ands ‘ | and a tint, and his profanity ie Lot Lau LER eC ha de diab Mclachlan are it pretty regularly right now, tour of Inspection of a Red Cross in- No ventilation canle ‘Stele not only delightful but invigor+ Wife of Percy A. Rockefeller; 0" that—was a passenger. She The booming of big guns was continuous. Our artillery was replying | stitution followed, Dinner then came for te smoke for a \ehbe? | ating, Our London journalist A. Stillman, Charles Chauncey >rought a message of cheer, s i nd A d at a hotel " j t a | gazed at him with pop-eyed awe. Mat ahd: Se G. Stillman. She told of passing through base|to the German guns. We had heard the cannonading fifteen miles away as hee rowded with American of- ——— — 1 hic au FE The will provides two trust funds hospitals where she saw thousands of| we approached the camp. It was the first time I had heard anything larger ene bs i all ene st wy Abel unit amas - — — | JUST NATU of $3,500,000 each, the income of Wounded British soldiers, not one of| than aircraft guns in action, Any one who has ever been along the Coney (ised 15 be Bical es Che ae te swept down upon what is now |for more than three years. There Is SHOT AT. which is to be given to his two Whom would ut @ complaint, Island or Rockaway beaches when the big guns were bi tested at Sandy | gorny hat ve had much expe: our sector; they were stopped [nothing left of the place but man-| «pats one of Mafor 's truck Gaughters during their life time and “This talk about pacifism in -| Hook can get a fair idea of what artillery action ts, except that over here | acu in ga te nd there they have remained Jaled, slipping stone w Here and | drivers taking munitions out to the the principal to go to their children Jand Is all rot,” she said. “There Is! ine echoes of the reports never die away. Day and night the guns boom, n e ics Ys ever since. They are as familiar | there a wall, here and ¢ hote 1 | artiiery,” explained the Major. “He'e Upon their death, The $3,500,000, It war Finess in England and in! sue few hits are registered on our side of the line, and where all the big} frank to way that with our terrain asa member of ja wall marking what was once @lyot the toughest bunch of truck drive is stated in each case, shall not ex- but in neither country is] 00" ae edhody kanes: tore. tolabane | to¥ the Giants is familiar with the | window @ door, at many places) org | ever ran across—and about the coed one-fifth of the value of the there the slightest wavering of deter. | Hells go to nobody k % Aciheny Hoe Polo Grounds, and whenever they | hioles in walls which marked the 10K | jst effictent, too, blankety blank ‘em, ‘outate, The remainder of the estate mination to see through to the] The sky to the northeast w ] F YTHING COMES YouR | %2 anything that looks like un- | past tof a shell, The road to) he you know what that bird Is doing, is divided equally between the three "ght kind of a finish spotted with great clouds of black jafficted with the mur and under ANYTHING COME usual movement back of our | the nt goes through this village im} py, \ifting his gears attract the wens. “The big drive is news to me, but| smoke which suddenly appeared and | twenty-one days’ quarantine, ; WAY, buck if trenches they send over a few | the form of a Z attention of the Germans and get The document was filed by Sher- It was expected and every prepara-|enrond and drifted with the breeze. |VISIT FAMOUS CITY MANY TIMES| We #tartv ate Fr ou thells, } On each of the three angles ¢ them to shoot at him, If that outfit man & Sterling, No. 55 Wall Street, tion was m it, It will come] these clouds marked the exploston « BOMBARDED. one Mosibal tone ie The Major and hia staff gr road the Germans had accurate Isn't shelled every night they get sore, John W. Sterling being named as one Out all right, rapnel shells from German antl-| ay we wero fre ick ofelonk tn hy a member of the mi {cordially in his combined |neatly dropped four la tw There's no excitement for them tm of the executors, The other trustees “And the Americans! They're the | qircraft batteries which were firing! yo ¢ yer we ed; follow lecouuens nn ‘hte | Seeplt 1 inf: quarters which | previously; so the road was a driving a truck loaded with enough are the decedent's brother, Charles hardiest, healthic cheerfulest and | 4 two of our observation planer. Occa-| up visit to the hos; toa famous ee Mt ii ‘ 7 aa |e d squecaing backward | of a dozen shell filled with water |ammunition to blow the country to Stillm and his sons, James A. and pat efficient lot of men you could | sionally we could see the planes. They French efty located back of the lines ate (ranenorteoand mule through a door and crawling back-]and mud through which we foundered | hell and gone for a mil around. That's Char Stillman. find anywhere, It's inspiring to see] appeared to be about as large which has been consistently and per insporty in long steadily moving | Ward down a long, steep ladder with {and stumbled In the starlight fat tuie ccna ete Mr. liman's books, pictures, them In thelr own sector, to see} matches as they stood out aginst the | ccontly shelled by the Germans for | tines, our chauffons n-com in the | PANG rails at the sides, ‘The twofinfreauent Intervals, whe teak shot at, ‘ fee Bsetalt) the seAIAVULL preference strung by Americans he American 1 man Reeser d incendiary bombs, Two days at-| stool helmets and ‘ran tiiake=the | descrint collect Lf oF ch Ha nd ei Wig bah . ai i bail uns Soto cycle: THe Mare > e childre a x a distri- Poles. I admire everything I saw, peral's aide told UM) to, we visited the city German avions ralteti te Osman maalin; | CATHD: Wt several cots and numer. | sroup of st can pick 1 i grtaned ; SiGe GerRGaNCartaeiE Nn Ee alii euaiy (Omi GS Rito Uc lenLtnO aie! ilenice | HAG balloons: Had bebo, cls aye iicaraneinet ieisia act ee tha ei hie Peetct cu (oda: uniformm rubber’ boolaiiatee! aball never forget, when t nee it again.) Tat" he explained, “would be directs that elther one or threo ap. sewer and tho 1,000,000-gallon water |up earlier in the morning. killing several persons, We had lunch 1 the next morning that | helmets, gas masks and picks and peas th ee tre? none aay fe hei rie Rie ne nit up a ar in is praisers be appointed at the end of Teservolr that they're building.” German shells were falling and [at @ cafo famed througout Fran didn't know how to put either of | #hovels. Airsaitnrwhat tad eed tha omen ct licsing or ine Reraiece oie tae one year after Mr. Stillman’s death eee exploding about three miles dis- Jand facing a beautiful square, ‘The |} them on v Gener uled an| On side of the dugout was a] ae pa tanteauauanls, haan ait neiheitve Cennean ‘ oe to appraine the catate, PROFITEER BAFF GETS tant. Ne one except the corre- | city was lively, fide, handsome young West Potnter F magnificent marble replace in which [APY An Aingeswer¢aine: doona NWI: AHAUNIR GHA Riaeta hi corenEE ‘The contingent legatees are Charles spondents paid any attention to | We were soon impressed by a | With the jloomy fmagination of a @ wood tre was crackling je fire. | Outalde the vi eh ‘ am! i. yro-|mout likely he won't, One of those Stillman, a brother, No. 21 West 48th JOB WITH CITY MARKETS them. The business of the camp | monotony of the apparel of the | Victor Hugo. Place was there when the dugout was ieeal reordag. wnlah : ne on eee Hpitesilasrat Orde lth rated Tees Street; William A. Rockefeller, God- preceeded) )in: ite (usual orderly | ceonie on the atrests, Nine ut of SUead:- these fnqulsitive ‘birds | Era \o¥aE tos oun Neldlara: by” theres ss ae ve protected the high- | Othe? night. ‘The Germans had hiowA arby vee 1 ysoketelah) Vamos Bc Hockes tee en Ways. Mosoneyele side eareiserry: ten women were in deep mourn: | into their car and take them to | French, and was proba . acaal peasepmaaa egy Hed it feller, John S Rockefeller and Almira Commi: ioner Day Appoints Fore| ins officers with despatches or in- 1 shate yore Way. In daylight that road is as visi-[a@ big hole in the ground close ‘to a formation arrived from the front | if Every able-bodied man was | Kalamazoo,” instructed the Gen- / Tulned chateau in the Fabors| War, 10. BR NEE Isat Fonatls atYisS | 6 Eee ony Gi roeke BIL Dene ARIAL Ne tata er Poultry and Egg Man a : | in uniform. | oral. “Tell Major So-and-60 that | hood. Maik ac taW colle away. oectie Raat | (Un Into tha liela end |e Cirnbe Gem Madison Avenuo; Isabelle Rocketelicr, ieee ' ee * aT eC MOLee lA isclaviincre hua. || le wae Rielly op binsk aad ery niue|, UGacalalvanithem permissinite, (MUST ADJUST. GARIIMAGKO. IN ey ee ice be lade duweae the ahaa teed eue an Avery Rockefeller, Winifred Rocke- Purchasing Agent. his arm in a sling. He had been | And, although the streets were crowd-| Visit the trenches. Take thoir | SIX SECONDS. [Hrooklyn Bridie, Our only protec |about where the battery comimanier feller, Faith Rockefeller and Gladys Harry Baff, whose license as a whole- _ Ae ed in the afternoon and the up-to-date) "ames end addresses and the Our Major was just drawing on his thon was the darkness and it waan't|wanted it, The truck driver boastad Rock Achildren, living at § and poultry merchant w struck by a piece of shell on the umbers of their passports 80 we 9 i 5 t was road to the front two days before, | street cars, carrying ove top of ip rubber bo Greenwich, Conn; Anne Stillman, voked by the Food Board on Feb. 16 on when we arrived, so very dark at that when he got bi in preparation for an Inspgetion of| ay 4 righted and repa to camp—having ed his truck—that man 2d., Alexa von, living at No. 9 East r Still. the charge of profiteering in egg, was} Lat «1 Street; to-day appointed a purchasing agent for | headquarters we : ‘ rt them cut in case we have eats he front platform a glaring adver sans n @ barrack hospital back of | h m ba ° Uni P Stl amano en ater to send them back to tho United s, in fact, daylight could | ‘tora Hoi ‘ the trenches under hia command. | act nave teen more embarraaning to) Ne had the Germans working for t f hed tors number | te sae States by parcel post, Aurevoir, jr ory night he 4 spects por- king our first|. The Major atarted toward the Vizabeth G. Stillman, uncey D. the Department of Mafkets by Dr, Jof wounded men who had been car Racer : were, Poy® (this to the three of us who | {Ory mIshe | of operations ahd |onn en wee eee ee -; na {trenches and we followed, After “cid ees: eR Pg, LEpRTnen ©: DAT: Catemiestine OF Mare | om the front, In this hos Ris ka Achog pec} had approached battle conditions Ghee ctatlone Shi inip toytiestrenches, TherGarmans|) chews ool We SeLcnec Aare wall-on-the-Hudson, and) Jai Sor Nl er atone anes ey cepa ed p ST found also a distinguished |BUY ro thelr own Bld | fee sHeraratdlese shat decyarait dwice Wask No gos over the sHlF®laend Up gaquunt rockets and Aarew| nen, Ce atns wage oni he ee eae mee tanerie ine aendute memes American war correspondent who v ag| Well they might be, for you hear anything coming your |‘ cailacth Feo put on the | Tie Batch are blinding white lights | iteraiy boen blown off their founda intervals the sound of b. nl way, duck str OTB Re WAY POP which break high above no man’s land ns, We skirted a pile of stones and suns came from the hills to the nor ; i litte berore ZO" masks. Our noldiers reauired | ang goat along, searching the dark | \° confronted by a sentry, Our In thevatiaraoon; we nded vos.| Minally wo got away, a littie bef FO to adjust thelr gas masks within 8X tiicoy an the spotlight searches out lToader gave the bouatersign eaalihae Pers in the Cathedral, a historic and!® o'clock. There was ne mena onds after the gas alarm is given. / 1, star on the stage. When th Inprendiye biruslurs aith c never realized until then what Nght spit They say they do it, but it simply moned us about him, flares and roc ets were in the alr our resembling one of the steeples of st./ tere 14 In the stars. Nowhere out- | can't be done, However, we Were | nodies cast long, grotesque shadows|"“WE ENTER THE TRENCHES Patrick’ Cathedral in New York, in"! Hee ae ey ne ars fieally proficient enue he vine on the road behind us or to either side HERE,” SAID THE MAJOR, course of the services the French | 5° DF a firmarr Sani the Major, who comforted us nthe : ‘ pueceutee of Brephth hae weg {fana sound we sneaked along the road |tnformation. that. the breeze waa| We too send untae and Fea “We enter the trenches here,” i I. H. “Ee Marched about the chu: 1 the | WHleh mostly traversed open country | powing toward the German lines| @ts when we think it necessary | he said. “This is one of the com- ze ime S er Ree crete wae SI MERR ABLE d was camouflaged on the #i¢/and we probably wouldn't get any| have @ peek at the ground be- | municating trenches leading to Seed nee Se te Vinwio 0 toward the Germans with fake treca | gay that night anyhow tween the trenches, and it is @ | the third line. We will follow | bY soldiers home on leave, This ; aud vahriibers: Olir sulde tha Gans matter of pride to our soldiers | 48 a chanco to view the congre or ou oO ry In the line that wound up and d the aisles were old women and been tho stone walls of houses, Then ns who had been killed or men and little boys and giris and! cept : we crossed a courtyard and came jsoldiers, and all the women were in| NOUnded by G n shells at points which he indicated. After some time | om; if ch apparently 1s h | mourning, ae eee eee en ee Ally Intact, which apparently ia bil | what resembled heat lightning in your way along ‘the duckboards |CANNONS’ ROAR INTERRUPTS GaleuatHat Gata alsayl Kidding [ore eee armen: © | the United States in the late dusk with your feet. If you fall down, | af has ne r been directly etruck by| i HARMONY OF CHIMES, far with a batting average running |ghett fire or aeroplane bombs, It] of @ long summer day. allowing } T have witnessed nothing in Prance|up to about .999. But he impressed |iy the ony habitable bullding in| each " these hae here ats Jauite so dramane as benediction | us; Indeed he did Kalamazoo above ground and ta oc- come te our sare a iP [At the conclusion of the vespers. As) KALAMAZOO ONE OF THE SHOT: |cupied by some young officera who| ef @ great German gun. |the white baired priest turned trom UP VILLAGES. are not suporatith [SU ORRM EY 22OnER aH TER eye | the altar and raised the m Climbing out of the cave, we akirt- | other communicating trenches sileaidedescid : that our rockets and flares are from the third line to the second ed some remnanta of what had once) or. dependable and last longer and the first. Walk in single file, than those of the Germans. Away keep close to each other and don't off over the tops of the hills we talk, Don't try to smoke and could see recurrent flasi of don't use an electric lamp. Feel 8 aide, entertal led us as we with stories of | |iuehed our way ale upon part of @ frame house, practi | f the con (Continued on Fourth Page.) nstrat EA ARC hac ameae ato Tenn coal wavankt MISSOURI MULE, While thousands, for years, have used Sout'of Jesus, the Man of Peacy tne, 7% J locate Ina ita eon [1 ne uenaticad tie Colonel ta OnAFEy| sudden NEAL Ortehied REA ie H 1 1 ay the edifice was illum J by], weenye t ri t "y in ene taff officer on an inspection trip. mule, pulling a si art built on this real American beverage as their iemonio len of Tight th 1 coverings to ar ae Sa uh vey eae les pula ein can, tenia regular meal-time drink, others, with- igh en wm [kot raion an een att mule wn i hime it the ateeple sounded 4 tien the (den down from hia headquar « and ow ud of out trying, have “wondered why.” tthe people “atthe ity ta rina" tn another aaastate town to conv ing. Yo mae th on of ear | benediction of Christ was bein. rane © personal mess Major machir wn omur >t n | nc ra in the cathedral : 19 i tee inc land fa ae the who easier for them At certain toned chimes were strangely was when I| Was to remain tn ti enches until, hours of t these mu and impressive, And as ¢ trenches, {the next morning. T . ba ‘ grocer will quickly demonstrate such [UAlBin the “Dati nd the. Rasslbe | of w st t » and |his shadowy car nd « v : about ey PRSE WN bon gioomiest village on our side of the | Major, we started sn, Hom 1 the darkest APPETIZING iti i : ; MS 4 ane ae 4, 60) « 10 as p) fi fort 1 «ol rn nes ast re “ ‘ ; ' Eg qualities of excellent flavor, conveni- gontriton, we could hear through opin notes Teme Ot crane time at [OM to tO north was [use ase tina ase bene'aen |] MORE, “Makesspndwichan Ws on tbe cast by tt ck 1 rv has The road was ankle deep in } " pd e si A . . i . Sone building th hg of th gu non Barracks: | esr i Sein ah "tort r the Germans think| J} meats, fish, fowl, salads ¢ ence, health, economy and time-saving Dillding the Beeming ‘ea gem ot "| Tait aed te ancunny glare [fem are anmanison wagone onany|[ raves DOUBLY DELI . : . A subdued roar from a ereat ca win es : that occasionally lit up the whole | roud jehoy. abe ‘the: rae i, he niet CIOUS. G inteed to sate as to win you for its friend. ncn “unqaniy’oterie’“Uo| At Halamanco our cr, ander oe] Mat cmelnaly ut the whale [tacts ty of ne ora nar [| ious: couantead 1 BAPMODY (OF fhe shimenreand : 1 MJor's staff, melted from our ken In| and felt like snow to the feet, {of mun mupply is to'so remuiate/ You've tried the rest--n0 mesmnod to ft In togother—ti caged ealbale tp ete ry | “Spread out,” ordered the Major, |‘ mover our noha try THE BEST |tight strained into pat en of p darkness, The ¢ peeled ines ees and we plugged along, about ten go.| feet apart. There was no conver crimson, green and gol ; a ier to an underg seed the German art far, against a background of 4 i Lay as : t ; Ku Te | th a few exceptions tlicers| Sation, The only sound attend- x6 : 6c ’ 9 altar and yellow candle light, VIN a: tem cancontlons tba. omiceen|/ AAs as Meaanly Mune Ane lt nha of th a e SO | silent throng, the odor of incense, the ®t men in Kalaine | om are not there, Thus far we have out- ry nine we ie to the lines,| descent of our feet into the sticky | OME Net k ihe reads [Peversntal @lance within the % Ga CAARpainina @unace W moy-| Mud and the withdrawal of samo, | S40 Wa vt te | 9 by and Hine ROR OER AR BUS FIORAADE-@OnY OE OT so eats grant eh the teak |PASS THROUGH VILLAGE BOM- i Holned, th Wine In su ‘ Pier aati It must be remembered that at | BARDED THREE YEARS. nai tion could not be restrained and this point the line of battle has In the course of time we passed a. The sounds trust that the recording ang’! fa been stationary since the battle through a village which has been per ( nad died away ‘ to file away the thoughts that rea of the Marne, The Ger ans lodically bombarded py tie Germans was displaying rockets a a ee