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POWDER PLANT EXPLOSION, |cars standing on a siding loading be sont Caeneyts Patat | injured. Lotte Lene, |. While the company doen not eivel’ § OF n estimate, it Is provable that | WILMIN( bet, A Tontt OW worth of sinokeless powder 1.30 k this morning a tire of ul s destroyed. It is rumored that ku st ttoyed the pawder fire started from an overheated warshon . bit engine of a motor truck, setting tire Ms ; the truck and communicading (he du Pon ( onmpan t war us RATE IN BROOKLYN Calls Public Hearing for To- Morrow Morning to Pro- tect the Public, ALL CARS TRANSFER TO—THE HOME OF TRUTH Bloomingdale. * 59TH TO 69TH STREET LEXINGTON TO 3D AVE. : . , ‘ | The Public Service Commission will What a Low Price for These White | old a public hearing tagmorrow ‘ ° morning at 10.30 o'clock at which fialian Milan Sports Hats steps will be taken to prevent the . ; > Brooklyn Borough Gas Company from —They’re Very Smart raising it# rates to $1.25 The resolution calling for the hear- ing direc amination an investigation and ex- ‘as to the condition, affairs, $3.45 P Here's an extraordinary offer- ; ee) ing for Women and Misses who br appreciate smart lines, good And materials and low prices. / who doesn’t? in SP ul Lot Vie, \ Only one of the seven be- [{7 | 5 Round tate } ran nly ; ; rom coming models is shown. Some Wholerrler i are all straw, others have silk Direct to You. ] weluck enauhe BEAN of GROUND ¢ I ribbon of splendid quality or perky velvet bx Shapes aré mushrooms and turned-up styles. All | the popular model Come carly if you want one! No Mail, Phone or C. O. D. Orders Bloomingdales Main Floor THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918. ! | Operation and finances” of the com- also directs an inquiry to the pany. It |x the whieh ximum price | company may charge for gas. It was said at the office of the Service to-day the decision of Referee the $0 cent gas rate the district served by the Brooklyn Borough con- cern, there is no doubt that the Com. mission has the power to fix the com- pany's gas rate The motion for to-morrow’s hear- | Public Commission that under Hughes declaring confiscatory in ing was made by Commissioner Hervey of Brooklyn at a special meeting last night. Commissione: Kracke, who is also from Brooklyn, and who seconded it, made the fol- lowing statement for himself and Hervey. “The company will act very unjus- Ciflably, in our judgment, if it pro- ceeds on the theory that it has won a right to charge whatever rate it | pleases. Such a course could only | mean that the question will be fought through to the highest court, with every resource at the command of the Commission used to defeat the com- pany’s claim. ‘The time has passed in this State when the public will let any company charge anything it pleases for gas, without any manner of public ntrol, ‘The Commission will do everything which can be done to de- fend this public right of control, in | the courts and before the legisiature,” alii £100,000 Lone in Goshen Cider Plant K MIDDLETOWN, N. ¥., Aug. 1.—The der plant of the Duffy-Mott Company at Goshen was destroyed by fire to- tay with a loss of more than $100,000 BloomingdaleS$ 59TH TO 60TH STREET—LEXINGTON TO 3D AVENUE Savings Range From $75 to $275 From Origi t From Hundreds very One a Bar, of You Can Selec Well-Known Makes back we will take guaranteed to be in good condition, Upright Pianos it for a whole year and we will allow the entire pmount paid to apply toward the pure cf a new Walters Piano or wt Pisre, 59th to 60th St., 3yd to Lex. Ave. AGREAT WAR-TIME BARGAIN SALE Each Instrument Has Been Thoroughly Overhauled at In many cases there is only one each carly and make your selection. AL EXCHANGE PRIVILEGE This clearance sale of pianos and player ge number ffers greater bargains and a wider selection crs are alse than other used piano sale in the city if low price you have no piano or player piano, don’t fail to el captain oikks visit our salesrooms during this great sale. You like to own—we will find hund of pianos of all styles, woods and that every instrum ’ q arga e } J e f EC t W have taken a we offer A SPECI uber of celebrated and well-known makes which means that for the f * pianos + player chased during thi fe ery ang 9 j imstruments has been then, if vou want thoroughly overhaule at our factory and is you every dollar paid for it. Upright Pianos Bloomingdales’ Piano Dept. nal Prices Our Factor of slightly used Walters pianos > included in this sale at specially probably just the one you would therefore urge you to be here We are so sure ent in this sale is a bargain that you can use any piano pur- s sale for one whole year and a new Walters piano or player the used instrument and allow rie tes Stool i i “Heer . ee ice Inclyd stool and Free Deliver. Were |Now uae lenry T, Cassini. Mehosany | $225] $25 ere] Now Hert & Co, Ebony . 25 Ernest Gabler... . Ebony. $325] $115 Minot & Son Mahogany Ldward Mayers Mahogary| 350) 125 Jacob Doll Walnut, Wagner Mahogary} 330) 125 Weber Ebony Robert Wilson x Mahoqary 275) 125 overstee or. . Ebon Horace Waters & Co ny 375) 125 Hoel ad agli ted Notwithstanding, the | remarkably Baus Piano Co Mahogany} 250] 125 Schirmer Piano Go. ... Mahogany low prices at which these instru- Robert Wilson Mahogany 275! 125 VP. & D. Walker Walnut 2 75 ments are Sh iered, we. charge Leckerling -Mahogany 325) 135 Winterroth & Co. Mahogany | 2 75 NO INTER: OR EXTRAS, Whittier Mahogany 2 145 Decker & Son Ebony 5 —————— — Lindstedt & Co Mahogany 2 145 Pupnani Piano Co. Ebony 75 7 Sterling Ebony } 145 Gilbert & Go eas | 3351 28 A Few of the Many Mieiste oui et ie alker & Co Ebony 25 75 pay wapoaae eckerling “bony : 145 Riddle Plane Go Walnut 275| 85 Bargains in Richardson i lake | eel tae New England Piano Co. . Och 273] 85 e Spies & Co +s. Mahogany 2 143 B, Kroeger & Son. Ebony 3 85 Wise Piano Co Mahogany 2 155 J. Knieste & Co Ebony 27 85 ayer 1an0es B, Shoninger Mahogany 3 155 Behr Bros. & Co bhony 275] 85 se hieicher & Son Oak, 275| 165 shardson bony 85 on Tita 12: Fe at urtz Bros Mehosarw| 250] 165 Renin & Campbell... Mahogany | 2 KS Price Includes 12 Holle oF Muaie, Schleicher & Son Mahogory| 275| 165 Krakauer Brothers. Elony 85 a Bench and Free Delivery. J.C. Campbell Mahogany 300] 175 W. Kroeger Ebony 85 Were | Now Lexington Mahogany 3 175 icher & Son Ebony 275 AS 1 Noble Mohogany| $425] $145 ©, Bauer & Son Mahogany 3 175 Gillis & Co Mehogany | 250] 90 IW. BF. ‘way Mahogany| 425] 195 Harmony Mahogany 2781 175 Robert Wilson 95 1 Caldwell Mahogany| 195 Wissner Ebony aso] 175 Weser Bros 95 6 Walters Mahogany as] 195 Bellman Mahogany soo} IRS C.F. Thompson 95 8 Walters Mahogany 395] 225 Story & Clark Oak 4 210 Horace Waters & Co 5 100 5 Walters Mahogany] 34.) 245 Kirchhoff , Mahogany 350] 215 Hall & Son 110 2 Automatic Mahogany gis] 285 Wright Piano Co Mahogany 3 215 » Co. 110 12 Walters Mahogany 425] 285 3 Walters Mahogany 2 145 Francis Bacon 10 1 Coleman Mahogany 45] 325 Mahosany 155 Weser Bros a 3 Richardson Mahogany| 325 Mahogany 2 165 Schultz & Rudolph ho 14 Walters Mahogany] 325 Mahogany igs Sterling & Co 110 1 Harmo Mahogany] 4 325 Mahogany 300] 195 Schubert Piano Co 115 1 Bellman & Co hoary! 4 325 Mahogany y2a5' 210 1 Belfort 4 425 ED, 1 Geo, Coleman. { 325 R 4 Als .T, i Wate eal aan Only Two More Days 1 Harmony Mahogany | 4 345 ey UTEP OR ar emeren 1 William Waliace Mahogany) 4951 345 Friday and Saturday will be the last two days of this great used Piano Sale. To dispose of all used instruments on our salesrooms floor we have made added reductions. wonderful opportunity for special bargains. Be sure to call tomerrow. terer to put certain portions of the jold mansion in shape for use. A tele- | Phone also was installod. The local telephone manager said to-day Miss Urake had pri that be over there would be a thou | | mer wits send girls camping there | Twenty girls arrived in thet own cars on July 15. A dray brought their tents and cots, Another w | j brought out an elaborate equipn of kitchen utensils and an hued cook also was installed in the Riohter worked hard heipink put up! _ S and getting things ship-sha pe bi a tut they were a mighty «weil Quantities of Provisions Aban-| dking Bunch ‘of gieis." he explained " to-day, “eo I didn't mind doing a job doned and Bills Left Un- il ‘ if Miss Drake consulted with local | paid at Bayside. contractors about a garage which should house twenty-five ambulances. The negotiations proceeded no further | than discussion, however. Every girl was routed out of bed “and seemed to be doing something until a bugle put them to bed at 9.2 at night. But L never learning to drive an ambu cause there wags no ambulance. never saw them learning surgical They just drilled and ayed around.” Much member of th ection Sant- taire” pave $100 to join the camp, be sides paying $2 week and supplying her own tent and out drive auto ambulances with not an/| fit Further interesting developments | are expected as the result of District Attorney Swann’s continued investi- gation into the “Drake Section Sani- taire,” which, translated, means a be t summer camp for women of wealth in tho old Colonial estate cated The Oaks, near Bayside, [ta cue work were supposed to learn to} kitohen of work for them,” at6 in the morning,” Richter recalled twenty young | work or the first aid business either. L, where willing disciples of res- Just before the big bust-up, sald Richter, two of the girls approached him and asked if he for them where their $2,000 had gone Or was going. ambulance to practise upon. To-day desolation reigns over the | tent spotted lawn of The Oaks, hastily deserted by Miss Ethel Langdon —>— J 1. G, Seott Made Treasarer of Ra Drake, her co-worker, Mra. a voad Administration. Symons, and all of the wealthy am-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1--L. G. Scott 2 5 e| has bee pointed treasurer of the bulance students in theory after the) }ii%, bon appointed treasure ration Was announced i went comptr way. He sucee resigned to return to his work president of the Southern Pa to-day, Se ler of the Wa ds A.D. Melic camp had enjoyed a brief existence |! At 6 o'clock on Tues the fair camper of two weeks. day morning all arose from their cots and went away | "4 Company |from there in their private cars, leaving nothing but the relics of ruined hopes. | But they left behind them evidence, | now in the hands of the District At- torney's office, that the “Drake Sec- tion Sanitaire” was only one of many | war “charities” which were being 38th Street pushed by Miss Drake and her co- | ec e! ‘d ansion | Y a ” 1 workers. In the deserted mansion BUY THRIFT STAM which tands on the grounds were | | piles of circulars and mailing lists in dicating that many wealthy people in New York and elsewhere had been in- vited to subscribe to the following funds | The Barraque Fund, the Red Fund, | the Upkeep of Bed Fund, the Refugee Fund, and the Surgical Instrument Fund. All of these special funds were | grouped under the general head of | the Hospital-Symons-Drake, which | | was to be established in France when |the contributions of the charitably | inclined permitted | Pamphlets describing the | merits of each and all of these funds were lying scattered around the va- |cant rooms of the old mansion, Each |pamphlet was plentifully sprinkled with blanks with a dotted line for the }amount of the donation and another for the name of the Miss | Drakes’ name appeared as Secretary jand Treasurer of this Hospital sy |mons-Drake. The American Express |Company in Pariy and the Guaranty trust Company, No, 613 Fifth Ave- jue, this city, were named as deposi jtarles of the funds, ‘There was evidence of a hasty Migh | feather weight Hats. | special Hats, refreshingly donor also featured. Semi-Made of the entire “Drake Section Sani- taire’ on Tuesday morning. Not only Sk : n were the fourteen tents that bad irts sheltered the young ladies still stand- ing--some of them atill containing cots but the kitchen of the which was room of the de serted house was littered with line remains of blueberry pies, chunks of bread and smeared butter. Several hundred of these Skirts so popular for sport and garden wear, made of white gabardine or khaki; all $12¢: mansion, the on used, | A large amount of grocery staples ; still remained on the shelves; also Oy 3.50 unpaid billy from two large grocery Je. cond Floor houses in New York, local milk bia man, the Bayside plumber and other artisans and trades people who had contributed in a very sense ward making life happy for the tion Sanitaire, Policemen from Mushing are guard ing the property under or of Dis trict Attorney Swann. kitehen convention hall for thousands of Mic the remainder of the house ns of hard In the vaca the to wes practical and most modish them for board! could discover | Vhe collection just) ai smartest of styles, developed in Georgette Crepes of the ve Special ‘Vv alues fo Serge Capes In a Smart Military Model Specially Priced For seashore or mountains in town, the Blue Serge Cape is the most | Y tion Aner you Stady this pictare se you will know how genuine Pepto-Mangan looks. Gude's Pepto Mangan: “The Red Blood Builder’? Pepto-Mangan. M. J. OUR pallor, your loss of strength, energy and ambi- very likely are due to anemia. mia is blood poverty. Make r blood rich with Gude’s Pepto Mangan is made only by BREITENBACH CO., New York Manufacturing Chemists Sold by druggists everywhere In One Week's Time EXPLAINS HOW WOMEN CAN | HAVE GLISTENING WHITE TEETH THAT COMPEL ADMIRATION With Senreco. Keep up with the times is good [vice and should be heeded in these days of important discoveries. If you want your teeth to be im- maculately clean with a brilliant whiteness that heretofore has been given only to a chosen few that knew the seeret you must get a large 25 cent tube of Senreco tooth paste to- day. Nothing can take the place of de- lightful, refreshing Senreco if you Lord & Taylor —FIFTH AVENUE— tablished is -1826— Es $5.95 ived is one of especial new, picturesque and yet Fourth Floor | Wash | silks 1,500 vards of desir- | able Tub Silks, 32 inches wide, greatly in demand | | for both Men’s and Wo- | | men’s wear. | O8¢ yard Ground Floor Of Whi At Less T , touring or of outer gar- PERFECL FUR h ‘ " Be quarter and medium sized shapes in navy blue, pink, white and black. Many with gay embroideries in worsted and silk, others flower or feather trimmed, New black lace, net and Maline Hats, with satin and velvet crowns are r Tomorrow | want to charm your friends with the cleanest of fascinating teeth, | Please don't forget the price—25 cents for a large two ounce tube— no dentifrice at any price can match magical Senreco, Ask for Senreco at any drug or de- partment store and remember that Senreco is such a perfect formula that it turns soft, spungy gums into ‘firm, hard ones and while it will not cure Pyorrhea it surely will cheek the \ravishes toth Street STORAGE = Sarl 200 New Midsummer Hats Of Georgette Crepe—At the Special Price Tomorrow ? August days bring with them a demand for these delightfully becoming, charm, for it comprises , finest qualities. 1. Large, three- ctic A Special Purchase Enables Us to Offer These Splendid Values Cotton Fabrics joo _-yards of Nov- clty Woiles, Printed Dimities, and other Summer fabrics;marked to close out at JSC yard Second Floor W omen’s Skirts te Baronet Satin han Wholesale Cost $12.50 vedrooms the paper was stripped from ments This particular model owes its | Alt Lengths and Sizes the wally and papers and bits of fem distinction to its swagger lines, and to the For Women and Misses nine arel littered the floor braid that edges the deep cape collar, Frederick Richter, a flor wh fan : crossover fronts and swinging ripple ba Jacobs of No. 428 Fourth Avenue, and Tweed Topcoats $20. 50 | who was appealed to by Miss Diak . A tik wk Baas A hate oe I'wo smart new models for re of the rbulance t traveling and general utility wear wa aly mleviver of cha: roosn and on the correct new lines, these ve a diverting st of the founda. & finely tailored of Autumn weight n of the camp and its many actiy ik tures, all sizes. which did not include ambu Third Floor He said that prior to the appear — fNve of the students Mr: Symon. nd ~ Mins rake ‘nad vinited ‘Th Cah Couch Hammock Richter, to find a plumber and a pla Reduced to $12.50 Swinging Davenport reliable sprit color or gray Teeth Without Plates ; cravenette Best mak Other Hammocks and I have also been greatly I Save Decay ing ighten Loose Teeth and . : Hat, Leggings 1 Treat Diseased Gums. s Other Price Reductions and Knapeack B poets OF TEETH. Gold and ih in warm weather comforts. all in. khaki ._ Bridgework, ri Fillings and Inlays of God, Silver Four Passenger Garden Swings 1 oer he a oa and Poreclain carefully made at Reasonable Prices, BADLY DECAYED TEETH and Roots carefully extracted, Teeth thoroughly ¢! Broken plates repaired while you wait or if sent by mail. o2-BLOo, +" TWO OFFICES cere alg rok HOURS, SAM. to q SM OALy Complete with awning hes long. ei riny duck a s a Golf Balls Fourth Floor . Ram tyle; Telescope Cots Best makes, now priced, dozen New mode | lustrous Spo quality, pockets trimmed. tunity. motoring, Belted are | mix- | For the Boy Who Goes Hiking or Camping. Raincoat, teel frame, | khaki finish, fammock Awn- reduced, a — | ing perfect pro: POR ROTO: |i RR EEE Ne lad who spe his vacat the tramping across t $6.50, and | Rainy sls, in this beautifully, rt Satin of the finest featuring slash or patch broad belts button An exceptional oppor- Third Floor, Outfit © countr Sizes 6 to 16 years, Splendid Values at $7.50, $10.00 Fourth Floor