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WITT NO FRANCHISE RIGHTS, BRADY CORPORATIONS ASK MERGER FROM SERV.CE BOARD -Commission’s Right Even to] Snina” te areen caret, =, Consider Brooklyn’s Ap- | delevated power from the State plication Is Questioned. to the City of Brooklyn to grant NO PERMIT FROM STATE. ARS. VINE Mrs. | Vincent | Astor Says of ‘Her 4 franchicos, There are tnnumerable court decisions toe buck up this conten- tian, not one of whieh makey an i exception to the rule that fran- Service Public Aroused Over Latest} chises shell come from the state lin Fourth—Neither the Broollys Electric Corporation’s Mave | watson Company ver the Kine. | F to Camouflage Status. | County bas ever mucconded in ob. | Fance taining @ State framchise «ince the 014 Brookiyn grant. Fifth—The fact tbat the Wdieob Company has placed its wires to the streets of Brovkiyn ip o formity with the requiranents of Whet right has the Public Service Commission to even con- ider the application of the Kings County Electric Light and Power ' Company and the Brooklyn Edi- the subway k hut it he sn Company, for sorminion | renchice tama obese wat merge thoir interests under an ae * obtained adinin Limey, istrative permits and local von- entirely new corporate name? Thte question has been asked tn many quarters wince the beginning of Tee Prening World's fight aguinst the merger. Corporation Counsel Burr, who ts fighting against the merger tn behalf of the City of New York, succinctly sents and expended large sums of money in developing its business, avuils nothing in the eyes of the law if it has no tranchine trom the State Credit for the foregoivs tive points ts due Corporation Counsel Burr, for French, City of Mots. Over the hit); smiling, compel defendant to remove cor- tain electric light wire poles and wires from certain of city ‘streets. the right to grant such a concession ‘te & public utilities corporation. In ® stenographic report Mr. Moran is ed: has NO STATE FRANCHISE, SION BY APPEALS. NONE OTHER VALID. the company, with its legal “The Kings County Blectric Light | ‘eet, bas kept on appealing and de- and Power Company 1s organized |'¥tmg final action. The question of under the old Manufacturing Act of |the franchise rights of the Edison 1848, which was the only law that tt}Company ts therefore still judiciany could be organized under, I THINK, | Mdecided. That is why the City of at the time it was orgunized. Se too|New York opposes any action by the iw the Kdtson Electric Dtuminating | Public Service Commtssion at this Company. T THINK the Edison | time Company obtained a franchise from] After reading this Matory of proof the Common Councll of Brooklyn in| positive that the Electric Light Tm fur. that German belt! been dangerous, you know. American soldier will an Iron Crom. refused the money 1887 or 1888, and the Kings County |e reaping millions throughout Brook- SIXTY MAIDS. Company obtiined one, | THINK, te}lyn without the slightest right to the) “Whatever I did,” Mrs. Astor con- 1890 or 1894." use of the city’s streets, listen to its | tinued, “Mrs. Ruswell did-—Uthel Har- Hero are the reasons why the Pab- | plans, as outlined by Mr. Moran tn|Fiman Russell—and wo were both just fio Servi ‘ommission should keep | his appeal for the right to merge and| ¥- M. C. A. workwiw, I dave nothing its hands off the merger project: First—Administrative officers of a city huve no power to grant a franchise in the streets and Counsel for the com- uel bonds up to $100,000,000, “They (the Brooklyn Edison and the Kings County companies) have ex pended over $9,000,000 in the last four at Bordeaux—that 16. of the war T was at Ube more. In order to accomplish thts ex: |Bustnene Pan wiesece spe a) out & franchise, the Brooklyn Edison and Ki County companies want to borrow $100,000,000 | by selling bonds, despite the fact that |their authorized combined capital stock is not more than $26,000,000. Corporauion Counsel Burr, who is grant. ‘Third—The Common Council cf eM Brooklyn, even im the gheence of legislative authority, had no power to grunt a fran- chise to the Edison Blectric Muminating Company of Brook- lyn to use the streets or to carry and then, to look @ fried egg in the | fried om both sides v t= “The hardest work I had to do in France was unloading a truck. “In the beginning I fried eggs! now and then. be able to look a fried egg in the face ever again. “When I got a tip it was usually about a franc. Red Cross box. “TI enjoyed dancing with American soldiers and sailors. Not one of them trod on my toes. “In Brest we waited in the cafe- teria and considered ourselves lucky when we served fifty men a day.” rowy on. Later when we had gone buck I noticed ber bend over and bold ber the portrait of Col. John Jacob Astor bands tn front of her belt, like this’ COMPANY H. .|—Mre. Astor cupped two exceedingly tured stateliness of the late Mrs. petal Adit ol slender hands at the waistline of her! William Astor, these roves bad burst dark blue gown outlined with brown “What's the matter? pain? I asked. Then I remembered | Tt might have “There is une thing with which an never part— 1 kaow of one officer who offered a private $500 for bis. He DID THE SAME WORK AS THEIR to tell about mysif personally. “Of cours, our regular work was it wus) during the last year. For the lust fye movtns bead Of the avenues. years in additions and extensions, no 4 men's Divisios the Y. M. panies admits that the compan- |xecurities having been authorized by | Bend Women's Div ine $e ¥. . {es obtained their “franchises” the Pubtte Servies Commission C. A. What did we ¢ Every tubing! Toward the end our work bud grown ter. In the beginning I tried eggs now I don’t'think I ebal) bo able face ever again. You see the man began anlar- tng them from 7.30, whan we opened, to 9,30, Bxed by the Amerioun General 4s our closing hour, Some liked them , bone only on one, Got @ Wane WYBoY, FRURDDAY, \ VEVGMBE ® 19, ivis. One of the ‘Girls Ahead of the Guns’ Fried Eggs for Soldiers, Served Them I don't think I shall We put our tips ina By Nixola Greeley-Smith. WO young women stood by the roadside tn the Irench Village of which the day before bad been jus! # puvetuation mark in the chaotic berror of no man’s land car, battered, mud bespattered, fying a taltered pennant of the Y. M. C. A. In front of them way an improvised (able littered with cigarettes and candy. Ov the pest hill German uhells were falling. fean gunners were dropping trop visiting cards on the German, Back of them was a Ford Back of them Amer- bow the dusty. bappy, poured the men of the 24|! eas up the cases of the two com iene a Court Justice Benedier ee who had just beep relieved after threo days’ fighting in tho front | ntes, He says: ought them vo well taken in man- |Uines. “Te dexin with; they were not born | dutuus proceedings aguinst the Brook. “They didn't look worried. They didn't look tircd—-just like a lot of right. That 1s, they were not born lyp Baisop Company that be granted | gay American boys coming back from a football! game.” Mra. Vinceut Astor, within the law, By that I mean that|*he writ. [np upholding to Burr com-| one of those young women, told me yesterday worning netther the Kings County concern |Ptions Justice Henedior suid “As they passed us the officers, whoo—$—$$—$$—$—______ ner the Brooklyn Exison Company euns pears that neither Wwore awhully good. aliowod then | to do in Mrance?” a young man asked, lag @ franchise. y the Manufacturing Act of 1H48 |... up @ Uttie and Mrs. Itupsqi! aad and Mrs, Astor inclined her delicate “The Evening World asks what) under which defendant (Hrook- |} put first @ bandful of cigarettes, | blond lead slightly to one side and would be the effect on the $100,000,000/ I¥n Hdlson Company) wae ine Tenen a handtid of candy m the bel-| furrowed ber very white, smooth brow worth of bonds the proposed com-| ¢°rPorated in 1887 for the pur. mets whicn tue men took off te he answered in her gent bined companies ask permission to, Pose of manufacturing, using Jae ties saw us and held out on iugsue if, in the final court decisions, ratte selling electricity and elee- |went by. "T think it was unloading a truck. the city’s contention tbat the com- rical and mechanical apparatus “No, (rey didn't look as they] Mrs, Russell and T did that togetbur. panies possess vo legal franchise, ts) in the City of Brooklyn, nor by [bad icd the st. Mivic C8! There were parcels of sugur, I re- borne out. There is only one answer.| @"y other statute, did defendant Le " Mrs. Astor sud} member, and they were quite heavy. If those bonds are supposed to be cov- | SOMPany acquire a franchise to did we get there? Why. the mnie nappened to be no ono elas at cred by property operated under| 8¢ the public streets for private C. A. arranged It for us line time to unload the truck and we franchises that prove to be pure fie- | Saag in carrying on a commercial We wore really, abeud of Ue} regeg the sugar, wo we did it our. tion, you cam draw your own cop- | thats nee as i furthor appears | guns that fe seating as 3 a selves. T look fragile, but T am really clusions as to the value of the bonds | 7" not ee ne ed any |Mewz. Ove me a nee See very strong, and we never felt that and the tinancial fate of the bond- iN Ree ‘ate for that |sheli fol i a : poeta wo|®hything was hurd work. We were holders. Ono nevin't possess a legal] fy °P¢" Nhe Common, ae LAN bteondiad pte the men, Now|S° happy to be able to dot mind to tiguro that out could not and did not Tegeiiy [and then some soldier, in gratitude| Mrs. Astor, tlendarly erect, tn the The frm of Ingrabam, Shechan &/ oo defendant any Prvsiraied for the cigarettes and candy, would |#TeD and gold library of her bome Moran represents the Kings deiered lise the streets, avenues and pub. [band us « souverir, a German shouls|t 842 Pith Avenue, did indesd ae eee ee ee einen || UE RIAGes OE the city tc cary on [Gar uiram Gh bULSE ar nertinne &-bell| EURmuRt hot house grace of the Mr. Moran admits that the | ts business 9 resident te —Mrs, Russell had lost the belt of companics of pink and white roses ‘County Company date: Oot — ptt city is entitled to apply for a | ber uniform—so when +r. voldier gave|that stood at attention as ‘vonodl nak Aaalpes no city having| POremPtory writ of mandamus te | Ber u Gernun ofticer’s belt whe put 'it/the room. Because of the great open fireplace, about which we sat, under and acrosy the room from the pic- into full bloom, and many of them drooped a little im the heat. Not ao the indomitable chatelaine {of the house who had stood three months ago by that dusty roadside |!2 no man's land giving cigarettes and candy to the victorious American troops, Mrs. Astor looks like a Bottl- ceMt. She has the slenderness, the haughty meckness, the grace and the iMogical charm of the lute Florentine primitives, yet even as you think of them you realize that she represents the most modern of all modern women to-day-—the girl ahcud of the guns, Perbapsi you can’t think of a Botticelli tryiug exes op both sides for American doughboys, but tm that case T must tell you frankly you have no tmagination. Perhaps you can't picture ber talking about the price Of ogee and the tips sho received, and the number of times she danced the from the vity authorities of old “Now they want reimbursement for! i.) uch proportions Wiat we had viaty [27S Joyful evening after the armintice Brooklyn when it was a separate }that money, and they want to huve al”. pe Seiad under us and as wo|% Slgned when she was one of OE SIREN URI DABNY, Vehicle through which they can teyue rey pot want the maida w fel thag|'werty Wowen in the ¥. MC. A Second—The right to asan uti. securities and get the needed money| w., requirud things of them we)Bl thronged with 2.000 sailors and sell gas or cleotrietty is | tor the a ‘ Tl we od vine : pape anavenrricey prise, open to aah Siete : yen Pied Cie te wouldn't do ourwives we did @ WtU0]/EGGS HARD TO GET AT $1.40 4 z ied for the la: ur or five . ,, el h | of overything, Yes, [ swept bebind aM; but the right to use th® | op six years about two million dollers| the counter sometimes and, of course, DOZEN. streets aud operate, to use and tg iy b "Exge were hur to get.” Mro, Ave ad track to di 'o keep pace with the growth of the) 1 sarved soft drinks tid old cigar- e- operate railroad tracks or S- | business, to install the nec. WV \ etme und Gotes Uitte bs Mine watten a (00h. te We paid someti 7 tribute snd sell Ueht ts & fran- jadditions and extensions, and we t and at the lunob coun-|*T4?*#. avout $1.40, @ dozen for them, Ghise dependent upon legislative | anticipate it will require that such | tbe restuuran! a Se. and.we soll two eggs for a fra Pp ‘ franc. Sometimes would want stx ORgS, but generally two was the order, man Everything was given t The first. kinglish words our French | waitresies learned were Two fried ekee.’ “Everytling was sold ut a — \ RS Vincern Paar + AS56R OS mew ay ie Oo Anam ase erm me waited I should not have been al- lowed to go. Mry. Theodore Roose velt, who went over sbortly after we did, heard all thoue rules were com- [ing and crosed gust ahead of them.” 1 asked Mrs, Astor if she had en- Joyed dancing with American wol- ders and sailors. “I should fay 1 did,” she replied. 1 must have danced with thousands, and pot one of them tred on my toes, The first dance after the armist everybody wos wild with delight, | We were twenty women to about 2,000 sailors, not all of whom danced however. We were all black and Blue when thut evening was over, the crowd was so dense. Of course, every sailor wanted to dance with ap American woman. No matter how old or unattractive you were, you needed only to be American to be a belle. Finally, I took a whistle from a sailor and we announced that every time I blew the whistle the map who was dancing with a girl must stop and allow another dancer to take her. I raised the whistle to my lips while T was dancing and be-| foro my arm was down there would | be twenty men ready to dance with | every woman. No distinction was mude between officers and men that night. You would begin a ono step | with a Colonel and finish it with an enlisted man, And an American neral led the singing in the pub- > square on armistice day. “When T went to France It was with 2 vasue idea of doing relief work,” Mrs, Astor said. “Iupplied first to the Red Cross, but in the ports of Brest and Bordeaux vary Uttle Red Crows work was dove for 4 long tima So Mux Ruswell and T folned the Y. M,C. A. workers, In Brest, where 1 had apartment {ar several months. we tn the cafeteria, land considered ourselves lucky when we served fifty men a day. But at Bordeaux the work grew and grew. |The Y. M. A took fir fe | building, then’ a huge Dall an Jothar housn acrows the We had 6,000 mab 4 day sometimes,” Ae head of second Women's Division, Mrs Y M. © AL buts in outlying districts not very good about visiting she adnnitted. ul wn watted an old « then siront the Astor bad to visit “T wa. the more reimote one Bordeaux, He never tasted my fried eégs or the ice cream or the favorite Jamon meringue pie. After o while we had to give the mon omelettes in- stead of fried cies, because eggs got awfully scarce, you oan make an ne ome! with exe» that are not quite so {resh, you know.” tt « getting near Mrs, Astor's Juncheon hour, and there were three things IT was perfect! vain she was not going to So T came away, leaving ber to the wide range of the New York markets, You may be positive ale did not have two tried exes, ice cream or lomon meringue pie yesterda MISS WILSON TO RESUME SINGING TO SOLDIERS President's Daughter Asks to Be Sent to the Most Isolated Localities, PARIS, 19.—Mias Margaret Wil- son, who is expected to resume her tour of American oulitary camps to-morrow, Nas aaked to be sent to the most tso- lated localities, As a result she prob- ably will sing in Gondrecourt on Christ- mas Day, while the President is ad- dressing the doughboys «at American headquarters, Dee. Gondrecourta in the One ts eighteen miles east and north of Verdun. The other ts 45 miles vouth of that city. The for roer probably 1# the town Mivs Wilson will visit LINER ADRIATIC SAILS; DAVISON ON WAY TD PARIS Katherine B. Davis Also a Passenger on Ship Held in Port by Accident Monday, v are tw American zon d very conservative tamnt | bi . the ’ and to the men returning from the| ot yua lucky to art out to them once on a commercial business for its | 15 Rarenwe sion cos ode ee ons lempt | bu they: Wealad wor ny ay lsd arate is Ge ee 1 k t ni own private protit capitalization te “extraordinary & tole ne sey ae No cia: [cateterian ovorvthicn: ) eae ee Soe eae eae The charter of the old City of. say the least.” then lemon meringue then apple pie eve DE was so) Pedigree eter —_—— —_ — _ \We had two men mai than cost. T never knew of @ single} less it was supplic light, others malting ice creum al] /Complaint that any one was ovar-| armerican Arnis’, ‘There wa day. Many of the boys wanted ice/oburged for anything all the time I|jine except for army purpose UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION ] cream tor browktast, but we found we was in France Preasti went ys t about ; A could not begin gerving i before 12| "Did you ever get any tpn” 1 W. G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads o'clock. They got doughnuts for | asked. sdenive thet ineeiarel breakfust, We began by plucing Dh, ve Mra, Astor replied: “now | ny, M Ast In Bor- | plates of doughnuts op the omintsr|und then. Vou see, the soldiers aad yn gy : r kind, | PLEASE SAVE YOUR OWN TIME near the door, but the men Liked them | sailors did not lke Freneb mon ae think the th atl eo much they would eat four or tive|It did vot suem Uke real mon spy a hens don Grint Gt dnb And help prevent congestion at ticket offices by buying | by the me tbey got to the cash reg-| them. vo when we gave them we | utile, We bud diMculty gating per-| E ister. So we moved the doughauts|in francs they said, ‘Ob, 00; we don't, mmission trom the Mavor to heen our (’ |INTERCHANGEABLE SCRIP BOOKS| sox to to cus rorwins end Co one at a eee BOAO inion tm the Mayor tba ou Ln | time they got there thoy did not want |got eo tip it was usuully about aim, cimac tia the Good for bearer or any number of persons on all passenger | % ™#ny, 4% we bud enough to go) franc (2 cents), and we pul our LIDS vaimeosn few eal cecum ne | trains of all railroads under Federal Control around [in @ Red Cross box we had tn the , ws { and -usyixnod {t \ In Wrance Mrs. Astor got up inj ¥. MC. A. building 1 time to be at te Y. MC, A. cafeteria! “When Mru. Rusocll and I went to me ene ed M 4 at this On aale at all ticket offices at 7.20 in the morning whee it wus ber) Frunce—sbe was Miss Marrimaa! point if sbe had bean able to nee hur turn 00 take the early shift. She wore |ihen—there were no rules hartng rushand, Lieut, Vincent Aster, often whoo traveling # Y¥.M.C. A. unifarm, | relatives of soldiers and sailors trom | during ber slay in France } INQUIRE AT CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICES but bigagetaen at he sbtrt-lwork wt Ube front. War was do-| “When he was ona yacht con 4 waist, a durk 6! and a big epron,|ciarod in April. We went over in. verted Nomi, whieh vaur Astor 64 BROADWAY 31 WES 32d STREET | ao al the other women YM. C. Al june Jr wan not bat they |presssted ta the United States Gov, ." une t July tha presented to 1o United ate Gey At Rector Struct Near Broadway warkere did toude the rule that « woman war ornment at the outbreak of the wary s " . ota very g& ‘, . | wo Vrance bad to be at leu wis wlowed to eame a . §7 CHAMBERS STREET 114 WEST 42d STREET ee ie AL page Srecee Sb aD id to | te towed | Near Broadway Between Broadway & 6th Ave. | ios ceeu marvellously.” father, couldy't bave a Ser: Wo, Ba Naver GHine 1oUlha Gat { “Wine to une bardees work you had | Whuldn't bave @ ausband. it E bad, jum to We house I bad taken in ——— TROOPSHP DOCHRA, * ' DELAYED BY STORM, :.: WILL COCK TO-DAY. Ship) With Ordnance Explosives, Due Dee. 10, Changed Her Cour Only one American transport, Doctima, ig expected to dock in Ne York to-da Others are overdue, | but the latest news from them ine! dicate chat thoy will nét arrive untit!' to-morrow or luser. Tor Doobra anchored down the buy early Chis mening ringw fort cirilians and a quantity of ordnance and *aplosives, Sle was due Deo. 10, but wont out of her way to avoid Liking chancas with storms, and the military autho were relleved when ahe fished the voyage safely, or) ' ‘Tho H.R. Mallory, which was due peels ty. Som expected fo SHV" | i). carpuentiak tb Mal Yi Sane to-norrow morning with 1,481. gol (ven (0-8 dicrs. Among tham ure Ordnance, fallacies if Suvitary, Supply and Headquarters}, CAT, ‘Christman "tevea ove Saal Unite of the 143d Meld Artillery and| commandeered by the Ameriean ¥. We Batteries A and B and the band of|c. A throughout France preparstesy that regiment, « total of 10 officers|to Dig Christmas Peace celebrations tm and 492 men. Thare are alto three | sil YW. C. & yeas ae oMicers and 55 men of the 66th Field} american soldiers have bese Artillery, The wick and wounded on \ hoard number 921. of whom 32 are ofticers, There are 30 hedridden Caen, 1 mental, 6 (tubercular and 88¢ neod- ling oO wpectal attention. The Martha Wasbington ts due at Newport News with 110 officers and | 2.610 enlixied men, including parts of | the 38th Division and the 116th Field | Artillery, and the complete 118th Field Artillery, The and wounded number 639, Transports due to-morrow are: The Zuiderdyik, with two o! 52 eplisted men rhe Rappahannock, one officer and 20 enlisted men. The Bultenvors, three officery and 62 men. ‘The Baltic, 72 officers and 1,943 men, Including Winchester casual :om- Panies 1,057 to 1,064 inclusive and 865 wick and wounded. The Manchurta, with 160 officers and 4003 enlisted men. These tn- clude part of the 56th Field Artillery, the complete 116th Field Artillery, the 196th Ammunition Train, Head- quarters Company of the 62d Infan- try, ten officers und 90 men clasyed as cadres for the 4st Division, and the 117th Field Artillery, Brig, Gen. Robert E. Steiner and Brig. Gen. Joan L. Hayden, both of the Quartermas- ters Corps, are also on board. Thore are 950 sick und wounded and 46 civilians, Christmay Day will seo the arrival of the Saxonia, according to the pres- ent schedule, with 22 officers, 1,378 enlisted men and 31 nurses. Most of the men are sick or wounded, but 1,161 of them are #o nearly well that they no longer require special atten- tion, The Mongolia ts due Dec. 33 with 140 officers and 45 enlisted men. The Cedric is due the same duy with «& officers and 2,168 men waned MORE TROOPSHIPS ON WAY. Georme Washington Brings 321 Officers 8,401 Men. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 ~The trans- and jt. ne SOUGH Y.W.C. A.C tance Dee. 15 for the United rs. 3.40) enlisted mony ars bree ex-offve De mete Aw le " Are a ubere nl ed D Visted me Ith one She 3 oMcers ‘a and Ue Bellatriz Dee i infantry of —<— T JOB: NOW MISSING, Morris = Forkas Mis Disappearance. 4 friend» of Morris Forkas, fo. 143 oerek Street, Man- left bia home Monday alarmed over hie @isape He left a wife aad four email of rmed Ove Relative tet ostenetbty fe idle two told a friend that a pen tn Any choo’ t lenk HRISTMAS HOST. ONE SO Shapeliness, comfort, bility — all the features that good shoes embody, at prices that in a ate fair to the purchasér. L\* Low, perfect fitting instep. Narrow heel that prevents ping. Comfortable fit in the forepart which cannot be ob- tained in a shoe made on an ordinary last. Hurley Shoes in all the newest models —all leathers, including the new rich Cordovan shades — obtainable only by the use of the best leathers. HURL 134 Broadway 1357 Broadw: B 1177 Broadway 215 Broadway 183 Broadway 3941 Cortlandt Si Factory — lockland, Mass. Parisian Perfected Here by At Hotel Ritz In Paris they serve, per- haps the finest soups in France The White Star Liner Ad which was to huve started for Uy “L lust Monday but was prevented by an accident im the engine room, nuited juat before to-day and ts axpected to rene Hoation on Friday or Saturday of next week Her passenger lint, which Included 6h) names on the orlginal date sec for ng. Was inerenned to 740 in the Whose of Henry Po Davison and Kath ering B Davin, Mr Davixon ts on hin way to. Puris to join President Wileon at the peace table Mise rectiona under Mitchel admin r at MW be reduced tts recone wle is Using oF on Monda ss | $15 FINES GO TO RED CROSS. Girls Collect From Two Wen Are ralened in Hartem Conrt wo prisoners a i ' ' * eon 1 10 pay to Mt Mou of No. 16 Heventh Street, and Mies Pann The young women read ye wy in The Evening World t Magisirat Blau was ¢ Suspended sentence to prisoners if they would enbseribe to Red Cra Harry Wurber of No Interval Avenue, the Bronx, paid 1 Abram Ltpechit Ki Bast 1004 t pald $9 fo: ‘diving « lame bores, Van Camp's Soups — most of them —are based on rec ipes perfected there by a fa- mous chef, Some of them won es Parisian culinary pri contests. in Some require 24 hours in the making, and employ as bigh as 20 ingredients. This Hotel Ritz chef came to the Van Camp kitchens, and here created these exqui oups for us, nite Spaghert Van Camp's Pork and Beans Soups Scientific Cooks At Van Camp’s Culinary experts — mes with college training— thea perfected these soups in @ scientific way. They fixed a standard for every material. They tried out countless blends, and, step by step, brought each soup to the pinnacle of flavor. l'very step and detail were recorded in a formula. So ne soup ever varies from the model soup adopted. Now these ideal soups better than Paris ever served come to vou in Van Camp’s Soups at trifling cost Soups PS 18 Kinds Van Camp's Peanut Butter Van Camp's Evaporated Mi