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want to tell a little story: into the Grand Central Terminal to buy my ticket for Schenectady on my return home and 1 counted those in line in front of the ticket office. There were just seventeen of us, Along came a very drunken fellow who looked quatrelsome and he plunged through the crowd of us right up to the win- dow. He laid down 36 cents and told the ticket seller that he wanted to go to San Franctaco “You can't go to San Francisco for 36 cents,’ said the ticket seller. “Well, where can I go to?’ ‘Circus Campaign’ by Republicans Excites Derision of Democrats Al Smith Says They Have a Fine Circus Juggler in ‘Miller, Who Juggles With Figures— i Political Notes. By Joseph S. Jordan. to make an intensive campaign for - TO COST 300 BILLION Sum Will Be Sent tn Next 61x tears, . Contractors Henr, CINCINNATI, O., Oct, 13.—Within the next six years more than $300. 000,000,000 will be.spent In the addi- tional electrification of America, said Fran« BE. Watts, New York, editor of the Electric Record, in an address to the annual convention of the Nation- THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1 went/U. §, ELECTRIFICATION Watts, “Eight mfilior homes In the Inited tates are now wired for elec- tricity, six million are not. Half of those will be wired within the next few years,” ealigicaainte x U. S. SOCIETY PROTESTS SALE OF GOETHE RELICS Collection Was Setxed by France » Daring the War. WASHINGTON, Oct. J3,—Disturbed over reports that a valuable collection _1992, in instituting a campaign to prevent what it regards as an impending ca- lnmity to th world of literature. It Js said the Goethe collection was loaned by the Gocthe Museum of Frank- fort to a French committee for exhibi- tion Purposes in April, 1914; was selzed during the war by the French Govern- ment and now is held for storage costs of 600,000 francs. A direct appeal to President Millerand of France is sald in the society's advices to have been of no avail. a A HUMAN PREFERENCE. Republicin leaders declare that from now "on there is going to be a @revs campaign. When former Gov. Al Smith bdard this he remarked that # had been a circus campaign all along with Gov. Miller as the great- eat juggler of figures aver known in the State. Democratic experts on @tatistics declare that the Governor 1s seeing double But the Governor needn't be @larmed about his vision when he Yeads that there are now two Al Smiths in the campaign. It's a fact Al Gm'th jr. registered for bis first vote with his dad yesterday after- Boon, The candidate for whom hr Will cast his first vote must remain &@ secret—a family secret A Visitor to the Smith headquarters fa the Hotel Biitmore yesterday. was Bdward J. Fariel) of Long Beach why 4g aicandidate for Senator in the dis , trict embracing Nassau and Suffolk Count'es. Gecrge L. Thompson ‘s the incumbent and |s Mr. opponent. jn Suffolk County Trubec Davison |s a candidate for re-election to the Assémbly and in Nassau Tom McWhinney'is working to go back -for another term. ‘Mr. Farre}l ts a former newspaper, man of New York, but after he got through hix military duties in France, be embarked in the real estate busl- Mess and his fellow citizens insisted upon him taking the Demdcratic nom imation for the Senate. Now he ha» Ris Goat off and ts making speecher morning and evening to the com muters at the railroad stations. He talks to them on the trains and on the highways dnd on off nights visits the Dig houses tn the counties where trom fifty to 250 men und women gather from the- countryside to listen to him and his féllow candidates, This ta car rying politics into the families with a vengeance, Farrell's Mrs. Arthurs. Livermore, Chatr- man of the Women's Republican Mi Btaté Executive Committee, has an- Bounced that the clearing house for the com@iittee’s activities will be ai the Repnblican Club, No. 43 West Seth Street, and that they are going Hair Brushes sans nnedanpnmmnmaconnamtinmnnn sarmaneaeenn the election of a United States Sen- ator and the Republican ticket. A whirlwind campaign of three weekr is planned, with Miss Sarah Butler In charge of the arrangements an! Mrs, Ruth Litt will be in charge of the women speakers and start the fireworks. The members of this committee are: Mrs, Arthur L. Livermore, Chairman; Mise Florence Wardeil Vice Chairman; Mise Helen Varick Boswell, New York; Miss Sarah But ler, New York; Miss Mary Chahoon Ausuble Forks; Mrs. George M. Di fimira; Mrs, El!) T. Hosmer : Mrs, Florence E. 8 Knapp. Camillus; Mrs. Ruth Litt, New York: Mrs. Eugene Meyer Ji., Mount Kisco, ewbold, Bronx; 1, New York; New York; Courtiandt Anne Rho! hurles H. Sub Southampton, L. Mrs. Henry M e Albany; Mre Sameon Sélig, New York; Miss Las New York; Mrs. trice Stevenson, Brooklyn; Grace Vanamee, New York; Mra Florence B. Van Wie, Utica;; Mra Rosalie Loew Whitney, Brooklyn. Mra. William H, Ives, Executive Sec retary. Bea Mre ra Skinner, Mayor George R. Lunn, candidate for Lieut. Governor on the Democratic ticket, has already be: famous as me of the best story tellers on the stump. Of course this doesn't apply to the heads of both tickets, who are ‘ecused — no, credited — with telling ‘ifferent kinds of stories. Mayor Lunn it‘the Yonkers meetjng on Tuesday aight was introduced by Mayor Taus sig of the Westchester city as a min who might be unknown to many of those present, but was a nationa figure. “That reminds me,"’ said, Mayor Lunn, “‘of’my return to Schenectady after my first term in Congress 1 was elected in spite of some people and the Chairman of the banquet which was tendered me was one of those. He and I never could agree He wasn't very nice about introduciny me. He sald, and it seemed to hurt him: ‘The next speaker is our Con- gressman, A lot of us didn’t vote for him, but we're glad to have him with us this evening.’ “When 1 got on my feet, I said: ‘T asked ‘And seventeen men told him!"’ Samuel Bruckhelmer is the Pepub- lean candidate for the Assembly from tite Bighth Assembly District in the Bronx, and Mr. Richard Lawrence leader of the northern ex that he ix going t wit, m'? ts well known at the apital und has been well trained for the job, As a stenographer he has helped in the Investigation >%f the Highway Department, institutions for the feable minded, Ineune, Educatio Department, and has been official stenographer for the Davenport Spe- cial Committee on Taxution, unc for the lust four years has been xctively engaged with the Lockwood Honsing Committee. If unybody knows what is golrtg on in and ubout the Arsem- bly it is Sam Bruckheimer, und ne hus a host of friends in Albany. The City Association of Undertaker at their convention yesterday in the Hotel Mealpin indorsed Dr, Royul 8. Copelund for United States Senstor. “Sure,’! said Pete Brady, when the news was brought, to Demucratic headquarters, ‘hey hope » elected too. They want to see him out of the job of Health Commissioner He's been Interfering too much with their! business."* A SOee DRG DREAM BRINGS WIRE FROM MISSING WIFE Fled Husband After Civi! Ceremony. The mystery in the disappearance of Mrs, Theresa di Fede, twenty, on Sept. 1, a few days after her mar- riage to Anthony di Fede, was cleared and up to-day when her parents, Mr. Mrs. Joseph Messina of Newark, re- ceived a telegram’ from Los Angeles saying she had dreamed of home and mother and had become lonesome, adding “‘could never marry himy #0 came away."" 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