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1915December 12

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• GERMANY HOLDS UP DYES.; England Willing to Let Enough to Come Through for Our Needs.
• Obituary 2 -- No Title
• LADY EGLANTINE LEAVES.; " $100,000" Hen Goes Home to Resume Laying Eggs at $100 a Set.
• DERIDES FRENCH OFFICIALS.; Paris Journal Laughs at Proposed Methods to Cheapen Coal.
• THE PRESIDENT'S PARTNERS.
• Says U.S. Must Prepare Against Great Britain; Lieutenant Walter E. Ives, Formerly of German Army, Declares That American Interests Are Sure to Clash with British After the War
• LIABILITY OF LANDLORDS; For Injury to Janitor Under Workmen's Compensation Act.
• Why Women Put Votes Before Philanthropical Work.
• $5,000,000 Pension Fund for Episcopal Clergy; Bishop William Lawrence Heads a Movement to Raise One Which Is Based on a Different Principle from That Underlying Similar Funds
• NOTABLES TO AID BAZAAR.; Society Women, Artists, and Actors to Work for St. Mark's Hospital.
• Germany's Simple Problem.
• HOLLAND EXPELS F.V.G. GILDEMEESTER; Suspected of Smuggling Goods to Germany ;- Once Here on Alleged Peace Mission.
• TO AIR FINANCES OF CITY TOMORROW; Brown Committee to Have Aid of McAneny and Prendergast at Opening Session. MAYOR HAS NOT RESPONDED Preliminary Investigations Are Reported to Reveal Facts That Promise Sensations.
• BITTER IN BERLIN OVER FEELING HERE; Papers Criticise Wilson and Talk of "Hetze," Setting a Dog on His Prey. BLAME 'THE BRITISH PARTY' Reventlow "Astonished to Learn the Lusitania Affair Is Not Yet Fully Settled." BITTER IN BERLIN OVER FEELING HERE
• FLOTOW'S 'MARTA' REVIVED AT OPERA; A Delightfully Animated Performance Enjoyed by a Big Matinee Audience. FRIEDA HEMPEL SHINES Mr. Caruso Sings Lionel with Much Beauty ;- Mme. Ober as Nancy, and Mr. De Luca, Plunkett.
• THOMPSON LOSES BRIBE FUND TRAIL; Senator Fails to Find $58,000 He Thinks Subway Contractors Spent. SIGNAL MEN TO TESTIFY Committee Expected to Ask Removal of Wood and Williams by End of Week.
• THE MERCHANT'S POINT OF VIEW
• NEW OFFENSIVE IN SERBIA; Allied Council Decides to Send Forces for Bigger Campaign. BUT RETIREMENT GOES ON French Troops Retreat in Good Order, with Bulgar Forces Harassing Them. GREEKS YIELDING TO ALLIES Speedy Agreement Predicted ;- Greek Troops to be Withdrawn from Saloniki.
• VILLA MINISTER GIVES UP.; Quevedo, Deserting Zapatistas, Says Anarchy Reigns Among Them.
• BRYAN NEAR TO CONTEMPT.; Fails to Answer Subpoena and Court issues Order for Appearance.
• DUTCH WILL IGNORE MR. FORD'S PACIFISTS; Party to be Allowed to Land in Holland, but Must Not Be Unduly Active. NO OFFICIAL RECOGNITION Lord Rosebery, in Edinburgh, Talks of "Ford, Who Makes, I Believe, Perambulators."
• WANT MORE COAST GUARDS.; Congress Is Asked to Authorize Four New Cutters for the Service.
• OTHERS TO BE HEARD.
• FORD WIRES FOR ROOMS.; Sends Radio to Christiania Asking Accommodations for 168.
• Princeton's Wrestlers Lose.
• LIEUT. MARBURG WOUNDED.; Hit In Head and Leg Dec. 7 ;- His Father Hastening to Him.
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• WILL DISPOSE OF BAKER.; Future of Home-Run Hitter to be Decided at American League Meeting
• TURKISH FIRE HOTTER.; French Report a Gallipoli Bombardment with Guns of All Calibres.
• Daniel E. Dowling,
• CORDIER DEFEATS BULL AT SQUASH; Yale Star Wins National Handicap Tournament After Hard Struggle.
• BUILDING TRADES WANT NEW LIEN LAW; Declare Sub-Contractors and Material Men at Mercy of Builders and Owners. PRESENT LAW INADEQUATE Legislation Will Be Asked to Adopt State Law Abolishing Priority in Liens.
• THAW IS A FRENCHMAN.; So, for Passport Purposes, Are His Two Aviation Corps Comrades.
• CHRISTMAS CHARITY: ONE HUNDRED WORTHY CASES.
• Reveals Sensational German War Propaganda; Untiring Efforts, Beginning Years Ago, Whereby Pan-German Society Sought to Force Fight with Entente Powers, Described by a Member
• WOMAN DESCRIBES ARMENIAN KILLINGS; German Missionary Says Turks Proclaimed Extermination as Their Aim. FIENDS' WORK IN HARPUT "Let Your Christ Help You!" the Cry as Torture Went On ;- Dr. Knapp a Victim.
• "Slowly," Please, New York!
• Denmark Appoints Consul to Canada
• Gouverneur Morris Urges Every One to Visit the Big Bazaar This Week.
• A Source of Innocent Merriment
• BOSTON COPPER GOSSIP.; Allouez Continues Record Production Started Last Month.
• AUSTRO-GERMANS EVACUATING LEMBERG?; Kieff Reports That an Epidemic of Scurvy Compels the Retirement.
• AMENDMENT TO WIN, WOMEN'S UNION SAYS; Suffragists at Washington Are Jubilant Over the President's Attitude. FIND CONGRESS ATTENTIVE Mrs. Belmont Says Events of Week in Washington Prove Victory Is Near.
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• TRYING TO HELP OVERSEAS TRADE; What the Manufacturers' Export Association Has Been Doing in the Matter.
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• DRIVING CATHOLICS OUT.; Carranza General Also Accused of Looting Churches and Convents.
• A WEEK OF LARGE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS; Retrospect of Social Life in 1888 ;- Mortality of Men in Society Greater Than Women ;- Mrs. John Jacob Astor to Open Her House for War Relief Benefit ;- Younger Set to Appear in Three Reel-Picture Feature of New York Society.
• 36 P.C. INCREASE MOTOR CARS IN STATE; 231,713 Owners Registered, Total of Fees $1,891,675, Report by Hugo Shows.
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• HOPEWELL SUSPECT FINED.; Du Pont Workman Also Put Under Bonds to Keep the Peace.
• NOTABLE FEATS IN SPORTS ON LAND AND WATER; Review of the Year of 1915 Shows Many Records Broken by American Athletes. CLOSE RACE IN BASEBALL Californians Win Men's Lawn Tennis Titles ;- Norwegian Leads Women Players. RACING ON TURF IMPROVES Cornell Holds First Place in College Athletics ;- Former Golf Champions Are Defeated.
• ASKS SAFE CONDUCT OF ALLIES; Formal Request Made by Secretary Lansing for Boy-Ed and von Papen.
• SOLDIERS COMPETE IN ARMORY GAMES; Fifty-Year-Old Competitor Finishes Second in Twenty-third Infantry Meet.
• TRY THESE OVER ON YOUR VOICE
• SISTERS DIE IN SAME HOUSE.; Mrs. Meyer and Miss Stonebank Ignorant of Each Other's Illness.
• TO RESTORE BASEBALL.; Big Nine Conference Likely to Rescind Its Abolition Decision.
• REICHSTAG TACKLES FOOD PROBLEM NEXT; Various Resolutions for Regulation of Supplies to be Debated Tomorrow. CENTRAL BUREAU FAVORED Maximum Prices for All Necessaries Proposed in Radical Plan of Centre Party.
• Col. James M. Smith.
• Lawrenceville Five Defeated.
• LATEST MODEL TENEMENT ON AVENUE A
• REICHSBANK AFTER GOLD.; Takes Measures to Obtain Hoards Put in Vaults Since Start of War.
• YUAN SHIH-KAI'S THRONE.
• WHAT INTERESTS THE CREDIT MEN; Model Acceptance Form and Neglect of Sales Terms Among the Things Discussed.
• TO ELECT PRESIDENT TO SUCCEED DR. SHAW; Retirement of Veteran Suffrage Leader Gives Interest to Annual Meeting at Washington. EXPECT MANY CANDIDATES Caucuses Will Work Hard While Convention Is In Session ;- Wilson to Receive Delegates.
• R.H. Davis and American Shoes.
• Police to Help the Man Just Out of Jail; Instead of Hounding ex-Convict, and Being His Worst Enemy, Policeman Will Be a Big Brother to Him Under New Plan of Commissioner Woods
• TOPICS IN WALL STREET.
• 1,000 AT 'DANCE OF NATIONS'; Benefit for Emanu-El Sisterhood the Biltmore Nets $5,000.
• The Lion and the Lamb.
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• GRIDIRONERS HEAR PRESIDENT WILSON; Patriotic Demonstration Opens the Annual Dinner, with Preparedness as the Theme. POLITICS TO THE FORE, TOO Mr. Wilson Face to Face with Republican Presidential Aspirations ;- Some of the Skits.
• WALSH NOT STAGE-STRUCK.; Bay State Governor Turns Down $15,000 a Week Offer.
• WALL STREET AIDS SICK.; Bankers and Brokers Raising United Hospital Fund.
• COLLEGE ATHLETES ACT BEST IN SKIRTS; Columbia and N.Y.U. Doubt Yale Idea That Impersonations Cause Effeminacy. HARVARD OPINIONS VARY Prof. Barker Sees Only Bad Acting In the Impersonations ;- Prof. Winter Opposes Them.
• PIG IRON SELLING IN GREAT VOLUME; Large Tonnages Contracted For and Demand Steadily Increasing, Mainly from Abroad. $20 QUOTATION EXPECTED Higher Price Has Caused Big Steel Companies to Look to Other Markets for Supplies.
• MIDWINTER ACTIVITIES OF PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS
• LATEST CUSTOMS RULINGS.; Settling the Duties on a Variety of Imported Articles.
• BELGRADE TRAFFIC HALTED.; Rail Route Through City Given Up Because Bridge Is Unfinished.
• CONSUL CANADA HOME.; Takes His First Vacation in Four Years from His Vera Cruz Post.
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• BLIZZARD IN THE WEST.; Blinding Snowstorm Causes Many Accidents ;- Trains Tied Up.
• CALIFORNIANS FIRST IN TENNIS HONORS; W.M. Johnston Took All-Comers Title, and with C.J. Griffin Won Doubles. NORWEGIAN WOMAN BEST Miss Bjurstedt Lost Only Two Matches in Season ;- East Won Indoor, Clay Court, and College Crowns. CALIFORNIANS FIRST IN TENNIS HONORS
• PLOT TO BLOW UP A BRIDGE?; Package of Dynamite Found Under Structure in California.
• MISS BJURSTEDT BEATEN.; Loses California Tennis Match to Mrs. May Sutton Bundy.
• COOPER BEST AUTO DRIVER.; Led Anderson and O'Donnell Under Point-Scoring System.
• AUTHOR OF 'J'ACCUSE' HERE?; Socialist Editor Says He Has Lived in America Several Years.
• LUCIUS M. CUTHBERT DIES.; Prominent Denver Lawyer and Financier Well Known in New York
• CLUBMEN'S BASEBALL GETS UNDER WAY; Players Wear Summer Flannels with Cold Wind Sweeping Over Park.
• COAL SHORTAGE IN VIENNA.; Question of Lighting City Said to Have Become Acute.
• Prof. Hans Gross, Criminologist.
• DEMAND FOR SMALL APARTMENTS GROWS; The Murray Hill District Undergoing a Great Transformation. OLD HOUSES REMODELED Two and Three-Room Suites the Most Popular ;- Quickly Rented at Good Prices.
• WOULD LIKE WILSON TO DEFINE 'AMERICA'; Canadians Praise His Message, but Comment on Ambiguous Use of the Word. PROSPERITY OF DOMINION War Has Helped Trade, but the Manager of the Bank of Montreal Sounds a Note of Warning.
• CLERGYMEN'S PENSIONS.
• Ex-Secretary of the Navy Urges Preparedness; Hilary A. Herbert Takes Issue with Bryan and Sets Forth Reasons Why a Decided Step Forward Should Be Taken in the Development of Our Navy
• EDUCATION NOTES.
• GUY GETS $9,000 TO GO AWAY; Son Pays Dentist, Who Shot His Wife, to Keep Away from Him.
• Letter to the Editor 1 -- No Title
• STOCK EXCHANGE NEWS.
• WESTERN ROADS GET INCREASE IN RATES; Commerce Commission Holds They Have Made Improvements and Deserve Consideration. MANY REQUESTS REFUSED But Proposed Higher Tariffs on Passenger Fares, It Is Held, Will Increase Revenues.
• EPISCOPAL PARTIES WARNED TO BE COOL; Broad Church Element Deprecates Heated Discussion of Panama Congress. BISHOP EDSALL QUOTED Sees No Danger of Schism and No Impropriety in Work in Latin America.
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• NAME FORD FOR PRESIDENT.; Petition for His Candidacy Filed by Nebraska Republicans.
• THE CLIMATIC AND CROP CONDITIONS; Results of a Study of Them in the Great Plains States, Especially Kansas.
• Concentration of Russian Troops Is Hastened and Railway Traffic North from Rumania Halts
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• BIG LEGACIES TO RELATIVES.; Residue of Edward R. Bacon's Estate to Brother and Wife.
• AT FALL RIVER MILLS.; A Moderate Demand with Prices Fairly Well Maintained.
• GREECE IS YIELDING TO ENTENTE DEMANDS; Gounaris Intimates Settlement Is at Hand ;- Greece May Now Demobilize.
• Recall Election for Atlanta's Mayor.
• WAR MOVES OF THE WEEK; Position of Allies on Balkan Front Growing Steadily More Precarious;;-Will France Oust England from Control of Allies' Military Operations?
• NEW AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE RATES SHOW REDUCTIONS; Lower Charges Principally Concern New Cars, While There Are Slight Increases on Old Machines ;- Simplifying the Schedule.
• HUNGARIAN DEMAND FOR PEACE GROWING; 10,000 Sign Petition for Separate Withdrawal from War ;- Class Discrimination Reported.
• SECOND THOUGHTS ON FIRST NIGHTS; "Treasure Island."
• BLAME SPIES FOR FIRES.; Second Plant of a Canadian Milling Company Is Destroyed.
• TWO CROPPERS IN MONMOUTH HUNT; H.L. Herbert and Master Borden Thrown, but Are Unhurt, Riding to Hounds.
• INTEREST IN HORSE RACING REVIVED; Roamer Is Champion in the Handicap Division of Thoroughbreds.
• WRITTEN ON THE SCREEN
• BARS MUNITION STRIKES.; British Act Also Amended in the Interest of Workmen.
• Gen. G.M. Dodge Grows Weaker.
• ALUMNI FORM ROWING CLUB.; Old-Time Oarsmen Invited to Boom Rowing at Columbia.
• LATEST DEALINGS IN THE REALTY FIELD; Fifth Avenue Deal Near Forty-second Street for 12-Story Commercial Building. 250,000 APARTMENT SALE Broadway Corner Opposite Van Cortlandt Park Purchased for Improvement.
• REBUKE FOR KENYON.; Munition Fight Defeats Him for Foreign Relations Committee.
• N.Y.U. FIVE BEATS ARMY.; Cann and White Contribute Largely to Victory for the Violet.
• A COMMERCIAL MONROE DOCTRINE
• BRONX Y.M.H.A. FUND STARTED AT DINNER; Adolph Lewisohn and Cleveland H. Dodge Give $1,000 Each Toward $85,000. NEED FOR NEW STRUCTURE Borough President Mathewson Pleads for Earnest Work In Two Weeks' Campaign.
• The Defense of the 'Real American.'
• Tells of Four Years' Tramp in Latin America; Harry A. Franck, Safe at Home Again, Describes Dangers and Humorous Incidents of Record-Breaking Journey Through Wilds of American Continent
• MISS SANFORD'S WEDDING.; Plans for Her Marriage to Francis Brewster in Litchfleld, Conn.
• PASSPORT LETTER PUT UP TO DUMBA; Zwiedinek Signed It as Routine, Without Knowing Contents, He Tells Lansing. WILSON TO DECIDE ACTION Baron Gets Promise of Further Consideration ;- What Nuber Did Is Not Yet Clear. SAFE CONDUCTS ARE ASKED Lansing Acts in Behalf of Boy-Ed and von Papen, the Dismissed German Attaches. PASSPORT LETTER PUT UP TO DUMBA
• $82,503 AND A CAMP FOR THE BOY SCOUTS; Charles T. Coutant Places 75 Acres in Catskills at Their Disposal. ROCKEFELLERS GIVE $12,000 Fund Collected So Far Is the Largest Ever Raised by the Organization.
• LARGE EXPORTS FOR WAR.; Reshipment of Goods from Southern Lands Also a Feature.
• NATIONAL BOOK FORTNIGHT
• OUR ANCONA NOTE IN AUSTRIA'S HANDS; It Is Understood That It Calls for Disavowal and Reparation for Lives Lost. THINKS AUSTRIA WILL YIELD A Diplomat's Prediction ;- General Belief That a Refusal Will Precipitate a Rupture.
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• THIEF GETS RARE JEWELS.; Sneaks Into Chicago Art Institute and Escapes with Costly Collection.
• GARRISON PROGRAM FACES HARD FIGHT; Strong Opposition to the Continental Army Idea Develops in Congress. MAY BUILD UP MILITIA Many Lawmakers Doubt That 400,000 Men Can Be Induced to Join Volunteer Force.
• THINK CHANCELLOR INSINCERE; Paris Papers Profess to See Desire for Peace Behind Speech.
• HILL AND GRENDA BIKE RACE VICTORS; Greeted with Hisses ;- McNamara and Spears Lose First Place on a Foul. SIX-DAY RECORD BROKEN Exciting Scenes at Garden During Final Sprint Dashes That Closed Event.
• GARDNER'S TRIUMPH SURPRISE IN GOLF; " Jerry" Travers "Comes Back," but Fails to Win the Amateur Title.
• THE BAFFLING MR. MERCEDES
• DENIES FINANCING HUERTA.; German Bank Handled $655,000 as Business, Says Manager.
• FOX ELUDES HUNTERS.; Thirty Ride to the Hounds in Meadow Brook Club Event.
• Foul Goals Keep Lehigh in Lead.
• BETHLEHEM SUSPECT CAUGHT BY BRITISH; Alleged Fire Plotter Taken Off Liner After Escaping from This Country. RIGID PASSPORT RULE NOW Passengers for South America Scrutinized ;- Prof. Green and Others Barred from Steamer Verdi.
• Scientists Sail for the Canal.
• BROWN HAS GOOD MATERIAL.; Baseball Men Will Start Work After Christmas Recess.
• FIFTH AVENUE APARTMENTS ON INCREASE FOURTH MODERN STRUCTURE NOW BUILDING; Latest Operation in Select Residential Blocks Under Way on Old Progress Club Site at Sixty-third Street ;- Investment of Over $2,000,000 ;- Demand for Large and Expensive Suites.
• $5,000,000 DYE COMPANY.; Big Manufacturing Concern Incorporates in Delaware.
• SUGAR SHIP AFIRE FOR SECOND TIME; Flames Burst from the Tyninghame Soon After She Left Pier for England. ATTRIBUTED TO INCENDIARY Fireboat Came to Rescue as Freighter Put Back ;- Cargo in Same Hold Burned on Dec. 5.
• THE COSMIC MIND AND THE HALLACIOUS URGE.
• America at Last Really in the Foreign Field; Great Trade Extension Plan of Important Banking Interests Has in Mind Not Only Profit for This Country But Assistance for the War-Torn World
• A Dangerous Corner.
• BIG BANK IS REORGANIZED.; International Elects National City Men as Directors.
• YUAN SHIH-KAI, EMPEROR OF CHINA; Accepts the Throne, Tendered to Him by the Council of State. HE DECLINES AT FIRST Then Agrees, but Is to Await a Convenient Time for the Coronation. COMPLICATIONS EXPECTED Japan Likely to Protest, and the Chinese Republican Party in America is Aroused.
• NEW TREASURY RULE ADOPTED BY M'ADOO; Change in Methods of Retiring National Bank Circulation. PLAN FOR REDEEMING NOTES Federal Reserve Board to Designate Securities to be Bought ;- Treasury to Arrange for Cancellation.
• French Stop Another American Ship and Seize Two German Passengers
• SIX LEAP TO SAFETY AS FILM EXPLODES; Trapped on Second Floor of Chemical Plant in New Rochelle. ALL ARE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL $150,000 Damage by Blaze That Spreads to Many Near-by Buildings.
• DEMOCRATS CALLED TO MEET IN ST. LOUIS; National Chairman McCombs, in Official Order, Fixes Date as June 14. REPRESENTATION RULES OUT He Also Names Special Sub-Committee to Make Arrangements for the Convention.
• COMMODITIES MARKETS
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• THE USE OF TRADEMARKS.; Kinks In Registering Them in South American Countries.
• ALBANIANS ARE STARVING.; Dr. Ryan Is Studying How to Succor the Helpless People.
• BID FOR NAVY MOTOR BOATS.; Prices of Anti-Submarine Craft Range from $18,000 to $60,000.
• B.R.T. FLAYS KRACKE IN BRIDGE TOLL CASE; Declares the Commissioner Misstates Company's Figures and Attitude. A NEW SERVICE PROPOSAL Suggested That Shuttle Cars for All Lines Be Put Into Use on Williamsburg Span.
• FRENCH WEST POINT GAVE HEROES TO WAR; Nearly 2,000 Saint Cyr Graduates Slain, Including 287 of Last Two Classes. YOUNG PATRIOTS TAKE OATH To Go Into Battle in Full Uniform, with Plumes Flying ;- Notable Deeds of Gallantry.
• PALACE OF MOTORIA' IDEA FOR 1916 SHOW; Original Setting, with Goddess of Industry as Central Feature of Display.
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• BASEBALL SLUMP SURPRISE OF SEASON; Decreased Attendance in All Cities ;- Giants a Disappointment.
• ARREST FOR BRIBE IN FORT.; Soldier Accused of Letting Man Snap Camera in Monroe.
• ALLOW SUMMER BALL.; Southern Colleges Pass New Rule at Conference Meeting.
• GIBBONS BOUT JAN. 15.; New Date Set for Postponed Boxing Match with Ahearn.
• TO BAR WARS OF AGGRESSION; Owen Wants Amendment to Constitution Providing for Popular Vote.
• Soccer Teams In Tie Game.
• OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF REALTY CONDITIONS
• OPPOSES CHECK STAMP TAX.; Tillman Would Prefer to Collect Incomes Exceeding $1,000,000.
• Arras an Unburied City
• CENTRAL Y.W.C.A.'S CORNERSTONE LAID; New $400,000 Building to Stand at Lexington Avenue and Fifty-third Street. PRICE OF GROUND $200,000 Historic Silver Trowel Used in the Ceremony Is Presented to the Association.
• Desertion in the Regular Army.
• Mrs. Santa Claus Has Been Found at Last; She Hides Herself Under the Name of Miss Alice Purinton and Works in the U.S Patent Office, Where She Decides on New Toys for Christmas
• WAR HURTS CHINA'S FINANCES; Entente Powers Refuse New Loan ;- Don't Want to Act with Germans.
• The Removal of Postmaster Morgan.
• Fame Finds Poet 13 Years After His Death; Strange Fate of Lionel Johnson, Walter Pater's Greatest Disciple, Whose Death Was Like That of Poe ;- Collected Poems Now First Published
• JAPAN WILL AGAIN PROTEST.; Is Likely to Send Another "Friendly Note" to China. YUAN SHIH-KAI, EMPEROR OF CHINA
• GET SING SING CONVICTS.; Three Men Surrendered to Testify as to Warden Osborne's Conduct.
• NEW LIGHT IS SHED ON ARCTIC DISCOVERY; 62-Year-Old Records of McClintock Party Eagerly Examined by Scientists. FOUND BY STEFANSSON In a Cairn Discovered at Point Victory Papers Tell Story of Sir John Franklin's Death.
• A HALF CENTURY IN TWO MEN'S LIVES; Important Volumes of Biography in the Study of the Late Bishop Potter, by Dean Hodges, and Dr. Abbott's "Reminiscences" REMINISCENCES. By Lyman Abbott. Illustrated. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.50. HENRY CODMAN POTTER. By George Hodges. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50.
• MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR WALL STREET; Bankers and Brokers to Share the Past Year's Prosperity with Their Employes. CLIENTS ALSO FARE WELL Big Advance in Stocks Has Scattered Many Fortunes Among Investors During Last 12 Months.
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• PARISIAN GOWNS SEIZED.; Dressmakers Arrested for Customs Fraud Released on Bail.
• DUTIES ON TIMERS.; A Decision Under a General Provision of the Tariff Law.
• ATTACKED BY SEA AND AIR.; French Steamer Escapes from Submarine and an Aeroplane.
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• Out-of-Town Business Troubles.
• " Blessed is he that considereth the poor." ;- Psalms, xli., 1.; NEW YORK'S 100 NEEDIEST CASES CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS 100 NEEDIEST CASES CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS' 100 NEEDIEST CASES
• MILLION MEN FIGHT SERBS.; That Is the Estimate of the Central Powers' Forces.
• AIR CORPS FOR THE NAVY.; New Bill Also Provides for a Reserve of Aviators.
• TWENTY-FIVE-CENT GASOLINE MAY BE A NEW YEAR'S GIFT; Increasing Demand for Fuel Pushing Prices Upward ;- Motor Vehicles Use 3,000,000 Barrels More Than Preceding Year.
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• AMERICAN FOOTBALL HAD ITS BEST YEAR; 32,000 Teams Played and 6,000,000 Persons Viewed Contests ;- Cornell at Top.
• TURKISH GUNBOATS SUNK.; Petrograd Reports Two Sent to the Bottom of the Black Sea.
• MORE DEBUTANTES GREETED BY SOCIETY; Misses Frances Riker and Constance Chappell Make Their Bows at a Tea. MISS PALMER INTRODUCED Receptions, Theatre Parties, and Dances for the Misses Kerr, Colgate, and Stratton.
• PLAY OF ST. NICKS BAFFLES CANADIANS; Score Victory in International Hockey Match by Score of 6 to 2.
• THE AUTHOR-DIRECTOR-MANAGER
• WAGNER SHIPS AS PRIZES.; Hocking and Genesee to be Taken to London for Test Trial.
• BRONX REGISTER'S OFFICE.; Big Gain Shown in Papers Filed This Year.
• PILGRIMS ELECT BRYCE.; Unanimously Chosen as President to Succeed Lord Roberts.
• Joffre Now in Command of All French Armies; Interesting Sidelights on the Character of the Silent Leader to Whom All His Countrymen Turn with Confidence and Affection Nowadays
• PROSPERITY BRINGS DEMAND FOR HOMES; Architects Busy with Plans for Country Houses and City Residences. BIG TRADE FOR DECORATORS Urgent Calls for Period Furnishings and Antiques Bring Goods from Storage.
• CUNARD LINER AGROUND.; Four Tugs Trying to Release the Ultonia in St. Nazaire Roads.
• ART NOTES.; Works of Renoir and Monet on Exhibition ;- Little Paintings.
• TO FIGHT YUAN FROM AMERICA; Chinese Republic Association Will Raise a Large Fund.
• When Roosevelt Reduced the Army.
• New Hotel Welcomes Worthy Down-and-Outs; If They Have Money They Will Have to Pay, If Not They Will Be Provided with Shelter for a While Until They Can Obtain Employment
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• PAYS $20,000 FOR OLD PRINT; Burgis Engraving of Old New York Sold to E.W.C. Arnold.
• INCOME TAX LISTS SOLD; 2 ARRESTED; Deputy Collector and 60-Year-Old Woman Clerk in Newark Are Accused. MAY GET YEAR IN PRISON Only Names and Addresses Revealed, with No Information as to Source of Wealth.
• WANTS AMERICA TO BUY AEROPLANES; G.H. Browne to Send Expert on Tour to Plead for Aerial Defense. SEEKS GOVERNMENT ORDER Will Build Factory at Ogdensburg If Washington Will Promise to Buy from Him.
• NEW FUND TO AID BELGIAN SUFFERERS; Money to Go to Cardinal Mercier for Special Cases of Great Need. SHOES FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS Plea for Bright Caps and Scarfs for Wounded ;- Armenian and Serbian Funds Grow.
• REVIVAL OF GOGOL'S SPLENDID CLASSIC; A Translation of "Taras Bulba," Historical Novel of the 16th Century, Peculiarly Appropriate Just Now ;- Latest Works of Fiction TARAS BULBA. Translated from the Russian of Nussia: V. Gogol, with introduction by Isabel I. Hapgood. Alfred A. Knopf $1.25. LATEST WORKS OF FICTION
• BRITISH STEAMER IS SUNK.; The Busiris Destroyed by a Submarine ;- Her Crew Saved.
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• Buy Red Cross Seals to Fight Tuberculosis
• CARBURETOR THAT WILL USE LOWER GRADE OF GASOLINE; Reeves Predicts Improvement in Little Mechanism, Making Effective Mixture of Fluid Testing Only Fifty-four Degrees.
• Austrian Forces In Bulgaria.
• BIG ORDER FOR NAVY STEEL.; Contracts Let for Metal for Two Battleships.
• ASSERTS FORD GOT A SKUNK.; Publicity Man Also Tells Financial Secrets of Voyage.
• PEACE TALK REVIVED.; Federal League Owners Will Gather Here This Week.
• SUE DR. LIEBKNECHT AGAIN.; Military Authorities Plan to Prosecute Socialist Leader.
• GERMANY'S STEEL OUTPUT.; More Men Being Employed and Production Is Nearly Normal.
• HAVERFORD LEADS BY DEFEAT OF YALE; New Haven Team, Beaten 2 to 1, Drops to Third Place in Soccer League.
• SEES IN THE HYPHEN OUR GREATEST FOE; Philadelphia's Mayor Links Split Americanism with Partisan Grafting. PLEADS FOR PREPAREDNESS Would Begin by Making True Americans of All, Regardless of Ancestry.
• POSTAL SYSTEM OUT $21,000,000 BY WAR; But Burleson Reports That Economies Reduced Audited Deficit to $11,333,308. BIG PARCEL POST GAIN More Than a Billion Packages Handled During the Year ;- Savings Bank Business Booms.
• Facts from Many Lands
• Enormous Trade Figures.
• Jobless Old Men Become Christmas Toy Makers; When the Mayor's Workshop for the Unemployed Closed, Miss Christine S. Foster Developed a Helpful Idea That Has Already Proved a Big Success
• CHINESE BANDITS ACTIVE.; Two Americans Recently Attacked and Robbed in Mongolia.
• WHY THE AMERICAN ARMY COSTS SO MUCH.; General Scott, Chief of Staff, Says That Under Our System the Amount Will Continue to be Excessive.
• Famous Swedish Poet May Win Nobel Prize; Verner von Heidenstam, Though Little Known in This Country, Has Risen, Through His Writings, to the Foremost Rank in His Native Land
• BELGIAN MUNITIONS PLANT BLOWS UP; 1,000 Persons Injured in Havre Explosion ;- Few Deaths Reported.
• TRAFFIC POLICE FIND CITY'S BUSIEST SPOT; It Is Park Row and Frankfort St., Where 296,200 Pedestrians Pass Daily. BROADWAY AT FULTON NEXT 15,545,745 on Foot and 2,212,374 Vehicles Counted on New York Streets In 24 Hours.
• Murphy-Wiborg Wedding Dec. 30.
• WILL EMPLOY STUDENTS.; Firms Here Will Train South American Technical Graduates.
• CASTELNAU CHIEF OF STAFF.; Joffre Names "the Savior of Nancy" as His Second in Command.
• MISS SWIFT TO WED COUNT.; Packer's Daughter Engaged to Jas. Minotto, New York Banker.
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• TWO ARTISTS IN RECITALS.; Gabrilowitsch in Aeolian Hall ;- Elman Plays for Jewish Sufferers.
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• FRENCH GUNS BATTER MEUSE TRENCHES; Damage German Shelters, Too ;- Fail to Retake Positions Lost in Champagne.
• The "Fantasie" of Schumann for Violin and Orchestra ;- A Piece Revised by Fritz Kreisler and Its History.
• DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN.; Unconfirmed Report Says Crowd Insulted the Crown Prince.
• NEW RECORDS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET; Central Congregational Church Boys Take First Honors in Brooklyn.
• WESTERN ATHLETES WON MANY TITLES; National Championships at San Francisco Shifted Honors from the East. WESTERN ATHLETES WON MANY TITLES
• ITALIAN POSTS CAPTURED.; Austrians Report Successes at Monte Video ;- Gorizia Attacks Checked.
• STROBINO WINS RUN; NEW COURSE RECORD; New York A.C. Team Captures First Honors in Cross-Country Race.
• NEW HEAD OF PEACE SOCIETY; Directors Elect Dr. G.W. Kirchwey to Succeed Ex-Senator Burton.
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• LEHIGH SCORES SHUTOUT.; League Soccer Team Defeats Haverford's Eleven, 5 to 0.
• BRONX AUCTION THIS WEEK.; Jerome Avenue and White Plains Road Lots at Public Sale.
• SELL $320,000,000 OF ALLIES' BONDS; Underwriters of Anglo-French Loan to Get the Balance of $180,000,000 Tuesday. WELL PLEASED BY BIG SALE Low Prices on Exchange for Future Delivery Are Traced to Speculators Going "Short."
• Colony Club Soon to Move to Its New Home; Finest Women's Club House in the World, at Sixty-Second Street and Park Avenue, Will Be Ready for Occupancy the First of the Year
• FINANCIAL MARKETS; Week-End Recovery in Stocks ;- Anglo-French Bonds Firmer ;- New York Central's Rise.
• Japan's Attack Compared to the German Invasion of Belgium.
• An Army of Prints and Drawings in the Field; Work of Joseph Pennell on View at the Brooklyn Institute ;- Original Drawings by Famous English and American Artists ;- Other Exhibits Mary Rare Views of Old New York at the Grolier Club ;- Drawings by Van Gogh ;- School Work in the Exhibition of Arts and Crafts
• COTTON DECLINES ON HEAVY OFFERINGS; Selling Orders and Break in New Orleans Send Prices Down $2 a Bale. LIVERPOLL MARKET HIGHER Transactions Mostly Speculative ;- Southern Spots the Determining Factor.
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• Half of Tested Meters Too Fast.
• AMERICANISM FOR AMERICAN YOUNG MEN; AMERICAN IDEALS. By Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. The American Books. New York: Doubleday. Page & Co. $1. AMERICANISM FOR AMERICAN YOUNG MEN
• LONDON MARKET STILL DULL; British Funds Undergo Further Decline ;- Discount Rates Quiet.
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• LAMBERT WILL SELL HIS ART TREASURES; Paterson Silk Manufacturer to Dispose of Paintings Worth More Than $1,000,000. 50 SCULPTURES TO GO ALSO Entire Collection Now Contained in Belle Vista Castle Goes to American Galleries.
• BRITAIN ENROLLS 80% OF HER MEN; Derby Recruiting Campaign Closing with Whirlwind Rush to the Colors. TOTAL PUT AT OVER 4,000,000 Estimate of Number Responding to "Last Call" for Volunteers ;- Time Extended.
• GAIN IN EARNINGS OF RESERVE BANKS; $2,000,000 Increase in Assets Reported for Week ;- More Bankers' Acceptances Held. DECREASE IN GOLD FUND Caused by Transfer of Funds to Reserve Agents and Transmittal Between Banks.
• TRAINS NOW IN VOGUE FOR DANCING GOWNS; Of Heavy Brocades Lined with Colored Velvets and Metal Cloths, They Are Thrown Over Right Arm During Dancing.
• PRIVATE MOTORING CUT OUT IN GERMANY; More Drastic Restrictions, to Save Fuel for Military Use, Now in Force.
• Russian Success in the Caucasus.
• IMMIGRATION DROPS 508,397 IN 11 MONTHS; Steamship Agents Predict There Will Be a Shortage of Unskilled Labor Here. EXPECT EXODUS TO EUROPE After the War 500,000 Are Likely to Return to Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
• BERLIN POST SUPPRESSED.; Reported Disciplined for Opposition to Giving Up Territory.
• CLEVELAND AGAIN VICTOR.; In Second Hockey Game All Stars Are Beaten, 5 to 3.
• PEG COMES HOME AMBITIOUS
• HARVEY SAYS ALLIES HAVE ONLY STARTED; Thinks German Defeat Certain and Expects War Tide to Turn Next Spring. NO PEACE FOR A YEAR YET Colonel Holds Wilson Will Have a "Chance of Re-election" if the Conflict Lasts.
• WANTS NEW UMPIRE SYSTEM; Gaffney of Braves Urges Better Assignment of Officials.
• SAYS WAR DIARIES MAY BE DECEPTIVE; Observer with the Germans Warns Against Crediting Soldiers' Complaints. BUT THEY IMPRESS CIVILIANS And for That Reason, When Captured, They Are Made Much Of by Enemy Newspapers.
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• BUILDING PROSPEROUS.; Gains in Number of Permits and Values for November.