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4 THE SUN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 191$. DANISH RIGSDAG SPLIT ON U.S. DEAL Lnndsthlnc Spciii to Ifnve Mnjorlty Against Snlc of TslnntlM. FOhKKTIIIXO FAVOHS IT CHIHUAHUA PLOT LEADERS ARRESTED 100 Prisoners, Mostly Ex Bandit Chieftains, Are Seized. LOW RENTS SOUGHT FOR MEN ON BORDER Socialist and Hadicnls Pro pose a Plebiscite to Me Held In Three Weeks. rillllfAtlltA ClTT, MX.i AUB. 11 A revolutionary titot to sflsw Chihuahua rlly ha bfti rrurtrattd by tti arrfitt of I the leailcra, lompoieil larguly o( tormtr bumllt chlttalna, C.tn. Jacinto Trcvlno nnnouncnl to-day. Amoni the 100 prlsonna or Jot Ynri! Hulazur, who wag arrtited r opiilly; Kellx Tcrraxaa and II. Homos Some Landlords Cnt Flmire in Two and Others Refuse to (Jive Aid. STOTESBDRY READY TO PAY N. Y. TROOPS Men Will Keeclve an Average of $12 Knch as Share From State. HELPERS NEEDED AT BOHDEJL Qna'rtermaattr'a Department Calls fop Teaaaateri. Major T, It. Rhanton of the Qurtr tnaster'a Department of the New York National Guard yaatsrday laaued a call for 441 teamattra, horaaahoara, aaddlera, cooka, whlwrlhta, parktra. chauffeurs and mechanics to ba aent to the border. Vrom thla It waa inferred that the troops will not be home for some time. rorrs-HAfjEN. via London. All. 12! The l)anlh I-anrlstlilnn, or .Senate, on motion of Its President, derided to-day to revive It rlf Into n committee to con sider the bill for ratification of the ces sion of the IVnlh West ltidli-s to the t'nlled states. There nre apparently the bet sround for the prediction that the I'nlkethlnc. which testimed to-ilny Its deliberations n the hill. lll npprove the sate. The T-andMhlnK, lioivrtrr, arrm to have a safe majority ncalnst the proceeding. The result, aecnrdlnit to the bet opinion here, will be that the HIkccIiiu will be dissolved and a general election held under the new constitution, which, whll Its going Into effect tn. to have be postponed until nfter the war. wilt In the event of need be put Into force Im mediately. The Itiidlrals ami Socl.illt, who are In the majority In (he lower house, 1 favor confirmation. In the Lnndsthlnc, ' however, the Conservative and l-eft Op-1 position appears certain to prevail. I Much of the opposition to continuation I of the nale Is not based on economic I or broader grounds, but Is purely polltl- cal. It Is due mainly to a feeling of, resentment at the attitude of the Oov eminent, which the objector accuse of ronductltiK neuutlHtlons with the t'nlled secrecy National Guard of New York la making ! iilcardo. former nuheeU n" f h 1"Jlord" of Oroaco ! fieri. Culoglu Ortei, and v'0'-1 Uirilm'n whoe families have become Ventura Itodrlguez. dependrnt, and In ea h case an adjut- Other under arrest are : Lieut. -Col. ment of the rent la belnr arranged. If Kellx K. Helmut" and CnpL A. Halo. puble. In some Instancea the landlords Vllluitaa, recently amnestied : l'edro have been willing to take half of the Landlords who have National Guards men for tenants will now have n chance to show their patriotism as well n em- Stotesbury arrived ployera who have continued ware,. to-day to pay off the men for the The Active Service Auxiliary of the,. State. He will start work on Monday morning to supervise the necessary final corrections In the rolls, and as soon ns these men are ready the men will receive their pay from the date of the Ohio nenilr Some Time Monday. I Camp Wilms, Columhui, Ohio, Aug. IlKAiKjlurntiii Nw York Division, 12. The 10,000 Ohio National (Hards- Mi'Am.fv. Tex.. Auc. II. Adjt.-tlen.imnn mobllied here probably cannot en ' ' . .. .. 1 . . h. , 1 . .... . . In MeAllen at noon ,'nnn" chief mustering oftlcer, who auld It would require two or three days lo pre pare transportation. MAYOR LIEUTENANT IN TRAINING CAMP All Whb Won Shoulder Straps Last Year Will Wear . Them Now. li.ATTSBUtio. N. Y.,Aug. 12. The .n.nnn men at the August camp of 'military In-atructlonito-day put In a strenuous dny of Infantry training, their work begin ning at 7 o'clock lit the morning and continuing Mntll 4 130 this afternoon, with an hour'a Intermission for dinner. Announcement waa made to-day that the members of the present cninpwlio held the rank of commissioned olllcer or any grade of non-commissioned olllcer In uny past camp would l glwn the same rank or grade this month. Mayor Mltchel will therefore hold the rank of Hecond lieu tenant, which rank M given him last summer. Two thousand of the men In the camp have undergone the physical examina tion, and only thirty-one have been re jected for disability, this being the small est number of rejections at any camp this summer. Mor than 40 per cent, of the men who enrolled for the present camp have failed to report for duty and the nlllcers are ut a loss to account for the large falling off. Fourteen per cent, was the average for the previous camps. The ttrat general Inapectlon of the camp will he made by Major-Hen V7wJ to-morrow morning before any of tJ ttinti leav In i.ittn,. t.. . ' ..... " ... iiiiriiu ecru.. at the oily churches. The men ,,111 Inspected without arms ti nit t 'T. follow the Inspection of the tri,i.,c, .. eipilpment. ' ai"' The members nie now selectlp. .v. branch of the service which lliev wtti take up as their elective work, iiiul slrtictlon In the different hrsnelit. J!, begin Monday. Thus far ,nre h " chosen engliieerlnK limn ny branch, with the cavalry a rl k, West Mriiila ClIICAflO. Allg. to the number of 12.- Hei-rnlu, ClVlllin lerr,,!,. "ll Will Iimi.i Cl.l,.,.. to-morrow for Norfolk, Va., where thy will board the lnulslati.i for an tended course In naval hrtin jtmtili They will bo Joined at Ctnelnrutl by another quota. mobilization call to the date of muster ing Into the Federal service. It la Ileltran, Jose Vlrglllo, ttomlnguea K. 1 rrn,, counting on the guardsmen's army estimated that the average for each The total will approxl- Hemal ami Joaquin Ifurnn, all leading ,m. to meet the other half. civilians. Some dllflculty has been experienced On. Trelno asvrted that the move-' tn wourmg concessions of any kind from ment hnd been known lo Government of-' landlords of. the more exacting type, flclals for some time, but that the ar- fry n.ve frequently been referred to rests were not made until as many men lhr Hlnlt tth.t of v.imlerbllt -Implicated as ioislble had been Identlllcd, committee, where pavment or other ar Cimuto lteye, ex-outlnw, now holding ft raitgementa will l made. They have Cwrranza command, who was ap-( refused to cooperate to that extent In Ptuachcil, gne military authorities the gome Instances, and aliposcsses have llrst Intimation of the plot. The prison- been threatened and In other cases ae ers will be tried by court-martial, and If tually executed. The auxiliary la stand found guilty will be executed. ng bv Its applicants and purpos-s tn win over the landlords to conciliatory methods wherever dlsputea nrlse. Itenta are not the only debts troubling the wives nnd mothers left behind to work out their own problem of existence. 25,000 NEW TROOPS ORDERED TO BORDER Continued from first I'agr. of former Prime Mln- """,.,.e "... ' 7 1" " I nioney was paid largely he I ""' '" 1 " ' ' '"""r to cover the week'a expenses of famlll-s I t all times President, was done only In the presence of a national emergency, the regular army of the t'nlled Slates being Inade quate In s!ie to afford the necessary pro tection to the lives of men, women and . ... , ., , .L..t . oin'iirii, 1 iuf-nn . 1 lie jiuic. timir.i, ,., !tfL"!" nny body .... '-"h LT3:V:;i""i"'n In the country except the regular .1 r. iM.rut........ former Prime Mm. rmy. who make a profession of the mil liter t.inl now leader of the Left I Kolkethlng, has declared his belief that 1 the exlitlng lllgsdag Is not uimpetent to decide the West Indies question. In the I event "f new election", however, he would siipp'Ht loiillrinatinn. The former Premltr was u member of the Govern ment of 1:1112, which laid thv tiropns.il to ' sell tlx- IflaiuU before the ltlgsilag. 1 Then, ns now, the upper house opposed the Government proposal and defeated! confirmation. The new conMltutlnn confers the suf frage 1111011 women and domestic servants and alio niliiies the age of eligibility fn.m 311 to 29 for the Hist general elec-I tlon. The total number of voters will theiefine be mere than doubled. Hence nobody Is brave enough to attempt to 1 forecast the probable complexion of the new Itlgnlag. If one has to be choseiC The final decision on the sale of the man will be $12, lime 1150,000. J Payment will be made bv check, so ( that the men may. If they wish, send j money directly home. Hut Gen. Stotes- ' bury also arranged with the local bank to cash these checks If the men pi e-1 ferred currency Instead, Major F. Lv V. j lloppln and First Lieut. Frank J. Kcr-j win of the AdJutnnt-tleneial'H depart ment, with six civilian .clerks, aivoin-1 pan led (ten. Mtoteshury. Major lloppln ' returns to the division catqp, where he, previously nerved as Adjutant-General , of the Hecond Urlgade after an absence! of more than thiec weeks. 1 One woman, who Is harely able to work I I.leut..Col. CUrenre ,x, a.lw.rvn, for enough to keep food on the table, I wrinn .ew orK ini.iiury. seni ms. my, han been pestered by a furniture Instsl ment collector. She hurriedly appealed to one of the executives of the auxiliary at the Seventy-first flegtment Armory, where an Investigation was ordeted, nnd It was found that the chattel mortgage aken by the Instalment house before the purchase had been foreclused. After consultation with the firm's lawyer nnd their credit department arrangementf) wire made by which a stay of execution would prevent further molestation of the family or furniture until after the guardsman's return, when he will re sume payments. More than )400 was disbursed at the office of the auxiliary yeaterday, Thl In small sums where no other means of securing their could be auminoned Into the Keilerul ser vice without hardship and Inconvenience, ' and yet both the Constitution of the . Called Slates nnd the laws made pur I suant thereto recognize these mllltiA 1 and National Guard units as the second j ary reliance of the Government for the 1 protection of the Interests of the United States or the lives of the citizens of the country. I "The department regrets these Incon veniences and hopes that the emergency will rapidly disappear and that there , will be such a restoration of order anil I security on the frontier as will permit I the speedy return or these cttlxen sol diers to their several civilian pursuits. Islands mav be postponed nearly a month , m 'ne meantime this department has If the proposal of Itadlc.tl air! Socialist 1 taken steps to mitigate and relieve as members of the Folkething for a pie-1 fur ns posilhle the unusual and excep bclle l ndopted on Monday. I tlonal hardship which have nrlsen In The propoMil of the ItadlcaN and So- classes especially subject to distress by clallsts calls for the apiimval of the 1 reason of the servlte demanded. To the ness, professional and personal career", . ,. , . it... . - 1 I , ' ' ., ' , u " " : " . living has been found possible. In some Nat.onnl Gunrd of the several States Instances the sum Is ns small as Jl Klchteen persons out of the sixty-five families dealt with In the day were found to he In need of employment, and in only one cace was the fact brought out that the employer was paying the applicant for relief, and of course no help was therefore gh-en. Five families were found to be stlll'waitlng for prom ed pay from emplojers. ARMY BILL DELAY TO COST $1,000,000 Wilson's Hnltinp Hits Called for Purchases at Double Prices. resignation to headquarters to HuslnesN Intercsta at liomn, demand his attention. Col. Wadaworth has served In the Twelfth for thirteen and a half years ns First Lieutenant, Captain In the commissary department. Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. With the mobiliza tion call Col Wadaworth stepped down from Colonel to Lieutenant-Colonel and the other Held officers took a correspond ing drop to make way far the appointment of Col. Gordon Johnston. Captain and aid on the staff of Major-Gen. Leonard Wood of the Department of the Kast. I In conne-tlon with the resignation of Lleut.-Col. Wadsworth. Col. Johnston said to-day: "I regret Col. Wadsworth's going away very much, He has always1 been .1 capable, punctilious and courteous officer." One troop of Squadron A was ordered to proceed to Monte Crist", at Sterling's ranch, to-day and take charge of the refilling station, which Is being estab lished there for the marches of the nine Infantry regiments tn begin next week. The other troops of the squad ron will march to Sam Fordyce on Monday I Sibley stoves have been ordered for , the New York illvHon. This Is the type , of stove usually Installed In tents In the winter time. This Is taken to mean I that the troops nre to spend at least 1 part of the winter here. SEIZE 3 PICKPOCKETS AFTER FIGHT ON A CAR treaty between teumark and the I nlted State's by P.it llnment. The approval by Parliament, however, will become effec tive only If It In int'.fled by n majotlty Mite of thi- plebiscite, which Is to be held within three weeks. 1111, 1 under the fiHtichlsd provisions of the new Consti tution, according to the proposal. Advocate" of the sale believe the CourM- prop's-id should meet the objec tion" of the leading opponents, who bare been la lug iniiih stress on their opinion that the pi cent Parliament Is not com petent lo decide the matter alone, and that the people should havu a chance to cx,isoj, their wishes, extent that that can be done In fact. It I will be done, but the primary consider.! j tlon must be the safety of our bonier and the preservation and protection of I the lives of our citizen there." The Wnr Department to-day Issued a 1 I long report from Major-Gen. O'ltyan, j commanding the New York division, re futing charges made by a newspaper cor respondent and published In two New York papers. One of these charges was that the troops obtained only a (rult ration of two prunes and one dried apri cot a week. Gen. O'Ryan denies thla along with the rest. WAR GAME AT BROWNSVILIE. Washington. Aur. 12 Armv officers here arc deeply concerned over Presl-' . dent Wilson's delay In t-lgnlng the army , appropriation hill. Thla, together with. tne neiay In getting the bill through Congress, has cost the Government up-, watd of 11,000.000. and the needless waste of public moneys continues. I This waste of funds results from the' fact that the fiscal year ended on June 80 and there was no new army bill 1 to replace the old. 1 naer tnese circumstances a bill wns Detectives Witness Theft One (Jets Away, One Held, One Caught in Chase. Two Imlnlli llriilmenta Ordered tn Take San Itrnltu. Tlr.owNsvii.u:. Tex., Aug. 12. The game of war Is now being plaed by nun dieils of regulars and national guards men in the llrnwnsvllle district. One of the most elaborate manoeuvres since the "lied" and "lllue" army demonstrations in New England several years ago was tailed to-dny simultaneously from Point Isabel, twenty miles from Jlrownsvllle on ,mM.!.iVLr,,'''!,,' ",,J 8an ,ie"1,0 lwenty I ""thing about It. He pomted out mnes noun. ..,,, 1 "ch troops as remained In the The "bunding army." which, flgura- und ' ,h romm.n,, . ,h ... lively, has landed In force on the Gulf roast, is marching Inland to capture San Ibnlto. The reslnlng forces, almost a brigade, which have been stationed at San Henltn, have been thrown Into the field to protect the town from the In voders. Coif Hubert u Mullnrd Is in com mand of the San Henlto brigade. The Invaders are the First and Second Virginia Infantry, under command of Colonel William J, perry. They camped at Point I rah! Inst night, after execut ing a manieuvrc to the coast, where they prevented an Imaginary enemy from landing and marching to Hrownsvllle. It Is twenty miles fiom Point Isabel t San Henlto. Ilrig.-Gen, James Pirker, commanding at Fort llrown, h aceom panjing thu Invading army. WILL FILL DIVISIOS'. tint Km. O'ltyan Has Heard Noth ing of Call for Mm Cults. IU-ApQf ARTxns Nfw York Diviiion, McAm.e.v, Tex., Aug. 12. When Major Gen. O'ltyan was aked to-day concern ing a report from New York that all the rest of the National Guard regiments had been ordered to the border Irrespec tive of whether they were recruited up t.i war strength he said that he knew that Stnte were under the command of the Depart- ment of the Cast and not of the South, so that any ordera for them to move would Issue from Governors Island. The following unit of the First Di vision, us soon as they are properly equipped, are expected here to complete 1 the mblllzatlon: The Third Field Ar tillery (heavy), the Third Field Hospl tal, the supply train, ammunition train and, perhaps, the aero squadron. There are now approximately 19,000 men In the New York Division on the border. and this would bring the total up to mjre than 22,000, CARRANZA DECREE EXPLAINED. it Rodge The New York trojps at the border are: Seventh, Twelfth and Seventy-flrat In fantry, First Cavalry and Squadron A, Cavalry, at MeAllen. First Urlgade Headquarters and Sec ond. Fourteenth and Sixty-ninth In- Applies Only to Shareholders B ' inntry at Mission. iiuru, 4 wemy-inirii aim pieveniy-iourill .New Corporations. Infantry at Pharr. Washington, Aug. 12. Special Agent 'lr" ! Second Field Artillery, Ico city to-dav advised Twenty-second lluttallon of Engineers, the State Department that the r mt , '."nil'aiil" A and H of Signal Corps. decree of the fnrranza Government, re-1 First and Sec mil Field Hospital and quiring American and other foreign 1 First, Second, Third nnd Fourth Ambu Mockholdcrs In Moxlcnn coiporatlons toll'inre Companies at MeAllen. waive their right to appeal to their' When the First Division Headqimr own Governments for protection of their ,', wltM Mnjor-Gen. O'ltyan In corn interests, applied only to shnroholdets niand, moved to Texas Major-Gen, Ap In new corporations, and did not, ns had P'eton was created commander of a new been lepotted, affect foreigners Inter-, Hecond Dlvlsl .n. The nucleus of this ested In established concerns. ! consisted of the First, Tenth and Forty- Many Americans had feared the new eeventh Infantry Hegltnenti. all of decree would deprive them of their n-W'Mlch '"'ently returned home from; the terests or compel them to assume Mexl- MRtr cmp: the F.lghth, Ninth' and can citizenship. Although Carranza au- Thirteenth Coast Defence Commands, thorltlea pionilsed several days ago to whlrh rr located In Manhattan and release II. A. Dunn, an American lm-1 "rnoklyn, nnd the Third Field Artillery nrlaoned for having sold dvnnmlt.. to (formerly the Hlxty-tlftli Itegtment of Zapata forces, he Is still In Jail. Mr. 1 Infantry. V ..Oil" otighly Itodgerx reported to-day that he had. assurances of Dunns early ieease, Dunn has been In Jail since May 31. Anihaaaador Sharp Soils. llORTiRAt'x Aug 12. William a. Sharp, the American Ambassador, and hi" daughter, Miss Margaret, sailed on the steamship Lafayette to-day for New York, Albert llnllmler I niiilna; Here. Paris, Aug, 12. Albert D.illmler, Under Secretary for Fine Arts, experts 10 go lo New York In November for the opening of the French theatre there. A number of Paris nctors will present new works by Maurice Donnay, Henri Lave dan, Pierre Wolff nnd Georges Feydeuu. K. .'. nils Wills .Vepheir ano.ono, The will of Krnest C, llllss, who died July 22, was (lied for probate yesterday Murrain), which Is now at Whitman. Thee already trior- organized anil pretty wtll equipped regiments represent a strength or about 3,500 men. The remainder who make up the 10, 000 men In the newly created division are recruits for the most part. The Tenth Infantry hns Its hendqunr. ters In Albany and Is recruited mostlj from nearby towns nnd village. Tha Forty-aerenth la from Ilrooklyn ORDERED TO EL PASO. Movement Described ns Pare!? One of Mobilisation. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 12. Practi cally all the 25,000 troops ordered by the War Department tn proceed to the border will be sent tn K Paso, Major Gen. Funston announced to-night, Military men here were careful to point out that there la absolutely no Two charitable bequests of $1,000 each I significance In the movement. They ex- are made, on to the Little Mothera Aid Association nnd the other to the Metro politan Throat Hospital. A nephew, John Dellelt llllss of Santa Monica, Cal., lecalves $50,000, and Frederick A, Dal let cousin, received stock In Hllss, Da). Mf Co. The residuary estate goes to u nTcce, Anita lilies of 449 Park avenue. Plained mat wniie the massing of so large a body of troops at Kl Paso would be the natural atrategy in caae of boa tllltles, because of that city's location nt the north end of the Mexican Cen tral and Mexican Northwestern rail way!, It waa now only a part of the general mobilization. Three detectives saw pickpockets nt work In a crowd last night .and caught two of thvm. Sometimes. It happens. Detectives Schrclber, Hreen ar.d Ilrady, returning from Hockaway Peach, walked up the ramp from the Pennsylvania Terminal to Thirty-fourth street, nnd there saw a hand dip In an old gentle man's pocket and come out with a wal- pore permiiiing one-iweirtn or tne 01a. a thieves and victims boarded ..roormiio.i ,o ne expenueu eacn rrosstown car. The detectives Jumped rnonrh until the new law became ef-j on the car nnd seized three men. One of ' ... them got nway Hreen and llrady held onving oniy mese resmcteq funds one after a hard fight me r ieparmrni naa oeen ODIIgeii to make piecemeal purchases In small amounts for all sorts of woitii uiurrwiee wuuia rave neen iqreet. bought In large amounts. For the Tll(.' ,(,r,i mnn got off the car. Schrle- plecemeal or "shoestring" purchases the ,r( ln ,n,rault. and (ltd to Seventh ave- department has In some Instances had nu, nd Thirty-fourth street, where he to pay more than double the price which rlodged Into a drug store. The Selective the contractors would have accepted ,iahed after him, the two of them upset under normal conditions. ,lri , anrt othpr hnrgalns ns they ue have been rushing purchases for .ent. The quarry ran In one door, out women terlcii. equipment) nUgh- which frightened passengers to the point of hys He gave bis name as Philip of 615 West Twenty-seventh the mllltla bc-ause It was feared shortage would excite public criticism and the contractors have been making us pay dearly," one of the officers said to-day. "In many cases the price has been more than doubled. The Indecision and delay have resulted In a pure waste of hundreds of thousands of dollnis of the public's money, and If the President does' to not ma kb up mi minci soon tnls nguie will pass the million maik." ICED WATER FOR MHTTIA. Red Crass to Install Coolers In Border Campa. New York troops along the Mexican border are soon to be furnished with Iced water provided by the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross. It was announced yesterday that ar rangements had been made to Install coolers In six Y. M. C. A. recreation houses, used ty soldiers from this State, In Texas located ns follows: Three at MeAllen, one at Mission and two at I'harr, The' cost for the Ice alone is estimated nt 00 monthly and the Red Cross will also defray the expense of the apparatus, which will be of the bubbling fountain type. The action was taken aa the result of reports on the' condition of the men made by Raymond B. Fosdlck. formerly Commlrsloner of Accounts, to Nrwcotnb Carlton, head of the Weatern Union, and chairman of the military relief commit tee of the New York chapter of the lied Cross. The water now used for drinking pur pases for the troops must be piped for Considerable distances, the plpea being very near the aurface of the ground, It leaves the faucets quite wsrm, nny where from 0 to ISO degrees, and for thnt reason Is not used as much as cooler water would be. The men are so anxious to get Ice water that It Is necessary to detail squads to guard the water coolers In the' cars of passeriger trains Hint run near the canm. Kentucky Still flOO Hen Short. Fout Thomas. Ky Aug. 12, Olllceri and men of the three regiments of the Kentucky National Guard now mobilized here plainly showed their delight wli-i Informed of the order to proceed In the border. It was slated officially that 2,100 men urn equipped and ready to move on an hour's notice, .il llinnsb 500 rrcrults will have to be added to the brigade before It can ho brought up to 'full peace strength, of the other and then bark through the tlrn entinncc, thinking o mingle with the pursuers. Uut the ruse did not sue- . ceed, and at the station house he gain j the name of George Wllmont of 2(13 West Thirty-eighth street. The victim win Arnold Munnlch. a real estate broker of 375 Fulton street, I Ilrooklyn, who was returning from a trip Philadelphia with his wife and t,intl..ar.lti.lr.t&' Ttiern WHM 110 In the' wallet, which waa found In the street, where one of the trio threw It during the chase. NO RELIEF FOR PROVIDENCE. Trade Hoard Finds i Discrimina tion In Coal I'rh-ra. Washington. Aug. 12. Investigation of complaint" of high retail prices for coal In Providence, It. I., have led the Federal Trade Commission to decide that conditions responsible are not of a char acter to be reached by the commission under the law. The Investigation was seoarute finm the general Inquiry Into the anthracite Industry and was brought on repi menta tions by Itepiesentatlio O'Shaunessy, who declared Providence consumers paid substantially more ror their coal than thone In Itofton, although Providence was nearer the coal Olds. Agents of the commission failed to discover any unfair methpds, of cntupetl Unit or any discrimination asalnst Prov idence, nnd 'retMirti'd that the ilHTeieuce In price for coal In 'Providence and Hos ton was accounted for by cheaper ti.nis-porlatlon. BRIAR SUBSTITUTE SOUGHT. Forestry Service Asked to Co operate In Search for Pipe Wood. Washington, Aug. 12. American pipe makers, confronted with scarcity of French briar, are looking to the forest service for subatltutea. The Govern ment laboratories are experimenting with various native woods and many apeclee of chaparral of the Weat. A large quantity of mountain laurel roots have been soli from the southern Appalachian reserve for pipe making. WAR BOOMS CHEMISTRY. IiiiiiihI Meetluit Will Sliotv Growth III American linlntr. Research studcntH and technical not Iters in chemistry are going to idiow nt their annual meetings here next month the extent to uhltli the chemical Industries of this country have In en stimulated by the war In Kumpe and other causes. The American Chemical Society, the American Llurtrn-Chemiral Hocly, the American Institute of Mining Knuluecrs and th Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper In dustry will bold meeting at Columbia. I'nlversdty and In the, Grand Central Palace, They will describe at these meetings the xtent Industrial development which l coming in the Southern Slates as a result of discoveries dtie 'tn modem chemical engineering. They predict that dyes, acids and paper pulpa.aro destined tn be produced on nu Immense scale in the near future. f.l to nrolhrri Hrat lo Charily, William MrCabo of Cambridge, Vt., Ik bequeathed f 5 by the will of his sister, Mrs. Mary Lynch, who died August 10 at 209 Ivaiet Forty-fourth street, whl the rest of the estate goat to tha Mis. elonary Sisters of Mary, Summer Business Hours: 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturdays durimig: August the Store wMI be closed all day 1. Altaian Sc 0. THE GREAT AUGUST CHOICE ORIENTAL ALE OF RUGS is dhow in progress and will be continued without intermission throughout the month. Extraordinary preparatory efforts (ante-dating this Saie by many months) facilitated by a rarely close relationship with the famous rug: marts of the Orient, enable B. A It man & Co. to offer, notwithstanding the disturbed conditions prevailing abroad, enormous quantities of Persian, Turkish and Chinese Rugs, of the finest qualities and in all sizes, at astonishingly low prices. SMALL RUGS at S 1 4.00, $ 1 9.50, $24.00, $28.50, $35.00 and upward PERSIAN RUGS (medium size) at $48.00, &68.0.0, $85,00 and upward ROOM-SIZE RUGS at $95.00, $135.00, $165.00, $250.00 and upward HALL RUNNERS at $45.00, $68.00, $85.00 and upward Oriental Rug Department, Fifth Floor. A Special Sale of Leather Goods for Monday, will include articles of interest to the vacationist and traveler. Traveling Bags (sizes 16, 17 and 18 inches) of russet cowhide or biack walrus-grain leather $5.75 Week-end Suit Cases (sizes 24, 26 and 28 inches) of black enameled duck, cretonne lined, with tray, hat and shoe partitions, at $5.00 Women's liet Boxes (size 18x12 inches) of black enameled duck, cretonne-lined, with two hat forms and shirred pockets, $4.50 Women's Hand rocco in black and mirror One of the Special Offerings for to-morrow (Monday) will consist of Women's Milanese Silk Gloves Mousquetaire, skteeti-button length, in whaiu or black at 65c. per pair of genuine pin mo or colors, with inside frame $2.90 Envelope Bags, of genuine pin morocco in black or colors, with inside frame, purse and $3.25 mirror A Selected Number of New Autumn Styles in Women's Misses' Serge Dresses, Tailor-made Suits and Coats are now ready for viewing in the Ready-to-wear Departments, on the Sedpnd and Third Floors. Imported Lingerie New assortments of dainty Lingerie s.re con stantly being received from France and fto Philippines. These undergarments are tr,s.zi: of fine-quality nainsook, Einen, siik, etc., ar.u are exquisitely hand-embroidered in "ev--effects, giving a distinctiveness of style tS"' should please the most discriminating buyer FRENCH LINGERIE to be on Sale to-morrow (Monday) "Li provide special values in Night Robes . . . at $2.50 & Chemises Envelope Chemises .... Pantalons Combinations at at as T 1 The Fur Fashions Scasor 1 r. IS Betalph Guaranteed Silk Hosiery Je exclusively for B. Altman & Co., in white and the fashionable colors, for the well-dressed man and woman. The Hosiery of Quality at moderate prices. for the Autumn and Winte: indicated in a number of beautiful ar nous Coats, Manteau?', CspelcJs and in many handsome combinations. these are Neckpieces an '3 Muffs furs, and wonderfully matched s Ik its those who desire their furs made up Displayed in the Madison Avenue ae-Mv' the Third Floor. of ss" All charged or paid purchases will be forwarded free of charge by mai3, freight, to any point in the United States. QJIirty-faurtI &trcri telephone 7000 murray hill Cljirtij-ftftli trrrt 1 i jr.