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THE BHOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1017. the place was a small primitive fishing village. I could not make out their pur pose. Certain tea shops in the more Individualism, French Army i KeynotePaternalism, British Old Flatlands Road-House Entertained Many Notables modern sea shore resort nearby naa the same inscriptions, ss well as grocery stores, which may have been selling wet goods by the bottle, as is the French custom.

These out of bounds regulations may have been required by the difference between French and English liquor legislation, but to a mained there until tho windows were modi-mixed by a inter lundlord about twenty years afterward. Thomas It. McNeil, the restaurant keeper, well known fo old New Yorkers as a partner in the firm of Smith McNeil, of Washington Market, bought the property around I 860 for a country home. Ho made few changes In the building, but planted tho grounds about it with many choice fruit and ornamental trees, making It one of the show places of tho county towns. In 1872 the straightening of Flat-hush avenue cut through this prop, erty, and McNeil sold the remainder to John Van Wyek in 1874, who lived there till 1882 and whose heirs now remain in its possession.

About thirty-five years ago J. Fred Rinlnsland, an enterprising young German, rented the place and established an ice-cream saloon and garden, which proved a gold mine until Bergen Beuch was opened up as a summer resort. In 1895 H. C. Puckhaber became1 the owner and reopened It as the) Amcrsfnrt Hotel.

He was exceedingly successful for a time, but had to glva it up in 1902, when It reverted to tho Van Wyck heirs, and has been In charge of a caretaker since that time. Though not so venerable In appearance as some of the houses In that neighborhood, it ls considered still, remembering its history, one of tho landmarks of the town of Flatlands and of Kings County. Farli Svcm Hjc Ttc Artvan. Dardanelles" and Egypt. All the At the southwest corner of Kings nationalities in the British Empire chance visitor they gave the whole town the air of a boarding school for Highway and Flatbush avenue Is a boys.

The French so er insists on more individual liberty, Inconvenient Afi were represented there, and the young tageS, DUt bagle Man Alter officers had not failed to reserve for themselves the best drinking places Visit tO Both FrOntS In- clt- The common soldiers had strict orders to keep out, and If they as iie may find It at Units to substi tute his "System for the British pa ternalism. 1 snouia sneak In they would not be rreilCn iVietnOO. I served. The French barkeepers are clines to Both methods have their advantages as Turning Out the Best Fighters. not slow In learning on which side their bread is buttered.

This does not mean that the French soldiers and officers always mingle on a common basis, except in the fighting line, but that the French are not and their drawbacks. The French soldier often has to go without the comforts Of life that the British "Tommy'' gets as a matter of course, but when it comes to a hand grenade fight between shell hole and shell hole his "System education generally stands him in stickler for soriul exclusiveness. At the cafes in the towns along the good Htead. "The trouble with the English sol west end, which still exists. The first floor of this was a ballrom 100 feet square, and the second floor was cut up into sleeping rooms.

For many years It was famous a resort for sleighing parties and summer excursions, being the only place furnishing dancing accommodations between John I. Snedcker's at Jamaica and Coney Island. It had a reputation all over Kings County. John Dogue became the next land-land In 1855. He bought from Bergen for $6,650 the house and surrounding grounds of one and a half acres.

During Logue's occupancy it was frequented by transient guests of much fame in later years. One of the most prominent was Levi P. Morton, then a rising young banker of New York City, who came to Flatlands to visit Lucy, the daughter of John Kimball, who had a fine summer house near the Flatlands Bay shore. The young woman was afterward married to Mr. Morton, who subsequently became the Republican Governor of New York, and also served as Vice President-of the United States.

With his diamond ring he cut his name in one of the small panes of glass In the room he occupied at the hotel. It re French front, as well as in 1'arls or WALL PAPER house that has existed for over two centuries and has been used as a tavern for most of that time, though at Intervals It has been occupied as a private residence. Several times it has been modernized outwardly, but the foundation and the framework still remain in as good condition as they were 200 years ago. The plot on which it stands, about an acre and a half, was conveyed by the original Indlan.owners to Andrew Hudder and Wolphert Garretsee, jointly, in 163S, and his half interest was conveyed by Garretsee to Elbert Elbertsee In 1666, and by him sold to Petersee Wyckoff In 176. Simon Voorls came into its possession in 1 7H7, when the house upon it was used first as a tavern.

John B. Duryee used it as such for almost twenty years, being its owner and landlord until about 1820. Then Abraham Terhune became the owner and at his death his widow sold it to John Bergen in 1843. Bergen built a two-story extension on tbe dier," a Canadian officer once said to me, "is that he is not supposed to think. olher towns in the rear, the men and officers sit not at the same tables, but often in the same room, or on the rtalmral rape" Non-fidlnj: 30 Dlarontlnnrd Pnftorns All that Is done for him, or is supposed halls, kltnhsiw and bed- Inches wide, all colon, sola uttable for 2'2c Huitahu c1 A came "terrain" for their "aperitif," or rooms; sold only with with cut-out borders, special, borders.

Special, roll per ron glass of black coffee. If there is any to be, by his The Germans know that, and they have special snipers trained to pick off the officers when we advance. They figure that if restraint it is not noticeable. Such 45c, 35c, 25c, 18c Better Grade of Tapers, In exclusive, designs and colorings at, per roll Kaglo Bureau, 511 Hue Cambon. Paris, February After having made numerous visits to various points along the French front, I have been permitted to make a short trip iiielde the British army zone in France.

I did not see anything of the British front trenches, nor any fighting, but I did get some glimpses of British urmy life in the rear. Comparisons may odious, but I feel utrongly tempted to draw a few obvious parallels. things are decided, as they are in civil life, by tacit understanding. they get the officers down, the men raperhanging, guaranteed workmanship, per roll ISVfcc. will not know what to do, which gives a counter-attack a better chance to I recall being In a cafe at sur Marne, the headquarters of a French Army, a dark night last fall.

In order A A TORS Kr ffi 350 Livingiton Brooklyn, N.Y. t. n. JtJDJ CX VW. mjak flatbush avenue men to keep out the light.

rather keep it in, the windows were heavily draped and a set of double doors had been installed. Inside it was light and warm and the place was crowded with staff officers, trench officers, civilians (mostly aged men) and common soldiers. The officers were playing chess, or reading the illustrated papers, or chatting in groups, but none of them took umbrage when three young "chasseurs Alplns," evidently young country boys, came in for a glass of hot black coffee before returning to the front line trenches In the cold drizzle. The "chasseurs" talked together, just as the officers did, and no one's social position as hurt. nr JVJ No Such the British Incidents In succeed." French Army Now Represent Entire Nation in Arms.

More fundamentally still the difference between the French and British armies is one of difference in stages of evolution. There was a time when the French army was less democratic than it is now. It was composed, as the British army was until Just before the war, of a caste of professional officers, recruited from the upper classes of society, and of privates drawn from the working classes, whereas it now represents the whole nation in arms. The British army is rapidly reaching the same stage. It suffers principally from "growing pains." The tendency to preserve the old forms is bound to diminish.

It is as though one tried to design a locomotive on the lines of a brougham. Time and experience will show that it will not work. In this evolution toward a more democratic national British army the contingents from the oversea dominionsthe Canadians, the Australians, the. New Zealanders and South Africans are acting as a leaven. The British colonials are more nearly "Americans" in their ways of thinking that they are European.

Their officers have no caste. For their authority they have to depend upon what inborn superiority they may possess. If they do not possess any they fail. Signs or stripes will not help them. As raw material for an efficient army the Britons are excellent, no matter from what part of the globe they may come.

They are stubborn. They are brave. They are buoyant. They are cleanly in their habits. They are quick to learn the technique of modern warfare.

All they need is teachers. I The keynote to French army life as well as to the French civil manner of living is Individualism. This Is really the secret of French success in trench lighting, where an operation depends for its outcome not so much on strategic plans of a staff far in the rear as on the initiative and nerve of a handful of men, and often on the enterprise of a single individual. It has often been remarked that in trench war generals are figureheads, who intimate what they should like to see done, and then write a report after it is all over. It is the soldiers, and the lower rank officers who go with the soldiers the lieutenants, the captains, and at times the majors that decide the outcome of a battle.

Almost all these heroes are anonymous. To get an idea of their prowess and their personality one must take a chance on visiting the first line trenches a few score yards from the Germans, and at times even nearer. There is, furthermore, in the French Army, a method of provisioning called "System which is another expression for "Debrouillez-vous" or "Se Debrouiller," which means literally to disentangle oneself, but in familiar French has come to have the same significance as "Get busy" in English. In other words, if you want anything, get it yourself. This system may not represent the highest form of military organization, but wherever applied locally it gets results.

The Frenchman may sometimes lack foresight, but when he sets to work to accomplish a thing, he does it with a vim that no other nationality can equal. His best works are the finest achievements of individualism. Paternalism the Characteristic of British Army Methods. In the British army a wholly different system prevails. One has hardly entered the British army zone before being struck by the paternalism that prevails everywhere.

The British soldiers are well equipped. The government thinks of everything, from steel helmets to darning needles. The' British regulation boots are the best. Army. In the British Army it is different.

When visiting its zone in northern France I had found a room in a primitive village hotel, formerly patronized by painters, who found the cooking excellent, and who were still more pleased at being able to pay their bills by leaving a picture or two as a panel in the diningroom or barroom walls. The British officers had also discovered the qualities of the "cuisine" and promptly a sign "For Officers Only, By Order," was hung on the front door. In the cafe they spent their free hours, playing billiards, and in the diningroom they filled most of the tables. While dinner was being served the first nijrht, there entered a dapper young French officer, a lieutenant, wearing the well-cut horizon blue uniform. With him there came a much older man, a common soldier, wearing the weather-stained clothes of a territorial.

"This must be the young officer's orderly," I thought, having the "For Officers Only," sign in mind, was not a little surprised to see the common soldier sit down opposite the officer and begin to share the meal with him. The two talked together familiarly throughout the dinner, and when it was over they went together to the cafe in front and had their coffee and WORLD NEWS BRIEFS Paris All foreigners traveling in Fiance or its colonics and protectorates may be obliged to carry an "identifica tion card" after the war. The Chamber XML JUP OPEN ALL DAY of Deputies is discussing a law to that effect, which also provides that naturalized foreigners shall carry an identification card for ten years following I 1 liqueur like two boon companions. For or Your Convenience the issue of tbclr papers. This is to them the "Omcers only" sign man matter.

They may have been relatives or neighbors or it may have been father and son, but the fact remains WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 22D repress such secret intelligence work as it is alleged was done for Germany that one man wore a fine officer uni on French territory before the war. Amsterdam The Austrian RelchS' rath will be summoned In the middle of Day Monday Is the Opening May. says the Az Est of Budapest which also learns that the question of autonomy in Gallola will be left for settlement until after the war. The paper adds that the German parties The officers are particularly well shod, with knee top, waterproof boots, much better than any I have seen at the French front, except in Individual cases where the outfit had been Jtought privately. The British forces, moreover, have waterproofs, which are but rarely seen at the French front.

I have also heard that the British forces are better fed than the French; that is, they are provided with more delicacies, with greater regularity. They never fail to get their tea at five, and their jam is never missing. Though the French soldiers are given a substantial diet, they cannot depend on the government for sweetmeats. Here is where they apply their "System who wanted tne exclusion or me ronsn form and the other a common soldier's rig, which under the British system, would have prevented them from dining together in public. Had the thing occurred behind the French front it would not even have been i.

British Common Soldiers Could Get No Service, Even in Kitchen. While eating breakfast the next morning I heard a commotion in the old-fashioned kitchen, through which one had to pass in order to reach the diningroom. Someone was trying to ask for something In French, but was unable to get satisfaction from the kitchen maids. Seeing a British uniform cap through the open door. 1 uront nut nnri volunteered mv Rrvircw Deputies from the Reichsrath have have yielded to the arguments of Count Clnm Martinec, the Premier, and the Poles will, therefore, attend the May session of the Rcichsratb.

Tjondon Hong Kong, Great Britain's Chinese colony, has made a gift of $5,000,000 toward the prosecution of the Bo far the British paternalism may This sale will surpass all previous sales in number and quality of the extraordinary values offered. Prices were never lower or terms more reasonable. There are slightly used pianos, which cannot be told from new, that were turned in as part payment on new Wissner Player Pianos because there was no one who could play them, therefore, used very little. Then, too, there are pianos that have had worn or defective parts replaced by new ones. Some pianos have been literally rebuilt at the" Wissner Factories, where there are unlimited facilities for doing the work properly.

Many have brand-new actions, strings, tuning pins, sound-board, wrest plank and have been newly varnished and metal parts newly plated. You Will Be Allowed Three Years to Pay for Any Instrument Provided Payments Are No Less Than war. It will be paid partly rrom current revenue and partly from the proceeds of a local loan of $3,000,000 raised in the colony. London Nineteen young women car have its advantages, but one of the I as an interpreter. It was a cold, raw, tint things one observes when enter-1 misty winter morning, and two tall lng a British army base in France are I young soldiers, who nad evidently signs.

"For Officers Only, by Order," i been some kind of clerks before en-posted on the doors to the better cafes listing, were trying to get a cup of hot and restaurants. One never sees any- I coffee each before starting out on an penters have left for France, where they have contracted to remain for the nunc jib umi in mo rencn army.early morning train toward the front, zone, and it is easy to imagine the A coffee pot was simmering on the pot was simmering on the duration of the war In employment mainly connected with the building of grumbling that would arise If anything of the sort were tried. After all, the French Revolution did something for France. "For It's Tommy This an Tommy That, and Tommy Wait Outside." The first time I saw any of those 'Tor Officers Only" signs was at Marseilles last winter, when the British were still sending troops to the barracks for tbe British Army. Melbourne Importation of all preparations purporting to be remedies for alcoholic or drug habits has been prohibited in Australia.

Melbourne The death Is announced of John Tebbutt, Australia's foremost astronomer. He was 82 years old. Mr. Tebbutt spent practically the whole of his life at Windsor, New South Wales, where he erected an observatory at his own expense. He first came into world-wide notice by his minute 0NTHLY $10 Cash $5M ANCHOR -O iDENTURE ff stove, but the maids had made up their minds the men were "Tommies" and, therefore, refused point blank, to serve them.

This was in the kitchen and no officers were about, but the maids remained obdurate. To all my persuasive remarks they replied, with sullen shakes of the head, that the police authorities had forbidden them to serve soldiers. I explained their fears to the two soldiers, adding that their own officers were originally to blame for the order. To this they replied with appropriate profanity that "In the front line trenches there were no such distinctions." and off they went in the thick, chilling fog. They were not uneducated laborers, and externally had every sign of as much intelligence as some of the young officers I had seen in the front room cafe, drinking sherry and learning to play billiards, the night before.

It made my blood boll to see those two lads go off unserved in their damp clothes and muddy boots, but when I explained my feelings, to an American doctor, serving in a nearby British base hospital, he said I was all wrong, and that those maids had don6 the right thing. "There are places in every town where the men can get hot coffee, only they cannot go to the same Dentistry That Lasts observations of-the comets of 1S58, 1800 and 1861. In 1862 he was offered and declined the post of Government astronomer of New South Wales. The following is a partial list of the used pianos which will be placed on sale at 8 :30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The price range is so gradual and so wide that there is sure to be a piano here which you can afford to buy.

Besides these instruments there are many others at the same prices. There are brand-new pianos too, sample pianos, discontinued models, and others which are on sale at reduced prices but not advertised specifically. The new instruments are wonderful values and without doubt will be picked out by those who believe that an opportunity neglected is an opportunity lost. this ROOFLESS the best achieve-Far ahead of all Scientifically made, PLATE is admittedly ment of Dental skill, other plates. Adheres 10 me gums as If It were a part of them.

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French and 8wedlih Spoken. IAOIM IN ATTINOANCt patients were all romoved to a place of safety. "System U. How British Troops Are Kept Within Bounds. Another set of signs that attracted my attention In the British army zone were those inscribed "Out of Bounds to Troops." I had never seen anything similar on the French front These placards were hung over the entrances to the majority of the stores, especially those that sold candies, crackers and perhaps wine as well aa stronger drinks In bottles.

I also saw the same Inscription over certain streets, and as Leckerling 180 Seller 185 OBITUARY Se mis DmIi notices, last Lewis Hlno Hobby Jr. Lewis Hine Hobby 75 years old. $220 of 467 Hancock street, for fifty-five years connected with the wholesale drug house of Schieffelin In Manhattan, died Friday from pneu monia, after an illness of ten days. Mr. Hobby was born in New York City, '190 195 200 205 210 215 $300 300 350 300 500 300 the son of Moses Morgan Hobby.

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The Duffy Malt Whiskey Rochester, N. Y. will be held this afternoon in the church, the pastor, the Rev. W. W.

T. Duncan, officiating. The Interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Mr. Hobby is survived by his wife, Cora Nelllgan Hobby; a son, Charles, and three daughters, Mrs.

Ada Neff of Kast Orange, N. Mrs. Ella Powell of N. and Florence Aker of Flatbrookvllle, N. J.

Leonard George Forsler, Leonard George Forster, 35 years old, assistant managor of the stock brokerage firm of De Coppett At Doremus, in Manhattan, for tho post ten years, died at his residence, 204 Windsor place, nix RiiPrafmiM i sax i t-ri i rmr nn i.tn VB' A Brooklyn 55-57 Flatbush Avenue yesterday after an Illness of three months, from pleurisy and bronchitis. Ills funeral services will be held this evening and the interment, will be In Evergreens Cemetery. Mr. Forster Is survived by four sisters Mrs. Andrew Melvln, Mrs.

Andrew McGlrr, Mrs. Wentworth Griffin and Miss Fannie Forsler. I.