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U3 i THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SCXDAY. JANUARY 7. 1017. SECOND ARTILLERY RETURNS WITH VIM AND "PEP," WITH WHICH IT WENT TO TEXAS LAST SUMMER MRS.R.E.

GRAY, NURSE IN CIVIL WAR, DIES; WAIVE IMMUNITY, I IS HEALER'S PLAN SECOND ARTILLERY IS HOME AT LAST; GETS BIG WELCOME Grippe! It is a winter plague which claims thousands every season. Scott's Emulsion will and fortify you against Qrlppc, and if you have had will re- store yourstrength faster than any other known medicine. No Alcohol-Just BM-Food FRANCE FACING FOOD PROBLEM Nation-Wide Census May Be Necessary to Its Proper Solution. TWO WINGATES FATHER AND SON THE ARTILLERY IS BACK Eagle Bureau, fj 3 Hue Cambon. Paris, December 20 As Franc4 prepares to practice rigid economy III food.

Which may lead to the tarty ordering of bread cards and two menl less days a week, the onestlon is be. ing asked: If the government Is to undertake tho problem of rcvlctual-Ing, does It have the ire eessary lnfor- matlon regarding the population anel Its needs? The answer is very gen erally: No, It Is believed that a na. tion-wlde census will have to be taken perform their work elUeiently. It is clear that the rations needed by ion persons varies considerably according to age, sex and occupations. Nor is the individual tire- only unit to be taken into it takes mora to feed thirty persons living alono Miss Pelkington to Tell Her Story to the Grand Jury.

1 COROX Ell DEEEXOS HIS Jl'RORS. at steh, brink for At-c on Result of Inquest. MIks Mary M. Starr, the Christian Slcenco healer. OVflf bo oM hei attorney, Meier Btelnbrlnk, and Coroner Ih-nesl C.

Wagner clashed dnr-' Ing the 'Coroner's lmpiest en Friday night, will go before the Grand Jury, waive immunity nnd tell the whole Mario Pelkington, tho 16-year-old girl who died from tuberculosis, after several weeks of Christian Science tre-atment. At least that was the advlco given by her attorney after Coroner Wagner set aside the verdict of his jury, which had found her guilty of culpable negligence, following un attack by Mr. Stelnbrink on the "Coroner Wagner had Charles Wanke a.s the foreman ef the jury In Pelkington ease, and anite Mr. the foreman of anothe Jury," said "That's all right," said Coroner Wagner last night, in answer to Mr. Stelnbrink.

"When I need a Jury I can pick them off the street or from any place. Mr. Wanke is a friend of mine and I am glad to see him on a jury because I know ho Is absolutely honest and always does his duty as a citizen, no matter who tries to browbeat hltn or attack him. I guess Mr. Stelnbrink refers to the jury which considered the fatal Diamond factory fire and Mr.

Stelnbrink appeared later for several of those defendants. He's a fine gentleman, all right, but he has praise or criticism handy and he hands If tl in favor of his clients, 1 institution. If he loses, he has fault to find. Why, he even told me that he voted in the convention to make Coroners constitutional officers." ARIZONA LEGISLATURE IDLE. Refuses to Act Until Gubernatorial Contest Is Settled.

Phoenix, January fi The Arlzana Legislature recessed tonight until Monday without having at tempted to organize lhe Tire- contest neiween rr, 1. Hunt and Thomas E. Campbell, which the State Supreme Conn will decide next week, has caused the legislators to withold all formal actions. and they have not even caucused for ht Both Hunt and Campbell are pre paring to subi Assembly. Y.

M. C. A. PLAYERS BANQUET. Cast That Produced "Within tho Law" The nramatic Society of the Central Branch Y.

M. C. A. gave a dinner last night at Lorber's, Mannaitan, 10 me cast which produced "Within the Ton," nt the Central Branch on De cember 30, and January 1, last. As a an engagement has been secured play at Rielgewood, New Jersey.

COLORS FOR TWEXTY-TIIIRD. Mrs. M. Jordan of 951 Bushwick enue displayed the American flag in front of her home yesterday in honor of the Twenty-third Regiment, now returning from its tour of patrol duty along the Mexican border. Two of Mrs.

Jordan's nephews, John J. and William O'Mara, tire members of Company of the Twenty-third. Mrs. Jordan will display the flag until tne regiment, nnaiiy arrives Brooklyn and is mustered out of Fed- ESTABLISH DIET KITCHEN'. Dr.

Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical director of the Life Extension Institute at 25 West Forty-fifth street. Manhattan, announced yesterday that it has been decided io establish the diet kitchen and dining room for the police diet squad at 49 Lafayette street. This Is one of the city's buildings, and a main flour store there has been turned over to tho institute by-courtesy of the city. Often Faced Death on Virginia Battlefields to Aid Wounded Soldiers. 'OUR, NEGLECTED I1Y GOVT.

ieneral Hooker Bravest 1 Ever nlird Her One of Mel On the top floor humble tame dwelling, In tho rear 'aciftc street, In a severely plali or of the old type, there rM askot, last night, bare of any aent except a largo American It lay tho mortal remains hece-a. Ellison Gray, a famous tho Civil War. On the window-sill, outside, a large latieso cat mewed plaintively relied its back against tho panes. be casket sat the woman's niece. Miss cssie Sperry, her solo support In life Mrs.

Gray lived in comparative ob-curity and Impoverished eircum-tances, yet, in the days of her girl-mod her name was known to everj oldler In tho Army of tho Potomae one of the bravest and tenderest of chose to face death on the battlefields of Virginia in order to nurse the wounded and minister to the dying. Hooker's famous corps rang with her praises, and the stern general himself once referred to her as one of the bravest women ho had ever chanced Kebccca Gray was a bride then and noted for her beauty, ven in a State mom She had been only six wee married wis her husband, then mere boy, anwered Lincoln's call for volunteers. He suffered a sunstroke, and she left Philadelphia to bo at his Dramatic Meeting with lien. Hooker on Shore of Potomac. Beset by many perils, the nineteen-year-old bride struggled through th.

roaring Potomac. On the other side General warned her not to try to ford "If I have to swim tho Potomac I will do it," replied Mrs. Gray. "I set out to find my husband and I am go-General Hooker was so impressed that ho gave her assistance and permission to enter his lines, adding that ho wished tho Union had more women When he husband recovered she a ministering angel to food with tho hungry. remained a iharlng her deeping em She 1 amp.

At the die especially i of 1 Ished herself. the wounded in a po- ion qf great danger. Mrs. Gray was an army nurse for years. Then she was transferred I died.

1 by Full, Following Loss of Eyesight. wing the loss of her eyesight I and broke a hip. In her last made her way painfully about in children of the neighborhood i special Joy the 9 stirring days Hoc tcitle could match the wonderful tales of tire-old army nurse. An unwritten history died with her. Her dear desire was to live until the day when a lardy government would recognize the services performed by the few survivors among the army little meire pleasant by pensioning imr her an ollleial en lope from Washington containing welcome news that she had been It was her last wish to he burled rapped in the folds of Old Glory, id so the flag whb draped over the intry when sho was only 12 (1.

She is to be buried today. William I. Sieithcrlon of the Temple ollieiating. The Wom-lief Corps took charge of the of i rntli- tary training and servico was given adopted here today by hundred faculty heads of medical schools and colleges tire outiiry. assemni, tin.

call of the Council of National Defense. to discuss preparedness measures as affecting the medical profession. SANDWICHES greeting his vein, Cnltme-l George A. Hie Holder, in coiimniiul of Hie GLAD ond Field Arlille' OOAIj DEALER ASSAULTED. Found I'nconseious By a Customer; Assailants Unknown.

len entered the coal cellar of Michael Abbet, at 287 Grove street, last night and beat him so badly that incel unconscious for more than half an hour after they fled. Abbet was discovered lying bleeding In his pile of coal by a customer, who came in to leave an order. Dr. Murphy of the German Hospital was called, and found that Abbet was suffering from a fractured skull and bad lacerations of the scalp. The detectives of the Seventh Branch and Captain Jacob Van Wagner of the Hamburg avenue station made a thor- I.elgllliol And a night KIDDIES HAVE A FEAST.

Follows Final Christmas Service at St. James Episceipal Church. tel. and the -cc I heart. A.

J. M. Wilson, superintendent of tho Sunday School, a young seminary student, acted as host to the kiddies In tho Sunday School rooms. General George W. Wingate, iVInsatc.

em the- hitler's return from Manhattan Crowd Is Not Enthu-I slastic, but Brooklyn Makes Up for It. BOYS GREKTED WITH CHEERS. Colonel Wlngnto Gives Them A Twenty-four Hours Leave They Rush for Home. The moon was rldlns high In I dusk dusted east when Batteries and of the Second Field Artillery Plaza early la.st evening, and for the nrst time in seven months cenes familiar to them. Battery omvcu ai jersey i uy at o'clock last ntght, and will remain until thii morning, when it will march to tin armory in Clermont avenue, near Myr-tie avenue.

With this battery was Battery which will movo for it- armory In the Bronx. Batteries and l' of the Bronx arrived with Brooklyn contingent. The Brooklyn hoys were glad happy beyond description to reach Home, hilt, they pre no evidence their pleasure whilo traversing Fifth nor Whitman from the balcony of the union league Club. They took thel; share of the applause along Fifth ave nue, but their real enthusiasm they were saving until they had reached the home side of the Williamsburg Bridge. lie men were granted twen ty-four hours leave of absence, and will report at the armory Monday with those who love them Lest.

was a happy home coming, and a roval welcome. The regiment, of which the Brook- Communipaw Friday night. The remained in the curs, or rather those wno were unai-re to obtain No a few hours at home remained, and eariy yesieruay morning negan hurry and hustle of ferrying over from jersey aim terming the line tor tin parade to the respective armories of In the block bounded by Thir and Twelfth avenues, Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, they slowly assembled. 10 o'clock the block with its skyline of piers and towering like" scene. Bugler Sounds the Summons for the Boys to Start.

Promptly at the stroke of 2 o'clock the bugler, at the order of Colonel George A. Wingate, sounded the command that sent the Brooklyn boys on their way across the Williamsburg Bridge and the Bronx contingent on their long trail to their armory in East 168th street. Colonel Wingate, riding behind a squad of mounted police, in command of Sergeant James McNulty of Trailie Squad and the regimental band, ollicially headed the regiment. Following him came Batteries 1) and of the Bronx and then Batteries A and of Brooklyn. The route of march lay in West Twenty-fourth street until Fifth av nue reached.

There a turn uptown was made. Dense crowds, apparently taking no particular i -t- i in the ltomeeoining lereond the picturesque sight they presented, iiwaite-d them. The command clattered up Fifth ave. nue between lines of automobiles. The crowd hung to the sidewalk or jammed its way between the ma chines.

Only occasionally was there any scene or enthusiasm, and then came from small groups welcoming single soldier. On the Italcony of the Union League Club, Governor Whitman, Adjutant General Stotesbury, Major General O'Ryan. Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt a -si Coo so. 'a; retary, were waiting to review the regiment. Although the men were carrying themselves like regulars, there was a perceptible lifting of chins and sly spurring of mounts as they swung by nue they marched until Fifty-seventh street was reached.

Here the band was divided and halt tur I oast wliil. Colonel Wingate halted his horse and They continued up "Fifth avenu command of Lieutenant and the Brooklyn contingent began the last leg of its long journey from Parading down Madison avenue, the men were oujects oi curiosity knew it. Conseauentlv thev tnnlt particular notice of the throng which lined the curb. Another dense crowd greeted them at Fourteenth street, but still they failed to "thaw out." When niianisburg was reached (hey became As thev marched across tli-si mi then another fami jeet. Their first yell can before they were rea Tho long -approach i few moments side of a large American flag.

He numerous brood was distributed alon the length of the flag and her husban held the post of honor at the othe end. The whole- family shook the fla; It. rippled to the music of the urtillen men as they sang "Take Me Back i Brooklyn Town" with all the pent-u PARIS FASHIONS CP TO DATE From Tho Eagle Paris Bureau. 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Opera cloak of light 1 trimmed with ermine; eollai 'silver embroider: Ufa DILLON ON NEW FOOD LAW.

Will Provide for Selling Food In Te Market, He Snys. Commissioner John E. Dillon of the State Department of Foods and Markets yesterday told of the new bill for tho regulation of the food cost, which is soon to be drawn up. Mr. Dillon said that the prdposcd amendment, which will be.

ready within a week or ten elays, will give the Commissioner greater powers and will eventually result in the reduction of food costs. Whitman is backing the legislation. "It will require at least len days to formulate the new amendments." said Mr. Dillon. "The fundamental plan will bo to gather all the' food supplies the Th -e supplies large tcr-auctiom CHILD SETS I IRE TO SELF.

Policeman's (nick Action Saves Mary Olemonz Mary ignited 1 Of the coat smothered as seriously I I mind will probably were alone in their I g'fl was taken to SI. Tho fire did $150 home. The lift John's HOBPlta damage. longing of seven months amid sand Another Flag Displayed at the Williamsburg Trust Co. The incident of the flag attuned the men for what was to follow.

As they rode past the windows of the Williams, burg Trust Company, they spied an other but smaller flag. One of the dow shade cord. Again tho national colors waved aim again mo yen or delight went up. Then came the Plaza and its thou sands. Here was the first hearty moon "was high and electric were Just beginning to be noticeable in no garnering dusk.

"la-ooklvii and regular neonle last," yelled Private Tucker of Battery A. and the cry was taken up the line. The men felt they home and he horses tre oo change had taken place. Traversing command turned into Bedford a I i i leered. Women shrilly asked tho passing soldiers where Corporal So Always was the answer called ml it seemed he was always just behind.

The greetings were many warfare to make them pathetic. Time from the closely packed crowd and j'st as the regime wheeled inti Willougliny avenue, a young woman of tne artillery He si in ing Ir planted a hearty kiss on her lips. His comrades set up a yell and the girl "Never mind, Mary," he called ack, "I have been longing for that vcr since 1 started for the border." All along the line came cries of Welcome, home, boys." "Hello, Bill, Jack, Jim, Tom and Harry." Occasionally some one would call out "Did you enjoy yourselves?" This query appeared to be the private property vereil, "Sure! I would go luck to- nnnw if they pointed a log lierlha me and I was sure the gunner was good shot." As the regiment neared the armory ic crowd became denser. In the im-e, neighborhood of th armorv the street was black. Every available space within the walls was packed to the point of suffocation.

The entry of the regiment was somewhat theatrical. The doors were thrown open the instant the head of the column came abreast of them. Colonel Wingate was the first to enter. His appearance was the signal for a wild yell by the great crowd within. Frightened half out of its wits the two the Colonel was entirely to realize that the welcome left 'in a flash and in dashed his staff the yell scream is a more fining word--went up.

For five minutes the as each company rushed through the narrow portals and burst into view of mi' welcoming throng. Swirling Mass of Khaki-Clad Soldiers In tho Armory. The dirt arena of the armory filled rapidly. What at 6:25 was a dense crowd watching an empty black square, was a swirling mass of khaki and plunging horses at 6:30. Colonel wingate quietly issued a command and as emietly it was transmitted to the men by the officers in command of the battery units.

In a twinkling the horses were unharnessed and tied up along the walls. Equipment was arranged with lightning rapidity and their frien offeet 1 sandwiches were served ompany rooms. While thev en-I a liberal patronage the waiting grid. 1 through" until is in the hard tack. ipiantities away on the le, we expect a few kicks.

1st kick at something and i always a good thing to months ago, when what his program i the service i nltes tl.il.l i ferry to greet the Hroo'kiyn ar- nren were Mrs. Wingate. Gcncr.il Wlngnto nhd a party of friends. Thev came In a large touring car which was gayly decorated with American flaus and bunting. Inhabitants, given In for-.

number of Imu holds nor of verage size of the latter in dir. localities. Accurate data of tho diverse sort must 1 htained by YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS Washington, January' Senate met at noon. Secretary Lansing tcstifleel on tho immigration bill before the Immigration Committee. Inter-State and Foreign Commerce Committee heard testimony on the Webb foreign agencies bill.

Considered in executive, session renomination of W. N. Daniels as Inter-State Commerce Commissioner. Adjourned at 5:10 p.m. to noon Monday.

The House met at 11 a.m. Resume it consideration of ugrh-ulturol appro, priatioii bill. Itepresi ntative Gardm-r of Massachusetts testiliod before Utiles Committee on the peace note "leak" Investigation. Adjourned at 4:55 to noon Monday. CHRISTIE HELD IS $1,000 BATU Walter J.

Christie, the 19-year-old baggageman of the Long Island Railroad, who was arrested Friday evening at the Jamaica station of the railroad by Acting Captain Robert Clarke, of the railroad police, charged with rilling parcel post packages, was held in the Jamaica I'olice Court, yesterday, by Magistrate Harry Miller, in bail until Christ'-) will probably be turned over to an inspector of the Post Office Department on Monday for arraignment in a SAY HE FIRED AT WOMAN. George Hofer, 2C years of age, ot 181 Lincoln avenue, was arrested by Policeman Comcrsforel of the Liberty avenue station, last night, and locked up em a charge of attempted felonious assault. Edward Schmidt, of 2822 Pulton street, alleged that he saw Hofer lire two shots in the direction of a woman. Later llofcr's wife appeared at. the station but.

said she would not make a complaint. Y. M. C. A.

HONORS OFFICERS, Members of the Hrownsvillo Branch of the Y. M. C. A. gave a dinner to tire- newly elected Ulcers of the ranch at Liberty Hull, last night.

Among the speakers was President frank Wasserman and Ilaiuch Miller, a. member of the local school board. ADVANCE THIS IS LUXURY AFTER TEXAS-MESS OF AND COFFEE CAKE IN TWENTY-THIRD STREET The Financial Situation Analyzed by Experts Economic and commercial conditions caused by the war are described and discussed by American, British, French and German authorities. The outlook is treated. Consideration is given to trade relations likely to exist after the war is ended.

Other valuable articles, many of them signed by experts, will appear in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Annual Financial and Commercial Review and Forecast to be issued with the regular edition of Tuesday, January 9, 1917. Most complete statistical data, including 16 valuable tables, showing the condition of banks in New York and throughout the country. Also the gold holdings and other important items of the great central banks of Europe. Charts showing the range of foreign exchange rates and the weekly bank clearings of the United States. vn The Brooklyn Eagle, January 9tfi ORDER IN.