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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, 'AUGUST 17, 1919. BROOKLYN SOCIETY Miss Clarke Engaged Henry B. Thompson. Mire.

engagement Frederick of Hobart her sister, announces Miss Marie Louise Clarke of Brooklyn to Sgt. Henry Bascom Thompson. Mr. Thompson, who is a son of Mrs. John Fitzsimmons and the late David E.

Thompson of San Antonio, Texas, has been in France for 18 months with the Fifth Division. Miss Clarke is well known in musical circles and is a member of the Chaminade. The wedding, which will be a very quiet affair, is to take place at the home of the bride in the late l'all. Mr. Thompson and his bride will make their home in San Antonio.

Engagement of Miss Doggett And Paul Stopenhagen. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Florence Maude Doggett, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Doggett of 113 South Grove Orange, N. to Paul Stopenhagen of Brooklyn.

Mr. Stopenhagen is a son of Mrs. Geneva C. Stopenhagen of 450 Clinton ave. Miss Doggett and her sister-in-law, Mrs.

Stanley H. Doggett (the former Miss Helen O'Keeffe of this borough) are staying at the Hathaway Inn, Deal Beach, N. J. Miss De Witt Married To Arthur C. Reincke.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton De Witt of 907 E. 19th Flatbush, announce the marriage opener daughter, Miss Lucy Cantine Arthur Charles Reinecke. Miss De Witt and Mr.

Reinecke were married in Brook- Recently Married MRS. RICHARD D. Miss Mae J. O'Connell, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James O'Connell of 217 Berkeley place, was married on June 28 to Richard D. Scanlon in St. Francis Xavier Church, on Carroll st. lyn Mr. very Reinecke quietly is a son Tuesday of Reinecke of 281 Quincy st.

Miss Struse Fianoce Or Ensign M. Thornton. From Crow's Nest, Summit, N. comes the news of the engagement of Miss Anne Struse and Ensign John Murray Thornton, U. S.

of North Carolina. Miss Struse, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Struse of 2455 Bedford Brooklyn, is spending a fortnight at Sum mit. She graduate of Adelphi and of the Beechwood School at Jenkintown, Pa, Mr.

Thornton was graduated from Annapolis last June and is now stationed on the North Dakota off Rockwood, Me. The wedding is announced to take place in the Church of the Ascension, Fifth ave. and 10th Manhattan, at noon, on Saturday, September 20, the Rev. Dr. Stickney Grant, rector of the church, officiating.

Miss Ballot Engaged To Ensign Eric Burtis. Mr. and Mrs. Ludovic Ballot of 913 President have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Marghe Ballot to Ensign Eric Burtis, U.S. N.

R. F. Mr. Burtis is a son of Mrs. William Burtis of Manhattan.

Miss Price Engaged To Daniel H. Brown. Announcement has been of the engagement of Miss Lucille Marie Price, daughter of Mrs. Mortimer Price of 495 Eighth Brooklyn, to Daniel H. Brown.

Mr. Brown is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown of The wedding will take place early in the fall. Engagement and Coming Wedding Of Miss Durkee and Capt.

Mileham. An interesting engagement of recent date is that of Miss Helen Durkee, the younger daughter of Eugene W. Durkee, whose summer home at East Patchogue, L. has been the scene of social activity, Miss Durkee is to wed an Englishman, Capt. Christopher John Mileham (an engineer by profession,) who was an officer in the British expeditionary force in France.

Miss Durkee became engaged to Capt. Mileham while serving as a member of the Smith College Canteen Unit of the Y. M. C. A.

in France. She returned to the States last spring, but the was not announced until this last week when it was also made known that the wedding would take place at the Durkee country place two days after Capt. Mileham's arrival. He is due on Tuesday and the wedding is planned for Thursday, after which the young couple will return immediately to Europe, unless Capt. Mileham is fortunate in securing an extension of his passport.

A number of years ago the Durkees lived in Remsen and were well known in Heights society. Miss Durkee and sister, Miss Emma Durkee, are both talented artists; Miss Helen Durkee is a miniature and landscape painter with a reputation of moment. She is vice president of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the Women's University Club, the Pennsylvania and American Societies of Miniature America. is also well known in Painters agile the Art Alliance of the Long Island amateur dramatic circles. Miss Emma Durkee's talent a as an artist in the field of metal work and designing is widely recognized.

Mrs. Gay Hostess at Luncheon and Tea. A luncheon was given by Mrs. Charles R. Gay of Flatbush recently at Heaton Hall, Stockbridge, where Mrs.

Gay is spending a portion of the season. Later in the day the party motored to the Fernside tea room in Tyringham for tea. Among the guests Miss Edith Burtis, Miss Carolyn Ruefer, Miss Gertrude Miller, Miss Reba Paley, Miss Marie 0'Shaughnessy and Miss Mabel Spence. Well Known Brooklynites Take Part in "Merry Whirl of 1919." Reminiscences of the Merry Whirl of several seasons ago, which was one of the most successful of the amateur dramatic performances given A Heights Bride MRS. ELLSWORTH D.

BUCK The wedding of Miss Constance Tyler and Ellsworth Brewer Buck WAS an event of the spring, taking place at the Church of the Ascension in Manhattan. Mrs Buck is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Tyled of 80 Pierrepont st.

LEHNER-KLUG. On Wednesday at the Cathedral, Baltimore, by the Rev. Fr. Connolly, Capt. James Royal Lehner.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lehner of 213 Bridge and Miss Mary Ag. nes Klug of Washington, D. daughter of Mrs.

Mary Klug of that city, were married. Capt. Lehner was born in Brooklyn, where he is well known. He has just. returned from overseas, where he has been for two years connected with the 12th Field Artillery, and later acting as camp adjutant at Camp deMeucon, and Base Headquarters No.

1, St. Nazaire, France. Miss Klug has devoted a great deal of her time during the past three years to war relief work. Her voice has been the means of adding greatly to the proceeds of many charitable parties in the Capital. Capt.

Lehner expects to sail for Panama Canal, where he has been assigned for duty. Upon his return he and his bride will make their home in Washington, D. C. LUNDELL-WREN. Dorothy Frances Wren of 89 was quietly married ThursWilliam Lundell by the Deputy John F.

Quayle. Miss Wren accompanied her sis. Lundell, who is an exporter, Hotel Pennsylvania. INTRODUCES SONG. Miss Henry.

day to City Clerk Marion A. ter. Mr. resides at Miss Bessie Gregory, contralto, of this city, is spending her vacation at Stone Ridge, N. Recently on her trip up there she sang on one of the Hudson River Day Line boats and introduced a new song, entitled "Sailing the Hudson on the Old Day Line." The music is by William E.

Bassett and the words by the late Walter S. Wolfe. Mrs. Wolfe adcompanied. Miss Gregory is a member of the Schola Cantorum and the Rubinstein Club.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McArdle and their daughters, the Misses Edna, Ruth and Mr.

R. W. Krohn, have left for Eddy Farm, Sparrow Bush, N. Y. After returning from Atlantic City Mr.

and Mrs. J. Noonan and their son, of 120 Second have gone on an automobile trip through the Adirondack Mountains and White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mrs. William M.

Mulroy, of 581 Franklin registered at the Phelan Farm House, Greenville, N. with her daughters, Grace and Anna, and her sons, William J. and Robert A. Mulroy. Miss Hazel Pattendon, of 611 Sterilng has been spending the month of August at Eddy Farm, Palisades, Sparrow Bush, N.

and return to town the end of this month. Music Notes The third of the series of internaby the National League for Women's tional sings arranged for city, parks Service in co-operation with the International Musical Festival Chorus will be given today in Washington Square and Battery Park, Manhattan, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The feature concert will be the one in Prospect Park, where five Scandinavian Singing Societies will gather. The Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra of fifty pieces under the leadership of Ole Windingstad, who is also the conductor of the singing societies, will play. Free organ study is offered to organists by the Chamberlain of the City of New York, Philip Berolzheimer, who, with Mrs.

Berolzheimer, will give an opportunity for six deserving young men and women to study the coming season free of charge at Guilmant Organ School in New York City. The only requisite necessary is that the applicants possess sufficient talent and ability to enable them to become successful organists, but are without funds to pay the tuition. Applications, accompanied with references and a physician's statement as to the general health, should be addressed to Dr. William C. Carl, director of the Guilmant Organ School, 17 East 11th New York, before September 28.

The examinations will be held Friday, October 3. The Salvini School of Singing at 206 West 71st Manhattan, is soon to hold competitive tests in the vocal art, the purpose being to set apart those whose ability in singing warrants their being given free training. Two thousand dollars in scholarships is offered. DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION (Special to The Eagle.) Silver Bay, N. August 16-During the past week the Great Eastern Association School for the training of better secretaries has been in session in Silver Bay, on Lake George.

Five hundred strong, with a distinguished faculty of over 60 prominent men and representatives of 10 nations outside of North America, led to such apparent incongruities as a Chinaman and an Irishman chatting friendly fashion on the courts -in French! Here a great experiment in education, known technically as "The Silver Bay Experiment," under the guidance of Prof. H. H. Horne of New York University, has been put into effect. and, with the first term over, a feeling abroad that it has been a distinct success.

Prof. Horne sums it up as "Democracy in Education." The person taught shall have a say in what he is taught. The instructor shall not pedagogical professor, but a democratic leader. Among the Brooklyn men who are sharing in this noteworthy conference are G. C.

Blessin, Lawson H. Brown, Charles Stanley Bergner, Early S. Christman, Paul Howard Conrad, John Harold Call, Franklin B. Demarest, C. Dewitt Hyatt, Glen L.

Judd, Daniel O. Larsen, Stanley Manning, George W. McKenzie, Fred C. Smith, Frank J. Slater and Ernest P.

Roberts, SWEDEN OVERRUN BY GERMAN SPIES German Propaganda Scattered Wide Over Land Brooklyn Man's Observations. News German activities in Finland where armies of spies are still maintained, of business prospects in various countries among the neutrals, and much interesting comment is contained in a letter from a business man at Landskrona, Sweden, just received here. "As a resident of Brooklyn for many years and also as a reader of The Eagle during that time, I thought perhaps a few. remarks on the situation here in Europe would be opportune," he writes. "First of all conditions as regards business are first-class, especially Scandinavia, England, Spain, Italy and Portugal, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.

With regard to Russia, I was within 32 kilometers of Petrograd two months ago on a big business trip connected with the sale of a timber tract in Finland and while there conversed with Finnish secret service men, business men, alsO ex-Russian officers in the old Czar's army. Finland at this writing is in the hands of a military party, also the entire country is under martial law although no declaration of war has been made against Russia. Helsingfors, the capital, is the headquarters of a lot of spies representing the Allies as well as Germany and the Russian Bolsheviks have even gone 80 far as to put up a royal suite of offices as a trade firm to forward their propaganda along with certain German business men there. German Spies Everwhere "The same situation applies in Stockholm, the capital of this country. Wolff's International Press Bureau have a full -fledged press league working here day night scattering broadcast a lot of miscellaneous junk which no one with any sense would believe but which seems to make a big hit here.

This same bureau lined up with prominent German business men have bought up newspapers in practically ever: city and town in the country. They have also co-operated with German banking firms and bought one half and one third interests in mining fields, iron, paper firms, and have their fingers lined in pretty well all over. It is even so bad here that one can hardly live without being lined up with this crowd. Their spies consists of waitresses in hotels, newspaper army officers, government clerks, postal workers, and in fact it is the same old game that they have worked from Wilhelmstrasse for many years. Personally it is time the lid was clamped on them tight for the licking they got hasn't done them much good.

They are still as autocratic as ever. It seems impossible to deal with them in a strictly personal and business way without their trying to use one as a tool in their interests. Conditions in Russia Exaggerated, He Says "As regards Russia, the situation is simply that Messrs. Trotzky and Lenine have put up a government of lines to those the Czar, holding the their own, run, on somewhat similar people in check with strong police repressive measures and all kinds of punishment in case they refuse to obey their orders. They have however, a strong hold on the people due to their putting into effect the confiscation act which turned over lands, factories, direct to the people also putting into effect short working days and minimum wage of about $28 per week to men in American money.

As far as I learned a from certain French businessmen, business is running fairly normal there, crop conditions are good, and could the Soviet Government and the Allies come to terms everything would be in good shape in a very short period. Newspaper reports have greatly exaggerated matters there so that one cannot rely upon the papers. "Crop conditions in Sweden, Norway and Denmark are this year firstclass, supplies of all kinds are coming in here from various lands chiefly America such as meats. clothing, tobacco, wheat, and the only drawbacks to conditions at present is the extremely high prices, same being about 100-200 per cent higher than in the U. S.

A. 'A peculiar thing here also is that in Denmark cheap prices prevail, in Norway they are high, and Sweden also but the first mentioned country is just about 100 per cent cheaper than the last mentioned. These countries have a high tariff in effect. They also secure large revenue from the sale of liquors. The railroads are Government-owned but run at a large loss due to their having too many workers.

Their post office makes money. One of the drawbacks financially.in Sweden is the excessively large army, perhaps about 300,000 men, which is absolutely absurd considering their population is 6,000,000 people. With such an army and navy naturally expenses are high and that keeps up the fearful taxes which are about 6 to 13 per cent." JERSEY CAN INDICT FOR RAISING PRICES Has Drastic Law Prohibiting Restriction of Trade and Any Profiteering. (Special to The Eagle.) Trenton, N. August 16-Not only has New Jersey a State law prohibiting the placing of foodstuffs in cold storage for a period longer than one year, as pointed out by President Witson in his address before the joint session of Congress last week in making the high cost of living, but it also has an act that prohibits two or more companies or individuals from limiting production and increasing the price of merchandise or any commodity.

Violation is made a misdemeanor. This statute was enacted in February, 1913. just after President Wilson had resigned as Governor, and Attorney General McCran directed attention to it this week ncalling upon the prosecutors in the 21 counttes to proceed vigorously against firms or persons failing to carry out its provisions. The law makes it illegal and indictable for any combination or corporation, firms or persons to restrict trade: to acquire a monopoly; to limit or curtail production or increase the price of merchandise or any commodity; to prevent competition in selling and purchasing merchandise, produce or any commodity; to fix at any standard or figure, whereby its price to the public or consumer shall in any manner be controlled, any article or commodity intended for sale, use or consumption in New Jersey or elsewhere; to make any agreement for pooling or withholding from the market any commodity to affect the price. Directors of corporations are made in- dividually liable and the Attorney charter of any company convicted of General al is empowered to revoke the violating the law.

ARGUES FOR CHANGE IN NILE GOVERNMENT Blame for Revolt in Egypt Placed on England by Writer--The Drainage Problem, (Special Correspondence of The Eagle.) London, August 5-The open and caustic discussion of the revolt in Egypt in course of which 800 natives lost their lives and 1,600 were wounded and otherwise injured has been looked upon with amazement by the average Briton. He had had no intimation the extent and serious character the "revolt," the of Egyptian question and the has wand. been handled by Gen. Allenby is a matter of diverse An excellent question commenthe has been contributed by a correspondent of the London Times. With unusual frankness he declares the nation to be responsible for the conditions which eventuated in the long list of dead and the distasteful nearwarfare which attended the suppression of the uprising.

"As a nation we are entirely to blame for the recent eruption in Egypt and it is to us' to see what we can do towards restoring part of the prosperity of late years," he writes. "'The general circumstances however, are such as to give but little hope of our seeing the great wave of prosperity repeated, owing to the fact that the conditions that obtained in Lord Cromer's days no longer obtain. "The people of Egypt have changed materially during the last two decades, and the circumstances in which they live and move have likewise undergone great alterations. In 1900 the wages of the majority seldom exceeded 2 1-2 piastres a day, and many of the better skilled workers did not receive more than 5 piastres a day. The lower-paid workers on the land labored from sunrise to sundown for a pittance, and it was this cheap labor that permitted the advent of additional water to enrich the large estate owners and the foreign speculators in land.

For the time being the laborers were satisfied but as wealth accrued, the cost of living began to rise in every sphere making the position more and more difficult for the workers. Increase in Wealth Brings Desire to Share in Government "The improvement in irrigation the distribution of water, and the increase of the summer supply by the building of the Assuan Dam have made matter for the annual reports on Egypt, but the records of the Delta do not indicate that the results are all that has been claimed for them. In fact, it is doubtful whether the increased supply of water without requisite drainage has given the benefits that were expected by a number of the officials responsible. There are, indeed, large areas in the Delta that have suffered severely, and can only be reclaimed by expensive washing and drainage. "With the increase of wealth there grew up the desire for a greater share in the government of the country, and as a means to this end the question of education took a strong hold in 1905; in fact, became a political factor in Egypt.

Those who were responsible for the introduction of education had but little knowledge of the country or the requirements of the people. It was pointed out to them that the proposals made no provision to ensure the development of industries, and it was feared that they would give rise to a yearly increasing number of certificated youths who I would not be able to find employment in the service or in the world of commerce and industry. "The Egyptians as a whole--I use the word in a generic sense, covering a very mixed population--are by no means an unreasonable people to deal with, and many of us have a great respect for some of the good qualities inherent in them. I doubt, however, whether any of us would be willing to assert that the Egyptian of today is in any way ready or fit to take over the Government of Egypt. For many a long year it will be necessary to have at hand advisors with full executive powers.

"About the time when education became a political factor in Egypt we began to withdraw part of the power that had been allowed to the British inspectors in the provinces, and to put in younger men. It appeared, in fact. that for the moment we had run out of the stock of older men with experience in the handling of men, and were substituting a class with the same class records but without the experience, and lacking in sympathy for the Egyptian. The older men had had a fairly free hand, and were thus in a position to hand over a great deal of executive work to the Egyptian Mudirs and others, and at the same time hold a controlling influence, Admittedly, the system of government under Lord Cromer was autocratic, but at the same time the men in the fleld received the support which was sO necessary to the upholding of their positions in Oriental and semi-Oriental countries. Old System of Graft Crops Up Again.

"After Lord Cromer left the, new order built up a system of centralization under which the powers and initiative of the inspectors have been crushed, and their position in late years has become virtually untenable. As a result there is less respect for the inspectors, and the old system of graft has been reintroduced among the Egyptian officials in the provinces. Graft, or the means to use your official position to feather your own nest, was the one thing that the Egyptian understood to stand for government when Lord Cromer came into power, and there is no doubt that the abolition of this system, or at least its repression under a British Inspectorate, formed one of the strongest factors in our administration. "The immediate success of improved water supply and the astounding results that followed went to the heads of the irrigation officials in Egypt like strong wine, and has been the cause of much misunderstanding among the Egyptians. Many of these in the service of the Irrigation Department are at least as competent as the majority of the Europeans, and in addition possess a far more thorough knowledge of the requirements of their fellow agriculturists.

They have, however, been excluded from any important share in the councils of the service in regard to the greater projects for improvements in irrigation, the drainage of the Delta. "When Lord Cromer initiated the beginnings of the great enterprises for the conservation of the Nile he took in the first instance counsel with his local advisers and authorities on irrigation, and submitted their views to outside and independent authorities before beginning the works. of late, from the date of Lord Kitchener's schemes for the drainage of the Delta, the public, and especially the Egyptian public, have not been permitted to know fully the intentions of the Irrigation Services in regard to new projects, the control of all such work having been vested in the hands of a coterie of officials, past and present. As a result the future interests of both Egypt and the Soudan have not been correlated, and in lieu of a study open to the public we are informed that great schemes are to be undertaken for the reclamation of the salt lands and lakes of the northern Delta in order to provide additional land for the ever-growing population and at the same time more cotton for Manchester. It may be noted, however, that long before these wild schemes can mature the present increase of Christian FRENCH HAIR STORE (Paris Branch, near the Opera) SPECIALIST IN PERMANENT HAIR WAVING Over 10 Years' Experience, Wave Guaranteed, $1.00 a Curl! 228 Livingston St.

Rear of Namm's. population will far outstrip the additional area of land that is promised. "There appears to be but little doubt in the minds of Europeans and Egyptians who are qualified to know that the Delta of Egypt has enough for the time being, and that the drainage problems are acute. On the other hand, the Upper Central part of Egypt could with advantage do with more water, and, by no means least, the Soudan itself is in need of provision for winter water supply to ensure its development in the interests of Egypt and the Empire. It is, indeed, evident that in the common interests of Egypt and the Soudan the control of the Nile should be vested in other hands than those of the present group of officials." MEASURES THE HEAT FROM SUN AND SKY Experiments Made at Mt.

Wil- son for Smithsonian Institu-Apes in French Congo. Washington, D. Aug. 16-One of the most important activities of the Smithsonian Institution is the exploration of the little-known regions of the world. A fully illustrated account of the field-work during the past year by members of its staff and collaborators has recently been issued by the Smithsonian.

Among the regions visited by the twenty-two separate expeditions are many States in this country, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Africa, Borneo, and Celebes. The explorations, all of which were in the interest of science, include work In geolbotany, zoology, anthropology, archeology, ethnology and astrophysics. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Wilson, under the direction of L. B. Aldrich, has made some valuable experiments with the assistance of the U.

S. Aviation Service at Arcadia, California. A special instrument, the pyranometer, devised, by Messrs. Abbot and Aldrich, measures the heat from the sun and sky combined, or from the sun alone, or from the sky alone, as it falls upon a horizontal surface. Mr.

Aldrich used the pyranometer to measure the reflecting power of the large layer of fog which often covers the San Gabriel Valley, lying between Mount Wilson and the sea. A military balloon acted as support for the pyranometer above the fog, and the results were very satisfactory, The measurements are of much interest to meteorologists in consideration of the temperature of the earth, which is to a large extent covered with clouds. The Collins-Garner French Congo expedition procured a large collection of vertebrates, especially of the large apes, for the Museum. An interesting letter R. L.

Garner, the scientist well- because of his gorillas in the same region, a says: "Our previous studies of chimpanzees and domicile is located on the cage of a vast plain, traversed here and there by belts and spurs of forest. In those plots of bush live great numbers of chimpanzees, and for the first time in my long experience among them I have seen whole families of them out on the open plain. Frequently they cross the plain from one belt of bush to another, in some places a mile or SO in width and not a tree or bush in that distance to shelter them from attack. They often come within 200 to 300 yards of my house and sometimes manifest deep interest in trying to find out what this new thing is, set up in their midst. I have seen as many as four or five different groups of them in the same day, and one of these contained eleven members.

One very old man has come, on two occasions, within 100 yards of me and scrutinized me very closely, while his wife (as I took his companion to be) appeared to be very uneasy and suspicious. On several occasions I have seen the young ones romping and tumbling about on the grass, chasing and scuffling with each other, exactly as you see human children do. A school of them slept, a few nights ago, within less than 100 yards of my house, in a very small clump of bush, not more than a hectare in extent, on one side of which is Lake Fernan Vaz and all around the rest of it an open plain, with the quarters of my crewmen not more than 200 yards away on the opposite side from me and a native village in plain view 500 yards away at an angle of about 30 degrees from the crewmen's village. I have never seen them so indifferent to the presence of human beings. Even while I was building and had as many as 18 or 20 natives moving about the place, those reckless apes would often cross the open plain in full view and with apparent composure." Equally valuable work was done in Borneo by Mr.

Raven in gathering together a large collection of birds and mammals, all from regions not hitherto represented. KEENAN'S NEW FILM Frank Keenan's feature photoplay, "The World Aflame" is soon to be released by Pathe. It is said to be extremely opportune in that it deals with the industrial unrest which now is sweeping over the country, and it is not a spectacle with sole appeal to the eye. Keenan is one of few producers who believe that the day of the dazzling eye-show is gone. Any one, he says, who can command a bank roll sufficient to pay the feed bills during rehearsals can put on a glittering pageant with hundreds of camels and elephants and supers bones.

He believes in taking the blowing a fan on wooden trommoney for such a layout and a paying authors for stories of depth and merit, and actors for finished portrayals, and scenic artists for settings that are neither transparently studio-made nor tagged with the upholstery of the installment house. The indorsement of a large group of public men who saw the film, together with that of Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor: Warren C. Stone, and William Lee, of the Railway Brotherhoods, who also were in the Washington alldience, promises much for the popularity of the Keenan feature when it is given to the fans of the silent stage. THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS. The Provincetown Players, 133 Mac Dougal will open fourth New York season Friday night, October 31.

They propose to put on a new bill every five weeks instead of every four. and play each bill two weeks instead of one week as has been the custom in previous seasons. To carry, out this plan they desire to increase their membership subscriptions. Subscription for membership is $5 and covers the membership ticket for the six bills to be given the season of 1919-1920. The Provincetown Players are in need of good plays.

one-act preferable, and will take them from anybody, anywhere regardless of membership. EDUCATION BOARD STANDARDIZES CIVIL SERVICES EMPLOYEES by Brooklyn society for charity, were revived this past week when "The Merry Whirl of was staged at the Quogue Field Club on August 8 and 9. It was also under the direction of Miss Lily Stewart, who managed the former presentation and was participated in by a number of the people taking part in the other production. Mrs. John O.

Polak this borough was one of the chaperons of the event and Mr. and Mrs. Neilson 01- cott (the former Miss Mary Latin) were among those in the minstrel show to which the second half of the performance was devoted. A few of the many well-known girls in the Roman pageant were Miss Marie Dorsey, Miss Selena Bearns, Miss Louise Phillips Freeman, Miss Zorka Polak, Miss Eileen O'Brien, Miss Maud Hadden, Miss Marion Peterson and Miss Natalie Jourdan. Guests at Reception of Shelter Island Yacht Club.

Another ladies reception was held at the Shelter Island Yacht Club last week Saturday afternoon. Among the twelve young girls serving tea were Miss Dorothy Angell, Miss Esther Baldwin, Miss Vivian Hutchinson, Miss Madelon Kelty, Miss Miriam Smith. A few of the many guests of the afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.

Angell, Mrs. John Lester Keep, Kalley, Mr. Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Frederick Pinkney, Draper Miss Helen Hanna, Miss Faith Baldwin, Miss Adeline Pettit, Miss Grace Pettit, Miss Amy Knox, Miss Marie Knox, Mr.

and Mrs. John Mason Knox, a the Misses Jenkins, Miss Caroline Weber, Mrs. Lymand Knowlton Ames, Miss Florence Lidgerwood, Mrs. Adolph Schwartzman, William Becker, Marvin Shiebler, Ogden Avery Keep, Arthur Summer Activities of Brooklyn Travelers. Miss Agnes Walsh and Miss Lorna Walsh of 227 Clinton st.

arrived in the States last week Saturday on the U. S. transport Mongolia from France after a year of recreational hut work overseas. They were six months at Mars-sur-Allier and later on at the Riviera, at Cannes and Nice. They will spend the remainder of the season at their summer home, Mount Arlington, N.

J. Mrs. Hubert F. Krantz and Miss Marguerite Krantz of 183 Argyle rd. at present visiting in Oakland, Cal.

are summering in the West and a are They will stop at Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Denver and the Yellowstone on their return East the early, part of September. CLARKE-JONES. Miss Bertie Green Jones, whose engagement was announced in June, was married August 6 to Edgar M. Clarke Jr. of Milton, N.

at the home of her mother, Mrs. Randolph Hulsart, West Bayonne, N. J. Mrs. Charles A.

Hulsart, sister of the bride, was matron of honor, and Barrett Wygant of Marlborough, N. best man. Palms and flowers decorated the rooms, the Rev. Dr. Robert J.

Kent, pastor emeritus of the Lewis Ave. Congregational Church, officiating at the ceremony. The bride wore bridal satin and duchess lace, with a veil of duchess lace, carrying white roses. The matron of honor wore a gown of silver lace and pale pink taffeta and carried pink roses. Miss Jones was a graduate of Girls High School and then of Mount Holyoke College.

Mr. Clarke, who is a Quaker, was graduated from Oakland Seminary. After a supper was served Mr. and Mrs. Clarke left for an auto trip through the Berkshires.

They will make their home in Milton, N. Y. The guests present were Mr. and Mrs. R.

Hulsart, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hulsart, Mr. and Mrs.

F. Hoagland, George Daniels, Miss Irene Philip, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stewart, Mrs. Minnie B.

Wygant, S. Barrett Wygant, George W. Hallock, Miss Adalaide LaCount, Ernest Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Taber, Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur E. Bell, Miss Rachel Clarke, Mrs. Margaret C. Miss Annie Clarke, Miss a Sarah Clarke, Dietz, Miss Louise Dietz, Miss Dorothy Dietz, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Hallock Bell, Mrs. Elsie C. Taber, Miss Carroll Clarke, Miss Katharyn Bell, Mrs. Agnes Carhart, Miss Vera Carhart, Miss Sarah Fawcett, Mrs.

Mannix, Miss Emma E. Green, Miss Mabel Lany, Arthur Resch, Mrs. Jennie P. Resch, Miss Grace Nattrass, Miss Ethel White and Charles Bennett. MORTON-CURRY.

Miss Isabel Adrienne Curry, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Curry of 1903 Albermarle rd. and Ward Lawrence Morton were married at Holy Innocents Church by the Rev. W.

J. Costello, August 6 at 3 o'clock. The wedding was a small one with only immediate families attending. Miss Anita C. Gillen was brdesmaid for Miss Curry, both wearing afternoon frocks of navy blue.

Edmund C. Morton was best man. Mr. Morton is the son of Dr. and Mrs.

L. J. Morton of 8804 Ft. Hamilton Parkway. He and the bride were both students at Erasmus Hall, the bridegroom being a member of Omega Gamma Delta fraternity and the bride of Phi Delta sorority.

NOE-BORGES. Miss Halvin Borges, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Borges of 8 Campus was the bride of Emil Noe last evening, the Rev.

J. G. F. Blaesi of St. Peter's Lutheran Church officiating at the ceremony at the home of the bride.

Miss Borges, in white satin and Georgette made with a train and wearing a bridal veil of tulle, was atby her sister, Miss Freda, Borges, in pale brue Georgette over orange satin with an arm bouquet of Sunset roses. Valentine Noe, a brother of the bridegroom, was his best man. Mr. Noe has just returned fom two and one-half years of service in France. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Valentine Noe of 260 Ridgewood ave. PEVERELLY-CLARKE. Miss Anna Clarke, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, was married to Sergeant Augustus Peverelly last Monday evening the home of the bride's mother, 858 Jefferson ave.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George Kiernan in the presence of the immediate families, including two brothers of the bride, who also served in the war. The bridegroom enlisted in the Signal Corps as a private in May, 1918. He was promoted to sergeant, firstclass, and served at the First Army Headquarters in France and was later transferred to the Third Army of Occupation. He has only recently returned to the United States, after hav.ing seen duty at Coblenz.

The couple are on a wedding trip to Albany, Pittsfield, and Boston. BRADY-TOWNSEND. Miss Almena Evelyn Townsend of 572 Macon and Harry Moyer Brady were married yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Transfiguration, Manhattan, the Rev. George C. Houghton officiating.

Attending the couple were Miss Grace Adele Tissot and Arthur Joseph Glacel. MISS NESBITT ENGAGED. Mr. and Mrs. L.

H. Nesbitt, of Bellaire Gardens, Queens, L. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edna Helen Nesbitt, to James Remson Van Siclen, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E.

Van Siclen, of Ditmas Queens. Mr. Van Sicklen recently returned from active service abroad, Does Away With Haphazard Way of Paying and Promoting Help. The Board of Education took a great step forward when it adopted systematic salary schedules for its civil service employees, for in the after a person entered the system, advancement was made in a haphazard fashion, with the result that it has been impossible to keep the most desirable men in the system. This was admitted in the report of the committee, in which it was said: "Under present conditions it is possible to attract to our service the best types of employees, and it is becoming more and more difficult to retain in our employ the experienced and valuable members of our civil service group.

Promotion in the department is infrequent, advancement is irregular and slow and both depend not so meritorious service alone as upon a host of fortuitous circumstances more or less extraneous. Numbers of our employees have been in the service for long periods of time, and have received few increases in salary. Their pay has remained practically at the same level, despite their long service and their presumably increased experience and usefulness. Others have received increases now and then, dependent upon the few opportunities for promotion that have occurred within their official division, upon budget or financial conditions, or upon the aggressiveness and influence of their bureau chiefs. "The salaries now paid many of our employees are not commensurate with the services rendered, nor do such salaries approximate the compensas1 tion paid outside for similar work.

In view of the prevailing high cost of living, the salaries paid in many cases fail to provide a living wage." The new schedules. while complying with Civil Service regulations, are so arranged that anyone entering the service will know that if his work is satisfactory he will receive regular annual increments, no matter in what line of work he is engaged. For those receiving salaries of less than $1,200 a year, the requirements of "standard," or a rating of 80 per will be sufficient to merit the annual increase in salary. In positions in the higher grades, more than merely satisfactory service will be required, and ratings of "above standard" and "conspicuously above standard" will be required, according to the class in which a person is assigned. Such requirements will prevent advancement from tending to become an automatic process.

No employee is to receive an increase in salary unless he has had a year's service in the grade, and no more than one increase will be granted within each calendar year. The increases are to go into effect on the anniversary of the date of entrance into the grade. Employees whose absence from duty amounts to 20 per cent or more of their total time in a year are not to be advanced unless the absence is excused. The same is true of those whose lateness amounts to 10 per cent. of the total possible number of times within a year.

The twelve months ending June 30 are to be considered the year. Advancement in any one schedule depends upon attaining the required rating, but for promotion from one schedule to another an employee must obtain the recommendation of the head of the bureau in which he is employed, ject to classification by the Municipal Civil Service Commission as to the eligibility for promotion. The new schedules are to go into effect on January 1. They represent advancements for all the lower paid employees, which will total $86,000. The increase for the initial salary in each grade is as follows: First, $180; second, $60; third, 60; fourth, $100, and fifth, $180.

These schedules are for employees receiving up $2,580 a the year, the others being in positions, salaries of which are fixed. The schedules and salaries follow: 2A-First grade, minimum, $480; increment, $60; maximum, $540. 2 grade, minimum, $660; increment, $120; maximum, $1,140. 2C-Third grade, minimum, increment, $120; maximum, $1,740. 2D-Fourth grade, minimum, 900; increment, $150; maximum, $2,350.

25-Fifth grade, minimum: increment, $180; maximum, $2,940. 2F-Fifth grade, salaries for positions of executive character to be fixed subject to appraisal. The various classes of employees are assigned to schedule as follows: Professional -Chemist, schedule, 2D. Engineering Engineers, 2E and 2F; assistant engineers, 2D, 2E and 2F: draftsmen, architectural, 2C; mechanical. 2D: structural steel, 2C; junior draftsmen.

2B; chief of division, 2F: assistants, 2E and 2F. Clerical-Clerks, first grade. 2A: second grade, 2B; third grade, 2C: fourth grade, 2D: fifth grade, 2E and 2F; stenographers and typewriters, second grade, 2B; third grade, 2C; fourth grade, 2D; typewriter copyists, second grade, 2B; typewriter accountants, 2B and 2C; librarians, second grade, 2B; third grade, 2C; multigraph operators, 2B; tabulating machine operators, 2B; statisticians, junior, 2C and 2D; senior, 2E: chief, 2F; bookkeepers, 2C, 2D and 2E; aminers of claims, 2C and 2D. Inspecti inspectors, 2C; chief, 2D; inspectors of construction and maintenance, general, 2E; boiler and pipe covering, 2D: carpentry, 2D; electrical. 2C and 2D; electrical conductors, 2D; furniture, 2D; heatling and ventilating, 2D; iron and steel construction, 2E: masonry, 2D; masonry and carpentry, 2C and 2D; repairs, 2D; sanitary, 2C and 2D.

Attendants Service Switchboard operators, 2B; messengers, 2B and 2C; orderlies, 2B; attendants, 2B; gymnasium attendants, C. Custodial- Supervisor of janitors, 2F; assistant supervisor of janitors, 2E; janitors, janitor engineers, firemen and cleaners, men and women, to be paid in accordance with special schedules; storekeepers, 2B and 20; storekeepers' helpers, 2B: elevator operators, 2B; laborers (storekeepers' helpers), 2B; cleaners (storekeepers' helpers), 2B; elevator operators (mechanics), 2C: toolmen (storekeepers' helpers), 2B. Institutional--Bakers, 2B: cooks. 2B; assistant cooks, 2A: gardners, 2B; gardner drivers, 2B; laundresses, 2B: laundrymen, 2B; matrons, 20; matron superintendents, 2D; house masters, 2C. Skilled Trades Toolman, 2B; automobile enginemen and mechanics, 2B and 20; auto truck drivers, 2B and 2C: chauffeurs (in charge of garage and transportation of supplies), 2D: photographer, 2C; printer for the blind.

2C: blue printer, 2C. In the above the various classifications are made up as follows: Investigational service. those doing the type of investigational work done in such departments as the bureau of attendance; inspectional, inspectors of fuel, buildings, custodial, those engaged in the work or supervision of work relating to the custody of property: attendance, telephone switchboard operators, messengers, institutional. those holding positions in stitutions, such us the parental school; skilled trades, those doing work recog nized in skilled trades..