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5 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. SElTEMBEil 15. 1918. Pluck and Endurance of Motor Corps Women DRAFT FIGURES FALL MILLS TO BECOME PERMANENT CAMP; TO ERECT BARRACKS U-BOAT VICTIMS, GIVEN UP FOR DEAD, HOME IN BROOKLYN Amazes Mere Men Soldiers at Fort Totten MOTOR CORPS WOMAN CLIMBS LADDER AT CAMP Out of the High Rent District 130 SUITES BEDROOM, LIBRARY AND DIMNU ROOM FURNITURE Large Assortment of Rugs at Prices 1,1 IHIMUtl 111 BK 23 to 50' Ixtwer Than Any Furniture House J.

W. W. K. REID Manufacturers' Selling Agents 19-21-23 Willoughby Cor. Pearl Established 1841 Brennan, who was in charge.

Capt. Ruxton, who had been thoroughly enjoying the evening, jumped to her feet and said: "Sergeant, please, we don't mind. Don't stop them. Those pictures were taken three months ago. We know we IN THE LARGE CITIES; NEW YORK, 792,683 Total Registration, Washington Officials Believe, May Not Very Far Exceed 13,000,000.

Washington, September 14 Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder tonight had not received complete figures from a single State on the registration last Thursday of men between IS and 45 years, but partial returns were re-' ceiveil during the day from draft officials compiling the district reports. The count was completed in the District of Columbia, but the total was not announced Reports corning to the Provost Marshal General today from the more populous centers of the country led members of his staff here to revise downward their estimate yesterday that the total number of men registered might reach 14.000,000 men. Returns from some New York districts indicated that the enrollment there might produce only i'H per cent, of the estimule before registration day, and it also was said that Chicago. Detroit and other large cities were running slightly below the totals er pected.

Officials said this falling otf in the figures might offset the excess li p' if in incomplete returns yesterday from nomas J. Nash und is a transport ten States, where registration whs run- clerk. Ahern was returning from his ning 8.5 per cent, over the estimate. third trip and Nash from his fourth The final results, officials concluded, trip when they inut disaster, might show a registration not very "It was about 4:45 in the morning far above or below the first estimate, of August 11 when the lookout sud-of 13,000,000. The calculations were denly called 'Torpedo, said Ahearn, watched closely by General Crowder's "and in thu iipxv instant, the torpedo staff, since the total registration avail- struck our tanker.

It gave a glancing able is one of the factors Imienciiig i blow that did no great damage to the sharply their work of mobilising the but so grt was th eforce of the Army's new accretions. bldw that 1 was thrown out of my General Crowder announced tonight berth. A minute later we saw a see-that complete for some Stales ond submarine, and as 1 dln-overed it could be expected Monday. T.n. The total for last Thursday draft registration of men between the at, eh of lit to now stands at the city and 267.312 in this obiough, according to figures made public by Draft Director Martin I onboy of- tice late yesterday afternoon Tin" number is constantly being added ui oy reiiisinuion curon ui.

the mail from residents of the cit who enrolled out of town, llitra are I comicu' numbers sufficient to justify the expectation of capt. Ascii of the Adjutant General's stuff that the complete enrollment will he in excess of The draft director's latest tabulations show that there are no fewer than eivnmy aliens ill New York Cilv between the ages of IS and 45. Manhattan, with 32,502 of them, Is far in excess of tho other boroughs. Brooklyn comes next with 10.482. One of the astonishing facts revealed by the tabulation is tho exceedingly high proportion of aliens in the population.

The latest figures lower only slightly the percentages given by The Eagle yesterday. lu the city, instead of being 38 per cent, of the total, the number of alien non-citizens is a shade more than 37 per cent. In the borough it remains ul 34. A tabulation of the classification by boroughs Is as follows: Mhtn. L'kln.

Bronx. Queens. Rich. Whlt- cliueris 384.380 f.7S Colored citiMn 4.534 r7 Allen Uecliir-ants mot enenilsa'p 39,783 3.S14 3.307 Alien non-df- do rants (not enemies! 46,44 ISnemy alien. 30.4SJ 4.4:' 6.1J0 Total 312 107.480 14.C89 BRITISH CASUALTIES 1 Brooklyn Society Girls Thrive on Rugged Military Regimen; Refuse to Be Daunted; Find Time to Laugh and Sing.

(Special to The Eagle.) Fort Totten, L. September 14 For the first time in the history of the country women have taken part in a battalion drill with men, have been housed in a barrack, eaten urmy rations and lived according to a strict army program from reveille to taps. When the Brooklyn and Manhattan Motor Corps of the National League for oman Sei-vice was ordered to Fort Totten. L. for a week of intensive training) beginning last Tuesday, many smiled at the thought; frail society girls and women undergoing military discipline, the idea wag interesting, but impracticable.

Like most revolutionary ideas it met with derision only to he followed by sincere praise. Visions of young Capt. Louise G. Ruxton matching her stride to Col. P.

Loeser of the Kegular Army, who has been devoting much of his time to the drilling of the corps this week might bo amusing, but no one who had watched her do it could possibly smile except with pride of America's young womanhood and its serious intent to aid In winning this war. It is true that Col. Loeser stands head and shoulders above tho corps' small captain, but the military dignity of the ono quite equals that of the other. On (he day of the parade, Thursday of the past week, the Motor Corps won its much merited reward when it was permitted to lead the battalion parade which passed in review before Col. 1.

Loeser, the post commander and Col. rmarswood and Capt. Katherine Itichardt of the Manhattan Motor Corps. Many visitors from the post and elsewhere witnessed this bit in the making of history. The day was clear and warm and all the morning the girls drilled to prepare for the event of the afternoon.

At a little before 6 o'clock they assembled and took their place as the first of the three battalions led by Maj. Lawreson of the Kegular Army und Capt. Ruxton, The girls, of course, carried no arms, but they stood at attention, saluted and passed in review with dignity and excellent form, and several of the men were overheard to confess that their work quite outshown that of the men. Col. Loeser himself was generous in his praise and said that he had found tho work with the Corps very enjoyable.

"I am most interested," he added. Drill Willi Tireless Interest. All day long and every day, even in rainy weather, the Motor Corps has drilled and attended lectures with tireless interest. Most any time of the morning or afternoon the corps can be seen seriously at work at one side of the parade ground while infcn of the post drill at the opposite end. Signaling, physical drill, infantry drill and letter drill are part of the day program and lectures on first aid hygiene and military etiquette are also included.

The Hist night or two the girls were too tired to take advantage of their free evenings and retired early, but the benefits of the training were soon felt and they accepted the hospitable invitations of the Y. M. C. A. and K.

of C. officials to be present at entertainments which took place in one place or other most every night. Following the musicale at the Y. M. C.

Thursday night, moving pictures were shown of tho Motor Corps drilling in Central Park. Most of the Motor Corps and Canteen tlirls were present, and the place was packed with men. A number of good-natured comments about the pictures were overheard, and the men reprimanded by Sgt.i LEON DABO BECOMES ARMY LIEUTENANT i I Howard Voshell, Well-KnOWn Tennis Plaver, Commissioned in Air Service. Eagle Bureau. 901 Colorado Building.

Washington, D. September 14 Among the Brooklyn men whose commissions in the Army were announced today by the War Department was Leon Dabo, the well-known Brooklyn painter, whose frequent trips to France have resulted In an interesting series of lectures at Arhuckle Institute during the past few years. Dabo has been made a first lieutenant in the Corps of Interpreters of the Army. He is peculiarly fitted to perform such duties, having lived much of his life in Italy and France. He is often spoken of as a "born linguist" for, in addition to French and Italian, speaks fluent Dutch and German.

When in Brooklyn the painter's residence is at 72 Columbia Heights. Dewitt A. Forward, commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service. was formerly connected with the Na tional City Bank. He lives at 726 Elmore place, and after enlisting in the Aviation Corps was stationed at tho Chanute Aviation Field at Ran-toul.

111., for training. Forward Is a graduate of Colgate University. S. Howard Voshell well-known Brooklyn tennis champion, has been made a second lieutenant in tho air service. He is a graduate of the ground school at Princeton University, after which he was stationed at Scott Field, Belleville, 111.

He is I I I I I 1 I 1 do much better now. Inspection of the barracks by Col. Willoughby Walke, commander of the Middle Atlantic Coast Artillery Ul trict, was another honor conferred on (he corps. Col. Walk and his aid, Lt.

Ernest L. Stephens visited the barracks Friday and the news of his intended visit caused quite some cOm motion. Between miss and. 2 o'clock the girls polished their boots, straight ened out their rooms and put them selves and their effects in order gen orally. It was a typical scene at the barracks, the girls singing and laugh ing as they worked and the officers flying around with important instructions.

A number of visitors arrived about noon, adding to the general air or excitement. Among them were Mrs. Walter Gibb, chairman of the Kings County Barrack of the National League for Women's Servioe; Mrs. Philip Ruxton and Mrs. Frank L.

Sniffen. Officers Receive the Colonel. The Colonel was received by Capt. Ruxton, Col. Mary Shanwood, Capt.

Katharine Richards, Lf Mabel G. Betts, Lt. C. A. Fredericks and Lt.

Ruth Y. Shaffer, and every detail of the barracks carefully inspected and approved, Col. Walke saying he was quite sure, that they had not found it so clean when they arrived. A very important asset of the life at Barracks No. 4, is the work done by the canteen division of the league.

J. J. Broer van Heikeran as chairman of the cantoon assigned a number of her aides to this duty and headed by Mrs. Frank Perkins they have kept pace with the strenuous requirements of army life and supervised and served from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

They also were recognized by Col. Walke, who congratulated Mrs. Perkins on her work and that of her staff. Life at the barracks although strictly military, when serious business is on hand has Its lighter moments. The' musical spirit has claimed the girls as well as the men and It a Long Long Trail," often drift across the parade ground while after mess some evenings a ultelele which stole its way into camp is the accompaniment for a short concert on the steps of the barracks.

At the Y. M. C. A. and K.

of C. parties tho girls Join with the men in the camp songs much to the very evident pleasure, of the men. The -military training of the Motor Corps has equipped them to recognize military expression and a "Halt! wiio goes there?" brings the proper re spouse, but tlie canteetv division near- after returning from a concert a sen-! try halted three of the girls with the1 stern command, "Halt! who goes mere: Auvanco one anu recog- nized," A startled feminine voice answered out of the darkness: "But I don't want to go alone, 1 want to go with her." Another sentry hurried forward explained the matters end straightened out the situation and now the canteen is carefully acquainting itself with military details outside of its province. Work Karljr; Guard l.alo. To see well bred, carefull nurtured society girls and women with pails and mops, cleaning the floors in the e'arly morning hours or patiently mounting guard through the dark watches of the night may be a bit humorous, but it is also decidedly interesting as at no time has there been the slightest or Drotest although these very women and girls have been call- ed upon to perforin these arduous du ties daily.

The hospital has had but one or two patients and these for only an hour or two: their indisposition due to some trifling cause. In the kitchen and dining room the women of t'he canteen are performing equally menial duties equally well and Without any signs of discomfort. At about 8 o'clock every night, however, pink kimonas and dainty boudoir caps replace the military and canteen uniforms und peals of laugh the holder of the national indoor title for tennis and has two legs on The Eagle Bowl. A. P.

Delcambre of Bayside, L. ha received a first lieutenancy in the Ordnance Department. He attended the first Plattsburg Camp, after which Via auuimaA i A i II 1 AfTTlV awaiting a commission from Wash- ington. Baker's Relative a Lieutenant. Willoughby A.

Blllmyer, a relative of Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, 1 1 a .1 l.BAn HI. II, ihuuiiuj iiiva commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Billmeyer has been stationed at Jacksonville, some time. He Is a graduate of noiuc ,11110.

il io u. bi-uuun. the Long Island Business College and was formerly employed by the Stand- CharlesTnPdre5w Hargitt. 17 Scher-! merhorn Joseph B. Episcopo, 687 Bush-wick Benjamin Newman, 768 New Jersey and Samuel v.

fiquet, COmilllSaiUllCU Jliuv iivmiciioiiio ll urn Medical Corps. William J. Degnon, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica, L. has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Walter F.

Rowan, an enlisted man, of 249 13th has been made a sec ond lieutenant in the Chemical War-( fare Service, Harry Lauterbach has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps. Lt. Lauterbach lived at 1564 East 14th st. Walter A. Magee, 115 Miller an enlisted man, has been made a second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps.

George Manulkln, 521 Bushwlck has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and Alfred E. Rejall of 64 Tompkins ave. a first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. Gutcrnutn, First Lieutenant. Louis II.

Guterman, an enlisted man, of 16 Nassau street, has been made a first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Raymond P. Ehrhardt, 1192 Greene Alexander Lowan, 961 B5th stand Joseph Frederick. 57 Midwood all enlisted men, have received The German papers remind the publio that those who spread such rumors of the punishment they may Incur and say there Is not the slightest reason for anxiety, but at the same time continue to publish the reports. French soldiers have located the emplacement of the last big cannon used by the Germans in the bombard ment of Paris.

An official dispatch from France today says: "In the Corbi wood in the neighborhood of Beaumont and Cutgny the platform of the last Bertha fixed up to fire on the Paris region has been found. The spot Is just as airplane photographs have shown It to be. The gun Itself had of course been removed. The position Is in two different parts, one for the real gun and one for a sham. Both arc exactly alike.

Tiie I I S. Accommodations for 50,000 Men Hos pital Nearby. (Special to The Eagle.) Camp Hills, Hempstead Plains, L. September 14 Camp Mills Is on Monday to be ranked among the per- ihahent army cantonments, it was officially announced here tonight. Ijleretofore, it has been considered entirely as a temporary (station and the qily of tents that, for the most part, constitutes it, has been erected and razed several times over since it became one of the country's army camps a little more than a year ago.

permanent barracks are to be reared here on Hempstead Plains. Tented cily is to give way to- pine-hoard city, of much the same character as that at Camp L'pton. The barracks to be built here, construction of which will bo started Monday, are to provide accommodations for from 30,000 to Wi.ooO men. They Will, of course, be months in the making, so that it will he some time Camp Mills lakes on its new appearance. At the same time, another great new urmy, structure, a 2,000 bed hospital, is tb rise near here.

For its construction, the Government has leased twenty acres of land on Washington street, opposite tho Mineola Jiir firounds, it will serve both Camp Mills and tho men ut tho aviation Holds in Mineoia. It is probable that army decisions to go ahead with all war plans on a gigantic scale have resulted in the move to change the character of Camp Mills. It -has been, since its inception, an embarkation camp, and the troops sent here have always lived under canvas, although they had wooden structures for mess kitchens. amp Started Almost 12, 1917. ('amp Mills was inaugurated as an army camp August.

12 last year, when 1,000 workmen tackled the great, bare plain of 400 acres, roughly a mile long and a half mile wide, that had been selected as the (site of Camp Albert L. Mills. They laid mile upon mllo of water pipe in record time, they laid out rough roads and they built kitchen shacks for tho thousands of men destined to come to the camp, so quickly that residents near by couldn't keep up with the progress of things itllhotiRh they saw it every day. Uttl more than a week later, the old 60th Infantry arrived at Camp and took up its quarters and I lieu every few days saw new troops arriving from all sections of the country until finally the Rainbow Division had been buiit up and was ready to go across to France in October. The immediate countryside has followed tho arrival and departure of other troops every month since then, but the oitisdo world has known nothing exempt thai Camp Mills was "on the map." The water and sewerage system that served Camp Mills a year ago is now been greatly augmented and enlarged, Col.

Charles H. Nnitth, ramp quartermaster, being crdited with extending it in record time. Topographically, the camp is all (hat could be dosired. It is perfectly level, except for a small tract of about 5 ueros in the northwest corner, about 80 feet higher than tho rest. Urain-uge is excellent, owing to the splen-c'id, sandy loam.

The 400-nere. site-It is slightly more -than that faces on Clinton road. German Report Tells Of Violent Fighting At Havrincourt Eerlin, September 14 (via London) Advances made by both the German and enemy forces in the Canal Du Nord sector yesterday led to violent fifhting at Moeuvres and Havrincourt, says the official satement Issued today by the German Army Headquarters. Between the Lorraine hills and the River, the St. Mlhiel sector, passed with moderate activity, the statements add.

The cnemv did not continue his attack east of Combres and northwest of Thlaucourt the enemy felt his way forward toward Vie German line. Tho text of the statement reads: "Northwest of Bixschooto we made prisoners during the repulse of an enemy partial attack. "In the canal sector our and enemv advances led to violet fighting at Moeuvres and Havrincourt. Partial enemy attacks at Gouzeaucourt, north of Vcrmand and on both sides of the Ham-St. Quentin road were repulsed.

"Partial attacks by the enemy between the Ailette and the Aisne after strong artillery preparation failed in front of our line. In the evening Kast Prussians repelled fresh attacks. "There was artillery activity between the Aisne and tho Vesle. South of Ornes and on tho Verdun-Etain road the enemy was repulsed. "Between the Cotes Lorraine and the Moselle the day passed with moderate activity.

The enemy did not continue his attacks yesterday. "East of Combres and northwest of Thiaucourt the enemv felt his way forward toward our line. There were local engagements to the east of Thlaucourt." "Mantanzas" in Commission Employees and executives of the r.Hoblns Dry Dock and Repair Company, Heard street, held a celebration yesterday afternoon following the putting in commission once more of the steamship Matanzas, which was all but rinnprt tn nieces in a collision in Halifax-Harbor nisi oriy-eignt plates ex- lomnng nair me lengtn of the big ship, were pui in. piace una otner repairs made in record time, the boat leavlno- the dork for the major repairs after twenty-two aays. adding another boat to the t'nltpd States fleet.

speed with which the big task accomplished is another tribute to the efficiency of the American ihiup workers, following the collision in Hillfax harbor temporary repairs rnirn iook cunsinpraoie time, were there and the vessel towed to tii-oouiyn and turned over to the Ilob- infl yard. fXt'iband concert In which the Robin, Dry Dock band of'forty pieces played the leading part was a feature of the celebration. William H. Todd, head of Wioi Todd Shipyards Corporation, of which the Robins Dry Dock is a mem-rtpr. complimented the workers on their achievement.

VI 95,242 RIVTS IN A DAY '''Philadelphia, September 14 f.iencral Schwab of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and former Real (Admiral Francis T. Bowjes, carrying "American and Allied Hags, headed a parade of shipyard workers at. Hog Island todnv in cele-briitlnn of the record established by the yard's riveters bv driv- 105,2 41' rivets as a day's work. STRIKE MAY END MONDAY Bridgeport, September 14 President. Wilson's letter to tho Hndgeport strikers was rocelved today, Iho sentiment of strikers who thronged union headquarters this iH'tcrnoon, Indicated that the strike will end on Alonday.

The manufacturers olTcr to reinstate every man John J. Ahern and Thomas J. Nash Jr. Surprise Their Families by Walking In. The story of the way in which 15 survivors of the torpedoed oil tanker Joseph Cudahy drifted at yea in an open boat for six days and finally were rescued after all hope had been given up, was told last night by John J.

Ahern of 1219 Aenuo and Thomas J. Nash of 204 Clermont both of whom were mourned as dead in the destruction of the tanker. AH hope had been given up for the two Drooklynites by their families. For one of them prayers had been said as for the dead. Without warning, even while they were being mourned, the two Hrooklyiiites walked into their respective homes last Monday night.

They had been saved two weeks before, but, because of an error, no report had been made correcting the list of the transport's dead. Ahern, a (luartermsster's agent in tho transport service, is the son of Mrs. Mary Nash and she and three miters live at the Avenue address, Nash is tho son (. ex-Fire Captain a secon dtorpedo hit us. This one lore nuge "ole "he side, of the Cudahv un(, apatterrd eYers: thing Jt put and guns out of commission at once, wnIi km)w u)(ut jt i 1)ad jeen llm.i(.d overboard by 1 li? explosion.

Bwam uroumi fur lmlt UJ1 honr UlinR r(sUns vn vrec. age and giving a nana to leiiuws and thm, presently, 1 was pulled into a boat that contained the aIld There were 13 in the oat. We left New York for Fiance on July 13, and we left on our return trip on August 13. "Well, after I got into the boat the submarine approached and asked a lot of iiuestions. I was interested to se tliat her crew was made up of yo.ung men.

They couldn't have been more than IS or 19. and they were, frail in appearance. The captain oi the submarine, I am sure, couldn't have been over 24. There weren't many men on (he submarine not more than a dozen, I think. They turned lis loose after they got through with their questions and shelled the' Cudahy until it sank.

As it went down we were about 1,000 yards off and we sang 'The Mar Spangled "We lost the of the boats and drifted. our c.ptuin clung to the hope that we would be saved and he was very strict with the food and water. We had two pieces of hardtack and a cup of water every day. Suddenly, after we had been' out there six days, we saw a gunboat on the horizon. As she came near, we could make out that it was a French destroyer.

She got nearer, and then, jvtien she was about 100 yards awa over went our boat dered about in the it all floun- water, but the Frenchmen picked us all up without much Ahern. who is 30 years old, enlisted last October and was at the nautical school in Hoboken until February. Xash enlisted in October. 1'tl 7 Hp ittiiuni.i in. n.va.i Wtxao.

puim nriLUiu teacher for five years, an attendance officer for one year and a probation officer at the Children's Court for three years. CATOVS LITTLE ROMAM'K. James Howard Caton, former shortstop of the Pirates, now a soldier In Uncle Sam's service, got a furlough recently, but he didn't spend it playing ball with the Pittsburg team. Instead Caton got married and put in his time honeymooning. Tiie bride wos Miss Jennie Williams of Pittsburg.

1 The romance is said to have started when Caton went Into a Pittsburg candy shop to buy a box of bonbons for himself, of course. The young lady waited on became a regular customer after that and the candy sales glri Is now a soldier's wife. XEALE SHOULD CASH. Selling "shares" in the World's Series split was a form of speculation indulged in by the players of some firft division teams. Earl Neale of Cincinnati is said to have bought Adolf Luque's share for $175.

taking a chance on the Reds finishing in third place. As the Reds divide $4,640.97, Neale should make a coaple of dollars. Some of the players of the St. Louis Biowns "speculated" on whether they would get in the first division and those taking that end of it lost. GARRY HERRMANN, MAGNATE.

August Herrmann last week rounded out his sixteenth year as National League magnate, as it was on August 9, 1902, that John T. Brush sold the Cincinnati club to Herrmann, George B. Cox and Max and Julius Fleisch-mann, the price being $150,000. Heir-miinn was chosen president of the club, and he has held that job ever since. TY COBB GETTING READY.

Capt. Tyrus R. Cobb of the Chemical Warfare Department of the United States Army ha3 been given leave of absence to arrange his private business until October 1, when be reports to Washington to receive his orders and assignment. Capt. Cobb's family expects to make its home in Georgia while he Is In service.

His various interests in soft drinks, oil properties, will be handled by his business representatives, as In the past. comfort. The crtmlnal'branch of the Supreme ourt Is on the right side of tho building, at the Pulton street end, with detention pens for prisoners underneath, and the motion court is on the right sldo at the Livingston street, end. On tho loft side, thrco- quu i ters of the way back, carefully camouflaged in what seems useless alcove, is the private Judicial 1ft, Bants and such ordinary folk is on the tight side, near the center. I I P.

Le 21,445 FOR THE WEEKjm assigned to the Joseph Cudahy. PERSHING AND PETAIN IN ST. MIHIEL, IDOLS OF FREED POPULACE Continued from Pa ire 1. into the trench before the road could be driven over safely. The capture of St.

Mihiel, afier it four years of martyrdom, is regarded as one of the most striking incidents of its kind in tiie records of Hip war. The Germans left the town at 8 p.m. on Thursday. They had made life a nightmare for the inhabitants, who had been unable to escape when the enemy occupied the city. All the boys from 10 to lti years old had been deported and the old people forced to work for the conquerors.

The gratitude of the remaining inhabitants to the Americans was boundless. They were at last free to speak without fear of vengeance from the tyrants that had ruled over them. Villager Look Happy. In passing through other villages on the wav to St. -Mihiel the traveling party could Fee that the people had lost their ordinary wartime look of weariness, and the drive into this queer, wrecked paradise of gladness a notable experience.

A French military band had come in over the first bridge to honor the distinguished visitors and was playing in the square, about which nil the remaining inhabitants had assembled. Their eyes were radiant and their bearing that of prisoners tiet free. They were volubly communicative, and determined to treat as a hero anyone wearing an American uniform. ien. Petain and Pershing were given an immense reception, and if it had only been known who Secretary Baker was, he, too, 'would have been overwhelmed.

The town was only partially ruined. That part adjoining the river was almost entirely gone, but there were scores of houses elsewhere that had been scarcely damaged. The attack was such a surprise that the enemy was unable to undertake his OUEiial work of wreckage. He laid hunds. however, on everything he could carry off.

Sheets and blankets were lorn from the beds and loaded on wagons, but it is possible that those wagons by this time arc in Allied hand, since the enemy had only twelve hours to escape from one of the claws closing across the salient. The enemy did set lire to a few houses, out the inmates extinguished the flumes. The Oermans looted both the banks during their occupancy. The inhabitants had depended largely for sustenance upon the food furnished by tiie American relief committee. Women Kiss Baker's Hands.

With the American Army in Lorraine, September 13 iby the Asso- ciatod Press)- The civilian population, almost wholly feminine because of the forcible removal of practically every male, ot military age. welcomed Newton l. Baker, 'the American Sec- retary of War, and Hons. Pershing and Petaiu when they visited St. Mihiel few hours after it was cuptured.

Th village effect was iheir official hosts, but in reality they were the guests of women and children. Aged women and girls crowded about. Secretury Baker and the two generals accompanying him. to express their thanks and pay homage to deliverers. It was not merely curiosity, it was an emotional outburst following almost three years of the conqueror's oppression.

The word was passed abouf that the small civilian was the American Secretary of War whose armies had accoiii-plished their relief, and from half-destroyed houses and from points far removed from the center of the village they poured forth to get a glimppe of the visitors. A military band was brought up from the reur, the "Marseillaise" was played and tiie civilians' restraint in the presence of the visitors broke down completely. Women crowded forward ostensibly to shake the Sec- retary's hand, but instead they kissed his bunds and wept, and then they joined in a chorus of "vives." There were no speeches, but innumerable times Secretary Baker responded briefly to expressions of gratitude oftentimes half hysterically uttered by the women and children. PERSHING APPOINTS FIELD ARMY STAFF Lieut. Col.

Druinm Is Made Chief of Staff, With Several Assistants. Washington. September 14 Grn. Pershing has organized stalT for the First American Army separate from his personal staff, which remains at general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force. Ccn.

March, chief of stall', anuuuncvd to day. l.t. Col. Hugh A. is the chief of stuff of the new army and his assistant chiefs of staff are Col.

Robert McCleave and Lt. Col. Bugge. Wibbey Howell. John L.

Dewitt ami Lewis H. Watkins, Maj. Gen. Edward F. McGlachlin is chief of artillery and the heads of the administrative and technical services are: Inspector General, Col.

Jacob C. Johnston. Judge Advocate, l.t. Col. Blunton Wlnship.

Chief Quartermaster, Maj. George. Luberoff. Chief Surgeon, Col. Alexander S.

Stark. Chief Engineer, Brig. Gen. J. J.

Morrow. Chief Signal Officer, Lt. Col. Parker Hitt. Chief Ordnance Officer.

Col. Edward o'Hern. Chief of Motoj' Transport Corps, Col. William II. Winters.

Chief of Air Service, Col. William Mitchell. It was this staff which handled the movement nt St. M'hlcl under Gen. Pershing, Gen.

March said, lie added thm the chiefs of the Chemical Warfare Service und Additional 'Administrative and technical services had not been designated at the time Gen. Pershing reported tho other members of tho new staff. swiss interTTtwo' AMERICAN AVIATORS Phi-Ik. September 14 -An American airplane ban landed near Fahy I'l Hwil.erland, according to dispatch to Journal from Geneva. The two aviators were interned.

AWE and commendation greeted the feat of Lt. C. A. Fredericks of the. Woman's Motor Corps, who climbed almost to the top of the ladder which runs up the side of the flag pole on 'the parade ground at Fort Totton and wigwagged from there.

Photographers ran to photograph her, and officers and civilians of the post looked on in profound admiration. "Most of the men hate to do that sunt," said one of enlisted men to an onlooker. ter and snatches of song fill the barracks until 9, when tattoo sounds and the lights go out and all is still except for the serious young sentries on guard in the halls. yesterday's program varied a bit from the previous days and early yesterday morning an air of bustle and anticipation suggested something especially important was on hand. About 10:30, almost hall'-of tho corps left for Manhattan In the ambulances cit th rfiviMinns.

The other half rc- tu rlHltu aml aU(md -Jo o( Ul(J tlay lU-view In Central Park. Central Park, Manhattan, was the destination of the train of cars, and tney arrivea mere at xne uppoitueu time and together with the Motor Corps of America and the Motor Corps of the Hed Cross were inspected by two majors, a quartermaster and a lieutenant of tho Regular Army. The inspection was at 4. tho National League Motor Corps leaving about 5 for their return trip to Fort Totten. The work that the corps has been doing in caring for and managing its ambulances has not been the least of Its accomplishments of the past week.

Every day there is a detail appointed for this work and among the Brooklyn girls who have served are Corps. Eunice Beecher, McDermott, Lucy La Forge and Snyder, and Pvts. Florence MacOregor Sheldon, Annette Seeth, Dahn, Rosetta Keep, Harriet Pylo, Frances Blumenstuek, Parsons and Gladys Hollman. Some of the cars have self-starters, but even those get a bit balky occasionally, und uncomplaining as the girls lire over the other trying and difficult tasks attendant upon the care and management of the cars, a self-starrer that wont' work seems to be their "bete noir." Doing guard duty at the barracks Friday night and yesterday were Corp. Frances Ruxton and Pvts.

Mary Elliott Florence E. Varian, Mor-ftnd, Specry and Lee of Brooklyn. commissions as second lieutenants In the Quartermaster Corps. Moses A. Goldstein, 222 South Third street, made a Becond lieutenant, is an enlisted man in the Quartermaster John C.

Brown, 937 Bergen street, has been commissioned a second lieutenant In the Motor Transport Corps. August Henry Blohm, 629 K. 28th an enlister man stationed at Camp Hancock, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps. He Is a graduate of Poly Prep. George A.

Cosgrove, 652 48th st and Leo Vincent Doherty, 65 Court have been commissioned second lieutenants in the Quartermaster r'rtma orps. RED CROSS TO SUPPORT CAPTURED ARMY NURSES Washington, September 14 Ameri- can nurses captured by the enemy will be supported during captivity by the American Bed Cross, it was announced today at headquarters of the organization here. This decision was it was stated, after the Warf Department's announcement that under the law Army nurses, if caiitured mold not be paid because technically they are not on duty. PERSHING NEEDS ENGINES Newport News, Va September 14 Employees of railroad machine shops und roundhouses over the country were urged today by William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, to speed u- repairing of locomotives so that General -Pershine can have the new ones now building, which, he said, are needed "to make certain the defeat of the Kaiser." "General Pershing needs more locomotives in France," said Mr.

McAdoo, "to keep the big American smash going until the Kaiser is pushed across the Rhine. The onlv way we can give General Pershing the locomotives he needs is for the railroads of the United States to take as few new locomotives as possible." RUGBY RAISES SERVICE FLAG The service flag- of tho residents of the Rugby section of Flatbush, numbering 120 stars, was raised yester day afternoon in front of the Rugby Clubhouse, Church and Utica avenues. Bonsell, chairman of the committee in charge of purchasing the flag, made the presentation address. Addresses were also made by W. Bernard Zause.

the local Democratic candidate for Senator, the Ilev. A. F. Pierce of Rugby Congressional Church, the Rev Father Cloke of St. Catherine's Church, and the Rev.

Charles William Reeder. A crowd of 1,000 witnessed the ceremony. MISTAKE ABOUT THE B. 0. Baltimore, September 14 A recent dispatch from to the effect that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad would hereafter devote its freirrhr traffic exclusively to coal was de clared at the Baltimore and Ohio t.

ecuuve omces nere today to be crro must provide for, it was mVeontem plated that its rails shall cxclu sivcly devoted to coal traffic. London, September 14 Casualties among the British forces reported for the week ending today total 21,445, compared with an aggregate of in the previous week. The casualties were divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds Officers, 5C3; men, 3,514. Wounded or missing Officers, men, BRITISH FLYERS DROPPED TEN TONS OF BOMBS London, September 14 An official statement describing the aerial activities over tho battle area, issued tonight, says: "On September 13 clouds and rain again greatly interfered with opera tions in the air. During tho brighter interval a number of photographs were taken and our machines niado observations whenever possible for the artillery (Ire.

"Contacl patrol work had to lie carried on at a very low altitude. One enemy machine was brought down in air lighting during the day and two were driven down out of control. At night two hostile night bombing machines were brought down. "Ten tons of bombs were dropped by us in the course of the twenty-four hours. All our machines employed during this period have MeCORMACK HOME TO K.

OF C. Mrs. John McCormack, wife of the Irish tenor, has presented her London residence to the Knights of Columbus, to be used by them during the war as a social center and something akin to a clubhouse for men wearing the United States uniform. Alton House, the McCormack residence in London, is situated in Netherhall Gardens, Hempstead, the center of an exclusive, residential section. Alton House has about thirty room.

It was presented to Mrs. McCormack as a birthday gift by her husband following his first big American tour. POLICE RESERVES PARTY. The women police reserves of the Adams street precinct will hold a block party next Saturday night on Brldgo street, between Tillary and Johnson streets, for the benefit of their Red Cross work. Prizes are to be given for the best decorated houses on the block.

Many contributions have already been made. American Long Range Gun Rumors Worry the Germans Refurnished Courthouse, Spic and Span, Opens Oct. 1 The reconstructed Kings County ing. Is being warmly congratulated Courthouse Is undergoing the finish- blr'' There are ten Jury trial courts, threo Ing touches and the fall terms of the pecia term courts, a tine big court-Supreme Court will be opened there room for the appellate term and hand-on the first Monday of October. The some chambers for the Justices, with opening date for the reoccupatlon of consultation room unn 1 chairs that cost as high as 1183 each, the building has been "adjourned, ns Washington.

September 1 4 The American offensive at their very doors and stories of a long range gun about to be turned loose upon their towns, is giving the war a new aspect to the Germans. An official dispatch from Franco today says there are evidences of excitement everywhere across tho German border and quotes the following from the Mulhausen Tageblatt: "The American offensive In upper Alsace and the long range gun sup posed to bo intended to reduce to ashes the towns of this country is madly alarming the inhabitants. Even peoplo of a high rank tremblo at the news like little children listening to ghost stories. Of course the evacua tion of Mulhausen and the whole of Alsaco Is again In question and it. is said tlint all measures for the nctunl evacuation of the grand duchy from Baden to Frlburg havo already been taken." 1 they say In the courts, from time to time, but aside from the dusting and the moving in of some loose furniture and the setting ot tho courtroom clocks, tho Job in finished.

For a made-over building, tho old Court- houso mulies a good showing, the courtrooms are ample and dignified I I and Justice Isaac M. Kappor. chnlr- man of the Board cf Justices, who tinned and supervised the rcmodcl- emplacement consists of a pit divided neons. It was added that while coal In three parts, twelve meters long and is more and more the heaviest ton-two meters wide over nil. The firing i nage which the Baltimore and Ohio gun noes not seem to have been hit by our airplanes, but the sham one bears marks of their fire." 1.