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3 Peace Song Unpatriotic, Says Capt. Jack Crawford CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD'S IDEA OF A TITLE PAGE FOR HIS PATRIOTIC SONG PROSPECT HEIGHTS HAS FINE BOYS CLUB: ARTISTIC MEDAL MADE AS PACEANT SOUVENIR EQUITABLE BUILDING CITY IN ITSELF THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 10. 191.1. New Sky Scraper Will House a Population of Over Glory' was, in my youthful eyes, an inspiration that led me to do battle, in its defense and the sustaining of its honor.

I twice stained the soil of Dixieland with my blood, and the scars I carry today are more precious Author 'of Air Which Called Forth Pro-, test From Major Grant and Organization Springs From Idea Advanced by Two Boy-Loving Fathers. OM) (iLORV. beautiful emblem of I Ihr tr. Dear Mar-spangled gem of the land of the free. I love the, Old Glory, with love that Is true, And pure as the stars In the heavenly blue.

'Tift kiNsed by the breezes, by angels rarefied, Beloved by the North, by the South, Kaut and West. And earn brilliant star shooting out when unfurled, Sends flashes of hope to the oppressed of the world. CAPTAIN "JACK." thilde Kempe, Rudolph Gillis and Norris. In the evening concert an orchestra was ably directed by Professor Bancke." The "Concerto No. 1," Web er, was played effectively on two I pianos by Mrs.

May Schlamp and Elvira Pittman. i The cantata, "Jairi Daughter," words by Zacharias Nielson, revised by Victor Bancke, and translated by Dr. H. L. Peterson, music bv Mr.

Rancke, was given by soloists, a large choir and piano and was both melodi ous and dramatic. The character of Jairi was taken by Harry G. T. Weber, tenor; the mother, by Mrs. Martine Knudson, also; the daughter, soprano, by Dorothy Kauer, and Christ was a part taken by Mr.

Dalton, baritone. substituting for Daniel O. Connel. May scniamp was tne accompanist. An exhibition of fancy dancing by Anna Rich and Viola Doran was an additional feature.

$60,000 IN TEN DAYS Prominent Business Men Campaigning for a Church. Sixty thousand dollars in ten days has been the slogan of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, 'Manhattan, since May 6, and 100 workers have been canvassing the membership, and are now going about the neighborhood securing the last dollar to add to the fund. Acting as captains are: W. J. Stitt, H.

A. Ritchie, Samuel Williams, William Burns, John A. Knighton, the engineer who built the Queensboro Bridge, and B. H. Gunn.

There are an equal number of women groups and men irmiins: USOM wo. ntl NO PLAYING IN THE STREETS. Open Field Gatherings and Clean Sport After School Hours, With Good Coach. Keeping the boys out of the streets after school hours is a problem that has been solved with satisfaction by two well-known Brooklyn men. Lewis E.

Pierson, president of the wholesale grocery firm of Austin, Nichols and Thomas L. Leeming, president of the Brooklyn Riding and Driving Club, are the men who have successfully coped with a situation which has vexed parents since congestion became a big factor In the growth of cities. The rough play in the streets, the danger from automobiles and wagons and the other dangers of evil associations and bad companions impressed upon Mr. Pierson the open field idea with the organization of a boys club. Mr.

Leeming fell in with the plan at once, with the result that in the Prospect Heights section an organization of boys has been effected which has grown tremendously in popularity and the plan is likely to spread to other sections. This happened last spring. Then the idea was one of vagueness and indecision. Frequent chats between these two fathers, who exhibited so much interest in the welfare of their boys, developed the idea into a systematic, practicable plan which they began to adopt in the autumn of last year. Mr.

Leeming's sons had many companions, with whom they played in the street near their home. These young boys Mr. Leeming called together in his own house, at 94 Eighth avenue, and told them of his plan. They were the most enthusiastic. As a result the organization was formed and meetings have taken place since last autumn, if not outdoors, In Leeming's house.

The club Is still in embryo form. It is merely a group of schoolboys, rang-ingin years from 11 to 13, who have consented to play together and go for clean sport. There are now eighteen boys in the group. They gather every afternoon, after school hours, and go out for two hours, either to the parade grounds to play baseball or to some nearby gymnasium. On Saturday mornings, from 9 to 12 o'clock, they meet and go through similar sports.

As some of the boys are busied with dancing or music lessons, at times, the hours for their meetings are not regular. Nevertheless, nearly every member manages to be present at every meeting. If they come too late to go out to the grounds with the rest of the group, they follow. To develop the boys Mr. Leeming obtained the services of a coach, or tutor, in the American sports.

He is Cuyler Heath, a young real estate man who has time, in the afternoons and Saturday mornings, for coaching the group in the various sports. Mr. Heath is a Princeton graduate and distinguished himself while at college in playing on the football and other teams. He is a well-developed athlete and is interested in coaching the small boys in athletics. To pay Mr Heath for his services each boy contributes a certain sum each week.

When the boys started their "spring training" for the baseball season this year they found that they could not get a permit for a diamond on the parade grounds at Prospect Park without having some sort of title to identify them. Thetherefore adopt r'mpvi niuu name. That name may be the Poly-Prospect Friends. This would signify pect Heights School and Poly Prep. aut tnere are also a few boys from Adelphi, so there is a question of in- eluding them, some way or other, in the name, and at the same time not making the name too clumsy.

The real work of the boys is in their play. In the winter they bowl, play basketball and "hare and hounds" In the park. In autumn they play football and now they go out nearly every day to the parade grounds to have a game of baseball. All this they do under the direction of Mr. Heath, who teaches the fine points of the game.

The boys also are taken now and then to professional baseball games. Besides the athletic side of this meeting of boy friends there is an interesting educational side. This consists of visits to various industrial and educational Institutions in the city. So far the boys have' visited the Navy Yard. Fort Hamilton, the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, the Museum of Natural History, the Bliss Works, a large modern bakery and other places.

They frequently go to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, where they enjoy themselves In the pool. There is only one requirement for a young schoolboy who wishes to join this group. He must be a "good sport." That Is, he must have a good. Above Is a reproduction of the souvenir medal of the Brooklyn Histori cal Pageant. It shows the figure of lrogress in the foreground and the present-day city in the background.

On tile reverse of the medal are the names of the officers of the Pageant. The medal is suitable for use as a natch fob. It Ls being sold by the Pageant Committee at a price of 25 cents. friendly disposition, so that he would be satisfied with any position on a basket, foot or baseball team assigned to him. If he Is the right kind of a "sport," one who considers his neighbor just as much as himself, this group of friends is open to him.

Especially the boys living in the Prospect Heights section have an opportunity to join this group. The following are the names of the boys belonging to the club: Crosby Allison. William Allison William B. Greenman Daniel Jackson, Robert Hanan, William Lyons, Robert Kelby, Lambert' Knight, Kenneth Meurerv Lewis E. Pierson John Mulllns, Rhys Williams, Lloyd Smith, Ferdinand Wyckoff, David Roulston, Leroy Pershall, Clinton Smith, Miner Trowbridge, Leonard Leeming, Thomas L.

Leeming Jr. The mothers of the boys in this club have expressed themselves most warmly as being in favor of the club. stating that they can now go about their social duties in the afternoon and not have all the time the subconscious fear that their boys are getting under the wheels of traffic in the street. HOWE HAS NEW PLAN TO AID IMMIGRANTS Proposes to Extend Service Beyond the Confines of Ellis Island. A new departure has been inaugurated by the Commissioner of Imml gration, Frederic C.

Howe, for the aid and of immigrants and for eign-born residents in the city. It consists in the opening of an inquiry office at the Barge Office, South Ferry, to which immigrants can go for aid, information and advice. It is part of a constructive programme for extending the immigration service beyond the confines of Ellis Island, which is being worked out. In speaking of the proposal Commissioner Howe said: "Nearly 80 per cent, of the people of New York are foreign-born or the children of foreign-born parents. They come to us from every corner of the globe.

They arrive here for the most part ignorant of our institutions, un familiar with our laws and, aside from the voluntary private agencies, are unaided in their contact with our life. "They are confronted with new problems. They are exploited. Their very Ignorance leaves them a prey to all sorts of people. They do not know- where to go when in trouble.

Often they are arrested for some trivial of fense. Controversies frequently arise. They do not know where to go or how to proceed to be naturalized. They are not familiar with our educational laws or with the evening classes and other opportunities offered by the city. There are thousands of problems and diffi culties which beset the immigrant on every hand.

To meet this situation an office has been opened at the Barge Office, South Ferry, as a sort of cleRring-hause of information to which anyone can go and secure information without charge, it will direct immigrants to organizations of their countrymen or other agencies for their protection and assistance. It will send them to immigrant homes and aid them to secure redress or protection. The Bureau of Immigration maintains a free employment agency in the Barge Office. It is rapidly extending its activities, not only for the distribution of aliens fo the land but to supply male and female labor for industrial and domestic service. Uhe inquiry office will direct persons to the division of employment, which is near by.

"These are but suggestive of the numerous questions likely to arise. It is not planned to supersede any existing organizations, but rather to cooperate with them and to offer a pub- cusinieresteo omce to which any one can go without fear. "In addition, the inquiry office will be in close connection with Ellis It will advise friends of incoming aliens as to when they should go to Ellis Island to meet Incoming friends; as to the condition of inmates of the hospitals and many other ques tions wnicn at tne present time require a trip to the island. By this means friends of incoming imml. grants will be saved great loss of time and needless trips to Ellis Island." 15,000.

MANAGED ON CITY PLAN. Building a nil Land Valued at 000 Thirty-six Stories and I Forty-eight Elevators. When the Equitable Building on Broadway, covering the entire block from Pine to Cedar street, is filled with tenants, which is rapidly be- coming a fact, it will house a population of over 15.000, equal to half of 1 that of Galveston, Texas. It regular tenants with their employees will exceed the citizens of Cripple Creek, or Tarrytown, N. each of which ls a full-fledged city, according me lat- est census returns.

Hugh McAtamney, in his office in the Woolworth Building, told of construction and capacity of this stupendous structure in a matter-of-fact manner, as one who deals daily with figures, that a generation ago been deemed extravagant. The old Equitable Building, whichn was built about forty years ago, wasJ at Its completion, the tallest office building in lower New York, and as such was used by the United States-Weather Bureau. In It was put the- first elevatprs used by such a ing in the city. Its destruction by fire on January 15, 1912, was spectacular. Although constructed by the best method of fire proofing at the time, the interior was entirely destroyed.

The excavation for the new building on the site of the old one began In December, 1913. The construction began in June, 1914, and was completed In February of this year. The value of the land on which it is built is The completed building is valued at $15,000,000, making in all. The ground area is square feet, and its cubical con- tents 26,000,000 cubic feet. It has but one street number, 120 Broadway.

The height from the sidewalk to the pent house roof is forty stories, making 645 feet. The actual number of stories shown on the exterior is thirty-six. The space of each floor is 30,000 square feet, and the center tower rises to 555 feet. Below the ground are1 three basements, and the weight of the steel frame, being the skeleton of the building, is 32,500 tons. The weight of the granite, brick and marble built around this weighs 250,0001 pounds.

Under all is a rock bed foundation eighty-flve feet below the curb. On this rests an outer wall or foundation, a cofferdam of concrete six feet wide and eighty-five feet deep from -curb to solid rock, strengthened by steel rods. Eighji fWeltand concrete piers go to the solid rock, and resting on these piers are granite columns extending to the roof. There were em. ployed each working day an average of 2,600 workers in the conception of the building.

The elevator system of this great i structure is marvelous In Its complete- ness and may well be likened to tho i trolley system of a city. There are forty-eight elevators in six banks of eight each to accommodate those who I live and work above ground and two sidewalk lifts to care for those below i ground. The total elevator trackage, so to speak, will be 20,240 feet, or nearly four miles. They will run at a speed of about seven and one-half miles an hour, which is greater than the speed of an average trolley car. There are fifty of them in all, capable of carrying with safety and ease 3,000 persons every fifteen minutes to the height of the building, thirty-six stories.

At least 60,000 use them daily. One peculiarity of the elevator system i is that the structure was built around it, for It is a known fact that a large percentage of tenantcy rests on the speed with which one may get to and from his place of business. A man may spend many moments on thel street watching matters of trivial interest, but he can't wait one second for an elevator. Great Building Managed on Plan of! a City. Mnnacpri on the rtlnn nf a.

ritv which it is, in fact, the Equitable has I its police department, fire department ana otner departments wnicn go to make up a great successful civic corporation, and the fire department is simple and efficient. There is a fire-alarm station and four powerful lines of hose on each floor, with competent men to manage tneni snould occasion demand, though the building Is as nearly fireproof as the ingenuity of man can accomplish. It is realized that the contents of the offices cannot -be made fireproof, and it is for their protection that this elaborate system has been established. I There are few cities which can boast" of a power plant like that which, located fifty feet below the curb line, furnishes the power for the manifold acivlties of this great building. On en.

1 AKvi an erect Vwiilar-o nanoro tint Vtaar nrltlnh is transformed into powt. energy, eating up fifty-five tons of coal daily. Much of this energy is trans- -formed into electricity by six enormous 4 dynamos with a capacity of 2,600 kilo- watts. It is interesting to know that the Equitable will be absolutely independ- ent of the weather or the Ice crop, as 1 It will have a complete artificial ice plant of its own, capable of turning out all the ice of the purest quality that its tenants can possibly use. From the center of the engine room rises the 1 smokestack, in itself an object of awe.

It is a great steel cylinder, 33 feet in circumference and nearly 600 feet tall. Thomas Morch, the renting manager, is kept busy deciding upon applic- I tions and apportioning space to appli-cants. Co-operating with him is an efficiency department, created to aid prospective tenants in making the most economic and efficient layouts to I save space, rent, and at the same time secure the bset possible results. The! Equitable Life Assurance Society oc- cupies several floors of the building. I but, if needed, there can be supplied for a tenant an entire floor, with the arrangement of stairs, elevators and other utilities, which will give him continuous unbroken daylight space on all sides of the building, and all properly connected with the central lobby.

Above the fifth floor the Equitable assumes the appearance of 1 a twin building, so that all the tenants have equal light and air. (n.lng Down on Trinity's Spire. As it stands now. its fortieth story is level with tbe ombservatirm platform of the Singer Building, and above the top of tbe Hankers Trust Building, each in their time the tallest buildings in New York City. From its upper tloor tenants may look down on tbe extreme top of Trinity's spire, which, when the first Equitable! Building was constructed, was the tallest structure in lower New York, and a point of vantage for a view of I the city.

The forty stories of the Equitable, a huge commanding H. rises above all New York's skyscrapers, save for the towers of the Woolworth and the Mu-i nicipal buildings, and will be a city with floating anil resident population of 50,000 persons a day. Clarence T. Coley will be its mayor, hisi title being the operating manager. He will also be its police commisisoner, its fire commissioner, building super- intendent, commissioner of water, ga and electricity, and member of noard ot estimate, tnan golden medals for gallantry on line nem or action wouia De.

my soi Idler father fell near me, sorely wounded, in one of the most sanguln ary battles of the eastern theater of the Civil War, and died from his wounds soon after reaching home. "The flag of our country now floats from the staff of every school house In the land, and the children are taught its meaning and to love and revere it and in the home circle the patriotic fathers and mothers of the youths instill into their expanding minds the glorious principles for which it stands. They are told of the struggles of their heroic forefathers of the Revolution and its defense, of the baptism of heroic blood it cost that it might be handed down witn un dimmed glory to posterity. They are told the stories of later wars when the grand old banner was assailed by foreign and domestic foes, and how it was always borne triumphantly back when peace had dispelled the war clouds from the national skies; borne back shot-tattered, weather-stained, yet crowned with unfading glory, and should it ever again be threatened the present school boys, with a 'God bless and protect you from patriotic pa rents, would rally beneath its sacred folds with the light of patriotism aglow in every eye and be eager to fight, and, if need be, die, in its de- tense. Those are the sort of soldiers their mothers raised their boys to be.

"1 love the flag. Its every star to me is an inspiration to write and talk I nd "8 of Kory its sacred colors i an incentive to try to be a yet better American. For years your brill In at colors caught tbe glow Of Freedom's sun. Upon your staff there perched The white-winged dove of peace, pure as tbe MOW, It plumage by no storm of strife besmirched, The sore oppressed from alien lands upraised. Their eyes to you aglow with hope's glad light, And when beneath your sheltering folds, they praised a The Gd above, that from the gloomy night Of dark oppression they made their way Into the cheery light of Freedom's Day.

Float on. Old Glory, float in freedom's air In regal splendor, eloquent tho' mute, Respected by all nations everywhere That civilization's seeds have taken root. May every star with added luster glow. As fade the years Into the dimming past. May added splendor crown thy field of blue Until-is heard the warning trumpet blast.

And ringing voice proclaims from Heaven's shore: "Time is, time was, but time shall be no more!" "I append a song as a rebuke to the author of 'I Did Not Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier," and while it is a leaf from my own book of experience, I feel that it is applicable to everyone of the comrades who fought with me for the glory of the flag in our great Civil War, as well as the Spanish War Veterans, and Is a heartfelt tribute to the patriotic mothers who bore them and to our splendid National Guard." "MY MOTHER RAISED HER BOY TO BE A SOLDIER." Son and Chorus. (To the Patriotic Womanhood of America.) My mother loved my daddy and she loved her country, too. She gazed upon him proudly In his uniform of blue, She sent him forth to battle when our Lincoln called for men. She bade him do his duty for Old Glory flag and then Refrain. My mother raised her buy to be a soldier, My mother raised a patriotic boy, My mother placed a musket on his shoulder.

The enemies of freedom to destroy. My mother raised her boy to be a soldier, My mother raised her boy to be a man. And his daddy fought beside my dear mother's boy and died. My mother raised a true American. My daddy sorely wounded, lay upon a bed of pain.

And tenderly she nursed htm back to health and strength again, Back to the front hastened with the war-light In his eye. Again a deadly missile sent him home In pain to die. Chorus. 'Tls many years since daddy from the earth was called away. With mother they from Heaven may be looking down today.

Their spirit souls with pleasure may be filled to see that 1 Am loyal to the flag as when they spoke the last goodbye. iast reiram. Yes, mother raised her boy to be a soldier, And sent him forth to battle with his sire. My mother placed a musket on his shoulder, Her soul aglow with patriotic Are, My mother raised her bny to be a soldier, My mother raised her boy to be a man. And his daddy fought beside my dear mother's boy and died, My mother raised a true American.

(Copyright by Jack Crawford.) the United Press, the two largest news-gathering organizations in the United States, which are strictly co-operative associations, the Reuter Agency is a private concern, that gathers and sells news, just as any other commodity. It arose out of the Invention of the telegraph, and young Julius Reuter was the first to realize the importance of the new invention in transmitting information ota general nature. He had an idea and he put in into practice. When he started this agency many towns were not connected by telegraph wires, and frequently he had to fill in the gaps by railroad trains, and sometimes even by carrier pigeons. It was eleven years later, or in 1851, that young Reuter came to London.

At first he had only commercial information to sell, generally about wheat cargoes on the Danube, which Greek merchants sought information about. The news service to newspapers did not begin until 1868, when Reuter Induced the Morning Advertiser to take his foreign service. The paper had been paying about $200 a month for the transmission of foreign telegrams, and Reuter offered to do the same work for $160 a month. He was able to do It by making the same arrangements with six other papers, and thus the Reuter News Agency, as it Is known today, came into being. It has been called the European Associated Press.

Banking and Advertising Business a Part of Reuter's Activities. But unlike the Associated Press and other similar co-operative organizations, the Reuter Agency doew a large business In other lines than strict news gathering. It runs a banking business and each year many millions of dollars are transmitted for private customers to all parts of the world. It also does an advertising business, and floats foreign loans, as well as getting so-called "concessions." Under ordinary times it transmits messages for private individuals, frequently as many aa 1,000 a day. It can do this work cheaper than ordinary telegraph companies because it uses elaborate systems of coding and is able to get low rates over many cable systems.

In France the Agence Havas does a business very similar to that of the Reuter Agency in England. In Germany the Wolff Bureau has a sort of semi-official character that the others do not have, or are not supposed to have. In Italy the Stefanl Bureau gathers news and sells it. and most of the European countries have similar organizations. Elder Reuter a Prussian Nobleman.

The elder Reuter, who died in 1890. was ennobled In the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1871, and in 1801 Queeft Victoria gave permission to use the title In England. Barnn de Reuter had become a British citizen as early as 1867. His son. August Julius Clement de Reuter, who recently committed suicide, was born in 1862.

He was an amateur musician of unusual attainments, and early In life planned to make music his life study. A son, Hubert, born In 1878, is now serving in the Sportsman's Battalion at the front, and a daughter was married in 1901 to John Douglas of Tll-quhillle, Scotland. wno will be the new manager of the great agency Is not yet settled, r- UlierS a OUOStltUie rrOm His Own Book of Experience, Captain Jack Crawford, the Civil yVar soldier, Indian fighter, scout, poet and lecturer, is incensed over the circulation and singing of the song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier." His attention was drawn to it by the protest of Major Sidney Grant to President Churchill of the Board of Education against the singing of unpatriotic songs in the public schools. In distinction to the song of which he complains, Captain Jack has written one, entitled "My Mother Raised Her Boy to Be a Soldier," which he gave for the first time at the reunion of the Society of the' Army of the Potomac in Philadelphia on Thursday last. Captain Jack writes as follows concerning what he terms an unpatriotic song; did not raise my boy to be soldier, Wan ever more unpatriotic thought? Thete'i no euch theme in breasts of loyal mothers.

An Ill-worded mass of rankest rotl "The write of such a sentiment pos sesses about as much of the patriotic mi-hin i i With the ambition to make of him soldier, unless it may be the wife of an army officer who desires her son to adopt the honored profession of his father, but every mother in whose breast the fires of patriotism burn bright instills in the youthful mind the spirit of patriotism and love' of CAPT. JACK oguntry, and the deepest reverence for hia country's flag, so that if he should ever see an insult cast upon that glorious emblem he would quickly respond to a call to arms in its defense. In our several wars the seeds of patriotism were planted in the" breast of our country's heroic defenders at the mother knee in childhood, and they grew and expanded and burst into valorous bloom when their services were needed. Captain Jack Carries Scars Of Battlefield. "My mother, although of foreign birth, became a loyal American and taught her foreign-born son to love the flag of her adopted country and the cause of freedom it represents.

That love grew until- it assumed thej proporiion ui a arm wnen but lad in my teens, by what I believed to be commendable misrepresentation, I succeeded in gaining enlistment in the gallant Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment of Infantry volunteers, and fought by the side of my patriotic father. Grand 01d Bid NEWS "BEATS" SCORED BY REUTER'S Famous Agency First to An- nounce Murder of Archduke Ferdinand and Wife. ALSO ENGLAND'S WAR MOVE. Founded in 1840 In Alx-la-Chapcllo, It Li Now a Strictly Brlt-. ish Concern.

London, April 22 The death of Baron Herbert de Reuter removes an Important figure In the news gathering world. As manager of the Reuter Agency, founded by his father, he had much direct influence on the way the news of the war was gathered and distributed. Since the outbreak of the war the Reuter Agency, one of the great news disseminating agencies of the world, has Itself figured In the news. It scored some notable news triumphs at the outset of the hostilities. It announced the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife two hours in advance of any other correspondent, and it gained a like time on Its competitors in giving out the news of the Empress of Ireland disaster.

And more Important than any other, It "scooped" everyone else by twenty minutes in sending out the momentous news that England had declared war on Germany. When the war had progressed a few weeks and the hunt against German firms doing business In Great Britain was begun there were frequent rumors that the Reuter Agency was a German concern, and that It had unduly close relations with the Wolff Bureau in Berlin; In fact, it was al- leged that the Reuter Agency took its German news service directly from the Wolff Bureau. To these charges Baron de Reuter replied in detailed statements given to the press, and the public fear that Its news from Germany had been "tainted at the source" was largely allayed. Router Agency a Distinctly British Concerp. The history of the Reuter Agency shows that though it was founded by ft Prussian Jew, Julius Reuter, at Alx-la-Chapelie, in 1840, It is in reality a strictly British concern at the present time.

It has its own correspondents at all the principal points of the world, and It is only In getting news from the smaller cities and towns that-it relies on the local news-gather ing organizations. Unlike the Associated Press and 5cv club. Hut this is only perfunctory, Thursday night. Vvhen this reaches and the boys are thinking of an anonymous subscriber will i ing permanently under a real, good add $5,000, making it $50,000. It is ex pected that at least $10,000 must be picked up by the canvass on Sunday and Monday.

Last night a band played in front of the church and paraded In the neighborhood, with the Boy Scouts following after it to attract the people to the fact that the church is in a campaign for $60,000, $20,000 of which will be set apart so that the income can be used for work among boys and girls in the neighborhood. There is no Y. M. C. A.

from Fifty-seventh street to 125th street, so that the clubrooms to be built, the gymnasium to be installed and the game rooms to be arranged will be useful to this neighborhood. A pipe shute like that employed to gather money for the unemployed has been put in front of the church, so that everyone going by may put in coins. A bevy of attractive young women were stationed in front of the church last night to invite people to contribute. A big clock, electrically lighted, in front of the church, makes the progress of the pledge giving. Billboards all over the city call attention to the campaign.

A representative committee knows of the work of Grace Church $200,000 TO ENLARGE L. I. STATE HOSPITAL Governor's Blue Pencil Skips Allowance for Important Brooklyn Work. BUILDINGS ARE OVERCROWDED. Some of Them Sixty Years Old to Be Reconstructed Arguments Before Governor.

Albany, N. May 15 The urgency of the need of increasing the State's facilities for the care of its Insane as impressed upon Governor Whitman by experts at Wednesday's hearing on bills appropriating funds for the State hospital system warded off the Governor's busy blue pencil from several substantial appropriations for new construction in connection with State Hospitals for the Insane. One item allowed is $200,000 for the enlargement of Long Island State Hospital in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and the imperative reconstruction of some ofj the 60-year old buildings. Another item is $300,000 for beginning work on the new Mohansic State Hospital at Yorktown, Westchester County. The Governor took this under further consideration after hearing many arguments in favor of allowing It.

While he did not finally express himself at the time, his approval is confidently expected. Those who appeared before the Governor to urge his approval of the appropriation for Long Island State Hospital were Commisioners May, Morgan and Friday of the State Hospital Commission; Hugo Hirsh of Brooklyn, president of the hospital's board of managers; Dr. Elbert M. Somers, its medical superintendent; Asemblyman Herber E. Wheeler of the Ways and Means Committee, and Homer Folks of New York, secretary of the State Charities Aid Association.

The State Hospital Commissioners pointed out to the Governor that the fourteen State Hospitals for the In sane are overcrowded to the extent of 6,106 patients an average overcrowding of over 22 per cent, above the certified capacity. The fourteen institutions with a total certified capacity of 27.462 patients actually contain patients. The Commissioners said the average Increase in patients yearly is about 800. About $800,000 a year ought to be spent in new construction. Mr.

Hirsh pointed out that the overcrowding was worst in the metropolitan district. He said that Long Island Hospital now had 27 per cent, more patients than it has accommodations for. Enlargement of the hospital would help not only that institution but to some extent the overcrowding situation in the whole metropolitan district. Mr. Folks pointed out that- the appropriation asked for would merely care for the normal increase In the number of patients this year and was therefore most urgent.

Speaking of the situation throughout the State as a whole, he said that if all the money asked for this year is granted it would merely enable the State to keep up to its current responsibilities and would hardly touch the accumulated problem of nearly 6,000 more patients than there is room for. The situation is all the worse this year, he said because nothing was appropriated for new construction last year. He expressed a firm conviction that no financial exigency exists which would justify further delay in securing more beds in the State hospitals. Assemblyman Wheeler stated that he spent a day inspecting and investigating the Long Island Hospital and declared that the "overcrowding is a most evident and distressing fact." He asserted that the State Hospitals in general were 22 per Cent, overcrowded and that the overcrowding in New York City and vicinity was the worst. Figures were pre-lented to the Governor indicating that one hospital Mnnhattan, on Ward's Islandis 39 per cent, overcrowded.

BANCKE ANNUAL CONCERT. Insfructor Presented with Gold Watch Charm by Pupils. The twentieth annual concert of the pupils of Victor Bancke took plaei Friday afternoon at the Imperial Mr. Bancke was presented by the pupils with a gold and jeweled watch iharm, and a large bouquet red oses, the former attached to a small American flag. Tho pupils ail ayed well; those on the programme boiig: Martha de Modena, Wlnfleld Weber, William Craig, Helen Schorn, Frederick Ring.

Anna Itoch, Helen Craig. Sophie Laks, Edwin Guntin, Mary Spatafore, Josephine Spatafore, Lillian Brown, Clara Ackcrmann, Eileen Flynn, Arthur Brandin, Azalea Prae-itsching, Edna Dlblin, Helen Holzmnn, Wilbur Hougaard, Winifred Flynn. Irene Grotz, Marguerite Dornnn, William Lennon, Charles Brandin, Ma- BOYS CLUB MEMBERS AND THEIR COACH OFF FOR A SPIN AND AT THEIR PLAYGROUND and approves It heartily. They are: Mavor Mitctael. Marcus Marks, Presi dent of the Borough of Manhattan; Robert Adamson, Fire Commissioner; Pr George F.

Kunz, Fran If Huvler. William Fellowes Morgan, president of the New York Y. M. ('. J.

Edgar Lcavcrafl, O. J. (ludo, W. M. Kingslev, C.

Freeman, Samuel Macltoberts, John O. Clark, Frank Williams, W. It. Comfort, Frank W. Fruesuff and James Bradley.

A big programme is planned for Sunday night. There will be a platform meeting, and it is expected that Bishop Luther B. Wilson will speak; also Senator Bennett, State Senator Ogden L. Mills and Bainbrldge Colby. Others will also add a few words.

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