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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. KEW YORK, SUNDAY. MAT- 23, I01o. 10 FOR WAR SUFFERERS. ANTI-SUFFRAGE WORK.

25 to 27 at the Standish Arms, 169 lyn; Saturday, Mrs. John Martin will hold an anti-suffrage garden party at her home at Grymes Hill, S. I. Columbia heights, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Women's War Re MR. AXD MRS.

BANKS ENTERTAIN WALKS AND TALKS By JULIUS CHAMBERS The Predicament of Dr. Bernhard Dernburg Saleof Historical China to Be Held by Women. An interesting collection of historical china, purchased at the Tuilleries in 1872, will be placed on sale on May lief Committee. The entire proceeds, the china having been donated, will be used for. the war sufferers.

On Tuesday afternoon from 3 until 5 o'clock a silvr tea will be held. Many Meetings Arranged for the Coining Week. Activities among the women who are opposing suffrage are increasing. For the coming week the formal meetings are: Sunday, Miss Charlotte Rowe will address the Carlisle Culture Club, 318 Hart street, Brooklyn, at Mon Mr. and Mrs.

William Banks of 317 Fiftieth street, Bay Ridge, entertained their friends last evening, at their home. There was a musical programme and games. Miss Grace Dunn of 423 Eightieth street rendered the following selections: "Before the Dawn," by Chadwick, and "Thou Art HAT stormy petrel. Dr. Dernburg I wants to return home, but he is suffering anxiety as to whether or not he will be permitted to "no survivor recalls having seen him aboard." 8 Mrs.

Rood (who was a Mrs. Stolber, widow of a wealthy Denver mine owner, who left her 5, 000, 000), has written to a mutual friend and he has sent her letter to me. The lady says the story is maliciously false and is probably inspired by a personal enemy that she believes she can name. She declares that not the slightest doubt exists that her late husband was lost on the big steamship. They were in London together when he was suddenly called back, but she decided to remain a month later.

Insurance companies, after full investigation paid their losses to Mr. Rood's mother, for whose benefit they had been issued at her (the now widow's) request, she having all the money she needed. She mentions F. K. Leonard of 30 Broad street, this city, a Titanic survivor, who was with Rood on deck when the steamer sank.

Leonard managed to reach a boat but never saw Rood again. I have sought Mr. Leonard in vain at tlvs address mentioned. It would be interesting' to have his story. 'personal feeling about it, but I know he is an ass! There is not among the whole list of retired major generals a man who is not Grant's superior.

Mc-Clellan. Fremont, McDowell, Burnside. Franklin, even Pope or Sumner, would be an improvement upon the present commander of the Army of the Mis reach there In safety. I observe that some commentators are likening his sissippi. We will wake up some of these days and find we haven't an Army of the Mississippi.

Then there is awful discouragement at the way For OneWeek Only $40 Silk-Lined Suits, $25 Midnight Blue and Gray Serges, exceptional value, guaranteed cloths, that will make ideal Summer Suits. One of each will make pleasant change during the entire summer. Order now, and your clothes will be ready for Decoration Day. To measure only. 1 Coat and Trousers, $22.50 Extra White or Striped Flannel Trousers, $5.00 the foolish old Hunter, who is thought to be a groat man because he is not insane in his prejudices on the negro day, Miss Marjorie Dorman will address the Men's Club of St.

Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church at Patchen and Jefferson avenues, Brooklyn; Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, president of the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage will address the members of the Schenectady Auxiliary; Tuesday, Miss Charlotte E. Rowe will speak at the John K. Neal Republican Club. 62 Harman street, Brooklyn; Miss Margaret Uhl will speak at the Church of the Ascension, 340 East 106th street, Manhattan, and Miss Marjorie Dorman will address the Men's Club of the Summerfleld M. E.

Church, Washington and Greene avenues, Brooklyn; Wednesday, Mrs. E. S. Shumway will address the Mothers Club of Public School No. 127, Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, at 3 p.m., and Miss Marjorie Dorman will address the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Boston Road and 165th street, Manhattan, at Thursday, Miss Lucy J.

Price will speak at Dr. Welch's church. Eighty-eighth street and Park avenue. Manhattan; Friday, Miss Margaret Uhl will address the Seventh Assembly District Republican I Club at 4612 Seventh avenue, Brook question, is doing. In God name, what, is he waiting for? More reinforcements? Pity he can't die and get out of the way, as Mitchell did.

"Desertions must be stopped. The Like Lnto a Flower," by Chadwick, accompanied by Miss Myrtle Rodgers. Miss Christina McQualg gave two readings. The following were present: James Smith, Miss Emma Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

John Kenmuie. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mills, Joseph Mills, Miss Myrtle Rodgers, Miss Thompson, Mr: and Mrs.

Alexander Monaghan, Mr. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, Mr. and Mrs.

John McCoy, Mrs. Arthur Smith, Miss Harriet Smith, Robert Hammond, Miss Christina McQuaig, Mrs. M. K. Bennett, Mrs.

E. T. Marsh, Mrs. Watson, William Drain, Mrs. J.

Bennett Westaway, Miss Batton, Mrs. Theodore Johnson, Mrs. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Spackman, Harold Spackman, Miss Grace Dunn, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Cann, Miss Gertrude Gun-ston, Mrs. M. Dermody, Miss Dermody and Miss Irene Craig. Mrs.

Herbert H. Spackman, Miss Christina McQuaig and Mrs. Frank Cann, the winners of the games, received very pretty prizes. President must give each commander SCARSDALE TRACT SOLD. Fish and Marvin have sold for the.

Quaker Realty Company a tract of land on the south side of Heathcote road, Scarsdale, adjoiningthe section known as the Heathcote Association. The purchaser is Bertrand F. Bell, Broadway" 9th St. mm EXCLUSIVELY CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHES, $20 TO( $50 who will improve the property for residential purposes. The same brokers have recently sold for Mr.

Bell his estate at New Rochelle. of departments power to shoot deserters; they must be shot by the dozen. The President's weak, puling, piddling humanitarianism is death and hell to the army. Can't you take him (Lincoln) by the throat and knock his head against a wall until he is brought to his senses on the war business? I do not speak wantonly when I say there are persons who would feel they were doing God's service to kill him, if it were not feared that Hamlin is a bigger fool than he. And yet, the pitiful Congress twaddles weakly in private caucus about political matters, as if a little more nigger would do everything.

What is wanted; "First A general for our Army of the Mississippi. "Second Deserters shot by order of commanders of departments. "Third Less dependence upon the nigger and more upon the white man. "Fourth The consolidation of the fragments of regiments. "Fifth Arrest and try Wendell Phillips and Henry May for treason.

"Sixth Suppress the New York Tribune and the New York World." A copy of that terrible letter lies before me, and I cannot suppress the thought that had Secretary Chase done his duty to his Chief and the country he would have suppressed the Cincinnati editor on- receipt of that letter! General Garfield was exposed as a critic of his superior officer, General Rosencrans. The Halstead letter, expressing a thought that Abraham Lincoln ought to be assassinated, was highly treasonable. In another letter to Chase, which I have seen, Halstead recommends the hanging of Horace Greeley! Poor old Murat Halstead is gone, and I do not wish to say anything unkindly, for he has friends in Brooklyn, where he was an editor. The trouble with Halstead, in war time, was that he took himself too seriously. He forgot that the word "editor" is a Latin one and that in the days of Rome an editor was "the announcer" who named the gladiators as they entered the arena to fight the tigers.

Halstead thought he was as good as-any gladiator and could fight the tiger himself. He honestly believed he carried fte nation's fate upon his shoulders. Italy has taken the plunge! It remains to be seen whether or not she has gone Into the water beyond her depth. Nobody on this side of the Atlantic can tell to a nicety; but case to that of Mason and Slidell, who started abroad for the Confederacy, were taken off the Trent, a British steamer, by Captain Wilkes, but promptly handed back to England by the Federal Government. The cases are not similar, because the two commissioners were duly accredited officials of a belligerent with which the Federal Government was at war.

Dr. Dernburg has no official status whatever. This statement has been made by himself and confirmed by Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to this republic. Therefore, his status is that of a private citizen, and he can be removed from a neutral vessel and Interned in France or England. Instances have occurred since the present war began in which neutral vessels have been stopped by British cruisers at the very gate of New York, searched, and German or Austrian subjects removed therefrom; but, in no instance, were such persona officially accredited representatives of the belligerent governments mentioned.

High judicial opinion is that von Bernstorff would not be subject to capture were he to ask for his passports tomorrow and return to Germany upon a Dutch or Scandinavian steamer. If any respect for laws and courtesies of nations, one to another, still exists, his person and effects would be sacred; but Dr. Dernburg can claim no such immunity. His status is merely that of a German citizen, returning to his native land, and the assumption is justified that he will render aid to the foes of the Triple Entente. 8 Those of my readers who have been born since the Trent affair, which brought the Federal Government perilously near war with Great Britain in the winter of 1861, have doubtless overlooked the narrow subterfuge that enabled Secretary Seward to avert a conflict that would have proved disastrous to the Union dause.

Mr. Seward reasoned that, as the young United States had fought England in 1812 upon this very question of the right to search neutral vessels during a war, and had not entirely succeeded in establishing the unsubstantiality of the British claim to that right, it would not be politic for us to assume the false position she had taken then, and so reverse and forever abandon our cherished policy. According to Nicolay and Hay Seward contended adroitly that the commissioners were contraband of war and their capture would have been proper had the Trent been brought into port as a prize to await Judicial procedure and sentence. As afterward learned, this hazarded opinion coincided closely with that held by the British crown lawyers! "If I decide this case in favor of my own Government," wrote Seward, "I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy." (Seward III, chapter 4.) William H. Seward died believing that Great Britain was forever estopped by the Trent precedent from fxercising right "of search against (hips of neutral nations.

From 1861 until the present war England has not been involved with a European Power having a mercantile marine or Its citizens in the United States and the question of reassertion of her claims has not arisen. What was expressly settled by the War of 1812-15 was the contention that impressment of sailors from American vessels would not be tolerated, but Great Britain has renewed the assertion of right to remove from neutral vessels citizens of belligerent nations, and thus reverses herself on the very contention for w'hich, in 1861, she actually began preparations to fight this war-torn republic! How like England, in all her dealings with this country and people, ever since the shackles of her despotism were broken! Perhaps Lincoln's frank view of the Trent affair would have been the better, after all. "One war at a time Is enoiifrh!" he exclaimed. "Send back the men, with regrets." England at this hour is embroiled in the most desperate struggle of her history. Were the United States to follow British precedent and take advantage of England's embarrassment, the Washington Government could very soon stop the hundred and one hindrances to American trade heretofore so supinely endured.

Such reprisal would not comport with the uniform reputation of the United States for moderation and fairness, and should not be adopted. I mention it, however, to indicate what Great Britain did, and would do again, when opportunity offered. France is acquiring a correct estimate of her value as an ally! $.. The hitter attacks on Kitchener by Lord Northcliffe recall the critical letter Murat Halstead, then editor of the Cincinnati Commercial, wrote to Secretary Salmon P. Chase, on February 19.

1863, in which he said: "Our noble Army of the Mississippi being wasted by the foolish, drunken, stupid Grant. He cannot organize control or fight an army. I have no her entrance into the conflict that now si involves all Central Europe is of most vital signiflance. As casually said, Armoi iggiciiia are Hi yesterday, her attitude proves that she wants war! No King, nobility, military class of pampered caste of any kind brought about this action on Italy's part. It is the act of the Italian people! The sentiment throughout the United Kingdom created by Garibaldi has been uproariously for war! The vote in the Italian Parliament did not disclose the real feeling, although it was practically five to one in favor of war.

The Socialistic element can only continue as an opposition so long as it opposes everything suggested by the Ministry. I haven't a doubt as many Socialists will be found rushing to the colors as members of the other political parties. The plight of Austria is appalling. She is unprepared to do battle with an enemy upon her southern border, and if Roumania attacks her from the eastward, the conquest of Transylvania will be an easy task. Italians are hastening homeward by thousands; their patriotism is in marked contrast to some other nationalities.

The conquest of the Dardanelles appears to be near accomplishment. The western forts at the Narrows have been reduced and are in possession of the Allies. From them, guns can be trained upon the remaining Turkish fortresses on the Asiatic bank. Meanwhile, a large allied land force is marching from the Troad to attack these defenses in the rear. A condition of panic exists at Constantinople and the Italian Embassy there reports that the Porte is seriously considering a rupture with Germany and overtures for peace with the Allies.

It is interesting to notice that the Sultan and his ministry do not intend to remove their capital to Brusa but to Eskishehr, one of the holy places of the Mohammedan world. The location is historic; it was near there that Godfrey of Bouillon defeated Soliman. I described this city a week ago. It is agreed that Greece will get all the Turkish islands in the Aegean that Italy did not occupy during the war with Tripoli. A weird story has been current In the Western newspapers for several weeks to the effect that Hugh R.

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