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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 28, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—John T. Hall, said to be 
the composer of several songs and 
marches and president of the John T. 
Hall Music Publishing Company, at 
2 Columbus Circle, New York, was ar¬ 
rested, Nov. 13, on a charge of having 
used the mails to swindle thousands of 
amateur poets. He was arraigned be¬ 
fore United States Commissioner Clar¬ 
ence S. Houghton and released on $5,000 
bail. Hall, it is alleged, between August 
1 and October 20, conducted a prize lyric 
contest, in which he offered prizes of 
$250, $150 and $50. Post Office In¬ 
spector Mayhew says Hall turned over 
the lyrics to the Knickerbocker Harmony 
Studios, which were then in West 42d 
St., and that the latter charged the en¬ 
trants $10 each for writing suitable mel¬ 
odies. Besides running the contest, In¬ 
spector Mayhew says that Ilall has been 
promising amateur poets—one of them a 
scrubwomen—large amounts in royalties 
if they permitted him to arrange the 
music and business details, paying him 
from $35 to $40 for the privilege. From 
his contest Hall is alleged to have real¬ 
ized more than $15,000. 
As a result of a federal investigation 
of the Sanden Electric Company, of 
12G1 Broadway, makers and distributers 
of a “cure-all” electric belt, two members 
of which were indicted in June for 
fraudulent use of the mails, the Post- 
office Department has issued a fraud or¬ 
der against the company. The Sanden 
concern is one of the older industries 
of its kind in this city to fall into the 
government net, having done a thriving 
mail order business here and abroad for 
more than twenty-five years. 
Twelve hundred indictments have been 
returned in Pike County. Ivy., on charges 
of election frauds, and as many more men 
are expected to be indicted before the 
Grand Jury finishes its investigation. A 
similar inquiry will begin soon in Letcher 
and other counties, it being alleged that 
the frauds were general throughout that 
judicial district in the election two years 
ago. The investigation is the most 
sweeping since that in Adams County, 
Ohio, three years ago, when more than 
3,000 voters were disqualified for similar 
practices. 
Five persons were killed and five in¬ 
jured, one seriously, v her. the general 
store of Noah Ivanaza, at Superior. Pa., 
was blown up by dynamite, Nov. 15. 
The store and five dwellings were burned, 
entailing a loss of $25,000. The dyna¬ 
miting is believed to have been the work 
of men who had threatened Kanaza, who 
is wealthy. 
The Federal reserve banks of Hie new 
currency system opened Nov. 17. The 
new system permits - the expansion and 
contraction of the money supply of the 
country in keeping with the actual needs 
of business, whereas the old system main¬ 
tained the same amount of the circulat¬ 
ing medium for all seasons and all fin¬ 
ancial situations. It authorizes the is¬ 
suance of currency upon the security of 
commercial paper, with a generously 
broad definition fixed for this collateral. 
It provides twelve reserve banks around 
which the banks of the country are 
grouped with a central directing author¬ 
ity vested in a governmental body at 
Washington, the Federal Deserve Board, 
which can mobilize the resources of any 
or all of the individual districts to meet 
any extraordinary need for the circulat¬ 
ing medium in any one district. No ade¬ 
quate method of mobilization was pro¬ 
vided by the old system. It releases 
automatically, by decreased reserve re¬ 
quirements, more than $400.000 000 
cash and credit reserves. Summarized, 
the effect of the newly organized system, 
according to officials in Washington, will 
be to prevent panics. 
Jared Flagg, the 52-per cent, invest¬ 
ment broker, was sentenced, Nov. 17, in 
the U. S. District Court at New York, 
to 18 months in the Atlanta peniten¬ 
tiary for his frauds. Pending an appeal 
he was released under $50,000 bail. 
The State presented the basis of its 
case against Henry Siegel, charged with 
the larceny of $084.05 from the Nation¬ 
al Bank of Commerce, at Geneseo, N. Y.. 
Nov. 17. through the expert testimony of 
John Flint, a certified public account¬ 
ant, who after a personal examination of 
the books of the Fourteenth Street Store 
said that there were discrepancies 
amounting to almost $2,000,000 in the 
credit statement of the store submitted 
to the bank on February 1. 1913, for a 
loan of $100,000. which the bank grant¬ 
ed. Flint testified that the assets of the 
store in that statement were overesti¬ 
mated by $359.750.14; that the store’s 
liabilities were understated by $491,748.- 
80, and that the books of the store 
showed liabilities, undisclosed in the 
statement, amounting to $1,008.S20.0S. 
All told, these discrepancies amount¬ 
ed to $1,860,329.02 for this Siegel 
concern alone. Flint’s examination 
of the inventory of the Fourteenth 
Street Store showed that in 1913 
fifty-one departments lost nearly $400,- 
000. Only four of the departments 
showed any profit at all and one of these 
was a profit of $12. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR—Nov. 13 
Premier Asquith announced British cas¬ 
ualties up to that date were 57,000. 
.Nov. 14 it was reported that two 
German submarines were destroyed in 
the English channel.Premier As¬ 
quith asked the House of Commons, Nov. 
16. for an additional credit of $1,250,- 
000.000 for war purposes. This is the 
greatest single demand ever made upon 
the nation, and in addition to the money 
already voted in August is equal to a 
50 per cent, increase in the national debt. 
The new amount was voted unanimously 
in almost record time. The larger part 
of the $500,000,000 already obtained for 
war purposes has been expended, Pre¬ 
mier Asquith told the House, and Great 
Britain is now spending $5,000,000 a 
day. Great Britain has lent to its allies 
$215,000,000. of which the largest sin¬ 
gle amount, $50,000,000, was to Belgium. 
Servia has borrowed $4,000,000. On 
these two loans no interest accrues until 
the end of the war. Other loans were 
made to the self-governing dominions of 
Canada, South Africa, Australia and 
New South Wales. Under ordinary con¬ 
ditions these countries would have to 
borrow their money in the London mar¬ 
ket.Nov. 15 it was announced that 
the British superdreadnaught Audacious 
had been hit by a German mine. Oct. 27, 
off the north of Ireland; that her en¬ 
tire crew had been rescued by the White 
Star liner Olympic and that the Auda¬ 
cious was then sunk by the British 
authorities to remove her from the track 
of navigation.Field Marshal Lord 
Roberts of Kandahar, known to the 
whole British Army as “Bobs,” died sud¬ 
denly of pneumonia, Nov. 14, in France. 
He was retired from active service, his 
age being 82. but had gone to the front 
to visit the Indian troops. He was the 
idol of the British Army, and the recipi¬ 
ent of the highest military honors, win¬ 
ning the Victoria Cross in the Indian 
Mutiny, and distinguishing himself in 
numerous campaigns in Asia and Africa. 
.severe fighting still continues 
along the Yser, and there is n,o further 
evidence of German advance. Frightful 
conditions prevail; incessant fighting 
continues, while snow, severe cold and 
floods add to the miseries of both troops 
and refugees.British light cruis¬ 
ers are again cooperating with the troops, 
bombarding Belgian coast towns held by 
the Germans.Russian reverses are 
reported at Stalluponen and along the 
Vistula. It is also reported that Tur¬ 
kish troops defeated the Russians at Ko- 
prukol.An Indian force, assisted 
by warships, has defeated the Turks at 
the head of the Persian Gulf.Nov. 
17 Turkish forces fired at a launch from 
the American cruiser Tennessee at Smyr¬ 
na. An explanation has been requested 
by Ambassador Morgenthau. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The De¬ 
partment of Agriculture has quarantined 
Clinton and Franklin counties, New 
York, on account of the existence of 
powdery scab among potatoes there. This 
action 'was taken after a public hearing 
on the matter held November 13, and be¬ 
came effective on November 16. Tech¬ 
nically the Department has quarantined 
the whole State, but through the co¬ 
operation of the local authorities in quar¬ 
antining the two infected counties it will 
be possible for the Federal Government 
to remove all restrictions upon the move¬ 
ment of both table and seed stock from 
the area outside of these two counties. 
The provisions of the quarantine are in 
general identical with those in force in 
Maine. Potatoes intended for food must 
be grown in soil that is uninfected and 
must have been stored away from all dis¬ 
eased stock and must be found upon in¬ 
spection by Federal authorities to be ab¬ 
solutely free from any traces of powdery 
scab. They are then tagged and can be 
moved in interstate commerce. 
Pasteurization and other safeguarding 
methods adopted by the national com¬ 
mission on milk failed of indorsement by 
the American Association for Study ami 
Prevention of Infant Mortality at its ses¬ 
sion, Nov. 13. The principal speaker in op¬ 
position to the commission's plan was 
Dr. Henry L. Colt, of Newark, N. J„ 
who said: “My twenty-five years’ exper¬ 
ience teaches me that medical commis¬ 
sion control is not the solution. I have 
eliminated from my parlance pasteuriza¬ 
tion and have substituted the word ‘re¬ 
fined.’ Abroad they cook milk almost 
universally. In Holland they heat milk 
to 102 degrees centigrade, for otherwise, 
they say, they would get typhoid fever 
from the dikes. We must educate our 
people to do their refining of milk in 
the home.” 
The Nation 1 Wool Growers Associa¬ 
tion, in convention at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, sent resolutions to Secretary 
Bryan asking him to stop trying to lift the , 
British embargo on Australian. New Zea¬ 
land and South African wool, claiming 
the American industry would be injured. 
The Administration is asked to place a 
tariff on wool, in view of the closing of 
woolen mills in Europe, as protection 
against South American goods. 
The Connecticut Sheep Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation will hold its annual meeting, 
with attractive speakers and an exhibit 
of wool and dressed mutton, in Unity 
Hall, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 15. The 
public is invited to attend. This is the 
week the Connecticut State Board of 
Agriculture usually holds its annual 
Winter meeting, but they have aban¬ 
doned their meeting this year for the 
first time in nearly 50 years. 
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the 
laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute 
for Medical Research, is in Chicago to 
attempt to isolate the germ which causes 
the hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, and 
then to prepare a serum which will im¬ 
munize cattle in advance. He is work¬ 
ing in cooperation with Dr. S. E. Ben¬ 
nett of the United States Bureau of An¬ 
imal Industry. The quarantine was ex¬ 
tended, Nov. 1C, to Connecticut and 
Montana, making 16 States now under 
quarantine. 
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