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GKEATEE NEW TORK HAS ABOUT OIE-THIRD OF ALL THE AUTO¬ MOBILES OWNED n THE WHOIE OF THE EMPIRE STATE.
Figures compiled giving the motor vehicle registration In this State by counties during 1915, reveal that out «f ttae total of 234,032 cars registered last year, 72,332, or a third, were
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trom Greater N^w York, an Increase ot over 18.000 cars during tbe year. Out of the total registration In New Vork last year, 59,324 were classified as pleasure and 12,148 as commercial cars. The magnitude of the chauffeur buslnees in the metropolitan area is shown by the mere fact thai 45,063 were reglstJerei^ from Greater New York last'year, 10,337 being flrst registrations, the total number In the State bting 82.153.
Flgurea given out by Secretary of State Hugo from the county registra¬ tion Indicate the marvelous Increase tn motor vehicles in this State during the past two years. In 1913, the to¬ ta] registration was 13 4,4 05, or 100,000 cars less than today.
Out ot tbe 18,102 pleasure cars in Kings county, 8.301 were registered for the flrst time last year, l,fl06 of the 2,696 commercial cars and 50 out of the 83 dealers being flrst registra¬ tions, while 2,834 out of the 11,467 chauiTeurs applied for registration in 1915 for the flrst time.
First registrations in 1915 from Queens county were: 2,616 out of 6,054 pleasure cars; 369 out of 827 commercial, 30 out of the 48 dealers and 915 out of 3,437 chauffeurs, lu New York county: 13,003 out of 30,- ,';53 pleasures, 2,428 out of 7,862 commercials, 120 out of 253 dealers and.5,427 out of 26,522 chauffeurs. Bronx, 1,627 out of 2,410 pleasures, 253 out of 533 commercials, 21 out of 25 dealers and 1,007 out of 2,958 chauffeurs. Richmond, 926 out of 2,205 pleasure cars. 98 out of 230 commercials and 4 out of 17 dealere, 154 out of 679 chauffeun.
Of the total receipts of the State Automobile Bureau from the 1915 licenses, etc., $1,913,1'75, the flve counties. Kings, Queens, New York, Bronx and Richmond paid a matter of $677,399.
The total receipts for the year of Lhe State .Automobile Bureau were $1,940,527, this amount representing several thousand dollars paid In De¬ cember by applicants for the low and reserve 1916 number plates, required after Feb. 1. Incidentally, the cost of operating the bureau under the direction of the Secretary of State has shown a steady decrease.
KAISER OUTWnTED BY VON HAESELER
Fooled Emperor One Tine lo German Army Maneuvers.
A PICTURESQUE VETERAN.
Report ef Making Field Marshal Ad¬ viser te Crown Princs Racall* Fa¬ mous Ansodota of "Whon Ho Fooled tho Kaisoi^—Has Been In Four Wars.
Berlin.—When the German howitzers launched their lire against the French line in ^he Verdun region, giving the prelude to a fiirloas Iwttle. cable dis¬ patches from .Vmsterdam told briefly that the veteran general and trusted friend of the kaiser. Count von Ilaese- ler, had gone to the front to act in nn advisory capacity to the crown prince.
No more picturesque flgure could have tieen commisslone*! by the kaiser for this importani work. E.xcellenz Gottlieb Is the Idol of the German sol¬ dier. Field Marshal Ceneral Gottlieb, Cotmt von Ilaeseler. (elebnited his eightieth birthday on Jan. IR. This Is his fourth great war.
Despite his age Count von Ilaeseler is one'of the most modem and un-
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FIKI<D MABKHAIj count VON H/tWnCUtB.
donbtedly one of the most Important of German generals. He is held up to tbe soldiers as an example of tho true Spartan. lie drinks only milk.
A great fnnd of stories has been built abotit Count von Haeseler. The most famous of the anecdotes told about him is that of the time "when he fooled the knisor." as one can hear German schoolboys tell.
It was during the regular kaiser maneuvers In Mny. some twenty years ago. The emr>eror made a bet that he would capture the count. He was the commander In chief of thc "reds," while Cotmt von Ilaeseler, command¬ ant of tbe fortress of Metz, was the Ic.'Kler of the "bines." defending the heights of the l'"ort Kalserin against tbe kaiser's f<irces.
Suddenly "Kxcellenz Gottlieb" was heard to mutter between his teeth:
"Uonnerwetter! What's tbe Idea of that foolhardy caviilry reconnoissauce'.' Those fellows seem to be nfter ttxe.l"
The-general staff officer to whom tbe count had spoken galloped with half a column of cavalry after tbe recon- noitering party. The honse of the last mail stumbled and threw its rider. The general staff olUcer bad a talk with him. then dashed hack to his commander.
Count von Ilaeseler thus lej.rned the object of the rcconnolssancc. .\fter a brief explanation his whole stnlf rode forwiinl. formin;; a semicircle around the (otiiit. diri'ctly toward I'ort Leljv zi;:. iiimiedhilcly in front of the ad- v.-iiicing enemy. There Count von lla(!seier iiiiobsci'\ cd left the stalT. .V few minutes later there rolled out of the fort a wuK'>n In which were plle<l straw nnd old sncks. It passed closely Il.v fhe kiilscr and stopped n few steps behind hiai.
"fJentleiujMi,"' said the emperor at this Juncture, "I believe we have now surrounded Cotmt von Haeseler. I nm anxious to capture his person. Allons. a head I"'
.And tbe kaiser's suit galloped away.
The count crawled from under the sacks nnd climbed otit of the wagon, to the great amusement of the troops camping around It.
"What are these troops doing?" he asked the general In command. "By order of his mnjesty pnt out of nctlonl" was the nnsM er.
The count gave a hearty laugh.
"General." said he, "Uiwn my respou- slblllty, attack the 'red' army from the rear. No contradiction, please. I am responsible."
Count von llrteseler being of superior rank, the offlcer of the 'opposing' army hnd only to ol)ey.
A few minutes later the MstonishiHl emperor heard the signal of retreat at his back. .Vt the same moment the 'bine' nrmy moved forward, and thc emi»cror found himself In such a trap that he hnd the bugle blow "Das ganr.(> halt!" ("All halt:",
When the kaiser heard of the old general's trick. It Is !«Id. he langtaed until tears rolled down his cheeks.
WILL HAVE A LONG SMOKE.
Will ef Tobaeeenist Gives Doeter 4,000 Cigars From Hie Stock.
White Plains, N. T.-Dr. Leo F. Bu¬ gle of Kew Rochelle wlll smoke for a Ions time av the eipense of Jobn Chris¬ tian Alton, wbo recently died.
The will of Alton, a tobaccoblst. at one time a member of the Tenth army eorpa In Germany, was filed in this city. In it he makes a cash bequest of 1130 to the physician and adds that he be permitted to pick the choicest 4,000 cigars in bis stock. If thc doctor con¬ sumes an average ot ten a day he will be smoking at least thirteen months after Alton's death.
Another beauest was of $1,000 to be set aside by the New Ro<^:belle Trust company for wotmded memi^ers of the corps of which he was a member. The trust company has the option of using the money now or at the end of the war. the stipulation being tbat It be spent throngh fhe Red Cross of Ger¬ many.
Alton left several thousaD<l dollars to charity, the New Rochelle Hospital as soclatlon coming in (or H.OfX^i.
DOG PAYS HIS DEBT.
Warnod His Rescuer From Clutchet of a Fire In the House.
Lenox, la.—Recently when a dnn catcher was leading Sport, a homeless black and tan dog, to his detith. W. !•'. Steiukamp, a merchant here/ inter vened. He paid the tax on Sport nnd installed the erstwhile frrtbaii d<'p as a pet of the Stelnkamp brmsehold.
Shortly nfferwiird Sport jiaid the debt. Iluring tbe night the Sfeitikamp home cnuglit fire, nnd the Ibi mes spread rapidly. A sljort time nfier raidnlKht Mr. Slelnkamp was awiikcned hv S[iort's frnntlc linrking. Ite shouted to tbe doc to be (luict. buf Sport woul<l not be stilled. Then Mr. .Sfeinkamp iirose to see what wns wron;r.
.\s he opened his bedrfiom door a burst of flames nnd smoke met him. lie had scarcely time to save himself .'lllll 111- tl-.rco sninU children before the Willis (if llie hotise crasbc'l In.
LeiK'X residents are pl.'innlng to Imy Sfxirl M coilnr \^ Ifb a roni hero mednl :ittnihc(i.
WISCONSIN FAMOUS FOR FARMERS' CLUBS
One For Eacil Twenty-five Miles Is tlie Slogan.
(Jenevlstit. Wis. -— "A iicighborhoorl olub for each twenty-five s(|uare miles!" is a slogan thnt has been adopted hy the iirogressive farmers of Walworth county. .\t lejist there will be one well organized farmers* body in ench town ship.
One of tbese clubs, the I^akeview. was organized March 17. l'.t]3, and ii> less than three yenrs It has nccnin- pl Ished more than some orgn niza lions in a (itiurte,- of a century.
This club now bas I.W members, men and women, and thro«;:h ifs efforts the townshlii of Lynn huilt aud inniutiiiiis a good home. The building Ls of brick and stone nnd Is equijiiied with every modern convenience. In If tbe farmers not only hold their meetings, but nn annuni fair. During the winter months they have lecture courses that cost from $2.''iO to .?.'«X». There are two wo¬ men's clubs and one jrii'ls' junior. The hall is at Zenda. Once » year the club holds a picnic on the bank.s of I.ake Geneva.
There are farmers' chibs in the coun¬ ties of Sauk, Manitowoc, Wnlwortb, Washburn, Waupacn, Iioiiglas nnd Toik, and nil nre thriving. Tfiis winter the jingle of slelgbbells has made the Baraboo mountains fairly musical when the memliers turned out for meetlnu.s.
VILLAGE CLERK A WOMAN.
Only One In the State Is Elected For Long Beach, N, Y.
Loug Beach, N. Y.—Miss Agnes Bracken, twenty-flve years old, of 2i)0.\. Monroe street, Brooklyn, has the dis¬ tinction of being the only woman vil¬ lage ilerk In the state. She was nnmed to thnt offlce by the village board to take the place made vacant a few days ago by the resignation of Irving Mol- llter.
.AIlss Bracken, whose salary will be $1,000 a year, is a stenographer and has been employed In a confldential capacity by the village bonrd.
PHONE JOKE OPENS HIS EARS.
Deaf Since Boyhood, Man Recovers Hearing at Receiver,
WInsted, Conn. — F^ellx Bonvouloir. nineteen, a mechanic employed in Hart¬ ford, heard for Ihe first time in his life recently. As a Joke he went to a tele¬ phone and to his surprise heard a friend spenk over the wire.
"I was terribly frightened," he said later. "Then I realized that my great¬ est hope—to heai^-had come to pass."
Bonvouloir was stricken deaf and dumb by an attack of scarlet fever when a baby, but had partially over- cfime his dumbness.
Woman Too Big For Cell. St. Joseph. Mo.—The criminal court here was compelled to take Judicial cognizance of a physical peculiarity of Mrs. Clara Cochran. She was fined fSO and costs for selling liquor and was unable to pay. Her shte prevented &er from being placed in a cell in Jail. an)l she waa given time In which to raise the money.
AIR MEN TOSSED HOURS ON SEA
Two Battle More Than a Day For Lives Id Adriatic.
DISTRESS SIGRALS NOT SEEN
Hycfroplano Wont Wrong and Dropped to Wator With W. E. Doherty, an American, and a Companion Whilo Thoy WKro Searching For Subma¬ rines of Italy's Foo.
Milan. Italy.—WlUlam Ell wood Do¬ herty, a young American whose ca- I reer as an air man has nboimded In perilous adventure, bas jnst ndiied to his list a flght for life lastini: more than twenty-nine hours in tbe wintry waters of the Adriatic. Once befort? he had been strandeil in the same sea in midsummer and collniised fiom thirst and heat. This time be had the other extreme of weather, battling with a northern gale, and was rescued when on the verge of exbaustJon.
Austrian submarines were patrollin., the Adriatic while the Italians were sending troop ships a<Toss fo .Vliinnia. Doherty set out In a Curtiss hydro¬ plane to patrol the iiassage nnd give warning of danger. He left Taranto at 2 o'clock in fhe afternoon will) an Italian helper. As daylight wam fall¬ ing the motor broke down, nnd the hydroplane dropped to the wafer.
Itjtllan vessels were In sight, but did not see Doherty's signals for hel[). WUh darkness the wind rose and waves broke over the tiny craft. Do¬ herty fore away the drip pnn of the machine. The two cold, liuii;:ry, wa- tersoakeil men used It to bail with. By working one af a time without stop¬ ping tbey were able to keep afloat, al though every high wave gave them n fresh drenching.
They had lost their scant pnivisions Lu the descent fo thc water, nnd hi the tossing of the hydroplane their cigarettes and nuttclies went over board.
The weather becnme intensely cold. In the respite from bulling the air man who was free kept lookout for a ship. Oue came iu sight several hours after diirk. hut jiassed on, not seeing the smoke bombs with which the avia¬ tors fried to bail it. Throughout the night and all the next morning the men relieved each otber with fhe drip pan bailer.
Fhially, too tired to work longer and despairing <if rescue, Doherty curled up in the end of fhe craft. Sleep over¬ came bim, but he hnd nightmare aud was roused when a lurch of the plane nearly spilled him Into tbe sea. .\gain he took his turn at balling.
Tho specter of denth was before the eyes of both men when night fell once more. Then n forjiedo bont beaded to¬ ward them appeared on the horizon. They exploded more smoke bombs and wildly waved their signal flugs. This time they were seen. The torpedo boat approached, lowered a small boat and rescued men and wreck twenty miles from shore.
Itulian craft had been looking for Doherty and his companion ever since the machine failed them, .\llownnce bnd not been made for Iho wind, which yoow the iinforfiinntes seaward, nnd tin.' search w-ns confined to an area I • nipnratlvely near shore until fhe for i'l'do boat strurk out Into tbe oiien.
.Navnl commanders wlio bnd enpnued ill "the early scan h reported the lirst )iit;hc thlit Doherty nnd his comiianion jirobably were lost. Their return to shore was Imlled nfs little shfirt of mi¬ ni culous.
Doherty recovered witliLu a day from thc effects of his exposure. Sulistl- tiites hnd taken over his patrol duty in tlic Adriatic, however, ami be decided to shift llis tield of activity. Ile has pone to i'iiris and London In senrch of liu-tber ndveiiliire.
ELECTROCUTED IN BATHTUB.
Portable Electric Light Bulb Fell and Caused Death.
'roledri. ().--When a jiorlnble eiectI'ic light fell lnt<i fhe bathtub In whicii she wns sill ilia; Mrs. Josephine Bellows was electrocuted.
Mrs. Bellows, who wns twenty-two jc.'irs nld, was alone, her hnsband hav¬ ing gone to Buffalo. She turned on the water, got into the tub and was rend¬ ing n magazine while the tub filled. .\ .small portable eU"etric light was at¬ tached fo a stand beside the tub. nnd fills became detaclie<l and fell. Thf bulb wns shattered, and In trying to "atch Ihe cord it Is supposed Mrs. Bel¬ lows' hand came in contnct with tl exiiose<l wires.
KISS FOR AUTO FAIR TRADE.
That Was Vsrdict of Iowa Jury Up¬ holding Woman.
Davenport, la.—That the kiss which Mrs. Bertha Spangler claims she gave Thomas Brown for an automobile was a fair trade was the verdict of a Scott county jury.
Brown brought the suit in an at¬ tempt to show that he was the owner of the car and had merely let Mrs. Spangler, his housekeeper, nse tbe ma- cbiue. The woman testified that Brow^ had given ber the car. the compensa tion i>elng a kiss. The Jury was out for four hours before a verdict was flnally agreed upon which gave tbe machine lo the woman.
VILLAGES |R0WIN6
Secretary Hugo's Figures Show That j
29 in the State Hare Popola- {
tion of Over 5,000 £ach. j
Twenty-nine incorporated vlaiageri i in this State at the present time have i each a population of 5,000 or better.! Saddle Rock has the distinction of' being the smallest of the 463 incor-' porated villages, its permanent resl- j dents numbering but 7 1. Peekskill j tops the list with its population of j 15,502. Figures compiled from the State census taken by Secretary of State Hugo last June show that there are 207 incorporated villages in this State having a population under 1,000; 121 that range from 1,000 to 2,000 residents; o.'i from 2,000 to 3.000; 29 from 3.000 to 4,000, and 22 with populations between 4,000 and 5,000.
There are today twenty more in¬ corporated villages in the State than ten years ago. On June 1 last, the Incorporated villages sheltered 863,- 894 reeidonts. Saratoga Springs, Mechanicville and White Plains pa.s8ed from the village to the city column following the June enumer¬ ations.
Villages in clos* proximity to the larger cities have in many instancea enjoyed a marvelous growth since
1905. the flaetnatlons ot indastrla( activities being strong factors lo pro¬ moting or retarding growth.
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