THE NASSAU POSTl; FREEPORT, N. Y. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914.
TOYS TO BE SCARCE IF WAR CONTDilJES
Germany's Greatest Market for
Newest Novelties Was Right
Here in New York
ARMIES OF TIN SOLDIERS AND HOUS
Some of Them May be on High
Seas But All of Them Are in
Danger
Whole regiments of German soldiers which annually cross tbe Atlantic lo America about this time are being kept at home this year, and thre Is no telling when they will come. If at all. Some of them may have started now are on their way, wiin tne danger of blng captured by Britisb warships. But these regiments, while attired in the uniforms of the Fatherland, aro little troubled whether tbey fall into Britisb, Finch or American hands, for they are of tbe tin and wooden var¬ iety, manufactured for the Chiislmab trade.
Tin and wooden soldiers are aboul the only kind that (iermany is willing to have leave ber domain now, bul it begins to look as if tbe soldiers, llio dolls, the niecbanlcal toys aud various other Christmas products of (Ierman ingenuity and handcraft are not des tlned to take their accusiomed places on American shelves and show cases this fall and winter unless Germany succeeds lu gaining matery of tbe seas.
W^bile the children of America are thinking more now about what they shall do during tlie remainder of llieii; vacations, with an occasional twinge at the idea of vacation being half gone, the big depariment stores which carry Christmas toys and llie whole¬ salers that distribute them are woiiil- eririg whal is lo happen about ull those they ordered in eGrmany lasi February, March and April. It is lliu^ early in tbe year that the big orders are placed for tbe following Christ¬ mas and It la along in July iluit tho shipments to America begin to be beavy, with August and September or early October aa the period when the receipts of foreign toys are heav 1st of all.
Foreign toys (the term toys meant to Include dolls and accessories) prob¬ ably amount to pretty nearly half ol the volume of business done in tho American toy market eacb year, fig¬ ured in dollars and cents, even though Ibe cost of their manufacture on the whole Is considerably loss than the domestic product. Of the toys brouglit to America from abroad, the groat preponderance are from GeVmajiy. In the year lail the valuo of tbe toys importations into he Ignited Slates, ac¬ cording to Government statislles, was 18,151,033. In 1912, for some rea.son or other, lue total fell off to ?7,727,40U, but laat year il jumped uiore than a ralUon dollars, with a total of »8,856,- &75.
L-ast year during the month of Au¬ gust there were received into tbe United States toys valued al $l,IOr.,- 584, of which Geiniany contributed $1,272,437 and other countries only $133,147. In September of 1!I13 Ger many's contribution was ifl,i;71.92S while other countiios sent $145.G2.. worth, so that In the months of Au gust and .September combined lasi year the toy importations amouulod to $3,223,137 in value, or more thai. one-third of the supply received dut ing the entire year, and Gernlany¦^ part In tbls total was nearly tlie tbreu mllllona. Last year was a bannei year In tbe amount of toys Imported from Germany, and tbo buying thi: year was on a still more lavish scab lu the mutter of dolls there is aiil tu be almost a famine. There were somo wonderful creations sn in Ibe Leipsle fair Inst spring, especially one called the "new voiced baby," which by Iht movement of one arm cries both "papa and mamma."
THE DEMOCRATIC PUTFORM IS READY
Tentative Draft of Sub Committee Ready For Saratoga Conference
The uub-commlttee of the platform committee of the Democratic State committee has completed a tentative draf of the plairorm lo be subi^iiiiid to b Democratic .Slnli? conference at Saxatoga on August 25. Tbe wub-com- mitte. of which Wlliaiii Church Os¬ born, tbe Stale Demotratls chairman. Is a member and of wblcb William F. McbCmbs is chairman, met on i-ii- day and Saturday at .Mr. (.isborn's home In aGrrlson. working over Iha^ draft.
Mr. McCombs, who is !n the West, was not present, but returned yester¬ day to go over the tentative draft Th platform must be submlttd to tbe plaform committee, numbering about twenty-two promluen Democrats, and in turn It must be submitted to the conference.
The platform indorses heartily Ilie Wilson Administration and Is in lino wllh the BUgestlons made ptibllc by Mr. Mct^ombs several weeks ago. Both Mr. Mco(3mb8 and Mr. Osborn bave .sought to make the platform as broad and comprehensive as possible
HEAD OF PREHISTORIC DISNASTLYLUS IS FOUND
Oregon Man Makes Scientific Dis covery—Specimen is Most Com¬ plete Unearthed in Centucy
i Habits Hard to Break
The case ot Thomas Armstrong, a boy of 12 years, who uses his bands as well as bis feet for locomotion in¬ stead of walking erect, was reconlb' brought to the public by physif^ians of Birmingham, Ala. The boy never know any other way to get about. Tlie juv'onile court took the boy in cliarf e in the hope of teaching him normal walking methods.
Charles Appelton of Now Orleans was tlie subject of illustration at a lecture givc^n by a physician in that city not long ago. He had contracteu Ihe htibit of closing his left eye. It rested bis siglit, he fancied, the left eye being the wt-aker of the two. The habit grc'w until he was not using .u for reading purposes.
At the lecture it was recited that everything bad been done to break liim of the habit, but without success, until be met with an adventure on a sireet car that rulllod him consider¬ ably. A woman boarded I Ik- car on wliich he was a passenger. He bad his left eye closed as usual. .She cas¬ ually glr.nced at and remarked the closed eye without IhereseominK to bo any cause for an apparent alllic- tion. Siie looked once or twice again andmade suclian improssionon" Apple- ton that be was startled out of bis habit aud opened his eye. Tlie wo. man looked, started, denouced him as a liirter, complained lo the condmhu-, w-axod angiiier the more she thougm of the affair and flnally had Appleton arresU'd. lie bad lo prove bis pecul¬ iar habil in order lo. escape a flne.
Miss Decker Enjoying Vacation Miss Clara Decker, daughier ol Mr. and Mrs. John Decker, of Bell¬ more, Is enjoying a thrt>e win-ks' va¬ cation.
Th head of a prehistoric animal known as tbe desmostylus which J. G. Crawford of .Mbany, Ore., found recenily i.-^ now being in\esligated by scientists of tbe National .Museum at Washiugion, D. C. It Is said to be tbe second complete bead of tbis animal ever fou-id in tlie world and the mosl iieaiiy perfe<:t.
.Mr. Crawford found the head In tbo ocean bed at the mouth of Spencer (^reek, wbicb flows into the i'aciflc Ocean about nine miles north of New¬ port and about one mile south of Otter Rock, ile was hunting agates there when he found a peculiar looUi. He i.-iiiaed Irom his knowledge of geo¬ logy and archaeology thai it was trom .1 rare animal and determined to hum for other parts of the body. The ne.xt day at low tide lie found a jiart oi' a vertebrae exposed and by excava¬ ting succeeded in liudlng two verte¬ brae of tbe animal aud tliem the head.
After bis discovery he correspondod with diffi'ient authorities and sent pic lures of the head. Tbere is no doubt I now that Mr. Crawford has made t remarkable discovery. Among ihoH< with whom Mr. Crawford corre.sjwnd I'd is John C. Meiriaiii of tht' liiivor. siiy of Califoiiiia,^w ho Is ono of Iho leading autlioriti«s in tne w(uld on the desmostylus and who has wr a special bulletin on this genus.
Oliver I'. Hay of llie iN'ftlioiiai .Mu souiii al \\'asiiin.!-'lon, 1). ('., heard > the discovery and reiiueslod .Mi (Mawford lo send him the head lor nn invest igation. This was done.
The desmostylus, from all indica iions, w.Ts an animal of a marino mi- luie and inhabited the UKnillis of riv¬ ers and estuaries. All pre\ious speci¬ mens have been, mearlhed along the I'aciflc coast, eillier in California or .lapan, exceiit one lootlie found sev¬ eral years .igo by I'rof. Thomas Con¬ don of Ihe I'niversity of Oregon al
Vaquina Bay. nine miles from where Mr. Crawford found Ihis bead, |,be ver¬ tebrae and tooth.
.Several teeiu arid vettabrae have u«eD fo-jnd bsrtofcrc In California and Japan. buU,tlie only head hereto¬ fore found was one uneartheil a tew yearb ago in Japan This specimen was not fo neaily perfect ns that found by Mr. i;rawloi-d.
Tbe To^n Assessment R(*M The Asses«ior3 of the Towu of. Hempstead havie completed the as.-;es8-'. ment roll for this year and it is now ] an ey.ili»]'!i'Mi at the Town'Hall in! Hempstead Village. Tbey bate ap- poinied Augu.st tbe ISlli as "Grievance ; Day" when, (oniplainis will be beaftl. | The As.'^esBors aie Charles W. Smilh, i
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The Camiiaigu Commlllee of the Fmpire State Siilira(;e eLagtie is pre- p.iii'd to deal wiiii j.re.Tt intinal ion¬ al war crisis in Furope from tlie standpoint of the wonu n. In the nexl edition of The .Nassau Post will be printed soiiii' inieresllng matter from th MaiihallHn hoadiiuarlers oi Ih" league.
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