Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Page 4

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Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal David M. I’erine of New York. superIntendent of motive power of the Jersey division of the Pennsylvania railroad, died at Baltimore, Mil. • » • Lord Cottenhain died at London, aged forty-five. He was married to Patricia Burke, a California heiress, In 1916. • • • * Julius H. Barnes, president of the Federal Grain corporation, has been appointed wheat director of the United States by President Wilson, It was announced at the office of the food administration at New York. • • • Des Moines. la., was selected for the next meeting place of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at a session of the book committee at Cincinnati. • • • Peace Notes In a statement Issued by President Wilson at Paris explaining his position on the Adriatic question he declares that Flume cannot become a part of Italy. • • • David Lloyd George, British prime minister, has agreed to receive former pov. Edward F. Dunne of Blinds, Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the national war labor board, and Michael J. Ryap of Philadelphia next week at Paris. The Americans were chosen by the Irish societies in the United States to appeal to the peace conference on behalf of Ireland. • • • A Paris dispatch says the council of four has notified Germany that the associated powers cannot receive messenger representatives at Versailles who are merely messengers. The German government mrtst appoint representatives with plenipotentiary powers. • • • Washington On April 21, said an official announcement by the war department at Washington, 120,278 men from the army overseas were at sea on their ■way to this country. Sales of surplus supplies to April 11 the war department at Washington announced totaled $140,723,850. The largest single item was railway rolling stock, sales of which reached a total of nearly $70,000,000. • • • Announcement was made at the navy department at Washington that the superdreadnaught Tennessee would be launched at the New York navy yard on April 30. • • •

From nn airplane flying 2,000 feet overhead an army officer read President Wilson’s Victory Liberty loan message to a throng of 15,000 persons, assembled at the south steps of the treasury at Washington by the use of the wireless telephone and a newly invented sound amplifier. » • • Foreign A London dispatch says Ural Cossack troops, acting in conjunction with the Siberian forces of Admiral Koi-, chak, have begun an offensive in the region of Uralsk, in southeastern Russia, south of Samara, and have captured several villages west of Uralsk. * • • The Yorkshire Post of London understands that General Pershing will visit London next month, arriving there on the third. He will be received with military honors. * » ♦ A Paris dispatch says the French government has appealed to Italy to furnish 1,000,000 workmen, mostly laborers, to assist in rebuilding northern France. ♦ • ♦ A Limerick dispatch says an alliance between the Limerick strike committee and the Irish trades union congress and labor party was arranged at a conference and a statement has been issued declaring the strike now had become national. » * ♦ A Wellington dispatch says the majority against prohibition in the New Zealand plebiscite is placed at 1,800 by official returns. * • • A Paris report says a revolution has broken out in Turkey and a soviet government has been declared. » * * Five thousand dock workers went on Strike at Liverpool. A Simla dispatch says martial law has been proclaimed in the Gujerat district of India. » • • The law providing for..tlie .nationalization of women in northeast’Russia has been suspended in one province as the result of popular outcry, according to a Stockholm dispatch. • • • An agreement was reached at Paris by the associated powers to send food to Russia under neutral control. The agreement stipulates that the bolshe▼ikl must cease hostilities.

Herbert Hoover, chairman of the In-ter-allied food commission, arrived at Berlin In company with a large staff. • • • All France will be cleared of American troops by August, the London Pali Mall Gazette learns. Certain units of tiie American army of occupation may remain in the Rhine zone after peace ia signed. • • • An Archangel dispatch says by an advance of 20 miles southward paralleling the Murmansk railroad line Russian troops operating with the allies have reached a point within easy striking distance of Lake Onega, which Is connected by lakes and canals with Petrograd. • • • Gen. Francisco Alvarez of the antigovernment forces was executed at Vera Cruz, Mexico. He met death at the hands of a Oring squad with the utmost bravery.- • • • The Important city of Vllna has been recaptured from the bolshevik!, according to official admission In a Russian wireless dispatch received at London.- • • • An Amsterdam dispatch,says n warrant has been issued in Berlin for the arrest of Prince Henry of Prussia, the former kaiser’s brother, charging him with concealing arms. • • • German government troop® have occupied Augsburg in Bavaria, after a sanguinary battle with the reds, says a dispatch from Munich. The leader of the Bavarian communist army, former War Minister Relchart, has been arrested. • • • A settlement of the strike troubles in Berlin was reached, after negotiations lasting 48 hours between representatives of the strikers and the employers and the minister of labor. • • • A Weimar special says the German cabinet has unanimously decided to take a referendum on peace if the terms deviate from President Wilson's fourteen points. • • •

Domestic Governor Sleeper at Lansing, Mich., has signed the bill forbidding the display of the red fiug at any public assembly, parade or demonstration under penalty of five .years' imprisonment or SI,OOO tine. • • • A Park field “flying circus” will leave Memphis, Tenn., April 28, for a recruiting tour of Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and points north of St. Louis and Peoria. 111. • • • Five hundred striking electrotypers at Chicago, who have been idle for the last five years, will return to work following a readjustment in their favor. They held out for a flat scale of S3B per week and 44 hours. A senate criminal syndicalism bill has passed the assembly at Sacramento, Cal., 59 to 9. Attempts to add a provision specifically exempting “lawful purposes or acts of labor unions in conducting strikes” failed. * • * The house at Providence, R. 1., adopted the bill declaring beer containing not more than 4 per cent of alcohol a nonlntoxicant. The action was in concurrence witli the senate. - • • * Capt. Charles J. Glidden, an officer In the United States air service, military aeronautics, said in a statement issued at Washington that all men who wish to take part In the development of the nation’s air service should send their nnnuyjind address Immediately to the department air service officer. 104 Broad street, New York, and they will receive an important communication on the subject. * * • The severest penalty provided in the Michigan criminal statutes, solitary confinement for life, was imposed in circuit court at Kalamazoo upon George E. Bird, fifteen years old, and Arthur W. Sterling: twenty, when they pleaded guilty to murdering Walter W. Mattison. » • • About 7,000 officers and men of the Forty-second (Rainbow) division sailed from Brest April 18, on the transport Leviathan, due at New York April 25. ‘ • Gov. Alfred H. Smith at Albany, N. Y., signed a bill authorizing Sunday baseball and moving picture shows. * • • Edward Lawrence, fifteen, was Instantly killed at Chester, Pa., when he fell 200 feet from a balloon rope in which he became entangled as it shot upward. Thousands saw the youth dashed to death. • * * Five persons, comprising an entire family, were found dead In their home on the West side at Detroit, Mich., apparently as the result of ptomaine poisoning. The dead are James Deluvlo, his wife, infant son, brother and aged father. . . • • * A seaplane used in the Victory loan campaign plunged info Lake Michigan, off Chicago, as its pilot was trying to make a landing. The aviator, Lieutenant Brown, and his mechanic, Robert Lee, were both rescued. * * * Detroit, claims the honor of being the first large city to exceed Its Victory loan quota, the figures reaching $57,000,000 at 4:15 o’clock Monday afternoon against a quota of $55,404,113, it was announced officially. An effort will be made to double the qouta. - _ -

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

DRY LAW WILL BE ENFORCED

Government Purposes a Literal Enforcement of the Prohibition Act. STATEMENT BY U.S. COUNSEL Declares Half the World la Looking to America for Food and the Necessity for Confcrvation Is Great. New York, April 25.—The government purposes a literal enforcement of the war-time prohibition act. including a ban on production and sale of all beers and wines, whether or not they are intoxicating, the department of justice announced through iF special representative in the federal court here. While no steps will be taken to prevent brewing, pending a court determination of the law’s. constitutionality raised by brewers of the New York district, manufacturers will operate In peril of future prosecution, according to the statement of William C. Fitts, special counsel appearing for Attorney General Palmer In the beer litigation. Beer's Strength Not Issue. The attorney advised Judge A. N. Hand, who heard arguments on the government’s motion to dismiss the suit brought on behalf of the national brewing Interests by the Jacob Hoffmann Brewing company to restrain the federal authorities from interfering with its production of 2% per cent beer, that the department of justice did not know and did not care whether beer of the strength indicated was Intoxicating. The law prohibited sale after June 30 of distilled beverages as well as manufacture after April 20 and sale after June 30 of "beer, wine and other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors for beverage purposes,” pending the demobilization of military forces, he said. Food Held Vital. The words “beer” and “wine” were not qualified, in the opinion of the government, he added, and the apparent congressional intention to stop the “waste” of grains and fruits in their production in any strength would be enforced. With “half the world” looking to America for food, Mr. Fitts contended, the necessity of Its conservation was greater “even than on the day of Chateau Thierry,” and it was equally essential that liquors be withheld from public sale while the army and navy were undergoing demobilization. To this statement Judge Hand added his opinion that the war was “still in progress," which upset one of the complainant’s contentions.

CLEAR UP DANZIG PROBLEM

League of Nations to Guarantee City’s Independence. Paris, April 25.—The Danzig problem has been finally cleared up. The city becomes the “free city of Danzig,” which enjoyed autonomous rule within the Polish state for three centuries. The city’s independence will be guaranteed by the league of nations, which will appoint a commissioner for the safeguarding of that guarantee. Danzig will haA? complete authority in purely local affairs. At the same time the city will be included in the Polish customs union and citizens will be entitled to the privileges of Polish citizenship. The Poles are granted freedom of access to Danzig across East Prussia, and via the corridor, with control of tiie Vistula. The Germans, on the other hand, will have free access to East Prussia across that corridor.

WILSON HAS BIG BACKING

London Times Says Both France and England Will Support Him. London, April 25.—Incomparably the strongest support given to President Wilson’s appeal to Italy in the British press Is that contained in the first leading article in the Times. This article warns Italy that Britain and France are with the president wholeheartedly, not, of course, because he is president, but because the principles and arguments he adduces command their unqualified approval.

HOOVER IS STILL IN FRANCE

Food Director Is Annoyed by Reports of Presence In Germany. Paris, April 25. —Herbert C. Hoover, the head of the allies’ relief organization, was surprised and annoyed by the publication of a dispatch announcing his presence in Berlin. Mr. Hoover has not been away from Paris for weeks. He is unable to account for the report, unless somebody is personating him.

WOMAN FIGHTS A MAD BULL

Her Presence of Mind Saves Life of Husband. Belvidere, Hl., April 25. —Mrs. Myron Howard of this city is not a matado», but when she saw a prize Holstein bull trampling her husband to death she charged the enraged animal with a pitchfork and drove him away. Her husband was unconscious, but is expected to recover.

MONROE DOCTRINE HIT

CARRANZA RKFUtES TO RECOGNIZE U. •. POLICY. Mexican Statement Announcee Peeltlon of Government —Calle It Invasion of Nation's Sovereignty. Mexico City. April 23.—The nonrecognltlon of the Monroe doctrine by the Mexican government, and the recall from Paris of Alberto J. Pani. minister to France, to await orders In Spain form the substance of two statements printed Identically by all Mexico City papers as having been given out officially by Salvador Diego Fernanadex chief of staff In charge of the department of foreign relations. One statement reads: ••Since December last year Alberto J. Panl has held credentials as minister to France signed by the president of Mexico. Notwithstanding the fact that the French government last November expressed Its willingness to accept Senor PanPs nomination he has been unable to present his credentials to the French government throughout his long stay In Paris. In view of the above circumstances President Carranza 'through 'this department has ordered that Senor Panl, together with the legation corps proceed from France to Spain, there to await cabled instructions." The other statement follows: “The conference now meeting at Paris has considered the recognition of the Monroe doctrine. Some governments, friends of Mexico, have asked Mexico for its opinion regarding the doctrine and the Mexican department of foreign relations has answered that the Mexican government has not recognized and will not recognize the Monroe doctrine or any other doctrine that attacks the sovereignty and independence of Mexico." The recall from Paris of Minister Pani has been rumored unofficially for more than a week. There have also been reports that Gen. Eduardo Haya, who has been nominated Mexican minister to Italy, also will be recalled, although there Is no official information relative to the latter report.

MAY TRY FORMER KAISER

Three Men Are Subject to Trial by an International Tribunal. Paris, April 25.—These men are sub Ject to trial by an International tribunal on the strength of the report Just filed with the peace conference by the commission on the responstblllft’ for the war and war crimes: Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the ex-kalser; Ferdinand, ex-czar of the Bulgars; Grand Admiral von Tlrpltz. author of ruthless U-boat warfare, General von Blsslng. who was Germany’s military governor of Belgium.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago. April 24. Open- High- Low- ClosCorn— Ing. est. est. Ing. May 1.68%-1.69 1.71 1.66% 1.67%-% July 1.63-1.63% 1-66% 1.62% 1.63%-% Septl.6o-1.61 1.62% 1.58% 1.59%-1.60 Oats — , May 72-72% .72% .70% .71% July 71%-72 .72% .70% .70% Sept 69-69% .70% .68% .68% Rye— May 1-80% 1™ July ; 1.81 1.79 1.81 FLOUR—Per bbl.. In jute, 98-lb. sack basis: Barley flour, $8.00; corn flour, $8.20; white rye flour, $8.80; dark rye, $8.30; spring wheat, $12.50; first clear, in jute. $9.50- second clear, $7.00; special brands. $12.65; hard winter, [email protected]; soft winter, $11.70. These prices apply to car lots except for special brands. HAY—Choice timothy and No. 1, $37.00@ 38 00; standard. [email protected]; No. 1 light clover mixed, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, $34.00 @ 35.00; No. 3, [email protected]; clover, $22.00 @32.00. BUTTER— Creamery, extras, 60@60%c; firsts (88 to 95 scores), 57%@60c; seconds (83 to 87 scores), 57c: centralized standards, full cars, 60c; packing stock, fresh, 35@ 41%c. Prices to retailers—Tubs, 65c; prints, 66%c. EGGS—Fresh firsts, 39%@41%c; ordinary firsts 39@40c; miscellaneous receipts, cases Included, 40@41c; do, cases returned, 39 @ 40c; checks, 35@36c; dirties, 35%@36c. Prices to retailers—Fillers, 46%c; cartons, 48c. * LIVE POULTRY— Turkeys, 31c; fowls, 34c; roosters, 23c; spring chickens, 83c; ducks. 33c; geese, 23c. ICED POULTRY— Turkeys, 40c; fowls, 82%@33c; roosters, 23@24c; springs, 83c; ducks, 34@35c; geese, 22@23c. POTATOES— Early Ohlos, bulk, $1.95@ 2.15. CATTLE—Choice to prime steers, $19.00@ 20.25; good to medium steers, [email protected]; medium to good steers, [email protected]; plain to medium steers. [email protected]; yearlings, fair to choice, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders. [email protected]; good to prime cows, [email protected]; fair to prime heifers, $9.00@ 15.50' fair to good cows, [email protected]; canners [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; bologna bulls, [email protected]; butcher bulls, SIO.OO @ •13 50;’ veal calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Fair to choice light hogs, $20.40@ 20.90- choice light butchers, $20.50@».95: medium weight butchers, 235-260 lbs., $20.75 @21.10; heavy weight butchers, 270-350 lbs., S2O [email protected]; mixed packing, [email protected]; heavy packing, [email protected]; rough packing, sl9 [email protected]; pigs (fair to good. [email protected]; stags (subject to 70 lbs. dockage), $15,000 18.50. ' SHEEP —Colorado lambs, [email protected]; western lambs, [email protected]: native lambs, sl6 [email protected]: shorn lambs. [email protected]'5; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, good to choice, sl3 [email protected]: ewes, fair to choice, slo.oo@ 15 00: feeding and shearing j:amhs._ $15.50@ $17.50. • Buffalo; N. Y., April 24. CATTLE— Receipts, 125; 'steady. CALVES— Receipts, 500; slow and steady; [email protected]. HOGS'— Receipts. 1,000; active: pigs easier others steady; heavy, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; yorkers, [email protected]; light yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; roughs [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts. 1,000; active and steady: wool lambs, $17.00@ 20.65: clipped lambs, [email protected];,yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]: ewes, [email protected]; mixed sheep, [email protected].

!H IN A RIDKXLOUt* POHITION

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took full charge of the iooation, construction, etc.; that this was the property way to secure a • slate road.*' We'll confess we •‘fell” for this because we supposed Mr. Wood knew something about the law, as he assumed to, but after reading it ourself we saw that his entire knowledge was apparently assumed; that It was not the way to proceed at all and those who signed the petition did so under a misunderstanding of the law. Mr. Wood now backs up by saying that he knew all the time that no petition was necessary for a state road, but he filed this petition under the county unit law to hold back other county unit petitions, and expects to have the commissioners continue same from term to term until such time as he can get the ear of the state highway commission, then to dismiss it. This, if correct —which it is not, for he did not know a blamed thing about how to proceed—would mean that he deliberately misstated the manner when securing names to the petition, and that he has gone ahead and created a lot of unnecessary costs simply for the purpose of fooling the county commissioners and the people, as he knew this proceeding was all a farce and he Intended to dismiss it at the proper time. The more Mr. Wood talks about this highway law the more ridiculous he makes himself In the eyes of the public.

120,278 MEN ON WAY HOME

Washington, April 23. —On April 21, an official announcement by the war department today said, 120,278 men from the army overseas were at sea enroute to this country. A total of 731,889 men had been landed in this country up to and including that date. Since the signing of the armistice the war department has turned back to the shipping board 302 vessels with an aggregate dead welgnt of 2,000,000 tons.

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Ld*t of Those Who Have Paid Subscription Accounts During Week. Following are the names of those who have paid their subscription for The Democrat since last Saturday’s issue and, especially to those reoelyed by mall, this publication shall act as a receipt until the date on the label of their paper is changed. Those indicated by an • are rew subscribers: John W. Williams, Remington, Herby Garriott, Fair Oaks R-2. Scott Cooper, Fair Oaks, R-2. Bertha Taylor, Hoopeston, Hl. W. H. % Hogan, Rensselaer. *M. V. Brown, Peoria, 111. Elmer Daniels, Rensselaer. George Winters, Francesville. 'Ernest Winters. Francesville. Leonard Bice, Remington, R-4. William McElfresh, Rensselaer. J M Hill, Rensselaer, R-2. Mrs. William Washburn, Rensselaer. •J. U. Iliff. Rensselaer. •Elizabeth Jenkins, Rensselaer. •Harvey W. Wood, Sr., Rensselaer e C. W. Beaver, Rensselaer, R-4. E. S. Harper, Francesville, R-5. Vestal Steele, Wheatfield. J. H. Campbell, Parr, R-l. George Lucterhand, Remington, R-2.

When Children are Teething And cry out at night, are feverish, and their bowels become Irregular, mothers should have on hand a package of Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children. They are a quick relief and harmless. Used by mothers for over 30 years. They bieak up colds, move and rogulato the bowels and act as a gentle tonic. They never faij. Sold by druggists everywhere.—Advt. blacksmithing. Blacksmith shop in former GrantWarner lumber building. Horseshoeing, plow work and repairing. Shop managed by A. J. Doan. M-12. No better job work produced in this section of Indiana than that turned out by The Democrat. NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNTY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given that the county council of Jasper county, Indiana, will meet in special session TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919, at 1 o’clock p. In the commissioners’ court room, to consider additional appropriations for 1919 and such other matters that may legally come before them. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor.

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HA TURD AY, APRIL 26.

FOR SALK For Hulr—ltaby chicks. 634. Strawberry Plante—3Oc per Jj®®’ nice ones—MßS. ANNA WILCOX, Parr, Ind., phone 907-E. ts For Hale— 100 hedge fence poets. —B. J. ASH, % mile weet of college, Rensselaer. R-4._«nl For Sale—Eggs for setting from pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, (1 per 16. MRS. N. A--BCHMITTER, For Kale—l have a quantity of Ito San aoy beans at Washburn GraJn Co. Price $4 per bushel. — EDWARD D. BELLOWS, Remington, Ind. w For Sale—AO patent bee hives with 'Hoffman frames and foundation, and 100 supers for comb honey—cheap Will sell in small lots. — 'JOHN ROORDA. 2 miles east and 1 mile south of Thayer, Ind. m2O Seed corn—l will have some of that good old Reid’s Yellow Dent seed corn, the kind that has raised a good crop every year. Plant only a limited amount of new varieties and be safe. This corn is bred up each year, always something doing, 13.00 per bushel. —HENRY PAULUB, phone 938-G, a-30 For gale—A Bllckensderfer typewriter, in oak case. All in good condition; 110 takes IL THE DEMOCRAT. if For Sale—Gasoline coll water heater, for bath room or bart>er shop. Little used, works perfectly, but tearing out of bath room left no use for it. Will sen very cheap. Enquire at DEMOCRAT OFFIOE.

For Sale—Paragon lever paper ©utter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and in A-l condition. —THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale —Twin Indian motorcycle In No. 1 condition. Will sell cheap If taken at once. Also a 1914 Ford touring car.—lnquire of RUSSELL MORTON, at Kuboske s garage. tr For Sale—Good 10-20 tractor and 3 bottom plows, plowed less than 20 acres; will sell cheap.—». P. LANE, phone 537.« For gale—Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for hatching, the best that can be procured at this money anjvwhere, 11.50 per settingof 15 eggs. Also White Mammoth Pekin Duck eggs, |1 per 10 eggs.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind, m 3 For Sale —Some real bargains in unimproved 1 nd, thickly settled community, good soil, ,no stone, no sand, hills or marshes. Write for particulars. —CHAS. E. BAKER, owner, Greenwood, Wls.m3 For Sale—Five-room house, situated on large lot in Rensselaer, some fruit, good shade. Will sell at bargain If taken at once. Address CHAS. BAKER, Rensselaer, Ind. .« Oak Lumber —Will have all kinds of oak lumber for sale. Send In your bills before I commence sawing.e. P. LANE, phone 537, ts For Sale —210-a. farm, 160 a. under plow, bal. fair timber, good house and barn. This farm is on mail route, telephone line, and good public roads. For particulars write CHAS. E. BAKER, owner, Greenwood, Wls. For sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel <‘.ie -umbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp pads, typewriter rlbbens for all practically makes of typewriters spun glass Ink erasers, account files, -filing eablnets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc. For Sale—Some real bargains in well Improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains In Improved farms of all sixes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. tl

WANTED Wanted—Second-hand wood heating stove, imiust be in good condition. —Phone 916-1. a19 Wanted—Married man to work on farm by month or year; house, truck patch and other accommodations. Will pay good wages.—ALBERT HURLEY, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-2. a 26 LOST Estrayed—2 red heifers, short yearlings, dehorned about a week ago.—OMAR SMITH, Francesville, Ind., Francesville phone No. 212-D. a3O Lost—New hat, opposite John Eilts’ farm; was blown off in the dark Wednesday and picked up by somebody next morning. Please return to Eilts farm or hand in to Democrat office. a3O FOUND Found—lndiana 1919 auto license plate No. 89259. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this notice. FINANCIAL Farm Loans —Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. ts Money to Loan-—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellows' Building, Rensselaer. • |f