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, TTTE MORNING? OREGONIAX. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1915. TORPEDO BRAVED SEEKING STORIES Carolyn Wilson Spends Night on Deck of Channel Boat Awaiting Attack. 200 OTHERS ARE ABOARD Amrrican Xcwfrpaper Woman's Tic tarn From German Prison Marked by Waiting Carriage Arranged ',, by British Government. BY CAROLYN WIIiSON. fFtaff Coirespondcnt of the Chleaso Tribune. Copyright, 1915. by the Chicago Tribunt. rubusnea Dy Arrangement LONDON, Feb. 25. When I sot a cablegram telling: me to fro to London 1) the first train. I spent at least 20 minutes of the valuable remaining tima trying to ieckie which way I should most probably escape beinar torpedoed. My friends, however, always keen and r.ealoun for mv professional reputation, were distressfully concerned with my 'safety-first'" attitude. They painted in heartlessly enthusiastic terms the splendid story I should set out of the encounter with & German submarine. md kept reminding: me that any one who bad been up against a "firing squad in the cold, gray dawn should not be influenced by the thougnt ot torpedo. There's a lot in this hero stuff. I finally let myself be persuaded into Koing over from Dieppe rather than take a comfortably cabined boat from Havre, and went out to get a few dozen more signatures over my passport. 20O Iaaeng-era Croqs Channel. They are being rather strict now about people going to England, so it was necessary to go first to the Amer ican Embassy, then the American Con sulato, afterwards to the British Con sulate, and the Paris police commis sariat. and as a last precaution one tears madly three minutes before train time to the commissaire of the railroad station, who hunts vainly for a vacant lot on this well-filled map of Europe and finally affixes his sig nature, not without an inward com plai'ence. diagonally across that of the rench Ambassador to Italy. There were 200 passengers crossing that night on the little Dieppe boat, and I suppose there wasn't one of them who didn't at some time or another think ot the attempt that had been made the previous night on a channel 1oat. when the torpedo came so near that the passengers saw Its wake 30 yards from the boat. Men around me made jesting re marks about life belts and involuntary baths and German detention camps, and the women there were few mainly elected to remain on deck rather than sleep In the little under-the-water cabin, where tbe sound of the moving waves came so clearly through the Kidea of the boat, and the thought was that a-German torpedo might come easily too. Mist Hides tinlde Boats. We were escorted by two torpedo toats. one ahead and one behind, but owing to the faint mist that hung Jurt above the top of the sea. they were only visible at rare intervals. , We all hung over the sides of the loat for the ttrst half hour anxious to " e the "torp.illeurs" who were guard Ins us, the submarines who were to attack us and the torpedos which were to blow us up. No one wanted to miss anything. And. too, there was something a little sinister about the way the life nelts were placed on the open benches, In the way the French steward fastened mine on the back of my deck chair. Kaying the while: "Of course, there Is no danger, it is a mere precaution, niadame, but you see I have made the knot like this, so you Just pull this little string here so. quit easily and it is detached. You know how to fasten It about yourself?" 1 assured him that I did and settled myself for the night In a sheltered comer far aft. wrapped in a,n oilcloth blanket, swaddled to tbe ears with furs. The smoke blew straight out in a. broad, even path against the loud-flecked sky. Every light on the boat was extinguished and Inside heavy curtains were drawn across the smoking-room windows. rrronanrss la Prevalent. From time to time the low outline of the torpedo boats showed as the mist lifted. And we hurried, hurried on to Folkstone. T suppose it was my imagination, but it seemed to me that ve were going faster than nsu&L There seemed to be a sort of a nervous tension, nervous haste even about the Voat ttseir. And then the fog fell thinck a rieavy blanket the engines stopped. It was then nearly 4:30 we must be nlmost there. But for an hour we lossed around uncertainly while our whistle sent out shrieking, ear-piercing llut. most trying on the nerves vt 200 people who hadn't slept at all, end who were more or less congealed from a night spent in the open- And still no land In sight, nothing kot the constant whistling and calling, answered faintly in the distance, per haps by the torpedo boats- I don't know enough about martime matters to know If they have whistles. Finally full steam ahead and people began crowding , Into tbe smoking-room where the doctors examination Is held :.nd passports are examined and some few people are put Interestingly to one side, and for some reason or other fail to make "the London train with the rest ef us. There were about 60 of us crowded Into that room, close with Its night of tightly drawn curtains, filled with smoke and the pmell of stale beer, and then when the examiners came on board they told us all to go out, we had come In from the wrong side! Rritisk Inspire Fear. Anger on my part changed to stupe faction ant yes, I confess It. fear when the Brtlsh government, done up in khaki and gold stars, called out my name. l-:vcn those who were hastening to the proper door for entrance turned to stare at me as I w-ent reluctantly for ward. "This Is Miss Wilson," said the British government to the doctor, and took an immigration card or something; ef the ort from my hand, I remembered ell I had gnna through at the hands of the official government in Berlin, and I tlioimht; "Sorae way they know I hove bee te Germany am) I am going to be held a a suspect. That's a llttl- too mue, getting ar reted by both sides," Bui t3oe doctor only emitad snd bowed, axid so did another half doss officials, and genially waved asid my passport as I started to unfold it. "Did you expetH inn?' I -beraa. feebly. Tea. the Foreign Ofvice wired us you were cumins, and no ex ani nation is neoesaary. Tbere will be some one at Victoria "to oo that you get your bait gage safely. .Just out this door, Miss TTliaon." and I was on Land the first ot All those 800 paseeotfena, I was rrowrned and suspicious suns' stated hi one bt-aatn. Sir ludwars Grey fo" rte BwftoM,-ef the story, one nat urally took a concrete name from the Foreign Office, and one name is- aa good as another, of course Sir Edward Grey wiring to the Dieppe boat to see that I was spared all the rigors of the land examination. But that was very much, what had happened. Mr. McCormick. in sending for me to do this series of articles, had requested the Foreign Office to. spare roe as much' inconvenience as possibl. and the authorities intercepted the wife I sent announcing my boat train and made everything as easy and comfor table as could be. - CAR PORTERS COME NEXT Federal Industrial Commission An nounces Line of Inquiry. CHICAGO, MafcheSJ. Working con ditions of sleeping-car porters and con ductors will be the first of several sub jects to be considered by the United States Commission on Industrial Re lations at a hearing to begin in Chicago April S, it was announced today. Other subjects to be considered will be the relations between commercial telegraph companies and their opera tors and the strike of shopmen on the Harriman system of railroads. A glance will be taken also at conditions In the Union Stockyards in this city. At this hearing Frederick H. Aishton, a vice-president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, appointed as an employers' representative to succeed Frederick A. Delano, is expected to take his seat. This hearing will be one of the last and, in the opinion of the Commission ers, one of the most important hear ings of the series which has1 been In progress during the year. POWEFVOF ORDER SHOWN (Continued From First Page.) AMERICA TO SEIZE GERMAN III time I have seen it the thought has come to me that this dreaded "mili tarism." at which the- world affects to quail, is only another name for organ ization of the mass and for a supreme sense of duty. and pride in doing his duty on the part of the individual. The station master at Lowicz, who had come to his task out of the world of art, did not despise his assignment, nor was he irked by the multitude of petty details that daily and nightly confronted him. We wnji nroud of the order and cleanli ness he had brought about in the smaller station buildings, which had not .Deen entirely wrecked by bombardment, and he surveyed the rehabilitated place with the eye of both soldier and artist It was his "production." as they say in the world of tne theater, and he was tremendously pleased when a foreign correspondent came along and served as an admiring audience for the "show." That was the "militarismus of the alti.niir.Ti and the spirit ot it was tar different from the spirit I observed among our volunteer troops in Cuba during the July of 1898. There the lads were ail ior me mar tial trump and the din of battle, and tut.v imrerl the less erorgeous phases of campaigning felt, at least many of them did. that they had Deen reauceu to servants when they were assigned to the fetching and carrying and clean inS. " t ... .... I well remember one reoeinous youm who lifted his voice In long lamenia- tion by the waters of the Caribbean, an vf nT : "I came down here to fight, and now I'm carrying canned beef from the shore to the shack under tne niu. Duty Carerfnlly Done. There was none of that during the weary days and nights at Lowicz. .very man was doing his duty cneenuuy anu well no matter how menial It was, and s8 rendering that duty not menial( any more. What with the Germans surging into Lowicz and the Russians surgin? out, and the Russians surging in again and the Germans surging out, and the Germans surging for a third time in and ihe Russians thereupon taking what looks like a permanent rarewen iinfil a nence is slened. Lowicz shows considerable signs of wear and tear. (If that sentence is distracting, it at least ay serve to fit the state or mina oi Lowicz In the matter.) The people have not, however, been frightened out of their thrifty habits bv war's alarms, and they carry on a crnorl trade in picture postcards, tea. cakes and cigarettes with the present occupants of their 'town. The chronology of Lowicz's recent troubles, as nearly as I could figure it from numerous haphazard statements, l. that the Germans were compelled to withdraw from the neighborhood about the last of October. In December tney made another drive toward it. and on the 21st and 22d of that month the Rus sians were beaten back from Lowicz. Three Shots' Effect Devastating. When I made my first trip to the town the Germans had held it In undis turbed occupation for about a week, and it was there that 1 spent my New Year's eve-Mn a room without a pane of glass in it and with a window cur tain for a coverlid. Far from resentimr the la'cK or glass. I was profoundly grateful for the win dow curtain. Two nights later I came into possession of a feather bed, ana was happier than the man who had captured Lowicz. Three shots from tne Austrian entimeter guns had put the final touch of devastation on Lowics-.. , All three struck in the principal square. One tore awav the roof of the Hotel poiski. another ripped out. three of the four stories of a business block 3B0-. feet away, and the third let the sunshine into the dim abbey church on the oppo site side of the square. It is in this abbey church that Hun dreds of Russian prisoners are con fined. In the daytime all except the few wounded prisoners are taken out to work on the roads. In the night time, as you pass tne walls which encircle the church and which have been loopholed for Infantry Are. vou can hear the Russians chop ping up the coffins which they have dragged out or ancient tomos ior nre-wood. Soldiers Retclaze Houses. There has not been much snow along the southerly points of the western frontier of Russia this season, but dur ing my first days at Lowicz It was be arinnlnc to snow heavily, and now the soldiers are reglazing the shattered houses with glass brought over rrom Germany. The Dleasant tinkle of that business and the din from Improvised machine shops where autos are repaired are backed by tne "deep oiapason oi me cannonade" at Bolimow, Sweating soldiers who speaK racy German to reluctant Russian cows are leading the beasts to slaughter, ana the beasts seem to sense doom, for they are lowing piteously, Cheapjaeka, wearing baggy trousers of orange, green, purple, and black are selllmr ciarets and postcards to tht soldiers, and occasionally being advised to "go home to your house when tney try to overcharge tne soldiers. j ne heapjacks look like clowns out ot a ircus as to costume, but there is a not unamiable craftiness in their eyes, and they take the scorn of the soldiers quite imperturhably. Attorney-General Orders Libel Placed on Odenwald, With View to Confiscation. The house was deserted jrV the time. Two young women sawa man running away from the building when It com menced to burn. The Sheriff is aiding the District Attorney. NEW LAW TO BE INVOKED Utah Initiative Bill Vetoed. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. March 2S. Governor Spry vetoed the Shields in itiative and referendum bill today. He gives as his reasons that the initia tive is unnecessary at this time, as tbe people of the state may petition the Legislature if they wisbi that tbe ex pense of Its operation wHi be oispro portionate tVthe benefits to be derived and that tbe constitutionality of the measure is Questionable. Interest in General Subject of.Acu trality Reviewed and Precautions Against Aiding of Bellig erents Are Increased. WASHINGTON, March 23. Attorney General Gregory today; Instructed the United States District Attorney of Porto Rico to Institute libel proceedings against the German steamship, Oden wald, which attempted Sunday to leave San Juan harbor without clearance papers. Under these proceedings the vessel may be held in the custody of a Mar Dhai nnniinfi settlement of the question whether she shall be forfeited to the United States, under the recent Joint resolution of Congress prescribing pen alties In such cases. Destroyer Sent to Scene. "While the Department of Justice was considering the legal phases of the Odenwald. case, Treasury officials had before them' a report from San Juan that fear was felt that both the Oden wald and another Hamburg-American liner, the Praesident, might under cover of darkness slin past the guns of Monro Castle and dash for the sea. Secretary Daniels was Informed oi iho situation and after a conference with the President, Admiral Fletcher was instructed to dispatcn two de stroyers to San Juan and the coast uard service ordered the cutter Algon quin, now cruising In the West Indies, to steam at once for that port. Legal Confiscation Indicated. Attorney-General Gregory's action, inriientlnir the rurnose of the trovern- ment to undertake confiscation of tne Odenwald by due process of law in the district court of Porto Kico, attractea much .attention in official and other circles. It is the first definite action begun byNthe Administration under the new Congressional authority. It was explained tonight that the owners of the ship might give bond and secure her release from custody- pending dis- nneilinn of - the case in the COUrt, although it was not likely that such a course would be followed. Officials are waiting for further in formation before taking any- action under the criminal sections of the neu trality - resolution, for violation of which the owners or master of the Odenwald might be subjected to fine and imprisonment. XentralKy to be Guarded. The general subject of enforcing neu trality has been brought prominently to the front by the situation in Porto Rico. Although the Treasury officials are said to be satisfied there la no troth in renorts of plans to slip some of the fast German steamers in port In New York and Boston to sea, condi- j tions in New Tork are such that Cap tain R T Bertholf. commandant of the Coast Guard service, has been over to confer with Collector of Customs Ma ion nhout riosslble measures to be taken to keep a stricter watch on out going ships. -Tr was learned that the particular fear now Is that some of the smaller ships which clear New Tork will vio- i late the neutrality laws by taking j imniiea or ammunition and coal to - V J ' - sea to transfer to ships of belligerent nations. . More Cutters Available. For the present Treasury officials' do not expect to sent more coast guard cutters either to New York or to Boston, although the work of the cutters in handling outgoing . snips has been particularly pleasing to cus toms authorities. In the near future, however. many of the cutters will leave their winter stations anu mj he assigned to harbor worl if more protection is necessary. The Seneca now on ice patrol In the North Atlantic; will be back in New Y'ork in a few weeks and probably will be stationed in the harbor to help Collector Malone. AMERICAN WOMAN PRAISED President Polncaire Pleased 'H Itli Mrs. Whitney's Hospital. PARIS. March 23. -President Toin caire. with William G. Sharp, the American Ambassador, as his guest, went to Juilly today to inspect the. hos pital of Mrs. Payne Whitney. "I want to express my heartfelt ap preciation for what Mrs. Whitney and other Americans are doing for France. This admirable outpouring of real sym pathy will never be forgotten." said M. Poincaire. after he had visited all the wards in the hospital and chatted with the wounded. The President expressed great ad miration for the enterprising spirit that I has enabled the Americans to trans form buildings into model hospitals so quickly. Mr. Sharp and several at taches of the embassy afterward' vis ited the house where the German Gen eral von Kluck had his headquarters near Juilly during the battle of the Marne. . BIBLE TABOO IN SCHOOLS Louisiana Supreme - Court Vpjiolds Jewish Grounds. NEW ORLEANS. March 23. Reading of the Bible and recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the opening of the public schools in Cadda narish Is pro hibited under a decision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, announced today. Laymen who studied the complicated case thought the decision might be construed to allow the reading of thV old, but not the New Testament. The plaintiffs were of the Catholic and Jewish beliefs and arguments be fore thtf court have been based a-lmost entirely on religious views. The court held that the plea of the Catholic plain tiff that "the reading of the Bible would be contrary to the dictates of his conscience" was "not clear." The two Jewish complainants at tacked the New Testament and r were upheld. AD LEADS WOMAN TO CELL Defrauding 5Ien Who Answered Mat- , rimonlal Plea Is Admitted. MILWAUKEE, March 23. Mrs. Flor ence Gamble, arrested Saturday near Beloit. Wis., pleaded guilty before Fed eral Judge Ge'iger today to having used the mails with the intent to defraud and was sentenced to one year and six months in the Federal prison in Kansas. The woman inserted an advertise ment in a St. Paul newspaper announc ing that she desired to obtain a hus band, that she was a widow with J8000. no children, a kind and gentle disposition, brown hair and hazel eyes. She received many replies. She would Insist that railway fare and incidental expenses be forwarded to her before she would consent to making the trip to her future hus bands home. In this way sne od tained J1000 in the last few months. PRO-ALLY DEMONSTRATION IS RE CEPTIOX TO FREED INTERNES. Home of Kaiser's Subject Wh- Is Pro-feat-or at Fribours; University - Is Stoned, Says Report. LONDON, March 21. "In future no self-respecting Oerman will expose himself to3 the Insults of therrabble by whom German money never has been despised, but to whom the German people are so repugnant," says the Cologne Gazette quoted in a dispatch from Amsterdam to Renter's Telegram Company. Thlrf utterance was inspired by re ports of numerous anti-German dem onstrations in Switzerland in connec tion with the passage of trains con veying? to their homes interned Ger mans who had been exchanged for French and British prisoners. Accounts of these demonstrations are published in several German newspapers. The largest of these demonstrations occurred at Frlbourg, where, it is said, a crowd stoned the residence of one of the most prominent German profesors of Frlbourg University, hissed German. speaking inhabitants and smashed win dows of their houses, being finally dispersed by soldiers. GERMAN FETE CANCELED Kaiser TYjrblds Celebration of Bis marck's Birth, Ixndon Hears. LONDON. March 23. Emperor Will iam has decided to cancel the celebra tions nlanned for April 1 to commem orate the centenary of Bismarck's birth on the ground that the present condi tions make such a celebration unsuit able, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam. A Berlin dispatch, the correspondent adds, asserts that Emperor William and the members of the German govern ment will place wreaths on Bismarck's monument in the Tlergarten, in iiertin. but that there will be no banquets. speeches or singing. . LABOR OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT - Samuel Gonipers Optimistic Over General Situation. CHICAGO. March 23. Samuel Gomp- ers, president of the American Federa tion of Labor, arrived here today from Washington to use his Influence in an attempted settlement of troubles be tween building contractors and several trades unions. Mr. .Gompers said that , the general situation of labor throughout the coun try wan "brightening a bit." Hood's Saraaparilla, the Itellable Tonle Medicine Builds lip. The reason why you feel so tired all the time at this season is that your blood is' impure and impoverished. It lacks vitality. It is not the rich red blood that gives life to . theV whole body, perfects digestion and, enables all the organs to perform tberr func tions as they should. Get Hood's Sarsaparilla - from any druggist. It will make you feel Jjetter, look better, eat and sleep Vetter. It is the old reliable tried and true all-the-yeAr-round blood purifier and en richer, tonrc ; and appetizer. It re vitalizes the blood, and Is especially useful In building up the debilitated and run-down. Hood's Sarsaparilla . is helping thousands at this time, of year. . Let it help you. Get a bottle today and begin taking it at once. Be sure to get Hood's. Nothing else acts llke'lit. Adv. i : TEN VEAItS OK HON EST DEN- Flrc Probe Ordered at MarshfieJd. MARSH FIELD. Or., March . (Spt clal.) District Attorney Liljeqvlst has ordered an lnvestigatidn or tne lire which destroyed a large farmhouse on Isthmus Inlet belonging to John Wail. CASTOR I A Tor In&nti andChildreo, The Kind You Hare Alwajs Bought Bears tha Slgnator of Wt P o R T L A N D TJTR IX lOII l l.AAU. a I Have Cut Prices I will save yuu ao cents on every dollar en the Best dental work made by human hands and without pain. My offer Is for yeu to go -to any dental office and get prices, .then come te me and 1 will show you haw ta navi a dollar and I make a dollar ea your dental work. My Price Will Surely.' Salt Yoa My Vnarli Will Surely Please Yea ALL WOBht GUARANTEED, Paul Cr Yates DENTIST. ' " Fifth and Morrison, Opposite Post-office. ' Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers c. Merchandise of of Merit Only ' Pacific Phone Marshall 5000 . Home Phone A 6691 An exhibition of the newest prevailing fash ions. Third Floor. These Waists Are Making History , In 3Iouse Selling On Wednesday We Place on Sale NEW "VERIBEST" WAISTS That Proved a Revelation to Women Last Week Never Such Waists at the Price - $1.00 EQUAL TO MOST WAISTS SELLING AT $1. 75 TO $2.00 The Veribest waists are a revelation in the blouse world. Never before has there been such remarkable waists at sach a remarkable price. Thev are all copies of much higher priced models, reflecting the latest idea ot the day; and the materials are equally superior, being voile, in plain or embroidered effects, and in dainty colored flowered designs, that are very soft and fine. If you want a blouse whose charm is simplicity, yet in the latest style, you can get it here, for these waists . show the rolling dollars, as well as the two-in-one collars, which can be worn high or low; all have longv sleeves, trimmings of lace, some with beading, hemstitching, others with panels of Valenciennes lace and em broidery. ' ' , , t Third Floor A Remarkable and Eventful Sale New Brassieres Not One Worth Less Than $1The Majority Reg. $1.25 and $1.50 In the Hook-Front and Cross-Back Styles Very Special 69c These are the most perfeect fitting brassieres you can find, in styles that are suitable for the slen der, the medium, as well as the heavy figures, and in' all sizesv . They are made of the best grade of cambric, all-over laces; others with deep yokes of embroid ery; others trimmed with Valenciennes .laces and Cluny laces. All are firmly constructed, perfectly tailored and all reinforced under the arms. .- Fourth Floor. Wednesday We Introduce for the First Time The New Trimmed Joffre and Lanvin. Sailors - Exhibited in our millinery salon and displayed in the Fifth-street windows. - Innovations, surprises and delight await every woman 'to morrow; the chic and beauty of these Easter styles find their best expression in this collection of trimmed sailors. One model is illus trated. ? v - The individuality, exquisite beauty of outline and color, the practicability of the styles combined make this exhibition the most attractive shown to far in our millinery section. They were sent to us by our Mr. Dolan. who is now at tending the millinery Easter openings in New York and who is the only representative from this city These New Hats Are Offered Special at $6.95 Sein4 floor C This is Spring Corset Week Offering Special Sales in the Latest 1915 Spring Models A sale which opened in the most auspicious manner Monday morning, when eager cus tomers availed themselves of this great sale event, appreciating to the full the unusual oppor tunity of securing one of the latest Spring models at a very decided departure from the reg ular price-. '"' This big event we continue Wednesday and for the balance of the week. You may come here, choose the model you prefer and have it fitted by an expert corsetiere, who will aid you in the selection of the particular model best suited to your figure. This corset service we ex tend gratis. c $2 Wt B. Corsets, $1.69 $2.50 W. B. Corsets, $1.79 $3.50 W. B. Corsets, $2.29 Self-Keductng Nemos, o -M.ou moaarz r ronr-i-ccc corsets, FOR ONE DAY ONLY 1 0 Big Notion Specials Clark's Oi N. T. Thread 4c Clarke's best six cord, 200 yard spools, in'black, white and colors. All numbers. La Petite Neckwear Sup- ports, 3c. The 'new Warren wire "frame with which you can accomplish any wire effect desired. 50c Silk Hose Supporters, : 25c. Finest silb cable elastic sew on style. ; 7 ,'. Fine ' Pearl Buttons, two ' - .'. dozen, ,5c. Fresh water- pearl, fish eye styles,, in. assorted sizes. "As-You-Like-ie' Collar Supports,JSpecial, Card, 3c The newest neckwear sup port, 6 on card. For straight or flare collars. Radiant Skirt Braid, yd. 3c In colors : to match every shade. 5c Dress Fasteners, doz, lc -The famous Bevol brand. Sizes 0 and 1, black or white: . Clark's Darning Cotton, 3 balls for 5c. Black, white, colors, Gresgrain Featherbone, v 7c Yard Warren featherbene, Chicago Grade, Blaek er white. Children's Braid Holders, te. Shell "W, & K, Dandy" hair and ribbon, b any style. The kind with the elastie, Vint Floor FOR WEDNESDAY We Announce An Extraordinary Sale of 1915 St. Gall Embroideries New Bands New Flounces In 27 dnd r' 45 Inches Fine Neiguix Fine Crepe Fine Batiste Over 5000 Yards in This Event At Remarkable Sale Prices EXACTLY THE SAME as we sell regularly in our own stocks for three and four times more than asked for in this sale. $2.50 to $4.00 Flounces, 45-In. 98c $1.25 to $2.25 Flounces, 27-In. 49c 75c to $1.25 Wide Bands 49c Plrat Floor