Nevertheless he is bearing up bravely, and the outward
signs of the city seem to indicate that "Business as Usual"
is largely his guiding star for the present in this crisis.

Other unusual incidents were the parade of the sales¬
men who were delegated to dispose of the Liberty Loan
Bonds and the fact that all sorts of merchants in the
retail line willingly set aside room and clerks in order to
facilitate the work of the Government in selling these
obligations.

An Old Hostelry—The Eagle Hotel

A hotel almost forgotten by old New Yorkers, but still
doing business at the old stand is the Eastern Hotel at
Whitehall and South Streets. It is not generally known
that Jenny Lind stayed at this hotel at the time she sang
in Castle Garden, and going still further back, Robert
Fulton was a frequenter of this hotel and Daniel Webster
was known here too. The Eastern Hotel dates back to
1822. It was originally called the Eagle Hotel, and has
passed through its various phases as a fashionable hos¬
telry to the present time, when it is largely used as a
restaurant and a place for the accommodation of transient
travelers. Recently it has been known as the Great East¬
ern Hotel.

Nothing New About Universal Military Service

Compulsory Universal Military Service, which strikes
so many of our people as being entirely foreign to our
policies, as a matter of fact came in with the Republic.
Our democratic ancestors recognized the fairness of
common service for all men in a republic and although
peaceful in their desires and non-militaristic in their
habits they believed in being prepared, by training every
able bodied man to do his part as a soldier should need
arise.   The first section of the act of 1792 is as follows:—

That each and every free and able-bodied white male citizen
of the respective states, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen
years and under the age of forty-five years (except as herein¬
after excepted) shall, severally and respectively, be enrolled in
the militia by the captain or commanding officer of the company
within whose bounds such citizen shall reside.   And it shall at

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