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Show KAISER'S SCHOOL HAS DISAPPEARED NEW YORK. SepL 5 The Kaiser has disappeared and they have hoisted tho Star Spangled Banner on the flagstaff flag-staff of the Castle on the Rhine in the stained glass window at tho head of the stairs of the old building at State and Farrlugton streets in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., which used to be a German military school. It was known as the Kyle Institute then, but Kyle, who was said to greatly resemblo tho kaiser, departed from Flushing fivo years ago. Bismarck has disappeared disap-peared too. His plcturo was taken down from the wall when the building build-ing became a soldiers' and sailors' club ot the war tump uommuniiy Service of the Third ward, Queens county, last Saturday (August 31) This building was "a full fledged German military school, with gun racks, a shooting gallery, and class rooms with wooden seats from the front edges of which a small strip of Iron projected upward for about an Inch, making them impossible to sit on for long at a time. Presumbably this was part of the rigid Prussian military discipline. There was a swimming pool too, 75 feet square, and a couple of coats of waterproof white enamel paint have now put it in condition con-dition to be used by Uncle Sam's soldiers sol-diers and sailors. Other features which it will bave as a War Camp Community Service Soldiers' and Sailors' Club are hot and ' cold water, two pool rooms, a reading and writing room with 50 tables, and , 100 beds with spotless linen at 25c ! each a night. Next door fs a building j which was the gymnasium of the Ger-'man Ger-'man military school, and Is now the 'Jefferson Democratic Club. This has ' been offered by the club members for (dances at any time and was used for ithis purpose for the first time Saturday Satur-day night when the band from tho 24th company of Coast Artillery from ! Fort Totten played, and there was an 'official flag raising in front of the I club in the afternoon. |