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The Washington times., 1902-01-16
SoCIETI~

X: spofford read an interesting paper on
The Genius and Writings of John Rus
KIN. Several persons were added to The
roll OF membership in the club.
Inc following programme was rendered:
overture orchestra from Columbia Gen.
servatory of Music. Prof. E. Hart leader.
G. II. Kuhn. B. F. Gotwals and s;,mue; r
compton; soprano solo. Il Love vou. y
dobeskl. Mrs. William L. Wilson: Rea s
An Old Sweetheart of Mine" and
Hindo, Miss Susan Stone; tenor solos
ttWo), Mr.. James MacElwee; recitation.
seiecti0ns from j. Whitcomb Riley, Judge
J: ID. Flenner; instrumental-mandoli
Messrs Charles and Arthur Karr and Mr..
Mason recitation two pieces, Miss Hell
enc Lackaye; selections on the autobsrn
Mr.. Rudolph E. Won Nagle: recitation
several pieces), Rev. George Buckler.
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SOUTH CAROLINA GETS $4,000.
Expenses of the Government Exhib-
it at Charleston VIII BE Paid.


il at Charleston VIII BE Paid.
The House yesterday passed a substi-
tute for the Senate resolution appropriat-
ing the sum of $1,000 for payment of the
expense of the Government exhibit at the
South Carolina Interstate and West In
dian Exposition, in Charleston, 6. C. Mr..
Moody, from the Committee on hppro-
priations. reported the resolution and
asked for its immediate consideration.
Mr.. Payne said the exposition company
had agreed to pay all the expense of the
Government exhibit if it should be sent
there. Mr.. Hemenway declared that he
wanted an assurance that no further
money would be asked for by the expo
sition. Mr.. Elliott IS. c. explained the
position of the exposition company.
1t had expected to pay all expenses
after the failure of Congress at the last
session to make an appropriation. but the
President had recommended that the
Government exhibit be sent to Charles
ton, and that the expense of maintaining
It be paid by the Government. He said
that no further appropriation would be
asked for
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PERSONAL.
BY Rail ts Alaska.

All my life | have pressed the frontier.
{ have made eighteen round trips across
the plains. and when started out of Fort
Leavenworth forty-fve years ago. headed
west there wasn't single acre of ground
from there to the end of my route that
had ever feli the plow."
Thus spoke Mr.. J. T. Cornforth, one
of the old-time pioneers, and one of the
best-known mining experts of America, to
Times reporter at the New Willard. u
have always been an enthusiast he con-
tinued, but am free to say that moth
ing has ever warmed my blood to the
point of enthusiasm | now entertain for
our grand Territory of Alaska. All il
neeGs is the construction of railways, and
these il will soon have. | am actively in
terested in the building of the Trans
Alaskan line. This road will give short
line from Seattle to the Cape Nome
region. Its starting point is at 1liamna
Bay, just south of Cooks Inlet, and its
northern terminus is Port Clarence, on
Behring Sea.
1T is built to serve the needs of all
southern, central and northern Alaska,
and it connects with the waters of the
largest navigable rivers on which now
ryiug capacity, are on a par with the
Mississippi vessels. The road VIII pene-
trate a country that, in the richness of
its placer and hydraulic gold bearing
sands, is without equal in the world.
The lines entire length is about $50 miles,
and we hope to build to the Yukon River,
which is nearly half way, inside of eight
cen months. 1t will be operated every day
in the year, whereas now transportation
and travel are limited to four months.
The southern half of it lies in the
isothermal belt, with a splendid climate
no severer than that of Minnesota. /
have seen on the line of the road grass
from five to nine feet high, and as fine
raspberries, cranberries, and currants as
ever grew in the United States.
When the line is finished to Port Clar-
ence, ferries will be constructed across
Behring Strait connecting America and
Siberia, and linking the two hemispheres.
With the Trans Siberian road building
eastward and the Trans-Alaskan pushing
to the west, there is no room to doubt
that the world will be connected by rail-
way in no longer time than ten years.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
"THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY,""
Catholic Cniversity Lecture Course
InauGurated Yesterday.

The winter and spring course Of public
lectures at the Catholic University was
inaugurated yesterday afternoon in the
assembly room, Mcmahon Hall, by Hon.
William C. Robinson, LII. D., dean of the
law school of the university, who kindly
consented to take the place on the pro-
gramme of DR. Maurice Francis Egan, who
was unable to give his lecture owing to
an attack of la grippe. The large hall
was well filed with visitors and students.
The lecturer was introduced by Very Rev.
p. j. Gsrrigan, d. D., the vice rector Of
the university. DR.. Robinson's subject
was The Future of Society" Among
other things. he said:
THE future of society Is the most mo-
mentous and. at the same time, the most
practical question of the present day. The
assertion by Martin Luther of the right
OF private judgment in religious matters.
followed by the assertion of the same
right in political affairs by the Puritans
OF England and the revolutionists of
France, has turned the social world up
side down, and by robbing the people of
their customary leaders has elevated
every man in his own estimation into
an authority in doctrine and social phi
losophy- This has filled the community
with discordant social theories, ranging
from anarchy 70 Imperialism and put
ting into danger every social and re-
ligious institution.
Religion. in it's intrinsic nature. is the
cultivation and attainment by man of the
harmony of his intellect and will, with
the intellect and will of God and as in
teileet and will. whether human or di-
vine, are the predominating energies in
the universe, their cultivation by man in
wolves the most strenuous exertion and
persistent effort. 1t brings his intellect
into harmony with the divine intellect by
requiring knowledge of God through his
creative works and his revealed law. 1t
puts his will into harmony with the di-
vine by making God the supreme object
of his love and emancipating himself
from the inordinate love of creatures by
self-denial and obedience
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT.
Ladies from North Carolina Call at
the White House.

Senator Pritchard and Representative
Blackburn of North Carolina presented to
President Roosevelt yesterday a party Of
ladies from the academy at Winston
Salem, ". c.. They invited the President
to attend the centennial celebration of
that institution next May. The President
was unable to promise that he would at
tend the ceremony.
Ex-Governor Bradley of Kentucky ap-
pears to be getting back into the working
harness OF the Republican party. He was
at the White House yesterday in confer
ence on Kentucky matters with the Pres
ident. During the Mckinley Administra-
tion Governor Bradley was rather at outs
with the President He never visited the
White House during that time.
Representative Boreing yesterday saw
the President in the interest of Frank VI.
Fisher. candidate for appointment as
postmaster at Paducah, Ky.
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OVER FIFTY YEARS OLD.
MIL of Joseph LuGler. Dated Sep
tember 20, 1910, Placed on File.

A document more than half a century
old was placed on file yesterday in the Of
flee of the Register OF Wills for the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1t is the will of Joseph
Lugler, and is dated September 90, 1S4s
1t is stated that the will was executed by
the testator while he was a patient at a
hospital at Pensacola, Fla. At that time
Mr. Lugler was an enlisted man in the
United States Marine Corps. By the
terms of the will he leaves his entire es-
tate TO his widow, Sarah Jane Lugler.
The document was received by Mrs.
Lugler on November 2S, 1S49. 1t having
been mailed to her by Isaac Hulse from
the United States Naval Hospital at Pen
sacola, Fla. Mr.. Lugler, it is stated, died
about October %, lSi9.
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An American Academy.

If the United States is to have an
American Academy of Arts and Let
ters similar to that of the French
Academy and Salon dart, Washington
is the place for it. The movement is
already under way, the President has
been interested. and some of the most
conspicuous men and women of art
and letters are devoted to its success.
One of the chief advocates of the
plan says: This institution is need
ed in the National Capital. for there
is no focal point of prestige in Amer
lea from which distinction can be
gained. For instance. an artist must
go to Paris and gain entree to the
Salon before he is even recognized in
America. The same is. in a measure,
true of literary. scientific. and other
distinguished workers in the higher
fields of human endeavor. The scheme
also embraces hall of fame for liv
ing writer's in which worthy littera-
teurs, artists, and others may be en-
IcA -tu dS tut dIc III llit uieli'poii tdh
institution
While Washington's present devel-
opment problems are largely ma
terial, healthful aestheticism must en-
ter prominently into their solution.
In this era the aesthetic and the
practical go hand in hand. The APP
probation of and demand for the
beautiful are growing with the educa-
ton of all the people. Nowadays,
when a great city undertakes great
improvement, the public insists that
as utility This is demonstrated in
the increasing attention paid to the
artistic in the construction of munich
pal and national buildings. in the Gre
alton of park systems. and in the gen
eral adornment Of thoroughfares.
1t is wise to concentrate at Wash
ington that high intelligence repre-
sented by the devotees of literature,
science, and art, for they will be a
power in behalf of the greater Capt.
tai, besides adding to the eclat of the
body social.
In the Academy scheme we see the
beginnings of splendid institution.
For century past the American peo-
pie have been spreading out. Because
of this tendency to scatter, TO build
new communities with the brain and
sinew gathered from the older ones.
there has been little disposition or
chance for concentration such as is
now proposed in the Washington
Academy. Besides, young nations
have much to learn before they can
create institutions of this character,
but America has learned rapidly, and
ii seems that the time is ripe for the
experiment.
While we cannot expect to rival
those of Paris. London, or st. Peters
burg in year with an American
Academy. we can establish one that,
enlisting the services of meritorious
native painters, writer's. and scien-
lists. will command attention and re-
spect and receive that foreign recog-
milton which will help it TO mature.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
virginia Appointments.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. i5.-Prominent
Republicans here state 1t is generally be-
lieved President Roosevelt will appoint
General Thomas Rosser. of Charlottesville
TO succeed Marshall Brown Allen, OF
Staunton. and that Morgan Treat will bc
reappointed for the Eastern district of Nir
sinla. They also claim that Richmond will
get a new postmaster shortly and that he
may be Otis II. Russell, who held the po-
sition under the Administration of Presl-
dent Benjamin Harrison.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
ANOTHER CITY PARL.
Plan to Condemn Triangle mt Six
teenth and Streets.

The bill introduced in the House by
Representative Young OF Pennsylvania
to secure. by purchase or condemnation
proceedings, for a public park, the tri-
angle at the corner Of Sixteenth and U
Streets northwest. has met with the
hearty approval of the citizens in that
section of the city.
Yesterday Mr.. Young received a petit
tion from Mr.. Ethan Allen, which was
concurred in by the following owners of
certain plots of ground adjacent to and
facing the proposed park: Mary T. Hen
derson, Mary E. Patten, Edythe Patten
Corbin, Rebecca J. Mcknight Moses, Jane
Francis Brice, per y. T. Brice; Josephine
A. Patten, Helen Patten, John II. Nolan,
Edward d. Corcoran.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
COLLECTOR FOR PORTO RICO.
Mr.. A. n. Cruzen. of Nebraska. Nam
ed b.. Secretary Gage.

new collector OF customs, and the first
one under the Foraker act, was appointed
yesterday by Secretary Gage.
Mr.. A. r. Cruzen was appointed col
lector CT customs for Porto Rico, to sue
ceed Mr.. George w. Whitehead, who has
resigned the position upon his confirma-
tion as appraiser of the port of New York.
The annual salary attached to the office
is s4,500.
Mr.. Cruzen is the only collector of Gus
toms that is not nominated by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate. The
Foraker act gives the right Of appoint
ment to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Cruzen is from Nebraska, where
he well known in banking circles, and
where he has been active as a member of
the Republican party.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
The Danish West Indies Deal.

Portland Oregonian-Now We get them
and now We don't-the Danish West In
dies. Coyness on the part of the owner
and a carefully restrained eagerness on
the part Of the would purchaser are
expected In matter Of this kind. other
wise would dignity compromise itself and
diplomacy fail in acumen. We shall get
the islands in the long run, of course, for
the good and sufficient reason that we
need tacm in our business
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
PRESIDENT OF THE BAR.
Mr.. BENJAMIN F. Leighton Succeeds
Mr.. Chaplin Brown.

At a meeting of the Washington Bar
Association Tuesday night Benjamin F.
Leighton was chosen president to succeed
Mr.. Chaplin Brown, who served two terms
According to the rules of the association.
the-executive officer is not eligible for
more than two consecutive terms.
The other officers chosen were Messrs.
J. H. Gordon, first vice president; Hugh
T. Taggart, second vice president; Charles
H. Cragin, treasurer, and Percy NJ.
Brown, secretary.
The following were elected members
of the board OF directors: Messrs. Ben
jamin f. Leighton. Charles H. Cragin,
Percy NJ. Brown, Leon Tobriner. NJ. J. Col
bert, B. S. Minor, E. H. Thomas, and
J. A. Meadel
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
Two Cases Abandoned.

Justice Anderson yesterday ordered the
prosecution of James Ward, alias Ward
Snyder, alias Ward Stewart, who was
charged with obtaining goods under false
pretence, TO be abandoned. Sentence
was suspended in a case of larceny
against Snyder. In the case of Edward
+. Brinkman, who was accused of having
exhibited obscene pictures, the prosecu-
tion was abandoned
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
Pope Again Reported Weak.

LONDON. Jan. 15.-Renewed reports of
the Pope's weakness have reached Lon
don. Vanity Fair" today states that
Leo takes little nourishment and gener-
ally is but half conscious. He suffers no
pain. the paper says. but simply dozes
the hours away.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
VIII Appeal 10 Congress.

AS the result of the recent trouble
of the members of Bricklayers' Uni n No.
l, who were employed at the Govsrn, :
Printing Office, relative to obtainins =
pay for the half holiday preceding
Year, Milford Spohn, a member Of -
Organization states that an appeal Will
be made TO Congress to settle the half
holiday question so far as 1t affects
temporary and permanent PER diem em-
ployeS,
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
CAPT. BACHELOR TO RETIRE.
Recommendation Made on Account
of Debility Incident TO Service.

The army retiring board has reported
that Capt. Joseph B. Bachelor, jr.. of
the Twenty fourth Infantry is unfit for
further active duty as result of disabil-
ity incident TO the service, and has recon-
mended him for retirement. Captain
Bachelor is a native of North Carolina,
from which State he was appointed to
the Military Academy in 1876. His ser
vice has been meritorious in every re
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
Mayor Lows Bctc Noir.

Atlanta onstitution-Jumping Jerome
has fatty told Mayor Low that he must
get busy enforcing the Sunday saloon
law, or get indicted. When the mayor
can discover the United States equivalent
for bette nolr he Will probably tell Jerome
he Is it.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Medical experts in the Philippines
are calling inconsistencies nostalgia,
but that doesn't make the boys who
have il feel any more like staying
away.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
10 Crafty n Good Fellow.

Chicago Tribune-If Editor Watterson
wants to be Governor of Kentucky let him
have the job. 'Sblood, What's a Gov
ernorship between friends?
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

In the olden days some babies used
to be born with silver spoons in their
mouths; nowadays they are born with
500, 600 in bank.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
BRITISH GUNBoAT INJURED.
The Tees Damaged in Collision With
Steam Hopper.

LONDON. Jan. 15.-The third class gun
boat Tees has been in serious collision
with steam hopper.
The warship was able to keep afioat
and succeeded IN coming alongside dock
yard.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Reports from here, there, and else
where indicate that Mr.. Payne should
adopt "a system of bulldogs and bur
glar alarms for fourth-class postor-
fees
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
Very Appropriate.

Pittsburg ChronicleT Telegraph 1t is
very appropriate for Heinrich the Navi-
gator" to represent the German Kaiser
when Miss Roosevelt christens the En-
peror S yacht.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

John Bull has ceased anathematiZ-
ing The Islanders" long enough to
think over the prospective visit of
Prince Henry To the United States.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
OCHILTREE AT WHITE HOUSE.
Invites President to Attend COnfed-
crate Dinner in New York.

Col. Tom Ochiltree. the picturesque ex
Representative from Texas, yesterday in
vited President Roosevelt to attend dim
ner of the New York Confederate Camp OF
Veterans in that city on next Monday
evening, January 10. the anniversary OF
the birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The President will not be able to attend
but will send a note of regret to be read
at the banquet table.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
MnrcOni's Laure;s.

Atlanta onstitution-Marconi has got
The cable companies hedging. Anybody
able to do that is entitled to laurels that
would make Caesars look like a last
years bonnet.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

So there is TO be a Shamrock III.
If Sir Thomas keeps at it long enough
we shall one day have enough to fill
the Cup.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Isthmian canal rumors have de-
cided flavor suggestive of French
cooking.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. Maurice Francis Egan will give n
tea January 20. from 4 to :. to introduce
10 society her eldest daughter, Miss Pa
trice Egan
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

The Minister from Nicarag,, NJ
Corea, will give dinner tonight in honor
ct Mr. John Barrett, former Minister IN
Siam ei "
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
sh,ins Things at ChamberInIn.

Detroit Free Press-Afr. Chamberlain l.,
sti,l the brick and dead cat cene er OF Eu-
ropean politics.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. Depew will not receive today. but
VIII be at home on the following Thurs
days of the season.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mr.. Croker is evidently trying to
convince Mr.. Nixon that the tiger
won't bite anyone except Republicans
and FusioniSts.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Even in the international perspec-
tive. the slouch hat has become great
er tian the crowned head.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Representative and Mrs Olmsted of
rehhsyivania gave dinner last night in
honor Oh Miss Haldeman of Harrisburg.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16
THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
FRANK A. MUNSEY

be remarked. they seem to have eN-
pressed their views largely in vio-
lent manner.
The proper time for fuller hearing
of Emilio Aguinaldo. his friends, and
his countrymen is after they have
asked for an armistice or laid down
their arms and appealed for peace
ful solution of Philippine difficulties.
There is an outbreak of smallpox in
England If this should be followed
by an attack of Alfred Austin, the
nation might well despair.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. Orme and Mrs. Hume will be at
home today, assisted by Mrs. William
Archer Roberts, Miss Mary f. Hume.
Miss Lillian A. Cragin, and Miss Louise
Herr.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. |. w Van Schaick, formerly of
Milwaukee, Wis, is visiting at 1881 r
Street. lido
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs Thomas Cox has issued invitations
ior the marriage of her daughter Miss
"sally COX to Mr.. Charles Hume. Thurs
qay. January %, at St Pauls Church on
Twentythird Street. va
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs Clarence r. Dufour will be n
home Thursdays, January 80 and Febru
airy D.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. T. NJ. Patterson, wife of Senator
fatterson OF Colorado. will be at home
at the Shoreham on Thursday. January
81 ana on succeeding Thursdays of the
season. tie
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. Louis d. Cdrman :
Fridays, January Il and Il
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Mrs. Charles C. Ayres is visiting her
father Colonel Fairfax at his home in
Virginia. Mrs. A. res has leased her
bouse 1872 New Hampshire Avenue, to
Mr.. Douglas Merritt. Of New York and
viii soon Join Captain Ayres AT his post
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Commander Richardson Glover, United
States Navy naval attache of the United
states Embassy at London, sailed for his
most Yesterday On the st. Louis. Mrs.
Glover. with her little daughters, will
ioin him in the spring.
Mrs Bessie Stewart and Miss ]. Me
Ternev were also passengers on the St
JouiS
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

Th, Potomac Literary Club met last
evening at the ST. James Hotel. Hon. A.
The Washington times., 1902-01-16

owing to the recent death of her sister.
Mrs. Pauline Lancaster Peyton. of Den,
yer Col Mrs. Llewellyn Eliot will not
February G. ''' Vi
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
MADE EXCEEDING MAD.

The Montpelier Journal prints the
following under Cabot headline:
The question is being asked, Shall
we send prohibitionist Republican
TO the Legislature? ?" There is no
doubt about it, or should be none
Cabot has always stood by it, and she
will not forget her good sense in the
present crisis.
If our memory serves us Alright it
gave the Journal a mighty bad
turn when it was pointed out that
the Republicans in some sections of
the State showed no intentions of car
rying out the license plank of the
Montpelier platform. The Journal
does not hesitate, however, to give
place to an argument for the election
of prohibitionist Republican Repre-
sentative for this fall because cabot
has always stood by it, and she will
not forget her good sense in the pres
ent crisis. ~ That "it'' is little bit
indeterminate, but the cit" which
Cabot has always stood by is not
an unknown quantity, and the knowl-
edge that her prohibitionist Republi-
cans are not likely to forget their
principles this year, to which we are
indebted to the Journal is interesting
just at this stage of the game. -Rut
land Herald.
Much local option hath made the
contemporary mad. The foregoing
discloses the pitiful nature of its NAL
ady, IL amounts to dense imbecility.
Only local optionist in the last stag
es of dementia, or wholly gone with
elemental, could humble over such
stuff as the contemporary is printing
1t is too blamed stupid for comment
and is turned over TO the office cat
for its amusement-which refuses to
be amused by such drivel.