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The Washington times., 1902-03-15
CITIZENS DISCUSS
STREET EXTENSIONS
The Brightwood Association
Hears Mr.. Blair Lee.
Passes Criticism on Position Taken by
District Commissioners-0ther
Resolutions Offered.

The chief subject discussed by the
Brightwood Citizens Association last
night was the proposed opening Of Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Streets. as set
forth in bills now pending before Con-
gress.
Mr.. Blair Lee, trustee, presented re-
port on the subject. in which he criti-
cised the position taken by the District
Commissioners and the committees in
Congress. His report was upon Senate
bills to extend Fourteenth and Thirteenth
Streets, respectively.
During the course of the meeting sew
eral other resolutions were offered rela-
tive to the extension of these streets, the
purport OF which we're in line with the
report offered by Mr. Lee
To Name New Park.
resolution offered by Mr.. r. NJ. John
son called the attention of Congress to
the question of the proper name for the
proposed park on the site of Fort Stevens.
1t was suggested that the park. when
established, be named either the Abra-
ham Lincoln Battle Park or the Lincoln
National Military Park.
Other resolutions adopted related to
the improvement of Brightwood Avenue
and that of the Piney Branch Road.
Franklin T. Smith, owner and director
of the Hall of the Ancients, addressed
the meeting.
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HOUSE PASSES THE
POSTOFFICE BILL
Increase in Salaries for Three
Thousand Clerks.
Five Hundred and Eighty New Clerks
Authorized-Only One Amend
ment to Bill Adopted.

The House yesterday concluded consid-
GRAFTON of the PostofTice appropriation bill.
The measure was passed without division.
Mr.. Tawney tRep., Mimi made an eff
fort to have the salaries of the railway
mail clerks increased. He was unsuccess-
full, owing to the objection of Mr.. Loud
III charge of the bill, who insisted upon a
point of order that Mr.. Tawney's amend
ment was new legislation, and therefore
could not be added to a general appro-
priation bill.
Representative Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.)
sought TO have stricken out of the bill
the provision for the special payment of
s142,7 ,7e9 for special mail train facilities
between Washington and New Orleans.
His motion to strike out the clause was
lost by vote of &c to sc.
Mr.. Loud (Rep., CALI, chairman of the
Committee on Postofices and Postroads.
offered an amendment striking out that
feature of the bill which placed the rural
free delivery service under the contract
system and substituting the bill which
the House passed last Monday, classify
adopted.
In connection with the appropriations
for railway clerk hire, Mr.. Bromwell
(Rep., Ohio. stated that by its terms
325 clerks received an increase of 5000
in annual salary, and 2,eS2 an increase of
500. The appointment of seventy new
clerks at salary of 5000 and OF $40 at
$500 was authorized.
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appointed a committee which settled all
disputes in joint conference. Mr.. Hanna
haS declared that from that time he has
been believer: in and an advocate of or
ganiZed labor.
Probably no living man has studied the
labor question more thoroughly than Mr.
Hanna, nor from a more unbiased stand
point. He has studied it and mastered il
as he has mastered the banking businese
the street railway business, the theatrical
business, the business of politics and
everything else he has been interested in
There are 5000 men on his payroll at
Cleveland, and he has had full oppor-
tunity.
Business Methods in Politics.
More than twenty years ago Mr.. Hanna
discovered the close relation between
business and politics, so he studied poli-
tics as he had the iron and coal business
and the labor business. When he took
charge of Mr.. McKinley's first Presidential
campaign he brought to bear his knowl-
edge of business and his knowledge of
politics. He conducted it with "the cold
practical energy of a triphammer," and
this country never saw such a campaign
He sought and worked for definite results.
which he believed could be gained through
Dearly per0ct system, and he proved
his point.
1t has been said of Mr. Hanna that he
Is "a force and not an intrigue" and
that is worth thinking about when
considering him as an arbiter in labor
trouble. His whole career is sort .:
apotheosis, Of common sense. He has a
blunt, direct fashion of eliminating SEN
timent and getting down to cold, hard
facts. With him a thing is right or
wrong. There is no middle ground, no
quibblihg equivocation. He does not
dream. but he thinks. He does not make
beautiful mental pictures, but he accom-
plishes practical results.
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F. {. LEUPP MAY GET
RODBNBERG'S PLACE
Probable Appointee to Civil
Service Commission.
CORRESPONDENT N. Y. POST
Believed He Will Accept Office He De-
clined From Cleveland-Rodenberg
Will Help Dawes in Illinois.

Francis Z. Leupp, Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Evening
Post" it is stated on what is regarded
as reliable authority, will be offered a
place on the Civil Service Commission. to
succeed MIR William A. Rodenberg, VINO
yesterday rendered his resignation to
President Roosevelt. Mr.. Leupp is an
authoritative advocate of civil service re-
form and holds the same views regarding
the merit system as does President Roose-
welt, of whom he is close personal
friend.
He is regarded as an admirable man
for place on the Commission, which he
would undoubtedly strengthen. There is
reason to believe that he will accept the
place if offered TO him.
John r. Proctor, president of the Com
mission. and William Dudley Foulke, the
only other member besides Mr.. Rodenberg.
are anxious that Mr.. Leupp should be
appointed
Not Yet Offered the Place.
The President has not yet, SO far as
can be learned, offered the position to
any one. Mr.. Leupp, late last night. said
he had not been asked, formally or other
wise. to take the place. In reply to a
question if he would accept the position
if offered him, Mr.. Leupp said he could
not say whether or not he would.
An Active Civil Service Reformer.
Mr. Leupp has for years been active in
the work of the Civil Service Reform
League. and has been identified with that
movement as much as the President, who
himself served on the Civil Service Com
mission. For years as the Washington
representative of the Evening Post he
has held a recognized position in the front
rank of writers on national politics. On
financial subjects he is an unquestioned
authoritS and during his career in Wash
ington has scored a number of brilliant
beats" on changes of policy in the Treas
ury and other departments.
The President is great admirer of Mr..
Leupp. who enjoys his confidence to a
high degree.
Declined the Office Once.
During the Cleveland Administration Mr..
Leupp's name was brought forward in con-
nection with vacancy in the Civil Ser
vice Commission. but he declined the
honor. He is strong Republican.
BY friends of Mr.. Leupp, and others in
a position TO know, it is said that the
President would rather have Mr.. Leupp
step into the vacancy caused by Mr.
Rodenberg's retirement than any other
man in the United States.
The President desired Mr.. Rodenberg to
remain in office longer than April l. but
Mr.. Rodenberg desired to be relieved at
that time, so that he could begin at once
to outline his campaign for Congress in
Illinois.
Mr.. Rodenberg will ally himself in the
fight there with the Dawes forces in the
three-cornered contest for the Senate be-
tween Senator Mason, Representative
Hopkins, and Mr.. Charles G. Dawes, ex-
Comptroller of the Currency.
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TO PAY MORE FOR DRUGS.
Retail Druggists Combine to End Cut
Rate War.

Washington people will have to pay
more for patent medicines from today on
than they have been obliged to do for the
past ten years.
The Retail Druggists Association,
which includes in its membership about
100 pharmacists, has decided to put an
end to cut-rate business. The price OF
all proprietary drugs will be restored to
the figures held ten years ago.
At that time all standard patent medi-
cines sold for 81 in all Washington drug
stores. cut rate druggist entered the
field. Merry war followed. Prices were
halved. The cut rate fever spread all over
the country. Druggists sold patent medi-
cines at loss and made up the deficit on
prescriptions.
Incidentally the Retail Liquor Dealers
Association has decided upon auniform
size and price for the ever popular
''growler."
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SENATOR HANNA'S RECORD
IN SETTLING STRIKES.
Continued from First Page.)

Settled strike his employees
them He
Ended the big
bringing
geher in New York a
that
strike of 1901, brought
seemed hopeless.
Industrial
Register
satisfactory
Practically settled strike of the Iron
Works (wlere
president of the
the elements work with
Brought about amicable
Typographical ending lockout that lasted
years
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centration of purpose, his integrity, and
his saving grace of humor that make
him succeed.
Mr.. Hanna is now sixty-four years old,
and he has been in business for more than
forty years. Probably no man living
knows so much about different business
propositions as he.
When he entered his fathers grocery
store, he learned all there was to learn
Of it. He was not yet thirty when he
joined with his father-in-law in the iron
ore, pig iron, and coal business, and he
mastered that down to the last detail. He
knew the men who were working for him
in the mines the men who were carrying
his coal and iron on the lakes. He knew
how they were working and how they were
living He knew all there was to know
about the whole complicated mechanism.
and he knew it better than anyone else.
1t has been said that Mr.. Hanna's pres
ent interest in the man who works is a
new thing. This is not borne out by the
records 1t appears that his concern was
the first in this country to recognize or
ganized labor.
Gave Recognition to a Union.
AS far back as 1874, after the disas-
trous strike of the coal miners in Ohio,
there was organized the National Btu
minous Coal Miners Association. The
president and secretary OF that ergani-
zation sought Mr., Hanna and read 10 him
the constitution ard bylaws. He eaid
to them:
Gentlemen, II you mean what you have
said in those articles. l am with you.
If your purpose and determination is TO
lay a foundation for peace between capi-
tai and labor,'I will give you my hearty
CO. operation"
Mr.. Hanna straightway organized 4
union Of operators. Both organizations
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TRUSTEES SALE.
TRUSTEES SALE OF A VALUABLE UNIM-
PROVED TRACT OF LAND ADJOINING |
NORRIS ADDITION, IN THE COUNTY OF |
WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF |

PROVED TRACT OF LAND ADJOINING
NORRIS ADDITION, IN THE COUNTY OF
WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA.
By virtue OF deed Of trust, duly recorded in
Liber No. 1856. folio 4I4 ct seq, Of the
land records of the District OF Columbia. and
at the request of the holder of the promissory
note secured thereby, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale. by public auction. at sl7
ST. NV. Washington, D. c., on FRIDAY.
MARCH 2s A. d. 1902. AT 4:3O O'CLOCK
p NJ the following described real estate, stu
District of Columbia, to Wit Beginning at a
point where the southern line. Of VI st
extended .ntersectS the division lire between
the estate of William ". Corcoran and Robert
Z. Morris addition to the City Of. Washing
ton and running thence in a south
hundred and seven and twenty-one hun
dredths feet Q0T.2l it, to point where the
said line intersects the southern line of said Cor
coran estate, thence in northwesterly dircc-
tion four hundred ard ffty-nine and fve-tenths
feet (459.5 it,, along the southern line of said
Corcoran estate to a point where the said line
intersects the south line of NJ ST. me-. and
thence in easterly direction along the south
ern line of VI St four hundred and eighty
four and twentythree oDe-hundredths feet (is4. %
ft.) to the place of beginning, containing
within these metes and bounds twenty -four
thousand four hundred and twenty-four and FIVE
tenths square feet Ca, i2i.5 So. ft.) OF ground,
more or less.
Terms cash Conveyancing and stamps at pur-
chaser's cost. Right OF resale for default of
purchaser is reserved.
JOHN F. WAGGAMAN 200 18th st. NV.
CHARLES f. BANES, 200 18th st. NV
Trustees.
THos E. wACGAMAN, 917 st. NV. Auc-
tioneer. mhl5, .25,2s
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BOUGHT BY A SYNDICATE.
Names of Men Now Interested in West
Virginia Central.
Special to The Washington Times,

Special TO The Washington Times.)
CUMBERLAND, Nd, March 14.-The
syndicate which purchased the West Vir-
ginia Central includes Edward r. Fuller,
of Scranton; Moses Taylor, of the Lacka-
wanna; Walter Scranton, president of the
Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company;
Warren Delano. prominent coal op-
orator; Fairfax S. Landstreet general
manager of the Davis Coal and Coke
Company, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Messrs. Landstreet and Vanderbilt are in
terested entirely ON their own account
Connection is 20 he made with the Wa
bash by short roads, including the Roar
ing Creek, Belington and Roaring Creek
and Charleston, just purchased by the
syndicate, and an outlet is to be built from
Cumberland to point On the Chesapeake
Bay.
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THE REPORT CREDITED.
Dr.. Hill May Succeed Mr.. White as Am
bassador to Germany.

Credence is given here TO the statement
in newspaper of DantZig. Germany,
written by Prof. Munsterberg, of Har-
ward, that DR.. David ]. Hill.s the Assist
ant Secretary of State, is likely to sue
ceed Andrew ID. White as United States
Ambassador at Berlin.
Mr.. White announced to his friends tha t
he would retire from the German mission
and from public life when he reaches his
SEVENTEEN birthday, November of this
year.
1t Is known that DR.. Hill would like to
succeed Mr.. White. and il is pretty gen
orally believed here that he is favorably
regarded by President Roosevelt
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FOREIGN MAILS.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. POSToFFTCE, NOTICE.
Should be read daily. as changes may occur
at any time.
ES)REIGN MAILS are forwarded to the ports
of sailing daily, and the schedule of cloSngs is
arranged on the presumption of their uninter-
March Is. 1902, the last CONNECTING closes viii
be made from the MAIN OFFICE follows:
Mails for South and Central America,
West Indies, Etc.
sATURDAY-G) At 1870 a. m. for the BA-
HAMAS per steamer from Manu. Fla.
Mails for NEWFOUNDLAND, By rail to North
Sydney. and thence via steamer, close here daily
except SUNDAYS at 1900 M, and on Sundays at
IL 80 a. m. The connecting closes a.e made
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. I'D thy
Mails for MIQUELoN. by rail to Boston and
thence via steamer, close here daily except Sum-
days at 300 m. and on Sundays at 1880
CUBA MAILS close here, via Port Tampa,
Fla, Sundays. Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:65
p m, and via Miami, Fla. Tuesdays and Satur-
Msils for MEyICO. overland. unless specially
addressed for despatch by steamers sailing from
New York, close here daily at 1890 a. m. and
Nails for BELIZE. PUERTO CoRTEZ. and
GUATEMALA, by rail to New Orleans and thence
via steamer. close here daily at 1880 a. m. and
1000 p m. the connecting closes for which
Mails for COSTA RIGA. by rail to New Or
leans, and thence via steamer, close here daily
being on Tuesdays
Trans-Paciic Mails.
Mails for CHINA. JAPAN, HAWAII, and
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,. via San Francisco,
close here daily at $50 p. m. up to March
16 inclusive, for despatch per 5. s. America
sIai Mails i ior CHINA. and JAPAN, via Vancouver,
close here daily at 6:30 p. NJ. up to March
49, inclusive for despatch per s. 5. Empress OF
India. Registered mail must be directed .syia
Vancouver" Merchandise for the U. s. Postal
Agency at Shanghai cannot be forwarded vi.
Nails for CHINA. and JAPAN, via Seattle,
close here daily at $3.50 p. m up to March 10,
inclusive. for despatch per $. $. Toso Mar,i.
Nails fer HAWAII. via San Francisco. close
here daily at $50 p. m. up to March "a, in
elusive for despatch per s. 5: Alameda. to)
Mails for china. JAPAN, HAWAII. and
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS =. via San Francisco close
here daily at $3.50 p. m. up to March %. in
elusive for despatch per s. City of Peking. (o)
Nails for AUSTRALIA fexcept those for West
Australia, which go via Europe, and New Zealand
mails for which are despatched via San Fran
here daily at $50 p. m. after March Is and up
to March %, inclusive. for despatch per $. $.
'MaiIs for COCHIN CHINA arc despatched to
New York for connection with European steamers.
'-PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (siilitary NaiD. des-
patched to San Francisco at all closes for that
Office, to connect with Government transports
the sailings Of which are irregular.
REGISTERED MAILS close at the MAIN Of
FICE follows: (b) At 100 p. m. day;
same day % At 100 p m. previous day; {n)
At 1900 p. previous Saturday; (k) At 500
p. m. previous day; (o) At 500 D. m. previous
day. JOHN A MERRITT. Postmaster.
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Several Senators Back OF
Accusations Preferred
Against Him.
CHARGE MISREPRESENTATION
Also Said to Have Private Mining
Interests in Mexico That Made Him
Unwilling to Support Claims Of w.
h. Mealy.

The charges filed yesterday by Sena-
tor Nelson of Minnesota in behalf of Will
liam H. Mealy, against Powell Clayton,
United States Ambassador to Mexico, con-
stitute the first step in serious hght
that is to be made against Mr.. Clayton s
continuance in the Mexican mission.
Several Senators have become interested
.n Mr.. Mealy's case, and il is evident that
the charges laid before the State Depart
ment by Senator Nielsen are to be backed
up by representations frcm number of
his colleagues. The matter has been
brought to the attention of President
Roosevelt, and was discussed at the Cab
inet meeting yesterday.
The Original Charge.
Mr. Mealy began making allegations
against Mr. Clayton several months ago,
and to these the Ambassador has made
replies to the State Department The
original charge was that Mr.. Clayton had
misrepresented the condition of the jails at
Monterey and Ciudad Porfrio Diax, Mex
eco, in which Mr.. Mealy had been confined.
Reports made to the department by Con-
Vice Consul General Carroll at Monterey,
that the prisons at these places during
Mr. Mealy's confinement in them were
filthy and unsanitary, were denied by MIR.
Clayton On the basis of reports made to
him by Philip NJ. Hoefele, Third Secretary
of the United States Embassy, in the City
of Mexico. In view of the Ambassadors
statements on this subject, the State De-
partment gave no encouragement to the
charges of Mr.. Mealy.
A new allegation, however, is contained
in the statement filed Thursday by Sena-
tor Nelson. This is that Ambassador
Clayton is director and stockholder in
the Carmen Mining Company a Mexican
corporation. 1t is intimated that through
his interest in this concern, Mr.. Clayton
was unwilling to support the claims of
Mr.. Mealy, as thereby he might incur the
enmity of some high officials of the Mexi-
can Government, and cause them to use
their influence to the detrirnent of the
Carmen Company.
An Unwritten Law.
There is no regulation of the diplomatic
service or law of Congress prohibiting an
Ambassador or other person in the diplo
matte serrice of the United States from
holding an interest in any business organ
ization in the country TO which he is ac-
credited. But it is admitted at the State
Department that there is an unwritten
law to that effect. The consular regu-
lations prohibit any United States con-
eular officer receiving a salary of more
than 1000 year from engaging in busi-
ness at foreign post where he is sta
toned, and it has been generally con-
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MR.. HANNA, GREAT MEDIATOR
BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR.

this country are the men VINO Wofkeu
first at the puddle, the furnace. and the
roll There stands the aristocracy of
labor, not the aristocracy Of blood, but
the aristocracy of brains and brawn.
Fair Treatment for All.
'iIf the development of wealth is to
make US strong in this country We should
see to it that all who contribute to the
development of this wealth have fair and
equal consideration. The men who work
with their hands are as much part of
this wealth as the men who work with
their brains. and they are entitled to
share of all the good that comes from it.
And now / want to say a word TO you
about the Civic Federation. 1t is a new
born organization, but it is not a new
born subject. 1t is elimination of that
concrete thought which has led thought
full and reasonable men to consider some
thing outside of their own selfish inter
ests. No man loyal to his country will
shut his eyes to the Importance of this
thing.
1.-THE man Of little education and small
opportunities appeals to you to lift him
up. and not by word or act to keep him
down. Therein lies the social elevation
of the country. The Federation has
started in with the idea that there shall
be no class; no one man better than an
other.
Good Work of the Press.
at is the object of the Federation to
appeal to the American people who en-
pioy labor, the great captains of industry,
TO join in this movement and when they
do this it is the beginning of things never
thought Of or dreamed of before. To
those few who are laboring in this vine
yard now there comes nothing but praise
and commentator from every part of the
country.
II want to take this opportunity, too.
to thank the great press of the country
for It's assistance in bringing capital and
labor together and making them sit face
TO face and heart to heart. When men sit
down together in this way to consider
things in a spirit OF fairness there can be
no such word as faik Our membership
should only be limited by. the population
of the United States and The purpose for.
which the Federation is laboring should
receive the support of the people of the
whole country.
And / want TO tell you that when cap
ital and labor can thus meet face TO face
and heart to heart, we have only begun
to lay the foundation OF our future great
ness"
AS an earnest of his sincerity, Mr.
Hanna was the active agent, only the
other day, in bringing about a settlement
of one of the bitterest strikes that New
York has known. To be sure it affected
only one publication; but il had dragged
along for two years. In the courts and
out of them the feeling had become in
expressibly rancorous. Scores of efforts
TO effect settlement were made, and
all were failures until Mr.. Hanna took the
matter in hand.
Secrets of His Success.
1t is the thoroughnass of the man, his
tireless energy, his fair mindedness, his
complete grasp of a situation, his con-
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City Solicitor Victim of Grip.

City Solicitor A. B. Duvall has been
confined to his home since Tuesday by
severe attack of grip. He is fast re-
covering, however, and it is expected
will be able to return to duty on Mon
day next.
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MRS. WADE H. ATKINSON DEAD
Wife of Well-Known Physician Sue
cumbs to Typhoid Fever.


Mrs. Wade H. Atkinson, wife Of DR.. At
kinson, of sos Twelfth Street northwest.
died at her residence yesterday of ty
phoid fever. Mrs. Atkinson was stricken
three weeks ago. Funeral services will
be held Monday at l o'clock at the resi-
dence. Interment in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
Mrs. Atkinson was Miss May Holloway.
formerly Of st. Louis. Mo-, but for many
years resident of Washington. She
married DR.. Atkinson about five years
ago in this city. She leaves one child.
AS soon as Mrs. Atkinson was ricken
DR.. Atkinson gave up temporarily his
large practice in this city. He devoted
his entire time and skill to mis- wife. In
this he had the assistance of other promi-
nent physicians. but no material rally
answered their united efforts
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WOLsELEY'S AFRICAN TRIP.
Stated 1t Is Merely for Benefit of His
Health.

LONDON, March 1i.-Field Marshal
Lord Wolseley, former commander-in-
chief of the forces, and Colonel Thorney-
croft will sail for South Africa tomorrow.
1t is stated that Lord Wolseley is max
ing the trip merely for pleasure and the
benefit of his health