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The Washington times., 1903-12-17
NEW BANKING FACILITIES
FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Branch of International Corporation Is
Established in Manila and Will As
sist in Money Transfers.

The system Of the international Bank
ing Corporation has been extended TO
The Philippines. A branch office has
been established az Manila, so that ac-
counts may be transferred without de-
lay from the local Office 20 the islands,
and officers OF the army proceeding TO
the Philippines are thus enabled to ar
range for their pay vouchers 10 be de-
posted at the Washington Office In order
that they may draw against them at
the Manila establishment. The com
pany has also provided for the transfer
Of troop and regimental fund accounts,
and the retransfer of the money when
the regiment or troop returns TO the
United States
The fact that the corporation IS fiscal
agent for the United States IN China
and the Philippines. and is the desig-
mated depository for the funds Of the
Government In the islands. makes 1t
possible for transactions Of this kind TO
be carried on with more rapidity than
under ordinary circumstances. The sys-
tenn has already been put into actual
use.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
ThePresident's ImpulSiVeness
Misapprehensions Industriously En-
couraged on This Point.

Misapprehensions Industriously En-
couraged on This Point.
More or less has been said, especial
ly in connection with this Panama
business, about the impulsiveness of
President Roosevelt. 1t is time that
this alleged impulsiveness should be
examined in connection with the facts.
1t is one thing to be deliberate and
another to be irresolute; one thing to
be impulsive and another to be ready
fol action. Some men get a great
reputation for cautiousness because
they affect to ask the advice of others,
and wait for approval of their con-
duct, while all the time their minds
are really made up. Others are re
garded as cautious because they are
iTresolute, and never do anything
until they are forced into it. Neither
Of these temperaments is altogether
desirable In a President, especially
when it comes to international affairs,
which, in the nature of things, cannot
always be thoroughly discussed IL
public before a decision is reached.
1t is unreasonable to suppose that
the necessity of decision in the
Panama case was sprung on Mr..
comes out General Bliss fat-footed
with the statement that he said moth
ing Of the kind, and that the duties
were RENTED because he believed
then, and believes now, that such re
mission was according to the law. l.
does not take a Solomon to see that
somebody has bed about this thing.
Moreover, General Bliss says in his
letter:
further testified that during the two and a
half years that / served directly under the
orders Of General Wood as military governor
Of Cuba knew Of no action Of bis that was
not consistent with the character OF an hon
orahle officer and a man Of integrity
And this is the man who has been
said by some person or persons at
present unknown to have been giving
testimony about General Wood which
would effectually blast that officers
reputationi Instead Of revealing
depths Of ignominy in General
Woods career, he has said that 81
far as ne knows, that career was
absolutely spotless. This testimony
has been so distorted and falsified by
these persons interested In blaekeniug
the character of Wood, that General
Bliss has been obliged to repeat in
Ilain English over his own signature
what he did actually say.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
PACKERS NOW CONGEDE
DEMANDS OF COOPERS
General Strike in Chicago Stock Yards
Avoided by the Graceful Yielding
of Employers.

CHICAGO. Dec. ITO avoid a gen
eral strike of the 5000 organized work.
ers at the Union Stock Yards. the pack
er8 have conceded many of the de-
mands Of the coopers. and paved the
way for a peaceable adjustment of the
controversy at a conference to be held
this afternoon. Had the packers been
obdurate the unions were prepared to
walk out Friday morning.
The coopers struck two weeks ago be-
cause the firms refused to grant them
% cents day increase in wages. The
terms discussed were. all coopers TO re-
ceive wage increase Of IS cents a day.
making a minimum wage OF S2-65; no
boys to be employed; no discrimination
against strikers: all men discharged for
refusing to take strikers places to be
reinstated
The coopers are ready to accept these
terms IL the firms will aEreo to reinstate
the Observation-Disclosures who walked out
with the men. This they are expected
TO do.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
The Slums of Washington.
Mr.. Riis Makes Some Surprising State
ments Regarding Them.

The visits Of Jacob Riis to the al
leys and slum districts of Washing.
ton, and his resultant lecture, may
cause some dismay and surprise
among the good people of the city,
but, if anything, his statements Of the
Indebtedness Of these conditions are
inside the truth. The questioning of
these statements viii make some of
the local workers smile sardonically
They have been trying for years TO
impress upon the well-to-do people of
the Capital these same facts, but
when a New York lecturer comes here
and tells us that we have slums which
would disgrace New York it seems
different.
Among the statistics given by Mr..
R;is is that regarding infant NOR
tality among the colored people. He
says that out of every thousand col
ored children born, 457 die before
they are a year old. This mortality is
equaled and even surpassed In some
other Southern cities, and is one of
the effects Of the herding of negroes
in unhealthy dwellings in alleys. The
mere death Of these children, however,
is not the most sinister fact in the case.
So large a death rate inevitably means
that very large proportion of those
who grow up are defective In some
way, predispOsed to consumption,
fever, and contagious diseases, and
other ailments which result from
lowered vitality 1t probably costs
the State more to take care of human
beings born with a predisposition 10
disease, and the predispositiOn to weak
morals which is apt to accompany it.
than it would to reduce the death rate
BY giving them decent dwellings. II
is not true, as some people say
p!uming themselves on a scientific
point of view, that such action mere
Is preserves the unfit and interferes
with natural selection. II prevents
the production Of so many of the un-
fit In proportion TO the whole mum
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Chateau Neuilly Sale.

The sale which has just taken place
at Paris OF the remnants OF the chateau
of Neuilly means the vanishing Of an
other landmark and the final disappear
ance OF a building. which has
played an important role In the
history Of France. 1t was built
about 1740 by that Cove1t d'Argen-
son who was minister of war in the
reign of Louis XIV. and the patron OF
Voltaire and OF Rousseau. both o. whom
dedicated some Of their best works 10
him Situated within four miles OF the
center Of Paris. II was a most con-
venient residence, and during a part OF
the empire IL was occupied by the great
statesman, Talleyrand. who was sue
ceeded there by Napoleon 5 brother-in-
law, Joachim Murat, ex-stable boy and
King Of Naples AfterWard Napoleon
beautiful sister, Pauline Borghese. liv ed
there. and Immediately after the restor-
alton II was presented by KING Louis
XVIII TO his cousin, that Louis Philippe.
Duke of Orleans. who, during the Gays
OF his American exile, had taught school
in this country.
1t was there that re duke lived in af-
fected retirement, and 1t was CNsare too.
that most OF his children we're Z orn- IN
1880. when the July resolution overthrow
King Charles X and drove him, as well
as his son, the Duke OF AngOuleme, and
his grandson the infant COmIe de-
Chambord. in whose favor he had abdi-
Gated, out OF the country, the lnsurgenl
leaders dispatched a mission consist
ing of Theirs and AIRY Schefer to Neu-
lily, to invite the Duke OF Orleans TO as
that, unlike King Charles \. he would
rule as a constitutional sovereign with
a strict regard for his constitutional
obligations and restrictions
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Byrantine chanel Remains.

Now that these also have been sold,
and are being repySyed for more villas.
nothing will rem ain in this part OF
Paris 10 recall the connection OF the
House OF Orleans with Neuilly except
she Byzantine chapel Of St Ferdinand.
erected by King Louis Philippe
and Queen Marie Amelie on Ihe
spot where their eldest son. Ferdinand.
Duke OF Orleans. father OF the Count
OF Paris, and grandfather of the pres
ent rOyalist pretender to the French
throne, was killed while attempting 10
alighI from his carriage. the horses Of
which had bOlted- He was a man OF
such brilliant promise. and SO wen Lk-
ed throughout the length and breadth
serted that had he lived. his personal
popularity would have averted the re-
voiutioE Of 1S4S.
He was at one moment about 10 marry
Princess Mathilde BOnaparte, who is
now slowly dying at Paris. He was IN
love with her. and Theirs, who was his
fathers principal pOlitic-sl adviser did
tn alliance. realizing that 4 would
diminish the danger OF BOnApartist con-
splracy, and the peril Of an lmperlaist
restoration But Queen Marie Ameiie
and Nine Adelaide and the other MEM
bers OF the Orleans family. would not
hear OF II. For although they admitted
that Mathflde was royal through her
temberg. they caald not swallow her
father. Jerome Bonaparte. ex-King Of
WeStphalla. youngest brother OF the
great Napoleon. and whose first wife
had been Elizabeth Patterson, OF Ba1ti-
more.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17

Der. 1t prevents normal beings from
developing disease. 1t is not only
necessary to deeency and morality,
but to the general health.
Another point made by Mr.. Riis is
that in the homes in which most of
the white people of Washington have
their laundry done, and from which
they draw their domestic servants,
water is hard to come by. Willow
Tree Alley, it is said, has some four
thousand population, and no hydrants
or other water supply. The people
have to 90 two blocks for their water.
Then the people who live in houses
with private baths and hot and cold
water turn up their noses at the great
unwashed.
It is about time that something
was done about this condition of
things, and if Jacob Riis, with his
overfowing abundance of energy, his
uncompromising truthfulness, and his
great big heart, can take held of the
problem and stir up those who have
the power to set things strGight, every
right-thinking person in Washington
ought gladly to cooperate In the
movement.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
That Silver Service.
A Malicious Misrepresentation Exposed
by General Bliss.

Certain phases of the investigation
Of General Woods career by the SEN
ate Committee on Military Affairs
are nothing less than unique. A silver
service which was sent to General
Wood while he was in Havana threat
ened to assume the importance which
was at one time given to Admiral
Dewey's house. 1t was charged that
General Bliss refused to remit the
duties on this service until he was
personally ordered by General Wood
to remit them, and that he had so
testified before the committee. Now
Roosevelt and Secretary Hay as sud-
denly as it was on the country. They
could not have been In possession of
the facts in the case as long as they
undoubtedly were without having In
mind some course of action which
they intended to adopt in case of GER
tain developments. The develop
ments came with suddenness unlock
ed for by the public, and Mr. Roose-
welt did what seemed to him right.
Had he waited to ask the advice of
everybody who wanted to be con-
suited France would, IN all proba-
bslity, have had her warships in the
Caribbean by this time, and the Mon
roe Doctrine would have been snarled
W worse than it ever was in all its
history. These probabilities ere
made evident by Assistant Secretary
Lco1nis' recent speech.
The truth of the matter is, as the
public ought by this time to under
stand, that President Roosevelt, while
not a man to hesitate, bubble, or re-
treat when his mind is once made up,
takes considerably longer to make 1t
mp than some Of his critics do. All
they need to know, apparently, is
stkat he has done a thing, and they i'm
mediately see that he should have
done exactly the opposite.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Exemption From Taxation.
Northeast Citizens Association Protests
Against Such Exemption.


At a recent meeting the Northeast
Washington Citizens Association de-
clared its opposition to the present
law exempting from taxation the
property Of all institutions In the Dis
trict processing a charitable, educa-
tional, or religious purpose. A reso-
tuition was adopted requesting the Tax
Assessor to furnish list, with values,
of all properties exempted from taxa
ton for such reasons.
In the annual report of the Tax AS
SCISSOR Of the District, the following
paragraphs occur:
Is 1t becomes my duty TO again direct attention
70 provisions Of law relating 10 educational
charitable, and ecclesiastical establishments. in
creasing the volume Of non-taxable property 70
an alarming extent Some modification Of the
law in such cases IS mperatiYely demanded
The last estimated revenues from taxable prop
erty was about AGO per cent: exempt property
such rs educational, churches charitable insti-
tutions etc, 2.05 per cent; District Of Columbia
o97 per cent, and United States, 5IsO per cent
The Assessor might have gone
further. The total realty valuation in
the District IS something over S145,-
CGO,000, 2.65 per cent Of winch ap-
proximates $11, 100000. The tax rep
resented is about s177, 900 per annum,
which, if collected, would have TO be
doubled by the United States. Thus
the animal loss to the District through
the exemption of these institutions IS
over $354,0OO. In connection with
this it may be noted that some of the
pews in local churches are selling in
open market for 81 900 each.
Last week Commissioner West ap-
proved an order exempting from tax
alton the property of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, which
really seems ike an extreme measure.
Is this property exempted because the
association has declared war on intox-
ioating hquors2 In that case every
organization or individual engaged il
ct attack on any vice should be ex-
oused from helping pay the expenses
OF the local government, a privilege
which would certainly be shared by
Carrie Nation if she happened TO own
any property What would Commits
sicner West do if Mrs. Nation and
Elijah Dowie should happen 10 take
q fancy to settle in the District If
this action is a precedent all that any
company viii have to do to get rid Of
financial obligations toward the Dis
llict will be to put into It's articles Of
Incorporation a clause denouncing
cocktails, card-playing, and the works
sf Ingerson. The proverb, Gas sure as
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
AMERICAN OFFERS $25O,GOO
FOR PARADISE LOST"
Manuscript of MiltOn's Poem May Be
Sold at Auction.

LONDON. Dec. I7.-There is much
discussion as to @be probable fate OF the
original manuscript of the first book
OF Paradise Los,," dictated by Milton
to an unknown amanuensis, which the
SOthebys are commissioned to sell at
auction in March. 1904. unless it is pre-
viously sold pzivately.
Efforts are being made to keep it in
England, it being feared that it may
follow numerous historical treasures 10
the United States.
The Daily Express announces that
a New Yorker residing in London has
offered $4,000 for the manuscript
The authorities OF the British Mu-
scum are trying to induce the govern
ment 10 make a grant TO purchase IL,
the museum not having the money 70
complete With millionaire collectors.
Milton sold Paradise Lost" TO Sam
uel Simmons, publisher. He received s5
down and a promise OF two more pay
ments of e5 each Il two editions were
sold
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
FRlARS AGREE To SELL
LANDS FOR $7,25O,OOO
Bargain Awaits Only the Approval of
the War Department.

Governor Taft has finally reached an
agreement with the friars as to the
price to be paid for their lands in the
Philippines The sum agreed upon fs
s., $4,000 Pope Plus is said TO have
agreed to transfer at this price. and
only the approval of the War Depart
ment is necessary to complete the ne
gotiatiOns.
The friars originally asked Sl5. ZOO. 900
Tor their lands 10000 acres in all. COM
prising all the land OF the friars with
the exception of about 1900 acres.
The first offer Governor Taft made for
the property was S6.OOO.C0O.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Communications From
Readers of The Times
injustice to Automobiles.

To the Editor Of The Washington Times
While admitting that the faults and
ratings Of the man or woman in the au-
tomobile are as countless as the sands
OF the sea, it has occurred TO the writer
that the amateur or professional chauf-
feur is occasionally the victim of injus-
tice at the hands of the bicycle police
men, and 1t is in criticism OF the bicycle
police that I ask to be given a hearing
through the medium OF your valuable
paper.
There is a limit of speed within which
the automobiles must run in the Dis
trict. the penalty for exceeding which
Is a fine. The bicycle police have spe-
cial instructions to look out for chauf-
feurs violating the legal rate Of speed
and to arrest them when they are going
too fast. This is as II should be. but
there are times when the police abuse
their authority. For example. we viii
take case ike this: A policeman sees
an automobile pass, which IS being run
faster than the law allows. he starts
after IT, We viii assume that the au-
tomobne has a hundred yards start OF
the policeman He rides after IT and
overtakes it in two hundred yards. He
stops the chauffeur. Then he looks
at the cyclometer on the front wheel of
his bicycle. and takes the rate OF speed
he has been travelling during the chase.
The chauffeur Is taken TO the station
house and the officer sets against him
the record of his cyclometer as the rate
Of speed at which the automobile has
Travelled.
Obviously this is wrong. The police
man has had to travel nearly twice as
fast as the automobile, and yet the
chauffeur is charged with the rate os
speed made by the bicycle as shown by
it's cyclometer 1t seems to me that
this rule is an unfair one, and puts toe
much power in the hands of the police.
CHAUFFEUR.
Washington Dec Is
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Points for Major Bean.
To The Editor Of The washington Times:

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
1 read in this evenings Times of
Major Bean, Of the Department Of the
Missouri. furnishing meals for sc. Be-
low is an example of mot full'' dinner
pail 1 carried 60 work with me today:
currant bun. 1c; 2 sausages, 11zc; 1
bottle of coffee. 1c: 4 slices of bread and
butter. &c; apple &c; egg. PIC. Total.
&c. Not very large meal for a very
small working man A. z.
Washington, Dec Is.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
WATER is REGEDING
IN THE SEA OF AzOF
Wind Blows Drifts of Sand Into Streets
Of Taganrog.

ST PETERSBURG. Dec. IA dis
patch from Taganrog. seaport town
in the government of Yekaterinoslav
says the Sea Of Azof has receded in
the past five days. and the bed of the
sea is visible for miles. The wind Is
raising clouds OF sand which are COW
cring the town.
The factories IN the town and the
shipping In the ha-bor are seriously in
terfered with.
The Sea of Azof IS connected with the
Black Sea by the Strait OF Yenilxale and
Is about 200 miles long and eighty miles
wide. 1t abounds with fish. The ex-
treme western part is called the Putrid
Sea, and for most of the year is little
better than a quagmire.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Precautions.

To the Editor of The Washington Times:
The skating season is here again, and
hundreds of washingtonians viii soon
be found on ponds and streams. Would
IL not be well to make a special effort
to prevent the repetition Of the accident
on the tidal basin last year which re-
suited in the death OF two young per-
sons? Policemen would Wen be spared
from many unimportant beats to look
after the lives Of skaters 7. R. Q.
Washington, Dec. 16-
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Regardless of Expense.

''There is a firm which doesn't spare any ok
pcnse in conducting its business" remarked
Straightman.
81 should say they DON'T" replied Neverpeil;h-
They have had a 50 a day after me for
week 70 collect bill owe them for S2.'-Sin-
cinnati Times-Star.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Fair Warning.

The following notice was recently found
tackled on the door Of local church:
There will be preaching in this house a
week from next Wednesday Providence permit
tin, and there win be preaching here whether
OF no on Monday following upon the subject
He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved, and he that believeth not shall be
damned at $3.50 in the afternoon Clinton
MOL Record.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
A Mos Beantiful Dream.

Wayward Henline-If had my choice, instead
NV dis panhandlin' game, I'd like ter OVID a
whisky distillery. six saloons an red auter-
mobile, an nuthin' or do but smoke cigars.
mix up in politics an live eighty years
Lowered socks-say, Her, yer wonder Wild
dat Imagination Nv yours you orter bin poet
Judge.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Poisoning, Ten Gents a Head.
The City's Reputation for Liberality
Growing Fast.
movement.

A schedule of prices for endanger-
ing life and limb is rapidly taking
shape in this "well governed District"
as this item in yesterdays report of
the proceedings in Judge Kimballs
court illustrates:
John A. storm and John Sherwood. milk deal
ers, OF I70s Thirty-second Street northwest, were
today fined $40 each in the Police Court for fur
rishing aduterated milk 10 the Industrial Home
School. The poor quality Of this milk was as
certained in the Investigation made by the
Health Office into the cases Of wholesale poison
ing, which occurred at that institution in Au-
gust last
Thus the cost is fixed at ten cents a
mead for work which the Health Office
held to have contributed to the poison
ing of some hundred helpless children.
Automobile prices range from s.
up. With the So collateral, accepted
at the police stations under assumed
nsmes, goes tire privilege Of fcrfeiting
it the next morning in Judge Kim
balls court.
The District makes no charge for
fllching money from school funds by
means of fictitious acquisitions and
false vouchers. Our authorities seem
to neglect no opportunity for estab-
fishing the reputation Of Washington
as a liberal comnnnity.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
His Favorite Poet.

Miss Beemer-who is your favorite poet Mr..
Weaver?
Weaver Cwho is addicted to versifying)-
Really. don't you know. I think it might APP
pear esotistical for me to answer that question
frankly.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17

The South American republics do not
seem to be so insulted by the fact shat
there is to be a Panama Canal as some
Of their sympathizers in this country
hoped they would be.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Unf.anant.

''Aiiss oldtown always reminds me Of r bar
gain counter.''
"whyl''
Sixteen. marked down from thirty-ave. -
Princeton Tiger.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Over Wonder!

Over the hills and far away.
To the woods beyond the swamp;
Where the hounds bay loud at dawn o day,
And the frisky coon doth romp.
New York Telegram.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Attachments ON Parade.

Celia-Your Yale cousin is such scholarly
man.
Delia-Yes. but wait till you hear my Har-
yard cousin talk football--Detroit Free Press
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
A Good Reason.

Father wonder what's the matter with Nelly
this morning She acts like one possessed.
Mother-She probably is. / noticed a new
ring on Ter finger when she came downstairs
Galveston News
The Washington times., 1903-12-17
Fine Scheme.

Ms. Homer-John, if Mrs. Neighbors gets
new sealslein sack this winter. must have one
also.
HONEYWELL. don't Worry about It, dear.
Neighbors and I formed a protective union To-
cag0 News.
The Washington times., 1903-12-17

Mr.. Hearst has come out fiat-footed
with the statement that the trusts will
be the main issue in this campaign.
Now. II President Roosevelt constitutes
himself the head Of an antitrust army
viii Mr.. Hearst have to sit on the fence
and hug that statement TO his bosom
ali alone?