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The Washington times., 1903-05-03

Columbia, $500 to 500; Bernice ].
Conner, District of Columbia, $500
to $500; May C. Devereaux, District
of Columbia $500 to s700; Louise A.
Kohl. District of Columbia, $500 to 500;
Alice NJ. Lanahan. District of Columbia,
$500 to $500; Nettie NJ. Tolson, District
of Columbia, $500 to 800; Caroline Bra
den, New York, $500 to $780, Sarah v.
Wheeler, District of Columbia. $500 to
500; Emma J. Greenwich, District of
Columbia, 5000 to 500; May A. Ball, Dis
trict of Columbia. 1850 to $500.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Depart
ment-Edgar G. Wright, Indiana, $1,000
to $1,4O0; Sheridan Ferree, District of
Columbia, 81 900 TO $1,000; Aubrey c.
Richmond, Mississippi, 5000 to 81, 000
Office of the Supervising Architects.
F. Gardner, Massachusetts, $1,4OO to
81. 600; Henry S. Roome, New York
81 900 to 81 200; Mary C. Cavanaugh, Dis
trict of Columbia, 5000 to $1,000 Arthur
c. Fowle, District of Columbia, 81 900 20
$1,000; Olive Conger, Iowa. $1,000 10
81, 200; Frank H. Baltimore, Iowa, 81 600
to 81 200
ment-Mrs. Alice E. White, Illinois,
$1,000 to $1,000: Mrs. Lizzie A. Gavin,
Indiana, $500 to 81 GOO: Mrs. Helen S.
Reed, District of Columbia, 1920 TO $40;
Margaret Spillane, New York, $3.50 to
$720; May J. Snowden, New Jersey, $3.50
to $720; Josie Mann, New York, $720 TO
5000; Theresa Huneke, Virginia. $500 to
$720; Mary Kearney, District of Colum-
| bia. $500 TO $3.50; Lillian ]. Mungen, Dis
tTict of Columbia, $500 to $500.
ONCE of Auditor for the State and
! other departments-Bela W. Beebe.
Wisconsin, $1,000 to $1,4OO; Thomas P.
Guyton, Mississippi, $1,000 to $1,000; D.
Irving Cox. District of Columbia, $500 to
81. 600
Office of Internal Revenue-Fannie B.
Bates. District of Columbia, $500 to $500.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. L. Cha
comini, California, 800 per month to
$110 ger month.
Bureau of Statistics-Orlyn S. Phillips,
Nebraska. $500 to 81, 600
! Office of the Lighthouse Board-Charles
", Best, Kansas, $500 to $500.
| Office OF the Register of the Treasury
! Mrs. T. Korhammer, District of Co
/ New Hampshire, $3.50 to 1920; Fannie l..
Godfrey, New Jersey, $500 to s72O; Mary
! Keeling. Tennessee, $500 to 1920; Pearl
Z. Harrison, Arkansas, $500 to S720;
! Maude z. Smith. Virginia, $500 to $3.50.
| Office of Comptroller of the Currency
| Willis B. Speare, Connecticut. $500 to
$500.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE FOR
CIVIL SERVICE BUREAU
Long Waiting Rewarded by Decent
Service for Fifteen Desks.

After many delays and fluctuations
the Civil Service Commission is at last
to have telephone exchange which VIII
connect the rooms in the building d.
rectly with the outside world. The
present arrangement necessitates an Of
fetal leaving his room and going TO the
public reception room to answer tele-
phone calls, which has caused much an
noyance and great loss OF time, in adj
dition to publishing Office secrets
Fifteen phones will be included in the
exchange. and when IL is installed off,
Gals will be able to talk directly from
their desks to people in other buildings.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03

liam r. McClosky, a Feldvoss. H. L.
Rust, Charles Specht. Albert Schulteis.
John Brick. John Quinn, Charles II.
Baumann, c. Mades. H. G. Mattern,
James F. Shea. Robert W. Dutton. A. NJ.
McLachlen. John W. Schaefer. Col. VIII
liam H. Owen. Lee D. Latimer. J. H
Gordon, John p. Hinkel, Sam Cross, Ar
thur f. Gasch. Simon Wolf. j NJ. Riemer,
Charles Graf, James L. Owen. W. II.
Walker. George ". Brown. G. NJ. Hen
derson, William r. BealI. d. z. Shoe
maker. Herbert y Gill, William L. Lam
ming. E. K Fox. S Thomas Brown,
Charles Gersdorf. John p. Haas, Luther
L. Apple. S. Brashears, jr., ]. ". Allen,
Charles A. Jones, Mr.. Phi1brook, Joseph
SaIoman, Albert Shubert. Henry Gross,
Frank r. Underwood, c. Martin Brand,
Louis Behrens, Henry E Trippe. a.
Gassman, A. z. Walker, Samuel S. Lutz.
William D. Elicit, Philip c. Hyam. jr..
Harry L. Boteler, J. c. Sheehy, Adam
Gaddis, H NJ Ellis, Robert H. Hazard.
W. NJ. Hoffman, William j. Flather. a.
K Paris, c. F. Nesbit, E. E. Ramey.
Upton II. Ridenour. jr, Charles M-swil-
son, ]. c. Howell. Dr. c. H. Beatty,
Charles Schaefer, George Ryneal, jr
E. L. White, W. H Hoeke, Henry G.
Stewart, Peter Vierbucher, A. +. Fox,
Frank P. Reside, John Edison, jr..
Frank H. Ridgway, John Mckee. C. S.
Bradley, J. NJ. Belt, James NJ Green.
Odell S. Smith, Charles z. Hood, l. o.
DeLashmutt, J. c. Ergood, James f.
Hood, r. a Walker, J. E. Lewis, Brain
ard H. Warner, G. Spransy. II.
Orth, W. A. Brown, Judge Job
Barnard George r. Repetti.
w. K. Ellis, Frank Hume, Frank J.
Lewis. Minor Bolts. Louis r. Peak. AL
bert T. Coumbe, Albert F. Marsh, Law
renee o. Mallory, Oscar L. Johnson, DR..
Lewis H Johnson, r. Harry Johnson,
William A. H. Church, Horace +. Clark,
Theodore J. Mayer, Ralph L. Gait, R. z.
Bradley, c. w. Howard, Henry Wells.
II. H. Bergman, w. d. Quinter, Edward
Seton, John Henderson, jr.; A. y. Ham
ilton, William A Gordon
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
MANY ORGANIZATIONS TO
MEET IN ATLANTIC CITY
SeashOre Resort Entertain
ing Big Crowds.
CONVENTIONS ARE PLANNED
Improvements Being Made at All of
the Leading Hotels-,World's Rec
ord for Automobiles.

ATLANTIC CITY, May "A May pole
dance was given for the visiting chill
dren in the ballroom of the Steel Pier
on Thursday evening, which was largely
attended. A banquet was given at the
Rudolf on Wednesday evening by the
Atlantic City Alumni Association OF the
high school. \ dance followed in the
music room, the guests of the hotel par
ticipating.
Preparations are making by the Audi
torium Pier management to open the
summer theatrical season on June /.
The original company of THE Silver
Slipper" will appear
Atlantic City promises to be more
popular than ever before as a meeting
place for conventions of various kinds.
OF the conventions thus far booked for
this resort many will gather at the big
Hotel Rudolf Among the conventions
booked at the Rudolf is that of the
American League of Press Clubs. which
will be held next June.
Proprietor Charles R. Myers and Man
ager William E. Cochran are already
making active preparations for the re-
ception and entertainment of the per
sons who will attend this gathering The
Hotel Rudolf has been called, because
of the many conventions that have been
held within it's walls, The Convention
Hotel of Atlantic City" In all over
fifty conventions will meet this summer
at the Hotel Rudolf The large CON
ventlon hall has already become a noted
feature of the hotel.
house section will undoubtedly follow
the announcement of the plans of the
Land and Harbor Development Company,
of which Mayor Franklin P, Stoy is pres
ident and Capt L. f. Cone, of PhiladeI-
phia, is vice president. The company
has purchased for 500, GOO over 900 feet
CT water front on either side of Clam
Creek. including the piece of ground
known as Bozarth Tract. Sites will be
made for lighthouses.
The worlds record for speed between
Camden and Atlantic City was broken
again last Saturday. The trial was made
over the Atlantic City division of the
headlng Railway by a party of promi-
nenJ railroad officers The distance was
covered in forty-two minutes
IA annual State encampment of the
Grs q Army of the Republic will be held
on 4IouAg's Pier. on June II and r.
Charles B. Prettyman. of Philadelphia
has bought the Hotel Victoria property,
at the ocean end OF South Carolina Ave
nue.. for 100000. On this site modern
hotel will be erected. Hotel property
al the corner of Pacific and Mississippi
Avenues, formerly owned by the late
Squire McMullen. of Philadelphia, has
been leased by Robert Delaney The
house has undergone thorough renova-
ton. and will in the future be known as
the Hotel Delaney. A new hotel, the
American. on New York Avenue near
the boardwalk, is near completion J.
Rosenblatt, local capitalist, will man
age 1T. The Brixton Cafe, an adjunct OF
the Hotel Brixton, at the boardwalk end
of Ocean Avenue. was formally opened
on Wednesday evening Mrs. Caroline
Genet is the proprietor, and has for her
manager, James Sugrue.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
PHI DELTA PHI DEGREES
WORKED ON THE STREET
Peace Disturbed by Mysteries of the
Initiation.

A quartet of sturdy youths were mi
tiated into the mysterious rites of the
Phi Delta Phi fraternity of Columbian
University Law School last night be-
tween the hours of and TO- and Incl
dentaIIy made things lively for the
peaceful residents in the northwest sec
ton of the city.
The prospective members were blind
folded robed in long flowing gowns of
brilliant colors, and were led creeping
like snails unwillingly to school" by a
dozen or so fuIl-fedged society men.
At least they were led for several
yards or so. Then they would be po-
litely requested to climb a lamp post,
scale a spiked fence or walk a water
spout.
These proved to be difficult stunts.
The lamp posts, the fences and the
spouts were too slippery, or the boys
were not good acrobats. But this did
not discourage the degree team. They
then marched the performers into a drug
store on the corner of Vermont Ave-
nue. and H Street and made them bark
so very much like dogs that the cats
in the region bristled up and showed
fight.
Interested spectators crowded around.
Girls at the soda fountain laughed
deep in their glasses. The proprietor
begged the Greek letter men to quit his
shop, but intimated that there would
be something doing" If they would not.
This had an electric effect. In a few
minutes the will-be and already-are Phi
Delta Phi youths were making for the
university.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03

Washington fire insurance men had
their annual outing at Marshall Hall
yesterday afternoon. More than 200
members of the District Board of Fire
alester for Marshall Hall at 49, and
enjoyed the sixteenth annual shad din
ner and athletic carnival arranged by
committee headed by Charles F. Nesbit.
Commissioner H. B. F. Mcfarland,
Judge Job Barnard. of the District Su-
preme Court, and many other prominent
District men were the guests of the
board.
A buffet luncheon was served to the
party on the boat. and the shad din
ner was reserved until 4:s0. when the
insurance men had whetted their appe-
tites by throwing quoits. playing ball,
bowling, and engaging in other sports.
Charles r. Nesbit presided at the din
ner, and made brief address, in which
he spoke of the organization of the
board, thirty years ago, under the presi
suddenly last month.
Present for Mr.. Wells.
Mr. Nesbit presented a handsome
bronze vase to Henry Wells. the retiring
president of the board, and Mr.. Wells
made brief address OF thanks.
Sam Cross sang 1.-The Sword of Bunker
HILL Charles Roberts sang In the
Dungeon Deep and I'm the Good Old
Summer Time" and w. Riley Decide
sang Nancy Lee" The entire COM
pany Joined in singing the choruses of
these songs.
c. Martin Brand. OF the committee on
athletic contests, announced that L. L.
Apple was the winner of the first prize,
an umbrella, offered in the QUOT throw
ing contest, and the second prize,
stickpin, was awarded to j. ii. Riemer.
Roll of the Excursionists.
The excursion returned to the city at
s O'Clock. Those in the party We're:
Charles w Steers. Edward D. Wag-
staff, w. A. McGlannan, G. w. Lin
kins, Charles Linkins. W H SomerVille,
George NJ. Emmerich, William H. Harri-
son, E. n. Waters, W. c. Duvall, H. B.
f. Macfarland, W. Riley Decide, Walter
r. Wilcox, ]. W. Burket, Frank Claudy,
Charles F. Roberts, Jacob J. Appich,
William S. Mccarthy, H. K Simpson, NJ.
F. Muller, o. L. WoIfstein, William K
Hill. o. McCabe, George F. Hane.
George Wright, H. w. Coffin, E. Me
Jones. Edward ". Spalding, NJ. P. Evans,
E. Quincy Smith, Col R. c. Rutherford,
W. H. West. W. g. Hoge. Edward F.
Riggs, H. Leroy Mark. John L. Newbold.
Thomas Bradley. w. Taylor Birch,
james F. Oyster, H T. Jones, Jay Brown,
Louis H Stabler. Charles c. Lacy,
Clarence Barnard, Capt Chester Hard
ing, John Ardeeser, Paul F. Grove, H. H.
Darneille, B. F. Saul, Maj. R. C. Parker.
DR.. w. P. Young. E. G. Davis, A. K. Par
ris, jr., W. E. Hilton. NJ. H Shea. VIII
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
OUARAN MINE RAISED ON
-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
Secretary Wilson Suspends Restric-
tons Imposed on Vermont Cattle.

The Secretary of Agriculture issued
an order yesterday raising the quarau-
tine in Vermont upon cattle. sheep and
swine, imposed on account of the foot
and-mouth disease. Fourteen townships
in the counties OF Windsor and Wind
ham are excepted 1t is further an
nounced that Dr. Merriam lines, an in
spector of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try, will be stationed at Chester. in
that State, TO inspect cattle and issue
permits for removal
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
DENMAN THOMPSON
CANCELS ALL DATES

CLAREMONT. N. H, May 2-Denman
Thompson. improved, left Claremont for
his home at West Swanzey, n. H. All
engagements for the "Old Homestead
company are cancelled, including Man
haitian. four weeks, and Brooklyn, two,
which were 10 begin on Monday.
The company departed for Keene,
where Mr.. Thompson's understudy will
perform his part of the benefit of the
Keene City Hospital.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
RECEPTION TO MRS. FAIRBANKS

Miss Bangs and Miss Whiten will give
a reception to Mrs. Fairbanks and the
members Of the national board of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
on Tuesday. May 8. Daughters in the
District, residents and visitors alike.
are invited. Miss E. B. Johnston and
Mrs. Hershell-Mayne will assist the
hostessees.
The Washington times., 1903-05-03
READINGS FOR THE BLIND.

Following is the program for this week
in the reading room for the blind in
the Library of Congress: Monday, Ella
Holford; Tuesday, Mrs. McLennan; We'd
nesday, piano recital, Luther Conrad;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mrs.
May Whiting Emerson. The readings
are from 2:3O 10 $3.50 p. m.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
WHEN MINNA DID THE ICING
swedish Servant Produced Some thing
Novel in the Way of n Dish
for Dessert,

1t was at the Mothers meeting, and
as they were discussing that question
of never-failing. interest, the servant
girl problem, tale of woe followed tale
of woe in sorrowful procession. relates
the New York Times.
You ladies of Brooklyn do certain.
ly seem to have a great deal of
trouble said the visitor from North
Dakota. "but, as my young son aptly,
though slangily, puts it, there are
Others
''In my section of the country the
help comes mostly from the Swedes, of
whom there are large settlements
scattered all over the state. They
make good servants, too, after they
are trained, but in the training-ah,
there's the rub!' A short time ago !
had occasion to engage a cook. Not
for love or money could l find what
l wanted, SO finally was forced to go
to one of the Swedish villages. found
girl who was just over her sister
told me, but who, she also assured me.
would be quick to learn. So back to
town l went with my greenhorn,
groaning inwardly at what was before
me. But her sister had said truly
Minpa was quick to learn. Her great
difficulty was the language-the
idioms of it, 1 should say-and many
and funny were the mistakes she made
on that account.
"One day when was expecting com.
pany to dinner, she specially distin.
guished herself. In giving directions
l told her to make a loaf of sponge
cake. and to ice it in her best manner.
'Oh, yes, she could do that, and let
me add, she did. 4 need not worry
about anything she told me, smiling
away like the Cheshire cat.
'The dinner was perfect success,
so much so that l was Dragging to my
envious neighbors of the treasure l
had found in my greenhorn cook.
when Minna brought in the des-
sert, the cake did look simply splendid,
and Minna triumphant; but as she set
1t before me turned cold with horror,
for that girl had taken me most liter.
ally and had iced the cake with the
most immaculate miniature snowdrift
she had been able to scrape together in
the back ward"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
Niagara Falls Excursi ms.
Low Rate Vacation Trips via Pennsyl
yania Railroad

Low Rate Vacation Trips via Pennsyl,
vania Railroad.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has Sc
lected the following dates for its popular ten.day
excursions to Niagara Falls from Washington and
Baltimore: August and 81, September and
Is, and October ard IS. On these dates the
special train will leave Washington at % a. M
Baltimore 9.G5 m, York 10 4: d. M. HARRISBURG
II 40 a. m. Millersburs 1920 p M, Sudbury
1888 p. M. Williamsport 2.3 p. M, Lock Haven
3Os p. M, Renoyo 5F m. Emporium Juncti, N
o5 p M. arriving Niagara Falls at As p. IN
Excursion tickets, good for return passage on
any regular train. exclusive OF limited express
trains, within ten days. will be sold at $40 90 from
Washington and Baltimore; 1895 from York;
$40 90 from Littlestown; $40 o. from Oxford, Pa:
80 IS from Columbia; $ SO from Harrisburg:
5000 from Winchester Va. $3.50 from Alt oona
g. 40 from Tyrone; Sc 45 from Bellefonte; SIS 10
from Ridgway; $500 from Sudbury and Wilkes
barre; 1915 from Williamsport: and at proper
tionate rates from principal points, A stop.over
will be allowed at Buffalo within limit OF ticket
returning.
The special trains OF Pullman parlor cars and
day coaches will he run with each excursion run
ming through to Niagara Falls An extra charge
will be made for parlor-car seats
An experienced Tourist agent and chaperon will
accompany each excursion.
For descriptive pamphlet. time of connecting
trains. and further information apply to nearest
ticket agent or address Geo. W. Boyd. General
Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philada
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
aPRRSONAL AND ITERARY.

- b Isl hi En- ~
Richard Henry Stoddard has given
the Authors club of New York over
$4,000 books and manuscripts, the lat
ter containing valuable autographs of
distinguished literary people.
What was the capacity of the tea
cup in DR.. Johnson's time? If, accord
ing to the statement of the lexicogra-
pher, he drank at one sitting rs cups of
tea, what fluid measure would that
many cups represent? From actual
measurement to-day, these 25 cups OF
tea are equivalent to six quarts.
The Bookman gives an interesting
table of statistics relative to the best
selling books of the last eight years
1Sy5-1902 inclusive - among which
David Harum" ranks first, with '"The
Crisis" and "Quo Vadis" as second and
third, and 1.-THE Honorable Peter Stir
ling'' bringing up in the rear as the
twenty-eighth.
Mrs. Mabel Shippie Clark Pelton,
whose first novel is called "a Tar-Heel
Baron" is Boston woman who after
flirting with journalism for time has
recently begun to write fiction. She
has lived for some time in North Caro-
lima, where the scenes of her story are
laid, and where she has a pleasant
summer home.
Not less than a dozen modern writ
paraphrase of that quatrain of the old
Persian tentmaker which Fitzgerald
rendered thus:
"a Book of Verses underneath the bough,
| A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness
oh! wilderness were Paradise now,''
| and not one-not a single one-has in
any measure approached in beauty of
expression or oriental fervor the first
rendering, in which Fitzgerald clothed
| the tentmaker's thought with living
grace and beauty.
Empress Eugene was never really
popular with the French, not even DUR
ing the first years of the second en-
pire, before she began to NEEDLE with
| affairs of state, and in many incisive
ways the Parisians heaped ridicule
upon her. A curious little pamphlet
| with text and illustrations about the
new empress was sold in Paris at the
time of her marriage. This pamphlet
was entirely complimentary and harm
less. The biting humor of it was on
the title page, which the vendors went
| about crying in the streets: "The por-
trait and virtues of the empress, all
for sous!"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
Curious Time Recorder,

A naturalist, while visiting Great
Sangir, one of those islands of the
Indian ocean, known as the Celebes,
or Spice islands, found a curious time
recorder lodged at the house of a raiah.
Two bottles were firmly dashed to-
gether and fixed in a wooden frame. A
quantity of black sand ran from one
bottle into the other in just half an
hour, and when the upper bottle was
empty the frame was reversed
Twelve short sticks, marked with
notches from one to twelve, were
hung upon string. A hook was
placed between the stick bearing the
number of notches corresponding TO
the hour last struck and the one to
be struck next. The sentry an
nounced the time by striking the hour
on large gong.-London Mail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
Night Was Her Terror.

II would cough nearly all night
long," writes Mrs. chas. Apple
gate, of Alexandria, Ind, "and
could hardly get any sleep. I had
consumption so bad that if | walk
ed IA block / would cough fright
fully and spit blood, but, when all
other medicines failed, three $l.0O
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry wholly cured me and [ gained
IS pounds. It's absoluty guaran-
teed to cure Coughs, Colds, La
Grippe, Bronchitis and all Thoat
and Lung Troubles. Price soc and
S1.00 Trial bottles free at DR..
Kinks drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
Property Transfers.

Jane Little and The Jacob Tome
Institute, transfer of properties in
Port Deposit.
John l. Buck, administrator, to
Jane Little, property of the late
Amanda Morton, at Port Deposit,
$l15, subject to ground rent.
John w. Arrants and wife to
David G. Rose, 165 acres on Black
Hill, Elk Neck, $3.50.
William S. Evans, trustee, to
Henry Gather, Gather property in
Sixth district, 1880.
George Alexander Hogans, ex-
ecutOr, to Joseph Hogans, 81 acres
near st. Augustine, $500.
Joseph Hogans and wife, of
Philadelphia, to George Alexander
Hogans, property above, $500.
Marshall A. Ragan and wife to
Harvey A. Raglan, property in the
Eighth district, 5000.
Catherine Mcgee Price, of Phila-
delphia, to Augusta w. Revelle,
one-third undivided. interest in
property at Cecilton, 800.
L. Taylor Carter and wife, of
Camden, to Edward Todd, property
at Bank, $3.50.
Noah X. Kelsey and wife to
Harvey S. Rutter, lot at Perry.
vile, $500.
Willard L. Mcdowell and others
to John A. Stebbing, property at
Port Deposit, $3.50.
Maria G. Knight and other ex-
ecutrices to Mary l.. Mitchell and
III. Arthur Mitchell, Groome prop
erty in Elkton, $7100.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-31
Brutality Tortured.

A case came to light that for
persistent and unmerciful torture
mas perhaps never been equalled
Joe Golobick, of Colusa, writes.
"For Is years | endured insuffer-
able pain from Rheumatism and
nothing relieved me though l tried
everything known. l came across
Electric Bitters and it's the great
est medicine on earth for that
trouble. A few bottles of it COM
pletely relieved and cured me. u
just as good for Liver and Kidney
troubles and general debility,
Only soc. Satisfaction guaranteed
by l.. r. Kirk, druggist.