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The Washington times., 1903-05-06
COURT RULES ON RIGHT OF
NEGRO TO WEAR SILK HAT

George Lomax, a negro, objected
strenuously to negroes wearing silk hats
and full dress suits In South Washing
ton Monday night, and was sent to Jail
for 210 days because of his opposition to
the fashion.
When Robert Dyson. a mulatto negro,
strutted by Lomax on II Street south
west. the latter did not like the looks
OF the beaver" and promptly knocked
it off with a half brick.
Judge Scott said a man, regardless of
his stature, nativity, color or creed had
rlght TO wear silk hat and frock
coat II he so desired, and sent George
down for $50 days for assaulting Dyson.
AS the policeman said Lomax had been
disorderly, he was given an additional
thirty days.
The Washington times., 1903-05-06
SHAD FISHERMEN LAND
A TREMENDOUS STURGEON

There is lying at the fish wharf this
morning one of the largest surgeons
ever taken in the Potomac The fish
weighs more than two hundred pounds
and is eight feet long.
Seiners captured the sturgeon in a
shad seine at Stoney Point after a hard
fight.
One of the men was injured and par
of the seine was destroyed before the
monster was safely landed.
The Washington times., 1903-05-06
MUST KEEP DOMESTIC PEACE.

Ernest King and his wife, Sarah King,
have had several disputes and domestic
brawls at their home recently, and Mrs.
King had her erring spouse at the bar
OF justice yesterday to answer TO a
charge OF threats Ernest was placed
under $500 bond to keep the peace, and
IN default of the bond he will serve
sixty days in the workhouse.
The Washington times., 1903-05-06
EMPLOYER NOT LIABLE.

in the suit of Albert Rusher against
Francis F. Smith, to recover SO, 0e9 dam
ages for personal injuries, The jury re-
turned a verdict in favor of the defend
"~-t p"sher was plasterer, employed
by Smith, and fell from q scanolding and
- vae one of his legs.
The Washington times., 1903-05-06

Frank J. Cullen, an enthusiastic local
photographer. Minnie" mother
monkey at the Zoo baby of the latter,
and animal keeper Blackburn had a row
at the Zoo a few days ago, which re-
suited in the photographer losing his
coat and his sangfroid. He, however,
obtained a photograph of the baby mon
key
With commendable enterprise the pho
tographer had decided to secure a por-
trait of the newly arrived baby. He
sought the aid of Mr. Blackburn and to-
gether they went to the home of the
little cousin of man.
The baby will be lady when she
grows up. Consequently she was imme-
diately interested in the camera, and
FASTENED to become acquainted with the
picture taker. She came to the bars Of
the cage, grinned and extended her hand
She apparently tried ito smile and look
pleasant
Not as Easy as 1t Looked.
''They told me this was going TO be
hard If this is hard" remarked the
photographer, placing his camera close
to the bars of the cage. and patting the
baby on its head. Il wonder what they
consider easy?"
The chief animal keeper was not so
sanguine, however, and it is we'll he was
not. He edged up as close to the cage as
possible and waited.
Then things began 10 happen. Minnie
had been watching the proceedings with
ominous eyes. She is an old monkey and
strong. She remembered some kind OF
devilish machinery used by another man
in her native forests of the tropics long
ago. She played with it, took a long
sea voyage and ended up in the cage
Was this something like it? she wonder
ed. What were they going to do to her
child The thought was enough.
The Pose Interrupted.
Cullen was posing the baby. '.Chee.
chez, waugh chee!' suddenly yelled
Minnie" as she hit Cullen on his ear
Cullen lodged another blow and Black
burn tried TO interfere. Minnie" how
ever, remembering her wrongs, was toe
quick. Reaching through the bars, she
seized Cullen by the hair
Vince, hee. heel" she cried, as her
grip slipped.
Pull her off, pull her off. Blackburn
shouted Cullen
Wow, gum chee!" shrieked Minnie, ~
getting another hold ON CulIen's coat
tails. Blackburn seized Cullen and tried
to pull him away Minnie" braced her
self against the bars and held on. Their
there was ripping sound CuIIen's Goa
The Washington times., 1903-05-06
wAsHINGToNIANs APPOINTED.

Blanche II. Stoddard, of Massachu-
sets, and Jane S. Fair. of Maine, both
residents of the District, have been ap-
pointed stenographers and typewriters
in the Patent ONCE, at 1920 per year
The Washington times., 1903-05-06

Indestructible Cuff Buttons 80. .7c
Cold Plated Cuff Buttons. $3.50 &c
Gold Plate Collar Buttons. lie
Partisan Hair Brooches. ..2 &c
Pearl and Royal Copper Brooches Sc
Neck Chains and Lockets Sc
Wellworth Bracelets I5c
Pearl Shirt Sets. sc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

MlndanaO would The Moro in Subsection
have made his name ring throughout the
country if it had been done two or
three years ago, when attention was
centered on hostilities in the Philip
pines, but Pershfng's opportunity came
after the novelty of the Philippines
experiment had worn off and while the
eyes of the world were turned another
way: That does not diminish the cred
it of his achievement. in the eyes of
his official superiors, and it will not
diminish his reputation when history
comes to write about Inn:
Until Pershng came on the. scene the
Moros had the reputation of being in
vincible. Spain had held the Philip
pines for centuries without undertake
ing to subdue them, and 1t seemed as
though they might hold out against
I civil1zing agencies for a century more
He was only a captain, graduated at
West Point in 1886, and he had a
small force at his command, but he
fought his way through the wilderness
of the island, beating back the savage
band that opposed his progress and
then having whipped everything in
sight he set to work: to win the natives
over to the idea of American sover-
eighty.
He learned their language, he studied
the Koran, and he made repeated en-
petitions through the island telling
about the wonders of America, i'm
pressing the natives with a sense of
the power of the United States and in
spring them with hope that some
thing Of all these stories was coming
to them. They called him 'Datto
Pershing g, and looked up to him with
i reverence. "Datto Pershing" is on
:, leave now for the first time in years
but he won't talk about what he has
done. ,,,,,..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

AOoC AO1NCAu1 pei
sonality and clearest intellect was
all that with Mckinley and perhaps
more, for Mckinley leaned on him even
more than Roosevelt and depended in
large measure on his initiative and ex-
ecutive ability.
1t is striking circumstance that two
presidents of dispositions so different
should have placed dependence on the
same man and that both should have
found In him just the qualities which
appealed to each. No matter what
view may be taken Of Roots policies
and politics nobody will deny. him the
possession of intellect of a high order
and a capacity for accomplishment
which has been possessed by few
A fact not generally known was re-
vealed few nights ago by Postmaster
General Payne at a dinner party given
to the retiring secretary at the Country
club near Washington. The postmas-
ter general. who was very close to the
inside of the campaign of 1900, de-
elared and produced the documents to
show that he was right--that when re-
publican leaders were looking around
for candidate for vice president to
run on the ticket with Mckinley their
choice fell on Root and that it was the
presidents desire that Root should be
selected, but that Root refused to let
his name be used. as he preferred to
stay in the war department and COM
plete the work there he, had begun.
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sible. Why should the "star reporter"
bother over little things like grammati-
cal construction and punctuatiOny when
there sits the desk man" paid to cor
rect slips? All that he tries to do is
to get into his work the human in
'terest,"' that element that makes the
story news. Let the blue pencil man
struggle over the FORM, he's paid for
it!
I once got for young fellow in diff
ficulties the promise of LOB" on a
New York newspaper. He was fine;
handsome, magnetic man, well educat-
ed, built to succeed. Five days later
he met me and said, Internationally:
"Well, they put me on all right, at a
good salary, and set me to reading
exchanges. / didn't know any more
about reading exchanges than. a pig
knows of embroidery. Naturally they
fred me-"
The man who should have been
fired. was the one who. put, a green
boy reading exchanges without even
defining what the words mean. To be-
gin with, it's three mems work. Usu-
ally an experienced veteran does it
with two. young assistants. 49,. .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

TIC CIcdllOu anu ue- ms va lime Seer etary
sve1opment of other Of War
departments the war department sank
into subordinate place, and in the
whole history of the United States
there are only two war secretaries who
had great regulations in office prior; to
189S-Edwin M. Stanton and Jefferson
Davis. +. :. 81 .,. IL , ::
Davis as secretary conceived and ex-
ecuted the plan of, seacoast fortifca-
tons which, for that day, was the most
complete and up to date of any country
in the world. He did great work
which ought not to be altogether for
gotten in the later treason. Stanton
was, of course, a real war secretary
with all that the title implies. But
with those exceptions, up to 1898 the
secretary of war was regarded as one
OF the minor positions in the cabinet,
so far as work and influence were con-
cerned. It was position where EVERY
thing went by routine and where there
was little for a secretary to do except
occasionally to assert his dignity and
prerogative against a commanding gen.
eral. Among the later presidents it
grew to be the practice that the poll
tician of the administration was put
at the head of the war department be-
cause his official duties were less likely
there to interfere with his political
work than in any other place.
The war with Spain changed all this.
The enlargement and reorganization Of
the army, the acquisition of distant
possessions requiring, certain degree
of military supervision. and the thrust
ing forward of the United States into
position among nations where she
was more likely to become an object
Of envy and attack have combined to
make it essential that the secretary of
war shall be man of the very highest
ability and that he shall attend to busi-
ness. Root has filled the bill.
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of good eating to drive for a supper
Since then the place has had its yicis-
STUDIES, but the permanent interest of
it lies in a remarkable bridge erected
across the creek at a height of over a
hundred feet. through which runs the
acqueduct which for many years sup
piled the city of Washington with wa
ter.
This bridge was constructed by Gen.
M. c. Meigs, and is work Of engineer
ing. which is hardly surpassed any
where. 1t is monument to the skill
of the engineers Of the United States
army. Although it was finished Al
years ago, It remains to-day the
greatest stone arch in the: world, and
such it is likely to remain, for stone
construction has now given place to
steel and it is not probable that any
other stone arch will ever spring into
existence to compete. =, ..,.
e., The, bridge was begun when Jeffer-
son Davis was secretary Of war in the
administration of Franklin Pierce. It
was completed ten years later, Just at
the beginning Of Abraham Lincoln
administration, when, Simon Cameron
was secretary of war. A tablet wac
affixed to the side, high up, -commem-
Grating these facts, but a.:few weeks
after it was. put in place Davis becamn
president of the Confederacy aid his
name by order Of Stanton. was chisel-
ed out: The mutilated tablet: Istill re.
mains. ''''} = Fl . '~.*';;
= .':' '-:::e LOUISA. COOLIDGE.
One Great Advantages. - =
"a loafer is never Interrupted
ington Qa.) Democrat. S.'''':':': :: .t''i
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11
ROSE IN EMBROIDERY.
Most Popular Bios ON just Now with
Thexe: Wh0Do Fancy ~:
Work.

OF all the floral: kingdom the rose is
the most popular blossom, with. the
fancy worker. And, conveptionally
treated, it blooms at advantage in deli
cate needleWork, painting, in tapestry
wool and in ribbon work. Whether
colored in imitation of natures tints
or executed in monotone, the queen of
flowers offers suggestions for designs
which the woman skilled in needle
craft will find it delight to carry
out, says the Brooklyn Eagle. =.
An artistic adaptation of the rose to
fancy work is found in portiere of art
linen decorated with design in tapestry
WOOL The flowers are highly conven-
tionalized and outlined in brown, the
leaves and petals being worked with
darning stitch. The design follows the
lines of the door. the flowers forming
a frieze at the top.
Another effective illustration Of rose
embroidery is large photograph
frame of ivory silk bordered with
Marechal Neil roses outlined with gold
thread, true lovers knot in gold cord
being entwined with the roses Silk
curtains used: for hanging inside the
glass doors of music cabinets or old
fashioned cupboards are greatly i'm
proved by the addition Of embroidery
in rose design. For example, a. curtain
of tussore silk may be embellished
with damask roses in natural hue,
while a rose-colored liberty silk cur
tain makes an admirable design in
PRODUCING white roses.
In carrying out special color
scheme or particular design of decora-
ton, in summer cottage bedroom, the
rose in conventional pattern. worked
upon strips of linen joined by inser-
ton of cotton crochet makes an ex-
ccllent quilt the rose being worked, in
harmonizing colOring with the general
furnishings of the apartment.
Cushion covers, dresser scarfs and
similar accessories in lawn, linen, silk,
canvas or what not assume a festive
and fascinating air when rose petals in
silk or cotton are scattered over them,
while the articles for use, not to men,
ton the array Of trifles that lend them
selves to ornamentation in rose design,
represent a host difficult of enumera-
ton, but replete with ideas for pleas
ant occupation for leisure moments.
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me Cub Reporter them. into the wa
ter; teachers of swimming know that
there is better way.
/ do not know of any educational
need So crying as the one that the pro-
prietor Of the New York World has so
munif1cently supplied. Publishers OF
out-of-town papers cannot realize the
need SO acutely as can man in, Mr.
Pul1tzer's position. The New York pa
pers, which afford the best pay for able
and experienced men, are the poorest
schools for beginners in the country.
have seen youngsters after three
months of attempts to learn the rudi-
ments of the business who remained
ignorant. of details and methods which
any experienced man could have ex-
planned in an hour. This is. why most
OF the successful journalists here have
won their spurs in other cities before
trying New York.
The New York cub reporter" never
sees that great man, the city editor.
An assignment is handed him by some
lordly second assistant, who acts upon
VAN OASSA AOoICO 1C1udIh. we IS 1lOL
running a kindergarten" The copy"
is brought in at night and handed to
an assistant night city editor. He
passes it to long table, or row of
desks, where a dozen old journalists in
their shirt-sleeves-the copy readers"
any man OF them capable professor
OF practical journalism-correct and
prepare the matter for the next day.
The veteran into whose sands the I'M
important item falls, says impatiently:
What fool. wrote this?" and, CON-
presses the awkward pages into a five
line paragraph under the "City Briefs"
The Tyranny of the Blue Pencil.
This tyrant of the blue pencil could,
II he had time, tell the young writer, if
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has come to be
again one of the
three great mem
bers of the cabi-
net. The other two
are the secretary
of state and the
secretary of the
treasury. 1t was
the original scheme
of the government
that this should be
so, but in the
course of time with
tho creation and do.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

is none Weh1cn Us
likely to have a
greater: influence on
its. fortunes than
the coming retire
nent Of Secretary
Root, which will
take place at. the
beginning of the
new year. Outside
the president him
self the secretary
of war has been the
strong man of the
administration, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11
Killed in Collision.

A wrecking caro- the Seventh street
line in St. Paul collided with truck No.
,1~ofs the st. Paul fire department..
''Till&r1nan>P atrick Fleming was fatal
" hurt, dying at noon, and Lieute-
merit HenrN I..angeyin Trpclz6an ,os-
carlPedersoh and JohE Costello were
painfully hurt. Captain J. J. Nnlcrone
aqd the other members of the truck
company were more or less bruised
and the truck was completely demol-
ished. Louis Hoffman, the moterman,
is under arrest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

.ers fave seemed to
desie r to surpass
it ii this respect,
whiR the World
Itself has grown
MORT conservative.
+ MI Pulitzer be-
lfevH in sensa-
tionMlisw. H e
tho@htS st. ,1:66pos
cen4 enough Is
eInMoy unusual
metgods to attract
attettion; but that
wasnot the most
Of his offending.
Wh@ he saw what
scented to him
giant wrongs Z ri
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

versity to found a
school of journal
ism is criticised by
some old newspa-
per men, who
think that t h e
only. way to teach
a youngster Is the
profession is to
throw him into an
office and let him
succeed by obser-
walton or fail for
lack of training,
So boys used. to
be taught to
swim by throwing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

apn sqcceedfs
done.
1t isn't true.
Of course the
case of Mr.. Hearst
was different. He
had money to be-
6 i n with and
spent, according to
current estimate,
something like 49,
900, 600 upon the
Journal before he
judged it, safe to
begin economic
ing. Another man,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

lew days ago as
John J. PSshing
U. S. A., on leave
until October 80"
That is the descrip-
ton ofCapt. PERISH
ing, the young Off
Ger who has done
such brave things
in MindanaOWhere
he has brought the
fierce Moros into
subsection. What
Pershing did in
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To Clean white. Plumes.

Dissolve in four pints of hot water
four ounces of white soap, cut into
small pieces, and make a lather by
beating the water as~ you would al
egg; then put in the feathen aad, rub il
we'll VIII tbs hands tQEs saRes e. six
minutes. kfteI ,thiS wash st i1EcESn
water as hot Saln "
Shake until dry.-American Quaan
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

made such a rec
ord as to convince
the administration
that he is Just the,
man for. the place
in the j.. cabinet
which. requires es-:
pecial executive.
ability. Taft is a
very different kind
of person from
y Root. :; For one
thing he. Is: 20
years younger:
Root. has, already;
ocfohliohod h;c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11

has: a history. but
which is one of the
most strikingly
beautiful spots to
be found an. where.
The: place. is called
Cabin John because
many years ago
there used to be a
cabin on the spot,
owned and man
aged by a pictur-
esque character
named John where
it was quite the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11


The FINES e = ( dpidg { w,1ats ne
owner of the Werld did 20 years ago.
Mr.. Adolph Ochs came here from
CHATTANOOGA to take char5e 6f rhe@New
York Times 4ssItawas reypectabie. pa
per, iosi4k monty M s@Qchf dropped:
the pricS to one tcent aid tbreswas a:
chorus OF critics. tt say <ftiat, for the
Times, was. fatal, error: 1t wasn't
Tie papsrs circulation GREW Us nor=
nouSy. 1t was cheap to produce, hav-
ing no pictures, or color work.
Upon Broadway y and Forty-second
street, three: miles north. of Park Row,
Mr.. Qchs is erecting for the Times a
building in. some respects remarkable
1t seven taller than the famous
"Flataron,," and based upon a smaller
site, but it Will not look SO tall; for it
is driven five stories into the ground.
The floor Of: the press room will be S.
feet below the level of:the street: The
new underground. road will ); actually
run through the basement above the
presssroom,
He,e, then; is 4: building II stories
tail, sunk five Stories into the ground,
|:hestrfding railroad right of way so
feet wide and providing the very lat
est devices Of printing and distribu-
s ess ha r 1:1s n FRI 4frm'"t p
And here also is the Daily News, for
years. successful; ana d'Y pirofftabie paper
as the organ OIL Tammany, Hail.: run
fof q xsTy short period By Frank Nun
f;sey: At a loss 81 100000 and SOLD at
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big. CONFERENCE.-The ana ;gosod=natiiiired

big, companionable ana ;good=naat1uirr'ed
while Root: is slight, Of figure, and. in.
clined to haughtiness and reserve, ex-
cept with those whom he knows init
matelyv Taft, is a mixer" Root is
the reverse. But Taft is a master OF
the law, as Root is, and he IS an indie
fatigahle. worker. AS ROOT -. 49,, >.
r, Il, is. safe 60 say that if Taft becomes
secretary of war he will get along
swimmingly with every officer, high
or low, who understands his. business.
for he has consummate tact, and has
a faculty Of getting all the work out OF
a man there is in him Without causing
any heartburnings. That has been his
record in the Philippines, and it was
his record when he was in Washing
ton during Harrison's administration
as solicitor general of the department OF
Justice. =.
It was as solicitor general that Taft
first had an opportunity to distinguish
himself. He was young fellow then
in the early thirties., and he had not
been in Office six months before he was
one OF the best known and best liked
officials Of the government He had the
faculty ofmaklng friends in an extraor-
binary degree and yet at the same
time he was winning his way among
the leaders and establishing himself
as lawyer of unusual promise: The
promise he displayed then he has
mole than fulfilled.
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he ever saw him,
how to present his
trivial happening
SO that it would be
worth printing
and that art a
school of journal
ism can teach.
Copy is turned
in at the desk"
in New York by
highly paid rep!or-
ters = in worse
shape than in any
other city in. the
country. TIL e S e
same copy-readers
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for Journalism that
man is Joseph
Pulitzer.
A poor Hungar-
ian boy, coming
hither just at the
breaking out of
the: war, Mr.: Pul-
first work
in the country was
fighting for; it. as 8: a
cavalryman. Even
now nearly blind,
h he is a magnificent Is.
horseman. Drift
ing to- St. Louis
after the war HE
engaged lii various
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-09-11
IT, NyI % ~ = !
Fancy Baked ADnles.

Pare and core the apples, lay them
in baking. dish and fill each with
sugar. Stick a Glove in each apple and
cover the dish. Bake half an hour.
then remove the cover and continue
baking NM ntil the apples are tender and.
Drowned bAt hot broken. The time Of
cooking really depends on the kind of
apple, as some varieties cook ii much
less time than others. Take the ap-
pies up into a glass dish and serve
with cream.-Detroit. Free Press.