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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
WILL FAVOR
GEN. WOODS
PROMOTION
Secretary Root Was Only Wit.
ness on Closing Day Of Hear.
Ing. Warmly Oefsndsd General

washington, Dec. 1.-THE senate COM
nittee on military affairs last night con-
cluded its investigation OF charges
against Gen. Leonard A. Wood, filed for
the purpose of preventing his confirma-
tion as major general.
Secretary Root was the only witness
yesterday. He. was on the stand for 21s
hours at the forenoon session and occu-
pied the attention OF the committee last
night from O'Clock until II: 20. The COM
mittee will meet today to prepare its re-
port IL Is understood that confirmation
will be recommended by a vote of to q
A minority. report will be made by the
opposition members of the committee.
Secretary Root undertook to assume
the whole responsibility for the orders
issued by Gen. Wood effecting the
judicial system In Cuba and concerning
the concession granted to the Jaimai
company at Havana. He justified the ac-
ceptance by Gen. Wood OF the present
OF a silver set from the Jai Alai COM
pany.
The secretarys statement was an
elaborate and carefully prepares defence
of Gen. Wood. He spent most OF yes
terday and a large part OF last night.
assisted by the officers of the war de-
inent The secretary made specific re-
ply to each OF the charges thai have
been urged so far against Gen. " ood's
confirmation and as umed responsibility
for many OF the matters charged against
Gen Wood among others. IL is under
stood. the granting OF a license 10 the
Jai Alai
OTHER WITNESSES ASKED FOR.
He devoted particular attention to the
attacks upon the integrity of the official
accounts of the Cuban Treasury while
under Gen. Woods administration. and
ne was prepared. with an immense
amount OF data, to answer the charge OF
loose and faulty accounting and auditing.
He took occasion TO say that the weak
ness OF this charge might have been es-
tablished long ago had the senate printed
the accounts which he transmitted 10 that
body last winter In answer TO resolution.
The committee received yesterday
communication from Maj Estes q. Rath-
bone asking that he be called again to
direct attention TO a number OF things
which he said the committee had ignored.
He asked that his several requests for the
subpoena OF Col. Lebo, Fourteenth United
States cavalry. be acted upon. He sug-
Eested that Col Lebo be questioned To
bring out the fact that Wood was not
with his command in the hrst days fight
NJ Santiago on July !. 1Ses. Request also
was made that Mai Gen. 3. s. Summer
be examined on the same subject
Other witnesses asked for by MAJ.
Rathbone. Senator Hanna and Senator
Teller are Bert A. Miller OF Canton. o.;
Cbrydon A Rich OF Muncie. Ind. and
Francis Z. Leupp. Washington corre-
spondsnt OF the New York Evening Post
In this connection the committee has
been asked 10 obtain correspondence be-
tween Gen. william Ludlow and the Ad-
5utant General Of the Army growing out
OF an interview In the New York Evening
Post concerning yellow fever conditions
IN Havana and Cuba under the Brooke
and Wood administration.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17

luncheon was given this noon by Mrs.
II. Russell Brown for Miss Eva Weeden's
friends. Miss Snider and Miss Perkins
There were twenty young ladies present
and were all seated AZ one long table.
The decorations we're pink and white
roses. Those present were: Miss Eva
Weeden Miss Snider. Miss Perkins, Miss
Helen Brown. Miss Marion Brown, Miss
Anita Baker. Miss Annette Robinson.
Miss Daisy Robinson. Miss Caroline Eddy.
Miss Helen Capron. Miss Marguerite
Peck. Miss Carolyn Peck. Miss Doris
Mather
Mrs. John Carter Brown entertained at
yesterday
Miss Daisy Robinson returned home to-
day from Mrs. Sewers school at Wash
ington. Miss Robinson will spend the
Christmas holidays with her parentS
Mrs Charles Morris Smith entertained
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
NOT ON SHORT TIME
President Manton Says Only ShIpxlndIass
Machine Shop Is on Short Schedule.

Although II hae been reported the Am
erican Ship Windlass company Is running
on SIX hour q day time. President Y. q
Manton OF the company denied this last
night and said that this schedule applied
only 10 the men employed IN the machine
shop OF the the works.
As reason for this, Mr.. Manton said
that At present the work was short IN this
particular division and that the short
time schedule has been IN force for only
. week ana that full time would probably
be resumed IN a week OF ten days.
The foundry, drafting rooms and pattern
making department OF the works are rum
ming on full time and have been for nearly
thirty years with the exception OF the
usual Saturday haif-bofidays. etc.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
pETowS MILLINERY STORE.

This well known millinery establish
ment at ss7 Westminster street. just op-
posite the Westminster theatre. is max
ing a special anti Christmas inducement
now In the shape Of a special mark
down sale on their hats. Belgian seal
scarfs. French coney scarfs. boas, os-
trich plumes. muffs and untrimmed hats
The above articles have been marked
down 10 almost half price and a beautiful
array will meet the gaze of the shopper
In this attractive store.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17

New Four-in-Hand shapes, all
new colorings. light, dark and
medium shades. Neckwear fully
worth 25c. Three Hours Sale
Price
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
IN SOCIETY


The debutantes have all made their
bows early this .eason. The last of these
functions occurred yesterday afternoon
when Mrs. Clinton r. Weeden introduced
her younger daughter. Miss Eva 6.
Weeden. at n tea given at the Weeden
residence on Waterman stret.
Two friends received with Misc Weeden
Miss Snider of Cleveland and Miss Per-
klns OF Sharon. Pa. The dcbutante was
the recipient Of a great number Of flowers
aud the decorations OF the house by Miss
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
a number of her friends at her home yes

a number OF her friends at her home yes
terday afternoon.
Miss Marjorie Ray OF Franklin stopped
over I'm this city last evening while on
her way home To spend the holidays.
The third popular ladies afternoon"
Of the season will be given at the Art
club this afternoon. Rev. William +. Y.
Jackson will address the members and
tea will he served I'm the upper gallery
at FIVE.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
NEWSLETS

He'd been a faithful pastor
For many. many years,
He'd served the people faithfully.
Mid smiling and mid tears
But now his gospel sermons
Were hardly UP TO date,
They were indeed, old d-fashioned.
Dogmatic. not ornate.
So they worked him out quite skilfully
And sent the hulk adrift.
Because they wanted rhetoric
And something that was swift
Then he wandered round distractedly.
AS poor as a church mouse,
And couldn't get pulpit
In any sacred house,
There was no call for him at all.
His past work bore no leaven,
And so he drifted round about
Till he was called to heaven.
Boston Budget.
Candy valued at SO was stolen from
Mary Cooper's shop. ia Plain street
yesterday morning.
william Barry's hen house at 40 Felix
street was broken into wednesday night
and FIVE hens and one game rooster val
ued at SO. stolen.
An attempt was made yesterday after
noon TO force an entrance TO Luigi
Godiscos tewelry store, 40 Arthur ave
nue. A key was broken In the lock OF
the door.
Martin Chiaegirian, 30 years Old was
held I'm $1,000 by Judge Sweetland today
for trial next Tuesday, for an assault OF
an indecent character upon his half
brother. servian Chiaegirian. 13 years old
old.
Electric car s44, OF the Elmwood route,
collided with Patrick Grady's two-horse
moving wagon at the corner OF Prone
made and Francis streets at 6;45 o'clock
this morning. One wheel OF the wagon
was broken.
Catone villa a harness maker residing
at 396 Atwells avenue, reports that
bank book was stolen from a trunk In his
house at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
He suspects travelling trunk repairer
who visited the house.
John Cody was fined SIS and costs In
the Sixth district court today for the
theft OF n pair OF shoes from In front
OF Samuel Lavene's shop, on Westmin.
ster street. last night. He was a stranger
and gave as a reason Tor the THEFT that
he wanted money and had got to get
II somehow.
The sprinklers In the second story Of
Samuel Priest & Co.'S junk shop 367
Canal street, were burst by high pressure
on the water main last night, causing
that. the first floor and the basement
TO be flooded. Patrolman George OF the
Central station discovered the fact at
1f:40 o'clock and notified Mr.. Priest. The
damage was quite heavy.
At meeting Of Providence union. w.
G. T. u, on Friday at y. m, Mrs. /. G.
Manchester Will read n paper entitled
THE Religious and Political Past, Pres
ent and Future OF Mormonism." Mrs
Manchester has studied her subject at
Salt Lake city and at Washington. ID.
c., and Is therefore prepared to present
interesting facts. A meeting OF the
executive board Of the union viii be held
at o'clock.
John Morris. IL years OF age. who has
given the police and his grandmother
Martha Rock a good deal OF trouble, and
who was recently released from the Sock
anosset school, was again before the
juvenile court today for the theft OF SO
from Mrs. Rock. She left hi.i alone for
few minutes yesterday afternoon. He
discovered 50 in the pocket of a rain coat
and made off with It. He hid 81 In a
shoe and spent the other two. Judge
Sweetland sent him over during his mi
nority.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17

Mrs. oldstyle-1 don't think that n col
lege education amounts TO much.
Mr.. Sparerod-Don't you. Well. you
ought 10 pay my boys bills and see
Chicago Journal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17

"oh. Lord murmured the man with
the violent toothache. How fortunate
are those people who are born without
A tooth in their head. Princeton Tiger.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-17
THE WEATHER

Boston, Dec i7.--For New England FAR
and continued cold tonight and Frloay =
fresh westerly winds.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Motorman Convicted and Sentenced.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle;
MOtorman Euclid Madden, who ran
the car at Pittsheld, Mass, into the car
cret Service Officer William Craig was
killed. has been convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to six months
imprisonment in the Berkshire house OF
correction and to pay fine Of $500
This seems to be a light punishment
for SO grave an offense. assuming that
Madden was guilty at all; but there are
important mitigating circumstances
connected with the case, as our readers
will remember.
Madden appears to be an intelligent
and generally worthy young man. or
course he did not intend to smash the
presidents carriage and endanger the
lives of the occupants. His car con-
tanned a large party of excursiOnists
who were eager to reach the club house
where the president was expected 70
speak. and the passengers were urging
Madden to make all the speed possible
so that they could arrive in time to Sc
cure good places. At the point Of the
accident the carriage road crosses the
trolley tracks, and the driver OF the
presidents carriage, being ahead of the
car, attempted to make the crossing
when the car at a high rate of speed
crashed into the rear of the carriage
The motorman was clearly guilty of
recklessness, knowing Of the existence
of the crossing and that the presidents
carriage, or some other in the line,
would pass over the tracks at that point.
yet maintaining rate of speed which
prevented him from coming to a stop
when he saw the danger. But it is to
be said in his favor that prominent and
influential persons in the car were
urging him on to a degree that, for the
time, impaired his judgment and caused
him TO take chances which he would
have avoided under ordinary circum-
stances.
The conviction and sentence are Just
and ought to serve as a warning to all
men in like positions upon whose care
and consideration for the safety of the
public the lives of one or more citizens
NAV depend
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29
rhe Inauence Of the Press.

Milwaukee Journal
There is said to be a strong impulse
abroad in the public mind to disregard
the criticisms of the press on the con-
duct of public men and public business.
1t appears that many readers take it all
as CUFF and 60 on their several ways
unconvinced and unenlightened. And
really, one responsible for the makeup
even the smallest weekly, will on re.
Election, conclude that most of what he
puts forth is adverse criticism. In
moments of disgust, ne viii think that
the sentiment is right: that SO much
fault-fnding is enough to destroy any
ones confidence in the press Especial
ly is this true after he has waded
through columns and columns of his eX-
changes in which each discounts and
ridicules what another has said. Then
indeed he begins TO wonder that news
papers have left to them any confidence
or influence.
But could the readers see the editors
table as he sees it. loaded to
the verge of endurance, cluttered till his
irritated mind thinks to call for clear
ing out and see as he sees that almost
the whole Of this matter sent to him
supposedly to help him in shaping the
course of his paper and in giving out
his conclusions. consist of protests
against this or that. from cruelty to an
imals to frauds in government lands,
from NIVlSectlOn to socialism, from par
ty mismanagement to church folies; Ii
we say, they could see the letters writ
ten his valuable sheet by those who
have grievances and those who are
seeking trouble whether they know it
or not. the readers would wonder the
editor did not tear his hair and run
away without his coat.
What feed for the waste basket And
when looked at in this way the wonder
is that anything bearing trace of
human goodness and cheerfulness ever
gets q hearing in the press. In this
mood, the editor is inclined to doubt
whether there is anything good and
true in human life; whether all is not
Wrangling, subterfuge, illusion, folly
fraud or crime If readers could bu1
once see it in this light, they would
have more respect for any newspaper
which kept steadily and cheerfuliy its
confidence in public honesty and in its
own ultimate influence. into the face
of a newspaper is showed every wrong
imaginable, every prejudice ana all
uncleanliness- 1t all comes in clouds
with a confidence real or assumed.
that the newspaper can right it all and
leave the world clean. Whence THAI
confidencee If the editor listened to
One-tWentieth of these presentations, if
sensible. he would go insane. Do these
pleaders for newspaper help really be
heve in newspaper influence Then
why not others who are to be reaChed2
The newspaper has influence; these
pleaders bear witness to the fact. And
to these. add those who fear exposure
or censure, and they are not few. And
now, gentle reader think of these
things before you disclaim the in
fluence of the press or charge it with
being mercenaTy or fun of fmisanthrOpic
I facts or leanings. Do you wonder
some papers are Yellow Tt must be
remembered that readers have some
thing to do with newspaper influence
4 and character. They are responsible
for an honest Judgment and a fair and
/ intelligent decision
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29

The Independent Telephone company
in Topeka was organized one year ago
by B. F. Panlzey of this city. The sue
cess of this company has been unprece-
dented. The construction Of this plant
is beyond doubt the finest in the coun~
try. No expense has been spared to
make il a strictly first class, up-to-date
exchange. Every circuit IS full copper
metallic. which feature does away with
ANNOYANCE Of cross talk and induction,
which predominates on other lines. The
encouragement received from its pa
irons demonstrates the fact that they
appreciate the new company's effort to
give first class and uninterrupted seTv
ice. The instruments used are the
standard manufacture of the American
Electric Telephone company of Chicago.
and every instrument is of the long dis
tance type. The switchboard is of the
multiple central energs, flash light lamp
line. and the new method of using cleo
tricity or storage batteries at the CEN
tral office, thereby doing away with the
batteries at the local phone. It also
does away with great deal of incon-
venience and pertains to better and
more rapid service. Instead Of the pa
irons being continually annoyed with
the central operators Did you get
them?" etc, etc, under the new system
the circuits are controlled absolutely by
two supervising lamps by which the op-
orator can tell when you are talking
When you have finished both lam0s
light uD, showing that your conversa-
ton is at an end.
The party line system used by the In
dependent Telephone company is also q
new patented device. Its main feature
is the fact that no party on the line
is annoyed when another is calling cen
traJ
Mr.. Panl1ey has introduced a novel
method of obtaining quick service from
the operators by Offering a prize of $5
the first Of every month to be given to
the girl who averages the least time il.
answering calls. There are also two
other prizes of SO and 81 which are given
to the operators standing second anG
third. The test is made by an inspector.
who makes the test calls from different
subscribers telephones. using a stop
watch to determine the actual time
consumed by the operator in answerinS
calls. The operators making an average
OF more than five seconds are not re-
tained in the service.
The Independent Telephone company
has already invested S100,0 in To-
peka and expects to double the amount
before the end of the year. The com
pany at the present time employs
nineteen girls and forty men. The gen
erous support given by the citizens of
Topeka to this home institution shows
that they are willing to encourage and
foster home capital. The management
extends cordial invitation to their
patrons and citizens of Topeka to visit
their exchange and become familiar
/ with their methods of doing business
and see the exchange in operation
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29
rRRIGATIoN,s LEssoN.

The resolution adopted by the Ma
tional Board of Trade. recently in ses-
sion at Washington, gives high endorse
ment of the plan Of federal aid to irrl-
cation, as urged by President Roosevelt
and crystallized into initiatory legisla-
tion by congress. Pregnant with great
possibilities is this proposed irrigation
of 100 900, 600 acres of the peoples do
main an area that would otherwise sup
port but a meager population. Under
irrigation farms are small because the
WELD of the land is very much greater
in proportion to cost and operating ex-
pense than it is where the clouds are
the first and sole reliance for water
supply 1t follows that there will be Il
dense population on our irrigated area
and a greatly increased market for the
manufactured products of the rest Of
the country. The railroads and all other
industries win profit by the reclamation
of a region so vast in extent and its
settlement by a prosperous population.
The resolutions call attention to an
other fact. says the Minneapolis Times
ia a discussion OF this subject. 1t is
this: The lesson VIII be q valuable one
to communities where artificial water
ing Of the earth has not been regarded
as necessary hitherto. These same com
munities are stricken by drouth now
and then, yet at comparatively small
expense considerable areas could be pre-
pared for irrigation and made inde-
pendent of the elements
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29
0LoBE sIGHTs.

From the Atchiscn GlObe-l
When a woman serves cake she makes
an apology for the frosting-
Said of nearly every cook in town. MY,
but she makes the butter fiyi
We don't believe we ever knew any one
who was not all right in theory.
If people like you. don't ever start trou-
bic for yourself by asking them why.
There are people in the world who never
work and who just sort of absorb liv-
ing
No one IS sick these days; he is either
i'll, or there is nothing the matter with
him
What the boys seem to need most is to
join a union that prohibits members from
sleeping overtime.
young man isn't a social success un-
less three women out of every four he
meets asks him if he isn't lonesome.
Those who start out to go to hell are
often surprised al finding how .circun-
stances shape themselves to keep a clear
track.
You meet people. and think they are
lovely characters; then they begin to de
velop their meanness and you find 1t S
the same old story.
The men have to depend more and more
upon alarm clocks these days, since the
women have adopted the habit Of buying
coffee already ground.
We have noticed that when the Globe
compliments a man two or three times
it receives an anonymous note from a
weary subscriber asking, in heaven s
name. that we let uD.
A girl of IS may demand that a man
write a Spencerian hand, or not dare LOOK
at her, but after she falls in love she
doesn't care if his writing looks like a
doctors prescription.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29

ing a pledge of the most binding obliga-
tion to act upon the measure. They
know that they gave this promise and
contracted this obligation at the last
session Of congress They did not prom
ise TO lake up the bill and then talk it
to death. They promised to bring it UP
FOR action and to let it live or die upon
its merits.
For them now to charge the majority
with deliberate obstruction OF the pub
lie business is TO soar to the very en-
pyrean of impertinence The country
ought to know the facts and to place
the blame where it belongs. The dead
lock in the senate is not the fault of the
friends of the statehood biIl-the major
ity; it is The fault of the enemies Of the
bill-the minority.
Keep this fact in mind and you viii
understand the drama and its actors
thoroughly
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-29
INVENTION A SUCCESS.
Prof Lueien I. Blake's Ore Separator
VIII Be Manufactured in Denver.

Kansas City. Jan 29.-Lucien I. Blake,
professor of electrical engineering at the
University of Kansas; Frederick Harris
Of this city and Sonora, Mexico. and II.
w Hardinge of Denver. Col. held Il
conference last night at the Hotel Bal
timore Mr.. Harris and Mr.. Har1iage
are mining and metallurgical engineers.
The subject of the conference was Prof.
Blake's invention of an electrical pro-
cess for the reduction Of ore.
In perfecting the ore separator Prof
Blake had the assistance of one of mis-
students, Lawrence Morscher, young
man from southern Kansas. who is now
a graduate student at the Jniver-
sity of Kansas. Several years We're
spent in bringing it to a point of per-
fection The device has been used for
about year past. A company. known
as the Blake -AIorscher Electric Separa-
tor company. has been organized to rp-
crate at Denver. a factory for the CON
struction of the machine. The invention
is calledy the electrotatic separator
TIL new appliance employs statical- Or
common. electricity. in the separation OF
undesirable compounds from the oree.
No water is used The impurities which
heretofore had been considered a waste
and detrirnent are put in form for use
in zinc smelling. The devise is said TO
be extremely simple and mining engl-
neers who have examined it believe 1t
will prove of great commercial value to
the metalIurgica1 world