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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
STRIKE AFFECTS FUNERALS.
Stirring Times Attending Contest Be
tween Liverymen and Employers.

CHICAGO. December 1S-With nearly
sevent v-fve funerals To be held in Chicago
today. there was no sign OF peace between
the livery and hearse drivers and the en-
ployers The funeral of Anna Week, whose
husband is in Jail charged with her murder,
WAS held today under guard Of police. who
were forced TO use clubs to disperse crowds
OF striking cabmen and sympathizers. The
children of the murdered woman alone at
stended the funeral. The corpse was taken
TO the cemetery in a wagon.
In cold, drizzling rain the relatives Of
those who Were to be buried slipped along
the ice and slush-covered pavement, and In
many cases the mosrners followed to rail-
way stations the businessike dead" wag-
ons or the undertakers. Walking was
treacherouS, but there was practically no
alternative. No carriages were to be had.
The undertakerS announced that they
would not send out any hearses until the
strikers had been forced into submission
for II would be dangerous to send the costly
carriers out of the barns, even IL non
union men could be had.
\ funeral car instead OF a hearse as well
n police guard, was utilized by Under
pickets from whom violence was feared al
the funeral of the baby daughter of Joseph
kecfer, president OF tea company
The body of the child was placed in a
common undertaking wagon instead of q
hearse. driven TO 3Ist and Wallace streets
and put on street car In waiting. The
nIOurners boarded a second ear and the trir
VAS I..adeh 70 Oakwood cemetery. The Kee
for residence was surrounded at the time
OF the funeral by pickets The police We're
present holding themselves in readiness in
case or Violence, but none was encountered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
GREAT FALLS RAILROAD.
Bill Introduced in the Senate Changes
Former Proposed Route.

Senator Martin of Virginia offered in the
Senate this morning a bill to authorize the
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
Company to construct and operate a cross
town street railway in this city.
The bill offered proposes several changes
in the route advertised some weeks ago in
The Star. The plan now is to go straight
across town on M street from the Aqueduct
bridge tc New Jersey avenue, down New
Jersey avenue to Massachusetts avenue,
and. from there on according to the orig
inai' proposition, thus entirely cutting out
that portion Of the route which was to
connect with the business part of the town,
viz. from NJ street down 10th to L, on l.
to 18th, on 18th to New York avenue and
H. east on H to 14th, south on 18th to G,
and from there cast on the tracks Of the
City and Suburban railway.
On the other hand, the bill, as now pre-
sented, provides for additional cross
town line running from F street northeast
via 10th southeast to the Washington navy
yard.
There is another addition to the bill as
published which broadly provides for re-
ciprOcal free transfers with all other lines
at ali connections and intersecting points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
JUDGE K1MBALL CONFIRMED.
Action Taken by the Senate This Aft
- ernOOn.

The case against Illes confirmation Of The
nomination of Judge ivory G. Kimbalf as
Judge of the Police Corrt was closed at a
hearing before a subcafnmittee of the COM
mittee on the DstrictEof Columbia yester-
day afternoon.
There were present at that meeting Sena-
tors Gallinger chairman and SteTart. Mr..
A A. Birney was again present, as vas
Judge Kimban and NE CKC Cole.
DR.. VIM. A. Croffat tolI the committee
that in enforcing the law against newsboys
crying papers ths STREETS he thought
Judge Kirnball had been Unnecessarily
severe. Mr. Butts. an aVtoanobilist, COM
planned of the strictness With when Judge
Kimball had enforced the law relating to
speed limit.
The committee Satisfied sitself to the
methods of polcemeif in haaing ths speed
of automobilists Il
1t was stated today that number of
cclored men had declared@.their intention
to testify concerning%the manner in which
Judge Kimball has enforcedsti1e Ia against
colored people, but they did not appear at
the hearing. IL
The Senate in exesutive session this
afternoon confirmed 4 the nomination of
Judge Kimban. Theiss was no opposition to
confrnla ton on the part of. any senator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
To Aid Lewis-Clark Exposition.

NJ. Fulton of Oregon in the Senate yes
terday afternoon. advocated the passage of
a bill to aid the proposed Lewis and Clark
exposition at Portland. Greg. He said that
the only request is that the United States
government shall make provision for partic-
ipation in the celebration, but even If Con-
gress should fail to make the appropriation
the exposition would be opened and held.
He contended that the exposition would
not be local affair. All the states travers-
ed by Lewis and Clark were concerned and
the event of their expedition was in many
of its aspects of national Importance.
He believed the people would indorse the
appropriation requested. as he believed they
had indorsed all previous appropriations Of
like character. The acquisition of the
Importance only to the acquisition of Louis
lana. and some circumstances combine to
render 1t equally important
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
BADE COLLEAGUES FAREWELL.
Mayor-Elect Mcclellan Leaves for the
Citv Over Which ne Will Rule.

Mayor-elect Mcclellan 9efsNew York bade
his colleagues in the House goodbye and
left for the city over which he is to rule
from January 1. Next Monday ne will an
nounce his appointments OF leading munich
pal officials. 1t is expected that ex-Assist-
ant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo will be
his police commissioner. II was said among
the New York city; deiegation today that
Representative Rider, of ftthe fourteenth dis
trict will resign hts seat in the House to
take a place in Mr.. McCselian's admins
tration.
Mr.. Charles A. Towneis mentioned as the
probable successor of Representative Rider
in the House. Some of the Tammany men
said today that they understood that there
was little doubt that Mr.. Towne would be
elected at a special election, which will
also send Mr.. w. Bourke Cochran to the
House as the successor. of Mr. Mcclellan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Russia's Reply Unsatisfactory.
FATAL FIRE IN TENNESSEE,
College for Negro Women Burns
Seven Lives Lost-Many Injured.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, December 19.-Fire
last night consumed the Central Tennessee
College for Young Negro Women, a depart
nent of Walden University. Loss is est-
mated at $4,000.
Seven are dead and seventeen seriously
injured The detailed report of the fire
gives narrowing stories of the efforts of the
unfortunate inmates to escape from the
burning building. Many hurled themselves
from windows some being killed or crushed
by those following them.
The doTmitory a fOur-story buildir 8
OF brick and the only means of exit WIS
down the main stairway. which was shortly
cut of after the fire broke out. and the in
mates rushed panic stricken through the
smoke and heat seeking avenue of es-
cape. Most of the women had retired and
only had time to escape III their night gar
rlents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19

provisions contemplate seward of one Of
the greatest crimes that can be perpetrat-
ed against government. Aside from that
he thinks the confederate veterans would
be too proud to accept this bounty, and
that If they were to enter the homes the
battles of the civil war would be fought
over again with such Vigor that the police
would have to interfere. Gen. Mcmahon
is quoted as saying:
.''The occupants of the homes are dying
off in large numbers, as might be expected
Of men of their ages. 1t will soon become
question of what shall be done with the
buildings and grounds. They are not des-
tined to be occupied much longer. Some of
them will possibly be converted into health
resorts for army and navy people, or used
as encampment grounds for militia and the
army. Even this probable use will not dis
nose of all of the places"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
TO CALL ON PRESIDENT.
Orders Issued to Army Officers in This
Vicinity.

The Secretary of War has directed that
the officers of the army in this city and at
Washington barracks and at Fort Myer as
semble in full-dress uniform at the office
of the Secretary of War Friday, January
l, not later than 11:25 am, and proceed to
the White House to pay their respects to
the President The commanding general
and general staff officers of the District
of Columbia National Guard have been
invited to assemble in the order named for
officers Of the army.
The formation will be made under the d.
rection of the adjutant general in the fol-
lowing order
: I. Thei chief Of staff, general staff officers
and other officers ON the active list. ac-
cording to corps and regiment as given in
the army register.
: 2. Officers on the retired list in the order
of corps and regiments to which they for
merly belonged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
OVERHEAD WIRES.
Maintenance is Proposed Only for a
Time.

The Senate late yesterday afternoon
passed. without amendments joint resolu-
ton. which has been passed by the House,
to permit the 'erectden of poles and over
head wires in connection with the work OF
eliminating grade crossings.
In calling the bill up instAe Senate Mr..
Gallinger said that: in thsEwork OH the
union station 1t would be. necessary u
bury the conduits thirty or forty feet,
which would be useless when the work is
completed.
1--WE are very Jealous . he said, rot to
allow overhead wires oshe strung in the
District, and the resolution only permits
them for a short distance stsmpofarlly..a y. and
the conduls will be put id after the fill has
been made" &
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Personal Mention.

DR.. R. P. Cronin of 1913 F street is slow
ly convalescing at his residence, S36 Indi-
lana avenue. after serious Illness Of ten
weeks
Frank H. Thatcher, formerly Of the Post
Office Department, arrived in Washington
this week from Nome, Alaska, where he
has been for the past three years as assist
ant cashier of the Alaska Banking and
Safe Deposit Company. He will spend the
winter with his parents on Capitol Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Disastrous Fire In Ohio.

LORAIN, Ohio. December 19-Fire TODAY
destroyed the planning mill and paint and
repair shops operated here by the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Loss $4,000 Ten
passenger cars were also burned About
600 employees are idle as a result Of the fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
OLD SOLDIERS, HOMES.
Gen. Mcmahon Opposes Their Use by
Confederate Veterans.

Gen. Martin T. MeAIahorl, as president OF
the board of managers of the national
homes for disabled soldiers, has filed with
the War Department protest against the
bill proposing tcs admit confederate vet
Grams to the homes. Gen. Mcmahon says
that the bill should be defeated. II for no
other reason than on the ground that its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Judge Scott Confirmed.

The Senate yesterday afternoon con-
firmed the nomination of Charles Fletcher
Scott OF the District of Columbia to be
judge Of the Police Court OF the District OF
Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
To Represent Medical Department.

First Lieut.. James Carroll, assistant sur
Eeon. has been detailed to represent the
medical department or the erray at the
meeting Of the Society OF American Dae.
terioiogists to be held In Philadelphia, Ps.
December 20 and 90 1905,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
NEW MOVE BY RUSSIA
To Avoid Any Possible Rup-
ture With Japan.
FURTHER PROPOSALS
MINISTER AT TOXIC TO CON-
TINUE THE NEGOTIATIONS.
Proposition Not to Be Construed an
ltimatum-Japanese Reply De
layed by Minister'S Sickness.
FURTHER PROPOSALS

PARIS December 19.-Russia has made
another move toward avoiding a rupture
with Japan, and there is reason to believe
IT Will be followed in a few days by the
submission of a second proposition. tending
to ameliorate the present strained s.tua-
ton
The action already taken consists in Civ
ing assurances that the first proposition
which the car approved not in any
sense an ultimatum, sine qua non, but
was preliminary step tending toward
pacific adjustment
This declaration is considered by the Of
fcials here removing one of the most
dangerous aspects of the situation, as it
has been asserted that Russia's proposition
was practically an ultmatum which on
being rejected by Japan made a rupture
certain.
On the contrary Russia's assurances per-
nit Baron de RoSen. the Russian minister
at Tokyo. to continue the negotiations even
beyond the terms of the frs, proposition.
The Russian authorities have not yet def
nitely been advised of JapaH'S rejection or
the proposition, but if the rejection is Of
fcially communicated another Russian
proposition will be made. looking toward
the avoidance of a rupture. The nature of
the terms of this further proposition is not
disclosed, as it depends Japan's reply
but Russia's intention to make another
proposition is considered to be a distinct
amelioration of the situation.
Japan Sends an UItimatum
LONDON, December ia special dis
patch from Tientsin says 1t is reported that
Japan has sent ultimatum to Russia.
The report from Ttentsin that Japan had
sent ultimatum TO Russia Is not
frmed from any source up to 6 o'clock this
evening. 1t is regarded as impossible that
such important news should first come from
Tientsin.
No Money for Russia in London.
LONDON. December 19.-The Rothschilds
have heard nothing of any suggestion that
Russia will attempt to raise loan of S125,-
100000, or another amount. in Great Britain
end they declare that the report is palpably
unfounded Russia, they say, could not
raise a loan here and judging from their
latest advices from Paris it would probably
be equally difficult for Russia to raise more
money in France.
The Associated Press is informed from
other quarters that even We're a Russian
loan issued elsewhere there is little likeli-
hood of any portion of il being underwritten
In London.
Delayed by Minister'S Indisposition.
TOXIC. December 19-Japans answer to
Russia has not yet been sent. Owing to
the indisposition of the Russian minister.
Baron de Rosen, it will be delayed probably
for day or two.
Russia's Reply Unsatisfactory.
The State Department has received
cablegram from Mr.. Griscom, our minister
at Tokyo. saying that Japan has received
the Russian reply to her ultImatum and re-
CARDS it as unsatisfactory This is the first
cablegram the department has received
from Mr. Griscom in some time and is the
only information il has had bearing on he
negotiations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Trust Company suspends.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Decombsr 1i.-.
The EIampden Trust Company OF tiiis city,
capital 100000 suspended today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
QUIET DAY PLANNED
Government Officials Will
Observe Christmas at Home.
FEW TO LEAVE THE CITY
FAMILY PARTIES TO BE THE GEN
FRAL ORDER.
Cabinet Ministers, Chiefs of Bureaus
and Their Assistants Ready
for the Holidays.

Christmas day among the officials of the
several departments will be. in all, respects,
a day of reunions where that happy condi-
ton can be arranged and few, if any, of
the men who direct the machinery of the
various branches of the government serv-
ice will eat their turkey and cranberries,
their mince pie and plum pudding away
from their own homes. Christmas dinners
in Washington are generally confined to
family affairs. and there will be no de-
parture this year from the prevailing Gus
tom.
The Postmaster General and Mrs. Payne
will have a quiet dinner and spend the
day at their home in Washington: Robert
J. Wynne the genial first assistant post
master general will only have five of his
children with him this Christmas, one of
his boys Capt. Robert ]. Wynne being
with his company of marines down Pana-
maward looking after the interests of the
United States. Being man patterned
after the prevailing idea of what an Amer1-
can should be, Mr.. Wynne is decidedly
domesticated and objects to dinners away
from his home when such are not demand
ed by the requirements of his official posi-
ton.
expected to have his sister from California
with him and his wife for the annual DIN,
ner, but she was detained by illness. and
will not be able to reach Washington by
that date.
Third Assistant Postmaster General Mad
den will spend the day with his wife and
two children and Mr.. Bristow has a SINH
larly pleasant program mapped out for the
day. The city postmaster Mr.. Merritt,
likewise has no outside engagements for
the day.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21
HIRED GIRLS AND ELEGANT APES.

We believe we have never attempted
to illumine the hired girl question,
but we can do it.
Not many years ago there were
plenty of hired girls, and plenty
more seeking employment, and
generally, they were nice, clean, in
telligent girls, the daughters of re.
spectacle parents in the neighbor-
hood. They worked out" moi
from sheer necessity, but from a
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

for having arid land withdrawn
from settlement, to the amount of
one million acres in each of the
arid States, as soon as a feasible
plan for its irrigation is proposed,
and makes the land itself security
for the payment of the cost of con-
structing the works, allowing fair
profit to the constructor. The State
is quite reasonable in the matter of
profit allowing the constructor him
self to say just what it shall be.
Some time ago the writer was per-
mitted to know how constructors,
under the Carey Act, figure. The
proposition covered a 10000 acre
tract Of frstrate land. The engi-
neers' estimates fixed the cost of
the plant at $I7o, 900. The intend
ing constructor added a little mat
ter Of $4,000 for good measure.
Then he calculated the interest on
5000, 900 at 8 per cent for 10 years.
That brought the cost up to $780,
600. Then he threw in an item of
$4,000 as kind of an accident in
surance and added $25, 900 for luck.
That brought it up to $500, 900.
Next he provided a little fund of
$50, 900 to cover errors and unfor-
seen contingencies. This made the
cost $3.50, 900, or SIS an acre. But
he had not figured in any profit for
himself, yet. 1t might be that all
of the land would not be settled in
10 years, so to make matters reas'
onably safe he added a little item
of $2oo,o 900 to cover that contin'
gency. Then he put into the i'm
migration fund $4,000. into the
secret service fund $4,000, into
the brass collar fund, $40, 900, into
the jack rabbit fund, $4,000, into
the blue stocking fund $1,000, and
into the artistic swindle fund $25,'
600. This brought the actual cosl
of the proposed works up to $780,,
600. and nothing whatever counted
as profit. But this constructor was
a modest gentleman and very en-
thusiastic for the upbuilding o
Idaho. He was willing to make
personal sacrifice for the good 0
his country. He thought that ate
the years of hard, devoted work
under the Carey Act, he would fee
like retiring and spending his de
clining years in peaceful contempla
ton of. the noble work he hac
wrought. He thought $4,000
would do the business comfortabl,
and so he would make the price O
water rights $25 the acre-aggre
gate cost of plant including profit
l$75o;ooo.
When the full force of that con
structor's magnanimity soaked int
us, we fell down before him an
clasped his knees while tears {
gratitude as big as glass marble
rolled down our cheeks and mad
little cavorting rivulets on the line
leum.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

wholesome desire to contribute to
their own support and thereby light
en- the burden of their parents
They were admitted into the homes
oftheir employers on terms OF prac-
teal equality. They sat in the
parlor with the family, ate at the
same table, often slept with the
grown daughter of the house, II
there was one, and frequently be-
came her bosom companion.
If there was a son, it not seldom
happened that he wooed and won
the hired girl and she made him
splendid wife.
In those days there was not
,tinge of disgrace or degradation a.
bout working out. The hired girl
was not looked upon as a mental.
She was not made to feel that she
was an inferior creature. On the
other hand, she was respected by
every member of the family she
served, and if she had fair portion
of those amiable qualities which be-
long to sound headed and tender
hearted girls in general, she was
loved. And it was right-before
God it was right.
That class of hired girls has been
gradually disappearing for years.
Now but few of them are left, and
none seek household Employment
unless driven to it by dire necessity.
Domestic help has become des-
perately scarce, and there are those
who advocate the importation of
swarms of servant girls from Europe
while others clamor for repeal OF
the Chinese exclusion act. They
say that American girls will no
longer "work out" in families; that
they are grown too vain for that;
that they are not taught at home
how to work; that they aspire to
clerkship and all that kind of thing
1t is true, American girls will not
"work OUT" and God bless them,
they ought not do so until Amer
lean families become fit places fol-
American girls to work in. There
is not father or mother in the lane
with a proper sense of manly and
womanly pride, who would not
rather see their daughter digging
post holes and pitching hay thar
working in a family where a decent
sensitive girl is regarded as i'm
measureably beneath a bull pup
and" said one elegant lady
who was about to engage girl
"You will not be allowed to sit a
the family table. You must TAX
your meals in the kitchen" Tn
girl turned on her heel and wen
home. All honor to the pride O
that girl. "You must not come int
the house by the front entrance,
said another elegant lady to tht
hired girl, "Nor will you be allowe'
to come into the sitting room unles
summoned" To the devil with al
such contemplate foppery, say we
No; American girls will not wor
out, but it is not because they ar
| vain; it is not because they hat
household work of itself, but BIZ
cause of the brutality of elegar
E apes who have become degenerat
Y in their s1avish mimicry of ari!
| tocracy. That is the round, III
: vanished truth of it.
: We glory in the spunk of tt
: American girl, we glory in hi
It manliness. so to speak, for refusin
a to submit to the insults and, de,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21
FUNDAMENTALLY OF coMsTRUc
TORS.

The Carey Act is simplicity itself
and the whole substance of it can
be told in sentence. 1t provides
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

radiation involved in working out
For the elegant apes we have a
large allopatbic dose of contempt