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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-10
PROGRESS
IN DISTRICTS GROWTH
Thomas w. Smiths Address
to Board of Trade.
NEED OF POTOMAC BRIDGES
Higher Salaries for Policemen, Destruc-
ton of UnSanitaIy Houses, anc
Dredging of River Advocated.

Questions of Importance to the Dis
trict are brought out in the annual re-
port of Thomas W. Smith. president OF
the Washington Board of Trade. read
last night at the annual meeting, at the
New Willard Hotel The statement
touches upon the eventful developments
In the Capital in the past year. and
contains recommendations for the
future work OF the board.
Out Of the sixteen candidates nonni-
mated to fill the vacancies caused By the
expiration Of the terms of ten mem
bers' eight Of the-sold directors were
chosen. The only new members are
former Surgeon General George NJ.
sternberg and Robert N. Harper. pres
ident of the new American National
Bank
The old directors chosen were Theo-
dore w. Noyes. r. Ross Perry. Charles
J. Bell. Frederic L Moore, B. Il War
ner. William V. Cox. ]. H. Small ir.
Henry F. Blount.
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CLEVER METHOD USED
IN BIG BANK ROBBERY

The Comptroller Of the Currency Of
the Treasury Department this morning
received word that Harry J. Hoover.
former cashier Of the Peoples National
BanS OF Newark, Ohio. had been ar
rested, charged with being an embezzler
in the sum Of $4,000. 1t is alleged
Hoover was able TO embezzle this large
sum and escape detection for the period
he did by manipulating re certificate
OF deposit register Of the bank
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MAY RECOGNIZE
REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

Japan. in the opinion Of Kogoro Taxa
Mrs. the japanese minister, viii, in due
course OF time. recognize the new re-
public of Panama The minister Is
keeping the Tokyo government closely
advised OF the progress of events in the
lsthmus. and the course Of the Wash
ington government
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MRS. J0HNS0N'S WILL
OFFERED FOR PROBATE

The VIII OF Harriet Lana Johnson was
today admitted to probate. The execu-
tors. Josiah Lee johnson, D. x. E..
Fisher. William @. Johnson, and May
>. Kennedy, are required by Justice
Anderson TO enter into bond in the sum
Of 100000 for the performance of the
trust.
The. estate left by Mrs. Johnson is
valued at 1900. 600
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TEACHERS MAY RECEIVE
ROYALTIES ON TEXT BOOKS

The District Commissioners received
today from the Corporation Counsel an
opinion in which il Is held there is no
law in the District preventing school
teachers or Others connected with the
public schools from receiving royalties
on text books which they have copy
righted The opinion was requested by
Secretary Rodrick. OF the Board of Edu-
cation.
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DR.. A. [. LAWRENCE
GRANTED A DIVORCE

Justice Anderson has announced his
decision In the Lawrence divorce pro-
ceedings. which have been pending for
some time in the District Supreme
Court. The proceedings were instituted
by DR.. Albert L. Lawrence for divorce
on statutory grounds DR.. Lawrence
was granted a divorce. and his former
wife. Annie Bell Lawrence. is given per-
mission TO visit her child. which was
given IN custody 10 DR.. Lawrence.
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ASKS NEW ENGINEER
AT WASHINGTON ASYLUM

W. H. Stoutenburgh. intendant of the
Washington Asylum, has informed the
Commissioners that the appropriation
act for the current fiscal year carries
the item engineer FOR hospital for
seven and one-half months at $50 per
month
He recommends the position be filled
by appointment of suitable man to
take effect September 20.
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dustries u is in the interest OF our
people as "a whole. both because OF its
importance from the broad standpoint Of
international policy, and because eco
nomicany il intimately concerns as 60
develop and secUce the rich Cuban mar
ket for our farmers. artisans. merchants.
and manufacturers.
Finally. il is desirable as guaranty
OF the good faith of our nation toward
her young sister republic 10 the south.
whose welfare must ever be closely
bound with ours. We gave her liberty.
We are knit To her by the memories of
the blood apG che courage of our sol
diers who fought for her in war; by
the memories of the wisdom and in
tegrity of our administrators who
served her in peace and who started
her so well or the difficult path of self
government We must help her on
ward and upward. and in helping her We
shall help ourselves.
Support Legislation.
The foregoing considerations caused
the negotiation of the treaty with Cubs
and its ratification by the Senate. They
now with equal force support the legis-
lation by the Congress which by the
terms Of the treaty is necessary to rem
such legislation would come perilOusly
near repudiadon of the pledged faith
of the nation.
/ transmit herewith the treaty. as
amended by the Senate and ratified by
the Cuban government.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
White House. Nov. 10, 1908.
At 12:l7 O'Clock Mr.. Allison of Iowa
moved adjournment and the Senate
agreed.
Immediately aiterward the Republican
caucus went into session TO consider
committee assignments to I'LL vacancies.
The members assembled in the Marble
Room. Senator Allison presided.
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lSTKMIAN WATERWAY
SHOULD BE AT PANAMA

IAN true friends OF an isthmian
waterway will support the Admins
tration in its efforts to construct the
Panama Canal" said Senator Shelby
M. cullom, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs. Now
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Rebuilding Long Bridge.

In his report Mr.. Smith smoke of the
recent Long Bridge accident. He said
the rebuilding of the structure has Ione
been contention between the CORPORA
ton 10 which Congress gave its ,,se
and the public He said the bridge had
long since passed the meridian Of IFS
use
Work on the Aqueduct Bridge and the
report of the committee on commerce
and manufactures were also subjects
discussed by Mr.. Smith. In speaking Of
IRE insurance rates IN the District, he
said: ~
1t seems to me to be unjust To any
person who has been guaranteed i'm
munity from loss by fire to be charged
iOo cents for immunity for a period Of
one year with a guarantee that a fair
amount OF that sum would be returned
al the end Of the year. TO receive then
only 10 cents out Of the 100.
This Is a parallel case TO the condi-
tons now concerning the business men
OF TINS city with reference to loss by
nre as against premiums paid for a
guarantee l present this fact TO You.
hoping that the new committee on in
surance viii take 1t up. and that # viii
investigate and report TO a meeting of
the Board OF Trade on this subject.
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With reference TO the sanitary ar
engagements of the city. Mr.. Smith said;
"A law for the destruction of unsani-
tary dwellings in the District is needed
The prevention OF tuberculosis is posi-
Die. and II necessary law should he
enacted with provisions that will pre-
vent the spread OF that disease. IT Is
urgently recommended that all cases OF
consumption be reported 10 the Health
OIhcer OF the District IN the same man.
her as are cases OF typhoid fever. IN
order that their number and location
may be definitely ascertained. so thai
suitable instructions hay be given II
the patient and to those exposed TO tht
disease necessary to prevent its spread -
Higher salaries for policemen was
urged By the president of the board
he maintained the prosperity OF the
country had worked against Washing
ton. inasmueh as Congress having an
propriated a sufficient sum OF money
and authorized an increase in the num-
Der Of patrolmen. that the compenss tfon
offered. to wit. $40 per year. or $50 a
month. has not been great enough IN
induce the class of men required by the
police regulations to apply for positions
on the force.
This Is not very gratifying condf-
ton" he said. we need the protection
Of these forty men,"
More Schools Needed.
More schools are needed In the Dis
trict.'' said ar. Smith He also spoke of
the new public buildings. and urged that
Congress take prompt action to provide
for a police court.
In speaking of the development of the
water supply. he recommended that the
channel of the Potomac be improved. A
depth Of at least twenty feet should be
provided.
He further spoke of the filthy condi-
ton CT the water. and said rapid prog
ress was being made In the filtration
lant
AS a Convention City.
W shington as a convention city was
uert med. and a recommendation was
r.aa@ hat the board should bend every
rr- ward inducing associations to
hefs
made an appeal that the
in the District should be
sea 'er. He heartily Endorsed
Il rng IN project. especially as
1t ade crossings.
IT, rotary Harries shows
thirty abers have been adj
mitted n year. Deaths and
resignatio moved forty-two.
The total rier-i is now so. The
financial col. sil.er = the board is excel
lent
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

! NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PART
NERSHIP-Notice is hereby given that
the partnership heretofore existing BE-
Bee. trading and doing business as the
SmOot & McBee Advertising Co. has
this day been dissolved. Waiter McBee
retiring Charles s. SmoOt Will collect
all outstanding claims and pay ali OF
the Indebtedness OF the late firm, the
Smoot & McBee Advertising Co CHAS
S. SM0OT, WALTER McBEE. October
q. 1903.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-Tak
notice that the certificate of sale for
taxes for part OF lot T. square 1853 Wash
ingtOn D. c.. on the 10th day OF April
1896 issued to John @. Slater. trustee
has been lost or destroyed and that I
have applied TO the Commissioners D.
c. TO issue to me duplicate Of said GER
tificate. (Name) JOHN @. SLATER
Trustee. address, Room s. Gunton
Building. noI0H
SPECIAL NOTICE Revival services.
Epworth NJ Z. Church. South Seventh
and A Streets northeast. Rev. D. l.
BlakemOre, pastor. Attend with your
friends. nol0-zs
Unusual" Printing.
- Those requiring PrintinF Of difficult or
-u1usual character-someth'ng extra fne-no
longer find e necessary 20 60 10 New York
or Chicaro We have one OF the largest
and best equipped plants ia the country. ana
guarantee highest satisfaction and loves
prices consistent with best work
r. We have our own illustrating artists, too.
GEO. G. HOWARD. PA 18th ST.
PRINTER ENGRAFER, AND STATiOSER
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from all contracts in connection with
the construction Of the canal.
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e0Eg TaIY We never allow complaint
SCNH aSSNs Of any Iefnissness On our
Fart 10 remain against Us, for We rightA wrong
as soon as sc know t.
THE ALLEGHENY COMPANY. SIS nth st. NV.
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THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY
peciaI Money
Saving Values.
Carpets and Rugs

The largest assortment OF the latest
styles OF Carpets shown in the city;
every grade OF floor covering from the
cheapest 10 the best
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-11-28
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS.
SaItpetre in Meat.

A Russian chemist, Orlow. has been
studying one phase OF the meat ques-
ton, and announces the result. The
question he undertook to solve was
whether the practice of adding salt
petre to ham and sausages to improve
their color injured those articles. Ac-
cOrding to report in the "Revue In
ternationals des Fasifications, he
reached the following conclusions:
IF meat be cooked with saltpetre
there Is no change in color, but II the
same meat be cooked with potassium or
sodium nitrite we always get the, at
tractive coloring of the shops. 1t is
probable, therefore. that by but lit
tie known process the nitrate Is con-
verified into nitrite, and that meat in
contact with this nitric is colored red,
On examining such meats they are al
ways found to contain nitrites.
These substances in doses exceeding
from O.O5O to O.150 gramme are poi
sonous, producing enfeeblement of the
brain and irritation of the digestive
organs. In these meats there is, there
FORE contained more nitrites than the
doses given in medicine for an aver
age of OH gramme per 100 is found
in such meats. The formation of nj
trites takes place within the meat it
self, for it takes some time to change
from nitrate: to nitrlte. The latter
preserves the meat, and another proof
of this is that in the meats that spoil
readily the amount of nitrites is either
very small, or there are none at all. A
meat that does not contain enough nj
trites, therefore, may be considered ms
suspicious. 10 =, go.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-11-28
RED MEN AT FOOTBALL.
The Carlisle Indians Make Tougher
Players Than White Lads.


AS a matter of prosaic fact, these
Woodworking and well-behaved wards
of the nation have been from the start
models of disciplined and educated con-
duct on the football field, as we'll as off
and only their snCcks OF black hair and
their swarthy faces mark them as UNI
usual or odd when they line up against
the pale faces"
These lads are intensely fond of
football, and they have left in them an
inherited Indifference to hurts and
toughness of fibre that are their
strongest qualities when added to
swiftness and agility of movement. |
have seen them play through hard
game without one call for time CUT
because of injury, and nearly every
one who has seen them play must
have noticed the fierceness of their
tacklng, and their fashion OF breaking
out of scrimmage on the rebound
like so many rubber balls. In run
ming, tackling and aggressive line
breaking, the Indians are unsurpassed.
Their weakness is an argument in
favor of the claim that football is a
question of the trained mind as much
as the powerful body. 1t Is mental
alertmess and adaptability that the
Carlisle players find themselves lack
ing when they meet the first-class
teams. To analyze and meet the un.
expected, and to solve the problems of
Infnncn nf q
style to which they are net accus-
toned puzzles the slower and less eff
fectively trained mind of the Indian,
and he cannot make as quick a change
OF mental base as the white youth.
This is TO be expected. and the aston
player is able to make the showing he
does. He comes to carlisle from tne
reservation little savage, and in per-
haps half dozen years he is fashioned
into the clean, alert. self-Te. pcct.nS
young man who delights those who
know good football played with ardor,
yet with self-contro and intelligence
of a high order While his opponents
shout and rave in moments of great
stress, he plays the game in silence,
without show of emotion. whether he
wins or loses-the type of the true
sportsman. He Is vindicatiCn, both
of the wholesome training of football
in the development of young man
hood and of the magnificent work ac-
complished by the policy and life work
OF Col. Pratt at Observation-Disclosures
Sporting News.
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Bath Novelties,

Glass for bath and toilet odds and
ends is wrought into towal racks, comb
and brush racks, soap trays, tooth
brush holders, sponge racks, and en-.
tire bathroom sets.
Maplewood made into a bathtub is
originally patented and can be turned
upside down and become chair when
its lavatory duties are done.
A bath trunk is quite as unique and
is loved by the tourist who goes to out
of-the-way byways and highways Of
the earth. 1t is made Of composition
stuff that suggests leather, and has a
clOse-fitting cover to shut down, over
tapping like trunk lid, and all Of it
looking emlnently respectable when
faulty strapped and duly labeled,
One medium-siZed can be metamor-
phosed into tabouret when occasion
demands.
Aluminium is one Of the new bath
panned ware and divers sorts Of zinc
and tin lined with porcelain and glass
have their admirers.
There are self-adjusting rubber
baths which jump into shape at the
turning Of screw, and have stands
so that they may be lowered and raised
at will.
English bath modes lead, Canadian
follow, and Bombay and other tropical
ideas are we'll known to the occiden-
tai maker and buyer of fine baths
Chicago Tribune.
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planted. A sloping bridgeway runs
up from the mouth of the hogshead to
an elevated platform built across the
other end Of the room. A windlass,
with wheel above, is arranged on the
platform and opposite the hogshead
with which the hogs can be easily
hauled out, after scalding, onto the
rlatform for scraping, and later hauled
up and hung to the cross pole overhead
for cleaning. This arrangement does
away with lot Of break-back lifting,
and the largest hogs can be handled
with ease. When not in use the hogs
head should be kept full Of water, to
keep the slaves from falling in. A
hog slaughter house Of this kind,
which can also be put to a dozen diff
ferent uses, does not cost much, and
is q great labor and money saver. The
hogs are rolled in onto the platform
through the door shown. The bridge
way, from the mouth of the hogshead
to the platform, is movable.-Dennis
II. Stovall, in The Epitomist.
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"A Naval Feat at Malta.

A smart piece Of work was carried
out at. Malta recently by the naval
and. lockyard authorities, the entrance
to the Grand Harbor. 1000 feet across,
being completely closed against at;
tack from imaginary foes by gigan-
tic fence of interlacing steel hawsers
in tine short space of four hours.
The top rail of the fence, ten feet
above the surface of the water. was a
six-inch. hawser. supported by RATS
with projecting bowsprits. The bot
tom rail, another six-inch rope, was
lust level with the surface. Between
them were hawsers of smaller size
In. the middle was gate to allow OF
the passage of friendly ships. :. =.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC THE MOON.


Special Plates and Apparatus Used to
Secure Negatives.
With the application Of photography
to astronomy much attention has nat.
urally been given to lunar photogra.
ply. In 1910. less than one year after
Daguerre's discovery, DR.. John w.
Draper obtained the first photograph
Of the moon, but with small and i'm
perfect apparatus. The exposure time
required was twenty minutes. In 1862.
'63 very great advance was made by
his son, DR.. Henry Draper, who used a
powerful rejecting telescope of his
own construction. The image of the
moon on his photographs was slightly
less than one and One-half inches in
diameter.
Ten years later DR.. Lewis M. Ruth.
erford, of New York, secured many ex.
quisitely sharp lunar photographs.
using very different form of instru.
ment, a thirteen-inch refracting tele.
scope with Photographic corrector"
an additional lens, by means Of
which his visual telescope could be
converted into Photographic one.
BY the use Of method perfected by
the writer In 1900, the Yerkes refrac-
tor is made available for direct photo.
graphy Of the moon, planets, star clus.
tiers and so on. The method is ,ex-
tremely simple and economical and is
applicable to all visual telescopes. In
stead of the ordinary blue sensitive
Photographic plates, isochromatic
plates are used, which are very sensi-
tive to yellow light. Mounted in the
plate holder close in front Of the sensi-
tive plate is large, brilliantly trans.
parent yellow color screen or ray filter.
This excludes the out-of-fOcus blue
light, which would otherwise destroy
the sharpness Of the photograph, and
allows only the sharp yellow or visual
image to reach the sensitive plate.
With this arrangement the great tele-
scope photographs the moon with an
exposure of less than one second. On
account of the size and length of the
telescope and the effectiveness Of the
color screen method the resulting neg
atives show smaller details of the
moons surface than have been photo
graphed before,-Harper's Magazine.
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Pugnacious Cannibalis,n.

The largest known number of eggs
ever taken from a lobster was 9I,44O.
The average is 10000. The eggpro-
ducing capacity depends upon the size
of the female. One sixteen inches long
will lay $4,000 eggs, while one eight
inches will lay only 5000. Spawning,
according to the latest authorities. oc-
ours only every second year. The
Young lobster is Matched naked, hut
nature Immediately provides him with
an armor. In few days he sheds
this. grows little and gets second
armor. Three days later he gets. out
of that prison, grows little more and
Is again armored. BY rapid stages he
thus mouths and grows until big
enough for market. BY the time he is
five years old and weighs two pounds
he has had as many as twenty-five or
thirty different suits of clothes, or
shells. After that age he sheds only
once i'm about two years. He Is very
pugnacious while growing, and Is adj
dicted to active oannibalism, which
largely prevents artificial rearing
New York Press.
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Wife as HOSTAGE.

There was very human and NOV
ing little scene at Southwark police
court yesterday. Being ordered to pay
los. or go to prison for seven days, q
costermonger produced half crown
and begged to be allowed to go out and
earn the balance, stating that he had
a barrow load CT fruit spelling at the
police station.
The point then arose whether the
man could be trusted to return, where
upon his wife tearfully appealed to
the magistrate to allow her to be
locked up in her husbands place as a
hostage for his honesty. Touched by
her evident sincerity. Mr.. Chapman
reduced the fine to rs. 3D.. and the
couple left the court rejoicing.-Lon
don Mail.
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He Got II.

A typical instance of the war Office
methods is furnished by a correspon.
dent on one of our stations. An officer
having occasion for the use of screw
driver made application for the supply
of that humble but handy implement
from the government stores. His ap-
plication was handled about in the
usual manner from officer to officer.
and finally reached the upper authori.
ty, from whom reply filtered back by
the same devious ways to the effect
that screw drivers were only supplied
in tool boxes, and not singly. Nothing
daunted, the officer at once applied
for a box of tools, and after the usual
circumlocutionary tactics was in
formed that boxes of tools were only
supplied to carpenters shops. BY
this time the officer. who had quite
forgotten what he had wanted the
screw driver for, had thoroughly en-
tered into the spirit of the campaign,
and his next application was for a
carpenters shop. He got it!-Tit-
Bits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-11-28

II don't have to have my life in
sured," said the business man to the
agent, but l do want to know how
life insurance originated. Can you
tell me?" 81 can" the agent an
swered. at originated in 17O6 in
London. In that year there was
FORMED the first life insurance COM
pany. 1t was called the Amicable So.
ciety for Perpetual Assurance Of
flee. 1t was u mutual benefit concern.
Each member, without reference to
age, paid n fixed admission fee and a
fixed annual charge per share on one
TO three shares, and at the end Of a
year a portion of the fund accumulat-
ed was divided among the heirs of
those who had died, in accordance
with the number of shares each dead
person had held. Out Of this company,
with its crude and imperfect methods,
life insurance as 1t exists to-day has
grown. Did you, by the way, know
that emperors and kings can rarely
get their lives insured. so great Is the
peril of assassination that they stand
n?"-Philadelphia Record.