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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
sLooP-LAUNCH COUNTESS.
Forty-Foot Racer Enrolled With Cap'-
tai Club Fleet.

Tho fortv-foot racing sloop yacht Couh-
,.ss which has Just been built by Messrs
A Dean & Son of Alexandra LOT MT. -
I,,ph Duffy of this city. has arrived III 'hi'
,,,.bor and &c now anchored with the Capt.
-, Yacht Club feet, IN which clup she mas
teep enrolled The advent OF thls yacht
-,orks the first of her class seen IN THESE
r,t.rs She was designed by Mr.. DuHy
Nth a view to speed, while at the same
lime she has ample accommodations Ior
,ru,sine making her an admirable craft LOT
these waters.
countess is 3S feet over all and ~ feet
r, the water line, which is exactly one-haiI
htr length In other words only one-naiI
the boat Is in the water. 1t seems naroly
nossible to float a 3S-foot boat on lo-1oot
,tar lin. hut so accurately were the cal
.ul.tions made and the weights determined
That when launched she was seen 70 come
eyac tly 10 her designed water nne Sne mas
a beam of 10 feet and her drauent Vi nun
s barely 8 inches; her fin, however, which
cal rles a small iron casting. draws feet
G inches, while her steel center board which
Is housed in the fin. draws feet when low
cred
copper fastened throughout, the cabin and
cockpit being of cherry, while all nttlngs
arc of polished brass and bronze she car
ries a hollow mast of very light weight, the
mast Weighing but 156 pounds, although
il is 80 feet long and ~ inches in diameter,
this being the first hollow mast in Wash
inston and is an innovation In these wa
tiers. Her sails were made by Mcclellan
of Fall River. Mass, and measure nearly
1000 square feet. including her two light
racing sails, which are of Egyptian cotton.
Her model is entirely different from any,
thing seen here before and all indications
po,nt to a remarkably fast and able boat
under all conditions of sailing.
She was launched from Messrs. Dean &
SONS ship yard Saturday, September "a
with the usual launching ceremony, bottle
OF wine being broken ever her bow as she
slid into the water. She will be given
thorough test this fall, and will again be
taken out of the water at her builders
yard when her interior fittings will be
completed during the winter.
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en-. iron and marble construction. until the

en-. iron and marble construction, until the
accessory devices became too large and
too numerous to be mounted on the elabor-
ate structure that is still called the SWITCH
board. These devices were then assigned to
supplementary boards and later to rooms
or vaults specially prepared for them
This separation of the controlling mech
anism made it necessary to adept a svs-
tenn by which they could be manipulate
from distance, SO that We now have the
operating switchboard from which tho nm
paratus controlling the generators is on.
srated. w
With the development Of the power sta
ton 1t has become more and more imnor
tant to provide against all sources of in
terruption. The operators at the switch
board must be protected from accidents in
the. engine room. Therefore. the SWITCH
board is now frequently walled or from the
generating room. Now. the next stage
has been reached, and we find in the latest
Design of generating station a complete
separation of the generating room and
switchboard, the two simply forming indie
pendent parts of one building The gen
Grating station. first divided into parts0the
boiler room and the engine room-has now
been divided again, giving us the SWITCH
room. or really switch house. as the nee
essities require that this part of the build
ing be constructed with several floors.
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FREDERICK D. MORRISON DEAD.
Recognized Authority on Education of
the Blind

A dispatch from Baltimore, Md. last
night says: Frederick Douglas Morrison,
superintendent of the Maryland School for
the Blind, and one of the foremost living
authorities on the education of the blind,
DIED about O'Clock yesterday afternoon at
st. Joseph's Hospital, where he had under
gone an operation for appendicitis on Mon
day last. The body now reposes in the SUI
perintendents residence at the school, Mr..
Morrison's home for the last forty years of
his useful life. Mr.. Morrison was taken ill
last Sunday night, and on Monday it was
decided to have him opera ted on. He was
Immediately conveyed to the hospital and
the operation was performed. He had APP
peared to be in perfect health up to the
time of the attack on Sunday night, but
the surgeons recognized that there was lit
tie chance of his recovery, as the appendix
was ruptured and in a gangrenous condi-
tlon. He fingered until yesterday after
noon, however, when he passed away
peacefully and with little suffering, sur
rounded by his relatives
Mr. Morrison was a native of Maryland
and was descended from sturdy Scotch
English stock He was q son of Mansel
Edward and Susannah Elizabeth Morrison,
and was born near Belair, Hartford county
on September 80, 1897
Mr. Morrison was generally recognized
as a world authority on the education and
training of the blind. He had a theory
that the age Of trades has passed, and that
a man should be educated in such a man.
ner as to equip him for fitting into any OPP
portunity which might present itself in life
Therefore he believed in educating the
hand as we'll the head, as a result of
which he established the extensive system
or manual training at the school, Pupils
are given the whole course. however and
are not permitted to center themselves upon
one branch to the exclusion either of
others or OF the mental faculties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
CoCK-CRoWING AS AN ART
How French BOOSTERS Are Trained for
Competition

farls Correspondence OF the London EXPRESS
Great preparations are being made in
the northern districts of France for cock
Growing competition which is to take
place In Paris next month.
Inc French Bantam Club have made the
discovery that the best growing cocks are
those whose hens are the best layers. and
Tor the time being cock-crowing seems like
~ to GUST cock-fghting as a popular pas
time
owners take immense pains to make their
COCKS crow well. One gentleman. who Is
hoping to take a prize at the competition.
showed me two very fine birds, which he
keeps In cages In his stable The cages are
SO covered over that. though there is plentv
OF air, no light can penetrate
EVERY day the cages are taken out ,nto
the open air and the covering suddenly re-
moved, when the cocks Immediately begin
70 crow loudly under the evident impression
mat they have oversight themselves. and
that the dawn is far advanced.
AFTER quarter Of an hour of this exer-
else the birds, who must consider the days
extremely short and the nights extremely
long. are taken back to the stable and
covered over again. This goes on for several
weeks before the competition, and increases
me ,oirds desire to crow long and loudly
every time he sees the light
:. The birds are fed in a special manner
peculiar TO each owner the secret of which
Is jealousy guarded. For the three weeks
prior TO the competition the food Is care
1ully dosed, and made as stimulating and
eAcitlns as possible. The bird is then sent
70 the snow During the Growing contest a
tmekeeper with a chronometer stands in
'front.' OF each bird, and marks the number
Oh crows and the variation of notes in a
given time. generally fifteen minutes,
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SUICIDE OF NEW YORK cLUBMAN.
| His Suit for Heavy Damages for SLAM
der Was Docketed for Today.

NEW YORK, October 10.-Frank De
Peyster Hall, member of several promi-
nent clubs, today shot and killed himself.
A suit brought by him against two other
clubmen alleging SANDER and demanding
100000 damages was to have come up In
the courts today.
The fact of the institution Of these SIAN
der suits only became public during the
past week, although the first suits were be-
gun last May. These were against Alfred
H. Bond, president of the Calumet Club,
and George A. Cormack, secretary of the
New York Yacht Club. Hall alleged that
both men, in CONVEX sation with others lad
accused him of disgraceful practices while
he was a member of the Calumet Club.
The answer filed was to the effect that
the statements made were true and the
conversation privileged. Hall denied the
truth of these charges, and on last wed
nesday from Supreme Justice LeVlntr1tt
secured an order requiring Mr.. BOND 10
give bill of particulars. On the setting
of this motion all the papers were filed IN
the supreme court and the fact of the suits
became public.
Frank De Peyster Hall was member OF
an old New York family, and until recently
was president of the firm of F. De Peyster
Hall & Co., wine importers. His reslgna-
tiCn as a member of the Calumet club was
requested on July IS, 1908, and was 1mme-
diately given. Hall was also member OF
the st. Anthony Club, the New York Yacht
Club and the Trinity Alumni.
In his suits Mr.. Hall alleged that the
statements made were false and malicious
ly made; that because of these statements
he was obliged to resign the presidency OF
F. De Peyster Hall & Co; that his business
and social acQuaintances refused longer 10
transact business with him or to associate
with him. and that he had been obliged to
abandon entirely his occupation.
Mr.. Hall was about fifty years OF age,
was devoted to athletics, having a good
athletic record in college, where he was a
member of the Delta Psi fraternity.
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Rock Creek Park in Pleasing Garb.

Engineer Commissioner Biddle yesterday
afternoon drove through Rock Creek Ma
tionai Park. and today he stated that he
has never seen the park so beautiful as at
this time. The water in Rock Creek, he
said. is perfectly clear, the trees are taking
on their variegated autumn colors and the
roads throughout the park are in splendid
condition. That portion of the park north
OF the Military road. along the dirt road
way. Col. Biddle says. is particularly beau
tiful at this time. and visitors to the park
within the next ten days will have an op-
portunity to view the reservation at it's
best
A new footpatn has been constructed
along the west side of the creek, north of
the Military road. for pedestrian visitors to
the park. Col. Biddle stated that hundreds
OF Washington residents enjoyed the beau
ties of the national reservation yesterday,
many in carriages, others on horseback and
still others on foot.
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AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
Fire in Brush Causes Alarm-Flower
Show at Curtiss School.

Officer G. w. Neale of the Q street police
station was somewhat excited yesterday
afternoon about / o'clock out on the Mill
tary road. in Rock Creek Park, when, from
some unknown cause, fire broke out in soma
underbrush nearby. For time the blaze
babe fair to spread over great area, but
the policeman, with the aid of some boys,
put it out after an acre of ground had been
burned over.
There were impromptu athletic sports on
Analostan Island yesterday afternoon. Bart
Mcclure one of the contestants, sprained
his right arm so badly that he had to be
removed to the Emergency Hospital.
Frank Gooch, residing at 40 10th street
northwest, narrowly escaped a serious in
jury yesterday afternoon near the Zoo
Park. He jumped from trolley car while
1t was moving and struck his head against
q pole near the track Persons who were
near rendered aid and he was soon able to
go on his way.
\ special meeting of the congregation of
Evangelical Lutheran Church of George
Town will be held some time this week to
take steps toward filling the pulpit vacancy
left by the resignation of the pastor. Rev.
Stanley Billheimer. At meeting held last
week the following officers of the church
were elected: Elders, Henry F. Kunkul and
A +. Beatty; deacons. William A. Pettis.
Henry G. Wagner and James M. Richard
son; treasurer, DR.. Maurice II. Walmer Te-
elected; secretary. Miss George G. Wen
ner (re-elected). A. P. Beatty was elected
delegate to the eighty-ffth convention of
the Maryland synod, which will meet at
Martinsburg, w. Va, October 81.
The marriage of Miss Matte Louise Crop
ley sister of Charles c. CrOpley of the
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
and Thomas Stacy Wood of Georgetown is
announced to take place tomorrow evening
al st. Johns Church.
James A. Garfield Of the Department of
ODD obor te c1I,n I,,11I - \
liver an address next Saturday evening at
st. Adams parish house on the Murdoch
road. Tenleytown. His subject will be THE
Relation of Capital and Labor" The &C.
oasion will be the first fall meeting of the
Mems Club of St Adams parish
Arrangements have been made for an ex-
hibition tomorrow afternoon from to 6
o'clock in the Curtis school of flowers which
are the products of seeds and plants given
the pupils last spring to be planted and Gull
tivated. Parents and friends of the children
will be welcomed to the exhibit. which is
expected to be of an unusually interesting
nature,
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HUMANE SOCIETY AFFAIRS.
Report Of Agent Douglas for the
Month of September.

The members of the board of children's
guardians held their regular quarterly
meeting in the rooms of the board Satur-
day afternoon. Those present were: Agent
John w. Douglas, Thomas E. Sewell, Rabbi
Louis Stern, j. B. B. Topper, John F. Cook,
Mrs. Mcfarland. Mrs. Babson and Miss
Moore. Agent Douglas submitted his re-
port of the operations of the board for the
month of September as follows:
Cases involving 81 children were investi-
gated and suitable action taken with ref
erence to each. Twenty-one children were
committed to the guardianship of the board
until they attain majority. OF these 3 are
white and 10 colored; females and 10
males. Nine were regarded as deStltute vi
suitable home and Z as minor dellnquentS
and 5 as children of unfit parents: Inc
original placements of these II children
were as follows: Chldrens Temporary
Home, 4; boarding homes, IL; Hart Farm
School, 9; Junior Republic, 2; Industrial
Home School, / trial for indenture, l.
The names of 13 children were added to
the temporary rolls, of these being white
and 10 colored females and mares. ~
these IL, were afterward permanes dl.l ~
committed. ) returned to relatives or friends
and 3 remained on the rolls at the close OF
the month in boarding homes and at
hospital
There were, in all. children on the tenn
porary rolls at the close of the month, = III
boarding homes and 1 in institution
There were IS children of the feeble,m lnd.
ed class under care; 40 at Elwyn ana 10 at
Falls Church.
The report shows total number OF wards
of the board on the last day of september
of Its They are distributed in the sew
eral If situations and private homes. Inere
urere made during the month of September
IS free home placements. OF these 30 were
transfers from institutions or boarding hnnas
homes where board was paid to homes
r,hara No hoard was paid The remaining
% placements were transfers from one
home or institution where no board was was
paid to other homes or instltu,io,is "ne ere
no hoard was paid. Eleven children "ere
transferred from places where no board
was paid to boarding homes or ins.tut IONS
A communication has been receiver t nt a
the commissioners, inclosing a copy OF d
nrcposed curfew law. and requesting me
exnression of opinion thereon from the
hoard of childrens guardians .o+o-
AGENT Douglas also submitted STATE,
,,ant showing the expenses incurred ana
ne balance of the appropriation available.
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COLLEGE YEAR OPENS.
Services Under Auspices Of the George
town UNIVERSITY.

The college year at Georgetown Univer-
sity has opened. the regular academic
courses having been formally begun yester-
day morning. The services were held IN
Dahlgren Memorial Chapel in the univer-
s.ty grounds. Mass was celebrated by the
Rev. Jerome Daugherty, president Of the
institution, who also pronounced the bene-
diction. Rev. Charles Macksey delivered
the sermon, taking as his subject, The
Influence of the Holy Ghost on the Forma-
ton of a College Man"
DR.. Daugherty was assisted in the mass
by Rev. David Hillhouse Buell.. as deacon,
ard Rev. Mr. John Cassidy, as subdeacon.
The master of ceremonies Rev. Mr..
John Daley. For the first time in the his
tory of the institution all departments of
the university took part in the opening ex-
ercises. The faculty occupied the s1nctu-
airy. The varsity choir assisted in the pro-
gram with several chorus and solo Selec-
lions
Many changes have occurred in the fac
ulty. One of the most important is the
transfer of Father Ennis to Boston Father
Ennis has served on the faculty at George
town at various periods. and is extremely
popular with the students. His removal
brings to Washington Father Cunningham
of Jersey City, who will succeed Father
Ennis.
Father Raley, who has been serving as
project of discipline, has been sent to ia
maica West Indies, and is succeeded in his
former post here by Father Mulligan of st.
Andrew s. on the-Hudson. Father Conway.
who was formerly project of schools, has
been made professor of seniors. Father
Mullan. formerly president of Boston Col
lege, has come to Georgetown as project
of schools.
Father Macksey reviewed the history of
the educational systems of the pagan world
before Christ and of the Jews in the days
of their pre-eminence, illustrating the giant
strides that have attended its development
in modern days under the influence OF
Christianity. He discussed the various de-
mands that are made on the young man or
today from the parent, the state and the
Son of God.
In the course of the sermon he said:
Most of you understand the purpose OF
a college education is not primarily to en-
able you to make money. nor to make
good priest of you, physician. or jurist or
adept in any technical profession whatever,
but to develop successfully your powers to
think, feel and act along right lines. and to
equip you with such principles and facts
as are necessary for the proper use of your
faculties. Your parents want you prepared
for a manhood that recognizes you are
their sons; the state expects a result which
includes a recognition of the fact that you
are to be her citizen; Christ demands that
you be ready for manhood indicative OF
sons of God This sonship is the internal
work of the Holy Ghost.
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Arranges for Democratic Banner.

Mr.. J. Fred Kelley. chairman of the DEM
ocratic central committee of the District,
called at the District building today to
make final arrangements relative to sus-
pending large political banner across
Pennsylvania avenue from the headquar-
tiers of the committee. The banner will be
stretched next Wednesday afternoon prior
TO the Democratic rally to be held that
evening in Convention Hall
The banner will be thirty-five feet wide
and twenty-five feet high. and on both
sides will be painted pictures of Parker
and Davis. the democratic candidates on
the national ticket At the top of the ban
ner Will be the words. Headquarters of
the democratic central committee OF the
District OF Columbian"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
SERMON ON PHILIPPINES.
Administrations Policy in the Islands
is Defended.

The policy of the republican administra-
ton in the Philippines was defended yes
terday morning in sermon delVereu ny
Rishop Frank w. Warne to an audlence
which filled every seat in Foundry NJ t.
Church. Bishop Warne is here attending
the annual sessions of the Womens For
eien Missionary Society of the Methooist
Episcopal denomination. He has traVeied
and preached in India and Burmah' the
Philippines and Borneo, and dlspiayeo
thorough familiarity with his subject. Hls
text was from Psalms M:S ASK OF me ana
I shall give thee the world for thine IN
heritance and the uttermost parts OF the
earth for thy possessions. The sermon
was preceded by the usual service.
In reference to the Philippines, BISHOP
Warne said: -,
~ believe that We as people, are In
the Philippine Islands in harmony with the
will of God. which is working TO the re-
demption of the uttermost parts OF the
earth Things are best as they are; hrst,
for what we shall do for the Filipinos;
second, for what they shall do for u.s.
third, because we have reached that uay
in the history of the world when the orient
is waking up, and 1 believe God wants
the American nation TO nave part III INA l
great develo2ment
Four years ago, while acting bishop, DR..
Warne made four Philippine appointments
.'to be supplied" Now there are fourteen
agents of the church in the islands, ana
1850 converts from Romanism, while other
Professionals are meeting the same success.
The bishop called attention to the diner
ence between the Catholic Church here and
in the Philippines. spoke of the hatred or
the friars and said that as much good
would result 10 the Catholic Church from
Protestant efforts as accruing to the Pro-
testants themselves.
The speaker said Burmah is the home
of the purest Buddhism. Burmah Is not so
densely populated as India, but contains
10000 COO inhabitants, and is country of
such singular beauty that he marveled 1t
had escaped the attention of the tourist
OF this vast population, 100000 were pro-
Tossing Christians. The speaker described
Java. little known with its 1000 600 people
and Borneo, largest island next to Aus
tralia yet with the preaching of the gos-
pei in its incipiency.
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OLD MEN OF FAMOUS NAME.
Many Noted Authors Were Productive
After Three Score and Ten.
Iron, tho Saturday Evanng Post

MANY NOCSO AuluOIS !" GIG Z AVoSSkAS .
After Three Score and Ten.
From the Saturday Evening Post.
The tall, handsome, myriad-minded
Goethe wrought at his tasks till he was
nearly eighty-three years old. He produced
the first part of his masterpiece, Faust at
fifty-seven, the second part when eighty
years old and wrote some of his most beau
tiful poems at seventy-five. Six of our fore
most American poets-and all but one in
quantity as we'll as in quality of verse-Bry-
ant. Whittier, Longfeliow, Lowell, Holmes
and Emerson-lived to ages varying from
seventy-five to eighty-fve and were pro-
ductive to the last. Dr. Holmes wrote In
his eighty-fifth year that time does not
threaten the old man so often With the
scythe as with the sandbag, yet he wrote
brilliant verse for speclal occasions almost
to the end
Theodore Mommsen the historian, man
of almost insignificant stature and eina-
ciated frame, manifested In his eighty-sixth
and last year the energy OF a man in middie
life. The Earl of Dundonald. though he
was always in hot water, and his whole life
was a series of quarrels-though ne PER
formed some of the most daredevil feats
recorded in the history of naval warfare,
winning many brilliant victories against
enormous odds-lived to eighty-fve and
wrote his history of the liberation OF Peru.
Chile and Brazil ana THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
of Seaman" two most vigorous. lucid and
dashinp works under the stress of intense
physical pain, in the last three years OF his
life.
Sir Charles James Napier, the hero OF
Scinde was sixty before he held any great
command He fought and won great bat
ties, governed successfully great provinces
and achieved a great name long after thet
period of life had passed when. according
to an antique morality not quite Exploded.
II behooves a man to lay aside the things
of the present life and to prepare his soul
for the next.