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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23

CRONSTADT. May 23.-The battleship
Orel, which was brought here several
days ago 20 take on her main battery
and TO be finished before going into
commission. suddenly sank at her an
,horage on the night of May %.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, comman-
ler-in-chief of the Baltic squadron, was
allied from ST. Petersburg, and under
is supervision the work of pumping
ut and raising the Orel was begun.
The ship was raised yesterday morn
q and was found to be unchanged,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
AUCTION SALES.
THos. J. OWEN & son. Auctioneer
TRUSTEES SALE OF TWO-STORY
FRAME HOUSE No 1l2S INVENT Z
THIRD STREET NORTHWEST. and

TRUSTEES SALE OF Two-sToRY
FRAME HOUSE No. 112S TWENTY
THIRD STREET NORTHWEST. and
GOOD LOT.
BY virtue of two deeds OF trust. dated
August % 1895 and September 4 1892
AIRY y. 1903 and recorded among the
land records OF the District OF Columbia
in Llber 230l. folio 496 ct seq; Liber
1854. folio 430, ct seq, and Liber 2693
folio 4Sl, ct seq, and at the request of
the holder OF the notes secured thereby
we, the undersigned trustees. will sell
at publc auction, IN 'front.' or the prem
iSes, on THURSDAY, the SECOND DAY
OF JUNE. A. D, 1904 at O'CLOCK
p. NJ. the following land and
premises, situate in the city of Wash
ingtOu, District Of Columbia. namely:
The south twenty-five CD feet FIVE 10
inches fronting on Twenty-third Street
northwest by the depth Of one hundred
and twenty-five Q2) feet two and one
half (21z) inches, running west TO a
thiTty-foot alley. of original lot num-
bCred twenty (20) In square numbered
thirty-seYen go, together with the i'm
pTovements, consisting OF two-story
Terms of sale: One-tl6rd cash. of
which a deposit OF 800 must be made at
the time o. sale. ana the balance in two
equal tnstallments in one and two years
from day OF sale. for which notes of
the purchaser, bearing interest from
day of sale at the rate Of per centum
per annum. payable Seml-annually, and
secured by deed Of trNSt on the property
sold will be taken, or all cash, at the
option Of the purchaser. All convey
ancing and recording at purchaser 5
cost. If terms are not compiled with IN
fifteen days from date OF sale the trus-
/ tees reserve the right to resell the prop
/ ertv at the risk and cost of the default
/ ing purchaser after eight days adver-
/ tiscmeut of the same.
JOHN IRWIN,
DANIEL MURRAY,
Trustees under first deed Of trust.
! JOHN IRWIN
/ VIM. II. HAYNES,
| Trustees under second deed Of trust
! j. IL IICHLlTER,
Attorney for Party Secured.
! rnyZ3, "a, y, 26,27, 2S, 5l.jel.2
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cessors. show every day by their acts
that bold cavalry. thanks TO its fire
and to the swiftness Of its horses, can
today pit itself and win against infantry
armed with the most perfect rifles. And
the desire OF General Kuropatkin, who
is always asking for more cavalry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
Gettysburg and Pen Mar.

Special Decoration Day excursion Via
Pennsylvania Railroad On Decoration
Day. Monday. May 80. the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company viii run special
excursion 20 Gettysburg and Pen Mar
leaving Washington By sptcl5t trtsI "a
a. m Returning, special train viii
leave Gettysburg at 5:45 J.. m, Pen Mar
500 b. m. Round trip tickets s. from
Washington 10 either Gettysburg or PEI
Mar
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against an army which is lacking in
cavalry, is a striking justification OF
those who in Europe have reason 70
think that this arm Of the service JUL
ciously employed, ana taking into &C
count the teachings of recent wars is
destined to render invaluable service
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
COLONEL BINGHAM RALLIES
AND MAY NOW RECOVER

BUFFALO. n. z. May 23.-CoI The
odore A Bingham has rallied from the
amputation Of his left leg
Surgeons are hopeful Of his recovery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
It's Somebody's, Why Not Yours?

That thousand-dOllar first prize for
sending in the best estimate in The
Times election contest is somebody $.
Why don't you try TO be that some
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ioffice business. or ballots cast at cleo
tons Experience almost invariably
demonstrates that these methods OF de-
tcrmining population are fallacious and
,,r-.gfoffa
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
FllterIng and Pure Water.
l ~ : !

We have listened with interest to the
discussion of pure water. Now we raise
no objection to a filter plant after there
is contamination and filth; something
must be done. But what arrests our
attention is the stupendous folly that Is
revealed. 1t Is astonishing that the hui
man mind has not become aware Of the
absurdity of befouling our streams to the
extent Of turning sewage into them be-
cause 1t is convenient and easy, and then,
after the poisoning and sickness and
death, which in the beginning should have
been seen to be inevitable, to set about
II at such enormous expense to find a
remedy. And we see that with the fill
tering plan at it's best that the filth IS
not truly cared for, but is washed awav
down stream for the next company "a
deal with. The underlying fact is that
all animal excrement should be returned
to the soil
Why not begin now to work toward
a rational solution of this immense ol,es-
ZION? An advocate Of the f1ltering plan
said: There is mighty good fishing at
the mouth Of the Thames indicative
that the sewage from London contribute "a
to the fish culture. His objector renlialI.
But we do not live on fish: we i've
on bread The soil needs a, return for
what IS taken from it, and win need #
more and more. This is practical mat
ter or immense Importance, and WIN do
we take such roundabout road to 1t?
D i
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

E. E. Townsend has filed as democratic can.
didate for county commissioner from the East
Side district
Mayor J. c. Haynes made his formal filing
late yesterday afternoon as a candidate for nomia
nation by the democrats for mayor.
The campaign committee of the public owner.
their headquarters, As Fourth street S, tonight.
Representatives will be present from every ward.
The Swedish American Republican club of the
at Camden Place last evening. August j
Angquist was Endorsed as republican candidate
of the ward for alderman.
The Sew ,nth Ward Democratic club will dedi-
cate its new hall at Sixteenth avenue s and
cation program will include addresses by John
Lind. Judge J. W. Willis of st. Paul, and Mayor
j. c. Haynes.
precinct of the first ward last evening at Twenty
fifth avenue and Third street NE. Frank Kelble
tary. Forty-four charter members were enrolled.
The club will meet every Tuesday evening.
Twelfth ward voters met last evening ip
twenty twenty sixth n street s. some 500 being present.
Alderman A. S. Adams was heartily Endorsed
M aad @ the a stS Nest u spoke ass Lar
son presided.
The First Ward Jeffersonian Democratic club
number were present Addresses were made by
Lennon and Townsend, candidates for county
man, and James Donohle. candidate for the
legislature.
The Roosevelt Marching club met last even-,
Ing in its rooms in the Lyceum Theater building.
The meeting was addressed by President Karl
ination to the legislature from the thirty eighth
district; also by Loren Fletcher, A. II. Hall and
w. I. Coe, congressional candidates.
The Sixth Ward Republican club held cam
didate meeting last evening. Among the speak
ers were r. III. Abraham and II. e. Hanke cam
dfdates for county treasurer; G.. c: Johnson and
4; A; Kelley, candidates for sheriff; c: A.
Nimocks, candidate for city controller: c.. s.
Jelley, candidate for county attorney. and John
Dahl: in behalf of Al j. Smith who is also a
candidates j. b. johnson and j. 2. Biichfeldt
candidates for county commissioner; Neis J.
Nelson. who represented a. e. Allen, candidate
for clerk of the district court.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
LOCAL POLITICS
DEM. SPLIT IS IN SIGHT.
HAYNES CANDIDACY FOR THE
MAYORALTY CREATES FAC
TIONS IN THE PARTY.

Il . : = Il ( j I { :
Hearst democrats are out after
Mayor Haynes with the political ak.
according to a story which has leaked
out thru one of the Hearst men.
The story goes that the Hearst men
went to the Haynes hackers and
pledged Haynes the united Hearst
support for congress, or to send a
solid Hennepin delegation to the
state nominating convention for
Mayor Haynes as the democratic Cub
ernatorial nominee; but also gave as
surance that if Haynes came out for
the nayoralty nomination again, and
against Orville Rinehart, the Hearst
faction candidate for mayor, that
Haynes would be knitted by every
Hearst man and that alleged misdo-
ings in the city government would be
brought to public attention.
split in the democratic party,
therefore, seems inevitab BILE, and an ex-
citing campaign between the two fac
tons of democrats seems pending.
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Questions for conroy

10 the EDITOR of The Journal.
Two articles in r he Journo1 -
July 20. entitled "Conroy Defines sa1onn
Policy" and the other Aug. entit1oa
NJ. b. Young People Enlist for tha we !. ;,
have Eeen the means of raising Soma n, 10
tons In my mind, and I would IKE -
use your columns to address them 70 Gbist
Conroy and ask him to answer thew ,,e+
only for my benefit, but for the ha,att
Of others. De'ieil.
70 begin with, would like "a .s, ),
which branch of our city government does
Shief Gonroy suppose himself and the
whole police department to belong r. ~
the executive branch, how can he have
any policy other than enforcement az ti,a
laws and ordinances enacted by the leeia.
lative branch? If, on the other hand FL.
ponce department with It's chief. belongs
TO the legislative branch. why does he
need to define a policy otherwise than IN,
enactIng IN ordinance to suit his own
fdeaso 's no oWil
Again if Chief Conroy fails rs do bic
duty, as defined by ordinance heca, 1..s,
church members own the buildings oceu-
pied by the saloon and dives, why does
ne consult the wishes of that small frac-
ton Of tie church membership az the
city In open defiance of the wishes Of tI,at
much larger fraction opposed 70, ,sI1cI,
business. as well as to the well-1.nown
wishes of q great body of other citizens
also eppesed to it and who are at least
as heavy taxpayers? An American s.
=
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
.NEWSBOYS' PARK CONCERT
FIRST OF SERIES HEARD BY A
LARGE AUDIENCE IN LORING
PARK LAST NIGHT.

Popular approval Of the series of
.open-air park concerts by. the Jour
nal Newsboys' band was shown in the
large attendance last night at the
first concert, which was given in Lo-
ring park. Hundreds crowded as
near the young relocated musicians
as they could get, and appreciation
Of the spirit and swing with which
the selections were given was shown
in the applause and the calls for
more.
The beginning Of the series has
been awaited with eagerness by those
who live near the park, but large
proportion of the crowd came some
distance to enjoy the music. The park
presented a bright picture of ANNA
ton, with it's glistening lights around
the improvised bandstand and the
deep tree shadows contrasting. It
was a successful al fresco affair.
AS for the music and the arrange
ment Of the program by Professor
G. G.. Heintzmann, leader of the band
since it was organized, nothing but
praise would be truthful. The alter
mating semiclassical and purely pop
ular pieces made an evenly balanced
program, and the band boys played
with the same zeal and quick percep-
ton that characterizes the merchan-
and evening editions of TIL e our
n a are on the market.
Professor HeintZmann has placed
the players well, and in his training
has not eliminated that freshness of
quality which marks the line between
the natural player and the thoroly
educated musician.
The appreciation with which the
newsboys gave the Tale Of the Bum
BILE Bee and its very opposite, Eve
ming Star" from Tannhauser, did not
fail to impress the audience. The
program:
March, Trinity Bells" Observation-Disclosures Hall
Overture, Poet and Peasant ........... Suppe
Song. Evening Star from Tam
Selections, .'The Burgomaster'. ........ Luder
Serenade, Love in Idleness" $685.. Macbeth
March, Greeting to Bangor. Hall
Overture, "Gems of Stephen Foster" Tobani
March, Deed Of the PEN ........... Moret
The second of the park concerts
will be given by the band Friday
evening at Faryiew park, Twenty
sixth avenue N and Fourth street.
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Chinese Names.

General Kuroki says that the diff
cult topography of the country re-
tards action because of the delay in
finding good artillery positions. And
1t may be said that the difficult
Chinese nomenclature at the seat of
war is a serious embarrassment to re-
mote western students Of the war in
the orient. The Japs have for five
months been advancing into a tangled
s"Yalu," we know. "Wiju," we know
''Niu-chuang" we know. We all rec
ognize Mukden, Liao-yang, Hai-cheng,
#Kinchow, Fuchow and some others.
Port Arthur is welcome English.
Other names Of localities speed over
the land and submarine lines Of COM
munication twisted and mangled so
that they cannot be recognized on
even the best maps procurable. Even
when they turn up correctly spelled
according to experts in the book lam
guage, and local colloquial dialects
which prevail among the people, most
people construct their own arbitrary
pronunciation of them.
More than three months ago h e
Jour al gave the rules of pronun-
citation furnished by the United States
geographic board which will doubt
less bear repetition here. According
Ito the geographic board, in these
oriental names, the following rules
apply:
A has the sound of in father; has
the sound of in men; | has the sound
of ! in raYine or ee in beet; has the
sound of in mote; u has the sound of
90 in boot; al has the long sound In
ice; au is equivalent to ow In how; 40,
which is quite common, closely resembles
o in above; ell has the sound Of the two
Italian vowels, but Is frequently slurred
over and Is scarcely distinguishable from
sey in they.
c is always soft and is equivalent to
Is; CHI Is soft as in church; ( has the
English sound and phi in spelling should
not be used for it; g is always hard; h
is pronounced when used; k, as in Eng
1ish, is equivalent to hard C, and XII is
q gutteral, as is also gh; ng has two
slightly different sounds, owing to COM
sbinations. just as in English it has diff
ferent sounds in finger and singer; q
should never be employed in spelling,
and the equivalent of gu Is XIV; is
always consonant, as in yard, and
should never be used for l.
The Chinese language is never
learned easily by anybody. Foreign
ers can acquire what the Chinese call
VI 'pidgin English" and there are many
foreign residents who can talk f1uently
in the local colloquial dialects by
sharp use Of their ears. In China
there are five distinct dialects, which
differ 50 widely that native speaking
one may not understand another in an
adjoining province. Even the book
language Is not entirely homogeneous,
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for it is subdivided into classes. each
of which requires special training to
master. ~
At first sight the difficulty Of learn
ing a language which requires stu
dent to master at least six or seven
thousand characters of the 10000, In
order to read a Chinese book with any
ease, would seem insurmountable but
experts in the language say that the
study is simplified by the fact that
each character Is Invisible into two
parts, phonetic and a radical, the
latter giving a clew to the meaning,
and after learning the 214 radicals.
the student studies the combinations
and Classics his new acquisitions un-
der phonetic groups he has learned.
In Chinese every kind of tree, plant,
shrub, etc, is written with one of the
two radicals. .twood" or grass" as
in our language we have ''schoolboy.'
''schoolroom," ''schoolmaster. The
Chinese language has no declensions
Of substantives, adjectives. or pro-
nouns; no moods, conjugattons or
lenses Of verbs, words being complete
in themselves, the language being alb
solutely nonfiexional. Such language
looks hopeless Of acquisition to an
English speaker, who has at his dis
posal a wealth Of infections, but the
Chinaman, from mandarin down to
the peasant with his peculiar dialect,
does not think his singular tongue can
be bettered by any change to foreign
devil grammar.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
Negroes Caught When Young. .

The Manufacturers Record, the
great industrial paper Of the south,
comments editorially on an extract
third vice president Of the Florida
East Coast railway, in which Mr..
Ingraham says that the negroes can,
and in many instances are becoming
useful factors in the upgrowth Of the
country. IT, says he, they were
caught when young and trained to do
some useful work, instead of being
spoiled for manual labor by false sys-
TENS of education. the south would
soon have a better supply of compe-
tent labor He testifies to the sue
cess of his own railroad system In de-
veloping that kind Of trained colored
help in various departments. He
thinks there should be Industrial
schools for the negro boys and
girls and the Record says he has put
his finger on one Of the vital spots Of
the educational problem. In fact, this
leading southern journal favors that
kind OF education which fits the
negro boy and girl for an intelligent
part in the industrial life of the south,
and would favor compulsory indus
trial education, or. possibly, an APP.
prentice system. In any event, it
would have the young. negro trained
to do something, and is anxious that
this be done because the south needs
him, and because when he becomes
competent and useful he would be
much less likely to become the occa-
sion Of race conflict and agitation.
This is all no doubt true. But the
curious thing is that the man who has
done more than anybody else, and is
really doing very much, to produce
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
A Warning Not Needed More
Drastic Measures Needed.

The neutrality-suspicious. the Grand
Republic, an excursion steamer be-
longing to the owners of the General
Slocum, shows conditions on the
Grand Republic to be quite as bad
as those which resulted in the fright
full loss of life on the SEocuun. Prac-
tically no provision. has beensmade for
protection against fire or against
wreckage from any cause whatsoever.
The Grand Republic is still running
in the excursion business, carrying
thousands Of people to Coney Island,
every one Of whom Is exposed to the
same danger,from which,the Thousand
persisted on the Slocum.
The owners, already under indlct-
ment by the federal grand jury on the
charge Of mansIaughter and of Grim
inal negligence for the Slocum dis
aster, seem to have ignored entirely
the warning which they should have
taken from that catastrophe.
The story told by the inspector is
sensational. Lifeb.oats have only
broken oars; one is badly rotted, an
other has broken rmdder, while one
of the liferafts has mo oarlocks. On
some of the RATS, which are supposed
to be riveted together, ,closesinspection,
revealed the fact that the rivets are:
false heads, and that the parts are
only soldered together. When the in
spector directed the captain to order
fire drill, the officer Of the ship did
not know what to do, and the crew
did not respond promptly to the call
he made. The fire hosef burst when
tested, and the life preservers were
worse than useless.
This company is chartered to do
the excursion business, and appar-
emily was willing to go on in spite Of
the terrible warning in the case Of the
Slocum, taking the risk of q repeti-
ton of like disaster. If the owners
and officers of the ship are sent to
Sing Sing for a reasonable time, as
they all ought to be, for the Slocum
disaster, they will probably do no
more excursion business while they
live But long before thateis brought
about, executive authority ought to
have power to revoke the charter Of
the corporation. 1t would nave been
natural to suppose that the Slocum
disaster would have induced every ex-
cursion boat ownerrin New York har-
Dor to adopt every precaution and
provide every appliance necessary to
secure complete safety for its patrons,
but the neglect on the part Of the
owners of the Slocum themselves to
take such steps as to their other boat
suggests the necessity for the most
radical and drastic measures for the
protection Of the public.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
MIR. FLETCHER TELLS MIR. COEl
eff You Go to Congress You'll Find
Others There"

Congressional aspirants had warm
time last evening at the ninth ward
republican meeting, held at 2207 Cen
trail avenue. W. T. Coe spoke first.
He claimed to be the candidate Of
the younger element Of the party,
asserted he opposed the trusts and
favored reciprocity with Canada
Mr. Hall discussed the issues, Of
the day and then yielded to Loren
Fletcher, who rather rubbed it into
Mr.. Coe for claiming the support Of
all the young men of the party, and
asserted that even if Coe should get
to congress, he would find there were
3S5 other congressman, and that the
trusts would continue to flourish.
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just the results which the railroad
man and the Record approve. gets
exceedingly little credit or encourage
ment in the south. Booker T. Wash
ington realizes more fully than Mr..
Ingraham or the Manufacturers Rec
ord what an Industrial education
means for his people, and began to
provide such an education for them
years ago. The results have been re-
markable. Probably no educational
institution in the country can show
greater earnings in the way Of prac-
teal results in proportion upon the
capital invested than the institute at
Tuskegee. That institute owes Its ex-
istence and Its success to a colored
man, the man who everywhere, ex-
cept in the south, Is treated with the
consideration due one of his charac-
ter, his bearing, and his attainments.
And, yet, we suspect that the dem
onstration which he has made, tho
not conceded for moment, is the
groundwork of the conclusion ar
rived at by the Manufacturers Record
and the third vice president of the
Florida East Coast railroad. They are
only thinking after him Booker Wash
ingtons thoughts. But it is encour-
aging to have them do that. It means
progress toward a desirable end.