Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-14
pended upon 10 behalf Of the sufferer.
Paragraphs similar to the above have
b en- common IN newspapers recently.
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, d. c., Oct. IA.
Our English cousins are all stirred up
over "the motor car peril" according to
a report just received by the State De-
nartment from U. S. Consul Hamm at
Hull "Every day the newspapers print
letters describing accidents" says Mr..
Hamm. "Some days these letters occupy
a column or more in space, and their
tone indicates that profound feeling OF
in .ignation exists among the writers. A
circular has recently been issued voicing
this public sentiment and calling for the
formation of highway protection league
Ia preserve the rights of the public. "
TIE human inhabitants of the United
Kingdom are not the only ones whose
lives are endangered by the scorching
automobile. The dogs are being mas
sacred at terrible rate. Mr.. Hamm
quotes a letter to the President OF the
Automobile Club from Mr.. +. f. Per-
kias. chairman Of the Canine Defense
League, IN which that gentleman enters
IL strong protest against the manner IN
which the dogs are being slaughtered.
Again and again." he writes, ceases
have been brought to my knowledge III
which dogs life has been ruthlessly
sacrificed rather than that good run
should be spoiled. A well known auto
mobilist, to my certain knowledge, is in
The habit of Boosting that he had killed
over fifty dogs during recent tour, and
another Ia lady motorist, Iregret to ssy,)
has been heard to exclain: That Is
nothing-we run over dog every time
we 90 OUT" A movement is on foot,
backed by the men interested in the new
HIGHWAY League, to rebuild the old
direct Roman roads of England for the
use of motor cars, and thus preserve the
present routes for pedestrians, horses,
vehicles and dogs
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
leave Washington tomorrow for valley
Forge, Pa, to attend the wedding of
Miss Rebekah Page Knox, daughter of
Senator Knox, to Mr.. James X. Tindle,
OF Pittsburg. The wedding ceremony will
t,ke place at O clock in the afternoon.
and soon thereafter the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt will start on their home
ward trip to the capital.
At the Cabinet meeting today Secre-
taTy Hitchcock Of the Interior submitted
to the President the estimates of his de-
partment for the fiscal year 1906. Sec
retary Hitchcock said that they are
about SO, 900, 600 below the esti mates for
l9O5 and 81, 900, 900 less than those for
the year of 1904.
The Navy Department has instructed
the authorities at Norfolk to assist the
Treasury Department officials in every
way possible in the matter of investlgat,
ing the alleged case of smuggling OF
goods from Turkey on the naval collier
Hannibal. The goods in question have
been seized and are held at Norfolk
pending Investigation.
A bulletin issued from the census
department today reports there are 27l,'
1863 persons employed by the executive
branch of the government, not including
enlisted men in the navy and the army.
OF these 81. per cent. were in the clas-
sifed service. The PostOffice and Treas
ury Department give employment to
three-fourths of the executive employees.
Attorney General Moody had mar
row escape from death or serious injury
this morning while horse back riding
down Pennsylvania avenue, opposite the
White House. His horse cOllided with
a team of mules attached TO stone
wagon. The Attorney General was
thrown to the ground, but managed to
break his fall by catching himself on his
hand. He escaped with few bruises,
attending the Cabinet meeting later.
In bulletin on vital statistics, issued to-.
day by the Census Bureau, it is estimat, d
that the death rate for the United States IN
1900 was between l6 and II per LOCO, nearly
ten per cent. less than it was in $780, and less
than that of most foreign countries The con-
sumption death rate decreased in the last ten
wears from 254.4 per 100, 900 of population to
1873; that from cancer increased from 49.l to
90 within the same period.