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Evening star., 1904-03-16
CALL ON THE PRESIDENT.
Members of A. o. U. w. Visit White
House-Annual Election.

At the conclusion of the morning ses-
sion of the biennial convention OF the
Grand Lodge of the jurisdiction or Mary
land, Virginia and the District of Colum-
bia, of the Ancient Order of United Work
men, at Schmidts Hall. on 9th street, the
officers and delegates journeyed to the
White House to pay their respects to Pres
ident Roosevelt. ~ They were extended a
cordial welcome by the President, who
expressed his interest in fraternal affairs
and extended his best wishes to the Wis
itors. Y -
The morning session was entirely taken
up by the consideration of the new plan
of assessment adopted by the supreme
ledge of the order at a recent session
Past Supreme Workman A. c. Harwick OF
New York delivered an address upon the
subject and was interrogated by the dele
gates in attendance. No action mad peen
taken in the matter at the adjournment at
noon and it was again taken up by the
convention UPON reconyening this after
non. '4i a'''''' So.
1t is expected the convention will come
to a close this evening.
The biennial election Of officers ate
session yesterday afternoon, after the
close of the report OF The Star Tor the day.
resulted in the selection of practically the
entire old board. The officers, as elected,
follow:
P. G. NJ w, Louis Becker; G. NJ. W., M.
H. Stevenson G. F., ]. Ward Wilson, NJ.
D.; G. O.. John Goffigon; 6. Recorder, A.
F. Colbert; G. Receiver. 8. Eccles, jr.; g,
James Severe, ST.; G. O. W., John S. Bass;
G. Medical Examiner, George l.. wilkins,
M. D.; G. Trustee, T. T. Taylor, M. d.
John H. Short and e. s. Gunby Represen-
Mowen, NJ H Stevenson and Samuel Ec-
cleS ir.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
The Cravings.
From Outing.


Coming from afar in a big white cloud,
the snow goose before reaching the edge
Of the pond masses suddenly up in a long
column inclined some forty degrees from
the vertical. Every black-tipped wing is
thrown outward and downward and rigidly
set, with the axis of the body about CORE
spending to the axis of the whole column.
Anything like sailing is thus impossible,
and the whole descent IL slow settling
or drifting downward, almost as gentle as
the fall of a gossamer skein on the still air
of Indian summer.
The white-fronted goose swings over 1t
high in air as If he enjoyed the play. He
is reasonably silent about 1t as he floats a
thousand feet or more above the water,
where he lines up for the great plunge.
Then the edge of the line breaks, and as II
suddenly struck rigid by the thunderbolt,
yet with every throat tuned to concert
pitch in wild medley, the birds pitch,
dive. tumble and gyrate sidewise, upside
down, rolling over In air in every imag-
Unable way, a cataract of whiring life,
down to within few feet OF the water
There the grand go-as- -you-please march
suddenly ends, the wild clamor of every
throat fs sttlled, each goose rights itself In
twinkling. drifts into an orderly line, and
floats a few yards along the surface Of
the water, then drops its feet raises its
neck and head, and. throwing back its
wings, slides into the water as gently as
the reflection Of the feecy clouds it left
above.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Chinese Buying Arms.

B. H. Warner jr., at Leipzig, Germany,
writes to the Department of State that
an Austrian company has just received an
order through Berlin house for large
number of small arms for the Chinese gov
ernrnent 1t is said that such a quantity
Of rifles have been ordered that it will take
many years to fill the same, even with
additional forces of men to whom 1t has
given employment 1t is reported from
Vienna that another Austrian firm has re-
Gently received an order for 10000.000 cart
ridges from the imperial Russian govern
ment for immediate delivery.
This is only one of many reports that
have come to the State Department within
the past six months that both In Germany
and Austria the arms makers have been
busy making and supplying the Chinese
with modern arms and ammunition. The
fact has attracted much attention here be-
cause IL was provided In the treaty of
Peking which closed the Boxer troubles
that for a term of years the importation OF
arms into China should be absolutely
stopped The design was to reduce the
CAPACITY OF the Chinese peasantTy for mis-
chief through lawless uprislngs directed
against foreigners. and as the danger is
now believed no less than 1t was at the
end of the Boxer troubles, the officials
here view with regret this laxity In the en-
forcement of the treaty provision by the
signatory powers.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Striking Employees of a Can comnanv

A dispatch from Chicago last night saws.
series OF riots occurred today between
striking employees of the American Can
Company and union teamsters who had re-.
fused to quit work in sympathy with tha
strike. The first disturbance occurred Oh
the north side OF the city at one of the stan
bles OF the can company, number Of men
being injured and two pickets arrested.
Two pickets were doing duty in the
neighborhood when six teamsters attempt.
ed to leave the stables with teams The
pickets by signals summonded about twen-
ty helpers. The drivers were stoned, II II
alleged. and dragged from the wagons, the
assailants escaping when a patrol wagon
loaded with police arrived.
A second battle started later at the com>
peny's south side barn. Escorted by police,
a number of wagons succeeded, however.
in getting half way to railway freight
house, followed by threatening crowds
At 2Sth street and Wentworth avenue the
police charged a mob that was showering
missiles on the drivers. The wagons
reached their destination after the police
had captured four of the rioters.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
SEAL BILL PASSED.
Senate Formally Acts on Senator Dill.
ingham's Measure.

After eliminating all but three sections Of
Senator Dillingham's Alaskan seal bill the
Senate committee on foreign relations has
authorized Senator Foraker to make a fa-
Vorahle report on the measure The hin
as originally introduced was prac.icalIv iha
same as had been presented in the House
by Representative Tawney of Minnesota
Inc nfst section of the bill prohibited the
killing of male fur seals on the Pribilof
group of seal islands, except $500. to be
used as food for the natives of the islands
and this was struck out by the committee.
AS passed the bill provides that the Presi-
dent of the United States shall negotiate
with Great Britain for a revision of the
rules and regulations which now govern
the taking of fur seals in the Cpen waters
of the north Pacific ocean and Bering sea.
pursuant to the treaty articles of award of
the Bering sea tribunal of arbitration, made
at Paris, August 16, 1895. The revision of
the regulations is for the purpose Of re-
storing and preserving the fur seal indus
try and abate the killing of nursing mother
seals on the high seas
1t Is provided also that the President shall
endeavor to concluded negotiations with
the governments of Russia and Japan for
the purpose of securing their agreement to
any satisfactory revision of the rules that
may be had. In the original bill there was
a section permitting the Secretary of Com
merce and Labor to reduce the surplus fur
seal life, by killing the same down to q
minimum number of not less than one
thousand virile males, in the event the
President failed to get a satisfactory re-
vision of the rules within a reasonable
time, but the committee considered the
adoption of this section inadvisable and
struck it out The bill as reported subse-
quently was passed by the Senate in the
form of q Joint resolution.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
FLYING REPTILES OF OLD.
OF Great Cize, They Were Once More
Common Than Birds.

From st. Nicholas.
We are apt to think of reptiles as creep
ing and crawling things, forgetting that
there was time when flying reptiles were
more common than birds. These reptiles,
the pterodactyls, or flying dragons, not
only few, but some of them reached a size
much greater than that of any bird, for
the largest birds do not fly. The South
American condor sometimes measures as
much as ten and one-half feet from tip to
tip OF outstretched wings, and 1t is quite
possible that the finest examples of the
albatross may measure a little more. But
the great pterodactyls which few about the
sea that In the days of old reached from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Rocky mountains,
measured as much as twenty feet, the
width of an average city lot, across their
wings.
Most of US have seen an eagle flying and
we can appreciate the size of this ancient
dragon by remembering that 1t was nearly
three times the size of an eagle. 1t was
not however, three times as heavy, for the
body of this strange reptile was so small
and its skeleton SO wonderfully light that
the entire animal is thought to have weigh
ed not more than twenty-five pounds, or
only about as much as a large condor. One
of the largest bones Of the wing, two feet
long and two inches through, was as Pro-
fessor Williston tells up, no thicker than
a sheet of blotting paper, and the great
head, with beak over three feet long, was
equally light. This great toothless beak
is believed to have been used for swapping
up fishes; and we can imagine this huge
creature sailing swiftly over the sea. now
and then swooping down to pick up fish
as deftly, for all its size. as a real swal-
low.
But what did Ornithostoma-this is the
animals name-do with his wings and beak
when he made an occasional visit to the
land? One would think they must have
been very much in his way, and that the
animal was as awkward on the shore as he
was graceful in the air. And how did he
start to fly? With such enormous wings.
we think Ornithostoma must have dwelt
on cliffs about the sea and launched on
them as the gannets do from Bird Rock.
This great flying reptile lived some six
million years ago; the sea oVE which It
flew long ago disapp ana the mud
into which its bones sank became chalk.
and from the formation Of these great
chalk beds the time at which Ornithostoma
existed IL called the Crstaoious period.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
New Theater Ordinance.

A dispatch from New York last night
SAYS: The aldermen's committee on build
ings reported favorably yesterday an Or
dinance for the better safeguarding OF
patrons of theaters in time of panic or fire.
The ordinance provides that the front en-
trance to theaters shall not be less than
twenty-five feet in width, and that in the
rear of each theater there shall be an open
courtyard of from ten to fourteen feet In
width. according to the seating capacity of
the building.
1t is provided also that the area of the
foyers, lobbies and corridors shall be of an
extent of 100 square feet for each 100 per-
sons who can be seated.
Another provision is that In theaters
where the number of seats exceeds 500
there shall be clear open space sixteen
feet deep back of the orchestra and that
back of each Of the galleries there shall
be an open space of not less than twelve
feet in width. The report was made a
special order for next weeks meeting.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
IN NEED OF FUNDS
NEW 7aov3bEFoE HOSPITAL
WANTS 70 tAx BILLS.
afH oal1ingsr anl Attention Of Sen.
ate to the Matter-913o,o 900
Asked For.

Senator Gallingr today placed before the
Senate communicaaon Of the board Of
visitors and medical-staff Of Providence
Hospital In this communication. 1t is
stated, the board Of visitors and medical
STAN OF the hospital are again compelled
by necessity to appeal to Congress for more
money to pay the outstanding bills incurred
by the construction and completion of Prov
idence Hospital buildings, for which Con-
gress appropriated 500, 600 during the Fiji
ty-seventh Congress-
1t is stated in this communication that in
the reconstruction of the old hospital build
ing very much more expense was incurred
than was anticipated. A great deal OF
iron work had to be installed that was not
originally contemplated, and new plumbing
the old material was pulled down 1t was
found that 1t would literally fall to pieces
SO that it was impossible to ascertain in
advance just what the cost would be unless
the entire building was demolished and re-
built anew.
Facilities Doubled.
The facilities Of the hospital, 1t is said,
for caring for the poor are now more
than doubled, and wards and rooms are 30
arranged that diseases can be classified
and arranged, SO that the best treatment
gion and infection.
The report states the hospital authorities
are now in debt $13O, ,62967. more than was
anticipated, and Congress Is asked to ap-
propriate this amount Of money for the hos
pital. 1t is stated that the authorities OF
the hospital not only expended the $4,000
appropriated by Congress and the addi-
tional 100000 borrowed by authority OF
Congress from the Philadelphia Savings
Fund Society of Philadelphia. but 1t has
| al Citizens
Bank on notes indorsed by friends of the
institution, $4,000; borrowed from N. H.
Shea of this city. $50 600, and it owes to the
Brennan Construction Company, the con,
tractors who built the nurses home and
powerhouse and under whose supervision
all the work at the institution was per-
formed, $40, ,629 81.
The above shows the expenditure on the
work amounts to $3.50. .G2967
1t Is stated unless the deficit of $13O629: 81
is promptly provided for by an appropria-
ton from Congress the credit of the institu-
ton will be greatly imperiled.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
TO GRADE SERVICE.
Consular Bill is Favorably Reported
to Senate

Senator Lodge was authorized today by
the Senate committee on foreign relations
to make q favorable report on his bill to
grade the consular service. The bill was
materially amended, and, as approved by
the committee, provided that vice consuls
may be appointed TO perform the present
duties of consular agents and that the lat
ter grade shall cease. Provision is made
that there shall not be more than two
consuls general of the first class, at $4,000
each per annum; eight consuls general of
the second class, at ss,o00; thirteen consuls
general of the third class. at 5000, and
thirteen of the fourth class at $3.50 each.
There will be thirty seven consuls of the
first class at $5,o0o; thirty-fve of the sec
ond class at $1,000; sixty of the third class,
at 5000; forty OF the fourth class, at 81
500; thirty of the fifth class at 81 COO and
Atty of the sixth class, at 81 800 each per
annum. The bill regulates all fees. Of
aficial or unofficial, and provides for the per-
formance of notarial acts.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Woman Faro Dealer.

A dispatch from New York last night
saws: The first woman faro dealer caught
m this city, according to the police. was a
prisoner in the Mercer street station last
night She is Miss Elizabeth Routten SO
years old. The police say that she not only
deals faro, but also owns gambling house
in the basement of 17s Sullivan street. The
place was raided by Capt. Tighe OF the
Mercer street station last night. In the
front is restaurant OF which Miss Routten
is the proprietor. Capt Tishe and couple
of the restaurant and captured Miss Rout-
ten and twenty Italians. They also got So
Miss Routten wasn't dealing at the time
but the detectives say that she had been q
Short time before.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
"Teddy. Jr..," Sees Princeton.

A dispatch from Princeton. N. j., last
night says: The, young son of President
Roosevelt, Theodore, jr., arrived here this
morning from Groton School, Massachu-
setts. He is the guest of Alexander Rus
sell, member Of the senior class in Prince
ton. z1osF
He has spent most of the day taking in
the sights of the university town. and
although it is his Intention to attend Har-
ward University upon completion Of the
preparatory work, ne expressed himself
ton. He will leave Princeton tomorrow for
washington to spend the Easter recess.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Fish Commission at Bryan's Point.

The work of rebuilding the wharf at the
Bryan's Point station of the United States
fish commission, on the Potomac near Fort
Washington, has been completed. The
operations of the fish commission at Bryan s
Point is in full swing, the taking and
Matching of the spawn Of yellow perch
being the business on hand. Many thou
sand perch will be raised and will be ship
ped to all parts of the country to stock
streams now without this variety of edible
fish.
The experiment of stocking the rivers on
the eastern shore of Maryland with the fish
was tried few months ago, and, 1t is
stated was an unqualified success. The
hauling of yellow perch at the station will
end when the shad and herring season be-
gins, two or three weeks hence.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
French Looms Idle.

Since the LIST of this month. says United
States Consul Haynes at Rouen, France.
about 5000 looms have been idle in France
one day each week. and win continue SO
for three consecutive months, owing to the
fact that interior commerce has been very
poor, and the stock of the manufactures
does not diminish while the prices of the
raw material have been advancing.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
How a Starfsh Feeds.
From st. Nicholas.

From st. N1chOlaS
The mouth of the starfish is the round
hole on the under side, where the grooves
of the arms meet. The stomach, closely
connected with the mouth, Is thin sac
folded and packed away in tho center of
the disk and the base of the arms. The
starfish feeds on various shell animals
If the victim. is small, like snail, 1t is
taken into the stomach. If It is large
like an oyster, the stomach is pushed out
and around it. Digestive fluids are poured
over it and the portions digested are
taken into the starfish.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Man Who Fought Sullivan Dead.

NEW YORK, March 18.--John Flood,
who fought John L.. Sullivan nine rounds
on a barge anchored in the East river neae
Hell Gate IN 1880. died suddenly here to-
day. Heart disease is believed to have been
responsible.
Flood was ffty-f1ve years old, and appa-
as a detective by 4 firm of horse dealers.
and was well known to horsemen through
out the country.
Evening star., 1904-03-16

In the United States district court at San
Francisco Judge De Haven has denied the
motion of the United States attorney that
the writ of habeas corpus sued out In the
case of Lee Wing Chang be dismissed. A
notice Of appeal was given. and the matter
will be taken direct to the URited States
Supreme Court to determine whether or not
the ruling Of the immigration commission
is Anal in cases Of Chinese who seek 70
enter this country on the pleas that they
are natives thereof.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
To Protect the Mall.

Representative Powers OF Massachusetts,
has introduced in the House a bill similar
to the one introduced in the Senate several
days ago providing that no building shall
be erected In the mall within AS feet Of q
central line touching from the center or
the dome of the Capitol TO the center of the
Washington monument.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
CLERKS ARE ENVIOUS
WANT AUDITOR McCARDY'S
FRESH AIR ORDER INITIATED.
Only Eight Minutes Actually Lost
From the Work of the Post Office
Department Employees.

An article which appeared in The Star a
few days since has caused considerable COM
ment in departmental circles. 1t referred to
the fact that Auditor ]. j. McCardy. for the
Post Office Department. had issued orders
for the regular ventilation of the offices in
his division. and that there was a subse-
quent howl of indignation from the clerks
upon whose unprotected heads the chilly
breezes blew during the term of the official
airing.
An error in the time was made in the ar
ticle to which reference is made, the fact
being that only thirteen minutes are con-
sumed for the purpose during the office
hours the half hour of open windows being
from 8 to $50 o'clock in the morning, which
is before any OF the clerks report for duty.
The order of Auditor McCardy is as follows:
ITO chiefs of divisions: The memorandum
from this office, August %, 1901 relating to
duties of messengers and laborers, is Stlll IN
force, and you are required to rigidly en-
force its directions Until further orders let
the rooms be ventilated as follows:
500 am to $50 am.
1870 am. to 1898 am.
1925 pm. to 12:30 pm.
2:30 pm. to 2:35 Pm.
BE particular as to time care being taken
that all papers and documents be arranged
for safety while the windows are up.
(SgneD j. J. McCARDY,
Auditor
1t will be seen from the table that from
1926 to 12:30, another five minutes, can
be deducted from the time taken for airing
the rooms during the actual working hours
the clerks being at their luncheons during
that time. This reduces the actual airing
70 eight minutes during the working hours
and would seem to be as little could be
taken for that plrpCSe.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Not a Bond Issued,

During the ten years of Mr. McCardy's s
tenure of the office of controller of st. Paul
the city did not issue a single bond. St
Louis being the only other city in such an
envfable position. In addition to this he
paid off 2.oOO,oOO of interest-bearing debt; :;
reduced the assessed valuation of property
by 30 per cent; reduced the tax levy rate
per centum by 25 per cent; had no over
drawn accounts and not unpaid bill at
the end of any year. And 1t was all done
by requiring the departments to adhere to
the law and carefully keep their books.
Mr.. McCardy, in referring today to that
work said:
In the management of city affairs no
city should permit any funds to be diverted
from any purpose for which they were
levied. Departments should invariably be
required to run their monthly accounts to
as nearly one-twelfth of their annual al
lowance as they possibly can, and they
should never be allowed cent from an
other fund if they ran behind. no matter If
the other fund was ahead and no matter
how urgent the case. 1t would only open
the way for carelessness and they would
soon repeat the offense."
Evening star., 1904-03-16

The condition of Rt. Rev. Louis Maria
Fink, bishop of the Leavenworth diocese
of the Catholic Church, who Is believed to
be critically i'll of pneumonia at his home
at Kansas City, Kan. was reported un-
changed today.
Evening star., 1904-03-16
Why the Order Was Issued.

1.-The opening of the windows said he;
may be temporarily unpleasant, but it will
be eventually beneficial. When l came here
office and the work. l took trips around to
see how things were being carried on and in
several of the rooms l found the condition
of the air so bad that l could not remain
there with any comfort and could not un-
derstand how any human being could work
in such an atmosphere for an entire day.
They had been doing it for such a length
of time, however, that they probably did
not realize how bad it was The order to
ventiate the rooms of my divisions was at
once promulgated and there has been, since
that time, a decided improvement in the
atmosphere of the rooms. Many of the
clerks objected to the innovation, but they
are not complaining as much as at first.
The order really was the result of some
thing l heard when l made one of my first
tours of inspection. l happened to remark
to one of the employees that the air was very
close and he replied that he knew it and
deplored it. but that whenever window
was opened some of the clerks violently OBJ
jected, on the ground that they had the
rheumatism, would catch cold, or some
thing of that nature. OF course l realized
that no particular clerk ought to control
the working of a room or a division and
also that in order to be of the most benefit
to all there ought to be fresh air there. So
l gave the order. During the ventilation
the clerks are at liberty to leave the rooms,
and although they lose eight minutes in
this way during the day l believe that we
get better service and more work from the
revivification of their blood because of the
pure air that enters their lungs when they
go back to their desks"