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The Washington times., 1904-04-13

iIes-iuE such an interest than by visit
ing the western exposition.
we are expecting to bring May visi-
( tors to- the Fair" said Mr. Meyer pas
seuger agent of the Hamburg
line, and have arranged FOR a number
Of excursions by which we will take care
of our patrons from the time they leave
Hamburg until they return 10 that port
These eNcursiOnists viii be ena bled~ 10
visit all the big cities in the East and
Middle West and various points of in
terest, including Niagara Falls. This
plan was only recently announced. and
already our bookings are very heavy"
The English, American. French and
italian lines all lind the outlook far less
favorable than at the corresponding
period % last year. one Of the English
agents, who did not wish his name or
that of his company used, produced
statistics which showed slight de
crease in the castbOund saloon passen-
ger traffic The figures further disclosed
that the westbOund traffic IS well behind
what il was last year.
The Washington times., 1904-04-13

Miniature portraits continue 20 be the
leading FAD amOng the titled members
Of society ia London and in Paris, and
recognized leader among these fad
d.sts is the Duchess Of Marlborough
formerly COusUclO Vanderbilt. OF New
York Twice has the celebrated minia-
ture portrait painter. Amalia Kussner
Ddrs CouderD made likeness on ivory
Of the Duchess Of Marlborough, each
miniature costing $1,000. and now lat
famous HelIeu of Paris. has included
tie duchess among his list Of noted ana
beautiful Americans VINO have married
titles over there
lIeleUs latest work Is a silver point
drawing of Jhe Duchess Of Marlborough,
and scores OF London beauties are said
10 Dee eating their hearts out with envy
because he selected her as one OF thc
few beautiful women for IL Is we'll
The Washington times., 1904-04-13
Titled Arstoay Huff Because Miniature Painters VIII Not Take Or
deS But Choose Subjects, and Prefer American Girls
to Home Product

known he VIII not take an order. but
viii make likeness Of only those who
strike his fancy as being Ideals Of wo-
manly beauty.
Other beautiful Americans who sat TO
HeIIeu are Mrs. Samuel Sloan Chauncy.
formerly Alice Carr: Mrs. Philip Lying,
Mrs. Harrison Power. Mrs. Bachs. Mrs
Anthony DreNel and Lady Naylor Ley
land. formerly Jennie Chamberlain ol
Cleveland Ohio
With the IN rush OF Americans 10
London. either as the brides of peers o.,
as pretty bellies coming 10 London TO.
a season or two. the French and Eng
Ish portrait painters reap big has-
vest. The Dowager Duchess of man
cester. formerly ConsueIo Yznaga. OK
New York. has also sat twice for "a
miniature on ivory to Iluesner payin-
81 900 for each. and Mrs Sloan. who SAT
The Washington times., 1904-04-13

LONDON. April 13-An interview with
Prof. Sir William Ramsay. in which he
is represented as declaring that radium,
instead Of being a primeval substance
which has been slowly disintegrating
since the world began. is merely a tenn
porary phase Of matter, an unstable
resting point in "a series of transmuta-
lions. of which nobody knows the be
ginning. or end. OF meaning.
Experiments made 10y himself and
Prof Soddy tend TO show that it would
AN disiutcgrate and vanish l,15O years
hence. The rate of disintcEratiOu does
not depend upon the quantity existent
II would all vanish. whether il meas
ured a cubic inch or a cubic mile, form
ing H. the process other substances the
only one at present known being helium.
The Washington times., 1904-04-13
Observations of Peggy.

There are those who regard the en-
croachments Of age with something III
tie short of terror. and 70 whom the
sight Of the first gray hair is as a
death knell % all the hopes and aspira-
tions which make life so well WORTH
living i'm youth us well as age.
John oliver H0bbes, the bright Eng
lish novelist. has taken this horror with
which some people regard the passing
Of youth for a text. and witdly Trans
lates the French wall regarding It,.
which runs:
20 Jeuness,.. Jeuncsse, que je te re-
grette, Mais tai-je jamais connue,' in
That IS French. and it means. Don't
be morbid
Now. of course. the person who ut
tered the French words was very NOR
hid indeed and John oliver Hobbs po-
litely tells her not TO make "a fool Of
herself. but to brace up and face the
situation.
That Is what all those who are going
down the hill Of life must do. Life has
its compersa lions The will Of youth is
as the viii of the wind-it blowest hith-
er and thither like a reed i'm storm;
IL is unsettled; il tries this that and
the other excitement pleasure or work B..
IL rushes blindly 20 and fro, endeavOrlng
10 find its proper niche in life ana il
frequently comes up against a stone
wall for its pain That is youth.
The youth of all of us sums up limo
cenCe. 10 he sure. but linked with that
indecisiOn. supersensitiveness. unreas-
Oning likes and dislikes foIues without
number Youth is. in fact, controlled by
the emotions Of the heart, for the mind
is not yet matured.
Later, we find ourselves. Our position
IN life IS made for better or worse, our
our friends have been tried. and we can
"grapple them to our souls with hooks
of STEEL illusions are gone. but we
can look at life clearly and calmly: we
/ begin not % expect 20 receive more
! than we can give out, we have added
tolerance 10 our virtues, cur snip Is IN
the harbOr. so 10 speak, and there 3 no
longer "a desire for tcmpesJuOus voyages,
be they ever so alluring.
Then again we have gained experience.
1 for whose lack we plead mercy for all
the egregious folIies of youth. and which
We had TO gain in a hard school. and
with much sorrow and bitterness
| The season Of emotion is gone. The
| season OF the intellect comes with mid
/ die age, and with the coming of the lat
| tel we enter into restful mental at
mcsphere.
! If we are married we probably have
/ been married long enough 10 understand
/ our husbands. The corners have been
! rounded of. and true friendship and
l Camaraderie exists for we know and re-
spect one auothers limitations.
/ We have learned to read what is best
1 and TO take pleasure in the reading. Tn
youth we had not the time 10 spend on
quiet pleasures; we inclined rather 10
what was noisy, racy, and novel. Later
We drop these and enjoy in thei- stead
the quieter. deeper pleasures of the
mind; and although there are cases
/ where Ia youth such intellectual feasts
I take the place of the purely emotional
ones. yet these are so rare as to be re-
( markablc
The Washington times., 1904-04-13
Rodiun1 VIII Disappear,
Says Professor Ramsay
Not a Primeval Substance, but Only Tenn
porary Phase of Matter-WilI Disintegrate
and Vanish $50 Years Hence.

It is obvious therefore that radium
must now be in the course of produc-
ton. II it had been an original de-
posit it would have disappeared long
ago. Ii was the merest speculation to
discuss how it was produced. Nobody
knew, but possibly il came from
uranium
Prof. Ramsay paid a tribute to Prof.
Baskerville. Of the University of North
Carolina. who few days 100 announced
in New York his discovery Of two new
elements, carolinium and berzelium. He
said that he was a good chemist and d
straightforward man, with exceptional
opportunities for research. He did not
doubt If Prof. Baskerville said he had
discovered new elements that he had
done SO.
The Washington times., 1904-04-13
SAMPLE OF LIQUOR
CONTAINED KNOCKOUT"

WILKESBARRE, Pa. April 13-AI-
bert Supple proprietor of the National
Hotel at Nanticoke, was cIcVerly robbed
last night by q man who posed as a
liquor agent and who induced Supple to
taste some Of the SAMPLES he carried.
IL is believed they contained knock
out drops. as the supposed liquor agent
was able 20 get away with over 500.
The Washington times., 1904-04-13

If we are married we probably have
been married long enough To understand
our husbands. The corners have been
rounded OF. and true friendship and
camaraderie exists. for we know and re-
spect one auother's limitations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01

It will be noticed that most of the rail-
road executives of the day illustrate pos
sibilities open TO young men. Most of these
executives worked their own way upward,
as a widely read magazine article by an
Eastern railroad man showed not long ago.
He cites, for instance, the career of b. L..
Winchell, vice president and general man
ager OF the st. Louis ~ San Francisco
and the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific, he
now being one of the most conspicuous
railroad executives in the West. His career
has been one of promotion from the begin
ming. He entered railroad service as a
boy of fifteen, for five years was a clerk in
the office of the superintendent of machin-
cry and auditor of a Missouri railroad;
then he became chief clerk i'm the general
freight and ticket office, then assistant
general passenger agent, and in each OF
these changes became associated with a
more important road. He remained fifteen
years in different positions on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott x Memphis road. This
brought him down TO 1895, and to the end of
twenty-five years of railroad service. Later
he became general manager of the same
road with which he had formerly been con-
nected as assistant general passenger agent.
Finally. in 1901 he was elected vice president
and general manager of the San Francisco,
and now has added TO this position that
of the Rock Island, showing what work
and ability will accomplish.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Changes On the ID. & o.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is now
seventy-fve years old. and during that time
has had thirteen presidents. 1t made a
start in 1928, being formally begun on July
4 of that year, when Philip +. Thomas
was made its chief executive. In that posi-
ton he remained for seven years, being
succeeded by Mr.. Joseph w. Patterson,
Mr.. Louis McLane, under whose presidency
the road was opened TO Hancock and Cum
berland. Hon. Thomas Swami became the
fourth president. holding the place for four
years, and being in turn succeeded by Will
liam G.. Harrison and Chauncey Brooks,
the terms of both being very short.
Then in November, 1858, came the election
of Mr.. John w. Garrett, who held the
presidency of the road for twenty-six years,
under his regime that the road was de-
veloped into a system of national impor-
lance and made one OF the greatest trans
portation enterprises in the country
With the close of Mr.. CARROTS admins
tration came financial embarrassment which
threatened its prosperity, and eventually re-
suited in n receivership and the passage
10 other hands. Mr.. Garrett was succeeded
by his son, Mr.. Robert Garrett, whose Oc-
cupancy was short. Mr.. Samuel Spencer
and Mr.. Charles +. Mayer came next, and
then followed the ~receivership and the presl-
dency of Mr.. John X. Cowen. Mr.. LOree,
who has just resigned, held the place for
two and a half years, and he is now sue
ceeded by Mr.. Oscar G.. Murray, who was
one of the receivers, and who during his
proved one of its most able and efficient
officers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
THE VANDALIA'SADVANCE
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS MADE
BY RECEIVER MALOTT.
OmciaI Changes on the Wabash-Pres-
ident wincheH shows the Possi-
biIities for Young Men.

During the last year great progress has
been made on the Vandalia in undermining
its locomotive and car equipment and in
providing increased track and shop facili-
ties. Twenty new locomotives have been
received, of which four are large Atlantic
type passenger engines. eight are mogul
freight engines and eight large switching
engines. Sixteen new passenger cars, two
postal cars, one steam derrick wrecking
car, 326 pressed steel coal cars of 10000
pounds capacity and forty-five coal cars of
$4,000 pounds capacity were purchased and
received during the year. About thirty-five
miles of the main line were relaid with
eighty-fve-pound steel rails, replacing that
length of seventy-pound rails. This left
only about twenty miles of seventy-pound
rails in the main track. A sufficient guam
tity of eighty-five-pound rails has been re-
ceiVed and is now being laid, 10 replace
practically all of these seventy-pound rails,
after which the entire main line Will be
laid with eighty-ive-pound rails. During
the last seven years 70 per cent. of the main
line has been relaid with eighty-ive-pound
rails, replacing sixty and se~venty-pound
rails. In addition to the usual renewals
and requirements, about half a million dol
lars has been expended during the year on
the main line in making additions and bet
terments to the property and its equip
ment. These consist of industry tracks,
passing tracks, additions to yards, extern
sion of shops, new and modern tools. addi-
tional water stations, additional telegraph
lines, replacing light bridges with heavier
structures, building viaducts, equipping the
road with block signals and building double
track. This work is still going forward,
with the expectation on the part of Re-
ceiver Malott of having the road fully pre-
pared to handle expeditiously and safely the
large traffic next year on account of the
st. Louis worlds fair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Farewell Dinner to LOree.

Col. l.. F. Loree. the retiring president of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. was given
a farewell dinner Thursday at Baltimore by
the Baltimore q Ohio Railroad, in connec-
ton with the inspection of the new man.
moth pier at Locust Point, the largest on
the atlantic coast. The inspection and din
ner brought together all the prominent Off
GERS of the Baltimore d Ohio Railroad, city
officials and men prominent in shipping cir
cles of Baltimore. After an inspection OF
the new pier the guests in one of
the general Offices on the first floor of the
pier and were seated at dinner. In the after
dinner speeches Colonel Loree was toasted
TO a bright future with the Rock Island sys-
tenn and assured that he carried the well
wishes of every one present. Mr.. Oscar G..
Murray, the president-elect of the Baltimore
& Ohio. also came in for his share of con-
CALCULATIONS and well wishes. President
Loree toasting his successor in a cordial
manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
BIG YEAR in REAL ESTATE
NEARLY s14.OoO,OOO OF TRANSFERS
RECORDED DURING 1908
This Is an Increase of About 81 900, ~
over the Volume of Transfers of
Preceding Year-Year's Figures.

The real-estate business in Indianapolis
last year amounted to nearly SIS. 200.
This is an increase of over 100000 in
the volume of transfers for the year 1903
over the preceding year. and a much better
showing than was made by 1902 over 1901.
The year has been a good one in real-estate
circles. active and prosperous. with many
big transfers, and a corresponding number
of smaller ones that helped to swell the
total for the year to its unusual proper
tons. July was the largest month of the
year, the business transacted in that month
coming close to the 100000 mark.
If mortgages given to secure loans or TO
promote building operations are an index
of prosperity, then there is all the more
reason TO say that 1903 has been a good
year i'm real-estate circles, for the mort
gage figures show a surprising increase
over those of 1902. The 1903 mortgages are
about 80 per cent. greater than those of the
year Immediately preceding.
Building permits for the year just past
do not make as good a showing, although
it is certain that considerable building was
don without any permits. During the
latter part of last month Building Inspector
Stanley found evidence of $4,000 worth Of
building that has been done during the
year for which no permits were issued,
and that is supposed to represent only a
part of the actual amount that was done
without permission from the city authori-
ties. The largest building for which a per-
nit was issued was the terminal station
at the corner of Illinois and Market streets,
the estimated value of which is $4,000.
The following figures show the monthly
record of real-estate transfers, mortgages
and building permits for the year. with a
comparison with those of 1902:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Elasticity I'm Currency Needed.

We nave solved the problem OF sound
money" by taking our money issues en-
tirely out Of the hands OF private concerns
and putting them under a department of
government. BY SO doing. however. we
have left our commercial credit" entirely
en- the hands OF private individuals and cor
porations. That greater elasticity is needed
and that some change should be made in
the national bank act 10 this end all are
agreed. Opinion differs only as TO what the
character OF this change should be. And
this difference grows out of a difference of
view as TO the relation Of elasticity" 10
'soundness" In banking.
Proceeding from the mn that
greater elasticity Is needed as a common
point OF departure. argument has gone out
on two distinct lines: bankers have divided
into two schools Of opinion diametrlcally
opposed. The one has reached the con
clusiOn that "bTanch-banking' and eur
rency based on commercial assets" will Sc
cure the desired end; the other has as zeal
ously urged Independent banking and
scredit-accounts" (deposits) based on in
dependent and adequate capitalization
There has been not only a difference I'm
their conception OF the system" To be
modified. but a lack or agreement as TO
the form Of bank credit" 10 which elias
ITCHY Il 10 be given@Frederlck A. cleye-
land. In the F~1nancier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Michigan Central stockholders have
ratified the agreement made with the Pere
Marquette.
Second Vice President Pugh. az the Penn
s%ylvania. has gone 10 Hot Springs with
members Of his family.
The amount of new railroad built in the
Southern States during 1903 aggregates 800
miles. and during 1904 Mt least 4.170 miles
additional will be built.
w. II. Fox to-day becomes superintendent
Of the entire Tennessee Central Railroad.
with headquarters at Nashville. O. NJ.
Sewall IS assistant superintendent of the
system.
The net earnings of the Chesapeake &
Ohio In November were S51S, 30S, an increase
over November. 1902, of ? .6S9. The increase
for the five months of the present fiscal year
has been $S5l ,297
The Southeastern Passenger Association
announces that to-day winter touristS tick
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
UNION TRACTION COMPANY.

Local trains for Anderson. Muncie and inter-
mediate points leave Indianapolis at AIS a. m.
and each hour thereafter until 9:l5 and 1870
y. m These trains make direct connection at
Anderson with trains for Alexandria and Ell
wood.
Limited trains for Anderson and Muncie leave
Indianapolis at s and IL a. IN. and 2 and 5
d. m, arriving in Anderson in / hour and %
minutes and In Muncie in 2 hours. The s a. m.
and , y. m trains make direct connection at
Anderson with limited trains for ElwOod.
Commencing Dec. %. 1903. trains for Nobles-
vile, Upton, kokomo and intermediate points
will leave Indianapolis as follows:
Limited trains Will leave Indianapolis at 4:45
a. n. and every two hours thereafter until S:5
d. m.
Local trains will leave Indianapolis at $50
a. m. and every two hours thereafter until 1880
and IL p. m. Trains leaving Indianapolis at
$50 p. m. run OILY as far as Upton.
Express Department.
C-onsignments received until u O'Clock noon.
for delivery the same day TO all points between
Indianapolis and Muncie; until s p. m. for de-
livery 20 all points before 6 O'Clock the next
morning, including Muncie. Anderson. Alex
andria. Elwood. Upton and Marion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Rumors that Newman Is to Resign.

Important changes in the personnel of the
Vanderbilt system will, it is said, take
place within the next three months. While
these stories are always denied at the
Grand Central Depot offices at New York.
il is stated in Wall street that President
Newman. of the New York Central, has in
dicated his desire 10 retire as soon as his
successor is found, and that the executive
officers of several subsidiary companies
have irtimated that they would like to fol-
low his example.
The cause Of the threatened retirement is
said TO be the plan followed by William X.
Vanderbilt of dominating every department
Of the road, and of declining to give execu-
tive officers sufficient leeway in their po-
SitiOns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Deaths.

Ollie May Smith. s2f North West street, TWEEN
ty-eight years. pneumonia.
Maggie Veach, 2S79 Annette street. thirty-fve
years. pulmonary hemorrhage.
William Stanley. 724 North Senate avenue, six
months, pneumonia
Patrick Brennan. Little Sisters Of the Poor.
seventy-hve years. senility.
Clarence A. Johnson, has East Market street,
twenty-five years, commissions.
George Blandett. City Hospital. thirty-four
years. septicaemia-
George A. Madison, 2122 Pleasant street. fifty
three years. aneurism Of aorta.
Emma Roberts, 1871 Everett street, two years.
typhoid fever.
David H. Roberts, 1911 Everett street. six
years, pneumonia.
diphtheria.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
INDIANAPOLIS e. NORTHWESTERN
TRACTION COMPANY.
General Omces. Lebanon. In

General Offices, Lebanon. Ind
Indianapolis waiting rooms, ticket ONCE and
express Office. 19 West Maryland street. Union
block, Room S
First through car for lafayette leaves Indian
apolis at 4 a. m. and arrives at Lebanon at $40
a. m, Frankfort $50 a. m. and Lafayette 6.S
a. m. Second through car leaves Indianapolis
at 6 a. m. arrives at Lebanon at 7:S1 a m.
Frankfort at STA a. m. and Lafayette at S.lT
a. m. and every hour thereafter until 3 y. m.
Last car for Lebanon leaves indianapolis az u:so
=. m.
First through car from Lafayette leaves La
fayette at 6:25 a m. arrives at Frankfort at
1872 a. m. Lebanon at S:l5 a m. and Indian
apoIis at 9:45 a. m. and every hour thereafter
until 925 p. m. Last car from Lafayette to
Lebanon leaves Lafayette al u:25 p. m. and
arrives at Lebanon at lis a m.
Express Department - Consignments received
until 10 O'Clock a. m. for delivery the same day
to an points between Indianapolis and Frank
fort. and until 6 y. m. for delivery 10 all points
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Marriage

George Hunt and Emma Elva Erwin.
Theodore L. Dixon and Carrie Millice.
Charles z. Morrison and Mollie Morrison.
William Smith and Pearl Waltz.
Roy Jenkins and Daisy Burnett.
John Henry Fattig and Margaret Hill.
Harry w. Boone and Bonnie T.. Summit.
James McCurn Ransom and Adabelle Cheno-
with.
Charles F. Feske and Sophia f. Enders.
Albert NJ. Hauser, jr., and Flora Ziegler.
John b. Freutz and Katherine Cecilia Mullen.
Abraham Perry and Martha Ellen Sawyer.
Arthur Shumway and Maude Wiles.
Carl Schlagel and Verna Downs.
Frank Matthias Shaffer and Sophia Emma
Hack.
Edgar Weist and Armeda Jobes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
INDIANAPOLIS A MARTINsVILLE
RAPID TRANSIT co.

waiting room and station q Kentucky avenue.
First car leaves from In front OF No. a. Ken
lucky avenue FOR Martinsvihe and intermediate
statione AZ 5a0 a. m. and every hour thereafter
~ ~ balf-hour mark until go p. m. The
T.2o a m. car runs only 20 MOOresVllle. the SO
car runs 10 Martinsyilie and the next and la4
car leaves at I.N y. m, running 70 Martins
VILE.
leaving Martinsville for indianapolis and in
te,r~eafafe stations. first car az $50 a. IN ana
every hour thereafter. on the forty minute mark.
mill s40 ID. m. The 7.40 p. IN. car runs only TO
Neor.svule the $40 car - indianapolis and tho
next and last car leaves at 1880. running 10 In
dianapOlis.
Cars leave MOoresyllle Tor Indianapolis ana
Martfnsvflle at 8 30 a IN.
Express car arrives al Indianapolis at TO
a m and departs al $40 a m. also arrives af
l.fs .. IA. and DEPARTS at $40 y. M