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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
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AROUND PORT ARTHUR

the war lies with the land forces.
Russia has big territory to protect, but
il is all in one piece, and the only one
Of its kind in the world. Russia's mill
tary organization is something wonder
full over a million soldiers are on dutt
even in times Of peace, and the term
Of service is five years. The police have
a record Of the whereabouts OF every
male inhabitant over the entire king
dom. The passport must be recorded
wherever the person goes. A man may
have served FIVE years in the army way
up in Finland, and today be in the Port
Arthur a private citizen. But IN case
he IS needed for tFc present emergency
he will be wearing o uniform within two
hours. They know just where he is
And whatever the rest Of the world
may say as TO Russians being dissatis-
fed with their government, about the
Poles revolving in case OF an emergency,
and ali that. no people could be more
willing and anxious 10 obey the COM
mands Of their leaders than the Rus
SLAMS are in this war. A Russian SOL
der is nothing pretty 70 look at. But
he lives and fights under conditions
where other peoples would die on &C
count of the hardships, and Poles,
Georgians. Firms. Armenians. LithuanI-
ans. and the many other races that
have been conquered by the Bear in
years gone by, unite with patriotic fer
vor. point to the long war history Of
Russia with pride. with a full determi-
nation TO fight as long as the car re-
Quires II.
''Russia's administration Of affairs in
Manchuria compares quite favorably
with the American in the Philippines,
and il Is only because / am American
that 1 don't say IL IS better. The Rus
sian syster f government is, ii Is true.
10 ''squee: a little, but The Chinese
have done hat for two thousand years
and don't particularly object But for
downright theft of funds by officials such
as disgraced the American Government
in the Philippines, the Russians can
truthfully plead Not guilty To allow
the japanese to get the upper hand in
Manchuria would spoil Russiu's great
enterprise-the Trans-Slberian Railroad,
one OF the achievements that would be
a credit 10 any people. To have the
Taps govern ManChuria would be n case
of a brother IN q family trying 10 each
a school where a lot Of his brothers
were pupils. an affair bound TO end In
failure. The Russians say To the AmeTi-
cans: When you went out of your way
10 take the Philippines 1 said nothing.
To the English: In your Boer trouble
l let YOU alone And q 5 regards Man
churia he says of himself: This Is con
tiguous territory; ! need q commercial
uOrt: l have built a great railway and
for YOU two fellows to come and NEEDLE
ir.to nv affairs Is not only impcrtirence.
but viii be resisted with my fun power
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
MARIE ABEL WILL WE'D
JOSEPH F. EDWARDS
Baltimore Heiress Announces Engage
ment TO MISUNDERSTANDING
Will Take Place Next Autumn.

PHILADELPHIA, April 9.-Another
elphian-Joseph T. Edwards. son
Of the late DR.. Joseph F. Edwards, of
more belle, Marie Louise Aoell.
Not only is the bride young and ex-
cePtionalIy beautiful. but she possesses
In her own right a fortune variously cs-
timated at from one TO four millions
Announcement OF the engag cement was
made simultaneously in Philadelphia and
Baltimore yesterday.
Miss Abel IS the eldest laughter of
Walter z Abel. and IS q granddaugE-
ter of Arunah s. Abel founder OF the
Baltimore Sun" and Public Ledger.
of Philadelphia. Her mother was Miss
Sarah Sisson. She has one sister, WHO
recently eloped with Moncure Robinson,
and was married at Tpland. Pa. the
homo Of Edward Grocer. of Philadelphia
Who married Mrs. Robinson's sister.
Miss AbeIl is ninetevt years old. She
made her social debut last season. Bril-
liant entertainments have been given
this winter in her honor
MIR Edwards is interested I'm the Phil
3delphia Electric Company. he was
educated at the Dominican College. Al
Arceuil. France. His great-gra
VAS lean du Going. and the line is q
distinguished one in the South.
he IS related 20 Countess Leary. OF
New York. to Major Z. a. Edwards
United States military attuche At the
wards. who married sister of Score
tary Of War TAFT.
The wedding will take place next au
tu-nn.
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believed it? Yet we are bound to
give credence to the Commissioners;
for have they not shown that the
paucity of material for public Office
threatens to undermine the fOunda-
tions of our District government 1t
is not in the case of an intendant
for an asylum alone that they are up
a tree, so to speak, but there are
other cases which demonstrate clear
ly that aspirants for public honOrs
are as scarce in this city as hen S
teeth. Last year the Commissioners
purged the District government OF a
well, let US say, incompetent Audi
tor. He had permitted a subordinate
TO walk away, under his very nose,
with something like $4,000. Yet so
difficult found the Commissioners
the task of persuading anyone to
take a place under the District GOV
eminent, that they were compelled
to re-employ this Auditor in some
other capacity; and even then they
couldn't get him until they had SOL
emily promised to raise the salary
Of the place $500 above what had
been paid to a very competent pred
ecessOr.
Then, there is that case of the
Auditors chief clerk, under whom
the defalcation occurred. Anywhere
else he would probably have been
asked to resign, but here, We repeat,
the material is so scarce that the
Commissioners, after vainly casting
their eyes about, not only imagined
themselves forced to promote him
actually promoted him-to the place
of Auditor, but when the taxpayer,
like the proverbial worm that he is,
turned, sat him on high as an AS
SCISSOR! That board, we fear, is rap
idly becoming a refuge for political
cripples. Perhaps it is needed. But
we shan't discuss that now.
We sympathize with the honorable
Commissioners. Theirs, certainly, is
not a bed of roses. This difficulty
of persuading people to hold down Of
fee for a consideration is perplexing
in the extreme. 1t must distrub their
slumrers by day and by night. 1t
must haunt their very dreams 1t
must be a veritable incubus. Would
that it were given us to help them!
But hold on-here-s an idea-yes, a
capital one-the very thing. in fact!
Why not take Watson out of jail and
force him to accept public Office?
Why, as Intendant of the Washing
ton Asylum, he would have brought
to his task a professional equip
ment" which would make that
preacher Of great power" look like
thirty cents, and cause that ''best
of men" TO hide his diminished head.
It isn't too late yet, and we make
no charge for the idea. The public
Offices in the District must be filled,
even if we have to empty the peni-
tentiaries or 90 abroad for cheap
| labor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
CHEVY CHASE TO Be
SCENE OF KITE TESTS
Prof. Bell Selects Ground for Public
Exhibition Of His Aerial
Eavigators.

Prof. Graham Bell who Will give his
first public exhibition of his famous
tetrahedraI Kites in Washington be-
fore the National Geographic Society at
an open air meeting April D. has de-
cided on Chevy Chase as the place for
the experiments If sufficient space in the
fields can be obtained there. To make
arrangements for the exhibition Gilbert
Grosvenor. editor Of the National
Geographic Magazine" will visit Chevy
Chase tomorrow and viii thoroughly In
spect the ground.
Prof. Bell viii not exhibit his large
kites, but the smaller models. about
u by feet in dimensions. Red Filler, -
a siXty-fOur celled kite. and the kite
known as Victor T. will be flown. 1t
is this latter kite on which Prof. Bell
has been working particularly.
During his last open-air experiments
the model Of Victor ! was still untinish-
ed. but it Is believed by the scientists
here that this new kite as now built
viii perform wonders in aerial naviga-
ton. and may be the successful flying
machine which has been sought for so
long time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
Armenian Citizens.
They Go Home and Make Trouble in
Turkey.

They Go Home and Make Trouble in
Turkey.
The philadelphia Public Ledger"
calls attention to one of those facts
which we ought to know 1t is a
fact which affects more or less our
relations with Turkey. Turkey mas
been in the habit of ignoring the
claims of Armenians to citizenship
in this country, even if they can
show naturalization papers. The
Ledger" says that exasperated Tur-
key does this because many Arme-
mans come over here and live for the
express purpose of acquiring citizen
ship in the United States, and then
go home, engage in business which
may get them in trouble with the
authorities, and flaunt the Stars and
Stripes over their heads when caught
In a case of this kind it really seems
as if Uncle Sam were as much in
jured as the Sick Man Of Europe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
Those East Side Rents.
The Agitation Over Evictions in the
New York Ghetto.

Inc agitation over EVlct1onS IN the
New York Ghetto.
Much excitement has lately been
caused in New York by wholesale
evictions on the East Side, due to the
fact that rents have recently been
raised. and the tenants are unable to
pay. It is said that rents have been
for some time exOrbitant in that re-
gion, and that the accommodations
Afforded are poor. Yet the district is
crowded, owing TO the constant influx
Of immigrants of Jewish extraction,
who naturally seek TO live near their
friends, so that they can hear the
Jewish language spoken, and estab-
lish social and trade relations with
out delay.
The contention Of certain agitators
is that this raising of rents is an out
rage Their argument implies that
the landlords should lower the rents
in the district in question to a sum
which the tenant can pay. They are
working the poor and ignorant peo-
pie Of the district up to a state of
frenzied protest, as fast as they can,
and encouraging DEMONSTRATION"
and all sorts of foolishno
Sympathy for the poor is all right.
1t is doubtless true that the land
lords could live if they had not raised
the rent. But so could the majority
Of the people in this world live and
ask much less for their labor or their
commodities than they do ask. That
question is one too big for any feet
ing agitation to settle. Those who
use this episode as a means of Great
ing sullen, bitter hatred against the
rich, among the poor and unfOrtu-
nate, are not only wickedly paltering
with the truth, but they are working
against the Interests Of the very peO-
pie whose friends they assume to be.
The way to help the people who
are overburdaned with too heavy a
rent, and TO get the best of the land
lords, incidentally, is to encourage
them TO get out Of their quarters.
There is room for all these poor peo-
pie outside New York, and il they
were outside New York both they
and the city would be better off.
Two-thirds of the evils Of that me-
tropolis are due simply and solely
to overcrowding. There are cheaper
rents to be had in the suburbs, and
better accommodations, and if the
agitators would use their breath in
persuading the poor to move out
there, not by twOs or threes, but in
colonies, it would not be SO profitable
for landlords 10 Teut crazy shacks Of
tenements for exorbitant prices. The
result would be that the tenements
would be torn down and replaced by
Office buildings or cheap apartment
houses, where the tenants would get
something like the worth Of their
money. and could pay their rent
without hardship. Increase in subur-
ban settlements would mean more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS

The tide rises. the tide falls.
The twilight darkers. the curfew calls,
Along the sea sanCs damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the ,:de falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls.
But the sea, the sea in the darkness
calls.
The little waves. with their soft. white
haFds,
Efface the footprints in the sands.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeGs I'm theil
stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostleT calls;
The day returns. but never more
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises. the tide falls,
II. ". Lonsfellow.
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city advantages out there, better
transportation facilities, and better
conveniences for both the poor and
the well-tO-dO in these places. n
tenement in the heart of a city is no
place to bring up children-even the
children of the well-tO-dO; sgarming
hives of poor people in places where
light and air are at a premium
should, in any civilized state, be an
impossibility.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
LAND PATENTS ISSUED
AND CASES PENDING

There were 6.959 land patents issued
in the General Land Office during me
month Of March an increase OF -'zoS
over the month Of February.
There were 90.S20 cases pending IN the
General Land Office at the close or buSl-
ness on March Il. a reduction OF 8so
from the number Of eases pending at the
end @ February.
OF the cases suspended for investi-
CATION BIZ special agents 1,096 were re-
iieved from suspension during the month
of March.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

The Craftsmanship of the Republi-
can National Committee has been Of
fered to several prominent men, who
have not seen their way clear to take
it, but Speaker Cannon's reason is
said to be peculiar to himself. His
friends have warned him that nomi-
nation for the Presidency or the Vice
Presidency may come his way as a
consequence Of the craftsmanship, and
neither possibility is 20 the taste of
the Speaker at present.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
Poor Commissioners!
The Difficulties Trey Have in Filling
the Offices.

The Difficulties Trey Have in Filling
the Offices.
The honorable Commissioners seem
70 resent criticism directed against
their appointment of an outsider
Baltimorean-to the important posi-
ton Of Intendant Of the Washington
Asylum Hospital, and our distin-
guished morning contemporary voices
this resentment in an article flooded
70 the gunwale with wisdom and
bile IF there be anyone in Wash
ington,' exclaims the Post" who
possesses all these qualifications 1.-THE
qualifications of Mr.. Zinkham. the
Commissioners choicel. and is, At
the same time, anxious TO assume the
management of the Washington Asy-
lum Hospital, how much better it
would be 10 produce the individual
and let US look at him! .
Commissioner West, as is now no.
torious, has searched high and low
IN Washington. He has run his eve
over New York, and fairly ransacked
Bladensburg and Alexandra. If any
Of these home-rulers who are now so
loud in their complaints had lInowI-
edge Of a suitable candidate, why did
they not come forward?"
This reveals a condition of affairs
which is verify astonishing. In q
city Of 300. 600 inhabitants not a sim
gle person fit to perform the duties
OF intendanti Who would ever have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

The chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee bewails the al
legged fact that Judge Parker is not
a regular Democrat. We offer this
crumb of consolation to the appre-
hensive Jones: If Judge Parker were
obliged to depend on the votes of
strictly regular Democrats to elect
him. he might hope to be President
about the time the COWS begin to
grow wings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
BIG WOLF HUNT.

LIBERTY. Mo. April "a big wolf
hunt has been arranged in Clay county,
rive miles north OF Kansas CITY, next
Thursday. Wolves have been numerous
and carry OFF younS pigs and chickens.
More than 200 men will be in the hunt
with dogs and guns.
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Leave to Print.
Movement to Abolish This Time Honor
ed Privilege Of Congress.

ed Privilege Of Congress.
Periodically there arises a protest
against the custom, more honored
in the breach than the obserV-
ance, Of asking leave TO print"
It is about time for a new agitation
on this subject, and it has come; 1t
comes as punctually as hop-scotch in
the spring. Opponents of the prac-
tice point out that it amounts vir-
tually to making the Government
pay part of a Congressman's cam
paign expenses. If there be any par
ticular point on which the gentle
man from Squashville wishes to re-
assure his constituents, all he has to
do is to write out his views in
speech, deliver a fractional part of
that speech, get leave to print the
rest, and distribute copies of the
Congressional Record" containing
the speech wherever it will do him
the most good. 1t is delightfully."-
easy.
To be sure, there are advantages
besides this most obvious one. If
every man who made a speech in
Congress had to make the whole of
it in order to get it reported in the
Congressional Record" the ears Of
Senators and Representatives would
be vexed with many wandering
monologues. OratOry is no longer
taught in our district schools with
the zeal once given TO this branch
Of education, and even if it were,
every man has not the gifts neces-
sary to a brilliant orator. Moreover,
some of the most useful men in Con-
gress are men who could not make
a telling speech to save their respec-
table lives. They can present impor-
tant facts in a suitable way, and
write a speech which reads cry
we'll in the Record and is of great
use in defining their precise views
on the subject in question; but as for
delivering that speech so that their
hearers will sit, fascinated, as if
glued to their chairs, they can no
more do that than they could float
about in the air unassisted by sus-
pension wires. Must Congress be
condemned 20 listen to all these good
but prosy speeches about subjects of
interest only TO the member from
Squashville. in order that the mem
Der from Squashville may, convince
his constituents that he is sound on
the question Of DISCRIMINATING the
cotton-boll weevil or protecting po-
tatOes?
There is very little danger that
| Congress will be thus bored in the
future. Congress decides this ques-
ton, and knows what is for its own
convenience and comfort. And the
rest OF the country really cares very
little whether the speech printed in
the Record" really was delivered or
not, so long as the Congressman
fathers its sentiments.
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PRESIDENTS PASS.

ST. LOUIS. April 9-Pass No. to the
Worlds Fair grounds during the regular
exposition period was made out today in
the name of Theodore Roosevelt. Presi-
dent OF the United States. IL will be is
sued to the President next week
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09
IN SOCIETYS CIRCLE
Mexican Ambassador Will Give First of Four
Dinners at Legation Tonight.
Countess CasSini PurSueS Work in Bazaar in the
Rain---NunerouS Parties, Receptions, FeaStS,
and Dances Among WashingtonianS.

The Mexican ambassador and Sonora
de Azpiroz will give the first Of a series
Of four dinners at the Mexicon embassy
tonight. On account Of the indispositiOn
Of Sonora de Azpiroz and her daughter,
Sonora Perez. who has been absent from
Washington much of the winter, but lit
tie entertaining has been undertaken at
the embassy this season.
Pedestrians on the fashionable
thoroughfares yesterday. as we'll as
more fortunate people in automobiles or
carriages. were surprised to see Countess
Cassini and Mr. Gutowski, of the Rus
sian embassy, walking toward Rhode Is
land Avenue from the downtown dis
triCt in a sudden dash of rain, and
without so much as an umbrella for pro-
lection. They were on mission con-
nected with me Russian bazaar. and
were so happy and enthusiastic that they
evidently forgot all about the weather.
This only goes to show the wonderful
enthusiasm Of the countess In her new
enterprise for her native land.
Mrs. Audenreie will give her second
dinner party Of the season this evening
and the event Will be in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. George Kendrick, of Philadel-
phia, who are now her guests Mrs
Kendrick was formerly Miss Marion
Audenreid, a niece of the hostess, and
well known in Washington. Nus. All
denreid entertained a dinner party on
Wednesday evening in honor of Senator
and Mrs. Scott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emo, of New York. en-
tertained a dinner party last night at
their residence in n Street.
Mrs. George W. Childs. of Philadel-
phia, who built and occupiec. for little
more than one season the residence in
K Street now owned and occ1pied by
Attorney General and Mrs. FCoX, Wis
tied friends in Washington during the
past week
Miss Vivian Cameron is visiting Mrs
Wells, wife of Lieut. B. W. Wells, in
their home, at the Naval Academy, An
naDOlis.
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The existence Of Niagara is said
to depend on Governor Oden's veto.
If ne chooses he can veto the bill,
which has already passed the senate
Of the State Of New York, which al
lows various towns and villages in
the State to use power" derived
from the great cataract. It is be
Heyed, with good reason, that the
consequence Of this bill viii be the
ruin of one of the most magnificent
sights which this country has to Of
fer Surely, only America, and, it is
TO be hoped. only one State in Ameri-
ca, could be guilty Of the destruction
of a mighty cataract for the petty
purposes Of municipal economy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

Representative Dalzen's bill provid-
ing that officers Of the army and
navy shall receive equal pay remains,
for some inexplicable reason, not re
ported by the House Naval Commit
tee. For many years naval officers
have been receiving less pay than
army officers for services which GER
tainly, in the light of the war with
Spain, seem to be as valuable as any
thing accomplished by the army. 1t
seems as if it were about time either
to remove this inequality or explain
why it exists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

The Anglo-French colonial treaty
is regarded in some quarters as some
thing Of a personal triumph for King
Edward, whose tact and wisdom are
held to be largely responsible for the
success Of this somewhat difficult
diplomatic undertaking. Nothing,
perhaps, would have seemed less like
" a few years ago than any agree
ment by which the ancient antago-
nism between France and England
might be lessened. For the first time,
there is definite reason &c think that
in time this antagOnism may be, like
Norman castles on English soil,
merely a majestic mOss-grOwn ruin,
and that the enmity of France may
cease to be a bugbear to English
statesmen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

The mayor of Atlantic City wants
to know how the women who protest
against mixed bathers expect him to
enforce an ordinance which would
prevent a man and his wife from
bathing together; and he also wants
to know how they expect the people
Of New Jersey to make laws which
will drive the whole seaside popula-
ton away from the State. In view of
these two questions. reform removes
Itself into the middle distance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

There viii be. it is said, $4,000 parade
Of people and beasts at st. Louis. VIII
the people be labeled to distinguish them
from the beasts
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-09

Another elevator boy has proved his
he~olsm by running his elevator up and
down through flames, to rescuc the peo-
pie Of a doomed building. Is IT not about
time that the landlords and building
commissioners should show their hero
ism by providing a perfectly hreproof
elevator shaft2