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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
GAITHERSBURG NEWS.
Movement for a High School-Knights
of Pythias Fair-Briefs.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
GAITHERSBURG, Md. January IS, 1901.
Influential citizens have taken the in
itiatory steps looking to the enlarging of
the present public school building of this
place and the establishing of academic and
manual training departments. For some
time the school has been overcrowded.
numbering nearly one hundred pupils, and
the two teachers have had a difficult task
to give them the attention necessary for
speedy advancement in their studies. Az
ter a consultation with Delegate Edmund
l.. Amiss of Gaithersburg, who is thor
oughly familiar with the needs of the town.
having himself been principal of the school
for more than twenty-five years. it was
determined to at once prepare and circu-
late petitions to the Montgomery county
delegation in the legislature seeking state
appropriation.
The petitions are being circulated and
before the end of the week it is expected
they will be in readiness for presentation
to the county delegation at Annapolis 1t
is proposed that a representative commit
tee of citizens go to Annapolis early next
week Mr.. AmisS. who is member of the
committee on education. promises to use
his every effort for the success of the
movement.
Forest Oak Lodge. No. 123. Knights of
Pythias. at its last meeting made prepaTd-
ton for the holding of its third annual
fair The following committee was select
ed: DR.. E. H. Etchison. chairman: Messrs.
VIM. F. Gather, James E. Garrett, Alex
aEder G. Carlisle and Thos. w. Tschiffely.
The date will be Wednesday and Thursday,
February 10 and II, at the Masonic Hall.
Intelligence has been received here of
the sudden death of Mr.. Percy Thomas in
Culpeper Va. Mr.. Thomas native of
this county. and left here short while ago
to engage in business at Culpeper. During
the Christmas holidays he was married at
that place, and his widow survives him.
His death due to acute pneumonia.
He was aged twenty-four years.
Mr.. edwin w. Monday the new principal
of the local public school, today moved
charge on Monday morning. Prof. Lehman,
the retiring principal. will continue to re-
side in Gaithersburg. though entering rpon
his duties at the Rockville High School
next week.
Finishing touches are being put upon the
new two-story brick store building of Mr.
John A. Belt. at the corner of Diamond
and Summit avenues. This improvement
cost about $1,000. and marks the site of
the fire of September last, when he lost mis-
whole plant. Mr.. T. c. Groomes was the
architect.
Mr. Charles E. Beall is a candidate for
the vacant magistracy in Gaithersburg dis
trict. Mr.. James E Garrett who earlier
entered the contest in Difference to the
wishes of his friends, has influential back
ing. it is understood
DIR. Charles II. Waters of this town and
a delegation of supporters visited Annap-
oils Wednesday and laid before Gov. War
field his application for appointment to the
secretaryship of the state DO ~ of health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Naval Academy Loses Athletic Leaders

The rule of eligibility now in force at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis, in regard to
midshipmen who graduate earlier than
usual by special order of the Secretary of
the Navy will be to deprive next spring the
athletes of the institution of the services of
E. P. Bassett of Connecticut, captain of the
base ball nine, and Herbert H. Michael of
Maryland, captain of the boat crew. Here
tofore the midshipmen who were graduated
ahead of time by the special order of the
department were allowed to take part in
athletics during the period in which they
would have been students of the Naval
Academy. This year. however to avoid any
question of improperly it was thought bet
ter to hold that these men were not eligible.
It was thought better to take this stand,
particularly as Annapolis meets West Point
at base ball next spring George C. Pegram
of Memphis has been elected captain of the
nine. The crew has elected Alvah B. Court
of Houston, Tex, captain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
VICTIM OF HEART FAILURE.
General Joseph Darr, Civil War Vet
eran, Suddenly Expires.

Gen Joseph Darr, veteran of the civil
war, died suddenly of heart failure yester-
day in his apartments at 1896 l street
northwest. Funeral services will be held
tomorrow morning at o'clock at st. Mat
thew's Church. under the auspices. OF the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Rev Father Buckley will celebrate requiem
mass.
Gen Darr was born in Cincinnati and
was seventy-four years of age. He receiv-
ed a collegiate education, and was engaged
in business in his home city at the out
break of the civil war. He Immediately
rendered his services to the President and
was appointed lieutenant colonel of the LIST
Virginia Cavalry of the Union army He
shortly afterward became chief of staff for
Gen. RoSecranS, and was provost marSfai
general of the Department of Missouri dur
ing Gen. Rosecrans' term as commander of
that department. He was brevettcd brisa-
der general for gallant and meritorious
service.
During the closing year of the war he
was provost marshal of West Virginia. and
later in Missouri. His duties were of an ex-
tremely delicate nature In this capacity,
and he is said to have been one of the best
administrative officers in the Union army,
Gen. Darr resigned his commission in De-
cember, 1864, and in 1S66-67 was deputy
collector of internal revenue of the second
Ohio district. He came to Washington bout
twenty-five years ago and accepted clerk
ship in the record and pension division of
the War Department, where he has since
been employed. Gen. Darr was connected
with the work of publishing the records of
the rebellion until 1898, when he was trans
ferred to other work. He was on duty at
his desk Wednesday. He had just risen
and was preparing to dress yesterday morn
ing when the fatal attack came. Life was
extinct when he was found by the members
of his family. He leaves a wife and two
daughters. satees
Gen. Darr was a prominent member of
the Elks and was connected with the q. A.
r. His body will be inferred at Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

ton Surely" says the board, ''the Dis
triet authorities should have the right OF
visitation and inspection of an institution
where about LOCO District patients are con
fined and maintained at the expense of tie
District"
AS to the Washington Hospital for
Foundlings the report declares this instl-
tuition is purely District charity. and the
board knows no reason why it should be
exempted from the general law providing
for the supervision of District charities.
1.-THE bill Is clearly a step in the wrong
direction" says the report 1T leads
toward disintegration and confusion. rather
than organization and system. and defeats
the very object for which the board of
charities was created
The Commissioners will probably concur
In the recommendation of the board of
charities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Ie sponge in the ring at

the appearance Of the sponge in the ring at
q critical monnek
The receipts fqk&1le fight were the great
est ever taken iiEH boxing bout in Phil
adelphia. The prA4ypus high-water mark was
S., 400, but the subjected Wednesday night
far exceeded thasHamount, being between
5000 and $780, Up to Tuesday night
$500 worth ofH tkets were disposed of,
while 5000 was xSken In Wednesday after
noon. bringingYtH advance sale up to
Sc 200. ~
Every So and - Eeat was sold before the
doors opened, AID anside of fifteen minutes
after the sale ofsbalcony seats was started
every one was disposed of and the later
corners had to bsnoptent with cooling their
heels on the OUTSIDE and hungrily listening
to the cheering and yelling of their more
fortunate fellows Wft1ir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Track and Turf Notes.

At odds of z to hackers of Pretty Polly
have supported her to win the treble event
of 1000 guineas. Oaks and st. Leger.
Killarney. carrying 161 pounds. and own
ed by Charles Lienart. won the very val
liable Grand Prix de la Vile de Nice. a
steeplechase handicap. on January II. Kill
larney was second choice at to / in the
enormous field of twenty-five which ran.
The stake was worth about $4,000 to the
winner
Conditions of the Bennings Handicap and
Grand Consolation stake. to be run at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Y. M. c. A. Bowlers.

Team c of the Association League won
three straight games from Team d last
night owing principally to the fact that
the latter rolled the series with three men
against five Scott of the losing team roll
ed high game and also made high average.
The scores were as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

J. r. Hello, who has been on trial In the
United States court In st. Paul on charge
of having embezzled 81 800 of government
money has been acquitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Ittchins Blind bleeding or Protrudtng FLEA
Your druggist Will refund money II PAzo ONT.
nFNT fails to cure -ou In to Il days Soc.
oc2-f M. w-sf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
Suspending Police Regulations.

The Commissioners are now considering
the application of contractor for the sus-
pension of the police regulation prohibiting
the dropping of dirt from wagons in the
streets. His plea is that the enforcement
of the regulation will mean a great hard
ship and additional expense to him In the
execution of certain excavating contracts
The regulation has been in force but not
enforced for years. Recently this same
contractor, engaged in a considerable work
in the same section of the city, so fouled
the streets that the citizens complained
and finally carried the case into the Police
Court, thus giving the regulation effect.
His future works, he claims. must be
financed upon the basis of the enforced
regulation at greater cost. and in the name
of the city's improvement he asks that the
rule be suspended for his benefit.
This application involves a peculiarly
difficult question If the Commissioners look
favorably upon it. For the plea of public
necessity is broadly inclusive and can easily
be stretched to cover multitude of items.
There can be no doubt of the wisdom Of
keeping such a regulation on the books. If
Ii were rescinded the streets would be
fouled beyond the power Of the public
cleaners to cope with the dirt save at pro-
hibitive expense. If 1t be a fact that the
rule has not been enforced for years the
police should explain the reason. Is the
initiative to be put upon the citizens or are
the public officers to take cognizance of
violations? The fact of non-enforcement
in the past and sudden enforcement now
constitutes no hardship upon the present
victim of the law. He has merely been
lucky in the past.
To suspend this rule for this case would
greatly weaken the force of the police regu-
lation system. making it dangerously fex-
ible to suit passing conditions. Where
could the line be drawn with safety?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
Europeans in American Crowds.

So Inadequate is the street car supply
in New York and Brooklyn in the face of
the enormous crowds that clamor for
TRANSPORTATION that of late the more en-
terprising individuals among those wait
ing for service have formed the habit OF
climbing upon the car windows when the
trains stop at the bridge terminals. This
practice has led to much annoyance to
the passengers who obtain inside posi-
tions-no one seems to hope for seats
nowadays-and at last the police have
been called upon to interfere with this
gentle method of getting ride. Yester-
day more than half a hundred people
were arrested on this score. Among the
prisoners was a recently imported En-
glishman. His comment on the affair Is
thus reported:
IT'S a bloody shame for me-" he COM
planned. And me not in this country
three days"
do they climb through windows to get
in trains in England?" asked Policeman
Schlip.
"You know jolly well they don't" he re-
piled. But this is in America. you know.
and l thought it might be the way they
do II here
Well, unfortunately, the Englishman is
not far wrong. That is pretty nea~y the
way we do here in America. The crowds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
A Gentlemanly Bandit.

The public will lose no more sleep on ac-
count of Colonel Perdicaris. His letter
which appears in print today Is altogether
reassuring. He Is in the hands Of an en-
eaging bandit, and, barring the inconven-
fences of camp life. is doing well. He Will
soon be with his friends again. not only
none the worse for wear, but the richer for
an experience which a man of his educa-
ton and eye for color and dramatic eject
should turn to profitable account.
We get new light on Raisoult. He fills
the Byronic bill completely. being. accord
ing to his captives description, 'as mild
a hammered man as ever scuttled ship or
cut a throat" He has studied his part.
and, when the accessories are all right.
plays 1t up to the handle. AS fellows like
this seem to find a place for themselves. 1t
is well that they should make the picture
as bright as possible. 1t is comforting to
hear that some of them are more philo-
sophical than ferocious; that they prefer
ransom to blood. and are amenable to a
financial argument we'll conducted
At the outset the figure put upon Colonel
Perdicaris by his captor seemed extrava-
CANT But maybe Raisouli, although living
so far from the big road. knows what Is
going on in the world as well as the man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13

here have grown far beyond the facilities
for handling them. The habit Of city and
suburban touring, especially on Sunday,
has developed faster than the means for
accommodating it, And, furthermore, IN
this land of the free" the doctrine or
equality has almost obliterated the sense
OF precedence. The rule Of first come,
first served" Is very nearly forgotten.
The man with the greater audacity or the
stronger elbows is the chap who wins a
seat or standing room, at the expense of
the weakling. the timid, the woman or
the child. There being insufficient cars,
the rule of the strong has supplanted
every other principle.
In Europe the people have been trained
through generations into the way of
forming queues" or waiting lines. It is
customary there to see large crowds well
handled through this simple expedient.
Seldom Is the rule of precedence violated.
Here the queue" Is rarely respected. At
ticket windows where bars are erected
to restrain the pushers some degree of
order is observed. but woe to the man
who finds himself beyond the protecting
range of the railing and grows careless
of his rights, for he Is certain sooner or
later to be pushed aside by some late
conner without regard for rank in line If
ne slackens in the slightest in his grad
ual advance. Only when a policeman is
at hand to enforce the rule is the queue"
preserved in its integrity
The spectacle of the freshly arrived En-
giishman adopting the pushing habit of
the American is suggestive. Would not
an analysis of the surging crowds to be
round at such places disclose a surpris-
ingly large percentage Of adopted aliens.
hred with the notion that here in this
land of equal rights for all they are en-
Titled to shove forward regardless Of
others or the order of arrival? The uues-
tion arises, Is not this disagreeable habit
largely the result of the reaction of the
long lined-up Europeans, who, on coming
over mere, expect, as did this Englishman,
to find things different?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
Kentucky and the Tariff.

Tbere was nothing more interesting VI
.,,.,ostt,,a - hast weeks political history
than the adoption by the Kentucky democ-
racy of a platform calling for "a conser-
vative revision of the tariff Think OF
that from the blue grass commonwealth!
What a story 1t tells of changes: of has
beens. and of might have beens
Twenty years ago. on the eve of presi-
Dental campaign, the national democracy
settled a factional fight within It's ranks
in favor of a tariff for revenue only. The
contest was over the speakership OF the
Forty-eighth Congress. Mr.. Carlisle. an &C
complshed Kentucklan, led the forces OF
free trade while Mr.. Randall. a great con-
gressional power. led the forces of con-
servatism. MIR. Carlisle won easily. Mr..
Randall was routed. The result. indeed.
was so one-sided that both the victors and
the vanquished stood amazed There had
been nothing to indicate such a triumph
for the extremists of the party.
Had Mr.. Carlisle been a resident of New
York, or of Ohio, or Indiana. or Illinois. his
success In the speakership battle would
have been followed by his nomination six
months later for President. But residing,
as he did south of Mason and Dixons line,
and in a state which at that time was safely
democratic, he was not esteemed available
for the party's presidential nomination.
And so 1t was that his triumph became an
asset of Grover Cleveland, who was serv
ing as governor of New York. and enjoyed
consideration chiefly for the claim Of Dan
lei Manning that he could carry the state
for President.
Had Mr. Randall triumphed he would
probably have been his party's nominee
for President. He was in every way
strong and sturdy man. He had great force
of character. large capacity for public bust
ness, and on many grounds was much ad-
mired north and south. He was never a
Chinese wall protectonist, but believed in
the principle of protection. and insisted that
no revision of the tariff should be other
than conservative. He had the business in
terests of the country always at heart. But,
losing the speakership by the majority that
was thrown against him. he could hope for
no further preferment at his partys hands.
His influence in democratic councils depart
ed. and death ended in a few years an ad-
mirable career.
Today the Randall policy is in the as
cendant. The democrats who represent it
are on the eve of debating their party's
tariff deliverance The free traders are silent,
or are singing very small. Conservatism is
the watchword. The revision which Mr..
Randall advocated twenty years ago is now
advocated by his disciple. Mr.. German. and
Mr.. Cleveland, and Mr.. Carlisles old con-
stituents in Kentucky, say that 1t is good.
1t is but fair to add, however. that when
the Kentucky convention spoke last week
Henry Watterson was in the Indian terri
tory Whether upon his return home he
executes a ghost dance, and proceeds to
sharpen his scalping knife and tomahawk,
we must wait to see.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
Foreign Fortune Hunters.
From the Baltimore Sun.

Another international marriage is
about to have its sequel in the divorce
court. Three years ago the daughter OF a
former Vice President of the United States
was wooed and won by a titled French
man. 1t is the old story. The Gallo
sutton had blue blood, but no bank account.
The American bride had father who Is a
multi millionaire and was willing to spend
his money to promote his daughters hap
piness and further her ambition to have a
title. Papa's gold was devoted to saving
the historic home of the bridegroom from
the auctioneers hammer. After three
his father-in-law-and the bride has title
and divorce suit. When will the Amcri-
can girl learn that she can fare much bet
ter in a nuptial way at home than abroad?
She ought to know by sad experience that
the European fortune hunter Is not worth
his salt, much less the gold which our
heireSses lavish upon him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-13
Public Life and Criticism.
-ou, tho IoDisyiIla Herald

Leadership in American politics de-
mands a force of character, an impervi-
BUSINESS to criticism. resolve to follow
the right as conscience dictates, regard
less of whom it may please or displease
The American political leader must have
frmness, forecast, courage and fortitude
He must be, on the other hand, open to
argument But conclusion once care
fully reached he should follow to the
end. Criticisms on public men are too
often unkind, and sometimes very unjust
But the people are a safe tribunal be-
tween the well-meaning judicious official
and his critics. Americans never condemn
a man merely to please an assailant. They
place the accusation made against their
with his efforts and his deeds. They study
the motives of the accuser and weigh
well the terms of his charge. They con-
sider in turn, the record, the purpose, the
achievement of the accused, and pro-
nounce no condemnation till condemna-
ton is, in some measure, called for.
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Not q Failure Yet.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tr1bune.
The treasury deficit for May has brought
a ray Of hope to the discouraged Cobdenites
in this country who still dream of abolish
ing the tariff and razing the custom houses.
These political Missionaries are adept at ex-
tracing sunshine from cucumbers. So they
try to persuade themselves that treasury
deficit of $54. 723. $40 in a single month her
aids the breakdown of our present revenue
system In their Judgment we are entering
on a period Of deficits which Is bound to
last for years. The present net treasury
surplus of s163. OOO, 900 is to be eaten up by
annual shortages of revenue, and when
that surplus goes the government will have
to face the disagreeable necessity Of bor-
rowing cash to meet its current expendi-
lures or abandoning high protection for a
tariff "for revenue only"