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Arrest Lawyers and Doctors at LODI.
(By Associated Press.)

LODI, March THE police have
arrested a dozen prominent lawyers
ana doctors. on the charge that they
had been stirring M tho Polish Ian.
G,iagc agitation in the schools.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

the protestants appear to be laboring under
a misrepresentation of the facts in the case
AS explained by an official familiar with all
the circumstances of the case 1t appears
that the officials of the government and the
harmony Ia using the earth and gravel from
the Arlington reservation in filling the deep
pit at the Virginia end of the Highway
bridge In order to complete the approach to
that structure. In the advertisement call
ing for bids for that work it was stated that
the government would supply the material
for filling, and arrangements were made
several weeks ago to secure this filing from
the Arlington estate. The arrangement was
made with the full knowledge and consent
or the officials in control of the Airing on
estate, as well as the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, to whom was specially assigned for
agricultural purposes the particular section
OF land from which the earth and gravel are
being taken for use in the Highway bridge
Improvement. 1t Is also stated at the War
Department that the work In progress In
no way affects the natural beauty of the
Arlington estate, nor interferes with the i'm
provement of that estate in future years.
and II is added that by giving this material
for filling the government makes a consid-
cradle saving in the expense of completing
the Highway bridge. As one official ex-
pressed 1t. 1t is more important that the
Highway bridge shall be finished in the in
terest OF general traffic between the Capital
city and the state of Virginia than that rer-
tain mounds or hills in the Arlington estate
shall be reserved for possible use in the flu
roads in that reservation, especially as the
work in progress is not likely to interfere
In the least with the future Improvement OF
the sacred ground of Arlington.
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are scattered over the fields and the phren-
ologist may find skulls enough to build a
small monument to his memory. The mon
uments are of chocolate-colored sandstone,
twenty-seven feet high. and were erected
by the officers and men of Gen. Candles
separate cavalry brigade, camped al Fairfax
Court House. The monument on the first
Bull Run field is situated on the hill in front
of the memorable stone house, on the spot
where the 14th Brooklyn, list Michigan and
LIST and I'd Maine were most holly engaged
and where Ricketts, and Griffin lost their
batteries. The shaft is twenty-saven feet
high and bears upon it's top a 1OO-pound
shell. On the pedestal at each corner is a
shell of similar size. On one side of the
shaft is inscribed TO the memory of the
partots who fell at Bull Run, July Dist
1891, and the reverse, Erected June
10th, 1865. The monument at Groveton Is
similar in its proportions, bearing the in
scription, TO the memory of the patriots
who fell at Groveton, August 90 1862 and
1868
The dedicatory exercises were conducted
on the first Bull Run field by Rev. DIR. Nc
Murdy, who read appropriate service,
which was followed by Pierpont, military
parade by the 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Ar
tilery, Col Gallup and a salute by the 10Th
Massachusetts Battery. Capt. Scott. At
the close of the ceremonies eloquent ad-
dresses were delivered by Judge Olin. Gen.
Wilcox, Gen. HentZleman and Gen. Farms
worth. At the second monument the Serv-
ices were similar to those described.
The excursionists, after partaking of re-
freshments, returned to the city, arriving
in Washington about II o'clock pm.
THE day passed off most pleasantly, and
will be treasured with the best recolec-
tons of the excursionists. To Capt. Law
renee, A. Q. M of Gen. CANDLES staff, the
party is indebted for unexpected accommo-
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dationS IN getting to the field. Nothing
that could have been required in securing
the comfort of every visitor was omitted by
him, and his energy and courtesy will long
be remembered with grateful appreciation
After Forty Years.
After forty years, lacking one month, the
soldiers who reared the two monuments on
the Bull Run fields IN memory of their
comrades who had fallen in battle will
return to the scene of their former strug-
giles and hold a reunion. The Society of
the Army of the Potomac meets at Ma
nassas and on the Henry farm for it's
thirty-siXth annual reunion next Wednes-
day and Thursday, and pays its first form
al visit to the ground it helped to make
famous. The last time the members of the
society were present on the field was at
the dedication of monuments, the story of
which is graphically told in the article
published in The Evening Star of the day
following the dedication. These monu-
ments are of more than usual interest to
students of American history in that they
are the only two memorials erected by
Union soldiers on any battlefield during
the days just following the war, and these
monuments We're erected by the soldiers
themselves on the two fields they memoir
alize They were set up by the troops of
Gen. CANDLES command while they We're
returning to Washington after participant
ing in the grand review of the soldiers of
the Union. The plans for the memorials
were made by soldier and every stone
and bit of mortar was prepared by a SOL
der. The balls that decorate the monu-
ments were picked up on the field of battle.
During the dedicatory exercises at the
Henry House monument a photograph was
made of the principal persons present a
copy Of which The Star has been able to
secure.
Why Bull Run was selected by those in
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EMITS FOUL DOORS
LID LIFTED FROM THE JAMES
CREEK CANAL.

The lid has been lifted from the odorjfer-
GUS James Creek canal, in South Washing
I ton, and the citizens in the vicinity of the
open place have entered a vigorous protest
In the process of erecting a pier for the ele-
waited tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad
near the opening of the tunnel the railroad
engineers say they found it necessary TO re-
move the brick archway over James Creek
canal-Tfber Creek sewer as it is some
times called-for distance of about 900
feet at South Capitol street and Virginia
avenue southwest.
Piled about the open place are haans ~
debris and foul-smelling mud and slime
from the bed of the canal, and one citizen
described the place as resembling Port Ar
thur after the japanese bombardment" At
the northern opening the sewer has been
damned, and the foul fluid from the city is
allowed to pass in the open through a wood
en- sluiceway.
THE stencil in the neighborhood from the
exposed sewage is described as almost I'M
bearable, and people in the vicinity are
compelled to keep their windows closed"
said South Washingtonian, land unless
the health authorities take prompt action in
the matter much sickness will result"
When Star reporter visited the scene
yesterday afternoon he found that the con-
ditons as stated by the citizen had not been
overdrawn. Addressing one of the workmen
the reporter asked:
How long will this place be left open?'
-Four or five days. if we have any luck
was the reply.
In the meantime dead cats, rats and other
disagreeable things from the citys sewers
the wooden sluiceway and the contrary
breezes waited the most indescribable odors
in all directions through the dust-laden at
mosphere.
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GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS
REPAIRS TO G. AND o, CANAL
NEAR HANCOCK, MD. ,
Result of Census-Figures of Interest
to Residents of West
End.

No information could be obtained at the
general offices of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company today as to the extent of
the damage to the waterway resulting from
the break In the Bernie bank, two miles
east of Hancock, Monday night. The break
in the canal at this point is said to be very
dangerous, and the season which was to
have been inaugurated last Monday is now
postponed until repairs shall have been COM
pleted.. General Manager G. L. Nicholson
is on the ground with a large force Of
workmen experimenting the repairs. The
particular part of the canal affected is
fourteen-mile run, and all the water along
this level is being drawn off. For the
time being navigation has been stopped for
several miles, but 1T Is understood the
handling of traffic will be resumed within
a week or ten days.
Census Figures.
The recent police census presents some
interesting figures of interest to George
town. According to the latest statistics
Georgetown does not show quite as large
population as the census Of eight years
ago. Notwithstanding reports which have
been current to the effect that the census
figures are inaccurate as taken by the four
men assigned to the four districts in
Georgetown it is stated that there is very
little basis for the criticism.
The territory covered by the police was
the same as eight years ago, when u street
was the dividing line between Georgetown
and the county. The fact that since 1897
hundred or more houses have been con-
structed and are occupied by former resi-
dents OF the city % the s9aAxpa 1qst out
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lists passed still bears the sad marks Of war,
Notwithstanding the IuXuriant growth of
vegetation which is striving to hide the
scars and unsightly wrecks made IN the last
four years. From Alexandria to the battle
field is one wide area of desolation Fences
are utterly swept away. Here and there
dilapidated house shelters a few squalid'
Inmates, and occasionally a small patch of
wheat or corn is passed, but the whole
face of the country is changed and lays
10 visit. Scrub oak and pine are springing
up everywhere, and from every eminence
the eye commands a wide area Of UNMARRIED
foliage. A few decrepit houses and leaning
Chimnies are all that remain of the once
pleasant village of Fairfax Court House.
The old-fashioned court house itself is half
ruined, its roof going to decay and its walls
pierced by rifiemen, threatening at no dis
tant day TO fall in the general ruin. The
hotels are but novels, the groves of shade
trees and the gravel walks are forgotten,
and broken brick and mortar, half hidden
by the weeds, alone mark the site of the
churches. dozen, perhaps, of It's former
male population remaip. Their homes ruin
ed, their families beggared, and themselves
thoroughly humbled, one cannot well avoid
an expression of sympathy In their misfor-
tune, utterly wasted though the sentiment
may be.
''Centrevlle is even more OF a desert.
Once village of rare beauty perched upon
the gentle slope of the high ridge and COM
mandng a view of fertile valleys for many
miles, war swept 1t with the bosom of
destruction, and the ruins Ne about invested
with all the saddening influences of perfect
desolation. The curse that blasted the an
cient cities seems to have fallen on the place,
and the visitor wanders among the crumb-
ling walls and heaps. of rubbish with a feel
ing as If the prophecies of the Old Tesla
ment were yet working out their fulfilment
THE roads are characterized by all the
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horrors of a barbaric period. The pike,
paved with boulders from which the sand
and gravel have been washed away,
stretches on, an interminable highway of
suffering, while the by-ways, filled with
stumps and pit-holes, afford scarcely less
terror to the traveller. In some instances
1t becomes necessary to abandon the ve-
hicle. which jolts and reels over the rocks,
threatening to shake to pieces, while the
passengers pick their way along on foot
of their conveyance. Tottering bridges, full
OF holes, span the creeks, across which 1t is
far preferable to walk than ride, and in
the hollows, seemingly bottomless, depths
of sticky clay engulf the wheels.
Such were the obstacles overcome by the
excursionists Not, however, without the
loss of few ambulances on the road, the
exhaustion of horses and sundry maledic-
lions. The vicinity of Bull Run would
scarcely be recognized as battlefield
marks of the struggle, and the relic hunter
only now and then finds in the grass me-
mento of the event. Very few shot and
shell remain upon the surface, the trees are
hiding the blotches on their trunks made
by bullets and the only bones that are
found, with few exceptions, are those of
horses, which visitors have not invested
with sufficient Importance to carry them
away. Some of the fences have been re-
built and corn Is planted in many places
while the rapidly growing bushes hide
nearly all of the original features of the
field The battlefield of Groveton, two
miles beyond toward Warrenton, Is more
distinctly marked with traces of battle
Here the shot and she'll are thickly strewn
the trees are splintered and In many places
the forest looks as if having been visited
by smallpox
Bones Scattered Over Fields.
THE bones the soldiers of both ar,oiec
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DIRT FROM ARLINGTON
PROTEST MADE AGAINST ITS RE
MOVAL.
Is Being Used for Filling at Highway
Bridge-War Department
Explains.

Protest has been made to Secretary Taft
against the alleged dissertation of the gov
eminent reservation at Arlington. Messrs
Thomas II. Wallace, ID. Dorsey, ]. Barton
Key and Ray c. Carter of this city, who de-
scribe themselves as citizens of the United
States" are the compliments. Their pro-
test Is directed against the removal of earth
or gravel from the Arlington estate for use
by a private contractor in constructing the
Virginia approach to the Highway bridge
across the Potomac.
These gentlemen express the opinion that
it is unlawful to take this material from a
government reservation for such purpose.
They assert that the contractor referred to
is a private citizen and is being paid by the
government for furnishing the material for
constructing the approach, and that de-
duction is made on account of the gravel,
earth and material taken from the Airing
ton estate 1t is also objected that the prac-
tice is a bad precedent, as ii lays the foun-
dation in years to come for the removal of
the beautiful trees and other ornaments that
row beautify historic and sacred Airing
tom which. they say, lis the Mecca of cur
nation and such all Its environments
should be kept sacred "
1t is further argued that IL there are any
mounds or hills In the Arlington estate that
need to be cut down and graded there are
many depressions and gulleys there to be
filled in that need all the surplus dirt OF
gravel. Furthermore, ii Is stated there ere
many roads to be constructed through the
Arlington estate TO beautify II and to make
1t more convenient. and any surplus gravel
or dirt there should be reserved for tina,
purpose and not donated to a private con-
tractor.
Under Misapprehension.
IT in stated at the War Department that
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authority. and not Gettysburg Apo
mattoX, is obvious. Here was the begin
ming of the fearful struggle 1t seemed
proper to the veterans of 1865 that those
who gave up their lives in those early
days of disaster should receive special
honor.
CANDLES entire command was present
under arms at the dedication. A special
train brought Quartermaster General
Meigs and the large concourse of soldiers
and from thence they were transported in
government wagons. The music was fur
nished by Gen. Meade's Headquarters Band.
The salute was fired from the spot where
Ricketts, Battery was captured by Capt.
SCOTS Battery. The entire material was
furnished by the government through Capt,
H. c.. Lawrence, quartermaster. The
inscription was written by Col. Taylor,
chief of staff, at Washington:
I'm Memory of the Patriots who fell at
Bull Run July q, 1861"
Facts of Dedication.
The facts concerning the dedication are
of interest in Washingtonians because two
of the principal figures in the group about
the monument as shown by the picture
heretofore mentioned, are now living IN
this city. These are Gen. Orlando B.
Wilson and Lieut.. A. N Seip. Both of
them will probably attend the coming re-
union of veterans of the Army of the Po-
tomac
The preparations that are being made for
the reception of the veterans at Manassas
are extensive. Almost every prominent citi-
zen of Prince William county has Joined in
the preparations. Representatives of beth the
Union and confederate armies are on the
committee in charge of the reception of the
visitors. Veterans of both sides have or
CARNATIONS at Manassas, and both organi-
cations have committees appointed TO see
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Peary's Ship Attached.

Three attachments, aggregating $4,000,
were placed on Commander Robert E.
Pearys new Arctic steamer Roosevelt at
Portland, Me-, Thursday, and keeper was
put in charge. The attachments are all
against Mckee & Dix, builders of the hull,
and are for supplies furnished by three
firms. This is the second time that a
keeper has been put aboard the Roosevelt,
but despite this fact the work of fitting
her out goes steadily on. The machinery is
practically all installed and the masts
were put in yesterday. Unless the attach
ments are raised soon the completion Of
the steamer 10 likely to be delayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

President Society Of the Army Of the Potomac
monuments erected by the troops of General
Gamble on the first and second Bull Run
battlefelds. The train left the depot on
Maryland avenue about am with a con-
siderable number of passengers including
Maj. Gems. HeintZleman, Meigs, Wilcox and
Parke, Brig. Gems Benham and Hail. Prof.
Henry. Judge Olin, j. NJ. Brodhead of the
treasury and several ladies. At Alexandria
number of other cars filled with paSsen-
gers, General Slough among them, were
attached to the train.
AT Fairfax station the party was met by
Gen Gamble and staff who attended in per-
son 20 the transfer of the visitors from the
cars to ambulances provided for the occa-
sion. ample provisions having been made
for a much larger party. About fifty ambu-
lances were filed, and the train with an
escort moved on through Fairfax Court
House and Centreville to the battlefield,
eighteen miles distant, reaching It's destina-
ton about u o'clock.
THE country through which the excursion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Filipe AIore, a wealthy ranchman. shot
and killed Mr.. and Mrs. Francisco Mon
torio at Bingham thirty-five miles south of
Clayton, N NJ and killed himself. Mr..
Montorio was member of one of the old
est families In the country and Mrs. Nom
torio was noted for her beauty. Alore is
said to have been deeply infatuated with
her, and jealousy Is supposed to have
prompted the murder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Deserted wife Met Husband.

Mrs. Magdalina Smith Of New York came
face to face in the United States district
court at Pittsburg Thursday with her hus-
band, George Smith, who deserted her in
New York twenty-six years ago, after liv-
ing with her as her husband for almost
eighteen years ard being the father OF her
eight children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
PLACES IN THE NAVY
COMING EXAMINATIONS FOR THE
PAY CORPS.
Twenty-Eight Existing Vacancies
Good Opportunity for Bright
Young Men.

There is good opportunity just now for
bright young men to obtain commissions in
the United States navy without the years of
preliminary preparation at the Naval Acad-
envy or through the long and difficult route
of the forecastle There are twenty Eight
available vacancies in the grade Of assist
ant paymaster the lowest commissioned
rank In the naval pay corps. and the only
one to which appointments are made from
civil life, and the powers that be" have de-
termined to give all worthy applicants an
opportunity to compete. 1t is truly a case
of free field and no favor 9
Examination to Be Held Here.
An examination will be held In this city
beginning June 10 next, open to all eligible
applicants. By "eligible" is meant men who
are between the ages of twenty-on and
twenty-six years, are sound physically (par-
ticularly as to their eyes, ears, heart and
lungs) and are thoroughly posted on Eng
lish, arithmetic, banking and exchange and
such collateral subjects might be reason
ably expected of fairly educated and
well-read young man.
The physical examination comes first and
is very thorough. Each candidate is care
fully examined naturalibus by medi-
cal board for the purpose of determining
whether he Is physically fit to be naval
officer from a medical mans point OF view.
If not, the applicant is courteously but
definitely excused from further attendance,
and any efforts by himself or his friends TO
bring about a denomination will be futile.
The Mental Examination.
Those candidates who "get by the doc
tors as the saying goes, have still the
mental examination to contend with. While
that examination Is for the most part rudi-
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mentary in its nature and scope, many can
dIdates for commissions fail in 1t because
of overconfdence In their ability or, which
amounts to the same thing because they
underestimate the examination. That err
ror in the past has been due in a measure,
to the impression that a designation" was
equivalent to an appointment" because 1t
ordinarily required considerable political in
fluence to secure even designation to
appear before the examining board. Elk
perience, however, has shown that the con-
test for commissions In the pay corps Is a
proper case to apply the rule of 1.-The sur
vival of the fittest." Consequently at the
coming examination the merit system, and
that alone, will govern the competition.
Consideration Of Applications.
officials of the Navy Department are now
engaged in considering the applications of
the numerous candidates for appointment as
assistant paymasters, with a view to "des
ignating" all those whose recommends
tfons and antecedents appear to warrant
their taking the examination. Applications
will be received until the latter part of this
month, when the entries will close and the
designations will be made for the ex-
animation to be held June IL 1t is expect
ed that more than hundred young men
from all parts of the country will compete
in this examination, when the existing
twenty-eight vacancies are to be filed,
provided, Of course that the requisite num-
Der pass the examination. According to the
departments latest circular on the subject, a
candidate to succeed must attain a gen.
eral average of at least IS per cent. So
far as possible the appointments will be
equally apportioned among the states so Us
to avoid favoring any particular state.
The fortunate twenty-eight candidates will
receive commissions which carry with them
rank. beginning with ensign equivalent to
second lieutenanD and eventually rising to
captain equivalent to colonel and salary
beginning at 81, 500 and gradually increasing
to nearly 5000 year.