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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-11
Daily Thought.

Few of us can be great, but all of
us can be good.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-11
Southern League.

Memphis, 2; Nashville, I.
Memphis, 8; Nashville, 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
TO LEARN ENGINEERING
NAVAL OFFICERS UNDER IN
sTRUcTIoN VISIT sHIpyARD.

The officers under instruction in steam
engineering at the Navy Department have
just returned from the works of the New
York Shipbuiiding Company at Camden, N
j. The object of this trip was to make
observations and take data during the decl,
trial of the. United States arrnored cr1,- ser
Washington, which is TO have her trial trim
next month, and also to inspect the works
and observe the methods of these works
which are the most up-to-date in this coun-
try.
Owing to the faulty adjustment of the en-
gfnes the dock trial did not take place
being postponed for several days so that
the day was spent in inspecting the works
and the machinery of the Washington.
This trip is the first on the list for the Of
f1cers under instruction in steam engineer
ing, and is part of the scheme of practical
instruction outlined by the Navy Depart
ment for the officers chosen last year for
specializing in engineering. Other trips
have been planned to the principal ship
yards, engine works, boiler works, etc.
which will be made during the course OF
INSTRUCTION.
engineering is studied by these visits to en-
gineering establishments, together with the
theoretical engineering, giving thorough
practical engineering knowledge.
such a. thorough course Of instruction,
planned by one of the most intelligent en-
gineering officers in the service is expected
to make expert engineers of the officers I'M
der instruction and mark the success of the
departments plan for corps OF expert en-
gineers to succeed the older officers per-
forming the important engineering duties
when they retire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
MUST LEARN COOKING.
West Point Cadets Will Take Up Cook
ing and Baking.

Consideration Is being given to a plan by
Which cadets at the United States Military
Academy at West Point may be given prac-
teal instructions In cooking and baking.
1t is deemed of value to the army that
practical knowledge be possessed by the
officers of the army that instructions may
be given to the enlisted force in the matter
of preparing food for the army.
The first step in that direction was re-
Gently taken. when the officers from the
commissary department were detailed to
the school for cooks and bakers at Fort
Riley for instruction. The scheme under
consideration for West Point contemplates
that each cadet during his course at the
academy shall be instructed in cooking and
baking, so that when he enters the army
he will be competent to teach the enlisted
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
HYattsville News.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence Of The Star.
HYATTSVV1LLE,N Nd, December o. 1905.
MI Hermon Lodge, A. F. and A NJ, No.
ITO, elected these officers for the ensuing
year at a recent meeting held in Masonic
Temple here: John w. Carter master: w.
F. Drown, senior warden; Geo. S. Britt.
junior warden; DR.. v. L. Perry, secretary:
Francis Gasch, treasurer, and G. w. Whal-
ley, tyler. Grand Lecturer Graham Duke.
hart delivered an instructive address. at the
conclusion of which refreshments were
served in the new dining hall.
The feature of the service to be held at
Pinckney Memorial Church (Episcopan.
Rev. c. ]. s. Mayo rector, Christmas morn.
Ing will be the presentation Of the followfnp
musical numbers. 'Te Deum Laudam,, ;,
&C. Stearns; Bethlehem Christmas HYMN >,
anthem, h. Clough Leighter; "Jubiate Deo,,
lin D., ]. T. Field, and Rejoice Reioicep,
Christmas professional, H. Clough Leighter
me choir is composed of Mesdames W. w.
Frost, p. G. Melgourne. Misses Whfn-
Grey, Burnside. Carr, Leakin and welsh
and Messrs. j. B. and Harold Burnside
Mccullough Wilson, p. G. Melbourne p M
Leakin and e. A. Fuller Mrs s. X. T,eieb.
ter is the director and Mrs Chas ]. Mayo
the organist. The Christmas entertainment
for the Sunday school children will be held
In the basement of the church Thursday
evening. December o.
Mr.. H. e. Davis and his SON. Frederick
sailed Thursday from New York for PAN
anna to be gone a month.
Mr.. r. q. White. after being confined to
his home for q week or ten DAYS with an
attack OF stomach trouble, has resumed h.
duties in Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
ALL THE BIDS REJECTED.
New Proposals to Be Asked for Build
ing Philippine Railways.

All the bids for concessionary contracts
or grants for the construction of railroads
in the Philippine Islands recently submitted
to the bureau of insular affairs, have been
rejected because of departures from the
terms of the circular calling for proposals.
Secretary Taft after a number of confer
enees with Gov. Wright and Mr. Forbes of
the Philippine commission, has decided to
readyertise for proposals. and January 20,
at 10 am, has been fixed as the date for
the opening of bids for these conces-
sions. The terms will be modified in some
particulars
Where bidders propose to construct the
road without guarantee they will be limited
in their bids only by the terms of the Philip
pine government railroad acts OF 1902 and
1903. But where the bidders wish to take
advantage of guarantee of certain inter-
est on their investment they can vary from
the original invitation to bid only in point
OF time or in the cost of construction per
mile, as affected by contractors profits AS
to the latter the Philippine government re-
serves the right to Ak the maximum cost
OF the road. The time in which the road
can be completed and the contractors
profts will be important considerable in
making the awards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
A DESTRUCTIVE WIND STORM.
One Killed and Great Damage Done In
Wyoming Valley.

A dispatch from Wfikesbarre, Pa, last
night says: heavy rain and wind Storm
which practically reached the dimensions of
a hurricane, swept the Wyoming valley to-
day One man was killed and property
worth thousands Of dollars was destroyed
in this city and surrounding towns.
Telegraph and telephone wires were
broken down In all directions, and for sew
eral hours communication was cut off. The
traction company's wires also suffered and
the system was seriously crippled.
In Wilkesbarre large plate glass win
dows were blown in at several of the large
stores, and the streets were Uttered with
branches of trees, signs and shutters. which
had been torn from their fastenings.
AT Laf1in north of this city, large tres
tie leading to the Delaware and Hudson
Latin colliery was overturned by the WIND,
and a Hungarian laborer was crushed to
death by the falling timbers.
The upper portion of one of the great
towers of the Murgas wireless telegraph
system north of the city was snapped off
by the wind causing loss oil about $1,000
AT Plymouth, Pittston, Nanticoke and
other towns in the valley the storm also
wrought considerable damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Senator Hoar's Monument.

The Troy White Company shipped from
Worcester, Mass, yesterday the monument
to be placed over the grave of the late
George Frisbie Hoar in Concord The
monument plans were drawn by Stephen E
Earle in accordance with the expressed
wishes of Senator Hoar. The Inscriptions
are in bronze letters, which are set flush
with the surface. On the north side the
monument bears this inscription which
Senator Hoar himself wrote:
Il have no faith In fatalism, in destiny, In
blind force. I believe in God the living
God. l believe in the American people, q
brave and free people. who do not bow the
neck or bend the knee to any other and
who desire no other to bow the neck or
bend the knee to them. I believe that a
republic is greater than an empire. / be-
lieve, finally, whatever clouds may darken
the horizon that the world is growing bet
ter; that today is better than yesterday,
and that tomorrow will be better than
today"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
WORK SUSPENDED
Delayed Construction on Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric r. r

Special Correspondence OF lAe Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd,
December %, 1905.
The Washington, Baltimore and Annap-
oils Electric Railway Company has encoun-
tered considerable trouble in securing rights
of way to enter Baltimore and in acquiring
a suitable site for a terminal station, and it
Is announced that nothing further will be
done until the first of the year. The work
of constructing the roadbed for that portion
of the line which runs through Prince
George county was practically completed
when operations were suspended as the re-
suit OF the failure of certain capitalists to
make good their subscriptions to stock
All the necessary rights Of way We're Sc
cured as far as Odenton. in Anne Arundel
county, and number of masonry culverts
nave been constructed along the line.
The company had commenced the cree
ton OF large power house in East Hyatts-
of the machinery had been installed This
machinery was removed from the partially
completed structure several months since,
and all that now remains are the brick
walls and the smokestack, the latter some
ninety feet high. Recently certain Cleve-
land capitalists secured control of the sys-
tenn and the indications are that the road
will be completed and in operation some
time during the year 1906
/ 1t is learned upon reliable authority that
the service over the Chesapeake Beach
Idiitodu uSlNeeu -f1ydlSVul0 ana CneSa-
peake junction. which was discontinued
Friday of last week. will be resumed in
week or ten days Some years ago the
right of way of the old Southern Maryland
Railroad Company between Chesapeake
junction and Deanwood in the District of
Columbia, was taken possession of by the
Chesapeake Beach company, and since
then the latter company has been using this
right of way in reaching HyattsvilIe. Sew
eral months ago the Washington, Potomac
and Chesapeake railroad, claiming to be the
successors of the old Southern Maryland
company, began an action of ejectment in
the courts of the District of Columbia
against the Chesapeake Beach company for
possession of this right of way. The case
was taken to the United States Supreme
Court. and this tribunal recently decided
against the Chesapeake Beach company
and the latter was forced to stop operating
its cars over the same.
Mr.. David H. Moffatt OF Denver Col,
the owner of record has obtained title to
this strip of land Negotiations are being
carried on between the attorney for the
Chesapeake road, Mr.. j. Spaulding Flan-
merry, and Mr.. Moffatt, with a view of OBJ
tanning the latters consent to allow the
Chesapeake Beach company to resume the
use of the property. 1t is stated that there
are excellent grounds for believing that Mr..
Moffatt will grant this permission, and that
the service will be resumed before very
long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Kansas Senator for Rate Regulation.

Senator Long from Kansas was the prin-
cipal speaker at Kansas City last night
al dinner given by the Knife and Fork
Club, Senator Long discussed Proposed
Rate Legislation" and gave his views re-
specting the plans submitted thus far for
the solution of the question. Senator Long
spoke, in part, as follows:
congress has the unquestioned power to
regulate and supervise the making of inter-
state rates and it should exercise more of
its power SO that the carrier may be COM
PEELED to treat the public with exact and
the guise of regulation to compel the car
r1er to transport property at rate SO low
that it will not produce a fair return on
the investment will be declared invalid by
the courts. Thus there is no danger to the
carriers in a bad, vicious and unfair law.
but the injury will be to the shipper and
the public by attempting to provide them
with relief with law that will be de-
clared Illegal and void
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
$3.50, 900, 600 Expended for Equipment.

This has been the banner year for rail-
road equipment builders. The railroads OF
the United States and Canada have bought
during the year 1905 from car and locomo-
tive builders equipment which has cost
them SEQ ls6,OG0 This does not include
the cars and locomotives which were built
by the railroads in their own shops.
Official figures compiled by the Railroad
Gazette show the number of cars built, in
GLIDING those for use in subWays and on
elevated roads, but exclusive of street and
interurban electric cars, is 16S,O06. OF this
number 1885, are for freight and 2,551 for
passenger service.
During the last three months car compa-
MES have booked orders from two leading
railroads which alone amount to almost as
many cars as the total output of 1904
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
SECRETARY TAFT,s ORDER.
Will Have to Deny Himself to Casual
Callers in the Afternoon.

Owing to the great pressure of official
business requiring the personal attention OF
Secretary Taft, he has been obliged to issue
the following notice to the public generally
through his private secretary, Mr.. Fred w.
Carpenter:
THE Secretary of War will not be able,
during the remainder of the present winter,
to see any one at his office in the afternoon
except by special appointment, as he finds
IL necessary to devote that time to confer
ences with the chiefs of bureaus on depart
mental business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Asked Depew and Platt to Resign.

A dispatch from Oswego. last night says:
Hope Grange, No. lis. Patrons of Hus-
bandry, last night unanimously adopted a
resolution requesting the representatives
from Oswego county in the legislature to
introduce a resolution calling for the res
isnation of United States Senators Platt
and Depew, because of the insurance scam
daIs, In which they were involved, as shown
by the legislative insurance investigation.
Hope Grange is the largest and most In
-fuential In this part of the state, having
a membership of 5000, many of whom
reside in Cayuga and Wayne counties. and
90 per cent of whom are republicans. Many
are policyholders in the insurance COM
panies that have been contributing to the
republican campaign funds 1t is said that
other Changers of this and adjoining coun-
ties Will adopt similar resolutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
wickes Sentenced to Year in Prison

Thomas Parmlee Wickes, the lawyer who
was convicted of attempted blackmail by
means of the Lewis Jarvis letters, was
sentenced at New York yesterday to one
year in the penitentiary. Before sentence,
Wickes was examined as to his sanity, and
two physicians reported to the court that
they found him now mentally sound The
charge on which Wickes was convicted was
that he wrote threatening letter to a per-
son interested in a case in which he was
engaged as attorney. This letter suggest
ed a settlement of the case and was signed
Lewis Jarvis" Wickes' counsel secured
a stay of judgment for week, during
which time they will apply for certificate
of reasonable doubt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Sees Danger to Subway.

That water mains of New York and struc-
tural iron work of the subway will be en-
dangered by electrolysis if the New York
Central railroad is equipped with direct
current electric system Is asserted by
George Westinghouse in q letter to w. H.
Newman, president of the railroad COM
pany. The letter was made public in New
York yesterday. Mr.. Westinghouse, who
perfected an alternating current system,
now generally employed, says adoption of
Central is a mistake because of escaping
currents of electricity from third rails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Pioneer Governor Retires to Home.

Today in lonely old age William r. Tay-
lor, governor of Wisconsin from 1874 to
1876, went to live hereafter at the Old Peo-
pies Home established by John A. John
son, near Madison, Wis. Mr.. TayIor's adj
ministration was stormy one during the
grange movement, when laws for railway
regulation much like those enacted during
Gov. La Follette's administration were
placed on the statute books, but were re-
pealed by the next legislature. In notable
fight before the supreme court Gov. Taylor
established the right of the state to regu-
late corporations. Since leaving the COVER
norship, he has lived quietly on farm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Transfer of Infantry.

The military secretary is advised that the
I'd Battalion, 7th Infantry 20 officers and
1873 enlisted mem, has left San Francisco,
Cal, for Fort Missoula, Mont, for station.
The military secretary is also advised that
the field staff. band and Sd Battalion, 7th
Infantry az officers and 232 enlisted mem,
have left San Francisco, CAL, for Fort Har-
rison, Mont, for station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
When you get a special fig

When you get special fig-
ure" or "cut rate ON advertis.
ing space, it is safe to assume
that some competitor in your
business is getting still more
favorable terms. The only safe
rule is to deal where the same
rate is charged TO everybody for
the same service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Don't Foul the Dewey's Tow Line.

A warning has been sent out by the hydro
graphic Office to the entire shipping world
requesting ship captains to look out for the
floating dry dock Dewey so that ships may
not pass between the dock and the vessels
which are towing her to the Philippines.
Strung out in tandem formation, the dock
and the four accompanying ships will ex
tend considerably over mile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22

DIR. John Mcclellan of the class of 1888
Yale College, one of the Oldest graduates OF
that institution, died at his home in Wood
stock Conn, Tuesday night. He was
ninety-seven years old. John Hustis Of
Hustisford Wis, also a member of the
class of 1888, is the oldest living Yale grad
uate. He is about a year older than DR..
Mcclellan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
On the River Front.

The ram schooner Grace G. Bennett, capt.
Eggers, has loaded a cargo of several hun
dred tons of railway iron at Alexandria
and will sail with it today for Newbern, N.
C., where it will be used in the building of
railway on lumber properties in the pine
forests Of North Carolina, in which john
son & Wimsatt of this city have large inter-
ests. This is the second or third cargo of
rails the Bennett has taken from this city
to Newborn, from which point they are
shipped back into the country. On the way
down the bay the schooner will stop in the
Great Wicomico river to take aboard q
deck load of fish scrap for port In North
Carolina.
Arrived: Steam barge E. James TuI, with
cargo of cord wood aboard from Aqua
creek points; schooners William H. Nc
CURE, Eta, Levin Wooiford, Silver Spray
and M. j. Stevenson, oysters, from Potomac
beds; schooners A. II. Quinby, cord wood
from the Rappahannock river for the local
market; barge Sallie pine lumber from
Norfolk in tow of tug William H. Yerkes
jr.; scow of Alexandria Chemical Company
with sulphur rock from Quantico, in tow of
tug Minerva.
Sailed: Schooners Lottie Carter and Earl
B:scoe. for river points to load cord wood
for this city; schooners George d. Faunce
M. Blanch Hayward and Lottie Thomas,
for oyster beds to load for this market
schooner Bertha May, for a Virginia lum-
Der port to load for Alexandria.
Memoranda: Tug NJ. Mitchell Davis Is on
her way to this city to take the schooner
Salisbury to Baltimore; schooner c.. c.
Wheeler has been chartered to load lumber
on the Rappahannock river for this city;
schooner Alethea has been chartered to load
lumber at Blanfields, on the Rappahannock
river, for this port.
The tug Edward Gummell will haul out on
the marine railway at the Alexandria ship
yard today to have her hull covered with
metal and to be made ready for service on
the river, towing sand and gravel-laden
scows, during the winter months. She was
brought up the river yesterday afternoon
without any steam on her, between the
tugs j. T. Seleetman and w. H. Mohler
The Mohler and Selectman will be used
by the Columbia Dredging Company to tow
it's scows until the Gummell Is again ready
for service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22

Gen. Baron Faverot de Kerbrech died at
Paris yesterday. The general was one of
the greatest authorities on cavalry tactics
in France, and was formerly director of
reniountS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Personal Mention of Rivermen.

Capt. Frank Taylor who spent a day or
two with his son in Philadelphia this week,
has returned home and is again on duty at
his tugboat office.
Capt S. B. Davis, formerly master of the
United States army transport Kearney, on
the Potomac, but now in command of the
quartermaster's department tug, In service
at Fort Monroe, is in the city to spend the
holidays with his family.
Mr.. Joe Rice of the James o. Carter has
resigned and will spend the winter ashore.
away from the ice and winds of the river
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Not Surprised at the News.

carlos j. Canal, for many years prOml-
nent citizen of Columbia, is in Washington
on visit en- route to the Isthmus of Pan
anna. Mr.. Canal told a Star reporter this
morning that he was not at all surprised
to learn from press dispatches of the at
tempt that had been made to assassinate
General Reyes, the president of the CO.
lombian republic.
For the past six MONTHS said Mr.
Canal "a revolution has been threatened
in my country and unless there is some
will break in the near future. Colombia,
under the Reyes regime is no longer re-
public. 1t is dictatorship. Conditions
have gone from bad to worse, and for no
other reason than that Reyes is in the pres
ident's chair and has himself created the
existing conditions. He deposed the COM
mission of amortization of the funds to re-
deem the countrys paper money. He dis
missed the congress and practically created
a new body, which he calls the assembly ma
ftonal. The Legislative measures passed by
this body have had very bad effect on
the country at large.
Under the Reyes regime the countrys
paper money has deprecated woefully and
failures of the International Bank of Bo-
gotta and other institutions have been
forced by Reyes. The presidents policies
have also practically ruined the coffee
planters Of the province of Cucuta.
Great government monopolies have been
placed in dishonest hands. The country is
overburdened with taxes. Enormous sal
aries are paid out of the government treas
ury to the personal friends and close polit
ical intimates of President Reyes. There
there is no doubt in my mind or in the
minds Of others who realize the true condi-
ton of affairs that unless Reyes Indicates
revolution is sure to ensue.