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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

II IS officially announced that the Grand
Trunk Pacific has given an order for 81 :
UN,NO worth of steel rails 10 the Dominion
Iron and Steel Co. of Sydney G g. The
contract calls for the delivery OF tn. rails
within five years.
The National Cash Register 60, Satur-
cray. ut Dayton. O., gave its final answer
ltiveiV that IL would not sign the S-hour
day agreement. The company EMPLOYS 3
union printers. The 800 other union men
may strike.
Mrs. Elizabeth Frick. aged 81 years.
mother of Henry &. Fr!ck OF P,nnSylva-
ma, died, Sunday night. at Wooster, Ohio
inc lminedtat" cause OF d,Hth WIS par
aiysiS tn" fatal attack coming SATURDAY
night Mr.. FrIrk reached the city a few
hours before his mother died. SUI was
not ut the bedside
Suicide Is tn" verdict of Medical Ref
cree lieckford in the case of Miss; IIlr-
riet ErH ant. who WIS drowned near Pine
JSiand: Lake Wlnniprslukcc Friday.
MISS bryant, while out rowing in COM
parry with nurse. jumped from the boat
ana WIS drowned before assistance ar
ilVrd She was the oldest daughter of
~ r. Bryant of Stuneham, Mass. who,
WIN ms family. has been a summer resi-
dert NJ Loon island for several -. sors
the body was recoNt red
Aaron Dewitt. an acrobat. who was in
1uFet whlI@ performing his speciality az
ine monumental theatre Baltimore laSi
hnodaN, died In the City hospital. Satur-
Wy, lr"fn ctreo ral hcmorrhage Dewitt S
S.dS, hdihe was smith and he was nillrr
~ H..u al'a smith. a part of his act
barrels placed on table. N'hS, t,,,,,,(;,, 30
from one of the barrels he lott Me ,ln,,j
libriurn and fell a distance. III ,nn,,t ~
Feet. his head striking the stage Hour
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-02

me School census at WILLIAMSBURG dis
closes an interesting family ON FL
sIrsSt- Mrs stph GcrouX is the mother
o. Il children. She has just PASSED her
.Sth birthday She is unable 10 sr,rnk
foShSh. or The Is children l. ara IIin.-
and tn ages ot thu h,sln with on. ". ~
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-02

When an investment dOu-
hles within q year there is
always q good reason foi
il. especially 20 il the in
crease is Il permanent and
lasting one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-02

MOSQUITOES are found I'm mines L. no and
even ZOO feet below the earshs surface
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
TTping 1t on Panama.

Determination on the part of the
National Government to reduce rates
on the Panama railroad is now an
nounced as an accepted fact, in spite
OF recent declarations on the part of
some officials of Importance in con-
nection with isthmian affairs. This
opem IN interesting field for consid-
GRAFTON, since it will put on trial the
mooted subject of governmental con-
troll OF public utilities. A Republican
Administration will be directing and
showing the success of national own
srship and operation--a doctrine
which has had its latest and greatest
partisan approval at the Jefferson's
Birthday dinner of the Chicago Dem
ocrats last week.
Panama has been, in years past.
the cauldron from which has come
forth enough Of disaster and failure
of great enterprises to cause some
skepticism about what may be ac-
~ShiPiiShCo III thC lubulc. out fTSSi-
dent Roosevelt's declaration that he
felt safe in leaving Washington with
Taft sitting on the lid stimulates
the hope and indeed establishes the
confidence that something good is
going to come out of Panama under
American direction.
Reduced rates will build UP almost
Immediately transisthmian traffic
that will mean dollars to American
manufacturers, it is predicted, and
so not only the national interest, but
financial considerations OF individ-
uals and firms will approve the re-
duction On the other hand, it is
rumored rather freely that the trans
continental railroads are strenuously
opposing the reduction and that they
mean to prevent it if possible. To
say SO openly would be to make the
issue too plain between the six rail-
roads on the one hand and practically
all the manufacturers of the country
on the other. So, according to dis
patches, the railroad magnates have
agreed upon a plan of calling for "a
gradual reduction Of rates. while ad-
yancing arguments on the point of
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
HUMBLE PETITIONERS
SEEK GOVERNMENT AID
Plants Of Two Parkway Correspond
ents-0ne Wants Divorce, Another
a Pleasant Home.

Many queer calls for help reach the
Pension Office. but none excel in un-
conscious hunor two received today by
Commissioner Warner. One of these
from an old soldier reads:
Commissioner of Pensions.
My wife has deZerted me and I have
been informed 1 could get divorce bin
through the Pension Office.
Il would like to know if it Is so.
please let me know and how to obtain
H."
Another from man who served in
the Spanish American war reads:
10 the Commissioner of Pensions.
Il do ask the Hone, able Commits
sioner of Pensions to investigate my
claim.
IF l am worthy of a reward from
the Government. all l ask is for the
Government 10 purchase me Il 'HunbIe
Home in the city of Fort Worth, Ind
Il am a clerk and work by the day,
/ would &presiate a humble home.
Hoping to hear from the Honorable
Commissioner OF Pensions
The spelling Is given as written by
the Commissioner correspondents
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
LEGACIES TO SOCIETIES
IN HALLIDAY WILL
Humane Society and Home for In
curaDles Among the Institutions
Named as Benefciaries.

Two Washington charitable institu-
tons are named as beneficiaries by Ed
ward G Halliday in his will, dated
March 5. 1887, offered yesterday after
neon for probate. They are the Wash
lnSton Humane Society and Washington
home FOR Incurables, to each of which
IS left $500
with the exception Of 800 bequeath-
ed to charitable organizations of New
York. the remainder of the testator's S
estate is left to his widow, Henrietta
NJ. Halliday. A specific bequest of
100000 in cash and the Halliday home
1914 n street. with its contents. is made
to Mrs. Halliday. 1t is stated that this
bequest is in place of DOVER She may
take the 100000 in stocks and bonds
instead Of cash if she desires to do so.
New York Benehciaries.
The New York institutions which are
named as beneficiaries in the will are
the Childrens Aid Society. Five Points
House of lndusty, New York Society
FOR the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren, the New York Association for I'm
proving the Condition of the Poor. and
the New York Society for the Relief of
Poor Widows. to each of which is left
500.
In the event of the death of Mrs
Hallday before her husband dies, it
ls provided her share of his estate
stfliil revert TO the charitable institu-
tons named and to the Prison Associa-
ton of New York. the Women's Prison
Association and Home of New York,
the House of Mercy at Inv ood-on-the-
Hudson the Messiah Home for Little
Children OF New York, and the Work
ing Girls Vacation Society
Mrs. Halliday is named as executlix
under the Will In the event of her
death before that OF the testator it is
provided that the Real Estate Trust
Company. of New York, shall admins
ter the estate. Neither Mrs. Halliday
nor the trust company is required to
give bond.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
An Elastic Three Per Cent.

The whole country has been puz-
zled over Mr.. Garhelds report on the
Beef trust ever since that report was
made public. Everybody has known
that beef on the hoof has rarely
been SO low and that beef in the meat
market has rarely been so high. Yet,
according to Mr. Garfield, the great
packing companies are earning only
8 per cent -"
Frank Putnam has prepared for the
National Magazine q very interesting
digest of this whole question. He
disposes of this perplexity and clears
it away in these few sentences:
This, If true, is to be explained in one
of three ways:
THE packers are trying to earn div
idends On vast amount of watered
stock; or,
.2They divert the really large profits
they earn into the treasures of their
auxiliary organiZations-as private car
lines, by-product companies, and the
Ike; or.
3-They are incompetent business men.
a suggestion that is essentially comic.
And no wonder this is so. For the
great packing houses fix both the buy
ing and the selling prices. and, ac-
cording to Mr.. Putnam, they "have
fixed the former so low that all the
stock growers are complaining and
the latter so high that we who in
habit the towns and buy the product
are all grumbling."
Mr.. Garfeld's 3 per cent must be
elastic.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
BODY OF MORRIS KElM
TO REST IN ARLINGTON

Funeral services for Morris keirl,
civil war veteran and a widely known
Washingtonian, who died at his home,
s12 Maryland avenue northeast. yester-
day morning. viii be held AT l o'clock
tomorrow afternoon under the auspices
of the Grand Army of the Republic In
terment will be at Arlington
Mr.. Keim was born IN Germany,
seventy-four years ago, and came to this
country when a boy OF sixteen Shortly
afterward, at the outbreak OF the war OF
the rebellion. he enlisted with a New
York regiment, in which he served
throughout the entire struggle. He par
ticipated in the battle of Gettysburg, on
which occasion he distinguished himself .
by bravery
Al the conclusion of the strusgie Mr
Keim came TO this city, where he oo-1
tained employment under the Govern
nent and at the time of his death was
connected with the Pension once He
was a member of GARFIELD Post, g. A. Il,
as well as several other less prominent
organizations both military and social
He is survived by a widow and TWO
daughters.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

why Uncle Sam had better go slow
if he knows what is good for him.
This is probably much exaggerated.
Such an intimation, considering the
fact that Secretary Taft has been
handling the negotiations, looks a
good deal as If it might turn out to be
boomerang Even railroad mag
mates must know their man before
they club him in broad daylight. The
experienced Secretary of War knows
lot about the law as well as about
the technical business of his bureau,
and when he has once announced that
there will be reduced rates and-what
Is more to the point these days-the
same rate to all corners, it would not
seem the part of wisdom for the
transcontinental railroads to take is
sue with him.
Chairman Shonts was recently
quoted as saying that the Govern
ment does not intend to antagonize
the trarscontinental railroads by a
sudden and drastic revision of 18TH
mian rayes. But when formally chos-
en- president of the Panama railroad a
few days ago, he contented himself
with saying the matter has not yet
been considered at ALL Secretary
Taft seems to have a more decided
opinion in the matter and that is that
rates should be reduced wiitthcsz:t+ IN
necessary delay. If such view
means anything at all, it acknowl-
edges thar too high charge has
all along been made for the par
ticular service performed on the
isthmus. BY putting down the rates
to the point where they will insure
only fair return on the capital in
vested, and not an exorbitant one, the
United States Government will be CIV
ing direct and powerful illustration
of the practicability of taking the
whole great subject in hand in this
country.
In Panama the beginning has now
been made. Time will show whether
the Government ownership of public
utilities can be made a success here.
1t has been SO proven abroad, in some
cases, and there are lots of capable
investigators Of public questions who
see no reason why America should be
one whit backward in the same field.
American manufacturers are seeking
new fields for their goods and see
the promise of great things in the
bold brushing away of an artificial
and unpatriotic barrier to the exten-
sion of American trade.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
French Neutrality.

Upon France Is imposed the difficult
task of running with the hares and
holding with the hounds, and it is
not to be doubted that she will sue
ceed. France is bound by treaties
and, what is more to the point, by
money interests not to offend Russia;
she is inclined by sympathy and self
interest to assist Russia as far as
she may; but her statesmen are Of
the safe and sane order and may be
depended upon to avoid complications
which would carry the war into
Europe.
Until the Russian fleet under
Rogestyensky appeared in the neigh
borhood Of French Cochin-Chin all
was comparatively plain sailing for
France. but Rogestvensky is neither
plain sailor himself, nor is he the
occasion for plain sailing for others;
his route to the East was strewn with
the battered hulks of peaceful trawl-
ers and his progress was attended by
sighs Of relief as he crawIed from one
isle-of-safety to another. His report
ed use Of French harbors near the seat
OF war, however, is serious matter
and unless France at once takes every
step to preserve her strict neutrality
the situation will become so grave
that the peace of Europe will hardly
bear the strain.
Japan and England are tied to-
gether by interests and antagonisms
which induced the Anglo-Japanese al
lance, and which will compel Great
Britain to assist Japan in case a third
power should be drawn into the
Russo-Japanese war. France and
Russia are also united by treaties, but
less strongly. France and England
mutually need each others support in
the European concert. And Germany
well, Germany is coquetting with all
the powers and ready to ally herself
with the strongest
Germany really holds the key to the
whole situation, the fear of her is
kept diligently before the eyes of the
world, and today her influence really
makes for peace France and England
cannot afford to engage in the quar-
rels of Russia and Japan, nor have
they any real cause or desire to throt-
tie each other. for Germany stands
ready and willing to benefit by such
a fratricidal war With Russia, how
ever, the case is one of desperation.
and neither her wisdom nor her
humanity would keep Russia from
drowning the world in blood, provided
her decaying prestige and her per-
Verted self-interest could thereby be
shadowed and conserved.
France has done all she can to pla-
cate the wounded sensibilities of Rus
sia, and she can with dignity and
honor decline further to render COM
fort and aid to Russia. France will
do the right thing, the Russian fleet
will seek the high seas, and the
peace of Europe will be preserved.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
DOCTOR GR[NFELL
GUEST OF HONOR
Noted Canadian VIII Attend
Several Receptions.
WILL DELIVER ADDRESSES
Comes to America to Arouse Interest
in Condition of Labrador
Fishermen
WILL DELIVER ADDRESSES

Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the young Eng
Iishman. whose humanitarian work on
the coasts of Labrador and Newfound-
church and scientific world, arrived in
Washington this morning from Toronto,
Canada.
The distinguished visitor will remain
here until next Thursday when he ex-
poets TO return to Canada. During his
stay he will deliver a series of addresses
in the interest of his work, and will
also be the guest of honor at receptions
arranged by the District Medical So
ciety, the University Club. and the Ma
tional Georgia phical Society.
DR.. Grenfel will be the guest while
in the city of the Rev. and Mrs. Joseph
+. Kelly, 1857 kenesaw street northwest
He was at breakfast this mornig when
a Washington Times reporter called, but
soon finished and expressed himself as
being ready for the large days work
ahead of him.
THE object of my visit to America, %
he said. lis to arouse interest in the
great work now being carried forward
to mitigate and improve the condition
OF the fishermen of the coast of Labra-
dor and northern peninsula of New
foundland. and to raise funds to make
the work more efficient than it now isl
His First Visit.
This is DR.. Grenfelrs 6rst visit to
the United States Capital City. Il am
charmed to be here he said Il have
long looked forward to the time when
l could inspect your great American
Capital City"
This afternoon at o'clock he will
speak at st. Johns s, and in the evening
before the Medical Society. FRIDAY
evening he will address the National
Geographical Society IL Hubbard
Memorial Hall. Saturday afternoon at
. O'Clock he will be heard at Epiphany
Church Easter Sunday he will close
his visit with addresses at the Church
OF the Covenant, in the afternoon, and
the New York Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
Church in the evening.
Dr.. Grenfeli will spend q greater
part of his time between now and May
20 in the United States. At that time
he hopes to leave for the Strathcona
the hospital ship in which he cruises
along the coasts, visiting the sick,
healing the sick, and aiding those who
from sickness or other causes are in
distress. The ship will be on dock and
ready for another seasons work by
June 20, he said.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
WASHINGTONlAN
WEDS IN BROOKLYN

A wedding announcement of interest
to numerous Washingtonians, is that of
Louis Callisher. of this city, to Miss
Corinne Furst. of Brooklyn. \. Y,
which took place last Saturday, at the
home of the bride in Brooklyn. The cere-
mony which was performed by Rabbi
Mangus, of Brooklyn. was in the pres
ence of only the immediate family Mr.
and Mrs. Callisher are now residing here
at the Dewey Hotel
An announcement comes from Los
Angeles, Cal, of the approaching mar
riage OF Charles n. Fowler, jr. son of
Representa- tive and Mrs Fowler. Of New
Jersey. to Miss Mabel Higgins, golf
champion Of the Midlothian Country
Club, of Chicago. where her home is
The romance of the young people is said
TO have begun on golf course at Man
chester, VT, two years ago. where they
both met as expert players.
Miss Higgins Is an accomplished So
ciety girl as well as an athlete, and as
The daughter of G. w. Higgins, q retired
member of the Chicago board of trade.
will have n large fortune OF her own
Mr.. Fowler is well known in official so
ciety here, having spent much time with
his parents at the Shorcnam. and is
manager of his fathers extensive quarry
interests in Fowler Vt
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
FIRST AID SOCIETY
NOT A NEW SCHEME
Scope and Plans Explained
by Miss Barton.
SHE IS TO BE PRESIDENT
New Organization Will Guard Over
Lesser Calamities of Life-0ut-
growth of Red Cross.
SHE IS TO BE PRESIDENT

Interest is manifested in Washington
in the newly Incorporated National First
Aid Association Of America. principally
owing TO The fact that the name OK
Clara Barton, for so many years the
head Of the Red Cross Socfetr heads the
list Of ineorporators.
The work OF the association will pa
along the same lines as those followed
by the Red Cross Society, except It
will deal with smaller rather than the
great calamities OF life
All incerporators. it is noticeable,
were formerly identified with the ad.
mir5stration of the Red Cross.
Pleased Over Outlook.
When Miss Barton, who is to be presi..
dent of the new organization, was seen
by reporter for The Washington
Times today, she was seemingly much
pleased over the outlook for the asso-
citation.
She had been overseeing the work in
the garden at her home, near Glen
Echo. when the reporter called. She ex-
planned 10 him that the work pertain-
ing to ths business OF the association
was entirely in the hands Of her repre-
sentatives N the city.
The First Aid Association is not new
idea, by any means, according to Miss
Barton, but is something that she and
her assistants have been working on
for five years It is nothing more or
less than the carrying on OF an old
and faithful work
In 1868 the First Aid was made a de-
partment in the Red Cross Society.
Upon the reorganization of that society
it was left out
New Organization Startsd.
Those interested in the wo.k were
not willing it should stop. The new or
ganization is the result
1T is a deplorabIe weakness of great
people," said Miss Barton .'tha. they
do not know how, in an emergency, to
care for the injured
The plan of the association co,tenl-
plates a great national educa sonaI
movement for instructing the people
everywhere in first aid emergency nnth-
DDS of treatment of the injured. Dxis-
ION headquarters have already been es-
tablished in q number OF the States, and
more are constantly being organized
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
SPIR|TUAL|ST TEMPLE
LEAGUE INCORPORATED.
To Disseminate Spiritualism and
Erect a Home for Cult in
Washington.

A certificate of the Incorporation OF
the Spiritualistic Temple League, Of
Washington, D. c., has been filed in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds.
The object of the organiza ton is stated
to be the propagation of the philosophy
of. the religion of Spiritualism and the
demonstration of its various phenomena.
1t is also proposed to establish a. fund
TO purchase land and for the erection of
a temple, where the philosophy of the
sect will be expounded and taught and
its phenomena demonstrated and ex-
planned.
The incorporators are Abhie H Far
row, Fannie II. Dueu Robert u Potfs
Otto Neimeyer, Robert Henkle, Aaron
H. Fletcher and Edward E. Evans. The
affairs OF the organization will be man.
aged by nine trustees.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
w. H. PUTNAM, EDUCATOR,
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS

William Harrington Putnam, founder
and principal of Putnam's Preparatory
School in this city. died at his home In
Lunenburg, Mass. ast Sunday. after a
lingering illness.
Mr.. Putnam came to Washington
sbout twenty-three years ago. He has
been connected with educational work
and has held a high place in educational
circles ever since. Mr. Putnam grad
uated from Harvard College in the class
of IS.
The health CT Mr. Putnam forced him
to give up his work here last fall He
returned to his old hone in hope that
the change would bere!it MIN, but his
health grew continually worse
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
WILLIAM H. ALLEN NAMED
SECRETARY TO DEGRAW

William II. Allen WAS yesterday ap-
pointed private secretary to Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw.
Mr.. Allen is a Massachusetts man and
is well known in Washington. He was
resident manager of the Postal Tele-
graph Company for some time.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20
EL0CUTION CLASS HOLDS
A PUBLIC RECITAL

A public recital of the eIocltion class
Of Teachers College of Howard Univer-
s.ty. was held in the Rankin chapel
last night Short addresses Were deliv-
cred by President John Goroen. D. D..
and Dean Lewis ,. Moore, Pm. D.. who
sntroduced Mrs. NJ A. Darlington
Brown, the instructor of the class.
The recital showed careful training
and much native ability on the part or
the pupils.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

A Pennsylvania convention commends
Senator'S Knox and Penrose for their
efforts TO secure appropriations for wild
ching the Delaware river channel. Rep-
resentative Bingham was not thanked
for his pose in dead members seat
curing the debate last winter.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

Rear Admiral Silas Terry L. S. N,
Willard. They have just returned from
a visit to Yokohama, Japan by way Of
Honolulu. where Admiral Terry was
commandant of the navy yard. The ad-
miral and his wife intend to make their
residence in this city
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

Castro is so used TO scrapping over
an asphalt lake that he's liable to come
up here this summer and stand ankle
deep in Pennsylvania avenue beating
people off the streets
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

The New York assembly has passed
a bill allowing fifteen-minute boxing
bouts, which, 1t is thought. will be am
PIE time for the stockholders to knock
the Hyde off the Equitable's manage
ment
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

Mr.. and Mrs. John Cropper, formerly
of New York, have returned from a pro-
longed stay in their country place in the
Blue Ridge mountains, but will leave
again this week for Richmond, where
they will spend Easter
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

American soldiers, lost in the Philip
pine jungle, ate monkeys for nineteen
days, which is better than seeing EN-
chase purple rabbits across the foot of
the bed.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

The preacher who blames romantic
love for disasters in the married state
wasn't speaking In Utah State.
The Washington times., 1905-04-20

The fireboat is to be named Fire
hghter'-unusually original and brief.
We thought it was going to be "Struct-
ure- For Throwing Water-On- Fires"