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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-04-14
GOING TO LONDON
FOR THEIR PICTURES
Four Johns Hopkins Professors Will
Travel 5000 Miles to Have
Portraits Painted.

BALTIMORE, April H-To travel
5000 miles to have ones portrait painted
Is what a quartet of professors of the
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
are about to do.
Soon after the departure of DR.. Osler
from England to become regius pro-
fessor OF medicine in Oxford University.
three other members of the local faculty
will sail to join him in London, They
are Dr. w. S. Halsted, Toward A
Kelly and William II. Welca The OBJ
iect of their voyage is to sit for a group
portrait to be painted by John S. Sar-
gent 1t is at the wish and expense Of
Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett. of this
city. that these physicians will take the
trip.
These four professors are the original
faculty of the medical school of the
university, department which virtually
owe Its existence to Miss CARROTS bene-
factions. II Is the first time since the
establishment of the medical school that
there has been change in its faculty.
and the physicians. each an authority
In his peculiar line, have throughout the
years Of their association together kept
up warm bonds of personal friendship.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-04-14
Bears and Other Game
Wait Presidents Rifle
Varmints Easily Tracked Through Snow, Say
Colorado Hunters-Trip Ends in Okla
honna, and Party Starts North.

DENVER, Col, April Information
from Glenwood Springs is to the effect
that the men who are arranging for
President Roosevelts hunt in Colorado
are pleased with the outlook. Jake
Borah has heard from most of the trail
ers sent out to find bears and he says
they are meeting with unusual success.
The light snowfall of the last few days,
ne believes, will prove favorable to easy
tracking of the animals.
The invitation extended by citizens Of
Gleenwood Springs that the President
and, members of his party indulge In a
plunge in the mountain spring pool be-
fore leaving for Newcastle has been ac-
cepted, it is reported.
Cowboys from all western Colorado
are coming into Newcastle to act as es-
cort to the President from Newcastle to
a point south of that place which will
mark the beginning of the territory from
which the public viii be excluded during
the Presidents stay.
Plenty Of Game.
NEWCASTLE, Col. April 14.-There
has been fresh snowfall in this region
and the roads to Camp Roosevelt were
made temporarily impossible. By tele-
phone, however, 1t is learned that the
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The University of Virginia.

The name Virginia breathes of
purity. 1t is to all of us, North and
South, an inspiration and a call to
higher things. 1t carries with it mel
low memories of patriotism joined to
scholarship, the softened echo of the
deeds of race in whose sons were
united the hardihood OF Sparta and
the grace and finish of Athens.
The University of Virginia is the
idealization of all Virginia stands for
today, of all her glorious past, and it
is an idealization bodied forth and
given its local habitation and its
name by Virginia's greatest poet.
statesman, and philosopher, Thomas
Jefferson.
Yesterday. the anniversary of the
birth of its founder, the representa-
tive officials of the State, the board of
visitors of the school, the educators
OF the whole country, ENJOYS from
friendly rivals, and the alumni and
students of the institution met TO
install Edwin Anderson Alderman as
the first president of the University
of Virginia.
Prior to this ceremony the Univer-
sity of Virginia had never had a
president formally installed, but had
stood practically alone as the extreme
expression of the democracy of let
ters,. the most radical application Of
the spirit of Individual freedom in the
pursuit of knowledge and character
Her past record is an ample vindica-
ton OF her former method and the
manner and spirit of the present
change show that she is living body.
with the same high aspirations as
or yore and stepping forward in the
new way animated by the ancient
hope.
There were many fine things said
by men distinguished in various
walks of life at the ceremonies yes-
terday, too many to quote, but Of
them all the analysis of the distinctive
character of the University of vir-
ginia made by President AldeEman
stands out as in letters of gold upon
purple cloth:
One does not have 70 search for this
institutional character as for something
elusive and subtle. 1t shines out before
the face of the stranger In five clear
points of light:
A sympathetic understanding of de-
mocracy as working hypothesis of life
guaranteeing to every man a chance to
realize the best that is in him.
An absolute religious freedom, COM
bined with wide and vital religious OPP
portunities.
An appeal to the best in young men,
resulting In the creation Of a student
public opinion and student system of
honor. which endowed the university Of
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men and animals in camp are suffering
no hardships, and John Golf says that
Unless more snow falls everything win
be In good order when the President ar
rives
There will be no dearth of game for
President Roosevelt He will have all
the bears he wants and he can choose
his own methods. He may chase with
the dogs, beat through the district with
kill at close quarters.
Four bears have already been located
Irappers today were following the
tracks CT half q dozen others, and by
the time the Presidential party arrives
the lairs OF fifteen or twenty bears prob
ably will be known
Hunt Ends in Oklahoma.
FREDERICK, Okla, April I4.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has ended his hunt The
President and the following members of
his party arrived here about o'clock
last evening: DR.. A. Lambert, Gen. s.
3. 81. Young. Col. Cecil A Lyons, Sloan
Simpson, Lieut.. G.. r. Fortescue, Capt.
s. 3. Burnett, w T. Waggoner, Tom
Burnett, c. B. McHugh, Capt Bill Nc
Donald, and J. R. Alternately.
After meeting the citizens the PreSi-
dent made an address. Dennis T. Flynn
and Representative John H Stephens
OF Texas, oid-time friends Of the Presi-
dent, are here. The start for Colorado
was begun last night.
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GOVERNMENT WAGES WAR
ON RATS IN CAPITOL
Professional Catcher Employed to Rid
the Big Building of Pestife--
GUS Rodents.

The United States Government has de-
clared war on rats. This declaration
was put into effect yesterday, and will
last for twelve nights, the place of as
sault being the Capitol building.
Since a number Of the houses In the
rear vicinity of the Capitol have been
torn down to make way for the new
Senate and House office buildings, the
rats that had their homes in these build
ings have taken new quarters in the
Capitol
In such large numbers have they be-
sieged the building that it has become
necessary for the Government to en-
ploy professional rat catcher to get
rid of the pests. Edward L. Barclay.
of 92I Louisiana avenue, has been
awarded the contract for relieving the
Capitol of the pestiferous rodents Mr..
Barclay employs about twenty ferrets
and five assistants to accomplish his
task.
More trouble and annoyance has been
experienced on the House side or the
Capitol from the rats than on the Sem
ate, and there is much speculation as
to why this should be so. Inc reStau-
rants of both wings are, or course, the
chief places OF attack OF the rats, and
as the Senate side is by far the more
sumptuous in the food line. The taste Of
the rodents cannot be accounted for.
The passing of the rats from the Cap
itol building win spoil many of tho
ghost stories of the future, as many
a Capitol policeman can testify. In the
small hours of the morning when the
building is as shll as death, the run
ming of the rats over the tile floors OF
the corridors and Statuary Hall have
made more than one OF the watchmen
wish he WAS back in the old State.
Many spoek stories have been told
about the Capitol. but when traced all
could be laid at the doors Of the rats.
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Where Examinations Fail.

The District Commissioners have
disagreed-as even they will do, some
tlmes-over the value of civil service
examinations as applied to the sur
geons Of the Police and Fire Depart
ments. Other issues were covered
by this discussion, such as the need
for employing surgeons who live in
the districts to which they ask as
Segment, on which point it is hard
to see more than one side But the
chief discord was sounded when the
board struck the keys of the civil
service question.
Everybody in Washington believes
in the merit Of civil service based
upon competitive examinations. 1t is
not only right in theory, but it has
been proven right by about twenty
years trial in the executive depart
ments. Furthermore, everybody would
like to see the entire clerical force of
the District government included I'M
der the protection of such a system.
But surely there are limits to any
scheme of administration. even the
civil service.
These limits, as they affect the
District, seem to be reached in this
very matter of surgeons for the Police
and Fire Departments. Examinations
could hardly be expected to disclose
the comparative efficiency of two ply
Hcians. No man would employ q
lawyer as the result of quiz. COM
petitive Or otherwise. All the cues
tons men could answer in writing
would not reveal the relative
merit of two preachers. And doctors
require just as much character of the
sort not revealed by examinations
just as much personality, just as
much Judgment and right tempera-
ment, as lawyers or preachers, or Dis
trict Commissioners, or any other
professional men.
Is not that the natural limit
OF the competitive examination
system? Can it be expected to
reach appointments which depend
largely upon personal character
and sound judgment? Was not
that Commissioner altogether in the
right who protested that he and his
associates were better able to choose
among surgeons than all the promul-
gators Of examination questions the
city can produce?
OF course. And there will be q
great deal of surprise if this final
adjustment of the competitive ex-
animation system does not come very
shortly.
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Democratic Scolding.

Jefferson's Birthday celebrations by
leading organizations of the Demo-
cratic party in the East and West
were not especially noteworthy, but
OF the two main gatherings, at New
York and Chicago, it must be ad-
mitted that the Westerners made the
better showing There Mayor Dunno,
Bryan, Tom Johnson, and George Fred
Williams made up. an incongruous
quartet, all bent upon regenerating
this mundane spherea topic always
Of present interest. In unfavorable
contrast with such a philanthropic
gathering was the New York dinner.
at which the chief figures were ex-
Candidate Parker, Mayor Mcclellan,
and Senator Newlands.
Judge Parker fully lived up to his
reputation for scolding the opposi-
ton party and all its works. That
tendency has become so strong in his
makeup that it may be considered
now a constitutional disorder. He
cannot see anything good until he is
assured that there is no tinge of
Republicanism attached to the issue.
In this light he might be considered
merely an ordinary partisan, were he
to praise his own confreres Of the
minority party. But not even those
of his own political professions escape
his maledictions. ALI the world is
bad and he knows it and he doesn't
care who knows that he knows 1t.
Chicago, on the contrary, started
out strong on the new principle of
national ownership Of interstate utiH-
ties Mayor Dunno revealed himself
| as an intelligent and progressive
Democrat, with no taste for scolding
but a genuine desire for advancing
the party's interests through sheer
foresight Separating himslf boldly
from the mossbacks who are everlast-
ingly 'forninst" everything the other
party wants. he pointed the way to
new trail out Of the political wilder
+! ness in which the Democratic leaders
OF late have been irretrievably lost.
All this Is attractive to Americans
OF the progressive type, or, in other
words, to the great majority. He
proposes stringent measures and ex-
presses personal confidence when he
says:
Aggressive Democracy is in the sad
die, and II 1t remains aggressive II will
carry the country. If the Democratic
platform contains one plank in favor of
ne Government ownership Of railways.
telegraphs, and express companies, and
another IN favor of the abolition OF the
protective tariff, ] have no doubt that it
will win.
This may be SO or it may not be SO.
Those who look with confidence on
the present Administration will not
be troubled. But for those of the
Democratic faith it opens a vista of
promise which is bathed In sunshine
and light ineffable as compared with
ex-Candidate Parker's dull and prosy
reiferation of the way the country Is
going to the dogs, with no one at
hand to help. Ex-Judge Dunno has
clearly outclassed ex-Judge Parker in
giving the national Democracy a few
thoughts on the advantage of looking
forward instead of backward.
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FOUNDING HOSPITAL
WILL GIVE "SPRING TEA

The board of lady visitors OF the
Founding Hospital invite their friends
to their annual snring tea to be given
at the hospital tomorrow, from TO Z
o'clock. at which the sale of housekeep-
ers and travellers needs. homemade
cakes, and candles will be a future.
The ladies in tcharge of the tea will
be Mrs. H. A. Taylor, Mrs. A Lisner,
Mrs. Simon Wolf. Mrs. A. T. Britton,
Mrs A q Browne, Mrs s. W Bowles
Miss Britton, Mrs J. c. Pennie. Mrs l..
B. Plat, Mrs. Richard Sylvester. Mrs j.
c. Snithe. Mrs. w. S. Knox, Mrs. w
T. Boughton, Mrs. Joseph Auerbach,
Mrs. Carl Sassy, Mrs, Bigelow. and
Mrs. Chambers
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D. A. R. CHAPTERS
HOLD MEETINGS

Miriam Danforth Chapter, D. A. R.,
has ARRANGED an illustrated lecture by
Anita Newcomb MCGEE, who took the
corps of American Red Cross nurses
TO Japan last year. DR.. MCGEE has pro-
fuseIy illustrated her lecture from pic
lures taken by her in Japan, which
makes 1t doubly interesting. as a num-
Der of them have never been published
or shown in this country
The lecture will occur in the ball
room of the New Willard tomorrow
evening, at o'clock The benefit is for
Memorial Continental Hall and should
prove an exceptionally brilliant social
event. as so many of the delegates to
the congress will be in town. and Mrs.
Fairbanks. Mrs. Donald Mclean, and
Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt have
promised to become patronesses. The
euce in the Japanese Army" and num-
erous Japanese officials have written
her of their approval of her presentment
of the picturesque Land of the Chry-
santhemums.
Dolly Madison Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution. held its
April meeting on Tuesday. 18th inst,
at the residence Of Mrs. w. Hoffman
May, 222 + street northwest. The even
ing's entertainment was great success,
the program opening with paper, by
Miss Ida Tulioch HISTORIAN of the
Dolly Madison Chapter), on The Burn
ing Of the Betsy Stewart" Songs by
Miss Parsons, recitation, Miss McChes-
ney. entitled THE Rhyme of the Prin-
cess May; songs, Miss Gardner:
paper, Miss Catherine B. Barlow, on
Florence, Italy"
The piano was kindly furnished
through Messrs. Percy Foster, Sanders
& Stayman After hearing the very
favorable report of our Musical Tea, 70
our donation therefrom for the Memoir
ial Continental Hall. of $780, refresh
ments followed. and a very social time
was enjoyed by all.
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GOV. LA TOILETTE SIGNS
ANTl-CIGARETTE BILL

MADISON, Wis. April A.--Gov Rob-
nrt NJ. La Toilette has signed the anti
cigarette bill.
The measure prohibits the sale ar
manufacture of cigarettes or cigarette
tobacco or paper or tho giving away OF
cigarette papers. The bill goes into eff
feet on July J.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-04-14
CONTIGUOUS SCHOOL
TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY

NAZARETH, Pa. April A,-Nazareth
Hall, Moravian military school. the
only school OF its kind IN America. will
celebrate OF May its 150th anniversary.
Postmaster General Cortelyou attend
ed the SCHOOLS, and his son Is now
student there.
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"HERMA VISTA"
GIVES A DANCE

Tomorrow evening the HERNIA Vista
Club will give its closing dance for this
season.
This will be, the seventh of a series
given by the club during the winter and
although the Lenten season is not yet
over the usual pleasant gathering is ex-
pected.
two years ago, and its popularity has
steadily Increased, its monthly. dances
being among the most enjoyable given
in Washington during the winter.
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DUNN AND BRYAN
OUTLINE PLATFORM
Mayor for National Owner
ship of Utilities.
SAYS IT WOULD KILL TRUSTS
Jefferson Quoted Against Monopolies by
Bryan-Johnson On Street
Railways
SAYS IT WOULD KILL TRUSTS

CHICAGO. April Accommodation of
monopoiies in any and all forms and a
declaration for Government and nunic-
ipal ownership. and the future program
or the Democratic party based on these
issues, formed the burden of speeches
delivered last night at the Jefferson Club
banquet held at the Sherman House
The speakers <ncluied Mayor Dunno,
William j. Bryan. Mayor Tom Johnson.
of Cleveland, and George Fred Williams.
Lessons of Election.
Mayor Dunno spoke to the toast, 1.-TWO
Elections and Their Lesson
The Democratic party won in the
spring election" he said, because It's
platform plainly, clearly, and truthfuny
&c ciared for principles wiisn were for
the best interest Of the people. It lost
last fall because Its PLATFORM was a
compromise and because the people be-
Keved that 1t dealt in platitudes rather
than principles.
The results of these Two elections
should teach the lesson to the men who
stand high in the councils OF Democracy
that evasion, insincer.ty, and retrogres-
sion should have TO place in the plat
forms of the Democratic party. The
party must take and hold to advanced
positions. It must keep pace with the
march Of events It must declare against
monopoly in any and all forms. against
special privileges in every guise.
Aggressive Democracy.
Aggressive Democracy is in the sad
die. and IL it remains aggressive it will
carry the country. II the Democratic
platform contains one plank in favor of
the Government ownership of railways.
telegraphs. and express companies, and
another in favor OF the abolition OF the
protective tariff. I have no doubt that
it will win.
IF the protective tariff be abolished.
and the Government takes possession of
the means of transportation. of convey
Information. every dangerous trust in
America will die natural death in five
years.
Mr.. Bryan's theme was Thomas JEFF
ferson, whom he quoted on the subject
of acquiring territory by conquest, now
favored by an influential portion of our
ccuntrymen," as saying, If there be
one principle more deeply rooted than
another ii the mind of every American
4. is that we should have nothing TO do
with conquest" also that Conquest is
not in our principles; it is inconsistent
with our government.
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said:
.'Or the subject OF taxation he ever
insisted upon its limitation to the ac-
tual needs Of government and upon it's
equitable distribution. He is on record
in favor of the arbitration Of disputes
between nations, and no one who is ia
nliliar with his writings can doubt that
he would favor arbitration today of dis
putes between labor and capital. and
his views upon the encroaehments of
the judiciary and the value OF trial by
jury make 1t certain that he would. If
living, oppose what we know as gov
eminent by injunction
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Railroad Rate Issue.

NO one can imagine jefferson as toll
Grating the inpudent claim of the rail-
road magnates that they have a right
to determine arbitrarily and without ap-
peal the rate to be charged for the
transportation of passengers or freight.
What an opportunity the present contest
would give him for the arrangement of
human greed and for the defense Of
human rights. That Jeferson's utter
ances support legislation necessary for
the complete regulation ard control of
transportation lines is certain. and he
expressly declared against national in
eorporation-a thing now desired by the
great corporations.
Mayor Johnson discussed the advisa-
bility of proceeding to negotiate for the
purchase of existing street car lines in
Chicago, He dwell upon the delay at
tendant >on negotiations, during which
the street car companies would not give
good service, whereas If the negotia-
tons were supplemented with active pro-
ceedings to force a conclusion a fair
agreement for purchase might soon be
made.
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Meddlesome Government
Denounced by Parker

NEW YORK, April H--Fragments OF
the Democratic party gathered under
the protecting wing of the Democratic
Club last night at the Waldorf-Astoria
to celebrate the birthday anniversary
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Judge ParkeTs Speech.

TdTkST Sdius III part
'In our early days it was deemed a
virtue when the Government, like the
individual. minded its own business.
But this is out of date, so the proper
way for a government to do things is
by interference or meddling.
This takes the form of dealing rfgor-
ously with foreign countries-only pro-
vided they are small enough. 1t is APP
piled increasingly to States until il IS
now insisted that the General Govern
ment must tax and manage all corpora
lions, must oversee insurance and trust
companies, and must either own the
railroads or dictate to their owners the
minutest details of their business It IS
thought necessary TO interfere with
capital on the one hand and with labor
on the other. and to denne the relations
they must bear 10 each other.
One of the most popular of all these
processes IS interference with elections.
States must organize and control the
police OF cities and dictate even the
smallest of their policies; while cities
and towns must enter into the conapetl-
tons of business. AS the process goes
On down, interference with harmless per-
sonal customs and habits seems 10 De
only natural and logical.
1t wal not only be our duty to resist
these strange tendencies, SO clear as to
show the method that is IN them, but
we have more work TO do.
Money in Elections.
IN spite of the hypocritical claims SO
freely INDUCED the prostitution OF our
free civil service to degree never be-
fore known; the use of money IN cleo
tons. whether Presidential or State; the
belfttling or the misuse of the Judiciary;
the interference with the duties and
powers of the States; the appeal to the
military spirit, the maintenance of a
vicious ard unfair taxing system; the
raising again of the race issue in its
worst form. and from the basest of par
tisan motives-ail these must be under
stood. and when understood, they must
be met with firmness and perseverance.
If We are to deal effectively with
these various issues. whether In Gooo-
sition or in power. it will be necessary
to have q real party with real followers.
attached to real and recognized priu-
ciples. 1t is not enough that IL shall
have collection of fads-many of them
useless and some of them dangerous and
opposed to the historic position Of our
organizat ton.
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Just as soon as the President refused
to shoot bear. Parker hoped out in
the open and made n speech criticising
the ADMINISTRATION. Mr. Roosevelt will
claim that the law of the wild does not
apply 10 the wiles OF the lawyer.