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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Washington Heights Houses
For Exchange.

Choice well-built houses on su-
perb Washington Heights to be ex-
changed for vacant ground.
A Colonial Mansion; IA rooms, 3
baths; lot 40x90 II. Price. :. So, 600
Colonial Residence on Wyoming
ave-; Il rooms; lot 25x1o0 TT.
Residence on Belmont avenue; 10
rooms, baths Price. ..... 50 600
20 houses on beautiful Cincinnati
St; best constructions; , and 3
baths. Prices. SO, 900 to So 500
10 houses on Baltimore St; 10 to
l. rooms. Bargains at the price
that would be accepted.
Mintwood place; 10 rooms. 2
baths. Price. .................$9 500
House on Kalorama ave; 3 baths.
IA rooms; lot 26x100 #. Only S12 500
We have ground and houses on
every block on Washington Heights
for exchange
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
NEVER SAW MISS FOODS.
Loeb Cannot Understand Why She
Sues HIM.

Glenwood Springs. COL April 90-"Why 1
never saw the woman in my life, nor do I want
to see her" said William Loeb jr secretary to
President Roosevelt, when he saw a dispatch
concerning suit filed in Omaha by Miss Mae
Wood, asking $4,000 damages jointly of Mr.
Loeb, eX-POstmaster General Wynne and J..
Martin Miller, a Newark, y. j., newspaper man.
who was recently appointed consul at Aix-la-
Chapelle. She charges that the defendants con-
spired to take from her letters alleged to have
been written to her by Senator Platt-
When the morning newspape arrived, giving
a detailed account of the fling of the damage
suit, Mr.. Loeb read the story carefully and re-
marked:
1T is Just as thought. 1 shall have to get a
bill of particulars to tell how 1 am connected
with the The only knowledge have Of
Miss Wood is in relation to her position in the
Postoff1ce Department and the notoriety she
brought TO herself just prior to the marriage Of
Senator Plat. OF New-York. She called up the
White House and asked If she could see me
Assistant Secretary Barnes talked with ner
and as her business did not seem TO be inpor-
tant declined to see her
THAT is all know personally of the woman
l am at a loss TO see where she gets my name
into the action for damages"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
THREW ROCKS FOR DEBTS.
But Debtors LiUed IN another House
and He ONLY Got Fine.

Because money was due him, he said, Frank
Fenton threw stones against the front Of
house in The Bronx, to keep the inmates awake
until he paid. Unfortunately, he made
mistake in the house, the awakened ones
aver. and nothing came of the 1ncivil action
Fenton was arrested, however and fined SO
for disorderly conduct. in another uncivil ac-
ton.
John and Martin Honahan, of Lyvere Place
were the aggreved persons. Early yesterday
they awakened by the gentle pattering of
fifteen pound rocks against the clapboards of
their house. Not liking the idea Of being made
a target for shot putting practice, they chased
the offender, with the result that Fenton was
arraigned in the West Chester police court yes
terday.
Il cured them Of spring fever. your honor"
Fenton declared.
Are you a licensed practitioner asked
Magistrate Breen.
NO, I helped them move" said the prisoner
The Honahans said they had lived In the
house seven years.
Il fine you SO" said the magistrate 10 the
prisoner.
AS Fenton left the courtroom he mumbIed.
II do fine work, but that finer"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
Books People Are Reading.

Miscellaneous-Uptons Autobiography OF ,e dhe0 5
dOre Thomas Simson's the RlSht 1&lLe ai ia
s a8% q" Lac Tanders Tbet and Nepa Brad
ford's a Pageant of Life: Munsterberg,s The
Eternal w dhe "ht mss and lis MSsteries
Whartons Italian Backgrounds
BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY-Bufalo Aprh
2S-According TO the demands made at the
Buffalo Public Library during the last week.
the following named books were most pop
ular:
Fiction-Forman's Tommy Carteret' Hichen,s
The Garden Of Allah; MitcheiTs constance
How Plants Grow; Pages Among the
Camps; Doubleday's From Cattle Ranch to
College"
mans Letters from the Holy Land; Ely S
Another Hardy Garden Book The RDdder s.
The Cat Book Containing the designs anu
plans of twelve cat rigged yachts.
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY.-Chicago, April
2S-The most popular books among Chicago
readers. according to the demands at the
Public Library the last week, were as fol-
lows:
Dnvle's The Return Of Sherlock Holmes,
Michelson's IN the Bishops Carriage; wal
Christ
History and Biography-Bio Biographies Of, Napoleon
Ronaparte and Abraham Lincoln; Histories or
Russia; Rice's THE Making OF an American
the New East: Munsterberg's American
Traits; Waugh's The Houseboat Book"
Scientific and Sociological Poweps The Country
Examination Books on Advertising.
Observation-Disclosures dramas; shaw's plays
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
CIRCUS TEAMS RUN AWAY
Ten Horses Dash 4cross Bridge and
Through HeaUy Gate.

six horse team attached to a heavy red wagon
OF Barnun & Baileys circus ran away on the WjII-
iamsburg Bridge shortly after o'clock YESTERDAY
morning, and after getting beyond control of the
driver. John Dolan, crashed into another of tha
circus wagons 7
one OF the horses became frightened Just after the
wagon had passed the Brooklyn tower Tho a.
other horses began 10 plunge and the driver lost
control. Directly In front a four horse teo1oS
driven by John Ryan, OF No. 80 Grand-st Wilian,s
burg. He heard the runaways coming behind hin,
and guided hts team to left of the roa ne.
The wheels of Dolan's wagon, however. locked inio
horses raced for the Manhattan end OF the bridge
There was a large crowd waiting TO see the circus
at the Manhattan end and they could hear ~
shouts of the drivers ana the pounding Of tbe
horses feet long before the swaying wagons came
in sight The polIcemen du$y closed the runapta
gate. hut the horses nluneed through this and con.
iuued on to the plaza. Just the wagons reached
the end of the bridge the drivers got the horses
under control Several OF the horses badly cut
about the legs. The drivers were not hurt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
rRoM REVIEW APRIL on f.
Lofesf FOREIGN Neee'S Ab01F D00Ns'
Paris Anril 2S.


The Russian political crisis is strongly re-
fected in the volumes issued this week IN lhe
French capital. Maxim Gorky has not been
slow 10 make copy out of his recent experiences
Juven is already issuing q book by hilh' en-
titled EN- Prison" a narrative OF the auIh"I
daily life and thoughts during his Incarceration.
At the same time Plon is publishing lie OF
Corl1v by Vicomte Eugene Vogue, the frehch
Acadernician. who knows Gorky well and VINO
represents him as a Muscovite Kiplng Win
dash of Nietsche's philosophy According 10
Vogtie Gorky is actually preparing. oy meSiis
Of force mental as well physical. the Rus
sian revolution that Tolstoy hopes TO accom-
rlisb by goodness. charity and sacrlhce' flc-
,4or also reflects the revolutionary movement III
Russia. and Gitel has just brought out under
the title Of .Ceux Qu'on Meprise," novel drawn
from Russia of to-day. which paints In graphic
mixtures the wrongs, miseries and tyrannles 10
which. in the authors opinion, educated ana en-
uebrened Russians are subjected by the present
autocratfc regime Andre lie Breton, one CT
The most brilliant professors of French Htera-
,ure In France is the author Of a volume Just
issued. entitled Armand Colin Balzac, rHomme
~ rOzuvre" The author proves to be no plnd
adn,irer Of Baizac whom he describes as pes
sirnist and a painter Of the ugly and the coarse
rather than OF the beautiful or the good His
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
STATUE 5000 YEARS OLD.
Dr. Banks Tells of E~cauations at
Bismya.
inv rrLuoKApH TO THE rn1Busr.I

r-o.naeld Mass April 30.--Dr. Edgar James
Ranks. an arch@ologist, who is native OF
Greenfield. Is here for brief visit with his
mother. Mrs Julia NJ. Farr. He leaves here
soon to lecture at Chicago University and In
the university extension course. In speaking OF
the results OF his recent excavations at Bisnya'
n ruin twenty-five miles south of Nippur, which
heoan Christmas Day, 1903, he said the most
valuable thing achieved was the uncoVering of
a marble statue of David, sumerian king. of
the pre- BabyloBian period. The origin of the
word David" or "Da-udu," the real spelling.
was not known until the discovery OF this
statue. he said The excavations were rich IN
inscriptions terra Gotta in great variety mar
BILE lamps bronze implements and ancient
collins.
Mr. Banks said that the marble statue OF
David dated from about $500 b. G.. the DATE
being fxed by the style Of art DRESS general
features; by the character Of the inscriptions
which were almost heroglyphic; by the depth
of the ruins and the known age OF the strata IN
which the statue was found This was the Oldest
statue In the world, so far as was knowh' oy
800 years The next oldest statuary was IN
the Louvre. at Paris, and was found by the
French at Telloh, the date being about Zooo
r G. The Louvre statues were however, head
less none being perfect David was IN sood
condition, it was said further, and was sooo
art. 1t was, in fact, the best OF bapyloniah
art the arms being round and free from the
body, with the hands clasped in front 1t gave
the name of king and history earlier than
anything before known-in short, it pushed
back the history Of civilization nearly loOo
years The art of that period was better, the
civilization higher than of the following Pc
RODS.
DR.. Banks was sent to Bismya by a band OF
scholars, DR.. Harper, of Chicago UNIVERSITY
being at the head Of the committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
WABASH TRUCE RUMOR.
Belief in Pittsburg That 1t VIII
Get Steel Tonnage.
IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNEI

by TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBJNEJ
Pittsburg April S0-The United States Steel Cor
poration been forced to reCede from the position
taken some time ago that the promise made by
Andrew Carnegie to the Wabash would not be car
ried out II is now believed fully in Pittsburg. A
large part of the Pttsburg tonnage had been prom
ised the Wabash. but preparations had been
completed by the United States Steel people here
for letting the Wabash into any Of its plants until
late yesterday afternoon, when Judge James II.
Reed, of the Carnegie Steel Company, held
ference with VicePresdent J. ". Patterson, of :he
Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Road and completed
arrangements for letting the Wabash into the big
plant at Clarion.
This is announced semi-offcially to-day, and there
is great rejoicing among the friends of James Ram
sey. who has always fought for this tonnage Il
is taken indication that the threatened war
between the Wabash and the Steel Corporation will
be at end
Tomorrow will the annual meeting OF the
West Side Belt Line here. 1t is adjunct of the
Wabash and the personal representative of Mr..
Gould will be hand to conduct the election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
book is without doubt the most mc'sivo
clsm of the Coincide Humane thaC Ia"
been published.
London, April %.

London, April %
The forthcoming volumes Of the Letters or
Count Hatzfeldt," promised by John Murray
viii contain much new material about Kaiser
William / Bismarck, Motke and other ho'apil-
tiles Of Germany, with whom the FruSSlhi'
dfplonlat was associated during his active pont-
ical life. which ended with his death IN 1919
at the age of forty-fve years. LonsIhahS'
Green g. Co have just published another volume
Inv the indefatigably industrious Andrew Lang
This his latest book, is study OF Johh hhoA'
The great Scottish reformer of the slXteeh'n
century. The author succeeds IN making
Knox not only interesting as theoioglah' puI
extremely human as a politician Ford MadoA
Hueffer's The Soul of London. just lssusu'
describes the metropolis from quite new Polht
Of view John Strange Winters CMrs' stan
pard's) latest story, Just as 1t Was Is re-
viewed here this week, and Agnes and Egertou
Castles Rose of the World" which mas al
ready been published in America, viii make us
appearance in England in a few days Inc
other new fiction appears to be of small account
C,hatto G. Windus are bringing out three VOL
uroes of Robert Louis Stevenson's hitherto I'M
collected essays and stories. l. ~ +
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

NETWORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The most
popular books OF the week, according TO the
demands at the library. are:
Admit Fycuou-wa-d's The Marriage Of William
Ashe''; Thurstons The Masqueraher blAon
The Clansnan'
J,rxeuile FYction-Andersen's Fairy Tales; Al
colts Little Women; Ellis's Hunters OF the
ozark"
Miscellaneous-FSske's Principal Types IN Amert-
can Fiction: Palrner's with Kurok 81 Nam
chur1s": okakura's The Awakening OF Japan.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Washington
April 2S-The following list of books called
for indicates the tastes Of readers in Wash
ington this week.
History-Douglass Europe and the Far East
YonRe's Germany"
Descriptive and Travel-stead's Japan by the jap.
snese"; Levetus's Imperial Vienna Dun
Gordon's Rome and Its Story
Biography-Rose's "NapoIeonic Studies; Gardeners
Dukes and Poets in Ferrara''; BuelTs John
Paul Jones'"
FIoa2n-IIichen's The Garden Of Allah; -, Weiss
rage of William Ashe'; Clemenss 'Innocents
Abroad; McCutcheon's The Purple ParasoL"
Modern ln raS6Ta
KraushOpt's a Rabbits Impression Of the Ober-
aInnergau Passion Play"
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.-Boston, April
2s.-Anong the books most frequently in
demand at the Boston Public Library dur
ing the week were the following:
F-iction-Rice's Sandy; Hale's The Man With
out q Country, Rowland's The Wanderers
Grants The Orchid; Won Hutten's Pam
BF g The he Two csPa 9b MigER Rss.1 The o9
Honor; Thurston's THE MasQuerader'' Nc
cqtcheon's The Purple PaTas19L: NJ. Mhitson,s
ers' ana out Of Gloucester
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
EASTER CHURCH ELECTIONS.

81. Andrew. South Orange, \. J-Wariens William
II Bradshaw and robert Hebdeu vestrymen. Henry
r. Winner, John T. cot Benjamin Mumford. Matthew
y. b BTtnck"rhon William j. Rogers. Henry G. Craig
eil EoP9Tt r Spencer Delegates to the convention,
II Bradshaw; alternate delegates. Augustus H. SkiIin
MnttneH Y. y. BrHckerhon and John y. Colt.
IT ieter s-Wardens Douglas Taylor and Joseph ".
SGshman; yestryren. James " Egar. George Fred.
NiIcofsoa. William T. Watson. Laurence Middleton,
ao94 - t3er Benjamin L. lger % John $ Ferguson
hedeem6r. Morristown, n. J-Wardens John e. Taylor
ai''is = iioyt; vestrymen. John H. Ldgerwood.
,uS-s'ue = revere, John r. Emery, Joseph Moody
J- a.its stewart Macke. Charles d n cole Pierre J.
,a "otse = ;hisoim. Delegates TO the diocesan
SharIes On !oha H. Emery j. Stewart Maekle and
s. Hoyt and George A. Low ''''' - "''''' -''''S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

-
brought out in Stuttgart in German transa-
ton.
C E D. Phelps author OF THE Accolade," a
novel Of the days Of Chaucer, just published by
the Lippincotts is an enthusiasts oarsman and
canoeist. Rough water appears to have few
terrors for him, ana he enjoys girdling the isles
Of Shoals in his rowboat. and once padded in
a homemade canoe from Perth Amboy AROUND
Sandy Hook and landed on Nayesink Beach,
through the surf all in seven hours.
The three volume move. is being succeeded
nowadays by the literary ''trogy," a fashion
by the late Frank Norris He started to give
Us the trilogy of the wheat, Andy Adams has
written the trilogy OF the cattle. and other
writers have embarked on other trilogies. Now.
though not so announced in set terms, T. Berk-
eley Smith is about to round out a trilogy Of
Paris life with the publication in June, by
Funk & Wagnalls. of a volume entitled Parish
ans Out Of Doors" His previous volumes viii
be REMEMBERED as The Real Latin Quarter
and How Paris Amuses Itself" Like those,
the book will be Illustrated by many photo
graphs and drawings by the author.
Fox, DUfield & Co. have been compelled to
postpone publication of two Of the books
their spring list from widely different causes.
One Of these delayed volumes is the Letters OF
Henrik Ibsen." a preoccupied messenger boy
having inadvertently lost overheard from a
NewYork ferryboat the bulk OF the translated
letters The other volume is Okakura Kakuzo's
The Book of Tea" one chapter Of which was
printed in the April number II The Interna-
tionai Quarterly" and quoted in thig column.
The author has been summoned 10 Japan by no
less a person than the Mikado himself and
when the Emperor calls the publisher and the
public must wait. Both volumes are confidently
expected TO appear IN the autumn
Among the books listed by the Frederick A.
Stokes Company for publication next month
are novel by a. W. Marchmont, entitled "a
Courier of Fortune" and new book on ferns
The Fern Allies" by Willard Nelson CIure
70 De issued in uniform edition with the authors
"Our Ferns and Their Haunts" It VIII be films
trated with coiored plates and many halftopes
and diagrams
Sir Horace PIunkett's ireland in the New
Century IS shortly 10 be brought out bv p p
button & co. in a cheap popular edition In
THIS book the author pleads for industrial ana
national development IN Ireland rather than
ior constitutional change. In opposition TO those
poiLclans who claim that no country can pro
sress industrially otherwise if the essentials
OF responsible government are denied to it.
oohey Mccall. whose Truth Dexter vas
pu0llshed four years ago is said to have spent
uIe intervening time in writing a new novel
Inc breath Of the Gods" which was nubIisbad
uils week by Little, Brown G. Co. The scenes
0i 'ne story are laid in Washington and japan
In his book entitled "Vapoeo, tho r,,u..
Fhase' Just brought out bv John Lane tho
So'hoF' oscar Browning, presents the results ~
nis Etudies Of the boyhood days and vontb -
S0naparee' covering The period from 1863 TO 17aa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
LITERARY NOTES.

Abraham Cahan's 1.-THE White Terror end the
Red" published by A. s. Barnes & Co, is to be
brought out in Stuttgart in a German transla-
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
W6af ", y. Booksellers Say obey
Are Telling Most

elk, as reported to The New-York Tribune
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

Sidney Mccall. whose Truth Dext.r,, ,..,.
pOo'lshea four years ago. is said to have snAnt
me intervening time in writing a new novel
me Breath Of the Gods" which was published
ems week by Little, Brown G. Co. The scenes
OF the story are laid IN Washington and lana,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

The Outlook plan of sale of this WorI
the publishing world has known in many yea
missions have to be paid This method of sale
it possible to offer the work at almost ONE-H
ordinary way, through the trade with agents
regular prices, amounting to 43 per cent ha
have been quick to appreciate bargain and
The Outlook to sell the work, during publicat
history is finally completed, the discount of 4
and those who subscribe after that date will /
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

ans book entitled Napoleon. the First
Phase" just brought ont nv - 4i"l
author Oscar Browning. presents ,la -, "a,
nis Htudles Of the boyhood DAYS and vou,h >,
S0naparee covering The period from 1863 "a 17o2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01

Mr.. Browning gives a new Interpretation to the
aloofness- misunderstood, he claims, by other
biographers- by Napoleon toward
his fellow students at the military college of
Brienne:
The school being organized in companies of cadets
by the principal, and the command of one or these
being given to Napoleon, the young Corsican was
found unworthy TO lead his comrades because he
disdained their affection. The sentence was read to
bore his humiliation with such gentleness that the
hSaTts OF the schoolPoys were turned toward him
he became popular lost his unsociability and min
gled with their games. This popularity he never
Mlitaire of Paris later. or as a member Of the
regiments to which he was detailed. or as leader
Revolution in Corsica when he first came TO see the
down to the time his rapid advance to the rank
of general at the early Of twenty-three, by his
Toulon
Sir Oliver Lodge. in address to teachers at
Birmingham University recently, described
arithmetic being one of the most absurd of
the complexities of pretended commerce, The
terms of arithmetic, he declared, were the worst
things ever concocted by a nation emerging
from standardization, and neither arlth-
metic mathematics nor common sense. Mas
terng them" he averred, was merely wasting
a child's time"
This opinion viii! awaken q responsive echo
in the heart of many a youthful student and
VIII arouse the hope that the statement of CHM
d Co.-to whom we indebted for the above
quotatioa-that Smiths Arithmetics. published
by them are all that Sir Oliver asserts most
arithmetics are not, is indeed true
THE Lunatic at Large" by J. Storer Clous-
ton. just published by Brentano's, relates the
complicate and unexpected adventures OF a well
to do Englishman who through an attack of
illness. temporarily loses all memory of who o.
what he is.
Arnold Guyot Cameron. A NJ, Woodruff pro-
fessor Of French in Princeton University, has
collected in a volume recently published by the
American Book Company a number of Tales
the life in both the north and south of that
country. well as some of the conditions of
its capital Professor Cameron draws upon
such representative writer's Jules CIaretie and
FRANCOIS COppee for his material. and contrib
utes an extended introduction in which he dis
cUsses the 'conte' in its relation to the history
and development of the country. There is a
complete vocabulary and notes on historical and
literary illusions.
The new EST conner IN the fed Of periodical liter
AZURE, the first number of which is to appear
in June, viii bear the catholic title of The
New York Review" and will in fact be brought
Out under Catholic auspices It's subtitle "A
Journal Of Ancient Faith and Modern Thought"
denotes the lines on which il will be conducted
with the approval OF Archbishop Farrell. 1t viii
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-19
TAXPAYERS.

Are hereby notified that the Board of Assessors of the City of New Haven, will be in session at Room. No City Hall, every week day from October I'd 1905, until November 1st, 1905, inclu- slve, for the purpose of receiving lists of all persons owning property, real and personal, subject to taxation in t:lis city.
 If any resident taxpayer neglects or refuses to hand in list, made and sworn to as prescribed by law (sickness or absence from the city being no excuse). the assessors must make out list, and add thereto ten per centum, as required by law.
 Power Of attorney cannot be made use of in making oath to list, nor can the husband make oath to list of pro- perty of the wife, in which he has no interest nor eontrariwise, the wife for the husband.
 Each parcel of real estate must be separately described.
 Office hours from g a. m. until 4 D. m., except on Saturday, when the hall will be closed at D. m.
 Signed:
 EDWARD F. MERRILL,
 OSCAR P. IVES.
 JOHN J. HOGAN.
 TIMOTHY F. CALLAHAN,
 THEODORE H. AfACD0NOLD. o2 to nj Board of Assessors.