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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
GET A Plan D FREE
And Give Your Children a Musical
Education.
A GENEROUS OF F E R
Will Loan Pianos Free to En-
courage Young Folks to
Study Music.

No doubt there great many young people In
Washington who have a laudable ambition TO study
music, but handicapped by not having piano
in the house. 1t is not always case Of lack OF
means for there many parents who have the
means and would gladly buy nice piano II they
thought their children would take an interest in
music. To provide with pianos those of limited
means as well as those who would like to test
whether or not their children will take proper In
terest in music, the F. G. Smith Piano Company of
1925 Pa ave. has decided TO loan parents the use
of a good. serviceable square piano free OF charge
for six months the parents being required simply
TO defray the cost OF hauling There is rent or
charge whatever for the Of the piano, and you
incur obligation 10 accepting the loan of 1t.
The company not only furnishes the instrument
free but keeps II in tune. Better apply at once,
before the pianos all sent out. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
AT WASHINGTON GROVE.
Independence Day Appropriately Cele-
brated at the Camp.
,ecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star
WASHINGTON GROVE, Md, July 8. 1905.
Independence day was celebrated in As
semby Hall. The Washington Grove
chorus, specially trained by Mr. Percy s.
Foster, opened the program with Speed
Our Republic" Mr.. H L. Strang presi-
dent of the w. G.. c. NJ Association,
read the Scripture. After patriotic songs
and prayer by Mr.. w. H H. Smith, at
tention was called to a copy of the Decla-
ration of Independence appended to the
reading desk. 1t produced in 1876, and
is a fac-simile of the original of a hum
dred years before. Mr. William Beck read
the declaration The chorus followed with
the new Hail Columbia"
An address by the Rev. DR.. George Bailey
OF Washington was the event of the day.
In the morning the married men played
the single men a game of base ball-the
prosecuted against the nom persecuted-and
defeated them by the score of IL to O.
The Washington Grove team started the
season, playing Takoma Park, and was de-
fea teddy the score of to ,. Costly errors
of the Grove team caused the defeat. The
feature of the game was the pitching OF
Mr.. Rodney McCathryn, who struck out
fifteen men.
Mrs. Sarah Posey is visiting her son at
his cottage on Grove avenue Miss Grace
Beers of Chicago is the guest of Miss
Edith Carter Mr.. Paul Buckler is here
from the west visiting his mother. Miss
Fanny Burns has returned from Damascus.
Mr.. George Selby spent the Fourth at his
cottage.
Among those who opened their cottages
on July l were Mr. Robert Cohen and fam
ily Mrs. Amanda Cooley and daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. James McCathryn and fam
fly, Mr.. and Mrs. George Cook, Miss Emma
Marsh Mr. Harry White, Mr.. William
Pritchard Miss Mary WEIGH, Mrs Rogers
and daughter, Mrs. Thomas Bowling, Mr..
and Mrs. f. Woodward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
suffragists' Board Chosen.

The National Woman Suffrage Association
unanimously reelected the old officers with
the exception of vice president-at-large and
second auditor. at Portland, Ore, yesterday
The board stands as follows: President,
Susan B. Anthony, New York; vice presi-
dent, Florence Kelley. Illinois; correspond
ing secretary. Kate M. Gordon. Louisiana
recording secretary. Alice Stone Blackwell,
Massachusetts,. treasurer, Harriet Taylor
Upton, Ohio: first auditor. Laura Clay, Ken
lucky; second auditor, DIR. Annice .Ieffreys
Meyers, Portland. The delegates voted to
change the bylaws recurring alternate con-
ventions to be held at Washington and made
It optional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
DISTRICT woMAN's ADDRESS
At Session of Educators at Asbury
Park, N. J.

At Asbury Park. N. j., last night the
town gave an exhibition of fireworks on a.
grand scale for the teachers. There was
a profusion of bombs and patriotic pieces
set off from the fishing pier. The Carlisle
Indian band played weird music. Numer-
Gus state receptions were held.
The crowd at Asbury Park was estimated
at 1900.
At a meeting of the Indian department
of the National Educational Association,
Susan B. Spe of the normal school of this
city delivered a paper on the work Of the
bureau of plant industry, United States
Department of Agriculture. In its relation
to agricultural instruction in Indian. schools.
She said in part:
THE Indian question Of the future is an
agricultural one. The problem will be to
teach him better methods of agriculture,
Of stock raising and the utilization of the
natural advantages which he possesses.
"In his last report to the Secretary of
Agriculture the chief of the bureau of plant
industry, DR.. B. I. Galloway, says: The
great interest now being manifested in ma
ture study has prompted the bureau to en-
courage the movement by such means as
might be within its power
Efforts should be made in our educa-
tional system to bring early to the mind
of the child the facts which will be of value
in emphasizing the Importance and neces-
sity of agricultural work. There is no bet
ter way 10 90 tuiS tHdH lHTOuSu d well
managed and well conducted system OF
school garden training.
More and more evident it is becoming, In
all lines of work, that publications are not
sufficient to arouse that interest in agri-
cultural advancement which the necessities
of the times demand. An active demonstra-
ton of the superiority of certain crops and
certain methods over Others Is always a
striking object lesson.
Realizing that the progress Of this work
must necessarily be slow from the fact
Ethat public school teachers have no prac-
teal training In agriculture and horticul-
ture the bureau is urging the establishment
of elementary courses In these lines In al
normal schools. No set rules can be made
for the management OF a school garden
1t rests with you to find what Is valuable
for your own school and adapt that to it.
.sThe whole garden has given material fol
| practical arithmetic. Pupils have calcu-
lated the part of an acre they are cult
waiting; what part Of the whole garden eacf
| boy has; the cQat Of fertiiizlng; the amount
Of fertiaf4er needed TO cover the entire ared
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
HELD FOR MURDER OF SON.
Morrisville, Pa, Man Reported to Have
Confessed Crime,

Following three weeks investigation by
detectives, Gustave A. Closson of Morris
vile, Pa, is held at Doylestown. n. j.,
charged with having poisoned his eleven
year-old son Walter May 10. The boy was
imbecle, and according to detectives,
the father has confessed that he had given
him rat poison in beer because he could no
longer endure his presence.
One of the disgusting habits of the boy is
said to have been a propensity to eat gar
bage from cans. and it was suspected he
might have acquired the poison in that way.
1t is said by the detectives that the father
also admitted a previous attempt TO poison
a fourteen-year- son. also mentally af-
fiicted and of depraved habits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
Killed by a Train.
espondence of The Star.

BOYD'S, Md. July 3, 1905
This morning early the dead body of James
Brown, who was better known around Gar
rett Park and Randolph. Montgomery coun-
ty, as James Adams. was found beside the
Baltimore and Ohio tracks. His father-in-
law stated this morning that Brown had
been on a spree during the night. AS his
house is only fifty yards from the track he
walked out and sat on the ties, where ii is
supposed he fell asleep and the cars ran
over him, badly manglng his body
Investigation will be made of the affair by
the coroner from Garrett Park. Brown was
about thirty-five years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05

cost of each boys plot and the cost to the
department of the entire experience. After
a heavy storm the rainfall to the square
a calculation made of the amount that fell
on each boys plot and how many times
he would have carried the three gallon wa
tering pot to put the same amount on"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
FOURTH OF JULY NOTES.

The chief formal celebration of July was
held in Independence Square, at Philadel-
phia, the feature of the exercises being the
presence of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley, who delivered the GRAFTON. Patri-
otto songs were sung by chorus of school
children.
The French cruiser Jurien de la Graviere,
now lying at anchor in the harbor at Bal
timore, was profusely decorated with the
American colors yesterday, and at noon
fired a national salute of twenty-one guns
in honor of Independence day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05

Thomas Reed, a republican member OF
the West Virginia Legislature, was struck
by train and killed while stepping from
one track to another near his home at
Oakville yesterday. He was eighty years
old and leaves wife and several children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05

grounds and decorations: DR. ]. b. Gould,
refreshments. The speakers were also ten
dered vote of thanks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
Four Dead in Philadelphia.

tured severely by a cannon cracker, which
exnlodel In his hand prematurely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
How the Streets Are Raised.

The filing of the streets is done by an
ingenious method. In the first place.
canal was dug through the city intersect-
Ing all Of the principal streets The houses
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

HOT-sEKEEPER- bright compstsn;
Young woman, in small family OF weeTa
servants are kept: refined home more than
SALARY. AMERICAN. Advertising Once,
2i5 Montague-st.. Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
BATTLESHIPS NEEDED.
Danish Erpert Says Nary Lacks
Sufficient Number.

The reading of papers at the thirteenth general
meeting of the Society for Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers began yesterday morning. The
meeting is being held in the auditorium of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. at No
u West 31st-st. Among the papers read were
those by Colonel E. a. Stevens. Some Problems in
Ferryboat Propulsion: Naval Constructor D. w.
Taylor, Experiments with Ventiating Fans and
Pipes; Professor w F. Durand, of Cornell, Per
formances of Screw Propeors''; A. V. Curtis and
/. F Hewins, Tests with Model Propelors.'
In the afternoon paper contributed by
Commander William Hovgaard, Royal Danish
Navy, dealing exhaustively with modern cruisers.
England needs commerce destroying cruisers he
said, but America needs big battleships. Cruisers
are the cavalry of the fleet. and should be able to
fight well act scouts. He drew lessons
from the Japanese Russian war, declaring that
the best unit a feet is the big battleship with
large long range guns, high speed, and a wider
belt than used. He advocated decreas-
ing its thickness and increasing its
Francis II. Bowles, formerly chief constructor
of the United States Navy. president of the So
ciety. said that the great problem in naval war
fare is how to get high speed without sacrificing
the defensive arnlor and the battery Before this
that automatic stoking devices be perfected
and oil fuel with the turbine engine adopted.
Along the lines q paper read by Naval
Constructor II. G. Giilmor, U. S. N, giving a
comparison of typical batteshps of various navies
A paper by Arson Phelps Stokes his 'Globu-
Ioid Naval Battery read.
The days session then closed by "A Note
from Japan contributed by George w. Dickfe.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau,
1x-,sJ,fnotoo Move,

washington. November 1e
GENERAL. cHAFFEE MAY RETIRE NEXT
NoNTH-The announcement Of the intention of
General A. r. Chaffee to go the retired list sew
raj months before he would ordinarily retire. has
produced the usual crop of candidates who wish
to avail themselves of the privilege of advancement
10 higher grade. Nearly every colonel of the line
and staff has filed his papers for consideration of
the individual claim for promotion 10 the grade OF
brigadier general In those cases where the Off
Ger would under the usual circumstances go on the
retired list with the next higher grade account OF
service in the Civil War, the President will not
make the appointment 1t is also announced at
the department that only one more high ranking
is General A w Greely, the chief signal oflceT.
nary, as soon as General Chaffee goes the
retired list. During the coming year there VIII
be two rctirements from the grade of ieutenaht
general It is for these prospective places tnaf az
general officer are now laying their plans Ihers
is much speculation in regard to the result OF
in e co prefdces an oficer,s Claims to executive
consideration the employment dlrectly OF poht-
ical influence
DATE OF MERIWETHER'S TRIAL.-The date
of the trial of Midshipman Meriwether for causing
the death of Alidshipman Branch has been set for for
court viii be held at the Naval Academy.
opnEps 1ss1TED-The following army orders
have been issued:
Cantaia WILLIAM N. BLOW Jr 18th Infantry. retired
on account of disability
First Lieutenant WILLIAM NJ. MCAMMoN. Jr, 25d
Infantry detailed recorder Of examining board at
Madison Barracks First Lieutenant ISAAC a
SAXTON 23d Infantry. relieved
second lieutenant CHARLES ". MASON, Jr.. 10th IN
fantry 29th Infantry
Second Lieutenant AVERY D. CUMMINGS 2sth Infantry,
to 10th Infantry.
Captain GEORGE w. BURR Ordnance Department from
Rock Island Arsenal to Fort Leavenworth and Fort
Riley. Kansas for inspection of field artillery ma
First Lieutenant NELSON GAPEN. surgeon.
from Philippines TO Angel Island, relieving First
Lieutenant ROBERT E. NOBLE. assistant surgeon,
transferred Fort Casey.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL sVESSELS.-The fol-
lowing movements of naval vessels have been re-
ported:
ARRIVED.
Nov 15-The Galveston at Hampton Roads the Texas,
at Newport News; Scorpion, at San Juan.
SAILED.
,ov 15-The Sandoval, from Annapolis the
Lebanon from Lambert Point for Narragansett Ray;
the Galveston Norfolk for Hampton Roads
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
MELLEN SEES PRESIDENT.
Railroad Head and Dir. Roosevelt
Discuss the Rate Question.

washington Nov. les. c. Mead, president
of the Merchants Association Of New York
presented to President Roosevelt to-day state
ment of that association in support of the Pres
ident's attitude on railroad rate legislation The
statement strongly supports the Esch-Townsend
bill which was passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives at the last Congress. but urges that
any decision of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission In a given case should be put into inn
mediate effect without suspending it to await
the result of an appeal to the courts
President Charles S. Mellen of the New-York
New-Haven and Hartford Railroad, accompan-
led by Timothy E. Byrnes, of Minneapolis and
New-York called on President Roosevelt to-
day Later Mr.. Mellen a guest of the Presi-
dent at luncheon. Mr.. Mellen and the President
are longtime friends. It Mr.. Mellen whom
the President quoted "a prominent railroad
Official in his annual message to Congress
couple OF years ago. Mr. Mellen's position on
the subject of railroad rate legislation is Well
known He stands practically with the Presi-
dent believing it wise for the railroads to ac-
ouiesce in the enactment of reasonable leglsla-
ton. Mr. Mellen declined to discuss his visit
to the President, indicating that 1t would be
improper for him to do So He returned 10
New-York this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
ILLEGAL FENCING FARCE.
MF. Hitchcock Indignant Because Big Oper-
ators Escape with Small Fine,

washington Nov. 16-Secretary Hitchcock was
to-day ,noffciaIly informed in the prosecution
- 1..-.lat- Richards and W. G. Comstock in the
federal court at Omaha for the illegal fencing OF
2a 900 acres of government land in Sheridan Coun-
tv Neb upon pleading guilty the defendants had
7ae sentenced to remain six hours in the Gus
- ~ the United States Marshal and pay fine
of $500 each. ,.;.
the verdict That / am surprised and Indignant
The punishment is utterly Inadequate The indlcl5
,,,ent was the result of four years or determined
e4srr and the expenditure of thousands of dollars
nv the department. We had selected the large
I1y,erafors in the hope that the result would be a
Warning TO those engaged on smaller scale: lhat
-,a was one is evident by the IacI
that the men pleaded guilty. The result is dis
couragfng but we shall not cease our eIor1s i
rhey have promised TO tear down their teneeS anu
if they DO not keep the promise they VIII De IN
5tctad again and again until they learn the laws
ore en Tlads 70 be obeyed. We viii not let up.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
FARMERS FOR RATE LEGISLATION.
National Grange Introduces Resolutions In
dorsing President Roosevelts Attitude.

Atlantic City n. j.. Nov. ia movement TO
throw the entire organized farming interests OF
the country to the support of President Roosevelt
in his efforts adjustment of railroad tariffs
began at to-days session OF the National Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. Three resolutions, all of
them introduced with the idea of unify1ng the
agricultural strength, introduced, and after
spirited discussions were referred to committees
for revision and amendment.
The first resolution offered by T. c. Atkeson,
Master OF the West Virginia Grange and pro-
fessor at Tate Agricultural College. He urged the
national control OF freight rates and indorsed the
attitude of President Roosevelt toward securing
legislation to this end.
This resolution was followed by from F.
Derthick. of Ohio, whose grange advocated the X
tension of the powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. w. F. Hill, of Pennsylvania Grange,
introduced a resolution for the federation of all
farmers organizations in their fight for corrective
legislation.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
R. HARDING OUT OF ERIE.
DISSENSIONS RUMORED.
Nay Be Closely associated aoith
Rgan Interests Hereafter.

Great interest was aroused in wan Street yester-
day afternoon by the announcement that husseii
Harding had severed his connection win 'le ~ @
the inference being drawn in some quarters eA1e
the stem was due to dissatisfaction en- the part Oh
the controlling interests In the Erie over some "
the agreements and contracts when the oihe''iA.
Hamilton and Dayton, with the Inahasel4eit -
which Mr. Harding had been prominently ioentiheu
for wear or more had entered into prior TO the
taSin~ over of that system few months ago "
The Erie. .o-.,x,
rrhesa ranov4s were declared from trustwortnS
o,,-oes IN he unfounded. and it was said tnat ne
80 -, tta erie with the best of feeling pre-
asI,n,- ON both sides Color was lent to the rulor
OF dissensons from the fact that MT hatoliis .-au
for barely month occupied the seVeraI olh0.S
xhfch he has now acknowledgements AZ
charge of operations of the Erie, the Clheihna'i'
tr.y,iiton and DAYTON and the Pere Marquette' put
II was explained by OF his frienos lhat ne ""S
planning 20 engage in business IN TINS ei's oI
cbaracte- not in line of active railroad ser
vice and that the proffer of this new cennec-
tion the precise nature of which could not Se. pe
announced had come 20 him within 3 very snort
time Mr. Harding was third vice-presdent ana
general manager of the Missouri Pachc system Tor
several years prior to July lsoi, when ne oecdi-ie
vIce-president and general manager of the Clnclh-
natl. Hamilton and Dayton. and president OF the
Pere Marquette controlled road
An interesting rumor, which close associate of
Thomas f. Ryan inclined last night to dscTeolt
had it that Mr. Harding to be identified with
NJ Rvan's interests 1t will be remembered that
last July Paul Morton resigned the Navy portfolio
TO take charge of the plans CT the new subways to
the Metropolitan Street Railway interests, and ac-
cording to an announcement understood to be OF
f1cal, 10 be closely associated with lhoinas
Ryan In his various enterprises. wnelner
railroad. mining banking or other Wlthn a re"
weeks came TIE sale of James tazen Hyde,s con.
trolling interest in the Equitable Life ASSURANCE
Society to Mr. Ryan and the election OF M ,i bI
as chairman and then president of the Equltaoie
No successor TO Mr. Morton as associate and adS
wiser to Mr. Ryan in the latters many fields OF
activity has yet been announced, and the report
was regarded as reasonable and probable YESTERDAY
that that responsible. post might be assumed py
Mr.. Harding who, like Mr.. Morton, is q successtn
railway executive of wide reputation and IS still
IN middle life. only year separating the ages OF
the two men,
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

oITsEKEEPER.-By domestic sciencs
graduate; In either family or private IN
stitution: three years experience; clty rei-
erence. L. L., Box 2S, Tribune once
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

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of blue. brown and green heavy
weight cheviot; pleated empire
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of blue. brown, castor, green and
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colored velvet and fancy but
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in black: sizes IA, 16 and Is
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New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
CASE AGAINST ADDIcKs CONTINUED,
Judge Not Clear on Points in Record-Argu-
ment on Judgment on November %.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

WILMINGTON, DEL Nov. 16.-In the action recently
brought in the United States Circuit Court here ey
clark Ward & Co.. bankers, of NewYork- against
r,d,vara Aadicls for the recovery of $4,000 on
t.,dgrneut for s21oOeo obtained by the bankers
ee33inst Addicks in the Supreme Court or New
Tso-- T1doe bradford to-day sent for counsel on
,o.t SIDES The Judge said that, IN cons derng the
tio, ~ counsel for Addicks withhold judgment
ny ~ % }arn, Of court ne was not clear some
ponts suggested in the record, and SAID ne @ MOuid
-, T,1rTFer argument The was accordingly
rontinnad ;1ntif November @ Judge Brldford an
bounced that Judge Gray would sit with MIN When
Ira-n is argued.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-17

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