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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

serve the life of the highly polished finish.
Various patent polishes are requisi-
toned for the various sorts of metal: For
instance, in the grill room alone four pol
ishes are required for silver, nickel, brass
and copper, spectively, while a securing
powder is used on the broier. For each
of these poliShes separate and distinct
sort of cioth or waste is employed. Even
a weIl-drilled land servant would open
her eyes at the condition in which these
cloths and towels are kept. The writer
saw young steward, immaculate in white
linen Jacket polishing the bull's-eye or
glass in a port hole with what looked like
a glass towel, such as is used in we'll
organized pantry. In her ignorance she in
quired whether it was not a waste of good
toweling. The head steward stepped to the
!! lads side and came back with the square
of linen. 1t would put many housewives
glass towel to shame yet he had been pol
ishing port holes with this one towel for
fifteen minutes.
*
A special permit is required to gain ac-
cess to a liner while the house-cleaning
processes are in progress but the home max
er who is fortunate enough to witness the
work will carry away one very strong i'm
preston, and that is the absence of dust.
This is largely due to the fact that little
or no dust is afioat while at sea, but ma
turally with some sixteen hundred sous
aboard, some dust must be raised in cabins
and staterooms This is mnimized by the
careful cleaning which the boat receives
each day before the passengers are up and
about. An idle or dilatory man should never
seek a position steward, for, literally,
there is no rest for the steward at sea or
in port, and the broom and the dust cloth
are on his coat-of-arms.
When the boat is cleared of passengers
and the hour for house-cleaning has ar
rived, the work starts a A and goes along
Systematically until is reached, the diff
ferent crews of stewards and sailors work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
VOLUNTEER OBSERVERS
FOR WEATHER BUREAU

observers is of great value to builders of
water works in any town or city, inasmuch
as they may ascertain the amount of rain
fall, and in connection with the survey of
the land and the slope of the country they
may determine the water supply which may
be expected from a given area.
Again the extremes of temperature noted
In the daily reports of the cooperative OBJ
servers is of value to engineers who may
desire TO know what would be the expansion
of metal used in the construction of bridges
and buildings in a certain locality.
Physicians and students of hygiene and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Modern science, while agreeing in the main
with the great philosopher, would better
say that man is product of climate, for
the falling rain, the trickling rivulet, the
rushing torrent and the change in the vol
ume of matter due to heat and cold make
soil; and the action of heat and moisture on
soil-in other words, bankruptcies all
forms of life, both vegetable and animal.
Therefore, man is product of climate,
and the introduction of new methods for
the more economical production Of his food
requires that intimate account be taken of
climate, and of the notifications that re-
suit from the hills, valleys, mountains,
marshes, brooks, rivers, lakes and oceans.
One climate precipitately changes into an
other or gradually shades off into dissimilar
conditions, all depending upon the topogra-
ply of the region under consideration"
The volunteer observers are located in
country towns in the mountains and In sec
tons removed from direct railroad and tel
egraphic communication. There are twenty
volunteer observation stations in Alaska.
The observation station most remote from
the headquarters of the weather bureau in
this city is a volunteer station located at
Tikra, Alaska, on Point Hope. This sta
ton is situated in longitude about 167 west
and latitude 67.30, and the observer who
sends each month his daily reports rela-
tive to Temperature and rainfall at this
point is Rev. E. H. Edison, a minister of
the gospel who is endeavoring to convert
the natives to the Christian religion, in the
most northern possession OF the United
States.
There are only about 200 complete meteor
illogical stations in the United States, and
these would not cover even all the marine
ports of the country. The bureau therefore
employs between 800 and 400 men to display
danger signs at ports where there are no
weather bureau stations. These employees
are equipped with steel storm warning
tower seventy-five or 100 feet high, on top
of which are displayed warning hags by day
and powerful lights at night. The men In
charge of these towers receive but meager
COMPENSATION for their services, but the
towers are so located with respect to their
habitations and places of employment that
thew can always give attention to the tele-
graphic orders of the central forecasting
division of the bureau. The system adopted
for warning the navigators is SO perfect
that in less than one hour time aiter an
proachng storm has been observed the
notice of the coming storm can be d1strib-
uted to every lake and seaport in the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

force of men who receive no compensa-
ton for their services perform some of the
most important work of the United States
weather bureau. This is the force of vol
unteer or cooperative observers, who are
scattered throughout the various states and
territories and in the insular possessions
of Uncle Sam There are nearly 1900 OF
these volunteer observers rendering serv-
ice to the weather bureau, and included In
the list are intelligent farmers and ranch
men, school teachers, merchants, profess
sional men and in some cases ministers of
the gospel who are engaged in missionary
work in out of the way places.
The services performed by these men who
make observations OF climatic conditions
for the weather bureau of the government,
while requiring but a small amount of time
and attention from each individual yet In
the aggregate is no insignificant item in
the work of the weather bureau, according
10 Prof Willis l. Moore. chief of the bu-
reau. In an interview with representa-
tive of The Star Prof. Moore spoke of the
duties performed by the volunteer branch
of the bureaus service and of some OF the
beneficial results which have accrued from
the work.
Each volunteer observer is equipped by
the government with a standard thermome-
ter and rain gauges, which are located py
skilled meteorologists sent out by the bu-
reau. Each state is designated as a sec
ton of the weather bureaus climate and
crop service The volunteer observers take
daily readings of the temperature and the
rainfall within their respective jurisdictions,
and every month the daily reports, showing
the maximum and minimum temperature
and the amount of rainfall each day, are
sent in TO the headquarters of the section.
All the information received from the OBJ
servers in the various counties and towns
10 a q center
lished In a bulletin. Through an exchange
system each state receives the publications
of every other state. and by this means a
resident of a certain county may go INTO
the central Office of any section ard COM
pare the climatic conditions of his own
county with those of any other county in
the United States.
Among other things Prof. Moore states
no data f,,rniahad hu the v0luu tear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

located in country communities along
streams tributary to large rivers, who make
daily Telegram hic reports to their respective
district headquarters. and receive but small
pay for their services. In the country sur
rounding Pittsburg, Cincinnati and ST.
Louis for instance, the observers along
streams each day examine the rain gauges,
thermometers and gauges in the brooks or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Thermometer Shelter and Rain Guage.

small rivers. and the readings of these in
struments. which indicate the amount of
rainfall, the temperature and the height of
the streams is telegraphed to the central
station of the river service for the district,
where there is located a trained meteorol-
ogist, who daily considers the precipitation
on each watershed, and from his knowledge
of the area and the slope of the land to-
gether with the information furnished by
the country observers and the readings of
the gauges in the main stream, he is enabled
to make a very accurate prediction of the
height of the main river within his district,
covering period ranging from three days
to two weeks in advance
If from the information at hand the fore
caster in the district central station is con-
WINGED that food is about to occur he
notifies the various communities which
might be affected by an overflow of the
river and the inhabitants are given time
to remove from the lowlands. This serv-
ice has resulted in the removal of many
hundreds of millions of property located
in the lowlands to a place of safety before
the arrival of the flood, and besides doubt
less many lives have been saved by the
timely warnings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

There are two other special branches of
the weather bureaus service in which men
perform duties with practically no compen-
sation. These two branches relate to floods
and the cotton crop, and the work perform
ed in a number of the states by men other
than those employed in the state and dis
trict stations is of no little Importance.
In connection with the observation of ap-
preaching floods in areas drained by the
large rivers there are about 500 observers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Within the Pittsburg district Homestead
Is frequently affected by serious floods.
When an overflow is predicted In that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Among other things Prof. Moore states
that the data furnished by the volunteer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

been polishing the wood work and brass N
the dining room, another shift has been
engaged In the pantry polishing silver
Under the direction OF the pantry steward.
the helpers, including the bell bows have
been washing and polishing glassware. ard
dishes and storing them away in great
racks, there TO remain until the FIRST meal
OF the voyage is served. No meals are serv-
ed in the first cabin saloon while tts -bi,,
is in port. except TO the captain and his
official staff
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
Hay Coming Home.

Bad Nauheim, Germany, May 20 Secretary Hay will have finished the prescribed cure next week and leaves Bad Nauheim May 27 for Paris. Then he will go to London and will sail for New York on the White Star steamer Baltic, leaving Liverpool June :.
 The secretary intended to go to Ser lin, but Professor Groedel advised against the tiring railroad journey While in Paris MT Hay will call on Foreign Minister Delcasse and prob ably will be rece<ved by President Loubet. These meetings will be social for no business will be discussed seri- ously.
 Secretary Hay has sent word to the American embassy in Paris that he re- grets that he will be unable to accept invitations while there. That will also be his course while In London.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
GREAT CHICAGO STRIKE TO
 SPREAD, INSTEAD OF ENDING

off relations with the Holy See. This action also Is interpreted as German move to displace France in the protec- tarate over Catholic residents in the near and far east.
 On the other hand Franco-Gsrman relations have been given a favorable turn by the appointment of French mission to attend the wedding at Ber- lin of Crown Priece Frederick w.t. liam and the Duchess Cecilia of Meek linburg-Schwerin, and the suggestion in certain German quarters of the pos sible return of Alsace-Lorraine ro France. The mission headed by Gen. eral La Croix will arrive in Berlin June 2. The suggestion that Germany might eventually return Aisace-Lor- raine is welcomed here, but the French officials consider the suggestion to have been purely platonic and impossi- ble of practical realiza ton at least du- ring the present generation.
 Ambassador Mccormick is still so- journing at Dieppe, where the sea air Is restoring his health after his attack of the grippe and the fatigue incident to his removal from St. Petersburg to Paris
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
aurRR pnEp oF TRusT.
Two Men are tO Look After Brodie L
 Dukes Finances.

Asheville, N. c May 20.--A deed of trust the wording and character of which has never before been recorded in the County of Buncombe. North Car olina, is now a part of the record Tn the Registrar of Deeds office. The paper, is by and between Brodie l.. Duke, who is a son of the late Wash ington Duke of Durham, N. C.. party of the first part, and C. M Edwards and R. B. Boone, parties of the second part, known as trustees. The instru- rnent covers several typewritten pages, and in part says:
 whereas, For good and sufficient reasons, the party of the first part (Brodie L. Duke) is desirous of relin. quishing his power of alienation and all rights of control over all real and personal property and estate of every name and wheresoever the same may be situated or located of which he Is now seized or possessed, for the period of at least one year..
 The property is then conveyed in due form from Duke to the trustees. The instrument provides that $100 per month shall be paid to the said Brodie l.. Duke for living expenses; that the money shall be paid out of the rents of Dukes property and the revenue re- ceived from the estate by the trustees. At the expiration of one year 1t is pro- vided that upon the written application of Duke, the property shall be recon- yeyed to him. If at this time he does not demand the proptreyt in writing the trust deed shall remain in full force. It is provided that If Duke dies in the meantime the property shall be reconveyed to his heirs. The trustees are to receive $10O per month each for their services.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
The Ian. in Korea.

Paris, May 20.-Reports received here through authoritative channels rep-e- sent that Japan is carrying things with A high hand in Korea. Whether the reports are influenced by sentiment, 1t is impossible to say but they recite number of specific facts supporting the view that M Hayashi. the Japanese minister to Korea no longer observes the position of other ministers at Seoul. He is said to consider himself sort of governor general or viceroy, thus taking precedence over his diplomatic colleagues who are obliged to await his convenience in dealing with the court and government. The general com- manding the Japanese troops is ropre- sented as seconding this assumption of precedence on the part of the Japanese minister.
 The official reports confirm the re- ports from Pekin that the Japanese re- gently exercised strong pressure upon the Emperor of Korea to induce him to leave the country and go to Japan, with the evident purpose of removing him as an obstacle to the development of Japanese control The Emperor is said to have requested the departure of the Japanese official who made these representations and to have taken dis erect means to permit the European governments to learn of the prospects of his removal. Finally when this in- formation reached the St. Petersburg foreign office 1t issued a protest against Japan's assumption of control of the affairs of Korea
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
BELL FOR SEPARATION.
Chamber of Deputies Discussing Im-
 porfant Matter.

ChamDer or DeputIes DtsCusstuB hH~
 portant Matter.
 Paris, May 20.-The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the bill pro- viding for the separation of church and State is proceeding daily with less at tcntion than was bestowed on the less important debate over the budget This indifference of Parliament and the pui'- lie is causing much comment
 M PelIetan, who was Minister Of Marine in the late Combes Cabinet, has writted to a weekly review, saying that the separation of State and church in wolves the most momentous change France has seen since the abolition or monarchy. He pointed out that the orators discuss only the details of the measure without voice yet oeinH raised to consider the revolution IF social conditions involved. The caus' of the absence of passionate speeches Is due to the general conviction that the passage of the bill is a foregone conclusion. The four main articles Of the bill already have been passed. leay' ing only two brief ones remaining,
 The articles already adopted estab- fish the principle, complete the separa- tion and provide for civil corporations to carry on the religious establish ments. The main struggle has been over the enormous wealth Of the churches in art objects, paintings and tapestries pass to the succeeding civil corporations instead of going to the State. The socialists urged the State's $ right to take over these objects but government influence secured changes in article f. so that the church goods will be retained by their civil success sors, thus obviating their transfer rance to the State. The remaining ar ticles of the bill deal mainly with po- lice restrictions against religious ac- tivity in political affatrs.
 The debate already has lasted two months and no date has yet been fixed for the final vote. but the past pro- gress indicates that decisive results may be expected at the end of June.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
MORRIS MAD.
Hasn't Said work About Giving Up
 His Job.

Hasn't Said n Work About Giving Up
 His Job.
 Washington, May 20.-(Speciai)-- The announcement from Attorney Gen eral Moody after yesterdays cabinet meeting that Former Senator Louis E McComas would be appointed an Asso- ciate Justice of the District of Coium- bia court of appeals in place of Mar ton F. Morris, said to be soon retired, has made this incumbent indignant. Judge Morris says a recent letter or his to President Roosevelt has evil dently been misinterpreted. T have not indicated to the President or any one else an intention of retiring and I consider the stories that are being circulated to be In very bad taste.
 Jduge Morris is a native of the Dis- trict of Columbia and is seventy years old He has been on the District court of appeals since it's establishment as the first associate justice and has been nearly thirty years a professor in the law department of Georgetown Uni- versity.
 President Roosevelts decision to take care of the Maryland Republican politician make his office holding re- cord continuous since 1882. when he was elected a member of congress and served until 1890. He was then ap- pointed to. a district judgeship. which he held until he was elected in 1893 to succeed Arthur P. German. On March 4, last, he was succeeded by Isidore Rainer. Democrat. His main service in the Senate was on two com mittees, education and labor, of which he was chairman and advocated an eight hour law on government work. and on the committee on the judiciary. Mir. McComas was always faithful adherent of the administration of both Mckinley and Roosevelt. He is re- warded for knowing This masters crib"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
OFFICERS ELECTED.
United Commercial Travellers Clos
 Session at Meridian.

Meridian. Miss. May 2o.-The United Commercial Travellers completed the work of the grand council here this evening in selecting Vicksburg as the next place of meeting. and the election of officers for the ensuing year as fol- lows:
 Ed. Valloft, New Orleans, Grand Counsellor; Z R. Lawhorn. Shreveport, Junior Counsellor; Sol Brown, Natchez, Grand Past Counsellor; Charles Tap pino, Junior Grand Past Counsellor, New Orleans; Secretary. E. M. Funk, Monroe: Grand Treasurer. Gully Small shap, Meridian; Grand Conductor. R. D. L. Murphy, Vicksburg; Grand Page, Fred Vicaud. New Orleans; Grand Sem tinel Executive Committee: T. V. Wen sel. Natchez; J. c. Abel. Shreveport; H. M. Colbert. Monroe: Sidney w. Wen zler, Vicksburg. The evening was closed with a banquet for which covers were laid for 300 persons. at which Congressman John Sharpe Williams responded to the toast Our Southern Homes" Governor Vardaman was listed for a speech but was un- avoidably detained at home by the ill., ness of Mrs. Vardaman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
PrInceton the NNinner.

New York. May 20.--Princeton' Ath- letes had little difficulty in overcoming at Williams Bridge today. winning by the score of 65 Ia points to sS Ia. Columbia was especially weak In the three places in the shot put, first two in the hammer throw and pole vault and first and third in both high and broad jumps.
 Taylor of Columbia won the prettiest race of the day, the half mile, overtak- ing Williams, the Princeton's star on the home stretch. In the 220 yard dash Columbia's runners came to the front and Knakal and Bull captured first and second places Although Armstrong got the 120 yards hurdles for Princeton, win Muir Of Columbia, second. Muir turned the tables In the 22O yards hurdles. beating Armstrong; out by pretty spurt to the tApA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-21
FEDERATED MUSICIANS.
Director Damrosch of New York is
 Suafainea.

OiECCE0E U0mE0BGh OA NCW hVA@ "
 Sustained.
 Detroit May 20.--At today's sessions of the American Federation or Musi- clans the report of the executive ooaru sustaining Director Walter Damrosch of the New York symphony Orchestra in the case which 1t was charged that he had imported three foreign rnusi- q.rn prasident weber. of the federation. WAS directed to go to New York at once and try to reach an understand ing between Director Damrosch ana the New locals. By a practically unanimous vote the delegates voted to recommend the adoption of universal uniform for all members of the feder- ation.
 After an animated debate in which 1t was stated that one band director had been known to make contract for ninety-nine years. rule was adopted prohibiting members of the federation from making contracts to run longer than one year. Long con tracts, 1t was urged, virtually pre- vented the federation from having any control of the rates charged.
 The question of accepting the oner of the business men of Mattoon, lii, of a sixteen acre site for the erection of a home for aged musicians was re-. ferred hack to the local unions for referendum vote. The. referendum vote was also adopted for settling the ques- tion of a universal initiation fee. The resolution referred back to the unions calls for A universal initiation fee of S5 unrestricted as to cards of trans fer from one jurisdiction to another.