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The Washington times., 1906-03-29

with those agencies which have for
their object the establishment OF the
highest ideals of citizenship. These
are the standards which have so far
governed his course as president of
the Board of District Commissioners
and they may confidently be expect
ed to control his course in the term
now spread before him.
By reappointing him, or by de-
termining to Ieappoint him-as in
the case of the other Commissioners
the President gives the community
the advantage of Mr.. Macfarland's s
now thorough knowledge of District
affairs. He mas been two terms in
office-six years. A new Commits
sioner must have spent at least a
year in learning the mere routine.
Mr.. Macfarland is not only able to
proceed with confidence in his own
information, but to continue policies
which will require years to perfect,
and which any newcomer to the
board might interrupt only too
easily
There is much hard work ahead
for the Commissioners. The oppor-
tunity for the right kind of initiative
on their part is great. 1t is fortunate
for the District, therefore, that men
OF experience, who have been proven
worthy of all trust, are to remain in
charge
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
M0T0RMAN SAVES CAR
BY DASHiNG INTO GATE

CHESTER, Pa, March .. = The
presence of mind of Motorman Robert
News saved many passengers from
disaster this morning at the Twelfth
street crossing of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad
The conductor OF the car signaled the
motorman TO cross the tracks. He start
ed the car. which was crowded with
passengers. and when on the middle of
the crossing the heavy. gates closed
down. inclosing the trolley. An express
train was only half a square distant,
bearing down.
News opened the motor wide and
crashed Though the gate The loco
motive of the train grazed the rear
platform.
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MOTHER TAKES STAND
FOR BOXING MATCHES
Cleveland Woman ResentS Interference
of Police at Show by Two
Small Sons.

CLEVELAND. March 29.-'BOxing is
the best thing in the world for boys.
II develops them and teaches them 10
defend themselves" Such was the
opinion of glove contests expressed by
a calm hammered woman at her home
on East Oregon avenue.
She is Mrs. Henry Cooter, whose sons,
Edward. aged eight, and Raymond, ten,
were engaged in a fstic exhibition at
the Oasis Club rooms in Seventeenth
street, when the police arrested their
father and twenty-seven others present.
Mr.. Cooter and myself often have a
friendly bout with the gloves ourselves. -
yentured Mrs. Cooter. but he generally
gets the best Of it." Mrs. COoter was
indignant at the action OF the police.
"If the police would pay more atten-
ton to boys around street corners who
insult passersby instead of making raids
we would be better off, she said
The opinion Of Judge Fielder, an
nounced in police court, practically coin
cides with that of Mrs. Cooter regard
ing boxing.
He stuck a pedestal under glove fight
ing, called il a manly art, and gave il
his official sanction. He dismissed the
members of the Oasis Club under arrest
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
KIT CARSON POST, G. A. r.,
CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

The celebration of the thirty-ninth an,
niversary of Kit Carson Post, No. 2, De-
partment of the Potomac, G. A R., al
the headquarters of that organization
last night was a most enjoyable affair.
The address of welcome was made by
c. S. Wilder, commander of the post, and
the Rev. George Bailey paid high tribute
to the valor Of the American soldiers and
10 the success and career of Kit Carson
Post, No. 2
Among those who contributed 20 the
musical and literary success of the en-
tertainment were W. H. Schoitz. Miss
Laura Collision, Arthur E. Middleton,
George H Liliibridge. Miss Mary Buford
Smith, Mrs Mary Z. s. Gee and Mrs.
E v. WILCOX.
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FIRE PLUGS ALONG PENNSY
TO FIGHT TRAIN BlAZES

ALTOONA. Pa. March 29.-In eornec-
ton with its great water supply sys-
tenn between Pittsburg and New York
the Pennsylvania railroad viii install
fireplugs along its main line al regular
intervals
When the system is compleIsd il "
said that every caboose attached 10 q
freight train viii be equipped with
sections OF hose, and the railroad n.ea
viii be enabled 20 fight fires at places
where no fire departments are estab-
lished.
The fire equipment for each crew will
be complete. and the men win be drilled
in the new duty. The railroad has OBJ
tained almost a monopoly OF the water
supply along its lines in the western
part Of the State.
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ments and the chief clerks who are or
ought 90 be brought into daily contact
with their sEbordinates that they should
Pay more attention 10 this matter Of
comfort and health. The most sensible
law that could be passed in nv opinion
would be 10 segrega1e the clerks, put
ting the siekly. delicate ones AZ any age
age OF sixty and over, partIcl,IarIv
those who cannot stand the circulate
OF pure, fresh air at all times OF the
year tit matters not how low the ther-
rnometer may have dropped into rooms
% themselves. and the healthy clerks
TO themselves.
1 have heard this matter often dis
cussed oy my friends and acqUaint-
ances IN the different departments. they
complaining bitterly that one or two or
tnree old men or women, and some
tlmes eocsumptivs young clerks haze
inoncpOlized the seats nearest the win
torture by being bottled up in over
heated, foul smelling rooms because
IneSe old and delicate people cannot
stane a breath Of fresh air II would
De wise law 10 have each building put
IN charge OF people thoroughly ac-
qualnted with hygienic laws whose duty
II would be 10 visit or have visited
every room under their supervision at
working days
Under the head OF Worn Out Clerks. 80
an article appearing in your paper the
18th Inst, and signed Edmund Ran
dolph,' he says: 1T Is now forty years
since ApDOmattOx and their tIhe old
clerksl sons and grandsOns have gone
into the service to say nothing Of their
sisters, their cousins. and tfeir aunts -
He might have said, that at this pres
cnt time there are whole families now
IN the Government employ He also
mentions that many OF them have for
years drawn large war pensions in ad-
citton 70 their salaries and are TODAY
ooing 80: Why doesn't the Keep Com
mission look into this? They win find
very little trouble in substantiating
these facts.
AN EX-DEPARTMENT CLERK.
March q
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Charles w. Atchinson and Minnie II.
Rose, both of Linnville, Va
John W. Simmons, Linnville. Va. and
Lucy l.. Rosenberger, Troy, Ohio.
Randolph NJ. Baldwin. District of Co
lumbia, and Sadie Z. Elliott, Marshall.
Nd.
John r. Holmes, of Galveston. Tex
and Virginia McC. Steale, MiIlerbrook'
Va.
Landon Toliver and May Walker.
Benjamin Garrett and Maud z
Sweeney, both of Toano, Va
j. Thomas Parks, Wichita, Kan. and
Blanche Graham, District Of Columbia.
James W. Still and Bette z. Vaughan.
James NJ. Brooke, District of Colum.
bia. and Edna NJ. Taylor, College Park,
Md
Allen ]. Green and Catherine Harrison
Pleasant Hill and Ollie Broduo.
William s. Gray and Harriet "
Driver.
George Mcdonald and Bette Gray.
Walter Sisson and Edith F. Swami
both of Alexandria, Va.
Lafe Bloch, New York city. and Mary
n. Hinchman, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Sense as to Manufactures.

No one who has given intelligent
attention to the proposition to en-
courage the establishment of manu-
factures in the District of Columbia
VIII find any great fault with the
report adopted last night by the
Board of Trade The key to it is the
sensible proposition that if the
natural advantages of the community
do not tempt manufactures the grant
Of artificial advantages will not OBJ
tain any worth having.
Proceeding ON that basis. the COM
mittee on commerce and manufac-
lures emphasizes the present manu-
featuring Importance of Washington.
That phrase present manufacturing
Importance is not sarcasm. 1t is a
statement of a fact unknown even
to residents of the Capital who are
well informed on other matters. For
according to the committee-there
is more money invested in manufac-
lures here in Washington, now, than
In Indianapolis, Denver, Kansas City,
st. Paul, Syracuse, Lowell, and half
a dozen other cities of equal COM
mercial prestige
IL other manufactures are to be
brought to the District it must be by
virtue of the advantages which have
produced those already in operation
here.
An exceptional home market. es-
pecially for supplies used by the Ma
tional Government.
Exceptional railroad facilities for
shipment either North or South.
Tide water shipping facilities open
all the year around.
Water power of great value.
Available sites at low cost.
All these inducements are COM
bined in districts removed from the
residential sections and none of them
are to be found in residential sec
tions. So, it is the committees judg-
ment that the limiting of the area
for the establishment of new manu-
factories has been already accom-
plished.
The board has voted to maintain
a special permanent committee for
the purpose Of presenting these nat
ural advantages to the attention OF
non-residents. That committee is to
prepare a suitable statement Of those
advantages in book form for distri-
button through profitable channels
and that book, together with folders
to be inserted with business letters,
special envelopes, and other devices
for reaching business men, is expect
ed to disseminate the special claim
of the Capital on manufacturers. II
that claim is founded in practical ad-
vantages, such a campaign may be
expected to yield results in proper
ton to the energy with which it is
conducted. If that claim is not
founded in practical advantages, no
other campaign would yield results
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=" In the Name of the People.

In his able speech on the rate
question Senator Knox, arguing for
an amendment to the Hepburn bill
specifically grantinga review by the
courts, used these words:
Judicial review of every sub
stantial controversy affecting per-
sons and property is a right. This
right was painfully won from the
tyrannies of the past, and is estab-
lished now beyond the power of any
present tyrannies to destroy, in
whatever guise they may come. and
even if masquerading in the name
Of the people"
With the concluding phrase, Sen
ator Lodge smiled; Senator Foraker
smiled broadly, and Senator Aldrich
not only smiled with unconcealed
pleasure, but nodded his head in ap-
proval. Why?
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ALL KNEW OF WEDDING
BUT FATHER OF BRIDE

PLAINFIELD. n. J.. March q
Carefully preserving the secret of their
marriage for over a year. despite the
friendships which both have with a large
circle in Plainfeld and westfield. Miss
Emma Ortleb. Of Westield, and William
h Callahan. Of Plainheld. have an
nounced that fact. and are receiving the
congratulations Of their friends.
The pair were married March Is. 1905.
and the ceremony was performed by the
Rev Father Reilly. of WestfieId Both
have lived at their respective homes. as
usual. since then. but now win 20 10
housekeeping at Netherwood.
II was known 10 her mother bur not
20 her rather. and the young mla =
parents knew OF il: but further than
that they had kept il 70 themselves
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Tariff Revision Buncombe,

For some time it has been conced-
ed that there would be no attempt to
revise the tariff at this session of
Congress. In fact, il the bill remOv-
ing the internal revenue tax on de-
natured alcohol we're passed by Con-
gress, it would be little short of a
miracle. Nevertheless, with the Con-
gressional elections coming on, it was
necessary that a funeral Grafton
should be pronounced over the hopes
of the reyisionists.
The Hon. Serene E. Payne, chair
man of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, has performed
that function. His "open letter" was
addressed 10 the Hon. Samuel W.
Mccall, a Representative from Mass
achusetts, and a member of the Ways
and Means Committee. The last Re-
publican platform Of Massachusetts
had urged the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the State ito press
upon their party associates in Con-
gress from other States the wisdom
of a consideration of the tariff for
the purpose of revision and read
justment." Representative Mccall
has followed the dictates of the plat
form, as Chairman Payne bears Wit
ness.
The Payne letter was probably
written to save the Massachusetts,
Representative harmless from the
wrath of the people of their State.
II is of little value otherwise, ex-
cept TO show how difficult is the task
of obtaining any revision of the
tariff. The chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee does not indf-
cate when Congress will De able ''to
review the tariff schedules in that
calm, judicial frame of mind so
necessary to the preparation of a
tariff act" Certainly it will not be
in the short session of the Fifty
ninth Congress. Certainly it will
not be in the Congress directly pre-
ceding the Presidential election: that
is contrary to all rules, for the dis
.rrbance to business following a
change in the tariff would be likely
TO sweep the Republican party out
of power
Meantime, the Democrats, particu-
larly those Of the Senate, do not
seem to be particularly concerned
about revision of the tariff. Is it
not true that protective tariff ideas
are becoming more and more COM
mon in the South? All Of which goes
to prove the wisdom voiced by a
Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, who has been forgotten by
many. General Hancock was not far
wrong when he declared the tariff
10 be a local issue"
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
FIFTEEN ACRES SWEPT
BY DISASTROUS FIRE
One OF Largest Lumber Plants in the
Country, at Philadelphia,
Burned Down.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March y
Fifteen acres Of ground laid waste.
l2.Ooc.oO0 feet OF mahogany, walnut.
spruce, and other valuable lumber totally
destroyed, and a money loss OF nearly
half million dollars is the net result o.
the spectacular FIRE OF last night ana
early this morning, which completely de
stroyed the lumber plant and stock of J
Gibson McIlvaine & Co. the largest es-
tablishment Of its kind in the United
States
Furthermore the Ioss OF this lumber
VIII surely hamper many building oper-
auons here and elsewhere.
II is now believed that the fire nav
have been Of incendiary origin
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Commissioner MacfarIand.

The Presidents purpose to reap
point Mr. Macfarland Commissioner
of the District assures to the COM
nunity the continuation of the pres
Mt board of administrators. This
well for the District The services
these three men-Mr. Macfarland,
:. West, and Colonel Biddle-have
en- almost general satisfaction and
lie the District government more
stical, more progressive, and in
ways more effective than ever ii
nbeen before.
to Mr.. Mcfarland personally,
main of the Capital through his
sere has been great. He has al
"a,been actively a good citizen.
Hls Is been consistently identified
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
EAR TABS NOT WORN
IN NEW SOUTH WALES
While Washington Went About in Furs Welsh Folk Have
Been Sweltering Beneath Summer SunS-Hot
Enough for Sunstrokes.

While Washington people the past
four months have been enjoying Tor
the most part, practically semi-tropl-
cal winter. inhabitants OF New south
Wales have been experiencing the hot
test summer within the memory OF lhe
"oldest inhabiSant" The few Washlng-
ton people who thought 1t a little TOO
chilly here this winter, with the tenn
Derature seldom below freezing for any
period Of time, and sought the balmy,
sun-warmed springs of Florida, would
have found the opposite extreme 70
such an extent as has seldom been
known In any part of America had they
gone down the Pacific to this section
of Australia, which during this perloo
has been almost directly under the SUM-
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UNHEALTHY CONDITION
IN THE DEPARTMENTS
Old Clerks Monopolize Seats Near Win
dows, Which They Refuse to Open,
Shutting Out Fresh Air.

To the Editor Of The washington Times:
A great injustice win be done the old
and superannuated clerks IN the diff
ferent Government departments TO dis
miss them at a fixed age period There
are many clerks employed In the de-
partments who are more active and do
more and better work at the age OF
sixty-hve than many who are ten years
their junior.
There is one thing that / have no
uced which applies almost without ex-
ception TO the clerks who have passed
this Is, their horror Of fresh air in the
rooms Their long service has enabled
them TO secure the best seats in the
rooms next to or near the windows.
AS age creeps on they are more sus-
ceptible 10 cold than their younger
companions. They will not allow the
windows 10 be opened. nor viii they ex-
change seats with the younger men
and women who are only too anxious 70
get a breath of fresh air occasionally.
This matter is far more serious than al
first sight it appears to be. Speaking
from my own experience, 1 have left
my Office many and many a day suffer
ing from violent headache and some
times nausea from having had TO
breathe air that was so foul that com
ing from the corridors which are well
ventilated into my room I could detect
the disagreeable odor that is so un-
mistakable from air that has been
breathed and rebreathed for hours by
people in a crowded room
There are many strong and healthy
men and women who go into the Gov
ernment service and suffer intensely
for years and years simply from this
cause.
II seems to me that common sense
should teach the heads of the depart
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
IOWA DRUNKS OvERcR0WD
HOME FOR INEBRIkTES

DIES MONIES, Iowa, March Stand
ing room only is the sign that has been
hung out at the magnificent hospital for
inebriates which has recently opened at
Knoxville Within period of fifty days
the institution was filed to overfiowIng
This is a result of the Iowa inebSiate
law which permits relatives to have a
drunkard take the State jag cure by
merely telling their troubles TO the dis
rrict fudge. The Judge then commits the
drunkard to the State hospital until
cured.
District judges have been notified TO
commit no more drunkards to the insti-
tuition except upon receipt of special
card from the superintendent apprising
them that there is q vacancy.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
An Authority on Rebates.

Andrew Carnegie, according to a
report, was asked if large shippers
do not receive rebates in violation
Of law. And the iron master is said
TO have replied:
Il have retired from business. |
don't know what they are getting
now / think the great evil
is rebates"
Not now" but once upon a time.
Carnegie ought to know what the
great evil' is.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29

In report 20 the State Department.
Consul F. w. Godings, consul at New
castle, states that on two days in jan
uary.. the temperature reached 120. and
that between December Is and January
25, the temperature was lower than 100
but seven times. This was at the town
of Bourke. in the interior. While the
temperature has not been so high on
the sea coast. Consul Cooling states that
there has been extreme suffering, the
worst feature being the enervating in
fiuence.
The average temperature for this
period in 1866 was l07-34 degrees, which
at that time was the highest on record
This has nov been exceeded, the aver
age temperaJ u-e this summer for the
period mentioned being 10S.06. 1t is pre-
sumed that this average is based on the
temperature for twenty-four hours of
each day.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
SOCIETY PEOPLE
WATCH THE RACES
Large Contingent Visits
Benning Each Afternoon.
THE EVENING PROGRAM
Teas and MusicaIes Are Still Much in
Vogue, Quite Number Being
Scheduled.

While the largest contingent OF So
eiety devotes its afternoons TO a trip TO
the races, many people return early
enough to drIp by the various small
teas Of musicales, and even keep up din,
ner giving TO a small extent
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth have
their usual list of guests invited to a
musicale tonight Representative William
y. Mckinley is entertaining the Foreign
Relations Committee at dinner. Mr.. and
Mrs. Spalding are entertaining In the
same manner. and Mr.. and Mrs. Chatard
are also among the dinner hosts for the
evening.
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THE MAIN THING

Our dog is but a bag of bones, the cat
is starved to death,
And scarcely has the energy to draw its
feline breath.
1t matters not for all of these since
now throughout our fat
The fat has gone forth that ma must
have an Easter hat.
The butcher may go hang himself, like
wise the baker, too:
The landlord and installment man and
others Of the crew.
Twill do them good to wait a while,
we're quite aware of that
The main thing is that ma will have a
brand new Easter hat
Unidentified.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29
MRS. ROOSEVELT OFF
FOR SOUTHERN TOUR
Accompanied by Children Presidents Wife Starts for
Fernandna Where She Will Board the Mayflower
Probably to Cruise in Cuban Waters

Mrs. Roosevelt left Washington this
morning accompanied by three OF her
children, Miss Ethel, Archibald and
Quentin, and will go by rail directly &c
Fernandina, Fla There she Will board
the Mayflower. which preceded her from
here by more than week, and will
spend some time in cruising in Southern
waters. Mrs. Roosevelt may go TO Ha-
vana and stop at other interesting
points, but her cruise Is entirely for the
purpose OF rest and recuperation and
she will not be entertained. nor viii she
entertain at any point where she stops
The Mayflower was ordered South sew
eral days ago and according TO advices
received at the Navy Department. is
now awaiting Mrs Roosevelt and her
little party off the Florida coast. II
is not likely that Mrs. Roosevelt will
spend more thar -wo or three days in
Cuba and Will init her journeyings
there TO short excursions about Havana
and its suburbs under the escort CT
the American minister.
1t is Mrs. Roosevelt's desire to visit
Havana entirely without ceremony. and
she viii go there officially incognita-
that Is the Cuban government Will have
no formal knowledge OF her presence
and all functions of an official character
will, therefore. be barred.
Baron Won dem Busschs-Hadden-
hansen. counselor of the German en-
bassy. who was 90 have left the Capital
for New York yesterday preparatory 10
sailing for Europe. has been detained
here by the illness of Baroness Won dem
Bussche- he-HaddeRhausen, who Is now un-
der the care of trained nurse She is
suffering from malarial fever. The baron
telegraphed to New York TO have his
baggage held. 1t is reported that the
baron will not return TO Washington.
but will be assigned to some other dip
lomatic post in line of promotion.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs Metcalf have as their guest
The Washington times., 1906-03-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler Hale are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth Of
son, who will be named Eugene Hale.
third, for his paternal grandfather, the
Senator from Maine. Mr. and Mrs.
Hale, the latter formerly Miss Rachel
Cameron, a daughter of ex-senator
Cameron of PENNSYLVANIA, have recently
returned to Washington from a five
years residence abroad, where Mr.
first in Rome, and later in Vienna.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29

The following Washington people are
visiting in New York today:
A. Bierce, G. II. BirdsaH. J. CantwelI
Mrs. A B. Cooper. ]. 3. Derrick, J. M
Fowler, A. G. Heaton. A. f. Lucas, r
w. Deveresuy w. l. Francis, W. Ken
dali, e M. Mahl- c. NJ. Barton e G.
Williams, G. w. Browning. w l.
Crounse, r. Daingerfield, Miss c. III
Fields, n. GuliSk. ]. Halliday, H. Ham
mond, F. r. Hanna, S. Land. c. D
Langhorne, s. A. Morris, w. H Scho,
field, l. c. Witkousky
The Washington times., 1906-03-29

Mrs William GrOsvenOr. Of Providence
+. l., who came 10 Washington 10 at
tend the funeral of George LcthroI
Bradley, at noon yesterday, left the
city last evening for her home.
The Washington times., 1906-03-29

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins mas invited
guests from to to meet Mrs. H NJ.
Clabaugh. Mrs. Hodgkins,f as chairman
of the committee to help entertain dur
ing the meeting of the Grand Arch
Council Of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity,
has invited the women of the families of
The Phi Kappa Psi alumni 20 meet Mrs.
Clabaugh.