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The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Broadhurst Warned White
Against Evil of His Way

NEW YORK, March 2-"Stan. this
ought to be a warning to you"
These were the prophetic words
uttered by George Broadhurst TO Stan
ford White as the curtain fell on the
little drama entitled "As a Man Sows."
They were spoken a little more than
a year before the tragedy on the Madi-
son Square Roof Garden that ended in
White being shot by Harry Thaw.
White, Broadhurt, Stephen Roach, and
other prominent men. had attended the
annual Lambs gambOl. as the yearly
celebration Of the Lambs Club is called.
The play was put on especially for this
occasion at the Lyric Theater in May,
1905.
The tragedy that was seen in the
playlet practically was a forerunner Of
the Thaw-White Staying. An elderly
man wronged a girl, and afterward she
married a young man Of wealth and
prominence. Later the old man tried
again TO get the young wife into his
clutches.
After a highly dramatic scene the hus-
band becomes incensed to the verge OF
madness and draws a pistol with the
intention OF killing the man who had
wronged his wife. Before he could pull
the trigger he was saved from being a
murderer by a providential stroke OF
apoplexy which attacked the old man
and left him dead at the feet of the
husband and wife. AS the curtain fell
on the dramatic climax, Broadhurst
turned to White with the remark:
"Stan, this ought to be a warning to
you
When Mr.. Broadhurst was questioned
today he admitted the truthfulness OF
the story
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

Cuthbert. who was accidentally shot
dead by her husband while out shooting
with him. must be added TO the long
list of peers children who have met
death in the game coverts. She was
the daughter OF the Earl of STAFFORD.
a clergyman peer. and her husband Is
Captain Cuthbert. OF the Scots Guards.
Fatality in the hunting field seems 10
be attached to the heirs TO Scottish
peerages. The Earl Of Dalkeith. heir to
the Buccleuch dukedom. accidentally and
fatally shot himself few eyars ago
In one OF his fathers deer forests. The
Marquis OF Lothian's heir, Lord An
crum, met a similar death in New Zea-
land
Another Scottish peers son. Lord Kel-
head. heir 70 the Queensberry marquis
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Woman Robbed
In Capitol Lot
By Bold Negro

Mrs. Ellen pore. housekeeper at ths
Burton Hotel. 226 North Capitol street,
and living at 3042 NJ street northwest,
was coming through the Capitol grounds
shortly after 8 O'Clock last evening,
when a negro rushed uD behind her, and
snatched pocketbook from her hand.
The colored man ran toward First street
northwest, and jumped on an ash cart
The pOcketbook contained $50 Mrs.
PoOre described her assailant as a
brown skinned negro about twenty years
old. He was shabbily dressed.
At least one case Of this character
has occurred in this city every Saturday
evening for several months past. Two
weeks ago Mrs. George T. Dunlop. wife
Of the president of the Capital Traction
Company, was returning 10 her home,
when negro showed her TO the pave
ment directly IN front of her own resi-
dence, and snatched a pOcketboOok from
her hand.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
White Once Denied
Epelyn's Charges

NEW YORK. March 2-Stanford
White wrote denial and a repudiation
of the accusations against him which
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw says she told Harry
Thaw in Paris the night he urged her
TO marry him. This document is printed
today for the first time.
The letter was written to Miss Vera
Simonton, formerly a close friend and
confident Of Harry Thaw and his wife
Miss Simonton would have been called
as an important witness for the prosecu
ton. had she not betaken herself. di-
rectly after the Staying of White to
South Africa. where she is at present.
Without her presence, to Identify the
letter. it will be impossible for the dis
trict attorney to read into the record
Of the Thaw trial
The letter which is typewritten. bears
the initials OF Stanford White, penned
by himself and is as follows:
February g. 1904
Dear Miss Simonton-
1 duly received your -ttter. but as the
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
Send Than to Asylum
Is NOw JerOme'S Plan

matter you speak about is one entirely
between Evelyn and yourself and about
as / have hardly seen EveiSn for the
past two months, / do not see how L
can be of any service.
Although you have a perfect right 10
ask for your photographs. as Evelyn
could not be held responsible here for
what she did abroad. l hardly think IL
would be wise for you to make this a
condition before returning the things
Evelyn and Mrs Nesbit left with you
AS for the other matter you mention.
the story you brought back from Paris
was too grotesquely absurd to have
other than a natural death, and when
EVELYN returned l put the whole thing
out OF my mind. / trust. therefore that
you Will not trouble yourself to come
down and make an explanation which
has become wholly unnecessary.
Yours truly, S. W.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
DIDN'T GET INTEREST,
ASKS FOR RECEIVER

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. March Be
cause of default in the payment of in
terest on $S00,6O0 bonds. application was
made today by William j. Ramsey, of
Cincinnati. for a receiver for the Wash
ington Traction Company, which owns
the Springfield and Charleston Inter
urban line.
1t is alleged the bonds were issued un-
der a mortgage, that part of them have
been used in paying off obligations. and
that the company has failed to pay the
interest, amounting to 5000
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
COURAGE
SHAMES POLICEMAN

BFI.MAR. y. J.. March Mrs JO-
seph shay. armed with a club. chased
a man from her henhouse while Police
man Howard Parker watched her gro
cery store
Parker was looking for chicken thieves
and noticed a figure stealthily approach
Mrs. Shay's chicken house
He notified her, and said he would
stay in her store while she caught the
intruder She did not catch him, but
made him drop several chickens.
Today she had Harry Cottrell arrest
ed, identifying him rs the intruder,
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
GIFTS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Joseph Lee, of Boston, gives annually
$4,000 in charity among Boston chit
dren. Since his graduation from the
Harvard law school as young man. his
hobby has been that Of spending his
money and doing good in the many ways
in which only a devotee to the cause of
public philanthropy can.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03

ate. was killed in the same way in SOM
ersetshire. where he was on a visit TO
the uncle OF his hancee.
Lady Dorothy Cuthbert's death is the
first instance Of a society woman being
shot dead, but many noble sportswomen
have had accidents in the hunting field.
The beautiful young Duchess OF West
Minister (who was Miss Constance Corn
WalliS-WesO Is now laid up seriously
injured by a nasty fall. The Marchion-
eSs Of HeadfOrt. formerly Rosie Boote.
Of the Gayety Theater. is still laid uD
as the result of a bad hunting accident,
and some time before her death the late
Countess Of Clancarty Belle Billion. an
other Gayety girD was seriously injured
while following the hounds
Lady Dorothy Cuthbcrt. OF Beaufort
Castle, Northumberland was killed
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NO RUM OR NARCOTICS
FOR DISTRICT MINORS

The House. At > O'Clock this morning,
agreed TO the Senate amendment bill
prohibiting the sale or procurement Of
liquors for minors in the
District of Columbia. The Senate
amended the bill so as 10 make the
prOhibilOn apply 10 any narcotics.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
GIRL IN LONG TRANCE
PERFECTLY CONSCIOUS

NEW BRUNSWICK. y. J.. March p
Miss May COnover, who fell in a trance
after a fire in her home awoke after two
days. saying she had been fully con-
scious Of all that was happening about
her, but was powerless to move
Miss Conover found that an exploding
lamp had fred the house She screamed,
ran 20 her room and fell fainting.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
OVATION FOR GR0SVEN0R
AND A PUBLIC BUILDING

General GrosvenOr. who retires at the
end Of this Congress after service or
forty years in the House. was given an
ovation and a public building thrown IN
by that body early this morning He
obtained unanimous consent for the pas
sage of a bill for a public building in
his district although il had rot been re-
ported by the Committee on Public
buildings and Grounds. After he Sot
the measure through he was loudly ap-
Plauded-
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
MADDEN RESIGNS
FROM POSTOFFIGE

I. was officially announced this morn
ing that Third Assistant Postmaster
General Edwin c. Madden. OF Detroit,
had rendered his resignation, and that
Abraham L. Lawshe. Of Indiana, has
been selected to succeed him
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
TO REMOVE PHIL KEARNEY.

An attempt will be made by the Phil
KearnCy association Of Newark to have
the body of the noted patriot moved
from its present resting place in Trinity
churchyard. New York city. to the Ma
tional Cemetery at Arlington. Va.
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
GOVERNOR WINTHROP
SUCCEEDS STATTER

II was officially announced at midnight
last night that Beekman Winthrop OF
New York, now governor OF Porto Rico
has accepted the position Of Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury
The Washington times., 1907-03-03
PRINCETON WHIPS coRNELL.

PRINCETON. y. J., March Prince
ton basketball team defeated Cornell
here tonight by 81 TO IS
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went of. The charge entered Lady
Dorothy's head. death being instantane-
Gus. X is only four years ago that Lady
Dorothy was married To Captain Cuth-
bart, D. S. o. She was only twelty-six
years Of age
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while pheasant shooting. The unfOrtU-
nate lady was the victim OF the acci-
dental discharge Of "a gun carried by
her husband 1t appears that in turn
ing, the trigger Of Captain Cuthbert's
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New-York tribune., 1907-11-28
GIFT TO BE4UX ARTS.
Of $4,000 to Fund for
Paris Prise for architects.

Lloyd Warren. president Of the Society OF Beaux
Arts Architects. announced yesterday that the So
ciety had received gift OF 500 600 from Mrs Goe-
let. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Mrs f{ichard
Auchmuty and W. X Vanderbilt This Will en-
able the society to create fund to defray the ex-
penses OF the Paris prize. This. conducted by the
society gives 10 the winner. by the authorization
OF the French government, the privileges OF fol-
lowing the lectures and OF taking part In the com
petition Of the first class in architecture at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts, OF Paris. He must. how
ever, have already successfully pursued studies
corresponding to those prescribed in the second
class OF that institution for which condition he
Will he allowed six months to qualify. The win
uer. moreover receives stipend Of $50 quarterly
which should last two and half years.
Competitors for this prize must be under twenty
seven years or age July I. 1905. There will be
two preliminary sketch competitions and a final
competition March = April and May 16. re-
spectively. The prize is open TO all Americans in
dependently Of their conenction with the Society
of Beaux Arts Architects.
This privilege Of the Paris prize has been en-
ioyed by the society for four years The three
students who have already been sent abroad re-
Ceived 5000 each winning the Paris prize
These paid by Andrew Carnegie J.
Pierpont Morgan and a. y. Juiliard. respectively.
With its fund OF 10000 the society can send
a student 10 Paris every three years. allowing him
$500 and hopes to raise $4,000 more 10 send
student to Paris every year.
The first student sent out, George a. LIGHT dis
tinguished himself in every way and stood AT the
head OF his class. The two men now in Paris are
said by Mr.. Warren TO he likewise doing TemaTka-
bly, good work. At the last competition of the
Ecole des Beaux Arts of them, Mr.. WynkoOp
was ranked first. and his junior Mr. Hirous. was
ranked closely after him. both receiving first
medals.
The Society of Beaux Arts Architects has estab-
lshed a course OF study for architectural drafts
men, modelled the system OF the Ecole des
Arts with the intention of cultivating among
these the principles OF their art which the members
OF the society have learned in Paris.
Any group of students may choose master under
whom they wish 10 study, and. under the auspices
of the society. exhibit their work in competition
with other groups of students studying under other
masters. y jury drawn from the members of the
society will judge the work exhibited and give
awards to the drawings which merit them.
1t IS not the object OF the society at present 10
provide a complete course In architecture. this
IS done by several universities, but prepare
craftsmen In offices that they shall be familiar with
the general principles OF architectural composition
In plan and in decoration and have a sufficient
kowedge of archaeology, or the study OF styles, to
enable them TO discriminate between the different
epochs OF design
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28
4 BEAST or BURDEN.

The donkey as the Democratic partys emblem
needs no defence from Mr.. Bryan. 1t is just the
animal for the party, and in saying SO we wish
to be understood making no ribald alIusiOn
to the prevalent but erroneous popular notion
about the creatures intellectual capacity. Com
pairing the two as beasts Of burden, we believe
the donkey is vastly superior to the elephant
and the Democratic animal has need to be- for
the elephant has never been subjected 10 such
trying load as Organism. If the camel had
been chosen as an emblem by the PrOhibitionists
because of his well authenticated capacity for
going dry it would have been no happier choice
than the Democracy's adoption Of the most pa
tient and enduring Of all the beasts of burden
In mans service.
Mr. Bryan says that the donkey is always
Serving the people" That, too. is an enco-
MUM deserved by the Democratic donkey
The beast Of burden serves his master by car
rying the load that would otherwise have to be
supported upon his shoulders. Could the Dem
ocratic donkey have performed any greater ser
vice To the people than by bearing patiently
upon its back that load of Organism which they
might perhaps otherwise have had to carry?
1t has been severe strain for the donkey but
think where the people would have been if the
burden had been on their back instead?
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28
CO-nPERATITE KOAFLNG

Having been thwarted by fate in his inter
esting test of cooperative housekeeping Mr..
Upton Sinclair is now ready to dare destiny
with a new cooperative scheme, whose sue
cess is already assured by IFS Neolithic sim
plcity Mr. Sinclair and his admirers are going
10 return TO nomad life, starting from Battle
Creek Mich. the worlds centre for mental
derelicts, and wandering thence up and down
the earth with wagons and tents, Just like real
gypsjes. According 10 the instigator of this
gambol, those who participate in It will escape
all the troubles Of cooperative housekeeping
that vexed them now and then at Helicon Hall:
there viii be neither plumbers nor carpenters,
neither steam heating, taxes nor fires to distract
the wanderers from their sweet idleness. To
make worry over prOsac things utterly impos-
slble there will be provided maids for the
ladies. goTernesses for the children and a
stenographer for the literary clansmen. Thus
emancipated, the merry band will have solved
the great problem of cooperative Ioafing.
Cooperative lunacyp' erclaims somebody.
Perhaps. but that's not the important feature
Of the new venture. Mr.. Sinclair ct al. are rem
dering the world a distinct service by bringing
back into popular esteem that grand old prac-
tice OF frittering away ones life in aimless,
effOrtless amusement and laziness. Since the
appearance OF tramps on the public high
ways and the idle rich in the columns of sem
sational journals, lOafing has been classed by
the moralists under the same ethical head with
arson; having time to burn is considered
priDG fdcie evidence Of variety of lncendia-
rism. The prejudice against Incidence is i'll
founded. for there are many people who ought
90 loaf. both for their own sakes and for that
of the public. More than few reformers, for
instance. need the rest cure, and several much
niouthed literary geniuses who turn the cries
OF reformers into negotiable Ms. would greatly
relieve readers in two hemispheres by taking to
The woods for a decade or two. They need
Furthermore Just the variety Of indolence that
the Heicon Hall on wheels can offer them. II
mus be indeenee unsHllied by rude contact
with the real world; Incidence. in sllnrt that
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28
PHILIPPINE FANTASIES.

The recent meeting at Faneuil Hall in the
alleged interest of the Filipinos was marked
with much confusion and diversity of counsels
and chiefly impressed the observer with sense
OF the good fortune of the Filpinos in having
their real interests committed to other hands
than those of the anti-imperialists
One speaker denounced the mere suggestion
of q possible war with Japan as so absurd that
at ought not to disturb the rest Of the most
"timid of citizens" In that entirely agree
with him. But then he went on TO confess that
that absurd war talk confirmed him in his posi-
tion What sort of position must it be which
seeks confirmation in gross absurdity? by
reason of our proximity TO Japan and China
he said 1--WE find ourselves in the zone of war
probabilities" But the very suggestion of Il
probability of war is absurd. We ought to get
out of the Philippines as to escape danger of
war, although all the talk about danger of war
is absurd Really, the timbers of Faneuil Hall
must have creaked under the stress of such
logic as that.
Another speaker talked glibly about the dan
ger of war, the folly of maintaining ourselves
in a place so near an "enemy" and the desir-
ability of ''neutralizing' the philippines and
then getting out Of them. 1t would be interest
ing TO know what good grounds it is so
cavalierly assumed by our anti-imperialistic
friends that this country has implacable and in
NeterdtS Ioes WHICH are seeking an opportunity
to wage war against us. For our part we pre-:
fer to believe that America enjoys what it has
endeavored to cultivate, the honest friendship
of all, and that as the other speaker whom we
have quoted said, all this war talk is too absurd
for consideration. But il 1t were true that some
nation was our enemy and was inclined TO go
TO war with us over the Philippines it would
also be interesting TO know what assurance
there was that it would assent to our proposal
that those islands be 'neutrazed."
A third speaker ventured the prediction that
If three strong and able Americans familiar
with conditions in the Philippines were sent
thither TO "set up respectable native govern
ment in ten years and then come away" they
could and would do it. and the government thus
set up would be success. We rather think so
ourselves. We think that the strong and able
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28

enables them 10 view life romantically, to pro-
nounce poetic "PrestOs!" around the campfire
and fondly dream that empires will be shaken
and apartment house landlords exterminated
They must return to Nature, as Rousseau adj
vised; but they must take back with them all
the conveniences of civilization that make loaf
ing pure delight.
Probably Mr.. Sinclair will gather about him
patients of these and kindred compilations II
he does he will help them and also popular
ize the now taboo art OF loafng He will segre-
gate these ladies and gentlemen from the real,
hard working, help-one another, pitch-in-and-
acknowledgement world, to which they do
not belong and Whose atmosphere they cannot
breathe. And in accomplishing this he Will,
we trust convince the preachers of the strenu-
Gus life that some people render themselves and
their fellow men the most distinguished service
10y getting out of society and the worlds work.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28
THE GEyEALOGY or RADIUM.

Shortly after it had been observed that the
wonderful element discovered by the Curies
undergoes a sort of disntegratiOn the question
arose whether radium might not itself he the
product of some transformation. Since uranium
was invariably its companion, there was
thought TO be u chance that the associate might
also be its parent prolonged test by Pro
fessOr Soddy, now of Glasgow, lent little
encouragement to that view, but repetition of
the experiment indicated that the method
adopted at first faulty, and hence that the
conclusion was unwarranted. Professor Ernest
Rutherford, OF Montreal, and DIR. b. B. Bolt
wood of New Haven, have recently been fol-
lowing another clew, reporting from time to
time in Nature such progress as they have
made. Both of them have found it possible to
separate from another of the newly discovered
elements (actiniuml a substance which may be
the missing link. To this DR. Boltwood has
proposed to give the name "ionium,' and he
thinks that he has unmistakable proof that
radium is derived from 1t in microscopic
amounts.
In his description of what he considers n
hitherto unrecognized element the New Haven
chemist remarks that in its properties it closely
resembles thorium. Another investigator Dr.
Otto Hahn, of Berlin, is thus moved to an
nouncei that he has obtained radium directly
from thorium. All of this work needs indepen-
dent verifcation before it can be generally ac-
cepted, but in the Germans claim there is an
interesting suggestion. Thorium, the principal
Ingredient of the delicate fabric OF an incandes-
cent gas mantle. Is derived mainly from mon
azte sand, which, therefore. may be worthy of
closer examination as to tina smount OF radium
New-York tribune., 1907-11-28

Americans who are now there, training the
FilipinOs for self-gOvernment, will ere long sue
coed. They are already succeeding, as the pres
ent large measure Of insular autonomy shows
But the arduOus and delicate task will not be
facilitated or expedited by persistent carping
and clamoring, in Faneul Hall or elsewhere
Neither can consider the period of ten years
any other specific period as sacrosanct. We
should say that if the FilipinOs were ready for
sef-government in ten months, or weeks or
days they should have it, without waiting ten
years. aud the other hand that if at the
end of ten years they were not ready for it they
should not have it. The test should be fitness,
not the almanac
The interests of the Filipinos are not, We
think, to be served by assuming with respect to
them n position which is confirmed only or
chiefly by a confessed absurdity, nor by looking
for enmty in nations which have always been
our friends nor yet by demanding that certain
things be done and at the same time camoring
against those who are doing them. As illus
tratiOn of how not to do it, the Faneul Hall
convention was, however, a great success.