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The Washington times., 1907-12-21
WOMEN 20 ENTERTAIN
For CUSTOM CUTTERS

At a special meeting OF the Custom
Cutters Association. OF Washington, a
Ladies' Auxiliary. having for its object
the planning 4 entertainment features
for the approaching national conven-
ton Of custom cutters, was formed
Preparations are already under way
for the entertainment Of the delegates
TO the national convention which VIII
be in session in Washington January
28-3L The Ladies' Auxiliary viii care
for the wives and daughters OF The dele
gates, hailing from every part Of the
United States and Canada.
The auxiliary afte- its organization
last night elected the following officers.
Mrs. Charles G.. Nolk, chairman. and
Mrs. II .ssas +. Kelly, secretary
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
SECONDHAND DEALER
HELD AS THIEF'S AID

Charged with receiving stolen prop
erty Mrs. Helene Stern, OF III -Four
and one-half street southwest, and her
son Edward, fifteen years old. were ar
rested yesterday afternoon by Detectives
Baur and COrwel- The arrests were
made in connection with the case OF
William Green. alias Coin. a cCIored
man who was locked up last Friday on
charge Of obtaining goods from in
staIlment houses and gsposing Of them
10 secondhand dealers.
Mrs. Stern keeps a secondhand store
and from her place the police recovered
two sewing machines. and a phono-
graph, which, il is alleged. Green OBJ
tanned in this manner. The police say
he has swindled installmeut houses 20
the extent OF several hundred dollars.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
HISTORIC PLACES TO BE SEEN
FROM N. & w. STEAMERS

The historic places surrounding the
other terminal and the comfortable ap-
pOintments and convenient schedule Of
the Norfolk and Washington steamers
make a trip ABOARD these BOATS a pleas
ure few strangers in the city ever miss.
Adjacent to Norfolk and Old Point Com
fort are numberless interesting places.
Including Fortress Monroe, Portsmouth,
Yorktown, jamestown Island, and other
points.
Steamers sail daily at 6.30 p. m,
reaching Norfolk early the ensuing
morning. Here connections are made
with trains for all Southern points, as
we'll as with steamers Tor New York and
Boston. Offices are located at Seventh
street
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
TWO RECITALS FOR BLIND
DURING HOLIDAY WEEK

The following is the program for vol
unteer readings and music in the read
ing room for the blind at the Library
Of Congress from 2.S0 to 3:30 O'Clock in
the afternoon:
Thursday, December 26-Song. violin
and piano recital, Miss Marion MacFall.
soprano. assisted BY Miss Minna Helm
richs, violinist, and Paul VI. Fishbaugh,
pianist.
Saturday, December 2@CUI John
Tweedale. dramatic reader.
The readings and muslCales at the
Library are primarily for the benefit OF
the blind. Other persons viii be ad-
mitted up to the seating capacity Of the
room, which viii. however, acCOmmO-
date only nifty persons in addition TO
the blind and their escorts. The first
fifty persons coming viii be seated and
after that the doors will be closed to
the general public
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
ST. CECILIA'S ACADEMY
HAS CHRISTMAS FETE

The annual Christmas entertainment
Cf s.. Cecilia's Academy. Sixth and
East Capitol streets, was given yes
terday afternoon. There was a large
turnout OF the parents and friends
Of the pupils. The program was made
ZIP OF several well-trained chOruses ana
appropriate holiday recitatiOns by the
pupils. The feature Of the afternoon.
in which old and young took deep
Interest, was tho large Christmas tree
gliStening with the usual holiday adOrn-
ments. lighted with many wax candles,
8nd ladened with generous presents for
the children.
Each pupil received a substantial
present and everyone went home happy
10 enjoy the vacation.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
Baltimore and Ohio to Chicago.

Two excellent daily trains leave New
Union Station: Chicago Limited, %
p. m. with observation parlOr car. draw
ing room sleeping cars and dining cars
via Pittsburg: Chicago Express, $3.50 2. m.
with drawing room sleeping cars 10
Wheeling, Columbus, and Chicago. Din
ing cars en- route.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
A Thoroughly Modern Bank

Union Trust Cos new home, 18th and III
SITS. is perfectly equipped for transacting
banking business OF every character. In
tereSt on all accounts. Govt control
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
Butter for Xmas HOLIDAYS.

James +. Oysters. 9th and Pa. ave, is
Washington headquarters for America s
choicest buffers. Four Leaf Clover Cream
cry specially. Fresh nearby country eggs.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
Baltimore and Return, s., Baltimor

& Ohio r. r. Every Saturday and Sun
day. All trains both ways. both days.
except Royal Limited. City offiCeA 1417
q st. and 6l9 Penna. ave.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
Contains No Quinine

Yet Babek Is the most effective remedy
for Colds. La Grippe. Chills and Fever.
Air. J. +. Oerlet, Vienna, Va, says:
Have used ii in my family Tor Is years.
II IS more than you claim for IL. I have
known Of three doses TO EtOp chiils"
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
Considers Business Chance.

That is looking a long way into the
future. II is probable the secretary has
never looked so far He has under
consideration a business proposition
which financially would be more attraC-
tive-the presidency OF the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, which
is soon TO 90 under a new management.
There Is little doubt that he fully ex-
pected 70 take this position, but the
politicians are diligently making other
arrangements for him which. II they
IRE consummated. will keep MN in pub
lie life
Secretary Loeb is an ideal alter ego 10
his chief But he is more. Being the
other self 70 a chief who has "A very
strong individuality. Loeb has a real
personality, too. He has Views on pub
he questions. and is probably II any
thing a bit more radical even than the
President as to those very issues which
have won the Chief Executive his repu-
tation for radicalism- He is a better
Judge Of men than the President, peO-
ule say who have watched both OF them
carefully for a long time. He isn't afraid
to speak right out IN meeting when ne
thinks IL is the time 70 speak. On the
other hand no pressure Of insistenCe.
caiOlery. management or finesse can pry
his laws apart when he doesn't want 20
speak Maybe. II he should leave the
Presidents employ, another could be
found 70 take his place but IL IS hard
20 pick the man Loeb knows the ira
The Washington times., 1907-12-21

Red ImmeStels, IS Cents Per Bunch.
s1.50 Immortel wreaths. for IS cts.
KRAMER. The Florist. SIG + ST. NV
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
BEGAN as Stenographer

Loeb began as a stenOgrapher. Z II.
Hartman said not long ago that the
best way % make a railroad president
was 10 get a good boy and make a
good stenographer Of him; then asso-
ciate him with a big railroad man and
let him learn the rest by absorption.
Loeb is an illustration Of the same plan.
So was COrtelyou.
Secretary Loeb is interesting Just now
because everybody knows that he is the
real works" OF the Taft movement and
has been for some months. The cards
in the big Taft Presidential game have
been dealt over the private secretary s
broad mahogany desk and Loeb. AT
any rate, has lost no tricks 50 far as
the count records 10 date. Whatever
may have happened to the Vorys man
agenent out at Columbus. Loeb has
made good on his end OF the game
They say Loeb Is TO be the manager
Of the Taft campaign Loeb laughs and
SAYS II IS hot air. But venturesome
people go farther They declare that
Loeb VIII be manager OF the Taft ante
convention campaign. that he will nomi-
nate his man Il II Is in the cards, and
II he does that he Will be chairman OF
the national committeeman then Cabi-
net officer
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
OLD ST. NICHOLAS

Santa Claus and hOW the
tradition has LiVed through
centuries.
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
CURB TO CONGRESS

Rapid rise of neWSbOy to
the distinction of being blouse
BGby."
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
LOEB A NATURAL LEADER;
POLITICIAN SINCE YOUTH
Presidents Secretary Just the Man for the Pace-Bette
Mixer Than Roosevet-Knows When
to Talk.

The true story Of the rise Of William
Loeb. jr. would make good reading
nowadays. He is one Of those private
secretaries who develop capacity not
unlike that Of their chiefs.
Loeb was a politician in Albany be
fore he was Of age He was a district
or ward boss soon after he could vote.
He has been in politics ever since. He
knows the game from the precinct up
TO the nation, knows II no only in
theory. but likewise in praStice. He
knows what 10 say and when 10 keep
still. and works the latter method often
er. He can hand out just the necessary
suggestion or intimation, IN tie most
effective way, without committing him
self or anybody else. He can axe the
blame and smile serenely. He knows
everybody in the United States. He can
do the work of ten men, never forgets
what he wrote, understands every de-
tail Of the vast complexity Of business
that enmeshes the Chief Execudve-and
ha npvar gets rarr1od
The Washington times., 1907-12-21
FIRST CHRISTMAS

Purpose of beautiful custom
told in a ferp 1pordS of greet
ing.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
The Picture and the story.

T. r. Whiteside, sorrowing over the
painters lack of proper appreciation
in the Bookman, asks why the painter
should be expected to paint story,
saying that although the painter de-
pends upon the writer for his widest
publicity, the writer discusses the
idea, the meaning Of tho picture, to
the exclusion Of the qualities that to
the painter are reason for it's exist
ence. When the painter writes about
a picture says Mr.. Whiteside, "he
speaks of the qualities he sees in it,
qualities of selection, form, color and
composition, but has little to say about
the subject. The average layman
frankly admits that he knows nothing
about pictures; but he generally quail
fies his remark with / know what
like And usually that is some picture
that he has read about, or that appeals
to him through its storytelling quail
ties. If his interest goes deeper-in-
stead of securing his knowledge at
first hand from pictures themselves
he gets a book on How to Study Pic
tures, written by man unframed in
the painters art, unfamiliar with his
aims, and out of sympathy with his
point of view A writer would be
amply justified in vigorously object
ing to a painter as a reviewer of his
books; musician would naturally
protest against sculptor as musical
critic. The position of the painter is
identical"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
REVIEW OF TRADE.
The Usual Midsummer Quiet Is Noted
at Many Points-The Leading In
dustries Are Well Employed.

New York.-R. G. Dun &c Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
JCbbing trade in fall and winter
goods is active at the leading cities,
country merchants being in large at
tendance and operating freely as a
rule. Retail sales of seasonable mer.
chandise are liberal, although at some
points customary midsummer quiet is
noted. While payments are some.
what Irregular mercantile collections
show distinct Improvement on the
whole.
A few labor disputes are pending.
but there is little interruption in the
leading industries, most manufacture
ing plants working full time and hold,
ing orders that promise continued ac.
tivity. Commodity prices are lower,
especially in cases where speculative
imitation existed, favorable weather
having greatly improved crop pros
poets.
New business in the iron anG steel
industry is light and some quotations
of pig iron are lower, but wire and
wire products have become firmer,
and many steel mills are sold well
into next year. Steel rails are in bet
ter demand, a liberal tonnage of new
contracts appearing this week, and
material is sought by car shops and
shipyards.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
HUNDREDS or MEN ARE OUT
STRIKE OF TELEGRhPHERS Ex.
TENDS TO WESTERN CITIES.
of Western Union and Pos
tai Companies Fight for the Closed
Shop and Shorter Hours.

Chicago. IlL-Following the lead
of telegraph operators employed
by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
in Chicago, who struck Thursday
night because they were asked to
work with non-union men in Los An
geles, telegraphers in nearly dozen
other cities quit work Friday. The
500 men employed by the Postal Tele-
graph Co in Chicago who belong to
the same local of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union as the Western
Union men and who declare that their
working conditions with the company
have become unsatisfactory, took adj
vantage of the situation and quit
work in a body last night.
With the strike of the Postal en-
ployes Chicago is left with about 80
commercial teleSraphers who are en-
deavoring to transmit the business of
both companies, whereas under nor
NAL conditions fully l 800 men are
necessary to do the work in Chicago.
Other Western Union Offices which
became involved in the trouble Fri
day, together with the number of men
who cult work, are:
Salt Lake City 36, Helena 46 Kan
sas City $50, Dallas 105, Fort Worth,
Te2., 40, Colorado Springs 10, Denver
SO, FL Paso Is. In New Orleans the
men employed by the Postal Tele-
graph co. left their keys last night.
Under orders from National Presi.
dent Small, Of the telegraphars' CT.
ganization, National Secretary Rus.
sell last night wired to the secretaries
of the various locals throughout the
country to keep the men at work un-
til further orders. Mr.. Russell, in ex-
planation of this action said: I'VE
don't want to use up all our ammuni-
ton in one charge"
New York.-The Western Union
Telegraph Co. will fight the
strike of their operators in the west
ern cities, in the east or wherever the
men may go out. They expect to win
as they claim to have won in 1888. A
strike among the 5000 operators of
Greater New York is imminent.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Bad Leaders.

Cutting loose from safe anchorage
with minds distorted by a monstrous
ambition, dscarding and repudiating
the declarations of their party and
forgetting its wonderful achievements
under this wise national policy, there
are to-day Republican leaders who
would destroy the great work of Nc
kinley and Dingley, and listening to
the clamor of the men who plunged
this nation into an era of calamity
and depression in 1898, would undo
the work of Republican statesmen and
try again policy of free trade, which
has at every trial hitherto driven
prosperity from the United States.
We care not who these men may be
nor what great things they may have
done, whether the Republican party
follows their advice and elects them to
power on such a platform, it writes
its own epitaph; repudiates its great
est living principles; destroys the
foundation upon which it has built
the grandest political organization the
world has ever known; undoes the
work of half a century of efficient
political labor and starts the nation
down the declivity of depression,
stagnation and disaster, to plunge
into the mire of free trade and Dem
ocracy, which will speedily obliterate
every vestige of the prosperity we
now enjoy, bringing the country back
again to the dark days, similar to
those through which it passed at the
close of the Buchanan and Cleveland
administrations.-Boone (Mo) Repub-
lican.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
INDICTMENTS FOR RELATING.
They Are Returned Against Two Oil
Companies and an Equal Num-
Der Of Railroads.

Jamestown, n. Y. - Convictions
on all the counts of the indict-
ments returned Friday by the federal
grand jury for western New York
would render four corporations liable
to fines aggregating $18,240,000.
Judge Hazel received the report
from the jury's investigations of the
governments charges against the
Standard Oil Co, the Vacuum Oil Co,
the New York Central and the Penn.
sylvania railroads of giving and re.
ceiving special and illegal concessions
on shipments of oil from Olean, y. Y,
to points in Vermont.
The report includes the present ta-
tion of two indictments against the
Standard Oil Co, two against the
Vacuum Oil Co., two against the New
York Central and Pennsylvania joint
ly, and two against each of these rail
roads separately. One of the indict-
ments against each corporation con.
tains 1SS counts and the other 40
counts.
The report given is only a partial
one, the jury adiourning until Septem
Der 6, when it will continue its work.
The law provides a penalty of $780,
coo for each count in case of convic-
tion. A conviction on each count
would render the Standard, Vacuum,
New York Central and Pennsylvania
nable to fines of S4560,000 each, or
total of $1S,240,000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Tariff Revision by Treaty.

German exporters under this new
arrangement are permitted to fix their
own values upon goods shipped to the
United States. The goods will be ap-
praised at such figures as the Ger
mans may name and American con-
suls are expected to accept German
appraisals. The Germans can well af
ford to pay the duty when they arc
permitted to fix their own value on
the goods. BY well known tricks of
undervaluation they will be able to
get their goods into this country on a
lesser ad valorem duty and will thus
save many millions every year. If
France, England and other countries
exporting to the United States shall
be able to make a similar arrange.
ment the tariff question will lose
much of it's Importance and tariff
for revenue only will have been ac.
complished by treaty.-Nyack Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Danners Lurkinu in Cravats.

Girls who gave neckties to men
used to set into the joke papers. Now.
no more. Since the notion of wearing
knit ties came in few years ago, the
mightiest is not too proud TO display
such handiwork And in this act is
there not quaint and charming SYM
bolism? The tie, fashioned by innu-
merable delicate motions of soft fin
gers, represents in its final form al
most detached part of the lady her.
self. Mere thread plus her-that is
the tie. And this resultant the man,
willing slave, knots around his neck
Might not one almost say that that
silken moose, which, minus what her
hands have done, would be mere yarn,
is indeed her hands? A noose-aye,
there's the rub. For if once around
ones neck, it is but a step from being
caressed to being throttled in the re-
lentless grip of the Superman. Each
must decide for himself AS for us,
exclaims the editor of Golfers. we
are willing to risk it, provided we get
the tie. No this is not fishing. A
man used to have to ask his friends
to send him knit ties from the other
side. Now they may be picked up in
every Broadway shop and are become
almost vulgar.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
HAS TAKEN UP HARD TASK.
Secretary Cortelyou Apparently Aims
to Accomplish the impossible.

Fortunately Secretary Cortelyou
has proved in three government de-
partments that he has the habit of ac-
complishing what his predecessors
pronounced impossible Y. Mail.
His immediate predecessor at the
head of the treasury department sup
plies an illustration. Secretary Shaw
pronounced it impossible to collect
the revenues to which the government
is entitled, to provide the protection
to which domestic labor and capital
are entitled and to maintain the hon
esty and efficiency in the customs
service to which the people as a
whole are entitled, and at the same
time open wide the door to frauds on
the revenue, to facilitate the undersell-
ing of American producers by foreign
exporters under the consignment sys-
TEN, and to the encoura cement of
wholesale graft and rascality among
customs officers. Accordingly, Mr..
Shaw refused to sanction the Ger
man agreement and resigned from the
cabinet. Now, as it appears, Secre-
tary Cortelyou is about to accomplish
the impossible He is going to give
away and keep the same market; he
is going to smash protection and
maintain projections: he is going to
promote dishonesty and insure recti-
tude. He will turn out to be indeed
a great man if he shall succeed in
these indeavors
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
From the Protest of the Textile I'm.
porters' association against the Ger.
man agreement:

Germany has secured an undue ad-
vantage. 1t is the one for which she has
been struggling long time: it is the ono
which she has been seeking by every
means in her power; 1t is the one that
every American importer who has sought
to buy goods in the German market
knows that Germany has been working
to secure for a number of years; it is the
one which Germany has striven for be-
cause she is consigning and not a sell
ing nation. She prefers to consign her
goods to this country, enter them at her
export price, and then compete in this
market with direct or purchasing i'm
porters and American manufacturers.
American merchants know that the adj
Vantages lie entirely with Germany under
the export price" feature. AS a demon
stration, the imports from Germany dur
ing 1906 were slS6090.o00. largely consign-
ed; a reduction of ten per cent. under the
export price" system would be s13 600, GEO:
If a larger percentage, a corresponding
increase. Assuming only ten per cent.
reduction, all our advantage as indicated
in the statement issued by the state de-
partment is wiped out"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Easily ANSWERED.

The Boston Herald is having some
trouble in answering the question,
What is a Republican," Thus:
"Or take the tariff: Is Gov. Cum
Minis, who demands revision in the in
terest of the consumer, or Senator
Allison, who sneers at such an idea as
fad true Republican? Coming
to our own state with this paramount
issue What is Republican, man
who stands for Gov. Guild and Mr..
Foss, or one who sides with Gen.
Draper and Col. Clarke?"
The process of elimination would
aid in solving the riddle. If the Her
aid strikes out Cummins, Foss and
Guild the answer is easy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15

Prince Tokugawa. the ex-shogun of
JAPAN, in May gave luncheon at his
residence in Tokyo to some of the sur
yivors of his supporters at and before
the time of the restoration. AS most
OF the surviving samurai were in
capacitated by age from attending.
only some 20 were present. but the
function was exceedingly impressive
notwithstanding. The guests recalled
with mingled feelings the old days
when they were the princes retainers.
and the toasts to the dead heroes who
lost their lives for the cause of the
shogunate were drunk with an emo
tion not often seen among Japanese.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Sudden and accidental death On the

Sudden and accidental death On the
streets of a city is not an uncommon
thing. 1t may come by way of brick
or stone dropped by a mason from a
new building, from a falling sign loos-
ened by the wind, from the wheels of
trolley car or automobile, from a run
away horse, from a hundred causes.
All men know this risk, yet seldom
take special precautions for them
selves in connection with it. In curl
Gus contrast with the ordinary care
1essness is the action of the Wormser
brothers, New York bankers. both of
whom are now dead, one having
passed away recently. 1t is related of
them that when both were alive they
We're practically inseparable. keeping
the same hours and being always to-.
gether except when going to and from
their office. Then they always took
separate conveyances so that no acct
dent could meet them both at the
same time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-08-15
Terrible Revenge.

Manville (much eXcited)-He ru1.
good name. He filched from me
the girl | loved; but at last, ha! ha!
/ am revenged!
Neate-Good gracious! What did
you do?
Manville (hissing through his set
teeth)-I recommended him to spend
his holidays at the seaside lodgings
l had last year, and he's going to
do it,