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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
ONLY THREE WoODMEa
Delegates Were Detained TO Attend
Extra Session.
PROGRAM CAR8|Eu OUT, HOWEVER
State Manager Latham and Two Dis.
tinsuished Visitors Came as Repre-.
sentatives of Sovereign Lodge to
Attend Public Meeting of Locals.

In order to wind up all business of
It's annual convention the Sovereign
Camp, Woodmen of the World, which
has been in session at Norfolk since
May ID, was compelled to hold spe-
cial meeting last night, and the 500
delegates in attendance were unable
to come to this city to be the guests
OF the local camps, Peninsula No. 1G
and Cook No. 40, at an entertainment
at Barnes Hall on Washington ave-
nue. last night as had been arranged.
When the delegates accepted the
invitation Of the local Woodmen to
attend this entertainment it was sup.
posed that all business of the cOnyen-
tion would be finished yesterday af-
ternoon.
State Manager r. b. Latham, of
Norfolk. and Hon. j. ID. Alexander,
of Garland, Texas, and Hon. William
NJ. Franklin, of Oklahoma. delegates
to the WoOdmen convention. came
yesterday evening to attend the en-
tertainment of tho local camps as rep.
resentatives of Sovereign Camp,
Barnes Hall was well filled with the
members and friends of Peninsula and
Cook camps and an enjoyable evening
was spent by all.
Councilman b. I. Ford presided at
the meeting, introducing Rev. j. w.
z Porter ID. D.. pastor of the Newport
News Baptist church, who made an
able and entertaining address OF well
come to the visitors.
Hon. j. ID. Alexander was the next
sspeakerJRnd during the colw:H OF his
remarks he expressed the regrets of
the delegates to the convention OF the
Sovereign Camp at being unable to
attend the meeting. State Manager
r. B. Latham and Hon. William Nj,
Franklin 8lso made short addresses
at the meeting
Refreshments were served during
the evening by the members OF the
committee on arrangements.
The band of ahe North End Engine
Company furnished the music for tho
occasion and bsfore the meeting be.
gan It played a number of selections
on the avenue ii, front of the halt.
entsrtainins g lars crowd for nearly
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
NEGROES WIFE ACCUSES
HIM OF FORGING NAME
Archie tIaskins Jailed on Charge of
!. Committing Crime to Collect In.
surancc on Dead Child.

Charged by his wife with forging
her name to check for 50, Archie
Haskins. negro living at North
Newport News. about two miles he
You'd this city, was arrested at tie
shipyard Yesterday afternoon by Pa
trolman Samuel Pearson. The pris-
oner was locked up at the police sta
ton to await hearing before Justice
Brown in the police court this morn
ing
According to the woman's story the
check was In payment of the life In
surance carried by her in the VII,
Finia Life Insurance Company on the
lie of her child, which died a short
time ago, and was made PAYABLE tn
her. She claims that her husband
forged her name to the paper and
realized on 1t at a bank in this city.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
A. n. Smith President of virainia
Chassis,

WINCHESTER VA, May 2i.--.Wlth
every ministerial member and all hut
two elders present. the sixty.ninyl,
annual session of the Virginia Chassis
of the Reformed church, now In SEES.
sion at Centenary church. this city,
Yesterday began the real work of the
meeting. The election of officers for
The ensuing year resultd as follows:
PRESIDENT, the Rev. A. Fl. Smith, of
Ioms Brook: vicc-president, Elder r.
Hamilton Davis: secretary, the Rev.
Henry Detzler, of Mount jackson.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Infant Girl Dead.

Eleanor Josephine Massic. the In.
fant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. d.
Masste. died YESTERDAY morning Mt
The home Of her parents gao Twenty.
ninth street Funeral services viii
he conducted this afternoon at 2
O'Clock by Rev. A. O. Sykes. assisted
ly Rev. J. w. Porter.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
standard Oil aeas Off.

ST. PAUL, MINI, May 24.-Stand.
ard Oil Company attorneys today i,a.
fore four United States Judges urged
the granting Of Il bill OF exceptions
TO the governments complaint, seek.
ing to have declared unlawful the al.
legged combination of the Standard Oil
Company and seventy alleged con.
Germs. The court took the question
under advsement and adjourned.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
ENGINEERS COMING HOME.
Three Companies to be Brought to
This Port From Havana.

Companies ], l. and M, of the Third
battalion, United States engineers,
with $4,000 pounds of baggage. will
be brought to this port from Havana
In the near future, en- route for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. Bids for the
transportation of the troops to the
West will be opened at the office of
the depot quartermaster here on the
morning Of June 4.
This will he the first body of sol
diers to return from Cuba since the
army of pacification embarked last
fall
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
RIFLES WILL GO INTO CAMP.
Arrangements Being Completed for

Arrangements Being Completed for
Stay of Company at Exposition.
The Huntington Rifles, Company G..
Will go into camp at the Exposition
with the Seventy-first regiment on
June 10. to remain ten DAYS. The
company will go over about 55 strong,
and frequent drills are being held in
preparation for the event.
Captain Moore expects to make n
fine showing and declares that his
company will he second TO none in
the regiment.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Callahan on Run AGAIN.

The Chesapeake & Ohio ferry
steamer Callahan. which was laid up
mt thc shipyard Thursday for repairs
to her stearing gear, resumed her
regular runs between the local depot
passenger pier and Scwall's Point
yesterday morning
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
WILL TRY To GET LOWER
RATES FROM PULLMAN co.
Connnlaint Made Before Interstate
Commerce Commission and Il
VIII Be investigated.
nv AssociaieI Prcas.l

WASHINGTON. y. c.. MAY 2i.-A
definite effort was begun today before
tho Interstate Commerce Commission
TO secure to the public reduction In
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
w. g. Moore Dead.

I ALEXANDER VA. May 2i.--Mr.
w. G. Moore. father Of Coroner S. u.
Moore. of this CITY. died at his home
at Francocla. Fairfax county, last eve.
ming. He wax scventy.ninc years of
age, and Is survived by a widow and
two sons.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Coil for ST. Thomas

The British steamer Vittoria. Cap
tain brewster. cleared yesterday for
ST. Thomas with Il cargo of about
$500 tons of coal She will sail this
morning.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Loads CARGO In Record Time.

The German steamer Mara Kolb,
Captain Rohendahl, sailed yesterday
for Curacao with cargo of 3.5I7 tons
of coal, valued at $9,672. The vessel
came here from New York Thursday
and loaded her cargo in about 80
hours
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Calendar for Today.
sIoterdyk at Amsterdam.

The Dutch steamer Sloterdyk, OF
the Holland-Amerlca Line, which
sailed from this port on May 0, ar
rived at Amsterdam at p. m. May
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25

Woodbury. at Yard for Repairs.
The big double.ended ferry steam.
or woodbury., plying between Norfolk
and the jamestown Exposition in the
service Of the Old Dominion steam.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Court In York County.

Judge Tyler, of the Circuit Court,
has notified the attorneys here tina.
he VIII open his term in York county
on Wednesday, June s, instead OF on
June 4, as heretofore announced
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Loads Coal for Weet lndIcs.

The Norwegian steamer Liv. Cap
tain Rasmussen. arrived in port yes
tcrday from Baltimore to load cargo
Of about 1900 tons of coal for West
Indian ports.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25

or all the fruits that arc In the land
That grow on bush or trcc.
would give M the choicest ones
For Rocky Mountain Tea.
j. c. Gorsuch & Co.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
CIcared

Steamer Vittoria (Br0, Brewster,
st. Thomas = BerwindWhite Coat
Company.
Steamer Mara Kolb (GerD, Rosen-
dahl. Curacao-Berwind.W Coal
Company.
Barge Iowa for -Chesa-
peake e Ohio Coal Agency Company.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
Sailed.

Sailed.
Steamers Mara Kolb (Ger.). Rosen-
dahl, Curacao; Rounton OBJ, Stew
art, Hamburg.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25

ship Company, arrived at the local
shipyard yesterday morning to under
go slight repairs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

worked intelligently One good re-
suit was merely an incentive with him
to try for a better one, and gradually
when he had mastered the rudiments
of merely taking a picture" he be-
gan to look about for effects"
He noticed the soft light shining
through a window on face, or the re-
Election in a crystal stream of trees,
grasses and flowers It awolxe a sense
Of artistic appreciation in his mind,
and he tried to make his camera ex
press just what these lights and shad-
ows meant to him.
Camera clubs came next, and with
these came periodicut exhibits. Mutu-
al criticism at these shows was help
full. and each succeeding exhibition
told its story of development in the
improved entries. The movement
spread from a. mere local affair and
took on broader lines, and presently
the metropolis had it's Photographic
salon." where pictures from all oven
the world were seen.
Those who win prizes need not be
artists in the technical sense. True,
they must possess the faculty for pos
ing their models, and must have learn
ed through many experiments the
value of light and shade, the impor-
lance of second toc much or too lit
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
Getting Coal and Sand Supply.

went to the water tank. To-day it gets
it's full supply in one place in a few
minutes. It used to take hours to do
the same work.
These modern locomotive feeding
devices are man-savers as we'll as saw
ers of time. In the old days the lives
Of strong men were shortened by the
toll incident to getting engines ready
for their runs. With scoop shovels
every pound of coal consumed by the
locomotives had to be thrown from
coal cars to tank, and it was an every
day occurrence to have engines hur-
ried to the coaling track for a fuel
supply when it was then time for the
engine to depart That meant that
the coal beavers had to do the work
of slaves to accomplish what the com
pany expected Of them. To-day mech
anism saves the backs of thousands of
men employed around railroad yards
and roundhouses. The locomotives
boarding house" is managed on the
plan of well-regulated dining room.
The old-fashioned way of coaling en-
gines was up to date indeed when
compared with that still more remote
system burning. Back in the
days when locomotives were steamed
with wood It was common occur
renee to stop the train out in the
woods somewhere and train crew and
passengers would begin carrying
wood to the engine, filling the tank
to it's capacity. It was case Of carry
wood or walk, for the engines con.
sumed so much fuel that it was i'm.
possible to make the tank large
enough to carry enough for long trip.
These wood-carrying parties used to
be jolly social functions in bright
weather and everybody Joined in the
fun. But when the chill winds blew
or the rain was falling the poor train
crew had to face the elements and do
all the "toting" themselves. It was a
happy day for railroad men when the
coal-burner engine was invented and
the raids on the forests ceased to be
factor in railroad life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

u Fl u
lister to Japan, a sister of Rider Hag-
gard, has decided literary tastes, and
the pair often eniven glittering state
dinner by a literary duel. The prime
favorite Of Toxic has always been
Madame Bakhmeteff, wife Of the Rus
.sian minister, who was Miss Mary
Beale of Maryland, and sister of
Mrs John Mclean of Cincinnati and
Washington. Madame Bakhmeteff,
who speaks seven languages and
wears three turquoise rings on each
of her ten fingers, is known the world
over for her warm heart and her ec4
centricities and rules the foreign So
5ciety of Toxic with heavy rod. On
Miss Rives' first evening in the CAPT.
tai, the two found themselves dining
at opposite ends of the long dining
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

room of the Hotel Imperial. Madame
Bakhmeteff studied the slim figure
awhile through her lorgnette. "Thank
God,' she said at last to the tablefull,
there's a woman with originality.
I'm going to like that girl And she
dld-as their present close friendship
vouches.
Indeed, originality is the breath in
Halle Erminie Rives nostrils. At the
first official dinner she gave it showed
IN a unique way. Things American,
she believes, are apt to be the best
of their kind. Her guests on this &C.
casien found themselves seated at a
table which bore no resemblance to
the usual state board. It was not
French, but Colonial-American. A
long mirror "lake'' was in the middle,
with wilderness border of old-fash.
Toned flowers. The menu card was
uncompromisingly American, and was
printed in English.
The dinner, so far as Toxic went,
was new sensation The Spanish
minister, Senior Barrera, sent his Sec
rotary next morning to beg for the
recipe of the turnip green's, and it is
still told that his excellency Yank 500,
the Chinese minister, ate three pieces
of hot mince pie
Imitation is the sincerest fattery.
Ten days afterward the Austrian am
bassador gave Hungarian luncheon,
and since then national dinners
have quite come into vogue.
During the months of her life in
Japan there has been no more earnest
student of things japanese than Hal
lie Erminie Rives. She has begun
now to understand the musical. tongue
that has but sixty-eight syllables. In
the afternoons she rides through the
country, stopping for tea at some vii
lage shrine, generally accompanied by
her Japanese teacher.
: All the time her pencil and note
book are busy. Will the successor to
Satan Sanderson" be Japanese
novel? The Japanese think SO. and
audibly hope so, for they know she
likes them, and where liking is there
is sympathy and understanding. Ger.
tain it is that she writes half of every
day in her garden, opposite the embas.
sy, where her workshop is summer
house, by the side of lotus pond full
of golden carp, with an old stone Ian
tern from some ruined Shinto temple.
standing guard beside it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
HALLE ERh1INIE RIVES
in HER TOXIC HOME
The Only Woman Novelist in Diplomatic Life-What
She Thinks Of the japanese and What the
Japanese Think of4er

A bright morning star Of the liter
airy world in the West is now visit
living in Toxic. Of a wealthy and H.
lustrious sword-bearing family in
America, and one of it's most celebrat-
ed novel-composing persons, she has
left her country for stay-doing in Jap
an, where she lives apd is happy in
the Japanese style. Dressed in white
silk, she loves to iInpart, from her
fancy like the poets, thoughts of this
country. To tell of her in single
page is like attempting to describe
beautiful woman by drawing her
bones. III
So the, ''Kokumin Shimbun," the So
berest of the Japanese capitals YER
nacular newspapers, began it's write
up of Halle Erminie Rives, the Vir-
ginia novelist, who last December mar
ried Mr.. Post Wheeler, one of the Sec
retaries of the American embassy at.
Toxic.
The female novelistsis not common
Ill Jdpdu. ACIS uc10 uSfCI zUS0u UuL
one, in fact, worth talking about. This
was Murasako no Shikibu, who, in the
year 1904, A. D., wrote a novel called
"Genji Monogatari," the adventures Of
a Japanese Don Juan, in fifty-four
books and something under 5000
pages, which remains a classic. To
the Japanese, therefore, the advent Of
a female novelist from America was
something interesting.
Woman, moreover, has always been
the submerged sex in the Land of the
Rising Sun, but since the war, in the
fierce Western wave of modernization
that has been sweeping over the coun-
try, she has begun to demand more
social freedom, and "a place in the
worlds affairs. Wives of high Japan
csc officials. have begun differently to
entertain in European built houses,
wearing European gowns, which lat
ter the court rule demands shall be
worn instead Of the kimono at all
court functions. The girls throughout
the empire have taken to going to col
lege like their brothers, and the wom-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

en- are reading the newspapers. For
these reasons the American woman
and the very young woman at that
who had won place in Western lit
erature, and had become famous for
her novels, was a center Of double at
traction. The Toxic papers and the
woman's magazines devoted pages to
Miss Rives' doings and opinions on all
sorts Of subjects; her picture was
put on view at the Uyeno exposition
Just closed, and a Toxic publishing
house is now preparing to issue Jap
anese version of ''The Castaway," her
novel Of several seasons ago, founded
on the life Of Lord Byron.
Mrs. Rives-Wheeler tells story
apropos this personal interest.
One day her rick-a-sha coolie, mis-
taking her directions, took her to the
wrong spot Ishe had wanted to visit
the tomb of one of the Tycoons) and
she was unable to make him under
stand. A Japanese boy of fifteen or
sixteen years of age, who happened to
be passing, approached, and with a
low, ceremonial bow, said gravely in
broken English: You are lost. Tell
me where, and shall find OUT
She told him her intended objective
point, and he directed her rick-a-sha
man. Then he astonished her by say
ing:
I think you must be the American
novel-lady. have seeing picture to
you of the newspaper"
Japanese interest in Miss Riyes
was naturally not 1essened when it be-
came known that she had come to
Japan to marry member OF the
American embassy.
When man in the diplomatic ser
vice marries abroad, the affair has al
ways It's national bearings, and IN this
particular instance the affair had spe-
ctal features Of real diplomacy. The
event took place at the time when the
San Francisco anti-Japanese agitation
was at its height. Toxic was much
excited. its papers were full Of war
like Nominations against the United
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
SAVES MUCH LABOR.
METHOD OF "FEEDING" MODERN
LOCOMOTIVES.
Matter of Few Minutes Now Where
Formerly Gangs. of Workmen
and Lot of Time Were
Required.

The little details that spell progress
in the operation Of a railroad are fire.
quently the most interesting. AS an
instance, take the Locomotives board
ing house," as some of the men call
the coal and sand chute near every
roundhouse. Twenty years ago it
took big crews Of men to supply the
coal, sand and water-the sustenance
of an engine. Now two or three men
do all this work of feeding" the en-
CINE before they go out, and do it in
much less time than it used to take.
When an engine is ready to go on a
run nowadays it takes only few min
utes to feed" it for the trip. When it
backs off the turntable to the coal
chute switch it is ready for dinner"
In big elevator there are hoppers
full Of coal ready to fall into it's tank
the moment the hostler's assistant
pulls a rope. This coal is lifted from
coal cars into the hoppers or chutes
by means of an elevator. In the same
place the sand drier has a chute that
is filled with dried sand used on the
tracks when the engines drivers slip.
While the coal is being dumped into
the tank, the sand drier is filing the
sand box, the sand shooting down
through a long pipe.
In great many railroad yards the
engines can be coaled. sanded and
watered without moving the engine
from one point. The old-fashioned wa
ter tank has given place to standpipes
that are stationed in convenient
places. An engine has scarcely to be
moved to receive every supply needed
for long trip. In the old days it had
to go first to the coal yards to be
coaled by men with shovels. Then it.
hustled off to the sandhouse and men.
passed buckets of sand up to a man
who stood on the boiler and poured it
into the sandbox. Then the engine
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Ne0 Art Which Accompanies With Lens and Plate
What Old Masters Did With Palette and Brush.

went forth in search of things to
shoot" by pressing the button. Boys
and girls got the craze, spent their par
ents' money for supplies" blackened
their fingers, burned their clothes and
set the house on fire. Once in a while
they got a result which, of course.
was shown to admiring friends, came
more purchases of cameras by those
who had not tried their hands as vet.
Parents became interested through
their children, and the camera COM
panies raked in the dollars in great
streams.
-. No vacation, no journey and no ex-
cursion was complete without cam
era We're along, and every corner of
the globe resounded with the Click
click" Of the shutter.
But out of this excitement and
aimless experimenting there developed
the camera fiend,": who thought and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
Double Engine.

A locomotive recently turned out
by the American Locomotive Com
pany at Schenectady, N. Y, for the
Erie railroad, is styled AN articulated
compound, and weighs 419,000 pounds.
It is really two engines with one large
boiler, measuring 1910 feet in length
from the point of the cowcatcher to
the end of the tender. It is said that
while the haulage capacity Of this
engine is double that Of the heaviest
freight locomotives of the old type
now in use, the load Of one pair Of
driving wheels is less than that Of
many Of the ordinary engines.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

college mate, years ago, as it hap
pened, of Mr.. Wheeler's at the Univer-
ssity of Pennsylvania. Six of the
younger members Of the foreign office
and six chancellors of the imperial
household Mr.. Wheeler invited to act
as ushers and masters of ceremonies.
The popularity thus begun Mrs.
Wheeler has added to. The more
stilted foreign embassies found. her
nothing If not original. The Baroness
d'Anethan, wife of the Belgian min
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30
The Porter's Tips.

IRSs
II would rather be head porter in a
good New York hotel than a railroad
president" said Robert J. Bells of
Baltimore. Il would be making plenty
of money and would not be mark
for the muckrakers. once went on
as clerk in a leading hotel there at a
salary of $l25 a month, which made
me feel quite contented at first.
"But at the same time started an
Irishman not long over also began
duty as head porter at salary Of $50
a month. In a few months and while
l was still plugging away at my one
and-a-quarter job that Irishman was
cleaning up. several hundred. I know
that one month it amounted to 5000.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

feet. Indeed, it may be said to have
begun the era of better feeling. In
stead of choosing his best man, by
time-honored custom, from the corps
diplomatique, he chose a Japanese,
Count Terashima, a secretary of the
foreign office and confidential secre-
tary of Viscount Hayashi, minister for
foreign affairs. The count, who is a
member Of the house of peers, was a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-11-30

tie in exposing" and a hundred and
one little details which figure in thte
production of good photograph.
But chief among the requisites for
success as photographer of the
classic is keen appreciation of the
beautiful and the effective It is this
spirit which has raised photography
from the mere performance of taking
pictures" to plane on which it is
recognized to-day as one of the RICHEST
arts