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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
TRY FOR FREEDOM
Of JENNIE BURCH
Attempt to Save Little Girl
From Criminal Insane
Asylum.

NEW YORK. April 5.-Believing that
a grave injustice has been done a de-
fer seless ffteen-year-old girl. certain
friends Of Jennie Burch, the child who
was acquitted OF the murder Of q baby
and then sent 20 Matteawan last week,
are about to take action toward Sc
curing her freedom, or at least her
transfer from an Institution for Grim
inals.
Prominent New York lawyers VINO
have been consulted have declared that
the Sentence Of a child TO Matteawan
after a jury found her not guilty could
not stand for ono moment If a fight
We're made upon il. This tight is now
about to be made
To make a fifteen-year-OId girl. who.
TO all appearances, is perfectly sane and
who, as even the allenist in the case
admitted on the stand. is now normal.
the compulsory companion Of insane
criminals. Is so fraught with danger
&c her future that the friends OF the
girl feel they cannot move too soon.
Jennie Burch, charged with numbering
Wilbur Winship, on September q. 1906,
VAS found by a jury no guilty by Iea-
son Of insanity Ths Justice sitting
in the case sentenced the girl to MAJ
teawan until such time as she shall
have been proved sane
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there has been for a long time
accumulation of irrefutable evidence
that it is going on.
But the idea of Interests
chipping in five millions of dollars is
assumed TO be ridiculous. Why ride
ulous? How far would five millions
of dollars have gone toward fnanc-
ing the campaign of 1896 for Nc
Kinley-before and after the ma
tional convention? Where did the
money come from then? Why should
not the same interests which raised
il then raise a much less amount
now for the sake of assuring that
the Presidency should be controlled
in the interest of safety and sanity
and big business?
The truth is that for more than
a year it has been plain to any
seeing eye that Roosevelt policies
were to be downed in 1908 if it was
possible. 1t has been plain that
only a determined, courageous APP
peal to the people could prevent.
That appeal has been made and the
making of it is amply justified by
political conditions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
No Need for a Guild.

American girl stenographers are
as a class young women of unim-
peaehable character, considerable
refinement and chatm, and not in
considerable ability
This statement OF fact obvious
to every business man is evoked by
a recent proposition from some
New York preacher. That misguid-
ed gentleman proposed a guild for
the protection of the craft from
the pitfalls supposed TO surround
them, AS the New York World
says:
It is chiefly in 1O-cent magazines
TenderlOin comedies. and comic" sun
plements that the employer trif1es with
the innocent affections of his pretty
stenographeT. In actual life he wrings
his hands and wishes to heaven that
business colleges would teach girls how
10 spell. The attitude OF the stem
ographer toward her employer is more
than likely to De OF the I-feel-sorry-for-
his-poOr-wif kind. Few men are heroes
to their typewriters. A stenographer
who has Just finished transertbing
thirty or forty letters is not IN dagger
Of flaming into Sappnic passion for 8
man who growls because she failed to
turn his simpliied grammar into con
ventionai English.
But this is not the whole story.
A most material part of it Is that
stenography has done much to solve
the problem which confronts the
average young American girl on her
graduation from the public schools.
She desires to go to work until
she chooses to marry. In the old
days she could do little but house
hold service-work which involved
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
PLAYERS
Do CLEVER WORK

George A. Bentley and a clever COM
pany OF assisting players and musicians
last night gave an interesting enter
tainment in the Belasco Theater. The
entire hoEse was filed, including the
long line If mezzanine boxes. and the
varied program offered much to amuse
and interest the large audience.
Mr. Bentley has appeared in Wash
ingtOn on several previous occasions
and much was expected Of him. His
friends were not disappointed. particu-
larly in a rather clever monOlogue
which was feature of the '1mpolIte
vodeyil.e' program.
one of the cleverest acts of the bill
was a song and dance specially by
Elizabeth Forney and Irwin Cosgrove,
in which they gave The Dancing Mas
ter and Little Girl, Won't You Play
With Me?' The latter was particularly
clever and both of the young players
acquitted themselves most sausfact0r-
ily Miss FOTney later gave toe dance.
Mr.. Bentley and Miss Edith Luckett
gave a rather good travesty on The
Music Mater" Miss Luckett vas par
ticularly effective as a stage aspirant.
The musical feature of the program
was Liza Lehmann's charming setting
to verses of Omar khayyam, under the
title Of In a Persian (aarden." The
singers We're Miss Edna Doe, Mrs.
William T. Reed, Joseph /. Battle, and
William Hopkins, with Alfred Eldridge
as accompanies. Other features on the
bill were pleasing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
What's the Matter
With Washington?

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
The worst thing about washington Is
something that could easily be remedied.
and that is .he slovenliness Of open lots
belonging to private owners.
An ash heap. some tin cans, and an
old shoe may not be much, but they are
enough to foster disrespect and disgust
on the part Of any civilized person. The
open test Of civilization is cleanliness
and tidiness. The license given to peo-
pie to throw papers. etc, in the streets
and rubbish in open lots IS more than
amazing to civilized foreigner. Do
people have this tin can. old shoe and
ashes license in PARISH If so. It is not
apparent except to some student hunt
ing slums and social conditions; but
here ia Washington supposed to be our
model city,, one can go but q fe~
squares anywhere In any direction, even
on our choicest show thoroughfar9s
without coming across these unsighuy
reminders oS slums.
For little study OF this sort of thing
look at the broad open space on New
Hampshire avenue az set-off to the
RESIDENCES Of George Vanderbilt, Thomas
Nelson Page, and others; look al those
spaces on lower Sixteenth street. neal
ard and others: look al the view from
Sheridan Circle. As for that. one Is IN
able 10 dodge SlOvenliness Of some KIND
almost everywhere IN Washington. This
is more than ever a pity when IL Is said
that the National Capital is the face
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05

an acknowledgement of social in
feriority repugnant to every educat-
ed free-born American woman. To-
day she can and does undertake
employment in business offices.
chiefly as stenographer to the head
of the firm; and she does so with
out loss of an inch of her social
standing or an iota of her self-es-
TEEN.
Some pitfalls there ere, of course
and some girls viii walk into them
So there ase pitfalls in staying at
home to sit on cushion and sew q
fine seam. But the mass CT woman
stenographers and Office clerks are
not only secure in a relation with
their employers which is wholly
business-lil1e, but happy in the op-
portunity to do useful, congeniali
profitable, and self-respeeting
labor.
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of the nation, the States being the body
and that the face indicates the char
acter OF the person. Are We yet 3 IA
ton of senli-saYages lacking IN appre-
citation OF -Teatness Of AIT and the re-
finements generally OF the higher clvili-
cate that And yet on each OF a ma
1ority OF these places rake and cart
for a half day could remedy what II
a downright curse 10 the town.
The fault IS rot necessarily in a small
house or q cheap house. OF On account
of the person Of any nationality per Sc
II Is simply q question or neaIness-a
question OF enforcing a simple law for
the respectable appearance OF Washing
ton Such a law should be an arbitrary
one. If siOveniy person has a right 70
deteriorate the value Of his own prop
erty, disgracing the town al the same
time. he should have no right 70 infitcC
this penalty upon others
our authorities are now ana tnea
strenuous about t1e cutting Of weeds on
open lots, but Il they pay no attention
10 rubbish. better let the weeds grow =
mile Aigh II only that could hide IL
Criticism has been freely INDUCED con
corning faults OF street cleaning IN
my opinion less should be said about
sidering the vast amount Of street
space which has 10 be gone over Ins
chief fault 3 rather in the license toll
Grated for littering the streets as wei
as private lots and parkings. The Oh
story of the newly arrived Bridget try
ing to wipe up the hoor without turning
OF the spigot is applicable
II would be wen II the District OfiCo
could secure the services Of some good
woman h6uSekeeper 10 look after the
WALTER K. slnTH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
A PSALM OF FISHING.

.shuckst say you, with coming sum.
mer,
Life IS rat an empty dream -
Whew! that's what / call a sumner
When all creeks with fishes TEEN.
81 life is reaI-life is earnest
When the river is ones goal.
Lucky kid he who returneth
Unmlssed from the 'swimmin' hole"
Not for swimming. nor for rowing.
Do the oungsters thither hike;
But for fish there's no way knowing
Whether pick'rel, carp, or pike.
Lies of anglers all remind US
How we've oft gone fishing grand,
And returning left behind US
Yarns Of fish we didn't land.
Stories that, perhaps, another.
Trolling on some muddy shore
Some begrimed and luckless brother,
Hearing, might take heart once more
Then, We Waltons. up and doing,
Fishing each and every day;
And IN camp. when small fish steWing,
Tel how "whoppers" got away!
n. LIEN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05

bovine race was affected by soma
deadly germ, either internally or exter-
nally, ard Il required q regular Red
Cross campaign 10 render the milk
product of the place 1T or safe for hui
man consumption.
Aren't they carrying the tuberculosis
craze, as applied 10 the dairy TO eX-
tremes2 Eas not science run mad on
this fad as il seems TO have done on the
appendicitis fad?
Science now and then plumbers upon
a new truth, when straightWay a vast
cackling and tO-do is made over it,
and every Whipnersnapper Of a practi-
toner has TO try his clumsy hand and
dull lancet.
rs not the tuberculin test now and
then carried 10 extreme? Are not the
sins Of man himself being laid at the
door Of the inoffensive old cow
But why enumerate2 The old COW
may now and then have a bad lung, but
why strain at gnats and swallow camels,
or IN fact. a whole Barnum menagerle-
H A. CRAFTS
Fruitville. CAL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
An Unused State Right.

Our American careIessness as to
human life is sufficiently revealed by
the statistics as to accidents in
mines, published recently by the En-
cheering and Mining Journal. Note
these figures:
More than 1900 Americans were
killed in mines in the year 1905
alone.
In the ten years ending with 1905
the total reported was 1900, while
The aggregate was probably much
more, in view of the failure to OBJ
tain reports from the smaller mines.
The rate to the thousand stood at
2.7 in 1895, fell to "a in 1897, rose 10
3.5 in 1902, and continued about the
same, 3.44, in 1905.
England, confronted with this
same problem, half solved it by gov
ernmental watchfulness Of the use
CT explosives. But there, as here,
laws are needed to require proper
shielding of machinery, the proper
installation OF electric wires, and
great care in the use of coal-cutting
and similar machines.
Our several States are diligently
talking just now of their rights"
Here is a right to enact certain laws
which it would behoove Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Alabama, and various
Western States TO exercise without
more DELAY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
Moral Progress.

Mr.. Paul Cravath has told the In
terstate Commerce Commission that
what was good morals and proper
finance seven years ago, is not good
and proper now.
That is encouraging. Mr.. Cravath
was talking about the Alton reor-
ganization. He declares it was a
mild type of the financial methods
that within a decade have been
applied to many railroads and more
industrials in this country; and he
insists that according to the public's
conception of right and business,
prevailing at the time these things
were done, there was no wrong, as
there was no Ilegality in the opera
ton.
But today the community takes
another view. Mr.. Cravath admits
it. He adds that he is himself in
favor of strict government super
vision of issues of capitalization.
There has been as yet no legisla-
ton of effective sort on this sub
ject. But the admission of Mr..
Cravath indicates that there has
been something more effective
There has been an awakening OF
public opinion. The legisl. ion
will not long be delayed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
BEAUTYS PHOTO
FREE OF CHARGE

In response to many letters of
inquiry, The Sunday Times has
made arrangements with several of
the leading photographers Of WASH
ington whereby photographs of
prospective participants in The Sun
day Times contest for the honor of
being declared the most beautiful
woman in Washington may have
their photographs taken free of
charge until and including Friday,
April y.
All that is necessary is for the
woman whose photo IS to be taken,
or the person who is to enter the
photo in the contest to call at the
news room of The Times, tenth
floor, Munsey Builc.ng, and obtain
an order for the photo from the
Beauty Editor, Sunday Times.
These orders will be addressed to
any one of the following photog-
raphers:
Atkinson. .f4i6 18th st. northwest
Bachrach. ..133i F street northwest
Bell. ..f32i-23 @ street northwest
Boyce. 1925 F street northwest
Buck. -fif3 F street northv est
Gilbert. COZ 18th street northwest
Harris & Ewing. ..13ff F ST. nv.
Merritt'S .e07 Penn. Ave. N. w.
Paine .....923 F street northwest
Parker 1928 F street northwest
Prince. Pa. ave. and 18th st. NV.
Rice .......i2O3 F street northwest
IoWles> ,i1oZ F street northwest
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Erich Mems COnSpiracieS. 81

A curious disposition comes to
light to ridicule as "brainstorm" the
pointed suggestions from the White
House that there is a conspiracy Of
big men and interests to accomplish
the undoing Of President Roose-
veIt's policies in the next Congress,
and to end the era of Rooseveltian
insistence upon those policies with
the next Republican national cam
paign. Justwhy the directandauthor-
itative presentation of these things
should justify ridieule is not APP
parent. Last winter the same news
papers and publicists that now see
humor in the concern of the Adj
ministration. were pointing ont the
evidence Of such a combination of
interests, for just such a purpose.
It viii hardly be questioned that
the Hanna Presidential candidacy
was in the nature of a rich mems
conspiracy. It is a short memory
that does not recall the alliance of
railroad and financial interests that
sought to prevent the railroad Iegis-
lation passing a short year ago.
Back of that there was the scandal
Ious performance OF packing the In
terstate Commerce law convention
at Chicago with representatives of
railroad interest, and trying TO ex-
tort from it a declaration against
any railroad legislation. When the
Brownsville affair was used as an ex-
euse for talking away half the re-
cent short session, highly intelligent
people claimed TO recognize it as a
method of preventing legislative ac-
complishment. When Mr.. Cortelyou
resigned from the national com
mittee craftsmanship, people who
discovered and wrote about the plot
of the Presidents opponents to Sc
cure control of the committee were
not accused of haIIucination.
Why. then, when it is declared on
highest authority that this series OF
conspiracies of the past is being
projected into the future, should
the statement seem silly or unrea.
sonable2 It is the most reasonable
and logical thing in politics, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
.DOWIE CUT SON OFF
WITH TEN-DOLLAR NOTE

CHICAGO, april 5.-John Alexander
Dowie's viii was filed in Lake county.
II gives the prophets" widow, Mrs.
Jane DoRie only her dover and stat
utory rights in estate. His son, Glad
stone Dowie, gets SO. while Barnett
Burleigh, negro attendant, is given
s., 900 for saving Dowie's life in Jamaica.
The balance of the estate goes TO John
A. Lewis as trustee. Lewis is appoint
ed Dowie's spiritual successor and head
OF the church. If the court finds that
Dowie had no legal title TO the Zion
property, the viii directs the selection
OF a commission of five to determine
the disposition OF II.
Lewis announces that he will leave
to the leaders of the church the selec-
ton Of the spiritual leader. Lewis is
understood not to desire TO act in this
capacity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
CARNEGIE'S $I5,O0O,0OO
GIFT TO PITTSBURG

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 5.--A gift of
sis, OO0. 900 to the people Of Pittsburg will
in all likelihood be announced by An
drew Carnegie at the dedication of the
Carnegie Institute April Il Mr.. Car
negie wants to make the institutions he
has founded in Pittsburg seIf-support-
ing, and this vast sum will be an an
dowment for the institute and the Car
negie Technical Schools.
It IS said that this new gift is the out
come Of friction between the board OF
trustees OF the institute and city off,
Gals over the granting Of an appropria-
ton Of s250000 10 the institute this year.
Mr.. Carnegie, who viii arrive in Pitts
burg next Wednesday, has already
spent coo in building the institute.
and the technical schools when finished
will cOst S4.000.00O. The total amount of
his gifts to Pittsburg. including the
coming endowment, Will not be less than
SO GO GOO
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
BUTLER CRITICISES
THE PRESIDENT
Columbia University Head
Says japanese Course
Was Wrong.

NEW YORK, April 5.-Nicholas Nur-
ray Butler. president OF Columbia Uni
versity, IN a statement just issue1, de-
clares he believes President Roosevclt's
action in the San Francisco school ques-
ton was in the wrong direction, and
that San Francisco pursued the wisest
course IN her solution o. the problem.
DIR. Butler has jcst returned from the
Pacific coast, and has had personal OBJ
servatiOn Of tie whole question within
the past rlCnth Unless tle nation as
a whole taxes on itself The task of deal
ing with the japanese educational prob
lem, and that of Oriental immigration
as well, DR.. Butler thinks that San
Francisco. although she held an isolated
position in regard 10 the matter in heI
own State was perfectly Jus ffied in act
ing as she Gid.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
AFTER THE ENTERTAINMENTS,

she has a magnificent nat, said one,
but It is badly arranged. The parlor
is too far from the dining room"
THE wall PAPER is beautiful" re-
marked another. but the pictures are
abonlinable. It Is a pity to ruin beau
tiful walls
books" said still another, but III be
willing to wager a FIVE that none Of the
leaves are cut
In other words. said the man who
looks on. she has been awfully good
to US. She has taken pains 10 enter
tan US Let Us roast her. New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-05
The Teaching Power of $4,000.

For the first time an endowment
has been bestowed upon the Asso-
ciated Charities as an educational
institution. Similar gifts have fire.
quently been made local colleges
and underschooIs-in a spirit of
true and practical philanthropy-but
the $4,000 subscribed by Mrs.
Florence Lathrop Page is the first
gift of the sort to the largest gen
eral charity of the District which
is educational in character.
Few newspaper readers appreciate
the Importance Of the Associated
Charities as an educational institu-
ton. While the colleges and univer-
sites reach perhaps the most Sc
lected class. this body occupies it.
self with educating the most neg
lected portion of our citizenship.
The work it does consists Of teach
ing these lessons:
1. That of thrift. This lesson has
been so well received that $40, 900 is
now annually deposited in savings
by families which-except for Asso-
ciated Charities infuence-might
easily have become public charges.
?. That of self-help. Here the
proof of the teaching is to be found
in the fact that out of 4,5S7 appIiea-
tons for aid, only one in four, 1905
altogether, required aims for the
needed uplift.
3. That of improving the family
life. Drunkards have been re-
formed, families have been removed
from bad neighborhoods to good,
parents have been encouraged to fur
nish their homes comfortably and
simply, and a system of regular
visiting to 1000 families has kept
them true to the higher standards.
4. That of the right upbringing
of children. Thousands of young
sters now in school owe it to the
Associated Charities that they were
not allowed 10 run wild. that they
have had clothes enough TO study
with other youngsters, and that
their parents were kept mindful of
the advantages OF education. No
child is allowed to come into con-
tact with the charity of this asso-
eiation-though hundreds of them
are its beneficiaries every year.
At first thought, the interest on a
gift of $4,000 Will not go far in
work of this character. But it win
accomplish such wonders that the
onIoOker must be puzzled it has not
been duplicated many times. One
use of it might De the employment
of an agent. in which event this gift
viii provide the education and
watchfuI care indicated for the
needy of an eighth part of the city,
extending those benefits directly TO
500 families of not less than $500
persons. More than the interest on
So. 900 has more than once been
spent on charity for the redemption
of a single family. That Mrs. Page
has provided means for reaching
500 families every year is the true
measure of her splendid gift.