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The Washington times., 1907-03-26
The Currency Situation,

Secretary Cortelyou is coming in
for the same sort of criticism that
was aimed at his predecessor at the
Treasury, because he has +cOme to
the rescue of the money market"
Taking the broadest view of the
matter, it seems absolutely neces-
sary, under present currency condi-
tions in this country, that the
Treasury maintain pretty intimate
relations TO the money market
The currency systems of the world
are based, speaking broadly, on the
government debts. The national
bank circulation, and the circulation
OF Treasury notes, in this country,
are based on Government debt But
il happens that this country is so
fortunate-Or unfortunate to
have a small Government debt, in
adequate under any system to serve
as foundation for a sufficient and
sufficiently elastic currency. There
are plenty of economists who be-
Eeve a government debt is a national
blessing. Certainly France and Eng
land seem 10 furnish proof that it
is not an unmiXed evil.
The United States has no currency
system. 1t has a most interesting
lack of system. Until order shall in
some small way be brought out of
this chaos, It viii be impossible to
keep the Treasury out of the money
market
The Washington times., 1907-03-26

that expert testimony can be pur-
chased by the highest bidder"
If medical experts are looked
upon with a certain degree of skep-
ticism by the public. as doubtless
they are, the reason is not far TO
seek. 1t is pretty well accepted
that a high-priced experts views are
on tap for either party indiscrimi-
nately, and that the first side that
is fortunate enough to procure his
services gets his opinions. 1t is also
generally suspected that the medical
expert must hold up his side of the
case against any and all corners.
and that his distinguished brother
on the other end of the action must
do the same for his employers. In
other words. the thing is believed to
be cut and dried, and the public
cannot be blamed for feeling that
when two great men get up and
swear to exactly the opposite thing,
there is something wrong with med
ical Jurisprudence.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26

University fund if Mr.. Houdini could not
get out of a box which would be made
by employees Of the six largest contract
ing firms Ia the city, and Slo30 10 the
person who could get out OF the box
which was still 10 be built on the stage
last night and leave IL In the same
condition as HOudlni- The seven pack
ers from Kanns then built the box IN
der the supervision Of more than twenty
men whom Mr.. Chase invited 10 the
stage. II was heavy, compact and tight
IN sliled with HOUGini inside. Yards
Of stout rope were wrapped around II
and tied IN oil sorts OF knots The
canopy was dropped over the box and
in less than fifteen minutes Houdlni
stood before the audience, the DOX in
tact. the rope in its place and not one
of the twenty men on the stage could
find the slightest evidence that IL had
been t1mpered with. Houdinis tie was
q ItsIe aWry- but otherwise he was out
wardly undistuTbed-
The other features Of the bill were in
teresting and mdnifestiy highly enter
tanning 10 the audience Bowers, Wal
tiers. and Croker. in a slap-stiCk turn,
were very funny and kept the audience
I'm a roar. An animal act performed by
ponies. dogs. monkeys. and bears was
novel. ard Helena Frederick repeated
her success Of last season in series
of vocal numbers. Snyder and Buck
lev had a good musical turn. and James
II Cullen offered several songs. Other
musical numbers We're provided by
HARRY Evar s. and the American Vita
graph presented pictures of mountain
climbing in the Alps
The Washington times., 1907-03-26

full occasion to fear that the tunnel
might easily assist in a raid on their
shores. In other words, England's
eneompassment by the inviolate
sea-" which the subchannel tube
would terminate in the interest of
commerce, is too valuable war fac
ter to be lost.
In lieu of a tunnel, however, those
who shy at this military spook, feel
called upon to offer a substitute.
Their way may prevail. 4 nation
which permits France at her front
door and America 5000 miles away
both to tap her trade because she
refuses to adopt improved machin-
cry may easily enough accept a sub
stitute. And the substitute is--a
Channel ferry. As trains are now
carried around Manhattan island in
boats, it is proposed to carry them
from Dover to Calais.
Another curiops phase of the con-
troversy, in Yankee eyes, is the long
argument to prove that the Channel
ferry idea is practical OF course,
IL is practical OF course, trains can
be carried across the Channel. Of
couse, travel between London and
Paris can be through without
change" The people who operate
the Suez canal need ma proof of
that And - viii probably be done
whether the tunnel is built accord
ing to the pending plan or not. But
if it is done, it viii no more stop
the talk of a tunnel than the inven-
tin of iron wheel hubs for wagons
stopped the development of the au-
tOmobile.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
As to Expert Testimony.

At a meeting of number of ply
sicians in Boston the other evening,
the matter of an expert testimony
in important trials was discussed
with spirit, and a considerable
amount of interesting talk. At the
close an organization was formed
to include alienists and various med
Teal experts, and which viii have a
board of censors to pass on every
man applying for admission, so that
there may be a recognized standard
of honesty and integrity in court.
1t was expressed as the hope of
those present that out of this body
of men railroads and other corpora
tions would make their selection for
the giving Of expert testimony in
cases that might require the need
of medical opinion.
The attitude of the public toward
medical experts was one of the mat
tiers brought up for consideration,
and one Of the physicians gave as
his opinion that "the reason why
medical experts do not make a bet
Ter impression on the public by their
testimony in court is because, by
the rules Of evidence, they have to
answer all the assinine questions
that ignorant lawyers can frame.
The medical profession has to a de-
gree been brought into disrepute.
not with the courts. because they
understand. but with the whole peo-
pie by this system of eross-eYami-
nation. The people have the idea
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
WANT DELEGATES
At NEXT SESSION
Business Mems Association
Will Present Petition
to Congress.

The Business Mems Association of the
District of Columbia will hold a speeia
meeting this evening at GUIDES Hall
1914 F street northwest. for the purpose
of considering the question of petition.
ing Congress to pass an act providing
for the election of delegates to repre-
sent the District in Congress.
The committee on law and legislation
was directed at the last meeting of the
association to prepare a bill upon this
subject for presentation TO Congress al
its next session, and the bill drafted by
the committee viii be considered and
voted on at the meeting to be held this
evening.
It is stated that the bill which will
be submitted to the association this
evening win be similar to the bill in
troduced in the House at the last ses-
sion of Congress by Representative Kline
of Pennsylvania. Mr.: klines bill pro
vided for the election Of two delegates
10 represent the District on the floor of
the House.
1t is understood that there will be 2
large attendance of members of the as
ISOLATION at the meeting this evening
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
Not Roosevelt Alone.

The striking thing is the way we'll
known Democrats of conservative ten
denotes. as we'll as Republican business
men visiting down there, agree that
Roosevelt must be TenOminated- They
all saw no matter to what party they
belong. that the only man that can save
the country from the election of Bryan
is Roosevelt. and that he ought to put
aside personal preferences and accept a
denomination
Roosevelt does not want 10 run. and
won't run, unless forced into 1t by some
emergency, ia my opinion, but the sen
timent of the mass of the people, the
country over. is that Roosevelt ought %
run again, that he has a unique per
sonality. and that his policies could be
carried out by no other as we'll
So does Calvin D. Paige, of Massa-
chusetts, carry to the old Bay State
news which is posted on every bill
board in the country. He has just
made a tour of the South. He has
met what every traveller meets: a
general desire on the part of the peo-
pie to see the Roosevelt policies full
flled-and he had observed what is
written in the sky: that the voters
of both parties believe Theodore
Roosevelt competent to fulfill them
But all this is still more remark
able in Democrats than Mr.. Paige
seems to think. For Theodore
Roosevelt is no mugwump. He is
distinctly a good party man. Though
he has opposed the Republican lead
ers to obtain railway rate legisla-
ton, tariff reductions for the insu-
lar dependencies, prosecutions under
the Sherman antitrust law, and
Others results, he is still vigorously
not a Democrat
When the voters of both parties
seem eager to ACCEPT him, therefore,
and for what may well be called a
third term, it is not only an indiea-
tion Of great faith in him, hut a
proof that the issues he represents
are in the public mind of Importance
beyond any familiar demarkation of
party lines.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
HONEYMOON TRIP
WITH DOG TRAIN

ROCKVILLE, Nd, March 26.-AIaskan
Mail Carrier Eli A Smith, who jour
neyed from his bailiwick 20 Washing
ton in a cart drawn by seven dogs, and
who was married in this city several
days ago to his cousin. Dora A Har-
bauRh left here yesterday to travel 10
HageFstown in his odd conveyance. His
smiling bride, who, II is understood, was
a distant cousin and boarded in Wash
ington for several months, went with
him. They expect 10 remain In Hagers-
town for several weeks and journey
over the roads to the jamestown Expo
sition. After doing the Trau and
Warpath they viii ride TO Alaska in
the combination cart and sled
Smith came here last week and regis
tered at the Corcoran Hotel After a
three days stay he left suddenly and
returned with a charming young woman
with whom he was united in the bonds
Of matFimOny. The two seemed very
happy. and consider the marriage an
ideal union. They did not seem dis
posed TO talk OF the marriage. but pre-
ferred 10 have Smiths seven wolf dogs
and his S,O00-mile trip from Alaska the
subjects OF conversation.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
Theodore. dr.. Thinks
Publicity Given Him
Entirely UnbeComin0

Reports come from the White House,
through friends Of the family. that
Theodore Roosevelt. IT.. who is home
from Harvard for the Easter vacation.
is not q happy freshman.
Truth to tell, young theodore 3las
had more publicity than he fancies. lie
is really a modest and unassuming
youth. who would be delighted 10 pur-
sue the even tenor Of his college duties
without being singled out as the son Of
a President. and forced into the lime
light on every possible occasion But
the newspaper correspondents at Cam
bridge have found him one Of the good
things" Of the institution. Any story
about him was sure To get printed. and
when stories were scarce, why-if The
young man is quite justified in his
grievanCe-they were invented
AS a result. young Theodore is not
certain about anything he would like
70 be democratic and plain, and 20 set
along on his merits. He has got along
swimmingly. he belongs to the most eX-
elusive clubs, and is in a fair way to
some recoEnIJisu as an athletic fac
tor. But whether he has attained 10
any Of this distinction purely on his
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
vOGETS BIG CITY MINISTRIES
A CLEAN AND FUNNY SHOW

VozeVs CITY Minstrels are at the Ma
iestic this week and they played 10 ca
nacitv house last night. The perform
ance opens as usual with the inter
Iocutor. end men, and their jokes inter
spersed with songs. The jokes were
mainly new, but even the old ones were
So well told that the laughs came just
the same. The vocal hits were Love
Ne and the World Is Mine by Thomas
Murray. who was recalled several times,
and NY Pals Are Ny Pipe and My
STEIN sung by James z. Emerson. In
black face. Al II. Terryl cOnvulsed the
audience with Let Me Down Easy
and parodies Sam Harris was notably
good also in a couple of coon songs.
The first part closed with Annie
Laurie by the louisiana Glee Club
The two features of the second part
were AL TerryI again In songs and mon
oIosue and 'Iarseilles' in acrobatic
.oDtortiors. If ..MarseiIles'' has any
homes they do not interfere in the least
with his acrObatic turns, which are
This part also includes a number of
excellent aerial feats by kyler, and a
cIeverIv arranged dancing number by
men In Jockey costumes, with appro-
pirate race track settings. The clog
entertainment closes with a MARCUS
black face sketch
Vogers n instrels as a whole give a
clean. lauglIable, and entertaining per-
formanCe. which deserves full houses
the entire week.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
Crossing the Channel.

Nearly $1,000, 900 seals the serious
ness of the revived project to tunnel
the English Channel. With two
tubes beneath the North rivera
very much lesser achievement-and
the Alps pierced by two long tunnels,
English and French engineers have
taken new interest in the old plan
of connecting Britain and the Cont
nent by rail
\ bill, sustained by a deposit of
e175,OOO, is now before parliament.
ii will be much discussed. Appar-
emily most of the talk will come
from opponents; and TO US of Amer
lea. to whom such an enterprise
would be solely matter of practi-
cabiity or means. the ground of the
opposition will seem decidedly Gu
riOus.
For it is almost entirely military.
The thing feared by the English is
that the tunnel might be used for
an invasion before there could be any
formal declaration of war-presum-
ably On the part of France. Eng
lands costly subjugatiOn of the Beers
and the conflict between Russia and
Japan are recent additions to a long
list of wars begun without deliher-
ate notice between the cOmbatants.
In the light of those two campaigns,
say publications like the Nineteenth
Century and the Spectator, there is
The Washington times., 1907-03-26

personal merits he isn't certain. And II
is an uncomfortable uncertainty.
Theodore doesn't Ike to be questioned
about his college experiences. The story
is not an attractive one to him. He mas
a terror Of q kodak, and the sight Of
a notebook makes his turn pale. He Is
fearful Of giving expression TO the most
casual comment on any public question
lest il may get into print He attended
a comic opera and an enteTprising cor
respondent had him engaged 10 marry
the youthful and winsOme star. II
turned out that he had never met the
young woman lie went 10 Boston, and
he and his cnum were represented as
having assaulted a cop" and put the
limb of the Jaw out OF business. He was
followed through the processes or lnip-
alton into The Hasty Pudding CLUB.
More recently he was represented as
being sick, though his tennis game on
the White House court has been re-
garued by good judges as better TINS
spring than last year. he assured
irier9 that he has not raised any money
at all for the maintenance Of the racing
crews. though he has been represented
as winning high rank and the prospect
Of becoming assistant manager Of the
rowing crews next year by reason Of
his successes as a money raiser. The
y0Gng man would be glad 10 do the rest
Of his college course incognito, but 10
body has discovered any practical means
for arranging that.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
BEAUTY'S 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.
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 Building, 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-
rapheTs:
Atkinson. 1916 i4th st. northwest
Bachrach. 1881 F street northwest
Bell. 1928 q street northwest
Boyce. .....i325 F street northwest
Buck ....ft13 F street northwest
Gilbert. COZ nth street northwest
Paine. .923 F street northwest
Parker. 1928 F street northwest
Prince PA. ave. and 18th st. n. W.
Rice. 1908 F street northwest
Towles. ..iio7 F street northwes:
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
SNOW AND RAM

The first man to whom it ever oc-
CURED TO find how much rain was
represented by a given fall of snow was
Alexander Brice, of Kirknewton, who
in March, 1865, made a simple expert
ment with the contents of a stone lug
driven face downward into over siY
inches OF snow. What he learned was
that q greater or less degree of cold
or of wind, when the snow falls and
its Lying a longer or shorter time on
the ground. viii occasion a difference
in the weight and IN the quantity of
water produced; "but if. he added. Il
may trust 10 the above trials, which
I endeaVored 10 perform with care.
snow, newly fallen. with s moderate
sale of wind, freezing cold. will pro-
duCe quantity of water equal to one
tenth part of its bulk" SO that a fan
of snow of ten infhes represents a
rainfall of one inch. 'zLOndon Chronicle.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
HOUDINI PACKS HIS HOUSE
AND DEFIES PROF. JOYCE

An audience that packed Chase's The
alter last night had the opportunity TO
see Houdini. "the handcuf king" vim
dictate himself OF the charges of fraud
that are alleged TO have been made
against him following his last engage
ment in Washington. A spirited Joint
debate was one OF the unprogramed fea-
lures of his act, during which chaI-
lenges were sent flying through the air
Ike the birds of spring. Sums of money
way up into the thousands figured in
the challenges, and when the perform
anee was over everybody felt as though
they had received their moneys worth
HOudini challenged Prof joyce, who
he said, was in the audience, to prove
MS charges Of fraud. He promised the
audience If Mr.. joyce aid so. he Hou-
dini, would forfeit TO the George Wash
ington University fund $500, the amount
Mr.. Joyce is said TO have realized on
his EXPOSE" of Houdini He STIPULATED
mat II the charges were not proved
Prof. Joyce should forfeit a like sum
70 the same cause A voice from the
back Of the house asked for recogni-
ton. Who are yOU2 asked Houdini
am -, from the mountains Of
North Carolina, and I want to ask YOU
II you VIII get out of box made by
Prof. Joyce, and which he can bring
here at I'VE minutes notice?'
u course you are not a COnfed-
crate of Mr. joyce" said HoudfDi.
meaningly, "but/I will tell you that if
Mr.. joyce will come on this stage with
mis- $500. build a box out of the ma
terials which are here provided by the
firm Of kanni l viii either get out of
1t or forfeit $500" Enthusiastic ap-
plause greeted Houdini, who manifestly
had the audience entirely with him
Mr.. Chase then stepped forward and
offered $500 to the George Washington
The Washington times., 1907-03-26

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March %
The extremes TO which a thoroughly
earnest and ambitious medical student
win go 10 further mis- knowledge Of the
science was illustrated here by r. II.
Eisenhart. who fought a battle with a
mad dog until the animal was captured
and then taken for dissection TO the
laboratory of the Indiana Veterinary
College. The young man assisted IN
the dissection, and found unmisrakable
proof that the animal had been at
hicted with rabies. The next morning
Eisenhart left for Chicago TO undergo
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
The Panama Achievement.

That was a suggestive observa-
ton which Congressman Pollard
made when he got back from a visit
TO the canal zone. Mr.. Pollard de
clared that American administration
on the isthmus is already become
the wonder and admiration of the
people of South America, 1t is con-
vincing them that the people of the
big northern republic really have
something to teach them, and that
its lesson is one in governmental
and administrative quality and eff
ficiency, rather than in conquest and
expansion.
Several South American govern
ments, according to Mr., Pollard,
have indicated their wish to adopt
the methods by which, under Ameri-
can management, the zone has been
made not only a safe, but a desirable
place for residence. They point
out that if scientific sanitation and
proper governmental methods can
make such a notorious pesthole as
the isthmus a safe and comfortable
place in which TO live, can rid it of
disease, and bring into subordina-
ton the tumble of population ele-
ments that constitute the popula-
ton, then, indeed. is it possible that
the tropics, as a whole, may yet be
made to attract people of the tenn
perate climes, with the result that
a great influx Of energy, population,
development. and new wealth must
result.
The tropics cannot long be denied
their hearing Civilization and prog
ress have largely overlooked them:
yet they are VIGOROUSLY the richest
region of the earth. The people of
the temperate belts have feared the
tropics because they did not know
how to guard against diseases pecu-
liar TO those regions. The South
American governments are discover
ing that North American science and
energy are solving these problems;
and they believe that in this sOlu-
ton is the potentiality of greater
things for the south than in a dozen
trans-isthmian canals.
Mines, forests. fruits, all kinds of
riches await the garnering hand of
capital and progress throughout the
tropics of both continents. When
ever these regions shall have been
made safe and attractive as places
Of residence for the millions that
are now all too crowded in some
parts of the temperate zones, there
viii be such a development between
Cancer and Capricorn as has never
before been dreamed. 1t viii be a
development that is possible only
through the substitution of colOni-
zation for exploitation, Throughout
the centuries the tropics have been
exploited by the people of the North
Temperate zone. They have had
well-nigh as much damage as bene-
fit.
When people bred to the north
shall learn how to live under the
equator, then will the riches of the
worlds richest areas be opened, to
pour out their substance upon all
the world. If the strenuous expert
ment of Americanizing the zone
proves a lesson of this sort, it will
be worth vastly more than its cost.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
PAT WHITES GAYETY GIRLS
PLEASE LARGE AUDIENCES

THE Gayety Girls" with Pat White
in the leading role of the two mirth-
provoking burlesques. which open and
close the bill at the new Lyceum this
week played to two large audiences
yesterday afternoon and evening at this
popular playhouse. The two farces,
"Casey's Vacation" and "Skid-do-dO-
DO" are replete with ridiculous situa-
tons. and kept the audience in an up
roar throughout. The chorus is com
posed of a bevy of pretty girls, VINO are
attractively costumed. and go through
their PAGES with a breeZiness that makes
a decided hit The olio is fair. 1t in
cludes Lewis and Green, in a series of
songs and monologues; Amos, in q
comedy juggling act; the ZeTaldas in a
hand balancing stunt. the ever present
novelty musical act, by the Musical
Rells; and a 6uOlogue by Rene Wash
burn and Belle Austen.
The Washington times., 1907-03-26
B00KKEEPER ARRESTED;
ENLIGHTENMENT CHARGED

Accused OF having embezzled about
500 OF the cOmpany's money, Henry Y
Scott twenty-five years old, employed
as a bookkeeper by the American Ice
Company. was arrested yesterday af-
ternOon by Central Office Detectives
Warren and O'Dea. The warrant for
his arrest was sworn out by Samuel A.
Kimberly, Washington manager Of the
company.
The police say Scott admits the charge,
be arraigned in the Police Court until
and says ne has been taking small
sums since last July. Experts are now
working on the books and he will not
the alleged shortage has been definitely
learned.