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The Washington times., 1907-07-31

kept up year after year until last night
And then II ceased, and. maybe, has
ceased forever. This is why:
In excuse IL may be said that they
were newcomers, young in the ranks
and innocent OF the ways OF actor folk
She was a lithesome chorus girl and
he a ''supe" A supe is sometimes
called a spear carrier, a chorus man
and other things. all of which depends
on the temper Of the stage manager
and the department Of the victim.
And they fell IN love. They became
engaged to be married. AS any kind
OF an engagement Is welcomed by
these actor folk in the summer time.
they entered into It without rehearsals
and with all the ardor and vim OF an
enthusiast who knows the angel is
good for a forty-eight week run and
the salary satisfying.
The crowded stOOps Jared upon them.
glances and soft handclasps. They had
solateIy and she looked far over the
house tops into space.
Low, and actors can find a way, and
closed for the summer that offered its
ala. When the hours crept into the
night and the shadows from the stOOp
rail formed partial protection from
the curious. they snuggled themselves
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
BUSINESS MEN
RECEIVE INQUIRIES
Commerce Chambers Fams
Spreads and Information
IS Sought

The Washington Chamber Of Com
merce's fame has extended 10 distant
countries At least the numerous COM
municauo1s that come to Secretary
GUIDE and President Harper would so
indicate. There is scarcely a day but
some letter is received requesting infor-
nation ABOUT the city, and many OF
them concern business conditions here.
They come from all sections or the
country and occasionally from abroad
The chamber has not as yet issued
literature about the city. but President
Harper stated today that this was in
process Of production In the meantime
Secretary Guide IS buying whatever
pamphlets and literature he can find and
sending them on in response 10 IN
Quiries.
A meeting Of the subcommittee OF tbs
wholesale trade committee. Of which +,
=. May Is chairman, was held yesterday
afternoon. II was decided that each
member should devise ways and means
for bringing additional jobbing houses
70 the city and report 70 the whole
committee at its meeting next Tuesday
evening. The question was discussed
I'm a general way yesterday. 4 secre-
tary 70 take charge Of this work seemed
necessary. This was 70 be recommends
ed to the committee and to the direo-
tors.
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HAVE THE TIMES NAILED TO YOU
WEDNESDAY. JULY 81. 1907.
Lest We Forget

The Virginia corporation commls-
sion has at last found the focus on
the Washington, Alexandria and
Falls Church railway. The commits
sion has taken a long time at II.
But now that it has come to see the
operating methods ofthe road in the
light of a fatal disaster, it has fallen
upon the company with a virtual su-
percession of it's officers until ade-
quate safety appliances and oPerat-
ing rules are provided.
Suppose the tracks of that road
had lain in the District of Columbia.
Suppose the management had been
the same. Suppose that, in conse-
quence, there had been the same
lack of communication between
switches. of ordinary precautions
against probable accident, of any
thing save word-of-mouth and hold
up-finger signals. What then2
Why, the District of Columbia
would have found itself with plenty
of law and power to approve, but
utterly without law or power to
punish.
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PLENTY OF READING
FOR CANAL WORKERS

During their brief hour OF rest be-
tween the periods of making the dust
fly employees on the canal zone viii
now be able to read the cloicese DOCKS
of the worlds literature
Joseph Bishop. secretary of the 18TH
mfan Canal Commission, who has been
spending July with his family at Fal-
mouth. Mass, on Cape Cod, will sail
from New York for the isthmus with
them tomorrow Mr.. Bishop has. during
the month, selected and purchased by
order of the commission. libraries for
the four recreation buildings that have
been completed and thrown open for the
use OF the employees Of the commission
at Cristobal, CorgOna, Empire, and
Culebra. These Libraries contain about
600 volumes each, comprising standard
reference books. and volumes of history,
biography. travel and fiction. TIE fic-
ton is different in each library so that
il can be changed about from one
library to another. thus giving the en-
ployes much larger collection.
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The LabOrer'S S Hire.

\ grant of S25O,OOO has been or
dered by the British parliament, on
motion of the crown, TO Evelyn Bar
ing Cromer, controller general Of
Egypt from 1879 until recently re-
tired. This is not the first recogni-
ton of this administrator value to
protecting nation and protected. He
has been
Continued in Office as long as he
would stay;
Supported at home by govern
ments of all shades of political
faith;
Equipped with authority equal to
his responsibility;
Trusted to redeem Egypt from
squalor, poverty, and desert barren
ness, save the slender valley watered
by the Nile, according to his best
Judgment; ard
Made a baron and viscount while
still at work
How often has America Sustained
her abIest servants by any Of the
first three grants? In lieu Of full
trust, titles OF nobility, and gifts
of a quarter million, what has she
bestowed upon the strongest minds
in her executive Departmental
The answers to those two ques
tions will go far toward explaining
certain troubles which now embar
rass the United States in the zone
of the Panama canal-trOubles
which had no parallel in a work Of
much the same proportions in the
land of the pyramids.
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ment. He has remembered the ex-
perience of William Mckinley, who
had all the courage of his firm be-
lief in the protective system. When
his cause seemed, following the fear
full defeat that the Republicans ex-
perienced in the election of 1890, to
be hopelessly wrecked, Mckinley
went out stumping for the Mckinley
bill. He told the country that in
a little time nc would be vindicated;
that the high tariff meant prosper
ity. The country did not take his
word, but it must be remembered
that Ohio did, and he became its
governor, there to remain till he
should be called to the Presidency.
In 1892 the Democratic landslide was
continued, and Cleveland was the
second time elected President. Nc
Kinley still stood firmly for the
tariff system, and it was not long
until he was looked upon as the
country's one true prophet.
Foraker is plainly profiting by the
Mckinley experience. he knows the
devotion of his State to the protec-
ton theory, and he proposes to give
the State and the country oppor-
tunity to divide on this issue. He
looks at this time like rather the
most courageous Republican on
either side of the tariff proposition.
Unable to agree with him, for we
firmly believe that his doctrine is
worn out and archaic, we cannot
but admire both the strength and
the adroitness Of the man.
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The Business Anomaly.

Everybody seems bent on having
more prosperity, and lots of it, ex-
cePt the strictly speculative sharps.
Fall trade indications in this coun-
try point to such rush of buyers
to the great centers as has not beeR
known before. The crop reports
improve day by day, and the specu-
lative element in the grain pits, at
least, has been pretty well shaken
out. Nothing like this seasons re-
habilitation of the crop situation,
after a hOpelessly depressing spring,
has been known in many years.
Securities of all sorts continue
weak, low, depressed, and inactive.
Yet at the very same time that this
condition exists, general business is
so excellent that even a persistent
disposition to keep on exporting
gold does not have any notable
effect.
The fact seems to be that the
hNA y NCoAOll III oCLuL4Lat6 II C
sponsible for a large volume of
money staying out of the stock mar
ket, and therefore being available
for other uses. Nobody is making
any money in stocks, or, if making
it, nobody is able to realize it al
present. The same is true on prac-
ticaHy all the bourses of the world
It is not to be denied that there Is
some concern in all the financial
capitals about the outlook of the
money market; but general business
simply declines to be stampeded in
any degree. More labor is wanted
everywhere in this country, while al
the same time Europe is showing
real concern over losing it's labor
supply.
Japan recently failed to float bis
loan for use in its exploitation Of
Manchuria, and the failure ha:
| caused misgivings in some quarters
Looked upon from another angle
this failure may well be regarded
as a good sign. It simply mean!
that there are so many better pay
ing opportunities for investmen
that the London money marle
doesn't have money to spare 70,
such investment. Likewise as to tn,
decline in British consols. Peopl,
find so many other ways of making
money with their money, and o
making larger returns, that the gov
ernment securities are not so muel
in demand as they have been II
other and less generally prosperou
| times.
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The Ohio Committee.

He would be a violent partisan
who would urge that either side had
got away from the meeting of the
Ohio Republican committee yester-
day with a very decided victory. On
the whole, it looks like a draw, with
the decision made by a referee who
might reasonably be mobbed by the
audience. The State central com
mittee was the umpire, and it did
not show the courage of its cOnvic-
tions. Having given one decision
that was "tolerably close" in favor
of Secretary Taft, it rendered a sort
of Scotch verdict in favor OF Senator
Foraker when opportunity pre-
sented-
That Senator Foraker should have
mustered six Of the twenty-one
members of the State committee to
oppose the Taft Endorsement that
was certain to pass, is really evi-
dence that his case is rather
stronger than some recent develop
fnents in Ohio have justified his
friends to hope. But the Senator
has been there for some time, work
ing like a Trojan with his we'll
known effectiveness. There was a
general impression that three or
four was the outside number of
votes he would muster against a
Taft Endorsement.
Analyses of the committee vote
which purport to show the influence
upon it of the Senator's letter to
Committeeman Mccoy may safely
be set aside as hardly worth con.
sideration- 1t was impossible that
that letter should have had any con
siderable effect on the committee
The Mccoy epistle was calculated to
influence Ohio mainly in a secondary
fashion-that is, to influence Ohio
through its effect on the sentiment
of the country at large.
Senator Foraker has taken his
stand with the standpat tariff senti
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ADMIRAL EVANS
VISITS NENBERRY

Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. COM
mander-in-chief Of the Atlantic fleet, and
Rear Admiral Caspar f. Goodrich. COM
mandant of the New York navy yard,
came to Washington today for con-
ference with Acting Secretary of the
Navy Newberry and other department
officials concerning the work of the fleet
during August and September and up
TO the time of its departure for the
Pacific the latter part Of October or
early in November.
While it was not officially admitted
that the conference had 10 do with the
dispatch of the fleet to the Pacific, il
was learned that the work Of repairing
the vessels. target work, and other
things pertaining to the feet was dis
cussed with the view Of the transfer of
the vessels from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic. In connection with this, the dock
and navy yard accommodations on the
Pacific came in for a part of the dis
cusSiOn.
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POWDER TRUST
FAILED To BLOCK
GOVERNMENT BILL
Strategy in Dissolving Com
pany Discovered in
Time.

The legal controversy in the Powder
trust case promises to be a battle royal.
The unsuccessful attempt OF the Du-
Points to delay the filing OF the dissOlu-
ton suit at Wilmington, Del, has Gre
ated the impression at the Department
Of Justice that the Government VIII be
put 10 an unusual amount Of annoyance
before it can get before the United
States Circuit Court the fair and square
question as 10 whether the trust is OPP
Grating legally or IN violation OF the
antitrust laws.
The Powder trust Is the first OF a
half dozen great corporations already
hailed into court which has made any
attempt 10 block the filing Of the pa
pers. The DuPOnts' strategy, In pre-
for its holding company. almost caught
the Government unawares. Special As
sistant Attorney General ROadstrCm de
tected the maneuver In time 10 revise
the bill in equity an hour before fling
The Idea Of the Powder trust officials
is 10 raise the question Of jurisdiction,
on the ground that no such company
exists as the Z. l. Dupont de NemOurs
Powder Company, Of Delaware.
a similar action in Ohio in Mdrcn de-
Iayed the Government suit several
months. The action was 10 have been
begun In Cincinnati. but before the pa
per could be filed, the trust dissolved
the King Mercantile Company, which
had been marketing the output OF the
Ohio plant. and thus deprived the Gov
ernment OF Jurisdiction there
The Department Of Justice has nc
fears as to the legal proprlety OF AZ
act OF yesterday. and holds that the
mere dissolution Of one powder com
pany IN Delaware cannot operate q
throw tn, s1it out OF court
II is keeoirg It's eyes opened, however
to discover II the trust has done any
stacles to the Governments suit
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Failed to Come to Time.

Algernon Henry Pecksniff. the only
actor in the block who was known TO
lend money. visited each house IN turn.
"A complaint has been made 20 the
West Forty-seventh street police sta
ton because we indulge IN proper and
dignified conversation on the stOOps
every night" he told the astonished
actors and their friends. Two police
men are coming along here. What shah
we do with them2"
There were all kinds Of suggestions,
but II was at last decided 10 form the
whole pet canine colony into an army
and rOut the interferers IA confusion.
Everybody who owned a deg promised
10 be there TO defy the whole police
force, II necessary.
Eleven o'clock arrived and two police
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
CONFEDERATE RELIC
REACHES MUSEUM

Through the secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution, the United States
Government has just received and
placed among the historical collections
of the National Museum the bequest OF
the late Henry r. Magruder. of Balti-
more, who died several months ago in
Florence, Italy. where he had resided
for many years.
The bsqueSt includes the heavily
mounted gold sword and silver pitcher
presented to the father OF Henry Ma
gruder, Gen. John Bankhead Magruder.
of the Confederate army, by the States
of Virginia and Maryland, in apprecia-
1on or his services There Is also In
cluded a portait OF Mr. Magruder's sis
ter In pastel, a pocelain plate with a
picture of Nine Du Barry, and an oil
painting OF Jo.'
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
HAMLETS PLAY MORPHEUS:
NO MORE FRONT STOOPS
WITH REVELRY RESOUND
Loves Young DreamerS Cause Time-Honored
Custom of Night Step Parties to Be Aban-
doned Along Forty-fourth Street.

on the fourth step and co-o-ed to their
hearts content
The cooling went on until after all
the others had departed for bed. for
while they say an actor never eats, he
does sleep, in the summer at least.
Loves young dream had rarebit
fiend's awakening. There was swish,
a splash, and a pan of water, emptied
from an upper window Of house
next door, drenched the two.
THE kissing duet viii be followed by
an all-star act called Now Everybody
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

An Atlanta preacher says he has just
from Europe, and finds 1t grow
ing better, which he attributes to the
growth Of the tipping custom. This
seems to prove that America is financing
the moral uplift TO an extent that it
hasn't heretofore realized.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

Can Sleep the chief part OF which viii
be taken by yours truly" said a voice
dlsheartened, and fuming pair as they
fed home. And" continued the voice
I'm going TO see IL the police can't
break up this hamfatters' chorus on
the FtOonS every night .,
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

Teoflo Petriella is the manager of the
Minnesota iron ore strike. Mr.. Petriella's
name suggests that since the Italians
have been driving Pat off the railroad
gang they have been developing some
measure Of capacity for managing their
own politics, too.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
KEY TO PLOTS
Of ARMENIANS
IS DISCOVERED
Jerome Receives Seized
Trunk Thought to
Contain Secret.
More Charges Preferred
Against Father LeVout
as aSArch-ConSpirator.

NEW YORK. July s1.-A trunk. be-
lieved to contain papers that viii fully
expose the plots OF Armenian black
mailers and murderers. including that
which led to the assassination OF h s.
Tayshanjian, the Union square ner-
chant, was forwarded TO District At
torney Jerome today from Lowell.
Mass. where II was seized by the pO-
lice In the room occupied there by
TavshanJian's slayer.
Evidence that Father Levont Mar
toogessian and Bedros Khachadorian.
alias Hampartzoomian. were intimate
acquaintance, continues to pile UP. not
withstanding the denial OF the priest
that he ever knew the murderer. A
charge Of murder. as fOreshadowed By
the district attorney when Levont was
arraigned before Judge OSuIivan IN
general sessions yesterday. may be made
at any time against the priest
Six More to Prefer Charges.
Six more wealthy Armenian merchants
are expected to prefer. charges against
Father Levont today. The handwriting
or certain letters sent by blackmailers
viii play an important part IN the case.
TavshanjIan received q letter from
Ll4t1c CONS 10 XII MN Only LnO
hours before he was shot and experts
IN handwriting viii endeavor 10 deter
mine who wrote H. They have the Sig
nature OF the priest written many times
when he was commanded by District At
/ torney Manley Smith.
: II Is said that the admitted writing
/ OF Father Levont IS the same as that OF
| the six threatening letters received By
Z merchants after Tayshanjian's assassi-
nation.
Partial Confession Made
Father LevOnt is locked up in tbs
I Tombs Tar away from the cell OF Bed
/ ros KhachadOrian. The latter. who has
, already made a partial confession. Is
| expected 10 ampIify II until the whole
! series or plots in which he is believed
! 10 have taken part are made known.
I Nicholas Milack. keeper OF a restau-
rant at "a East Twenty-fourth street.
/ who was released on orders OF Mr. Je-
/ rome. has made a confession, II IS said
| 70 the district attorney. and was about
20 tell a great deal more when the DO
( Ice again arrested him because OF the
/ large amount OF goods believed to b
/ stolen which was found in his place.
/ The police say he runs a fence"
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

The news editor claims to have OBJ
served Of late the curious phenomenon
that most of these freaks Of nature oc-
cur at or near places where there are
located good, active, imaginative CORE
spondents. Students of nature-faking
might find this lead worth investigating.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

The State Of Delaware has spent a
good deal Of its time lately without any
Senators. and II 1t will take the trouble
to read the bill of complaint In the
Powder trust case It will very likely feel
that there are worse things for a State
than not to have any Senators.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
No Trace Of Mrs. Nicholson. =.

HeartbrOken by his wffes mysterious
disappearance, Walter Nicholson, OF el9
Pennsylvania avenue southeast has ex-
hausted every means Of finding her.
Inquiry at various places where Mrs
Nicholson has friends has failed to re-
veai her whereabouts. and the distract
ed husband has given up hope of ever
hearing from her or seeing her unless
she comes back Of her free viii.
There is no reason why Maggie
should have left me-" he is reported 10
have said this morning II did ali d
husband could 10 make her life happy,
and her every whim was a ,onmand
with me. Never In our four years of
married life did we ever quarrel, on the
contrary we were happy and cOntonted -
The theory she has done away with
herself over some fancied grievance with
her husband is secuted by her friends
with whom the pretty young matron Is
popular.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

II the radicals of the country want to
prove how almighty small a crowd they
really are, they will do it in effective
fashion by nominating Haywood for
President
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

It Is also sworth mentioning that Ad-
dicks rather has the laugh on those
folks who thought they were too good to
let him represent them in the Senate.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

Still. there are yet remaining quite
a number of Senators whose names
have not been mentioned in suits against
trusts. and who are not under indict-
ment
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

Ohio ministers have been cut off from
the half-rate privilege on railroads.
They may console themselves with the
thought that salvation Is entirely free
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
TAFT ACCEPTS INVITATION
TO SPEAK AT COLUMBUS

Secretary of War Taft has accepted
the invitation to address the Buckeye
Republican Club, OF Columbus, Ohio,
August 70.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
R. C. Batten's Vacation.

r. G. Batten. OF the Interstate Com%
merce Commission leaves today for
few weeks vacation. his destination
being Port Antonio and other British
West Indies points.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

The Greeks and Turks have succeeded
in moving the war cloud back into the
Balkan region, anyhow.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31
Sister Is Gone, Too.

Miss Cook left the boarding house sat
urday. after a difficulty with the land
lady, and left no address. Neither the
inmates of the boarding house nor her
relatives at the Virginia apartments
know her present address.
Mr. st. Clair. who was telegraphed for
Immediately after the disappearance, is
a prosperous mattress maker, residing in
Philadelphia. He had. his mother de-
clares, intended 10 have his young wife
come TO him IN the near future.
The police so far have been unable TO
find any trace OF the missing girl. All
Of the precincts have been notified OF the
disappearance and are on the lookout
for any one answering the description of
Mrs. St Clair.
The Washington times., 1907-07-31

NEW YORK. July Silt was mighty
quiet along West Forty-fourth street
In fact. the stiffness was so great 1t
could almost be felt. and thereby hangs
a tale unusual
From time immemor1al almost the
stoops Of various brownstone houses In
one block have been the rendezvous for
those unfortunate thespians who are
forced 70 linger Idly IN town during the
summer, paying their board as they may
and seeking positions where they will
The Shoppers are a time-honored
aggregation OF blondine beings with pet
dogs. heavy browed persons with long
drawls and others with foOtlight char
acterictics that are obviously plain.
Scraps OF Hamlet" fall from their lips
on the night air as the ''stoop parties"
gather. petting parlor CANNES. and the
saying that 1.-The whole world Is a stage
Is thought to have been the utterance
OF a stranger gazing at the actor
blocked stoops Of Forty-fourth street
for the first time.
Custom Time -Honored.
That anything could ever happen 20
break up this time -honored custom Of
"stooping' never entered their minds,
and so the soft singing, the chattering'
and the barking Of the pet dogs was
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Has Always Been Happy.

blanche has. 50 far as ] could tell,
always been happy" she said yesterday.
She has been married TO my son for
two years. and during that time they
have both been affectiOnate and happy.
Recently she showed slight symptoms
OF discomfort. which have been gradual
Iy becoming more and more pronounced
Sne said last Monday that she would be
better of dead than alive but at the
time 1 never thought OF taking her seri-
ous'y."
Mrs. Hardy seems TO connect Mrs. st.
Clair's peculiar conduct. eliminating
with the disappearance, with the infiu-
ence of her unmarried sister, MISS Annie
Cook who until recently has been living
al 463 II street northwest
She says that the girl went over 70
the boarding house a good deal recently,
and states that Miss Cook seemed 20
hold an influence over her younger sis