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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09


Nearly every time man more than
twenty-one years old goes to Europe for a
little rest the newspapers print front page
stories announcing that he has retired from
business and is going to spend the rest Of
his life enjoying the fruits of his toll. Now
it is Thomas F. Ryan who has quit the
game Mr.. Ryan has accumulated enough
money to enable him to live comfortably
for the rest of his life. and it may be true
that he is not going to work twenty-four
hours day any longer. Mr.. Ryan went
over to Washington last winter and learn
ed some things. He learned, for one thing,
that Mr.. Roosevelt was going to put the
screws on Mr.. Hartman. Mr.. Ryan came
back to- New York and proceeded to sell
some Of his gilt-edged securities at high
prices. About the first thing that he did
was to sell 10000 shares of Union Pacific.
surprised two months later when Union
Pacific sold down to $3.50.
The campaign that is being successfully
waged against bucket shops in various parts
nate exchanges. Very stringent anti-bucket
shop laws have been passed in Massachu-
sets. Pennsylvania, Missouri and other
states. and the managers of the big wire
systems" searching around for the
means to carry on their business and at the
same time keep out of jail.
While members of the New York Stock
Exchange hate to admit it, it is probably
tndC the aggregate uoHe ny
the bucket shops of the country is consider
ably in excess of that conducted on the
stock exchange. When the stock exchange
is struggling along a half a million
shares day business and brokers are dis
charging their clerks and cutting down ex-
penses generally. it is safe to say that the
bucket shops of the country are doing near
er a million shares a day. The bucket
shops run their wires all over the country
and furnish spectators facilities for trad
ing on small margins in small amounts Of
stock. Traders in interior towns. who are
ashamed to go into stock exchange house
to buy or sell ten or twenty shares of stock
satisfy their speculative appetite by giving
their business to a bucket shop. If the
closing up of the bucket shops throughout
the country would result In transferring
business of the bucket shops to the legiti-
mate exchanges the real markets for stocks
and commodities will be greatly broadened.
The value of legitimate market in securi-
ties is that 1t Is sensitive barometer of
values. enables public companies to raise
capital easily. and also enables investors
to buy or sell securities at moments no.
tice. The more trading there Is done in
the stock markets the more easily do they
perform their functions The transferring
of a large part of the bucket shop business
of the country to the stock exchanges
would make then. more useful to the COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

II is rumored that the New York. New
Haven and Hartford has offered to guaran-
tee the controlling interests in the Delaware
and Hudson. and is inclined to favor a
guarantee by the New Haven in preference
10 one by the New York Central.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
GRAND Jury REPORT.
To THE HONORABLE GEORGE l.. VAN
BIRBER, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
ron II ,nr,nD T,,,>.ry.

| To THE HONORABLE GEORGE l.. VAN
BIRBER, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR hartford COUNTY:
The Grand Jury for the September term
of court. 1907, beg leave to submit the
| following report:
We have examined fifty-four witnesses;
we have found twenty nine presentments
| and the same number of true bills of in
dictments; five indictments for larceny,
one indictment for bigamy, one for dis
orderly conduct, twenty-one for viola
ton of the local option law and one for
maintaining a gambling table.
We visited the county jail and found
confined therein three persons; one white
man charged with larceny, one white
man charged with bigamy, the other
serving sentence imposed by magistrate
We found the Jail as clean and comfort
able as is possible, considering the I'M
sanitary conditions of the building. We
found the sheriff residence and surround
ings neat and attractive.
In accordance with the instructions
from the Court In reference to female
traders and other licenses, we beg to saw
that we are convinced that the license
laws are being violated, but do not feel
that the evidence before us has been suit
fcient to warrant presentments and in
dictments, but suggest that the States
Attorney take these matters up and
procure the necessary evidence before the
next Grand Jury for its considerations
We thank the Court and its officers for
their kind assistance in the performance
of our duties and now respectfully ask
to be discharged.
WILLIAM f. MORGAN,
Foreman
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
COURT RECORD.

In addition to the indictments reported
in our last issue, the following were
found by the grand jury before they ad
iourned For violation of the local op-
ton law, Henv Hoitz; John Strong, not
yet arrested; Joseph krouse, two cases;
the Aberdeen Social Club; the Darlington
Social Club the Bel Air Social Club; the
Bel Air Shooting Association, two cases;
John T. James; Addison Saddler, not yet
arrested; George w. Elicit, Lawrence For
wood, three cases; John Maddox, color
ed, two cases; Howard Flowers, larceny;
Eliza J. Revel, habitually disorderly con-
duct; the Bel Air Shooting Association,
maintaining gambling table.
In addition to the cases of the social
clubs elsewhere reported, the following
criminal business has been disposed of:
]. Robert Scott, larceny of canning house
fixtures, the property of Joseph T. Deck
man, guilty; Sitter for state, Carver for
defense. James Guillott, larceny of can
ming house fixtures, the property of w.
L. Clark, not guilty; Sitter for state, J.
J. Archer for defense. Henry Hoitz,
violation of the local option law; in this
case the prosecuting witness, Henry
Hall, colored. signally failed to substan-
tiate his evidence given before the grand
jury last week, whereupon the States
Attorney confessed not guilty for the
state and swore out bench warrant
for the arrest of Hall for perjury.
The case of the State against Charles
J. Pointer is on trial as we go to press.
The evidence OF his wife. who is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Paul, of carlton. is long tale of de-
ception, abandonment and woe. Mrs.
Pointer obtained a divorce in Baltimore
from the II averser a few days ago. She
recounted how he had tempted her into
secret marriage in Camden, N. J., in
August 1899, how she had later told her
mother only, how he was continually in
prison for various crimes, until finally
in 1906 he had persuaded her to visit q
friend oyer night while they were living
in Baltimore and upon her return in the
morning her home had been ransacked
and he was gone. Finally she learned
that he had married Miss Hoffman, of
Clayton, Hartford county, (who is also
in court as prosecuting Witness
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
sURRENDERs TO THE LABOR PROBLEM

Probably many people who have been
of milk producers that they are unable
to produce milk at its present sellir &
price and leave themselves fair profit,
have assumed that this was another
illustration of the farmers croaking and
is not literally true; but when they learn
that Mr.. Joseph T. Hopes, one of the
leading dairymen of this country, who
during the past thirty years has built up
his mammoth plant recently described in
the Egis, has about decided to discontinue
business and sell his immense herd of
registered Jerseys because of scarcity of
labor and the high price of heterogeneous
food, and that Mr.. James Lee, who for
the past seven years has been closely
associated with him will do the same,
all question of the sincerity of their
statements is removed. Mr.. Hopes to-
day finds himself with two mixers where
he needs twelve, with no prospect OF
securing Others at a price which will justi-
fly their employment. He has therefore
aboutdecided and is no w actively engaged
in cataloguing his cattle, together with a
| portion of Mr. Lees herd, and expects
on the 23d and Oath of October, to sell
at the old Hartford fair grounds one OF
the choicest lots of Jerseys ever put on
| the market The famous auctioneeI
| Kerrick, who has among his other ex
ploits conducted the Cooper sales o
| Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, with sucE
marked success will have charge o
the sale, and will manage all of its de
tails. Mr.. Hopes ships daily to Balti
more nearly one hundred gallons of prime
cream, and when this large output i:
taken from the Baltimore market W.
predict that even in so large a city it!
loss will be be seriously felt. While hi
plans for the future have not yet beer
definitely formulated it is likely that h
will at once begin to fatten cattle ant
raise sheep on large scale. these indus
tries not requiring nearly so much labo
as the dairy.
Mr.. ]. Lawrence Mccormick who ha
kept herd of Guernsey and grade cow
and conducted the dairy business for tn
past twenty years has taken the same stel
and his advertisement will appear else
where in this issue of the .1>gis
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
BEL AIR NOTES.

Miss Mary Garnett McCarty, who has
been spending the summer with Mrs. J.
H. c. Watts, has left for trip to Niagara
Falls
MIR. and Mrs William A Hoblitzell. OF
Washing ton, De- c., are spending some
time with Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Hoblitzell.
Miss Emily Wilson is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Griffin Milton, of this town.
Miss Madeleine Robinson is visiting
friends in Frederick.
The Misses Hopkins entertained a num-
Der of their friends in honor of the Misses
Pennypacker, of Philadelphia, on Mon
day evening last with a bridge party.
Mrs Charles w, Shaw won the first
prize.
Charlottesville. Va, are the guests of Mrs.
Elizabeth Young.
Mrs J. Wilson Richardson and children
are the guests of her sister, Mrs ]. Ed
win Webster.
Mr.. Wallace Mclean, of Washington,
is spending some time at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Harlan.
Miss Minnie Nelson, of this town, has
returned to her home after spending a
couple of weeks with Mrs. John A.
Evans, at her cottage at Ocean City,
Maryland.
Margaret, the little daughter of DR..
and Mrs. Howard A. Kelly. is quite i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Birkmaier and
Miss Ethel Birkmaier. of California, who
have been spending the summer months
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. c.
Watts, have left for Baltimore, where
they will spend the winter at the Albion
Hotel.
Mrs. BENJAMIN Bissell has returned
from Washington, D. c., after spending
a couple of weeks with relatives in that
city.
Mrs. Purnell Sappington is spending a
week with friends In Baltimore.
Miss Helen MacLean, of New York
City, is the guest of Miss CARDIGAN Hun
ter.
Dr. E o. Street,, of Baltimore, spent
last Sunday with Bel Air friends.
Miss Elsie Watts is spending some
time with friends near Philadelphia.
Dr. and Mrs Delmar Smithers, of
Chesapeake City, are the guests of Mrs
Elizabeth Young.
Miss NJ. Lucille Robinson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Thomas H. Robinson, of
Bel Air, gave card party to several of
her friends on last Friday evening.
Miss Ellen NJ. Harris, of Bel Air, gave
an interesting card party on Wednesday
afternoon, in honor of Miss Helen Nc
Lean, of New York
Mr.. X. N. Hobitzell, assistant city
editor of the Baltimore American. is
visiting his parents in Bel Air.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
WALl-LAMB,

A very quiet, but pretty wedding was
solemnized on Thursday evening of last
week at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
II. Lamb. near Jarrettsville, when their
daughter, Miss Anna Maude, was mar
ried to Mr. Eugene Wall, of Townsend,
Virginia. Rev. S. M. Engle, of Bethel
Presbyterian church performed the cere-
mony Miss Helen Lamb, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor, and Mr.. S. Le-
roy Deets, cousin of the bride, was best
man. Miss Edna Tschundy, of Balti-
more, rendered Lohengrin's wedding
march as the bridal party proceeded
through the hall to the front piazza,
where the wedding took place just at
twilight. The bride was tastefully gown
ed in Paris muslin and carried a shower
bouquet of white carnations, and the
maid of honor was gowned in blue wolfe
and carried white carnations and ferns
The young couple will make their home
| in the South.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
From RaqlaN.

BAGLRY, September 17-Mrs. Samue
Watkins and children are spending a
short time at the home of her father, DR.
Charles Bagley, previous to their de
parture for Baltimore, where Mr.
Watkins and family will make Their
future home, he having sold his store
and property at Baldwin at a fancy
price will shortly engage in the mercantile
business on large scale in that city.
Mrs. Willard 6. Rouse, of Riverton, N
Mr.. A. Scott Robinson, near here.
Our school opened last Monday with
Miss Jennie Grafton as principal and
Miss Martha Grafton as assistant and
goodly number of eager school chill.
dren, among Others several little ones
who are now having their first week s
experience in the school room.
Miss Irene Baglev has returned after a
very ENJOYABLE visit at Atlantic City,
baltimore and Long Green Valley.
Miss Loretta Standiford, who assisted
last year at South Delta, has this year
accepted the principalship at Anglesidc
school, near Amoss.
Miss Nora Jones, one of Baltimore s
experienced teachers, has returned to her
home and duties after very pleasant
visit with her niece, Mrs c. {. Clark.
Misses Hattie M. Bagley and Edna
Stamford have resumed their teaching
at Greenwood Graded School, Fulford.
Mr.. John F. Stamford is engaged in
canning at Stockton, Worcester county.
Mr.. Wagner, a good shoemaker, has
rented a small cottage in our village
Miss Dora Curtiss has returned to Bal.
timore, where she is teaching in the
kindergarten.
Rev. H. J. Magonigal, the blind evan
gelist, conducted the Sunday afternoon
church service at Union Chapel NJ. P.
church.
The usual reports on the canning
season in this section are that there is
plenty of large firm fruit
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Road checks issued-DanielL Lynch, $50;
]. M. Carr, S21.35; Charles E. Creswell,
$49 Thomas Gunther, $42.O John S.
Hughes, S28. So; R. c. Croniu, $40; John
Middendorf, $205O; John T. Magness,
$3.50 9O;Clarence Wiley, 1912; James c.
Turner, So; Bailey J. Stellar, $14; c. P
McClung, $40 81; William A. Hope, $40
Joshua Rutledge, $21; l. Thompson, $25
lanes Troutner, $39.45; c. J. Dick
$31. 40; Lewis Barber, $24.5O; Lewis
McRca, $40; Charles Dick, $50.
Orders on Treasurer-E. H. Hall ant
Son, supplies forjail, $50 90; Noah Small
expenses taking insane person to hospital
$3O.68; Same, money advanced for labor
$123 20; E. H. Hall and Son, supplies
for almshouse, $s667; Bel Air Electric
Light Co, S5.31; Walter r. McComas
magistrates account, $685.; M. H
Fahey, magistrates account, $S4.75; J
w. Silver and Co.. Hickory road, So.
290.15; Andrew and Redding. Darling
ton road, ST, 500 60; Jesse S. McNutt
constable's account. $14.15; N. T. Amo
! supplies for almshouse, $41.52.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
From Havre de Grace,

HAvRE DE GRACE, Sept. 17.-The ex-
cursion season of the Colchester Steam
boat Company closed on Wednesday,
when the steamer Louise" brought a
large number of excursionistsf from Balti-
more to our city. On the following day,
September ~, the Louise" carried to
Annapolis an excursion given by the
newly organized aerie of Eagles" The
weather was perfect and those on board
were charmed with the courtesy of the
Eagles and the many things of interest
to be seen at the ancient Capital. A
bountiful dinner was served to all by the
Eagles at their headquarters, and every
lady was presented with a souvenir.
One of the most interesting objects was
the historic poplar on the grounds of St.
Johns College. This tree is certainly
five hundred yeats old and by some is be-
lieved to be six hundred years old. The
trunk which is partly hollow has just
been filled with cement by anexpert from
Jersey City. The old poplaris thirty. FIVE
feet in circumference and is said to be the
largest tree east of California
MIR. Walter T. Jackson who has been
in poor health for some time has been
much worse for the past ten days and is
u" pACNdllOuS SOllUlllOh MI.
Jackson's son, Norris, is also confined to
bed suffering from blood poisoning
brought on by cut on the foot which
he got when in bathing while visiting
the Jamestown Exposition.
Mr.. A. Kemp Richardson, an employee
at the Susquehanna Marine Works. was
caught in the machinery on Thursday
and painfully bruised. The slipping of
the belt by catching in his clothing caused
the machine to stop just in time to pre-.
vent him from being killed.
An alarm of fire was sounded on Fri
day at noon. The fire was caused by
gasoline stove in the home of Mr. Irving
Twins, on Union avenue Through the
prompt action of the neighbors in ex-
tinguishing the blaze only slight damage
resulted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hoopman, OF
Baltimore, are guests of Mrs. Jacob
Walker of Green street.
MIR. and Mrs William Beck, are visit
ing Mrs. Beck's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Osmond.
Cards are out announcing the coming
wedding of Miss Elsie M. Penning to MIR.
John |. Coulbourn, late principal of the
Havre de Grace High school.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
THE PATRIOTS SHRINE.

If carried out as designed, one of the
most interesting features of Home Com
ing Week will occur at Annapolis on Oc-
tober 10, Peggy Stewart Day, when a
bronze tablet will be placed on the old
tulip poplar located on the campus of St.
Johns College, directly in front of the
presidents residence. 1t is well estab-
lished tradition that under this tree
Gen. George Washington frequently rest
ed when in Annapolis, and every St.
Johns student is familiar with the
thousand and one traditions surround
ing its history, and in their memories
the old tree is held as almost sacred.
The huge tree has for nearly seventy
years had a dccayed center, which for
many years past has been protected at
its entrance with a board covering
Recently it has shown alarming signs 81
decay, and Mr.. ]. T. Withers, of Jersey
City, is now engaged in rjuvenating ii
| by a system Of tree surgery: The most
| important feature of this work is to re
move the dead wood and scrape away
all diseased portions and exclude the all
| by means of cement filling from doing
further havoc. st. Johns could as wei
afford to lose one of her main halls as tt
lose this old landmark so replete will
poetry and song.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
AN INDUSTRIOUS PRISONER.

A case strikingly illustrating the value
of labor in in it's disciplinary influence on
a criminal has recently cometo public at
tention in the person of Jim Vim, now
in the Maryland State penitentiary. Jim
was convicted of burglary in the Criminal
Court of Hartford county on the 21st day
of November, 1905, and sentenced to the
state pententiary for five years, where
he was placed in the iron foundry. He is
over six feet tall and of remarkably
strong physique, and to such good pur-
pose has he put his Drawn and muscle
that during the year ending the first of
last September he had earned for over
time work the handsome sum of $6O0.95,
his highest premium being in the month
of May, when he had placed to his credit
$50 81. 1t is further to inns credit that
large part of this money has been sent
to his family in Hartford for their support
and to his old mother in Virginia HIS
case is one of the many illustrations
which our state penitentiary furnishes OF
Its efficient management, and of the re-
forming influence gifts surroundings upon
its criminal inmates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
CUTTING ARRAY.

In cutting affray which occurred in
the hotel in upper Delta on last Saturday
night, Charles H. Thompson, who lives
near Delta, received a number of stab
wounds of so serious a nature that his
recovery is notexpected. Having visited
the hotel with Corbit Jones, David Will
liams and Thomas Parry, all quarrymen,
who soon got into an alteration with a
number of Italian quarrymen assembled
there, Thompson naturally took the part
of his friends. and in the scrimmage
which ensued he was almost stabbed to
death. He now lies in the hotel in pre-
carious condition, one of the thrusts hav-
ing perforated his lung, and from 1t air
and blood escape every time he moves.
The chief perpetrator, whose name is not
given, escaped, and it seems entirely pos
sible that all the guilty parties will go
UNPUBLISHED.
We are glad to state that this disorder
occurred across the Maryland and Penn
sylvania line and is not sample of
MARYLAND citizenship
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
To Sing Her Fathers Grand Old Song.
Special. |

BALTIMORE, MD, September 17.-One
of the pretty features of Maryland's Old
Home Week celebration in Baltimore
October l 3 to 10, will be the singing OF
that grand old song that stirs the hearts
of its hearers by the daughter of the
author.
At the reception to be given bv Cover
nor Wartield to the home corners at the
Fifth Regiment Armory at the opening OF
Old Home Week. Monday, October 14th,
there will be present Mr. James X. Ran
dali, the distinguished son of Maryland,
and author of Maryland, My Mary
land" and his daughter. whose Chris
tian name, by the way, is Maryland.
She has sweet voice and sings with
great expression her father scompositiOn.
Mr. Randall is now in Baltimore and
has made this promise to the Governor
on behalf of his daughter.
Mr. Randall will remain in Baltimore,
and the visitors to the city during Old
Home Week will have All opportunity
to meet and shake hands with the man
who has done so much to irnmortalize
MARYLAND:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20
From Darlington.

DARLINGTON, Sept. 17,-Mrs. John H.
Price entertained at week house
party Misses Caroline Hunter, Martha
Abel Hunter, Elizabeth Harlan, of Bel
Air, Helen Mclean, of New York, and
Clarence Price, of Pittsburg.
Mr. Joseph Thomas is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. c. Y. Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren F. Hibley, of
East Orange, New Jersey, are the guests
of Mrs George D. Whitelock.
Mr. Henry Rhorbaugh, of Baltimore
county, was the guest of his son, Rev.
l.. G. Rhorbaugh, last week.
Misses Isabel Brown and Juliet Scott,
have resumed their studies at the Normal
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Kirk, of Port De-
post, spent last Sunday with MIR. and
Mrs J. Fletcher Hopkins.
Mrs. William Silver gave delightful
reception at her home near Darlington
last Friday afternoon from four to six.
About seventy-fve persons were invited.
Misses Anna Bayless, Jean Smith, Dorthy
Smith and Mildred Smith assisted in the
dining room.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E Prigg are visit.
ing friends in Boston. Mass.
Mrs. Charles Worthington, of Chester
Pa, is the guest of Mrs. Rehecca Gould