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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
SOLDIERS TEMPORARY HOME.
Board of Managers Holds Meeting for
Consideration of Business

The board of managers of the Soldiers and
Sailors Temporary Home held its monthly
meeting last evening at the institution. 106
I'd street. The president of the board. Col
benjamin +. Chase. presided. and called at
tentlon 20 the communications that have
been sent to all the states in the Union in
quest OF data concerning soldiers homes
and The values of land and buildings used
for such purposes. He said the managers
had learned that in some states hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars are invested in SOL
d!ers' home properties
Capt. William Peacock and other members
OF thc board gave notice OF their dctermina-
ton 10 use the infoTma ion thus obtained
before the next Congress in united effort
To- have an Appropriation made for the pur-
chase OF erection OF a building for the tenn
yurary home in this city or its suburbs.
. capt. \ a Maxim. superintendent OF the
home. presented his monthly report showing
tlat many transient and INDECENT soldiers,
sailors and marines of the civil war and the
war with Spain had been taken into the in
stitutIon and given shelter and food and in
some instances clothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
HOPE FOR OLD ORCHARDS.
RENEWAL Prescription to Revivify
Played-Out Trees.

F. H. Ballou Of the Ohio experiment
station maintains in a report to the De.
partment of Agriculture that old, neglected
orchards which have bten overgrown with
weeds and brambles and have become no,
only worthless but a menace to new.
well-cared-for orchards. may be renewed
SO that they may be a valuable source
Of fruit, especially while new orchards
are coming into bearing.
Instead of these orchards being destroyed
to prevent the spread of diseases and nox-
ious weeds to newly planted orchards, he
explains how they may be renewed in
such a way that the injurious insects and
diseases may be effectually and easily COM
bated and controlled, and the old trees
made to produce fine fruit for home and
market while the young fruit trees are
growing.
Mr.. Ballou explains at the outset that
renewal Is a reversal of the generally
prevailing idea of pruning up old tre es.
1t is distinctly a process Of pruning
down."
The type of trees with which renewal
is not practicable Is that type whose heads
have been formed at an extreme height
from the ground, and whose naked
branches, from that elevated point of d.
vergence, extend many more feet upward
and outward, with no intervening smaller
branches" says Mr.. Ballou. Usually a
tree that was originally headed moder.
ately low and whose lower branches are
In COCA condition can be successfully re-
newed
Cut put the topmost branches the first
season of renewal, leaving all healthy
side branches. The next season these
horizontal branches may have their eX-
tremities Topped back with the primers in
such way as to promote a uniform, well
rounded, symmetrical head or top.
1T will be necessary to saw large
branches first on the under side. then on
the upper side, few inches farther out
or up the branch ii the direction of Its
growth. This allows the branch to break
off without splitting the part remaining.
second cut. at an angle. can then be
made without difficulty, leaving a smooth,
clean-cut stub.
"All wounds should be dressed, a few
weeks after cutting, with a thick paint
made of pure white lead and boiled lin
seed Oil.
THE benefits of heading back will be
lost in time. unless the work be follow ed
up by annual discriminate thinning of the
new shoots, and cutting back of those
selected for future fruit bearing.
"Renewal Of orchards may profitably be
accompanied by the addition of stable
manure, either worked into the soil be-
meath the eXtremities of the branches, or
allowed to remain upon the surface to be
covered later with straw other coar Sc
material applied a mulch. The COM
bination of renewal and fertilization will
work wonders in the rejuvenation of many
old orchards long considered unprofitab'e
and valueless.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
FEAR LUMBER FAMINE.
Dealers Deplore the Waste in the
Forests

PHILADELPHIA. September Lumber
men from all sections Of the country, who
have been in conference in this city, have
decided not to make any changes in the
rules regulating the classification and in
spection of yellow pine. 1t was agreed.
however, by the southern shippers that the
local and other northern dealers could re-
fuse to accept shipments of long leaf yell
low pine when short leaf had been ordered.
In this way It is expected that the former
differences that arose from time TO time
between the lumbermen will be remedied.
During the general discussion +. A.
Bridges of Qutman, Ga, made a strong
plea for the preservation OF the forests.
III the practice of bleeding trees for tur-
pentine and Telling them at tender age
is continued at the present rate" he said,
the forests and wooded tracts in the
United States will be destroyed and the
immense lumber industry of the country
killed within the short period of ten years.
At present there is a shortage In the sup
ply of lumber. but the worst is to come.
Unless some miracle happens and forests
spring UP over night, the lumber supply Of
this country will be exhausted within ten
years. Abuses are responsible for this
state Of affairs. the bleeding of trees being
especially harmful"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
LEAVE FOR SARATOGA
G. A. R. Veterans Off for En-
campment Today.
LADIES IN THE PARTY
Local Delegation Headed by Com
mander Newton Ferree.
BIG DOINGS AT THE SPA
Every Day of Tenting Time Will Be
Crowded to the Minute-Things
of Interest.

The jolly veterans of the District of Co
lumbia delegation to the national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Saratoga Springs. N. Y, who will leave
here on a special train over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad this morning, have been
provided with copies of the declaration Of
principles of the organization, which recites:
I'VE stand for the schoolhouse, the church
and the home. Every little schoolhouse that
dots the plain or nestles in the grove Is a
fort; every academy of learning, college or
university is a garrison; every church or
cathedral. with its sp.re pointing heaven
ward and its clear ringing bell inviting men
and women to come and to sit at the feet
of Him who taught as man ne'er taught be-
fore. is fort, a garrison and citadel, and
every CIod-fearing mother in all this land,
who. in her own home and at her own
hearthstone. instills into the minds of her
boys and her girls the immutable princi-
pies of right and wrong. who teaches her
boys to be clean. manly men and her girls
to be pure. virtuous women, who teaches
them both to love their country and its flag,
and to emulate the virtues Of its heroes,
living and dead-every such God-fearing
mother is recruiting officer for the grand
army that shall perpetuate the republic"
The local delegation Will be headed by
Department Commander Newton Ferree of
the G. A. R., and Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball,
president OF the department OF the POtOmac
Relief Corps. The 'commissary" department
will be in charge of Assistant Quartermas-
ter Gen. Francis I. Mckenna.
To Urge Washington.
The local delegates will use their best eff
forts to have the organization pass the pro-
posed resolution providing for the holding
of all future encampments in this city
Commander-in-C Chief Robert B. Brown
while IN this city several months ago. said
1.-The Grand Army as an organization
representing 100000 men,. Is deeply sensible
Of the nigh standing 1t occupies in the
minds of the people as a patriotic force, for
during forty years since the close of the
war il has done more than any other class
of citizens to obliterate all sectional differ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
SHE NEEDED THE MONEY.
Quite Natural to Kill the Man for His
Insurance.

VIENNA, September THE Vieanose po-
lice have made an interesting discovery
which may account for the attempt at
Venice September 4 on the life of Count
kamarovsky. a colonel OF the National
Guard and a council or of state, by Mich
olas Naumoff. a Jtussian, son of an ex-
governor of Perrin. 1t has been ascer-
taincd that Kamarovsky insured his life
for 100000 in favor of Il lady with whom
he fell In love. AS she was acquainted
with Naumoff it IS presumed that she
planned to murder him In the hope OF
obtaining the money from the insurance
company. Another Russian suspected Of
having been implicated in the plot has been
arrested here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
WEATHER FORECAST.
Showers Today and Probably Tomor-
row-Light Winds.


Forecast for Sunday and Monday.-For
the District Of Columbia and Maryland.
showers Sunday and probably Monday;
light easterly winds, becoming variable.
For Virginia. showers Sunday and prob
ably Monday; light to fresh east to south
east winds, becoming variable.
Weather Conditions and General Forecast.
There have been showers in the Great
river valley the upper lake and western
central Rocky mountain region, and the
northwest. In the east, south and south
west the weather was fair. 1t Is consider
ably cooler in the Dakotas, Nebraska, east
ern Wyoming, and northeastern Colorado;
elsewhere temperature changes were unim-
portant
A moderate disturbance now over the Mis-.
sisstppi valley will drift slowly eastward,
causing showers Sunday in the Ohio and
middle Mississippi valleys, the lower lake
and eastern upper lake region, and the mid
die and south Atlantic states. extending by
night into New England. Local showers
are also probable in the lower Mississippi
valley and extreme northern Texas.
There will be showers Monday in the At
lantic and probably the east gulf states, In
the west the weather will be generally fair
Sunday and Monday, and 1t will be fair
Monday in the lake region. the Ohio and
upper Mississippi valleys. 1t will be cooler
Sunday in the interior OF the west gulf
states and in the lower Missouri valley.
The winds along the New England and
middle Atlantic coasts will be light to fresh
southerly; on the south Atlantic coast light
to fresh south to southwest; on the gulf
coast light to fresh southerly; on the lower
lakes light to fresh scutherly, becoming
variable, and on the upper lakes light
northwest to north.
Temperature.
Midnight Ga; 2 am. CO; am, 81; am.
60; am, 50: 10 am, 80; II noon. 10; 2
pm, rs; pm, IS: pm. II; pm, IS;
Maximum. IS; minimum. 50.
Relative Humidity.
8 am. 81; pm, s pm, So: rainfall
q pm. to pm.), 0; hours OF sunshine,
1.20; per cent Of possible sunshine. 9s.
Temperature Same Date Last Year
Maximum, 50; minimum, IS.
Tide Tables.
Today-Low tide, $50 am and 2:52 pm. !;
high tide. Sis am and 8:12 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 800 am. and 1928
pm; high tide. S:65 am and 9:12 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5:35 am; sun sets 6:2l
pm.
Tomorrow-Sm rises, 5:36 am.
Moon-Sets. 1908 pm. today.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tInguishing begun one hour before sunrise.
AL arc and ncandescent lamps lighted
fifteen minutes after sunset and extin-
guished forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, September Z.
Both rivers very muddy this evening.
Temperatures in Other Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

by the special of the Department Of
Maryland, on which Gen. John r. King.
past commander-in-chief, is the guest Of
honor. The two specials will make the
trip together.
The Department Of the Potomac Wom-
ans Relief Corps was provided with a
special car by Department Commander
Ferree, and a large contingent of the
ladies accompanied the department presi-
dent, Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball. Among
the members is Mrs. Ball, special national
press correspondent and Ms. Ida A. Old
royd, depa- tment counselor, with Mrs. Ida
v. Hendricks who enjoys the distinction Of
being entitled to wear the red brassard.
Mrs. Oldroyd is past national junior vice
president. Mrs. Hendricks gained her
honors as national senior vice president
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

If your teeth are fit, chew, chew,
chew, until the food is liquid and
insists on being swallowed.
If teeth are faulty, soften Grape
Nuts with cream or hot or cold milk
and allow to stand minute soak
ing.
There's a reason" as follows:
Grape-Nuts food is. in the form of
hard and crisp granules, intended
to be ground up by the teeth. That
work not only preserves the teeth,
but brings down the saliva, SO nee
essary in the primary work of diges-
ton.
Many people say land it is true)
that when they eat Grape-Nuts they
seem able to digest not only that
food, but other kinds which formerly
made trouble when eaten without
GrapeNuts.
Chew!!
There's a reason" for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
OLD FRESHMAN DIES.
"Dick" Jones, Oldest Of Craft in Dis
fricf

Richard L. Jones. who is said to be the
Oldest printing pressman in the District in
length of service. died yesterday at the
George Washington University Hospital He
was sixty-one years of age and had been
connected with many newspapers in this
city. He was seized with a sudden attack
of heart disease Friday night and his
friends hurried him to the hospital. where
he passed away the following morning.
"Dick" Jones. as he was Familiarity called,
was an employe of the pressroom of the
government. printing office at the time of
his demise. He had many friends in this
city, and his funeral will be in charge Of the
PresSmen'S Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Unique Swiss Prison.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabegram to The Star
GENEVA, September IA convict named
Hoche, who 'absented" himself from the
comic opera prison of Thorberg in the can
ton of Berne, where the convicts practically
come and go at will. had been captured"
in the village of Murist, near Fribourg. He
confessed promptly that he had taken his
own ticket Of leave. At present there are
about many convicts out on their own
ticket-of-leave as there are in the prison.
The majority of the men who take French
leave are considerate enough to give them
selves up to the authorities when they are
tired of the outer world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Servian Prince a High Roller.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

PARIS. September THE progress
through Europe of the Crown Prince George
of Servia. who has the reputation of being
extremely wild youth. is likely to pro-
duce a crop of new anecdotes about him
before his tour of pleasure is ended. Tho
prince. before leaving home, boosted that he
would wake up Paris The big cafes at
Belgrade have been visited nearly every
night by this hopeful royalty, and the
women who lend the principal charm to the
establishments are his honored guests at
champagne suppers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
AWARDED $4,000 DAMAGES.
Aggrieved Son-in-Law Gets Back al
Man Who Shot Him.

UNIONTOWN, Pa. September Twill
liam Wirsing was awarded $4,000 damages
yesterday for injuries said to have been re-
ceived at the hands OF his father-in-law,
James r. Smith. wealthy coal operator.
A year ago Wirsing eloped with Smiths
daughter. Upon the return Of the young
couple Smith met Wirsing with Winches-
ter rife and shot him in the right arm,
SCATTERING the bone and rendering 1t useless
for life.
Smith is now in the penitentiary serving q
five years sentence for felonious shooting
with intent to murder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Killed by a Freight.

WEST CHESTER, Pa, September Miss
Agnes Happerset, aged eighty years, agent
Of the Downington and Lancaster railroad
at Cupola station, was killed yesterday by
q freight train while she was carrying the
mail along the railroad track from the sta
ton to the post Office. nearby. She was
deaf and did not hear the approach of the
engine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

Record has been made of the sale of a
large tract of land in West Philadelphia
worth close to 100000. John Wanamaker
transferred property extending from 9th
to 5S1a street and from Master to Media
streets to w. ferdinand Dryden for $1,000
The latter has given 146 mortgages for a
total of 1892, 400 to Richard S. Van Cleve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08

h0dges-T3Ge B0okbir der.
Wen do the Bonkrrding in ner that
will please You. Won't charge much.
HODGES BIG OOKRINDERY, 5000 Il til mex tStar
srI-El
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
NO TRACE is FOUND.
Local Mans Fears for Kin on Steam
er LarchmOnt are intensified
by Latest News.

Adolph NJ. Thorson. Mathinus Car
stensen and Adrian Nielsen, who went
to Providence, r. l., last week in
search of the three relatives of
Adolph H. Anderson, of this city, who
are fought to have been lost on the
steamer Larchmont which sank last
Tuesday after a collision with the
schooner Harry Knowlton, returned
last night to this city with no news
for the stricken relative other than
that they could not be found among
the fourteen that lay in a Providence
morgue.
AS stated in the NEWS few days
ago, Adolph H. Anderson, Of No. 81
Mechanic street, this ciyt, had three
relatives on the steamer Larchmont
when it sank off Block Island last
Tuesday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
TROLLEY CAR
RAMS WAGON

Michael Seaman, who keeps gro
Gerry store at State street and DeKalb
avenue, had some serious damage
befall one of his grocery wagons and
one of his horses near Florida Grove
about $40 o'clock last night, when
trolley car No. ITO, coming from
Keasby, struck Mr.. Seaman's rig,
which was being driven by boy.
The car hit the wagon in the rear
and demolished it, spilling groceries
and boxes about the road. The driv-
er was hurled from his seat but be-
yond a few scratches and bruises, he
was not seriously hurt. The accident
occurred near the curve just east of
the Florida Grove road. The car
and wagon we're going in the same
direction In turning the corner the
car struck the rear Of the wagon. The
horse was considerably scratched and
bruised.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
WRECK|NG co.
TO FIX MAIN.

The leak in the sixteen-inch water
main under the Marshy Point creek
on the south shore of the Raritan riv-
er is still unrepaired and the total
supply of the city is through the
twenty-four-inch main. Every effort
has been made by the water depart
ment to repair the loose joint, but as
the tide interferes they have been tn
successful. Two leaks were d. w
cred in the vicinity of the creek IL st
week, one of them being in a section
of the pipe under the bed of the
creek. The water is quite deep even
at low tide, and 1t has been decided
that diver is necessary to complete
the work. The Merritt & Chapman
Company has been notified and the
repairs will be made tomorrow.
A small service pipe on State street
Which has become broken in some
way, was repaired by the department
this morning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
CENTRAL R. R. OFFICIALS INSPECT
LOCAL DEPOT; PROMISE NEW ONE.
Fully Appreciate
Growth of Perth
Amboy.
MAYOR ON HAND

Officials of the Central railroad
company arrived in this city at noon
today on a special train and inspected
the station. The party consisted of
w. C. Hope. general passenger agent;
E. r. Kerwin, district superintendent
of the main line; c. H. English, pas
seuger trainmaster; F. B. Greenwalt,
general baggage agent; F. s. Sher-
man, superintendent of telegraph; l.
r.. Whyte, assistant district passen-
erxagent G. X. Armstrong, district
paesepger agent. and Arthur Tomalin,
general advertising agent.
The party examined the depot
thoroughly. Mr.. Hope declared the
baggage room was not large enough
to allow trunk to be placed in 1t.
A number of other glarlng defects
were pointed out and were marked
down to be referred to later.
District Superintendent Kerwin,
in conversation with a. NEWS re-
porter, said that new station was
needed In this city and that in all
probability it would be recommend
ed when the officials return from this
tour, which will be continued until
every depot of the company has
been inspected.
1--WE appreciate the fact" said Mr..
Kerwin, 'that a new depot is needed
in this city, and l can say that one
will be built here soon. 1t may not
be this year, but there will be new
station here inside of two years. |
know we have large patronage from
this city and we intend to do all we
can to accommodate them"
w. c. Hope, who was recently ap-
pointed general passenger agent 10
succeed c. NJ. Burt, in speaking of
the local situation, said that he knew
d new depot was needed here and
that it would be recommended.
The officials were introduced to
Mayor Bollschweiler, who spoke with
them on the needed improvements.
The inspection lasted about thirty
minutes after which the party board
ed the special observation car No.
900. A dining car and sleeper COM
bined made up the special train.
General Advertising Agent Toma-
lin said that the tour of inspection
was started this morning and that
the officials would not return to Jer-
sey City until Saturday night. The
depot at Sewaren was inspected this
morning and the station at Newark
will be gone over this afternoon. Be-
sides inspecting the stations the Of
ficials are also examining the reports
of the agents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
1907 BUDGET AMOUNTS TO $166, 200.
Exceeds the 1906
Appropriations
by $4,000.
A FEW REDUCED

The appropriation ordinance for
the fiscal year beginning March l, as
passed by the Board of Aldermen on
second and final readings last night,
aggregates $166,200, of which $780,
200 is for the public schoolsl
This is an increase of $15,S00 over
last years budget The inohease in
the school account is only $1v40O, as
the increase In the salaries, OH the
teachers will come from the state,
under the Perkins act.
The public library gets an increase
of 5000. The Board of Health gets
an increase of $500. The fri depart
ment account is cut $500. The APP
preparation for roads and streets re-
mains at $4,000. Lamps and lights
are raised $1,000. The appropria-
ton for the police department is
boosted $4,000 to provide for the sal
ary increase. The account for poor
drops $500. The salary account in
creases 5000. The bulkhead ac-
count is raised from $4,000 to $9,-
000. The hospital is given $1,5O0,an
increase of $500. The district court
gets $4,000 instead of $1,000, last
years appropriation.
The figures of this and last years
budgets are here given:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-19
MAKES
VACANCY IN COUNCIL
Alderman W arter
Writes From
Chicago.
MATTER TABLED

The resignation of Alderman Emil
Warter, of the fourth ward, was read
at the meeting of the council last
night. Mr.. Warter has left this city
and is now in Chicago on business.
The resignation was. on motion,
laid on the table, and the matter will
be left in allegiance for the present,
and a new alderman will be elected
next November to take Office January
1. 1908. The cost of a special cleo
ton would be considerable, and, un
der the Meeker act, were successor
named. he would not assume Office,
the alderman-at-large stated, until
January 1. Mr.. Warter's leaving Is
greatly regretted by his fellow-mem-
bers and the residents of the fourth
ward.
In letter to a friend, Mr.. Warter
states that he does not like Chicago.
The paving is poor and the climate
disagreeable, and rain appears to be
the only means of street cleaning.