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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
Prominent Washington
ianS VIII Speak at
Meeting.
To Banquet at Waldorf
on Wednesday
Night.

NEW YORK, May 1s.-The National
Association OF Manufacturers begins its
annual convention on Monday at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, this city. Three
days are to be devoted TO the business
meetings.
The annual banquet will take place
on Wednesday night.
The manufacturers congress tnis year
is expected TO be a more than usually
lively one, as there is much difference
of opinion on a number Of the questions
TO be discussed, especially the tariff and
the ship subsidy proposition.
A number Of the members Of the tar
in committee OF the association were
revisiOnists a year ago, and the general
discussion Of the committees report
showed that there was a considerable
revision sentiment in many sections. A
poll Of the membership on the question
has been taken during the past year. in
accordance with a resolution adopted a
year ago. and there Is much curiosity
as 70 what the drift OF sentiment has
been
Senator Deliver Of Iowa. who Is TO
make one OF the chief addresses az the
banquet on Wednesday night. an
nounces that his topic viii be the sug-
gestive one. The Revolt Of the Unin-
corporated.' The representative OF the
Administration at the banquet will be
the new Secretary of Commerce and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
DISTRICT A LOSER
BY CLOSING ALLEYS

By a technical omission in the word
ing of a law applying TO the closing OF
public alleys in the District, which was
prepared by the Commissioners and
passed by Congress January 10, 1905,
The District government viii be the
loser to the extent Of S3.S97.H
The technical error was discovered a
few days ago, when application was
made by the Philadelphia. Baltimore.
and Washington Railroad Company. for
the closing OF an alley in the eastern
end Of square 493 southwest. The law
gives the Commissioners authority to
close an alley wherever the alley Is in
a square vested in one person, a CO.
partnership, company or a corporation
desires the ground for the erection of q
building Usually these alleys have been
given to the District, in which cases IF
closing title reverts 10 the original own
er or his successors.
In this particular case the District
paid S3.S97H out Of an appropriation
made for the purpose OF S4,12S-4S, and
as there is no law under which the Dis
trict can close an alley and then ask
compensation for the land, this Is where
the loss comes to the District.
Inasmuch as the railroad company
ask TO be closed, the Commissioners
viii be compelled to comply with their
request. and an order closing the alley
Will be issued Monday. Immediate steps
viii be taken TO correct the omission in
the law, so that in the future the Dis
trict will not lose anything by alley
closing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
COLUMBUS STATUE
IN STATION PLAZA?

The statue of Christopher Columbus
which is to be erected in this city, and
for which Congress appropriated 10000
Will probably be erected on the plaza In
front of the new Union Station. a
meeting of the commission designated
by Congress to select a site. secure de
signs. and let contracts for the mOnu-
ment was held yesterday in the office OF
Secretary Root. the other members OF
the commission being Secretary Taft,
Senator Wetmore. chairman Of the Sen
ate Committee on the Library; Second
Assistant Postmaster General McCleary.
former chairman Of the House Commit
tee on the Library. and Supreme Knight
Of the Order Of the Knights Of Colum-
bus Edward L. Hearn, Of New Haven,
Conn
Several sites were discussed, and II
was finally decided to request Colonel
BrCmwell. the Superintendent of Public
Buildings and Grounds TO inquire Of the
District Commissioners whether the
proposed monument 10 Columbus would
IN i'm with the general scheme for the
decoration of the Union Station plaza,
that site being the one most favored by
the commission. Action VIII be taken
later 70 procure designs from artists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
PLAYS
CAPTNATELONDON'
"Strongheart' and "MrS5
Wigs" Drawing Great
Audiences.

LONDON. May 1s.-Amerfcan plays
and players have captured the London
stage this season. There were never
SO many New York actors and actresses
IN London before. and British playgoerz
have welcomed them as something new
and attractive.
Miss Julia Marlowe, E. H Sothern and
their company from the Lyric Thester.
New York. have MADE their season al,
the Waldorf a triumph. Although II
was an initial mistake 70 open with
The Sunken Bell" which no one
could understand, they have made ample
compensation with their charming per-
formance in Shakespearian plays.
AT the Waldorf's twin theater. the
Aldwych. another American company.
with Robert Edeson and Mary Boiand
as stars. is showing London picture
Of American college life IN Strong
heart" and people are already inter-
ested IN the question Of Should the IN
dian Marry the Grip
Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage Patch
is drawing great audiences 20 Terry's
Theater. Although the rustic types pre-
sented are entirely new and strange 10
London, playgOers here cannot help be-
ing impressed BY the careful character
studies Of the actors and actresses
IOndOners are interested 10 learn that
Mrs Madge Carr Cook is an English
woman who has been acting in America
for MANY years
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LONDON YOUNG MEN
NOW GROW Boards

LONDON. May 1S-Beards are to be
fashionable again, after a quarter Of a
century Of taboo. The clean-shaven era
among L,ondon's gilded youth is giving
place to the cult OF the beard, and
fashionable young men are Withholding
the razor from their chins.
The correct form Of beard is not the
"Crimean chest-protector" which reign
ed forty or fifty years ago, but a small
close-trlmmed esthetic looking adorn-
ment parted in the center.
The beard cult is making Roadway In
spite Of the campaign of ridicule which
Frank Richardson, the humorous writer,
who is himself a man Of fashion, Is
carrying on against whisl1ers in every
form
It is said TO have originated with a
young man who let his beard grow dur
ing an Illness, and on recovering found
that it was rather an adornment than
otherwise.
The beard is much affected by the
young aristocrats who play at business
on the stock exchange. but army officers
are debarred by the Kings regulations
from so Disgusting themselves.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
WHIP NINE MEN
UNTIL BLOOD
FOLLOWS LASH
ShriekS of Agony Heard
for Blocks Spectators
Sickened.

WILMINGTON. Del, May 1S-The
most sensational whipping in the history
of this State took place here at the
workhouse this morning, Nine men
were stripped to the waist, and the
lashes were laid on each man. ranging
from five 10 forty strokes.
Adam Ward, a nineteen-yeaT-Ol6 white
boy. accused OF highway robbery. re-
ceived forty lashes. While be was be-
ing dashed he broke one hand free from
the post and, pleading for mercy, cried:
''Oh, Cod 1 will be good Please stop
The pleadings were met with a deaf ear
The blood was running down his back.
and ne looked as though he had been
slashed with a knife.
The scenes attending the whippings
We're sickening, and many persons left
Immediately after the first man was
whipped.
The screams and cries Of the un-
fortunates could be heard for blocks.
IL is said. by those who have witnessed
whippings in this State for years, that
today's logging was the most sensa-
uonal and severe ever administered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
Manufacturers TO Begin
Their Annual Contention
In New York on Monday
Topics To Be Discussed
Before Manufacturers:

Further Railroad Legislation"
Charles A. Progty. Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Consular Service Francis B.
Loomis, formerly Assistant Secre-
tary Of State.
Foreign Trade" Charles II. Pep
per. special agent. Department OF
Commerce and Labor.
Child Labor Problem" DR..
Charles P. Nell, Commissioner Of
Labor.
The Revolt Of the Unincorporated,~
Senator DOlliver
Trade Schools" Arthur d. Dean
Needed Postal Reforms Capt
Henry A. Castle. late Auditor OF
Treasury for Postofice Department
Other speakers:
Rear Admiral Charles ID. 'sigsbee.
Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell.
Dr. Joseph Dunn Burrelle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
NEW YORK'S FINE scBooI.

New York city boasts the largest and
nnest public school building in the
world L Is OF freprcOf construction
throughout, and cost 100000 II has
accommodations for 1900 pupils.
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NO MORE ISLANDS WANTED.

To paraphrase Artemus Ward, II is
the growing belief. in all parts Of our
country. that II would have been $ IN
Uncle Sans pocket" II George Dewey
could have managed 10 look the other
way while japan seized the Philippines
But there is a propaganda, maintained
with some fervOT, BY a few men. IN IA
vor Of annexing Cuba 10 the United.
States No. thank yOui No more an
nexed islands for oursi We have trou-
bles Of our own. and a scarcity OF alien
island populations and races is not one
Of them, either.-Albany Argus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
WOMEN IN UMBRELLA DUEL;
MAN CAUSES THE TROUBLE

NEW YORK. May st didn't pro-
pose to have another woman entertain
my husband. That's why 1 lambasted
her"
This was the explanation given be-
fore Justice Percy in Paterson, y. J.,
by Mrs Josephine Messner, Of that
city, i'm telling why she attacked with
an umbrella Mrs. Susan Farrell, an
attractive widow. The women were in
court with counter charges of assault.
Mrs. Messner's husband is wealthy
beer bother. When he left the house
after dinner one night without saying
where he was going, Mrs. Messner de-
cided to follow him. AS she stood be-
hind a tree she saw him enter the
home Of Mrs. Farrell.
Mrs. Mcssner sat on the stoop until
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19

Labor, Oscar s. straus. and It Is be-
heved that something OF the plans OF
the department viii be revealed by his
address Other addresses viii be made
by Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee.
Maj Gen. ]. Franklin Bell. and DR.. Jo-
seph Dunn Burrelle.
The National Association OF Mauufac-
turers was formed by a number of the
leading manufacturers OF the country
In 1885. In the belief that a cooperative
organization Of this kind could do much
70 improve the then depressed business
conditions: especially an object OF the
association was to- be the fostering OF
Americas foreign trade
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her husband came out. She says he
was inside more than half an. hour. As
Messner stood in the doorway saying
good-by to Mrs. Farrell his wife pro-
ceded to pummel the widow with her
umbrella.
Mrs. Farrell screamed and got an UNI
brella of her own Then ensued a bat
tie royal. Mrs. Farrelrs pretty daugh-
ter, fourteen years Old, seized her silk
parasOl and entered the battle
After the lattice work on the stoop
had been broken and both women were
exhausted, Mrs. Messner took her hus-
bands arm and walked home.
Mrs. Farrell told the judge that Mess
ner called 20 collect a bin and that he
remained only ten minutes. The JUS
tice said he would have 10 send the
case TO the grand jury. He held each
woman In $500 bail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
EMPLOYE SUES FULLER co.
FOR $4,000 DAMAGES

George A. Smith. in the District Su-
preme Court through his attorneys,
Padgott & Forrest. has filed suit
against the George a. Fuller Company
10 recover $1,000 for alleged personal In
iuries Smith states that he is a metal
lather and i'm the employ of the Full
Ter Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
CAPT. G. ". ROOSEVELT
BURIED AT OAK HILL

Impressive funeral services were held
over the body OF Capt. George w.
Roosevelt at oak Hiu Cemetery yester-
day afternoon. a Masonic quartet. com
posed OF Alexander Mosher. William ID.
MacFarland, Henry Kaiser, and ]. Wal
ter HUMPHREYS. rendered several hymns
at the grave
Arrangements for the services were
in charge Of Capt. A. Maxim, past COM
mander Of Cen George G. Meade Camp,
No. 5, G. A. R.; Col. Calvin Farms
worth, and Col Alexander Scott
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-19
MORE STATEs; MORE OFFICEs.

The revival OF the plan 70 make four
States out OF Washington. oregon, and
Idaho may mean only that there are
more candidates than offices out there
Detroit Free Press.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
lands WANTS STEEL CARS.

Representative Fred Lands has a
plan for minimizing the destruction Of
ilfe In railroad wrecks, says the In
dianapolis Star
Congress" said he. could reduce
the horrors of railroad wrecks almost
10 hothlng by enacting a law requiring
steel framework for all railroad cars
IN collision the railroad cars that we
now have telescope like opera hats
and the loss of life is frightful. There
would be but little chance Of loss of
life by head-end collisions If steel
We're used as the framework for the
cars, as the steel might bend. but #
would not telescope. OF course the
cost OF supplanting all of the cars now
IN use with others of the kind 1 de-
scribe would be enormous, but what
" qua that cost be as compared with
the loss Of life in single railroad
wreck?" az
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
Eel River Is booming.
FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
Mayor of Evansville Wants the City to
Run Its Own Illumination
Plants

Evansville, Ind, Jan. 10. = Mayor
Jonn w Boehne in his annual message
to the city council went on record as
fayoring municipal gas and lighting
plant. The city's chief executive has
been feeling" the members of the ad-
ministrat!on and his close friends on
the subject for the last three months
and most of them agreed that muniei-
pal ownership was just the thing for
Evansville just now.
The service of the local gas and cleo
trio light company has been far from
satisfactory for several months, and
indignant citizens have complained
time and again to the board of pub
lie works. The company has for many
years enjoyed a monopoly of the Ev-
ansyille field. Mayor Boehne. In his
advocacy of municipal ownership. has
as his supporters some Of the best
known business men of the city. Just
what ways and means will be devised
to build municipal lighting plant is
uncertain. They city will not be able
TO fioat bonds, as 1t has its full limit
or Indebtedness under the law.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
DEATH FOUND HER RESIGNED
woman Bore Husbands Departure
win Considerable Equaninity.

That death hath no sting" for
some people Is evidenced by the story
OF physician whose practice called
him to the homes of many of the
poorer families who labor in Chicago's
stockyards.
l was summoned to attend one
man VINO was in the last stages of
tuberculosis" he relates. and found
him very low. His wife was a sturdy
woman OF vehement temperament and
seemed not the least concerned over
her husbands desperate condition. I
left directions with her for the mans
comfort and promised to call in the
morning
When l entered next morning I
found the woman enveloped in a fog
OF sunocating steam and vigorously
doing her washing She turned her
head as l was let in by one Of the
children and, nodding, continued her
work
How is the good man this morn.
ing?' 1 asked.
oh, she said in a tone which
seemed to indicate that I had recalled
an unpleasant matter to her mind.
Then turning toward the bedroom
door she shouted:
John, are You there?' There was
no answer from the sick chamber.
She turned to resume her washing
and said: He's breathed his last"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
Happy New Year

Start the year right and
be your own banker. Let
me show you how to make
100 per cent on your invest
ment in from ninety days
to one years time. The
knowledge of when and
where-and how-to buy
Hammond and Gary real
estate is my business. 1t
has been tested in important
and unimportant transac-
tons to the advantage of
my customers.
Lots and acres in Gary
and Hammond.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
FOR SALE
{. D. BRANDENBURG
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.

Nice Groom new cottage,
lot 50X127, on Madison St,
near Conkey plant; price
81, $50; $500 cash, balance
$15 per month.
7-room residence, hot and
cold water; good basement;
lot 50x125; on Condit ST..
price, $4,000.
Business property on
Calumet avenue; 2-story,
fine location for saloon; lot
50x120; a bargain at &c. 800.
Fine modern 14-room
residence, large barn, all
kinds of out-buildings; lot
100x125. Price $1,000,
one-half cash. This is one
of the finest homes in the
city; on Carroll street.
Store room with living
rooms in rear; good condi-
ton; lot 25x118; East State
street; building in fire con-
dition. Price 81, 800.
Vacant lot, 25x125, on
Hoffman street near Calu-
met, $3.50.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
Pins His Faith on Feathers.

Hazleton, Ind, Jan. 10-During a
storm which swept over this vicinity at
an early hour in the morning. lightning
struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Scott
kabb, west Of this place, and they
were thrown violently from their bed
70 the floor while splinters, broken
brick and fragments of mortar rained
on them. The bolt tore a hole in the
roof and struck the bedpost, tearing it
10 pieces. Mr.. and Mrs Rabb attribute
lnelr escape from injury to the fact
tnat they were sleeping on a feather
ped. i never feel a bit of danger
rom thunder" says Rabb. "All | do
IS 10 stick TO the feathers"
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| engineers. He was one or the hlack-
listed strikers and runs an engine NOW
down on the Santa Fe But at long
intervals Duck gets back to revisit the
scenes Of his early triumpbs. The men
VINO surrounded him were once az
deadly odds with Duck and his cbums.
though now the ancient enmities seem
forgotten, and Duck, the once ferocious
DUCK sits occasionally among the new
men and gossips about early DAYS on
the West End.
DO you remember Siclone. Reed ~
asked Duck, calling to me in the pri-
vate office
Remember himw 1 echoed. "Did
anybody who ever knew Siclone forget
him?"
L fired passenger for Slclone TWEEN
" years ago." resumed Duck "He
walked just like that fellow. only he
was quicker. 1 reckon Won fellows
don't know what snap you have here
now he continued, addressing the
men around him. Track fenced nina
ty pound rails, steel bridges. stone cul-
verts, Stag ballast skyscrapers-no
wonder you get chances to haul sucb
nobs as Liliuokalani and Schlev and
Dewey and cut ninety miles an honr
on tangents.
when I was firing for Siclone the
roadbed was just off the scrapers. the
dumps were soft pile bridges, paper
culverts, fiftysix pound rails. not
fence west Of Buffalo gap and the
plains black with Texas steers We
never closed our cylinder cocks The
hiss Of the steam frightened the cattle
worse than the whistle, and we never
knew when we were going to find a
bunch of critters on the track.
The first winter l came out was
great for snow, and 1 was a tenderfoot
The cuts made good windbreaks. and
whenever there was a norther they
were chuck full of cattle. Every time
a train plowed through the snow it
made path on the track. Whenever
the steers wanted to move they would
take the middle of the track single file
and string out mile after mile. Talk
about fast schedules and ninety miles
an hour. You had to poke along with
your cylinders splitting and just whistle
and yell-sort Of blow them off into the |
snowdrifts.
Zone day Siclone and | were going
west on SO, and we were late. For that
matter, we were always late. Simpson, |
coming against us on GO, had caught a !
bunch Of cattle in the rock cut lust |
west Of the Sappie and killed a couple.
When we got there. there must have
been a thousand head Of steers NOUS
ing around the dead ones. Siclone-he
used to be a cowboy, you know-Si-
clone said they were holding a wake.
at any rate, they were still coming
from every direction and as far as you
could see.
Hold on, SicIone, and I'll chase
hem out | said
That's the stuff, Duck says he.
Get after them and see what you can
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do He looked kind of queer. but I
never thought anything l picked ND a
jack bar and started up the track.
The first fellow l tackled looked
lazy. but he started full quick when
hit him. Then he turned around To in
spect me, and noticed his horns wera
of the broad gauge variety. While I
whacked another the first one put his
head down and began to snort and
paw the ties. Then they all began to
below at once. 1t looked smoky
dropped the Jack bar and started for
the engine. and about fftv Of them
started for me.
Il never had an idea steers could run
so. You could have played checkers on
my heels all the way back. If Siclone
hadn't come out and jollied them. I'd
never got back in the world. l just
jumped the pilot and went clear over
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
Money to Burn.

The big touring car had Just
*hizzed by with roar like a gigan-
Tic rocket, and Pat and Mike turned
10 watch it disappear in a cloud Of
dust.
1hlm chug wagons must cost a
hape av cash." said Mike. The rich
IS fairly burnin' money"
An the smell av it." smiled Fat
IL must be thot tainted money we do
be hearin' so much about."-Success
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
FIRE IN THE M. C. SHOPS
Entire Plant at jackson in Danger sor
Time.

FIRE in the blacksmith shops of the
mlehisan Central al Jackson Monday
uiu d great deal Of damage and for a
eii'e threatened the entire plant. The
names originated from an explosion
OF large oil lamp, and before thew
We're under control the roof of 10
ouiidlng was burned away and CON
SIDERABLE damage done to adjoining
0u.'ulnsS, About thirty men are thrown
out OF employment for a time =
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-10
FROM DOWN
THE STATE
Telegraph News by Direct
Wire from All Over
Indiana.

Evansville, Ind, Jan. 10.-The food
danger here has passed. The Ohio riv-
er is slowly receding. The crest came
when the stage reached forty and one
half feet. The highest water recorded
in local history since 1884, when forty
eight feet was reached. The loss to
corn in this section is not as great as
first anticipated. The farmers had
warning and removed their live stock
and most Of their corn to places of
safety. About 1000 bushels Of corn Is
reported to be lost.
Much Land Under Water.
Thousands Of acres in this section
are under water with many families
driven from their homes. In later
years the farmers in the lowlands take
the 1884 flood as a criterion, and erect
their homes, barns and like structures
above the high water mark of that
year. The local waterworks is on
high mound, entirely surrounded by
water, and reached by boats No par
ticular loss is expected in this city
from the high water, although some
factories are temporarily closed
Store Cellars Full of Water.
The water backed up through the
sewers and filed many cellars in the
business district. This was anticipated.
and business men prepared for that
eYentuality, not having to stop husi-
ness. Pigeon creek, which empties into
the river and runs through the lower
part Of the city, is bank full, but no
particular damage has resulted, how
ever. The river in front of the city
stretches ont like a great lake, covering
the point which causes the river to
form d crescent Boats can now cross
farms and save many miles of travel.
The sight is very interesting.
Eel River Is Booming.
Brazil, Ind, Jan 10.-Eel river has
been booming for several days, and the
leyee at Brunswick has broken. food |
ing the lowlands in the southern part |
of the county. A number of families |
had to be taken from their homes in |
boats. The damage will be consider,
able