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The Washington times., 1907-08-31
MINISTER'S SCHEME
STRANDS FIFTEEN
Englishmen in Canada Vic
tins of Alleged Misrepre-
Sentation of British
Society.

NELSON. B. c., Aug. 3l-Fifteen
Englishmen are stranded here. the VIC
TINS Of alleged Misrepresentation by
English clergymen. whether by intent
is not as yet known. The men were
told by the cleTgymCI. who were mem
bers Of the British Emigration. Tourist
and Colonization Society. that II they
would e.1ibl ate to Canada the would
be given lands near Nelson, which they
could pay for IN small installmeuts
while they worked for the agent Of the
society, F. L. Orchard, Of the Kootenai
Orchard Association.
Mr.. Hammond. they we're told,
would meet them, give them food and
lodging for a day or so While they
looked around. and then would employ
them on fruit ranches at s. and board
a day, all or part time, JBtii they had
paid the instruments on their own
farms and were prepared 10 shift tOT
themselves. Mr. Hammond made
statement and published correspond
ence showing that his part in the entire
scheme consisted Of stating 20 the Of
ncers OF the English society that he
would sell lands TO any who were sent
TO him.
The president Of the society Is the
Rev. J. L. Brooks, Lingheld, Surrey,
England Among the vice presidents
are the Rev. w. II. Booth, OF South
End; the Rev. J. NJ. larson, Edinburgh,
and A. Armstrong, Of Liverpool. The
Canadian directors are the Rev. F.. II.
Tippel, Of Montreal, and W. @. Stark,
OF Winnipeg.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
DOMINICAN CUSTOMS
SHOW LARGEST GAIN

Since the restless little republic OF
Santo Domingo has quieted down and
the people resumed business. trade be-
tween that country and foreign nations
has greatly increased and soon will
reach the normal condition. This is
particularly true of imports. as proven
by the custom receipts for June and
July.
The report for June, which has just
been received at the Insular Bureau Of
the War Department, from ". E. Pull
liam, who a few months ago succeeded
Colonel Col N in charge OF customs col
lection, we 19 per cent over the COT
lections for June OF last year. This is
the biggest increase yet Mr.. PulHam's
reports indicate that the receipts for
June, when all figured up, will aggregate
even a greater increase. and the in
crease for August is expected to exceed
that for July.
Mr.. Pulliam reports the gross coIlec-
tons for June 10 have been 1915 600 in
round numbers OF this sum. s1g.647
will be the amount to be placed in the
City National Bank, OF New York in
trust for the foreign creditors of Santo
Domingo. This. according 10 Major Nc
Intyre. acting chief OF the Bureau OF
Insular Affairs. will bring the total
amount in trust up to 1901 A3Il.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
HAVE THE TINES MAILED TO YOU.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 81. 1907.
Cup Race Prospects,

That the yachtsmen of inland
waters are hardly less concerned
than those around New York in the
prospects OF a race next season for
the blue ribbon of the sea, other
wise the Americas Cup, is to be
taken for granted. The skill and
spirit that a score of years ago pro-
duced one after the other the sue
cessfuI defenders Puritan, May
flower, and Volunteer are local to
no section, and are still alive.
They were no racing machines,
those Three Graces," as they were
once fondly called. They were
yachts, not freaks; and it is to race
with boats CT that practical type
that Sir Thomas Upton is pleading.
The Irish sportsman has much the
better of the argument, and there
IS a progressive element in the New
York Yacht Club that recognizes
this fact. We hope, for the sake of
yachting pure and simpIe-there is
no cleaner pastime or finer sport on
the calendar-that Sir Thomas
views VIII prevail, and that, as he
says, the coming races for the cup
viii be sailed with good, seaworthy
boats"
Which is as much as saying that he
viii challenge again. We feel that
we are rejecting the sentiment of
when we express the hope that he
viii, and in time for a match next
summeE
The Washington times., 1907-08-31

the Nantucket selectmen, who would
have autos excluded from the
baimy isle-we mean balmy at pres
ent, of course-simply 'to protect
the lucrative livery stable business
in which many residents are en-
gagged during the summer months
when the island is crowded with
visitors"
This is decidedly a novel form of
the contest waging between Dobbin
and the auto. Also it's a species of
monopoly that must make the visit
ors TO Nantucket as mad as the pro-
verbal hatters. What right have
the Nantucket authorities, worthy
gentlemen in sunbonnets and blue
jeans-what right have rhey to sepa-
rate the autoist from his machine,
even before he has had a chance to
exceed the speed limit, and insist
that he shall ride in an 1850 hack
behind an 1880 horse? That's the
question the irate auto repair
payer is trying to have answered.
The highways commission has let it
pass. The courts can't. We shall
soon know what's what.
Meantime dozens of automobiles
are in cold storage at New Bedford,
Woods Hole, Onset, and various
other places along the Cape shore
awaiting the verdict. What will it
be?. Perhaps it will be to the effect
that the au.oists can ride in their
cars if the insular nags are hitched
on. That would be a compromise.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
LOST WHISPERS,
SUES FOR $4,000
Farmer Who Slept in Bar
ber'S Chair Asks
Damages.

NEW YORK, Aug. a--When Farmer
George Palmer left Parksville early last
month for his first visit 70 New York
in tWenty-one years there adorned his
chin a beard that was his pride and
boast Il had taken him twenty years
20 grow IT and Il had always been
pointed out 70 summer bosrders togerh-
er with other choice bits OF Sullivan
county scenery.
Palmer arrived here primed FOR a
good time. He at once hiked up 10
the great White Way, but vas panied
by the flppant remarks he heard con-
corning his whiskers.
Now. up in Parksville the beard was
held in reverence. 50 the farmer decided
that he must spruce I'D a bit. He hur-
ned to the first barber shop he saw,
which happened to be the Reisler es-
Enlistment. at Broadway and Thirty
sixth street. The tonsoriaI artist who
tackled Palmer at once started in TO
tell funny stories.
BY tins time the whirl ~ the city had
entered the farmers head and he was
.'Cut short" he replied. and then
fell Oft into d sleep.
While Palmer slept the barber re-
4AAbNE4 Ai4E accommodation "a ~ EAAAg
years from his face aud gave him y
fine clean shave.
Palmer consulted Lawyer Jacob s.
Strahl, OF go Broadway, and as a re-
suit has instituted a suit for s.. 600 dam
ages against John J. Reisler, proprietor
OF the barber shop.
Reisfer refuses to take the action ser
iously. Anyway" he declares, by the
time the case comes TO trial the farmer
Will have a brand new set of whiskers,
50 where viii be his damages"
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
Tar Roads and Asphalt.

Tar will make over the District
roads. At present they are dusty in
the dry and muddy IN the wet
Drives as old as stretches of the
Tenleytown road and as new as the
cut along Connecticut avenue, be-
tween FernwOod and Grant road,
are in about the same condition.
The plain truth Of the matter is
that macadam is only half strong
enough for the hard wear of a
country thoroughfare.
Other communicable St.
Louis, various smaller towns of the
Middle West, and enterprising East
ern cities, like Montclair-have al
ready learned this lesson. But the
District is not thereby convicted of
any lack of enterprise. Macadam
and Telford roads are accepted as
standards for driveways all over the
country. Road making improves,
like everything else governmental
that is all.
But there lies in this order of the
Commissioners to treat the subur-
ban drives with tar a suggestion
of much more important con-
clusion. 1t may be that further
study viii develop that asphalt is
far from the ideal city pavement.
It is undeniably hot. Worse yet, it
holds the heat. The horses pound
their hoofs sore against il. It is
enormously costly; and as long as
the supply of 'asphaltum of the
highest grade" is controlled by a
monopoly it viii not grow any less
expensive. The upkeep-well, that
can be gagged by the condition of
Rhode Island avenue, between Iowa
circle and Florida avenue.
Chicago and other large cities
have used asphalt only on arteries
of trade. In the residence sections
they have either built drives and
coated them with tar, as the Com
missioners now purpose doing with
our country roads, or they have
treated macadam roads with crude
oil. The result is a great saving in
first cost, a great saving in dust,
great saving in heat, a great saving
for horses and residents.
In time the District may come to
see the wisdom of this change. The
sooner the better.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
Tall and Angular Prince,
Wearing Wonderful Collar,
Works Hard Seeing Sights

Singer building. and ne had been lifted
twenty-nine stories into the air, viewed
New Yorks famous sky line OF giant
buildings and the gIittering ship-ridden
waters OF her harbor: turned away from
the scene bit d'zzIIy. and gone back TO
the elevator TO sink with it for about
200 feet 10 the seventh floor; was fed.
was made speeches 10, and then out
into the automobile and up Broadway.
the car lodging stopping, ana squirting
through whatever clear spaces tho
chduHeur could discover; visited q little
immature painter in the Carnegie build
lhgi was ,whirled through Central Park.
Wn!ie whistles OF frantic policemen
looted IN vain; down Seventy second
street; up Riverside drive TO erd; around
the loop, and the machine came singing
PACK 10 the Hotel Ast0r al $50 O'Clock.
he mad started at two IN the Afternoon.
II mad been 1uite a jaunt
In truth. tho gaunt youfb Looked
ragged But then he has that Iankv car
rage that suggests that. He IL always
tiIoIs OF Tess ured-a long body. a slCV
ussd. ana shoulders a bic stopped.
from the top Of his reca! head "a
the soles OF his royal feet. me vou19
! man measures six fees four inches RE
'0Pp-d All the crowds he pas.cd through.
Wilhelm's Wonderful Collar.
Really the most striking thing about
the prince. aside from perfection OF his
royal smile-is his collar. It was a. very
remarkable piece of apparel. Il Is a
rundown collar. But the collar hand
goes up four inches before IL starts 70
turn down. Not many American cox
combs VIII be able 70 initiate II. for in
order 10 do so you have 70 have a neck
IKE the Swedish prince II Is a most
unusual neck. for after four inches Of
eoAar have been clasped around il. there
Il quite good deal Of neck still 70 view,
5ut &c Is a long lad all ways. Il isn't
olly MS neck But his face Is long and
lhIn, too. So Is his body. So are his
arms ard his legs.
The royal tailor doesn't know much
W nat does he do but make a suit OF
comes Tor this long. thin youth-a suit
OF Hsht gray cloth that has running
adoWn II from collar to trousers Buttons
long, broad stripes OF darker CAV You
can see what that does TO the prince
can't you? Makes him look tall enough
10 stand on the deck OF a ferryboat and
scrape HIS hngernaH along the bottom
OF the Brooklyn Bridge
Inc dark-striped gray suit hung loose
~ on his angular frame. The coat was
double-oreasted, long Iapeis that revealed
peneath a "aistcoat OF the same ma
tsTlaL His trousers were cut with
leg straight up and down. and they were
turned up at the bottoms over round
tOed, loW-cut russell shoes. And, II YOU
want 10 know II, he wore salmon pink
SIX socks with crimson stripe in them.
The coat fitted so loosely over his
slim, sloping shoulders that all OF tie
rear OF his wonderful collar was re-
yealed- This collar was eUcirCIed BY a
scarf that gave the only hint OF royalty
in his makeup II was a purple four
in-hand. a clover leaf pin was stuck
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
A MUTUAL SURPRISE.

Last Christmas, according to the La
dies Home Journal, n middle-ased
tinplate worker married widow whose
acquaintance he had made but a few
weeks before while working some lit
tie distance away from home.
"Sarrah," he. said nervously, after the
guests had departed, i've a weddin,
present for We"
What is it. John?" said Sarah, with
a smirk.
Il 'ope We won't be Tended. Sarah. 8"
said John, mora agitated than ever. but
& is--er-er-it is I'VE of en-
Five Of w'at?" asked Sarah.
Five childTenr' blurted out John des-
perately. anticipating a scene. 7 didn't
tell ye / 'ad children-ftve of EN-
Sarah took the news quite calmly. in
fact, she appeared relieved.
'Oh, we'll, John" she said. chat do
make 1t easier for me to tell We. Five is
not SO bad az NE. whatever. Seven I
ave got"
Wat" hOwled John
Seven, repeated Sarah compcsedlv
''Ti4et is my weddin' present to We
john"
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
DObbin vs.. the Auto.

Good luck to the ''bubbler' who
Is testing the celebrated Nantucket
edict against the auto. Not because
Of any inveterate fondness for the
machine, with its Four-AIile- Run
odor and its eternal pursuit of the
pedestrian. Not at all. We have
ridden in an auto-and survived.
The names OF some fifty different
makes have been impressed upon
our minds after they had all but
impressed themselves upon our poll.
No. automania is not on our list of
weaknesses.
But though we have measured
love for the doughnut-wheeled
things that keep running amuck, we
ave less for the spirit shown by
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
WHEAT VISIBLE SUPPLY
HALF LARGER THAN IN 1906

CHICAGO, Aug. S1.-Astention is be-
ing called TO the unusually large visi-
BILE supply OF American wheat. Com
pared, with 1906, in he United States
and Canada existing stocks are nearly
or quite 30 per cent greater than a
year ago The rate at which supplies
are coming into second hands this year
Is also significant. The latest weekly
statement gave an increase of nearly
8, 0O0. 900 bushels east Of the Rockies, COM
pared with 10000 bushels in 1906
The place Of this quantity OF wheat
as an element OF the market situation
should not be misjudged. Prices COM
pared with a year ago for September at
Chicago give wheat a gain OF 90 cents
q bushel
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
Departmental Progress.

What Mr.. Garfield proposes for
the Interior Department can be
done by practically all his associates
of the Cabinet. Business standards
applied TO the executive service with
a business understanding of its
needs Will not only save hundreds
of thousands of dollars-as is ex-
pected in the Department of the
Interior-but vastly increase its eff
ficiency. What Mr.. CorteIyou and
Mr.. Metcalf have done in the De
partment of Commerce and Labor
and the Postal Service cannot only
be duplicated in other bureaus, but
carried still further forward in their
own.
Something of vindication for the
three Secretaries named lies in this
report from the Interior Depart
ment. Mr.. Cortelyou proposed the
Keep Commission; Mr.. Metcalf sup
ported it, in his department and out
side; Mr.. Garfield was one of its
most resOurceful and industrious
members. They all knew that serv-
ice was being duplicated, space
wasted, money lost in the payment
of two or three prices for the same
article Of supplies, work delayed
through imperfect organization.
But the only way they could prove
their views, the only complete an
swer to the charge that the com
mission was a medium of more red
tape, lay, not in words, but in prac-
teal, workable, dollars-and-cehts'
changes.
In the Interior Department Mr..
Garfield has had substantial help
from his subor5inates. Commits
sioner Warner has effected great
economies in the Pension Bureau
without removing clerk, for that
purpose alone, or in any wise up
heaving his office. The Commission
ers Of Patents have made impressive
showings of the waste in their of
fee through lack of space, men, and
fair pay. And other bureaus have
cO-operated where they could.
But even when a work correspond
ing TO that announced in The Times
of yesterday for the Interior De-
partment shall have been done
throughout the Government service
there will still remain another in
dispensable to the administration of
these bureaus on a thoroughly bust
mes basis. They must have quarters
designed for their special needs,
with bureaus grouped economically.
Any reform Of department methods
which leaves the departments in
scattered quarters-some of them
in twenty buildings each-paying
rent at a rate greater than the in
terest on the cost of handsome new
buildings suited to their needs, any
such reform is manifestly a half
way and half-hearted achievement.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
CONRIED ANNOUNCES
GRAND OPERA STARS

HEIDEN. Switzerland. Aug. 81. The
plans Of Heinrich COnried for the coming
season at the Metropolitan Cpera House,
New York. have been made public Mr..
Conried Is here on a notwithstanding tour.
and he IS greatly improved.
Mr.. Conried viii sail on October. 2, on
the Kronprinzessin Cecil. The New
York season. opens on Morday even
ing, November IS. and will be the longest
ever given at the Metropolitan. There
viii be twenty weeks OF opera.
A remarkable array Of artists have
been engaged by Director Conried
Among the sopranos are Bessie Abbott,
lima Cavalier, Emma Games, Geraldine
Farrar, Marcella Sembrich, Rita lie
FOrnia, Olive Fromstad, Johanna Cad
ski, Anne Girard, Martha LETTER Blu
richard, Lucille Lawrence. Lucy Lee
Call Marie Hatfield, Berta Moreno,
Marie Rappold, and Marion Weed.
The meZZO-soprano and contralto parts
viii be sung by Louise Homer, Jose
phine Jacoby. Frida Langendorfr, and
Nine. Kirkby-Lunn.
The list Of tenors includes julius
Bayer, Alessandro Bouir. Alois BurgstaI-
Ter, Carl Burrian, Enr1co Caruso, An
dreas DIPPED. Heinrich Knote, George
Lucas. Ricardo Martin. Giovanni Pa
roll. Albert Reiss. Charles Rousseliere,
and Giusseppi Tecchi.
For the barytone parts Bernard Begue,
Giuseppe Campanari. Eugene Dufriche
Otto GOritz. Adolph Muehlmann, An
tonic Scott, Franz Stiner, Ricardo
Stracciari, and Anton Van Rooey have
been engaged.
In bassO roles will appear Rafael Ba-
rOcchi, Robert Blass, Theodore Chalia-
pine, Marcel Journet, Vittorio NavarinI
BOvy, Rodolfo Ferrari. and Gustav
Mailer will be the conductors.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
As SHE IS WROTE

This is sample Of English as she
is wrote by German firm which
wishes 10 tell Americans how tn use
a new mechanical salt cellar
1T is necessary, that is enpIoid oDi,,
a salt table very fine milled and ve,.Sy
dried. Another salt is to pound and
TO dry previously than in tins case IN
Is forming masses (crumbs) II is
necessary that the salt cellar is not
placed humid and is not touched with
hand vets By a good and rational
use the cellar is functonning blame
less and is of a unlimited dura biIity.
The cellar is the best Judge.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
ROOSEVELT BARS AUTOS
ON OYSTER BAY PLACE

OYSTER BAY. n. Y. Aug 3f.-Tbat
President Roosevelt has not entirely
lost his antipathy for automobiles was
shown when there appeared at the in
tersection of the Main road and the Sag
amore Hill drive a brand new sign "Pri-
vate road. automobiles not allowed -
Until the recent season Sycamore Hil
had seldom. II ever. been profaned bv
a devil wagon.
Sishtseers who have no appointment
with the President are allowed to drive
through the grounds and around the
house providing they do not stop on the
vVav - -0
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
OUICKSAND SWALLOWS
RAILWAY TRESTLEWORE

PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. Slower 900
feet of trestle work, fifty feet high, has
been absolutely swallowed by quicksand
on the North Bank railroad, near Co
lumbia slough. The trestle was part Of
an extension Of the North Bank road
When the workmen left Il the trestle
was evidently all right.
When they returned to resume their
work the next morning the trest1e was
gone. not Il trace of it remaining. The
quicksands and mud in the slough had
drawn il down and covered it.
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
EUROPEAN DRESSMAKERS
TO HAVE 100000 SHOW

LONDON. Aug. 81.-The great dress
makers OF London and Paris viii com
pete next winter IN an international
show Of costumes, hats. and lingerie.
This show Is 10 be made the biggest
thing OF the kind yet held, and the ag-
gregate value OF the exhibits VIII be
more than $4,000.
At the London and Paris Dress Exhi
bitiOn" the American woman IN search
OF the latest modes will see the best
creations OF the leading London and
Paris houses under one roof
The Washington times., 1907-08-31

too hurried to allow themselves to be
guided by any Of these ancient rules Of
conduct
The consequence was that McNulty,
after spending several hours in the
gloom Of a cell, spent as many more
in the West Side police court before he
was enabled again TO take up the thread
OF his interrupted professional duties.
lynch is the chasteAed possessor OF q
beautifully decorated black eye. which
probably viii incaPacitate him from
work for two or three days at least.
Wanted Something Signed.
It wasn't made exactly clear In the
testimony just what was the nature and
character OF the official paper that
Lynch. who described himself as a
roundsman for a telephone company,
wanted McNulty. who is employed as
a watchman at a Big lumber yard in
West Fifty-frst street. t. sign. Suffice
It 10 say that when he vls,ers the lumber
yard somewhere around tie hour Of sun
Up, he had with him a dlcument which
be did want signed by the Waterman and
signed quick
Now, McNulty. It so Happened. was
rot a man 10 be dictated to Who was
Lynch. he'd Ike to know. to "butt in"
al the very rush hour OF his watching
rlck and 20 give him any orders as to
When, where, or how TO sign anything?
But the telephone man, nothing daIIrt-
ga. persisted, and the more he persisted
the more fortified the watchman became
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
Very Calm and Very Polite.

Yes, your honor, / hit him all
right" replied the lumber yard Ger
berus, almost with enthusiasm, He
came TO me when I was going me rounds
and insisted I must sign his old paper
right away. Wait says l. very calm
like and very polite, I'm in hurry my
self I can't wait; I won't walt says
he. You Will wait says /. III shoot
you says ne. ana he was very abusive,
besides. Judge 80 I just had TO hit him
your honor, for Ihs sake OF peace"
Magistrate Droege quickly reached the
conclusion that Lynch had offended
law and order equally with McNulty
and that the latter had acted in self
defense. AS he dismissed the complaint
he admonished both beIligerents:
Next time don't be quite 80 hasty,
either IN your movements or your tenn
pers, and you won't lose so much time"
The Washington times., 1907-08-31
FAIRBANKS ASSOCIATION
IS IN NEED OF FUNDS

BOSTON. Aug. S1.-The fact that the
Fairbanks Association OF America. which
includes the Vice President OF the United
states. had less than so in its treasury
on the date Of the snnaul meeting, 10
which amount was added a donation OF
800 before the meeting closed, has dis
turbed a number OF members. They
profess to be In grave fear lest the
Fairbanks homestead at Dedham, which
was. purchased as Mecca for those who
are descendants Of the distinguished
Englishman who gave the family name
to America, Will not continue in their
care