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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
S. Bennett, Mrs. J. A. Glfillan, Mrs. Laise-

tullllpS, MIS- 4. y. SOIneTS
Executive committee of the conference
Mr.. George /. Aldrich, Brookline Educa
ton Society, Brookline, Mass; Mrs. l.. r.
Dashiell. Education Association Rich
mond, Va: Mrs. William h. D. Scott, Pub
lie Education Association, New York city.
Officers-Mrs. John Milton Gftterman,
president; Mrs. Charles Carlyle Darwin,
secretary; George White treasurer; hon
orary vice presidents-William II. Taft,
Charles ]. Bonaparte. Paul Morton, Sen
ator J. c. S. Blackburn. Senator Shelby
NJ Cullom. Senator Henry c. Hansbrough,
Representative William S. Bennett. Rep
resentative Philip p Campbell. Repre-
sentative Joseph A. Goulden, Representa-
tive T. F. Marshall. Representative Jacob
Van Vechten Olcott, Representative Her.
bert Parsons, Representative w. A. Rec
der, Representative E. l.. Taylor, jr.; DR..
Alexander Graham Bell, Adds B. Browne.
Clifford Pinchot, Simon A Wolf. Capt
George A. Van Smith, John Joy Ed
son, Mrs. E. L. Burchard, ]. NJ. Git
terman, Ion Perdicaris, Samuel Gompers
l.. r. Klemm, Rev. S. NJ. Newman,
George F. Bowerman, Max West, Miss
Lois A. Bangs, Mrs. L. B. Swormstedt,
Rev John Van Schaick, jr.; Pearce KNIT
ZinS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
GAY MADMAN'S GUN GOES OFF
THROWS UP OWN HAT AND
SHOOTS 1T FULL OF HOLES.
Leads Police Merry Chase, Puts Up
Fight Against Capture and Ends
in Crazy Ward.

NEW YORK, September 26.-An Italian
Of huge proportions, with swarthy face
and bright-colored bandana handker-
chief around his neck, created a wild
scene in Washington Square Park today
when he tossed his hat in the air and,
drawing a big revolver from his pocket.
began to shoot the headpiece full Of holes.
The park was filed with loungers at the
time. One sight of the brigand-like figure
with the blazing weapon in his hand sent
them scurrying in every direction.
The man paid not the slightest attention
to his surroundings, however. When the
hat, riddled with bullets, had fallen to
the ground, he calmly tossed 1t in the air
again and renewed the fusilade.
The gun had been twice emptied when
two policemen. attracted by the shooting,
rushed to the park. When the Italian
saw them he darted away like a deer,
bounding over fences and other obstruc-
lions with an agility that soon left his
pursuerS far in the rear.
He was finally captured by policemen,
who had circled around the park He
put up the hardest kind of a fight before
he was subdued.
He was sent to the psychopathic ward
of Bellevue Hospital in straitjacket.
No one was injured by any of the shots
fired by the mailman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
Means for Its Betterment to
Be Discussed.
ASSOCIATIONS WILL MEET
Eastern Public Education Organiza-
tons Plan Session.
DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM
Names of the Speakers and Their
Topics-Names of the Com
mittee Members.
DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM

It is announced that the eleventh annual
conference of Eastern Public Education
Associations, to meet here this week. Will
primarily discuss the safeguarding of the
public health.
THE Public School as a Safeguard TO
Public Health" is the topic around which
all the discussions and addresses OF the
conference will center. The exhibits will
deal with congested centers of population
and congested schoolrooms and their rela-
ton to public health. The delegates to
the conference will have special privileges
at the tuberculosis congress exhibition
and its lectures, and it Is expected they
will spend much time in studying the
plans for lighting the great white plague.
In fact, those in charge of the conference
of educators regard the aims of the two
gatherings as singularly closely allied.
The visiting educators will not only hear
school health problems discussed by
prominent specialists, but they will spend
much time visiting local schools and the
exhibitions of the two conferences to See
how the theories discussed are practically
applied.
Conference to Open Tomorrow.
The educational conference will open
tomorrow morning at the New Willard
Hotel and continue until next Saturday
evening" Bright and early Monday morn
ing the delegates will be registered
At o'clock they will take automobiles
and visit many local school buildings. The
inspection trip will occupy the morning
The afternoon session, beginning, at
o'clock, will be held in the boardroom at
the District building. Commissioner Mac
farland will welcome the delegates, and
A. T. Stuart superintendent. will extend
the freedom of the schools. AT the even
ing session. at the Shoreham Hotel, Allen
Albert will discuss The Value of Volun-
teer Work to Communitys Civic
Health" and Henry NJ. Leipziger of New
York will speak on The Uses of the
Modern School House"
A business meeting of delegates at the
Willard Hotel is scheduled for Tuesday
morning At the afternoon session at
o. clock, in the Business High School, dele
gates will make reports on the accom-
plishments and plans of the educational
associations they represent. Mrs. Emma
j. Grouse of Erie. Pa, will talk on Eye
sight and General Health in School Chill
dren'' and Prof. Pearce Knitting of the
Maryland Medical College, Baltimore. will
discuss School Hygiene as a Factor in
Public Advancement" The Teaching of
Hygiene in the Public Elementary
Schools will be the subject of an adj
dress by A. Duncan Yocum of the Eniver-
sity of Pennsylvania at the Tuesday even
ing meeting in the Shoreham Hotel. Fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
NIGHT HAWK IN TROUBLE.
Baltimore Kid" Fights Man Who
Refused to Take Cab Ride.

Thurman Burke. twenty-four years old,
known among the might hawks" as the
Baltimore Kid, is in limbo. He was ar
rested last night by Policeman Klein
dienst of thes.first precinct following
disturbance on the post office cab stand, in
which Burke figured as one of the princi-
pals Frank S. Britton of 1914 SD street
northwest was d victim of the cabbyS
fists. and he was so badly used tat il
was necessary to take him to the Emer-
gency Hospital for treatment for numer-
Gus facial cuts and bruises. Witnesses
told the police the trouble started because
Britton refused to ride in Burke's cab.
Burke is held at the police station in de-
fault of $50 collateral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, September 20.
-"If 1 am elected. as I expect TO be,
snail have the greatest pleasure in
pledging in the presence of this grand
audience all the energies and all the
abilities of which i am capable to con-
tinue the Roosevelt policies to make
business honest and to keep every man
within the law. be he humble or rich,''
was the climax of the speech Judge
Taft delivered to an audience which
nearly filed the mammoth Auditorium
I'm ST. Paul tonight.
There was enthusiasm galore as the re-
publican candidate, in fairly good voice,
and apparently as fresh as a daisy after
his strenuous continuous performance
campo igning for the past few days. rose
TO the occasion.
Discusses Postal Savings Plank.
Mr.. Taft said in part:
Il wish to call your attention today to
plank in the republican platform and to
a plank in the democratic platform which
involve important though not controlling
issues in this campaign.
Il refer first to the plank in the re-
publican platform that recommends the
adoption of postal savings banks. The re-
publican convention doubtless had in mind
Senate and reported by the Senate COM
mittee for passage authorizing and d.
recting the Postmaster General to receive
savings deposits at every money order Of
flee and at such other offices as he may
designate in sums of 81 or more and
multiples of 10 cents after the first dol
lar" After narratng the provisions of
the bill Mr.. Taft said:
The objection has been made that this
is paternalism ard socialism, and is in
Producing the government into the bank
ing business. The objection is without
weight. If there were savings banks in
all the country as numerous and as easy
of access as they are in Massachusetts,
in the New England states and in New
York 1t might be said that the postal saw
ings bank was an invasion of territory
properly occupied by private enterprises,
although even then 1t could be pointed
out that the function performed by the
postal savings banks is much more COM
prehensive than that of the ordinary saw
ings banks. But when it is considered
that in only eleven of thirty-fiVe states
are there savings bank facilities, when it
is known that in the middle west east of
the Rocky mountains the average dis
lance from any post office to a bank of
any kind is thirty-three miles and west of
the Rockies is fifty-five miles, it can be
readily understood that the private enter
prSes do not supply the need of savings
banks, which, in order to furnish, a mo-
tive and opportunity for thrift and saw
ings, should be easy of access to the class
whose welfare it is sought thereby to mn
prove OF the s., 800 OO00O deposits in
savings banks SO per cent is in New
England, IS per cent in New York, II
per cent In Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois,
Iowa and California. leaving but per
cent OF the total in other states.
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Waiting for Train; Killed.

GOUVENEUR. y. Y, September 90
Charles Quinuett of Massena, \. Y, and
Henry Frego of Hogansburg. y. Y, were
killed az Dekalb Junction today by the
train for which they were waiting 10 take
them home from the OgdenSburg fair.
Quinnett was thrown about thirty feet
in the air and was dead when picked up.
Freso died about an hour later while on
the way to the hospital The men had
started 20 cross the tracks directly in
front OF the engine.
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Killed While Playing Banjo.

JACKSON, Ky, September 26.-Drew
Bush was shot and instantly killed last
night at the home of Abraham Tunts,
where he was boarding. The tragedy oc-
Cured while Bush was picking a banjo
in the presence of Tunts and his family.
The shot was fired through an aper-
ture in the door, and caused instant
death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
Personal Mention,

Mr.. Andra Walter has returned from q
two-month visit to his mother and
friends in Europe. He visited Paris Ber-
lin, Potsdam, Baden Baden and Switzer.
land
DIR. Henry Krogstad has returned to the
city after spending the summer in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
4 WILL Be ELECTED"
Judge Taft, Confident, Lauds
Roosevelt Policies.
MAKES SPEECH AT ST. PAUL
Discusses Postal Savings Bank at
Great Length.
THINKS SCHEME IS SPLENDID
Contrasts Benefits of Postal Banks
and Guaranty Plan of the
Democratic Candidate.

Postal Savings Points.
We should not deny to our
people throughout the coun-
try opportunity to make
small deposits with the
security of the government
promise to pay principle
and interest.
The postal savings banks
would perform most useful
function in case of panics.
No one can dispute the i'm
portance of making the de-
posts in every national bank
as secure as possible, pro-
vided the remedy adopted is
not itself worse than the evil
to be cured.
The remedy proposed by
Mr.. Bryan will make the con-
sentative banker pay for the
negligence, carelessness, lack
of confidence or dishonesty
of the failing banker.
Postal savings banks take
no mans money to make up
for the default of another.
No enforced guaranty sys-
tenn will supply what the
postal savings banks will
supply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
Hear Bryan's Suggestion.

Mr., Bryan suggests the expenses con-
nected with the examination of banks
imposes a burden on one man Off the
default of another. There is no analogy
whatever between the reasonable require
ments for the examination of all banks
and the taking out of one mans pockets
money to pay the fault of another. 1t is
reasonable imposition upon all banks
that their accounts should be examined,
and that their methods of doing business
should be constantly under public super
VISION and 1t is reasoning, erroneous as
it is refined, to make the pro-rata cost of
general bank examination a precedent
for taking money out of one mans pocket
fOr another mans default.
1T has been shown that in the state
of Connecticut that if this system had
| been in force during the last ten years
and the tax had been only one-eighth of
l per cent, more than $4,000 900 would
have been paid out and but $31 coo would
have been received. This illustrates the
unjust. inequitable. and sociaistic char
acter of compulsory system most COM
pletely.
equitable feature of this system and come
to the question whether it will really help
matters. 1t is permissible under the ma
tional banking act for banks to organize
with a capital of $4,000. The security
which banks offer the depositors depends
upon the amount of capital, the amount
of surplus and public confidence in the
officers of the institution. Under the pro-
posed system the depoSitors in a bank
with capital of $4,000 and no surplus
and with officers of little experience and
Indifferent reputation can offer the public
exactly the same security for the payment
OF deposits as a bank with d capital of
$4,000, a surplus of S2500OO and with
officers known to be honest and able
DepositorS, therefore, in so far as security
of deposits is concerned. are as likely to
| make their deposits in the $4,000 bank
as in the bank with the capital of 500, 600
Limit Difficult to Fix.
ut is proposed to introduce into the
law limitation as to the amount of in
terest which under the system can be
offered and paid on deposits This. it is
SAID, will prevent banks from offering
excessive rates of interest to obtain de-
posits. limitation of this sort Is diff
cult TO fix, because conditions vary so
much in different parts of the country.
That which would be high interest in one
part of the country would be low in an
other. and that which would be high in
terest at one season and under certain
conditions would be low at another time
Hence whatever limitation is imposed ex-
cept when the normal interest is highest
there must always be an opportunity for
those inviting deposits to pay a higher
rate than that which conservative bank
ers would pay.
The democratic platform PROPOSES If
the guaranty system cannot be put into
force, to then adopt the postal savings
bank, as II the guaranty system supplied
the means met by the postal savings
banks This is entirely untrue. No en-
forced guaranty system will supply what
the postal savings banks will supply"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
CUSTOMERS ASK FOR STOCK
APPEAL TO RECEIVER LITTLE
FIELD, SEEKING PROPERTY.
Attorneys and Others Discuss AT
fairs of Firm of A. o. Brown
& Company.
Special Dispatcb TO The Star

DiSpdlcn 10 Inc star.
NEW DIRK. September 26.-Charles E
Littlefield. receiver for A. O. Brown &
Co, said today that he had received many
inquiries from former customers asking
whether he had found in the firms pos
session stocks that they claimed had been
left with A. o. Brown & Co.. for safe
keeping. Mr.. Littlefield said he had found
some of the stock asked about, but that
pointed to a stack OF letters which. he
SAID, related to inquiries about securi-
ties deposited with the firm
The fact that l do not have certain OF
the securities inquired for does not make
it definite that they are missing" the re-
ceiver explained. Il am finding more of
1t all the time, but cannot say how much
additional is outstanding. That is one of
the things l have been trying to find out
through the bankruptcy hearings
Mr.. Littlefied said he did not care to
give his opinion on the criminal action
which resulted in the arrest of five men,
bers of the firm Friday. because he had
no concern in it whatever. All he knew
about 1t, he added, was that counsel for
Miss Alternately demanded the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas and Steel common
stock on deposit with the firm. and that
he had made diligent but unsuccessful
search for it
Attorney Refers to Confusion.
Edward Lauterbach, counsel for the
firm, said that the firms affairs were in
so much confusion during the few days
previous to the failure that securities in
the vaults may have been hypothecated
and rehypothecated. and that a result
trace of them was lost temporarily. He
said there was no doubt that whatever
stock belonging to the customers that
in the firms hands at the time of the
failure would be produced in due time
without the necessity OF criminal proceed
ings. He further said he had not been
able to devote the necessary time to
trace the Alternately stocks as yet
Dix w. Noel. who was counsel for the
firm at the time of the failure and is still
associated in the defense said that he
considered the action taken Friday unnec-
essarily hasty, and declared that all the
securities apparently missing at this time
will turn up as soon as things are
heightened out
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System Certainly Would Help.

1--WE should not deny to our people
throughout the country opportunity to
make the small deposits with the security
Of the government promise to pay prin-
cipal and interest. Such system will
add greatly to the money savings of the
country.
The fear by any class of banks that
this would interfere with their business
the experience in other countries has
shown TO be utterly unfounded. Where
savings banks are established they pay a
higher rate of interest than the govern
ment will pay for deposits in the postal
savings banks, and confer privileges on
their depositors which 1T would be i'm
possible to grant under a government sys-
tenn
"A significant fact in connection with
the postal savings banks of those coun-
tries where they have been most success
full is that one-thrd of the depositors of
the postal savings banks abroad are
minors and twothirds of them are work
ingmen.
The postal savings banks would per-
form a most useful function in case OF
panics, because they are government in
situations with the whole credit of the
government behind them, and would at
tract the deposits of those small depos-
itors whose runs in panic times upon the
banks produce such disastrous conSe-
quences. The deposit of this money In
government which redeposits that money
in the national banks in the neighborhoOd.
would furnish d means of meeting an eX-
| igency that no other system proposed has
thus far offered.
Democrats Don't Like It.
This postal savings bank system, how
ever, does not meet the unqualified ap-
prevail of the democratic party. 1t has
not the vote-catching quality and involves
only the old-fashioned gradual movement
toward better things by means of indus
| try and thrift and saving. The party
under its present leadership must have
| something which offers short cut to re-
| form at the cost of the honest and the in
dustrious. The democratic platform
| pledges the party to the support of a sys-
| tenn by which all the national banks OF
the country are required TO guarantee the
deposits to the depositors in every bank
and this guaranty is to be performed by a
tax upon each bank in proportion to its
deposits, the proceeds of the tax to con
stitute a fund from which the depositors
! of any failing bank are to be paid. and
| il the amount of the tax is not sufficient
to raise the fund required, then il is to he
. raised by subsequent assessment on al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
Milwaukee Takes to Him.

Mr.. Bryan was given a very notable
ovation in Milwaukee tonight. He-spoke
several times during the evening and
everywhere was received with acclaim.
When he landed at the station there was
a large crowd Of people. who cheered
him and applauded him as he walked to
his carriage. On his way up town he was
also cheered. Mayor Rose Of this city,
who is one OF the most popular demo-
Gratis in the middle west was with the
Bryan party. and almost divided the
ronors with the candidate in the ova-
tons rendered the party. n. o. M.
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Delegates Will Relax.

lowing, Judge w. II. DeLacy of the local
Juvenile Court will discuss the relation
of the juvenile court to social health.
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the banks of the country, and state banks
are to be allowed to come in and get the
benefit of the same guaranty under con-
ditions to be imposed by law. While the
democratic platform does not elaborate
the system. it is to be inferred from the
fact that the precedent in Oklahoma Is
relied upon. that the provisions are to be
like the Oklahoma law, and these are as
above stated.
NO one can dispute the importance of
making the deposits in every national
bank as secure as possible, provided the
remedy adopted is not itself worse than
the evil to be cured. The government
has imposed certain limitations upon ma
tional banks which have already tended
to reduce the losses of depositors.
This Doesn't Seem Scary.
THE result has been to introduce into
national banks a class of men of high
character and great business and banking
ability and the losses in the last forty
years 10 depositors in national banks
have been reduced to an average loss of
one-twenty-sixth of 1 per cent of total
could be avoided. it would be of great
benefit and should be brought about. for
while the percentage is small, the IN
dividualS upon whom the loss falls may
ne heavy sufferers. The question is whether
we are to bring about an avoidance of
this loss by the proposed democratic rem
edy, or in a more conservative and grad
ual way by perfecting the examination of
banks and by rigid prosecution of all
who violate the BANKING laws.
The remedy proposed by Mr.. Bryan
will make the conservative banker pay
for the negligence. careleSSneSs, lack of
confidence. or dishonesty of the falling
banker. 1t takes from one man without
fault on his part money to pay for the
default of another. That is socialistic in
the extreme and so violates all equitable
principles that the remedy should be con-
demned for this reason.
ITO say. as Mr.. Bryan does that the
postal savings banks system is more So
CialiStic than this is to give a curious
definition to socialism. Postal savings
banks take no mans money to make up
for the default of another. 1t merely
uses an arm of its government which is
not and cannot be discharged by private
enterprises. Whereas the enforced guar
anty plan takes out of one mans pocket
engaged in the business of banking money
to pay for another mans default. That
is pure socialism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
Applause for the Peerless.

Mr. Bryans reception at Madison was
more vociferous than accorded to Mr..
Taft. There were more people at the
station and aions the line of march to
the hall, but when the audience was as
sembled in the hall and Mr.. Bryan made
his speech, which was entirely politi-
cal effort, as contraSted with Mr.. Tafts.
which was non-partisan, MIR. Bryan did
not get the comeback that his friends
would have liked him to have had.
The boys on the trip put in the day
talking with Tom, Dick and Harry along
the line. trying to find out the real senti-
ment of the people. The railway men
were very secretive, and would not talk
about how they were going to vote.
When we got to Madison we found the
farmers in evidence, and they were also
somewhat disinclined to speak frankly
about their intentions. Senator La Fol-
lette was in the audience and very In
terested listener to Mr.. Bryans remarks.
He had addressed the very same crowd
two days ago. and had spoken along
party lines. Mr.. Bryan played the La
Toilette game all down the line. and adj
vocated everything that La Toilette has
stood for in this state