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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
Like Rooters' Club Idea.

eff that proposed Rooters Club in
Washington really comes to pass" says
one Of the players. well do our level
best to furnish work to enthuse over.
It's a hard job to wake UP the cranks
who follow the fortunes of a tail-end
team. but it's the very thing needed in
Washington. There's no playerr no mat
ter how blase and old he may be in the
game. that doesn't like the sound of
or chortles of joy following
his making a good play. and the roar
from the stands and beachers when the
home team has a victory in sight is al
ways sweet music to our ears and stirs
us to even more strenuous effort. Look
what the rooters' clubs in Chicago have
done for the Cubs and White Sox. and
what d difference it made in Detroit when
Jennings got the Tigers ging right. One
thing I'm afraid of in Washington,
though. is the lack of local pride Many
of our patrons are people who come orig
inally from other cities in the American
League, and they generally take more
interest in the teams representing their
old home towns ard root for them for
that reason-not that they love us less,
but because of old times sake
Keep Close Tab on Averages.
n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
GOLF AT P|NEHURST.

41.O4S
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Temperatures in other Cfti.n

Ie-ll--l-l-es u cthe- citlss tozether With -se
amount 1t -l-lts- flr tie twelve L1u-s ended st
. ne. Yesterday, are As follows
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
L $ Dept q A-r-ul-zrs. Weather Eu-ssu.

Z : Dept q Agriculture. Weather E--esu.
Hls--ls1z. ~--l-3aE. Aus = E1s-s j. n
N.- ---- -a-l--ls 1- the Ees-e-z 2BE area Of The
last ----- days -l- with tLa l.-L pressure 90 the
-----lsl=----l has caused a. c11-.u-a-ce Of the
unsettled AID 5-gEe-v weather 11 Ire R1czv Nom
tan region and from Na1--sEz ard --s DaE1-zs
eastward ---7 Hlsc--s-- and Northern limos
Heavy rams -s- 81 iowa during Friday -izE- ss1e
c--.F % -a5 L1l-S. vle-e 15I I-llss fe-L Tlere
mas -1 ---l- -sl RI cl-sl-szce. except -1-s I1clI
s-"rz- 81 southern Fl-El-la. the ssru---zs. and
Eaa---s FLORIDA
High -sEl=.a-g-zs c-zrl-us II L-s Central val
-..r- the ~1u--- AID Southwest bur u Ner In
land. The Made Atlantic States and tie Lover
lake Easl-l -- IS arl-eclsby cooler IN shs West
-rr e-l-l-ls are E16e-ts. although they have rssu
e.--5--e-alE over -Ls u1--as-a districts
WIKI another --v area moving II from -hs British
N--sas-- ll1---l-s are -1r -srT favorable f1- set
--7- 7rel-le- -Ls West and Ioy- showers lugr D.
tZl=g-t- a7e- ne lr-a-- districts within he -zy-
-H1 DAYS TLz-s E.L be showers SUNDAY II -be
AID TIE Mode Atlantic States erca-5i-z Hv Mon
lav into Sew England. There VII also e I8czI
showers sunday and r--tably Monday il tie So-st5
Atlantic States
Fe--l@-z-T.-zs VII 5e uode-z-e Suud1v and Non
CAV from The Lake region eastward and s1-.ssrba-
higher SUNDAY n tie No-rLues-, fa-i7E a=zia Mon
day -- T-z=sza--
The w-uds si1rE the Nsv E---znd and Middle A.
--1tc coasts VII BE- -slt 20 tresl north U north
east OF tre south Atlantic coas- EEht and mostly
s1rhs-y- on The Ess- Guf coast lzl- and va-iabIr-
or IL Ne@- G1E coast I--lr % fresh southeast 70
south -- the L0sa- Lakes Ez1- % fresh l1--aazs-
o east ard on the Cppe- Lakes fresh east .
southeast.
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COMPLIMENT BREWERIES.
Health OFFICERS Also Praise Meat
dealers Methods

Although the recent Investigations by
the health department Of the District
brought 20 light insanitary and unciean
conditions in restaurants. hotels. saloons.
and establishments where fOodstuT is
prepared and sold. many firms were com
mended by the health officers on the high
state Of cleanliness maintained IN their
establishments
Among the beer-bottIing companies who
receive special commentators We're the
Schlitz Brewing Company. the Pa5st
Brewing Company. and the Anheuser-
Busch Company. 4 number Of weiI-knowu
meat dealers were complimented for the
sanitary methods used in preparing beef
and the clean condition Of the places
where meats were retailed. Among these
were. J. NJ AreRdes. McCurdy Company.
Jesse 3. Carroll. John Murray. J. H.
johnson. Ben Safranek. G. 7. Robertson.
and r n, Hilleary.
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Condition ID th. untcr.

SPECIAL 20 The Washington He-.d.
H25le7s Ferry. " Va. Aug. E.-Potomac clear
AID she-H-d.zl MUDDY.
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who viii he designated 10 take charge Of
the dir5gibIe and make the first ascsn-
sions-
Although the government viU accept
the dirigible as It stands. ii is not un-
likely some improvements viii be made
on II. There -as a weIl-defned rUmor
in army circles last week that the gov
ernment would seek 10 improve the dirigi-
bic in such "a way as 20 make 1t abso-
luteIy controIlable by one man sitting in
the front Of the framework or by two
men. in the event they sailed in IT,
Secretary Augustus Post OF the Aero
Club OF America. sIid last night after
the flight.
That was the creates. aeronauticaI
feat ever performed iu America. The
James Gordon Bennett race deveIoped
nothing new--no brainworis was ueces-
sary in that contest-and C8pt Bald
wins performance this evening com
pletely surpassed anything the Wright
Brothers OF Farman have ever done. It
was great trip. and both Mr. Curtiss
and Capt Baldwin are entitled to the
highest praise
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SPECIAL NOTICES,

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholders Of the East Washington
Heights Traction Railroad COMPANY 81
Washington. D. c. VIII be held n It's
office. eth st. and Pa ave NV. on WE'D
NESDAN.. August "a. 1878 az 2.2l D. m
al which time the election Of officers will
De held and such other business viii De
transacted as may come ur. G.. B. HTIs-
LARD. Secretary a--T---t
List Nour CaPuzaya Mining Company
stock with out-o--rDwu SyuGIear. now
forming await adv. in financial columns
BOSTON. Herald Office a-1-s-ff-
BENZ. r. Coles 6 Co., UphoIstert4E OF
az Eiuds- Slu ouEerS sle sth ~. IL 65i-
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Camp Perry. Ohio. Aug. 15-Squad-on
A Of New York captured the revoIve-
team shoot. and Capt Thomas Holcomb.
jr. and Gun serst- J. W HengIe divided
the individual rifle honors to-day al the
tournament Of the National Rifle Asso-
citation and the Ohio State Rifle Associa-
ton For the sixth successive year
Squadron A rfafhsmen shot up the field
iu the national association championship
revolver team match for teams Of i've.
fifteen shots deliberate aim and fifteen at
rapid fire.
Under most UnfavorabIe conditions. a
puffy cross wind. the squadron scored
s0s-523 ~ slow flre and zS5 AT rapid fire
The Second District OF Columbia was
second, with 10. Troop A OF Ohio third.
with 6s5-
TyrO Competitions.
In the Tyro match for competitors who
had never won a firsJ. second. or third
prize in an Individual match os the ass0-
ciauoE. the drst twelve finished IN the
following order Capt Holcomb. L 5.
II C. s5, Capt. Mcbride. Indiana. IS.
SerSL Hayes. Fourteenth United States
Infsntry. IS, Capt Loundesack. Second
Connecticut, &, SergL Snodgrass. Oregon.
4. J. n Davidson. Fort Pitt Rife Club.
a., 1Iidshipmaa Woodward. Z. :. y. g,
Se-g- Sanders. Twelfth United States In
taur-y. 20 Sergt- BUrdeJte, L. 5 n c..
z5. Sergt- Grain, Indiana, IS; SergL An
Grews, l. 5 n g.. a.
The Hale match went 10 Hengie on the
ffJh shot in his shooJ-o6 with Lieut. Col
Wlader. Of Ohio.
On target with which it had no ex-
peue-ce SGuad-ou a shot In the Ohio
State Rifle Association Championship re-
volver team match this afternoon against
Troop a, OF Ohio. which was really q
State team. its members representing
three organizations The troop scored
75,. while The squadron made ~
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BUSCH AIDS HARVARD BRANCH

Give Five Thousand Dollars to Ger
manic Museum a. Nucleus.
Berlin Aug -5.-AdoIphus Busch. rne
St Louis brewer. who this week gave
$500 % the Geruaa.c Museum ar Har-
ward University hopes his gift VIII stand
merely as nucleus 10 which i've other
Americans VIII add similar accounts
Ambassador Hill was largely instru-
mental IN inducing AIr- Busch 10 turn his
philanthropy IN this direction IN this
museum Harvard can boast the owner
ship o. -he only Institution IN the world
which attempts 10 trace throughout its
history the Development OF German art.
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LocnI Temnernture-

3iidziEat. s. ? g. a. IS a. II. .. a. ID. >.
O. H. - ID a. u-. s. . neon. s. D. n, s.;
= "a - q E-. e. r II. p 70 2. r. "a
Maximum. s. minimum. =
As-z-Ire Aglzla--z-s "a, ., ? r.. S. Ho1rs
C sunshine. IA 9e- cent e poss5,s s--s1lne -3l
l-upe-z1--e sane lats last ges--NIsxiuun 7s.
I-llil------ -.
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- Yonr Capnzaya lIInIns comranr
Autumn Business

plans should include provision f7r
new hil ard letter heads a1naurce-
meuts. Sc. We're u position 10 er-
ec-tc --e most attractive p-tu-i-.-
matter of ali kinds at lowest prices.
yAsk fer seurles and estimates.
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ORGANIZED MAN HUNT.
Posse Sets Out To Capture Bandits
in lLn..achn.att.

in HHssachuEetts.
NIetruer, Mass. Aug I5--The citizens
army. organized by state Rep-ese-tativs
George Bunting. started ou- $50 strong
from Narcl's corner at 2-55 p n. to-day
o capture the bandit gang which has ter
rc--zed this region for Two weeks The
man hunters separated into three divi-
s-ous- Al the bandit hunters were armed
some with rifles. some with pistols. and
some with sEorguns-
The reward Of 500 offered for the cap
tu-e Cf the criminals IS spur-i-E on hun
Creds % assist f. Tie chase
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Effective
Printing

Geo. E. Howard, 7IA 18th St.
RRINTER. ENGRAyER. AND BOoKBINDER.
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ITS SIXTH VICTORY
Squadron A Takes Revolver
Team Shoot Trophy
AT THE NATIONAL TOURNEY

Capt. Thomas HoIcOmb, Jr., and Gun
Sergt- J. W HenEIe Divide the
HOnOrs for Individual Rifle shots,
Making Records that Uphold the
AssOciatfon's Prestige
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Tide Table.

ro-da--H5sl tiia. Il . a. rs- ard no p r,-
tae. $50 a. n- and 558 D. m
I1--17--7E-HiEa tide. l2-l5 a. M low tide 6-z
9. Be- and 5-5 p. r.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-20

avoid just here the temptation to ia vorltism Is also q problem for a com mission of the kind proposed Can it be done? or can some other plan that will serve the country without reference to favored commercial securities he pro yded?
 Tho whole object of this currency legislation Is to prevent the recurrence of panics The object Is a laudable one but it must occur to one who thinks far enough that the cause of panics Hes deeper than the need If more or different currency. The cause is an eco- homie one that belongs to the charac- ter of our Industrial system The Indus trial world is in tho stage of an evolu- ton that calls for Q new angle of view. There are inevitable economic forces al work that it Is not in the power of man to withstand Ill-adJusted Legislation only aggravates matters To learn tho laws of economic progress and legislate in line with them is to legislate sanely Unfortunately most legislators are moi economists, though they may he good lawyers. II will he for the proposed currency commission to take causes h. to account.
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tremely useful lately they cannot he particularly in love with such use- fitness Baltimore, San Francisco, Chelsea and other places have called heavily on the insurance companies during the last few wears, Most of them have responded nobly and hon. esty including our own well man aged Security But they would like a rest from such calls, and this whole careless country needs a rest from such enormous Arc losses as happen here 4 wave of temperance, or pro hlbton, Is sweeping over the coun. try, II Is high time for the country to b. swept by wave of reform that will decrease the awful losses that result from this almost constant sweeping by fire
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RIGHT, AS USUAL.

The women of Concord, New Hamp- shire, arc struggling to have the word 'malo" omitted from the new city charter that Mayor Charles k. Cor ming has recently appointed commit tee to draft. It Is asserted that the present charter of Concord Is one of the most antiquated in America, It Is q copy of Boston's original charter. and among its provisions are minute directions to tho chief of police as signing him all sorts of puritanIcal duties. Witches are warned to re- fran from their sinful practices and tradesmen against selling rum to In dians. The women now say that to prohibit them from voting at this ad- vancod state of the world is just as antiquatcd and as irrational as the provisions relating to witches.
 It Is, if the women want to vote, This or something Ike lt, has just beeh perceived In Denmark, whore women who arc taxpayers or the wives of taxpayers have been granted the right to vote The women of Con cord should certainly have as many privileges as the women of Denmark
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FIRE LOSSES.

The Boston Globe points out that the value and importance of fire in surance have been again freshly and signally illustrated by the Chelsea disaster. The latest and most con servative estimate of the total insur- ance on the property destroyed places it at about S6,500000, This covers public buildings, churches, schools, factories, stores and residences Not all were covered by insurance, but d large percentage were insured The pecially interesting at this time when the general court is being ask ed by several towns for authority to go into the business of municipal ln- surance. to note that such a policy if in force in Chelsea, would have been very bad for that city. As 1t Is Chelsea was wise enough, owing tr her high tax rate, to insure some of her public buildings, so that there will not be so great q loss in that re. spect. But if the city had beer transacting a general municipal bus. mess the money losses would have been many millions more.
 This is one of the ways of looking at It. Another Is that while the in. suranee companies have been es
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NO APPARENT ABATEMENT

The temperance wave does not seem to be checked very much. Quite re- gently Illinois voted out of existence L. 900 saloons, and in the south the tenn perance sentiment has such influence that 1t Is suggested that the Democra- tic party when 1t meets at Denver should put in it's platform plank bearing on the subject; If not a prohi- bitlon plank. then something approach ing if. The movement generally Is of the local option character There has not been aroused such popular inter est since the WashlngtonIan movement of sixty years ago Then the purpose was to scure pledges to total abstin- ence. Now 1t is an effort to outlaw the saloon In Illinois mass meetings, processions, and other demonstrations preceded the voting. Tt Is evident on every hand" says our fellow-cltizen Hugh J. Reynolds, in a letter to Tho Journal-Courier on Saturday. that the people of the whole United States arc being carried away into q state of fren. zled excitement" This Is more than prohibtonists would say, for they art not quite sure of the whole of tho United States"
 Indeed, the temperance effort has reached congress and 1t is urged tha certain laws be provided to prevent tho hactual keeping of saloone under ma tional license In States where the bust ness Is prohibited by state enactment ! Whether the change of sentiment vii 1 have the same results in the North a I in the South ani some parts of tn, West Is a question. While not attain | ing to ful prohibition it will seek re strctions in certain particulars and al concerns activity in politics. Tn
 whole struggle has its interesting feat
 ures. Those who are protecting thei l investments in the business are as having their processions and meetings
 as for example the great parade no
 long ago in Chicago to protest agains
 restrictive legislation. The whole strug
 gle is evidently part of the grea
 moral wave that has manifested tsel
 in so many different ways the past fe,
 years.
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NOT A DANGEROUS SURPLUS.

Those who think deficit is less dan
 gcrous than a surplus will perhaps he encouraged by the fact that the large balance of trede which the United
 State will realize in this fiscal year
 will be offset by a treasury deficit amounting probably to somewhere near s60, ,O00, OO0 At the close of business last Friday the ex .ess of expenditures over receipts since July 1, 1907, reached nearly A3,000000. Of this deficit s. 2s6,574 has been accumulated in the first seventeen days of April For the present month the running expenses of the government will probably amount to something like S12,OO00o0 more than the current income. The treasury state ment shows that the current account of the government is less favora ble than it was veal ago, the difference amounting to more than 95,000, 000 A year ago instead of deficit of nearly $43,000, 900 there was a surplus of more
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The Dreaded Time.

am sitting on the fence, Mary, I'm sitting on the fence; And no one in the world dear, But you can bid mo hence know not what to do, Mary, ru fee from what l can, Or stay al home whnte'er bctide And face it like man. You're going to house clean, Mary, You said perhaps next week; l shuddered at the words, Mary, For l. alas. am weak; l thought of scrappY dinners dear, l thought Of carpet men, ] thought of stovenipes and I swore, For l was selfish then. Romance is dying hard, Mary, But must lt not he dumb, When carpets vou are taking up And hammer hard your thumb? When we men fall in love, Mary Life's an idyllc dream But when jt comes to cleaning house. Tis only one long scream'
 Baltimore American.
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IMPLICATED.

Hc--Do you believe all this about man being descended from q monkey?
 She-You surely haven't the face 10 deny It.-Phlladclphia Inquirer
 Atlas was holding the world on his shoulders. "A small natter he pro tested suppose It was a Merry Widow hat? Herewith all realized II was q trine.-Chieago Tribune.
 Mother-oh. Bobby, you naughty boy you've been smoklng tPause Poor darling, do you feel very bad?
 Bobby twho has been well brought up) -Thank you I'm dying Punch
 "I suppose" said the sad-eyed youth nt the musical, you know the differ. encc between Canto and coloratura,'
 "young man answered MT. Cumrox severely, "l never bet on race horses. Washington Star
 Mrs. Gramercy-f hear the customs authorities seized all the ilnery vol brought over from Paris. VIII 1t he 2 total lossf
 Mrs Park Why, no, dear; got ml name In the papers, Puck,
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AN OFFER WORTH TAKING.

once in awhile good thing Is done by one of the societies organlz- ed to do good things That is a good thing which the Lincoln Educational League has done in providing fund of s20,0o to be used toward placing In the schoohouses throughout the country bronze tablets bearing the full text of Abraham Lincoln's ad- dress at Gettysburg. The league is incorporated under the New York State laws and has opened headquar- ters at No. SS East 2lst street Its officers are: Wilson W. Hoag. pres ldeht. John R Evans. vice president; Francis D. Tandy. secretary and treasurer. and the advisory board. Levi r. Morton. Judd Stewart, St. Clair MdEelway, the Rev. James R. Fey, Truman H. Bartlett, Edward Everett Hale and Mayor Mcclellan. The fund provided by the league is to be devoted to paying one-half the cost of each tablet if the school or any person interested in 1t will con tribute the other half
 This offer ought to be met more than half way What Is there, out
 
 ter to keep perpetually before the children of this country than this Gettysburg address? What can they learn more from. or be more inspired l by? We hope the New Haver schools will all soon be equipped with these tablets.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-20
The Third-1'crm Talk.
CThe Christian RcglstcrD ]

' l' 1hllHAlhH H'BiHi'ltl
 From any point of view, whether it comes as threat or n promise, the proposal to make Theodore Roosevelt the President of the United States aft CT the ith of March, 1909, In spite ot his repeated pledge not to be q candi- date for another term, reveals a dan ger which ought to be guarded against by men of all parties. We believe that the better way would be to elect d president for seven years. and then make him ineligible under any clrcum- stances for second term. To hold that the welfare of the republic de- pends upon the election of any man, however good or great. Is n dangerous confession of the weakness of our ln- stltutions It Is not nearly so true now az lt was at the end of General Wash ington's career that the wisdom and au- thorlty of an. one man must be ma lo a condition of national prosperity and moral well being. To assert this Is tc confess a danger that does not exist
The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-20
undcrstudIes for Monarchs.

tLondon Black ana Nnlte.1
 In land of distrust like Russia fl Is only natural that the precautions taken should bc of the most drastic order, hence the use of the royal understudy, who has always been a conspicuous fig ure at the court Indeed, it was the undorstudy of the late Czar Alexander IIf.-a man named Komaroff ff-who was murdered in Moscow some years ago when the murderer thought he had covered himself with glory by assassin- atlng the czar. Nicholas. like his father before him, has m understudy, and the many state functions nc attended ai the opening of his reign, when the re- lations with his people were less strained than they are to-day. were at tended for the most part by proxy No monarch. however, made such frequent use of his undorstudy as the late Elm peror William of Germany. Every day as the clock struck l2. the emperor came out and bowed on the palace bal. cony. It was not until some time aft CT the emperor's demise that the secret was made known that the man who appeared daily on the balcony was the | royal understudy, And the person who gave the secret away was the great l Bismarck.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-20
SHOW AND SUBSTANCE.

April was fickle enough yesterday 10 amply justify any reputation for dckleness it may have acquired. It began by tempting people to go out into the bright sunshine and the soft airs, and when 1t got them out 1t ralned on them inst enough to teach them that this Is an uncertain world and that April is specially Encer- tain factor in it Then it did other things which made a variegated and curious Easter Sunday of what start cd out as if Il were going to be az fine an Easter Sunday as ever was.
 Well, never mind While the Easter show may not have been as bright and shining as 1t has some times been, the substance was the same, as 1t ever is. Rain or shine, there is no change in the glory and the power of It, It tells of life and hope. and points the way toward them
The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-20
splushes from inc Temperance Wave.

tThe Boston Transcript)
 few splashes from the temper ance wave have hit Rhode Island. though fl has not felt the Impact of the main force 4 bill of restrictive character passed the House of Repro sentatlves yesterday, the principal fel- ture of which was q provision limiting the number of licenses to one for every 500 inhabitants. In this state tha, would be regarded as extraordinary lIherallty to the saloon trade, but should the measure pass It would re- duce tho number of licenses In the State by il1 IL would wipe out nearly 200 in Providence alone, and almost cut in two the number of places in Pawtucket and Woonsocket, Licenses for place: within 200 feet of q church. public school or parochia school are forbid den and druggists licenses are not in. cluded In the reckoning. IL was a kind of harmony measure. both parties strongly supporting it and very few standing out in opposition.