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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
The Improved Business Outlook

The Bank of England yesterday
reduced its discount rate to 31s per
cent. Following the New York bank
furry of October that rate rose
rapidly to per cent, and has been
falling ever since. The explanation
Of it is simple: English bankers are
now fairly in the position in which
American bankers will be very
soon: they have more money Than
use for it.
Right now the country has more
money than business. That is al
ways the case Immediately follow
ing the resumption of confidence
after a financial depression. But
business, stimulated by the easing
of money, is resuming rapidly. The
progressive cheapening of money in
England is being felt here, and win
be felt still more.
The very best information which
is to be had in financial and Govern
ment circles indicates that resump-
tion is going TO be faster than ever
before was known following a pc
riOd of severe depression. True.
manufacturers viii be slower about
resuming at full blast than they
were about shutting down or cur
failing operations when the money
trouble struck them. Likewise rail-
roads viii find transportation
slower in picking up than it was in
dropping off. But the restoration
Of normal conditions is making ex-
cellent progress, and under the
stimulus of cheaper money viii pro-
coed still faster.
The chief thing that assures quick
recuperation at this time is the big
demand for American agricultural
products, and the outlook for a
large crop this year. The edge has
been taken off the business troubles
by reason of the immense move
ment Of these products. With q
good crop outlook still continuing,
month hence there can be little
doubt that tremendous strides viii
have been made toward restoration
of the commercial conditions which
prevailed before the furry of De-
tober.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
An Artist on America.

Nine. Schumann-Heink, who has
many times charmed Washington
audiences with her beautiful sing
ing, gives The following reasons
why she is determined to become a
fullhedged American:
8ecause it's the land of opportunity
for women and children. 1t mas brought
me good luck and fortune from the first
day I set foot on It's SOIL. Americans
pay me more money to sing one night
az the Manhattan than Is paid me for
= week abroad. I've only sung there
one night so far this season, but l VIII
derive S125,fO0 from my concert tour,
and-iust think of tia photograph
company gives me $4,000 more TO sing
into il. ] guess Z ought 10 think pretty
we'll of America, don't you?
We do. Anyone who makes $780,
600 or whereabouts pleasantly and
honorably in the course of n season
lasting eight months ought to think
pretty well of this land of singers
and singing machines. They pay
higher wages by the night down in
Buenos Aires on some occasions,
hut they have neither the tours nor
the monograph companies to be
found in this country. Nor, in fact,
have they the art.
ut makes me furious" says the
famous contralto, ''to hear alleged
critics say that America has neither
art nor conception of it.
America has splendid art-great,
broad, all-absorbing and alI-conceiy-
ing art-and it's the country's new
ness and wonderful power of as
sanitation that has given her these
two splendid virtues"
The performances given in this
country by our American grand
opera companies are unquestion-
ably the finest to be heard in all
the world We have several orches-
tras that rank with the best in ex-
istenee. We have schools and art
lists. Aud we have knockers"
some Of whom are natives and who
cherish vanity as well as artistry.
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ernOr might make a stump speech,
III of clubbing a policeman because he
did keep order right near the i'm
pro:Ised platform. He is distinguished
Furthermore, because he first called
Senator DepeW "a peach in introduc-
ing him 10 BOWery audience. once
more he delights because he's about
the only Republican in Tim SuIIi-
vans Second Assembly District. and is
yet a friend to the Democratic Tim.
Now for the interview. You have TO
hear Mr. Roman and see his smile TO
properly appreciate It. but. anyway
he's as versatile as they make them
and refuses to talk on any one subject
more than a minute at a time. The
care of children. the running Of the
Senate, and prohibition in Arabia were
all handled I'm the same epigrammatic
style, and with lightninglike rapidity.
President Same Fellow.
II saw the President yesterday" he
said. Hes the same fellow he was
years ago when I helped him get on
that truck. The campaign committee
wasn't going TO let him speak on the
Bowery, but he'd promised me to, and
he broke every BANKED engagement and
did so. It's just that way today. He
can't be bossed; that's why the people
are FOR MIN. III bet every cent / have
he has 10 take another nomination.
Il asked him yesterday if he remarn-
bered that day on the Bowery and how
somebody swiped his sCOaL when he laid
il aside while making his speech. OF
course he remembered it. He doesn't
forget anything
Hughes? No, he won't do. He'd
make a bum PresidenG. He won't take
advice He's tried to initiate Roose-
welt without having the ability. He has
more Whiskers than brains. Taft2 Yes
maybe. He'll do If the President re-
fuses. but nobody viii run on the Bow
cry like Roosevelt
''Bryan2 Did YOU ever see a man
lose twice and then get elected2 When
you get two strikes on a man at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
THE STORY OF STARLIGHT.

August Belmont, president of the
Jockey Club. at a dinner in New York.
said of racing:
Racing IS honestly conducted in the
main. The stories that one hears about
il are rather absurd. They are like the
story of Starlight.
once there was a group of sports
men who were all quite broke. They
must however, get in to the races. and
one at time they presented themselves
at the paddock gate.
1 am the owner Of Starlight tia
first said. He was well dressed and i'm
posing. They believed and passed him
in.
I am StarHghts trainer, said the
second. His red face and bluff manner
bore out mis- story. and they admitted
him.
THE third man. small and thin, next
appeared.
'Starlight's jockey he said shortly.
and hurried through the gate
Tine fourth and last man of the
group was very shabby indeed
We'll, who are your they said i'm
patiently, when he presented himself
am Starlight, was the meek
reply .-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
WILL CONE.
SAYS SPEAKER CANNON

Speaker Cannon is an optimist. as was
evidenced by his address at the banquet
which marked the close of the six
tenth annual meeting of the National
Lumber Dealers Association in the
New Willard Hotel last night.
White believing in the preservation OF
timber coal and iron, the Speaker de-
clared that when the present natural
resources are exhausted others Will take
their places
DO you want us to freeze and live
in the open that our grandchildren may
keep warm9'' he asked. Il ara sure that
other natural resources, aided by in
ventive genius, viii take care OF the
future"
Senator p. c. Knox Of Pennsylvania
and Representative Jacob SIoat Fassett
of New York also made addresses re-
lating to the lumber business.
AT the meeting yesterday afternoon
the following officers and board Of truss
tees for 19CS-09 We're elected:
c. j. Prescott Jr., Of Cleveland. Ohio.
president; G. F. craig, of Philadelphia.
first vice president. Robert W HiCbie.
of New York, second vice president. RI
w. Cole. Of New York, treasurer. and
+. 7. Perry. secretary.
Trustees Lewis Dill Of Baltimore. -
II. Prescott. jr.. Of Cleveland, Ohio w.
z Gltchileld, Of Boston: w. W Riiev.
of lzuffalO; C. F. Craig. OF Philadelphia:
A L: stone, Of Cleveland, and W, ".
knight. Of Indianapolis
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itics. Eearsts He does some good with
his money. but he's just cranky enough
anything he touches. Il would be the
same way with the Government
Opposed to Prohibition.
Talking about cranks. though. The
prohibitionists are the the limit Do YOU
know L never worked for a ,en.perance
crank in my life that he didn beat
me out of some money or else pay me
off on Monday for fear I'll haye a good
dinner Sunday?
Look at these BANKED Arabs and
other foreigners. They wear their
freak clothes and have no bsrrO0ms.
and they are right where they were
5000 years ago. Amt il so?
Yes, / believe in bars, but lot IN
affinities. My wife and I have been
separated twenty-one years, but L don't
want any affinities.
Now about this bunch over on the
Hill They raised their own salaries
and neglected everybody else We Gus
tcmhouse men and other Government
employees deserve some cOnsIdera ton
I think So 500 is big price for most Of
the lot. They ought to either make them
work by the piece OF else ten hours a
day. Half of them are cut out for
something else. Many a mother has
of a boy who might have made a dandy
stonecutteT.
still. there are some good ones
know seventeen Congressman well
enough to borrow money from them, and
that's mighty close acquaintance.
'DepeW is all right / don't pretend
to be in Depews circle financially or
socially, but he treats me with respect,
and I treat him likewise and this is
what counts. That's the President s.
secret. He's n Harvard graduate. but
he's been out West and lived close to
nature and knows how 10 handle men.
Is Writing a Book.
Speaking of college, did YOU know
90 per cent of the men who asked help
Of the Bowery Y. NJ c. A last year
were college graduates? I'm writing
a book on college Friends I've Met on
the Bowery' I've been there twenty
one years, you know"
The BOwery DepeW" said a lot Of
other things, all equally as interesting
and fun OF philosophy. However. whPt
he's dreaming about now is that in
crease in wages which must come
through the $500 bunch OF the Hill"
He'll be here till Saturday, he says. and
intends to go back with glad tidings.
With him are Steve Cooney and j. T.
MeiT, who echo his sentiments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Nine. Schumann-Heink is the first
TO acknowledge fairly and squarely
that the opportunities for artistic
success in this, the United States.
are unrivaled, and that if America
pays the highest prices it gets the
best results. The severest critics of
American art have been those who
failed to make good here, or who,
while complaining of American hab-
its, have been eager recipients of
American dollars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
Make These Schools FireprOOfl

To James A. Tawncy, clair. AN Of
the House Committee on Appropria-
tions, and William B. Allison, chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations:
On allowances fixed by your COM
mittees, bids are shortly to be
opened for three school buildings
in the District of Columbia. One is
to house 600 youngsters, and to
stand in b street southeast, near
Thirteenth street. Each of the
others is to house 500 of our chill
dren, one near Howard University,
the other in Mt. Pleasant
The specifications are already
published. The proposals in reply
viii be opened in the first instance
tomorrow, in the second a week
later. in the third, perhaps, ten
days later stfH. BY no possible
reading can those specifications be
made to promise our children secur-
fly from fire. They provide for
lstairways Of slate and iron. Other
wise they are fire resisting" But
nothing Of their special quality as
sire resisting" buildings viii pro-
tect a single wooden ioist from the
flames.
Your committees have allowed
about 10 cents a cubic foot for
these schools. This is not the time
to urge that Philadelphia, Boston,
Chicago, st. Louis, and New York
appropriate "a to IS cents a cubic
foot for corresponding uses. But
it is unquestionably the time to
urge that II cents a cubic foot
would make all three of. these
buildings proof against fire to their
roofs, and that % cents a cubic foot
would make them freproof through
out.
The time to act is now. The need
Is the security of 1900 little chill
dren. The responsibility rests on
YOU. In the name of those children
and their parents, in the sickening
shadow of the disaster at North
Collinwood, the people of Washing
ten look to you to do these things
without waiting
To begin the construction of fire.
proof schools for the United States
Capital with these three buildings.
To stop by legislation the award
of contracts for these three build
ings according to the specifications
published.
To provide the additional sums re-
quired to make them freproof, at
least to the roof.
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equilibrium, which, I assure you, is eX-
tremely difficult for one or my aEOlI-
duDois and susceptibility"
VI. @. Robertson, jr-
1916 Eighth street northwest
"pee-Ighted 10 see you smile Quite
surprised sou didn't swear / would
have" r =. HeneIIau-
I0Sl Twenty-second street northwest.
-
Pardon me, miss. but 7 cannot see
such hule things without my glasses.
1907 c street northwest
"Oh. my! did / hurt you? I was so
interested in the readers OF Tie Times.
really did not see you ,-,.
Us Eighth street southeast.
Heavens. miss! + thought all of the
feet were on the other sioe.
Ioz2 G street northeast.
Pardon me. miss; did / mash it? I
am from Missouri. You viii have 10
show me Miss Edith Benhof.
8IS Second street southeast.
Il guess it's my next move"
1907 G street northwest.
Pardon me. miss. but I bee OF you to
accept my apology
Miss Lille White.
Gee. ghfz! She has a lovely dispose
ton. A good wife for some clumsy
man" II. A, Duunan.
I70S I street northwest.
Excuse me, miss, don't say it; let mo
Ernest G. Fuller.
40 Tenth street southwest.
Excuse me. did I hurt your foot?"
p r street northeast.
q hope it did not hurt you"
1906 Third street northwest.
Pardon me, miss. I believe I have
made a serious mash, have not?,'
Mrs. b. BOnnabee.
500 Second street northwest.
my hat is of, miss. TO the tiniest
foot il has ever been my fortune to
tread on" D. b. Reagan.
sos Fourth street northwest
well. I hope I've made a good i'm
preston" Annie Werdig.
1927 Ninth street northwest.
Pardon me. miss. but I fear my
avolrdupois has been to yeu a troy ttry)
weight" u. 3. Reagan.
sos Fourth street northwest.
Pardon me. miss, but these cars are
so beastly crowded that fl is hard for
Us 'gallants' TO keep our balance
as Sixth street northeast.
OH Mrs. ]. ]. Ferguson.
S29 r street northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
A Bunch Of Epigrams
By The Bowery Depew''

4 believe I'm barrO0ms. but not in
afhnities. New York is ahead OF
me there.
Il know seventeen congressman
well enough 20 borrow money. That
a pretty close acquaintance.
The Bowery thinks the House IS
nothing but a lemon grove. It's go
ing to trs the Senate's peach or
hard.
Congress ought TO be paid by the
piece or made to work ten hours a
day
Booker Washington says pI ohibi-
ton is good for the coIored man. I
guess so. A negro IS like a Den.
crat; he doesn't know WHOM he's
had enough. All negroes .M1u soon
be Democrats"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
RAILWAY GUARD A THIEF;
EXPLAINS MANY RCBBERIES

PARIS, March 6.-The robbery Of the
luggage Of wealthy Americans touring
Europe. which has been reported from
time to time for the last six months
has been explained by the arrest and
confession Of a guard on the Paris
Riviera line at Marseilles.
The guard was possessed OF n bunch
of skeleton keys, and when alone in
the baggage car would rife trunks of
what he pleased Many tEefls OF valu-
able jewelry have beea reported to the
officials cf the road
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Billy Heavywat crushed Miss Sveltes tiny foot in
crowded street car The poor girl suffered agonies,
yet she laughed heartily at his remark
What did he say?
Think it over What DID he say?
Send your answer to the Question Editor, Washing
ton Times. The person submitting the best answer will
receive five dollars. The answer may be from one to
twenty-five words All replies MUST be written on
postal cards ard contain full name and address of sender
Answers will be accepted until o'clock Saturday after
noon and the name of the person submitting the best
reply will be published in The Sunday Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Financial folks are really blaming
more things on the Hepburn law than
IS fair. Recently the Gould system has
placed two Of its subsidiary lines in
the hands Of receivers, one in the far
Southwest the other in Maryland; one
coal railroad the other a frontier
line: both doing good business, and,
apparently, in no prospect of trouble.
In each case railroad legislation was
blamed. In neither case is railroad leg
islation believed. by anybody at all in
formed. to have been in any wise re-
spOnsible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

1t seems as il tho number OF military
secrets which foreign governments are
spying around 10 locate in this country,
is utterly disproportionate to the size
and consequence OF this nations military
establishment
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Mr.. Bryan's platform sounds wonder
fully Ike Theodore ROosevelt's plat
form. The only matter left open for
argument seems to be the old question
OF who saw it first.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

The hatpin continues to be the most
effective weapon Of warfare. Almost
every day brings new testimony TO it's
effectiveness. 1t is modestly suggested
that a trained hatpin corps would repre-
sent vastly better investment than any
more submarines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Sympathy is due the Car If there are
many more like that Chicago anarchist
IN his dominions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

A Pennsylvania man, In his viii, made
a Request Of his soul. He's in luck, if
after a long life IN this vale of tears
he was still in such unquestiOned pos
session as to be able TO beqpeath Il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

The milliners are already getting
ready to frame up the Easter hornets,
and the same old jokes are be.Hg busted
of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Of New York suggest that 1t was run
by a seer rather than a financier.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

County Chairman Herbert Parsons is
sending out offers of flower seeds to his
constituents. along with the announce
ment that he is a candidate Cor re-
election, as head of the New York coun-
~ committee. Mr.. Parsons evidently
proposes to keep the roof garden vote in
line, II possible
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
Much to Be Proud Of.

But first let It be explained that there
are other things Mr.. Roman is proud Of
First OF all. he glories in the title CT
''The Bowery Depew." Again, he de-
lights to have had the honor of wheel
ing a truck down the Bowery many
years ago, in order that President
roosevelt, then a candidate for gov
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Has liberty persisted in Switzerland
That republic, the home of freedom.
recently kicked beyond its borders a few
rash Mormon missionaries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
Takes General Fling at
Politics and Pro-
hibition.
Thinks Roosevelt Will
Be Elected for a
Third Term.

Il told Senator Depew we boys on
the Bowery had decided that the House
was nothing but a lemon grove, and I
came TO Washington to dicker with the
peach orchard over on the Senate
side"
Thus spoke Tom Roman. ''The Bow
cry Depew," genial Irish political, vet
eran of many political campaigns, stel-
lar attraction along the Bowery and
friend TO everybody. the President in
cluded. except the "fool temperance
cranks,"- whom he says he consistently
hates with a hate begot by bitter ex-
perience.
Mr.. Roman paced back and forth in
his room at the National Hotel, and
with short, ter e sentences and expires
sive gesture. and now and then an ex-
pressive adjective that Cucle Joe Can
non is said TO use to advantage, ex-
planned that he was in Washington for
a purpose and intended TO accomplish
1t. He is at present a lobbyist and
proud Of It. He's trying TO get an in
crease in wages for the employees of the
wares department of the New York
custom house, and heads a missionary
committee of three.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

What has become Of the ancient Pop
party-is Tom Watson the sole remnant9
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

itiCs. Hearsts He does some good with
his money, but he's just cranky enough
10 run 10 the bOWWOWs in two months
anything he touches. Il would be the
same way with the Government
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Excuse me, miss, don't say it; let me
say il for you
Ernest G. Fuller.
40 Tenth street southwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Excuse my a~SNardneEs. was
vainly sndeavoring % maintain my
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Gee. whit She has a lovely DISPOSE
ton. A good wife for some clumsy
man II. A. Duunan.
los street northwest.
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Pardon me. miss did ! mash it2
am from Missouri. You viii have 10
show me Miss Edith Beuh0f-.
3lS Second street southeast
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Pardon me. miss. but I beg OF you to
accept my apology"
Miss Lille White.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06

Il hope 1t did not hurt you"
j. MurreIl.
1906 Third street northwest.
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Pardon me, miss, 1 believe I have
made a serious mash have notT"
Mrs. i. BOnnabee.
800 Second street northwest.
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Excuse me, did hurt YOUR foot?''
Edward karues.
p r street northeast.