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The Washington herald., 1908-01-19
INSTALLATION BY FORESTERS.
Ceremonies Conducted by Grand
Chief Ranger, Robert Rohrcr.

At the regular meeting OF the Foresters
of America Court, Washington, No. >,
the following officers were installed for
the ensuing year by Deputy Grand Chief
Ranger G. II. Ripley. assisted by Grand
Herald L. G. NJ. Seible
Chief ranger Robert Rohrer; subchief
ranger. Dr. r. S. Trimble; treasurer.
James f. Hall; financial secretary. G. Al
bert Freer; recording secretary, II. GehF
Seboure; senior woodward ". T. An
dreWs; Junior woodward, J. j. Baroch;
senior beadle. J. r. Gilrny: junior beadle.
II. L. Hall; trustees. /. NJ Byrnes. J.
Minahan, and J. ". Hendley; senior ply
siCian, DR.. ". NJ Burton.
The chief ranger recommended the ap-
pointment of L. c. N. Seible for deputy
grand chief ranger Of the District of Co
lumbia. r. Rohrer vas presented, in
behalf Of the court In a neat and appro-
pirate address by DIR. W. N. Barton,
handsome umbrella. Mr.. Rohrer said he
would accept the gift in the spirit in
which II was given.
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balloon by Capt. c. de Forest Chandler
these bid proposals of the Signal Corps
and this rejection by that corps. in order
that the best possible proposals may be
obtained. seems to indicate that the War
Department Intends. IN the near future.
20 fully equip the United States Signal
Corps with the latest devices for flying
through the air
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VIII Complete the Wen.

Acting on recommendation Of s. Ash
ford, Inspector of Buildings, Engineer
Commissioner Morrow yesterday gave
orders that the Columbia Pump and
Well Company be instructed to com
pIete the unfinished contract of Down.
ing and Company, for drilling an ar
tesian well on the grounds of the
Woodburn school building.
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WIG CO the Property.

BY VIII dated September Il, 1904. fled
yesterday for probate George A. Jones,
who died January T.. 1907 devises his en-
tire estate to his wife, Mrs. Mayre Elsie
Jones, and names her executrix.
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Domestic bargains.

SIX09 INCH White Hemstitched
BleaCned Sheets; extra long,
for metal beds. Worth $3.50, QQc
for-..-. ...--..-......-- W.
36-INCH Naiusook- finish Long
Cloth for making fine under QZc
wear Worth Ice yard, for. 0SS
9OA9O INCH New York Mills
Bleached Sheets: absolutely perfect,
and they bear the mills stamp. &c
worth S115, fOr......-........ OOS
45N36 INCH Bleached Pillow
Cases; round thread bleached IL
cotton. Worth 19c. for...-.... III
S1X9O INCH BIeached Sheets, with
dOuble-felled seam in center. Lin
tied quantity. and no phone or mail
orders filled at Mondays spe- 400
clai price, ,--.----.'- ..----...
First ioor-S. Kaun. Sons & Co.
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What the land WI Cost.

committee on the subject, and objection
made to the proposition on account of
the great cost involved. Since that time
a statement has heen compiled from the
tax books at the assessor Office. and an
estimate made of tAe actual value OF the
property. which totals s1.250.OOO Follow
ing is the assessed value of the property
taken from the assessor's books:
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Lectures on Charles Dickens.

Edward Lowe Temple. president OF
the Vermont State association of the
District Of Columbia. viii give a lee,
ture entitled The Genius of Charles
Dickens" January q. at the Y. NJ. G. a
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At the price this is the biggest
bargain we expect To have this
whole season in 1908 wash goods
The defects are more technical
than actual
Fine cotton material. printed IN
First foor-Bargain Tables
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TRADE MORE ACTIVE
Busy Season in Real Estate
Now Approaching.
SALES DURING PAST WEEK
Railroad Company Buys Tract of
Nine Acres On the BIadeHsbuFE
RORd-MiId Weather Gives Impetus
to BuiIdinE-Appraise of Land
south of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Business in real estate has been more
active during the past week. and brok-
ers yesterday reported inquiry for prop
erty constant and many deals on which
they hope 10 pull through with reasonable
effort in a reasonable time. Several
good sales were reported during the week
among them two apartment houses.
numerous dwellings, and several unlm-
proved lots.
Brokers generally are in a hopeful mood.
They say that the most active season in
uary and the middle OF June. that being
the time when Washington's population
IS all here. and the time in which far the
greater part Of the property deals are
closed. It was stated that the record
Of the busy season would probably show
as much business done as in the average
year. Most Of the Offices are now busy,
and it is expected that the fruits Of the
present activity viii be seen shortly in
the closing Of several large deals and
their announcement TO the public.
Railway Company Buys Land.
The Manor Real Estate and Trust Com
pany have sold to the Philadelphia, Bal
timOTe and Washington Railway Com
pany a tract Of nine acres Of ground
part Of which fronts on the Bladensburg
road. for $l2S,OOO The ground will be
used for the purposes Of the company
at that point, being adjacent to the cross
ing Of the BIadensburg road by the over
% -
on the branch track from Magruder, Nd,
10 the New Union Station. It is under
stood that a portion of the land win be
occupied by the proposed passenger sta
tion at that point
The Merchants and Mechanics Savings
Bank has conveyed to z. Keller HOuser
part Of original lot ?. square 429, known
as 707 G street northwest, for $26,500.
Mrs. Beulah D. Folk has sold to Mrs
Ruth l. Thomlinson the three-story house
and accompanying lot. at 1910 Girard
street northwest. for $3.50 The sale was
made through the offices Of Willige,
Gibbs & Daniel and David Moore
Building Operations Begin.
The mild weather has given consider
able impulse to building operations, so
that in all portions OF the city and sub
urbs ground is being broken and founda-
uons laid for buildings which viii be
completed IN the early spring. Archi-
tects and contractors say that the coming
season promises 10 be one OF great ac-
tivity IN building
Much interest is taken in the PROPOSE
tiOn Of the government to acquire the
property south of the Avenue for public
purposes. A bill is before the Senate for
the purchase Of all the parcels not now
owned by the government. from the Bo-
tanic Gardens to Fifteenth street, be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall
to be cleared as its use may be required
and the ground used as sites for public
buildings.
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$1.25 pillows, 89c.

They are % by q inches.
OdOrless.
Filled with sanitary duck feathers.
Covered with blue or tan imitation
linen ticking
A Monday only bargain at Soc each.
First fOOr-Bedding Section.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

polka dot, check, CToss-bar. dash.
ring. and 4 dozen other designs and
combinations. each In q variety of
dainty COlOrings.
These patterns a.o not 10 be had
elsewhere. as we bought the mills
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PLANS BOYS CHOIR
Pastor of st. AlOySius' Makes
An Announcement. 4
TO DISBAND PRESENT SINGERS

New Organization. TO he Composed
of Fifty Voices, VIII Probably BE
His Eminence, the Cardinal-ActuaI
work Begins Easter Sunday.
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REJECTED ALL BIDS
Dirigible Balloon Proposals
for Army Did Not Suit.
ACTION BY THE SIGNAL CORPS

Although Speed Required Is Only
Twenty Miles an Hour, Some OF the
Plans Provided for Forty Miles.
Desire on Part OF Corps TO Pass
the Experimental Stage.
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It IS believed that by fostering competi-
tion the best results viii be obtained, and
q much larger number Of men who have
a bent for such inventions viii be called
into action than would be possible II the
corps were to make their construction a
matter for government action alone.
Coming with the recent tests Of the war
The Washington herald., 1908-01-19

entire producuon-more than 10000
yards
Just what YOU want for wash
dresses. shirt waists. and the new
mannish stvle wash suits II viii
pay you TO buy NOW
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The last week was a busy one for the
Maccabees Of Washington. officers Of
tents have recently been installed as
follows
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One Of the
Essentials

of the happy homes Of to-day is vast
fund of information as to the best methods
of promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge Of the worlds
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Products of actual excellence and
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and whEN have attained to worldwide
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the happy faculty of selecting and obtain
ing the best the world affords.
One of the products of that class, of
known component parts, an Ethical
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mended by the Well-Informed of the
World as valuable and wholesome family
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said: "a promise IS a promise-when
your wife issues the door keys-yes,
another bottle of those liquid hair
pins"
Then he resumed his lamentations:
"I saw some forlorn fellows solemn
ly hayfooting it down Michigan ave-
nue. this morning. They had a band
and were in a procession. Was it a
funeral? It was not. Was it the
doomed man walking to the gallows
with firm step after eating a hearty
breakfast of bacon and eggs? Not at
all! Was it a delegation of food suf-
ferers or a chain gang? No, but it
looked like the melancholia ward of an
asylum out for a mornings airing
and it was the Knox Marching Clubi
"They are here. The band is here.
They have to do something's they
fit through the hotels like lost spirits
and recall the dear dead days when
there was politics in this mans town.
and a railroad attorney with a book of
transportation was bigger man than
old Grant. And that's what your re-
form has done Put lot of Willies
in serge suits-'nine ninety-eight,
marked down from fourteen fifty
into control of the destinies of eur
great republic
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est. The visitors in the galleries are
there only to see the hero crowned
and once the ceremony is over, and
the shouting has worn itself out, their
interest in the convention rapidly dies
away-the show is over.
Thursday was a hot day, and the
Precipitation that the thousands shed
would have f1oated all four of the pres
idents battleships, and the real trou-
BILE of the convention-in a day of
trouble-began after the invocation
had been spoken after Senator Hop
kins had given visible demonstra-
ton of the platform. which no one
heard and no one seemed to care to
hear, and after Congressman Cooper
on behalf of the minority of the com
mittee on resolutions, began scolding
the convention.
His speech, of course did not con.
vince. 1t was protest, rather than
an argument, and anyway the conven-
ton would not have changed that
platform, which it believed to be in.
spired from Washington, if the minor.
ity had offered the Ten Command.
ments. But Cooper scolded, and when
the authorized representative from the
railroad engineers and firemen and
trainmen appeared and warned the
convention that the railroad employees
of the country were dissatisfied with
the anti-injunction planks, that made
no difference, either.
Gabriels trumpet would have been
laid on the table for the regular order
by the convention. Its face was set
It was under orders, and nothing could
move It. So it moved majestically
along. 1t adopted the platform, for
mally voting down, by overwhelming
majorities, planks advocating pub
ic'ty in campaign contributions
recommended by the president in his
messages, valuation of railroads.
recommended by the president in his
messages, and the election of senators
by the people.
A Roosevelt Convention.
For that convention was for Roose-
welt policies only when it had them
in the regular order and the anthem
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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Story of the Great Gathering Told
by a Master Pen.
Incidents and Observation-Disclosures of the Nomination
of Secretary Taft-The Old Politician Talks Of
Politics of Yesterday and To-Day.
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

ticated form. The Roosevelt policies,
as such, did not interest the conven-
ton, for it was under orders and took
only the real milk of the word as it
came through the committee, and 1t
believed, and probably with some JUS
LITIGATION, in the fact that Roosevelt
did not care to have his policies come
into the convention by way of Wis
consin.
So it voted for the program and
went on to the next order And the
next order was the nomination of a
president. And that is a serious bust
ness.
1t is curious to know just how forms
and conventions and precedents are
worshiped without sense or reason by
apparently clear-headed men, But
there sat 1000 delegates and 10000
spectators and listened to five mortal
hours of utterly useless, entirely mean
ingless and absolutely vacuous
speeches. These speeches were made
putting men in nomination for the
presidency who had no more chance to
be nominated than they had of pick
ing out a harp check and joining the
heavenly choir. Boutell of Illinois
began it-naming Cannon.
The crowd stood for him with some
patience, though no one listened to
him.
Gov Hanly Of Indiana, an unusually
able governor, and an otherwise sane
man, came a little afterward and got
in row with the convention because
it laughed at him and jeered him dur
ing the last half of perfectly IN
necessary speech.
He assured the convention that
under Fairbanks there would be no
government by impulse" and the
crowd knew what he was driving at,
and his usefulness as an orator was
ended.
Congressman Bookwalter followed
Hanly and took a side swipe at Taft
by saying that Fairbanks was a can
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reiterated Mr.. Handy-"the man who
Il refer to Hon. J. G. Cannon of Dan
vile, Ill.
where's your keynote speech in
this convention? I'll tell you; it's
fastened in Burrows time lock. Who
to-day? There will be no clarion note.
The name of the gallant Blaine will
not be heard in the hall. The party
that saved the country, that broke the
shackles on 100000 slaves, the party
that preserved the Union, is represent
ed here by the allies, and they are
tossed around like lot of last years
alfalfa. They came here asking for
the presidency; they were willing to
compromise on the vice-presidency
and sprung the name of Jim Sherman.
ct reminds me of the time Col. Ana
doneran J. Balderson of our town
started out to be minister to England
under Cleveland's first administration.
He found that job gone, and compro-
missed by applying for assistant secre-
tary of state. Failing in that, he asked
for United States marshal. Failing in
that, he asked for the postoffice at
home, and then, falling in that,
Strengthened himself up and said:
Thank heaven, we have Democratic
governor in Kansas, and he will not
turn me down.
"He came home three months later
with pair Of Gov Clicks old trous-
ers, and to that end has your reform
brought those who for 40 years have
been fighting the party's battles"
Mr.. Handy rose proudly and said:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crimes are
committed in thy name!"
The Big Crowds Tribute.
What a curious thing is big crowd
of civilized men and women gathered
for some formal occasion. Yesterday
afternoon the sibilant lisp of the great
crowd in the Coliseum fell like great
wave on the shores Of the place, in
idle conversation as the proceedings
of the convention droned on. The
committee on credentials made it's re-
port, and the great crowd Tapped it
up as the sea laps up the sand-im-
personally, uninterested, utterly idle.
There was no fight, and evidently the
crowd knew there would be no fight
The regular order proceeded, and
Senator Lodge was installed as per-
manent chairman, and the great crowd
the great buff sea, rocked idly to
look at him. He began to speak with
some fervor, and little ripples of ap-
plause played across the tide. His
earnestness deepened the pillows
slightly.
The voice of Senator Lodge is
strong and clear, and the words he
spoke were simple words, made into
simple sentences, strong and conyinc-
ing because they were earnest. Once,
when he had spoken seven or eight
minutes, he referred incidentally to
the president. and wave of applause
suddenly rumpled the face of the buff
sea, and then the speaker pushed
through it and went on with his argu-
ment. For he was obviously not look
ing for applause. He was speaking
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of California, seconding Taft'B nom
nation. For knight has voice, and
Mr.. Burton Of Ohio, who put Tafts
name before the convention grace
fully, was not heard as well as such
a speaker should have been heard.
Knox also was tastefully nominated
with proper eclat and without too
much wind jamming.
And if the young football player,
Cochem of Wisconsin, who gave the
convention La Follette's name, had
cut his speech in two, it would have
made the hit of the afternoon. But
he slid past the crowds limit, and the
smile which captivated every one
wore off and he grew angry, and the
subsequent proceedings interested
him no more"
1t was Mr.. McGee-remembe the
name-who, seconding the nomination
of La Toilette, started the whoop
heard round the world. There seems
to be no question that of all the can
didates besides Taft, La Toilette got
the best demonstration.
But after that complications oc-
Cured. Some one walked across the
gallery back of the speakers platform
with a flag containing Roosevelt's pic
ture, and the applause for La Toilette
merged into the futile, stupid attempt
to stampede the crowd to Roosevelt
and for a quarter of an hour the
yelling continued.
1t was quoted as the roll call or
president began and continued dowr
to Iowa. There silence fell, and con
tinued until Taft was nominated.
Now written down here in a thou
sand words, this seems like the story
Of stirring episode. Yet it covers
events that lasted from 10 O'Clock
until $3.50 There was some forma
cheering of something like two anC
six-elevenths seconds for each of the
allies, and this is the best part of il
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-25
IMPRESSED THE LITTLE ONE.
Department of cciored Gentleman q
Matter of Admiration.

Little Elsie, who had recently re-
turned from a visit to Washington,
was describing to her companion some
of the wonderful things she had OBJ
served in the Capitol City.
Zone evening"" said she, breathless-
ly, papa took me to have supper at
a grand hotel where the dining room
was awfully big, and at the tables
around us sat great senators and rep
re esentatives with their wives, all
drinking champagne"
Il suppose the manners of these
great persons were perfect?" ventured
her companion, with widened eyes.
Yes returned Elsie But" she
added, with a sudden burst of enthUsi-
asm, the department of the colored
gentlemen who served the wine was
perfectly beautiful"
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what has become of our common
heritage?" exclaimed Mr.. Handy, wav-
ing his glass wildly. where is our
manifest destiny? Who's gone and
stolen the pride pointer and the alarm
viewer? Is it in the platform? No,
you reformers are making terms with
Gompers; and Taft's liberal views
as they call them, are going to pre-
OF our peerless leader, our grand old
man, freedoms champion, the defend
er of the faith of the fathers, the man
who-the man who-the man who
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Innovation In Politics.

The recent municipal elections in
Paris were remarkable not only for
the candidature of M. Laloe, who was
soundly beaten, but for the first re.
corded candidature of domestic serv
ant. The liveried class is supposed to
take on the political color of it's sur.
roundings and to be ultra-conservative
as a rule, but this candidate stood as
republican socialist, and he is said
to have been strongly supported by
his kind
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didate whose record was such that
no weak points in it had to be covered
up by special plank in the platform
and then his days work was DONE
and he sat down after fighting with
the hornets of the convention.
New York has a sense of humor
and when the delegation was called
for New York the DELEGATES rose
laughing and let Gen. Woodford make
the shortest and most appropriate
speech of the day, nominating Hughes
And when he said that only two men
beyond doubt could carry New York
zone being in the White House and
the other in the governors Office at
Albany-he made the crowd FESTIVE
and quit just before his credit gave
out.
The Clarion Note.
The only real clarion note of the
convention was sounded by knight
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all-those who had sought the NOM
nation the hardest, Cannon and
Knox and Fairbanks, got no more
than Foraker, who took what he
could pick up. There were no diff
ferences between the $75 picture fire.
works and the ten-cent roman candle
they all fizzled and went out in
gloom.
And the meaning Of it all is this:
that the Republican party has taken
step forward-but not a stride. A
party is curiously like a fleet. 1t can 90
only as fast as its slowest vessel; and,
in this parade of the Republican fleet.
the rapid Wisconsin, trim and sea
worthy boat, had to slow up for Yer
mont and New York.
The general average of speed of the
Republican fleet is found in the Mis-
sissippi valley states. They nom
mated Taft. They made the plat
FORM 1t will be regarded as a long
step in New England, but it will be
regarded as crow-jump in Nebraska.
Abner Handy Talks.
But to go back to some of the earlier
days of the convention, some of the
days before the fireworks were all ex-
ploded, the days when only the fuses
were siZzi 'ng. 1t was on Sunday 7
think, that l met my friend Handy
Abner Handy from the Ninth Kansas
district. Mr.. Handy, who has been ont
of politics in Kansas since 1902. was
unable to get to the convention before
Sunday on account of floods in the
Kaw bottoms, and until his arrival the
pre-convention milling had been rath-
er tame. But the arrival of Mr. Handy
in his Prince Albert coat and black
SLOUGH hat, with his massive head of
hair protruding fiercely, and his little
Sits of eyes keenly measuring I'D the
s1tuatiOn-Mr. Handy is an expert on
the ituation"-added new life to the
crowd in the Annex, and one may saw
that the convention began with his ar.
rival.
1T has been IL years since I at.
tended a Republican convention" said
Mr.. Handy, as he lolled in a red plush
divan in alimony alley and spat
through his teeth at the ONYX mon.
board, land meet a great many new
faces. l first saw Fairbanks in the
st. Louis convention, and | have inst
been talking to one of his managers
one of the new men in Indiana poll
tics-born since left the state-a Mr..
Ade-George they call him. Clever
young man, apparently. He tells me
there is strong undercurrent for Fair.
banks, and wanted me to help him
bale it up so that there would be some
surface indications.
But the situation said Mr.. Handy.
as he pulled at his mustache and mt
his hat over his eyes, docs not seem
to be working out that way, though.
Fairbanks is man than whom no
other in all this great galaxy of sister
states is more fitted geographically
and logically to lead our great party.
Il speak" went on Mr.. Handy. after
rejecting and chewing viciously at his
cigar, 81 speak in no uncertain tones
in this matter; he is a leader without
fear and without reproach, and with
him as our standard bearer in this
great contest the eagles of victory
would perch upon our triumphant
guidons."
Is Now for Taft.
can say for Mr.. Handy to-day that
he is an ardent supporter of the Sec
rotary of war for president, and pro-