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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-22
NAVAL WAR WILL
Be THE TOPIC
Conference to Frame Rules for Con-
ficts at Sea Opens in Bri-
fish Capital
TEN NATIONS REPRESENTED.
Rights OF Search, Contraband and
Seizure of Blockade Runners Some
of the Questions at Issue.

LONDON, England, December A
The conference of the powers called
by Great Britain for the framing of a
code of laws for naval warfare and for
the formation of the international
prize court recommended BY The
Hague congress was opened at the for
eign Office today. With an interval
for the Christmas holidays, it is ex-
pected that the conference will CONT
nue. until February l. At the request
of the British government the powers
which accepted invitations to the con-
ference have forwarded list of sub
jects which they consider should be
discussed.
The United States, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hun-
gary, Russia, Spain, Holland and ia
pan will be represented. The Ameri-
can delegates are Rear-Admiral
Charles H. Stockton and Prof George
Grafton Wilson of Brown university.
Commander John e. Gibbons. naval
attache at the London embassy, will
act as aid Great Britain will be rep
resented by the Earl Of Desart and
Captain Charles l.. Ottley, director OF
naval intelligence and secretary of the
committee of imperial defense. They
will have as assistants two officers OF
the naval intelligence department and
a foreign secretary. An address of well
come was delivered by Sir Edward
Grey, foreign secretary.
FOUR POWERS AGAINST SIX.
At the suggestion of Germany the
powers have submitted their views on
various points. The United States,
Great Britain and Japan are agreed
in principle at least on the most i'm
portant proposals and they may be ex-
pected to work in accord, with the
probable support of France. There are
wide differences OF opinion between
these powers and the other six coun-
tries represented. Great Britain stands
alone In supporting the rights of a
belligerent to search neutral mer-
chantmen proceeding to an enemy's
port under the escort of a warship fly
ing the same flag. She claims the
IlBnJ VI bedICu uHueT all ClTCum-
stances, while the other powers con-
tend that the guaranty of a neutral
power should be sufficient to protect
it's vessels from mOlestation. 1t is
probable, however, that Great Britain
will concede this in return for some
point she considers more essential.
Great Britain is DESTROYS of abolish
ing contraband entirely; America anC
Japan do not go so far, but they would
agree If only munitions of war should
be declared contraband
The continental powers will urge tht
continuation OF the present system
under which the belligerents declar,
what Is contraband.
SEIZURE OF BLOCKADE RUNNERS
Great Britain, America and Japal
agree on the methods OF blockadine
contending for the right to seiz
blockade-runners at any time or place
This Is opposed 10 the continental
view that only warships actually en-
gagged IN blookadng have the right d
seize vessels These same three pow
. ers opposed the continental contention
, that a belllgerent has right 10 des
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-22

troy seized vessels before trial, as was
done, for instance, by Russia with
British merchantmen during the late
war.
The conference will differ on the
responsibility of a neutral power for
a ship leaving one of its ports as
merchantmen and afterward being
transformed into a man-of-war, as in
the case of the Alabama. The United
States naturally supports the view
that the neutral power is responsible
and strangely enough she finds sup
port not only from France and Japan,
but also from Great Britain. The 9TH
err powers represented take the oppo-
site view.
RIGHT OF BELLIGERENTS TO
COAL.
The right of belligerent ships to coal
in neutral ports also mas divided the
conference into two factions. Ameri-
"a, GiO<bI III Abuiht Japan anu
contend that a ship should make only
one visit to a neutral port and be given
only sufficient coal to carry her to a
home port; the other powers, however,
hold that a ship should be allowed to
visit a neutral port and fill up with
coal as often as she can.
A number of other questions, large
ly technical, also will be considered.
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-22
dent. emphaticallY.

dent, emphatically.
There doesn't seem to be any luke
warmth about that, does there?
"And as to the states in which wo-
men now vote, think the president is
misinformed. 1 have gone to some
pains in the compilation of statistics
proving that there are no four states
in the union in which men alone vote
which are as progressively legislated
as the four western states where the
women have won their fight"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-22
RIGHT OF BELLIGERENTS TO
COAL.

Fine Job Printing, Star Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
West Virginia having a corps of mer
employed In getting the facts.
Determined to Kill Himself.

Goodbye, fellows I'll be in perdition
by O'clock" This was the remark of
J. W. Chapman of this city to a group
He said he was going to drown himself.
and when he walked toward the dock
they grabbed him. He broke away, drank
the contents of a bottle containing whis-
ky and laudanum and leaped into the
water. Efforts were made to rescue the
man, but such was the force OF his
plunge and his condition that his body
did not rise to the surface after he went
down the first time. The body was not
recovered for some time The man was
out Of work and Respondent.
Richmond has spent many thousands of
dollars in an effort to get clear water. An
some five miles from the city. The basin
is to be connected with the pumps by an
immense flume. The basin is completed
and 1t was expected that the much talked
Of and greatly needed clear water would
be furnished the city during the sum-
mer. Building of the fume was delayed
by high water. Now that 1t has been
completed the tests have been made and
the fiume has proven a miserable failure
1t has burst in several places and the
contractors have been informed that they
must make goo6 or the bonding company
will be called on to stand for the build
ing of fiume that will meet require
ments. 1t develops that the city had in
spectors on the job. one of whom was a.
son of the chairman Of the water COM
mittee and another the brother Of the
was a resident of Manchester. The work
cannot be completed within three months
The whole affair is to be investigated by
the city council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

satisfied to take up a secondary posi-
ton like Italy and Austria Hungary; 1t
Is not rotten financially like Russia: its
population does not remain dangerously
stationary like that of France.
The sun Of the future smiles on the
three great Garmanic nations, Great
Britain, the United States and Germany,
but to secure our promising position we
must have strong fleet. AS Germany
jfieet is only in the building, and will
require ten years before 1t is OF USE 1t is.
OF course, only prudent to avoid every
conflict with other powers.
1T would almost appear as though in
recent years Germany had become a sort
of Cinderella among the other nations,
or. like Schiller's poet, had arrived too
late on the scene"
The Post states that. according to DR..
Rohrbach. Germany's African possessions
will only be able =. to support white
population of 100000 but Anatolia, Mes
opotamia, and South America still
offer numerous possibilities. Something
must be done II Germany's population,
which will shortly reach $4,000. 900, is to
be adequately cared for.
Let us. however. be patient, advises the
Post. Who thought of Schleswig-Holstein
and Alscase-Lorraine in 1850; who of
100000 square kilometers An 1884? A
nation with a history of 1900 years, with
an upward tendency, can wait until the
ripe grapes fall at her feet.
Everything is ready. 1t Is only neces-
sary that German leaders keep their eyes
open and miss no opportunity of seizing
the chance when the time comes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
ENGLISH woMAN's TRIUMPH.
Wins the Chief Prize in the Pharma-
ceutical World

~rom the London Chronicle
Miss Gertrude Holland Wren was pre-
sented recently with one OF the most dis
tinguished prizes of the pharmaceutical
world. 1t was the much-coveted Pereira
medal.
During the forty-seven years the medal
has been annually awarded the honor has
fallen to many notable pharmacists. but
Miss Wren is the first lady to have Sc
cured it. and this explained the unstinted
and enthusiastic applause which greeted
her achievement.
Twenty-Five years of age. the medalist
studied at the Pharmaceutical College
since she was eighteen, and in proof Of
her industry it was commonly known
that when she left the college at o'clock
she continued her studies privately for
many hours every evening. She COM
menced her education at the Girls High
School in Camden Town. It is understood
that Miss Wren will turn her rich pro-
fessional knowledge into practical use. so
that, in addition to lady doctors, we shall
see lady chemists.
It was announced at the ceremony that
the name of the Pereira medalist had
also been inscribed on the roll Of the
FIRST prizemen in the school of phar-
wood scholarship.
The much sought medal she has gained
was founded in honor Of John Pereira,
first professor of materia medica at the
college. Miss Wren's examination cover
ed the range of materia medica, phar-
macy and chemistry. She had seven COM
petitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
SUcCOR ON THE SEA
Revenue Cutter Service Has
Two New Vessels.
DESIGNED TO SAVE LIVES
They Are the Seneca and the
Snohomish.
MAKE WAR ON DERELICTS
Tug to Be Stationed> in Straits Of
Juan de Fuca-Other to
Roam Sea.
MAKE WAR ON DERELICTS

Two vessels have just been added to the
fleet of the United States revenue cutter
service which will prove of great interest
and Importance to navigators and to ship
ing generally throughout the world. One
of these Is the stanch, ocean-going. der
elict-destroyer Seneca, and the other the
relief tug Snohomish, the latter to be sta
toned at the entrance of the Straits Of
Juan de Fuca, in the north Pacific ocean.
These craft have been designed in every
detail for the special service they are an
tended to perform and are thought to be
as capable types Of their class as Il is
possible to devise.
A large part Of the work Of revenue
cutters Is the destruction or removal Of
dangerous derelicts and other perilous OBJ
structions that beset the mariner. Adam
doned floating and sunken wrecks have,
particularly in recent years. owing to
the worlds increasing coastwise and for
eign commerce, become q serious menace
to merchant ships. Derelicts frequently
wave. directly in the paths OF the great
liners and other vessels. and have been
for long periods a constant peril and
dread to the ship master.
Numbers of these half-sunken water
logged wrecks find their way eventually
to that central area Of whirling currents
in the north Atlantic known as the Sar-
gasso sea. Many ship never heard of
after sailing has probably gone to the
bottom in collision with one of these I'M
marked, silent and unavoidable dangers.
Danger From Derelicts.
The maritime interests of the United
States are keenly alive to this situation
and strenuous efforts were made by those
interests to procure suitable means to rid
the ocean highway. as far as possible, of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
GAVE up EVEN HER JEWELS
POLISH BARONESS CONVINCED
THAT WEALTH Is A SIN.
Extraordinary Control Gained Over
Her by Her Girlhood Friend
Who Fleeced Her.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
WARSAW. October 17.-Baroness Helm
zeil. who a few weeks ago disappeared
from a sanatorium. has Just been dis
covered in Kieff.
The baroness, who was the Countess
Kolnna-Walewska. and who belongs to
one of the oldest families of Poland. is
young and beautiful. She married Baron
Heinzell in 1895. Three years ago the
couple received the visit of a childhood S
friend of the baroness. a certain Filomena
Smolenska, who was lame and had to be
wheeled in an invalid's chair This wom-
an Is alleged to have acquired extraor-
binary powers over the baroness, who
allowed herself to be hypnotized Smolen-
ska then suggested to her friend that
wealth is sin and an obstacle on the
road to salvation. The baroness, 1t is
asserted, gave her all the money she
could get, beside her rings, earrings, and
even the family Jewels. The baroness,
brooding over the thought of her danger
ous' wealth. began to fall into a de-
cline. The baron travelled with his wife
abroad and took her to a sanatorium in
Rome. He entreated her to get rid of
SmOlenska's influence. but the baroness,
it Is said, kept on sending thousands and
thousands of dollars to her friend. She
even got into debt, and went SO far as
to borrow money from her servants.
When the director of the sanatorium at
tempted to interfere the baroness left
Rome and went to Russia. For a long
time her whereabouts remained unknown,
but finally the police discovered her in
Kieff. She was staying there at the Ho-
tel de rEurope in the cheapest Of all the
rooms, and lived most aScetic life.
Baron HeinZell sent some one to her. and
the baroness agreed to go to Berlin to a
sanatOrium.
The woman Smolenska has been ar
rested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
GERMANS WANT ELBOW ROOM
RESTLESSNESS OF NATION AT.
TESTED BY PUBLICIST.
80, DOC, 900 Of People Are Crowding
in Small Area and Need
to Spread.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN, October 17.-Herr Rohrbach,
the well known writer on political ques-
tons. has published book on Germany's
position in the world. which Is the occa-
sion of remarkable article in Die Post
According to the Post. Germany at the
present moment Is In the same state of
ferment which characterized her In the
years from 1882 to 1884, when she ac-
quired her extensive colonial possessions
From the German nation rises a voice
that the people are not satisfied with
things as they are. This voice says that
Germans are too many on a too limited
area, and cries out for opportunities Of
expansion-more elbow room.
Germany is different from other Euro
pean powers, says this article. It Ia not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

distractions to navigation. especially In
the vicinity of our own shores. These eff
forts. which were strongly advocated and
furthered by Capt. Ross. the head of the
revenue cutter service. resulted in an ap-
preparation by Congress for an able.
weatherly. completely equipped vessel to
destroy or remove derelictS. The Seneca
has Just been turned over to the govern
ment for this purpose. and will be oper-
ated by the revenue cutter service, as d.
rected by Congress, under such regula-
tons as the Secretary Of the Treasury
may prescribe.
Great care has been exercised in the
construction of the Seneca with a view
of making her thoroughly effective in
every particular under all conditions of
service. She has been planned through
out by the construction departments Of
the revenue cutter service, and was built
at Newport News under the closest su-
pervision. Besides her regular employ
ment of clearing the seas of Instructions
to shipping she will be able and ready at
all times to afford assistance to vessels In
distress. and will be fully equipped with
all modern appliances. electrical and 9TH
wise, for her extensive duties.
Her Equipment.
She will carry a powerful derrick. gun
cotton mines for blowing up wrecks. line
carrying guns. diving apparatus, life and
heavy-sea working boats. wire hawsers
and various other necessary equipments.
She will have characteristic marks to
denote her character during daylight and
special lights to indicate her presence
at night.
A long-distance wireless outfit will make
1t 50 that she can be easily communicated
with at sea, either from shore stations or
from vessels needing her aid. The de-
stroyer will carry sufficient fuel to give
her a cruising radius OF some five thou
sand miles. and will be supplied with ex-
ira provisions for suffering mariners.
The Seneca is built Of steel. with water
tight compartments, single screw, Is 2O4
feet over all. with a breadth of beam OF
"a feet. Her displacement is 1,4SO tons
and her mean draft will be between 16
and II feet She has main and spar flush
decks and two masts. Her double bottom
extends the length Of the boiler space
and IS divided into water-tight compart-
ments. Her main engines are Of the YER
teal. direct-acting triple-expansion type.
and her boilers are of the Scotch type
She Is equipped with fire and wrecking
pumps for heavy service-in fact, her en-
distilling apparatus, pumps and auxiliary
machinery. tools. ETC.. Is I'D to date in
every respect.
Her complement will consist Of seven
or eight commissioned officers and a crew.
including warrant and petty officers of
sixty-five men.
Need of Rescue Boat.
number of serious disasters to ships
Off Cape Flattery. state Of Washington,
particularly the catastrophe Of the Va
lencia on the nearby coast of Vancouver.
British Columbia, in the winter of 1906
when a large number of lives were lost.
led Congress to appropriate 100000 to
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build relief tug to be stationed at Neaf
bay, at the entrance of the Straits Of
Juan de Fuca. A life-saving station Is
located at Neah bay, and il is the purpose
ton in affording assistance to distressed
shipping.
Upon the recommendation of Capt Ross
the operation of this tug was placed in
charge of the revenue cutter service
which through long experience in relief
work at sea is peculiarly fitted to effec-
lively perform this duty. 1t is the first
Instance In which the government has
provided a sea-going vessel for the eX-
elusive purpose of saving life and prop
erty from the perils of the sea. No ADLER
tug has probably ever been constructed
in the United States.
She has been named Snohomish. an In
dian name in the state of Washington
and Is equipped with every improved and
known appliance for rescuing the ship
wrecked and assisting vessels In distress
al entirely new feature being an appara-
tus. worked by steam. which operates a
breeches buoy on lines suspended between
the wreck and the tug. This will enable
the latter to take or those in peril wher
the sea is too high to use an open boat
with safety.
Self-Bailing Boats.
The Snohomishs is equipped also with
self-righting and self-bailing boats. life
raft. life buoys, line-carrying guns. heavy
towing bits and various other devices to
meet any emergency likely to arise. The
vessel has a complete electrical and wire
less outfit and two powerful searchlights
one forward and one aft.
Much attention has been given in the
construction of this craft to make hel
strong and seawOrthy. as she will doubt
less be called upon for extended cruise!
in rough weather to search for overdue
ships or those known to be in need of as
sistance. She will have q steaming "a
dius of about 1900 miles.
Her length is 152 feet. with a beam o.
~ feet, and she will draw ID feet of wa
ter. Her hull is Of the best selected stee
and has q displacement of 795 tons. He
main engine Is of the same type as tht
derelict destroyer. and every modern ap
pIiance will be found in her engine de
partment. She has one Sing1e-ended boile
Of the Scotch type and one water-tubt
boiler. both constructed for a water pres
sure of $50 pounds per square inch. Sh'
will be manned by about thirty-eight offi
GERS and men.
1t is expected that the Seneca and sno
homish will each will make a speed Of be
tween twelve and fifteen knots per hour
depending upon conditions.
A Lonely Spot.
Neah bay. where the Snohomish viii
have headquarters. is just inside Cap,
F1attery. 1t is a lonesome place, with
only a small Indian settlement on It's
shores. Waddah Island, small in area
gives protection to the harbor. On tn s
island wharf. coal shed and storehouse
are now being constructed for the use OF
the tug and life-saving station. The Sno.
homish, as soon as her outfits are aboard
will make the long cruise around South
America to her station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
Criminality in a Horse.

From the New York Times.
An old black horse belonging to Henry
Harper. a hack driver. walked up to q
horse belonging to Edward Sears. another
driver. at the Greenwood Lake station In
Montclair. n. j.. the other day and lift
ing the nose bag from fits head. carried Il
to a convenient part of the station plat
form and began eating the oats which
the bag contained. While the old horse
was feasting on the oats he occasionally
looked around to see IL the other horse
was coming after the stolen meal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
Barcelona's Street Cars,
From the Philadelphia Record

Barcelona has. perhaps, one of the best
and most complete electric tram services
in Europe. some 156 miles of line being
worked by the different companies within
the boundaries Of the city and suburbs:
none Of these concerns. however, is a
British enterprise. the whole system
being controlled by German and Belgian
syndicates. During the past year about
twelve and one-half miles of new rails
have been laid, mainly in completion of
small branch lines in several of the
more important streets. The overhead
trolley system Is the only one employed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
Washington Seminary
IN WARRINGTON.

THE MISSES EAsrMANs SCHOOL.
1905 18th Of.
Boarding and day school Tor girls.
peS-oot Reopens Oetobee I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
Burden Of a Great Name.
From the New York Evening Mail.

FROM the New York Evening Nail
How many heartaches and failures and
disappointments. how many slurs and
sneers there are for the "son of a great
master And it Is likely that in the en-
tire world Siegfried Wagner Is the great
est example of the difficulty of struggling
against such a reputation. because his
was the greatest of fathers, and his
mother. too, was q genius.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
METAL RAILWAY TIE,
More Durable Than Wood and Can
Be Cheaply Made.

Metal railway ties are used extensively
in Germany. and numerous experiments
with them have been made in this coun-
try, but ii would appear that none comes
so near filling the requirements as the
tie and rail fastener just patented by
a Pennsylvania man. This tie is conn
posed Of two sections of heavy tubing
joined at their ends and separated from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

each other between the track rails. The
rails are set In grooves and held firmly
In place by holding devices. The advan-
tages of these metal ties over the wood
en- ones are several. In the first place
they are much more durable, and there
is no danger Of their rotting and having
to be replaced. They can also be made
very cheaply. and the tubing is not only
very strong. but separation OF the two
sections between the tracks relieve the
strain and reduces the noise of traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

The Crystal Palace at Sydenham is
capable OF holding a greater number of
people than any other building in the
world. More than 100000 people can be
accommodated within its walls.