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The Washington times., 1908-08-23
WhiteIaw Reld Home Shown.


Here are TO be found- the finest res
licences in London. If not in the world.
The home Of Lord Tweedmouth on our
left, also Of the Duke Of Westminster.
You may be interested in knowing that
the large mansion We are now ap-
preaching Is the residence Of, Mr..
Whitelaw Reid. the American am
bassador." Then followed some fam
lily details OF the Reid family and
the information that he was very rich.
CThe guide subsequently confided to
me. rather as an unimportant detail.
that he was intimately acquainted
with Mrs. Reid, 'wtJ was Miss Mills.
of Nevada aud California, you know"
The Piccadilly home of LORD Roths-
child. the London head of the great
banking family, aroused considerable
interest among the American passen-
gers, who are popularity supposed to
worship the golden heifer
We skirted the grounds of Bucl,inR-
ham Palace. getting a fine view Of the
stone wall which encloses them and
Of the stables, and then ran down
a side street to show the visitors Lon
do-'s nearest approach to a sky
scraper''-the Queen Anne mansions.
The Chicago and New York men sniff
fed audibly at the 1rst sight Of this
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Guady, persuasive advertisements
are the favorite means OF attracting
public attention 10 a new lottery
scheme IN a window Of d lottery by-
reau in Inter den Linden one can see
q nashy colored poster, depicting in
one corner the handsome church edi-
hce which some impecunious congre-
cation in East Prussia is wanting to
put up-in the other starving work
mans family, father IN rags. mother
sobbing and nursing a brood OF bag
gard children. empty dinner table.
broken windows through which chilly
blasts are blowing, a composite OF
poverty and misery
Suddenly the door flies open and >
postmau is pictured rushing in, bear
ing the glad tidings that the starving
family has Just won "the great prize.4
Grand transformation duly displayed
in section OF the poster. shows the
same family a couple Of days later en-
ioying life IN a steam-heatsd fat amid
surroundings which would comfort
Pierpont Morgan. It is this kind %
balderdash that fIIs the hearts Of the
have-nots IN Germany with a craving
lust for wealth over night.
The state justifes its patronage ard
operation Of lotteries on the ground
that the gambling spirit is Unborn IN
the people and might as well be graft
fed with profit 70 the government. as
spent on horse racing and cards from
which government can derive no spells.
There is. Of course. sporadic protest
against the lottery evil. Sermons and
articles aunear from time n time de-
crying the maintenance Of an institu-
ton which other countries ban as liz
legal and immoral. but The lottery has
come 10 Germany by Inheritance. and
it is probably there 10 utay.
The Washington times., 1908-08-23

maintained e4-tlusisely for the sale OF
lottery tickle Is. The daily newspapers
pl'nt three ard four-pa ged lottery
supplements at the periodical drawing
periods. and there IS as much excite
ment throughout the country 20 know
the winner OF winners of the great
prize Of 100000 marks as there viii
be in America on election night next
November There are hundreds or
lottery organizations whose
members band together 10 speculate
regularly IN lottery tickets. dividing
the cost and sharing the profits
The uveliest speculation is in the
tickets Of the Prusslan state lottery,
run by the Kaiser's own government
for its own private profit Govern
ments of other feaeral states in Ger
many also run lotteries. The official
stamp on their operations. OF course,
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By this time he has grown conserva-
tive. and when fe might have spread
himself he loses his opportunity. He
accepts Deed Mans Curve" New
York. which, with his limited kuowl-
edge Of the American metropolis, he
locates "1n front of the general post
office" instead Of an Onion Square.
As q matter OF fact, there is no place
in airy American city 10 compare with
the neighborho0d Of the Mansion
house. London. In the matter Of con-
ges65n, and an American who knew,
with praiseworthy impartiality, told
the guide so. The latter announced
the fact IN a loud voice, rather IN the
manner OF a man who says. Al last.
here Is a fact 10 which you cannot
take exception"
Afler looking over the Bank OF Eng
The Washington times., 1908-08-23
By LORD CURZON, Of KedlestOn.

y
" is futile nowadays to decrye en-
pire or to protest that virtue IS
only found in small communities
when we observe that other ma
tions, alike the most autocratic and
the most republican, are following a
similar bent.
If Russian expansion is capable Of
being regarded as Caesarssm, and of
being Identified with the imperialism
Of material rather than moral force,
what is to be said OF the empire-mak-
ing phase upon which America, the
the most democratic and hitherto
the least imperial of all countries has
entered2
L believe that even at this moment
If you were 20 poll the whole of the
United States. YOU would End a large
and POSSIBLY an overwhelming ma
5ority opposed to any concrete policy
of imperial expansion,
But circumstances have proved too
strong for the Americans. The same
impulse that carried them early in
the last century TO the Rockies and
the Pacific, now thaC The continent
The Washington times., 1908-08-23

strain cable"
But the GROWING triumph came
when an excursion was made through
the Hebrew quarter OF London. At
home the American is rather ashamed
OF the great East Side OF New York,
with its Incompatible dirty Hester
ard Orchard streets. But IN London
il becomes a source OF pride for he
hnds thar he can still claim 10 have
the dirtiest, hlthIes- quarter without
fear Of challenge from London.
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IT HIS is not the first time that
this familiar gambling institu-
ton. barred IN the United
States and other countries as
criminal and immoral. has been in
vOked for the aid OF Cologne Cathe-
The Washington times., 1908-08-23

sides OF the gray, many-S pired
structure looming high on the
banks of the Rhine, tall, sacri-
legious-lookiDg scafolding, a net
work of girderS and spaS which
completely hides the beauties of
the magnificent old fame, offends
the eye. The ravageS of time have
finally become so acute that ire
mendOuS repair and reconstruction
operations have been found neces-
SaTy to save the cathedral from go
ing 10 utter rack and ruin.
1t is not this feature of the situa-
ton, however, which will strike the
American as queer or Unusual, but
the method which has been reSorted
to for raising the funds required
for carrying out the expensive re-
~air work, for the Catholic arch
diocese of Cologne, the most i'm
pcrtant of all the Fatherland'S
Roman regions, has decided to hold
z public lottery to secure the need
ed money. The lottery will be held
nominally under the jurisdiction
of the PuSsian department of the
interior, but will be actively admin
iStered by the cathedral authorities,
headed by Cardinal Fischer, one of
Gemany's two red-capped eccle-
SiaStical dignitarieS.
The Washington times., 1908-08-23
ODDITIES IN THE NEWS.

caleb Watts. Of lily Pad. Pa, who
raises frogs for the market. gets the
best results by feeding them on liver,
corumeal. and flies.
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- T WILL take many days for your
everyday dignihed Englishman 10
bring himself to advertise openly
the fact that he is a ''sightseer.'
But with the American II is different
lie rushes into the city with a Bae-
deker In hand and doesn't care who
knows that he is on sightseeing bent
His time Is limited and In the major
ity of cases his chances Of coming
again are few. SO he sees London in
TWO hours and a half. per the rub
berueck coach"
Thus il was that the I'VE seats be-
hind me were occupied by Americans
when ] saw London in one of the new
coaches "a few days ago. We are
frankly critical Of foreign cities and
the English guide who enlarged upon
the interesting and historical features
of the big, smoke-stained, old city had
about as much chance with his car
load of passengers as a mouse has for
a quiet, dignilied stroll in a suffrage
meeting
on your right is the Marble Arch. "
called the guide, as we turned from
oxford street into Park Lane. "It IS
the finest arch in the city"
Ugh, grunted the man from New
York, who was seated with his wife
directly back OF me washington
Arch has it beat a hundred miles
I've are now passing through Park
,ane, the home of more rliI5onaires
,aan any other street IN the world"
continues the guide. Ignoring the in
corruption from the GOthamite
q chorus of grOans arose from the
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the "rGbberneck coaches" 1t will
be hari for Stay-at-home Americans
TO realize that the sightseeing auto
mobiles are still a seven-day Won
der to the natives who line up on
the curbS and stare the occupants
out of countenance. In an Amer
can city if a tube wagon" doesn't
roll by every five minutes one ex-
poets to see an extra" or the
street announcing a block in traffic.
Seeing London from the top of
a "rubbemeck coach" is about as
satisfactory as looking at the en-
velOpeS of the correspondence in a
breach of promise case. But it IS an
innovation in a city that is chary
of such things, and the country
cousin" has taken to it like a
naughty boy to the jam closet.
Fighting for front seats with that
interesting rural Individual is the
American visitor, who, bred to the
habit in his native land, halls with
delight this latest evidence of the
march of the Yankee genius.
The Washington times., 1908-08-23

The father Of Clara Konter, aged
eighteen years says while his daughter
lay ia a cOmatose state, the result OF
sunstroke. she grew two inches. The
girl has recovered.
a horse at Montclair. n. J., pulled Tire
slide out Of a grain bin and was nearly
buried under 100 bushels OF oats. He
tried To eat his way cut. but failed and
was rescued.
The building Of the Chicago drainage
canal has been the means Of so Inn
proving the sanitary conditions in that
CITY that the death rate from typhoid
and similar diseases has been reduced
67.5 per cent.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
new ANTITRUST
ACT INTRODUCED
Measure Will Not Interfere
Withthe Right Of LabOreTs
TO Strike

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON. March 9--Colonel
William p. Hepburn, chairman Of the
house committee on Interstate commerce
introduced in the house to-day the long
heralded administration bill to amend the
Sherman Antitrust Act.
The measure states that II is not in
tended TO Interfere with the right OF
labors to strike for any cause or to re-
strict employers. In discharging any or
all OF their lahorers or in combining with
each other 20 obtain labor on satisfactory
terms.
Provision Is made for immunity OF corr
porations as follows;
''That any corporation not subject TO
the act approved February a. 1887. or the
acts amendatory thereto or supplemental
thereto. shall be entitled TO the benefits
and immunities hereinafter given, II and
when Il shall register as herein provided
and shall comply with the requirements
OF this act but not otherwise.
"such registration. by n corporation or
association for profit and having capital
stock may be effected by hling with the
commissioner OF corporations written
application therefor together with writ
ten statement setting such Information
concerning It's organization. It's financial
condition. it's contracts and IFS corporate
proceedings as may be prescribed by gem
oral regulations made by the president
The measure continues: ANY corpora
tion then registering under this act or anS
person not a common carrier being q
party to a contract or combination here
after made other than contract or q
combination hereafter may file with The
commissioner Of the corporations n copy
thereof. Thereupon the commissioner ma,
enter an order declaring that IN his iudg
ment such contract is unreasonable ne
stramt OF trade. II no objection Is filel
within 30 days no prosecution shall ~
against tho Same unless II IS unreason
able or contrary 20 the public interests"
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
ACTOR DOWNING
NOW A PREACHER
Makes His First Address in
the Pulpit at
Washington

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON. March 23.-From actor
to evangelist; from the stage 10 the pull
pit. This is the change Of role and scene
made by Robert Downing who last -'-'
preached his first sermon IN his now
character at McKendree NJ r. Church
The robust voice that has been heard
by so many thousands during the twenty
years in the impersonatlon of Virginius
and the Gladiator, stands Downing m
good stead end he made forceful impress
sim on the audience that packed the
large church.
Downing's first religious discourse was,
in al large measure, a recital OF personal
experiences and he explained at length
how he had been won by the Lord and
had resolved 10 devote himself 70 Christ
He concluded this recital by saying that
he did not intend 20 attack the stage. OF
which he had been an exponent for 50
many years, but he expressed the opinion
that the theatres are pretty good plac,
for young men and women to stay away
from.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
LITTLEFIELD
IS TO RETIRE
Maine Congressman, Fought
by Labor Unions Will
Not Seek Reelection
BY United Press Leased Special Wire

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Organ-
lied labor is to-day claiming the po-
lltical scalp Of Representative Charles
b. E. Littleheld, of Maine. whose res
ignation from Congress has just been
announced.
At the last election, President Comp
ers and the American Federation Of
Labor tried with all their might TO de-
feat Littleheld. He pulled through
with a bare 1000 majority. although
in previous years he has been elected
by many thousands.
II Is asserted to-day that Llttlefield
was fearful that he might not win
again. and when no learned that labor
was going TO enter the coming cam
paign more vigorously than II did h~
fore he thought II best to get out from
under.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
WILL GET AFTER
MEAT STORES
Board Of Health Officers
to Begin Examination
Of Places Of Business

The Board os Health is about to be-
gin a crusade against unclean meat
stores. At a meeting Of the board to-
day. the four executive officers Of the
department were instructed to prepare
lists Of all places of business, 'includ-
ing the abattoirs. where meat is sold.
make an examination Of the same as
to the sanitary conditions surrounding
each and report back 70 the board at
its next meeting.
Members Of the board are not inn
pressed with the way meats are
handled I'm some stores and the eX-
animation will be made with a view
TO improving existing conditions. The
health officers viii begin the investiga-
tion at once.
Complaint was received Of the offen-
sive odors alleged to come from an axle
grease factory in Maple street. near
Van Buren. The owner of the plant
was notified TO appear before the board
but failed to do so. and he was given
a ten days notice to-day 10 abate the
nuisance.
The complaint made by the Central
Labor Union of funsanitary conditions at
the plants of the Belts and Trumps
machine shops were reported unfound-
ed by Health officer CorlSran, who
made an investigation of the closets in
both shops.
Since the last meeting Of the board
fourteen properties We're connected
with the sewer To-day the owners
of thirty-one others were notified "a
connect their properties with tho
sewer.
The board viii ask the Street and
Severe Department 20 lay sewers In
the following streets; Thirteenth street
between Washington and Tatnal
streets; South Jackson street. between
Chestnut and Elm streets: Spruce
Ninth to Eleventh; Curlett from Spruc,
to Church.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
MUCH BUSINESS
FOR CHANCELLOR
Here For First Time in
Month, and Is Kept
Busy

Chancellor Nicholson sat In Chan
Gerry and Orphans Court here this
morning for the first time since late
last month. For three weeks he was
confined to his residence at Dover by
a severe attack OF the grip. but showed
no Indication this morning Of the ILL
ness.
There was much business before the
court this morning, so much In fact
that the chancellor win be obliged to
sit all afternoon before disposing of Il.
In Orphans Court the following guard
ians We're appointed; Equitable Guar
antee and Trust Company. for Joseph
Inc M. r. Turner, Ellis w. Young and
Margaret r. Jordan; Barbara A. Nc
Elwee for William and Joseph McEl-
wee; Equitable Guarantee and Trust
Company for Robert p. John Nc. and
Dorothy Casey.
Sales OF the estates Of John II. j.
Lynch and Fri W. Haines and William
Smith. deceased. were confirmed by the
court.
In Chancery Court William w
Knowles for Alice Neen. obtained an
order on the receivers OF the Whining
ton and New Castle Southern Railway
Co. compelling them TO show cause
why a suit for damage should not be
Instituted by her in Superior Court
lagainst the receivers
The court fixed April 3 as the time
for argument in the case Of Toy VS.
Bradley. Robert G. Harman for Toy
and willard Salisbury for Bradley
The argument win be heard in Dover.
Reuben Satterthwaite was dis
lcharged as receiver OF the Bross-Wil'
Hard Printing Company, and a decre'
of distribution was ordered In the mat
ter Of the receivership Of the Philadel'
phia Usage oil COMPANY. An ordei
was issued against the receiver Of th'
Wilmington & New York Transporta
ltion Co. compelling him to show caus'
lwhy certain funds IN his hands SHOULD
lnot be paid to the United Transporta
ton and Hghterage Company.
The court here continued argumen
this afternoon in the case Of Boyd vs.
Morrow.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
ISSUES
CALL TO LABOR
Workers Urged by the Fed
Grafton PreSidenttOhOId
Massmeetings

WASHINGTON. March 25.--Labor is
called 70 arms in an address to work.
ers" issued by authority OF Samuel
Gompers. president Of the American
Federation OF Labor, and other leaders
associated with him in the trade union
movement. Workers throughout the
country are enjoined to hold mass
meetings in every city and town in
the United States on the evening OF
the third Sunday or Monday in April.
the 18th or goth. and "at that meet
ing voice fully ana unmistakably lab
or's protest against the Supreme Court
decision which strips labor Of the rights
and liberties which we had supposed
were guaranteed by the Constitution"
The address says;
Resolutions should be adopted urg-
ing upon the present Congress the pas
sage of our amendment to the Sher-
man law and warning Congress that Il
will be held responsible for failure 70
enact such legislation. Labor should
spare no activity TO Impress upon Con-
gress its insistent demand for the pas
sage of this amendment.
In addition TO the holding OF the
mass meeting OF April 10 or 20, and on
such other dates ns may be fixed in
future. and the forwarding OF resolu-
tions. expressing labor's protest and de-
termination. every member Of organized
labor should write a personal letter
to the Congressman of his district and
to the United States Senators of his
state insisting that they use their ef-
forts and cast their votes for the pas
sage Of our amendment TO the Sher-
man law and other legislation mention
ed I'm labor's protest. and warning
them that labor and It's friends will
hold them responsible; that labor pro-
poses TO be represented In Congress
/ by men who VIII do Justice 70 the
workers and all the people; that Il
proposes 10 exercise every political and
industrial activity 10 this end: that
upon the record Of this Congress wild
be based the workers decision as 10 q
candidates future desirability as Z
member of Congress.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
DRUNKEN SON
STAYS MOTHER
Beat Her With a Claw Ham,
mer and Made Light Of
His AtTOCiOuS Crime

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
ANDERSON, Ind. March 23-Fu,ly
recovered from the debauch which re-
suited in numbering his mother by
beating her to death with a clawham-
mer, Grover Blake has at last come
to a realization Of the crime. To-day
he is confined in a dungeon in the
county all Following his grewsome
recital at Fort Wayne, where he was
captured, the murderer made light Of
his crime. He was then stiIl under
the influence of liquor.
Mrs. Blake, who had pleaded with her
boy in vain not to drink any more, had
notified the salcens that they should
not sell liquor to her boy again. They
paid no attention to her warning ana
her death by her sons hand while IN
toxicated is the result. When sober
Grover Blake was a model young man.
At such times the neighbors say he
was very attentive to his mother. But
when drinking he almost invariably
committed some crime from stealing
and forgery to assault When he
murdered his mother he was under in
dictment on the charge of forgery.
The authorities do not believe that
part of Blale's story in which he con-
meets Otto Reynolds with the crime.
Blake says Reynolds stood guard OUT
side the house and later he went on
hearing Mrs. Blake's cries while Grover
was changing his clothes and struck
the woman again with the hammer,
telling afterward that the aged woman
serelmed and he gave her a blow
which would hold her for a while"
Reynolds says Blake told him his
mother had given him money willingly
and that he did not know that a
murder had been committed. The
police believe this story.
Evening journal., 1908-03-23
SABBATH in THE
CITY CHURCHES
Last Services Held by Presby-
teFianS in Old Hanover
Church

Visiting clergymen who are atterd-
ing the annual session OF Wilmington
Conference occupied most Of the pull
pits in M. E. churches in the city yes
terday. Methodist ministers also oc-
Icupied pulpits in some churches Of
other denominations
Large congregations attended all the
services. OF more than usual interest
were the services in Washington
Heights the day marked the passing
Iof the ed'fce into a Presbyterian house
of worship. and at Wesley the day
marked the clearing up Of ali indebt-
ledness against. the church.
In Epworth Church in the morning
the Rev A. w. Lightbourn. pastor Of
Wesley Church, Dover. whom the Sc
lect committee Of Conference on Fri
day acquitted of the charge of hev-
/ ing been admitted to this conference
on a fraudulent certificate. preached
on "The Reasons for the New Birth"
He made no ailusion to the outcome OF
/ the charge against him. After the
/ sermon he was given an informal re-
ception.
In Wesley Church all day services
were held in celebration of the clear
ing of the church debt. The services
began with a love feast at $50 o'clock
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
George White Dawson, and the Rev
w. +. Dawson, Of Cecilton, Md. AT
1890 O'Clock the Rev G.. W. Bounds
of Harrington, preached.
other speakers were Former Presid-
ing Elders L. r. Barrett and Robert
Watt Former pastors present were
the Revs. Asbury Burke, W. W. Sharp
w. F. Dawson and the Edwin Gard
ner. Melville Gambrll and other;
spoke.
At Z O'Clock in the evening a sons
service began, and at 7.45 o'clock tbs
regular service was held. at which tho
pastor presented the mortgage and
deeds to the president of the Board
lof Trustees. After an address by tn,
lpastor, the Rev 4. T. Groves, presi
dent OF the board of trustees, respond
ed. The Rev. ]. II. Beauchamp, oi
IGreensboro. Nd, preached the even.
ing sermon.
Tho choir Of Epworth NJ. L. Church
last night sang the sacred cantata
l"The Shepherd King" There was
large audience George T.. King anC
the choir gvae a splendid rendition
Of the cantata assisted by Philadelphi,
lvocalists.
Mrs. Miriam Sheppard Davidson. o
Dover. sang during an intermlssion
the sacred solo, he Lord is TIL,
light" Miss Mary Cannon and for,
mer Sheriff John b. Wharton, also o
Dover, were members of the cnorus
Among tine Wilmington conference
ministers having part in the services
were the revs. George r. Ellis, o
7Iurlook. Nd; George w. Bounds. o
Iarringt,n; William r. Matthews, o
Bethel. Del, A. f. Gillespie, of Cherr,
dnl, Nd, and John M. Arters. tn
Zpworth pastor
At Hanover.
: Preaching on Leaving the Ol,
Church. the pastor of Hanover Pres
. byterian Church, the Rev. r. L. Jack
son, reminded mis- congregation that
was holding the last service in the oil
church at Sixth and King streets
which has been occupied by Presby
lterans for many years.
The pastor, the Rev. w L. s. Muir
ray, oficiated at the last service II
: Washington Heights NJ. f. Church
: last night There was no demonstra
tion The Hanover congregation vii
hold its first services in Washington
Heights, Church on Wednesday ever
ing.