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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
RICHES WON'T OPEN
DOORS TO THIS CLUB

The Royal Yacht Squadron IS prob
ably the most exclusive club in exist
ence. AID wonderful to relate in this
plutOcratic age. money IS quite power
less 70 unlock the charmed portals Of
the castle.
One or two millionaires with splendid
yachts have tried in vain T. pass the
ordeal OF the periodical ballot, while
men of no fortune or only Just enough
to defray the upkeep Of a small yacht
have been elected without an idea Of
a blackbalL The only apparent quail
hcaTion is that the candidate must DOS
sesS a yacht Of his own; but there are
other qualifications much more diff
cult Of attainment by the man Of money.
and II is just here that the question
of blackballing comes I'm, Il must be
owned rather refreshingly. For really
one had almost said that there is no
social holy Of HOLES" into which he
who is rich cannot penetrate. until one
recalls the pleasant circle of gentlemen
who 90 20 make up the Royal Yacht
Squadron.
There Is. one remembers gratefully.
just one institution left 10 which the
mystic words II am rich do not have
the effect Of an open sesame. Gen
tleWOman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
PANAMA TEACHERS
HAVE MUCH WORRY
Children From All Nations
Enter Schools in the
Zone.

Teachers in the public schools that
have been established by the Panama
Canal zone government labor under pc
culiar conditions. They probably expe-
rience more trouble with the parents OF
school children than do teachers in any
other part OF Uncle Sans dominions.
This is easily explained. The parents
and the school children themselves come
from so many different parts OF tho
earth that IL is impossible TO hit upon a
system Of grading and teaching that Is
familiar 20 all. Every fond parent who
comes down to Panama from the States
Kinks that his little boy ought 70 Re
put In exactly the same grade that he
was in when he left Indiana or New
York. No two States have the same
system Of grading, and IL is therefore
easy to imagine the difficulty the Pan
anna teachers have in trying to har-
monte the viewpoints Of parents who
bring their children To them from forty
five different CommonweaIths.
There are separate schools for the
white and the negro children on the
isthmus. but some idea Of the task oC
TIE white teachers may be gathered
from the fact that twenty-One different
natlonaities other than American are
represented by the pupils in the schools
TOT white children. or course, many
of the parents Of these foreign children
also have their positive notions as to the
way the schools ought to be run, each
believing the alien system with which
he IS familiar is the best
All told there are $50 pupils from
the States In the white schools. and
l3J aliens. a total attendance of a little
less th3n 200. The foreign countries
represented include Denmark, Nicara-
qua, Holland. England. Germany ia
maica, Spain, Costa Rica, Greece. Nova
Scotia, Colombia, Guatemala, ireland,
Cuba, France. Finland. Syria, Hungary
and Scotland.
There are 1,215 pupils in the schools
for coloTed children. They come from
the United States, from eleven Of the
British West Indian possessions, from
Brazil. Central America, China, Colon
bia, Costa RiCa, Cuba, the French West
indies, Italy. Panama. Spain, and Vene-
zuela. There are fifty-nine pupils in the
colored schools whose nationality IS I'M
knOwn--BOston Herald
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
CHAMELEON ROSE
TURNS IT'S COLORS

White I'm the shade. red in the sun,
such is the twofold character that has
given name to the chameleon rose.
At night. or when Il Is carried into a
dark room, it assumes a wax-Iike white
ness. This does not occur abruptly,
but the petals first pass through a blush
tint which rapidly changes into n very
pale rose, and finally ends BY becoming
the purest white. Then. if u is taken
INTO the bright sunlight, with the great
est rapidly II resumes the scarlet tint
or the most brilliant peony.
This horticultural PHENOMENON comes
from Japan, that country of magic and
wizard hOTticultusts.-L Petit Jardin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
DRACH TAKES LEAD
IN STOCK CAR RACE
Srang's Car Scratched at
First, But Enters
Later.

LOWELL, Mass, Sept s. Promptly
at 10 o'clock the first car in the 91S mile
road race was sent away at the crack Of
the pistol. Drach driving the Ameri-
can, leading and making the first lap
on the 19.s mile track IN 70 minutes A
seconds fat.
The Buick, driven by Robert Burman,
was a close second and the Allen-kings-
ton, Hughes up, but a second behind.
The Buick car driven by Louis Strang
was scratched, the car being disabled by
being in collision with a telegraph pole
on the way up the course.
At 1870 Strang announced his car had
been put In condition and he was given
permission TO enter he sent mis- car
under the wire at 1914, amid a perfect
ovation from the grandstands-
Fully 10000 persons are gathered
about the 1876 mile course to watch the
flyers and it is expected that before the
day ends President Taft will be on
hand.
The course is in excellent condition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
PSYCHIC THEORIES
PROVED BY PHOTOS

In a recent issue of the Annals Of
Psychical Science NJ. de Fontenay pub
lished three photographs taken while
Eusapia Paladino was IN a trance. and
representing, above her head. In the
first. a white patch: in the second. 4
hand: in the third. two hands.
These photographs cOnclusively prove
that the lights and hands which have
been seen forming around Eusapia and
other mediums are not Authorizations
on the part Of those present, as was
supposed by DR.. Gustave le Bon. NJ de
FOntenay states, and with reason, that
in the conditions under which the
photographs we're taken IL IS absurd 10
suppose the Intervention Of a confed-
crate.
II has been proved that certain per
sons produce luminous emanations IN
der given circumstances. DR.. Fore has
observed this phenomenon in broad day
light with several Of his patients.
Many mediums produce lights which
are seen floating in the air. Sir William
CrOokes has often witnessed this PIKE
nomenon. which is described In his work
on Psychic force.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
STORIES
OF THE TORNADO

The tornado that struck in the cOun-
try near Chlckasha a week or so ago
performed some peculiar pranks at the
farm OF Charles Steinmetz, who found
u number Cf eggs scattered over the
ground near where the barn had stood,
not one Of which was as much as crack
ed, although the barn in which they
had been laid was reduced to kinding
wood. A short distance away he found
a chicken with an eightpenny nail driv-
en- squarely through fits neck. Near by
he found a two ga Hon jar. the bottom
OF which had been broken out, with a
hen tightly wedged inside of it.-Kan-
sas City Star.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
I. CHANDLER HARRIS
A CLOSE STUDENT

''JOel Chandler Harris was only eX-
celled by Stephen Crane n his profound
knowledge OF negro character" said an
Albanian. mr. Harris on a train one
day pointed to a typical Old coIorcd
cOuple. a stout old uncle and a stout old
auntie. He said he'd play n Joke on
them. So he pretended 10 be the con-
ductOr and asked them for their tickets.
ragged vest.
one o. desc. sah.' he said. SIS fob
me- an t'udder IS fob her
But which IS yours and which IS
hers % demanded Mr.. Harris. with pre-
tended Impotence.
1.-The old man began Btammering
something, but the old lady shut him
up.
Dab, now, 20 ign'ant skunk she
cried I done tolt yuh yuh'd git us Inter
trouble an now yuh see yuh done got
de law on us Houston Post
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
TRIO OF OLD BELLS
IN PRIVATE COURT

The bells which formerly proclaimed
the passing hours in the Bastile are
now 10 be heard performing the same
Duty in the courtyard OF a residential
estate on the outskirts OF Paris. They
are the three bells belonging 10 the
clock which was installed IN 1874 in front
OF the staff building. When the Bastile
was destroyed the bells by some means
found their way 70 the foundry at
Romiliy-su where copper coin
age was made from the bronzes taken
from the churches. The bells were, FOR
some reason, spared, and placed on one
side The present owner Of these bells
offered them for sale 10 the Carnavalet
Museum. but the price asked was con-
sidered too high.-Dundee Advertiser
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
RELATIVES OF TAFT
BEATEN FOR OFFICE
Two Brothers-in-Law Are
Defeated in Cincinnati
Primaries.

CINCINNATI, Sept. s.-Two brothers.
in-law of President Taft have been de-
feated in the direct primaries In Cincin-
natl, one on the Democratic ticket, and
the other on the Republican.
William G. Heron, the Cohen candi-
date for president Of the council, on the
Democratic ticket. was defSated by Al
bert G. Mulhauser. A94E to 1884. John
". Heron, jr-, who ran for council
manic nomination on one OF the Re
publican tickets. was defeated by Ed
win $ Miller $50 to $50
John Valid Peck was nominated for
mayor by the Democrats, and Dr. Louis
SchWab by the Republicans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
CARE OF THE FEET
GROWING BUSINESS

What impressed me most when Wis
tied New York was the number OF CHI
ropodists' advertisements. They con-
fronted me everywhere. Huge gilded
models OF feet outside the chiropodists'
establishments. some painted realistlcaI-
IS and many adorned with bunions,
seemed everywhere before me as pass
ed through the streets. II looked up
] saw them suspended from the first
floor window, or painted on canvas on
the front of a house II I avoided the
shops 1 was bound To knock up against
SOME gentleman in the gutter encased in
"A long white waterproof. on which
were portrayed the inevitable foot and
the name and address Of the chiropo-
dist.-The Strand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
EITHER WAY.

Bishop W. A. Query. OF South Caro-
lima. told at a dinner party in Column
bia a number Of amusing anecdotes
about ignorance.
"a verger IN a young friends church, ."
he said. ION being asked n the rector
was married. answered:
" NO. ma'am; he's a chalybeate.'
And II was probably IN this sanse
town that a newspaper, accusing the
rector OF being too high said.
4" He practices, we are informed, the
most unblushing form Of celibacy.'
I'm the next paragraph came the
eneer;
with unusual pomp he celebrates
the evening seryice-Or evening mathis,
as ne PREFERS 20 say. Seattle POST
In1eliigencer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
PATIENTS APPETITE.

patient in a hospital had been kept
on low diet Tor couple of weeks and
naturally he longed for a square meal
one morning the doctor found him so
much better that II seemed his appe-
lite could at least be safely appedsed.
DO you think YOU could cat a small
Faith, an OF could, sir" eagerly re-
sponded the patient
And what would you ike 20 have il
STUFFED WIN Queried the doctor.
If its all the same L yez," answered
Tim. ord loike Z have il stuffed with
another chicken, scr. Chicago News.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
GOOSE SHOOTING
PROVES PROFITABLE

Scotland derives between 100000 and
s., $4,000 a year from grouse shootings.
What makes II more the remarkable
IS the fact that eighty years ago the
revenue from the sport in the High
lands was practically NIL.
In 1905 a shooting near 20 Pitochry
was let for the season az something
Ike S25. II was about thirty years after
that letting Of moOrs became general.
IN the carly days. the rentals were
very small compared with the pres
ent day prices. Large moors IN In
varness-shire fetched $500 in 1885 while
today the same moOrs are rented for
about S25,000 a year.
Since 1850. when the Highland rail-
road was opened, the rental prices have
increased about 1000 per cent-CIeve-
land News.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
ENGLISH HUMOR.

Lady x. Whose husband has the
worst shooting IN Yorkshlre)-Well
can't you squeeze IN Friday 70 Tues
day? Just couple Of days on the
moOrZ'
Ossy D'Arcy-Sorry can't possibly
leave London. Big scheme on at the
war office. We're crossing carrier pig
cons with parrots-hoping 10 get YER
bal messages through.-Punch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
CHOATE'S VERACITY.

Mr. Reed. Senator WOlcOtt. and Jo-
seph H Choate were having a little din
ner at the Waldorf. When wine was
offered, Mr.. Choate turned his glass
down. Gentlemen he said proudly,
II have arrived at the age Of ifty-fve.
and never vet have j tasted wine or to-
for money
Wolcott heaved a very audible sigh
MY. how I wish I could say that"
"Why don't you2" drawled Reed +;
"Choate didt"-SuCCeSs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
A LONG WAIT.

Physician docking into his ante
room. where a number OF patients are
waitinE)-Who has been waiting the
lOngest2
Tailor (who has called 20 present his
bilD-I have. doctor. I delivered the
clothes 10 You three years ago. Rose
leaf
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-08
Hurry Ends
in Indigestion

Use your teeth on your food or your
stomach will suffer. Quick lunches,
hurried eating, boiling food, are sure
to end, sooner or later, In some
form of indigestion, more or less
troublesome.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05

shall bear when leave looked forward to the future with
more interest anticipation
with the man who either M makes believe to be- glad
law down office still
who
holding such ofce doeful
the time OF great work has
sooner or later must
putting me into the presidency According
served them faithfully
mar years shall never for moment forget what them
private life shall continue
or the
nave appreciate this l
the fun and shall continue
to enjoy myself
O. Have parting
ADVICE TO AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Z A.: No So far have been
said already their
lay In me have made deeds
had advice
Don't leave duty the fellow;
nearest at hand Have plenty
ideals also First of all earn livelihood and
your wife and chlden-and the right
earnestly hope have wife
In addition to doing and
do duty
for the solve,
must be solved by people
woman doing his her full wherever
need, big little
Copyright, 1909, by the Author.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
LARGE CONTRACTS
AWARDED BY
THE CITY

The city council last night in
special meeting adjusted the de-
tails of the sale of the $250,00O
water warrants to the Fidelity
Trust company and National Bank
OF Commerce and today bids were
received and the contracts let for
the building of the South Taco
ma pumping station, reservoir and
the pipe line to run from the
pumping station to the new stand
pipe to be erected in the West
End.
Joe Wells made a mistake of
$4,000 in his bid on the pumping e
station and reservoir and cut the
figure for both down to $6,594.
He got the jobs. John Hunting
ton asked $4,000 and George Mil
ton Savage $3.50 for the same
work.
George Milton Savage got the
contract for the big pipe line at
$45,370. Joe Wells was only a
few hundred above him with $45,-
983 and the Keasal Construction
company asked $46,980.
Work will be started at once on
all the jobs to rush them through
before warm weather.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
BLACK HAND
LEADER IN
Tolls
MAN ARRESTED IN TACOMA
FOR ROBBERY IDENTIFIED
AS HEAD OF DESPERATE
SEATTLE GANG.

City Detective Keefe of Seastle
was In the city this morning and
identified John Monteo, one of tbs
Italians arrested yesterday for
holding up and robbing John j.
Duffy. as the leader of the Black
Hand society In Seattle. He said
that Monteo has an unenviable
police record, and that he Is a
desperate man.
That Detectives Ashby and MI
lone. who captured Monteo and
his partner, Andrew Disarbo, were
not set upon and put to severe
battle, is generally wondered at
by the police today. The officers
say that they walked up behind
the accused men and had them
overpowered before they could
offer resistance.
Disarbo has been kept in the
dungeon at the city jail since his
arrest, and Monteo is in a solitary
cell, but neither of the men will
make any statement concerning
himself or the loot which he is al
legged to have secured. They will
be kept In solitary confinement
until they are willing to talk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
HAS NEW PLAN To
ILLUMINATE
STREETS

City Electrician Lauzon has
completed plans for the changing
of the lighting system on Pacific
avenue and c street by the use of
electroliers on posts instead of
swinging arc lamps and the cluster
lights as at present.
The cost will be about $2.25
a foot front for the property for
buying the new lamps and the
conduits. The work will be done
by the city If the property owners
pay the material bills.
On Pacific avenue there would
be 140 electroliers and on G street
80.
The proposition will be put up
to the property owners next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
QUITS RATHER Than
PROSECUTE EDITORS

volving President Taft and ex-
President Roosevelt in a scandal
I'M connection with the purchase of
the Panama canal, was made to-
day when United States District
Attorney Joseph P. Healing tend
cred his resignation to Attorney
General Wickersham.
In his letter to Wickersham,
Healing asserts:
III am not in accord with the
governments attempt to put a
strained construction on the law;
to drag defendants from their
homes to the seat of government
to be tried and punished while
there is good and sufficient law in
the Jurisdiction of Indiana"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05

WASHINGTON, D. c., March s..
The first session of the senate
of the sixty-first congress assem-
bled at noon today, Vice President
Sherman presiding. Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon was sworn
by the new vice president.
The vice president also admin
istered the oath to Senator Smith
of Maryland. The senate con-
firmed the cabinet nominations of
President Taft and Huntington
Wilson, of Illinois, assistant Sec
retary of state.
The senate withheld confirma-
tion of the nomination of William
Loeb, former secretary to Presi-
dent Roosevelt; as collector of the
port of New York, and of Bel
mont Winthrop as assistant sec
retary Of the navy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
To MAKE TACOMA
WESTERN STEEL
CENTER

In a letter to A. P. Gillies, pro-
noter of the Imperial building
and the Pioneer steel plant, to be
located on Chambers creek, Presi-
dent Riggs of the Columbia Steel
& Bridge company of Bellefon-
taine, Ohio, this morning an
nounced the intention of the COM
pany to merge the Columbia COM
panys business with that of the
Pioneer steel company and locate
their office in Tacoma at once.
A meeting of the Pioneer Steel
company will be called early next
week and A. e. Everhard, the
Western representative of the Co.
lumbia company, will be given Of
ficial recognition. He will open
offices in Tacoma as soon as suit
a BILE rooms can be secured and the
beginning of the work Of making
Lnis city a steel center for the
Northwest will have been inaug-
urated.
The Columbia company now has
Western offices at Walla Walla.
If the present intentions of Presi-
dent Riggs are carried out, Taco
ma will become the headquarters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
KICK AGAINST
WALKING IN
MUD

Property owners on the paved
streets near l and j, which are
now being excavated for paving,
are sending up vOciferous kicks
because dirt which falls from the
wagons of grading contractors IL
not cleaned off the paving.
On G street, between Four
teenth and Eighteenth streets, the
mud is a couple of inches deep
and the crossings are almost Inn
passable. The residents of the
district are out with a demand
thtt something be done to keep the
streets clean.
Up on South Eighth, at the
crossing of I street, a lot of mud
is also being dragged about.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
GOING HUNGRY
IN CAPITAL
Question of Feeding Big
Crowd in Washington
Presents Problem.
Three Dead and 100 In
Hospitals as Result Of
Exposure.
WASHINGTON. Ma.

WASHINGTON, Mar.
I5.-Three are dead and
three are reported dying
as the result Of exposure
yesterday in the blizzard
which held the city in its
grip during the inaugura-
tion. A report from the
various hospitals shows
that nearly 100 persons
were injured in accidents
due to the storm.
The great problem to-
day that confronts the
city is the question OF
feeding the thousands Of
visitors who have remain
ed here. All the hotels
and restaurants are
swamped and private
boarding houses have
been forced to throw open
their doors to the hungry
strangers.
There was a great
crowd all morning about
the White House, but the
cold as well as the police
kept everyone moving.
Thousands have remained
for a day or two in order
to visit the various public
buildings and see the
sights of the capital city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
ROOSEVELT LEADS
SIMPLE LIFE
(By United Press Leased Wire
OvCTER RAW March R-Ali

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
OYSTER BAY, March 5.-All
who inquired this morning at the
home of ex-President Roosevelt
and Mrs. Roosevelt, Sycamore
Hill, were informed that Colonel
Roosevelt could see no one. Mr..
Roosevelt said last night on his
arrival here: I'm going to have
a corking rest"
The simplicity Of manner In
which the man who yesterday was
surrounded by secret service men
and all the perquisites of high
office, returned a citizen to his
home here was the cause OF much
comment.
From washington the Roose-
velts travelled in an ordinary Pull
man car, having reserved draw
ing room. They had no attend
ants whatever. In New York they
were met by Douglas Robinson,
Mrs. Roosevelt's brother, who
took them across Manhattan to
the Long Island station In his au-
tomobile. There they boarded
another train for the final stage
of the trip here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
PRESIDENT
APPOINTS
CABINET
Taft's First Official Act
Is the Sending of List
of Advisers to
Senate.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March s..
President Taft was at his desk
In the executive office at the
White House at $50 o'clock this
morning. His first work was
sending to the senate a list of his
cabinet appointments for confir-
Nmation as follows:
Philander G. Knox, secretary of
state.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary
of the treasury.
Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary
of war.
George Won Lengerke Meyer,
secretary of the navy.
George w. Wickersham, attor-
ney general.
Charles Nagel, secretary Of
commerce and labor.
Frank H. Hitchcock, postmas-
ter general.
James Wilson, secretary of ag-
riculture.
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary
of the interior.
Knox was in the executive Of
flee when Taft arrived and the
president and the head of his cab
met held their first official con-
ference.
Though the sixtieth congress
practically ended at noon yester-
day, the senate met at noon today
for the purpose Of considering
Taft's appointments. The ap-
pointment of William Loeb, sec
retary to Presidetn Roosevelt, as
collector of the port of New York,
as previously announced, was one
Of the presidents first official
acts.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-05
KILLS INITIATIVE AND
REFERENDUM MEASURE
"HAPPY HOLLIGAN" INTER-
FERENCE RESULTS IN THE
BILLS DEFEAT.
(Times Special Service.)

OLYMPIA, March s. - The
"Happy Holligan" interference of
Denman of Spokane in defense of
the initiative and referendum bill
this morning resulted in the
house killing the measure, the
speaker concurring with ruling
on a viva voce vote.
The initiative and referendum
bill belongs to Todd, who was not
present. Denman thought he had
a chance for a piece Of shreNa
work and brought
the bill before a hostile house
with fatal results.
The house this morning passed
the senate bill which creates an
active state board of health.