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The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
HILL AID STRICKEN ITALY
Washington Starts Fund for Earth
quake Sufferers.
Subscriptions VIII BE Distributed
Through Agency of Red
Cross Society,

Washington is among the first AHeri-
can cities 10 respond 10 the call for aid
to the cities Of Italy stricken by the
recent earthquake which devastated
large territory in that country, plunging
thousands INTO the direst want.
At a conference yesterday at the Dis-
trlct Building between the municipal au-
thorities and representatives Of the trade
bodies OF the city it was determined 20
issue an appeal 10 the people Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia for contributions, which
are 10 be distributed through the Red
Cross Society OF America operating
through the Red Cross Society Of Italy.
The meeting yesterday took place at II
o'clock in the Office Of Commissioner
Macfarland, president OF the Board of
Beside the Commissioner
we're present President J. Henry Small
r.. Secretary D. J. Callahan, John Joy
Edison. A. 3. Browne, and Scott c. Bone.
the Washington Board Of
Trade. and President R. " Harper, T. c.
Dulln. A. Lsner. Charles J. Bell, and
William H Saunders, representing the
Chamber OF Commerce.
Those present at the conference adopted
and promulgated an appeal 70 the clti-
zens Of the District. which appears else
where in The Washington Herald, and
urging that subscriptions 10 the relief
fund be made between now and January 3
in order that the needs Of the sufferers In
Italy may be met Immediately. Several
receivers Of subscriptions are mentioned
in the appeal, among them being the
treasurers Of the two trade bodies. the
daily newspapers, and the banks and
trust companies Of the city.
The Red Cross Society is already active
in relief measures for the starving thou
sands in Italy. The society sent by cable
$50. 900 remaining from the California re-
lief fund. and issued an immediate ap-
peal TO the local organizations through
cut the country for money to follow the
first contribution. Chicago, New York,
and St. Louis each responded yesterday,
and others win Immediately follow.
AT the Washington Offices OF the Red
Cross yesterday great activity prevailed.
and the Capitals quota TO the relief fund
viii be gotten together without delay 70
help swell the contributions already flow
ing into the stricken district in Southern
Italy.
Subscriptions to-the fund for the relief
OF sufferers from the recent earthquake
In Italy viii be received at the Office OF
The Washington Herald and forwarded
To the treasurer Of the Red Cross Society
for distribution. Such subscriptions will
be acknowledged in the news columns Of
The Washington Herald
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
CELTIC SAILS WITH FOOD.
Earthquake Sufferers May Get Pro-
visions Intended for Fleet

New York. Dec S1--FOliOwing a long
distance telephone conference with Of
ficials in the Navy Department at wash
ington. the United States supply ship Gel
tic sailed from the Brooklyn Navy yard
to-day for Italy. with provisions to feed
5a,050 persons for a month. II Is a case
Of going ahead on the part OF the navy
folks and getting the orders afterward.
The Celtic was loaded down with provi-
sions TO bring the battle feet across the
Atlantic
That was all forgotten when the COM
mander of the ship Harry Mel Huse
got news of the Italian disaster. He
went 70 the office OF Rear Admiral Good
rich and asked why the Celtic could not
be sent on right away with food
Admiral Goodrich answered the quez-
ton without hesitation by taking down
the long distance telephone receiver and
talking TO the officials In Washington
The result was telegram received AT
10 o'clock from the Bureau Of Navigation
ordering the Celtic TO sail at once for
Gibraltar.
A little matter OF incouveniencing the
battle fleet BY giving away the food in
tended fOr IL is a problem which the
navy officials said they would checrfuIly
tackle, If Congress would only hack
them up with an emergency appropria-
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
Different Kinds Of DAYS.

Five kinds OF DAYS are recognized, and
II has been said that the word day" has
no real meaning without an adjective
qualifying It. There is q civil day. the
astronomical day. the apparent solar day.
the mean solar day, and the sidereaI day.
The civil day begins az the midnight Pre-
ceding mean moon, and consists Of a
hours counted after i O'Clock, the astro-
nomicaI day begins twelve hours after
the civil day. or at the mean noon Of the
corresponding civil day These hours are
reckoned from 0 10 - II viii be seen,
therefore. that while 10 hours. Z minutes.
January I. astronomical time. Is also 10
hours, Y minutes. January I. civil time
yet % hours, y minutes, January /. as
Economical time. is also 10 hours. Z min
utes. January 2. civil time. There are
many anomalies growing out OF this use
OF the civil day, and many arguments are
advanced in favor OF using the astronom-
icaI day.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01

The State Department is awaiting fur
ther news on the reported death of Vice
Consul Stuart X Lupton at MessIna in
the second earthquake shock. mentioned
in a long cablegrarn from Ambassador
Griscom TO the department last night.
The Ambassador viii begin his trip
south to-day. He viii be accompanied
BY Vice Consul Bayard Cutting. II. sta
toned at Milan. WhO is q New Yorker
and al intimate friend Of Mr. Girls on.
II 9lr- Lupton IS dead. Mr. Cutting VIII
be placed IN charge OF The Messina con-
sulate temporarily
Mr. LuptGn was in Washington less
than a month ago. and sailed from New
York December >. so that he had lust ar
rived at Messina when the disaster Cc-
Cured He had come to Washington -
take the examination for promotion 10 a
fun consulship. and was one OF thoss
who passed with a higa average
Given Temporary Place.
There was need for filing the vacant
vice cOnsUlship at Messina. however, be-
fore his papers went through the Official
AOAAALA-r anu 4lE WGAo lACAotlllEA AiaNAS
temporarily
II Mr.. Lupton has not perished in the
second quake. he viii become the state
Departments record-hoIder as an Official
observer Of seismic cataciysms He had
hardly arrived at Valparaiso. Chile. after
appointment September 4. 1896. when the
great earthquake visited the South Amer
ican west coast and wrecked Valparaiso.
He sent valuable RpOrts On that dis
aster. He was appointed from Tennessee
LuptOn May Be Alive
Il is believed et the State Department
that the newspaper report from Messiua
that Vice Consul Lupton is dead is er-
roneous because OF the fact that on the
day after the earthquake the first news
Of the destruction Of the American con
sulste and the death Of the consul re-
ceivsd by wireless from Messina was
signed 'Lupton," which indicated. in the
opinion Of the department officials. that
LuptOn vas alive at that time Since
then. however. a second earthquake has
passed over Sicily.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
Good One ON Kid Broad.

Here's a good one about Kid Broad
who. in his day. was somewhat of a
pugilist- The kid was recently placed
in durance vile for being present where
gaming implements were found The
judge before whom Broad and his com
panions were brought made a few sar-
castle remarks about sports and
gamblers IN expressing his opinion Of
the crowd. the judicial one remarked:
why. a gOod-sized college athlete could
lick the whole crowd OF you in Jig
time This was a crusher for the
hale and hearty contingent. but Broad
was not TO be thus Inundated. for he
replied to the occupant of the bench:
Say, If you're the manager Of that col
lege guy, trot him out and I'll fight
him"
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
..Hnts and Cans,

From the New York Tribune
Al a lecture delivered before a church
organization one evening last week the
lecturer digressed from his subject in or
der 70 show on the screen what he called
Two great multitudes OF men One ot
these pictures showed a thTOng listening
10 an address by Mr.. Taft, and the other
Victor Gravson addressing the unen-
ploved at Tower Hill. London The re-
narkable feature Of the two pictures was
tnat only the backs and the heads OF the
people composing the two audiences could
be seen.
Now" said the lecturer. ANY one can
tell which is the American crowd, be-
cause We see Mr.. Taft. But. even IL the
two speakers had their backs turned 10
US. how could We tell which was the
AmeTicaE2"
No response came from the dsrkensd
room and the lecturer repeated the ques-
ton Then small voice piped out:
"Our people have hats
Right" said the lecturer. and added.
Note that nearly every head of the Eng
iish crowd is covered by q cap That's
the reason I called these two slides
American hats and English capA'
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
RED CROSS APPEAL.

The District of Columbia branch
OF the Red Cross has sent out the
following appeals
ITO the citizens OF the District
of ColunsbIai
"IE view Of the appalling ca
lamity IN Italy, prompt action for
the aid Of these suffering people
n being taken By the branches
of the American National Red
Cross ali over the country.
"It IL earnestly hoped that the
citizens Of the District Of COIum-
biR will do their part In this
emergency, and IL shouId be
borne in mind that aid, 20 be ef-
fective, must be immediate.
Subscriptions TO the fund,
which will be cabIed by the gov
ernment to the treasurer OF the
Red Cross In Rome, should be
sent to II. = Reeside. treasurer
Of the District Of Columbia
branch Of the Red Cross, Amerf-
can Security and Trust Company.
Washington
"ARNOLD HAGUE.
president Of District Of CoIum-
bia Branch Of the American Ma
tiOnaI Red Cross.-
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01

Mr.. Griscom, American Ambassador at
Rome. cabled the State Department that
he VII leave Rome to-day accompanied
BY several consular officers for the scene
Of the disaster.
The prime minister, he said, had in
vited him TO proceed TO Messina and had
offered steamship accommodations from
Naples.
Hs VIII be accompanied by Bayard Cut
ting, f., American vice consul at Milan
who viii be temporarily placed in charge
Of the consulate at Messina-
The Interpreter Of the American En-
bassy az Rome. g member Of the staff OF
the Naples consulate, and Winthrop
Chandler, a private citizen. VIII also go
with him TO Messina TO do special work
in relieving American citizens IN distress.
The Ambassador requested that several
thousand dollars be placed at his dispO-
sal
Mr.. Griscom added that he expected 20
be at Messina only few days and would
return 10 Rome as soon as he had organ
ized and distributed the work Of his su-
bOrdinates-
The Roman foreign ONCE, Mr.. Griscom
informed the department. considered that
the estimate Of 10000 dead is not exaS-
gerated. The foreign Office informed Mr.
Griscom that foreign aid for the suffer
ers viii be gratefully accepted owing 10
the immensity OF the disaster.
Mr. Griscom referred TO a newspaper
telegram from Missouri which stated that
Stuart K Lupton, American vice con-
Il at Messina, is dead. as well as DIT.
Arthur s Cheney the American consul
and his wife and Joseph H. Pierce. for
mer American vice consul
He says the nephew Of the German con
sui at Messina on arriving at Naples con-
hrmed the death OF Consul Cheney and
his wife
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
LA PRoCLAMA DEL LAMBAsCIAToRE.


dsastri della Calabria della Stella debbono essere
gat ala in unsoIo pensiero verso Ia
grande veccha Madrepatra, private oggi d tan brav
igi
Noi mebri della grande famigia mel dovere di d
col at che los ortunio del nostri compatrot
semitic col pu profondo dolore ncerta cole futile
acrime ma bensi con necesaro soccorso materiale.
LItalia mole vote vtata dale calamita, 81
vista ogere di bel dale rovne oo quesa
volta per del raona ed intelligence voere del popoo
e del nosro Augusta Re- il quale sempe andato
preare auto personale nei luogh di dsas desoa
zone Ltala sapra vngere misterioe foze della natura
Mel medesimo tempo altro puol mitigare nostro
ppofondo doore Ia spata del monde cyizato Ia egae
fraternita del PopolO Americana q basta.
LAMBASCIATORE DI SUA AAESTA
Reale mbasciata dItaa Washington D. c. Dicembre So d
1908
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
100000 DEAD IN SICILY.
Continued from Page One.

been an artistic at the Pelolo Theater.
she was bare-footed and practically
naked. She had eaten nothing for three
DAYS We asked her 20 come with Us 20
the station. but she would not. except
cn condition that We bought her a pair
OF shoes. This was impossible under the
circumstances.
Many Queer Costumes.
The spectacle OF the wanderers among
the ruins would move one TO laughter.
their makeshift garments being so lu-
dicrous- Some Of the men wore wOmens
skirts and bOdices, while women had
donEed military uniforms. which were
The first things they could obtain to
cover their nakedness. Others had moth
ing but a blanket or rug around them
Among the ruins I met an acquaint-
anee He was covered with mud He
wore a pair Of what had been white IN
derdrawers. a crush hat. and wooden
sabots. I met the solitary survivor OF
family named Bonnano. He carried a
dead child in his arms. and seemed 10
have lost his reason. Several people
seemed TO be deprived OF speech. I DO not
mean that they would not talk willingly.
they had been stricken dumb. One could
hear the groanings OF the wounded who
still Hnger invisible beneath the ruins
Returning to the railway station. We
found what remained Of 1t thrOnged by
haif-mad crowd suffering extremely from
thirst and hunger. standing hUddled in
hopeless misery. The destruction Of the
aQueduct and the water service causes
great suffering There is nothing to drink
except the water obtained from puddles
made by the rain"
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
south African MiII.onaire..
. the Westminst,r 60.


Harry Bsrnato, who has just died in
the prime Of life. Is the latest addition to
the list OF South African mIliOnaires
whose lives have closed prematurely and
often tragicaIly. Cecil Rhodes. It viii be
remembered. did not live to see his forty
ninth birthday, although he had qualified
as a millionaire at least twenty years
earlier. and Barney Barnato was only
forty-six when he came TO his tragic end
Of. the high seas but he had lived long
enough to leave nearly eI0O,OO0 behind
him
Woolf Joel. Barnato's nephew, was
much younger when. al thirty-four. a
bullet put an end 70 his life al Johan-
nesburg ten years or so ago. and yet he
was able to leave an estate valued at
e, ,226, coo; Herbert Matthew Davies ac-
cumulated e7S4.O0o before he died at the
age Of forty-three, and Mr.. Belt had
made and left his millions before he had
long completed half a century OF years.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
SHAME ON HIM!

In one downtown resort, where ths phone
kept up . steady jinsling. the p-oprisor
was SURPRISED to hear a w0mAn's voice over
the Rne. says the Detroit Tines
This Is Mrs Brus5o." said she. Can
you tel ne the result Of the Bu-nzJohpsou
fghty"
johnson wins in the fourteenth. The
police stopped the battle"
Was Noah badly huTtf''
'0h, nothing aside from bad beatsns.
understand" +" was the reply.
I'm slad to hear that, but st's toa bad
be lost, isn't it, and the wife whom Buns
deserted when he took his departure from
Detroit. and who strsightxsy secured a
divorce and returned to her Iabc-s as a
trained nurse. hung Up the receiver with 4
SIGH.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
FIGHTS Tn TWO COUNTRIES
Here's q Scrspper with a Career
That Is Checkered.
Jim Holland Battles in England in
One Week and in United
States zhe Next.

New York, Dec. 81" IT i'm hin the
.heye. Jem. boy -Jab Is bIooTnin' nose."
"AW. that was a wonderful it,
Hang one on his kisserr- Bounce one
or his cOnk.~ IN the cellar. In the
cellar"
These are the two widely divergent
varieties OF ringside roofing" that jim
Holland, lightweight fighter, hears once
a week. And he doesn't hear them beth
al the same time. No. indeedy! He hears
one brand at the beginning OF the week
and Just before the Day OF Rest he listens
10 the other.
How does he do It? Simplest thing
on earth. He fights in England at the
beginning OF the seven day period and
performs in this city al the tail end
Of H.
And here's the answer. jim has job
on board the steamship Oceanic. and
when his ship docks il England he has
a pugilistic engagement on the tight
little isle. and the same thing awaits
him when he lands IN Glorious Gotham
Holland is about the only ignJer on
-,cOrd who can boast Of such an ex-
perience. And even he won't be able to
boast long. for according 10 Billy New
man, who looks after his affairs OF the
ring In his city. Jim is thinking serious
" OF taking of his hat ard staying
while in America. long enough. any
how, 10 win the lightweight champion
ship Of the world. That's why he wants
to stay here. II is here that the light
weight championship holds forth.
Holland is d clean-cut y0ungster. who
can easily make the lightweight limit,
and it is said OF him that he can fight
quite some.
His manager says that Jim has had
forty-seven ring battles. and he has never
lost one. owen Moran has expressed the
opinion that Holland is the best boy OF
his weight in England AnG-HOlland is
going to fight al the Long Acre A c next
ninth
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
EARTHQUAKE EXPLANATION.
Prof. Sees Paper on Subject Re-
called by Disaster.

New York. Dec. SIN q recent number
of The Proceedings Of the American
Philosophical Society at Philadelphia"
Prof T J J See. L 5. y. submitted an
important paper on the new theory OF
earthquakes and mountain formation. as
Illustrated by processes now at work in
the depths Of the sea The substance Of
DIT. Sees theory IS now recalled in con
nection with the great earthquake disas-
ter in Southern Italy.
This new work verifes and proves the
theory recently advanced by Prot See
that mountains are Termed by the sea
and not al all by the secular cooling and
shrinkage Of the earth. The old theory,
which compares the earth 10 q withered
apple. receives a hard blow which It can
not long survive.
In two previous papers which have been
widely read all over the world. Prof. See
showed that six great classes Of phe-
nOmena, namely. earthquakes. volcanoes,
mountain formation. the formation OF
islands and plaJeaUs, seismic aea waves
following great earthqUakss-sre but DIFF
ferent effects Of one common cause.-the
secular leakage OF ocean bottom This
forms steam beneath the earth's crust,
which brings on earthquakes, the earth
qUakes Uplift islands in the sea and
mountains along the shore by the expul-
sion OF lava under the land.
When the earth crust Is thus uplifted
along the seashore, mountains are pro-
duced and some Of the mountains break
into eruption and form volcanoes. The
expulsion OF lava from ande- the sea IN
derm;nes trenches in the sea bottom, and
the crust gives way and forms the deeps
often noticed near the land The sinking
Of the sea bottom after an earthquake
produces the seismic sea wave that so
often follow great earthquakes.
Prof See calculates that the earth is
now expanding from ten 20 one hundred
times more rapidly than Il IS contracting
under the influence Of secular cooling.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
APPEALS FOR FUNDS.
PapaI Delegate WOuId Aid the
Earthquake Sufferers.

Archbishop Falconio, the papaI repre-
sentative, yesterday sent out a circular
letter 10 al Catholic bishops in America
appealing for funds for the sufferers n
the stricken cities Of Southern Italy and
Sicily.
EigT- FalconiO has great confidence in
the generosity Of the American public.
and believes the contributions received
in answer to his letters VIII be sufficient
10 allay the suffering to a great extent
I am appalled, By the enormous loss
OF life and property" said Mgr. FaIconio-
1T is the most terrible occurrence Of
modern times I am deeply shocked at
the less OF life. Of course, but, too,
6ePlore the destruction Of so many OF
the beautiful cities.
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
The worlds Postage stamps.

The total number OF all known vvari-
eties OF postage stamps issued by all the
governments Of the world up to the pres
ent time Is 1872. OF this number 2O5
have been Issued in Great Britain and
5.7n in the various British colonies and
protectorates, leaving 13.s26 for the rest
Of the world. Dividing the totals among
the continents. Europe issued 4.0S9, Asia
3.62s, Africa 4,0s5. America including the
West Indies, SOS. and Oceanica I, Is.
Salvador has issued more varieties OF
postage stamps than any other country,
the number being k0
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
OFFICIALS GUARD
REPORT ON GAS
Continued from Page One.

gentleman expressed the view held by
the company or its experts
There is little doubt that an effort viii
be made in connection with the pending
gas legislation TO have the candle power
exaction amended Congress will no
doubt ask the advice Of governmental
experts before acting on that phase Of
the matter
Product Is Tested.
Prof John X Haywood and W W
Skinner. the chemists who prepared the
report and experimental for more than a
month TO test the quality OF the product
supplied by the gas company, have in the
past declared in forcibIe terms that the
presence Of water gas is dangerous. They
have expressed the opinion that the gas
companies should not only manufacture q
product of Illuminating gas that gives
light equal 10 twenty-five candles. but
that the company should discontinue the
manufacture Of water gas" II is con-
tended by those who speak for the COM
pany. however. that this is impossible
The process by which the report was
transmitted TO Secretary BonapaTte by
the President and later TO District Alter
ney Baker. has created considerable dis
cussion and many believe that If any reg
ulations are 70 be made. the report should
have been sent 70 Corporation Counsel
Thomas. for examination.
Provision IN Franchise.
According to the statutes Of the District
and the charter Of the gas companies
there is no stipulation forbidding the
manufacture Of water gas" and this
clause Of the franchise viii probably be
changed by the Department Of Justice.
The charter Of the Washington and
Georgetown gas companies states that
they shah have full power TO manufac-
ture make. and sell gas TO be made Of
coal, tar. peat. pitch, OF turpentine or
other material
Attorney General Bonaparte. according
TO information elected at the Department
Of Justice. VIII. in all probability. trans
NIT the findings OF the district attorney,
together with DR.. Wiley's report, to Con-
gress. with the recommendation that a
new set OF regulations be promulgated for
the control of the gas supply in the
District OF Columbia
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
Cuban Con- to nfeet.

Havana. Dec S.-After q conference
between Vice President-elect Yazas and
Gov MagOon, 1t was announced that
Congress would meet 70 pass upon the
credentials OF senators and representa-
tives on January g. II viii DeassembIe
On January 20 10 proclaim the President
and Vice President. and viii enter upon
its continuous session January 2S at noon
The Washington herald., 1909-01-01
LITTLE CHILDREN SUFFER.

PitifuI Scenes of Babes CIinzfuE to
Their Dead Parents.
Naples. Dec. 31.-The commander OF the
war ship Admiral Makaroff tells. among
many other incidents. OF the finding of
two babies playing with buttons beneath
a beGstead which protected them.
Amid pile Of wreckage there were
found many children clinging TO their
mothers desd bodies, trying 10 awaken
them or desperately terrified
Some Of the children brought here on
the war ship were crazed. They tottered
about the deck holding their arms above
their heads as thought they were stfl
among the falling houses.