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Evening star., 1909-01-17

Mrs. Amelia Henry Of Madison avenue
is visiting relatives in Brookland. D. c.
Evening star., 1909-01-17

MIR. II. Thornton knight, ir.. has re-
turned to his home on Cleveland avenue
after an extensive trip through northern
New York
Evening star., 1909-01-17

Germany and Sweden will both hold in
dustrial vehicle competitions during May,
the exact dates 10 be decided by mutual
agreement.
An increase in output OF from :Oo to
1000 cars a year is planned by a motor
car manufacturer at Des Moines, Iowa
The dates OF the second annual auto
mobile. motor boat and sportsmens ex-
iibition at Toronto. Canada. have been
fixed for February Is to -.
Denial has been made of the report that
w. X. Vanderbilt. ir, president of the
Long Island Parkway, intends withdraw
ing from the project.
4 periodical cleaning out OF the car
buretor TO insure the absence OF water
will save a deal of time and searching
when nisflring occurs.
X is estimated that dividends earned
by the motor car manufactures I'm Mich
igan during the year will aggregate $50
seO0.OO
Compulsory use of a non-yolati;e lu-
bricating oil is being considered In Eng
land as a result OF protests against foul
smelling blue smoke exhausts from mo-
tor buses.
Established only ten years ago. a tire
company at Akron. Ohio, claims to have
built up business amounting to 81. 5OO,- :
OUa i'm l.NS. and expects to reach the
three million-doilar mark this year.
Evening star., 1909-01-17

The RAsh Motor Club of England isl
Evening star., 1909-01-17

There are. A. exhibits of complete cars,
besides 221 exhibits OF accessories and
parts. and PC motorcycle exhibits in the
Madison Square Garden show which
opened in New York last night. The
motorcycle exhibit is the first COM
plete one ever shown, being several times
larger than at any previous show
Among the improvements of the past
year in the making of power plants for
automobiles is the use of aluminium in
the crank case and bearings. For years
makers have used manganese bronze, be-
cause ii was considered stronger I'M
proved testings of aluminium, however.
have enabled IL to be utilized, giving the
advantage of lightness and less noise
The best types of single-cylinder runa-
bouts will make from twenty to thirty
miles on a gallon Of, gasoline. and the
quantity of lubricating oil required per
mile is almost negligible. Increasing the
number OF cylinders seem to have the
effect Of increasing the fuel consumption
for given travel, the reason for which
lies very largely in the fact that with
increasing power the obtainable speed is
greater.
Evening star., 1909-01-17

Amusement was caused by an advertise
ment of an automobile company that ap-
peared in an athletic club journal copies
of which were distributed during a recent
automobile show. Around the picture of
a police patrol there appeared the fol-
lowing reading matter: "Seven passen-
ger car, price $1,000. Not five pas
senger car with extra seats A car for
seven passengers. Tour all. day, and
every day, in comfort and with speed,
making all stops on schedule time 1t
was intended that the picture of tour
ing car should have been used in connec-
tiOn with the advertisement.
Evening star., 1909-01-17

Rear Admiral Sperry has forwarded to
the Navy Department a report of the fleet
construction officer OH all the repairs re-
quired for the battleship fleet on its re-
turn to the United States. Orders are
ommenda tions made The Illinois
Kearsarge and Kentucky are to go in re-
serve for extensive repairs. The order
as to the assignment Of battleships to
various yards for repairs will be issued in
a few days. The ships to go to the New
York yard are the Connecticut, Ne
braska. Rhode Island and Ohio: to the
Boston yard, the Illinois, Missouri, New
Jersey and Vermont; to the Philadelphia
yard, the Georgia, Kansas and kearsarge:
to the Norfolk yard, the Kentucky, Louis
lana, Minnesota and Virginia: TO the
Portsmouth yard, the Wisconsin. The
Maine and New Hampshire have already
been ordered to that yard.
Firing at Moving Targets.
A distinctive feature of the naval battle
practice hereafter will be its conduct
against targets specially designed for
towing, the exposed part of the target
being, under way and presenting an area
to resemble an enemy's ship. This target
has been designed to be constructed of
solid timber in the form of long and
narrow English cuttee. The bottom, cor
responding to the keel. will be heavily
weighted and only a small part of the
main structure will be above water.
enough to afford an opportunity for tow
ing and as platform for the screen
against which the shots shall be directed.
While complete official reports are lacK-
ing respecting the results OF the record
target practice of the Atlantic battleship
feet at Manila bay, sufficient informa-
ton has been received here to show that
the performance in naval gunnery has
been better than ever before, especially in
the case of the battleship Nebraska. The
firing with the guns in the after turret
occurred November II and the probabil-
ity is that the worlds record for 12-inch
guns and superimposed turrets was
broken. On the occasion OF the practice
Evening star., 1909-01-17

Capt. George BeaIe Read is visiting
friends in Virginia.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
FIGHTER Of Bosses.

Charles Nagel of Missouri. new sec
retary of commerce and labor, is 3
fighter of bosses, Il dcvotee of art and
a high ass lawyer. lie is better
known among lawyers and educators
than to the public at large. although
he served as Il member of the Mis-
souri, house of representative and Is
a member of the Republican ua.i,na,
committee. He is a native westtruer
having been born in Colorado county.
Tex, in 1S49 In the height Of tl,
civil war the pronounced Union senti.
ments Of his father, DR.. Herman Nh.
GEL compelled him to remove from
Texas to St Louis. Here Charles Na.
gel soon entered the st. Louis higI
school. Graduating from there, he
took two years course in the st.
Louis Law school and then went to
the University Of Berlin, where he took
special course In law and political
economy. Returning to st. Louis in
1873, he was admitted to the bar anG
soon had an active part In municipal
affairs. He was for four yeas presi-
dent of the city council of st. louis.
If Secretary James Wilson continues
to hold the agricultural portfolio until
next November he will have broken
the record for continuous cabinet serv-
Ice, which IS now held by Albert Gal
latin, once secretary of the treasury.
who served twelve years. eight months
and twenty-five days. Secretary VIII
son was appointed at the outset of the
Mckinley administration. He wae
born in Ayrshire, Scotland, In 1885.
and at the age Of seventeen was
brought TO this country by his parents.
he was educated in the public schools
OF Iowa and at Iowa college. He en-
gagged In farming and, entering state
politics, was Il member Of the twelfth.
thirteenth and fourteenth assemblies
OF Iowa, being elected speaker of the
assembly in his last term. He served
three terms in congress.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18

Hitchcock with him, firss fnto the de-
partment Of commerce and labor, which
the two of them organized, then into
Republican national headquarters In
the campaign of 1904, next into the
postoffice department, with Cortelyou
at the head and Hitchcock as his first
assistant. Now ue returns to it as the
head. During the recent campaign
Frank Hitchcock was called ''the hui
man card index" 1.-The tower of 81.
lence" and other names that should
not be printed in a moral newspaper.
He is fortytwo years old, well groom
ed, is both tall and heavy and looks
like an athlete. He is no longer a
bird expert, his chief study now beino
politicians. He has them all clas'
fed as a naturalist classifies bugs.
George w. Wickersham, the new at
torney general, Is the Wall street law
partner of Henry w. Taft, the presi-
dent elects brother. He halls from
Pennsylvania, has been an attorney
for t e Ryan and Belmont interests in
New York, helped to put the suspend
ed Knickerbocker Trust COMFY back
ON its feet and is highly recommended
by Senator Knox lie is known as an
Office lawyer, has practiced in New
York for twenty years, belongs to the
old school and has the highest rating
in h profession as an attorney of big
financial interests. With such prece-
dents and training he may be expected
not to run amuck."
Authority on Law.
Richard A. Ballinger, Mr.. Tafts sec
retary of the interior, was a class
mate Of James Il. Garfield, the present
holder of that portfolio. AS Il result
Garfield tried to get him be commits
sioner of the general land Office, but
Ballinger declined. Garfield insisted,
and Mr.. ballinger at last reluctantly
consented He held the office one
year and in that time reorganized it
from top to bottom. He then resigned
and returned to his law practice.
When appointing Ballinger, Roosevelt
remarked that they were getting a
$4,000 man for $1,000. The new sec
retary of the interior was born in Iowa
in 1858, his father having studied law
with Abraham Lincoln. The son went
to Kansas and embarked In the cattle
business at the age Of seventeen. He
got n preparatory education in the
University of Kansas and Washburn
college and graduated from Williams
college In 1881. He practiced law for
time at Boonesboro, ILL.,, then went
south and was prosecuting attor-
ney OF a county In Alabama, returned
to Chicago, where he practiced two
years, then went to Seattle, Wash, his
present home. There he was judge
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18

for secretary of the navy, is the for.
mer postmaster general In that posi-
tion he SHOOK things up by his per
sistent advocacy of postal savings
banks and the parcels post. lie was
also minister TO Italy and ambassador
To Russia where he took high rank
socially and hobnobbed with royalty
In our present Washington society
that sort of thing cuts ice. Mr.. Meyer
was born in Boston in 1858 and, of
course, was graduate, from Harvard
He was rich mans son and is yet
richer himself, being connected with
many corporations. He was showed
into politics by street car. There
was threat of trolley line on his
aristocratic street, and young Meyer
started out to defeat the heinous
thing. He fought to such good pur-
pose that before he realized the depths
to which he was sinking he found
himself a member of the common
council. He then went to the legisla-
ture and for three terms was speaker
of the Louise. He wanted to go to
SOhBitSS. uuL I1tHIy StDOl lJOuBe
could not see it that way and gave
Meyer the post OF minister to Italy as
a consolation prize. From that this
young man went up step by step un-
til now he is to sit in swivel chair
and watch the navy bureaucrats run
Uncle Sans big ships.
Uncle Sans Chief Postmaster.
Massachusetts is to have two cab
met positions. the other one going to
Frank II. Hitchcock, chairman of the
Republican national committee. Hitch
cock acquired Massachusetts, however
having been born in Ohio, like other
great men. He went to the Bay State
because his father was preacher and
was called there. Then he (the boy)
went to Harvard. Next he went to
washington as clerk for contractor
he knew, got into the agricultural de
partment as birdologist-thati is not
the official title. but it will do-took
TO studying law at nights, ran into
George b. Cortelyou, who was doins
the same thing, and, 10, he was made
Cortelyou began to rise and tool
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18

down in health forced him to abandon
the law, and he embarked In the gro.
Gerry business in Chicago. Burned out
In the great fire, he rebuilt and be-
came president of citizens commit
tee that revised the government of
Chicago and practically made the pres
ent fire department. A Republican in
politics, he bolted Blaine In 1884 and
afterward worked with the Demo
Gratis. He declined a nomination for
mayor, but afterward accepted that
for United States senator and can
vassed the state, but his party was
minority in the succeeding legislature.
He has been at the head of various
civil service, charitable and literary
bodies in Chicago and served as a
member of the National Civic fedora
tion. In the last campaign he aban-
doned Bryan and returned TO the Re
publican party. Mr.. MacNeagh is tall,
spare, rather reserved, but with a
ready wit He is a combination of
classic scholar and multimillionaire.
He married the daughter of a bank
president and has been himself chair
man of the board of directors of ma
tional bank.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, selected
by Mr.. Taft as his secretary of war, is
the attorney for the Illinois Central
railroad Like Mr.. MacVeagh, Judge
Dickinson is Democrat who boltcd
Bryan, and, like MacNeagh also, he i.
Il resident of Chicago, though accredit
ed to Tennessee The new war sec
retary is the grandson of Felix Grun-
dy, former attorney general of the
United States, and has been himself
assistant attorney general. He has
also been judge of the supreme court
of Tennessee, counsel of the United
States before the Alaskan boundary
commission and a professor Of law in
Vanderbilt university He is about
fifty-fve years of age, served for
three months in the Confederate ar
my, graduated from the University OF
Tennessee and afterward studied at
Leipzig and Paris. He belongs to the
best of southern families.
Showed Into Politics by a Car.
George Won Lengerke Meyer. chosen
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
Captain of His People"

In many details of his multifarious
activities Mr. Roosevelt has erred To
err is human. He has fallen short and
failed. He has never faltered AS
Lincoln did before him. he has known
how to meet overmastering necessity
with oppOrtunism, but he has not tax
en- his eye from his chosen goal nor
relaxed the iron of his q nrmination.
His devotion to the national ideals,
his fervent patriotism, have been an
inspiration to his generation and will
be lasting example to posterity. No
president, no patriot, has ever put
away power in nobler spirit or with
a firmer will than he when he refused
a reelection that would have come
In spite of reiterated pledge and refus-
al had he not opposed to 1T the full
force of his influence. A great cham
pion, conservator and exemplar of
American democracy. Theodore Roose
Welt has been the captain of his peo-
pie, and in the house of the lowly as
In the house of the strong he has been
the mighty prophet OF better day
Chicago Tribune.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
Fooled Him

When Tommy was taking papa his
dinner he stopped for a moment to
watch workman emptying a sewer.
That" remarked Tommy interest,
edly, 'is the CRATE my brother lost
shilling down"
The workman's eyes lit up.
We'll, young man" he said. nth u
show OF carelessness you'd better
get forward with that dinner before
it's cold"
In about half an hour Tommy re.
turned TO find the man still at tn
same crate.
Are you quite sure it was this CRATE
the shilling was lost IMP said the
workman
II am certain" replied Tommy, DE
cause | saw my father get it out -.
London Answers
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18

that he could be as loyal to the gov
ernment at $1,000 n year as lie had
been TO private concerns at %lGO 900 or
more. Knox served b. Il short time
with Mckinley, his great work as at
torney general occurring under TheO-
dure Roosevelt. His most notable
achievements were galyaniZing the
antitrust law into life, dissolying the
Northern Securities merger and nego-
tiating the purchase of the Panama
canal from France. On the death of
MP "hew Stanley Quay he was ap
~ ted senator from Pennsylvan 1
{ 4 was afterward elected by the leg
dature. In the senate, contrary to
custom, he Immediately became lead
er and took rank as one of the great
constitutional lawyers of that body.
He was born in 1853 at Brownsville,
Pa, the little city on the Monongahela
that gave rise to James G. Blaine.
Knox was educated at Mount Union
college, Ohio; admitted to the bar at
twenty-five, began practice at Pitts
burg, was United States district attor-
new in 1867, but resigned to form
the firm of Knox & Reed, which was
long leader at the Pittsburg bar. In
appearance he Is short. dapper, we'll
dressed and polished. He talks quick
ly and smoothly. He is bright with
out levity and able without solemnity.
The chief impression lie gives is one
of dry intellect. His recreations are
driving good horses and reading books
books, books
Classic Scholar and Multimillionaire
Franklin MacVeach. chosen to be
the new secretary of the treasury, is
brother Of Wayne MacVeagh, Gar
held's attorney general. and has gen
orally been classed as mugwump I'm
politics. Like Senator Knox. he was
born in Pennsylvania. but is now
citizen of Chicago. He Is nearly sew
enty years of age. is the son Of a
farmer, graduate of Yale and was
educated Il the law, spending year
In the practice in New York city.
where he helped Judge Edmunds to re-
wise the New York statutes. 4 break
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
CONGRESSM EN-.
Develop the Navy.

BY Representative RICHMOND PEAR
SON HOBSON of Alabama.
l believe the development of the Amer
4can navy to meet the requirements or
the law OF self preservation and the de
rnands for peace and therefore the op-
portunity to Christianize the peoples Of
the earth particularly those of Asia and
more especially the inhabitants of the
empire Of China, and thereby to avert the
conflict toward which the withdrawal OF
our fleet from the Pacific is setting us
that IS. the conflict between the yellow
race and the white race-is a task ex-
ceedinC in Importance any other that the
new administration will have to meet.
Work For Peace.
BY Representative RICHARD BAR
THOLT of Missouri
President Taft can make himself i'm
mortal if during his administration he
should perfect the legal machinery by
which differences between nations will be
settled by judicial decision instead of by
war. A good start has been made, and
n present arbitration treaties are still
further extended the era of bloody war
will soon be past.
Revise the Tariff.
BY Representative FRANCIS BURTON
HARRISON of New York
The most important matters before the
new administration are, first, a genuine
revision of the tariff downward in the
interest of the whole people and to in
crease the revenue; second, a real parcels
post system. along the lines of the par
GELS posts which have proved so success
full in other civilized countries: third, leg
islation looking TO the establishment of a
zeal bureau OF public health
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18

BY JAMES A. EDCERTON.
i" HE cabinet is not provided for
by the constitution, but neither
is the flag. The constitution
could not look after every
thing. The cabinet is purely an ad-
visory board and sometimes scarcely
that. 1t depends on the president.
Some of our chief executives would
listen to advice by the yard and then
go ahead and do as they pleased.
Others would not even listen and still
do as they pleased Yet cabinets are
useful institutions. They are handy
to have around as foils when the boss
is trying to find out what he wants to
do and as goats to take the blame II
things go wrong. Every president has
had at least one cabinet and some of
them two or three Roosevelt has had
his official cabinet, his tennis cabinet
and General Leonard Wood.
After March the country will have
only one living eXpresident, but no.
body knows how rIany eX-cabinet Off
GERS. Moreover, nobody cares. The
average cabinet officer is an impor-
tant man while on the job, but not be-
fore-nor after. He is like the Scrip
tural wind-we hear the sound there
of, but know not whence he cometh
nor whittier he goeth. And, again, we
do not care. SO far rs the national
consciousness is concerned, very many
of our cabinet members have emerged
from oblivion and to oblivion have re-
turned. OF the cabinet ( zen out,
though unofiicially. as that TO be Sc
lected by President Taft, only four
members, Knox, Meyer, Hitchcock
and Wilson, have what might be prop
erly called national regulations. The
other five are known only in spots.
Great Constitutional Lawyer.
Philander Chase Knox. the new sec"
retary of state, is Mckinley find and
Roosevelt development. Mckinley and
Knox were in college together. At the
time of his selection as attorney general
Mr.. Knox's appointment was widel"
criticised for the reason that he had
been corporation lawyer. Yet his
chief fame in that office was gained In
prosecuting the trusts. He proved
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
Classic Scholar and Multimillionaire
Great Dock system.

Rio Janeiro proposes to construct the
greatest dock system In South Amer
lea, If not in the whole western hemi-
sphere. The plans call for about ten
miles of docks in addition to the two
miles already provided for. The idea
is that the additional docks shall con
sist at first of three great piers built
at distance Of LIE feet from each
other. Completed. these docks vii;
have a frontage of 62320 feet. or
about twelve miles. The additions
planned will cost about $4,000. 900.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
Eortunata In Misfortune-

Mr.. Roosevelt is too impulsivc. errat-
ic and uncertain evidently to win ia
vor as a possible executive of a corpo-
ration. Such an institution must have
at its head tactful. clear headed and
able man of self control. That the
United States should have had as CHIEF
executive a man whose idiosyncrasies
would have imperiled an average cor
poratlon and that 1t should have sur
vived his ebullitions but shows how
fortunate the country has been in its
misfortunes. - Louisville Courier-Jour
nal
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
BUSINESS AND LABOR.
Harmonize CAPITAL and Labor

by HENRY CLEwS, Banker. New York.
one Of the most vital questions that
will confront Mr. Taft will be the strained
relations of labor and capital. There is
no doubt IN the mind OF any fair man but
that. in the unsettled conditions that have
existed during the past two years. labor
has been tyrannical and uncompromsing.
The great mass of the American public
has been like corn between two mill
stones. one of which was labor and the
other the trusts. and as usual many were
ground exceeding fine,
If Mi. Taft can devise some method of
procedure that will bring harmony with
Justice. between these opposing forces.
which will prove to both that the interests
OF labor and capital are identical, he will
solve the greatest problem now perplex
ing the American people.
Build Good Country Roads.
By AMZI /. BARBER, Capitalist
l think that one great thing to be
achieved by the administration under Mr..
Taft should be the commencement and
carrying out of a new policy upon the
part OF the national government by max
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
Traditions Iunored.

That even a portion of natural ap-
probation goes to ex-preSldent Roose-
welt is high enough compliment, for
his methods have not been in keeping
with American traditions nor with the
spirit OF the American government
The feeling has gained strength that
bull In a china shop is not necessarily
a bad conjunction and that some kinds
of china ought to be smashed anyway.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.