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Evening star., 1909-02-26
FINEST QUARTERS IN SOUTH
CLUB TO CONSIDER
PLAN FOR NEW HOME.
To Be Brought Up at Banquet To-
morrow-$375,OO 900 Needed to
Float Project.

Discussion of plans for an eight-story
clubhouse, to be the finest club quarters
south of New York city. will be feature
of the University Club banquet, to be held
at the New Willard Hotel tomorrow even
ing.
In a preliminary announcement regard
ing the project issued today, the club Of
ficerS say:
THE council announces that certain
members of the building committee have
obtained an option on four lots at the
northwest corner of 18th and l streets
northwest, having frontage of 1923 feet
on 10Th street, facing Mcpherson square.
72S feet on I street, containing 1852
square feet. and improved at the present
time by four brick buildings renting for
81 GOO per year 1t will be necessary to
remove the houses. but the building ma
terial in them will. no doubt more than
pay FOR this expense.
THE building committee has exam
ined some twenty properties and con-
siders this site the most desirable. 1t
is conveniently and centrally located to
business and government offices, hotels
and clubs. being near electric car service,
but sufficiently distant to secure quietness.
Its park frontage of over 100 feet
gives light. air and permanency of en-
vironment. Other property not far dis
tant has sold for over double the value
per square foot. 1t is in situation
where it is reasonable to look for large
advances in real estate values as the
city increases in population; thus as a
business investment it is sound
1T Is proposed to erect a building of
simple and dignified architectural design
in keeping with the location. with all mod
ern club facilities. spacious. simply dec
grated and furnished with sleeping ac-
commodations OF from sixty to sixty
eight rooms. 1t IS estimated that the cost
of the lot, building and furniture. COM
plete. will amount to $3jO,OOO; but to pro-
vide funds for interest on the securities
while the building is in course of con-
struction and to allow for contingencies a
further sum of $25 600 may be necessary -
Many special stunts have been arrang-
ed for the banquet tomorrow evening
One Of the novelties will be the receiving
of wireless messages addressed to guests
The committee is known to have been
in frequent consultation recently regard
ing other features.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
GIRL GAGGED AND BOUND.
Emily Kelly Found by Neighbors
Who Hear Struggle.

Neighbors in the adjoining house,
alarmed by a peculiar noise in house No.
s1S l. street southeast. occupied by VIII
liam B. Kelly, upon investigation shortly
before O'Clock this afternoon discovered
Emily Kelly. aged twenty-five. the
daughter of Mr.. Kelly, bound and gagged
upon a sofa in the dining room, where
she had been left apparently after having
been chloroformed and badly beaten.
The fifth precinct station house was
notified by telephone. Sergt. Montgomery
Immediately dispatched the reserve with
the patrol wagon and summoned the am
bulance of the Casualty Hospital.
The doctors. upon their arrival, found
the young woman unconscious and in a
critical condition. She returned to con-
sciousness in half an hour. but was un-
able to give the police any Information.
In the rear yard or shed was also found
a bundle containing jewelry. knives and
forks and some silk garments OF wear
ing apparel. which had apparently been
tied together and were probably dropped
by the young woman's assailant.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
Scots and Juries.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The difference between the Scottish and
the English legal systems is illustrated by
the trial now taking place In Edinburgh.
The divorce proceedings are held without
a jury. and the decision depends entirely
on the unaided intellect OF an elderly gem
tleman in a wig. Trial by jury-at least
SO far as civil cases are concerned--was
no part OF the ancient law of Scotland.
1t was imported from England as re-
Gently as 1915. and has never become
properly acclimatiZed. The tendency of
Scotch law Is to eliminate the twelve good
men and true, and a juhy Is not employed
in divorce proceedings. In that country
the only cases in which a jury Is inn
paneled are those in which the husband
claims-with national thrift-compensa-
ton against the correspondent.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
NO TIGERS IN AFRICA.
A Kind Word to Those Who Hunt In
Magazines.

From Hampton o Magazine
Wasn't it William Jennings Bryan who
made the first ''bull'' about there being
tigers in Africa? Perhaps not. But here
is the word of Boer hunter. born on the
veldt, who for ten years went out after
ivory as a professional. His name is
Capt Fritz Duquesne. Says Capt. Du-
quesne:
Speaking of carnivora and the other
fauna of Africa, let me say for the bene-
fit Of the American writer's. lecturers and
artists who wish to pretend to knowl-
edge Of African animal life that there are
no yaks. alligators. kangaroos. turkeys.
bears or tigers in Africa outside OF a cir
Gus or geological garden. There are two
species of rhinoceros, the bicornis or pre-
hensile-lipped. and the sinus or square
mouthed rhino. The latter, although al
most as black as its relative, Is called the
white rhinoceros on account OF blue.
slaty tinge In its skin. To be exact. there
is no such thing as white rhinoceros.
Both have two horns. The Asiatic rhino-
eros has but one. Crccodiles and ALI
gators differ greatly in appearance, and
the latter do not live in Africa. The
Asatic elephant is also different in ap-
pearance from it's African relative.
Now about tigers. which have been
treated so freely as African game In re
cent American articles. 1t all depends on
ones nationality whether or not there are
tigers in Africa. The leopard is called "A
tiger ttiger) by the Beers. and SO is the
cheetah, just panther is called
tiger in some parts of the United States.
The striped animal which is zoologically
known as tiger figris regalis) and
which is the animal referred to in a num-
Der of recent stories, does not make It's
habitat in Africa, as the writer's seem 10
think. So when a traveller speaks of lions.
leopards and tigers seiZing passenger
from trains he is generally writing at long
range with a misinformed imagination in
stead Of facts. He makes a double mis-
take II he speaks of tigers and leopards
in referring to African fauna, as in Afrts
ca they mean the same animal. | have
never heard an Englishman or a Boer
when speaking English call leopard A
tiger.
1t is the same with the giraffe Among
the Beers this animal is called a kameel
(cameD when using their own language
but when speaking English they always
say giraffe. This disgression, if not wei
come to some writer's, will be at least
corrective and instructive. To the Afri-
cander many of the recently published
stories have the earmarks OF what Presi-
dent Roosevelt calls a mature fake
There Is real danger enough. and real ann
mails enough. without having to depend
on awkward inventions to make story.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
CODE FOR NAVAL WARFARE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
COMPLETES WORK AT LONDON.
Admiral Stockton to Bring Home the
Documents for the United States
Senate.

LONDON. February 26.-The delegates
to the international naval conference,
which has been in session in this city
since last December, today completed the
formality of signing and sealing their
findings. The code to regulate naval war
fare. to draft which the conference was
summoned. will be published simulta-
neously March 20 in the capital of each
country represented. Rear Admiral
Charles II. Stockton. one of the Amer
lean delegates will sail for home March ).
He will take with him the documents
for America which are to be submitted
to the Senate. Prof. George Grafton VIII
son, the other American delegate. VIII
spend some weeks on the continent be-
fore returning home.
The conference was summoned by Great
Britain. Its primary purpose was to de-
termine as many definite principles OF
maritime International law as possible.
and capable of being used for the govern
ment of the proposed international prize
court under the twelfth convention OF the
second Hague peace conference held last
year.
Evening star., 1909-02-26

Funeral services over the body of Charles
Chesley. for many years solicitor of In
ternal revenue, who died yesterday. will
be held tomorrow afternoon from the
Cairo apartments. The pail bearers will
be Matthey Trimble. j. p. T. Tupper, J.
w. Buttertield, c. b. Rheen, 3. II. Wer-
ner and A. f. Fox. Interment will be
in Wakefield. N. H., his birthplace. He
leaves but one lineal descendant, a grand
daughter. who is living with her mother
in Connecticut. He was charter member
of the University Club. member of the
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Washing
ton and of the Washington Alpha Delta
Phi Association.
Mr.. Chesley was born April II, 1927 His
parents were Isaac B. and Lucy B. Ches-
ley. His mother was the daughter of
Thomas Parsons. original proprietor OF
the town of Parsonsfield, Me.
Mr.. Chesley graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1852. He studied law and en-
tered upon the practice of his profession
in his native town. He was for several
years solicitor of Carroll county, n. H.,
and was connected with the board of en-
rollment for the first district of that
state.
In June. 1865. he came to Washington to
take place in the Office of the COM
missioner of internal revenue and since
remained here. In June, 1871. he resigned
his place in the revenue office to take an
other in the office of the Attorney General.
Four months after that he was ap-
pointed solicitor of internal revenue by
President Grant, post at which he re-
mained until July, 1883. Soon after Pres
ident Cleveland's first inaugura ton Mr.
Chesley sent him his resignation. He
wrote he had always believed in the
principles of the republican party and
had desired its success in the recent
election.
In response he received an autograph
letter from President Cleveland, who ask
ed him to retain his place ''at least six
ty days. He remained in it more than
three years. In May 1888, he was in
formed that his resignation of April, 1885,
had been accepted. to take effect on the
first of the following July.
About this time his wife died. year
later his son. his only child, died. after
a brief Illness In the summer of 1890
Mr.. Chesley went abroad, accompanied
by his stepdaughter. Miss Florence Twit-
chell Since then they travelled extern
sively at home and abroad, but always
retained home in Washington.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
CARDINAL BREAKS GROUND.
Turns First Spadeful for New Uni
versity Building.

Ground was broken upon the Catholic
University grounds at Brookland yester-
day for the proposed new st. Johns
Kantius College. which will be erected
back OF the Soldiers Home and close to
the Marist College.
The first spadeful was turned by Car
dinai Gibbons, who was followed by Mgr.
Falconio. Mgr. Aversa. Bishop O'Connell.
Rev. DR.. Shahan and Rev. George A.
Dougherty.
The building, which will be of Port
Deposit granite and Indiana limestone
and fireproof will have a frontage Of
go feet and &C feet deep. 1t will be five
stories in height and will cost $500, 600
The style OF architecture will be Gothic
1t will accommodate 800 students and
will be used for the education of Polish
clergymen in this country.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
Asks Settlement of ESTATE.

Charles s. Richards. a resident of Bal
timore and one OF the sons of the late
Alfred Richards, who was during the time
Of the war one of the wealthiest citizens
of this city, filed suit in equity today
through Attorneys D. w. O'Donoghue and
J. E. Potbury for a settlement of his
fathers estate. Mr.. Richards asks that
all of the balance of the real estate left
by his father and not disposed Of by his
last will shall be sold under the order of
court by trustees appointed for that pur-
pose. There are at least fifteen defend
ants to the suit. and most of them are
residents of this city. The property is To-
Gated in different parts of the District and
is valued at about $1OOOOO
Evening star., 1909-02-26
BURKE BILL GOES OVER.
Wireless Telegraphy on Shipboard
Postponed by Senators.

Wireless telegraphy on shipboard will
have to wait until another session of
Congress so far as legislation is con-
cerned. The Senate committee on com
merce today took up and for some time
considered the Burke bill, which recently
passed the House and which requires all
ocean-going vessels to be equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus. but decided
not to report the measure at this session.
The decision was due to the insistency
of the friends of the wireless telephone,
which caused the committee to conclude
that II would be impossible to get action
ON the bill without including the tele-
phone. while many of the members were
opposed TO it.
The bill. as introduced in the House
was the result of the recent disaster to
the Republic, and il is believed that it's
friends will press IT at the next session.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
FIRE IN THE TREASURY,
Messenger Left Lighted Pipe in
His Coat Pocket,

The overcoat Of Gilbert Gray. negro
messenger in the Office Of the national
bank redemption agency, Treasury De-
partment. was burned this morning a few
minutes after o'clock while hanging on
the wall of the Office, and a serious fire
was narrowly averted by the timely
action OF watchman.
Gray, when reporting for duty. placed
his pipe in one Of the pockets of the coat,
but left few crumbs Of burning tobacco
in it. The watchman on the western en-
trance of the building discovered smoke
issuing from the windows a few minutes
later. and. rushing to the door, found
Gray's coat in a mass of flames on the
wall. Grabbing a stick, the watchman
pulled the coat off the hook and dragged
1t into a corridor and poured a bucket of
water on it. extinguishing the flames.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
The Basutos.
From the London Chronicle.

rom tne IOnuUn CnrUHICIt.
Historically speaking, the Basutos, four
of whose chiefs have just arrived in Lon
don, are new tribe. for it is little more
than a century ago that Moshesh founded
the Basuto tribe out of the remnants of
various other tribes which had been
broken up by the Zulus. Combining the
fighting qualities Of the coast tribes with
the cunning Of those of the interior the
Basutos began by gaining notoriety as
cattle raiders, and were a trouble to the
Boer settlers. In 1S43 Basutoland was
proclaimed native state under British
protection. and twenty-eight years later
it was annexed to Cape Colony, which.
however. found 1t so troublesome that
it offered no opposition when. In 1884, the
tribesmen appealed to the imperial gov
ernment to take them over.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
STEEL TRUST PROSECUTION.
to Sunory Civil Bill
Offered in House.

A lively fight for the inclusion in the
sundry civil bill of a provision for the
prosecution of the United States Steel
Corporation, in connection with the alb
sorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, was made on the floor of the
House today by Representatives Bartlett
of Georgia. Hitchcock of Nebraska and
Sherley of Kentucky.
After twice being held out of order an
amendment setting aside $4,000 for the
prosecution of the big steel trust by the
Attorney General was held to be in order
and subject to vote.
Mr.. Tawney made bitter fight against
the paragraph.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
FIGHT ON SUBSIDY BEG|nS
MAJORITY REPORT SUBMITTED
TO THE HOUSE.
Minority Members Of Post Office
Committee Given Until Mon
day to Present Their Side.

The fight on the floor of the House over
the passage of the Senate ocean mail
subsidy bill opened today when the ma
jorty members OF the committee on post
offices and post roads submitted favor
able report on the bill. and the minority
members were given until Monday noon
to submit theirs.
The majority report was prepared by
Representative Goebel of Ohio. and
states that the principal provision OF the
bill is that American mail steamships of
sixteen knots an hour or over and of 5000
gross tons shall be paid 81 a statute mile
on mail carried on lines to South Ameri-
ca, the Philippines. Asia and Australasia.
The bill, 1t was added is In line with the
policies of Great Britain. Germany.
France. Italy and Japan. It was declared
to be in strict harmony with the recon-
mendations of President Roosevelt in his
last annual message to Congress. Speec hes
of President-elect Taft at Cincinnati July
2s 1903. and of Senator-elect Root OF New
York at Kansas City November 20. 1906,
were quoted in support of the proposition.
The annual reports of Postmaster General
Meyer and Secretary Straus of the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor were
also referred to as favoring the bill.
1t was explained that the bill would pro-
vide for a mail service to be equitably
distributed on the Atlantic ocean, the
Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific ocean.
The ships, 1t was declared must be of
such a nature and so equipped that they
might promptly and economically be
turned into auxiliary and naval cruisers.
In discussing the commercial relation
between the United States and South
America the statement is made that the
trade now and for several years has
been monopolized by a foreign shipping
trust or combination. whose weapons are
rebates, determinations and boycotting,
and whose policies are dictated from Liv-
erpool and Hamburg
A canvass of the House on the bill is in
progress A vote will not be taken until
late Monday or Tuesday, when rule for
the consideration of the bill may be re-
ported. proposition is being considered
among the democrats to filibuster against
the bill.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
Presbyterian Brotherhood
Pleased With President.
APPROVES OF HIS COURSE
American Revolution Sons and G. A
r. Post Also Commend.
STILL WORKING ON STATEHOOD
Independent Tobacco Men Protest
Against Award Of Navy Depart
ment Contract to Trust"

The President today received from the
Presbyterian Brotherhood of America, in
session in Pittsburg a telegram express
ing its congratulations las YOU are about
To lay down the heavy responsibilities OF
your great office The telegram added
I'VE are grateful to God for making You
such a vigorous champion of public
righteousness and private virtue and for
keeping you In safety to finish your work
as President, and as you retire to private
life we invoke upon you the continued
blessing of Cod
The Indiana Society. Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution. in annual meeting yes
terday at Indiana polls. telegraphed the
President greetings and assurances Of
hearty support and approval ''of every
phase of your fight for honest government
and civic righteousness, and hope for
continuance thereof"
Philadelphia forwarded resolutions char
acterizing the President as the best
friend that the veterans Of the civil war
have had In the presidential Office and
wished him "a pleasant trip abroad.
safe return and a long life OF usefulness
to our country
Still Working on Statehood.
Senator Carter and Representative Wat
son of Indiana. advocates of statehood
for Arizona and New Mexico. conferred
with President Roosevelt today about the
situation of the statehood bill. The Presi-
dent, from information he has, did not
give them much encouragement. and they
went away feeling that statehood Is done
for at this session. The President would
like to see the measure go through.
Representative Cooper OF Texas and
others who are Interested I'm bills now in
the grind of the closing days Of Congress
saw the President today to get the bills
in shape to become laws.
Protest Against Tobacco Trust"
The Navy Department recently awarded
to the American Tobacco Company the
contract for supplying the navy with
chewing tobacco for the next fiscal year
The contract is for 10000 pounds of the
sort of plug that the jackies prefer most
Of all. and it must be delivered in june.
July and August. Representative Lamb
of Richmond, representing independent
tobacco men. today called on President
Roosevelt and protested against the award
of the contract. ON the ground that the
government has just been engaged in eX-
posing the doings and dealings of ''the
big trust, and now turns around and
gives it one of the best contracts to be
had.
The President has referred the matter
to the Secretary of the Navy for report
The Navy Department says that the com
pany was the lowest bidder for furnishing
the tobacco, offering to do SO at s6 cents
a pound, while the next lowest bidder
was Larus Brothers at 80 cents a pound.
There were ten or twelve bidders alto
gether. The same protest has been made
in past years, but has been ignored, ii Is
explained. The American Tobacco Com
pany has the contract for the present fis-
cal year.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
MISSING HUSBAND FOUND.
for Pension Reveals Man
Who Decamped Twelve Years Ago.

VINO Uecampeo Twelve ears ago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALLENTOWN. Pa. February 26.-After
having been missing twelve years and
pronounced dead by the court. Uriah
Eichelberger. father of Amos Eichea-
berger. Of Allentown. and connected with
the Lehigh Valley railroad has been
found. In 1895 Eichelberger, then a pros
porous business man. was elected market
master Of South Bethlehem. He was de-
feated for reelection in 1897. and was SO
chagrined that he secretly mortgaged his
property and disappeared.
Two years ago the court declared him
legally dead and the estate was settled.
During the civil war he had served in
the 17fth Pennsylvania Volunteers. and
recently Mrs. Eichelberger applied for a
widows pension. She received a letter
from the pension bureau at Washington
that Uriah Eichelberger. with the identi-
cal war record sent in with her appli-
cation, was getting pension at Brokaw,
Wis. In answer to a telegram Eichel-
berger today acknowledged that he Is
the missing husband and said he would
come home for family reunion.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
YEAR IN PRISON FOR MRS. TEAL
Prisoner Collapses in Court When
She Is Sentenced.

NEW YORK. February 26.-Mrs. Mar
garet Teal. wife of Benjamin Teal. one
of the hest known theatrical managers
in this country. was today convicted of
attempted subordination of perjury in the
divorce case of Helen Kelly Gould against
Frank j. Gould. Mrs. Teal was sentenced
to serve one year in the penitentiary on
Blackwells Island.
AS the verdict of the jury was pro-
nounced Mrs. Teal, who had arisen to
hear the verdict, sank to her knees and
was lifted to a chair by the attendants.
She then buried her face in her muff.
One of the jurors was weeping as the
verdict was rendered and the sentence
imposed. All the jurors signed a recon-
mendation to clemency
Evening star., 1909-02-26
DEEDS FOR ST. MATTHEW'S.
Church Property Formally Trans.
ferred bv Cardinal Gibbons.

The formal transfer of the st. Mat
thew's Church property at 18th and II
streets northwest was made today when
deeds conveying the real estate were
placed on record. Cardinal Gibbons in
his individual capacity and as Archbishop
of Baltimore conveyed the land and i'm
provements to Robert H. McNeill and A.
E. l.. Leckie. Messrs. McNeill and
Leckie conveyed the property in turn to
John NJ. Parker of New Orleans and
Charles H. Davis of Petersburg. Va
Before conveying the land to Parker
and Davis, representatives of the south
ern congress, Messrs. McNeill and Leckie
filed a deed of trust to secure the pay
ment to Cardinal Gibbons of $3.50, 600 by
November l next. The property was al
ready incumbered to the extent of $780,
600 and the second conveyance of the land
is made subtle to the combined incum-
brance of $3.50, 600.
Evening star., 1909-02-26
st. Johns Lenten Organ Recitals.

citals at old st. Johns Church on Lafay-
ette Square will begin tomorrow afternoon
at 4:40 o'clock, Immediately following the
regular vesper service. These recitals
are free to the public and will continue
each Saturday afternoon until Easter.
The first recital will be played by II. H
Freeman. the regular organist of the par
ish, assisted by Master Charley Horton
the soprano solo boy Of st. Johns choir
Other musicians to assist at these recitals
will include Lorraine Holloway of Balti-
more, Stanley Addcks of Philadelphia,
Anton Kaspar. Ernest Lent, Arthur H.
Deibert and Miss Margaret O'Toole Of
Washington.