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The Washington herald., 1909-02-10
SIMPSON
FAILS TO RETURN
DisappOints the Expectations
Of His Friends.
WAS LOOKED FOR YESTERDAY

Father of Miss COuIfry, Deceased
school Teacher, Is stiu without
Weird from Missing instructor.
Friends Remain Loyal. and Believe
He VIII Clear Himself.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-10
c. w. ToBoLDT'S
Oriental Rug Hospital

ReweayinE, Repairing, Cleaning,
and Storing.
GALLERY or FOREIGN ARTS.
DUPONT CIRCLE
Day Phone, North zS23.
Night Phone. Gel. 2aI7.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-10
GIST BLAIR NAMES
FLOOR COMMITTEE
Will Carry Out Programme
for Inaugural Ball.
DISTRICT GUARD IN THE LEAD

win Fellow United states Regulars
in Line of Parade-Ohio TO Be Wen
RepFesentea in Both Military and
Civic BraneheS-Pickaninn Hand Is
Coming from Charleston, S. C.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-10

largest Morning Circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
CHARITY FUNDS INADEQUATE
DISTRESS Is GREATER THAN IN
MANY YEARS.
Not Half Enough Money for Its
Needs Yet Subscribed to the
Associated Charities.

The joint finance committee of the AS
ISOLATED Charities, the Citizens Relief
Association and the committee on the
prevention of tuberculosis is having great
difficulty in raising money necessary to
carry on work.
The committee has sent out letters to-
day urging generous contributions so that
the good work may be continued. Up to
the present time less than half the money
necessary has been subscribed.
Problems of this year are greater than
in years. Because of lack of employ
tute has been unusual. The Associated
Charities had had % per cent more APP
plicants this year than last year. The
cold weather has added to the difficulty.
The following story shows the indispen-
sable work of these three associations. 1t
Is but one of the hundreds that are con-
stantly coming to the attention of one,
two or the three of these associations.
A white woman, barely twenty years
old, mother of three children, her oldest
under three, the second fifteen months
and the baby three weeks old, was found
by the agent of the Associated Charities
in one of the dirtieSt houses that the
agent had ever seen.
The woman was too weak to clean the
house because of lack of food: in fact
she had lived for days on bread and
water. The father, twenty-one years of
age. was man without. any ideals or
energy.
The agent Immediately called in a ply
stefan OF the poor to attend the woman.
The doctor, after examining her, said
she was tubercular. The sympathy of the
tuberculosis association was enlisted. and
a nurse was provided to visit the woman
day after day.
The Associated Charities had the house
cleaned and whitewashed. The woman
was supplied with milk and eggs from
the Citizens Relief Association: the agent
of the Associated Charities found the man
work sympathetic friendly visitor
took an interest in the family.
Today the man is working. the woman
is improving, the little children are
clothed and warm.
These associations extend their good
offices to the worthy poor The public is
urged to send contributions to the joint
finance committee. at Sill G street north
west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
FARNuM DINEO BY MRS. GOULD
SHE ENTERTAINED ACTOR AT
LYNcHBURG, VA.
Dispositions of a Bellboy and Waiter
at the Hotel Carroll Filed Here.
Meals in Her Room.

NEW YORK February 3.--The deposit
tons of James G. Clark, a bellboy at the
Hotel Carroll, Lynchburg, Va, and Car
ence Pullen a waiter at the same hotel,
were filed yesterday in the county clerk 8
office in the suit for a separation brought
by Katherine Clemmons Gould against
Howard Gould The dispositions were
taken, in behalf Of Mr.. Gould before Will
liam c. Arnold as referee, counsel for
both Mrs Gould and her husband being
present.
Clark the bellboy. told of Mrs. Gould $
visit to the Hotel Carroll in November,
1906 when she was assigned to rooms IA,
IL and 16 the first a parlor, the second a
bedroom and the third a room for Mrs.
GouldS maid who accompanied her. Clark
told of performing his ordinary duties
as bellboy and of being told by Mrs.
Gould to ask Dustin Farnum, the actor,
who was then stopping at the hotel,
to come upstairs to room IA, the par
lor
There Clark saw the actor give Mrs.
Gould two f1ve-dolar bills to pay the
cabman who had brought Mrs. Gould to
the hotel, she having no small change.
The door between rooms IA and Is was
ajar. Clark said. and there was "A double
| bed in No. IL. Farnums room was No
l16. but he had not been assigned to il
at the time Mrs. Gould arrived
Mrs. Gould left the following day fol
| New York, and Clark could not tell OF
seeing anything that would imply thai
Mrs. Gould either drank or behaved her
self improperly.
Pullen, the waiter told of serving meals
to Mrs. Gould in her rooms at the Car
roll. She ordered supper for two, and
then sent note asking Farnum to come
down and sup with her. Next morning
he served breakfast, and Farnum was
again at the table. and also at luncheon
the same day. No liquors were served
nor did he observe any indications tina,
Mrs. Gould or Farnum had been drinking
Pullen saw no improprieties committed
but only saw Mrs. Gould and the actor
talking. He and Clark both denied tisat
they had been offered or promised any
remuneration for their evidence.
In reply to the complaint Of Mrs. Gould
in her suit for separation Mr.. Gould put
in an answer declaring that she had beer
very attentive to Dustin Farnum, the
actor. but Mr.. Gould did not ask any re-
lief Of either separation or divorce. He
merely seeks to have her suit dismissed
L she wins she will be entitled to a large
allowance of alimony. At present she is
getting $4,000 a year.
Dustin Farnum's wife divorced him re-
Gently. but there was no mention OF Mrs
Gould in that action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
WEEDS Salvation Army Man.

BURLINGTON, n. j., February B.
Rejecting life of ease and luxury ana
refusing to enter the field of social
prominence her family had planned for
her. Miss Marion Fergus Woolman, RICH
good looking, brilliantly educated and a
daughter OF one of this city's old fam
lilies. last night became the bride OF
Capt. Samuel Alexander Hewitt Of New
York city, an officer Of the American
Salvation Army, and next week, upon
their return from "A brief wedding trip.
the pair will take up work in Plainf1eii.
where the bridegroom has been ar
signed to command of the local corps.
Miss Woolman is an heiress to a for
tune estimated at from 100000 to
$2J0.OOo and she will donate a greater
portion OF the money, it is said to sal.
walton Army work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
Smallpox in Insane Hospital.

WESTON. w. Va, February 3-Tho
board of health has quarantined the coll
ored wards and part of the white wards
of the State Hospital for the Insane here
against smallpox. which was brought TO
the institution two weeks ago by colored
male patient named Jones. The negro had
been confined in the Kanawha county Jail,
at Charleston. with thirty other prisoners.
All We're exposed to the disease, and nine
of them were taken to the state prison a {
Moundsville on the day that Jones was
removed to the asylum. Considera BILE
alarm is felt by the asylum and peniten-
tiary authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03

cashier of the First National Bank. was
elected president. to succeed j. Wilton.
resigned. Mr.. Myers will also be the
banks auditor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
where responsibility is fixed and binding
as the result of mutual agreement

Private sessions of the national execu-
tive board of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists are being held this
week in the McGill building. TIE MEM
bers of the board are James OConner
international president, washington;
Hugh Doran, Chicago; E. L. Tucker.
Washington; James Reynolds. Cleveland;
A. E. Ireland Pittsburg: G. W. Cook.
Bremertcn. Wash: George Preston, sec
retary and treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
SISTER CATHERINE DIES.
Expires at Baltimore Retreat, Where
She Had Labored Fifty Years.

BALTIMORE, February 3--Sister Cath
crime of Mount Hope Retreat died there
last night at 1:30 o'clock of paralysis,
with which she was stricken Sunday. AT
her bedside when death came was a
brother. her at lending physician. Dr.
Frank ]. Flannery. and the entire staff
of sisters of the institution.
Sister Catherine, whose full name was
Catherine MulIan, was a native of Cum
berIand Md, at which place she was
born In 1888 She entered the Order of
the Sisters Of Charity at Emmitsburg i'm
1867, and was Immediately missioned to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03

the old Mount Hope Retreat. which was
in Baltimore in that time. In 1852, during
the civil war. she went to st. Louis and
did noble work in the army hospitals in
that city. caring for the wounded and
dying soldiers In 1863 she returned to
Mount Hope. which had in the meantime
moved to its present location. and had
been connected with the institution ever
since, making. with the exception OF one
year, a period of consecutive service OF
over fifty years. For about forty-tilree
years she was sister superior. and was
greatly beloved by all with whom she
came in contact and was a woman OF
great executive ability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-03
Oldest Negro Minstrel Dies.

BOSTON, February 3.-The death is an
nounced of Charles III. Atkinson. said to
have been the oldest negro minstrel in the
United States, aged seventy-two years.
He was famed as a ballad singer and was
at one time called the champion bone
SoloiSt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
TO REPAvE GRAND AVENUE

Grand avenue from the tracks of the
Northwestern Railway Company to the
end of the old paving is to be repaved
by the city and the work will be done
at the same time as the laying of the
tracks of the Kenosha Electric Rail
way Company on the avenue. The
Council has taken up the matter of
repaving the street and the cost of
the work will be paid by the city. It
is planned to have the street widened
but this part of the work will be done
by the Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany. The city does not plan to use
any new brick on the street, but the
old brick will be cleaned off and turn
ed over in order to give the street
uniform appearance when the work is
completed. The railway company ex-
poets to be able to begin the repaving
Of the street within a month and the
rails for the tracks were placed along
the street on Wednesday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
CLEAN UP.

1t will safeguard the general health
of the city and surely add to it's
beauty for every householder to give
his property a thorough cleaning up.
The Accommodations of dirt and refuse
of the long winter months are too
much in evidence all over the city and
they will not only be an eyesore, but
also decidedly dangerous to health if
they are allowed to remain much long
er, In addition to this work to be
done by private individuals it is the
duty of the city health officers to see
to it that every back alley whether
in the down town district or in the
suburbs is given thorough going over
at once. It is in the alleyways that
the germs Turk that breed epidemics
and there is no surer way to increase
the death rate of city than to neg
lect them. The expense of a general
cleaning up will be trifing to the in
dividual householders and to the city
and the citizens will be repaid many
times over for the few dollars expend-
ed in the satisfaction they will get
from the contemplation Of really
clean and sanitary city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

The United States Supreme Court
has Just held that the federal laws for
the regulation and suppression Of the
white slave traffic are unconstitutional
and that the work that the federal
authorities sought to accomplish under
these laws must be taken up by the
states individually. The prosecutions
undertaken by the United States dis
trict attorneys which now fall to the
ground by this decision of the court
have unearthed a mass Of evidence
which shows only too plainly the eX-
tent and ramifcations of this evil and
now that the burden of suppressing it
has been put upon the states, action
by the different legislatures should be
prompt and vigorous. Notwithstand-
ing the great mass Of work which, it
is now facing, the legislature Of our
own state should deal with this prob
lem at this session. The necessity Of
taking the most active measures for
the suppression Of this evil is too plain
to be disregarded aid our own state
should not fall behind any of the
others in the effectiveness of the laws
passed or in the vigor Of their en-
forcement The federal authorities
have made great progress in roofing
out this evil and it would be a pity
to see their efforts wasted by any
failure on the part of the states to
assume the responsibility laid upon
them by this decision Of the courts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15

There is not much comfort for the
consumers Of ice in the present out
look as the prospects are good for a
stiff raise in price the coming summer
which it is already limited may go as
high as thirty three and one-third per
cent for the small consumer. and
twenty-five per cent for those who use
large quantities. There is no short
age in the crop in this vicinity, but
in many sections where the trust has
been accustomed to harvest large
quantities there has been no ice cut
at all the past winter and the ice
trust will hardly keep the rate down
here on ice that can be marketed at
higher prices somewhere else In sec
lions where the average cut was made
it will be an easy matter to create
"a shortage by shipping to localities
where the companies failed to get the
usual supply.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15

aldermen as well as the old are already
being buttonholed by the candidates
who are urging their claims for Office.
OF course nothing will be done along
the line of making these elections un-
til after the committees for the new
Council have been confirmed by the
Council.
The first meeting of the new Council
will take place on the evening of April
10Th and the certificates of election
will be sent to the successful canm-
dates within few days. AS soon as
the members have qualified the Coun-
ell can organize, but custom has al
ways given the retiring Council a
chance to close up the business in it's
hands before the new Council is sworn
in and organized.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
Candidates for Appointive Offices
in the City Are Already Out
Looking for Aldermen
MAY CHANGE STREET PLAN
Council Must Elect New City Attor-
ney, City Physician, Health Of
ficer and Street Commissioners
at its First Meeting

| Now that the new Council has been
elected people interested in the bust
ness of the city will watch with a
good deal Of interest its organization
and The filing of the appointive Of
fees. The political complexion Of the
Council is mixed and in fact there
seems to be good reason to believe
that it will be organized on non
partisan basis rather than the old
scheme of selecting the leaders from
a single party. The coming year in
the city is going to be hard one and
the members Of the Council, both old
and new, seem to appreciate the fact
that it will be a hard matter to pull
the city through without a deficit Of
a big figure and to this end the alder
men sincerely seeking the best inter
ests of the city, have been suggesting
non-partisan organization which
will result in the best possible men
being selected for the various places
of trust and responsibility.
The new Council will have num-
Der of important offices to fill. The
term of John G. Slater, as city attor-
ney will expire when the old Council
turns it's work over to the new and
already there is notice being given
the aldermen that there will be sew
eral candidates in the field for this
post. The election Of Mr.. Slater by
the Council last year was a non
partisan one and it is probable that
similar selection will be made this
year. With the great rank and file in
the city the most important office is
that of commissioner of streets.
Charles Steinbach is the. present com
missioner and he has not as yet an
nounced himself as a candidate for re-
election. At the beginning of the year
now closing the Council decided to
elect but one street commissioner, but
there is some doubt as to whether this
plan will be followed with the begin
ming Of new year Many Of the al
dermen seem to be favorable to The
old plan Of electing two street com
Imissioners, one from the north and one
from the south and it is Just possible
that this plan will be adopted The
cost of the street work under the one
commissioner has certainly not shown
any reduction during the year and the
new plan has been unpopular in some
parts of the city.
The new Council will be called up
on to elect city physician, a health
officer, bridge tender and a poor
master, but it is expected that the
plan of the past two years of naming
the chairman of the pauper committee
as the poor master will be followed
again. This plan has given general
satisfaction.
The candidates for the various Of
fees are decidedly busy and the new
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15

The Modern Woodmen in this county
are very indignant at the attacks now
being made upon the order by some
of it's disgruntled members and the eff
forts being made in certain quarters
to discredit the order in the eyes of
the public by attacking the integrity
of it's officers, but the Woodmen are
only going through what every other
fraternal organization In existence has
to face at some time or other. The
balance sheets will show it's standing
when the matter gets right down to
bed rock and without any knowledge
of the origin Of the present fracas
within the ranks of the Woodmen it is
ordinarily safe conclusion that any
cry of 'turn the rascals out' means
that somebody else wants very much
to get in. The kind of row that
somebody is attempting to stir up
among the Woodmen in nine cases out
ten means that some one wants an
Office or is attempting to get square
because the members refused to give
him one and this rule holds true for
every fraternal organization, the
Woodmen not excepted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15

The tariff bill passed the house Fri
day by an overwhelming majority in
practically the same shape it came
from the committee on ways and
means. A few slight changes were
made, but in general the schedules on
practically all the goods bought over
the counters Of the stores remain the
same or were put higher than before
and so far as the house Of representa-
tives is concerned no relief from high
prices was given the people. 1t is
intimated pretty strongly, however,
that many of the schedules to which
such strong objection has been made
are to be modified in the senate. It
would be departure from the regular
order of things to have the least pop
ular branch Of congress come to the
rescue of the people, but it is said
that President Taft has informed the
leaders Of that body that certain
changes must be made before the bill
will receive his signature and that
they are prepared to make whatever
concessions are necessary to escape a
veto of the bill by the president.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
THE LIGHTING CONTRACT

That "rider' to the contract for
the street lights which the street rail
way company endeavored to put
through the Council Wednesday night
which sought to bind the city to give
the railway company reasonable
franchise for commercial lighting
system in case the company secures
Its certificate Of necessity and con-
|venience from the State Railway Com
mission was uncalled for by anything
| in the present situation and savored
too much of sharp practice to make a
favorable impression on the majority
Of the aldermen who are looking out
for the interets Of the city. In the
J first place the outgoing Council cannot
make any agreements for the incom-
| ing one to ratify in the future-when
the time comes the new Council must
act on it's own responsibility and in
the second place with that rider at
company would be in absolute con-
troll Of the situation. 1t would be in
a position to drop the whole business
at any time on the plea that the
franchise offered by the city tor com
mercial lighting was not reasonble and
leave the city out in the cold with no
alternative, but to go back to the
present holders of the contract for
bids for lighting.
The attempt to attach such a rider
to the street lighting contract was
uncalled for and unnecessary. The
street railway will undoubtedly be
able to get all the rider asks for when
the proper time comes. The aldermen
are as eager to get competition in the
| lighting business in this city as any
body Of men could be and even if they
were not public sentiment is so
strong in favor of competition that
the Council would be forced to grant
a franchise to almost any company
that promises competition just as soon
as it is shown that there is one ready
to do business. At the same time the
aldermen are to be commended for not
letting their eagerness to get competi-
ton blind them to the fact that the
interests of the city must be protected
at all stages of the negotiations now
lin progress. The street railway com
lpany need not worry about it's fran
chise for commercial lighting. It can
get one without any difficulty when
ever it can show that it entitled to
one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15
TO BE HEARD APRIL 81
New Date is Set for Hearing in Gas
and Electric Rates in Kenosha

| The Railroad Commission today is
sued the calendar of cases for April.
Thirty seven cases have been set for
hearing this month, the larger number
Of which relate to public utilities.
The Commission Wednesday held hear
ings on the first case Of the month
in Milwaukee, the application Of the
Milwaukee and Fox River Valley Rail
road Company for certificate of pub
lie convenience and necessity to build
a line north through the central por-
-tion of the state. Several small rate
hearings will then be heard Six cases
relate to refunds for alleged over
charges in freight rates and seven to
train service and facilities.
The application of the Oregon Tele-
phone Company for authority to in
crease rates will be heard April 10 !;
similar application of the Bayfield,
Light Power and Water Plant will be
heard on the same day; the case of
former Mayor German against the Ke-
nosha Gas and Electric Company is
scheduled for April 81; the case Of the
city Of Racine against the Racine Gas
light Company, will also be heard the
same day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-15

The bureau of employment in con-
nection with the department. of com
merce and labor, all the state employ
ment bureaus, and every private en-
ployment agency are all engaged in a
vigorous effort to supply farm labor,
but so far their efforts have been only
partially successful and the demand
for this class of laborers is still far
in excess Of the supply. The wages
of this class have risen steadily for
some years past, but the increased pay
has had little effect in increasing the
supply. The pay has now about
reached the limit Of what the farmer
can afford under the most favorable
conditions and the problem Of secur-
ing help is the most serious one con
fronting the farmers today.