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The Washington times., 1909-08-12
INCREASE IS SHOWN
IN POSTAL RECEIPTS
Washington Office Third in Amount Receiyed-Fifty
Most Important Cities Report 100000 Growth
in Busihess-Only Two Have Decrease.

Postal receipts at fifty Of the largest
postoffices in the country for the month
of July showed an increase of more
than half million dollars, as compared
with the same month year ago.
The Washington postoffice reported
the third largest increase for the month,
the increase being 26.69 per cent. In
July, 1893, the receipts at the Wash
ingtOn office were $S3,27762, while IN
July of this year they were sos, 500. IS.
At forty-eight offices the Increase in
gross receipts ranges from 81 per cent
to 4f.74 per cent over the amount of
July, 1908 The only offices at which
the receipts fell off were in St Louis,
No, and Scranton. Pa. The receipts
decreased rs per cent at St. Louis and
2S6 per cent at Scranton.
The most notable increase was at
Seattle, Wash. The gross receipts at
that Office jumped from S61.5O732 in July.
1905, to SS7, 1S6.2 % during July, 1909, an in
crease of So. 67S.91. or 4174 per cent. The
Alaska Yukon-Pacifc Exposition had
much to do with the enormous increase
at Seattle. The next largest increase
was made in the office at Dayton, Ohio.
The gross receipts at that office in
creased 1913 per cent over July of last
year.
Postal receipts at these hfCr offices
usually reflect the condition OF business,
and il is generally accepted as a fact
that th= gross postal receipts for the
month just closed show that business
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
Deaths

William IT, H. Foster. 20 years. Govern
Went Hospital for the Insane.
James D. Goddard. 81 years, 3G7 Dunn
barton avenue northwest.
Luther ~. Slater. ~ wears, AZ New
Jersey avenue southeast
Thomas Wilgus. E wears. Georgetown
University Hospital
Harry HWnaker, ~ years. Davenport
81 Reno. -. T..
H0ucrs Whaling, 80 years, 1896 Florida
avenue northeast.
2lichael Long. IS years. 1910 Y street
northwest
George g. Boyland. o years, 1881 r
street northwest.
Lewis Nessel, s. years, House Boat,
One-half ana r streets southwest
Emma il. Marvel. a years, SIS q street
northeast
Dora 3 Marshall. &c years. Garfield
Hospital
Patrick Egsn. Is years. $50 y street
southwest
Marguerite q. McHUah, DO months, ll29
oregon avenue north west
Frances Taylor. ( months, l50 + street
southeast.
James l.. Faulkner. 9 months, 1916 Wis
cousin avenue northwest.
John Fuss. monthz, 1905 Eighteenth
street northwest.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
UNION MEN OPPOSE
FIREPROOF ROOF ING
Protest Against Its Use
Made-Claim Test Was
Not Fair One.

Protest against the use OF a fire.
proohng material on Buildings Is made
TO the Commissioners by Local Union,
No. 10. AmaIgamated Sheet Metal Work
ers.
Following a test IN che property
yards Of the District Building Inspsc-
tor Morris Hacker recently gave his
approval to the use OF this material o..
buildings within the fire limits. Ghe
union contends that the test was not
fair one and has offered 10 pay the sx-
pense OF another test.
Mr.. Hacker said today, however. that
he considered the first test satisfactory,
and woYld not favor another III the near
future.
The test was made by setting fire to 4
roof covered with the material. The
contention of the union is that the aD-
plieation Of the FIRE 70 the roof did not
approximate normal conditions. for the
reason that the roof was cold through
out. and was subjected TO no heat except
in places where the fire was applied.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12

Report That He Will Go
to London Seems
Strengthened.

\ NEW YORK. Aug E.-The story that
Seth Low, former mayor of New York,
IS 70 succeed Whitelaw Reid, as smbas-
sador to England. is being revived to-
day with what appears to be more Of
a basis than before
Low, who Is at his summer home in
Bedford, n Y, refuses to discuss the
report, but one of his close friends IS
credited with saying that the former
mayor has received the offer of the am
bassadorship from President Taft.
The deelination of former Presiden.
Eliot, of Harvard. to serve al the court
OF st. James. is said to have decided
Mr.. Taft on Low.
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others interested in the movement TO
have Mr.. Pratt come to Washington
and also to have W. d. Mahon, inter
national president of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric En-
plOyes, who lives in Detroit, make a
trip to the Capital TO take part in the
work of organization. The leaders in
the new movement intend to have the
Washington local chartered by the
amalgamated association and take rank
with Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other
big cities in the country where the trac-
ton men are organized.
Swing System.
There are about 1900 traction en-
ployes in this city. According to street
car men seen this morning, one of the
unsatisfactory things about the Wash
hlgton lines is the swing system"
Under this system a man may work a
few hours in the early morning about
the inc the rush for downtown starts,
and then may have to lay off until late
in the afterneo,. Other employees they
claim have to put IN in reality mozs
than twelve hours to get credit for nine
end a half or ten. The wage for motor
men and conductors here is 22Iz cents
per hour, and length of service does not
make any difference.
Former Attempt
Once before al attempt was made I'm
the National Capital to organize the
street car workers, but it failed. Mr.
Purcell is well known as an organizer,
and it is believed by labor men that the
movement backed by him viii succeed.
II is possible that later on a mass
meeting of employees of the street car
companies may be held, although there
viii be nothing done which will inter-
fere with their work.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
TWO TORPEDO BOATS
COLLIDE IN CHANNEi
Injured Vessels Limp to Cherbourg,
Where They Are
Beached.

PARIS. Aug. 12.-Torpedo boats No
515 and Catapulte collided TODAY IN the
English channel. The formers prov
was stove in and the latter's stern was
pierced at the water line.
Both boats were able to reach Cher
bourg. where they were beached. Re
sponsibility for the collision has not
yet been determined.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
FREE TO
ASTHMA SUFFERERS
a New Rome Cure That Anyone Can
Use without Discomfoi1 or Loss
OF me.

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We especially want TO send il TO those
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This free offer is to important TO neg
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Simply mail coupon below. DO It To-day.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
The Vital Records.
Binha


John NJ and Gussie A Turner, boy.
Robert Il. and Annie A Duffy, girl
William A. and Mary p. Stein, boy.
Harry and Hattie J. Martin. girl
Leon T.. and Sarah Sells, girl.
Edward W. and Katie Sanders, girl.
Paul and LOttie Cooley, boy
Wilbur +. and Alma Donaldson, girl
Frank and Bessie Smith girl
John j. and Nora NJ Lawless. boy.
Robert and Mary @. Dickson. girl.
" liam NJ. and Elizabeth A0thershead
boy.
Thomas p. and Virginia NJ. Petty. girl
Edward r. and Ida DiczeI, boy
Zebedee and Mary Allison. boy.
George y. and Clara A. Goodman. girl
Harry and Kate Fletcher, boy.
Henry NF. and Annie b. Siegel, girl
samuel s. and Mary =. EoOnes. girl.
Joseph L. and Mary q. Corrigan. girl
Allen r. and Pauline s.. McFadden
girl
Arthur and Florence Sebastian, girl
Charles II and Elsie NJ Leavell, girl.
George IT. and Mabel r. Albertson. girl
Patrick j. and Susie a. Sheehan, girl
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
ORGANIZATION OF MEN
HAS NO OPPOSITION
General Managers of Capital Street Railway Companie;
Say They Are Not Interested in Employees Plans
to Form Union-Pratt May Aid in Movement.

According to the general managers OF
the Washington Railway ana Electric
Company, and the Capital Traction
Company, there probably will be no oTS-
position upon the part of the two big
traction companies Of the Capital to
the perfection of an organization of
conductors and motormen con these two
lines.
For several weeks John J. Purcell,
business agent for Washington for the
International Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers of America, has been engaged
In interesting the employees OF the trac-
ton companies in the proposed Organi-
zatiOn. Almost 800 men have already
signihed their desire 10 join and within
a few weeks c. o. Pratt. the man who
did most to win their strike for the
Philadelphia traction employees, will
come to Washington to aid the organi-
cation here.
Not interested.
I'VE are not interested in the mems
organizations so long as they do not
interfere with us, said II. ". Fuller,
general manager of the Washington
Railway and Electric Companys lines.
this morning. THE men belong to all
sorts of organizations IN which we are
not interested at all. So far as I know
we certainly shall not oppose this one"
We've got nothing 10 do with the
mems organizations" said General
Manager d. S. CARL, of The Capital
Traction Company's lines. this morn
ing when asked If his company would
oppose the formation Of such an or
ganization.
When pressed for a statement as to
the company's attitude Mr.. CARL re-
marked II have nothing further to
say about the matter
1t is the plan of Mr.. Purcell and
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
Wont Help Bolivia

SANTIAGO, Aug. 12--senor Edwards,
foreign minister, has denied IN the sen
ate the charge that Chill had recently
offered 10 help Bolivia in case that
country came 10 hOsjiities with Peru
as an outcome OF the boundary decision.
He said the attitude maintained by the
government had been MOST correct.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
ATTEMPTS TO-KILL
ACTOR AND HERSELF
Vaudeville Performer Cuts Com
panion's Throat, Then Her
Own-Wil1 Recover. =

BOSTON, Aug. 12-WieIding a sharp
razor in her home, in Roxbury early to-
day. Mrs. Ellen Alther. the police say.
cut the throat Of James O'DonneH and
then her own. Both were taken to a
hospital, where physicians say they WIN
recover.
Both Mrs. Alther and O'DonnelI are
vaudeville entertainers. The woman is
thought to be deranSed.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
NO NEW ROADS.

ALBANY, n Y, Aug. t2-Attorney
General O'Malley has advised the State
highway commission that there Is no au-
thority under the constitution or laws
by which new highways may be con-
structed through any part Of the fors
est preserve Of the State
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
STEERS STAMPEDE IN CROWD.

PORT HURON, Mich, Aug. I2.-Sev-
eral persons were trampledk when A
dozen steers which were part OF a Wild
West show parade charged into a crowd
at the entrance TO the ST. Clair street
bridge here today. Barking do2a
stampeded the animals. Miss Jessie Ing
lev was seriously injured
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
CHILE GIVES ORDER
FOR DREADNOUGHTS
South American Republic Will Add
Two 10 Nayy-Naval Coun-
Gil Approves

VALPARAISO. Aug. 1.-THE naval
council has recommended to the govern
ment the construction Of two battle
ships Of the Dreadnousht type
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
Marriage Licenses

Thomas r. Kennedy and Ruth EIklns.
of Washington.
Frank NJ. McComb and Maud T.
Ropmdabush, of stanton. Va.
Calvin ". Brown ami MARY F. Wal,
of Charleston, ". Va.
David FTessler and Bertha Ottenberg.
of Washington.
Leo y. Davis and Collie BusnIowitz
OF Washington
George r. Hubbard of Richmond. and
sarah II. Marshall, If SheIurdstOwu,
W. Va
Theodore J. Muller and Carrie r. Ham
berger, OF Baltimore.
Harry q. Healy OF Philadelphia. and
Gertrude J.. Guick, Of Heathsyilie,
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
NAMES NEW PROSECUTOR.

HACKENSACK. n. j.. Aug. 12.-Gov-
ernOr Fort announced the appointment
today Of Wendell J. Wright, of DEM
Arrest, TO be prosecutor Of the pleas for
Bergen county, succeeding John S.
MaCkay
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
BABY GIRL BURNED.

ALTOONA, Pa, Aug. I2.-Building a
bonfire in the yard, Margaret Boyle,
aged five, set fire 10 her dress and Wa
probably fatally burned
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
In MemOriam.

RREZ-In sad but loving remembrance II
mn dear husband and our devoted father,
C0LMAN BREZ. who died one year ago
TO-DAY August r. 1905.
Gone. But Not Forgotten
lie -Bv His Wife and Children.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
SPECIAL NOTICES.

WILL ALL PERSONS WITNESSING
accident which befeE elderly lady board
ing car at Vermont avenue and II
street, at II rs O'Clock. august g. please
PAHREN. Ars A, The Royalton
auIG-3ts
The Washington times., 1909-08-12

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, Aug. r.
Attorney Charles Morschauser, who
represented Thaw at White Plains, was
not surprised at the decision Of Justice
Mills. believing that Thaw's own con-
duct at the examination proved to be
his undoing in supporting the States
claim that he suffered from exaggerated
ego"
Morschauser left here about noon to
so to White Plains 10 confer with his
client. AS he took the train, he said:
'Candidly, 1 rather anticipated this
decision. Thaw's own conduct during
the trial did NOT help his case any
Judge Mills paid much attention 10
Thaw during the hearings and that Is
what caused me, more than anything
else, 10 look for the decision that was
handed down. 1 haven't seen the full
decision yet. but if the court finds that
Thaw Is a hopeless paranciac, we shall
certainly appes'. because such find
Ing would inture Thaw's chances on
future attempts to regain his freedom.
II the court simply dismisses the wrf5,
that viii be the end of this attempt
We are not discouraged and will Try
again when the proper time comes.
The decision may keep ThaW in the
al=y lum for time longer. but il does
rot really prove that -Thaw Is insane. %
= telephone message from Matteawan
ssys that ThaW's former quarters there
are being prepared for his return, which
IS expected tonight.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12

Plain jail. Harry K. Thaw received the
news that he must go back to Mattea-
wan. and that his last fight for free
seemed TO stun him. and he asked 10
be let alone. He would talk 10 no one.
bat asked that his attorney. Charles
MOrschauser. be sent for at once.
In the little country hotel a few
blocks away from the Jail. Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw. the prisoners mother;
the eX-Countess Of Yarmouth. his sister.
and Josiah Thaw. the brother, sat to-
gether in the little sitting room, where
the news was brought TO them. The
mother retired to her room and denied
herself TO all callers. The family will
make no more visits to Thaw in the
tail before he is sent back TO NIattea-
wan
Justice Mills viii hear motions on his
decision at his chambers in Mt. Vernon
tomorrow. The Thaw family firmly be-
lleVed Harry would be freed and the
decision came as such a shock to them
that they have not yet decided what
they wilLdo to oppose the further in
generation OF the prisoner.
Countess Talks to Harry.
Alice ThaW. the former Countess of
Yarmouth, was the first member of the
family to meet thaw. She walked from
the hotel, and when she arrived at the
jail, Thaw was nervously pacing the
corridors. Thaw embraced his sister.
and she broke down and wept. They
withdrew into his cell and talked to-
Sether for fifteen minutes. Then the
countess hurried back to her mother at
the hotel, warding of a squad of pho
tographers with her parasoL She re-
fused to discuss her interview with
her brother.
There was no crowd about the court
house when the decision was rendered.
A Few anxious women were IN Justice
Mills court room, but they were dis
appointed. the decision being fled with
the clerk OF the court.
The Thaws have been trying for two
hours 10 get Attorney Morschauser at
POughkeepsie on the telephone, but
without avail. They grew impatient as
the time went by, and peremptory de-
mands that he come 10 White Plains
were sent:
The Washington times., 1909-08-12

has improved remarkably In practically
every section of the country.
The Washington times., 1909-08-12
HAVEMEYER's TOUR.

LUXEMBOURG, Ang. Is.-Mrs Bave-
meyer, Of New York, arrived here By
automobile today.
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POLAR EXPLORER
TO TOUR AMERICA
Lieutenant Shackleton Will Lecture
for Funds to Continue His
Expeditions.

LONDON, Aug. 12.-Bieut Edward II.
ShackIeton. who came withia 100 miles
of the south pole. said today that he
would engage in an American lecture
tour regardless of the action of the
British government reimbursing him for
his expenditures in the recent Antarctic
expedition.
The American lecture tour was an
ranged to help Shackle6on repay the
$4,000 deficit that still remains following
the trip. the total expenses of which
were more than $500, 600. II is probable
that the government will make good this
deficit but the lecture plans have pro-
crossed too far. Shackleton says, to be
abandoned
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-07
What Austria Celebrates.

Every nation in the civilized world
apparently can find in the record of
1909 something TO "centennialize" this
year. Even Austria, which in 1909
underwent terrible humiliation at the
hands OF Napoleon, is no exception.
for II its regular armies were defeat
ed, its irregular patriots. the Tyrolese
under Andreas Hofer, won such vic
tories over the Franco -Bayarians that
1t was only diplomacy that ruined
them. The Tyrolese. who had In 1905
been made Bavarians against their
will, endeavored, on the renewal OF
the war between France and Austria
four years later, TO rejoin their coun'
try to Austria. Even after Austria
had been compelled to yield they kept
on fighting. Under the leadership OF
Hofer and his associates, who had had
no other experience In war than what
fell to their lot as militia officers, they
inflicted crushing defeats on French
marshals and were finally overcome
only by force of numbers. Hofer, who
was captured, was shot by Napoleon's
order after a perfunctory trial. His
name is still great in Tyrolese song
and story and history justfies its
greatness. The events of 1909 are be.
ing commemorated at Innesbruck this
week in the presence of Franz Joseph
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with which a consort like Alexandra
hears the fiattering title queen
Far worse the case of the czarina of
Russia, whose whole existence is one
series OF terrors for the safety of her
husband and her children; and no
more queenly, although much happier,
is the station OF the empress of Ger.
many, relegated practically to the Of
fee OF hausfrau, a basis on which
every other German wife and mother
is fully her equal
These are the three most mighty
thrones in the world to-day, and these
the women who are, in reality, least
among queens. For the real queens,
enthroned in the possession of real
power, the quest must turn to the les
ser kingdoms, where the head that
compel obedience.
Such a real queen is Wilhelmina OF
Holland. the only woman living to-day
whose maternity earns her the royal
rank Mrs. Mccormick has so futilely
claimed for all her lovely sex. Upon
the dDllllg lOA w
helmina, the Dutch realized, their ma
tional existence depended; and to her
they give, with the acclaim of rejoic-
ing independence, the stanch loyalty
which implies all the power a modern
queen can covet.
PortugaI's Unfortunate Queen.
So, too, does little Portugal own a
queen, Amelie, whose courage crowned,
amid the tragedy that made her dow
ager queen, the force of character
with which she long combated the
weaknesses of her husband, Carlos.
Portugal, for all its ferocious social
istic plotters. realizes that IL has a
genuine queen; amid its sullen growls
1t whimpers under her remnants of
power And Italy, after a period OF
distrust, accepted Queen Helena amid
the chaos she so devotedly faced In
the ruins of Messina.
But there ends the brief listing OF
| the real queens whose crowns are
more than gewgaws; for the greatest
most genuine of them all, the modern
Semiramis Of power, who made all
! plotting China bend before her will
and welded the scepter of her ire
sistible might while she gasped in the
agonies of death, has vanished, with
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only a towering place in history to
tell how very possible il has been
for a poor and pretty slave girl to
govern 40O,000,0eO people by her own
unaided brain.
What then is the reality OF the
queenly Office. as 1t is enjoyed upon
the modern thrones. when compared
with the power of the uncrowned
queens whose sway is acknowledged
in many lands to-day?
II 1t be a question OF the actuality
OF power, exercised over numerous
and influential subjects, only that
famous dowager empress of China,
now dead and done for. could have
presumed to rival the silent, imper.
turbable sway which goes with the
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Work to suppress White Plague.

During the year ending September
81. 1909, 81 out of 40 legislatures in
session considered measures relating
to tuberculosis. The enormous sum
of nearly $3,5OO,OOO was appropriated
for the suppression of the white
plague. Fifty-siX laws pertaining TO
the prevention of consumption were
passed Eight new state sanatoria
were provided for; six states passed
laws permitting the erection of coun-
ty tuberculosis hospitals, and eight
states adopted laws requiring the
careful reporting and registration of
tuberculosis. In addition to these
provisions made by the various states,
the federal government granted near.
ly $1,000 900 for the maintenance Of its
tuberculosis hospitals In Fort Bayard
and Fort Stanton, n. NJ, and Las Ami
mas Cal.
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millions of Hetty Green as she sits
in her decent black dress in her mod.
est office in the Chemlsal National
bank.
The Real Mona sehs.
Every statesman in Europe, and
every monarch confesses that the ac-
tual kings. with power 60 make and
forbid wars, are the Rothschilds,
whose immense wealth controls the
treasures that are wars vital sin
ews If, by some unbelievable turn OF
fate-such a one. for instance, as be-
fell Samson of old-Hetty Green were
moved to abandon all her alliances,
call all her loans, and try her
strength. just once. the whole United
States would feel that giants
strength was shaking the pillars of its
| finance.
No queen, that silent old woman
! who was once New England's toasted
/ belle: but no queen. except her con
| temporary in distant China. aa,. IN
| the century past and present, so made
men bend before her in tribute to her
rule.
While riches are power-and the
power most sensibly felt abroad as
| well as here--they do not AFFORD the
sole domain that is open to the lead
ers of mankind Both the intellect
and the emotions serve as foundations
for allegiance often more stanch and
more extensive than can be won by
the anointed queens
Disraeli's Course.
! If, before a jury expert in weighing
of evidence, the relative powers, o
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Saw husbands Apparition.

A remarkable case attributed to
telepathy is reported from C6pua.
Italy. A woman woke up one night
recently in state of delirium. Call
ing together her friends and neigh.
bors she told them that she had just
seen an epparition OF her husband,
who for two years past had been alb
sent in New York. He appeared to
her to be lying in a hospital with one
hand covering his breast. and he told
her that he had been gravely wound.
ed. The day after she received a
cablegram from America informing
her that her husband was dying, hav.
ing been stabbed by an emissary Of
the Black Hand.