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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-28
At Stars London Office.

Among the Washinstonians registering
at The Stars London Office, No. 3 Re-
gent street, for the week ending July II.
1900. were Messrs. John Kirby E. De
Weldon Brennan and Henry W. praper
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Will Of William r. Locke

The will of William n. Locke dated Oc-
tober ]. 1902, was filed today for probate
His entire estate is devised to his widow.
Mrs. Louisa *. Locke, who is also named
as executrix
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\ splendid reproduction of the new anu
beautiful Stephenson q. A. *. Memorial.
On heavy papcr ready for framing, VIII
Ie given with the ~ Y World next Sum
,Iay Order in advance.
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Heurich's Are the Most Popular
table beers in scores of homes. Pure
refreshing, wholesome. Hygienically brew
ed, perfectly aged. every bottle pasteur.
lied. doz. Lager. $50; > doz. Maerzer
or Senate, $l.75; bot. rebate, 5Oc.
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Our Spruce Laths Are the Best
on the market. Prompt delivery of an,
quantity. Eisnger Bros, 21O9 7th NV.
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Star Branch at Dupont Circle

The Dupont Pharmacy, Goth and P sts.,
receives Want Ads" for The Star at Of
nee rates, l cent word. Telephone sub
scribers may phone ads direct to The
Star office.
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River View Tomorrow, 8 80. $50
$50 Peoples Church. Ministers base
ball game. o5c.-Advt
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Coal!.
Coal.!!
Goa / /.

Only three days left for low prices on
coal for spot cash. W. \. Stove. Egg and
Chestnut ST -, per ton. Clean: no dirt.
Aug I prices will advance. John Moran
Co. a126 and 11i Pa. ave.
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Keen cool. Use electric cooking utensils.
Natl Electrical Supply Co. Esso n T. aV
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Bargain Gas Ranges.

lot estate guaranteed AoO oeioW price
nd and S1Iperior Water Heaters.
1901 G. c. \. Muddiman Il Co OLD i-th
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WARFARE ON THE BILLBOARDS
PERMIT FOR ONE AT HOWARD
UNIVERSITY rs REVOKED.
Citizens Association Writes Letter
of Protest to Commissioners-It
Finds Responsive Chord.

Pursuant 10 the policy inausurated by
the Commissioners a few days ago TO
prevent the marrinG of the citys beauty
by billboards and following protest made
by the Howard Park Citizens Association.
the Commissioners have decided to revoke
permit for a billboard at the main APP
proach to Howard University and order
It's prompt removal.
I'VE, the members Of the Howard Park
Citizens Association, have read with
much interest the article on billboard re-
form as published in The Evening Star of
the 10th instant, containing as it does
some provisions which are under consid-
Grafton for the new building regulations, .
says the letter to the Commissioners from
the organization.
I'VE inclose the article referred to and
have blue penciled those paragraphs to
which a billboard in our community does
not conform.
The article to which reference is made
sets forth the regulations governing bill
boards in Cincinnati, and explains that
Commissioner West submitted them to
Engineer Commissioner Judson for incor-
poratton, as far as practicable and aD-
plicable to local conditions, in the local
building regulations.
Violated No Local Ordinance.
The sections to which the billboard in
question is claimed not to conform re-
quire billboards in the fire limits to be
entirely OF metal wooden billboards to be
not over two feet in height. that they shall
have two feet of open space between them
and the ground. that there shall be an
open space between billboards and nc
billboards shall exceed over 500 square
feet in area. 1t is not claimed that the
RI 1nno III.
nance
This billboard is L-shaped, beginning
on the east side of Georgia avenue and
continuing around on the south side Of
Howard avenue continues the letter. ut
is at the main approach of Howard Uni
versity and consequently would be under
the observation of the President. MEM
bers of his cabinet. the Commissioners
Of the District and members of Congress
when visiting the university. Is there
boards from an esthetic standpoint?
Served as a Catch-All.
1--WE understand that the pocket bill
board in question was not Objectionable
to the university, provided the ground
surrounding it would be maintained as a
lawn. This. however. has never been
done and at present the ground Is COW
cred with a rank growth of weeds.
This pocket billboard serves as a
catch-all for waste paper and trash of
various kinds, and several fires have oc-
Cured through the carelessness of pass
ing smokers. Members of our associa-
ton, on account of the unsightliness of
the place. have removed the trash at va
rious times.
I'VE receive our inspiration from the
Commissioners and appreciate their ef-
forts to better local conditions. to the
end that Washington may be model
city
Upon receipt of this protest Commits
sioner West moved before his colleagues
on the District board that the permit
granted in this case be revoked and the
billboard ordered to be removed" This
motion has received the approval of
Commissioner Mcfarland.
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Pony Track Chevy Chase Lake.
Marine Band music. dancing, etc. evenings.
-Advt.
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Through Parlor Car to Wheeling,

w. Va. Baltimore and Ohio r. R.
Commencing Saturday July 10. and con-
tinuing until further notice through par
Tor car to Wheeling will leave Washing
ton, train No. 80, $40 am, returning on
train No. II, arriving at Washington
1925 p.m-Advt.
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Homemade "Milk" Bread Nourishes

Best bread for growing and grown folks
Made in the real home way and delivered
fresh and clean from oven to table, DC
Delicious Homemade Pies, zoe. Holmes
Bakery, 1st & I. SITS. Phones Linen. 1f4o-
1541
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Store Your Household Valuables

-siverWare etc. in the modern fireproof
warehouse of Washington Safe Deposit
Co., 916 Penna. ave. Private rooms as
low as 81 month. Postal or phone 251
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G. A. r. Picture Free.

Sneetz. Candies ana Ice Cream,
noM at 93l T ST.
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Caverly's Plumbing, 1881 G NV

Christian Handlers Virginia Ports.
Refreshing and very healthy summer
a-fnes Dilute and serve. 500 tth ST NV.
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Keep a Supply of A. B

Keep Supply Of a. B. G.
PERFECTION Ginger Ale in the
house throughout the hot-weather sea-
son. Nothing else more refreshing or
healthful. Phone Arlington Bottling Co.
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Ride Out to Fort Mver and See

tests. TTCO taxicabs. SIS per hour
or parties of four. Phone North FTP
Advt.
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To Have the Best Table Supplies

der's Malt Bread constitutes a class in
itself; the purest, most delicious and
nourishing loaf made. Grocers. &c loaf
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You Want What You Want
uhen Won want it, There is only one way
to get it. Go after it through the CLASH
fed Columns of The Star.
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1Oc Cans Milk, &c, at ]. T. D. Pyles'
Is stores iyo1-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10

by the porter. Why, I could tell a piece of luggage that has been in our house if l saw it at the break of dawn in darkest Africa. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
GIRL TAKES FIRST 1909 SWIM.
Teacher in Staten Island School Hall
 Hour In Water, on Bet.

From the New York Press.
 Braving the cold, Helen Wilcox, a teacher in the Great Kills public school, Staten Island, New Years afternoon, on a wager she would be the first to enter the water in 1909, went to the beach at Annandale and swan around in the icy water for moro than 20 minutes. When admiring friends asked if she was not ex- tremely cold she stopped and talked with them.
 Its all right when you're used to it. said the girl. Her teeth did not even chatter as she stood on the beach.
 A few days ago friends dared Miss Will COX to go into the water in the winter She promptly bet she would be the first Staten Island woman to go to the water in the new year. Yesterday. in summer bathing garb, she left her home at D. m. and went to the beach. There she waited a few minutes for two girl friends Staten Island woman to go in the water with her. As they did not appear she ran into the icy cold bay She swam 30 yards from the beach and was in the wa ter almost half an hour.
 Miss Wilcox went into the water in last February, when snow was on the ground. and was not inconvenienced-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
ORIGIN OF SWISS LAKES.
Some Theories as to How They May
 Have Been Formed.

From Cosmos.
 The great lakes of the Alps are not basins formed by sinking in remote geological ages. as geologists have be- lieved for 40 years. The Alps, which are not quite as old as the Pyrenees, were formed by folding of the crust of the earth in the tertiary period, fol- lowed almost immediately by process of denudation and erosion which re- duced their height by many thousand feet, laid bare the primitive rocks (granite and gneiss), and carved out the great valleys. The sinking of the lake basins was supposed to have oc- cured at this epoch.
 The origin of the lake basins, how the hydrography of the Alps before the the glacial period and reconstruction of the original proflles of the rivers, Esenmenger concludes that the great lakes did not exist before the arrival of the ice sheet in the quaternary period.
 The lake basins, in fact are of gla- cial origin. It is perhaps difficult to picture glaciers blowing out the basins of the lakes of Constance, Brienz and the Four Cantons, the depth of which are S20, S53 and TOP feet But the depth of each of these lakes is small in comparison with it's length and area. The thickness of ice in the valleys in the successive glacial epochs averaged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10

2600 feet, and it was from 4000 to 4800 feet over the sites of the lakes of Con- stance, Zurich, Thoune and the Four Cantons.
 The glaciers carved out the great Alpine lake. basins by the attrition of their enormous mass, and still more by the erosion of the waters at their base. Some of the smaller lakes were formed by the damming of valleys by glacial debris
 In regard to the ultimate fate of the Swiss lakes, Eisenmenger pronounces them to be, comparatively speaking, ephemeral incidents in the geological history of the Alpine valleys. All of them will be filled up, and many have vanished since the glacial period. In those which remain the study of the ancient deltas shows that the depth of water diminished durng the quater- nary period. The River Reuss annu- ally deposits more than 100000 cubic feet of sediment in the Lake of the Four Cantons, and every year the Kan der brings 2S,000,000 cubic feet of detritus to the Lake of Thoune. As suming the thickness of the annual layer of deposits to be two-f1fths of an inch, the Lake of Geneva would be filled in 30,000 and the Lake of Con stance in 12,500 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10

by the porter. Why. could tell piece of luggage that has been in our house il l saw it at the break of dawn in darkest Africa. -a
 The room number mark was on her suitcase, and I traced that from one sta tion to another by the cabmans de scription. Then I located it in the freight house. Believe me- the whole thing was like clockwork. You see, that woman didn't stop to think that there was some one at the hotel that was paid to pre- vent Just the sort of thing she was doing. There's another case of overconfdence D
 But through what class of crooks do the hotels and their guests sustain the greatest losses?" he was asked
 T am going to answer that question in an odd way" he replied That is, I am going to say that the guests greatest enemy is their own carelessness For instance, a man comes into a hotel and sees MT. Somebody Else over at the other side of the room and throws his overcoat down on a chair and dashes away to talk to his friend MT. Oyercoat Thief comes along, and, picking up the coat. walks out. How are you going to pre- vent 1t? The place is crowded, and a person can't examine every one that goes by, to see that they have the right over coat on. If you know the thief. well and good; if you don't. there you are
 Then the guest comes to the hotel proprietor. Of course, the guest means to be honest, and all that, but when he is putting in bill for the overcoat that has been stolen, in a great many cases, if 1t is worth $60 he will say $75 The guest feels that extra money is due him for the inconvenience he has suffered Oh it Is queer game all around and l dare say that no priest in the confess sional sees more of human nature than we do in this business''
 And once again the house detective put his hands on each side of his jaws and blinked downward at the table. So the interview was concluded with a reverie
 But, despite his manifold cares, Mr. Repetto has gained the reputation of be- ing one of the best-natured men in Chi cago and many hotel guests have cause to bless his name for the various snarls he has untangled.
 In the squadron of which he has charge there are 19 men. These men are divided into shifts for night and day work, but their chief has no allotted hours as he is supposed to be on call all the time
 But this does not seem to wear on his soul and should any one visit him at his pretty home at 4343 Prairie avenue, and see the delightful home calm that per- vades the whole place, they would never think that the polished telephone case that hangs on the wall is really mas ter of the house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10

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 I know THE OBBAC SYS- ITEM does absolutely cure every case of blood poison mo matter of how long stand ing. 1know 1t does not merely remove the external symptoms, but eliminates the disease entirely from the system. This I GUARANTEE 1t will do with in four months.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
Mean Man.

From the Chicago News Mrs. Stubbs-Now women are not im- pulsive like you men, They always meas ure their words.
 Mir. Stubb (with sigh)-Oh. if some of them would only give short measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10


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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
pittsburg and gave him the same

Pittsburg and gave him the same dose. t4 "In this manner made that man s life a burden all over the country. The last place I managed to land on i him was in Salt Lake City, where I heard that he was visiting during a fraternal conclave.
 Shortly after that some of the man S friends came to me and accused me of prosecuting him. I acknowledged that I was following him pretty closely but explained to them that 1t was only just punishment for his break ing faith. They pleaded another chance for him and as really thought that he had had a lesson I called off And 1t was lesson, not only to him. but to many other crooks who heard of the case"
 With this pithy summary of the case Repetto gathered up the pictures on the table and stacked them in a neat heap. He smiled when asked if these were all he had, and, walking over to neat cab met on the walls, threw open the door. It was filled like a photograph gallery There were more than 12O0 likenesses there-all pictures of that underworld brigade who might fleece hotelkeepers or their guests.
 It was strange collection Girls with innocent, wide-open eyes were ranged be- side buxom beauties and men who looked venerable and trustworthy as the prophets of old
 The house detective hummed lightly as he pointed here and there to some celeb rity-some woman or man whose record was often stained with the blackest of crimes.
 ''The funny part of it is they are all ways so sure of not getting caught" he said. suddenly, as he turned sharply. Why they don't give a man credit for having his eyes open two hours a day. have been with this hotel for 10 years, and before that five years fin the city bu- reau and have seen but few crooks who weren't sure that they were a bit smart CT than anybody else. That trips them, too.
 "The other day a woman who was in volved in well-known case put over a bad check here. She was suave, polite and highly cultured, and did the job very cleverly even though she was an ama- teur. Now, she left the hotel, drove from one depot to, another and thought her identity as far as we were con- cerned. was entirely obliterated. But 1t wasn't Oh, no; not at all. She left a trail behind her just as plain as though she had put a sign post on every street crossing.
 What was 1t? Why, the chalk marks on her luggage. Every hotel has distinc- tive chalk marks that 80 on the stun that goes to the guests room, which is marked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
LITTLE LESSONS IN PUBLICITY
Look Before You Leap

More is involved than the cost of your advertising. Your entire business machinery and success is jeopardized by an unwise advertising expendi- ture. If the machine is ready and the push does not come which advertising should give, you have lost opportunity. Someone else has taken your place.
 Daily Newspaper advertising will give you the "push' just exactly when and where your busi- ness needs it. Started without delay, stopped at will. No guesswork. Prompt Economical. Efficient.
 Ask any Daily Newspaper any responsible Ad- vertising Agent to show you or write the Six Point League Tribune Building, New York City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
HOW THE HOTEL
 THIEF OPERATES Detectives Are Always on Their
 Guard
TO PROTECT THE GUESTS
Hotel Gentry Is the Smartest of All Criminals, From the Man Who Works Doors to the Man
 Who Works Proprietor

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 How is the vast army Of hotel thieves kept from preying on the still vaster army of the travelling public these days?
 If you stepped into the lobby of the Auditorium Annex during say the repub- lican national convention you possibly thought what grand chance there was for the light-fingered gentry familiar with the interior workings of such big in- stitution, to make away with property carelessly left around, to enter rooms, thoughtlessly left open, and in hun dred different ways to make a rich haul from the thousands who made the place their headquarters.
 Doubtless there were depredations com mitted, probably there were minor thefts, but it is safe to say that the well-known detective system employed in big hotels, not only here, but all over the country, kept the majority of the big thieves from the city. There are many interesting cpl sodes that occur in hotels, countless in cidents that come up in the course of their administration, which are handled quietly and informally by the house de- tective It is seldom that any of these leak out but once in a while they do, and the public gets a glimpse of the sys- tenn which is employed to protect the careless public
 Down at the Annex it is Frank Repetto who has charge of the protection of the people who stop there, and there are IS others who report to him every day. MT Repetto is. besides a detective. we'll known authority on criminal law in Chi cago. It is said that few criminal law yers possess any more accurate informa- tion of course of procedure or the rights of defendant than he does The other day he was sitting in h back office and the table in front of h.-.l was filtered with pictures, each one with neat array of red numbers across the back. MT Repetto is a dark k-complexioned, delicate ly featured man and looks more like an artist than a seuth
 Speaking about this class of men," he said, ethe class of crooks who oper- ate In big hotels are the keenest men in the world. They are the class who sometimes marry heiresses and the class who pass checks on first national banks They are the class of men who pose foreign noblemen sometimes and some times carry through good business deals into which they have plunged without backing. Then, again, they are like MT Dove who called a chauffeur, rode with him and murdered him-no one knows why
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17
The Christmas Spirit.

Nearer and closer to our hearts be
the Christmas spirit, which is the
spirit of active usefulness. persever-
ance, cheerful discharge of duty, kind
mes. and forbearance. II is in the last
virtues especially that We are, or
should be, strengthened by the unac-
complished visions of our youth: for
who shall say that they are no our
teachers to deal gently even with the
impalpable nothings of the earth!
Therefore, as We grow older, let us be
more thankful that the circle OF our
Christmas associations and of the les
sons that they bring, expands! Let
us welcome every Il of them and
summon them to take their places by
the Christmas hearth.-Charles Dick
ems.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

concealing the anxiety that had been
overshadowing him all day.
"Yas, sah," said the lad aloud to
himself after Cameron had passed on
toward his home, dab am sholy some
thin de mattah-but 1t amt mel"
Midnight closed his shop that night
in a happy frame of mind and wan
dered off toward his home, whistling.
He was around bright and early the
next day, and when Cameron anne
along on his way to his Office made
it a particular point to see that he was
not overlooked.
"Mawnin', Mist Cam'ron. All hopes
you all is feelin' fine dis bris'ly
m%awnin'.'
Pretty well, thank you, Midnight"
Dat Pretty well, thank you,' sound
like Pretty bum, thank you" unused
the boy after the young man had gone
on.
Hours later, when the flying snow
was painting the dusk a speckled
black, Cameron came back along the
sidewalk III e slowly and uncertain
ly than ever. 1t was Christmas eve,
and Midnight felt at peace with all
the world. People were flying past,
their arms laden with presents, and
all anxious to be home. AS he stood
in a sheltered corner of his booth.
counting up his profits of the day, he
called to Cameron:
Mist Cam'ron, All got a Christmas
present fo' yo' motha. All vans t
AK you eff you will come 'roun' in de
mawnin' an be de frs pussen t. buy
a Christmas ~paper-it's good luck TO
me, you know. Why, Mist Cam'ronl"
suddenly exclaimed the lad as the
young man came under the light. Jam
ghos' an you wax like you done git
dis grip what ey'ryone ta'kin' bout.
Mist Brown, cross de street hyar, he
git 1t; Mist Simpkins, up at de cor
nah, Lordy, he git de misery so he
stay In de house an dat lobely
Miss Willoughby you know de
one All mean - Miss Helen Will
~loughby-not dat sister she come
long dis ebenin' an dough she smilin'
an happy like, All know she mus git
1t. too-dat mus be why she amt wax
down de street wild you t'day an yes
tiddy."
"'Yes-I-I-I-guess she must be
feeling a little under the weather."