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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
HOPE NOW RESTS
IN OXYGEN SQUAD
Other Mine Disasters May
Be LeSsened by DR.. Holmes
Apparatus, Say Experts.

In the attempts 10 rescue some of the
Imprisoned miners in the Inflated mine
at Cherry, H., none of the Tescuers
worked with more heroism, persistence
ar< intelligence than the eight men
composing the rescue squad of the
United States Geological Survey station
at Pittsburg. who were rushed to sthe
scene of the disaster within a few
hours after it's horrifying details were
known to the newspaper readers of the
country.
These eight men. who are at this hour
cropping about in the semi-darkness of
the mine in hope Of resculng some of
the entombed miners. are known for
their courage. They are all equipped
with an apparatus containing sufficient
Of the precious, DEMONSTRATING oxygen
to last two hours on every trip into the
interior of the mine.
The oxygen apparatus incases the
head after the fashion of a divers hell
met. The headpiece and tanks carried
on the rescuer's back are metal, and
in the latter is stored oxygen, which Is
carried % the headpiece by means OF
two tubes. The complete outfit weighs
thirty rounds, or about half as much
as the ''heavy-marching order equip
Connected with the oxygen apparatus is
an extra tube to which is attached a
nosepiece When a rescuer finds a
stricken miner near death from the
deadly gases that fill a mine after such
an explosion as has just occurred at
Cherry ILL.,. ne Immediately applies this
uOsepiece 10 him and pumps oxygen
into his lungs in an effort to resusci-
tate him.
n has been largely through the ef-
forts of DR. J. A Holmes. in charge
of the mine Investigations OF the Geo
logical Survey. that such success has
attended the Governments tests OF the
oxygen apparatus
Or. Holmes is seeking In every way
TO Get mine owners to adopt 1t Tor
emergency aids in case Of disaster. Al
the Pittsburg test station Of the Geo
logical Survey there are employed
trained men to Instruct miners in the
use Of the oxygen apparatus. Mine
owners are invited to send workmen 70
this test station to be instructed, and
in this way il is hoped that in time
every mine in the country will have its
Oxygen squad
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
STREAMS PLAYING
ON MINE SHAT rs
Chicago Department Called
Upon to Aid Work at
Cherry Mines.
Continued from First Page9

s%+arge will force CarboniC acid gas
down into the depths of the mine. EN-
nerienced miners declare that Il this is
done it viii estiguish the fire, but Is
viii also extinguish within fifteen min
,,tes the life of every man still living.
II IS now believed the forcing of chem
icsIs will put the FIRE out quickly and
that the flames viii be checked by late
tonight or tomorrow morning Before
that time It would be suicidal for any
one 10 enter the shafts.
Then viii come the search for bodies
Whether the mining inspectors found
anv bodies when they made ten trips
into the mine yesterday IS pro oIeln-
atical Inspector Taylor WhOs WIN III
spec1or Webb. Of the Federal rescue
Ts,1reau made the tinal descent, en-
phaUcally denied that any corpses were
~. W Taylor, superintendent of the
mine. and Assistant Superintendent
Steel say great heaps OF chaEfed boules
had been found.
ID Is hoped TO remove some of the
bodies Wednesday morning, though It
NAV be Saturday before anyone can
venture into the mine,
The officials are also preparing TO
deal with the widows and orphans OF the
dead miners when the bodies are drawn
M as an outbreak is feared
1t is the opinion of Mining Inspector
TAYLOR that when the mine Is pene-
frated the bodies will be found heaped
10 in the blind ends of the tunnels
where the miners reiterated from the
approaching flames.
The feeling among the survivors and
their widows and children burst forth
early today in a torrent of denuncia-
ton Of the company. The miners open
Isl blame the company for the disaster,
declaring the direct cause of the IRE
Was the fact that torches We're used
in the stables when the electric light
cable burned out. If the company had
repaired the cable promptly they as
SER the fire would never have started.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
CHINESE EATING
STALLS POPULAR

The eating stall IS quite an Institution
in China, SAYS d writer, and the average
Chinaman thinks nothing Of stopping
and having a feed at a street restau-
rant The proprietor carries the whole
of his stock in trade on his shoulder
The stall itself consists OF two Cylin-
drical boxes attached 10 a yoke or pole.
One of these boxes usually contains
fire, on which John cooks weird dainties
into the composition of which 1t Is un-
wise 20 inquire, for the Chinaman has
a scientific apperite-that is TO say, he
viii eat anything that In any way forms
food Sdueamishness is a sensation
unknown TO him The keepers of these
street stalls sell good fruit. excellent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
IT MAY HAVE BEEN
QUITE APPROPRIATE

A wedding was recently held In Topeka
which was of the fashionable kind, and
there we're all sorts Of preparations and
frills. Among the features was a
song by a baritone singer of consider
able local renown, and just what he was
to MARBLE was a matter Of considerable
discussion.
A little six-year-old sister of the bride
took much interest in the program.
sis" she said. Il want 20 sing al your
wedding"
mo. dear, you cant sing" was the
Fejoinder.
But I can. and I want TO-" she
pleaded.
''What would you sing?" her father
asked her.
Heaven, Look With Pity was her
ever tt yet--Kansas City Journal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
HOTORHAN IS HELD
IN HUBBARD CASE
Man in Charge of Car Ac-
cused of Negligence by
Grand Jury.

The Federal grand jury this morn
ing indicted Samuel c. Wiley on a
charge or mauslaughter in connection
with the death of Mrs. Gertrude Il.
Hubbard widow OF the late Gardiner
Hubbard, who was killed at the juno
ton Of Connecticut avenue and
Cathedral road when the automobile
in which she was riding was struck
by a street car
Wiley, who was the motorman ia
charge Of the car, which ran down the
Hubbard machine. is charged with
wholly neglecting his duty as motor
man and unlaWfully and feioniouslv
neglecting 10 watch carefully for airy
vehicles which might be IN front Of his
car"
II is also charged that Wiley ''fe-
loniously neglected to keep his car I'M
der such control that il could be stopped
IN a short distance"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
DIFFERENT FINGERS
FOR WEDDING RINGS

The idea that the wedding ring should
be worn on the third finger of the left
hand because a nerve connects this
finger with the heart" is, says a writer
of Roman origin, but, oddly enough, is
not continued on the Continent as in
England, for in France, Belgium, and
Germany, and most other European ma
tfons. the engagement ring finger is
the third finger OF the left hand, while
the wedding ring finger is the third
finger OF the right hand.-De'r oit News
Tribune.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
THE SCRAMBLED TRAIN.

Some passengers were waiting at q
way station in Vermont for the train 10
Burlington
What kind of a train is this?" asked
one of them OF the busy station master.
s.Oh freight and passenger together.
Mixed, eh2'
master ITS what YOU might call
scrambled. Saturday Evening Post.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
WORTHY TAX.

a club exists in Vienna. the members
Of which are pledged TO marry poor
girls. If, for any reason, q member
maTries a rich girl he is fined $1,000.
which Is bestowed on some respecta bic
but impeCUnious couple about to be
Observation-Disclosures Star
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16
CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE.

\ kind old gentleman. seeing a very
small boy carrying a lot of newspapers
under his arm, was moved TO pity
Don't all those papers make you
tired my bOy?'
Nope the mite CheeFfully replied.
81 can't read youths Companion
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-16

pastries and simply delicious sweets at
price so low that 1t would astonlsh
even the proprietor of an Italian res
taurant-ChiCagO News Tribune
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-18

He had managed to, accumulate a
lot of money by more or less ques.
tionable methods. Il should like to
do something for the benefit of the
town" he said. well" suggoste
the poor but otherwise honest citizen,
you misht move out Of It,"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-18

There arc at present about twenty
lepers being cared for by the Board
OF Health at the Kalihi receiving sta-
ton, of these DR.. Currie Is trentlng
at his laboratory. These six select
ed patients are brought to his labor
atOry from the main station when
ever any special treatment has to
be given them.
DR.. Currie" was one OF the two
official delegates sent by the United
STAGES to the Second International
conference against leprosy, held at
Bergen, Norway, from August 16 to
10 inclusive. To this conference
I delegates were sent from almost ev-
cry civilized nation, there being
about one hundred delegates pres
emit The conference was opened by
King Haakon of Norway. Many in
teresting papers were presented,
three OF them including one by Dr..
Currie were prepared by the unied
States Public Health, and Marine
Hospital Service officers. and read by
that official. The choice of langu-
ages was French, Germon or Eng
fish. Copies of all these papers will
be sent out by the Norwegian Gov
ernment to every nation.
One OF the reports prepared by
the Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service was presented as the
lofiicial report of the United States,
upon leprosy In the United States
and the measures adopted against it..
THE report shows the following num-
Der of cases In the United Staes and
her possessions: Mainland TAG cases,
Hawaii 764 cases, Porto Rico II
cases, Guam 10 cases, Canal Zone Z
eases and the Philippines 1880 cases.
lThls makes total of $3.50 cases.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-18

John" queried her husbands wife.
III some bold, bad man were TO kid
nap me, would you offer "A reward"
Sure thing" replied the wirc's hus.
band. Il always reward those who
do me favor"
"Time," remarked the thoughtful
thinker, is like everything else. .
"Whats the answer quoried the
dense party. why, the moro you
have of 1t the leG5 valuable It IL, O..
planned the t. I.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-18
TREATMENT At
kAL|HI EXPLAINED
DR.. CURRIE TELLS
OF LESSONS LEARNED
2hysicicn Who Attended Interna-
ticnal Conference Declares That
Disease Can Be Cured In Time.

"1.epi osy Is a disease which is coll
tagious from person TO person, what
ever may be the method by which
this contagion is effected. Every
country, in whatever latitude II "
situated, IL within the range of pos.
sible infection by leprbsy, and may,
therefore, uscfully. undertake mca-
sures to protect itself. III Wow OF
the success obtained in Germany.
Iceland, Norway and sweden. 1t Ia
desirable that other countries should
isolate lepcrs. It is desirable that
the children OF lepers should be sep.
IarGted from their parents as soon ~
possible, and that they should re.
main under observation. An exam.
ination should be made from time to
time of those having lived with lep-
ers by doctor having special knowl-
edge. All theories on the ctiology
and the mode of propagation OF lep.
rosy should be carefully examined
to ascertain II they accord with our
! knowledge OF the nature and the
biology of the bacillus of leprosy.
II is desirable that the question
OF the transmissibility of lcprosy by
,na ',,,,,, . w e.,".eu a"" '"".
an,,,,, 49, VI 'ne oN''.",o y,
shn,,,, -. e ,,'
ia", $500 oa' ',uus' rug ','"
| lief that II Is not incurable. At
,h,a ',,.. y, ~ ,'a, ,a'n '".. 'o'
!" "o'e' ,"e'e
'oIt: " ooh,'hue ."e search Ior
zaa," ~ VIZ" '"e s'e"'es'
~,
n. ms m,,, " ~, "' ''"r'''i''' i''ade oy
H. u '" ."r w. paSSou hssis-
p,,,,,,. ~. 'ni'eo o'a.Ps
! - '''. ""u MARINE 'ioSpi'al
So, "no o',e''or ci 'hc uhiteu
neprosy investigation ota'ioh
- " 49,, "n''e discussing ,ne pro-
-, ~ 'o''." ~ 'he sue
Tha ,,,. VI" ",'ea'e'
', ,' Ior 'he ih'est'sa.
Ia, 'p'."' Eases VI leprosy Ut
station at Molokai. In addition IN
Director CurrIe. the staG Includes.
DR.. w. Il. Drinckerbofy ass,stan,
director: DIR. II. r. Holman. acting
assistant surgeon: Mr. r. I. Gibson,
pharmacist. n TRANSLATOR who rood,
both French and German: n labor.
tory assistant wbo aIso roads
French and German. n m,Io nurse
and enough othrr en,n,oyccs 4, m,ko
lip an establishment or some twenty
three individuals
Inject of Station
The Station is I'm mn sense NJ ,,o
word public hospitaI. Int will bc
used solely for tho scientific inves,f,
cation of leprosv. botb az ,o troot-
ment. transmission. and all o,hor
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07
Smokes Black Cigars, Swears
FearsOmely and Incidentally
Runs the Country.
IT, HERE are about $50 members of
the House Of Representatives.
Threa hundred of thnm are


the House of Representatives.
Three hundred of them are
never heard of.
Of the remaining Sc, 20 are briefly
mentioned in the press from time to
time.
why don't you do something con
stituents ask of the u~nadvertised Con-
gresham.
Cant" he replies la~conically,I Joe
Cannon won't let me-"
That's the secret.
Joseph Cannon, the purist from Dan
vile, .Verinillion county, ILL.,, is the
master of the House, and the sooner
a Congressman realizes it the sooner
is he liable to get a few pensions and
packages of seeds for his constituents.
In the ante-room, behind the chair
of the Speaker, is the real seat of the
government. There the laws are made
that Uncle Joe thinks the people ought
to have. The same ante-room is the
slaughter-house for legislation that Joe
doesn't like.
In the House, true, a lamentable
farce comedy is enacted after the
Speaker has decreed the fate of a
measure. A man who has e him in
the red room two hours before arises
and says, MIR Speaker The Speaker
bangs his gavel and says, in a sur
prised fashion, For what purpose does
the gentleman rise?"
II rise, Mr.. Speaker the nan on the
floor voiubly assures him, ITO ask for
the present consideration of the fol-
lowing bill"
The bill has already beer passed. 1t
was passed in the red room two hours
ago. But the Speaker recognizes him
as if he had never heard of it, and
the House goes through the sad
comedy of voting for it.
And yet nobody can assume such a
sanctiied air of helpless innocence as
can Uncle Joe when some deputation
from the outside ONE in with a petit
ton which he doesn't want to grant.
Put this through for you?" says he,
with a Iong-drawn sigh. "Ah, how I
wish | could. But you see / am only
one out of 1856 members of Congress,
and / have no more power than re-
sides in one vote. The others can out
vote me if they will. In the House,
you see, the majority rules, and I
am only one. But if it ever comes out
of committee ] promise you l will vote
for Ii, in case my vote is needed"
Now n then the souls of Congress
men revolt from having to Ego hat in
hand down the corridor to the Speakers
room and beg" as one of them ex-
pressed it in a speech, and they cheer
some intrepid Cushman or Cooper or
Murdoch, who has lashed himself to the
point of making a public attack on the
system. But they taxi it out in cheer
ing. and go next morning, hat in hand,
and beg.
There is more of fnality in a Cannon
Yes or No than in that of n
other man in America, but there is
J nothing brusque or offensive about his
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07
YOU DON'TSUPPORT YOUR
WIFE; YOU ONLY THINK so
Mrs. Anna H. Shaw Shows ConCusively That Women Maintain
Themselves Always and Their Husbands Sometimes.
<<RS the wife supported by her husband?"
We do not pause for reply.

We do not pause for reply
p No, she is not
Mrs Anna H. Shaw, who is a wife herself is authority for thu statement
Mrs. Charlotte Palmer Gilman attempted to take issuew with Mrs Shaw, but
Hear what the latter says:
In this semiciviized country there are hrtyeight States in which the title
to the children rests t in their mother, but in their father. Women cannot
legally possess children, and in many of the States they can't own clothes Their
clothing belongs to their husbands" She continued:
1.-THE more work "a woman does in a home the less money her husband gives
her. Women IN do N work get most money from their husbands. Women
at the head Of a establishment in which there are nan servants may work
just Is hard as he woman who las NJ servants. She is to be compared with
the president of a large corporation who sits in a swivel chair, presses button
and speaks through a tube yet who gets more money than all the real workers
in the corporation combined. A nan nus have peculiar qualities to become
Of a large corporation, and a omar must hav peculiar qualities to
read of n establishment in which III the real work is done by servants.
MANY men, can afford to keep a wife who cannot afford to keep a servant. ]
do not think a man supports a wife, because he let's her work throughout her
life OIL board wages. Yet many women. wives oil physicians for example, in
crease the earnings of their husbands by caring for i'm SO well at ONE hat he
is able to 70 out of the hom and make more money"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07
THE sTATr AssHssoRsHip APPOINTMENT.

The Hon. David Baird is a business man of large ean wo ives in Cam
den cunt and takes a live interest in public affairs He Yields a largei influence
in his county,. whereh h is amiiarly known, am his prominence rs a representa-
tive of bis political party has made him widely known in the State. A bluff
hearty nj utspohe man is the Hon David Baird, with a lesiono of friends and
Of course SOM enemies Mr. Bard is sef-nade. Heb began hfein a modest way,
I'M by dmt of talent, energy n perseverance he4won a large business n a
competency. He served two terms as sheriff of Camden county nc held ther
oh1ces. Governor werts in 1895 appointed Mr.. Baird to the State Board or
Assessors and he raj reapponted in 1901 and in 1905, after, having resigned
duringh his first tern to take the Office of sheriff of Camden county for a second
teri. There are four members of the State Board, and to a man Ike Mr.. Baird
the salary is of small account while the duties rec ongenial, specially as IN
Mr. BairdssS case where h commissioner hs a familiar knowledge Of railroad
property and a personal ride in III work of his board. This pride of work has
impeled Mr. Bard to accept repeated reappointmens He is now IS years Of
mains in public life ana proposes to stay as longas vgor remains The present
term. of Mr. Baird ends next May, and, as o former occasions his enemies
have startedu up to oppose his reappontment by the Governor IN one g Mr.
Baird is denounced because the State Board in which he has a sfngle vote, con-
- kntly adhered to HI system of assessments adopted by the original board in
M refused to favor m locality at the expense OF Others. M Baird has
been blamed for the exstence of a tar Law enacted eleven years before he
bred the State Board. under which HI board was created, which law the
d was compelled to carry out 1t would be singular. indeed. to sect the Hon.
Mid Baird turned down for reappontment at the demand of the enemies
has made - s- =
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07
seW JERSEYS OFFERINGS. TO ITALY.

New orkneWspapers in giving alleged lists of the contributions, by States
towards the italian renef fund are particular 1nttathg h exact amount col
leetcd in New York city, much Of which vas subscribed by organizations like
the steelrut and he STANDARD Oil Company, which ave thar homes in New
I'M not in New York. These an similar credits, if they belong any,
where should be credited to New Jersey and not New York. But in their lists
of contributions the New York,ct papers credit little OF nothing to this State
subscribed in New Jersey, one-fourh of. the amount representing THE STAR
In a number OF 1municpaHtes thu agencies for collection have beef slow
in getting to work. but within a week they will show good results. Jersey City
has been backward Tomorrow the citizens there will organize for relief work.
What with the efforts now making nc the neWeefoms o be III forth the total
subscriptions lnlNewJ Jersey, apart from thu corporation contributions will prob
ably in thsFenA approximate fifty thousand dollars a
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07

way of saying it. His manner is dis
passionate, his voice a rather hiail,
pitched drawl, his delivery unhurried.
he listens to the petitioner with a
kindly air, his cigar cooked at its
famous angle and sending forth large
clouds. Usually he is standing, having
little use for such luxuries as chairs.
and his favorite attitude is to stand on
one leg with the other long limb resting
crookedly on the top of a desk. When
the petitioner has got all through this
decision comes in that quaint drawl, and
1t never leaves anything open to debate.
Spry and nimble as he is, the Speaker
does everything with an air of infinite
leisure. When he gets down to the red
room he finds Thai L.. White Busbey, his
secretary, has got everything in readi-
ness for the hour and a half of siege
which is to follow. The Speaker, throws
some genial gibe B~usbeyward, remove
his overcoat, oes to the inner room
and begins at once to repel boarders.
i However, in the ordinary course Of
a days grind, and when there is moth
ing special or specialized to call for
the services of one of these Trojans,
the Speakers converse with the House
leaders is limited to Payne, Dalzell and
Sherman. These wizards of legislation
drift in usually at about II 80, and
there is a whispered confab of fifteen
minutes, illustrated with cigar smoke
and punctuated occasionally by the
slow wave of the Speakers forefinger.
The Speakers other visitors belong
to the uneonsidered class of the gen
arll lJhliC Thau- ontaa i'm aifhar In
havesthe honor of shaking his hand or
to urge on him legislation, To them
ness r
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-07
Cannon, National Physician, Glues
Us What Laws He Thinks We Need
Something of the DanviIIe Gar
as He Appears in Action
and Rep0se.

E@Ha FL
SO winning is. he that the. Rev.
Francis E. Clark. recently published a
moving article telling about how af-
fected he was by the Speakers state
ment to him, with one pathetic hand
on the Clark shoulder and a. .tremolo
effect in the voice, that he--the Speak
er-had been grossly. misrepresented as
to profanity by the hirelings of the
press, and that as a matter of fact he
never used a cuss WORD And the
reverend gentleman went u deeply
moved. Nobody who knows Cannon
could have read that story without
seeing in his minds eye. the Cannon
iesque' wink which followed the confid-
ing cleric out of the door.
Having accomplished his days work
thus, in this hour and d half, the Hon.
Joseph G. Cannon goes out for his
days recreation-the amusing task of
presiding yer the House.