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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-11

Navy Union. to be held this evening at
G. A. r. Hall. 1912 Pennsylvania avenue
The president of the new District OF Co
lrlmbia Council of the Organization, Col.
IS. F. Chase, will be one of the speakers.
Appropriate exercises will be held at
Howard University tomorrow morning,
and the painting. THE Underground Kali
way" will be unveiled. Secretary Gar
made by Speaker Cannon. Representative
Tawney W. r. Vernon, J. Warren keifer
and William f. Curtis.
The Metropolitan Patriotic Club will
hold a meeting tomorrow night at Met
ropolitan Wesley African NJ. E. Zion
Church. Music will he furnished by the
church choir, and Miss Mayme Chase,
Miss Laura Tyler, ]. II. Wilson. Henry
W. Lewis. Eugene James. violinist; AL
bert Dyson and Ellie Newman. musical
The Lincoln Emancipation League OF the
District will celebrate the day at Its
headquarters at pm
The colored people will observe the
centenary at the Metropolitan A. NJ. r.
Church, NJ street between 18th and 10th
streets northwest, tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock. The meeting will be under
the auspices of committee OF the col
ored fraternal and beneficial societies
Of the District
Addresses will be delivered by Rep
resentative ]. Warren Keifer of Ohio.
John G. Dancy, recorder OF deeds, and
Rev. Dr. Walter II. Brooks, pastor or
the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church.
The Colored Baptist Ministers Con-
ference of the District Of Columbia will
celebrate the Lincoln centennial next
Monday at Zion Baptist Church. on +
street southwest beginning at noon. The
speakers will be Rev. George W. Lee
Or. Walter II. Brooks, Rev. DIR. W. ].
Howard. Rev. DR.. W. D. Jarvis wifi pre-
side.
At Cosmopolitan Temple. Baptist
Church, Sunday night. Lincoln CEN
tennial service will be held. Several
QUITO town ministers will be present,
among them being: Rev. A Mark Harris,
Jersey City; Rev. G. W. Bailey, Plain
field. n. j.: Rev. n. S. Epps, Rev. r. ].
Brown and Rev. A. L. Mckee, New
York; ex-senator Samuel G. Newsomc,
North Carolina: Prophet Andrew Jones.
Philadelphia: Rev E. E. Jackson. Mont
Clair, n. j.. and Rev. J. J. Tole, Virginia.
The Citizens Association Of Dean
wood will observe the anniversary at
the Zion Baptist Church, Deanwood.
u. c., tomorrow evening at o'clock
Prominent speakers and singers will be
present.
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new leaf now suggested Inspector
Roardman. land do what Is riRht?'

new leaf now" suggested Inspector
Boardman, land do what Is yight?'
Il have never made such a statement"
was Osborne's response. II may have
said ] would try"
Osborne denied that he committed the
robbery at the house Of Mrs. J. r. Brown,
1910 G street northwest, where two men
called under the pretext of wanting to
rent room and carried Off about $500
Don't ever accuse me Of being prowl-
err" said Osborne. I'm a p. o. and
r. r. man." indicating he made spe-
cialty of robbing post Offices and rail-
roads.
Johnson. an Englishman, had little to
say. He seemed detected. Osborne
laughed and joked, being more than will
ing to discuss any subject
Mccartney Angry at Boardman.
Osborne displayed knowledge of police
affairs in New York. and declared In
spector Mccartney was sore on the
Washington force because he was ignored
in his case. Inspector Boardman said
he had transacted his business through
the New York inspector. The prisoner
declared he had heard what McCaffrey
said about ii.
While In the station last night Osborne
discussed the question OF escaping, lh-
dicating how easy matter it would be
to saw the bars. He had entered into
conspiracy with other prisoners In the
penitentiary to escape. The plan was
frustrated and Osborne narrowly escaped
being given a sentence Of ten years for
ehe part he played.
Discussing the theft Of the $1,000 ring.
Osborne said there is no reason why
pawnbroker cannot stand such q loss.
Without saying he had actually. taken the
ring, he declared he had no sympathy for
wealthy persons who are robbed.
Il would Alever rob q poor man. he
said NOR would l rob a man who be-
friended me. have known men to ac
cept the hospitality of a stranger, share
his bed with him and then rob him. A fell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-11
Alarm for Small Fire,

No. engine company responded to q
local alarm shortly before Q o'clock this
morning for fire in a shed in the rear
of 101 E street northwest, occupied By
Miss Jennie Carrick. The flames orisi-
mated in some rubbish. No damage re-
suited
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Lincoln's Religion.

Rev. DIR. John Van Schaick, jr., Of the
Church OF Our Father will speak on ''The
Religion Of Abraham Lincoln" before the
Washington Hebrew Congregation to-
morrow night at the regular Sabbath
eve services. Appropriate music will be
a part Of the exercises.
Lincoln services will be the feature of
a meeting of Barry Garrison, Army and
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Metropolitan Sunday School.

Class of the Metropolitan Church Sum
day school will hold a Lincoln meeting
tomorrow night at 7:3O o'clock in the Sum
day school room. Senator Shelby NJ. Gull
lom will deliver an address. Other speak
ers will be William F. Downey, Mrs. \.
NJ. Curtis and Rev. Frank Dixon.
Musical numbers, Rotations and reads
ings from the writings, speeches and life
Of Lincoln will make up the rest of the
program. Among those who will take part
will be Miss Alice Johnson. Miss Florence
Mutt, Miss Hattie Ackers. Miss Carrie
Price. Miss Sadie Thompson. Miss Zera-
datha Richardson, Miss Elise Ware. Miss
Beatrice Ware, Miss Mayme Haroer, ]. ID.
Pair, Charles Sackers, Percy Kicks, Her.
bert Strother, Howard Grennan and ST.
las James.
Patrick J. Haltigan, the editor of the
National iibernian of this city and state
deputy of the knights of Columbus. will
give an illustrated lecture to LOCO chill
dren of the schools of ST. Aloysius parish.
in Gonzaga College Hall tomorrow after
noon at J o'clock and to the public tomora
row night at o'clock.
Mr. Haltigan will illustrate his subject
with nearly one hundred stereopticon
views. and will read an original poem on
Lincoln by Col. John \. Joyce. In con-
nection with the lecture the children Of
the schools. under the direction OF the
Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters Of Notre
bdne, VIII present Il pdlIiotIC pIoSIdiH.
McKendree NJ. e. Church.
The Lincoln services at McKendree NJ.
E. Church Sunday school will be held
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Those on
the program will be Rev. r. l.. Wright,
Mrs j. II. Wesler, r. V. Belt, Horace
Naylor. Miss Mildred Cole, l.. l.. Schnare
and Col. w. III. Crook.
The Union Veteran Legion, Encamp-
ments "a and Ill, will hold joint services
at 516 9th street northwest Saturday
evening, at which the following program
will be given:
Singing Of America by the audience;
Col A. II. NickersOn. personal reminis-
cences; song. why Should the Spirit of
Mortal be Proud?'' Mrs. Morgan D. Lewis
(accompanist, Mrs. Edna Lewis: reading
of Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Lieut.
Col. William F. DAILY; song, AT Parting
Miss Gertrude Magill: address, Represent
alive James G. jenkins of Wisconsin;
musical surprise: violin solo. Miss Louise
II. Noonan: song, Il know Lovely Gar
den'' and Rose Tide Mrs. Morgan d.
Lewis (accompanist. Mrs. Edna Lewis) :;
address, Col. Thomas ]. Shannon, nation
al commander, L. v. L.; solo. Roses Ev
erywhere" Dentze). Miss Lena NJ. Wood
ruff; ''Star Spangled Banner" by the
audience: benediction. Rev. Dr. Couden,
chaplain of the House OF Representatives.
John A. Rawlins Post No. 1. G. A. R.,
will hold its regular monthly encampment
tomorrow night. A notice has been sent
to each member requesting a full attend
ance
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Injustice Charged.

Mr.. RosSiter has done the government
printing office further injustice In his in
vidious comparison in which he states
that the actual cost of producing the
Cuban census report by private con-
tractors was s11,752.57. and the esti-
mated cost Of producing the same work
at the government printing ONCE was
$11,7'b:j2. In making this compa rison
Mr.. Rossiter knew that the $1l.752.57 did
not include the cost of paper. He also
knew that it did not include the cost
OF $500 for. travelling expenses. nor did
and he must have known that the figures
quoted as the estimate for the govern
ment printing Office, viz: $17,75O52, did
include the cost of paper. estimated by
him $4.111.4S. and the cost of illus
trations $4,000 (overestimate). and the
item of $4OO for alterations actually re-
quired in completing the book from
which total estimate Mr.. Rossiter has
since been magnanimous enough to de-
duct s126 overestimate by him on the
cost of illustrations.
Less Than Outside Rates.
Il desire to say further that based on
the present scale of charges used by the
government printing office, had the
Cuban census report been produced in
the government printing Office and print
ed on the same quality OF paper as is
used on all census bulletins and publi-
cations, 1t would have cost $13,94S.02,
representing a saving of s2.501.03 to the
census bureau over the cost of having
the work produced by private contrac-
tors, and in this connection attention
should be given to the fact that the
scale OF prices as charged by the gov
eminent printing Office includes the ele-
ment of wages so per cent higher than
that paid by the private contractors, and
it is not a fair assumption that because
the private contractors in this instance
small job at such low figures as is
claimed for them that the entire work
of reports OF the thirteenth census, con-
sisting of eight volumes Of 1900 pages
each, could be produced as cheaply 1t
is unthinkable that this great work
can be farmed out and peddled around
to country shops or low-wage binderies
and results obtained which would be
satisfactory to the government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-11
DAY IN WASHINGTON
Many Services Arranged in
Memory of Lincoln.
PROGRAM A LARGE ONE
Celebrations Include Churches. Clubs
and Patriotic Organizations.
PUBLIC MEETING TOMORROW
Exercises to Be Conducted and
Tributes Paid by Men of Prom
inence to the Entire Nation.
PUBLIC MEETING TOMORROW

beginning tomorrow and continuing
until Sunday evening, there will be Lin
coin celebrations in this city participated
i'll by churches, clubs, business men S as
sociations. patriotic organizations. men
prominent in church and official life and
by hundreds of others. All of those who
will take part in the many patriotic serv-
ices and celebrations will do honor to
Abraham Lincoln, the hundredth ami
versary of whose birth will occur tomor-
row, when the celebration will be con-
Quoted by men of prominence to the en-
tire nation.
The public celebra ton at the New Ma
sonic Temple will be conducted by the Of
fetal head of the District and on the
platform will be men whose words will
stir the vast audience which is expected
to be there. The G. A. r., composed of
I.incolns own boys in blue" has ar
ranged a splendid program in comment
Grafton of the day. Churches have an
nounced services and meetings for tomor-
row and for Sunday.
Services will be held in New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church tomorrow even
ing at O'Clock, under the auspices OF
the G. A. r., Department of the Potomac.
committees includes patriotic music, both
vocal and Instrumental; flag exercises,
readings and speeches. The committee
in charge of the services consists Of A. s.
Perham, II. B. Moulton. Warren F. Bren-
izer. ]. G. S. Burger. w. G. Davenport,
c. r. Douglass, S. f. Faunce, George c.
Harris, James c. Hunniman. Jerome +.
Johnson. Edward \. Keller, Asa II. ked-
NJ. Potter. Homer Riggs. f. J. Sweet,
George A. Webster and Thomas W. West.
The program will be as follows:
Music by the 18th Cavalry Band, +.
Anselsberg, leader; call to order by John
S. Walker. department commander; re-
ception of Lincoln Post, Grand Army
of the Republic; THE Star Spangled
Banner" Mrs. g. II. Smart. with band
accompaniment; presentation Of colors
by Department of the Potomac. G. A.
r., Hazard Wheeler. color sergeant;
presentation of Lieut.. Gen. John c.
Bates, presiding officer; invocation by
Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, DID,, Bishop
Of Washington: music. TitiS Serenade,
by the 18th Cavalry Band: address by
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe. ID; reading.
"Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal
Be Proud by Prof. +. c. Townsend,
address by John p. Swasey: address,
Gen. S. S. Burdett; solo. keller's Ameri-
can Hymn, by Capt. George II. Lilli-
bridge; address, John NJ. Harlan, JUS
tice of the Supreme Court; hymn. Amer
lea, by the band and audience; benedic-
ton, Rev. Charles +. Guthrie.
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mot FAIR" SAYS O0NNElly
ANSWERS CRITICISM OF Gov
ERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
Claims That the Cuban Census Could
Have Been Printed for Less
Than Outside Rates

In reply to criticism of the cost of work
at the government printing Office Public
Printer Donnelly has sent letter on the
subject to Representative John Wesley
Gaines of Tennessee, scoring Chief Clerk
Rossiter of the census bureau, charging
him with unfairness. Mr. Donnelly declares
in his letter that the estimated cost
of producing the Cuban census report at
the government printing office is a COM
putation made by w. S. Rossiter and not
by the government printing office" and
he says further:
Estimate Given to Rossiter.
The government printing Office was
never asked for a formal estimate of the
cost of producing the Cuban census. On
December II. 1908. Mr.. Rossiter asked for
an estimate of the cost of producing the
Cuban census on the basis of twenty thou
sand copies. 7OS pages each, size trimmed
= by . inches, stock for books and illus
trations to be supplied by his office. in
Guiding 70 full-page half tones, of which
twelve were printed on both sides. making
a total Of fourteen inserts: books to be
bound in full Holliston buckram. In re-
Spouse to this inquiry Mr.. Rossiter was
furnished with an estimate of s12.9o7 20.
to this estimate he added S4.11I.4S for l.ie
actual cost Of paper. $276.O4 for the cost
of illustrations, $4,000 for alterations
actually required in completing book, 800
hours at SO cents. making a total Of
S17, O.j2. which he quotes In his letter
to Senator Long, above referred to, as
the estimated cost Of producing the Gu
ban census at the government printing Of
flee.
THE basis on which this estimate was
obtained is erroneous, and the resultant
estimate unfair and misleading. A de-
side to procure an estimate, fair to the
government printing office. on the cost
of producing a book already in print as
was the Cuban census report OH Decem-
Der IA, 1908. would have prompted an in
quirer actuated by a desire to be fair,
to have submitted a copy of the book
itself
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Masonic Temple Meeting.

Addresses by men prominent in the at
fairs Of the city and nation will be the
feature of public celebration to be held
tomorrow afternoon in the New Masonic
Temple, beginning at $50 o'clock. Com
missioner Macfarland will preside. He
has received the support of various cti-
Zens and business mems associations in
the arrangements which his committee
has made for the meeting.
The District government Offices will
close tomorrow at ; o'clock, In order
that employees and officials may attend
the meeting.
Some of those who will eulogizethe life
of Lincoln at the meeting are Speaker
Cannon, former Senator John 3. Hender-
son. Ambassador Nabuco Justice Stat
ford, Thomas Nelson Page. Rev DR.. j. G.;
Butler and Rabbi Abram Simon. Dr. Ed
ward Everett Hale will pronounce the in
vocation and Bishop O'Connell the bene-
diction. On the platform will be seated
the speakers. members of the special citi-
zens committee. including the committees
of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Board of Trade. the District Commission
ers. former Commissioners and the heads
of various patriotic societies Of the city.
1t has been announced that no tickets
of admission will be required and no seats
will be reserved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02
THE HIRED GIRL QUESTION.

Emporia Woman Who Has worked
Out" Objects to Term Servant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02
What 1t Costs the Company.


No small item of expense is incurred
by the reading room system as the fol-
lowing recently compiled statistics will
show:
| On the system we have five reading
rooms and club houses and Is reading
rooms.
On the payroll of the reading room
department there are 40 employees, whose
average salary per day is $1.6O, or a
mon ttly salary expense of $4,000.
The cost of operating reading rooms
or. the system is $4,000 a year, apart
from renewals and the purchase of
books and papers.
The yearly cost of papers is about
81. 600. 4 similar amount is spent for
books.
The expense of putting on entertain
rients curing the season of six months
is about $4,000.
Salaries. improvements and renewals
entail a cost of $50. 900 a year. H.
The santa Fe has now, counting the
first cost of buildings and furnishings,
over $3.50, 600 invested in reading rooms.
In the libraries of the reading rooms
there are now over 1880 volumes. 40
per cent of which are fiction, 20 per
CT mt history, l5 per cent biography, 10
per cent technical, and the rest general.
, there are over $50 books used each day
en- the system.
1t is estimated that on each calendar
day 1000 employees use. the reading
rooms. This varies with the amount
of business on the line. When the read
IL rooms are crowded business is dull.
When business is brisk. the sleeping
rooms are filled and many are standing
around waiting for chance at bed.
During the season lust closed there
have been nearly 500 entertainers on
the line. and each reading room on the
circuit averaged a drst-class concert
once a week.
The real results of the reading
room system as recently recounted
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Truth and
Quality

appeal to the Well-Informed in every
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ingiy, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
faxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
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on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
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It acts pleasantly and naturally and
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able substances. To get its beneficial
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02

The comets tail, which is always d.
rected away from the sun, will there
fore extend in the director of the earth
may pass through it. This. however,
quote the eminent astronomer, Pro-
fessor Young, the density of the tail
of a comet is far below the best
vacuum we can make by any means OF
science. 1t is nearer to an airy nothing
than anything else we know Of
THE figure represents the path Of the
comet with regard to the earth, and is
a revision OF diagram given in Popu-
lar Astronomy for May, 1908, From
Jan. 20 until May IS the comet will be
above (north) of the plane of the
earth's orbit. Let the reader consider
that the circle, representing the orbit
of the earth. lies In the plane of the
paper. then that part of the comets
orbit which Is shaded, must be inn
agined as tipped UP about the line
drawn through the nodes and the sun
so that the point marked X is in the
air above the paper while the comets
orbit slopes down to the paper and
passes through 1t at the points called
nodes. The comet is then to be thought
OF as passing up through the paper at
the ascending node and down through
the paper at the descending node. Be-
fore the comet reaches the node on
May Is it will be a brilliant object In
the morning sky. After passing the
node it will be conspicuous in the
evening sky"
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| by Superintendent Busser for the
Santa Fe Railway Employees Maya
zine are in evidences:
| The following results are in evil
dence:
Superintendent report that callers
go first to reading rooms for the
men.
Garnishment for gambling debts is
a thing of the past.
One general superintendent re-
ports that the reading rooms con-
stitute the best prohibitory system
of temperance in the world, beating
Kansas and Maine.
The superintendent of reading
rooms tried minstrel show. En-
ployes wrote letters saying, Don't
send any more such: give US high
grade music"
You never hear a Santa Fe en-
ploye applying hell epithets to his
officials
Scandals are practically unknown
on the Santa Fe.
Santa Fe employees are anticipating
the fiddle a week before it comes. and
talking about it a week after it has
gone. This is better than talking
about their troubles.
At one of the places I invited the
saloonkeepers to attend one of the
concerts in which employees par
ticipated. Three of them came. At
the close one of them said to me. 81
used to have the boys in my place.
You have got them here now. and it
is id sight better. and am go
ing to quit"
A conductor at La Junta said to me-
''These reading-rooms have given US
fellows a mighty fine reputation. and
don't know what we can do but live
up to It."
A letter Just received from a lead
ing banker at Gallup contains these
words; "Our people, it seems to me,
are taking more pride in themselves
and in the town. and have warm
spot in their hearts for the Santa Fe.
we feel that the Santa Fe has put
Gallup on the map"
The Santa Fe has established its
reputation for having polite officials or
its trains and passengers report that it
is a pleasure to travel on our cars
A prominent general agent in an
eastern city wrote me as follows: I
gave one of your circulars advertising
a concert to a New England man figur-
ing on trip to California, and when he
had read it he said he would not look
any further. since with employees who
read books and hear good music he
could trust his family"
We used to have the tough element at
remote desert points Now the finest
families and employees of high moral
standing may be found on the grades
of Arizona as we'll as on the plains
of Kansas and Illinois.
I do not like to make a boast. for
accidents do happen, but 1 am safe
in saying that wrecks from careless
ness or the violation of rules have
been practically eliminated and our
property is handled more carefully
and life is very nearly safe on the
Santa Fe.
use other roads at times. and I
study the proposition every day, and
if there is a better operated railroad
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
7
ceited enough to think it doesn't exist.