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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
NEW JOBS FOR SOME.
Changes Announced in Department
of Commerce and Labor.

The following changes are announced
at the Department of Commerce and
Labor:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NJ. Williamson
Tennessee, clerk, 81 900 per annum; office
of the Secretary.
Promotions-Edwi E. Haas, District of
Columbia 81 400 to $1,000: James W.
Nichol, Michigan, $1,000 to 81 400; William
j. Cover Mississippi, $1,000 to $1,000;
Edward II. Butts, West Virginia. $500 to
81 1000: all in the bureau of corporations
Frank S. Miller New Jersey, has been
appointed copyst at $500 by transfer
from War Department, bureau of COR
porations.
George w. Steward. Missouri, and En-
NETT NJ. Osborn. Missouri have been
changed from tiremen to skilled laborers
at $40 year, bureau of census.
A number of appointments. transfers
and promotions in the department. field
service have also been made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
Member of Confidential Staff.

Jesse L. Suter Washington correspond
ent of the Nashville Tennessean, has
been appointed ny Postmaster General
Hitchcock as a member of his confiden-
tial staff and assigned to assist Mr..
Brockmeyer who looks after the news OF
the department for the benefit of the
press.
Mr. Su.ers Is a native of Greensburg
Pa. and was connected with the pub
licity bureau OF the republican national
committee during the last presidential
campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
REBUILDING THE SEA WALL.
Work at Washington Barracks
Progressing Rapidly.

The work of improving the sea wall
about the harbor side of Washington Bar
racks Park which has been i'm progress
for several weeks past, is approaching
completion. only about twenty-five feet
of the wall remaining to be built. In
rec1pstructing the wall the upper courses
of the stone have been removed and re-
laid in cement, and a cement coping
about a foot high has been placed
on top of the wall. This addition To the
height of the wall removes all danger
of it's ever being covered by water. un-
less the tides should come q foot or two
higher than they have been for many
years.
The work of rebuilding the sea wall
about Potomac Park. from the railway
bridge across the tidal basin outlet to
point about opposite the foot of It'll
street, will be completed In short time
The loose stone work of the old wall is
being removed 10 ordinary low-water
mark and the stone work is being laid
In cement and raised a foot or two above
its present height. in order to make it
conform to the height of the portion of
the wall rebuilt a year or two ago. TIE
work is being done under the direction Of
the United States engineers office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
END OF RECIPROCITY.
Last Treaty Will Terminate August
T. 1910.

A bulletin showing the exact date on
which the reciprocity agreements with
several foreign governments under the
Dingley tariff act will terminate was
made public at the State Department to-
day.
The agreements with France, Switzer-
land and Bulgaria terminates October 81,
those with Germany and Great Britain,
February next. and those with Portugal.
Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. August
next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
NOTABLE DEMONSTRATION.
Efforts of United States for Peace
Appreciated bv Paraguay.

A notable appreciation of the efforts of
the United States in behalf of peace and
orderly government occurred at Asuncion,
Paraguay, on the departure from that
place last Sunday of Edward C. O Brien
the American minister. About 1000 per-
sons, comprising students of the univer-
sity and members of other non-political
associations. made an enthusiastic demon
stration in the minister's honor Special
qualification was shown over the signing
of the arbitration treaty with Paraguay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
Roanoke's New Post Office.

ROANOKE. Va, August 10.-Jones &
Adams of Lynchburg have been award
ed the contract for building the new
Roanoke post office, their bid being
$S0.37.. The present post Office will be
torn down and work will begin on the
new structure at once The new build
ing is TO be completed by September l.,
1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
Mauritania Chops Off Two Hours

NEW YORK, August 1O.-A cablegram
received here today from Liverpool re-
ports the steamer Mauretania arriving
there at $40 o'clock yesterday evening,
two hours earlier than on any previous
trip, thus establishing a record by land
ing her passengers at the English port
Monday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10

Miss Henrietta Deli!nser. daughter of
the late Col William Deiiinger. led at
her home in Clear Spring, Md. of typhoid
fever. She was sixty-niae years old and
was a sister of Mrs Anna Caselman of
Kelso, Wash: Mrs. John Greathead of
Accommodating. Pa, aud Harry w. Del
linger of Clear Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
ANTARTIc ISLANDS GONE.
Nimrod Sailed Over Place Where
They Were-Crusoe in Oil.

LONDON, August 1D.-The whaler MINI
rod, on which Lieut.. Shackleton made his
antarctic voyage, visited on her way
home Macquarie Island. 1t found there a
voluntary Robinson Crusoe, who from the
last penguin oil season remained alone on
the island to collect oil for next season.
The Nimrod passed over the charted po-
sitions CD Royal. Emerald, Nimrod and
Dougherty islands. but found no trace of
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
Robert Scott Dies in Honolulu.

HONOLULU, August 10.-Robert Scott
divorced husband of Patti Rosa, singer.
and prominent years ago as an actor. is
dead here. Scott was recently employed
as an inspector of the Honolulu board of
health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
BILLBOARD HEARING TODAY
HOWARD PARK CITIZENS
WANT SIGN REMOVED.
Commissioners Tell Attorney fol
Posting Company They Are
Ready for Court.

To protest against the maintenance Of
the billboard at the corner of Georgia
and Howard avenues, near the main en-
trance to the Howard University campus,
representatives Of the Howard Park Citi-
zens' Association appeared before the
Commissioners at public hearing today.
Attorney Charles H. Knapp appeared for
the Washington Bill Posting Company.
which maintains the sign.
At the conclusion of the hearing Attor-
ney Knapp declared that the company
he represents will probably agree to re-
move the billboard voluntarily, without
any order from the Commissioners, but
he requested time in which to put the
question up to the officers of the COM
pany. He will also confer with Corpora
ton Counsel E. III. Thomas as to the
power of the Commissioners to revoke
permits for billboards and advertising
signs on building walls.
During the course of the hearing At
torney Knapp argued for the general
rights of the bill posting companies. He
asked that the Commissioners do not eS-
tablish a precedent in this case, which
will lead other citizens associations and
organizations to ask for the removal of
other advertising signs
In reply, 1t was announced that the
Commissioners had decided to issue no
more permits for new billboards or ad-
vertsing signs on building walls, and that
they had referred to Corporation Counsel
Thomas the question as to whether the
Commissioners could revoke any of those
already issued.
II take. personally, a more advanced
position than has yet been taken by the
Commissioners said Commissioner Mac
farland at the close of the hearing. Il
believe the billboard is an anacronism and
ought to go. / do not think the city of
Washington. which we are trying to make
the city beautiful. should be married by
billboards. i think, especially. the sur
roundings of our public buildings. our
parks, our boulevards and avenues and
our residence streets. should not be dis
figured by bllboards. But there should
he no billboards in modern city. l be-
lieve that the courts will in this, as in
other matters. have what might be called
a progressive revelation. and will come to
see that esthetic considerations are just
as important to the welfare OF a city as
any other which have been used to up
hold legislation for the protection of the
civic life.
Ready to Go to Court.
But certainly we are ready to meet
YOU in the courts at any time on what
we have done. and shall not undo unless
the courts decide against us. We shall
issue no more permits for billboards, and
we shall seek to obtain and exercise the
right which we believe we have to revoke
ton the corporation counsel is now con-
sidering And you are, of course, at lib
erty to address any arguments you desire
to him. But If you are going to take the
general question into court, the quicker
you do 50 the better"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10

new Shipment of 800 rolls of the
Genuine Imported Vitrophane, the win
dow decoration and substitute for
stained glass, on sale tomorrow at
less than usual wholesale cost. Vitro-
plane Obstructs the view, yet admits
the light. Easily applied and can be
washed with soap and water. Large
variety of the newest color effects
Regular price, 25c a yard. Sale price,
1Ec
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
INv[NTS WIRELESS
TUNING APPLIANCE
Father Richard Bell of Santa
Clara College Reported to
Have Perfected Device
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

SANTA CLARA. Sept 1s.-That
Father Richard Bell of Santa Clara
college has after several years of ex-
perimenting perfected the tuning
process in wireless telegraphy and
thereby made the most important
stride in this science since Marconi
conquered the Hertzian waves. is the
this community. While no definite
statement regarding the discovery is
forthcoming the rumor viii not be
stilled.
Father Bell has devoted himself to
wireless research for the last IL years
and he was among the first scientists
to prove that wireless telegraphy
could be demonstrated in a practical
manner and that it had passed out OF
the realms of dreams The great draw
raphy, under existing circumstances, is
the lack of a sufficiently perfected
tuning" process, the absence of which
makes all messages common to all in
struments within reach. Father Bell.
like scores of other scientists, has
worked toward the perfection of the
tuning process, and it is now said
that he has discovered a means where
by messages sent by one instrument
will be received solely by those tuned
to the same pitch. If this is so he will
be hailed as one of the most eminent
inventors of the day.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
BRAVES DEATH TO
RESCUE CHILDREN
Father Enters Burning Room in
Which Shotgun Shells Are
Exploding to Save Babies

SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 1S.--In a fire
Santa Margarita last night c.. J. Muir
ray, a well known rancher of that
place, braved death to save his two
little children from room in which
$50 shotgun shells had begun to ex-
plode.
awakened to see a shower of sparks
falling through a hole which had
burned in the ceiling above his bed.
The room was already thick with
smoke and believing that his twin
baby girls, Florence and Katherine,
Joining apartment, he gave his atten-
tion to his wife, who was faint from
the fumes.
AS soon as he had succeeded in get
ting her to place of safety he groped
his way back toward the room occu-
pied by the children.
BY this time the roof was a mass
of flames. In a maze of cinders and
smoke Murray felt his way and reached
the door of the childrens bedroom,
when he heard succession of loud
reports within.
hunting coat with the pockets
full of shotgun shells. and several
boxes of the same ammunition were
in a closet, and Murray realized that
the lives OF the children hung upon a
thread. Rushing into the room he
caught up both tots and managed to
carry them out of danger while the
exploding cartridges sounded fusil-
lade through the burning house.
The dwelling was destroyed, as no
one dared approach it when the shells
began to explode. The loss was $4,000,
a third of which is covered by insur-
ance.
Neighbors assisted Murray in saw
ing q large barn and other farm
buildings. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
DIPLOMATS PLAY BALL
TO AID WOMAN'S CLUB
Mines Made Up From American
and British Embassies

BERLIN, Sept. 1s.-A baseball game
was played in Berlin today for the
benefit of the American women's club.
of which Mrs. Thackara. wife of the
American consul general, is president.
The ball was thrown on the diamond
by Ambassadors HILL
The two mines were made up of
Count Won Bernstorff. the German am
bassador to Washington: Captain
Heath OF the British embassy; the
members Of the American embassy and
representatives, of the American colony.
After the game Ambassador and Mrs.
Hill gave reception to the Americans
at their residence.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Regret Expressed That Execu-
tive Is Not Disposed to Con.
tinue Revision Agitation
Few Journals Disposed to Give
Endorsement to Attitude
Toward the Insurgents
Full Credit Bestowed for Bold
ness and Honesty, but Crit
icism Not Without Sting |

FOLLOWING are editorial ex-
pressions from newsp4p ers
throughout the country regard
ing President Taft's Winona speech
upholding the Payne tariff:
TRIBUNE, Chicago-There is GER
tain inconsistency in the presidents
attitude. the inconsistency of a super
latvely honest man seeking to reconcile
his theoretical view of the tariff with
the tariff which the stand patters of
his party forced upon him, in order
that the party may not be injured and
the prosperity of the country retarded.
The Tribune can not follow Mr.. Taft
along the line of reasoning exposed
by the Winona speech III is the Trib-
une's belief that the tariff can be re-
vised and revised properly by the re-
publican party. and this may be accom-
plished in the next congress by
retiring stand patters and electing in
their stead men of progressive
tendencies.
In word the Tribune finds itself
more loyalist than the king. more re-
publican than the president in its be-
lief in the inherent ability and purpose
of the party to do what right by the
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
OF
G[ARY ROAD TO
FERRY PLANNED
Supervisors to Submit Gears
Bond Issue, Including Mar
ket Line to the Bay
Plan to Have Peoples Mandate
Back of Assault on United
Railroads Monopoly

The Geary street railway bond issue
proposition is to be put before the peo-
pie early in December with a sting in
the tail of the project submitted which
will convert the former covert opposi-
and desperate resistance. The Cal
houn roads lower Market street mo-
nopoly, by grace of dummy company
and by the use of discovered fran
chise, will be assailed in the courts
should the people authorize the bond
With these elements of strength be-
hind the city's assault:
The people will have authorized
a municipal road not merely from
the ocean via Point Lobos avenue
and Geary street to Market, but
nance which Supervisors Murphy,
Johnston and McLeran agSeed
upon yesterday will call for the
city engineers report TO cover the
route to the water front.
The right asserted by the
United Railroads to debar the city
itself, as well as any real private
competition from the use of lower
Market street through the fiction
known as the Sutter street rail-
way company will be tested.
The question whether divided
franchise can live, or whether the
Sutter company. by selling its
right of way from Sansome west
ward, had not abandoned the frac-
tfon remaining, will also come
forth for determination.
The validity of the Sutter privi-
<lege. or its forfeiture by misuse,
will be involved in the city's
action, not by direct attack, but
taken in flank as an incident, in
the city's determination to use its
own highway.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
MARINE
COMES TO THIS CITY
TO START FILIBUSTER
De Leon of Guatemala to Move
Against Cabrera

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1S.-Ostensibly
bound for Sam Francisco, Cal, to see
his brother, but, as admitted. probably
for the purpose of organizing a fill
clustering expedition against President
Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, Juan
Morales de Leon of Guatemala is now
en- route for the Pacific coast. De Leon
is accompanied by William Lesher, an
American resident OF Guatemala.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
TOBACCO SEED BEDS
AND BARNS DESTROYED
Storms Work Havoc in Famous
Cuban District

HAVANA, Sept. 1s.-Mea ger reports
have been received from Pinar del Rio,
but what mas been received here indi-
Gates that great damage has been done
by storm throughout the province, the
most serious being the destruction or
the seed beds and barns in the
vuelta Abado district. Peasants whose
homes have been destroyed have sought
refuge in the towns. President Gomez
has started relief fund
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
FATAL WRECK ENDS
AUTO RELAY RACE
Reporter on Philadelphia Press
Car Killed and Other Pas
sengers Badly Hurt

READING, Pa, Sept. 1S.-The trans
continental automobile relay run from
Philadelphia to Seattle, under the aus
pices of the Philadelphia Press, came
to sudden and sad end late today
when the first relay car was wrecked
at Robesonia, IL miles west of here,
causing the death of one of the occu-
injury of several of the other pas
sengers
The dead man was Henry L. Buckley,
a reporter for the Press. William
Brown of Philadelphia was so seriously
injured that he may die. and William
H. Bohm of Philadelphia sustained a
deep laceration of the scalp Clifford
r. Ely, the chauffeur. and Halyard
Carter, colored valet, were slightly
injured.
The automobile was going through
Robesonia at a 25 mile clip when
something went wrong with rear
tire. The car upset and. Buckley was
thrown into the middle of the road,
fracturing his skull. He lived only
short time.
When the news of the accident
reached the Press the run was imme-
diately called off. The Press had OBJ
tanned from President Taft a letter of
greeting to President Chilberg of the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition and
had planned to carry it across the
Buckley was "a years old and a
graduate of Lafayette college.
Colonel Harvey Close to Death
MANAHAwKEN. N. j.. Sept. 1S.-
Colonel George. B. NJ. Harvey. presi-
dent of Harper & Brothers, and editor
of the North American Review and
Harper's Weekly, was close to death in
an automobile accident today. Although
pinned beneath an overturned two ton
car: he escaped with broken collar
bone and minor injuries.
J. Henry Harper and his son. who
occupied seats in the coloners ma
chine. and were thrown out when the
car turned turtle while running at
high speed, were slightly bruised.
Colonel Harvey and guests We're on
their way from the publishers home at
Deal Beach, N. H, to Atlantic City,
where they planned to attend the fu-
neral of Mayo Williamson Hazeltine.
for many years editor of the New
York sun. Suddenly on the narrow
turnpike motorcycle came into view.
racing straight toward Colonel Har-
vey's car Collision seemed inevitable,
but the chauffeur swung his steering
on the road and up to the bushy side
OF = tall sand ridge.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
VICTORIA BANK CLERKS
ARRESTED IN NEW YORK
High Life at the WaIdorf-As-
toria RudeIy INTERRUPTED

NEW YORK. Sept. 1S-CeciI p.
Drake. John d. Strong and Harold Nj.
Lewis. three young bank clerks of
Victoria. B. c.. were arrested today
at the waldorf-Astoria at the request
of the chief of police of Victoria,
whose message said they We're wanted
for alleged passing of worthless checks
aggregating several hundred dollars.
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Towns Still Menaced

The danger at Wrights and Alma, a
town five miles north of wrights, is
not past.
Ashes are falling thickiy in the min
ing town OF Almaden from fire burn
ing along the slopes of Mount Unicum.
Various other sres are burning between
Redwood retreat and Alma and scat
tered mountain homes. wood choppers
cabins and camps are endangered. The
greatest damage is being done to tim
Der lands.
A dramatic incident is related in
connection with the fire near wrights.
While L. A. Berteling, a former San
Francisco optician, was in this city
securing a warrant for the arrest of
Joseph Cassidy, his neighbor. the latter
was devoting his energies in saving
Berteling's home from destruction by
FIRE. BY dint of superhuman effort
Cassidy managed to save Berteling's
home after the outhouses and barns
had burned. but he was badly burned
about. the hands and arms in saving
stock While he was engaged in this
task the officers arrived with the war
rant for his arrest
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Fires in Trinity Forest
ISpeciol Disnofch to The Call


REDDTNG, Sept. IS.-Fifteen fires
are raging in Trinity forest. according
to reports received at the Office of
the forest supervisor in Weaverville
Two other fires are raging outside the
national reserve. Every ranger in Trim
fly county is at work and hundreds Of
other able bodied men have been
pressed into the service. Trinity county
has number Of men guarding county
bridges.
Some OF the points at which there
are forest fires are: Hyampon valley,
Corral bottom. Virgin creek (near the
Siskiyou county line). Big bar, Pap
pose, Mount Bally. Readings creek,
East Weaver creek, Rush creek and
Browns mountain.
What was called two weeks ago the
"big fire." on Rush creek. between
Lewiston and Weaverville, is not out,
though il is not burning any more in
valuable timber. fire on Readings
creek. which is outside the national
forest. has been burning for six weeks.
No one is fighting it.
There is big FIRE on Mount Bally,
but is in timber of little value. Another
FIRE three miles south of Weaverville
is doing much damage. but it is out
side the national forest. and nothing is
being done to control it.
Cities Clouded by Smoke
NEVADA. CITY. Sept. 1s.-The big
forest fires which have been raging in
this part OF the state for the last
week are having their effect here. This
city and Grass Valley. four miles dis
tant. are covered with a pail of smoke.
Around Camptonville, Colgate. Dutch
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
INDEX OF THE
San FRANCISCO CALLS
TELEPHONE KEARNY SO
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 1s. 1909
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YEsrERDAY-South wind: cloudy; maximum
temperature, 5s; minimum. 81
FORECAST FOR ToDAY-Fsir. except cloudy
in the morning and at night; moderate
west wind. Page 43
The San Francisco call., 1909-09-19
Loss Nearly 100000

The loss in this section of the noun
tains VIII total in the neighborhood of
100000. One OF the heaviest losers is
George Avinsini. a vineyardist. His
ranch buildings were saved, but his
great orchards and acres of valuable
vines are utterly destroyed. His loss
alone will reach $4,000.
The timber on the Blake place near
Mount Madonna is damaged. Other
ranchers who are heavy losers are
Evans. Kirk. Doud. Roos. and many
yothers. The beautiful Mount Madonna
grove OF redwoods was saved. and un-
less the wind shifts the danger in this
section is over.
A telephone report from Wrights, 20
miles north of the Redwood retreat,
tonight says that the fire is dying down
in places. but is burning briskly in the
canyon above Wrights and near the
wafer company's big reservoir. There
is also a big fire sweeping along both
sides of Hooker canyon.