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The Washington bee., 1909-07-03
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WI. POLLARD, ATTORNEY

w. /. POLLARD, ATTORNEY
SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA
HOLDING PROBATE COURT
No. I6o54 Administration.
This is to Give Notice
That the subscriber, Of the District
of Columbia has obtained from the
Probate Court OF the District Of Co
lumbia. Letters of Administration on
the estate of Thomas Wilkinson, late
of the District Of Columbia, deceased.
All persons having claims against the
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subscriber. on or before the 23rd day
of Tune. A. D.. 1910, otherwise they
may by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 23rd day
Of June, 1909.
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James Tanner,
Register of Wills for the District of
Columbia. Clerk of the Probate
Court.
William L. Pollard. Attorney.
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drifted off before the wisping winds the
white S lifted up again triumphantly
and fronted California as the blue and
gold came racing down the field. Yell
piled on yell again, the seats were
swept as if some hurricane was beating
them, bright colors Powered, pennants
and banners and Streamers and roses
that bloomed in bright clad women's
cheeks
Below. upon the field Greek fronted
Greek. each ready for the strife. each
fit and perfect, picturing the battles OF
the days of history when man warred
breast to breast and lived or died ac-
cording to his need. The field was pal
pitant and ready for the call to arms,
and as the blue and gold and white and
red lined up there was a hush that was
a presage of mightier storm to be.
And then high above the field there
scared yellow, twisting, whirhng ball,
and as it scared so pandemonium broke
forth. The game was on, the days of
waiting We're all ended. the days of
trial and self-denia1 and toll and pa
tiently perfected scheme.
AS rose the ball so rose the
crowd and while the field below
was thunderous with racing warriors
the1seats above were Swayed and swept
by seething waves that pulsed and beat
and throbbed out from the hearts that
thrilled. AS swept the waves of war
upon thes field below SO swept the
waves of sympathy upon the seats
above. the fiaunt of Stanford colorS
drawing forth "a weave of waving,
fiuttering gold and blue.
Fortune of war swept back and forth.
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serums grew like some gigantic tor
toise intos being and disappeared like
mist. Back swept the ball before a
Surging human wave that broke into
disorganized human units and drifted
off before another human wave oppos-
ing il. And then. as if the cries and
cheers and thunders that had gone be-
fore We're mere preliminary tunings
up, a noise Gargantuan burst forth as
Stanford scored a try, three mighty
points.
Above the field a pigeon dyed in
brilliant red bearing a white streamer
swept back and forth in frightened
circles. penned in by waving arms
and swating bodies and beat upon by
thunderous sound. And then. fate fav-
oring the red a goal was kicked for
two more points and once more 10000
human throats assailed the sky. Back
drew the lines in tension yet more
taut, and as the weave of fortune
wove its mesh, so throbbed the seats.
so thrilled the hearts that walled the
place and as the Drawn and brain and
muscle of the Berkeley boys pushed
victory along, point after point. so
swept the crowds that shared the joy
of being in the open underneath the
azure sky and seeing clean cut, Wig
orous youth engaged in battle for the
glory of its elan.
So swayes the game from side TO
side and end to end d-Done side to vic
tory, the other to defeat-and so the
hearts ofrall the crowd swayed with
them until the end. and then. from out
the California rooters' section there
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poured an avalanche of youth Tum-
bling and stumbling ana sliding the
boys of California gained the field
that they had won and danced and
cheered and yelled. and with them were
the old boys who had watched the
game. The whirlpool swept and gath
cred strength and cfrcled madly into
vortex that broke and dissipated
and then gathered once again. Mad
revel held the field. mad merriment
shrflled forth. following the surginS
roars that marked the progress OF
the game, and then the multitude took
form and gathered into something def
mite and swept the field with the
great serpentfne that climaxed and
concluded all the strife and battling.
Slowly the mad and dancing victors
filtered forth. and slowly the crowd
erept down from perches that had pin
nacled high up. The shrieks and shrill-
ings that had paeaned victory We're
merged and mingled with the raucOus
shriekings of the automobiles. and as
the crowd had come so it departed. in
whirls and eddles, rushing and pushing
streams that raced toward the waiting
trains. The automobile park disinte
grated with the mystery of magic The
banked up seats became a gray and
empty monotone. The cheers that had
beat madly back and forth in vOlumed
mass had split up into smaller. separate
groups. The coming night was ,streaked
with blazing lights that beat toward
the north and south and east and west.
The day was done for Stanford. asd the
night was just begun for those who
wore the blue and gold. Far off. above
the hills that lifted TO the west. there
lifted up a cUmbeFing. threatening bank
of clouds, and as the sun sank behind
them the piled up. billow mass for JUS
an instant blazed forth in red, and then
the night came on. the clouds arose
unanimously and turned black and
swallowed all the crimson.
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noticeable Dwiggins and Brown had
punting duel, and the latter won
out California now took hand in
the attack and a serum was formed
near the Stanford corner. Stanford
retaliated and took play back to the
half way house. The play for the re-
mainder of the half was all in favor
of the California team. Both teams
were showing their earlier efforts very
plainly and toward the end the pace
had slackened down considerably.
When the whistle sounded full time the
ball was in neutral ground and the
score of 10 to t3 in favor of California
gave the blue and gold its first VIC
tory in six years.
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Sun and Sky Smile for the
VictOrs

Continued From page 50, Columns 2-s
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STANFORD ;. CALIFORNIA

Cert returned Stanford's kickoff 10
Mitchell and the latter returned to
touch cass kicked to Dwiggins, who
made magniicent kick to the half
way line. finding touch. shortly after
Brown of Stanford sent an equally
magnificent kick sailing down the field.
which found touch ia his opponents
territory. When the ball was in play
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-14
roINTs FoR ELLIoIT

A feature Of the game was the$nag
nihcent goal kicking OF Elliott He
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Continued From Page 30. columns SO
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-14
,ALIFoRNIA II. STANFORD 10

California forced the play from the
dropout and on two successive occa-
sions Stanford was forced to save.
California again took the play to it's
opponents territory and d passing bout
between Cert. Elliott and Johns re-
suited in the latter scoring his second
try. Elliott converted, making the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-08-19


crossing black lines OF his telescope must place
bulls.eye before he presses the trigger. They must
THEY MUST.
lie puls-as easily n child cracks toy rovolv-
Look the gun is discharged. Yes: 1t went OF just
now. ] swear 1t did Sure enough! The great breech
sinks through the floor the sleek shiny haunch slips be-
meath your grasp weches away there in the glazed light
of the etha chamber. drops till its crest is low as
It's belly lay then RECEIVERS, poised slips to Its first po-
siton, lies patiently modesy for the next charge,
graceful spring a tgress ever made on moon
road. feline with stealthy swiftness decisive oiled
piston strokes!
And your hand has been IL inches from the launch
ing of that thunderbolt Oh, well, this is easy. Who
need be afraid here This is place for grand stand;
here may gather all lovers of royal sport Great sport
indeed II is. for watch the precision and
swftness of that silent working against time
The plugman unlocks the breech and pulls it open.
The loader leaps the chasm, hips up the tiny
guard that breaks the electric connection, and ex
tracts the used primer Automatically the air.blast
works, and you hear the swift escape Of steam
1t cleans out the rife blowing away and stray
grains. The egg smell of the nitro comes and the
sweetness of the ether
Then the grind from tho hoist the shutter opens, and
UP springs again the Looking down. you there
the that lies in all shlpsthe direct location
of the gunbreech the powder magazines burnt
grain falling down there with inefficient shutter the
only protection is a constant danger Over the building
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the umpire. You've broken powderbag."
Indignant protesting the three men quickly pick up
the scattered grains. each big mans middle
finger. They look carefully all about. then rush back
quickly to their stations to continue They look
to the umpire with the expectancy Of dogs asking for
crumbs. Every second Is eating into their record This
rotten powdcrbag will cost them penalty They may
not qualify they may fall below the second Hor
rors! The ship may descend from trophy class
The umpire is memorable. moi" says he. That's
all this Climb down there and go into the
of that shutter: brush out every crack l take
chance"
Grumbng the men go about the prevention that the
umpire thinks is worthy any ton of postmortems and
boards of inquiry But the men, with the Anglo.Saxon
light of contest in their eyes, remember only the ord
officers dictumbetter 40 men killed than to lose
the trophy.
HE wants to keep our down. they mutter
Hes from the -, and we're their only rivals" Tho
gun captain out to protest to the turret officer
The welltrained resolves ITSELF with expert sud
denness into mob OF baked Americans clamoring for
fair play. An umpire's job is no more popular on a
batteship than 1t is baseball diamond
At last they count the dergrains-37. THAT bag
half In" growls the loader. 81 could have rammed
'er home an no oned known IL that - hadn't
been here Now we get LAG per minute an we might
"a had 21o. Rats!"
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I - :
RICHARD Barry

yearod boy, and the powderbags look very much the
a UNDERGROUND sack Of flour. cylindrical in
shape and studded with Jumps whore the sticks of nitro
protrude) The trpper pulls the lower lever from his
car the first powdcrbag falls; another lever and the
second is In The brass rammcr forces them behind the
shell The plugman gives huge wrench to the breech
and It's mushroom head slides up the powderbags
The loader slips primer in the ouchhoe. then folds
a tiny piece Of steel that forms the electrical
uection.
All is ready. These are the hard moments. You clasp
your cap tightly in your hand You become ratified
Though you locked in the coffin there might be
heavy breeze blowing the way your flap against
your legs. The has ground It's way back the shut
fprs have closed the it at attention The place is
as clean and neat and silent ms at an inspection.
II is now up to the pointer. He grasps his unweldy
mechanism; he closes and wrostlcs with the and
complicated steel The ship moves her stately and
Predetermined way, while the seconds fly and every
oud counts against the prizemoncy this pointer may
earn against the trophy this ship may win The barn.
big buls.eyc dances fantastic his maFnined field
of vision. He twists the wheel a hair and the muzzle
OF the gun responds by inch; he rcyerses and up up
she surgos slowly, imrercepubly The ship is waiting
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Now, until you hear again that command "Silence!"
you will hear only two words:
Commence firing"
Rambling from below. With n grating crash the au
tomato shutter drops In the ammunitonhost and the
shcllcar climbs its grinding, steady way the top. Sud
denly you realize that the machine is working
own accord. You movement the part of any.
one to set 1t going Except for that umpire, who, like
the man that the foo.ker will doubtless some time
get has really business there the but
officer, mdshpman, and he is with the other gum
all here are enlisted men. The officers aoft spot.
ting the shells they strike below setting the
ranges with intricate instruments and delicate adjust
ments About the itself the the machinery
move automatically. drilled to precision. Their last
instructions ito take 1t easy" consequently they
work like buttons in q shirt
The plugman pulls open the breech; the hoistman
locks the car the loader completes the passage from
to open breech with ring of pounded BRASS the boy
trpper jerks down his lever and the huge she'll nearly
half ton in weight drops to its all but final resting.
place. The hammer holds down his long release as
cable gripman throws back his lever and the smooth
brass head forces the shell up till its soft copper rim
takes" on the rihlng of the gun. when shell is
properly placed" in this way-if its collar does
take-it will surely be miss And II the powderbags
are placed wrong end to there is grave danger OF
hang-fre, and hanglre is than O missnre-
almost bad fareback-and q bareback as every.
knows, is what probably did up the Georga's tur
ret One of these shells is about the size of three
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tuted.
The umpire is only too well aware OF this danger az
he critically watches every move of the crew The utter
silence still prevails The gun has been fired and
is being loadcd for the second time; the first minute
has not passed, and still not word
The second shot Is fired Again the easy unbellsv-
able rcco Less than anywhere in the ship do you feel
It here the trunriou of the gun IT'S always So In
sorm.c enters Is the calm; in the Of the
dwels the germ. AS Disraei said the only Joy In being
prime minister lies In the certainty Of your knowledge
that nothing Is happening the inside Here, in the
lcha chamber, at the center OF destruction pre-
vail only silence and quiet
third and fourth time the smooth recoll The
works with the delight OF Geneva clock vastly
complicated, but Of a single purpose and a single
thought You are locksd up with single gun Sepa.
rated by skin Of steel is its mate When that speaks
the turet is jerked the burbce and the unfired gun
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ing like the quick flush Of womans face. The
snap of the "Silenccl" cuts like whip
As though paraly2ed. the action of the turret dies
The loader pauses in the act Of inserting the brass con-
necngray the hand of the ripper falls from It's lever.
the sightsetter slips from his headdress, the hostman
up in front of the umpire; the breech OF
the gun exudes the thlnest cirrus froth like the first
wreath Of smoke from choice Pinar del Rio.
The umpire points sternly below. 1t is he who has
called The hostman and the leaders climb down the
hoise and pick up some ghbrown chunks that look
like broken sticks Of horehound candy pierced with
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OF the ammunition hoist
directly above the maya.
zines the navy has fought
one OF its sternest inter.
nal wars and the war is
still far from finished;
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Is pulled
fro m Its
O q Il | libri.
UNI. This
Is the back.
lash. After
every shot
the trainer.
W 18th a
quick twist
Of h 8
W h @ g J..
subtly alb
serbs the
hacklash.
For the
fifth time
the shutter
opens, the
grind as
cends. the
I r | p per
pauses TO
flip his le-
yer, when
SUenCe
The tone Is
raised. Ii
has anger,
c o nCealed
but glow
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Tho whistle begins The umpire his sopwach
hand the little red book which
the rules that this
In the following three minutes this will shots
through mile the quiet
worthy of its namethe bay OF the
The ship gldcs like steel through
silence" The guncapRn. OF the leaders, spcaks
What is"since" 1t precedes vital
action lies such potency command
needed DEATH Once
recruit chan his after that
had given Tho gncapan stepped him. anger
heavy blow the face gnared wet
hand fol n week; by o
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THfRE is SOMETHING UNSPfAKABLY eSD8LAYE. IN the
ruiz grown C<2y OF q GfPEAT Gun

on the voice OF
his index finger,
aud he grow :
Il xious; his
" h o G b e In &
p ours Itself
along the wheel
to a resolution
of that terrible
pro b lie m An
hour, a minute,
five seconds, "A
week how much
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n.y. THE Fool
I>> Who Looked
on Forbid.
den Things"
We are on the range. Some one
calls. Starting. buoy" and you know
that in another minute this double.
twisted. original imitation Of billy
blue hell viii commence You reflect
that a blast pressure OF II pounds to
the square inch will kill man. You
know that the pressure on the air
near the muz2le OF this gun whose
brucch you are beside, when 1t is
fired. Is several tons to the square
inch You remember that only few
years ago green sailorman stood of
side lG feet. that some one called to
him 10 lie down just AS the gun was
fired. that he was in the act Of lying
down when il was fired, but that the
suction of the air going with the
shell drew his head from his body
and broke his neck This does not
add to the pleasure Of your situation,
for you can easily reach out there
pat that cold haunch.
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alton rs this the mrretcrew of the Georgia wont IN
death, and that one has ever found ont bnw n
Happened; that in precisely the same way the Mis-
souri, burned to death % men and that not one in that
steel cage escaped.
Credit: % The face Of the umpire Stop.watch in
mana, he stands behind the brccch looking down into
the powdermaEa2incs You know he is there 10 pre.
vent rcCklcssHess. Though these mon are firing
against time he will let them do nothing foolhardy:
II he errs twill be on the side Of caution (o) The
knowledge that thousands of guns like this have
been fired from turrets like ths-and all came out
alive You do not enter railway trains timidy be.
cause dozen people killed on one n year before
five thousand miles away. Yet when you enter the
turret of n l2Inch gun
They lock you up. There is no escape You stand
there neryousy by the trunnion somehow it is not
like factory a railway coach or street car or any
other modernly approved lmbmanEng device These
things built TO kill and presently these fellows
are going to touch electric spark which win loose
enough anxious and determined to drive an $50.
pound shell 10 miles and put It completely through
steel plate thick the that is supposed to
protect you.
Yet there you the Thing before you. and you
reach out and pat II on the shiny cold haunch.
II II wobbes spring breaks trUnnion has mis-
ahcnly got itself rusted the rifle barrel
accommodate the shell, you will be fit brother for
detected cockroach. II there is bareback you have
slightest possible chance OF escape hold your cap
face, don't breathe hurl yourself under the
barrel and fall into the handingroom. You may break
few bones, but II the burning gas gets to
than 80 per cent of your skin you will live; that
how the single midshpman who escaped from the
Georgia saved himself Yet can tell how that
gas gets in its work Sometimes 1t burns away the
flesh and touches the clothing again. it singes
off all the hair and never touches the hesh again. 1t
burns the clothing of clean and leaves you naked but
safe.
Sol They have locked you up In this steel cage.
The others have some here. With them II is
work. duty contest. Il ksad they die noby get brass
tablets In the wall with their names inscribed, pen
sions go to their families. the newspapers call them
heroes. II you die they VIII cut on your obscure tomb
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air holes
the o II &
way
&c G n 3 @
( / r Il &!
C o nlnandB
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"f those guns while 1t dropped four shots into a t
Il mile AWAY; stood there with my cap In my
hand ready TO clap It over my face in case of
accident cursing the curiosity that led me to
that Iethal chamber. Then the wonder Of It
came over mc-the silence Of the gun.crcw; the
fteaIthy leap Of the rifle barrel like the spring
OF Erasshoppcr; the quiet duh report witch
scarcely rcmhlod that stately moving fortress:
the sour.cEE smell Of the nitrucclIuoso stimula
inr the nerves: the sweet sick subtcty Of ether
lulliur the oycrwrouEht brain.
When they shut the steel door that Gagged rs
IN J slipped into funk and until the first shot
was fired my merry" was gone. The sides OF nv
courage account footed up:
Debit; % imprisonment in an oval case the
SLAP" Of n colin, the sides formed Of solid stool
nine inches thick and the top Of steel lust MS
solid ana five inches thick; ~ filling quarter
OF that case the back third Of l2iuch rinc bar.
I'l ready for action go below. an open chute
with steel car bringing the shells and powder
nom the magazine sim farther below; a. the
stern. silent faces Of the guucrcw which exactly
resemble those faces seen ut places of oxocu.
tun; % TO 1901 mcmGry-thc knowledge which
you cannot fight away that in just such a sItu.
alton rs this the turTctcrew of the Gourpio vor
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THE Fool
Who Looked
on Forbid
den Things.
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services
of
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cancy. and no special election will be
necessary. This is called the recall.
Public Utility Regulation.
City councils shall have the right to
regulate rates, charges. and compensa-
tons of public utilities.
Any city may return to the old plan
of government after six years, upon a
popular vote of the people.
The city clerk. city treasurer, city
attorney and municipal Judge are ap-
pointed by the council instead of be-
ing elected by the people, and are
subordinate to the departments of
which the mayor and commissioners
are the superintendent.
The, bin makes as few changes in
the existing laws of Illinois as posi-.
BILE. 1t changes the manner of govern.
ment of the city, but not the laws now
on the statute books for the govern.
ment of cities except in a few cases.