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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
IRELAND FOR AMERICANS.
A NEW FIELD.

While American exporters scan close
ly the opportunities for extending their
trade in far off China and in the
sparsely settled pampas of South
America, Ireland, friendly Ireland, is
closed to them through the operation
of Anticipated and unjust commercial
practices which compel the unloading
of mixed eargoes destined for Ireland
in Liverpool and their transshipment
back to Cork.
The extra cost places American goods
at tremendous handicap in Erin.
English products 60 into the island for
one freight fare So do goods from
the Continent and from South Amer
lea.
Here IS an opportunity for a steam
ship line that touches Philadelphia.
New York. Boston or Baltimore to pick
up profitable trade. Henry 5. Culver.
United States consul at Cork. calls the
injustice to the attention of the Ameri
can people in a recent official report.
He says:
"The tonnage from America in mixed
cargOes must be transshipped at Liver
pool, $50 miles further east. and brought
back here at an additional cost of IS
per ton. This applies TO American
-four and general merchandise as well
as to all manufactures. This places
goods coming from the United States
at a great disadvantage in this mar
ket.
Direct communication with ireland
would not only materially lessen the
cost OF American goods in this rIarket.
but it would increase exports and in
duce a legitimate exploitation of this
field by personal representatives. OF
American manufacturers and exporters.
"The Irish people are good buyers
and are inclined to give preference to
American goods when placed in COM
petition with other foreign goods pro-
vided price and quality are equal"
Here is a field ready to the hand of
cur manufacturers. Ireland for Amer.
icans-surely that is an attractive pros
peet. America has done much for the
Irish. Here is fair chance for
reciprocity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Capital Tales
SHORTY" BARCHFELD.

They are calling DR. Andrew jackson
Barchfeld, OF the Tnirty-second Penn
sylYan;a district. who used to be the
biggest man in the Pennsylvania dele
cation. Shorty Barchfeld now.
Shorty is so much above six feet
that he makes John Dalzell look like
a dwarf beside him. but ne is now out
stripped by two other members from
Pennsylvania. One of them is Repre-
sentative John X Tener and the other
is Representative Alfred e. Garner, two
Few members. Each is taller than
Barchfeld, who is himself a giant of
the Cv Sulloway class. 1t used 20 be
that every one in the keystone State
delega ton kowtowed 20 Barchfeld,
but now they have quit doing IL since
Tener and Garner came on the scene
Tener used TO be one OF the crack
baseball players of the country and
made a name for himself with the Chi
Cago team.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
RETALIATORY BILL
ON PATENT RIGHTS
Measure Places Restrictions or
English and German
Inventors

A bill providing for retaliation by the
United States against laws enacted in
England and Germany requiring foreign
inventions 10 be manufactured in those
countries before patent rights are rec
ognized has been introduced in the
House by Representative Stephens or
Texas II is the intention of the House
leaders to press its passage al this spe-
cial session
The bin is sweeping IN its provisions.
and makes IL necessary for citizen OF
a foreign country, who applies for
patent. to subject himself - the same
rules and regulations governing its use
and control as the government OF such
foreign country imposes upon citizens
of the United States.
When England recently passed its
new law that foreign made goods could
not be secured by patents N England.
many American firms were forced TO
give up their British maFket> or eStab-
nSh branch factories in England Ger
many retaliated with like law
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
GUARDSMEN STAND
ANNUAL INSPECTION
Second Battalion of Second Regi-
ment Makes an Excel
lent Showing.

Members of the Second Battalion, Sec
ond Regiment, National Guard. District
OF Columbia. are today receiving con-
gratulations as a result OF the showing
they made in their inspection in Central
Market ArmoTy last night
Major Richard ID. Simms led the bat
TALON into the drill room. Capt. Edward
II. Bryan headed Company l., with a
full complement Of men, Capt Reuben
r. Duffie commanded Company Z with
two men absent. Every member Of
Company g has seen regular service
and was headed by Capt. Cha V.
Sayer Seven members were absent. bur
the company made fine showing. Com
pany II IS a skeleton company, but
Sergt. Frank y. Sharpless is trying
10 recruit IL up 10 its full strength.
Sayers veterans and the High School
Cadets, who make up Company Z,
marched side by side during the drill,
and il was the work of these men
which ELECTED the greatest applause. The
inspection Is an annual affair. and after
its close last night, Major Simms de-
clared their work was up to the best
standards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
The Inauguration
And the Blizzard
detroit Newsl

fDetroit News
Since the blizzard OF March drove
The inaugural ceremony in out OF ire
cold TO take refuge in tho Senate cham
Der at Washington there nave been sew
eral suggestions that lde date of the
auadrcnniaI inception of a new Presi-
dent should be changed TO more clenl-
ent season. and one hin at least TO thac
end has been framed and announced, if
not introduced, in the House. Most OF
those interesting themselves in the sug-
gestion. including the author OF the bill,
seem to imagine that a constitutional
amendment is necessary. Washington
first inauguration did not take place
until the middle OF April, although the
constitutional provision on the subject
was then precisely what II is now, and
ii would be competent to provide for
any date by statute, although the Presl-
dents TERN of office would sui begin
on 4iarcn 4. The present King Of t,rH-
land. as all our readers viii remember,
assumed the royal power Immediately
on the death of his mother, but he was
not formally enthroned for nearly Il
year afterward, suited his conven-
fence and the wishes or the govern
ncnt.
No ceremony whatever is essential TO
place the office of President with al
its power and preTogativeS in the hands
ed by the two houses to have been
elected, at noon on March T. following
the action OF the electoral college. Not
even the failure to take the ordinary
oath as q preliminary would be par,
II circumstances not easy 10 imagine
prevented its administration. That oath
can be taken as effectively before an
ordinary notary public as before the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
When the President of the French Re
public dies, or Vacates his Ofnce by
other means, the deputies and senators
jump on the next train. run out TO the
palace at Versailles in less than nall
an hour, hold a joint meeting. elect an
other President, and get back 10 Farls
in time for dinner, to find the man OF
their choice working full stroke in his
new office In that simple way 90 the
practical and economical French pee
pie perform sovereign function which
in America requires at least two years
Of interminable agitation and noise, In
voIving the expenditure of something
like $50, COO 900 every four years, ending
with the fiimsy and vulgar display Of
the inauguration ceremonies and the
still more fiimsy ana vulgar ball at the
Pension Office
The best way 10 solve the Inaugural
ton problem Is 10 cut out the whole
silly display altogether, 20 swear in tie
new President under roof in a manner
that would get dignity for It's simpl city,
and then IL wouldn't maxi a bit of
difference about the season or the
weather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
BOWING BROWNING.

William J. Browning. chief clerk OF
the House, had an embarrassing ex-
perience the first day Of the special
session when he delivered to the Sen
ate the hfst message OF the session
from the House
When Mr. Fairbanks s.as Vice Pres
ident, Mr. Browning. on delivering a
message, used 20 say: President
then bow and tiievcupon the Vice Pres
ident would reply: Mr.. Clerk" Then
the clerk would make another bow
Monday Browning started 10 "a
through the usual formula and had
reached the point where he had com
pieted his first bow. He stood wait
ing for Vice President SheTmaii to say,
Mr. Clei X The Vice President said
nothing. Browning bowed anyhow and
bowed again and kept On bowling in
the hope that the Chair would say
something. But the Chair didn'. Fin
ally, seeing IL was useless to bcw any
more. he delivered his messag, with
the usual speech and be at q tetl eat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
MRS. PATTEE GIVEN
DECREE OF DIVORCE
Beautiful Miss Kellarman Named
in Suit-Cruel Trearnsnt
Was Charge.
Was Charge.

BOSTON. March I6--In the Suffolk
supreme court Judge LaEton has hand
ed down a decree in favor OF Mrs. Her
bert 5. Pattee in the divorce case she
filed. The divorce was granted on the
ground or cruel and abusive treatment
and viii become absolute In six months
The case was heard Friday. While tes-
tifying Mrs Pattes mentioned the name
OF Miss Annette Kellerman. the beauti-
fuI champion woman swimmer from
Australia Pattee formerly was prcpri-
etor OF Loves Journey at Wonder
land.
Mrs. Pattee claimed that Miss Keller
man, during her stay at Revere Beach
had boarded at her home and had a
penchau: for seating herself in the
kitchen. drinking beer and munchinS
crackers in company with Afr PEttee
and taking delight in making faces OF
derisiOn Al the young wife
The couple were married on New
Year Day. 1897, going 10 New York
and residing at l75 CIaremOnt avenue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
PRAYER FOR MERCY
SLAYERS LAST WORD
Italian Murderer Pays Penalty in
Electric Chair at Au-
burn Prison.

AUBURN. March 16.-Adnitting his
guilt, and with his last breath a prayer
for mercy. Salvatore RandazZio was
electrocuted in the death house at Au-
burn prison a. o'clock this morning
Just before ne started for the fatal
chair, he gave Father RObetti. IN at
tendance upon him, four letters with
the request that he mail them to his
father mother, and two sisters, who
survived the earthquake and now reside
in Borgetto, Sicily RandazZio rnlfr-
dered his cousin, PietrO Randazzfo IN
Cattaraugus county in January. 1868
Three shocks were required before the
physicians pronounced him dead.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
White House Callers

The members Of the Cabinet
Senators Cullom OF Illinois
Warner OF Missouri.
Dixon OF Montana
WILLIAM Alden Smith OF Michi-
gan
Daniel Of Virginia
Representatives Longworth OF Ohio.
Gaines Of West Virginia.
Clark OF Missouri
Olmsted Of Pennsylvania
Lassiter OF Virginia.
Justice Brewer Of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Former Representative Harding OF Ohio.
John s Wise Of New York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
SILVER DART TAKEN
FROM CUP CONTEST

There will be no flight by the Silver
Dart at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, for the
conditions IN the revised rules for the
cup as adopted last week by the contest
committee Of the Aero Club Of America
has caused the withdrawal OF the offer
TO try for the trophy.
Or. Alexander Graham Bell. in a tele-
gram received by President CortIandt
Field Bishop, OF the Aero Club express
ed his views on the GU conditions very
clearlN-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
WHY HE SHAVED.

Senator Martin II. johnson OF North
,ikOta used . be a member of the
House and wore "a copious set OF long
black DundreT y WhiskeTs. North Da-
kota wouldn't stand for them and now
he is smooth ShaVen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

The sad story OF how Ambassador
White once snubbed young Cincinnati
lawyer named Taft, and is now In dan
ger OF losing an embassy. illustrated
handsomely how you can't sometimes
tell. in this country. who's In line to
be President.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
JOHN c. COAN DEAD.

DANVILLE, Va. March l6.-John &.
Coan. widely known citizen of Henry
county. died at his home at Ridgevav
OF paralysis. lie leaves widow and six
children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
A COMPENSATION.

A young cadet was complaining of
the tight fit OF his uniform.
Why father" he declared. the col
lar presses my Adams apple so hard
I can taste ciderT'-Harper' Weekly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
AT HOME

Mrs. Van Aukin Mills will receive in
formally this afternoon.
Mrs. William Austin Welch win re-
ceive today a. the Cora. 800 y street
Mrs. Charles Nelson will be at home
informally this afternoon from 3 10 >
O'Clock. at I24 Bryant street.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Mr. Dalzell, making a speech in favor
Of series of changes in the rules
which ne had long supported as the
best the House could have presented
q spectacle for men and gods.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Jack johnson is in Chicago, and the
fight followers are excited over the
possibility Of starting a real race war
that will be worth while.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Party lines were pretty largely wiped
out in the rules contest, but ii can't
fairly be said that the obliteration was
productive of anything like an era OF
good feeling.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

They're mighty slow about doing
things in the modern way over in Paris
Big strike is tieing up the town. and
nobody has even thought OF enjoining
ON
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
reciprocity

Italian authorities don't want Mr..
Roosevelt and his family to go TO Italy.
being worried about the possibility OF
more seismic disturbances. Haven't they,
discovered over there that no earth
quake would have the temerity to I'M
dertake collision with the Roosevelt
luck2
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Servis is liStIe. but seems to make as
much trouble in the organization of
the European house as halC-dozen
boiling Democrats or a handful OF in
sIrgentS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

The Military Attache OF the German
Embassy and Nine. Won Livonius en-
tertained a small company informally
at luncheon today in honor OF Mrs y
9. -ShaTtle wife OF Captain ssnartIe,
recently appointed military attache of
the American embassy at Be-isn. Com
nander Retzmapn, naval att1ohe OF the
German embassy was among the guests
invited 70 meet Mrs. Shartle
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
LIEUT.. COMMANDER DE BLANPREAN
MME. DE BLANPRE RETURN
TO FRANCE.

Lieutenant Commander de Blanpre,
the retiring naval attache OF the French
embassy, and Nine. de Bianpre will
leave washington tonight for New
York from where they viii sail Tor
France. Commander lie Blanpre having
been assigned TO command OF one OF
the French battleshIps-
Their departure is a matter OF sincere
regret 20 a wide circle or Irlenoa thGS
nave made during their residence 1T
washington, in both ofhcl4 ana re- re-,
DENTAL circles of Capital society, as wen
in the Diplomatic Corps
Mime. de Rlanpre is an accomplished
women Of charming personality anu j
a musician of some note She = poe,
sessad of a beautiful soprano voice and
bas s,,uo, on several occasions IN the
choir OF st. Matthew'S church- Sne mas
also taken "A prominent part Al. = num- M
der of smart musicales given TOT
lieut. Commander BenOist d'Azy.
lately attached to the French legation
at Constantinople, has aiready ar ~,
in washington and VIII succeed Nonl-
mander dc Blanpre.
Other important changes IN the per-
sonnet Of the embassy stan arc me d p
pointment Of NJ. Leteyre-P ontalls, 10
succeed NJ. la POTteS de Ia FosSe as
counsellor OF the embassy, and u.
Sallgnac de SenelOn. in place OF Mr.
Savin, recently named as third Secre-
tdTN- NJ LcIeNIe-f olltdiiS VII tpliC -
washington from Athens, where ne has
been stationed. accompanied by Nine
LefevTe-PontaliS.
A meeting in the interest of the Nc
All Mission Work in France viii be held
at the residence of Mrs. Lowden, lis
Massachusetts avenue. Friday morning,
March 10, at II o'clock
Mre. George T. Berry, general secre-
tarv of the McAu Mission Association
in the United States. viii speak and
there viii be stereopticOn pictures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Photo by thanksgiving.

burg. and came TO Washington the fol-
lowing year. where DR.. Power assumed
the pastOrate Of the church OF which
he is still IN charge. Mrs. Power was,
before her marriage, Miss Emily Brown
Alsop, Of Fredericksburg.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Entertains at Tea.

Miss Caryl Crawford, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Crawford, win enter
tain a small company informally at
tea this afternoon at O'Clock Al
Stoneleigh Court, asking her guests 10
meet Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington jackson
who have just returned from their
bridal trip.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Informal Dance.

Miss Iverna Child entertained inform
ally at y dance last evening at her home
on Ingleside Terrace, in honor OF her
guest, Miss Gladys Kaull, of Newport
x. !. Music for the dancing was fur
nished by q string orchestra and a
buffet supper was served after the dan
cling.
The guests were Miss Elizabeth Fir
or. Miss Norinne Fisher, Miss MRrTial
Games. Miss Myrtle Barker. Miss Flor
ence Bryant, Miss Nellie Harris, MIS-
Dorothy Whitford. Miss LeoLis Keeein,
Miss Ada May, Miss Edith Child. Fra nix
Allen, Harry DUiire. Stewart MarIowe
Alien Peck, Charles SsabOld Percy
Snyder. Frank Chamberiin. Reginald
Patterson, Theodore Dyer. Ralph Stepl-
al, and Bernard SherCliffe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Is Going Abroad.

The Secretary Of Commerce and La
Dor. Charles Nagel, win go to New
York this evening TO meet his daughter,
Miss Hildegarde Nagel, who is sailing
tomorrow on the Oceanic for Europe.
Miss Nagel was Il debutante Of last
season, and will spend some months
tngtOn society. The Secretary will make
his first official visit TO Ellis Island and
the immigrant station in New York be-
fore his return.
The Italian Ambassador and Baroness
Mayor DIES Planches We're hosts at din
ner last evening in compliment to the
retiring Naval Attache Of the French
Embassy and Nine de Blanpre. The
additional guests were she members of
the embassy staff.
CaGtain and Mrs Summerlin were
hosts at a dinner party last evening.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Miss Emile Campau Fitch. daughter
Oh chief Engineer Henry w. Fitch.
Y. ;. N, and Mrs. Fitch, who has
selected Saturday, April II, for the date
or her wedding TO Albert Pepper Ger
hard, OF Philadelphia, will be married
At O'Clock, in the afternoon in ST.
Joh2's Episcopal Church. the Rev Ro-
ianu COTTON Smith officiating.
guests and relatives. will follow the
ceremony. IN the home Of the brides
parents on K street.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

And young Mr.. Murdock's hair is
understood TO be rather redder than
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Mrs Taft, wife OF the President wlI
entertain box party at the Boston
symphony Concert at the New National
Tbeater this afternoon
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Representative and Mrs. James L.
Slayden have returned to Washington
from Charlottesville, Va. where they
were the guests Of Mrs Slayden's
mother, Mrs. Maury
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

The Rev Frederick d. Power. pastor
Of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church. and Mrs. Power, viii celebrate
the thirty-fifth anniversary OF their
wedding tomorrow evening, by a Tecep-
ton In the parlors Of the church. from
s to 10 o'clock. They viii be glad TO
see all their friends.
The Rev. DR. and MIS- Power were
married March Il, 1874, in Fredericks-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16
Mr.. AND MRS. LARZ ANDERSON
ENTERTAIN COMPANY AT DINNER
Hosts Last Evening at Their
Residence on MaSsa-
chuSettS Avenue.
Mrs. Sherman Is Hostess at
an Informal Luncheon
Today.

Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson enter
tanned company at dinner last even
ing at their residence on Massachu-
sets avenue, having as their guests
senator and Mrs. Elkins, Senator
3randegee. Senator and Mrs. AIdrich
Senator Gallinger. the Military Attache
or the British Embassy and the Hon.
MRS. James. the Counselor Of the Ger
man Embassy and Countess WedeI
Hear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, Mr. and
Mrs r A Keep, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Mrs. Richard WheatIand and
Miss Billiard. of Boston. Mrs. CHARLES
Anderson. Mrs. Nicholas Anderson,
Miss Boardman. Governor Hag,.cc OF
Alaska, Herbert Putnam. Basil Niles
Count de Chambrun Of the French Ell
bassy. and Esmond Ovey of the Bril-
ish embassy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Selwin TAFT entertained
al dinner last evening. The guests were
the Minister from Bolivia and MADAME
Caioeron' the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. Coolidge
madame Thierry Mrs Morris Evans
Miss Calderon. Miss Edith Davidee Tobr,
Barrett, Norman Bestor. Commando
Cleland Davis, and c. c. Moore