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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-12
ToR SALES, $50.
An Unusual Bargain.

a
Near Conn. ave. and s.
10 rooms and bath.
-Four rooms the hrst floor
An economical fuTH5Ce.
The purchaser OF this house. saves 81 $50
By buying al this time VIXEN owner is
obliged 70 sell
FOB sALE-s4, 500.
a s-story S-room house in BIooming daIe
on a Iettered street between Nerth Capitol
and 1st SITS. REDUCED FRc.d 50, 90; good
condition. nice large rear lot
FOR SALES. 900.
New Corner. On the Heights.
West Of 18th st.
one OF the best construc 81 and most
complete new houses in the city; thick
walls; select wood: rooms. or Soor;
tiled bath; HOT-WATER HEAT: two stair
ways: covered porches: over 2, 900 Sc II
in lot price. $500
roE sALE-s4.a5o.
BRICK HOUSE AND BRICK STABLE
CHOICE LOCATION OK CAPITOL HILL.
CONVENIENT TO UNION STATION
An attractive six-room brick residences
paved alley. The price, 81. $50, would be
considered low without the sable. which
Is two-story brick
Foa sALE-s4,s5o.
A Capitol Hill Bargain.
JUST OFF EAST CAPITOL ST.
West Of 9th.
A thres-story house.
Furnace heat
Owner, leaving city, has put q price
which is about 81. 0o0 less than the real
worth Of this property in o~der 20 make
an immediate sale
FOB sALE-ss,75o.
A Corner House in georgetown.
A THREE-sTORY RJE Sc.
FURNACE Heal.
Located in one Of the choicest neighbor-
Attractive home. 20 feet vide.
PoR SALES, 900.
Another Georgetown Bargain.
4 modern three-story house
Parior, reception hall, dining noon. pan
try and kitchen on the first floor; porcelain
sink in kitchen; modern bathroom; furnace
heat handsomely decorated thro ughout.
party wall; lot ISx9o. The location Is hrst-
class-on a square built up by new. at
traetive houses.
FOR sALE-sI ,25o each.
Now renting $3.50 each.
Near 18th and w SITS. y. ".
An excellent chance 10 purchase four
small brick houses IN fine condition. own
er IS now making certain improvements.
for which tenants have agreed 10 pay in
creased rental. One Of the best renting
sections IN the city. Seldom will a tenant
move out Of one Of these houses rhare
are probably no steadier renters In the
city.
FoR sALE-S4,7s
Brand New. nat. Pleasant.
HOT-WATER HEAT; very expensive
mantels and gas ixtures PARQUET
FLOORS; beautiful decorations; entire
house trimmed in solid OAK: LARGE
REAR LOTS.
FOR sALE-s2,s 800.
Investment. On Eleventh st. n. W.
South OF u.
Price g. 500. Rents $500
6 rooms: iot IsX95 to alley.
Foz sALE-Redueed to S4,s5o.
In RloonaingdaIs. South of U st.
Formerly held at $500
Just the plan mosr desired too
First floor four .arge rooms.
Second floor. four large looms and tiled bath
CELLAR AND ATTIC
Lot 1872 feet wide.
The owner having purchased house
the Heights at a very low price can afford
TO dispose Of her former home al this sac
rihce figure This Is probably Of the
hest values that have been offered in this
desirable section.
Foz sALE-ss.sso.
Near 7th and Florida Ave.
Located Right on Car Line.
owner viii accept $3.50. having been
compelled TO leave city.
FRONTS on TWO STREETS.
Lot i75z feet wide.
VALUABLE FOR BUSINESS
Easy terms can be arranged
EATRFA
ork Avenue.
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FOB SALES. 900.
Near 9Th and Maryland Ave.

TWO story; eight rooms. hot-water heat.
lot IS by 100 20 an alley
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operation permits
lion of home moderate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-12
Shannon S Luchs
Shannon S Luchs
$3.50
$3.50
$500 Saved

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-12

FoR SALES, $50.
Near 7th and Florida Ave.
Located Right on Car Line.
Owner viii accept $3.50, having been
compelled 10 leave city.
FRONTS on TWO STREETS.
Lot f75k feet wide
VALUABLE FOR BUSINESS
Easy terms can be arranged.
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House and Brick Stable.
Central Northwest. Rents S2s.5O.
Good brick house with cellar
Brick stable
West Of 18th and south Of r
FiFst-ciass. ciean-cut investment
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

4 SUGGESTION that the widow and
"a children of former President
Grover Cleveland be given a pension
is being discussed informally by con-
gressmen. Many have declared them
selves in favor of granting her one.
II Mrs. Cleveland is willing to &C.
cept, there is no question but that con-
gress would be ready to vote it to her.
Although there is now no surviving
ex7president of the United States, three
widows of former presidents still live
Mrs. James A. Garfield, Mrs. Benja-
min Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland.
The first-named has now survived
her husband more than twenty-seven
years. During all that time she has
drawn pension of $1,000 a year from
the government, and no money that
comes from the treasury is more
cheerfully paid. The first time q pen,
sion was ever suggested for the widow
Of an ex-president was In the case Of
William Henry Harrison, who died one
month after his Inauguration. :
The death of Harrison appealed
peculiarly to the nation, and the sum
Of $4,000 outright was voted her. She
lived to enjoy it's proceeds for a period
of % years. The second, Mrs. Tyler,
drew a pension of $4,000 per annum
for II years. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
was given $4,000 and an additional
pension of 5000 per anpum. Grants
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

r. HE Sunday night danee which the
i Jackson Gorauds gave at Martins
couple of weeks ago was entirely
outdone early the other morning by a
society circus" that Harry Perry Dis.
becker gave, in honor of his pachyder.
mic lady friend, Rosa, the elephant at
the hippodrome.
Harry's affection for Rosa is we'll
known. Christmas he presented her
with a ten-pound box of candy and a
magnum of champagne. His latest evil
dence Of affection was to present her
formally to society with Mrs. Jackson
Gouraud and Nine. Verona Jarbeau as
her chaperons.
Some two hundred of the lively liv-
ing set responded to Invitations which
Disbecker issued in the shape of cir
Gus posters. They were advised, in
the posters, to appear in rural raj
ment." And they did-some of the
women as genuine Westchester
county dairy maids, others in silk
Vatican shepherdess gowns with
skirts of Partisan cut and delectable
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
Loeb's Next Berth a Cause of Worrv

few years ago there was a scheme
afoot to elect Mr.. Loeb as president Of
a Washington street railroad company.
He became greatly interested in the
matter, enlisted some financial friends
In New York and bought into the stock
of the road quite heavily. Ambitious
arguments were advanced regarding
what Mr.. Loeb could do for the road.
1t has to go before congress, session
after session, for tid-bits of legislation,
which are very essential none the less.
But senators, who have little liking
for the president, intimated that the
man who had served as the presidents 8
secretary would have a fine old time
persuading them to vote for his bills.
Therefore the owners of the street
railroad began quietly to lay plans for
side-tracking the Loeb presidential
idea, and about year ago another
was chosen to head the street rail-
way.
Since then Secretary Loeb's name
has been mentioned in connection
with a number of good posts by pur-
veyors of capitol gossip, but each
story has been in turn denied
The latest report is that he will be-
come collector of the port of New
York after March f.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
Nations Capital Is a CITY of Parks

way, now known as Potomac driveway.
The River park, which reaches from
the capitol to the islands of the Poto-
mac, contains in the aggregate 1900
acres, but does not represent an ANAL
gamated whole as does the Rock Creek
park.
In the northern portion of the CITY,
about mile eastward from Rock
Creek park and connected Herewith
by the old military road over which
union armies marched in the defense
OF Washington, is the Soldier Home
park. Commanded by group of
white marble buildings erected on the
highest point in the city, the park
slopes toward the city over an extent
of 5O2 acres. Still another park,
Analostan, in southeast Washington
where the river flats will some day
be one of the flower gardens of the
national capital, contains $40 acres.
The last of the larger parks, also in
north Washington, is Tacoma park,
containing 739 acres.
Other amusement places are the
Henry and Seaton parks of 30 acres:
Garfield park, "a acres; Judiciary
square, where is the pension office. 10
acres, and Howard University park of
IL acres. Lafayette square, in front
of the White House on the north. in
which no trees or bush is duplicated,
contains six acres.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

NJ EW YORK,-With figures for one
~ month missing, the total casual
ties for the year on all railroads in
Greater New York-steam, elevated,
subway and surface-are $3.50. OF
this number 414 victims were killed
outright or died afterward; 1856 suf-
fered fractured skulls; 62, amputation
Of limbs; 391, broken limbs, and 1875,
other serious injuries, It is estimated
that the years record Of fatalities are
around 500: g.
. These figures represent a careful
canvass of the territory mentioned by
agents of the public service commits
sion. Fae purposes of comparison
with the preceding year, 1907, report
on the last six months only is avail
able, the work Of the commission hav.
ing been begun in" July. In that half
year 24,209 casualties occurred, and
from them resulted 2SS deaths.
Owing to the organization, practice
and experience Of the force making
the count, it is probable that the re.
port for 1908 is much more thorough
than any other ever made in the city,
even for the six months of 1907, and
yet the total number of fatalities in
this year do not reach the figures for
the year proceeding.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

III ASHINGTON.-T the fascina,
W tion of life at the American capital
tion of life at the American capital
depends much upon the beauty and
gorgeousness of the court costumes of
the foreign diplomats and the officers
of our army and navy, who are regu.
larly called into service for social
duty, is not to be controverted, and
when these attractions are combined
with the imposing form and ceremony
attendant upon the city surrounding a
president of the United States and his
cabinet, and the direct representatives
of foreign powers to this government,
you have a brilliant and interesting
phase Of life scarcely known in the
western hemisphere outside Of Wash.
ington.
While the president of the United
States appears at formal entertain
ments in a frock coat in the afternoon,
and at evening affairs in the simple,
somber formal habiliments every
American man wears after dark, he is
surrounded by his aids from all
branches of the military and naval
service, who never appear at the
White House or in company with the
president in other than full dress
uniforms and with their swords at
their sides. The same is true of the
foreign ambassadors and ministers
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

Al AIRY BLAIR BROKAW, through
4v4 her lawyers, has obtained an order
from Justice Maddox of the supreme
court at Mineola permitting her to
serve her husband, w. Gould Brokaw,
the well-known society man, with no.
tice of suit for separation and main
tenance.
According to the complaint submit
ted, Mrs. Brokaw had her lawyers pre-
pare papers to be served on her hus-
band early last October. When the
process server arrived at the Hotel
Netherlands, Brokaw, who seemed to
have sensed the coming squall, went
out, he said, Ito see man." He put
on false whiskers and boarded an
automobile around the corner.
His wife has seen him only once
since. That was few days later,
when he telephoned her to meet him
at the Laurel house at Lakewood, N.
J. She went there and took a process
server with her. Brokaw, she swears,
came out on the porch, saw her with
the process server, ran back into the
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
g ECRETARY WILLIAM LOEB. JR

6 ECRETARY WILLIAM LOEB, JR,
~ who has been serving the president
and the country at the White House
offices for several years. is causing his
immediate friends more political anxi-
ETY. than any other prominent Repub-
lican of the hour. There is a time
honored tradition that retiring presi-
dent of the United States must take
good care of his secretary, mad it has
therefore been incumbent upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to see Mr. Loeb we'll
placed before he starts for the dark
contif}ent.
But plans for placing Loeb have
habit of falling through, just why no
one seems able to tell. For, while he
has not gained the fame as secretary
to the president that Mr. Cortelyou
his predecessor, gained, there is no
denying that he has been very eff
cient.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
CUPID had bad year in New York
- state in 1909. The number of

rUP1D had a bad year in New York
~ state in 1908. The number OF
marriages decreased more than 10000,
as compared with 1907. And for this
condition-this bridling of the little
god of love-the marriage license law
which went into effect about year
ago is blamed. Figures given out by
the state department of health show
that the total number of marriages in
1908 was only about $4,000, while in
1907 it was 96,216.
The largest falling of is noted in
counties situated near the border line,
where, before enactment of the new
law, couples from other states having
q marriage license law found it cen
venient to be married.
Deaths in the state last year totaled
a few more than $4,000, the lowest
since 1903, while the death rate for
the year was 1872, the smallest in 20
years. The average rate for the last
five years was 17.2. The decrease in
the number Of deaths 10 attributed to
some extent to use Of antitoxin in
cases of diphtheria and to better sani-
tary rules which limit epidemics Of
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

XCLUSIVE Of the capitol and con.
- gressional library grounds, the
union depot plaza and the botanical
gardens, the city of Washington
boasts more than 5000 acres in parks,
excluding nearly $50 triangles and cir
cles at street intersections and miles
upon miles Of shaded asphalt streets
equal to the boulevards of many other
cities. The largest of all these parks
is Rock Creek park. This beauty spot
covers 1905 acres Immediately adioin-
ing the Geological park, which con-
tains III acres, and it's natural com.
binations of rocks and streams, hills
and dales, trees and meadows go to
make perhaps the finest groundwork
of public park in any city in the
country.
1t will be probably a hundred years
before the possibilities of this park are
realized to the full, including the
building of boulevard down Rock
creek into the city of Washington.
connecting with the Riverside drive
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
Musings; Of the Metropolis.
i News of New York Town
Outlined in Brief Form. ?. +
Many Victims of: Railroads Last Year

BY comparison with the table for
the last six months of 1907, it appears
that the number of street and track
accidents have decreased since the
public service commission ordered the
overhauling of rolling stock and the
repairing of tracks, which would in
dicate that with the operating ap-
paratus in better order the railroad
employees have been better able to
avert accidents
In October, 1908, there were II car
collisions, against 221 for 1907, and
882 persons and vehicles struck by
cars, against 1,145. In November,
1908, there were 81 car collisions, and
929 persons and vehicles struck by
cars, against 100 and 977, respectively,
| for the year preceding.
In the summer months of 1908, both
these totals were increased, but the
rolling stock, tracks and controlling
| apparatus was in repair, and the num-
Der of accidents was kept below the
| figures for the year when the public
service commission was not in con-
troll. In August, 1908, for example,
there were, III car collisions CON-
pared with 81 for November, but even
this total was less than LAG for August
of 1907
Before these repairs were started
by the commission, the run in" books
of one surface line in Manhattan
alone showed that 800 cars a day
were brought into the barns crippled
in some way After the overhauling
was completed this number Of dead"
cars had dropped to II.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

The Finish Of the "Sons Of Papa."
The establishment of Charolles has
raised the standard of revolt. In re-
fusing to elect the son of NJ. Sarrien,
the electors have not wished to put in
doubt the qualification of this young
man, universally appreciated. They
have simply protested against this
fashion of looking upon electoral fiefs
after the manner of patrimonies.
The bourgeois electors of Charolles
exclaim: I'VE do not wish to be
passed on from father to son as was
formerly done by count or duke. Our
ancestors made the revolution to SUD-
press heredity in Office"
AS for the peasants, they say more
bluntly and emphatically: I'VE like
NJ. Pierre Sarrien very we'll, but we
are not beeves or calves that papa can
give us to his boy like a lump Of
earth"
Is this the emil of the "sons of pa,
pap Is this the knell of the radical
nobility?-Le Cr: de Paris.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
Coming Out Party for Elephant Latest

brevity, and most all of the men went
IS "Rubes." g.
The stage of the Hippodrome was
set under big top" At 1890
o'clock the grand parade" began.
Wells Hawkes., as ringmaster, led.
Then came Harry Disbecker, driving
a trained pig; Jackson Gouraud and
an assistant United States district at
torney, D. Frank Lloyd, on horses;
and then a barred cage in which two
fake lions fought wild battle with
two imitation trainers. The lions were
Melville Ellis and Addison Miner,
former brother-in-law to Mrs Yerkes;
the trainers were Joseph Herbert and
Eugene Waugh.
Wilson Miner, ex-husband of Mrs.
Yerkes, appeared as three-card
monte sharp offering the "Rubes"
chances to double their money Then
behind him appeared Mrs. Jackson
Gouraud, doing her famous "wiggle"
dance. J. H. Taylor, as country con-
stable, arrested both.
Others in line of performers and
spectators included Anna Held, Ethel
Barrymore, Blanche Ring, Attorney
John F. Mcintyre, Jessie Lewisohn,
Edna McCauley and all the most
widely known press agents, wine
agents, show girls. and folks about
town and the elephant.
The society circus" at dawn had
totally eclipsed the Gourauds' affair."
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26
Wife of Society Man Sues for Divorce

hotel, climbed out of the back window
and down fire escape. He made his
way to the Country club and thence
to his estate in North Carolina-High
Point, where the defendant has hunt
ing preserve.
Mrs. Brokaw alleges that her hus-
band has been there ever since She
says that process servers have been
trying to reach him, but that he has a
habit of evading subpoenas.
Mrs. Brokaw ayers she was married
in Chittenango, county of Madison,
New York, September 16, 1907. She
charges cruel and inhuman treatment
and abandonment in her complaint for
separation.
In addition, Mrs. Brokaw claims that
on several occasions her husband,
when under the influence of drink,
struck her, inf1icting black and blue
marks on her body; accused her of
flirting with strange men, commanded
that she must not take her meals in a
public dining room, and that she must
never walk out unaccompanied by her
maid.
Mrs. Brokaw estimates her hus-
bands fortune at $4,000,000 and his in
come at 100000 year.
Within a few weeks after the we'd
ding the Poillon sisters got after w.
Gould Brokaw. Katherine Poillon
sued him for $250,000 for breach of
| promise to marry and the suit was
settled out of court.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

him a graduate of Oxford, thoroughly
conversant with American affairs, even
to the political campaign of 1896, and
knowing the standing of our schools
and colleges.
"He examined my diploma and find
ing all satisfactory, introduced me to
the chiefs who had assembled
The city is very ancient; some of
the mud houses have stood for nearly
thousand years and are in the worst
sanitary condition possible. The only
water the people have for drinking or
cooking comes from a gutter that
passes through every courtyard and is
used by all alike for washing clothes
and baking. AS consequence the
most terrible scourges of cholera and
typhoid are common.
"Once I was near death as a result
Of the hatred the common people bear
to Christians. Going to the house of
patient one day in one of the smaller
cities, man met me in the street and
said to me: DO you curse Moham-
med?' Before I could answer he
raised the cry, va ALL which is the
signal for mob to gather.
AT once people came running from
all directions, infuriated with the cry.
They seized firewood and beat me al
most to unconsciousness, then dragged
me to the house of a priest near by.
AS we came in at the gate, he met US,
and without giving me time to deny
the accusation bade them proceed with
the beating.
"This they did, until my left arm
was broken and l fell to the ground,
Then he dragged me to the steps in
order to deliberate the method of my
death. was propped there gazing into
the courtyard filled with hundreds OF
menacing faces and the roofs packed
with spectators crying out for my ex
ecution and shaking dirks and fists
at me.
mo protestations that I could make
were needed. Suddenly a company OF
soldiers sent by the governor of the
city burst into the courtyard and dis
persed the mob. The true irony Of the
| situation came when a few weeks Ia
ter the son of that priest fell ill OF
diphtheria and was called to cure
him. The boy recovered, but the priest
never referred to his cruel treatment
| Of me, although to-day we are close
friends"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

England alone of all the great Euro
pean powers has done but little exper.
1mentation with aerial war-craft. Yet
she is of all nations the most threat
ened by the recent inventions and i'm
provements in aerial work, because
she has depended largely for security
on her splendid isolation, protected by
her powerful navy, says Henry B. Her.
sey in the Century. Now she realizes
that this isolation cannot be main
tanned against aerial attack by any
present means of defense, and that
such defense must be prepared in the
form of fleet of air cruisers.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

1t is not only in this country that
church restorers. are allowed to do
much as they like, says the London
Globe. An interesting story comes
from Hal. The church is under res
toration, and the workmen came
acrosss traces of fresco. It's exist
ence had been unknown, and accord
ing to the plans the plaster was to
come away. Fortunately a townsman
knew process by which the plaster
could be taken of intact on canvas
He obtained permission to make the
experiment, and it has been carried
out with success. He is said to be
now the possessor of valuable Fir
teenth century painting The Brussels
museum authorities have learned Of
the existence of the painting and they
are endeavoring to prevent the aliena-
tion of this interesting work of the
Middle Ages.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

Alaska is cold and barren region
and is almost useless except as q
hunting ground for the seal and other
fur-bearing animals" declared a stan
dard school geography published so re-
Gently as 1875. The discovery of gold
served materially to broaden that view,
and representative of the depart
ment Of agriculture now reports that
the territorys agricultural possibilities
have been gtieyously underestimated.
In the Yukon. valley he has ripened
oats, barley and winter wheat for sue
cessive seasons; and found them fully
as heavy as the best grain Of the
states. Grasses grow abundantly, as
do all the harder vegetables; and
when it, comes to live stock, Galloway
cattle, a long-haired, hardy breed, stand
the climate we'll; Such facts suggest
that it should not be difficult to carry
out the aim of the Alaska Yukon Paci.
TIC exposition, TO correct the common
impression that Alaska and Yukon are
nothing but countries of cold and
gold"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-26

Medicine Hat is sitting among its
roses and looking with compassion on
this frozen south. We get this from 4
native Of Medicine Hat who isn't there
now b ut who, habituaily carries 1s
pounds pressure of Indignation to be
used whenever anyone calls that city
Of sunshine and flowers the home o,
the cold wave.