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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
CLARENCE F. GOODING DEAD.
Employe of the Census Office and
Formerly a Judge.

Judge Clarence +. Gooding. an employe
of the census Office. died yesterday aft
ernoon at $3.50 o'clock at his home, 1866
Quincy street northwest. His illness had
been of several months duration and
heart disease finally developed.
Judge Gooding was born in Illinois
nearly sixty-three years ago. In his
younger days he was a telegraph opera
to, having been employed at that work
on the Union Pacific railroad during it's
construction. He studied law and be-
came prominent in Chicago, where he
lived for many years. He was on the
bench one term, when Representative
Foss recommended him for a place In
the census office, in 1900. Judge Gooding
was in the field collecting statistics for
several years and was rated high in this
work.
He served in the navy and in the 5oth
Illinois Infantry during the war of the
rebellion, and was a past commander in
the G. A. r. and a member of Pentalph
Lodge No. %. F. A. A. NJ, under the
direction of which he will be buried
Judge Goodins leaves a wife and one
daughter. Winifred. His only son, Ar
thur, was killed in a Colorado railroad
wreck nearly a year ago.
The funeral will be held at $50 o'clock
Friday afternoon from his late residence.
Interment will be in Rock Creek ceme-
Ierv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Craft in Winter Quarters.

The handsome power launch Rosemont,
belonging to DR. Schafirt of this city,
was yesterday taken from the water at
Benefits boatyard and will join the Re-
becca w. and other vessels laid up there
for the winter months. During the winter
the Rosemont will be overhauled and put
in thorough order for service on the
Potomac when the boating season opens
next spring.
The auxiliary power sloop Della, Capt
Burlingame owner, which was on the
railway at Regan's to have outboardS
openings plugged and to be made ready
for her winter quarters. has been put
overheard and berthed at the boatyard
until the opening of the next boating
season. 1t is stated that number of i'm
provements will be made in the Della
during the winter
The launch Sport, one of the local fleet
of pleasure craft, which has been lying
at the boatyard foot of 9th street, for a
week. was yesterday taken from the
water and put in winter quarters al
Cumberland's boathouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Buoyage Changes Reported.

A notice to mariners regarding changes
in buoyage in the Potomac, and in near
by waters. has been issued from the office
of the lighthouse inspector for the fifth
district, as follows:
Potomas River-Coan river gas boy
No. 3, was reported extinguished Deem
Der 4. and will be relighted as soon as
practicable.
Chesapeake Bay, Main Ship Channel,
Va.-Rappahannock Spit buoy, No. u,
was changed from iirst-casS can to Il
spar, for the winter, December ,.
Smith Point shoal buoy, No. 49, had
a spar marker placed alongside, for the
winter, December l.
Baltimore Harbor Entrance.-Craighill
channel lower entrance buoy CO. first
class nun. reported sinking November 20,
was replaced by a perfect buoy Decem-
Der f.
Hampton Roads Newport News middle
ground thirtS-foot channel buoy, No 4,
firSt-class nun, reported out of position
November -, was replaced in position
December =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
MARYLAND Tobacco Growers Meet.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. December s.
The Maryland Tobacco Growers Assoc
citation held its annual meeting at 10
o clock yesterday morning at the Mary
land Agricultural College. E.X-State
Senator Louis Mex. Griffith presided and
Franklin Weems acted as secretary.
President f. Snowden Hill made his re-
port for the past year, as did also John
$. Drury. the treasurer, who showed all
bills paid and a balance on hand. The
old board of directors was unanimously
reelected. 1t was decided that the dues
be 81 a year. payable January l, and that
no one shall be a member who has not
paid his dues by March 10. 1t was
further decided that a general meeting
of ali the members of the association
whose dues are then paid shall be held
at Upper Marlboro March 16. the purpose
| of the meeting being to transact genera
| business and to promulgate rules foi
the shipment and selling of tobacco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
West Virginia Miners Institute.

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, December s.
The annual meeting Of the West Virginia
coal Miners Institute convened here yes
terday for three-day session. one hun
dred and fifty delegates We're present
when j. II. Hanford of Morgantown,
president called the body to order. What
Shall We Do With the Oil and Gas Wells
on Our Coal Pproperties?' was the SUBJ
ject of an address by T.. b. Moore of the
Fairmont Coal Company. The officers
for The ensuing year elected yesterday
are: President j. b. Hansford. Morgan
town: vice presidents. Frank Haas, Fair
mont: Neil Robinson, Charleston: F. H.
Palmer, Olcott, and Paul Hardy of Hol-
den; secretary treasurer, +. b. Day of
Pittsburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08

ing last night discussed at length the com
parative cost and merits of gas and cleo
tricity This was the result of a vigorous
canvass being made of the field in behalf
of the Alexandria Electric Light Com
pany and the Rosslyn Gas and Electric
Light Company.
w. r. Green, one of the directors of
the gas company. has just made a house
toulouse inquiry to learn what patronage
the corporation can expect, and gang
of nearly a hundred men is making
rapid progress in laying pipe toward Ball
ston- The men had reached the top of
the hill beyond Rosslyn last night with a
two-foot trench and four-inch pipe be-
side it, and will probably be at the Fort
Myer reservation, nearly three miles out,
by the close of this week.
1t is this visible evidence of a gas sun
ply at once that is causing most COM
ment. The citizens association ap-
pointed a committee to act with commit
tees from Clarendon and Ballston to re-
quest the Alexandria county supervisors
to make arrangements If possible to have
street lights put along the line of the
gas main. The hope was expressed that
some concessicr might be obtained in re-
turn for the grant of the right Of way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
ANACOSTIA AND VICINITY.

The petition being distributed in and
about anacostia for signatures to be pre-
sented to Congress asking the reclama-
ton of the flats is being signed rapidly,
and it is thought that every male resi-
dent of the locality will affix his sigma
tlIre to this petition.
Occupancy of the new station house
is expected soon, the building being
nearly completed.
The boys of Emanuel choir were en-
tertained last evening in the basement
of the parish hall. Mr.. Scantlebury, di-
rector, providing banquet. The teachers
of the Sunday school partook Of a feast
after the boys were through with their
was decided to give the children's enter
tainment on Tuesday evening, the 2sth
instant, in the parish hall.
Warren To'son and family of Piney
Point. Md. are spending several days in
Anacostia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
VERDICT OF GUILTY.
Handbook Man Convicted in the
Police Court.

Assistant United States Attorney Ralph
Given obtained verdict of guilty I'm a
second handbook case yesterday
Charles Scott who has been on trial in
the Police Court and whose case was
continued last week until yesterday
through his counsel. Campbell Darlington
announced that he would not contest the
case further. Judge Kimball, therefore,
instructed the jury to bring 4 verdict
of guilty against Scott. Sentence in the
case was deferred. and 1t is understood
the defendant will plead certain e3ten-
uating circumstances in an effort to have
Judge kimball make the sentence light
The maximum penalty for this offensa
is three months in Jail and a fine of $500
Scott was charged with taking a bet
on a horse race from Elijah johnson last
summer Johnson was working with the
police In their effort to break up the
handbook business in the District, and he
took the stand against Scott when the
case came up for hearing.
w. D. Coombs, the juror whose illness
caused a postponement of the case until
yesterday, was in court, but he was ex-
cused from further service on the jury
this winter, on account of Ill health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Personal to River Men.

CAPT. Roy 7. Fowkes, who has been
acting as mate of the tug William II
Yerkes, jr.. of the Taylor fleet of this
city, returned yesterday from Norfolk
and will take command of the tug James
.. Carter when she returns to service
Grover Owings, quartermaster OF
steamer st, Johns of the new Norfolk
line. has resigned to enter other employ
ment
Capt. \. ]. Taylor, managing owner OF
the Taylor fleet Of tugboats, who has
been confined to his home for the past
week by Illness, is recovering.
Capt. Tom Murdoch, mate of the
steamer Trenton, who mashed his foot
badly several days ago, is reported re-
covering from his injury.
Engineer Fitzgerald of the =. and G.. line
is at Newport News looking after repair
work to the steamer City of Milford
recently purchased by the local steam
boat company for service on the Po-
tomac.
Arthur Gouldman has succeeded Walter
Robertson as quartermaster of the
steamer Capital City, in service on the
Nom nj and Lower Machodoc route
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
THROW CARES ASIDE.
Boatmen and Others Along Poto-
mac Preparing for Holiday.

Christmas is the great holiday of the
year along the Potomac, and already
boatmen are announcing their intention
to lay up their craft until after ,the holt
days, and to then return to service, If
weather conditions will allow. From
Christmas eve until after New Year
day no one works in the river coun-
ties of Maryland or Virginia. except to
do absolutely essential duties. The time
is given over to merrymaking and visiting
and the cares of life are thrown aside
for the week. Practically every vessel
owned on the river is laid up and freight
ing is at a standstill. This fact Is so well
known that merchants here prepare for
It by securing supplies of wood, lumber
and other stores in advance. The schoon-
er S. l.. Bowen, which left Yesterday,
and rhe schooner Oriental. which sailed
today for river points, will on their ar
rival at their home points down river go
into retirement for about a month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
WASHINGTON SWORD.
No Record at Berlin of Gift From
Frederick the Great.

PHILADELPHIA. December S-After
six months investigation into thirty-four
archives al Berlin, at which more than a
million papers were scanned. DIR. Marion
d. Learned, professor of Germanic Ian
guages and literatures at the University
of Pennsylvania. found no trace of docu-
ments to substantiate the traditional be-
LIEF that Frederick the Great presented "a
sword to Gen. Washington.
Il was examining the collection OF
house archives now deposited in the Privy
Prussiau Archives at Berlin said DR.
Learned land / ran across no documents
that tell OF such ceremony.
During the six months | was in Ger
many | examined the material in thirty
four archives, working diligently between
six ana eight hours day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08

the Washington society is the fourth in
point of membership of the national as
sociations. The report of the treasurer
showed a balance of s322.07 i'll the
trea SuIy.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Governor, Justice
Henry b. Brown; deputy governor,
United States Civil Service Commissioner
William s. Washburn; secretary. +. W..
Bradford: treasurer. Jerome +. Johnson;
captain, Frank J. Lewis; elder, Rev. DR..
John l.. Ewell; historian, a. a. Aspin-
wall; surgeon, DIR. Charles II. Caldweil;
assistants, Capt. w. w. Case, DIR. i. A.
Hill. Mrs. Mary Hodges Semmcs. A..
Howard Clark, $. f.. Faunce, Mrs. Bertha
NJ Robbins and Miss Maybelle Raymond
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
For Civil Service Employees.

mass meeting under the auspices of
the United States Civil Service Retire
ment Association will be held at the
Public Library, 9th and Massachusetts
avenue northwest, this evening at 7:3I
O'Clock. Prominent speakers will address
the meeting and every civil service en-
ploye in Washington has been invited by
the association to attend. President
Tafts well known views upon the sub
ject are stimulating the association to re.
newed efforts. and it's officers are leaving
nothing undone which they deem effective
in advancing the cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Elks' Minstrel Show.

Practically all arrangements have been
completed for the minstrel show to be
given BY the Washington Lodge of
Enlts at the Elks' Cub tomorrow and
Friday evenings. The comedy program
which is to be presented Is regarded IA
high class, while the songs will be
rendered by some of the best known solo
: lists In this city. Among those who will
take part in the program are Stephen =.
Laut, John J. German, James A. Bladder
son, Dana c. Holland, Charles Il. Myers.
Thomas A. Murray, James j. Clinton,
Roland r. Rodrick, DR.. Frank T.. Gibson
and others. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Stop

taking liquid physic or big or little
pills. that which makes you worse
instead of curing. Cathartics don t
cure-they irritate and weaken the
bowels. CASCARETS make the
bowels strong, tone the muscles SO
they crawl and work-when they
do this they are healthy. producing
right results. 9o7
CASCARETS a box for a weeks
treatment. All druggists. Biggest seller
In the world. Million boxes q month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Mayfower Descendants Also Pay
Tribute to Dead Associates.

Memorial resolutions for three MEM
bers who died during the past year
George e. Gorllam. James +. b. Mil
lard and Mrs. Eta Knowles Shepard
We're adopted ut the annual meeting of
the Society of Mayf1ower Descendants of
the District of Columbia. held at the
New Willard last evening.
capt :. T.. Faunce gave report of
the fifth trennial national convention of
the organization, held at Plymouth,
Mass, last September. Mrs. Randolph
keim described the observance of New
England day in Seattle. Wash.
The report Of the historian showed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Fits Into Child-Labor Law.

The hour set by the proposed bill, To
p. m, would not conflict with the child
labor law which permits children, such
as newsboys and shoebacks. engaged in
street trades to he abroad until 10 o'clock
and those engaged in indoor employments
to work until Z p. m. The judge thinks
that limit of p. III. for both classes
would be more desirable and would per-
nit children to be in bed at 10 o'clock,
the seasonable hour.
Judge De Lacy thinks that children
violating a curfew law should be taken
10 their homes and not to the house of
detention. Also, he says that the police
regulation prohibiting loud and unusual
noises at late hours can now be used as
A curfew, in many instances. especially
where armies of young skaters range the
streets and make night hideous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Dredge Going to Panama.

The suction dredge Ancon, built at the
Maryland steel works for the isthmian
canal commission for service in construc-
ton of that great waterway. is complet ed
at Baltimore and in tow of the tug Tor
mentor will leave that port today for the
isthmus. Colon is the destination of the
dredge and II Is expected that ii will
reach that port in about three weeks or
month. The Ancon is a powerful ma
chine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
CHARGED Up TO ROOT
PREMATURE ANNOUNCEMENT
OF MacVEAGH REPORT.
New York Senator, Temporary Pre-
siding Officer, Internationally
Causes Mix-Up.

Senator Root of New York, presiding
in the Senate yesterday, in the tempo
rary absence of Vice President Sherman,
created, all unknown to him at the time,
sensation among the newspaper men
whose effects were even international.
Copies of the annual report of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury were in the hands
of the newspapers throughout the coun-
try and in Europe, to be held in conf
dence for publication this afternoon. The
report itself was still unsigned on the
desk of Secretary MacVeagh in the
Treasury building.
BY some means as yet undeciphered
two printed copies of the report found
their way to the desk of the President
of the Senate. Mr.. Root is past mas
ter in the art of dispatching routine bust
ness in the Senate, and he deity handed
the Treasury report over the desk, with
the routine announcement customary in
such cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
GAS ACROSS THE RIVER.
Rosslyn Company Begins Laying
Mains in Alexandria County.

The citizens Of Alexandria county, es-
pecially those living along the roads to
Falls Church. are waking up to the COM
ing of new opportunities for lighting into
their territory. The Fort Myer Colonial
Heights Citizens Association, at it's meet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08

Miss Elsie Mae Simpson, daughter of c.
f. Simpson Of Mount Airy, Md, and ID.
Maynard Jones. son of Charles Jones of
New Windsor. Carroll county, were mar
ried at Frederick, Nd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Flashed Over the Wires.

Instantly the keen-eared reporters on
the Senate floor flashed to the wires the
news that the report had become a pub
lie document, and the release clicked
off to Chicago, to San Francisco. to New
York, to Europe.
1t was we'll nigh two hours before the
fact that a blunder had been made was
realized: upon the Secretary's insistence
an effort was made to recall the release.
bnt he soon came to appreciate that the
mischief was, in fact, irreparable, and
consented to waive the technicality. and
the release was confirmed.
An amusing feature of the mix-up lies
in the fact that the report should not
have been handed down in the Senate
at all since in accordance with law it Is
addressed only to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Phases of Problem.

There are two phases of this question:
says the judge. First. the action of the
children in remaining on the street far
into the night sometimes all night; sec
ond. the remssness of the parents in per-
hitting such action by the children.
Granting that the first should be con-
trolled by the parents, then, upon the
failure to exercise such control, the sec
ond phase should render the parents liza
BILE to punishment SO as to prevent the
harm and the danger to children. the flu
ture citizens of the republic. and to OBJ
viate the very just cause of complaint on
the part of the community because of the
nuisance of such license on the part OF
the children.
1t is a proper exercise of the police
powers of the state to regulate child
labor, to compel the attendance of chill
dren at school, and to prohibit the sale
of liquor and tobacco to minors, and the
curfew law would seem to be in the same
IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Q. J. DeMoll & Co.,
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Pianos
for Christmas.
PEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
FAVORS CURFEWLAW
Judge De Lacy Believes Par
ents' Rights Not involved.
MIGHT MAKE DUTY PLAIN
Minors Under Sixteen Not to Be Al
lowed Off Block After 10
O'Clock at Night.

! Judge De Lacy of the Juvenile Court
| has given his opinion to Commissioner
| Macfarland that curfeV law Is neceS-
| sity for the District of Columbia. Mr..
| Macfarland will take up the subject with
| the intention of making law restrict
| ing children from roaming the streets
at night, as soon as the Commissioners
| have finished their conferences with the
| committee on appropriations.
/ Judge De Lacy transmits the copy of
| a bill for the establishment of d cur
| few law, which is the result of care
| full study by the committee on charities
and corrections of the Board of Trade.
| The dominant note is the correction of
| the parents for failure to discipline the
! child properly.
| Judge De Lacy believes that the proper
| curfew law would not be an invasion
/ OF parental rights. but would awaken
| careless and Indifferent parents TO a sense
of duty and responsibility.
Minors Confined to Home Block.
The proposed bill would, after 10 pm,
/ limit every one under sixteen years of
| age to the block on which he resides,
unless accompanied by parent or guardi-
an, some person having the authority
| OF parent OF guardian. however, tue
law would permit a child to go anywhere
| on an errand from his home
| The penalty would be a fine Of 50
or less for the parent or limit of sixty
| days in the workhouse, or both. If "A
| parent should try to comply with the
| law and the child should prove incor-
| rsible, then the child would be dealt
| with under the laws, made to deal with
| delinquent children.
| To avoid conspiracy between the boy
| or girl who wants to escape the limits OF
| the curfew and some older person who
| might falsely assume the position of par
| ent or guardian, the bill provides a fifty
dollar fine or six months sentence or
both, for any one who shall aid and
apet the violation of the law.
| Judge De Lacy gives examples of two
| cases of ruined lives coming under his
| notice. in which boy and girl might
have been spared much had there been a
| curfew law.
| He takes the ground that the family is
| prior to the state. and that the family.
| and not the individual, is the true unit of
| the state, and that the welfare of society
| depends on the integrity and happiness of
| the families within the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Player Specials.
Christmas Bargains
Used Upright Pianos.

A number of high-grade
Pianos, many of which We're
taken in exchange for Player
Pianos. to close out quickly at
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