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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17
WAGES OF men CUT
Attorney General Indignant at
Reported Action.
GLASS TRUST PROSECUTION
Sentence of Court Characterized %
Mistaken Lsniency.
STATEMENT BY WICKERSHAM
History Of Proceedings Against the
Alleged OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
Imperial Company Says.


"a very mistaken leniency on the part
Of the court In imposing sentence. which
1t Is hoped would not be followed on any
similar occasion" is indicated in the
opinion Of the Department of Justice, II
1t Is true that the corporations in the So
called window glass trust have noti-
fed their employees that a 30 per cent
reduction in wages is the only condition
upon which they can continue to manu-
facture.
The statement is interpreted here to
mean that the Department Of Justice
will in similar cases insist upon Jail
sentences rather than fines.
The statement was called forth from
Uncle. Sans legal branch by a newspaper
dispatch from Pittsburg, declaring that
the reduction in wages has been an
nounced and attributing it directly to the
successful prosecution Of the combine
ton by the Department Of Justice and
the imposition by the courts OF fines upon
the corporation and upon the directors in
dividually.
Wickersham's Statement.
Attorney General wickersham, while
expressing doubt Of the reliability of the
press dispatch. showed his indignation.
THE evidence obtained by the depart-
ment shows that the Imperial Window
Glass Company was organixed in April.
1909. 1t manufactured no glass, but was
purely selling agency, buying the entire
output OF nifty or more manufacturers of
window glass IN some ten. different states.
facturers from which It bought provided
that no glass should be sold by the latter
except to the Imperial Window Glass
Company. The stock OF the Imperial COM
pany was divided among the manufac-
turers. 1t was not until the company had
brought into combination with 1t, under
such contracts, manufacturers Of about
u per cent of the entire handblown win
dow glass manufactured in the United
States that 1t was determined to COM
mence business. It began business In
January, 1910; by October 1, 1910. prices
had been advanced 20 per cent over what
they were In April, 1909.
Immense PROFITS.
THE evidence showed that in the first
three months OF its operation the I'm.
perial company earned net profits equal
to its entire capital stock. The largest
advance in prices was subsequent to this
initial period. and the evidence showed
that during the ten months Of its bust
ness the combination cleared about
$f.V.v.O0O. or 400 per cent on it's capital
stock. It lease> ...teen factories at high
rentals for the sole purpose Of keeping
from the market. Its expenses during
this period were SlSAO00 for one year
for leases and watchmen Of these closed
down factories. Indictments were found
AGAINST the fifteen directors and onicers
- 1.-THE company, each one OF whom was
either president or prominent oAlcer OF
one OF the companies who had entered
into agreements to sell their product only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17

James II. Cross OF West Augusta. Va,
died at the hospital ut Stanton Wednes.
day. He was sixty-two years old. Ten
operation. =
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Only 'o2c.

A special price for tomorrow
morning-for the best OF New
English Walking Gloves, pique
sewed; standard at $I.25 per
pair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17

Il pays 70 read the want columns %
The Star. Hundreds Of situations ere
filled through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17
Why Suffer With Your Eyes ?

TO the Imperial company. Demurrers ia
the indictments were overruled and the
case was set for trial in PittsburR Mon
day. November IA. a few days previous
70 ~ date overtures were made to the
At,o. Aey General on behalf Of the de.
PENDANTS suggesting that they would
plead mole conference.-the substantial
equivalent Of a plea OF guilty-provided
the Attorney General would agree to rec
ommend to the court that only fines be
This was refused. as the Attorney
General considered and SO stated to the
oeIendant's counsel that the combination
was one OF the most fragrant and inten-
tionai violations OF the antitrust law
which had been brought to the attention
Of the department.
THE Attorney General further in
formed counsel that he had given direc-
tions to have the cases pressed for con-
v1S.E0 and to urge the imposition of
cipal Offenders In case Of conviction
Fines Imposed by Court.
THE following day the defendants ap-
peared In court in Pittsburg and inter-
posed pleas of mole contendere. and,
despite the opposition OF the district at
torney and Special Assistant Grosvenor.
the court only fined each Of the indi-
ton $2.5OO and costs.
1T was stated to the court that the
combination had been dissolved, and this
was one OF the considerations on which
the court let the defendants 20 on a
fine merely. 1t was also stated that
the combination during its existence had
Increased the wages OF the Elass-blOw-
ers, and. as matter OF fact. the d.
rectors' minutes disclosed the adoption
Of one resolution increasing wages IN
per cent. Whether this was carried out
or not did not appear. but at all events.
as the combination had earned about 400
per cent profit on its capital stock during
the year Of its existence, an increase
of 1214 per cent in wages can hardly be
regarded as SO entirely dependent upon
the continued existence Of the comb ma
ton as to justify q reduction Of 30 per
cent in wages upon the dissolution Of
the combination. II the rumored action
should prove to be substantiated by fact
1t would indicate q very mistaken leni-
ency on the patty of the court in i'm
posing sentence. which II Is hoped would
not be followed on any other similar oc-
casion."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17

Early English Golden Oak
Dining Table; hand rubbed and
polished; top IS in, extending
to, e feet when opened; o-in.-
pedestal. Was SO2 Or
$4,000. .......... ~S
Dining Room Chairs; golden
oak; leather seats; French legs;
claw feet. Were g O2
$3.50. Sale price. ;. ~a'.
Serving Tables; mahogany;
2 drawers, I glass shelf and I
wooden shelf. Were $500.
Sale SOS nm
CHARTERED Oak Princess Dress
ers: I7x36-in. beveled mirror;
full swell front; 2 small and
large drawers. Were $4,000.
Sale Gn< mn
price.
Rockers of all kinds. Were
$3.50 to SEQ. SaleanS. 00
prices from S2.o8 to " O'OO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17
Pa1ais Royal Gloves
tyies Just Received From GrenOble, France.

wecomes
asd manan condition.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau.I J.


Washington, Jan. 25.-The Austrian Am
hassador went to New York this morning
to remain several days. Baroness Hengel-
miller, who mas almost recovered from
her indisposition of the early season, did
not accompany him.
The French Ambassador and Nine. Jus
serand entertained guests at luncheon to-
day, and later. in company with them, at
tended the lecture given before the French
Society by Professor Felix WE'LL, of New
York. In their party were the Argentine
Minister and Sonora de Portela, Senior Don
Julian PorteIa, their son; the French First
Secretary and Nine. de Peretu de Ia
Rocca, the French military attache, the
naval attache and Viscountess Benoist
dAzy and NJ Tailhand, the French Third
Secretary.
The Japanese Ambassador entertained
guests at luncheon to-day to meet the
Japanese educator. Baron Kikuchi, presi-
dent Of the Imperial University of Toxic
who is spending some days at the Shore
ham here. Baron Uchida's other guests
included Senator Burton, Representative
Weeks, the Assistant Secretary of State.
Captain T. e. Dewitt veeder, John w.
Foster, Francis B. Loomis. John Barrett'
Herbert Putnam, Charles d. Walcott. E.
E. Brown, B. S. Miller, Professor Need
ham, r. S. Woodward, DR.. Takamine, of
New York; Mr.. Matsui, Professor Achino,
Mr.. Hanihara, Lieutenant Colonel Tanska
and Mr. Takahira.
The French military attache and Coun-
tess de Chambrun will leave Washington
about February for Mexico. where they
will travel some weeks. The count Will
go on business connected with the en-
bassy, and Countess de Chambrun will
take the trip for pleasure
Lieutenant Commander Benoist day
has returned TO Washington from visit
of several days in Philadelphia
The Siamese Secretary and Mrs. LOTUS
were hosts at a large bridge and supper
party tonight.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
People and Social I7ciden1e

Stonewalf' Jackson. OF Tennessee.
her granddaughter. Mrs. Preston. ws. u
riVed mere last night. Mrs. Letter t,,..s"-
10 luncheon to-day Mrs. Dickinso, su ,.
Charles Anderson, Of Cincinnati. NJ
j. Calhoun. Mrs. Henderson, of E,-,..
whose husband wrote life OF oStons,,-,,u,..
jackson; Mrs Nicholas Anderson NJ"
Beach Grant, Mrs John wyeth. Mrs g..
uel Spencer. Mrs. Nathaniel ShaIsr
John Hays Hammond. Mrs John vrss
isn1s. Mrs. W. ". Wotherspoon. Mrz D.
ert w. Patterson and Mrs. Herber, w.
worth.
Colonel and Mrs. Robert B. Roosev.g,
tertained a luncheon party to-day for u,-.
Winslow and Miss HAZEL. OF New y,~a
the house guests OF Miss Gladys HInckIA-,
Mrs H. Z. Biscoe. chaperoned the part
Mrs. Lurton. wife of the new As.oe,,..
Justice of the Supreme Court. met s4vsrsI
hundred persons prominent In society tnj.
afternoon, when Mrs. Paul Fitzsisroa..
was hostess.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman, OF Chicsyo
who is spending the winter here, and bs.
daughter. Mrs. Lowden. received seve-.r
hundred guests at tea this afteruoo,
Mrs. George NJ. Gillespie also held larz.
reception.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
WHEN MARS NEXT RETTRNS

One of the astronomers OF the Lick
Observatory, Mr.. r. G. Aitken, makes a
suggestion in Science" with view to
dispelllng some of the uncertainties
which still exist concerning the planet
Mars. There are Several questions, aside
from the proper Interpretation of the
canals" ON which there is vet dis
agreement among professional observers
Ihat some Of the markings are objective
realities seems to be settled by photog-
raphy, but there is curious lack of con-
currence between representations made
at different observatories at the same
lne. There iG no consensus of opinion,
ior instance, as to the size Of the tele-
scope which will most satisfactorily re-
veal the topography of the Martian sur
race In communication from NJ. An
'ohladi, recently printed by The Tribune,
stress was laid on the fact that in reach
ing his conclusions the Frenchman had
peeh assisted by the use Of the largest
relfactor in Europe, that at Meudon,
"hich mas nm aperture OF thirty-three
iIches The diameter OF Mr.. Percival
Lowers glass, at Flagstaff. Ariz., is
OILY .wehty-four inches, but he has re-
peateo'y expressed the belief that owing
TO It's elevation ii has q bipber snace
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
AmuSenlentS.

~->-~~-~-~----->--><
ACADEMY OF MusIc-2-s;1s--Rasged Robin.
asToRna'Is-s:Is-seVen asr SpGeT,sls pass
BELASCO-215-s:l5-Is Matrmony FaiureG
2o--s:2o-The Lottery Man
2:l5-s:I5-The Jelly Bachelors
CARNEGIE HALIs-S;15-Concert.
CASINO-e:l5-S:15-Th Chocolate Soldier
CoLoNIAL-2-s-Nsudey
CRITERIoN-s: :2o-The Bachelors Baby.
EDEN MUSEE-The World in wax
EAlPTRE-2:iS-s:3o :3o-The Mollusc-
FIFTH AyENUE-2-s-Naude
GAIETT-2:i5-S;i5-The Fortune Hunter
GARDEN-2:i5-s:l5-Th Little Town OF Beth
tiARRIcK-2:i Humble Servant
oBE-2:I5-s:15-The Old Town
HAMMERSTEIN's- -s:lb-yaudeville
HERALD SQUARE-S:l5-Old Dutch.
HIPPODRonlE-2-S-A Trip to Japan; In
side the Earth; the Ballet OF Jewels.
BUDSoN-a:l l5-s: Lucky Star.
IRVING PLACES :I5-Die Forester Christi
KNICKERBoCKER-s- Dollar Princess.
LIBERTT-2-s-The Arcadians.
IYRIC-2:I5-s:i5-The City.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-l1 a. m. 10 IL
p. r.-Wearing Apparel Show.
MANaATT,AIN oPERA @ M2rsEps-lsa eoseme.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back.
MENDELSSofN HALB-s:l5-Recital.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoUSE-s-La Bo-
NEW AaEsTERDAM-2:l5-S S:I5-The Barrier.
NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. s:i5-Twelfth
NEW tYoRK-2i5-s:lsAT Man Who Owns
sT NICHOLAS RfNK-s:i5-Ice Hockey
STI7 I7YNE>S MS :l5-The Lily.
AcK's-2:l5-s:I5-Alias Jimmy Valen-
ERs-e:i5-s:I5-Mr. Butties
WEST END-S:15-The King OF Cadonia
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26

been banished Schools have been found
Ell. Industries have been reated. Rail-
roads are being built. Above all, the
Soudanese, who a score of years ago was
so abject and degraded as to lie carl
cature upon humanity, has 5 Ell made
TO stand erect and to look e the white
aan in the eyes with the consciousness
OF manhood.
The world would be relieved to for
get the story of Mahdism in the Soudaa,
II it could. 1t is not likely ever to take
too much pride in the story OF the sue
ceSsion to Mahdism. There are few If
any finer chapters in the history of the
bearing of the white mans burden than
that which tells of the redemption of the
Egyptian Soudan. The laureate de-
scribed the warrior of God, mans
friend,' as somewhere dead far in the
waste Soudan." But the spirit of Cor
don lives and is immortal everywhere
in a Soudan which is not waste.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26

to the salubrity Of the site. 1t should
also be readily accessible for all legiti-
mate purposes, though that does not
necessarily mean that II should be close
TO this city or should be on or even
close TO a trunk railroad. Indeed, these
latter circumstances should be avoided
as suited TO facilitate the escape of pris-
oners or attempts at rescue from out
side. The safest route for an escaping
prisoner is along a trunk railroad, and
his most secure asylum is in the metrop-
oils. The ideal site for prison would
be far out in the open country, with
access only over a road maintained for
its own use and so managed as to pre-
vent, or at least to discourage, approach
by any save those on legitimate and
necessitous errands. No good purpose
is served by having prison or its
vicinage frequented by idlers or morbid
curiosity seekers.
There Is no more painfully practical
concern in the world than a prison. and
the establishment Of one should be
governed by purely practical considera-
tions. 1t is not a matter of landscape
architecture nor of historic sentiment
nor any such thing. The questions are
where the prisoners will be secure amid
reasonably sanitary surroundings and
where they will be least a cause of ap-
prehension or offence to the public.
There are doubtless places in the south
eastern part Of this state where those
questions can be satisfactorily an
SWered
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
TWAS AIMED AT THE "SOME,p

To the Editor of the Tribune
Sir: Regarding an article by William r.
Carpenter, called Medical Pitfalls" pub
lished in The Tribune yesterday, I wish
to say that the public is easily deceived in
medical matters-witness the handsome in
comes of quacks. cults and patent medi-
cine eXploiters. but any imputation that
reputable physicians gain what success
they have by deception and fraud is false
The doctor who makes much of little ills
we know. We call him an ''alarmist."
Very soon he overworks his deception and
is fTowned on by both profession and pub
lie. Receiving Of commissions and holding
interest in companies selling medical sup
plies are denounced by every medical So
ciety and standard of ethics.
In none of the special instances Of tra,+-
ment quoted by Mr.. Carpenter does he
clearly prove on whom the blame. If any
should be placed.
OF course. there are some unscrunuIous
physicians Where will you not find nm
scrupulous men? Nobody deplores the fact
or is injured by it more than the large ma
Jority of the medical profession-bonest
charitable. hardwOrking Pick out a, dor
tor with conscience. and having chosen
him. stick to him. If he wants beIn -.
VIII ask Tor 1t. If he does. let him have
IL IL Is no disgrace to wish for counsel
And remember that the ability of a nbXsi-
cian pears no relation either in dirac. -,
inverse proportion to the size of his fee
ARTHUR j. HUEY, Nj
New York. Jan. "A, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
WEDDING THEM OUT.

Mr.. Thompson, the Commissioner of
Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, has
hardly had time to cast his eye around
his department, but he has already been
able to dispense with enough idlers to
effect payroll saving of $134,0O0 a
year. Mechanics with nothing to do,
teams hired for which there was no
work, gangs of laborers with more fore
men than workmen, appear to have been
the order of the department. And it is
announced that the Commissioner will
now give his attention to another force
of employees with which the payroll is
said to be overloaded.
Dismissals of supernumeraries are be-
ing announced under the new admins
tration of the city every day. The Park
Commissioner of The Bronx found more
than one hundred and fifty useless men
on his payroll. Borough President
Steers of Brooklyn found his staff equal
ly overloaded. Mr.. McAneny, President
of the Borough Of Manhattan, who is
making q thorough examination of his
office, discovers a very large number Of
useless and incapable place men. Almost
every department of the city government
promises TO show the same sort of Tam
many waste. Before the present admin
istration gets through with its reorgani-
zation host of Tammany underlings
will have to follow the example of one
Of the district leaders and go to work,
all Of which will favor the cultivation
of political ideas and virtue in Four
teenth Street.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Jan. 25.-The Nice-President
and Mrs Sherman were Joined at their
homo to-day by Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Sherman and Mr.. and Mrs. Sheriff. Sher-
man. their sons and daughters-in-law, who
will remain with them for their reception
to the Senate tomorrow night. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Sherman arrived here day
or two ago.
The Vice-President and Mrs. Sherman
were the guests of honor at dinner given
tonight by Mrs. Norman Williams, when
twenty-five other guests were entertained.
Senator and Mrs. Elkins had TO dine with
them tonight the Secretary of War and
Mrs. Dickinson, the Secretary of the In
terror and Mrs. Ballinger. the Gillian Min
lister and Sonora de Cruz, Senator and Mrs.
Crane. Senator and Mrs. Hughes. Repre-
sentative Hubbard, Miss Hubbard. ex-Sen-
ator and Mrs Faulkner. Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
It. Mann, Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Finley. Mrs.
Samuel Spencer. Mrs. John Lindsay More
head, George ". Bowers and ex-senator
Davis.
Mrs. l.. z. Letter is entertaining Mrs.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
KRARTOUM: % YEARS AFTER.

KHARTOUM: 25 YEARS AFTER.
Twenty-Five years ago to-day hero
fell with his face to the f, In the sham
bles OF Khartoum. The lapse Of years
has not materially altered, save to deep
en-, the impression which was then we'll
nigh universal that one of the worlds
great and good men had been sacrificed
as the result of doings which the utmost
charity could describe only as grievous
blunders. In this world blunders must
inexorably be paid for, in some fashion
and by somebody. and for this one pay
ment, though delayed, was particularly
complete. For every drop of Gordon's
blood the AngloEgyptian government
paid a guinea and the hordes of the Sou
dan paid a life.
But that was not full payment. If
The quarter century has made no great
change in the judgment of the event. it
has made a marvellous change in its
chief scene. Khartoum itself has been
transformed. What was after Gordoa's
fall the darkest spot on all the Dark
Continent is now n centre of radiant
light. The college which Lord Kitchen
er founded in Gordons memory has he
come one of the most important seats
of liberal learning in the Moslem world.
The city which Gordon so stubbornly
defended and which the Mahdist hordes
so foully devastated is now the populous
abode of peace. prosperity and advancing
civilization. The cost of the River War
was enormous, but the result is tran
scendent, even at the Forks Of the Nile,
where the crowning drama of vengeance
and redemption was enacted The
khartoum Of twenty-five years after his
marfyrdom might alone serve as Cor
dons sufficient material monument.
Khartoum, however, Is not ALI. Kitch.
ener and Wingate found the entire East
ern Soudan either solitude or an H.
fer1o. Its nearest likeness was what
Hyder All made in the Carnatic: but
India had immeasurably more self-recu-
perative power than Africa. Yet to-day
the Soudan government controls q terri-
tory of about million souare miles.
throughout which there are neace free.
dom, justice and progress slavery has
New-York tribune., 1910-01-26
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS. The fortifca-
tions appropriation bill was passed and
q measure creating a new national for
est in Montana was considered. -
House: a bill creating Bureau of
Mines in the Interior Department was
passed: Messrs. Bennett and Macon had
a heated colloGuy.
FOREIGN.-A special dispatch from
London says the Unionists made further
gains in the election. but that the Lib
erals will surely control the new House
of Commons. The floods in Paris
continued TO rise at the rate of half an
inch OF water an hour, and no Immediate
relief is expected. - Lord Mimic. in
opening the Imperial Legislative Council
OF India, in Calcutta. warned the mem
hers that the preachings of the revo-
lutionary press would not be allowed.
- The Emperor and Empress Of Ger
many were elaborately entertained at
the French Embassy in Berlin.
World tourists 20 the number Of ese. on
the steamship Cleveland, refrained from
landing in Honolulu so that the vessels
owners should not be subjected to a fine
of s200 for each passenger. - The
United States Banking Company, in
Mexico City. suffered a heavy run, but
honored every check presented.
DOMESTIC.-The President made
public at the White House statement
10 the effect that no indiscriminate pros
ecutlon of important Industries was con-
femplated by the administration
Senator Root was the guest of honor at
the annual dinner in Washington of the
New York State delegation in Congress.
- The Ballinger- Pinchot investiga-
tion committee of Congress will begin
its inquiry to-day at Washington, with
Louis r. CLAWS as the first witness
The National Board Of Trade began its
fortieth annual meeting at Washington
Mrs Clarence II Naalyax-
womans suffrage headquarters at AL
bany; she was received by Governor
Hughes. = The eastbound Twentieth
Century Limited train OH the New York
Central road was derailed at St Johns
vile, n. Y, while taking q crossoyer
from track 1 TO track 4: the engineer
and fireman, both of Syracuse, were
killed, but no passengers were injured.
CITY.-Stocks went down TO 6 points.
- A small decline in wholesale meat
prices was announced. - The actual
trial of the governments libel action
against THE World" was begun
The United States Steel Corporation de-
claTed an extra dividend of three quar-
ters OF i per cent on its common stock
- Justice Goff charged the grand
Jury that viii begin an investigation of
TIE alleged Milk Trust A bomb
exploding in tenement house caused a
panic. - ]. p. Mitchell, President of
the Board of Aldermen, put the sergeant
alarms OF the board and his eight as
sistants 70 work. - The mother OF
Dennison. arrested in connection with the
killing of the two boys at Highbridge
Park. told of alleged police efforts to
iasten the crime on the demented magi-
clan. - Augustus NJ Herring began
suit against the Herring Curtiss Com
pany and Glenn II. Curtiss for an ac-
counting
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for TO-
Gay: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 40 degrees; lowest, 81