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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
Mob of Striking Carmen
Puts Troops to FIiuht

PHILADELPHIA, February 23-Four
companies of state troops, the Phila-
delphia Fencibles, laid low and close
and deep in their armory last night
sewing patches on their olive drab
breeches and applying witch hazel to
their bruises.
Their introduction as Il punitive force
into the strike brought about the most
desperate riot so far, and the Fencinlas
were saved from a savage hammerine
only by the courage of German eX-
cavalry. officer who commanded a squad
of ten mounted policemen
All Philadelphia is laughing over the
rout of the "Invincibles," as they
proudly termed themselves yesterday
morning. But the bloody fight that re-
suited from the employment of the Fen
cibles was no joke.
dozen men were shot, at least one
hundred dubbed. women were knocked
down and trampled upon, children We're
injured, and for two hours there was n
fierce battle between the police and
the 10000 strike sympathizers that ragged
for five blocks along Germantown avenue.
Mayor Reyburn and his director of
public safety. Henry Clay, found them
selves in such straits for men yesterday
morning that they called upon the Fen
cibles. a battalion of boyish troops made
up of four companies. They were COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
WARING is SET FREE
UNDER A HEAVY BOND
Friends in Philadelphia Said to
Have Come to His
Rescue.

Harry j. Waring, indicted in connection
with the Bank Depositors' Insurance
Company scheme, who was arrested in
Rochester, N. Y, at the instance of the
Post Office Department, has been released
on bond in the sum Of s.. 800 to insure
his appearance at the April term of the
Supreme Court of the District of Column
bia Warning was arrested by Marshal
Viehman of Rochester on complaint of In
spectors Keene and Ryan. Through his
attorney he gave cash bail and was re-
leased by United States Commissioner
Edwin c. Smith, before whom he was
taken by the marshal. He was reported
yesterday to be stopping at the Rochester
Hotel.
Warning. it is said, obtained the money
from friends in Philadelphia to secure
his release. 1t is believed that Conneli,
who was indicted with him, has been To-
Gated and that his apprehension is but
a matter of short while. Warning is be-
lieyed to have seen him Sunday, and his
detour for that purpose. it is thought.
made possible his arrest, as he was
known to be on his way to California.
Inspectors Keene and Ryan of the Phil
adelphia division have arrived in Wash
ington. Their capture of Warning is re-
earded at the department as an excep-
tionally clever bit of work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
BANKS DOORS CLOSED
BOOKKEEPER'S SHORTAGE MADE
CONCERN INSOLvENT
Depositors Are Mainly the Small
Business Concerns of Cam
bridge, Mass.

BOSTON, February 23.-The National
City Bank of Cambridge closed it's doors
today by order of the controller of the
currency at Washington. bank exam
liner is now in charge of the institution.
The National City Bank was organized
in 1865 and has a capital of 100000 OF
late years its business has been small,
owing to the competition of several trust
companies The last report showed
surplus and undivided profits of $4,000.
Its deposits are $127, 432.
The president is Edwin Dresser and
F. l.. Earl is the cashier.
Bank Examiner Ellis S. Pepper is in
charge of the closed institution Mr.
Pepper discovered a shortage of $144,OOO
in the banks deposits this week
The depositors largely small bust
ness firms and the average amount of
the deposits is not large
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
IS DENIED
Plumbers Say They Do Not
Overcharge Customers.
VICTIMIZED BY DISTRICT
One Employer Tells of Excessive De-
mands Made by the
Authorities.

Plumbers of Washington say There is
no general practice of overcharging Gus
toners in the matter of plumbers cuts"
in which the District of Columbia charges
the trade A price which covers the cost
of repairs to streets.
A statement attributed to Capt. Mark
ham, assistant to the Engineer Commits
sioner. gave some plumbers the impress
sion that District officials are saying that
charging customers thousand per cent
more than the actual charge for cutting
into the street to connect houses with
water is more or less a habit with
plumbers.
Capt. Markham Explains.
What Capt. Markham said was that
there are certain plumbers who are over
charging.
He explained that there are only a
few plumbers whom he knows or sus-
poets of this sort of business.
He said he has actual documentary
proof of some of the occurrences where
in a plumber has been charged dOUar
or. two by the District for repairing the
streets after a plumber has made the
connection. and where the customer has
been charged perhaps ten times as much
The overcharge he mentioned ran from
not mean that any impression should be
gathered that all plumbers are in the
habit of making these charges.
His idea was that the public should
know that certain plumbers are making
charges of that sort, and that people
can find out exactly what the District
charges are by telephoning the District
building.
Other Side of Case.
On the other hand Maurice j. Colbert
plumber, of 621 f street northwest, says
that while he deprecates any impression
that plumbers in general are overcharg-
ing on this matter. he has had expert
ence which shows him that the District
has occasionally overcharged a plumber
Il have before me at the present time,
Mr.. Colbert states, 1.-The records of a case
where l made a cut in an improved alley
during the month of March, 1909, and,
charged the exact cost, which was 81, to
the owner. The repairs We're made by
the District during August. 1909. 1 have
the receipted bill for sl0.15, which was
it's charge for the repairs.
Again L charged customer 1898.
which was exact according to the Dis
trict schedule. For these repairs 1 paid
the District s'2.S3.
lection, but to no avail until l threat
ened to take the matter into court.
Then the District credited my account
with the amount they had overcharged
me.
The most recent case is one where
l made a cut in an alley where the
pavement had been previously removed
by some one else. OF course ] did not
charge my customer for pavement
which l had not cut, yet / received a
bill from the District for something
over $40.
After writing several times and
making several visits to the District
building 1 got the charge reduced to so
cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23

city officials realized had been made in
the arrest of c. o. Pratt. the strike lead
er. the warrants for the arrest of John ].
Murphy. chairman of the Central Labor
Union, and Peter Driscoll. president of
the Car Mems Union. were hidden away
somewhere in the city hall
Both men appeared at the fortress, for
that is what the place continues to re-
semble, to give themselves up, and were
Informed by Tim O'Leary, assistant
superintendent of police, that he didn't
know whether he wanted them or not
Pratt was released in bonds of $1,000,
and District Attorney Rotan gave hasty
assurances to the newspapers that his
case would not be railroaded through the
grand jury.
At the headquarters of the transit COM
pany statement was issued that the
arrest of Pratt had been made without
their knowledge, and also that they were
not importing strike breakers from the
Bowery.
When asked concerning this statement,
Pratt said:
His Letters Opened, Says Pratt.
Il have positive knowledge that they
old cause my arrest. No one else but
the traction people would want me I'M
der arrest.
why. after taking me to cell thew
stripped me of my private papers, and
even opened letters from nv wife so
anxious We're they to find out nv plans >,
Relative to the strike breakers. Pratt
oHered documentary evidence in the form
OF printed meal tickets issued to men in
New York bearing the name of the Phil
adeiphia Traction Company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23

sport in Kensington late yesterday after
noon, today made the following state
ment:
eff any one of our men had fired into
that crowd yesterday he would have been
annihilated by the mob. The men We're
a mere handful, who were stationed ten
feet apart. What could they hope to do
against a disorderly crowd of 10000?
IF we had fired there would have been
anarchy in this town last night. We
would have been held responsible for the
lives of many, including women and chill
dren.'
The $50 militiamen of the State Fenc-
ibles after their trying experience at
Germantown and Lehigh avenues yester-
day, spent the night in the traction COM
panys barn at Sth and Dauphin streets,
where the company's principal offices are
situated. The command was brought to
its armory near the city hall shortly be-
fore IL o'clock. 1t has not yet been de-
cded what further duty the youthful
soldiers will perform.
The placing on guard of the State Fenc-
ibles along Lehigh avenue yesterday is
now admitted to have been a mistake. The
members of this organization, which en-
joys the use of a city armory. are mostly
very young men, some of them mere boys
The stock of window glass in the city
suitable for car windows has been eX-
hausted. the company announced today.
No more broken windows can be replaced
until more glass is secured.
More than 1000 windows were broken
yesterday, running the total for the four
days of the strike well over 1000.
Gompers Hopes for Victory.
President Samuel Gompers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor came to this
city yesterday to try TO harmonic some
of the unions in the building trades,
which are having jurisdictional disputes.
Speaking of the strike of the trolley men
in Philadelphia. he said that while 1t was
ordered without his sanction, now that
it is on he believes it ought to be fought
by the men to finish, and he believes
that the strikers will win.
THE strike he said, lis the outcome
of efforts on the part of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company to destroy the
union. Four weeks ago / offered the
services of the officers of the American
Federation of Labor to the company and
the men in an effort to reach a settle
ment, but the offer was declined by the
company.
1.-The strike was forced by the company
in order to crush the union out of exist
ence believe the strikers will win. They
had to strike in order to preserve the
union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
Wiped Out by Shortage.

a shortage of $144,o00 in the individ-
ual deposits caused the closing of the
doors of the National City Bank of
Cambridge. according to information
received by the controller of the cur
rency.
ID. w. Colman is the name given at
the office of the controller of the cur
rency as the bookkeeper of the Ma
tional City Bank of Cambridge whose
defalcatiOn caused the closing of the
institution. He has absconded. His
shortage more than wipes out the capi-
tai stock, 100000 and the surplus and
undivided profits, amounting to $50. 400.
thus making the bank insolve.at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
Injured in Rescuing Hat.

WARREN. Pa. February e3.-In an eff
fort to recover a woman's hat which had
blown from her head while crossing
bridge over the Allegheny river, James
Severance sustained broken leg, sew
eral fractured ribs and internal injuries.
The hat had landed on the ice twenty
feet below the bridge, and Severance
volunteered to be lowered to the river
with rope. The rope broke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23

A bill has been introduced in the Mary
land legislature repeating the act creating
commission to establish and to MAIN
tain by taxation libraries and reading
rooms in the state. and provides for an
annual appropriation OF $1,000. 1t seems
that no advantage has ever been taken
of the law. and it is thought advisable
now to repeal it. All the money appro-
priated will be sent back to the treasury
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
BENEFITS EMPLOYEES
House Passes Amendment to
the Liabilities Act.
MUST SUE IN TWO YEARS
Larger Choice, However, as to Court
in Which Action May Be
Brought for Injury.
MUST SUE in TWO YEARS

+ The Sterling resolution amendin.; the
employers liability law was passed by
the House of Representatives. this after
noon. 1t provides that mo action saail
be maintained under this act unless com
menced within two years from the dav
the cause of action accrued"
1t is further proved that "under thi
act an action may be brought in a cir
district of the resident of ei.aer the
pialntin or the defendant, or in which
the cause of action arose. or in which
the defendant shall be found at the time
OF commencing such action.
THE jurisdiction of the courts of the
United States under this act shall be con-
current with that of the court of the sew
cral states
Section is amended so as to provide
that ANY right of action given by this
act to a person suffering injury shall sur
vive to his or her personal representative,
for the benefit of the surviving widow or
husband and children of such employee
and, If none. then of such employee
parent: and. if none, then of the next of
there shall be only one recovery for the
same injury
Intent of Resolution. =
Explaining the resolution and what it
was intended to accomplish thereby, Mr..
Sterling said in part:
I'm considering the advisability of
amending the employers liability act it
is important to understand that the pur-
pose of Congress in the passage of this
act was to extend further protection to
employees. This was its manifest pur-
pose, as is apparent from consideration
of the circumstances of its enactment.
1T is manifest from q consideration of
the report, both of the Senate and House
committees, that the purpose of the stat
ute was to extend and enlarge tie remedy
provided by law to employees engaged in
interstate commerce in cases of death or
injury to such employees while engaged in
such service. No purpose of intent on the
part of Congress can be found to limit or
to take away from such an employee any
right heretofore existing, by which such
employees were entitled to more extended
remedy than that conferred upon by the
act
Unjust in Some Cases.
The effect of decisions i'm cases so far
adjudicated under the act has been in
general to recognize the true intent of
Congress and to extend and make more
ample the right to recover damages for
death or injury TO interstate servants.
yet in some particulars it's operation has
been to limit a recovery which other wise
would have been opened to the employee
or his representative.
One result of the passage of the law
may be to nullify state laws affording a
remedy in certain cases for death or in
jury in railroad service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
APPEAL TO PENR0SE
Strike Leaders Get Promise of
His Aid.
DELEGATION CALLS ON HIM
Do Not Define Plan. But Tell Him
Their Troubles.
ARBITRATION SOUGHT BY THEM
ARBITRATION SOUGHT BY THEM

/ Senator Boies Penrose of PENNSYLVANIA
will again see Philadelphia labor leaders
who came here yesterday to ask him to
use his influence to secure arbitration in
i the Philadelphia street car strike
| He said today that the labor leaders
| had not outlined fully what steps they
desire him to take.
Strikers Look to Penrose.
| In the effort to end the big strike, rep
resentatives of the labor unions of Phila-
delphia arrived in Washington last night
| to seek the Intervention of Senator Pen
rose. who is head of the republican state
organization
| The delegation, according to a dispatch
| from Philadelphia, included William T.
Tracey, president of the Allied Building
Trades Council of Philadelphia; Charles
II. Leps, secretary-treasurer: James
| O'Toole, vice president; John McShane
chairman of the executive board of the
same organization, and Rein Orr, inter-
national secretary of the Street and Elec-
! trical Workers Union.
| Word received from Philadelphia last
night was to the effect that the delega-
ton wanted arbitration of the big strike,
and would urge Senator Penrose to ar
range for settlement in this manner.
1t Is expected that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, with which the street
car workers are affiliated, will take a
hand in the strike unless it is soon set
tied.
Penrose Has Promised.
PHILADELPHIA. February 23.-In
conversation over the telephone today
Senator Penrose discussed the conference
he had last night in his apartments at the
Hotel Willard in Washington with the
~, Ion ay xxrI,r, ont
down from this city yesterday to talk
over with him the strike Situation.
Senator Penrose admitted that the laoor
men had asked him to look into the situa
ton. He said he had promised to take
the matter up as soon as possible.
The labor leaders" said Senator Pen
rose today, complained bitterly of what
they said was the undue activity shown
by the police in the interests of the rapid
transit company. and said they mad felt
that they should submit the matter to
me and inform me of the conditions ex
listing in Philadelphia
They did not say anything about ar
bitration at his time, but seemed simply
10 desire to discuss the subject with me
In a general way.
Will Take UP Matter.
Il told them | would take up the mat
ter at the earliest moment possible and
would give it my attention. Just when l
will be in Philadelphia, however, | cannot
now say"
In defining it's position on the sugges-
ton to settle the strike by mediation. an
official of the company today said that
under no consideration will the company
entertain such PLAN
1--WE have heard that United States
Senator Penrose will be asked to lend his
good offices to end the strike. That fact
would never lead to consider any in
reference or mediation from outside par
ties in a dispute which Is not at all an
issue in which the public can be con-
cerned
I'm the language of George III. Earle,
a director of the company. anarchy can
not be arbitrated.'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
To Cuba,

Florida's famous winter re-
sorts. Pullman cars to all Florida points
via Atlantic Coast Line. Liberal STOP
overs. For information, 1419 n. Y. ave.
.Advt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
Maj. Brazier Explains.

Maj Thurber T. Br3zier. commander of
The State Fencibles, the military command
with which a big holiday crowd had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
COLD WAVE IS COMING
MERCURY WILL FALL TO TEN
DEGREES TONIGHT.
St. Paul Reports Twenty Below.
Low Temperatures in Many
Sections of West.

Washington is to have another real visit
from King Winter this evening. when the
forecasters at the weather bureau prom
Use that the temperature will fall TO about
10 degrees So tomorrow morning, II
the predictions pan out, Washingtonians
will be coming downtown TO their offlces
bundled up in the most approved style
The cold which is now stretching through
the middle Mississippi valley began mead
ing this way yesterday, and the rapidity
viii, which it is travelling will bring it to
Washington after dusk this evening.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, February 25.-Today
was the coolest day or the winter mere.
The official temperature recorded was
70 below zero.
Bitter Cold in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY. February 23-Five de-
erees below zero-the coolest weather
here for the winter-was recorded In
Kansas City this morning. Throughout
Nebraska, Missouri. Kansas. Oklahoma
and Northern Texas also low tempera-
tures prevailed. A sharp north wind add
ed TO the discomfort.
Reports received at the local weather
bureau ranged from 3 degrees below zero
at Sedalia, Mo, 10 - above al Fort
Worth, Tex
CHICAGO, February 23.-Chicago eN-
perienced its coolest weather of the year
today, when the thermometer registered
q degrees below zero for two hours.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of the
and barometer at the wealth
er bureau Tor the twenty-four hours be-
ginning at pm. yesterday:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -. 4 pm. 81.
8 pm, Al II midnight. SO. February .,
4 am, -; 8 am, IS: II noon. 80; pm.
81. Maximum, 30 at pm. February -.
minimum. % at am. February 3.
BarOmeter-February -, 4 pm. z9.s9:
8 pm, 3O.n: l. midnight, zoos. Februa-
81. -, pm, 30.31.
Minimum temperature past twenty-four
hours, -; year ago, a.
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ST PATTI. Mimi, February 2S.-Today
was the coolest day of the winter here.
The official temperature recorded was
% below zero.
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Sympathizers May March.

The fact that the sympathetic strike
was not declared by President John ]
Murphy of the Central Labor Union
acted as a panacea to the tired police
officials OF the city. who were antici-
pating strike of 100000 men, A move
IS on foot. however, TO have the sympa-
thizers of the striking street railway
employees parade peacefully to the city
hall. 100000 strong. and thereby show
the mayor and other officials the gigan-
tic proportions of the threatened up-
rising should II later be decided to ca IL
out these men.
The decision not To have this army
of workers engage in the struggle at
present was due to Organizer Clarence
o. Pratt of the Street Car Mems Union
was not opportune for this move The
union leader decided To take the advice
OF Pratt and defer calling out the
union Sympathizers.
The right of Murphy to call a general
strike of all trades unions affiliated with
the Central Labor Union is disputed by
A ma jority OF the local labor leaders A
careful investigation of the situation
shows that Murphy. as head of the Gen.
trail Labor Union. has no power 10 order
general strike, but is only vested with
the authority TO suggest one
IL then rests with each trade union to
sympathetic strikes without any sugges-
ton from the central labor organization
There are some unions that would not
agree to a general sympathetic strike, il
is said, because ii would involve the
breaking of hard-won trade agreements
with employers who are innocent parties
in the present trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23

After the stupendous bunder that the !
Milford chronicle., 1910-09-23
Great Miners Strike Ends.

Thirty thousand coal miners of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Arkansas and Okla
homa, who have been on strike for
i've months, returned to work.
Milford chronicle., 1910-09-23
FOUND DEAD IN CHURCH
Wilkes-Barre Lawyer Expired In Edi-
flee He Went to INSPECT.

Thomas ]. Chase, a lawyer OF
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was found dead in
pew at the Universalist church
He had been missing all night, and
evidently bad gone into the church,
of which he was a trustee, to inspect
some repair work, and fell dead.
Heart disease was probably the cause.
Milford chronicle., 1910-09-23
GREAT LABOR WAR
FEARED IN ENGLAND
Serious Unrest in the Ranks
Of Labor.

The industrial situation Throughout
England is daily growing worse.
Prolonged stoppages In separate
trades have been numerous before to
day, but the present crisis involves a
the same moment three great indus
tries of the nation. Coal cotton anC
shipbuilding stand in the first rank oi
importance by reason both of the mum
bers of work people dependent upor
them and the value of their product.
The relations between employers
and employed have become definitely
hostile, and in each case the cause is
similar Small sections ii working
men have defied the agreements eD
tered into by the trade cs a whole
and their recusancy threatens to para
I'VE the entire industry.
The Morning Post, which is thor
oughly alarmed, says that the serious
unrest in the ranks of labor has
brought the country to the brink Of a
disaster difficult to parallel in indus
trial history.