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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19
LEWIS HAS TO FIGHT
Forced to Heed Charge That
He Has Packed Convention.
OPPONENTS RAISE ROW
Motion to Suspend Salaries of Ma
tional Organizers.
ROUTINE BUSINESS HALTS
F. j. Hayes and Allies Declare Dan
gerous Capitalization of Power
Has Been Achieved.
HALTS

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, January 19.-The
charge that the national administration
OF the United Mine Workers of North
America. headed by President Thomas L.
Lewis. has attempted to pack ahe
convention of the organization, now in
session in this city, so that certain poll
cies or interests could be forwarded
brought on g, bitter factional fight on the
floor Of the convention today.
The anti-Lewis element, led by Frank
J. Hayes, John II. Walker and Duncan
Mcdonald Of Illinois and William Green
of Ohio. succeeded, at the opening of
today's session, in suspending the rules
for the introduction of a motion by
Hayes that tile salaries Of national or
ganizers be suspended while the organic
ers are attending the convention as rep
resentatives of local unions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19
Special Committee to Begin
Food Investigation Monday.
WILL TAKE WIDE RANGE
Increased Cost of Living to Be Elk
haustively Treated.
NOT CONFINED TO DISTRICT
Chairman Moore of House of Repre-
sentatives Prepared to Begin
the Work.

The investigation by a special commit
| tee of seven members of the House Dis
| trict committee into the high and in
| creasing cost of the food necessities Of
life in the District of Columbia will be-
gin next Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
The inquiry was authorized at the regu-
lar weekly meeting of the House Dis
trct committee today.
Representative J. Hampton Moore of
Pennsylvania is chairman Of this special
committee. and while the inquiry is based
on his bill to prohibit the storage of
perishable foodstuffs in the District of
Columbia for longer period than six
months, yet the committee will probe
much deeper into the subject than this
would seem to Indicate
Experts to Be Heard.
The investigation Will not even be lin
tied to the District of Columbia EXPERTS
on the subject from all over the country
farmers will be asked to give their views !;
butchers, bakers and candlestick makers
will be questioned in an effort to deter
mine IL the present high scale OF prices
is the natural result of an inevitable eco
nomic evolution or whether combina-
ton of any sort between producers mid
tilemen or retailers has resulted in an abb
normal advance. thorush a cornbina ton
Of series OF combinations or corners, to
the present time.
While tho special COMMITTEES has not
yet made up list Of witnesses. it is
probable that Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson will be the first to testify before
the committee. He has been conducting
an inquiry Of his own, through the excel
lent facilities at his disposal. and the
committee is inclined 10 believe he will
be able to place a great deal of desirable
and important information before it. He
will he asked TO lay before the committee
all the data which he had collected which
has any bearing on the subject.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, Also.
DR.. Harvey ". Wiley, chief of the bu-
reau of chemistry at the Agricultural
Department. will he asked to give his
opinion of the effect upon perishable food
stuff Of varying periods of storage.
Then the committee will branch ont
and will hear from retailers. wholesalers
ana others In the District Of Columbia
and elsewhere.
The inquiry will bc most thorough.
Chairman Moore says, and will not be
discontinued until the committee is able
to make up its mind concerning the con-
ditions that prevail and to submit suit
able recommendations to remedy what
ever evil or evils that may exist.
Favorable Reports Ordered.
the District committee authorized ia
vorable report on the following bills.
II. r. lists. to change the name of
Esd street north of Calvert street to
Woodley place.
II. r. 1874, for the extension of 23d
street and r street southeast.
H. r. 1881, extending the time Of
construction of the Washington, Spar
Springs and Gretna railway by six
months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19
Churchmen Behind Movement.

LOS ANGELES. Cal. January l9-The
chamber Of commerce has under conaid-
Grafton today request, supported by
Bishop W. s Lewis 81 the Methodist
Church and others. that the organIza ton
assist In fostering a movement To induce
the federal immigration bureau 70 temper
the risora OF the Chimes sc exclusion act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19

Announcement has been made If the
marriage Of Miss Marietta Curry of
Darlington. Hartford county. and Mr.. F,di-
son BurkIns Of Cecil county, the cere-
mou> taking place AT Dublin, Hartford
COUNTY, Md December 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19
Under U. S. Treasury Supervision.

A Saving Account is a good friend
to have. lit will work for you with
out ceasimg and is always ready to
assist you i'm Time of need. lit is a
steady pl0dder and, like the tabled tor
t0ise, wins the race ito wealth while
MIR. Speculation Hare 'lays down ON
y0m.'' Am account cam be opened ait
this Bank with as little as $1,000 and
we pay 800 Interest, computed twice
q year.
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Lewis Permits Discussion.

Between fifty and sixty organizers are
in the convention. They have voting
power from many local unions supposed
not to be able financially 70 support
delegates.
Speakers for the motion declared that a
dangerous Capitalization OF power had
been achieved. and that the national or
ganizers should be either out in their dis
tricts at work, or should be in the con
vention as delegates supported only by
and representing only their own home
locals.
President Lewis and his friends made a
hard fight to prevent the question-whicn
caused violent scenes in last years con-
vention-from coming UP at this time. \
storm Of shouted protests from a ma
jority of the 1.5oo delegates IN the hall
settled that all the routine business Of
the convention should be put aside until
the matter could be thTeShed out.
President Lewis finally said
Very well tneu. Ills rilibGstering must
tak,, lis course II might a. well begin
now
Heated Speeches Made.
Heated speeches en- both sides followed.
President Lewis announced that ne would
finally was put 10 vote.
Charles Gilday Of Hazieton, Pa, a
national organizer. in heated speech,
denied he had been brought in from his
field Of work 10 do The Dldding Of PTesl-
dent Lewis In the convention. or that, 50
far as he knew. an effort mad been made
by the Lewis administration 10 pack
the convent ion.
Hayes declared the national organizers
We're neglecting their duties ana that the
United Mine Workers was NOT progress
ing with its campaign of organization as
it should do.
Green Upholds District Rights.
Green, who was Lewis opponent in
the election for the presidency, SPOKE as
an advocate OF district" rights, as
against Lewis declared theory that the
national organization has supreme au-
thority.
"A national organizer comes INTO this
convention as a delegate from a local
union said Green. 'and should be reim-
bursed for his expenses here by his local
union He should not draw his salary
from the national treasury while he is
here"
The Lewis conservatives also were de-
bv including district officers as liable to
suspension OF salary from the main or
ganizatiou while in attendance at con
ventionS representatives OF loca!
unions.
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BURNS AT HER DOCK
STEAMER ESTELLE RANDALL
TOTAL LOSS BY FIRE.

The propeller steamer Estelle Randall.
which was sold about two months ago by
the Potomac and Chesapeake Steamboat
Company of this city To the Farmers and
Merchants North Carolina line OF Nor
folk. and which has been i'm service on
Albemarle and Currituck sound, y. e.
was burned at her dock at Columbia. Y.
c., Monday night, and is reported to he
total loss. One of the crew. her cook.
was burned, but the others escaped I'm
harmed.
The Estelle Randall was built by VIII
liam i. WoodaI and Company of Balil-
more in lS3s for lie late Capt L s. Ran
dali, who designed her for service on a
mail route between this city and CIV
mont Md. She wa an abln little steamer
of I'll gross tons register, 1ll.5 feet long,
c4-3 feet beam and - feet deem. Her hull
was OF the composite tNpe, tha' is wooden
sheathins Oh metal framework. and WAS
punt ia an exceptionally strong manner
TO make her avaiia bic for service i'll win
ter. whom heavy lee covered the rive
! Fitted with an ice plow she proved her
self one Of the best lce-breaAinE steamers
ever on the P"tonlac, aud was able I"
make her daily trips with the mail 10
G!ymont when the larger ard more pow
erful steamboats, were forced 10 tie up
Sold Last November.
In the latter part OF last November
she was sold to tho Norfolk parties and
was replaced on the Potomac and Chesa-
peake line feet by the steamer CITY ~
Milford. After the steamer was taken
TO Norfolk her new owners had new state
rooms put on her. \ kitchen and dining
room were located on tho main deck
boiler and engine thoroughly overhauled
at an expense of several thousand dol
lars. She was making her first trip after
coming from the si.lpFdTd when burned.
Capt. MctIorHcy, the manager Of ne
line owning TIE Estellc Randall, who ar
rived in this city this morning to adjust
the insurance on The vessel. = ates that
he has no details regarding the burning
Of the steamer. All tLe information he
has received states that she viii be a
total loss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19

Home Savings Bank,
7th and Mass. Ave NV.
BRANCHES.
7th and II SITS. NE. 1876 9Th St Sw.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
HEWARD OF $4,000 FOR
LOOKING UP LICENSE
Search of Old Marriage Record
Brings Big Fee

LONDON, May 2f.-A year or two
ago Robert Lightburn, an old resident
of Rookhope, a Weardale village, re-
ceived request from some one living
in Australia to hunt up an old mar
riage certificate. Lightburn obtained a
certified copy of the entry in the parish
register, which he forwarded to his
correspondent without the slightest
knowledge of his identity, or of the
documents Importance.
A few days ago he received draft
on an Australian bank for no less than
$4,000. with an intimation that 1t was
intended as an acknowledgment for
the trouble he had taken in discover
ing the marriage certificate of an old
friend.
1t appears that so years ago, in the
great gold rush, among emigrants who
left Weardale for Australia was a
young woman who, after arrival at
Melbourne, entered the domestic serv-
ice of well to do merchant and
eventually became the wife of the mer-
chants son. But she was married in
her name, and this. fact led to
trouble when in after years a question
of succession to the merchants fortune
arose among her children.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
DOG LEFT IN OFFICE
TELEPHONES POLICE
Fox Terrier Supplies Latest
Canine Story From London

LONDON, May 21.-This is the latest
dog story in Europe and the most
skeptieal Britishers are swallowing it.
The operator at Grimsby. telephone
exchange received an unexpected call
from the premises of ]. NJ Turney,
Limited local firm of wholesale tobac-
conists, in the early hours of Sunday
morning. =
Putting the instrument to his ear,
his surprise developed into wonder
ment, for all he could get in reply to
the usual query. What number,
please?" was the vigorous barking of a
dog.
Coming to the conclusion that there
were burglars in the place the operator
informed the police. In the meantime
the owner Of the dog, suddenly remem-
bering that he had left the animal a
fox terrier, in the office, had gone to
the premises to release its When he
arrived he found a couple of police Off
GERS about to force an entrance Their
astonishment was great when, reach
ing the office, they found that the ter
rier had climbed on a desk 5 feet
high and Knocked the receiver off the
telephone. Used to hearing its masters
voice. over the instrument, it had APP
parently barked into the mouthpiece
to draw attention to its plight
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
TWELVE, INCH STEP
NEW SKIRTS LIMIT
Women Wearing Latest Fashion
Hop Along Like Sparrows

LONDON, May 21.-So tight has the
short skirt that is now the vogue
become around the ankles and below
the knee that, If it grows any tighter,
the wearer will be quite unable to
walk.
gown, received by West end modiste
the knees. and already several similar
dresses have been ordered for forth
coming dance at the Ritz hotel.
The wearers of such skirts can only
take a step IL inches long at the most,
so new fashions in dancing will prob
ably be the result of the tight skirt.
for the steps will resemble the hopping
of sparrows more than anything else.
Even to the wedding dress has the
fashion of the short skirt spread.
The first short wedding dress to be
seen in London was worn by Miss
Florence Eastwood, the daughter of
Lady Eastwood, on the occasion of her
marriage to Ronald Gilbey recently at
st. Paurs, Knt tghtsbridge.
the bride to the altar also wore short
skirts, which were of Uniform distance
from the ground.
Miss Eastwood wore a charming
little gown of white satin similar to
those worn by the young girls of the
restoration period. 1t is some three
inches short of the ground and displays
thee feet.
The distance around the foot of the
skirt is only one yard and is inches.
and the gown falls very gracefully. II
is draped with lovely overdress of
tulle in Grecian design, trimmed with
beautiful embroideries of silver lilies.
court train OF transparent tul1e over
silver tissue with more embroideries OF
silver lilies was worn with it.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
kDlNER GAI lQ QI[E[p [D[IGN M[lMQ
|QUEEN WEEPS FOR
dead BABY BOY
Premature Accouchement Fol.
lows Trying Days in ABB,
sence OF King Alfonso

MADRID. May 21.-Queen victoria,
who was delivered of boy. still born,
at o'clock this morning. wept bitterly
when informed of the fact.
The unhappy outcome is attributed to
premature accouchement. which,
however, was otherwise natural The
body will be-buried without ceremony
in the Royal Pantheon Of the Escurial
monastery
King Alfonso is still in London,
where he attended the funeral Of the
queens uncle, the late King Edward,
yesterday
The last few weeks were most try
ing to her majesty. Early in the pres
ent month the approach of the confine-
ment was noted by the royal physi-
clans and twice during the days which
followed the officials of the court were
summoned under the impression that
the birth was imminent. While this
state Of doubt existed his majesty was
obliged to go to London for the royal
obsequies.
According to custom, Premier Cana
lejas Mendes bore the body to a room
adjoining the queens chamber for the
official inspection by the members of
the royal family and court function
aries. who had been waiting there.
The present is the first instance of a
still birth in the Spanish royal family,
although child of Queen Isabella II
lived only long enough to receive the
lustral water.
Queen Victoria is the mother of two
boys and a girl. all surviving.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
MORGAN DODGED ART
SELLERS IN FLORENCE
Bought Only $zz, 700 Worth of
Pearls During Stay

FLORENCE. Italy. May 31.---J. r.
Morgan was so besieged by would be
sellers of art treasures here, as was
cabled, that he left sooner than h. in
tended TO do. American Consul Quay
and his family had to help keep the
dealers at bay. giving a wholesale
denial to all. Morgan lost one OF two
unique acquisitions. But that could
not be avoided He sent for working
jeweler here who deals largely in
pearls and such things. and from him
he bought 10 loose pearls (nOt large
ones) for $4,000, one string of small
ish pearls for $500 and another small
string for s5 900
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
MALAYAN HAVEN
FOR SUFFRAGETTES
One Place Where Women Rule
and Men Are Free From Care

SINGAPORE, May 21.-Woma,i has
no need to clamor for her rights in
that region of Malaga lying immedi-
ately behind the Malaccas, according
to officials who have been studying
them.
The tribes are of Sumatran origin.
but have long been settled in their
present quarters. Women alone hold
land and the headship of the tribes
runs by right on the woman's side.
Men are dependent on their womenfolk
and are never given real authority.
Taken all around the villages are
prosperous and the population happy
and contented Though. so emphati-
cally the under dogs, the men are
sleek and free from care. When they
make move they announce their
intention of settling in this or that
head woman's village-there to be a
very humble servant of the power
fully banded female government. Di-
yorce is not unknown, but such is
woman's superiority that it is the man
who loses his maintenance by the de-
cree
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
THE VLADIMIR IKON
STRIPPED OF JEWEL S
Amazing Theft Perpetrated in
the Historic KremIin

MOSCOW, May 21.-The Uspenski
cathedral in the historic Kremlin has
been the scene of an amazing theft.
When the cathedral was opened for
early service at o'clock one morning
it was found that the altar had been
ransacked and the celebrated "vladi-
mis- ikon" of the Virgin stripped of
the magnificent pearls and diamonds
which adorned it. This ikon is used at
the coronation ceremonies of the czars
and dates back to the Byzantine en-
pire.
The commercial value of the stolen
jewels, according to some estimates.
amounts to 100000.
The manner of the theft is most
mysterious. Guards surround the build
ing day and night. The upper and
lower parts of the cathedral contain a
labyrinth of staircases, narrow pas
sages recesses and other possible hid
Ing places. Firemen were engaged in
side and on the outside of the build
ing. and even on the roof in a search
fav traces of the robbers and their
booty
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
GOLD HEADED CANE
PROVES GOLD NINE
London Firm Proves Willing
Dupe and Loses 100000

LONDON, May 21.-Sir Robert Ander-
son, formerly head of the criminal in
vestigation department at Scotland
yard in his "reminiscences tells the fol-
lowing story:
"A genius claimed to have discovered
the secret of making gold, and he Of
fered to sell it to great city firm-a
house whose name is in high repute not
only in England but in all the capitals
of Europe. BY means of process
which he had discovered the bulk of
any quantity of gold could be increased
by one-half at trifling expense.
His dupes accepted his terms, sub
ject to his giving proof of the value of
his discovery, and to test it they pro-
posed to supply him with a hundred
sovereigns and the needed plant. He
thought scorn' of working on such a
petty sum as that; it would be waste
of time, for the process was tedious
one.
FINALLY it was arranged that he
should have s100, 900 in sovereigns. and
a house was taken in Leman street,
Whitechapel and there laboratory was
fitted up for his use. The gold was
placed in tanks provided for the pur-
pose; the needed chemicals were sup
piled and the experiment proceeded
with elaborate precautions against lar
ceny or fraud.
on stwo points, no one but himself was
to enter the laboratory, and he was to
be vigorously searched every time he
passed out. After many weeks, during
which his visits were frequent, he dis
appeared, and when eventually the door
was forced the tanks which had con-
tanned the gold were empty and the
bottles which contained the chemicals
were full. What had become of the
100000? The fullest inquiry only
served to elici. proof that the man had
been searched with exemplary care at
every visit.
The mystery would have remained
forever unsolved if the criminal had not
himself supplied the solution of it. In
sheer bravado and pride in his achieve
ment he wrote to the firm he had swim
died, telling them of his appreciation
of the money, and of his confidence
Nthat they would rather lost twice as
much than incur rfdicule on every ex-
change in Europe by a prosecution
which would disclose their folly.
And then he revealed his method.
Every time he left the laboratory the
gold headed cane he carried was packed
with sovereignsI
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
GROWN PRINCESS
IS VERY POPULAR
Future German Empress Has
Knack of Pleasing the
Plain People
Especial Gable 10 The Call

BERLIN, May 21.-Already the
Crown Princess Cecilie, future EN-
press of Germany, is making her In
fiuence felt upon the manners and the
personalities of the Berlin court.
Among other reforms there has been
a perceptible decrease in the gaudy at
tire and the airy not to say impertinent
demeanor which crept in with certain
of the newly rich.
The crown princess has made her
self very popular with the plain peo-
pie. She has an objection to any char
ity bazaar where the prices are OUT
rageous and in fact, has often refused
to attend such or to have things given
by her sold at them. What she makes
she likes to sell at a price within the
reach of poor people.
These bazaars," she is said to have
remarked, ARE just glorified rummage
sales and the price should be accord
ing"
Many an old woman in the neighbor-
hood of Potsdam treasures a painted
lamp shade or the like decorated like
other similar objects by the crown
princess and sold over the crown prin-
cess own counter for cents. 1t is not
surprising that the crown princess has
done wonders in making her husband
popular.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
BULBS NEED OLD LEAVES
TO FORM NEW FLOWERS
Amateur Gardeners Should Al
low Foliage to Die

There is a general tendency among
amateurs, says the Garden. to cut away
the foliage of bulbous plants as soon as
these have finished Towering, their ex-
cuse for doing so being that they are
untidy. 1t is bad for the plants to thus
denude them Of their food making ap-
paratus. After they have lowered such
plants as tulips. narcissi and hyacinths
build up their bulbs for another year,
storing food in the tissues and even
forming in embryo the flowers that
are to give US pleasure next spring. In
this important work the leaves play a
primary part, and for this reason they
should, whenever it is at all possible.
be left to die away as naturally as pos
sible. Where they must be removed be-
fore this happens, they should be al
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
MANY WILDCATS ARE
CAUGHT IN HIGHLANDS
One Beauty Is Four Feet From
Tin to Tip

Wildcats are either more numerous
or less cautious this year in the High
lands than usual, since not for many
years have there been so many cap
tured. Within a period of three months
one game keeper. according to the
Scotsman trapped no fewer than IA
in the wilds of the Big Glen in the
Port Clair deer forest, Glenmoriston.
One of the number was caught by a
trap, baited with the carcase of a fox.
which was placed on the bank Of a
large pool of water for foxes or winged
vermin. Another OF the cats was trap
ped alive. and is said to be one OF the
finest specimens captured for a long
period of years in the glen. IT is
nearly four feet from head to tip of
tail. and is finely marked. Another
game keeper in the same district has
also been successful in trapping num-
Der of cats, his largest beng three
feet three inches from tip to tip.