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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20
Notice to Taxpayers
Office Of Collector Of City Taxes.
City Hall. Richmond. Va.

Office OF Collector OF City Taxes.
City Hall, Richmond, Va.
THIS OFFICE WILL BE READY TO
RECEIVE ALL OR ONE-HALF OF
CITY TAKES, REAL ESTATE AND
PERSONAL, FOR THE YEAR l910ON
JUNE 18TH.
THE WHOLE TAX Is DUE, but the
ordinance provides that one-half may be
paid in June and the remaining half in
December. Failure to pay all or one
half in June incurs penalty Of s per
cent. on the whole amount, which Ia due
at once, and if not paid before SEPTEM-
Der IST, the Collector Is required to
levy, with costs added.
ALL MALES p years Of age: ALL
PERSONS (AfALE OR FEMALE) who
own personal property, or hold personal
property as fiduciary, and all parties con-
Quoting business in the city Of Richmond
(of whatever nsture) are assessed, and
will please call and settle, 90 as to avoid
delinquency.
GRADING, PAVING, PIPE AND
SEWER CONNECTING BILLS are pay
able in the same manner as Taxes, and
at the same time.
GIVE. NAME IN WHICH PROPER
TY STANDS, and see that you get all
your bills.
This being the only notice provided for
by law, please give it prompt attention, as
under the new ordinance per cent. pen
atty viii have to be added to the whole
bill after June 30th.
r. w. CUNNINGHAM,
Collector of City Taxes.
WASHINGTON WARD TAXES,
to be paid in same manner at the office OF
J. p. ROBINSON, Special Asst. City
Collector, at 10th aud Hull Streets.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20
AJim.- Tino.r is Aeuui+t,d.

DURHAM, N. C., June 20.--1n The
trial OF Jim" Tingen. Of Durham,
for numbering "Jim" Myers. his cell
mate in Maiden. Va, Tingen was Sat
urday niaucthgqh.. -paoE. pea W--Brr
urday night acquitted under instruc-
tion Of the court that verdict would
be set aside. Tingen killed Myers
in February. after Myers failing to
draw him into fght struck him with
= poker. Though stabbed squarely in
the heart Myers almost beat down the
door TO make another attack, living
20 minutes. Tingen was serving Ave
years for housebreaking. He belongs
to q good Durham family.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20
YOUNG DREXEL MAY
MAKE NEW RECORD
Says He Will Fly His Air Ship
Higher Than Any

LONDON. June 20.--Armstrong
Drexel. son Of Anthony Drexel. the
millionaire banker of Philadelphia
and London. said to-day that he ex-
pected to break the height record for
AAroplanes within the next few days.
His. hopes for this honor result from
hiS feat yesterday In sailing his Bile
riot monopIane to height OF 1910
Test = record for England. after only
= comparatively small amount Of ex-
1egimsnting.
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PURCHASE CHURCH
AT COST OF $4,000

Especial to The Richmond Yirginian.)
DANvILLE. VA, June 20.--An-
nouncement was made to-day that the
congregation of Patton-Street Chris
tian church has purchased the build
ing on Jefferson street, soon to be
vacated by the First Presbyterian
church. paving $4,000. The Presby-
tertans are preparing TO build at Main
and Sutherlin avenue at cost Of s3o.-
600.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20
Sl4,5OO

East Main Street Business Property,
renting for 81 200 per annum. This
property is in most excellent location,
is always rented and has splendid future
value
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20

not drink much beer. but man with
blood in the condition that his Is in,
should not drink any beer or other
alcoholic beverages"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20

Executes Trustees Bond.
William Il. Crawford Monday exc
cuted a trustees bond of $4,000 In
the United States district court here
in the case OF Robert H. Baldwin.
hankrupt
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20
Go With
Richmond
Yacht Club

On their Moonlight to Dutch Gap.
Steamer Pocahontas, Tuesday, June 2Ist,
at S:f5 p. N. Good music and dancing.
Refreshments at city prices. Tickets on
sale at wharf.
Blues Band will furnish music.
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FOR SALE,
$l2,5OO

West Grace Street, east Of college,
large Three-Story Brick Dwelling OF about
l6 rooms, etc, desirable piece of property
at low figure.
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or more men. lie within the stockade,
which sits above the creek on a twenty
root bluff foundation with solid granite.
The tents are elevated TO a height that
1nSures dryness: they are smoothly
and solidly fOOred and rooted with heavy
canvas Eating tent and kitchen in one
are built the same way; so. too. is the
isolated hospital tent. Before cold wea-
Their comes the tents will be walled about
with weather-proof board sides and the
canvas roofs will be we'll oiled.
Outside the stcckade are the rough
board shackS that house the guards;
also the stables for the mules and horses
that draw the scrapers and wagons: the
storehouse Is also outside the stockade.
Growing the hill that sweeps steepIy
up from the stockade level is the super
intendent's bungalow, nestled in a grove
of slim young pines and reached by a
flight of seventy odd steps. From the
front Veranda one. can see down the
creek to where it broadens out to a
width of a mile. or more. or across into
the blue Virginia hills, or down to the
level below. where the whole of the
stockade is right under the observer S
eye. Ii is a sanitarium site, this place
where they are building the workhouse,
and that is what is being built-a sani-
tarium. where ill-nourished bodies. warp
ed natures. may be strengthened and
healed under Gods blue sky, and in the
sweep of the rOsin-scented breath of the
pines.
From the stone quarry. just north of
the temporary site, new-made road
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fersonvile, across the Ohio river from
Louisville He has left his mark on the
prison methods Of the Hoosier state He
had large share in putting on the In
diana statute books the parole law which
is now operating with entire success.
Big, broad-shouldered, deep chested,
with a shock of iron-gray hair touseled
over his head. Supt. Whitaker sat in the
little. rough board shack that serves for
his Office, and told of the plans-the COM
missions plans and his-for the new
workhouse and reformatory. Coatless,
Vestless, collarless, just as he came in
from an afternoon of hard riding all over
the site. he turned from his desk and
talked. And as he talked, pounding home
his points with clenched fist smashed hard
into followed palm, one got a better idea
of what the words prison reform mean
than would be possible in many hours Of
laundered. fresh-shaven theorist in a
rug-strewn. upholstered, orderly suite of
rooms.
Across a few feet of hard packed
ground lay the ten-fOot barbed wire
stockade--outer barrier ten feet high,
with wires four inches apart from the
ground up, and inside it another barrier
six feet high. Nothing but temporary
quarters have yet been built, as not a
dollar of this years appropriation, $780,
OOO, can be used for permanent structures.
Long bunk tents, capable of housing 400
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from this city. The institutions. when
completed. will be a million miles distant.
in purpose and potentiality, from any
prison house or farm this government has
ever owned. More than this, they will
be far in advance of any prison institu-
ton belonging to any civilized govern
ment of the world, for in these two places
the government of the United States has
been the very first among the nations to
recognize the value of correct. intelligent
effort toward making the petty offender a
decent, reliable, wage-earning citizen
rather than a confirmed criminal.
On July l. 1910, the first work was done
ton has to be built up. right from the
felds-frOm the ground up. There will
model or patch up, or make over. Every
itself, so far as the federal government
is concerned. William II. Whitaker is
the man who is experimenting the job.
Several assistants who take their orders
from him: few free laborers, few engi
neers and surveyors. these. and his
crew of 800 to 400 workhouse prisoners,
sent down from the old institution at
Washington. make up the force that is
doing the work.
Whitaker is the choice of the special
commission and the Commissioners Of the
District, and his record alone got him
the job. it is said. He used to be war
den of the state penitentiary at Michigan
City. Ind Then he had the same Job
at the Indiana State Reformatory at JEFF
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hundreds of petty offenders are helping
10 work out. down there in the forest
clad, rOck-ribbed hills OF the Old Domin-
ion. And these men. all unwittingly. are
TO be d part of the very first attempt
that has ever been made by the govern
ment of the United States to use reform
atory and corrective principles and ideas
in handling its prisoners. They are part
and parcel of a work that. when COM
completed, will stand as a monument,
Pharos, marking the time and the place
at which this government first recognized
the fact that the petty criminal is only
the good citizen with a wrong under
standing of his obligations to society, and
where it first put that recognition into
concrete form.
And as they are doing the daily work
assigned them. they are putting the
sleepy little old village of Occoquan back
on the map.
\ short distance below Mount Vernon
a sluggish tidal stream flows into the
Potomac river. Go up this estuary,
Occoquan creek. to the head of navisa-
ton, where the giant boulders throw
barrier across the stream and an old
mill still grinds the farmers grain with
the wheel that has rarely been idle for
a century and a half, and there You
will find the little old village, browsing
i'm what. only yesterday, was the after
noon of its existence. There Is good
water all the way up to the town. eX-
cept for the bar that has grown across
the creek below the railroad bridge, and
that the government is now buslly en-
gagged i'm dredging out. At high tide there
six and half feet of water over the
bar: all the rest of the way I'D. the
channel has from thirty TO sixty feet Of
water and doesn't shift around. chan
nels elsewhere have habit of doing.
There perhaps fifty houses in the
village. There is the old grist mill, still
operating. There are the crumbling. vine
wreathed ruins of another MILL of which
you will find not one in the village to tell
YOU the history-not even old man Selec-
man. seventy-three years old. eX-Con-
federate sharpshooter' who was born in
the village and who has lived there all
his days with the exception of four years
in the eos. And there Is a hotel here
too. old-fashioned, rambling, where YOU
shall find. if YOU have warned the land
lady in advance OF your coming, Virginia
fried chicken such as you read of in tales
of the old south, and beaten biscuits that
are CONNECTIONS.
Years ago, in the days long before the
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war. Occoquan was one of the greatest
tobacco shipping ports of the country.
Then the land wore out or was worn
out. AS the old men will tell YOU, the
seasons grew too short to make a to-
bacco crop. Conditions became unset
tied. The war came on. The big. sea-
going sailing ships forgot the way up the
SioW-foWing tidal creek-there being no
more tawny Virginia leaf to lure them
thither-and Occoquan became merely
memory-a pin point of dot on large
maps. and nothing at all on the small
ones The railroad passed it couple OF
miles away: the huge gravel bar slowly
stretched across the creek little farther
down.. and at last nothing came up to
the Old landing places but snortng tugs
that towod fat-bottomed barges loaded
with railroad ties brought down from
the hills, the launches of those who
came TO enjoy the bass fishing. which,
they say. is the finest in September and
October to be found on the Atlantic
coast
Then. in the general appropriation bill
for 1!SD was inserted a few paragraphs
providing for the establishment within
the United States of a WorkhouSe and
reforma tory for the use of the District
Of Columbia and the federal government
March =, 1909 the day before he left
the White House. Theodore Roosevelt
approved that bill, which thus became i
law; commission was selected to choose
the sites. Eleven hundred acres Of wild,
unCuitlNdteu virginia ldnd were bOuSnt
at SO an acre-the Virginia legislature
helping in the task of selectiOn-and an
other 100 or so chosen a little further
down the creek. which has not yet been
purchased. but which only waits the
matter of cleaning up a few flaws in III
ties before passing TO the government
The first site lies the high bluffs
overlooking the creek and the sleepy lit
tie town-it is the workhouse site-and
when IT was selected the slumberer
turned and opened drOwsy eyes little
wider. Then the special commission be-
gan TO formulate its plans. Every prison
reform organization III the whole country
took immediate notice. The interest
spread until similar organizations
throughout the world had heard Of it and
had become interested And Occoquan
stretched. sat up and found itself back
on the map.
The two siteS-one at OccOquan. the
other three miles away. near old Pohick
Church. where George Washington used
to worship in the Countrys infancy
arc only twenty miles distant, by rail,
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the Virginia hills-building prison houses
Tor themselves, and laying out prison
farm They are doing more than this.
They are working out the plans for two
prisons and two farms, with quarries,
brick manufactures. workshops and all
the modern paraphcrnala whereby So
ciety, through its protective arm the
law, safeguards itself against the
powers that prey, and at the same time
recruits the ranks of its workers. its
producers. from the very army that preys
upon II, by making of the members of
that army honest, self-reliant. self-sup-
porting, industrious citizens
That is the modern miracle which these
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CHE Has Occupied a Posi-
- ton of Unusual Impor-
lance for the Past Year,
Owing to the Mourning of
Mrs. Philander G. Knox
Mrs. Wilson Is One of the
Beauties of Washington's
Official Set-Possesses in an
Eminent Degree the Social
Graces Which Make Up the
Ideal Hostess-She Was, Be-
fore Her Marriage, Miss Lucy
Workman James of St. James,
Phelps County, Missouri.
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WILSON, WIFE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OFSTAT

duties with unobtrusive elegance and eN-
quisite tact. Mrs. Knox withdrew from
the official amenities before the curtain
was raised on the season of 13U9-19lo-
Though Mrs. Huntington Wilson did not
III the least degree attempt TO fill in the
void left by the wife of the Secretary of
state. she gave number o. dinners. re-
captions and small functions which III "a
degree atoned to the large foreign con-
tingent for the meagerness of their other
official entertaining. The traditional duties
of the American premier include much
dining and feting of the diplomatic
corps. and IL makes dull season when
illness or bereavement interfereS with the
routine. Mrs. Huntington Wilson's Mon
day afternoons were among the pleasant
events of the past season. She proved
in marked degree that social talents
must be given rank with artistic, mu-
steal or purely intellectual ones. Yet the
lives of few women who have attained
social prestige are little marked by
unusual events. She may be truly said
TO possess no history other than the
record Of happy life.
The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hunting
ton Wilson. 1908 X street. is in a
neighbCrhood long associated with the
official world at the capital. 1t is the
spacious, commodiouS mansion of a
gentleman never. identified with the
public service, yet 1T is admirably ar
ranged to meet the exigencies which
habitually confront official chatelaines.
Having come to Washington from ia
pan, the Huntington Wilson's had ac-
quired a reputation of having a home
furnished entirely according to the
oriental plan.
Instead of being Japanese curiosity
shop. their home is typical of the Gull
tured American who has collected me-
mentos OF happy sojourns in alien
countries, but has retained the ideal
OF a dwelling place according to west
ern conceptions. The visitor is, how
ever, greeted at the vestibule by a
grave and elderly Japanese butler who
:nv:res one In with the grace and Sc
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verify of an eastern priest offering sac
rifice. He is CARRIED in gay and en-
brOidered robes which served in domes-
tic Japan. but which are now known 10
the foreigner only through ancient illus
trationS- This decOrOuS attendant
served Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington Will
son throughout their residence in To-
kio when Mr.. Huntington Wilson was
secretary of embassy. and often charge
d'affaires. and so endearcd himself to
them through his fidelity and regard
Tor their comfort and general interest
that he is now permanent member of
their family. He has mastered the
language sufficiently to make the ideal
guardian of the gates. He can deter
mine with scientific accuracy those
whom his master or mistress would
ike TO see, and he never forgets either
lace or voice. Once received in
the Huntington Wilson home. the state
~ butler knows one forever. and never
blocks the way
MIS- Huntington Wilson feels that one
may admire another country without run
ming the risk of being dubbed unpatriotic.
She delighted In Japanese life and in the
servants. They are faithful and reliable,
and one may safely leave all the do
nestle arrangements in their hands 1t
must simplify life TO know that good
butler can exhaust the resources of the
market Things for the table go in reg
uiar sequence In Toxic regularly as
the passing OF the seasons There one
is not consumed with anxiety lest some
dainty escape the observation or fail to
be noted by the green grocer. Home
keeping in Washington, when it comes to
providing the table. partakes of the same
strenuoushess as other conditions of
American life. There is stress and
strain and general rivalry to get the
first of the seasons good things. In
Toxic the homekeeper must of necessity
leave the details of purchasing to the
buffers. Tor, not knowing the language,
the most paiEstaking and ambitious of
housewives would be at a DISADVANTAGES.
A member of Mrs. Huntington Wilson's
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BETWEEN Three and
- Four Hundred Men in
Striped Garments at Work on
New Buildings-New Dis
trict Workhouse Will Be a
Model-Indiana Man Has
Charge of Work-Fine Loca-
ton for Prison at Deco
quan-Acres of Ground Be-
ing Cleared by Convicts-
Uncultivated Virginia Land
Purchased at SIS Per Acre.
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has decided that her pet and friend is
a deep student OF Esperanto.
Another beloved member of the family
is the hooking bird Rigoletto. whose
gay call of welcome resounds through
the house on quiet days. ard whose beau
tiful song can soar above the best eff
forts Of the orchestra or piano. Rigoletto
comes from New Orleans. and belongs to
that long and famous line of songsters
which have made the Pelican state ia
NOUS. He is the most indefatigable
singer and as mimic he can equal the
performance of any parrot He carols
in Spanish after the way Of the goddess
who rules the culinary department. Or
does a rondeau after oriental methods
* 4
Mrs. Huntington Wilson passed the
greater part of last summer in Wash
ington, and received in consequence a
vast amount Of commiseration from her
friends away by the sea or mountain or
touring the country In autos. 1t was
really thrown away. for she felt her first.
opportunity to catch up during the
quiet days. Life takes on maddening
pace during the Washington season, and
in spite of good resolutions the time goes
by without giving one an opportunity to
accomplish any Of the things which have
been intended. She says that it is sur
prising how many pleasant people come
to Washington during the summer. and
she cannot imagine any one getting tired
of meeting people, especially those who
have done things and count in the gem
eral index OF what Is going on. She is
devoted to outdoor life and to plants and
birds and the summer.
Washington has some beautiful open
spaces with which she has become thor
oughly acquainted. There Is a garden in
the back of the Huntington Wilson home,
and many Of her leisure hours are spent
with her flowers, and she finds 1t most
repaying occupation. that of tending to
flowers. There is also q big magnolia
tree, which was q Joy Ill through the
summer with its glorious blossoms and
shining foliage, but Mrs HUNTINGTON Will
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from the sympathies of the eXles who
are at the American capital serving their
respective countries Mrs HUNTINGTON
Wilson has attained a place i'm the affec-
tions of the foreign corps, especially
among the Latins, which is unprecedented
I'm recent years. A tale goes that Grover
Cleveland effectually quenched the ardor
of the diplomat serving at this capital
He resented the ordinary method of eX-
pressing respect. namely, the kissing OF
the hand of his young and handsome
wife, and for the past decade the for
eigners have been chary of showing adj
miraton for the wives of American Of
fcialS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington Wilson were
married in the Emmanuel Church in Bal
timore in 1904 by the Rev. DIR. Eggleston.
The marriage was rather hastily planned.
and was Witnessed by only small circle
OF their most intimate friends. Mrs.
Huntington Wilson had been visiting her
grandmother in the Monumental city,
when she reached the decision of dispens-
ing with an elaborate church ceremony
in her home city, Saint James. Mo. Imme
diately after the marriage, Mr. and Mrs.
Huntington Wilson departed for the
orient. where he had been connected with
the American establishment at Toxic Mrs.
Huntington Wilson had been in Japan
previously with her father. Mr.. Thomas
James, and she renewed many pleasant
associations Of that visit during her early
married life. Mr.. Huntington Wilson re-
manned secretary of the American en-
bassy until 1906. when he was transferred
to the State Department as third assist
ant secretary. He remained in this
pacity until the recent change of admin
istration. when, after having been ap-
pointed minister to the Argentine Repub-
lie. the prospective Secretary of State.
Philander g. Knox. persuaded him to give
up that mission and accept the first Office
under him. Mr. Huntington Wilson was
also once appointed minister to Roumania,
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son resents that it shaded some of her
flowers and kept them from blooming.
But a garden in the city is always a
problem. and one thing has to be sac
riticed to make room for another.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington Wilson find
pleasure in canoeing on the placid waters
of the canal. 1t is charming recreation.
and it is surprising that there are SO
many people who have lived in Washing
ton year after year who have never dis
covered it. The canal is joy, and re-
membering how famous the quiet waters
about London and other old world cap
itals have been made by poets and nov
eiists, 1t is wonder that the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal has been so long neg
lected from the literary standpoint. Mrs.
Huntington Wilson admits that it was
very hot in Washington during the sum-
person does not expect snow in this lat
stice.
Mrs. Huntington Wilson has frequently
been described as one of the most beauti-
fai women in Washington, and it Is sell
dom that the epithet is so we'll deserved
She Is of the calm, classic type, severe as
the ancient models and utterly regardless
of the absurdities of modern fashion. Her
hair is waved back In soft full pompa-
dour. innocent of the accessories OF puffs
nr braid and heaped in soft. generous
mass of brown about her head. She has
wonderful vivacity of expression, and her
eyes. large, dark and 1ustrous, are her
most attractive features She has the
genial, frank manners of child with the
grace and poise Of the accomplished wom-
an of the world.