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rom the New ork sun.
You might have thought that the very
last calling to be threatened 10y modern
invention is that of the lighthouse keep
er. From the time when the Pharaohs at
Alexandria was one OF the seven wonders
of the world down TO the days of Grace
Darling or Ida Lewis or our own Capt.
keeper has gone on much the same, guild
ing the seamen and living days and even
months of lonely vigils. Inventions ap-
pear almost every week. though. menac-
ing his security A Swede has plan OF
placing In the lighthouse tower what he
calls photographers, that will go on
forever automatically calling out the
names of neighboring dangerous rocks
and warning away the sailors. Another
plan is an improved acetylene lamp that
will shed its rays out over the waters as
soon as darkness falls. Ii will be neces-
sary it is said. to replenish the light but
once a year, and il viii require only oc-
casional visits from the inspectors to see
that the automatic machinery is working
and the reflectors undimmed. We have
some 1900 lighthouses III the waters OF
the United States. and il is asserted for.
the new inventions that they will do
away with almost the entire expense of
attendance. Still, sentiment may have
something To say before science will be
permitted to eliminate such an old and
romantic calling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
CUSTOMS COURT DECIDES
FIVE IMPORTANT CASES
Findings Favor Importers in Three
Gases, the Government
II Two

Five decisions were announced Fri
day by the court OF customs appeals. IN
three of the five cases the court gave its
findings in favor of the importers and in
two the rulings OF the customs officers
were upheld.
Because 10 per cent of a shipment of
slace fruit was so damaged as to be I'M
tit for sale, the firm OF Habicht, Braun
& Co appealed from a decision of the
general appraisers assessing them for a
full cargo The court upheld the APP
praisers.
Basing their principal argument upon
the fact that one of the members of the
firm had called at the custom house in
Chicago at $50 O'Clock August 5. after
the regular hours of business. Gallabher
& Ascher. liquor dealers of that city. ask
ed the court for a ruling whether they
were required to pay duty under the old
or the new tariff laws. The court held
that the fact that a deputy collector was
at the custom house did not denote that
die place was open for business.
A decision in favor of the importers
was given in the case of Sussford. Lorsch
e. Go, a moving picture firm of New
York The firm contended that an I'M
portatiOn OF moving picture films should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
PERISHES WITH CHILDREN.
Farmers Ineffective Efforts to Res.
cue Son and Daughter.

BLAIRSVILLE. Pa, October 29.-Rush-
ing through the flames of his burning home
TO save his son and daughter. early to-
day. John Mountain was overcome by
smoke and, with his children, persisted.
The farmhouse was fired from some
cause unknown. and Mountain aroused
the family. He believed his daughter.
aged twenty. had escaped, and that his
wife had taken their siX-month-old boy
from the building When he discovered
his mistake he rushed into the burning
house. and after the flames had oeen eX-
tinguished his charred form was found
with the children.
Mrs. Mountain and another son, aged
fifteen were saved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
American English in Ireland.
From the London Tines.

From the London Tines.
Nowadays the. talk that comes into
Ireland from England. with its CONNER
cial slang, its facetious understatement.
it's cockney assurance, cannot be said
to enrich the Anglo-Irish vocabulary yet
more direful are the contributions from
America. 1oday that nauseati ting term
''the boss is glibly used by the country
people of the west: deep among the hills
of Connaught girls who have earned their
dowrfes in New York factories and Phila-
delphia hotels guess and calculate and
drawl and new through their noses, to
their own high satisfaction and to the
respectful admiration of their selatives.
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LABOR Of THE YOUNG
Conditions in Lower Delaware
CIassed as DepIorable.
RESULT OF INSPECTIONS
Children of Tender Years Work
Twelve Hours a Day.
EARNINGS OF FAMILY GROUPS
Berry Fields and Canneries Employ
Persons Under Twelve
Years of Age.
EARNINGS OF FAMILY GROUPS

WILMINGTON, Del, October 2o.-Chiid
labor conditions III lower delaware are
deplorable This has been demonstrated
nv the investigation made by EuWard
y Brown and Lewis w. Hine OF Ne"
Work exnert investigators of the national
child labor committee. They acted in con-
i,,nction with the social service commit
fee of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware,
af which Rev Hubert W. Wells, rector
If St Andrews Church. this city, is
chairman.
The most surprising condition. picture
of which is given, was found at huiilhs
station at Seaford Mother and children
were hulIing strawberries, Cyral, Two
vear-old tot in baby cart. working
steadily with the family. The report
saws: at times Cyral would rest his
little head on his arm and fall asleep Tor
a few minutes and then wake up, COM
mencing all over TO hull berries"
Messrs Brown and Hine did their work
thoroughly, photographs almost innumer-
able having been taken by them OF scenes
in berry fields and canneries
Direct Evidence the Aim.
The purpose was to secure direct evil
dence of wrongful child labor conditions
infant labor conditions in some places,
in fact-in the end that an endeavor
can he made at the forthcoming session
OF the legislature to have the present
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The investigation was undertaken with
d view of getting information along the
following lines: Age of children employed
hours of work; character Of work; com
pcnsation: housing conditions; rela ton of
child worker to school.
Rev. Mr.. Wells distributed copies of this
report at the recent Episcopal general
convention in Cincinnati, which he at
tended. He stated today that it was not
the purpose of investigators to attack in
diVidualS. but to remedy conditions.
I'VE feel that the conditions of child la
Dor IN the whole of southern Delaware"
he said, are unworthy of a Christian
civilization and that We are in duty
bound to endeaVor to change them.
AS a result determined effort will be
made at the approaching session of the
general assembly to enact an amendment
to the child labor law that will remedy
this distressing state of affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Taft Banting, Norton Fattening

President Taft's favorite exercise these
cool afternoons is horseback riding He
not only gets much good exercise as we'll
as enjoyment from these outings but he
keeps his flesh down.
Secretary Norton has joined the Presi-
dent in the same pleasure and goes out
with his chief when he has opportunity
Capt. y. w. Butt is always with the Pres
ident
Mr.. Norton is looking toward keeping in
health and building his flesh up
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Two Hundred Children mere.

That in one large cannery where some
four hundred persons were a work about
Two hundred were children fourteen years
old and under. and OF the two hundred
children mentioned lat least seventy five
were apparently under eight years OF
age In this cannery children three and
four years old were found hulling berries
steadily and one child of two years was
sitting in his baby cart hulling.
That the family groups come to the
cannery and work from ten to thirteen
hours a day. and there is crOwding and
dirt from the waste which attracts in
Vulnerable flies.
That young girls, in one instance a child
of eight years, work at dangerous and
unprotected machinery in certain can
neries: that the hours are long and the
work monotonous; and that this kind OF
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be assessed as photographs and not a:

Dc asstsseu as pnOtographs and not as
celluIoid
Joseph Cllman. fur importer appeal
Ell Tor and was granted reduction in
duty upon furs shipped from a foreign
port. His argument, which the court up
| held, was that while the cargo was i'm
transit the market dropped. and he ask
market value at the time Of arrival,
The court reversed the ruling of the
board of general appraisers regarding the
entry duty on cloth. The appeal was
brought by f G.. Carter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Record Governed Choice.

In selecting successor to Mr.. fIol-
land careful consideration was given TO
all clerks in the office of the auditor for
the Post Office Department who were
eiibibe for promotion to that important
position, and that one selected whose rec
ord as clerk and whose ability to direct
others indicated that he most merited
promotion. The practice of rewarding
efficiency in this way has been recogniZ-
ed rs practically the only way to conduct
the government business successfully.
There is disposition on the part of
the present administration of the Treas
ury Department to discriminate against
the colOred race. ON the contrary, every
care has been taken to avoid discrimna-
ton and 10 see to il that exact justice is
done TO all
For instance. out of SiNty-SiX coIored
employees in the office of the auditor for
the Post Office Department. who are
eligible under civil service rules for pro-
motion. twent y-siX, or 1913 per cent, have
been promoted since February, 1.0S. Also.
September >. 1910. Theodore III. Greene, d
cOloFed man. was appointed by me as
acting disbursing officer for the office OF
the auditor for the Post Office Depart
ment, one of the most responsible posi-
lions I'm the Office. Mr.. Greene .disburses
salaries amounting to S76O.010 annually.
paying a force OF Ill officers and en-
pIOyeS twice each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Position Now Abolished.

1T NAV be we'll to state that in a re-
organization of the office of the auditor
for the Post Office Department, recently
made. and subsequently, to the appointment
of Mr.. Hollan's successor, the division
over which Mr.. Hollan presided has been
abolished. There are now only four divi-
sionS in that office, whereas there had
been eight. So that the position held by
Mr.. HoIlan and his successor now no
longer exists.
notwithstanding the fact that fully
900 places have been abolished in the
Treasury Department during the present
administration, care has been taken to
supply other places for those persons
whose work has been discontinued In
this way no colored person has been
thrown out of employment by reason of
the methods of economy that have been
adopted
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PROMOTED BY MERIT
No Discrimination For or
Against CoIored Men.
EXPLANATION BY MVEAGH
Secretary of Treasury Answers Chi
cago Critic.
RESPONSIBLE PLACES FOR RACE
Clerks Chosen for Advancement by
Records, Without Regard to
Other Attributes.
EXPLANATION BY M'VEAGH


Secretary MacVeagh has replied by let
ter to an officer of a colored Odd Eel
lows organization i'll Chicago, who want
ed to know why the position held in the
Treasury Department by the late Milton
Holland. colored, was not given to a
colored man.
The Chicago colored man expressed re-
greet that Secretary NacNeagh had not
found it convenient to appoint colored
man as successor to Holland, who had
for years been chief of division in the
office OF the auditor for the Post Office
Department. The Secretary comedies that
the writer is entitled to full information
about the matter.
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Neeotia tons Interrupted.
Transit Tax Abolished.

The likin or transit tax. assessed
against imports in the various provinces
through which they pass, is 10 be abol-
ished. China has no we'll ordered cur
rency system at the present time There
are said to be eleven or twelve different
kinds of dollars and about 100 different
kinds of Chinese tAels of varying value
In circulation in the empire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
By Merit. Not by Favor.

Then he goes ON to say:
An division chiefs in the Treasury
Department are in the classified civil
service and are selected on merit and
because OF their superior qualifications.
This is done that the person who
presides over a division may be fully
equipped with a knowledge of the worn
of that division and thus competent to
direct those under him in the perform
2nce of their duties.
1t was. no doubt. because of his abil-
ity and his knowledge of the work of the
office of the auditor for the Post Office
Department that Mr.. Holland became a
chief of division in that office.
The civil service law contemplates
that men should be selected for chiefs OF
division and that promotions should be
made on a basis of merit only. To dc
otherwise would he contrary TO the spirit
If not the letter of the law. To dis
eliminate in favor of colored man be
cause of his color would be no less I'M
fair than to discriminate against him for
the same eaSon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

The body of III. n Frazier, aged about
forty years, of Hagerstown, Md, was
found Thursday morning lying along the
Cumb' rland Valley railroad near Half
way by the crew OF extra western bound
freight No. ,j. tIt is not known how nc
vas killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
CHINA SURE OF FUNDS
FOR FINANCIAL REFORM
American Bankers to Supply
S5O,O0O,OOO as Loan to
Celestial Empire.

After one month of active negotiations
between American bankers and the
Chinese gov ernment tho proposed fifty
raillion-doIla loan. TO enable the Celestial
mpirt. To reform its financial system,
seems to bc an assured fact. State De
partmcnt officials regard the authorize
ton of the loan as of far-reaching i'm
JortancC. taking il to Indicate the good
taith of the Chinese government in its
efforts to carry ont tho terms of its
treaty obligations with the United States.
Great Britain and Japan. to whom it
promised 10 institute needed commercial
reforms
The United States has taken the lead
~ pressing China TO begin the reforms
promised in treaties entered into between
China and Great Britain in 1907. and
china ana the United States and Japan
in l%r;. Prof. jeremiah w Jerks OF
Cornell was sent 10 China by the State
Department in 1904 to induce China to
carry out the reforms, but without result.
Negotiations Interrupted.
Four years later Tang Shao vi came to
this country "a arrange for the loan TO
enable China to begin them, but before
the negotiations had progressed far the
emperor and dowager empress died. and
they were abandoned for the time. They
recently were resumed, however. and ap
parently are about TO be completed
In the event that China carries out the
reforms promised, the three nations most
interested agree TO an increase in the
import tariff. but this increase will be
insignificant. il is declared. compared
with the commercial benefits to be de-
rived from the reforms
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child labor law amended whereby it will
include all pursuits of an agricultural ma
ture. These industries are now exempt.
The report of the Investigations in the
berry fields and canneries was today Is
sued in pamphlet form. In what the
investigators call "a typical group OF
children in the berry fields, there were
seven. out of Il total OF nine, four years
old and under, in another typical Italian
group there were six children out of d
total of eleven seven years old and under;
and that in these two 'typical' groups
there We're four children three years old
and five children four years Old-that is
to say that in total of twenty children
in two typical groups of berrypickerS
over 10 per cent were children of three
and four years of age
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Long Hours for Young Children.

Not a few children five years old and
over were working regularly twelve and
thirteen hours day. One mother vOlun-
teered to say that her four children. five.
seven, eight and eleven years respective
~, worked steadily from "sunup to sun
down.
The report declares further:
That the character OF the work, par
ticularly in the positions which it COM
pels children to assume and the heavy
weights which it compels them to carry
long distances i'll Instrumentation III
connection with the hours of their en-
DURANGO. is open to grave question Par
ticularIy in regard to adolescent girls is
the point raised.
That the immediate exploiters of the
children are the parents The work of a
family group of five persons would yield
from So TO S12 day in the berry fields.
That the housing of the berry pickers,
particularly of certain classes OF them,
are utterly miserable and inadequate.
That Hundreds of children" leave
school in Philadelphia. in defiance of the
compulsory education law, to work in the
berry fields of Delaware and New Jer-
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Character OF Information Desired.

work is particularly detrimental to young
girls
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An advertisement in the For Rent
Column Of The Star costs one cent
a word; II words being the mini
num-
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ROOMS
FOR RENT

Advertise your va
cant rooms in the
classified column in
The Star. This is
the season of the year
to secure tenants.
The Star is the best
directory OF available
rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

These pieces are in good taste
and well designed of quartered
oak, with full serpentine fronts
and large French bevel plate
mirror. Just what you need to
tone up your bedroom furnish
ings, and so priced as to be
easy to obtain.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
BY LAY DAVIDSON

of
the League season in Los
result in favor Of the Angels The game was one
exhibitions played in Los Angeles despite that
the initial
contest with ha
to "
forynalies of
This the biggest
hall at o'clock and
to
Washington When play ball. Alex
muhng the
executive Greater Los Angeles tossed to him.
about thing between the pitchers.
With perfect accorded
in
the
the right his hands
and
to
the with while all this
ed bunted
Carlisle
probably
Howard and Bashear Previously
afterwards the Villagers
the ball when
One thing above
That That
worked like parts
was inside baseball
e 'ono ' they showed that with the handicap they
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
OAKLAND ENTRIES

First race, Futurity course selling Elodia
B.. 30; Gramercy Calopus 1O5i Zinkand, 1Ol;
Beda, Contra Costa, 103; Lumen, 1Oi; Metro
politan Passenger. 107; Elder Guch, 100.
Second race, six furlongs 4-year-olds and
up, selling-Em c., 99 Beauman, Faneuil
Hall, Roy Junior, Rosamo 107; Madeline Mus
grave, Paul Clifford, 102; Adena, Pimkin 106;
Argonaut l05; Ampedo. 1i0; Marburg, Ill.
Third race, mile and twenty yards selling
Dixie Dixon, 90; Oceanview, 92; French Cook.
ll2; Cobleskill, Goldway, Redondo. 1l2;
Spring Ban, silver Linz. 105.
Fourth race, five furlongs. 3-year-olds and
up-Binocular Galvesca 50, Cloudlight, 10;
John II. Sheehan III; Thistle Bell 100.
Fifth race mile and twenty yards, 3-year-
olds and up, seing-Tom OMalley 81; Cock
sure, JOS; Nasmerto, l09; Cadichon, Cataline.
Wap, Special Delivery. Wolfville 113; Ori-
lene, III; St. Adams, 103.
Sixth race, six furlongs, S-year-ods and up.
purse-Odd Rose, 80; Kid North. Of: Orello,
ll6; Goldfnn, l07; DR.. Dougherty, 100; Round
and Round, Roman Wing. lO7; Likely Dleu-
donne, lo9; Bishop w, 1O6 Rapid Water no
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
JACKSONVILLE RESULTS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 30.-The
amateur selling stakes. second only to the
Derby on the stake roster at Moncrief park,
mary
First race. . furlongs purse-Flylng Squir-
rel won. Miss Lors second. Autumn Rose
third; time 100 4-5.
Second race, furongs, purse-Bodega
won. supple second, Louis Katz third time
:49 i-5.
Third race, furlongs, purse-El ORC won,
Splendid second. Mary Rue third; time
1913 20.
Fourth race. 1 mile and 20 yards. Anna
teur selling stakes, gentlemen rlderS--Rl0
Grande won. XEthon second xPocomoke
third; time 1:46 As. xHewitt entry, coupled
in betting.
Fifth race, furlongs purse-Pinte won
Console second. Spanish Prince third; time
1:27 is.
sixth race. lis miles purse-Yama
won Golconda second. Elfal third time
/ :47 20
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
SEALS GET AWAY TO
GOOD START AT HOME
Mhitewash Portland Beavers to o in
Fast Game Attended by Rec
ord Number of Spec
tatoFs
COAST LEAGUE

SAN FRANCISCO. March 9O-The Pacific
Coast Baseball league season opened this
afternoon. and in the first game OF the year
sSan Francisco blanked Portland by a score of
Z to o. In the absence OF Mayor P. H. Nc
carthy, who is III. Police Judge Charles
Iweller tossed the ball nearly over the plate,
land was cheered by OF the largest crowds
sdhat ever gathered at the Valencia street
IRrounds.
Berry's two-bagger in the third started the
krouble, and before Portland got back into the
game four talies were on the score card for
Hhe local team. Following BerTy's hit Nc
Ardle beat ont bunt. Mohler forced Berry al
third, and Mundorff. hit by the pitcher. filled
the bases. Mechoir walked. forcing McArdle
home. Tennant then singled TO short. Olson
threw wild. scoring Mohler and Nundorff
bfelchoir came In on Griffins single to center
Score
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
SENATORS WALLOP
COMMUTERS 18 TO 2
Opening Game of Coast League Sea-
son in Sacramento Featured
by Many Errors and
Runs

SACRAMENTO March 30--TWeuty y-fve
hundred fans saw Sacramento rout Oakland
this afternoon in the opening game Of the
Coast league season by a score OF is to -.
Capt. Wolverton was ordered from the game
IN the fourth inning for dIsputing with I'm
plTe Finney In the sixth inning three hits,
coupled with boots and overthrows on the
part Of the Oaks, nettcd Sacramento eight
runs. Superior Judge c. n Post introduced
Mayor 81. r. Beard. who in the absence of
Gov. Gillett. threw the first ball. Judge
Post said Mayor Beard had everything" but
the city's executive officer threw the ball six
feet over Catcher Mickey La Louge's head.
The game was preceded by an automobile
parade. in which ali of the state. county
and city officials rode, with the members of
Ghe various civic bodies. Score:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS MEET

SANTA ANA, March 3O.-The annual meet
ing of tho Associated Chamber of Commerce
Of Orange county was held tonight in odd Eel
lows hall in this city, and preceded by ban
duet at 7.3O O'clock in the banquet room of
the same building. Matters OF importance
came before the meeting, which was addressed
by President Joseph Scott Of the Los Angeles
chamber Of commerce. The Associated Cham
bers has been organized year and in that
time has done much good work, notably the
of the good roads movement.
which may now be said to be well along on
the way To SUCCESS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
NASH TURNER'S HORSES
WIN TWICE IN FRANCE

PARIS. March 3O.--In the Prix d'Epone Of
$500, furlongs, at Massons Latitte today,
Nash Turner's Restless Girl finished in the
van and his Abby also won the PrX du Pad
dock of $500 for distance of ten furongs.
W. K. Vanderbilts Oversight and Messdor
III. finished second respectively in the Prix
Perplexe OF $4,000. furongs, and in the
Prix Dos Haras Nationa of $4,000 for 3-year-
olds II furlongs
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
THREE ERRORS IN ONE INNING
CAUSE VERNON TO LOSE | TO c
OTHERWISE BRILLIANT GAME OF BASEBALL IS MARRIED BY
COSTLY MlSPLAYS

Nagle Hit Tr Major League Ball and Contest Should Have
Gone Into Extra Innings Without Scorng-Veterans Show
Fine Team Work and Keep Their Heads Better
Under Excitement Than Vllagers-Downtown Parade
Longest Line of Cranks Ever Seen in Baseball
Procession in Los Angeles-Both Teams Will
PLAY Daily from Now Until Sunday
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-31
VERNON

Two-base hits-Martinke. IT. Smith. B
shear. Sacrifice hits-Delmas. Daley, Be
ard .(9. Bases on balls-On Hit, 4; off \