Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-27
FROM WASHINGTON.

hunting tour. Bright anu early, dio
Governor and Mrs. Hughes started out
in touring car with Maj. CrOssett, the
governors military aid. Mrs. Crossett
and Charles Henry Butler, reporter of
the Supreme Court. who is the govern
or's host. The real estate men find
the Hughes family a somewhat difficult
one to snit, for the governor wants
library with the whole house built
around that and Mrs. Hughes wants a
garden with lots Of trees, the house to
her being a secondary consideration.
They hope, however, to complete their
tour today and TO return to New York
either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Open warfare against the Pullman
Car Company for a reduction OF the
rates for upper berths was opened to-
day by the state OF Kansas and the
Kansas Railway Commission in a com
plant filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission. In a gen
eral complaint it is stated that the
upper berth at the most is not worth
more than half the price OF a lower. "
The plaintiffs asked the commission to
make an investigation and enforce the
following reducfiOns Where 81. 90 is
charged. reduce to ST. 80; from $500 or
81. so to 81. so; from $500 to $500 and
where charges of more than five dol
lars are made, a reduction of S1.50 is
asked
The United States in its trade during
the fiscal year 1910 showed an in
creasng tendency to become less a
world center for raw materials and food
stuffs and more a manufacturing nation,
according to report issued by the De-
partment OF Commerce and Labor to-
day. Imports of manufacturers,
materials for that period increased ll5
million dollars over the figures for 1909.
Exports OF manufactured materials in
creased. from 672 million to 76S million
dollars while foodstuffs decreased 50
million dollars.
The Board Of Army Engineers, who
are to apportion the twenty million
dollar appropriation for reclamation
projects allowed by the last Congress.
have completed their work here and
leave tomorrow for Chicago There
they meet General Marshall, consult
ing engineer to Secretary Ballinger for
the reclamation service, and proceed at
once to Prairie Dam, Wyoming. No
exact itinerary has been laid out and
no time set for any examination. They
will wind up the first stage of their trip
at Salt Lake City. They hope to com
plete their task by the first part OF
October
Though Postmaster General Hitch
cock has not had time yet to tack up a
government shingle as banker, de-
post was received today at the Post
Office Department for the new postal
savings bank. 1t was nickel and
came securely pasted into hole in a
piece of card board. Moreover, though
stocks be falling in New York, the gov
eminent is receiving promises Of de-
posts from all over the land, One
came today from the mother Of two
bows who wrote that her sons were
anxious to deposit few dimes in your
new bank" The letter was addressed to
the Bond Vault, Treasury Department.
1t will not he long before the country
hears the first rumblings of activity i'll
the new project. The committee which
is formulating plans for the organiza
ton Of the banking system are working
nights and Postmaster General Hitch
cock, as soon as he returns from Eu-
rope, will take off his own coat to the
job.
The army engineers will proceed at
once to raise the battleship Maine, and
a commission will be sent to Havana
Immediately to investigate the position
Of the hattleship and report as to the
best method Of accomplishing the work.
General Bixby today received an opin-
ion from the attorney general, holding
that he may use the $4,000 appro-
priated by Congress. as he deems best,
in raising the Maine and burying the
dead expected to be taken from the
wreck. This eliminates the technical
which have blocked the
work With this authority, General
Bixby today began preliminary
measures and the commission will soon
bc on the way to Havana. 1t is ex-
pectcd that the actual work OF raising
the ship will be put under way as soon
as possible. There is great doubt
whether the money will be sufficient to
complete the big task, but if it is once
put under way and the money gives
out there is little doubt that additional
funds could be easily obtained from
Congress. as needed. For the first |
time it now appears that the long |
standing question Of whether the Maine
was blown up from the inside or the |
outside will be settled and it will be de- |
termned whether this country was JUS
titled in blaming the disaster on Spain. |
1t is beloved that more than one hun
dred bodies were lodged in the wreck
age and that their remains will be re-
covered when the ship is raised. They |
will be brought 10 Washington and |
buried in Arlington.
William J. Carver, a Washington
newspaper man, went suddenly insane
this morning at his home He picked |
up his eleyen-monlhs-old son and |
hurled him the length Of the hall, |
fracturing his skull and 50 badly in
iuring the child that he died soon after
ward.
FIFTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF |
AN OLD NURSE.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the |