Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of Alexandria Gazettel

PENNSYLVANIA Railroad tOQay Dy .. L.
Scattergood & Co., Of Philadelphia,
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. 1t is alleged that the railroad
company leases an elevator to the Key
stone Elevator & Warehouse Company,
and that it is controlled through AGO.
partnership between the Keystone firm
and the l.. F. Miller & Sons Company.
The complaint asserts that the Miller
Company is given elevator allowances
by the railroad company, giving the
Miller concern undue advantage over
competitors.
Only handful of officials gathered
at the funeral OF John 6. Carlisle, sec
retary of the treasury under Cleveland,
which was held at st. Thomas Episco-
pal Church late today. The body was
deposited temporarily in the vault at
Rock Creek cemetery and later, with
the remains of Mr.. Carlisle's wife, will
be taken to Covington, KY, for inter.
ment. The pallbearers were w. j..
Kchoe and w. E. Curtis of Washington,
Isidor Straus and DIR. ]. d. Bryant OF
New York. and Charles S. Hamlin Of
Massachusetts,.
The State Department today decided
that Porter Charlton, who killed his
wife at Lake Como, is still extraditable
under the treaty with Italy. 1t was
announced that the period covered by
the postponcmcnt of the case ut Charl-
toms own request should not he includ-
cd in the forty days prescribed as the
time in which Italy could demand the
prisoner. The forty days from. the
date ofthe arrest expired yesterday, but
most of this period was covered by the
requested postponement. The TACT
that Italy has not asked for him within
the first forty days, which offered plenty
of time, is considered most significant.
1t is not believed that Italy, if it had
desired Charlton, would have depended
upon the United States eliminating the
time elapsed through postponement
requested by the prisoner.
Iung Kwai, secretary Of the Chinese
legation, who is i'll charge of the Chi
ncsc governments affairs at the Capt.
tol i'm the summer time is confronted
by Il problem which the most astute
diplonatist can not solve. lie In look
ing for an interpreter for Chinese
deaf mute who has been designated by
his government to attend the interna-
tional congress for the deaf and dumb
which is to be held at Colorado
Springs during the middle OF next
month. Lii Yung Yew, Chinese consul
at San Francisco, in the official repre-
sentative Of China, but Ii Yung Yew
is not deaf mute and cannot speak
the sign language. Therefore he will
be OF no use to the mute representative
of the yellow race vino is coming to
America to participate in the proceed
ings of the convention.
General Bixby, the new chief OF the
corps Of engineers of the army, is the
exponent of ideas which do not har-
monte with the Roosevelt policies Of
reclamation conservation OF water power
sites, and deeper waterways, according
to an interview made public today by
the bureau of the rivers and harborS
congress. Theodore Roosevelt liked all
three OF these principles Of progress.
Gen. Bixby says that one cannot work
for all three at one time because two
are oppose d to the third, In his opinion
reclamation and the utilization of water
power is adverse to navigation. He
believes that water cannot be used for
Watering desert lands and turning
power wheels and then impressed into
service deep of waterways. The water
power he says there is no doubt Of
it's great value, but what the users use
they should restore TO navigation in
water sufficient to float the boats.
The pcach-growing industry of West
Virginia, the Cumberland section OF
Maryland and the western part of Vir-
ginia is about to be destroyed by the
combination of Il glutted market AID
an increase in freight rates, according
to Il protest filed today with the Inter-
| state Commerce Commission by the
Virginia Fruit Exchange. 1t is set
| forth that ovcrproduction in Georgia has
made it impossible for the growers to
compete in the Atlantic Seaboard mar
kcts. The y. Il o. and three other
| roads leading to western markets adj
vanccd the rates 20 per cent on August
on apples and peaches. The new
rates make it impossible for the growers
to move their crops at a profit, 1t is
| asserted. This is the first year since
the industry developed that a good crop
has been grown in this section, and the
growers say that the peaches will rot on
the trees unless the |. G. c gives relief.
Scluolmaster Durand who is teach
ing the biggest class in arithmetic that
the world ever knew is up against some
of the hardest problems in the way of
keeping order among his pupils that
were ever presented to any schOol-room
disciplarnian. The boys and girls men
and women who have been assigned
him for computing the census through
certain specified civil service eXamina-
tons. come from all parts of the country
and represent all walks OF life from the
Kansas farm to Boston's Back Bay
district. Among the thousands of re-
cruits have come persons suffering
from epilepsy, extreme nervousness
and various other diseases as we'll as
'giddy young hirts and gossiping old
maids. " One OF Durand's assistants
today said that so much time is being
lost through incapable clerks that ex-
IRENE measures soon will have to be
taken 10 weed them out. One Young