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The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
HITCHCOCK MILL BIT BACK
Postmaster General to Refute Claims
Of Magazine Men To-day.
Expects to Prove Canada Does not
Clear Money While United
states Loses.

In order 20 show that criticisms Of the
administration of the P0St-oflce Depart
ment by magazine men who have testi-
ned before the House Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads in opposition TO the
proposed increase i'm the rate on second
class mail matter. Postmaster General
Hitchcock has decided % enter upon a
campaign Of refutauon. He is firing Of
being attacked. and he proposes to do a
little attacking himself.
The Postmaster General holds that most
OF the criticisms Of the postal service
made by the magazine men are so much
without foundation as to he preposterOUs
and ridiculous, The first blast in answer
will be given out at the department this
afternoon, and VIII be followed by others.
The main cause of the postal deficit OF
H150o010 a year is the low rate on sec
ond-cIass mail matter. according 70 the
convictions Of the department officials,
who insist that the actual loss on the
carriage by the government Of this class
Of business is about So. Co., 900 "A year. and
they hold TO this belief. despite the state
ment in a brief submitted TO the post
office committee by the National Peri
odical Publishers Association a few
weeks ago that the departments figures
were SCI co., C0 out Of the way.
II viii be remembered that It was
charged also that the deficit IS the result
Of politics and bad management, the lat
ter including overpayments 10 the rail-
roads for carrying the mails
The Postmaster General intends 10 an
swer categorically each and every one
of these charges TO-day's statement
will be intended TO demonstrate the fall
lacy Of the statement made by the pub
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
BANKERS HIT BY PLAN.
POst-Offfec Department May Not
Furnish Names on Envelopes,

POst-Offiec Department May Not
Furnish Names on Envelopes,
The House Committee on Post-ofices
and Post Roads has decided TO include in
the appropriation bill about to be report
ed a provision prohibiting the Post-ofice
Department from furnishing stamped en-
veIopes containing the names and ad-
dresses Of the business houses to which
they are supplied.
Heretofore, FOR a slight additional cost,
e has been possible for bU siness firms TO
obtain stamped envelopes from the de-
partment which bore in the left-hand
corner the printed name and address of
the firm These envelopes were especi-
ally i'm favor with banking firms. For Il
number Of years various printers unions
throughout the country have been pro-
testing against the POst-offiCe Depart
ments invasion of the printing field
At the expiration of the governments
present contract with a Dayton. Ohio.
printing firm. the Post-office committee
would have the practice discontinued.
Hereafter, the department will be allowed
to supply only the words Return in -
days to-
The department has made little or no
profit on the printing OF envelopes the
practices having been employed mainly
for the convenience Of the larger houses
who purchase envelopes in thousand lots.
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
SNAG FOR RIVER BILL
Davidson Intends TO OBJ
Struct Passage.
HITS "LAKES-TO-GULF" PLAN
VIII Lead Attack in House TO-mOr-
row-Says Committee Acted With
out Precedent in Authorizing
SI,OOO,OOO OutIHy-OppOSitiOn in
Senate AIsO-A Fight Likely.

Representative James II. Davidson, Of
Oshkosh, Wis, although not generally
classed as an insurgent. has determined
TO lead an attack on the river and harbor
bill in the House when that measure
comes up tomorrow.
some Of the Wisconsin insurgents had
criticised Representative Davidson as be
ing too friendly 10 Speaker Cannon and
his organization. This disposition TO crit
lcisc was not tempered by the fact that
Mr.. Davidson was chosen a few days ago
for another term as member Of the exec
utive committee of the Republican Con-
gressionaI committee 20 manage the Con-
gressional campaign this fall.
But probably the insurgents viii be
funder of Mr.. Davidson after he has
made his onslaught ON Speaker Cannon
and the majority of-the Rivers and Har-
bors Committee of the House.
Representative Davidson was the lead
ing member OF the Committees on Rivers
and Harbors lie was in line f0r the
craftsmanship. and there was some sur
prise when he was not selected for that
place The ground of his complaint is
not that he was overlooked, but that
the Rivers and Harbors Committee was
made up Icy Speaker Cannon with an eve
single to the furtherance Of an appropria-
ZION of 81. eco COO TO aid in the construc-
ton Of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway.
Two Committeeman from Illinois,
,,.-r,-.sartati,.e Davidson eovs thor. 10
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13

Congress authorizing the necessary ap-
propriatons would follow logically. In
face of the general demand for retrench-
ment In expenditures, Davidson condemns
the report OF the committee on the water
way plan as not only unprecedented, but
unreasonable.
1t is understood that Senator Burton,
OF Ohio, viii oppose the Labes-to-the-Gulf
legislation IF it should pass the House
and reach the Senate Mr.. Burton has
been consistent opponent Of the plan
for many years, even before he left his
Iabors as chairman Of the House Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors to become
a Senator
The opponents OF the waterway have
only faint hopes of defeating it, One
or them remarked to-day that the leg
islatiye ways are CREASED for its passage
through both houses" But the fight
promises TO be an interesting one.
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
BLACK WANTS MORE PAY.
Civil Service Head Receives Less
Than II Other Commissioners.

Civil Service Head Receives Less
Than II other Commissioners.
The members Of the Civil Service Com
mission are hard-Worked and poorly
paid. according TO the testimony Of Gen.
John c. Black, president Of the commits
sion. before tho appropriations committee
of the House urging an Increase for him
self and his colleagues. Gen. Black now
gets $500 and his two colleagues 1900
each
IN support Of his claims, Gen. Black
yesterday fled with the appropriations
committee a table showing that of all
the commissioners" Of the government
the Civil Service Commissioners get the
worst Of il. There are the surprising
number of forty-nine government com
missioners," of whom one gets $1,000 a
year. seven get $4Ooo; one gets Sl0000
three get 5000. and twelve get 5000
Gen Black told the committee the Civil
Service Commissioners should get at least
S5000 year
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13

of staying in Washington in Off years,
and this doesn't happen 90 be one with
what promises to be "a mighty lively cam
paign looming up ahead. So it is "a ques-
ton of sitting up nights labOTing for the
feeble gImmer OF the midnight candle
or taking the amended rules by the scrun
OF the neck and throwing them out OF
the window According 10 the House
leader, quoted above the latter aIJerna-
tive viii be accented
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
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The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Music Cabinets.

fishers that Canada cleared more than
S1.00a.|G0 on periodical postage with q rate
Of 4 Of cent a pound while this gov
eminent lost money carrying the same
class Of stun for a cent q pound. He Will
also urge. with even more emphasis than
formerly. an increase in the second-cIass
rate and will give facts and figures in
tended TO show the necessity Of this &C
ton 10 the committee
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Cotton Hearings Postponed.

As members OF the House Committee on
Agriculture who have been hearing argu-
ments on the proposed legislation to
abolish dealings in cotton futures are far
behind in their mail and other duties, they
decided 10 cali off the hearing set for
yesterday and take up the row again
tomorrow afternoon az O'Clock.
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Door Twenty-four Feet High.

Hagerstown, Nd, Feb. 12.-The largest
door ever made in this section has just
been turned out from the r. J. Jones
Cold store Door Company's plant in this
city The door IS q feet high and 81 feet
wide. It was made for a firm in Cham
bersburg, Pa.
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Hills 10 Give Reception.

Berlin, Feb. 12.-Ambassador and Mrs.
Hin viii give a special reception on Feb
rIary D to the court and diplomatic
circle
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
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The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Dinins-rcom Chairs.

OlnInS-room Chairs.
Regular pgice, Sale price.
Oak Side, leather
seat .-.-.-.S45O 1898
Oak Side, fabric
koid seat...----.S3.25 $2.45
Oak Arm c hair,
cane -----.-.S7.5o S5.63
Oak Chair, cane. .$4.25 500
Oak Arm c air.
cane ..-.--..$5.98 $40
Oak Chair, cane. .S2.98 S2.24
Oak Arm c hair,
cane ..----..S4.75 1857
Oak Chair, cane. ...S2.75 SOY
Oak Chair, cane. .S2.98 S2.z4
Oak Chair, cane....SLo8 SI.4q
Oak Chair, wood. .SI.Q8 SI.49
Oak Chair, Cane..-.SL6Q $I.27
Oak Chair, cane. ...SI.Io 83c
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Extension Tables.

Regular price. sale price.
Quar-. Oak, SIT. $4,000 $1,000
Quar-. Oak, oft. $1,000 $500
Quar-. Oak. Oft. $500 S2LOO
Golden Oak, 6-ft.S2o.OO $500
Weather Oak,
oft $500 $I8.75
Golden Oak,
round .......SI5.OO SIPS
Golden Oak, Oft. 5000 $3.50
The Washington herald., 1910-02-13
Three.Piece and Five-Piece Parlor Suites.

Regular Price Sale ITice-
5-pc. SILK We
roma .....SI35.Oo SIoI.oo
5-pc. Silk Dam
ask ......SIOO.OO $500
5-pc. Silk We
roma ........ $4,000 $4,000
5-pc. Silk Dam
ask ...... $500 S63.75
5-pc. Silk We
roma ........ $500 S63.75
5-pc. Silk Dam
ask ........ $500 S56.25
5-pc. Silk Dam
ask ......... $500 S48.75
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
AMUSEM ENTS

'"The Old Clothes Man" will
be the play at the Seattle Thea
ter next week, starting off as
usual next Sunday with the mat
inee. Oh, how the company will
revel in this play, and how the
audience will enjoy it. 1t is one
of the best comedy dramas, high
class, middle class or any class
that has been sent out for years,
because it furnishes amusement
and quite as much heart interest
as the Music Master" further
more. instead of holding the
Hebrew race up to ridicule, it
displays their good qualities,
and the odd Clothes Man "
while creating plenty of laughter,
displays the fact that he is a
game sport, a loving father, a
kind friend, and that he had
learned a trick from the Japs
that would have stood Jim jeff
ries we'll at Reno-this will be
demonstrated in the play, in the
boxing bout, where the william is
knocked out by the, "Old Clothes
Man. at the Seattle Theater
next week, and the audience is
so glad to see the trick turned
by the old Jew, when the villain
gets whats coming to him, that
were the theatre not SO
strongly built, it would be shaken
asunder by the tremendous ap-
plause.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

Speaking about gambling in
Seattle it is being bruted about
the streets that Chief Wappen-
STEMS effort to have the North
ern Club be exclusively police
protected was due to the fact
that he is financially interested
in the club. Frank Clancy ''hol-
Tered" to the prosecuting attor-
ney and the Chief was informed
that Clancy's game in the De-
troit would run or there would
be no gambling in Seattle.
Clancy's is running and so are a
number of joints.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST


Assuming the heart to beat
sixty-nine times a minute at or
binary pressure, the blood goes
at the rate of 207 yards a min
ute or nine miles an hour, go
miles a day, and $4,000 miles a
year.
Brooklyn, New York has a
unique public official-a commits
sioner of weeds who draws a
regular salary of generous size
for making note of all suburban
streets where the weeds need at
tention.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
FRIDAY August IL, 1910

Bishop A. Grant of..thelAfrican
Methodist Episcopal Echurch:.ls
holding the Puget Sound confer
ence of his church in this city
this week. The Puget Sound
conference from a territory
standpoint is the largest of any
district in the United States. but
from a numerical standpoint is
the smallest. Bishop Grant in
connection with his conference
work is doing much toward the
building up of the Quindaro col
lege, which is the only school
the connection has in the West.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

by the scores. There are doz-
en- or more large business blocks
in the course of erection and
equally as many more being con-
templated. The Hoge block,
which is to be sixteen stories
will be begun early next year
and the Leary block which is to
go to twenty stories will also
start upwards next year. Just
how city that is doing so much
building as is Seattle can be hard
pressed is more than can be eX-
planned by the average business
man.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

When one stops to think of the
present telephone rentals IN Sc
attic and then learns that the
companies are going to increase
those rates at least % per cent 1T
is almost impossible to figure out
any profit for the one owning the
business. Just think of it, a
small business Office being COM
PEELED to have two telephones
and having to pay a monthly
rental of fifteen dollars therefor.
If the telephone companies are
able to make such a hold up as
that run the gauntlet there will
be an uprising among the voters
at the next election for munich
pal ownership of telephones that
will make that talking trust set
I'D and take notice as it never
has before.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

Plans are being perfected just
now among the property owners
of Seattle to compel the tele-
phone companies as we'll as the
electric light companies to put
all of their wires underground,
and that should be the para
mount issue Of the next munich
pal campaign. The legislature
should pass a law giving the rail-
road commission of the state OF
Washington the same control
over telephone and electric light
companies that do business IN
different cities of the state at
one and the same time and by
transmission wires as the COM
mission has over railroad com
panies.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

There are not near so many
vacant houses in Seattle as re-
ported about a month ago and it
is hoped the worst is over, but it
is further hoped that the land
lords have profted by the expert
ence of this year and will cease
selling their places every month
and still own them. Rents have
been and verify are in the down
town districts still outrageously
high and should be scaled down.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

It is almost a foregone conclu-
sion that DIR. M. A. Matthews OF
the First Presbyterian church
will also resign in the near fut-
ure or as soon as he has had time
to look over his prospective field
of labors in Philadelphia. 1t
will thus be seen that Seattle is
TO soon lose two of her ablest
divines.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

Rev. w. H. W, Reese, of the
First Methodist Episcopal church
of Seattle, has rendered his res
ignation to take effect at the end
of the present conference year.
DR.. Reese for the past four years
has been one of the notable dl-
vines of the Northwest.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
SCIENCE sCINTILATIONS

The average Russian smokes
$50 cigarettes a week.
Canadians are rapidly annex
ing the Northern ice.
Italy has about 5000 deported
criminals, who are maintaineded
on eight penal islands.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

The intimation given out from
Oyster Bay to the effect that Mr..
Roosevelt has it in for the rascals,
has caused a panic in the Colon
els party. Charleston News and
Courier.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
TAKE NOTICE

Mrs. Stella Kester having left
my hoard. and bed on April 5,
1910, will pay no bills she con-
tracts.
]. KESTER.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. IL, 1910.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12


of Leeds, Eng.
From 60 to 70 per cent of insan-
ity is due to heredity.
The baby's chances of life are
improving the world over.
Government telephone service
is not a success from the SUBJ
scriber's standpoint in England.
Ostrich feathers, valued at 49,
900, 945 have been exported from
the Cape of Good Hope in one
year.
Nineteen Southern cities as
sisted in building rural telephone
lines during the past year.
Under modern conditions it is
possible to drive $4,000 three
quarterback rivets in ten hours.
Weather variations have a
marked influence on the efficien-
cy of electrical wires.
1t was not until 1903 that the
motor industry of this country
assumed any degree of promise.
During the course of her life
time, a Persian woman is some
times married forty or fifty
times.
In 1883 Canada had open for
traffic 13, 200 miles of railroad
line. In 1908 there were being
operated $4,000 miles of line.
Russia has the highest death
rate of any European country,
but Spain and Austria Hungary
are also high.
Massachusetts has 5,671 cleo
trical manufacturing establish
ments, with a product value of
81, 1854, 431, 255, representing a
gain of about $240, 900, over
1906, or Fl. SO per cent.
No direct correspondence can
be traced between the fuctation
of the marriage and birth rates
respectively.
Antelope are still found in four
teen western states, though the
total number is approximately
only 1900.
1t appears that while the rate
of increase in the population of
Massachusetts has apparently
declined in recent years, there
has been no decline in the rate
of increase in the value of the
manufactured product.
For many years the French
birth rate has been steadily de-
clining, but in 1909 for the first
time in French history, the births
and deaths during the year were
practically equal. The figures
were: Births, ITO, 900; deaths,
756, 500.
Ordinarily on boiler work,
where the rivet must be steam
tight and we'll driven, 1000 or
1900 rivets might be considered
a good days work, while on
structural work, such as Orders,
1000, 1000 or more are generally
driven, and on such irregular
work as TRUSTEES, probably 1000
or $500
In so years the foreign trade
of the United States has seXtu-
pied in value, that of Austria
u1no,oru Yoy,o otioa11U n11adr11n1ad
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

distant date, of the American
railroad from Suediap on the
shores of the Mediterranean,
penetrating 1900 miles to Diar-
bekz Bitla and Van through a
country which is rich with min
eral and othor possibilities. The
company asking the concession
is ready to proceed with work
as soon as the details cap be ar
ranged, and the Ottoman gov
eminent looks with favor on the
proposition so that it is likely to
materialize, despite the opposi-
ton which has been made on the
part of German representatives.
The project will represent an ex-
penditure of $100, 900, 900 and no
subsidy has been asked for ex-
cept the exclusive right to work
the mineral deposits along the
line 1t has received official ap-
proval and now has but to be
ratified by the Turkish ParIia-
ment.
Great care is now necessary in
the selection of wood in order to
meet the diversified demands and
requirements of the industries
making use of lumber. Not so
long ago, a casual and superficial
inspection of the wood sufficed
in making the selection for the
different purposes for which it
was selected and occasionally the
more particular consumers
would make use of an ordinary
baud magnifying glass in order
to determine it structural charac-
ter. This is regarded as entirely
inadequate at present The COM
pound microscope is now used
for the minute and careful ex-
amintlon of longitudinal and
TRAVERSE sections of a speci-
men of timber the commercial
and the proper industrial employ
ment of which it is desired to de-
termine. Fine grain and thick
walled cells assure the solidity
and resistance which are requir-
ed IN carpentry. and these are
with with an abun-
dance of parenchymatous tissue
fillued with starch.
The estimated figures of the
steel business of the past six
months seem to indicate the
of the present year
being record one. At least it
is safe to say that it will not be
far behind that of 1906 which
was the banner year. Estimates
on the tonnage of structural
steel placed III the United States
in the six months to end June 30.
places the total at about 100000
tons, or at the rate of l, $50. 900
tons a year as against the total
of 1900, 900 tons for the record
year 1906. The figures on which
the estimate are based are very
conservative and do not inclued
several large contracts which
have been let, but which are not
for delivery this year. The six
months total represents slightly
less than 80 per cent of the max.
imum capacity of the structural
and fabricating plants of the
country. The value of the six
months contracts, including fab
ricating costs, is about $50, O0O,-
900.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12

Despite the alleged hard times
in Seattle the building boom is
still on and tenement houses as
well as homes are being erected