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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-10
Window Screens.

The Ready-made Adjustable be had and reasonably priced
imperfect breed and pestalsoutey
sanitary every particular May used under the sash permanently adj
iusted on outside Of window.
Fourth g st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-10
Clearance Sale
Imported and Domestic Curtains.

all small lots and discontinued patterns
remaining greatly reduced prices All are high grade perfect
domestic productions and from to
pairs OF pattern
IA to Is Less Than Regular Prices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-10

Select Soft Shell Crabs on toast and
Deviled Crabs at Spinks's care, Prince
and ROYAL streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
The Continental Creamery Co.
Creations Cleanest Creamery
Topeka, Kansas, u. S. A.

properly affected only.-$2e0. This should
have been $718.34, making a difference
of $45S.34."
The paving was remeasured without
difficulty and the amounts computed
agreed very closely with the final esti-
mate rendered to the contractors. The
contractors were paid for a total of
$35, $3.50. According to the measure
ments of Mr.. Conrad they should have
been paid $35, 1858, or a difference of
$6S 60
The concrete curb was also approx
mately the same as given out by the
engineer. The contractors were paid
$520.S0 and they should have been paid
$519.42 or 4 difference of $1.32. The
concrete work was too close to show a
difference in figures.
I'm conclusion" said Mr.. Conrad,
"t1ne contractors We're paid for resetting
curb, paving and concrete curb, a total
of 37,084.49. According to my meas
urements they should have been paid
for these items, $37,01415. This makes
a difference of $70.34 in favor of the
contractors. As 1 have said before this
may easily be considered as natural
differences"
This report will be received with in
terest by the people living on these
blocks on West Sixth avenue. Since
the investigation was started there have
been many ''stories'' of graft and dis
honesty spread among the people. This
sworn report of the expert will put an
end to all fears and the people may go
ahead and enjoy their pavement as be-
fore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Expert Engineer Approves West
Sixth Avenue Pavement.
Investigation by City Ends in
No Startling Exposures.
BUT LITTLE CHANGE
Expert Finds Difference of
S7O.34 But Calls 1t Natural"
JOhnP. Rogers EXOnerated From
Charges of IncOmpetency.

All charges against former City En-
gineer John p. Rogers and his engi-
neering force. in the estimates for the
paving on West Sixth avenue, between
Harrison and West streets, were dis
PEELED today, when the report of the
engineering expert. L. E. Conrad, of
the State Agricultural college, was re-
ceived by City Clerk Burge.
In his report to the city Mr.. Conrad
finds that there is only a total differ
ence Of $70.34 between the measure
ments of the city engineers office and
the estimates paid and the amount paid
to the contractors for the work. In
commenting on this small difference,
Mr.. Conrad said:
= This is so small that it may be
easily considered as due to natural diff
ferences in measurements made by diff
ferent parties
The investigation of the measure
ments of the city engineers Office was
started in February by William Green.
who vas mayor at that time. Mr.. Green
had asked John P. Rogers to resign his
position as city engineer not long be-
fore and after Mr.. Rogers had gone,
the mayor decided that the records of
the Office should be investigated. The
alleged oVeresti11ate condition of the
West Sixth avenue pavement claimed
nrst attention and an expert engineer,
Mr.. Conrad, of the State Agricultural
school, was appointed to do the work.
MI. Conrad has been measuring the
Iaving and going over the Office records
for some time and his report was filed
with City Clerk Burge recently. The
report exOnerates Mr.. Rogers from any
dishonesty or carelessness on the part
OF the West Sixth work.
Mr.. Conrad claimed in his report that
1t was almost impossible to judge some
of this work as there were no means
of knowing what portion of the curb
setting of the curb the report of the
expert looks as though the work of the
engineers office was doubtful but when
the final estimates are figured out it
SHOWS that the contractors did not re-
ceiVe any graft on the pavement and
that all the alleged mistakes were tech
nicahties.
The amount of curb reset according
TO nnal payments, amounted to nearly
three times the quantity shown in the
preliminary estimates" said Mr. Con
rad. The distribution of cost between
the property affected and the citv at
large IS also open to question. In most
cases the amount charged to the citv
being in excess of the total amount Of
curb1ng at the intersections after de-
Quoting the new concrete curb at in
tersections.
As stated there is no way at pres
ent of determining how much of fh@
curbing at the Intersections was reset
The last columns in the tab,1Iated
quantities for each block are made up
On superstition that all the curling al
the intersections was Strengthened. The
summary shows a total of 81 obs 40.
EmAd the contractor for this work, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02

made Kansas City safe enough on that
basis, and worked G. H. Whitcomb here
and would have made off had not
Horace Humphreys, manager of the
National, signed complaint
And then, Richardson is something of
an athlete, too. Going to Leslie Mont
gomery, athletic director of the Central
Y. M. c. A, he sought employment as
an assistant in pole vaulting and also
wanted to borrow some money Mr.
Hunter advanced one dollar.
''They think I can't pole vault he
said. ''But I guarantee can clear II
feet and I'll bet anybody a four year
term in the penitentiary on the side
that 1 can do it. Just give me a 16
foot pole, that's all"
AS a college man, Richardson was fo-
a couple of days entertained around
Washburn college here by one of the
fraternities into which he was intro
duced by Mr.. Whitcomb, the Dart
mouth graduate imposed upon by the
slippery sophomore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
REAL ESTATE men MEET
Discuss Advertising, Paving and Light
ing at Commercial Club.

A meeting of members of the Topeka
Real Estate Dealers association was
held this nool4 at the Commercial club
to discuss the big advertising cam
paign which the association expects 70
launch in the near future. Plans were
not sufficiently under way to adopt any
definite method of procedure but
number of details were gone into which
in the opinion of those present would be
| of value to the city at large.
Argument took place relative to the
proposal of City Commissioner Tandy
to withhold the letting of further paw
ing contracts until January, 1911. 81
don't think it is business to shut down
on paving" said w. w. Webb. 81 talk
ed to Mr.. Tandy this morning and ne
said he was in favor of going ahead
with improvements.
TT woulI mean that hundreds of
men in Topeka would be out of work,
and outsiders would say Topeka is
dead and would try to induce home
seekers to come to their respective
towns which are alive and going ahead
with paving work.
up. The program, according to Mr..
Tandy, is not to have a wheel turn IN
til January, 1911
Other members expressed themselves
as being in favor of paving, and the
question will be discussed further at
the next meeting of the association.
This city could well Afford said Mr..
Webb, ito spend the amount of money
it would cost to make four or five
blocks of Kansas avenue "a great white
way and get in line. with a number of
other cities which are adopting this
means of advertising Clusters of lights
could be put up along the street at in
tervals.
Last year the question of the light
ing of the dome of the state house was
taken up by a committee of the Com
mercial club. The governors consent
was obtained and the state architect
was instructed to draw up plans for
the lighting. The lighting of the state
house would advertise Topeka beyond
anything you could do. You could see
it 20 miles away. Governor Stubs sug-
gested putting up a cluster of big
lights
The lighting question was referred to
the civic improvement committee which
is composed of w. J.sRickenbacher. r.
D. Sheldon, c. G. Blakely, David L.
Lakin and E. z. OlinEer.
The association drgNs tfafzall prop
erty owners along Kansas avenue will
place numbers on their places of estab-
lishment in order to make it gless diff
ficult for a stranger to find any given
business man in the city. Street signs
are also badly needed in Topeka, is the
opinion of the members of the Organi-
cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Richardson, Dartmouth College
Man, One Real Sport.
Says He Knows ThaW and Saw
White Shot Down.
LIKES CHORUS MAIDS.
Claims Spent $4,000 on "JOy
Rides and Fair Ladies.
Is Held for Trial ON Charge of
Beating Board Bill.

| Stevens D. Richardson. the "Rah
Rah Sophomore" from Dartmouth col
| lege, who says he took hist first slide in a
| three weeks slide with a member OF
the MERRY Widow" company in New
York before facing the duties of a col
| lege education. reaped the first of his
| little crop of oats today when he was
| bound over to the district court for
trial on the charge of beating a $25
board bill at the National hotel
Richardson, who is but 81, takes I'M
kindly to the inside of the prison bars.
''If 1 were Harry Thaw row. he said
today. with the ready money. I'd be
out in a minute. It's easy for those
fellows. I started with a girl who was
playing lead with the Merry
Nesbit, too. and 1 saw her and E. r.
Thomas, the automobile millionaire,
kicked out of the KnickerbockeI hotel
in New York just after the second
Thaw trial myself. 1 was in the Madi-
SON Square garden and saw White
| killed.
people talk about equal rights, but
they let Thaw go when he killed a
man. Now they want to hang me be-
cause [ didn't have the monev to pay
| a hotel bill. I know I'm in wrong
and it's my fault. haven't done right.
You've heard the old song. I'm off O.
the booze, 1t floats my head and twists
| my feet and makes the ceiling seem
the floor. I'm off o. the booze!' We
sang that the night left school,"
Regular Hot Sport
The college youth is free to speak
of his follies. How he happens to be
broke now is traceabIe to gaming
spirit. In Paris four summers ago
with his mother he says he slipped off
with some American boys to Monte
Carlo and lost nice piece of his
wheel. He further says he started on
this trip with $500, intending to reach
the Pacific coast, but ran into a poker
game with a bunch of travelling men
in Cincinnati hotel and lost it ALL
apo1ogized.
I've got money" said the prisoner,
''and lots of it. but I can't get it until
I'm rs years old. My grandfather left
parently, the college youth was living
gaily in expectation of an "easy
street."
Richardson's home is in Manchester,
N. III. His father is not wealthy he
says, but his mother has money. 1fAnd
I've got brother beyond reproach." ne
added. HE is H. C. Richardson, gen
eral purchasing agent for the Ameri-
can Locomotive works in New York
His address is 80 Church street, Hudson
Terminal building.
I've written to my folks about this
trouble but won't care if they don't
send me any money. They've already
spent $4,000 on my bills for hotels and
automobiles while I've been running
around with chorus ladies'"
Claim He Is Crook.
Prosecutor Bolinger has a letter from
the chief of police of Manchester stat
ing that Richardson is a crook and that
he served four months in Des Moines
for beating bills. 1t was after the Des
Moines affair that the college student
hit upon the plan of looking up old col
lege men in the various towns and
worming into their confidence. He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
GIDEON OFFICERS ARE NAMED
G. ID. Lusby of Topeka Heads Order in
Kansas.

This morning the list of Gideon Off
GERS for Kansas was completed. The
officers for the ensuing year are:
President, c. D. Lusby, Topeka; vice
Ellis, Norton, T. Blodgett, w. S. Wake
field, Salina: secretary, B. E. Cooking
ham, Topeka; chaplain, E. A. Freden-
hagen, Kansas City.
w. E. Henderson, national secretary,
left this afternoon for Chicago. 1t was
reported this afternoon that the fund
for placing a Bible in each hotel in
the city has been nearly completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
: York Money Market.

New York. May 2-MONEY- Money on
call. strong. 31za6 per cent; ruling rate
per cent, closing bid AZ per cent, offered
AZ per cent. Time loans. dull and firm:
90 days and 90 days. 4Aq41z per cent; six
months. 4AG41z per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile naper 4A45
per cent.
Sterling exchange steady at decline with
actual business in bankers bills at S4.S4.25
4S4.50 for 50 day bills and at $4S7.50 for
demand: commercial bills, $4S3sz 04S4l4.
SILVER-Bar silver, sac; Mexican dol
lars, 44c.
BONDS Government bonds, steady;
railroad bonds, easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
SHE BEGINS THIRD SUIT.
Mrs. Crawford Asks Divorce-Says
Husband Beat Her.

There was no delay from the May
Day resolution of Eva Crawford, who
filed a suit for divorce at 10 o'clock
this morning against James Crawford
alleging that he came home Sunday
in drunken state and beat her and
her daughter. Genevieve Diehl. The
Crawfords have been married 16 years
and live at 1906 Van Buren, street.
Mrs. Crawford is a seamstress at Berk-
sons store and she alleges the
defendant is an habitua1 drunkard
and asks divorce, alimony and the
home. This is the third divorce suit
begun by the nlaintiff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Hit a Negro Preacher.

A daughter of the Rev. D. M. Milford,
negro, and q son of Leslie Reeves, ne
gro, engaged in a fistie encounter Sun
day at the Milford residence and
Reeves, seeing Milford start his son
toward home, decided that something
should be done and did it. He pleaded
guilty to having committed an assault
upon Milford in police court today and
Judge Urmy, after lecturing both men
for taking up their children's fights,
fined Reeves SO. Both men live near
Fifteenth and Quincy streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02

Marriage License.
John Iffel, aged Is, Topeka; Theresa
Boyer, aged 10. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02

yoke outlined by narrow embroidery.
strip of which runs from the yoke
which is gathered into it. The skirt
is in one piece, with a wide tuck at
the knee. The girdle and tie are of
dark blue silk. The hat shown with
this frock was of natural color straw
with trimming of dark blue velvet and
blue aigrette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Supreme Court makes Recess.

washington, May 2-No decision of
the supreme court of the United States
was announced today in the corporation
tax cases The court took a recess I'M
til May Is. The only other day the
court viii be in session this term will,
he May g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
FARMER IS KILLED.
A. W. Hoffman Victim of Tornado
Near Burton.

Hutchinson, Kan, May "A. w.
HOFFMAN, farmer. was killed early
today near Burton, when a tornado
destroyed his home
The storm did much damage to crops
here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02
Hay Loft Burned: $3.50 Loss.

burned out the hay loft and the roof
of stone barn behind the property
Of n. Nj. Rice at 523 Harrison street.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
loss win be about $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-02

Prosecutor Bolinger has letter from
the chief of police of Manchester stat
ing that Richardson is a crook and that
he served four months in Des Moines
for beating bills. 1t was after the Des
Moines affair that the college student
hit upon the plan of looking up old col
lege men in the various towns and
worming into their confidence. He
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-04-08
THE COWARDICE OF
THE STRONGEST

Further particulars from the scene of
Sundays fatal dancing-hall fire in
Hungary tell that nearly all those who
escaped were men, Women and children
were thrown aside and trampled under
foot in the panic rush of brothers and
lovers, perhaps of husbands.
History repeats itself thus shamefully
as it was written after the Charity
Bazaar disaster in Paris. In Hungary
the towards were plain villagers. In
Paris they were among the aristocracy
of France. With the brutality of per-
sonal fear there is no distinction OF
blood.
Surviving young men of mourning
Oekoerite say that, since the fire has
left no manageable young women ir
the village, they will emigrate te
America. Their conduct in the face OF
an emergency calling for real manhoct
qualities does not commend them a.
coming bGidegrooms. We should hor
that New York might, with the occa
casion calling, give them an example O
crowd bravery in fateful moment. Blu
could we depend upon it that the sci
fishness of the man who tosses a wo
man out of his path in the subway rusl
would be transmitted into sex heroisn
under a test of fre?-N. Y. World.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-04-08
I.lOO FISHERMEN PERISH IN STORM.
Crews of Eleven Boats Who Had
Escaped Drowning. Found Fro.
zen 10 Death.

Details of the great storm of March
18th on the Japanese coast, in which
more than 1,10O fishermen persisted,
were reported by the steamer Tamha
Maru, at Victoria, B. c., last week.
The tempest was most severe off
Chiba and Ibaragi prefectures. The Of
fetal report that gave the loss as "a
vessels and 1,l00 men is generally be-
lieved to be too conservative.
The wrecks of 81 fishing vessels from
Choshi, Chiba prefecture, and ID from
other villages, which took out 600 men,
have been found by patrols, and similar
news of disaster was brought from
Miro, in Ibaragi, where vessels contain
ing 400 men were missing.
When the hurricane broke 100 fishing
vessels attempted to make their way
into Ghost Harbor for refuge, but near
ly all were capsized. Few bodies were
recovered.
The japanese cruiser Takachihe was
hurried to the scene and found clever
fihing boats, with the fishermen all fro
zen to death, and numbers of drifting
bodies.
kilograms from several villages re,
port the drifting ashore of wrecked
boats laden with dead crews.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-04-08
THE LAST OF THE TROOPERS.

The last of the great Southern troop
ers passed into history when General
Thomas Lafayette Rosser died Tuesday
night. All Of the others had gone; Stu
art died before the war was ended, and
Ashby fell before the strife was well
begun. After the war Forrest. the
prince of them all, lived only until men
learned to marvel at his daring and to
hold him up as one of the great COM
manders of all time. The others pass
ed until Fitz Lee and Wheeler and Ros-
ser alone were left. All three. COM
rades in arms, enlisted in. &he service
when war was declared with Spain, and
fought for the cause against which the
three had fought so valorously in other
days. Lee died, Wheeler died, Rosser
alone survived.
1t was peculiarly fitting that the Ma
jor-General who fought his way out
from Appomattox should be the last of
the great cavalry leaders to die. As he
bore the flag of the Confederacy when
every other leader in the East had sur
rendered. it was a favor of fortune that
left him, with Munford, as the last to
tell the story Of the daring deeds
wrought by the men of the bugle and
sabre when the Confederacy gasped it's
Last.
General Rosser was at the head of
troops whose fame will shine out as
long as the memory of the Confederacy
lives. His first regiment was the Fifth
Virginia Cavalry-famoGs on hundred
fields and gallant in hundred bold at
tacks. From this position he came
to command, in time, the famous Lau-
rel Brigade, at the head of which Tur-
ner Ashby had ridden to his death near
Winchester This brigade was made I'D
in large part of boys-lads who had
known the rifle from youth and had
been trained on horseback from child
hood. When their bugles sounded
boots and saddles" woe to the Yam
kee who met their advance. Brave,
cool. and never faltering in the face of
danger, they have been described by
Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson as the
best partisan cavalry ever put into the
field These men Rosser commanded.
and no greater compliment could be
paid him than to say that he was a
worthy leader of his band.
&General Rosser was the last surviv-
ing Major-General in the Confederate
service from Virginia, with the excep-
tion Of General l.. L. Lomax and Cen
eral G. w. c. Lee. OF the fifteen who
held this high rank, Pegram fell during
the war. Slowly through the years the
others have died-Heth. johnson, Sam
uel Jones, Kemper, Fitz Lee, Rooney"
Lee, Magruder, Malone, Maury, Pick
EFT, Stevenson and Taliaferro. What a
gallant company they were, these Vir-
ginia division leaders For daring, for
genius, for courage in battle, for mag
nanimity in victory, and for honor in
defeat, their equals were never seen in
the crowded annals of a thousand years
Of war. Rosser was the peer of any,
and that is honor enough for one man.
l-Times-Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-04-08
THE WORLD GOES ON.

We can do but part of the work to be
We can cheer but a few of the souls
that are sad,
We can win but few of the fights to
be won
And make but few of the troubled
hearts glad.
We may toll as we will, by night and
by day,
We may study and delve into science
and art.
But when the end comes and friends Law
US away,
Another will follow and take up our part.
We can learn but few of the things to
be learned,
And solve but few OF the problems
of earth;
And the world will go on, when the road
way we've turned,
AS it did in the days before we had
our birth.
We can make ourselves great. but not
greater than all,
And be of some service to our fellow
men,
But the moment death carries us out
through the hall,
Inc world moves along just as bravely
again.
What we have done one who follows can
do,
The place we are filling another can
fill!
Death cuts off the man and takes him
out of view,
But the work he was doing is carried
on still.
And SO as we journey along and press on,
Performing the tasks that are ours.
day by day,
Let none of us think that when he shall
have gone
The wide world will suffer. That isn't
Gods way.
EDGAR A. GUEST.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-04-08
BEAUTIFUL BEYOND.

Heart, weary heart. what means this
wild unrest;
Hast thou not tasted of earth's every
pleasure?
With all that mortals seek, thy lot is
blest;
Yet thou dost ever chant in mournful
measure,
There's something beyond!
Heart, weary heart, canst thou not find
repose
In the sweet calm of friendships pure
devotion?
Amid the peace which sympathy e'er
bestows;
Still dost thou murmur with repressed
emotion,
There's something beyond!
Heart. weary heart, too idly hast thou
Thy music and thy perfume on the
Now beggared in affections treasured
hoard;
Thy cry is still-thy saddest and thy
last
There's something beyond!
Heart. weary heart. oh! cease thy wild
unrest
Earth cannot satisfy thy bitter
yearning;
Then onward, upward, speed thy lonely
quest,
And find where heavens stars are
burning,
There's something beyondl
Bertha Gray Robinson, in Orange
Observer.