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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-09
LOCAL FINANCIAL GOSSIP.

Trading on the Washington Stock Elk
change yesterday was In larger volume
than for several weeks previously Some
of the brokers who have been away on
their outings have returned, and were at
the meeting of the exchange yesterday
with orders 10 buy.
Lanston was the leader In the busI-
ness of the day, selling about ninety
shares at 50 TO 50 1-2. One broker was the
taker. with two others providing the
shares, at a slight advance above previ-
Gus figures.
United states Trust was in demand,
about forty shares selling at lis. Mer-
genthaler was firm at 2l6. and Capital
Traction sold a fractional lot at 127.
Gas commanded - 10 20. but the
supply Of the stock was limited to If
teen shares.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has adopt
ed a new passenger rate schedule in the
state Of Pennsylvania.
Following is message from Philadel-
phia announcing the change:
Passenger fares on the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad
which heretofore We're not on a basis OF
? l-9 cents a mile. were increased 10 con-
form to that rate at midnight last night.
NO announcement was given by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company OF this
increase. The only notice sent out was
TO agents. and that not until yesterday
morning. Some OF the agents declared
that the fare changes would be genera
throughout the state. Al Broad street
station no information was vouchsafed
by any one except the ticket agent al
the window where transportation over the
Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington
Railroads lines are sold. All that ht
would say was that at midnight tickets
TO all stations 10 which the rate had not
been 21-2 cents would be charged for al
that rate
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-09

Headquarters Calvary Division
Army Northern Virginia.
March 2. 1858
CAPTAIN: Your telegram announcing your brilliant
achievement near Chantlly duly received and
forwarded 70 Gen. Lee. He exclaimed uron reading
II: Hurah FOR Messy I wish / had q hundred
like him."
Heartily wishing you continued success.
] remain your obodient servant,
J. f. r. STUART
Mai Gen. Commanding.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-09

LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTATE Sc
curity at lowest rates OF interest
Prompt personal attention.
HEISKELL & McLERkN,
1908 II 1T. NV.
REAL ESTATE LOANS.
Made at Lowest Rates OF Interest.
". II. WALKER. 729 18th ST. nv.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-09

WILMINGTON, D. @. FEB 2. 1901
Dear Col Mosby:
II may and know wiz b interesting % you for
me 20 write you that / have carefully read all q
Gen. r. +. Lees printed dispatches correspondence
&c. during the ls5l-ls65 and while he WIS
not In the habit u paving compliments yet these
papers Of bis win show that you received from him
more compliments and commtDdatious than any
other officer in the Confederate army.
Very truly your friend
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-09
TRIBUTES To COL. MosBY.
What Lee, Stuart, Grant, Hayes, and
Others Thought OF Him.

" nat Lee stuart, Grant, Hayes, and
Others Thought OF Him.
Editor The Washington Herald:
The testimony OF the following wit
nesses to the character OF Col John S.
Mosby as a soldier viii have more weight
with your readers than the vapor OF any
scribbler
Headquarters Army Northern Virs.uia.
March p. 1875.
His Excelleney jefferson Davis:
NJ President; You win. know. Do Eratiaed 10
learn BY the inclosed dispatch that the APPOINT
ment conferred a few DAYS since on Cart John S
Mes5y was rot uuw0rthily bestowed The poant
tAendonl where he struck at the enemy is north
q Fairfax Courthouse. near the Potomac. and far
within the lines q the enemy wish I could
receive his appointment las MAORI or some oaicial
notification Of il that might announce IL 10 him.
With gres, respect. your obedienl servant.
r. T. LIE. General
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

sition due one of her rank. He gave ex
preston To these views to the managers
OF an English railroad. whereupon an en-
tire new royal train was constructed at
great cost. conforming to the ideas and
tastes OF both the king and queen. 1t is
believed TO be the most handsomely ap-
pointed railway train in the world.
Their majesties travel at their own ex-
pense The royal train is paid for at so
much per mile. according to the distance
Travelled II consists usually of twelve
cars-sometimes fourteen-which include
the necessary baggage vans and royal din
ing cars There was never any secrecy
about the movements of King Edward
throughout the realm. He was never ac-
companied by secret service men. 1t was
when travelling in state that the royal
train was brought into use. On private
journeys. like going from London to San
drtngham, their majesties always trav-
eled in a special car attached to a regu-
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The Willy Three.

MARK TWAIN was a firm believer in
AV4 the national movement for good
roads, and had many a tale to tell about
the incredibly bad roads of some sec
tions.
A Hartford man recalled the other day
this experience Of the famous humor-
lists:
Il once had thirty miles"-so Mark
Twain began-''to go by stage i'm Missis-
sippi. The roads were terrible. for it wat
early spring. The passengers consisted OF
five men and three women-three large.
we'll developed women, swathed in shawls
and wells. who kept to themselves. talking
in low tones on the rear seat
well. We hadn't gone a mile before
the stage got stuck two feet deep i'm the
black mud. Down jumped every man OF
us. and for ten minutes we tugged and
jerked and pulled till we got the stage
out of the hole.
I'VE had hardly got our breath back
when the stage got stuck again, and
again we had to strain our very hearts
out to release her.
I'm covering fifteen miles we got stuck
eight times. and in going the whole thirty
we lifted that old stage out OF the mud
seventeen times by actual count.
I'VE five male passengers were wet.
tired and filthy when we reached our
destination, and so you can imagine our
feelings when we saw the three women
passengers remove as they dismounted,
their wells, their shawls and their skirts.
and. 10 and behold-they were three big.
hearty, robust men.
las we stared at them with bullying and
ferocious eyes, one of them said:
Thanks for your labor. gents We
knowed this road and prepared for 1t.
VIII you licker?"
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FXTFI2pR, OF NN; FiDMARDS PRIVATE. CAP

that it was possible to gain even SO high
rate Of speed.
x
Queen Victoria having assembled the
throne about six years after the first
railroad in the world was built, she did
not then feel the necessity Of a private
railway carriage. Queen Adelaide. as she
was called until the time Of her death.
was getting a bit old, and was much
more particular than was her more
youthful successor. Her car was a rep
resentative car Of that period, which was
nothing more nor less in design than the
old stage coach fitted with f1ange wheels
and run upon rails instead of the coun-
try highways. Adelaide's car was about
twenty feet long. composed of three COM
partments one of which was constructed
for her sleeping chamber. The compart-
ment was not of sufficient length to per-
nit her to sleep with comfort and ease,
therefore an extension about twenty
inches square was built on to the outside
of the car. wherein the royal lady could
place her feet This ancient vehicle is
still preserved in the London and North
western railways works at WolyertOn, as
substantial as when it left the artisans
hands more than seventy years ago. This
royal carriage has been seen In Amer
lea, having been on view at the st. Louis
exposition, 1904, commanding great at
tention as remarkable specimen OF
sound English workmanship of those
early days.
The late Queen Victoria was more fortu-
nate than her predecessor. Adelaide.
Times had progressed. Queen Victoria
usually made at least two visits a year
to her much-beloved highland home. tray
cling four times between London and
Balmoral. her Scottish palace, and also
having frequent visits to Osborne House
or the Isle of Wight. In making her
Journeys to Scotland she had to pass over
more than one line OF road. most gen
orally the Northwestern of England and
the Caledonia Of Scotland. The duty OF
arranging for her train fell to the gen.
eral manager of the initial line at Lon
don, and by royal command. he Travelled
with the queen from starting point to
destination. likewise accompanying her
on her return journeys. For several years
she commanded that the general manager.
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Conscience VS.. Art.

THOMAS NELSON PAGE, in the
smoking room of the Baltic, con-
trasted the literary and the scientific
temperaments.
but letter will best bring out my
point" said the famous author. you've
heard, of course, Of Tennyson's poem.
The Vision of Sim Well, an eminent
mathematician wrote to Tennyson, on the
appearance of his poem, letter that
ran like this:
Dear Sir-I find in a recent poem Of
yours, entitled 1.-The Vision of Sin" the
following unwarranted statement: Every
moment dies a man, and every moment
one is born" I need hardly point out
that this calculation, if correct. would
tend to keep the sum total of the worlds
population in a state of perpetual equi-
poise. whereas, it is an established fact
that the said population is constantly on
the increase. 1 would therefore suggest
that in the next edition of this poem the
erroneous calculation to which j refer
should be corrected as follows: Every
moment dies a man, and one and six
teenth is born" / may add that the
exact figures are 1.167. but something
must. of course. be conceded to the laws
of rhythm"
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being to see that all journals were prop
erly fabricated. The wheels were tested
at every stopping point by the usual
method Of tapping them with steel ham
mers to make sure they are in perfect
state. So far. there has never been an
accident to any of the royal trains OF
any member of the royal family has been
passenger.
The speed of the royal train often
varied, according to the wishes of either
or both Of their majesties. 1t has always
been the custom of the general manager
of the line over which the royal per-
sonages were travelling to make inquiry
as to what speed at which they wished to
proceed. thereby making the schedule ac-
cordingly. King Edward was fond of fast
going. Queen Alexandra was usually
much more neutrality-suspicious. quite
timid about having the train proceed at d
pace faster than fifty miles an hour. The
king often asked that the speed be as fast
as sixty or SeVenty-five miles an hour. On
some few occasions the queen, when in
good health and fine spirits was willing
the train should progress as fast as 1t
could. If she was in hurry to reach her
destina ton she had no objection to the en-
gineer giving the machine all the speed it
would take. 1t is of record, however,
that within the past six years royal
trains have been run over the line of the
London and Northwestern roads at a
distance of more than two hundred and
seventy miles without stopping, at a
speed approaching eighty-seven miles per
hour, thus demonstrating the fact that it
has been possible to increase the speed
of railway trains almost seventy miles
per hour since the first road was built in
1881, when twenty miles per hour was
looked upon as getting over the ground
with undue haste.
The first member of the English royal
family to have private railway car was
Queen Adelaide the consort of William
" uncle of Queen Victoria, and by
whom he was succeeded on the throne.
Queen Adelaide. history has it. was quite
put out at the audacity of railway
officials for moving her royal car as fast
as twenty miles per hour, claiming it
was entirely too swift, yet she marveled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
Not Cornered Yet.

CLIFFORD P. HARMON. the million
~ aire aeronaut. praised at a dinner in
New York his new Farman biplane.
II bought it from Paulhan," he said.
1T is the biplane on which Paulhan broke
the height record at Los Angeles. The
Farman biplane is superb machine. And
equipped with a rotary Gnome motor.
which balances it like gyroscope. no
wonder it now holds every record going"
Mr.. Harmon smiled.
YES" he said, You have only to look
at Farman biplane to perceive that
aviation isn't allWright."
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NneCdOfe8 Concerning
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.
Big Guns.

ORD KITCHENER. at one of the dim
l. ners rendered him in New York,
apologized for his want of eloQuence.
II can't speak; that is why l DON'T
he said. Il think it is better to keep
silent than to put you to sleep.
1.-The officers of the British army are
noted for their inability to make a pub
lie speech. Whenever an officer is foolish
enough to rise to answer a toast the
guests say to one another significantly as
he sits down:
Well. you know, the bigger the gun
the bigger the bore "
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Tagging the Hurnorist
Who Is Not Humorous

parents to other folks; bored and weary
folks and other kinds.
Therefore il follows as simple mat
ter of plain course that no man can be
really humorous who does this sort OF
non-humoristical thing.
There are, 1t is cheerful to be able to
announce. several feasible. if necessarily
brutal. methods of tagging, or extin-
gushing. or putting the figurative boots
to. the man who insists upon jamming
you up against a capstan and telling
you about those funny things his chill
dren said to him las night or IS morn
in.
Usually you have got him charted
and you know. when you see him bear
ing down upon you. that he'll no sooner
reply to your more or less stilted and
wary greeting than he'll begin to I'M
coil one of those what Oracle said to-
me-this-morning" things on you.
Then it's a case. so to speak, of fixed
bayonets with you, and you wait for
the onslaught with close-clicked teeth
and clenched mitts.
''Ho, no. there you arer' says he,
ambling rapidly toward you SOS TO be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

HEN the late King
Edward VII as
cended the throne
he found that his
mother, Queen Vic
toria. had been rid
ing on her Journeys
I N 7 o u ( n % U I
the United King
dom in railway car
riages which were
not in keeping with
the dignity and po-
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fro In your phony laughter. and leaving
him standing there with mouth agape.
He doesn't quite know what to think
of you or your conduct. He can't be-
lieve for an instant that there is any
human being In the world so brutal, so
ity as to kid him when it comes to the
sacred matter of his chil-der-un. He
can't make it that way. He doesn't know
what to make Of 1t. That's the beauty
of 1t. You get him guessing. You leave
him dangling. And, however he may
it is likely that thencefortb he will sort
o. sidestep telling YOU those funnyisms
that his young 'uns have said.
However. If he doesn't, why, there are
other ways.
For example, as soon as he begins to
pull one on you about the weird and al
most alarming wittifulness Of little Katie
that's only four years old nIxt May the
14th, and that only just got ever the
measles at that, which makes her daz-
cling repartee all the more extraordinary
the very instant that he begins to un-
ravel one of these on you, why, You
shoot one in on him on how yellow he
looks.
''Well well, It's marvellous about chill
dren. isn't it?" he says. with the fiaccid.
vacuous grin on his countenance. Now,
last night. when my little Katie was be-
ing put to bed by her mother, the little
thing looked at picture that was hang
ing on the wall, and she said
Say. look a-here. old pal" you ram
In right there, what's the matter with
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VHE writer hereof knows a man
who is reputed to be a
Misunderstanding, in fact, has
virtually universal fame as a
humorist-who isn't humorous
at all.
The reason why this chronicler knows
that the reputed humorist isn't humor-
Gus at all is this:
The reputed humorist tells those sa-ad
funny sayings of his children.
IL Is as plain as primary school
arithmetic.
No human being with a symptom or
even vague bacillary indication de-
noting even shadowy sense Of humor
is going TO tell other folks-busy folks,
tired folks, preoccupied folks, got
other things to-think-about folks, give
us-a-rest folks-about those funny"
things his children said.
IL doesn't make any difference what
ever how funny" such things the chill
dren say may sound to the immediate
progenitors of such. offspring, there
isn't one chance in ninety-seven million
that said funnyiSms of the young 'uns
are going. by the remotest and charita-
blest stretch of the imagination, to
sound funny when repeated by said
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f@Ai.oau were ever Walchiul IN guard m
against any possible mishap. The officers
Of the railway have never been unmind-
full OF the fact that there are oftentimes
rumors about evil-disposed persons who
may be organizing TO wreck the train, or
in some way coming in contact with the
royal perSOnageS for the purpose, prob
ably. of doing them bodily harm. yet
there seems to have been no reason for
entertaining the belief that anything of
the kind would have been attempted on
either the king or queen or any member
of the family while travelling in their own
country.
pilot engine was run fifteen minutes
In advance of the royal train throughout
the entire journey. Specific instructions
were issued against any obstruction or
interference with the trains safe and
continuous passage. and neither IN en-
CINE, car or vehicle of any kind, except
the pilot engine. was allowed to proceed
In either direction or cross the tracks
during a certain interval before the pass
ing of the train, while even shunting
operations on adjoining tracks were sus-
pended for fifteen minutes previous to the
arrival Of the train. In other words. the
entire traffic of the road was suspended
for fifteen minutes previous to the ar
rival Of the royal train and five minutes
after it has departed. Special precau-
tions were also taken to guard stations,
bridges and crossings. All facing switches
that is, switches which point in the
opposite direction from which the train
is moving-were securely bolted and pad
locked. Nothing was left to chance. 1t
would have been a sorry day for any
road in England that would have been
unfortunate as to have had an acci-
dent to the royal train
The passage of the train was telephoned
forward from point to point throughout
the journey. An apparatus was carried
with the train by means of which tele-
graphic or telephone communications
could be established Immediately at any
point in case of need. The train was
accompanied by staff of competent
workmen, who kept watch on each side
of it, so as to note any irregularity in
its running. and who periodically exam
ined it throughout, a part of their duty
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TING Edwards Royal
IL r ailway Train - His
Fondness for Travelling at
High Rate of Speed-The
Evolution of Luxury on
Wheels Queen Alexandra
Sometimes Tiulid.
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lar train paying .stipulted price per mile
for the use of the private car.
The extreme precaution exercised in
speeding the royal train illustrated the
great care taken by the railway mana
gers to prevent accidents or delays. 1t
was upon these occasions that the public
was supposed TO know that their males
ties were abroad, as official announce
ment was made some days in advance
from Buckingham Palace. printed in the
daily newspapers, outlining the journey
the king and queen were to take, which
road they were to travel, from which
station they would depart, and at what
station they would arrive at their desti-
nation. 1t was also announced what
other members of the royal family would
accompany their majesties. usually in
Guiding Princess Victoria. their only IN
married daughter: sometimes the elder
daughter, the Duchess of Fife. and often
times the youngest daughter. Maud-nOw
Queen of Norway She was frequent
traveller with her father and mother when
visiting in England.
The king and queen each occupied sep
arate carS-that is, one was fitted up to
suit the wishes of King Edward. and
the other met with the approval of Queen
Alexandra. The other cars were used
by other members of the family, attend
ants and servants. Upon these journeys
there was always attached to the royal
train private car for the use of the high
officials of the railway-the chairman of
the board of directors and the general
manager. AS above stated. the royal
train is the property of an English rail-
road, built at the roads expense: there
fore, il will be used by the new king and
queen. George V and Mary. the same as
it was by King Edward VII and Alex
andra.
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King EDWARD always iHSiSlSu tHot lh0
railway officials should exercise the great
est possible care against accidents or de-
Law. Thus, to be sure that every safe
guard possible was brought into requisi-
ton, giving their majesties the protection
necessary, the railway officials brought
into use the system of giving the royal
train a complete rehearsal the day previ-
Gus to the time the king and queen were
to proceed upon their journey. This was
done by running the empty royal train
over the entire line by which their majes-
ties were to travel the following day,
leaving the station of departure at the
exact time scheduled for the train with
its ROYAL passengers. Previous to the
movement of the train in rehearsal every
employee of the road, ppon whom depend
ed its safety in transit, was provided. in
advance, with printed instructions out
lining his exact duties. This included
guards, enginemen, station agents.
switchmen, trackmen and others. Each
employe whose services were called into
use was named in the official instructions.
issued by the general manager. 1t Is con-
sidered by employees as a mark OF dis
tinction to be selected to assist in per-
fecting the trains progress upon these
occasions. The reason assigned by the
officials for naming the employees selected
Is that in the event anything should go
wrong full knowledge of the fact would
be conferred Immediately upon the one
who was responsible for the same.
The custom of rehearsing the royal
train began with the reign Of the late
King Edward. Queen Victoria was never
SO particular, yet the managers of the
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your color. anyhow? You're as yellow
as saffron!''
''Oh. just little TAM" says he. hardly
hearing you. Well as l was saying, lit
tie Katie looked up and
Tan, nothing" you below at him.
grabbing him by coat lapel. ''Why,
shucks alive. you bone-bean. you must
have cirrhosis of the liver or something
like that the matter with you. You look
awful. Awful! Awful,! Awful!!.!
''Oh. you're mistaken, he says, looking.
however, by this time, little worried.
She
Now, see here, old top, you'd better go
to my doctor at oncer' you thrust in, peg
ging right away at 1t and never giving up.
for II you do you know you're gone and
you'll have to listen to what he's going to
take my card. and run right up there to
see him at once! You'll catch him in
now! He's busy man, this doctor of
mine. but he's the SWEETEST sawbones in
Washington, and all you've got to do is to
hand him my card and he'll treat you like
regular fellow. But say. for heavens
sake. shipmate, don't waste any time
about it. for of all the maps ever saw on
a man, you've got the worst You look
saffrony and greeny and bluey around the
gills, and gosh only knows what can be
ailing you Here. my 10Y. here's car.
Get right aboard Of it and hustle up there
to my doctors right off, And in spite OF
his struggles and gesticulationS and wild
and frenzied protests, you almost pick
him up bodily and throw him on the first
passing car, and-and-
Well, and then you don't have to hear
what dollink little Katie said!
It's worth the time and EFFORT not to
have to do that G. /. c.