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

Correspondence Of Alexandra Gazettel


and the Ohio valley, arriving in the
Atlantic states about Wednesday.
Generally fair weather will prevail in
The Mississippi valley, the plains states,
the Rocky mountain and plateau
repions and the Pacific states, 1t is
said. There were frequent showers
last week throughout the United States,
causing the temperatures all over the
country to show an average below the
seasonal normal.
In cosmopolitan Washington, with
us society tinged by the diplomatic set
with foreign customs and who're ciga-
rette smoking among women Is ad-
mit,ed to be common, no clergyman
could be found today who would IN the
slightest degree condone the practice
though the confinement OF the recent
criticism against women cigarette
smokers to a few prominent members
of the sex was deplored as unjust. The
practice, il was pointed out, was not
confined to any especial few but was
quite general among fashionable
women. as a regular feature OF prac-
tically every fashionable dinner party
in the capital city cigarettes are usually
provided for the woman. The old
fashioned idea OF the women leaving
..he men at the table to their cigars has
almost entirely disappeared.
The figures showing the operation OF
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law for its
first year which ended last Saturday,
were announced today with "a total Of
$50. 3l4, OPS to its credit in the surplus
of. receipts over expenditures, which is
nearly fifteen million dollars greater
than was recorded in the record
wear Of 1907. '0he total ordinary re-
ceipts for the year ended August 3,
1910, were $67S, S50,S16. OF this $685.
III. 20S was derived from customs.
| OF the balance $271, 100, 142 is
credited to receipts for internal rev.
enue; $27. 090,034 is credited TO the
new corporation tax and SOL ,252, =
531 is classed as miscellaneous. The
total ordinary disbursements were
$65S, 366, ISL. The enormous gain OF
revenue under the Payne-Aldrich law
is shown by the statement that with the
year of 1907 omitted in the comparl-
son with the revenue received under
the new law, was greater by S75, 0O0,-
600 than the sum collected in any. other
wear in the history of the country.
The receipts under the new corporations
tax were only $207, 900 short of the
amount assessed In the total of dis
easements, the item for the cOnstruc-
ton OF the Panama canal for The last
year is given as $33, 2S3, 01S so that if
the treasury were reimbursed by sale
of authorized bonds, the United States
working balance today would total
$50 600, 600.
Minister McCreery, at Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. reported to the State De-
partment in dispatches received today
that the government troops OF Hon
duras routed force of sixty insurgents
at Neuva Armenia, near Ceiba, last
! Thursday. Tue government stated
positively that these were the only
armed rcvolutionists in Honduras. The
State Department is watching with
keen interest the situation in Honduras
because Of the negotiations now in
progress between the Honduran gov
eminent and American bankers for q
loan Of several millions OF dollars TO re-
fund the debt Of the republic.
The newest dreadnought to be COM
pleted the Delaware, today took her
place as full-hedged member of the
! Atlantic fleet, having exceeded the
speed requirements demanded by the
government. An official telegram to
the Navy Department stated that she
had made an average of 81 knots per
hour in her four-hour full speed test
and an average of 1874 knots per hour
| in her 24-hour endurance run. The
requirement for the speed test was q
knots and for the endurance run 19
knots. The Delaware was built at
Newport News and recently was put in
commission.
The regular army troops in Mon
tana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and
California, were today placed at the
disposal OF the Forest Service to aid in
fighting the great forest fires which are
sweeping the northwest. President Taft
i'm response to appeal from Pacific
coast States took up the matter with
the War Department. which i'm
mediately acted in conjunction with
the Department of Agriculture, with
the result that the Forest Service today
was authorized to call upon past COM
manders at all regular army posts. 1t
was stated at the Forestry Bureau
here today that the present fires are
equal to the great fires of 1908.
With the exception Of that year, there
has been no such general destruction OF
forests since 1898.
Reports received here say that at least
175. 600 acres OF forests already have
been destroyed and the flames are
spreading rapidly.
The aid Of the soldiers will relieve the
forest rangers and it is hoped may re-
suit in preventing much greater de-
struction. The season has been ex-
traordinarily dry and the forests burn
like tindar. 1t is feared the property
loss will run into the millions.
Advices received here and given
wide credence indicate that Mgr. Fall
coma, apostolic delegate at Washing
ton. will be made a cardinal at a CON
sistory, which il is declared the pope
will hold next winter 1t is said that