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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
FOUND DEAD IN KITCHEN
BY YOUNGER BROTHER
Suicide of Harry N. Ferris by
Inhaiing ||Iuminat-
ing Gas.

Harry NJ. Ferris, an upholsterer, thirty
years Of age, living at 1925 9Th street
southwest, inhaled illuminating gas early
this morning and was found dead In the
kitchen Of his home by younger
brother
The odor Of gas was detected by the
younger brother about $50 o'clock. He
traced it to the kitchen. He turned off
summoned assistance.
DR.. Newton responded from the Emer-
gency Hospital. He was told that the
case was very urgent, and tho driver
urged his horse all the way from the
hospital When the physician reached
the house, however. he found that life
had been extinct some time.
Returned Home Early This Morning.
Ferris was at home at dinner time yes
terday. He left the house early in the
evening, leaving his widowed mother and
younger brother at home. II Is thought
he returned home about o'clock this
morning. Those in the house heard him
when he entered, and supposed he would
retire.
Instead Of going to bed he went to the
kitchen and seated himself near q table
on which rested . small gas stove. He
disconnected the tube, placed the end OF
1t in his mouth and turned on the liow
Of gas. When he became unconscious the
tube dropped from his mouth.
The police Of the fourth precinct made
an Investigation Of the suicide. Later
at the house. and the testimony was
afterward taken. A verdict In accord
ance with the facts was returned, and
an undertaken was summoned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
DISMISSED POLICEMAN
TRIES TO END HIS LIFE
Frank Merrill Makes Two Sui
cidaI Attempts With lIIu-
minating Gas.

Frank Merrill, who was dismissed from
the police force about seven months ago,
made two unsuccessful efforts yesterday
gas. He was partly conscious when found
on the floor of a room i'm the hotel at ::54
Pennsylvania avenue northwest about
1:30 O'Clock last night.
Merrill is said to have told the police
that he went to the hotel for the pur-
pose Of ending his life. He turned on the
gas and awaited the time when death
would put an end to his earthly troubles.
After he had been made sick, the police
say, he thought the work was too slow.
He went out and purchased a gas tube,
believing that a direct flow of gas from
the fixture into his mouth would bring
about the desired result i'm a shorter
while. When he became dazed i'm the
second attempt and was partially I'M
conscious the tube dropped from his
mouth and he rolled from the bed to the
floor.
Noise made by his falling from the bed
attracted the attention of others in the
hotel. They found the former police
man stretched upon the floor. Hc was
hurried to the Casualty Hospital. through
the aid Of the police, and it was said at
the hospital this morning that he will
recover.
Merrill was a member of the police force
for about five years. He was attached to
the nth precinct At the time OF his dis
ed with the force he was cited to appear
before the trial board a number Of times.
having been fined and reprimanded, and
he was finally dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
TURKEY SHOOTERS ARRESTED.
Accused Of Violating Prince George
Law Against Target Practice.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
EVANSVILLE, December os-Mayor
Robert f. Joyce of Mount Rainier.
Prince George county, exercising his pre-
rogative as justice of the peace. had
number Of citizens OF Randalltown, a
settlement of colored people near his
place, before him last night on the charge
of violating the law of 1904 prohibiting
target practice in Prince George county.
Several residents of Randalltown were
holding a turkey shoot Monday, when
Game Warden Olsen Oscar attempted TO
stop the sport.
1t was in evidence at the hearing that
Oscar was threatened when he told the
accused they were violating the law. The
game warden secured the service of Con-
stable Robert l.. Payne and the partici-
pants were arrested. Last night Augusta
Peter and Thomas Randall, William Viii
kins, Wallace Williams and Walker
Wheeler all pleaded guilty and were as
sessed $50 each by Justice Joyce All de-
PENDANTS noted an appeal and gave bond
for their appearance at the April term OF
court.
The law Of 1904 was passed at the in
stance OF several citizens OF near Land
over. Prince George county, who claimed
that il was dangerous to sit on their
porches while the National Guard OF
Washington was at rife practice.
Whether the law contemplates ordinaI,
target practice or shooting at a mark for
turkeys will probably be decided by the
court in April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
NEW GUN FOUNDRY
FOR WASHINGTON YARD

Naval officials have received assurances
from members Of tho House naval affairs
committee that favorable action will be
taken on the Recommendation Of the
Navy Department for appropriations for
the construction Of new gun foundry at
the Washington navy yard.
1t is stated that the committee recOg-
nizes the urgent necessity for q modern
foundry at the local yard to replace the
existing foundry, which has been de-
clared to be antiquated and entirely in
adequate in size and unsuitable ~ .
foundry for the manufacture OF modern
naval ordnance.
Furthermore, it has besn represented
that the foundry Is q menace to the
health Of the employees because of Its In
sanitary surroundings.
In presenting this matter to Congress
the commandant Of the navy yard stated
that the existing plant would be totally
inadeuuate to meet the demands OF the
navy in case Of q sudden hostile emer-
gency.
IL was estimated that a new foundry
and foundry yard, suitable for the pur-
pose, could be built for 500 ITO and that
NySO0O additional would be required for
machinery, cupoias, furnaces, etc. AS 1t
will require about two years to build and
equip the proposed foundry II is said to
have been arranged by the COMMITTEES
that appropriations OF $4,000 for the
foundry and t13Q000 for the equipment
would be sunlcient for immediate pur-
poses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
SUIT IS EXPLAINED
BY bELVA LOCKWOOD
Does Not Believe Bracket
Case Will Come to
Trial.

DALTON. Ga, December 2S-Mrs
Belva A. Lockwood of Washington has
been sued here for $4,000 damages by
James B. Bracket of Dalton. The case
will be called for trial next week
Bracket accuses Mrs. Lockwood of ma
liciously having him arrested in an at
tempt to extort money. The case grew
out of government settlement of the
claims of the descendants of the Eastern
Cherokee Indians.
Brackets family received something
over $4,000, and Mrs. Lockwood demanded
10 per cent of this, which Bracket re-
fused on the ground that he had not en-
ployed her.
When Bracket received the money Mrs
Lockwood had him arrested, charging
him with larceny after trust. When the
case was heard the charge against Brack-
EFT was dismissed and Mrs. Lockwood
was rebuked by the court.
Mrs. Lockwood said today that while
the main features of the dispatch were
true. she had not been notified by her
attorneys in Georgia, Sharp & Sharp, that
the suit would come to trial next week,
and added that she did not believe the
matter would come to suit.
According to Mrs. Lockwood, she had
been engaged by the Bracket family in
a case, ana naQ not been paid Tor ner
services. When she asked Bracket for
her money he refused to give 1t to her
unless the other members of the family
also paid her.
Mrs. Lockwood put the matter in the
hands of her attorneys, with the result
that under the Georgia law Bracket was
arrested and locked up over night. When
the case was brought to trial it was dis
missed.
Mrs. Lockwood asserts that the reason
Of this was that she did not have with
her at the time proper proofs that she
had been employed by the family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
FUNERAL OF MRS. GUsD0RF.
Services at Home, Burial in He.
brew Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Charlotte
Gusdorf, widow of Bernard Gusdorf, who
died at her residence. 1920 7th street
northwest, Monday, were held at the
family home at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
Rev. DIR. Abram Simon of the Eighth
Street Temple officiating Burial was
in the Hebrew cemetery on Hamilton
road.
Mrs. Gusdorf had resided nearly all her
life in this city. She reared q large fam
lily of children. One daughter Is tie wife
of Rev. Louis Stern, an associate of DIR.
Simon at the Eighth Street Temple, and
one of the sons is successful business
man on Pennsylvania avenue.
The family circle was broken only
about six months ago by the death of
Bernard Gusdorf, the husband OF the de-
ceased, who was in his seven .y-seyenth
year. Several years ago the couple cele-
brated their golden wedding anniversa. y.
Mr.. Gusdorf had been merchant on
18th street for many years.
Mrs. Gusdorf was seventy-four years
of age. and prior to the death of her
husband had enjoyed good health The
death of Mr.. Gusdorf, however, was a
great shock to her and is thought to
have FASTENED her demise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
EIGHT OPPORTUNITIES"
FUND NOW 1858. 06
Money Coming in Rapidly for Relief
of Thirty-Nine Needy
Persons.

Funds still continue to come in fer the
EIGHT opportunities for which the As
ISOLATED Charities is making special ap
peais. Two Of the opportunities, as an.
nounced yesterday. already have beer
fully subscribed. One or two Of the
others are within sight of closing, while
much is still required for the others.
The amount for which the special ap.
peals committee Of the Associated Chart.
ties, Fred 8. Lincoln, chairman, is ask.
ing is not included in the regular bulge,
Of the society, but is in addition to the
amount raised last year. An equal sum
will be needed this year for the regular
work.
The persons for whom the special ap-
peal is made are poor through no fault
Of their own, the society says. In these
Eight opportunities" thirty mine persons
are involved. twenty-six OF whom are
children, and only two Of those are old
enough to work. Four persons are old
people. One is a blind man. Three are
widows. Three Of the "would-be-wage
earners" are fncapacitated by serious i'll
ness.
Receipts to date are:
Opportunity No. Fund complete; sub
scriptions. $1S7.
Opportunity No. 2-Father stricken with
incurable heart trouble: four children,
one a DADy. dnOtuer Il Cripple, $0sU need
ed. r. A. S.. s.; B. to c., 81: previously
acknowledged, 1888; total, $3.50: balance
required. 1921.
Opportunity No. s-Fund complete; sub
,scriptiohs. $40
Opportunity No. blind colored man
with four motherless children, oldest six
teen; rent paid by relatives; $3.50 asked
for. c. E. T., SO cents; NJ. e. W., 81: pre-
vioVsly acknowledged. $16: total, $3.50;
balance required, $23o.5O.
Opportunity No 5-Invalid widow with
four small children; $12 a week needed,
or 5000 for the year. Monthly pledges,
STA: D. B. A, 81: previously acknowl-
edged. $3O.01; total, $20oO1; balance re-
quired, $394.99.
Opportunity No. 6-Widow with six
children: three in school. oldest preparing
to teach: $3.50 needed. Previously ac-
knowledged. $21; balance required. $3.50.
Opportunity No. 7-Old colored couple.
man over eighty: wife earns as able:
$50 needed; B. J. W.. 81; A. NJ. c., s.:
previously acknowledged, 81; total, $14;
balance required, $136.
Opportunity No. S-Widow with three
children under twelve: mother can only
earn IS week: SOS needed; previously
acknowledged. $13: balance required, $185.
Eight opportunities (undivided)-L. c.,
81; Cash. so cents: Mr.. c.. 25 cents; A
Sunshiner, s.; T. Van Dyne s.: previous
iy acknowledged. $74.So; total. $500 To-
tai to date, $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
NATHANIEL NILES WEEDS.
Bride of Seventy-Six-Year.Old Law
yer Is Art Student.

MADISON, n. j., December 2S-Amone
the passengers on the Oceanic. which ar
rived today from Europe, was Nathaniel
Niles. a wealthy New Yorker, who. while
abroad, on December 2 married Miss
Ella Capers Jones, a student.
The bridegroom, speaker of the New
Jersey assembly in 1872, is seventy-six
years old The bride is thirty-two and
daughter of a wealthy lawyer of Atlanta,
Ga. She is said to be in Paris. studying
for the degree of bachelor of arts
The marriage occurred at ST. Clement s
Danes on the Strand, London. Mr. Niles
is a lawyer, with offices at 15a Nassau
street, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
WAGES ARE INCREASED:
NOW TO GET PENSIONS
Employees of New Jersey Pub
lie Service Corporation
Fare Well.

CAMDEN, \. j., December 2S-The
Public Service Corporation Of New Jersey
today announced old age pension and in
surance plans for employees to go into eff
feet January 1. A few days ago the
corporation gave its motormen and con-
ductors an increase In pay of one cent an
hour, in compliance with a promise made
last summer.
The insurance plan provides for the
payment Of 81 a day for ninety days to
all sick or disabled employees. In case
Of the death Of an employe $500 will be
paid to his widow or relative he was sup
porting.
Provision for Retirement.
The pension plan provides not less than
$40 a year to employees who retire at
sixty-five years of age and who have
been in the employ of the company
twenty-five years. Men seventy years old
who have been in the service twenty
years will be compelled to retire and re-
ceive a pension.
Employees receiving more than 81, 800 a
year are not eligible to either the insur-
ance or pension plans. 1t is estimated
that pensions will cost tho company about
$51 900 in tho next four years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
FIND CHILDREN SUFFOCATED.
Mothers Horrifying Discovery on
Returning Home From q Call

NEW YORK, December 2S-Mrs. Julia
Jamison returned to her home in Brook
lyn late last night to find that during
her absence her three children had been
suffocated by smoke. The children were
John and James, twins, three years old.
and their sister Frances, four years old.
The mother had left the little ones to
their own resources while she went for a
call on relatives nearbJ. The fire, caused
by an overheated stove. had burned itself
out in the chimney corner with a loss of
only few dollars worth of property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
GIVING UP JOBS IN MINES.
Priest Says English Speaking Young
Men Seek Other Work.

SCRANTON, Pa. December 2S.-That
the small towns Of the anthracite coal
region are swarming with Hungarians.
Slavs. Poles. Greeks and Italians and
that Enslish-speaking workers are aban-
doning the mines is the statement made
today by the Rev. p. J. Murphy, rector
OF st. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
at Oliphant, Pa, near here.
1t Is not with regret that Father MUIR
ply noted the abandoning of the mining
towns to the foreigners. Let there be no
tears over the. disappearance Of .Ameri-
cans from these Internal regions of the
mines," he said.
4 high percentage of the young, men OF
irish, Welsh and Scotch descent, when
they arrive at age, leave for the cities,
said the priest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
ELOPERS WIRE PARENTS
NEWS0F MARRIAGE
Young Couple Go Over to Bal
timore, Where Ceremony
Is Performed.
g. Married"

Married..
In a telegram received last night by
William F. Hart, the wedding Of his son.
J. William Hart, to Miss Marjorie Ger
name was thus laconically announced
The dispatch came from Baltimore. in
which city the ceremony was performed
early last evening. The bride Is the
daughter Of Mrs. Mary d. Germane Of
14o6 n street northwest.
The couple left Washington some time
yesterday. made a flying trip to New
York and returned to Baltimore. where
the marriage license was issued Mr..
Hart, whose father is superintendent and
general purchasing agent of the Wash
ington Gas Light Company. and who
lives with his parents at 1898 Calvert
street, is a newspaper reporter.
Mr.. Hart apparently took no one into
his confidence if he had contemplated
matrimony for any length of time. His
family saw him for the last time Monday
night, when he accompanied them to the
theater. Mr.. Hart, senior. could not be
located early this afternoon.
The brides father. Dudley Germane,
was prominent in the local newspaper
field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
Railway Charges Sustained.

In a decision Of the case of the city of
Ashland, Wis, against the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad and
other carriers, both lake and rail, the
interstate commerce commission held to-
day that the maintenance OF rail-lake-
and-rail rates from eastern points to
Ashland higher than similar rates to
Duluth, MIMI, is not prohibited by the
law.
The city of Ashland contended that the
defendants unduly Disseminated against
it in favor of Superior, Wis, and Duluth,
Mimi. by charging higher rates to ii
than to the other cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
MAY REQUIRE GONGS.
Poposed New York Ordinance Calls
for Further Equipment of Autos.

NEW YORK, December 2s.-AH auto
mobile owners in New York city will be
compelled to equip their machines with
sonss. if an ordinance now before the
board Of aldermen becomes law. The
gongs are to be in addition to such horns
as may be in use already. the intention
Of the ordinance being to permit of a
warning signal by drivers in the event OF
heir horns getting out of order Viola
ton makes the offender liable to fine
of from SIS to $50.
The National Highway Association will
oppose the ordinance, declaring that lin
the first place such a bill is entirely un-
necessary. Horns don't get out OF order,
and If they do, mans voice is all that
is necessary temporarily. In the second
olace, to add lot OF changing bells to the
noises We have already would be to turn
the city into q bediaru. 1t would make
life still more uncertain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
Dentists Hear Report on Or.
Miller Memorial Fund.
TECHNICAL TREATISESREAD
Smoker to Be Given to the Delegates
at New Willard Tonight.
CURRENT PRACTICE ATTACKED
Stir Caused at Last Evenings Ses-
sion by Declarations of DR..
M. M. Dolmage.

Discussion of the methods of teaching
prosthetic technic in various colleges
served as the principal business of the
fourth session of the Institute OF Dental
edagogics. which met this morning al
the Georgetown University Medical
School,
DIR. Charles r. Turner of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, DR.. H. S. Haslett
of tine University of Pittsburg. Dr. Ell
lison IIillyer of the New York College
of Dental Surgery and DR.. j. X. Knight
of Tufts College were the principal
speakers.
The addresses following the report of
the commission on nomenclature were IN
the nature of scientific treatises. Be
fore adjournment was taken at 1.:3o
O'Clock Dr. Truman W. Brophy OF Chi
cago presented the report OF the DE- Mill
Ter memorial fund and told Of the prog
ress made in collecting money with which
to establish a tribute to the pioneer
dentist.
At the afternoon session, which began
at 2 O'Clock. Dr. John P. Coriey OF Sc
vance, Tenn, made an address on
Mouth Hygiene in the Dental Curricu-
lum,'' which was discussed at length by
the delegates The only other paper read
at this meeting was by DR.. FRED w.
Gethro, on 1.-The Teaching Of Dental
Anatomy"
Smoker Tonight.
This evening a. complimentary smoker
will be given by the dental colleges OF
this city and the District OF Columbia
Dental Society. The delegates have been
invited to attend this festivity. which Will
be held at the New Willard. A program
of song and story has been arranged, and
DR.. Charles Lamb of the Army Medical
Museum and DR.. Ales NJ. Hrdlicka.
DR.. Dolmage Causes Stir.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Dolmage of Howard Univer-
sity caused stir at last evenings session
when he declared that the filling Of large
cavities with gold was barbarous, as it
forces the patient to undergo a long
nervous strain.
His address was entitled "The Teaching
of Casting" and in the discussion that
followed DR.. F. w. Stiff Of the Virginia
School OF Dentistry took occasion to
criticise the use Of false teeth. MANY
dentists" said he. tell people that false
teeth are good substitute for the nat
ural ones. A more erroneous idea could
not be impaired to any one. False teeth
are a good substitute for no teeth, but
they are far from being a good substitute
for the real ones.''
DR.. Donald NJ. Gallie of the University
Of Illinois in brief address criticised the
slipshod methods Of some dentists, who
do not give the best results because they
try to devise means to save time.
The convention will close tomorrow, fol-
lowing the morning session. at which Of
flcers will be elected and the next meet
ing place selected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
Girls Mother Frustrated.

Mrs. Germane, who knew nothing of the
prospective wedding of her daughter, was
Frustrated this morning by the announce
ment. Her eldest daughter, Miss Natalie,
received a reporter for The Star, who
called at tho residence this afternoon.
Miss Germane said her mother was too ill
to see any one. She refused to make any
statement at this time, but when ques-
ton admitted that she herself did not
know Mr.. Hart and said that she was
doubtful if her mother, knew him either.
She gave the reporter to understand
that Mrs. Germane had heard of the
marriage from Marjorie only this MORN
ing. She refrained from making any
comment regarding the marriage.
MY mother has nothing whatever to
say at this time. We do not care to talk
about the matter. Anything we have to
say will be said later" she remarked.
Miss Germane is just past eighteen
years old. and is considered one of the
most attractive among the younger girls
of Washington. She has a host Of
friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-28
Schooner's Grew Probably Lost.

CHATHAM, Mass, December 28-Tht
sunken three-masted schooner that has
been resting in three fathoms of water
on Little Round shoal since the storm of
the 18th instant was identified today as
the Molie Rhodes of Vinai Haven, Me
She was bound to that port from New
York with coal. Capt. DObbin of Jones'
port and his crew of five men were prob
ably lost.