Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-08
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correspondence of Alexandra Gazette1

Use CT the Weather Bureau for this
week. A disturbance that now covers
the Mississippi? valley will move east
yarl and wiil cause unsettled and
showcry weather in the lake region,
and the Ohio valley, arriving in the
Atlantic States about Wednesday.
Generally fair weather will prevail i'll
the Mississippi vallcy,t the plains states,
the Rocky mountain and plateau
regions and the Pacific states, it is
said. There were frequent showers
list week throughout the United States,
causing the temperatures all over the
country to show an average below the
seasonal normal.
In cosmopolitan Washington. with
it's society tinged by the diplomatic set
with foreign customs and where clga-
rette smoking among women is ad-
mitted 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 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, us "a regular feature of prac-
tically every fashionable dinner party
in the capltal.city cigarettes are usually
provided for the woman. The old
fashioned idea Of the women leaving
The men ut the table to their cigars has
almost entirely disappeared.
The figures showing the operation OF
the Paync-Aldrich tariff law for its
first year, which ended last Saturday,
were announced today with a total OF
500, 3l4 OPS TO its credit in the surplus
Of rcceipts over expenditures, which is
nearly fifteen million dollars greater
than was recorded in the record
year of 1907. ''he total ordinary re-
ceipts for the year ended August 6,
1910, we're $67S, S50,S16. Of this 1929,
III, POS was derived from customs.
OF the balance S271, 1901 is
credited to receipts for internal rev.
enue; S27 ,O90,034 is credited to the
new corporation tax and s51, 252,
531 is classed as miscellaneous. The
total ordinary disbursements were
S65S, 500, 757. The enormous gain OF
revenue under the Payne-Aldrich law
is shown by the statement that with the
year OF 1907 omitted in the COMPARE
son with the revenue received under
the new law, was greater by $75, 900,
600 than the sum collected in any, other
wear in the history OF the country.
The receipts under the new corporations
tax were only S207, 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 us $50, 2S3, 01S so that if
the treasury were reimbursed by a sale
of authorized bonds, the United States
working balance today would total
$50, 000,00
Minister McCreery, at Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. reported to the State De-
partmcnt in dispatches received today
that the government troops of Hon
duras routed 4 force Of sixty insurgents
at Ncuvt Armenia, near Cciba, last
Thursday. The government stated
positively that these were the only
armed rcyolutionists in Honduras. The
State Department is watching with
keen interest the situation i'll Honduras
because OF the negotiations now in
progress between the Honduran gov
ernmcnt and American bankers for 4
loan of several millions OF dollars to re-
fund the debt of the republic.
The newest dreadnought to be COM
plcted, the Delaware, today took her
place rs Il full-hcdged member of the
Atlantic fleet, having exceeded the
speed requirements demanded by the
government. An otlicia! telegram to
the Navy Department stated that she
had made IN average Of 81. 8 knots per
hour in her four-hour full speed test
and an average Of 10. IA 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 al
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 i'll
fighting the great forest fires which are
sweeping the northwest. President Taft
in response to appeal from Pacific
coast States took up the matter with
the War Department. which i'm
mediatcly acted in conjunction with
the Department of Agriculture, with
the result that the Forest Service today
was authorized to call upon past COM
mandcrs mt all regular army posts. II
was stated at the Forestry Bureau
here today that the present fires are
equal to the great fires OF 1905.
With the exception Of that year, there
has been no such general destruction oil
| forests since 1873.
Reports received here say that Mt least
IT'S. 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-
structon. The season has been ex-
traordinarily dry and the forests burn
like tindar. 1t is feared the property
loss will run into the millions.
Advicrs received here and given
wide crcdence Indicate that Mgr Fall
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