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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
TOO BEAUTIFUL TO WORK.

The story of n girl who lost four
positions within year, because of her
beauty, is now spreading about Wash
ington and Mary Todd, too good look
ing to be allowed to work by her en-
ployers has left that city and will try
her fortune elsewhere. Miss Todd, 10
years old, who has been living in
Georgetown for a little more than a
year, after coming to the capital from a
small Pennsylvania town, said yester-
day half angry and half amused:
Il have been overwhelmed with
offers OF marriage as well as of en-
ployment But these offers do noJ
appeal to me. / have my own sweet
heart, and if | were inclined to con-
slider 4 second one, it seems that
mine should be the privilege of invit-
ing his attentions, without having
them trust upon me. At first did
not take such things seriously, but
since then / have known other girls,
who have shared the same fate, merely
because they are more beautiful than
their colleagues, Generally these un-
satisfactory conditions exist only in
offices maintained by one man who
usually has not enough work to keep
engaged from the first to the last
business hours OF the day and so en-
deavors to amuse himself as best he can.
/ have worked in offices where there
were II girls, and by the end of the
third week ] was embarrassed by re-
peated offers of company, pleasure and
the like by various men in the Office.
This gave rise to acme bitter passes be-
tween some of the other girls and my
self. Now I'll try elsewhere, but it
is impossible to determine whether |
can find what | really want. You see,
| am already engaged, and hope to be
married by the autumn of next year,
but until then ! want to do something
| have now an offer from large firm
in another town, and I'll be at work
next Tuesday morning"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
STRIKE AVERTED.

General Manager w. II. Myers, OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the
committee representing the $1,000
trainmen and conductors employed
on the lines of the road east of Pitts
burg, yesterday agreed on basis for
the settlement OF the wage controversy.
Each side claims to have gained all
that it had been contending for in
the negotiations which have been in
progress for the past six months and
which eliminated last week in the
strike vote by the employees.
The proposition offered yesterday
by the railroad officials and accepted
by the men includes a minimum
day or 10 hours, as detailed in the
New York Central award. On certain
runs, where the company's present
rate is higher, the rate will not be dis
turbed.
The classification of these excep-
tional runs and the question Of over
time were left to be decided at CON
ferences between the various members
of the committee and the division SUI
perintendents of the lines which they
represent.
1t was further agreed that the men
would be guaranteed 26 days work
month. While the men regard this
as a concession, the railroad officials
say that during the recent hard times
the men were benefited by being
worked on short time, rather than
being laid off altogether.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Several months will be required TO
complete preparations for the establish
ment Of postal savings banks.
July cotton reached the highest
price in thirty years, with the ex-
ception Of the Sully bull campaign.
President Hays, of the Grand Trunk
Railway, absolutely refused the de-
mands of the men in Montreal yester
day. A strike was at once called, and
trainmen and conductors on the Grand
Trunk and Central Vermont quit work
last night.
On Saturday next Cardinal Gibbons
will be rs years old, and will quietly
celebrate the occasion at the home Of
Mr.. I. Herbert Shriver, at Union Mills,
Md, unless he should decide to return
to the archepiscopal residence.
Mr. Roosevelt, insisting that he did
not desire to assume the role OF dicta
tors, agreed yesterday to aid in the
campaign OF his nephew. Theodore
Robinson, if the latter obtained nomi-
nation for Congress in his New York
district
Finally persuaded by his friends to
enter the race for United States senator
A. c. Spalding, the sporting goods
man, filed his application as candi-
date with the secretary of state at Sac
ramento, CAL, half an hour before the
time limit expired Monday night
A rumor given wide circulation
among sporting men in New York to-
day that Charles E. Davies, better
known as "Parson" Davies, ,prizefig ht
promoter, and former manager of Peter
Jackson, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim
Hall, was dying at Coney Island, was
promptly denied by the old sport.
Pictures of prize fights between white
men are not barred by the new Georgia
anti-fght picture law, which passed the
legislature yesterday. The measure
simply forbids the exhibition of pic
lures Of fights between white men and
negroes, and was designed to prevent
those Of the Jeffries-Johnson contest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19

detached from duty AT Annapolis
and ordered to duty at Bremerton
Navy Yard, on Puget Sound.
Col. William Biddle was designated TO
act temporarily as commandant dur
ing the absence Of General Elliott
The shake up in the Marine Corpse is
the result Of the finding Of the court
of inquiry that many Of the officers
became lax in their military duties be-
cause of too long tenare OF office in
Washington. As a result OF the
Charleston Navy Yard, Lieutenant Col.
Franklin J. Moses is transferred from
headquarters to take command OF a
station at Annapolis; Major William
B. Lemly becomes assistant quarter
master at Washington.
President Taft, through the State
Department accepted today the once
Of honorary president Of the lnterna-
tional Congress Of American Students
to which he was elected by reclamation
at the meeting now being held at
Buenos Aires. The following message
was sent to the president and secretary
Of the Congress by Acting Secretary OF
State Huntington Wilson. The presi-
dent directs me to convey to the Inter
national Congress Of American Stu
dents his thanks for their courteous
action in electing him their honorary
president. The pleasure of the presl-
dent in accepting this compliment and
in thus landing his patronage to the
Congress is the greater because OF his
conviction that the association OF
scholars and the interchange Of students
among the universities of the Amerl-
can republics should be 2 potent factor
in cementing international good under
standing between the peoples Of all our
countries.
Lawrence T. Hayes, As years old, OF
400 ID street, northeast, committed
suicide today by cutting his throat.
Continued i'll health is said TO have
been the cause.
Washington guardsmen, more than
!, 800 strong, left today for Gettysburg,
Pa, where they will remain in camp
for thirteen days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
GRANDTRUNK STRIKE
Thousands of Men, Trainmen, Ma
chihists andiOthers Idle-NO Disorder.

Toronto, Ont, July 19-Freight and
traffic on the Grand Trunk system are
at a standstilI today. Following last
nights walkout Of the conductors and
trainmen on the system only mail trains
were being moved early today. There
has been no violence so far.
The union officials insisted this
morning that the company will give in
in short time. The railroad officials de-
clare non-union men are being brought
from terminal and that business will
soon be resumed.
= The Gfand Trunk system extends
from Chicago, through Canada, to Port
land, Me- About $500 conductors.
brakemen, baggagemen and yardmen
abandoned their posts when the strike
order arrived. In compliance with the
order trains were taken 20 terminals
and yards cleared before the men stop
ped work.
The company last evening positively
refused to pay the wage standard re-
Gently put into effect on the eastern
railroads operating in the United States,
its counter proposition being an eigh-
teen per cent increase all around with
promise that the standard scale
would be reached in 1913. This latter
proposition was rejected and the strike
order issued.
Besides the trainmen affected the
strike has temporarily closed all the
shops on the system. This involves
1000 men additional, and it was an
nounced today than the railroad com
pany will give preference to these shop
men in filing the places Of the strik
ing trainmen. In this way it is as
serted that the company will get men
with considerable experience in rail
reading to take the places Of the
strikers and trains can be operated
without confusion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19

OFFICIAL.

A n ORDINANCE 10 prohibit the ex-
IN hibiting, displaying or showing in
public. in the city Of Alexandria, Nir-
ginia, of any picture or pictures of any
prize fight, sparring contest or other
pugilistic encounter, or of any meeting
or conference for the purpose of arrang-
ing for said fight, contest or other en-
counter.
Be it ordained by the City Council of
Alexandria, Virginia:
Section |. That it shall be unlawful for
any person, firm, association or COrpO-
ration TO exhibit. display, or show i'm
public, i'm the city of Alexandria. Nir-
ginia, any picture of pictures of any
prize fight, sparring contest or other
pugilistic encounter, or Of any meeting
or conference for the purpose of arang-
ing for said fight, contest or other en-
counter.
Section p That any person. firm. as
ISOLATION or corporation violating any Of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be
fined not less than fifty dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars for each Of
Tense. Each exhibition, display or
show shall constitute separate Of
Tense. Said fine to be collected as other
fines are collected and paid into the city
treasury.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall
be in force from and after its passage.
Passed the Common Council June II, 1910.
HUBERT SNOWDfN. President.
Passed Board of Aldermen July r.. 1910,
j. II. n. CURTIN, President
Approved July Is, 1910.
FRED. J. PAFF. Mayor
Teste: DANIEL II. STANsBURY, &. &.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
Freaks Of Lightning.

Lewistown, Pa. July l9.-In n
brilliant, awe-inspiring display Of light
ming horcaboids Saturday night there
VAS one bolt that outdid all the others
The blot struck the house
of Harry Mitchell. SCATTERING it like Il
sieve. Even clothing IN the wardrobes
was torn to ribbons and, scorched
as if sprinkIcd with acid. Run
ming down rainspout, it next
struck barrel of water in front Of
the kitchen where Mrs. Mitchell was
baking pies. The pies were all turned
upside down in the oven and the crusts
and fill" splattcred about Striking
a stone wall along the turnpike. the
bolt followed a creek to the Juniata
river, and witnesses say that for several
minutes the river was a sheet OF flame
Mr.. Mitchell was at the chicken
house and had an axe in his hand when
the bolt first appeared and struck him.
knocking the axe twenty feet. The
played about him until Al
fred Allen, a neighbor, believing he
was on fire, dashed bucket Of water
over him. Stones weighing 100 pounds
were tossed about, and n part OF the
bolt followed a sheet Of rain up the
pike to Lake Park and Bratton avenue,
where several citizens were stunned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
TOwEL-CLAD, HE NIPs THIEF.

While taking his morning plunge in
the bathtub yesterday, Joseph Burling,
chauffeur for Addison G. Hanan, who
has a summer place at Byram Shore,
Conn, discovered an intruder letting
himself down from an upper story by
a rope and carrying a bag. Burling
hastily dressed himself in a bath towel
and gave chase.
Burling was somewhat hampered by
the sharp stones he had to run over in
his barefoot, but he had the advantage
Of being encountered by nothing at all,
while the burglar wore full suit OF
clothes and carried heavy bag. After
desperate sprint, Burling captured
the marauder and returned with one
hand on the mans collar and one
modestly holding the bath towel around
his waist. Later the burglar was turn
ed over TO the Greenwich police
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
Refuses to Recommend Candidates.

New York, July 19.-'I never re-
commend any man for an office,
and do not intend to do so this year
| hope, however, that there will be
progressive platform adopted by the
various republican state convention
this fall.
Theodore Roosevelt in the above
statement made today in his offices
in the Outlook outlined his position in
the political world. Roosevelt had
Just had a conversation with Judge
Reynolds Kinkade Of Toledo, O.,
whose boom for the republican nomi-
nation for governor of Ohio has been
launched Kinkade was a guest at
Beverly Of President Taft on Sunday
and it was reported at that time that
he had been 20. X. ID" by the presi
dent and would come TO New York to
get the Roosevelt endorsement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
ALEXANDRIA,, VA.
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 10.

HAROLD HURLEY, the l6-year-old
boy. Of Toledo, O., who in the last
four years has had three surgical opera
tons on his brain for the ayowcd pur-
pose OF curing his tendency to stealing
was held by the police OF that city
on Wednesday, again charged with
thieyery. Surgeons now generally ad-
NIT the failure Of this method so far a.
his case is concerned. When 9 years
old Hurley had his skull broken by
an accident, and although he had a
good record to that time, after CONN 2
out of the hospital the boy develop cd
marked signs Of incorriglbility. With
the consent of his parents the doctors
of the reform school performed an
operation end removed a piece OF bone
which was pressing upon his brain, after
which for a time he became tractable
and affectionate. But within a year
Harold was up to his old tricks. An
other operation was performed, por-
ton OF the skull being removed. Agar
he showed signs of docility. But the
effect was not lasting Performing
operations on thef's brain to cure him
of stealing is the veriest nonsense, for
q tbief's thief for a that. A barrel
stave applied at the proper place Is
much more effective that the knife for
reforming thieves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19

THE girl students at the University OF
jena have published statement drawn
up in most formal manner, to the
effect that, having been accused OF lack
of originality, they wished the public
TO know that the baretta, or cap which
was recently adopted by them as n head
covering while they remained students,
was made after original designs and
was not copied from caps worn by
either English or American students.
An instructor of the institution in re-
ferrring to the proclamation Of origi-
nality, said: 'This is the first time that
the woman students have courtcd pub
licity, and, true to the sex, it is in a
matter of dress and not of learning;
not head but headdress. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
Sale of Cup Defenders.

New York, July 19.-Today's pub
Iished list of yacht sales indicates that
within the past few days two of the
famous cup defenders have changed
hands The great Volunteer, which
successfully defended the America
cup against the Thistle in 1887, was
sold by Captain Barr to the Marine
Equipment Company, while the bronze
yaw Yigilant, which defended the cup
from Yalkyrie ii in 1898, was sold to
J. A. McAllister, Of New York, by w.
E. Iselin, of the New York Yacht
Club
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
TURKEY ASTIR.
Revolution Against Young Turks Feared
Lot Not Changed by New Regime.

Constantinople, July ia reyom-
ton against the rule of the Young
Turks is momentarily expected in
Turkey, and, strange as it may seem,
the Turkish people are almost a unit
in praying for success for the reaction
aries. 1t was Just two years ago that
the world was startled with the news
that the Young Turks had marched
into ConstantnopIe, deposed Sultan
Abdul Hamid, placed his brother on
the Ottoman throne, and created
form Of constitutional government,
with parliament. but the mass Of
Turkish people has come to realize
that their lot has not been improved
by the change.
While the constitutional government
has swept away some Of the abuses
which marked the absolute monarchy,
it has brought down upon the Turkish
people more and greater abuses.
The parliamentary governmental the
Young Turks is an empty shell. Mar
tial law is still proclaimed in Constant
nople, so that persons making them
selves politically Objectionable to the
leaders of the Young Turk movement
can be arrested and thrown into prison
at will. The Young Turks have exer-
cised this power to the extreme and
COnstantinople prisons are oyercrowded
with independent thinkers. Those OPP
posed to the Young Turks committee
are oppressed and maltreated Just as
badly as the Young Turks themselves
were treated by the former Sultan. The
people had grown TO expect this oppres-
sion from an absolute monarch, but 1t
gals when used by the Young Turks,
who promised freedom.
The revolutionary spirit is being
foStered by thousands Of reactionary
officials who lost well-paying posts, by
MOhammedan priests who believe the
new regime will lead to infidelity to
the Moslem religion, and hy true fol-
lowers of Abdul Hamid, who will 60 to
any extreme to bring the depOsed Sui
tan back from Saloni-c, where he is
held prisoner by the Young Turks.
The Young Turks declare the re-
pressive methods they are using are
necessary to combat these elements and
the constitution. Their enc
mics aver, however, that the Young |
Turks Cypress not only the reactionaries
but also the friends Of liberty and pro-
gress who cannot see events exactly rs
the Young Turks want them seen. 1t
is the persecution OF the Progressives
that is weaving away the greatest friends
of the Young Turks and that promises
TO undermine their rule to such an eX-
tent that the revolt planned by Abdul
Hands friends will be successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
Amicabie Adjustment Expected.

Pittsburg, July I9.-An amicable
adjustments Of the threatened strike on
the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Pitts
burg will likely be completed in con
ference between officials and COM
mittee of nine from the conductors,
trainmen and tiremen in session here
this afternoon. Both sides have sub
mitted together with an explanation Of
what each wants and this afternoon it
is expected that further data will be sub
mitted to the railroad officials. As a
result Of the success Of the Philadelphia
conference, both sides here are conf
dent Of coming to terms.
Philadelphia, July 19.-Wrth the
points in dispute between the trainmen
and conductors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and their general managers
now settled, there remained TO be
arranged the practical system along
which the agreements reached may be
worked ont.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ZION CITY.

Silver coins and bills a foot and a
half deep were thrown into tri-colored
barrel placed before the pulpit at Zion
City Tabernacle Sunday by the fol-
lowers of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general
oyerseer of the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church, Of Zion City, and
successor to John Alexander Dowie.
who marched over the north shore city
and took formal possession of the
buildings which last week again came
into their control through the action OF
the federal court in dissolving the re-
ownership
The call for the free-wil offering pro-
ceded the march about the city, and
thousands of men, women and chill
dren filed past the barrel that stood be-
fore the pulpit and cast therein their
offering, ranging from fiye-cent pieces
TO twenty-dolIar bills.
The Zion band took its place at the
head OF the column that formed out
side of the Tabernacle TO march
through the town. After the band
came Overseer Voliva and the elders of
the church, and behind these came the
hundreds who composed the white
robed choir"
Those in turn were followed by the
junior seventies" the intermediate
seventies" and the senior seventies. "
Those who were too old to stand the
three-mle walk were allowed to ride in
OmnibuseS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
Wax Women Burned.

New York, July "a report that
eight women were being burned to death
in a store in Broadway, opposite the
Marlborough Hotel, attracted big
crowd early today Men and women
poured out of the all night rathskellar>
and restaurants and gave the police
considerable trouble keeping them ou
of harms way. In the meantime the
guests of the hotel, most OF them 10
night clothing, filled the windows t.
watch the fremen at work. The eight
women" proved to be wax models in
the show window in which were dis
played the latest Partisan creations
The loss was about 1000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19

TINS country should be pretty well
satisfied with It's recent victory in the
bleached -four condemnation case, The
Lancet" England's final authority OF
all things relating to health, unre-
servedly approves the result and scores
millers who whiten flour with nitrous
acid THE slightly creamy color Of
unbleached -four, " says The Lancet.
SIS certainly more appetizing than the
blush whiteness Of bleached flour. and
the loss of odor and taste as a result Of
bleaching are sufficient objections to
the process, even without taking into
consideration the probable dcleterious
action of the nitritcs on the system. -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Zulerine B. Hupp has been appoint
ed postmasted at Sperryville, Kappa
hammock county, vice B. W. Coates, re-
signed.
James NJ. Booker, retired merchant
and tobacconist, died sudd' My OF
apoplexy yesterday at his apartments
in Lynchburg, aged so years.
Eighty-six mechanics have been
discharged from the Norfolk navy
yard as a result of the completion of
repairs to battleships which have Just
left there.
A vacation order was yesterday enter
ed in the circuit court OF Frederick
county by Judge T. w. Harrison APP
pointing John NJ Silver as sheriff, TO
succeed the late Clark II. Purcell.
Frank Carr, formerly OF Leesburg,
has resigned from the American Ma
tional Bank of Washington to accept
a position in the Fairfax National Bank
at Fairfax.
The contract for the building of a
seven-story steel Office building, with
facilities for a library, was awarded
last night by the Petersburg Benevo
lent Mechanics Association to ]. w.
Davis, of Newport News, at sos, S5l.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
RoIt Kills Mother Only.

Slatngton, Pa, July 19.-Mrs.
Ellis Owens, ir., was killed by a bolt
Of lighting Sunday night while wash:
ing dishes in her kitchen. The storm
was very severe, and the Owens house
seemed a particular mark for the light
nIng. So vivid were the flashes that
her four young children gathered
around their mother, clinging to her
skirts and crying. Suddenly there was
a particularly severe crash, which came
down the chimney and set the house
afirc. Mr.. Owens, who rushed into
the kitchen from a front room, found
his wife lying on the floor He thought
she was only stunned and quickly
carried her to the home of her sister, a
few doors away. Doctors said she had
been killed instantly. Strangely none
OF the children was touched.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-19
The Balloon DrIfter.

Eldorado, ILL.,, July IA balloon,
supposed to be the Drifter, which
accended from Hamilton, o., last night
passed over Eldorado early today The
balloon was travelling in a south wester-
Iy direction at height of about 800
feet
Anna, H., July 19.-GeOrge How
ard and Walter Collins, aeronauts
from Cincinnati, o., plotting the bal
loon Drifter, which left Hamilton, o.,
at 7:40 p. m. alighted at Mount Pleas
ant, Ill.,, eleven miles south OF here
at 6:15 a. m. today. The balloon land.
ed in a wheat field without mishap.