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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

MAKES new 6tcCOTQ.
Soon after . O'Clock Curtiss started the
official events by trying to set a new
speed record for the course OF a mile and
halls His first attempt was 2:24 1-5.
About this time PauIhan distracted atten-
ton by his San Pedro fight. When
things had settled down again Curtiss
made a new trial. He cut the time
40 3-5. Not satisfied with this he made
another attempt and set a mark of 2:1o
fiat. This is the official record for the
course.
Hamilton started late in the day to ex-
eel Paulhans record of 4,165 feet, made
Wednesday. He rose 500 feet remained
aloft twelve minutes, and then returned,
saying:
MY engine did not work right / will
try it again tomorrow"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Campaign Expenses Filed.

The campaign committees of the
Republican and Democratic parties
filed their lists of contributions and
expenditures for the recent congress
sional campaign in Congress.
The Democratic lists show a total
expenditure of $27,771.22.
The Republican committee received
and expended $74,373.35.
The reports indicate that it cost
the Democrats about one-third as
much to win the election as it cost
the Republicans to lose it.
The Republican report, filed by
Treasurer Charles H. Duell, shows
that the committee had 1890 on
hand when the campaign opened.
The Democrats received only
$3.50 in sums greater than 500,
according to Treasurer F. G. Gar
rett's report. They had $13,25S in
the treasury when the campaign
opened, and received $27,790, in
sums of less than S100.
1t was noted that the name of
neither President Taft nor Colonel
Roosevelt appears among the Re-
publican contributors.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Partisan Designers Got Idea
From CIeverly Drawn Cartoon.
Cartoonist Now Apologies, Declaring
Never Thought Such Mode OF
Dress Possible-lntended
to Ridicue Low Waist.

London-Who is responsible for
the invention of the 'hobble" skirt?
Some famous fashion creator OF Paris,
every one will say, by no means. W..
X. Haselden, the cartoonist, evolved
it out of his inner consciousness
many months before it was actually
created as dress.
On Feb. IA, 1909, he thought of it
as a hideous possibility which might
some day come true. The next day
his conception of it appeared as car
toon, in company with other products
of his imagination; later a Partisan
fashion expert saw the cartoon and
seized upon the idea.
Some months later the hobble skirt
appeared in Paris, and in December,
1909, was actually being worn in Lon
don, and speedily became the rage.
In one or two cases enthusiastic
adopters OF it were SO overzealous
that they had hobble skirts made for
them which were so tight they pre-
vented their getting in or out of We
hicles, and broken bones resulted.
Other wierd dress designs were "the
knee-and elbow-room dress" quaint
conceit which showed balloons round
the knees and elbows; the "Punchin-
clio pattern" the woman in this case
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
SECOND NAVAL POWER.
United States Hard Pushed BY Ger
many.

Washington, D. C. Especially The
United States closes another year in
second place among the world
naval powers. The great navy build
ing race between Germany and Great
Britain has not yet brought the
former country up to the United
States in the number of battleships
afloat, but in ships projected and in
the total number of war vessels of
all kinds, Germany will crowd the
United States to third place. These
facts are shown in the new navy year
book, prepared by Pitman Pulsifer,
clerk to the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs, and soon to be issued
by the Government Printing Office.
In armored cruisers. although the
technical division made by the Unit
ed States indicates Germany to have
more than this country, the actual
strength of the United States exceeds
that of its European rival.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
SQUIRREL MAKES GOOD FIGHT
Administers Severe Bites to Several
Youngsters Who Would Hold
Animal In Captivity.

Birmingham, ALA squirrel, 10
bloody boys and a crowd of curious
spectators entered to produce one of
the strangest and most amusing Incl
dents that has occurred at the Ter
minal station since that place was
opened.
The incident was the efforts of sew
eral boys to hold small squirrel
which did not like captivity.
One youngster grabbed the squirrel
and attempted to place 1t in a bag.
The boys hands were lacerated ter
ribly by the captive, and imme-
diately surrendered to another one
The second tanner grabbed the little
animal only to be bitten about five
times on the hand. Blood spouted
over everything nearby. This process
of exchanging was gone through with
until every youngster in the bunch
was bitten and scratched by the fight
ing squirrel. Finally a passenger, un-
able to witness the blood of the kids,
suggested the placing of the squirrel
in paper bag. Strange to say, when
this was done the kids walked off
with the squirrel perfectly tame and
quiet. After biting the boys and
scratching all Of them many of the
men marveled at the tameness of the
creature when it was placed in the
bag. 1t could have easily broken
through the paper and escaped.
The boys. bleeding in several places
about the hands. marched off proudly
with the squirrel.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
NATIONS
LAW MAKERS
River and Harbor Bill.

In record time and spending money
at the rate of 100000 an hour,
the House of Representatives in
about three hours passed the Rivers
and Harbors Bill, making appropria-
lions amounting 10 $21,S94,S61 for
river and harbor work during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1912. No
vote was taken, the bill being passed
by unanimous consent with the ex-
ception of a slight typographical
error in the printed bill, not word
was changed from the form in which
it was presented by the River and
Harbors Committee.
In addition to the amount carried
in the bill, the Sundry Civil Bill will
include $7,36S,077 for river and har-
Dor Improvement in 1912, bringing
the total up to S29,262,938l The
average annual expenditure for riv-
ers and harbors for the 10 years since
1899 is approximately $22,50D, 600.
OF the 210 items in the bill los were
for maintenance of complete works,
and like number for completing
works
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
FINALLY SECURES A MATCH

the query in French, informing the
young man that he had no match; he
was very sorry.
Levinson was not discouraged. He
proved 1t by trying again.
'Haben sic cine licht?"
A youth of obviously Teutonic ex-
traction responded. He also lacked
the desired match. Mr. Levinson was
plainly irritated. He did not wait for
answers, but, proceeded to repeat his
question in eight other languages.
He asked for the match in Italian,
Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Russian,
Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish. He
chewed the end of the unlighted cigar
nervously
Finally the demure cashier In the
shop proffered the much-sought match,
speaking in tongue that none pres.
ent seemed familiar with. She said IL
was Persian, and no one cared to dis.
pute her word
Levinson is q cabinet maker and
has travelled in various parts of the
world.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Party Runs Short Of Food Before Com
pleting Examination of Subter-
ranean Wonder.

Vienna.-The mammoth cave of
Europe" as the newly discovered Sc
ries of subterranean chambers near
Obertraun in Austria is now called, is
described for the first time by Her
mann Boch, an engineer, who with a
small party of Alpine climbers ex-
plored the cave, which is situated I'M
der the Dachstein, mountain in up
per Austria $500 feet high.
The entrance to the cave Is at an
elevation of some $500 feet. Italian
road members knew of the existence
of small grotto here, where they had
been looking around for gold. Behind
a great boulder at the end of this grot-
to the party discovered a natural tun-
mel which a powerful stream in earlier
ages had followed out of the rock. At
the bottom of this tunnel there was
six-foot deep river bed, formed by
what remained of the earlier stream.
Here and there pools of crystal clear
water continued for 1000 feet and led
to an apparently bottomless abyss.
The party crawled along the edge
of the precipice and up a gallery $50
feet high, also scared with the action
of dried up mountain torrents. At the
top a narrow hole was found which
led upward to series of stalactite
caverns and then narrowed down
again to a curving passage leading
downward for 1900 feet Suddenly
the party came upon vast hall lead
ing portal like to another still larger
dome $40 feet high. Here cave-in
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Debts OF Big Cities.

Washington, d. c. Especially =
Figures giving the per capita net
debt for cities in the United States,
prepared by the Census Bureau, show
that at the close of 1908 the per cap
tia debt of New York city was
$153.02; Cincinnati, $125.40, and
Boston, $114.63. Those of the large
cities with the lowest per capita debt
were Detroit, $2295, and Milwaukee.
$31.6S. Johnstown, Pa, with a debt
of $9.71 per capita, is lowest in the
list. OF the cities with more than
100000 population those having
the largest per capita payments for
expenses were Boston, $3.50; Wash
ington, $25.79, and New York city,
$24.99.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
MAC VEkGH
URGES REFORMS
Secretary of Treasury Advocates
Business Methods.
THE KEYNOTE IS RETRENCHNEAT.
Congress is Asked For An Appro-
priation OF $711,414,S61 To Cover
All Disbursements OF the Govern
ment - Ordinary Receipts Esi-
mated At $3.50, 600, OOO-Says Our
Monetary System Is Panic-Breed-
ing-Customs Frauds.

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD =
Economy that beats all records is the
keynote of the annual report of Sec
rotary Franklin MacVeagh, of the
Treasury Department, which was sent
to Congress Thursday.
Other features are currency re-
form, extension of the scope of the
national banking laws, in the event
of no immediate general change of
the monetary system; civil service re-
tirement, customs service free from
practical" politics, business-like
methods in the daily transactions of
the government and general aboli-
ton of red tape wherever it clogs the
wheels of the government business.
The estimated ordinary eXpendi-
lures for next year amount to $780,
494,013. Including Panama Canal
expenses, $56,920,S47, which will be
repaid to the Treasury by the sale of
bonds, the grand total is $6S7,414,-
$50. The total appropriations for
this year were $721,313,9 800.
While the Secretary's deport esti-
mates the total expenses of govern
ment at $6S7, 414,S60, the estimates
which have been transmitted to Con-
gress ask for $I4S,414, S61, differ
ence of SCI, 100000. Congress is
asked to appropriate this extra $61,-
100000 to make the sinking fund
law effective. 1t would be an appro-
priation to permit the treasury to be-
gin applying one per cent. year to
the discharge of the national debt.
The law authorizing such a proce-
dure has been dead letter for some
time, as Congress has never appro-
priated any money.
The appropriations for the ordi-
nary expenses of the government
were, for 1910, $693,313, 166; for
1911, $6S3,45S,9OO. The estimates
for the next fiscal year, beginning
July 1, are $630,494,0 13.
There are difficulties in the way OF
making an estimate of next years re-
ceipts, but in the best light available
Secretary MacVeagh places the
amount at $6S0,0O0,0 These
ordinary receipts if realized, will ex.
coed the ordinary disbursements by
$49,505,986. But taking also into
account the estimates for the Panama
Canal, the deficit for the next veal
will be $7,414,S60.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Omnibus Claims Bill.

An Omnibus claims bill, carrying
vast aggregation of demands upon
the government for money will be
called up in the Senate this week for
action, according to a statement
made by Chairman Burnham (Rep.,
N. HI, of the Committee of Claims.
There are 1,7O9 claims in the bill,
and the total amount asked for is ST.
O4O,946. The claimants represent
SO states and territories, a geograph-
ical spread regarded in Senate circles
as liable to muster heavy vote.
These claims have ripened in con-
gressional pigeon holes for many
years, some of them for generations.
Among the Southern claimants are
267 churches. They are mostly for
church buildings destroyed to fur
rish materials for the use of the
Union army.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
COTTON'S new HIGH RECORD
Short Crop Shown By Govern
ment Estimate.

New York Especially The gov
cotton crop was published Friday and
caused a very sharp advance in
prices of all active deliveries, max
ing new high records for the season
in the New York market, with May
contracts selling at 151a cents, or
GA points, equal to $3.20 per bale,
above the closing figures of the pre-
vious day. At this price there was
sensationally heavy realizing by bull
spectators, but the prospect for an
American crop of 1926 900 bales,
excluding linters, seemed to be bring
ing in buying orders from all direc-
tons, and after a quick break from
1850 to 1913, May quickly rallied
to 1870 in an active and excited
market.
There was big business right up
to the last moment, and the market
closed firm at a net advance of 37@
As points, with May contracts quoted
at 1880, compared with 1856, the
closing price of last night.
Prior to the publication of the
government estimate the market had
been very nervous and for the past
week or more there had been more
or less heavy liquidation by smaller
speculative longs, apprehensive that
prices were based on an underesti-
mate of the yield At one time dur
ing the early trading May contracts
had sold at 1850, decline of about
so points from the high record of
the season established on November
rs, when May sold at 1910.
The report, consequently, found
the market pretty well liquidated of
scattering speculative long interest
and there also seemed to be a large
number of bullishly disposed opera
tors who had taken profits, and who
were brought back into the market
by the prospect for a supply which
they considered insufficient to meet
the normal requirements of the sea-
son.
The bears maintain that the gov
eminent must have underestimated
the crop.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Man Pleads In Ten Languages Before
Obtaining Desired Light for
His Cigar.

Chicago.-A young man in the garb
of laborer. his hands roughened by
work, entered shoe-shining "parlor"
at SO Clark street. The place was filed
with customers and he was compelled
to await his turn while some ten
youths Of various nationalities impart-
ed mirror-like luster to the cover
ings Of the customers feet.
The young man, who was NJ Levin
son, twenty-six years old. 1000 LOOMS
street, wished a match. He made his
wish known, but the busy bootblacks
paid no attention to the request. 1t
was then that the shoe-shining shop
developed an atmosphere that was not
dissimilar to that which prevailed
when confusion fell upon the work
men on the tower of Babel.
"Avez vous I'm alumette?" inquired
Levinson, politely.
Onelof the bootblacks, replied 70
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
RESCUERS ENTOAIBED.
Trapped While Saving Lives OF
Forty-Five Miners.

Winnipeg, Manitoba Especially -
A dispatch from Coleman, Alberta,
states that so rescuers, working in
the Western Canadian collieries,
Bellevue, were entombed Saturday
afternoon. A relief party from Fer
ME has been rushed to the scene and
a party of experienced miners from
Coleman was also hurried to render
assistance.
Forty-five miners were entombed
by the explosion Friday night in the
Bellevue colliery a short distance
from Frank, Alberta, B. C. Twenty
bodies have been recovered. The
living men are in the upper workings,
which they succeeded in walling off
to prevent the spread of gas.
The extent of the disaster and the
fate of those still in the mine will not
be known for some time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
HOBBLE SkIRTJOKE

wearing an artificial hump and very
voluminous skirt; the do1key's ear
shoulder" an ordinary costume with a
trailing skirt and two long, pointed
projections rising from the shoulders
to distance of three feet above eth
er side of the head; and ''the pyra-
mid" and the diamond" design.
These have not come true" but Mr..
Haselden thinks it highly likely that
their day will dawn. Asked upon what
lines he worked when creating such
fashions, he said:
81 think of all the most outlandish
things In the way of dress, being at
the same time assured that nothing is
too impossible for women to wear
Indeed, the real difficulty is to in
vent anything that looks impossible.
There wa7 one really sensible thing
| invented. This will not, fear, come
true because it is sensible. l refer
to the pneumatic hat for matinees, a
drawing of which appeared on Aug.
20, 1908.
1T was large hat blown up with
air and capable Of being Debated
when the wearer had taken her seat
in the theater.
II am afraid that if designed a
really artistic and useful dress women
would not wear It,
''The very last thing on earth l
wanted was to get women to wear
hobble skirts, but had a fear. did
! not think it unlikely that they would
adopt it. 1t is SO very silly, you
know.
when read of the lady, who, ow-
ing to very hobble skirt, broke one
of her legs in getting into a taxicab
l felt Indirectly responsible. l kept
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Nan Patterson Married.

Seattle, Wash. Especially. - Nan
Patterson, the chorus girl, twice tried
for the murder of Caesar Young in
New York, is living in Seattle, the
wife of Capt. Summer Prescott, head
of manufacturing concern at Marin
cite, Wis, where he formerly lived.
The couple were married in st. Paul
in the latter part of October, coming
to Seattle Immediately afterward.
Capt. Prescott admitted the identity
of his bride.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Cheapest Long Trip.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Eleven hundred ana
ninety-three miles by trolley In "
days at a cost of just $3.50 for car
fare, is the record reported by Henry
E. Juergens of this city, who has re-
turned from such a trip to the New
England states. Thousand-mile ticke.s
on the steam roads cost $40, but ne,
cost included regular fares for 4oS
miles on steam roads.
This trip took him from Pittspurg
through tho states of Pennsylvania
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut
and Massachusetts and, with the ex
ception of five short breaks, he MADE
the entire circuit by trolley. II il
his opinion that interuban electrie
traffic is improving so rapidly that the
long-distance trolley trip will soon De
come both practical and popular.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Three Killed BY Train.

Lodi, o. especially Joseph Year
gon, 20 years old, and his wife, the
same age, and their six-year-old
grandson, Ross Phorley, were killed,
when a rig in which they were driv-
ing was struck by a fast limited inter-
urban train. The rig was smashed
to pieces and the bodies of Yeargon
and his wife hurled through the air
distance of SO feet. The little
grandson was partially protected by
the body of his grandfather.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16

Rio Janeiro (Special) After a
severe artillery engagement, which
lasted throughout the entire day, the
mutinous naval battalion on Cobra
Island surrendered at i o'clock Sat
urday night The rebels were al
most annihilated by the fire from
the land batteries and two Brazilian
warships, losing more than 200 kill
ed and wounded
The seditious movement, it is be-
lieved, has now been completely
throttled, but the Senate, despite the
opposition of Ruy Barbosa, the for
mer president of that body, voted to
declare a state of siege for thirty
days.
Friday night some of the soldiers
of the marine corps on Cobra Island
captured their officers and sent them
to the mainland. The scout ship Rio
Grande do Sui joined in the rising,
but the mutinous sailors were finally
subdued by their officers and a por-
ton of the local garrison that re-
manned faithful.
At $50 o'clock in the morning the
guns of the land batteries were train
ed on the island, which lies in the
Bay of Rio Janeiro, only a short
distance from the city and opposite
the marine arsenal. A heavy fire
was directed against the rebels and
this continued without cessation for
five hours. Then a white flag APP
peared, and it was believed that the
rebels were ready to surrender, but
they asked only for an armistice,
probably for the purpose of remov-
ing the dead and injured
The bombardment of the Island
ceased for half an hour, being re-
newed at IL o'clock. Two land bat
teries and two loyal warships took
part in the bombardment, and the
artillery duel continued with great
violence until half past o'clock Sat
urday afternoon The detonations
of the big guns caused the whole city
to tremble.
The Island proved a good target
Tor the batteries and replied with a
vigorous fire. employing considerable
shrapnel. A number of people were
killed along the shore and in adjoin-
ing streets.
The fight against the scout ship
Rio Grande do Sui lasted three hours,
and among the killed was one officer.
Small bands of the rebels climbed
into launches and drew near the
front of the Palacio Cattete, but they
were forced to retire.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Gives Away $50, 900.

Saratoga, N. Y. Especially Mrs.
Spencer Trask, widow of the million
aire banker who was killed in a New
York Central wreck at Croton, N. Y,
on December 81, 1909, will give
away the $4,000 she received from
the 100000 damages paid by the
railroad for her husbands death.
Mrs. Trask announced that the viii
lage of Saratoga Springs would re-
ceive $4,000 and that the remainder
would go to Rev. DR.. Joseph Carey
to be used to complete the parish
house Mr.. Trask had started.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Charged With Extortion.

New York Especially Alderman
Michael Yolkman and Edward
Cruise, son of former police cap
tain, were held in $4,000 bail in
Magistrate O'Connor's court for fur
Their examination on charge of extor-
ton. Cruise was arrested on the
complaint of one-legged newspaper
vender, David Barisch. who supports
a wife and four children. Barisch
was told that his permit to sell pa
pers on a certain street corner would
be renewed If he paid over $500
graft.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Fine for Foes of Stork,

Paris.-Hector Depasse has intro
duced bill in the chamber of depu-
ties providing that a fine of fromis5
to $40 may be imposed on LANDLORDS
who refuse to let apartments because
applicants have children. The fine
would be doubled if the offense were
repeated. Jacques Bertillon said he
feared such law would be imprac-
ticable. He suggested that when a.
house containing 20 apartments fails
to have 60 children in it the landlord
must pay tax varying according to-
the number.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
The Ballinger Case.

The Ballinger-Pinchot reports will
not be acted upon by the House Com
mittee on Agriculture, to which they
have been referred, until after the
Christmas holidays at least and per-
haps not at all Members of this
committee cannot see why the re-
port was referred to them. They
protest that the reports should have
been left on the Speakers table in
stead of being referred to any stand
ing committee.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
Two New Popular Games.

London.-Two new games are pop
ular at country house parties this sea-
son. One is called fantasia, and is
a sort of table bowls on which heavy
bets are made. The other is roulette
with cards. Four packs are used, the
players placing stakes on cards in
stead of ordinary numbers. Hostesses
are delighted with these two games,
which serve to amuse visitors unable
to play bridge.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-16
American Sailor Sentenced.

Hongkong, China Especially John
William Hayes, a sailor on the
American cruiser New York, who
killed japanese child and injured
another japanese while he was run.
ming amuck in the lower quarter o.
Hongkong on September 1, has been
sentenced to three years penal serv-
itude.