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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
WORKHOUSE. AWAITS HIM.
Judge De Lacy Will Make Example
of Man Who Broke Parole.

Wanted on charges Of wife desertion
and of breaking the parole granted to him
by Judge De Lacy Of the Juvenile Court,
Harry H. Ridgeway, a carpenter. of Ia
koma Park today is sought by the police
Judge De Lacy Friday caused an at
tachment to be issued for Ridgeway to be
brought into court. and police all over
the city are looking for him. The man
was first arrested April 30 on a charge
OF non-support. and at that time a work.
house sentence was suspended upon his
promise to pay his wife 81 a week. For
several weeks he made the payments.
then they became infrequent, and finally
stopped. Ridgeway was again brought
into court, and this time sentenced to
serve six months in the workhouse. From
that institution he wrote to Judge De
Lacy promising to provide for his family,
and August 5 a parole was granted TO
him, and he was ordered to pay So week
to his wife.
Mrs. Ridgeway, who lives at 437 O
street northwest yesterday said her hus-
band has given her no money since this
last parole was granted and he was re-
leased from the workhouse. The wife
tells a pathetic story of her efforts to
support herself and her two children, de-
claring that she has found 1t impossible
to hold positions in the business world
continuously and at the same time care
for her children.
Judge DeLacy has announced his inten-
ton OF making an example of KIdgeway
as parole jumper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
TREASURY TO SAVE MONEY
Will Cut Express Charges by De-
stroying Money at Branches.

In the near future the Treasury De-
partment will make another reduction Of
its expenses by clipping of the express
charges on bank notes sent from the Chi
cago and st. Louis subtreasuries to Wash
ington for destruction.
This will be done by installing machines
OF the same type used with such success
In the subtreasury in New York Worn
out bank notes will then be cancelled in
the subtreasuries instead Of at Washing
ton. The saving in express charges.
which will amount to thousands of dollars
every year, will be done in this way.
The governments contract with the
United States Express Company compels
all shipments of money over the COM
pany's lines. Even IL the government
chooses to transfer money from one point
to another by mail, or even by telegraph.
the terms Of the contract require the
Treasury to pay the same charges as
would have been made If the money had
gone by express.
Treasury officials have about decided
that cancelled bank notes are not money.
but merely waste paper. By installing
cancelling machines at New York and st
Louis notes will be cancelled there and
sent to Washington by registered mail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
SUITS FOR LETTER CARRIERS.
Contract Awarded to Two Firms,
Purchaser to Make Choice.

Bids from several companies of this
and other cities for making suits for the
letter carriers OF the District for the COM
ing winter were opened at the city post
Office yesterday. A committee elected by
the city carriers after an examination de-
cided that the contract for the suits
should be given to Maher Brothers OF
Utica, n. Y, and the Fechheimer Brotn-
ers of Cincinnati. the individual car
riers to decide which firm they perfer
The suits differ in some respects. each
company having reinforced the suit In
such parts as It was believed by the
makers will receive most wear and tear
Harry Kaufman. 1322 1th street north.
west. was awarded the contract for the
caps.
The committee was composed of car
riers representing each station In the ci,y
man, chairman; NJ. /. Eppley and L. .
steele; station A. Frank Fauth' sta
ton b, J. s. Wasney; station ID. II. :
bradley: station +, j. p. Donovan ahe
station G. Howard Douglas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
FAIRGROUNDS EXERCISES
Athletics and Games Participated in
by Children.

Field day exercises were held yester
day afternoon on both the New York ave-
nue. and the Howard Fairgrounds.
The exercises on the New York avenue
grounds consisted OF a series of contests
between the children Of the Blake and
Twining schools. In the total results the
Twining School won by a score OF a
to As.
The Twining School boys won the base
ball. yolley ball and arch ball games.
They also won the fifty-yard dash for
boys. The Blake boys won the twenty
five yard event.
The girls from the Twining school won
the croquet game and the fifty-yard dash.
the twenty-five-yard dash and in the vol
Ley, arch and tether ball games.
The events were In charge OF Misses
Olivia Baker and Caroline Steinmetz
The Howard grounds program was de-
clared the most successful this year. More
than four hundred children participated In
the various events.
The girls gave an exhibition of folk
dancing. played ring games, croquet.
tether ball and indoor base ball. Tumb-
ling, pyramid building and exhibition
work with various gymnastic apparatus
was given by a class OF sixty boys.
A meet between teams represented by
blue and white was held. The white won
the meet, making a total score for three
meets. 3o6 for the whites and 297 for the
blues.
given after the field exercises were ended.
Misses Price and Lula Davis and
Messrs. Thomas johnson and w. S.
Duf1eld directed the events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
BADLY HURT BY FALL.
Eugene Riggs Plunges Down an
Elevator Shaft.

Eugene Higgs. an employe OF tho Ma
tionai Capital Brewing Company. resid-
ing at 40S L street southeast. fell down
an elevator shaft at the saloon OF sam
Steinberger. Sth and ID streets. late yes
terday afternoon and suffered a concus-
sion OF the brain and injuries about tho
body. He is confined at the Emergency
Hospital. where II Is stated his condition
is critical.
After delivering some beer at the saloon
Higgs opened a door leading into the eie-
vator shaft The elevator was down at
the time and he made the step upon what
he thought was the elevator floor and
plunged TO the basement from the first
floor. distance OF about fifteen feet.
Employees in the saloon ran TO the lower
floor and found Higgs lying on the ele-
vator. The ambulance OF the Emergency
Hospital was summoned and he was
taken TO that institution. lie was con-
scious when picked up. but after reaching
the hospital lapsed into unconsciousness.
and late last night had not revived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
MRS. A. L. keller INDORSED.
Candidate of Phil Sheridan Corps for
Department President.

Mrs. Agnes L. Keller Of Phil Sheridan
Corps was unanimously Endorsed for
president OF the Department of the Poto-
mac at a recent meeting Of Phil Sheri-
dan w. r. c., No. II.
Patriotic instructor Mrs. Mary v.
Fauth presented the president of the
corps. Mrs. Ferren, who has just return
ed from the west, with gavel made of
wood from a tree in Gettysburg.
Phil Sheridan Corps will be we'll repre-
scented at the national convention OF G.
A. r. and w. r. G. at Atlantic City. A
copy of resolutions, unanimously Endorsed
by the corps, deploring the dissertation of
the American flag, and urging the con-
vention to use all efforts possible to en-
courage the enactment Of laws that will
prohibit all improper uses of the flag,
will be presented to the convention by
Mrs. I. w. Ball, chairman of national
committee on prevention of dissertation
of the flag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
MAINE RAISING CONFLICT.
O'Rourke Plan Opposed as 0bscurinl
Cause of Explosion.

Some members Of the army engineer
board. appointed to execute the will of
Congress for raining the old battleship
Maine, at Havana, do not look with entire
favor on the plans of Engineer O'Rourke
for the performance Of that duty.
The O'Rourke plans have been present
ed to President Taft and are said to have
been pressed upon the engineer board.
One member of the board has openly
expressed himself as believing the plan
would not give the board the proper OPP
portunity to determine whether the Maine
was blown up by an explosion from
without or within the ship.
The ORourke plan provides for raising
the Maine by placing cables underneath
the wreck and lifting her bodily out of
the water. The army engineers are said
to favor the construction OF caissons
around the wreck, and the raising OF the
wreck only after the water has been ex-
cluded from arount il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
PRAISE FOR FOREST RANGERS
Displayed Remarkable Courage, and
Faithfulness in Fighting Fires.

Chief Forester Henry F. Graves return
ed to Washington yesterday from a gen.
eral inspection trip of national reserves.
He left here July Is. and visited forests
in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, as well
as spent some time in directing fire fight
ers In the vicinity of Missoula, Mont.
He praised the forest rangers for dis
playing remarkable courage and faith
fulness In their efforts to save public
property. He will make an effort to have
Congress enact laws by which the gov
eminent could take care of men injured
in this branch of the service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
ELEVATOR MAN ARRESTED.
Suspected in Connection With Dis
anpearance Of Diamond Earrings.

Following a weeks investigation OF
the mysterious disappearance OF TWO
diamond earrings, valued at $3.50 from
apartment 2O2 Of the Northumberland
10th and " streets, occupied by MIS-.
Sarah f. Walker. Detectives Vermiliion
and Barbee late yesterday afternoon
arrested Earnest Lyles. colored, VINO was
employed as an elevator operator at
the apartment house. He Is heid on
suspicion of larceny" -,
When Mrs. Walker reported tne loss
NJ the two diamonds she stated that
they had been wrapped separately IN
paper and placed In an empty Snraa"
drawer. The empty box was later iouno
in the trash, 1t Is stated, put tne uia-
mond earrings were missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
WOULD INVITE INSPECTION.
Col. Lambert of Chicago Suggests
Asking Foreign Investors Here.

NEW YORK, September 1O.-Col. John
Lambert of Chicago. a business associate
of John w. Gates, and formerly presi-
dent of the American Steel and Wire
Company. returned from Europe today
full of business optimism, and with an
interesting suggestion for attracting for
eign investors:
Prosperous conditions prevail abroad"
he said, and any uneasiness regarding
American business conditions Is disap-
pearing. / believe that some definite ac-
ton by business men to prove the sta
bility of our standard securities would
be a good thing. l suggest that a group
of the substantial men of affairs Of the
United States invite a delegation OF for
eign financiers from France, for in
stance to come here and investigate our
securities. They would learn quickly
then that our stocks are sound and
strong, despite fluctuations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

Population is $40, 58S, an Increase
of 1O9. 693

The population OF Boston. Mass. is &c.
5S5. an increase OF 109.693. or 1916 per
cent, as compared with $50, S92 in 1870.
Last nights announcement leaves Bos-
ton the fifth city In point Of population in
the United States. A decade ago st.
Louis outranked Boston by only 14.346
and the present census leaves st. Louis
ahead by 16. a.. There was but slight
change in the rate of progress in the two
cities, st. Louis increase from 1900 to
1910 being 1914 and Boston beating that
by two-tenths of ! per cent.
Boston's population twenty years ago
was 44S,477. The increase from 1880 to
1900 was 2,415, or 25.1 per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
TRINITY RAZES TENEMENTS.
Church Will Confine It's Operations
to Business Houses.

NEW YORK, September 1O-Trinity
Church corporation, once accused of
owning the worst tenements in the city,
although it is admittedly the richest
church In America and one of the richest
in the world, announces, in a statement
just issued. that in the last eighteen
months 1t has razed 153 tenements, caus-
ing 2,295 persons to seek new homes.
Henceforward Trinity will permit no
more tenements or apartment houses,
but business houses only. The changes
already affected cost $J,OOO.OO0 and are
working a marked change. in the charac-
ter of the lower west side, where most of
the Trinity holdings lie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
VICTIMS HUSBAND HELD.
Note Threatening Suicide Not Be-
lieved Written by Wife.

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind, september
1o-Pending an investigation OF the mys-
terious death Of Mrs. Wicks, whose BODY
was found in the canal here last night.
the husband and the dead woman's half
sister. Mrs. Thorn, have been arrested.
Mrs. W,cks was twenty-three years old.
w,crs started the search for his wife
by Informing Marshal Driscoll that he
had fonnd a note, which he said had been
written by Mrs. Wicks. stating that she
~ hondwritine in the note is not that
of the dead woman and arrested Wicks
The arrest Of Mrs. Thorn. who had
been staying at the Wicks home, soon
followed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
Takes Up Mission Work.

Rev. Aloysius Quincy. s. j., has been
detailed for missionary work and sailed
from New York city on the steamship
Tagus OF the Royal Mail Line for ia
maica- Father Quincy is one OF the
Washington boys. IL Is declared, who Is
giving a splendid account OF himself N
his chosen vocation His early edncs-
ton was received in the parochiai school
OF st. Aloysius and at Ganzaga College.
and his theological course was taken q
Woodstock College. Where he was or
dained I'm 1908. He went to ST Andrews
on-the- Hudson to made his tertianship,
afterward teaching for a year at ~.
Joseph's College. Philadelphia. His ster-
ling qualities and zeal for the good OF
his fellow man will doubtless enable him
to achieve great results in his new HELD
of labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
ELECTED FOR FIFTH TERM.
Urban Fleming, President Of Spin
ners' International Union.

BOSTON. September 1O-Urban F1em-
ing of Holyoke was unanimously elected
president OF the International Spinners'
Union for a fifth term today. at the clos
ing session of the annual convention.
State Senator Samuel Ross Of New Bed
ford was reelected secretary for the
fifteenth year and Thomas O'Donnell OF
Fall River was reelected treasurer for
the sixth time. ID. c. Murphy OF Taft
willie, Conn, is the new vice president.
The convention condemned night work
and gave special authority to act to the
Utica union. which has complained Of
night spinning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
BANK DIRECTOR ARRESTED.
Suspected Of Guilty knowledge of
Young Italians Murder.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, September TO-
Vito Guardalalene, one of the directors
OF the Milwaukee Italian Bank, and a
prominent figure in the Italian colony of
Milwaukee. was taken into custody to-
day and will be held pending investiga-
ton Of the death Of Antonio Navetta a
young Italian, who was murdered in his
room two weeks ago
Shortly before the murder $500 was
drawn from the bank by Navetta and the
money is missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
To Attend Meeting of Veterans.

KENSINGTON, Nd. September TO-
Col and Mrs. John T. Brady left here
today for a three-week visit in Atlantic
City, where Col. Brady will be one of
the representatives of Encampment.. No.
60, Union Veteran Legion of Washington.
d. C. He will also attend the meeting
of the Philadelphia Brigade Association
September Is, when there will be made
full report of the committee having
charge of the arrangements for the grand
reunion Of the survivors of the Union
and Confederate armies at Gettysburg In
1913, the fiftieth anniversary of the bat
tie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
Declines to Run for Governor.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. September 10-Frank
A. Day. chairman of the Minnesota demo-
cratic committee. today made public John
Lind's formal resignation .as democratic
nominee for Governor Of Minnesota Mr..
Lind was nominated over his emphatic
protest.
The state central committee will meet
next Thursday and fiil the vacancy on
the ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

SANTA MONICA. Cal. September 10.
The streets OF Santa Monica were
sprinkled today with cinders carried by
the wind from forest fires in the Santa
Monica mountains, ten or fifteen miles
to the northwest Hundreds OF acres of
timber and underground have beeff
swept. and the flames are spreading
through the Santa Yneza and Temercal
canons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
Nav Be Body Of Missing Sailor.

The Department OF State has received
Information that the body Of an American
sailor has recently been discovered in the
Archipelago Of Colon. In San Cristobol.
Both the consul general OF Ecuador and
the American consul general are of the
opinion that the body discovered may be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

that Of the American sailor Frederick
Jeffs Of the Norwegian bark Alexandra,
which was lost at sea in May 1906 From
reports received by the Department OF
State Mr.. JefYs was supposed to have
been lost on Indefatigable Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
W. K Amick for Congress.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, September 1o-The
republican congressional committee OF tire
fourth district today selected. w. X.
Amick. Q lawyer OF st. Joseph. as a can
didate for Congress. Mr.. Amick has an
nounced that he Is q progressive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
MANY IOWA. PREACHERS
1 WILL QUIT MINISTRY
Declare They Cannot Support
Their Families on the
Salaries Paid.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLES CITY. Iowa. September 10.
When the upper Iowa Methodist con-
ference convenes in Charles City next
week. it will find itself face to face
with decided shortage in the number
Of preachers. Fifty-seven charges In
the conference will have to be filled
from a source at the present not
known. Fifty-seven men. the greater
part young or in the prime OF life, will
quit THE ministry at this time. and all
viii engage in secular lines of work.
Many OF these men are only a few years
out Of university and seminary.
insufficient Salaries Paid.
The complaint is that the salary paid is
not sufficient to maintain a family ac-
cording to decent standard OF living and
to give their children the education they
deem necessary. The complaints are be-
coming more caustic within the last two
years, and the higher cost OF living is
really blamed for the step to be taken
by the preachers. Some Of them, men
who have spent from four to six and
seven years In universities and semi
naries. are asked TO fill charges where
the salary Is less than 500 a year. and
instances are quoted where the preachers
are receiving less than $500 year. These
are largely in the rural districts and In
the smaller villages and towns At the
Upper Iowa conference two years ago.
like complaints we're heard, but fewer
men left the ministry. There Is believed
to be no concerted action on the part OF
the ministers who will tender their resig-
nations to the conference next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

1t pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
filled through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11

MADRID. September 10.-Pepete, the
famous toreador Of Seville. was killed
here today in q bull fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
No Standard for
Negro Race.

upon which to base their premiums. Some
OF them are using their best efforts to
induce. the negro to live up to the SAM
tary standard of the white man. and
others are trying to create an experience
table especially for the negro. But In
the meantime. the insurance companies
are profiting from the lack OF such tables.
In order TO be on the safe side they
charge the negro a higher rate.
While women outrank men In the mat
ter of longevity, and also in the rate at
which their span of life is increasing,
they are not as highly regarded as in
surable risks. 1t is said that this arises
from several causes. In the first place,
for reasons of delicacy, the examinations
are not as thorough, and experience has
shown that they are not as careful of the
truth in answering questions as men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
Directions to Departments.

ITO prevent the making Of appoint
ments under these circumstances In vio-
lation OF the law. the commission has
requested the various departments and
offices to require all persons reported for
appointment to execute the usual form
of declaration OF appointee, which in
cludes a statement as to members Of a
family in the service before the oath of
office is administered. Where the declara-
ton indicates more than one member OF
the proposed appointees family to be al
ready in the service, 1t is contemplated
that the oath of office shall not be ad-
ministered until the case has been re-
ferred to the civil service commission
for decision.
"In future, in deciding cases falling
under the provisions OF section OF the
civil service act. the commission has de-
termined that it will not accept a show
ing OF separate residence for ninety days
or any other fixed period, unless il APP
pears from all the circumstances that
there has been an actual bona fide ter
mination of the original family status.
II is believed that this will result In a
more efficient administration of the law.
for the enforcement OF which the At
torney General has held the commission
to be responsible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
Thousands Of Ferns

to be sold for almost moth
ing SO as to make room for our
fall show.