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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
REGRET FOR MARK twain
MISSOURI SOCIETY ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS.
Representative Lloyd Eulogize.
Dead ist-Impressions of
Washington by Mr.. Dickinson.

In moving the adoption of an appropriate
resolution on the death of Mark Twain,
"a native of the first district of Missouri
and the greatest man who ever came out
of the state Representative James T..
LLOYD at the meeting OF the Missouri
Society at Pythian Temple last night,
paid tribute to the late author and hui
morist.
Although in his boyhood and youth he
was not partial to school. said Mr.. Lloyd,
and therefore had but little book educa-
ton. yet he died one of the great schol-
ars of the world, and biographers Will SO
declare him. In all his numerous writings
he never wrote aught that would wound
the feelings of the most sensitive, he
said Although there was smile that
haloed everything he wrote, it is SAID he
died Of a broken heart, declared the
speaker.
The society adopted the resolution
unanimously.
Lee T. Robinson presided at the meet
ing and E. L. Whitney acted as secre-
tary e. A. Lange sang number OF
songs and Mrs. Walter Streeter,s dialect
and other stories were rewarded with
laughter and applause.
cessor in Congress to the late Representa-
tive DeArmond, made an address, in
which he gave his impressions of Wash
ington now and when he left for the west
forty years ago. He said he formerly
resided in the black belt" of Virginia.
and incidentally touched upon the suf-
frage question in its general phases.
While not opposed to woman suffrage,
he said, yet he did not feel altogether
satisfied that the time was yet ripe for
it, He believed the great majority of
public men shared this view. He proph-
esied that time will solve the question
and that ultimately not only the women.
but the citizens of the District of Column
bia will be accorded the elective fran
chise.
Representative Alexander. another men,
Der Of the Missouri delegation. was pres
ent Refreshments were served at the
close of the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
DROPS SOUTH Pole TRIP
GEN. HUBBARD ON THE AN.
NOUNCED DISAPPOINTMENT.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, English Elk
plorer, Expresses Regret-Rea-
sons for Changing Plan.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Gen. Thomas H.
Hubbard. president of the Peary Arctic
Club said tonight that the abandonment
of the proposed south pole expedition,
temporarily at least, was due to the fail
ure of the National Geographic Society to
raise $4,000 agreed upon. The Peary
Arctic Club stood ready to contribute the
Roosevelt and half of any additional ex-
pense necessary after the National Geo
graphic Society had raised its $4,000
Commander Peary is not in New York.
Presumably he is en- route from Washing
ton to Ithaca, N. Y, where he is to de-
liver an address tomorrow at memorial
to Prof. Ross Marvin of Cornell, who lost
his life while with Peary.
Regretted by English Explorer.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 23.-Sir
Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, tonight
delivered his lecture on the south pole at
the Academy of Music In the course Of
his talk he said that he had learned that
the proposed American expedition to the
south pole had been postponed for year
and added that IL the pole was discovered
in the meantime the American expedition
would have plenty to do in exploring sew
eral million square miles of unknown
land.
When seen after the lecture the ex-
plorer said
II regret very much to learn that the
American south polar expedition has
been abandoned. There is much scientific
work to be done in that region, and the
American project would have proved of
great value in that direction, though l
believe that the discovery of the pole
itself will be made by Capt. Scott of
my own country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
ALLEGED CUSTOM FRAUDS.
Resolution Calling Upon President
for Information.

Representative Francis Burton Harri-
son Of New York yesterday introduced in
the House resolution calling on the
President for all the facts in connection
with the investigation and report of So
licitor William P. Hepburn Of the Treas
ury Department upon alleged customs
frauds at New York In 1891.
Col. Hepburn" said Mr.. Harrison.
has been quoted to the effect that frauds
in the New York customs service. similar
to those which Richard Parr claims to
have discovered, were discovered by him
nineteen years ago. Col Hepburn, with
Mr.. Whitehead. the appraiser of the port
Of New York, and Mr.. Chance, Treasury
agent, conducted an extended investiga-
ton Of the customs service in New York
In 1891 and submitted a report OF more
than 1000 pages showing conclusively
that importers were defrauding the gov
eminent OF millions of dollars.
Whether that report was lost or sup
pressed 1t is certainly important that we
know now whether it be true that these
customs frauds have been known to the
government officials for so long q period.
It is especially important in view of the
fact that Richard Parr is now endeavor-
ing to collect q fee of several hundred
thousand dollars from the government for
discovering such frauds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
MARINE CORPS SCHOOL.
instruction in Advance. Base Work
to Be Given.

A school Is to be established at the ma
val station, New London, Conn. for in
struction of officers Of the Marine Corps
in advance-base work.
Among subjects Of instruction will be
signal work, including transmission Of in
formation by visual signals and by wire
and wireless outfits. The chief signal off,
Ger Of the army will cooperate with the
Marine Corps authorities in furnishing
the wireless equipment.
The school will be under command of
NAL Melville J. Shaw of the Marine
Corps. who will also act as an instructor.
Capt James c. Breckenridge and Logan
Feland will be the other instructors.
About twelve student officers and eighty
enlisted men Of the Marine Corps will re-
ceive instruction at the school during the
first term.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
A Relative Condition.

'Extravagance is a relative, not a posi-
tive condition. Nobody would live now
as the whole country did in 1884 and 1885.
''By our system of protection we have
made IT possible for the American work
ingman to receive wages in many cases
double, and in all cases much larger than
IN other countries. But we have not as yet
protected him against competition by I'M
migrants. who will work for what he can
not afford to work for. and live as he
will not and should not be asked to do.
The most benehcent of the changes
which have occurred during my time have
been the laws granting rights to women
In my earlier days woman's property
was her husbands. his debts were hers,
and it was not until 1s4S that she could
have her independent possessions or safe
ty in any business she might undertake
II was still later that she was accorded
the privilege Of higher education and
her Intellectual necessities well as abil-
ity considered to be fully equal to mans
AS i used to travel through the country
on railway inspection trips. I noticed at
every station a crowd of idlers They
knew the names OF the trains. Of the con-
ductors and the engineers, and were ca
ger to tell the waiting traveller whether
No. was late or not. / noticed that they
disappeared at noon. and at about q
O'Clock Upon inquiry, found that they
were supported by their wives. These ca
pable, hardworking, energetic women
were dressmakers or milliners or kept
little stores, and their worthless husbands
hung around the depot because they had
no other means OF passing away time
unless the circus was In town or elec-
lions in progress. and turned up invari-
ably for meals. which had been earned
by the wife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.
Test to Determine Best of Three
Courses for Ships.

The battleship Michigan and the torpedo
boat destroyers F1usser and Reid are ia
make a series of important runs over the
three standard courses-the measured mile
Off the Delaware Breakwater. where the
water IL shallow: the one OF Cape Cod
where the water il less shallow. and that
of Rockland, Me-, where the water IL the
deepest. 1t il desired to ascertain with
these three ships which Of the courses
representing different depths. 10 the best
adapted for certain speeds. The test IL
partly q scientific investigation ana partly
FOR the convenience and advantage Of the
shipbuilders in the selection of the course
to be used In the Standardization runs Of
new vessels under trial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
DEFENSE SEEMS PLEASED.
Cross-Examination of Nurse in the
SWope Case

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. April 2s.-Dr
Hyde's attorneys seemed we'll pleased
with the developments in the cross
examination Of Miss Anna Houlihan. a
nurse. which took place this morning
That the nurse never saw Miss Stella
swope, to whom DIR. Hyde is said to
nave given candy just seven days be-
fore she was attacked by typhoid fever,
eat any Of the CONNECTION was brought
out.
MISS Houlihan also testified that she
diq not see DIR. Hyde administer a cap
suie to Chrisman c. Swope December :.
the day the patient had his first con-
vulsion.
Practically all of the entries In the
chart in which she kept records of Chris
man Swopes condition were made at her
convenience from memory. she said To-
day, however. she was unable to recall
many of the actions about the patients
illness. without referring to her chart
She also said she left her records at the
Swope house when she left in Decembe,
and did not see them again until she was
called before the grand jury during
March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
LIVES LOST IN FIRE
Hotel Thoma at Cincinnati
Burned at Midnight.
FOUR BODIES RECOVERED
Believed That More Are In the
Ruins-Scores of Guests
Escape by Windows.
FOUR BODIES RECOVERED

CINCINNATI, April 24-Flames started
In the cellar and shooting up through
the elevator shaft of the Hotel Thoma, q
six-story building. destroyed that build
ing shortly before midnight tonight.
Two bodies have been recovered, and
1t is believed at least four more are in
the ruins of the Hotel Thoma which
burned in the ruined upper story, both
fully dressed. and they had been proba.
bly, suffocated. They have not beer
identified
For more than an hour adjacent prop
erty, including two theaters, was in i'm
minent peril
The fire spread from cellar to roof with
great rapidity, and pedestrians who were
early on the scene assisted scores OF
guests in escaping by windows. Some of
those sleeping on the upper floors were
rescued by firemen with ladders
The fire loss is estimated at about So.
COO
Later-The bodies of two more mer
were found in the ruined upper story
both fully dressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
SNOW D|SPLACES BLOOMS
SPRING BLIZZARD HAS WEST
IN THRALL
Crops Injured by Frost-Cars Tied
Up-Steamer Driven Ashore in
Storm-Cold Wave to St. Lous.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. April 23.-The entire centra
west Is in the grip of a cold snap. A
spring blizzard, 1t is called.
1t is estimated that millions of dollars
of damage has been done to fruit and
other crops. A passenger steamer was
driven ashore and others placed in peril.
Ice and snow were found where yester-
day flowers bloomed. Railway and street
car traffic is impeded by snow drifts.
The storm in many districts amounted
to a calamity, while the most serious
feature of the blizzard was the damage
done to farm products throughout the
central states.
A spectacular incident was the strand
ing Of the Goodrich Line passenger
steamer Iowa on the shore between Ra-
cine and Kenosha.
The Iowa, Capt. w. NJ. Plummer. left
Milwaukee at 1880 o'clock last night
bound for this city. She carried only
six or seven passengers.
While feeling her way through the
thick snow. on Racine. she ran close
to shore and went aground about four
miles south of that city. The passen-
saving crew. Late this afternoon the
Morford, sent from Chicago.
The steamer City of Benton Harbor,
bound from Benton Harbor to this city.
reached port after long and stormy
voyage in the gale and binding snow.
Reports indicating that this Is the most
disastrous storm to fruit and crops that
has occurred in recent years were re-
ceived at the local weather bureau.
Dangerous frosts as far south as Kansas
and Missouri were reported
In the Canadian northwest temperatures
as low as IS were reported. Snow reached
from Duluth to st. Louis. From all the
far northwest country came reports of
ruin wrought by the storm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
HIGHER RANK FOR ]. H. REID.
Retirement as Commander Proposed
in Rill nv Senator Martin.

To place Lieut.. Commander John H.
Reid OF this city on the retired list of the
United States Navy with the rank of
commander is the object of a bill intro
duced in the Senate yesterday by Sen
ator Martin.
With the bill is submitted a letter from
the Secretary of the Navy in favor of
its passage. He explains that the naval
officer will soon be ready to be promoted
to the grade of commander. but that his
present physical condition indicates he will
be unable to pass the physical examina-
ton. Officers Of the army and the Ma
rine Corps, under similar circumstances,
are retired at the grade to which their
seniority entities them to be promoted
and the passage Of the bill will adapt the
same principle to the navy, except that
it will benefit only Lieut.. Commander
Reid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
INQUIRY INTO COTTON POOL.
Alleged Violation of Law in Savan.
nah to Be Investigated.

SAVANNAH. Ga. April 23-AlleRed
violation OF interstate commerce and
antitrust laws in connection with the
operation Of cotton pool in the city will
be investigated by a special grand jury
drawn in the United States court and
ordered to report next Wednesday.
The announcement of the proposed in
qiury into cotton pooling methods here to-
day came as a bombshell to the local cot
ton interests and the investigation is ex-
pected to develop agreements between
the cotton men and railroads similar to
that unearthed at Memphis and other
southern cities several years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

cavalry officers asking for their views
on the subject.
Some officers believe that it is advisable
10 abandon the present infantry rifle ana
go back to the carbine, which is shorter
and pound lighter. Others maintain
that that would be mistake. in that 1t
would equip the cavalry with one sort Of
rifle while the infantry has another; also
that 1t would place the cavalry at dis
advantage by giving it an inferior
weapon. requiring 1t to await the ap-
proach of infantry before it could &C
complish anything in operations against
the enemy.
The conservative view appears to be in
favor OF changing the equipment so that
the present rifle of the infantry, notwith-
standing its length and weight, may be
carried without difficulty. 1t is believed
possible to devise a rifle boot to carry
the rife when a man is mounted which
will overcome the present difficulty of the
rife being in the way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
POLICE TO PROTECT SOLONS.
Prussian Diet Takes Up Question OF
Safeguarding Members.

BERLIN, April 2S.-The Prussian diet
will be placed under police surveillance if
the decision of the rules committee is
adopted by the house. At a meeting Of
the committee today Herr Delbrueck. min
lister of the interior. declared the willing
ness of the government to place a police
officer at the disposal of the president OF
the house, whose duty would be to remove
obstreperous members who refused to re-
spect the ruling of the chair.
The committee acted at the instance of
the clerical and conservative parties and
the incident is an outgrowth of the recent
kissing of Chancellor Won Bethmann- Holl-
veg by socialist members when he at
tempted to speak upon the electoral re-
form bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
QUESTION OF NAVY PAY.
Staff Officers Get Verdict in Question
of Promotion.

Assistant Controller Mitchell has de-
cided in favor of the naval staff officers
in the question Of the date from which be-
gins the increased pay upon promotion
with running mates OF the line"
The question before the controller
was a. to the date from which the officer
Is entitled to pay. Whether 1t shall be
the date of the promotion of his running
mate of the line or the day OF his
confirmation by the Senate, as a pro-
motion not made lin course to fill a
vacancy"
Inasmuch as the difference in time be-
tween the date of promotion of the run
ming mate" and the date of senatorial
confirmation is in some instances four OF
six months, the decision involves a con-
siderable sum of money in the aggregate
The controller decided that the in
creased pay takes effect from the date
of promotion in rank. regardless Of any
delay in senatorial confirmation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Discovery of Rich Lead.

BRISTOL, Tenn, April 23.-At the base
of Clifton Heights. suburb Of Bristol.
there has just been made one of the
most remarkable discoveries of lead
known to the south. Fred Dulaney,
superintendent of the electric car line.
took from q cistern which he was having
dug seven tons Of galena. or sulphite Of
lead, which assays more than 70 per cent
pure lead. The vein as far as uncovered
is six feet in thickness. The property
will be developed without delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
RECEIVER FOR MORSE.
Appointed for All Property of the
Banker Convict

NEW YORK, April 23.-Justice Banch-
ard today appointed Frank Hendrick The
receiver Of all property and effects of
Charles w. Morse. banker. who is serving
a fifteen-year sentence in the fedora |
prison at Atlanta, Ca
This action was the result of a suit
brought by Montrose w. Houck TO col
lect judgment for $2S,525 obtained
against Morse in the supreme court De
cember %, 1908 A sheriff's executions
against Morse's property was returned
unsatisfied December IL, 1909 The re-
ceiver was applied for by Rollins & Roi-
Inns, counsel for Houck The bond of thu
receiver was fixed at $1,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Whites of Georgia Warned.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Dr. David q.
Barrow, chancellor of the University OF
Georgia, speaking tonight before a gath
ering of the institutions alumni, warned
the whites OF his state against retrogres-
sion, a danger that confronted those peo-
pies apt to grow content with their capa-
bilities through a false standard Of COM
parison with a preponderance Of interiors
who surround them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
ST0LYPIN REv0KEs ORDER.
Expulsion of Jews From Kief, to Be
Investigated.

ST. PETERSBURG. April 23-The sov-
eminent order for the wholesale expul-
sion of Jews residing illegally in Kief and
elsewhere outside the pale which was TO
have taken effect April %. has been sus-
pended by Premier Stolypin to permit
further examination Of the matter.
Meantime local commissions are being
formed to revise the lists of those market
for expulsion with the expected result
that large proportion of the latter will
be allowed to remain where they now re-
side. The order of expulsion was issued
as result Of an agitation which began
In the duma. In kief alone 200 Jews
are affected by the order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Successful Aeroplane Flights.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 23.-Glenn
H. Curtiss and Charles K. Hamilton
made successful aeroplane flights here
today Curtiss reached a height of zoe
feet, carrying a passenger. and attained
an estimated speed of fortyfive miles
an hour. Hamilton assembled 900 feet
and reached an estimated speed of from
forty-s seven to fifty miles an hour
Weather conditions were favorable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
REDUCES OLEO TAX.
Representative Sabath's Bill Aimed
at Butter Trust.

Because the butter trust of Illinois has
the state practically within it's grasp in
controlling the price of quality butter. as
he AYERS, Representative SABBATH of that
state yesterday introduced a lengthy bill
reducing the tax on oleomargarine from
ten cents per pound to quarter of a
cent q pound. and strictly regulating the
manufacture and sale OF butter.
The bill states that 1T Is designed to
protect dealers. manufacturers and con-
sumers Of all kinds of cream butter
Farms and diaries are exempted from
the restrictions in the making and sale
OF butter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
FAVORS THE DEALERS.
Tennessee Supreme Court Decides
"Beerette Tax Case"

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 23.-The SUI
preme court of Tennessee today decided
that the case known as the beerette tax
case. involving the liability Of dealers in
intoxicating alcoholic liquors for the
regular saloon license, in favor of the
beerette dealers. The court held that
the beverage sold to make the dealer
liable for the tax must be one that is in
toxicating.
Whether or not 1t is intoxicating is a
question of fact to be determined upon
the proof in each and every case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Banker Dies on Railroad Train.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Horace Tracey
Brumley, sixty years old. a banker of
Newark, N. J., died on New York Cen
trial train today while he was on his way
to New York from the Adirondacks,
where he had gone in search of health.
With Mr. Brumley when he died were q
physician and his daughter, Mrs. Helen
Brumley Baldwin. The body will be
taken to Newark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
No Record Here of Earthquake.

Prof Marvin, head Of the seismic
branch of the weather bureau, said last
night that the instruments Of his depart
ment made no record Of the earthquake
tremors reported at Atlantic City yes
terday.
City he said. to record such disturbances,
so that, as far as the weather bureau is
concerned, there is no record of an earth
quake disturbance here or at Atlantic
City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Escaped Convict Captured.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, April %
After being at liberty forty-six hours.
Theodore Murdock, one of the six con-
victs who made a dash for freedom last
Thursday from the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, was captured to-
night
Frank Grigware Is the only one Of the
mutinous convicts still at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Senator Depew referred to the coming
retirement Of Senator Aldrich.
Senator Aldrich." he said, 'has
labored for a sound and scientific
financial system for the country, but he
realizes that he is discredited by the
people. and the only way to bring about
the creation of such a system he ad-
vocates Is to retire from the Senate
and devote himself to it."
The senator quoted jovially from an
evening newspaper, which said recently
that he would cling to his ONCE as
long as he lived. and heartily Endorsed
the sentiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Shooting Of Smuggler No Crime.

Advices have been received at the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor that
Immigrant Inspector Conklin, who shot
a Mexican who was trying to smuggle
Chinese into San Diego. Thursday, has
been acquitted by a coroner's jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

ROANOKE, Va, April 23.-The Nor
folk and Western railway has granted
an increase of 6 per cent in the wages
Of its scale men, and raised their
salaries SO per month in addition. The
increase affects about 800 employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

ing purposes. instead of sheets Of sixteen
cards. as formerly announced in the sup
plement to the Postal Guide. The sheet
cards will be packed in cases of 1900
cards each. The admonition is given that
the cards in order to be valid for postage
must be cut to the regulation size, "a BY
5h inches