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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25

Arthur Cornwell, twenty-three years
old. was convicted late yesterday after
noon Of murder in the second degree, in
connection with the killing of his brother
in-law. James e. Courtney, at the lat
ter's home. 2O26 Sth street northwest. in
June last. Cornwell was tried on a
charge OF flrst-degree murder, but the
jury reduced the crime to second degree.
The prisoner was not sentenced, but re-
turned to jail to await the usual four
days delay given by the law for fling q
motion for new trial. The penalty pro-
vided by the code for second-degress muir.
der is Imprisonment in the penitentiary
for not less than twenty years.
Cornwelrs counsel put up a plea OF
mental deficiency, and also claimed their
client was too drunk on the night OF
the homicide to form an intent to com.
NIT murder.
Attorneys James f. Kelly and Mat.
thew e. O'Brien represented the prisoner
United States Attorney Wilson and AS.
sistant United States Attorney Proctor
conducted the prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
CHANGE IN TOWN POLICY
MEETS WITH DISFAVOR
+Hyattsville, Nd, Not Likely to
Adopt the Commission Form
of Government.
special Correspondence of The Star.


EVANSVILLE, November 25, 1911
The proposition to change the form Of
government here from a mayor and COM
mon council to board of commissioners
is still in crude form, and it is said to tie
doubtful If anything will be done in the
matter. Councilmen Edward Devlin and
o. A. Greager, from the second ward,
and Councilmen w. A. Dorr and w. w.
Maloney, from the first ward talked with
Tyre Stars correspondent about the mat
ter last night. and all expressed them
selves being against the proposition.
They, however, stated they would be glad
10 consider the proposition if any one
could show them any advantage to be
derived from the change.
One Effect of Change.
Councilman Kelly of the third ward
could not be seen. and Councilman Full
given the matter sufficient thought to be
able to express any views Should the
change come during this session of the
Legislature, Councilmen Dorr, Greager and
Kelly, from the first, second and third
wards, respectively. would be legislated
out of office. they were elected last
May for two years.
BELLS looks with favor upon the proposi-
ton. or at any rate would favor a re-
ductton in the number of councilman. 1t
is known that those who favor the
schange believe that three men at a salary
Of 500 per year each would give the
Town better service than six men who do
not receive any salary and a majority of
whom are out of town all day.
Aim of the Advocates.
The advocates of the change also want
10 have man take charge of the pump
ing station, collection of taxes and the
street improvements. 1t is proposed. to
o~away with the Office of town treasurer
and substitute therefor a town superin-
iepdent or general Inspector. The pres
ent treasurer, w. H. Richardson, was
elected for two years last May, and it is
said TO be doubtful whether the legisla-
ture would have authority to pass a law
which would deprive him of his Office.
The treasurer's commission on taxes COL
1ected amounts, Ii is said. to about $SOO
per annun- Former Mayor William p.
Magruder and former Councilman w. A
BROOKS are said TO be the prime movers
in the projected change.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Wine Drinking.

From the London Times
France alone pays taxes in a good year
on more than a thousand millions of
gallons of wine-and there are six bottles
to gallon-while Algeria, planted with
vines in the days of the phylloxera. SUPP
plies no less than two hundred millions.
tonneau of POO gallons is a pretty large
vessel; thousand such would fill good
sized ship; and We have to multiply that
by a thousand before we reach the pro-
duction of this one French colony-one-
fifth of all the wine consumed in France
or re-exported.
The pot used to call the kettle black.
but what will the fireless cooker say 10
the paper bag?-Toledo Blade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
.JUROR'S-[AB0R RECORD
BAR TO HIS SERVICE
Counsel for Mcnamara DeveI-
ops That Calvin D. Collins
DisIikeS Unions.

Los ANGELES. Cal, November 25.-
Namara murder trial did not want Calvin
d. Collins. an Ohioan, who has lived most
Of his life in Wilkesbarre, Pa, as a juror
were developed today in an examination
conducted by Lecomte Davis of counsel
for the defense.
Questions put under the law to develop
Collins state of mind placed him quickly
in the class of men who, whether or not
they are eventually adjudged fair jurors.
are likely to be excused peremptorily
from trying James B. Mcnamara for
murder.
Juror in Labor Cases.
Following the discovery yesterday that
Collins had had a strike called against
him In his cigar factory in Wilkesbarre,
Attorney Davis found that he had been
juror over year ago in what are
known locally as 1.-The picketing cases"
These were jury trials conducted under
a city ordinance which prohibits any kind
Of strike picketing in the city of Los
Angeles. Collins said the jury on which
he served disagreed, but that from his
service on 1t. and from other things, he
had formed an unfavorable impression of
unions. The views Of the Los Angeles
Times he pronounced more radical than
his own.
Eleventh Venire Monday.
CounseTs examination of the eleventh
venire was expected to start Monday,
there being one or two hold-overs from
the tenth when court opened today. The
state faces this venire with five peremp-
tory challenges left out of it's original ten,
as against seven peremptory challenges
left out of the twenty with which the
defense started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
BACK NUMBER TOMORROW
Cold Wave Comes Quickly and Soor
Passes AWAY.

The cold wave which descended upon
Washington last night will be q thing
OF the past tomorrow, according to the
forecast made at the weather bureau this
afterdoon. Fair and decidedly warmer is
the prediction
The lowest point reached by the nner-
curry last night and early this morning
was 81. At 1 O'clock this afternoon the
thermometer registered 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Funeral of MYRTLE Smith

fnneral services for Myrtle Smith, the
sister of the murdered boy, responsibility
for whose death Tony Melano is charged
with. who died of poison taken with SUD
cloai intent, according to the coroners
statement will be held Monday morning
at st Pauls Church, 18th and v streets
northwest Father Maclin will off1ciata
increment VIII be private in Mount olive
cemetery. o'e'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Deals With Human Soul.

''Des Weite Land" is that broad and
can never be so fully. completely filled
by even the strongest emotion that there
Is not room for the growth of a crop OF
minor and incidental passions. A pleas
ure-loving. skeptical and frivolous hus-
band. whose infidelities are frequent and
variegated, is deeply loved by a devoted
gestion that she finally follows his ex-
ample and in a single transient episode
strays from the path Of duty. The hus-
band thereupon challenges her boyish
lover and kills him-not because OF
wounded pride or honor. but because Of
wife, which has subsisted all along
Thus 1t Is proved, according to the
Schnitzler formula that true love is not
necessarily a ground for loyalty. and
that disloyalty does not preclude true
love. The dialogue is clever and the
great length has initiated against it's
success, however. and criticism has been
in the main adverse.
Germany is in need of some German
Disrael to write The Calamities Of Mu-
sicians." He would find material for at
Felix Weingartner, who has just been de-
feated In a suit against the highest au-
thority in the direction Of the Royal
Overwhelmingly against 'the King Of
Prussia" When. in 1903. Herr Vein
gartner gave up his post as conductor of
the Royal Opera symphony concerts and
went to Vienna the director of the opera
declared him to have broken his con-
tract. The ensuing controversy resulted
in a settlement by which Herr Wein-
gartner, In addition to the forfeiture OF
Z sum In cash, bound himself not to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Something From Nothing.
From Ave Maris

From Ave Mara.
Some children were once asked by an
inspector at school examination whether
they knew the meaning of the WORD
scandal" One little girl. holding her
hand up, attracted the notice of the in
spector. He desired her. to answer the
question. upon which she gave this def.
milton: Nobody does nothing, and every.
body goes round telling It."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
John Griffith. Actor. Dead. :

NEW YORK, November 25-John
Grinith. an old-time actor. known widely
In the west. died here today Of gastr.tis
HIS home was In Springfield. ILL.,. where
his family resides.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Correct.

From the Fiiegcnde Biaetter.
II think I have seen you before some
where or other"
Il daresay. I've been there several
times"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25

"A Daughter True" by Francis Robert
lie Roux, in our Sunday Magazine tomor-
row. Entered In our Prize Story Com
petition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25

Mrs. Jane Wright. widow of w w
Wright, died at her home IN cn.,, !.
county, Va. Thursday. She was eieh,We
two years old oishty-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
|SI1E Of OLD RESERVOIR
ASAP|EASURE RESORT
Appeal to Congress to Provide
Means for Public Park
in Georgetown.

Georgetown will have another public
park in the near future. If Congress pro-
vfdes the means for carrying out the
plans OF the army engineers in charge OF
public works in this vicinity. The move
ment initiated many months abo by the
ment initiated many months ago by the
utilization of the abandoned reservoir at
the intersection of Wisconsin avenue and
received official Endorsement. and Con-
gress is to be asked to provide the means
for carrying it into effect.
Approved in Report.
At the last previous session of Congress
a resolution was adopted calling for a re-
port as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of selling GER
tain tracts Of land owned by the govern
ment along the line of the Washington
aqueduct between the Dalecarlia reservoir
at the District line and the Washington
city reservoir near Howard University.
Capt. Hannum, Corps of Engineers, then
in charge of the Washington aqueduct,
prepared the report and gave descr1p-
ton of the lands in question. One of these
was the site of the reservoir at the corner
of Wisconsin avenue and r street, cover
ing an area of is acres That land was
purchased by the government he said,
during the construction of the Washing
ton city tunnel to convey water to the
filtration plant many years ago.
The land was designed for high serv-
ice reservoir to supply water to certain
portions of Georgetown. 1t was used for
that purpose for several years.
sit is no longer needed for that pur-
pose,' said Capt. Hannum. NOR is 1t
needed for any present or prospective
use of the Washington aqueduct." RE
did not think it should be sold, however,
as it appeared to be desirable to retain
it for future development into small
park for the benefit of the people, for
which it is admirably suited
Endorsed by Col Cosby.
Col. Cosby, the engineer officer in charge
of public buildings and grounds. who was
called on for a report in regard to that
particular land, also Endorsed the PROPOSE
ton to utilize the land for park purposes.
He said it was well located for that use.
and recommended that Congress be asked
to appropriate $4,000, In order to convert
1t into a park. Both the officers men
toned have recently repeated their pre-
yiously expressed views. and the chief of
engineers of the army, the Commissioners
of the District and the people Of George
town generally are on record as favoring
the conversion Of the abandoned reservoir
property into q park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
COURT ADVISES WIFE
TO Be SHY Of POCKETS
Only Unhappiness and Trouble
Come From Searching
Those of Husband.

| wife should not 60 through her hus-
bands pockets and take from them let
tiers written to her husband by other
women. This was the opinion Of Judge
Mullowny in Police Court today, when
| the case Of Mrs. Laura Jackson, accused
| Of assaulting Elton Jackson. her husband,
came up. Jackson told the court that
his wife had found letter in his pocket
| while he was asleep. written by another
woman. and that after she found it. she
'came at him like q tiger"
Two years ago Judge Mullowny ruled in
the Police Court that it was q woman
right to go through her husbands pockets
| when he was asleep. and help herself to
the money which she might find there,
and that the husband was nothing more
than a domestic ingrate'' IL he resented
1t The distinction between money and
| letters written by other women is clearly
drawn by the court, so far as the right
Of wives is concerned.
Wife Was Sure Aroused.
In describing the action Of his wife
after she found the troublesome letter.
jackson told the court today:
"She came at me like a tiger; jerked
the buttons off my vest, scratched my
race aHd KICKED me on the Sh1nS. Then
she Topped over with Mysteries and had
to go to a hospital for four weeks"
ITS all true but the scratching and the
kicking and jerking off the vest buttons"
interrupted Mrs. Jackson. He broke my
heart" she added.
That's what you get for going through
your husbands pockets when he's asleep"
remarked the court. I'm the hospital al
most a month as consequence! II you
hadn't been so curious you wouldn't have
found that letter. See what you've done.
Sufficiently Punished.
Il think you've been punished enough
the court continued. I'll dismiss this
charge. but keep your hands out of your
husbands pockets in the future. You'll
be more peaceful in mind and body If
you do
When Jackson told the court he sewed
on the buttons that his wife jerked from
his vest, that he could cook a dinner and
often did it when his wife wasn't feeling
well, Judge Mullowny said to the wife:
You don't know what a jewel you
have here. Keep peace with him, even if
you do find letters from other women in
his pockets. They are liable to snap him
up before you know it. He's too valuable
to be neglected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25

interest in social questions. but is a deter
mined enemy Of socialism, to which. il
seems, he traces most Of the troubles of
his country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
ELECTIONS AT HAND
German People Will Choose
Reichstag January II.
SOUL OF THE AUTOMOBILE
Motor Vehicle Builders Declare It
Has Been Discovered.
WRITES OF CARS WORK
Former Member of Russian Rulers
Bodyguard Says Nicholas
Wanted to Visit America.
WRITES OF CARS WORK
BY CARL wALDEMAR.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
BERLIN. November 20. 1911.
The general election for the new reichs-
tag will take place January IL next. This
announcement, which has been antici-
pated with such eagerness. is now made
by the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
so that the minds of those politicians
who were apprehensive that the govern
ment would spring an early date upon
them will be set at rest, The parties
toral campaign, and efforts will be made
to conclude the business of the present
session as soon as possible. =
The government is already in pre-
carious position, and does not attract
loyal support. Already rumors are afloat
that Herr Won Kiderlen- Waechter. If not
the chancellor himself. has lost the con-
fidence of the kaiser, and cannot look
forward to long tenure Of Office. With
election time approaching a large num-
Der of deputies will be more inclined to
consult the desires of the public, which
is Enthusiastically demanding an explana-
tom Of the empires foreign policy.
Crowd to Motor Show.
This is the day Of the automobile. The
Berlin public has shown extraordinary
interest in the International motor car
exhibition and the huge hall where 1t is
held has been packed. On some days 1t
has been necessary to shut up certain
sections to prevent dangerous overcrowd-
ing. According to motor car experts, the
display has a special interest in that it
disc. oses the automobile in a new and
possibly final stage of its evolution. In
its earlier history the motor car, SO far
as outward appearances go, lacked a dis
tinctive character of it's own. An attempt
to wed the new-fangled motor with the
old-fashioned carriage. it looked the
has been developing an artistic type and
individuality of its own. and this. the ex-
perts declare. has now been achieved.
However that may be- the new auto has
as much unity of style and as much an
entity of it's own as a yacht and like a
yacht, it Is thing of graceful, flowing
lines from Prov to stern. 1.-The soul of
has at last been discovered"
The sensation Of the theatrical season
thus far, is Arthur Schnitzler's new five
act drama, 'Das Weite Land" How
strong a hold the Viennese author has
upon the German public may be inferred
from the fact that the new play received
simultaneous first productions" not only
in Berlin and Vienna, but In Munich
Leipzig. Hamburg, Hanover and several
other cities. The critics have evidently
found 1t a hard nut to crack. however
and whether it will add to Herr Schnitz-
ler's reputation seems more than doubt
full. Like most of his other plays, OF
course 1t is an essay in psychology of ir.
regular love relations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
AWAIT BIG CONTESTS
Throngs at Savannah Eager to
See Automobile Races.
|ALL HOTELS ARE CROWDED
Late Arrivals May Have to Camp
Out in Their Cars.
WATCHING GREATEST DRIVERS
Struggle for the Vanderbilt Cup
Will Take Place Monday,
Grand Prize Thursday.
JAIL HOTELS ARE CROWDED
WATCHING GREATEST DRIVERS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAVANNAH. Ga, November 25.-The
laundering Of high-power engines propel-
ling thousands of pounds Of steel and
their human masters over Georgia roads
today doomed forth the proclamation that
Savannah is on the eve Of tho greatest
automobile racing carnival in history.
Grant, milford, Wishart, Tetzlaff. De
Palma, Lawson. Bruce-Brown, Wagner,
CODE. Hearn. Hemery, Burman-names
for motor racers to conjure with-tore at
breakneck speed in their tuning-up spins
over the seventeen-mile course, where
the motor classics of the year will be
run-the Vanderbilt cup, Savannah chal-
Ienge and Tiedeman trophy races Mon
day, and the Grand Prize Thursdays,
Thanksgiving day.
Everything in Savannah shut down at
noon today, excepting the street car sys-
tenn, which enjoyed the greatest popular
ity in its history, conveying crowds of
natives and visitors to points OF vantage
a.ong the course, where they could view
the worlds greatest drivers going
through their last workouts. The ques-
ton was asked, If such a crowd gathers
just to watch practice. what can we ex-
races actually take place?
Every dOCel damned.
The entire city is turned over to the god
of speed. Every hotel is packed and jam
med to the limit and many later arrivals
will come to grief over the hotel problem
unless they can arrange for accommoda-
ton in private dwellings. Automobiles
full of excitement-seeking enthusiasts
from all parts of the country have
swarmed toward Savannah as though
drawn by huge electric magnets. They
are sprinkled over the fields and pas
lures in farms roundabout, and every
plot of vacant land in the city also has
been converted into temporary Out-of-
door garage. 1t is a safe bet that, when
the expected heavy influx of additional
invaders on Sunday is over, many motor
lists will be confronted with the necessity
of sleeping in their cars until daybreak
Monday morning, when the first race is
on.
The Tiedeman trophy race, which starts
the ball a-rolling at Sunup Monday, Is
the least important of the four big con-
tests, but, nevertheless, promises thrill
ing race. The prize for the winner is the
Mayor Tiedeman cup and $1,000. and the
distance ten laps, or approximately 10
miles. Among the entrants are FL. l..
Hartman, Abbott-Detroit; Mort Roberts,
Abbott-Detroit: Robert Evans, EMF;
Frank Witt, EMF; Jack, and three fast
Ford cars.
The Savannah challenge trophy carries
with it, also, a cash prize OF $1,000. and
is thirteen laps, or approximately III
miles This race, which will start inn
mediately after the initial one, has among
it's contestants the following: j. d. Nc
Nay, Case: w. F. Barnett, 'jr., Mercer;
Nikrent, Marmon, and Cyrus Patschke,
MarmOn.
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One Rises in British West In
dies Without Warning.
CONSISTS OF MUD OR CLAY
Doubtful Whether It Will With.
stand Attacks Of the Sea.
POSSESSED BY GREAT BRITAIN
Governor Of Trinidad, Going to Plant
Union Jack on Its Soil, Finds
It Within Limit.

TRINIDAD. British West Indies. No
vember 25.-If you stand at Erin point,
on the southern shores Of this island, and
gaze out into the Atlantic ocean toward
the coast of Venezuela, you will see why
British dominions are larger by two and
half acres than they were before Satur-
day, November 4.
On that date an island Of the volcanic
type. not uncommon in southern waters,
thrust itself above the sea with char
acteristic rumble. kissing of gases and
flashes Of fire. greatly to the alarm of the
people on the Trinidad shore.
The new island has not yet been named,
and as its composition is largely oozy
blue mud or clay. it Is doubtful if 1t will
Withstand the attacks of the sea. Any
day it is apt to disappear whence it came
and Great Britain will have lost its new
est possession. The enterprising Governor
of Trinidad visited the island with party
of officials shortly after it made its ap-
pearance, ready to plant the Union Jack
on the warm, oozy@ soil; but measure
ments showed that the island was within
the three-mile limit and planting the flag
was unnecessary.
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conduct concerts in Berlin for q period
Of years 1t is this settlement which he
has now endeavored to set aside as both
unjust and contrary to public interest.
but the court holds that the agreement
must stand.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-30
new YORK STATE
HOUSE DAMAGED
$4,0O0,000I|||00
) ! t'<'.
Plans for Immediate Repairs
are Being Made
Walls Of Building are 1hot
Z to be Unsafe
10y Associated Press.)

Albany, N. Y, March 30.-The work
of re-habitating the fire swept state
capitol which began yesterday while
flames were still cracking in the
western wing still continued today,
with increasing effort directed to dry
ing out portions of the great building
untouched by fire but soaked with
tons Of water poured on the conflag-
ration.
State Architect Ware recommended
that the legislature authorize immed-
late preparations of plans for rebuild
ing the ruined third and fourth floors
in the west end. Unofficial estimate
placed the cost of reconstruction close
to $4,OOO,OOO. The money must be ta-
ken directly from the treasury. The
first inspection today convinced the
state architect that the remaining
walls of he southwest cupola were un-
safe and occupants Of houses on the
opposite side of the street have been
directed to vacate until the walls are
pulled down or showed safely into
place.