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The Washington times., 1911-08-22
NIGHT FLIGHT FROM
CHEVY CHASE MADE
BY ARMY AY|ATORS
Lieutenants Milling and Kirt-
land Make Perfect Land
ing by Firelight.

Night flights by aeroplanes are pos.
sible now. This was demonstrated last
night at 7:40 O'Clock, when Lieutenant
Milling and Lieutenant Kirkland, in the
new Burgess-Wright biplane, few from
Chevy Chase Lake back to College
Park, making a fine landing on the avi-
alton field by the aid OF two bonfires,
and an automobile searchlight which
illuminated the ground to the point
where the flyers were able to pick out a
landing place.
A little bit disappointed in not being
able to continue their flight yesterday
morning to Frederick, Nd, after the
Burgess-Wright machine was crippled
in field near kensingtCn, Lieutenant
Milling and Lieutenant Kirkland de-
cided TO make a cross-country flight
later in the day. The injured machine
was pulled by an automobile from Ken
sington to College Park, where repairs
were made.
At $50 clock the two aviators start
ed on their trip TO Chevy Chase, twelve
miles to the southwest. They arrived
at the golf course at clock and were
received by the members Of the club
and entertained until 7 o'clock. II was
late when they began the return flight
to College Park, but once in the air
Lieutenant Milling, who had charge Of
the control, headed the machine on a
perfect airline course for the aviation
field, and at 7:4o made a perfect landing
by the aid Of bonfifes and searchlight
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
This Date EVentful
In Martial History

This date is an eventful one in mar
tial history. August 22, 14S5, when
Richard III was slain in the battle
OF Bosworth Field, the la& engage
ment between the houses of York and
Lancaster On August %, 1851,
Charles II was defeated at Worcester
by Cromwell
On this date in 1776. General Howe
landed 10000 British soldiers on Long
Island: in 1S49, Venice eapitulated to
the Austrians; in 1861, the Confeder-
ate congress closed It's third session
at Richmond; in 1870, the neutrality
OF the United States in the Franco
Prussian war was declared, and in
1873, the independence Of Servia was
declared at Belgrade.
Eight years ago today Lord Sails
bury, prime minister of England, died,
at the age OF seventy-three.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Ear GRATED On.

FORT WAYNE. Ind. Aug. 2-R. 3.
Russell. an aviator. whose ear was torn
on In an aeroplanc accident, is out OF
In place.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
DRAWING MISSING,
SCHOOL MKUP IS
FURTHER TANGLED
Surveyors Plat, Showing
Building Restrictions,
Disappears.
ARCHITECT ASHFORD
SEES A BIG SAVING
He Declares Alleged Mistake Will
Ultimately Be to City's
Profit

New light was thrown on the con
troversy between the Board OF Educa
ton and Municipal Architect Ashford
over a mix-up in the plans for the $3.50
900 building for the Normal Training
School this morning, when It was dis
covered that the original plat Of tho
Eleventh and Harvard streets ground
prepared by District Surveyor Hazen
had disappeared.
The plat was drawn in Mr. Hazen s
office Immediately after Congress made
an appropriation for the purchase of the
ground. This plat, 1t is said, showed
that there is a thirty-f foot building re-
str1ction line not only for every lot IN
that section OF the city, but for the
property in question.
EVERY clerk in the surveyors office. the
offioe Of the engineer department Of
the District. and in Municipal Archi-
tect Ashford's department, has been en-
Eaged today in q fruitless search for
the paper.
Pleads Ignorance.
Mr.. Ashford says he did not know of
q restriction clause in the deed Sur.
veyor Hazen says a copy Of the plat.
showing the restriction line, was sent to
Mr.. Ashford. Mr.. Ashford says he
never saw II.
In the Engineer Department. the
original plat, showing a wide red
line which indicated the distance from
the street any building can be To-
Gated. is supposed to have been filed
Immediately following the exclusive
announcement in The Times last week
that a serious bungle in the plans
for the building had been made, the
original plat disappeared. Today the
officials in charge Of the search were
about to cease their work, but de-
cided to give at least one more day
20 the work.
In the meantime, work on the Elev-
enth street building is being carried
on. Contractors, temporarily delayed
in their construction work, this morn
ing set about preparatory work for
excavating. A large force Of labor
ers will be sent to the Eleventh street
site tomorrow, and the excavating
will be started in earnest.
Says City Gains.
"Instead of losing money by the al
legged mixup in the plans" Mr.. Ash
ford said this morning. the District
will save a large sum.
"The original plans for the struc-
ture called for a building to face
Harvard street. At the request of the |
Board OF EDUCATION. my office decided |
to permit the structure to face Elev- |
enth street This was after the plans
had practically been completed They
asked that this change be made be-
cause it would permit larger assem-
bly, hall. / agreed to it, and later the
discovery was made that if the Elev-
enth street side were used as a front
the building must of necessity be
larger. Then 1t was that we found
the site would be too small Now. |
NJ 70 h.
the difficulty will be settled to the
Of ALL"
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Two Drowned When
Packet Hits ROWbOat

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 22--Their
small roWboat run down by a steam
packet in the Chesapeake and Delaware
canal, between Lorewood Grove and st.
Georges, late last night, John McFarlan md,
eyed twenty-one years, of S21 North
Thirty-first street. and Daniel A. Barr,
aged twenty years, of 334 Mt. Vernon
street, Philadelphia, were drowned
John T. Ryan, of 1897 Wallace street.
Philadelphia, who was with them, es-
capped
The three young men had been camp
ing along the canal
The bodies were brought to the
morgue in this city early this morning.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Columbus Fountain
Contract Is Awarded

The contract for the construction OF
the Columbus memorial fountain on the
plaza in front of the main entrance OF
the Union Station, has been awarded
to J. c. Richardson & Son, of New
York. The bid of this firm was 81, ,S54,
exclusive of carvings. The cost Of the
carving will depend upon the sculptor
employed to 60 the work
The award is said to have been made
by Colonel Cosby, superintendent of
public buildings and grounds, mainly
upon recommendation Of Daniel H. Bur
man, architect of the Union Station,
who also designed the Columbus me-
mortal.
Included IN the sculptural work is a
heroic-siZed figure Of Columbus, fig
ure of an American Indian and a white,
and also the prov of a caravel with a
symbolic figurehead, and figures of two
lions and two ca giles and a globe of the
world
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Miss Martha Russell
Dead at Plymouth

Word has been received in this city
o1 the death of Miss Martha LIE Var
ran Russell, whose residence was 1921
Twenty first street northwest Miss
Russell died Sunday at the home of
Benjaman A. Hathaway, in Plymouth,
Mass, where she had gone for the
summer. Death came as the result Of
sell, who was siXty-five years old,
had long suffered.
Miss Russell resided in Washington
with Miss Elizabeth Bancroft Bliss.
She was we'll known in Plymouth and
Boston, where she spent much of her
time. She was the sister of Col.
George B. Russell, U. S. A, and Of
Col. Andrew P. Russell, U. s. A, re-
tired.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Automobile Proves
First Aid to Crippled
Airship at College Park

The automobile is proving a useful
helper 10 the aeroplane, for when a
flyer is crippled and unable to get up
in the air and continue its course, 1t
can easily be hooked on the rear Of
an automobile and hauled to a repair
shop.
Early this morning Lieutenant Arm
old, who is engineer on the old war
horse" Wright, drove from the city
Of Gaithersburg, Nd, in Captain
Chambers automobile in order to
bring the aeroplane back to College
Park,
The machine arriving there will be
repaired in time for some flights this
evening at 6 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
La Conte Is Naming
Haitian Diplomats

CAPE HAITIEN, Aug. N.-President
La Conte Is today naming representa-
ttves Of the new government to foreign
powers. The La Conte administration
ships OF the United States and other
foreign powers In the harbor with q
presidential salute.
La Conte has issued a proclamation
appropriating $4,000 to generals and
soldiers Of the revolutionary army, and
10000 for citizens for damages OF war.
The entire property in the village Is
estimated at 5000.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Funeral of Mrs. Bennett
Held This Morning

The funeral Of Mrs. Lottie j. Bennett.
wife of John 8. Bennett, who died at
the family home, l47 Eleventh street
northeast, Sunday morning, was held at
the residence this morning at 10 o'clock.
the Rev. @. Freeland Peter, assistant
pastor of the Epiphany Church, offcia-
ting. Private interment was made In
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mrs. Bennett was a daughter Of
Charles A. Judd, OF Watertown, Wis,
and daughter-in-law Of Joseph A. Ben
nett, formerly appointment clerk in the
Department of Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Hay Fever Victims
Adopt New Call

BOSTON. Aug. 22.-"Choo choo; ha-
choo, hachoo, h'choo'' is the new yell
that was adopted today by members
Of the Boston local Of the United States
Hay Fever Association, which meets
on the mountains of Bethlehem, N. H,
where 1t is never damp. on August go
It's a sure enough organization, with
headquarters at 125 East Twenty-sev-
enth street. New York city. The Beth
lehem convention will continue two
days.
The Washington times., 1911-08-22
Football Romance
To End in Wedding

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Aug. IA ro-
nance Of the football field Is disclosed
In Invitations received in this city to the
marriage Of John Nathan Levine, q
PLAYER, and Florence Newton Flanders,
Of Orange. N. j.. sister Of Carl 8 Elan.
ders. who played on the Yale eleven
with Levine.
The two men roomed together At COL
lege, and It was after one Of tho big
football garnes here that Levine met
Miss Flanders. The marriage IL set Tor
September 8 at Orange.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
HORNET TO Be
BROUGHT BACK
The Central American State Seems
Not Anxious to LesaIize Registry
of Little Vessel.

Washington, June S.-The little
gunboat Hornet, detained in Hondur-
an waters by United States war YES
sci and charged with being filibuster
in the recent revolution against Hon.
duras, will be returned to New Or
leans in a few days for trial in the
libel suit instituted by the Department
of Justice, alleging violation of the
neutrality laws of the United States.
This involves the forfeiture of the
vessel. The American gunboat WheeI-
ing, now at Puerto Cortez, Honduras,
with the Hornet, has been instructed
to arrange for the return of the YES
sci to American jurisdiction.
The Hornet sailed from New Or
leans unarmed on Dec. %, but later
appeared in Honduran waters as a
fighting ship. Her registry was chang
ed from American to Honduran while
at Ruatan Island by officials, it is
claimed, appointed by Manuel Bonil-
la, the leader of the revolution.
Several weeks ago, the State De-
partment asked the government of
Honduras if it desired to legalize this
register and accept the Hornet as a
government vessel. The Honduran
government, it is said, does not ap-
pear to be interested in this direction,
and consequently the little ship will
be brought Immediately to American
jurisdiction for trial.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
Low RATES TO The
GULFPORT CONVENTION

All railroads in Mississippi have
granted a rate of one fare plus 25
cents for the round trip on account of
the statewide immigration conven-
vention to be held at Gulfport on June
23rd and Gath under the auspicies of
the Mississippi Land Improvement AS
ISOLATION.
The interest being manifested In
the big gathering Is shown by the ap-
pointment of additional lists of dele.
gates each passing day. The boards
Of supervisors of the seventy-eight
counties are holding their sessions this
week. and, almost without exception.
they have appointed delegates to the
Gulfport convention, while may sun.
ervisors will personally attend the
gathering.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
FIRE UNDERWRITERS IN
SESSION AT VICkSBURG.

Jackson, Miss, June S.-The conven-
ton of Mississippi Fire Underwriters
assemblies in Vicksburg Thursday as
the rendezvous and from there will
take steamboat for the trip to Green.
vile, where the annual meeting will
be held Friday and Saturday. Insur-
ance Commissioner Henry will attend
the sessions at Greenville. The asso.
citation is composed of about $50 mem
bers, and will probably draft some
suggestions for the next legislature,
notably in regard to the inter insur-
ance proposition and other matters of
improving the state laws relating to
insurance. The citizens of Greenville
are making preparations to handsome
ly entertain the visitors.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08

there is typhoid in the house it is a
menace to the entire community I'M
less the greatest precautions are TAX
en-. The house should be screened, or
the patient kept under mosquito bar
All discharges from the patient should
be subjected to liberal applications Of
carbolic acid or chloride of lime: bed
ding and all other utensils made ster-
lie with boiling water. If these pre-
cautions are not taken, the disease is
spread by flies. One fly, walking over
the lips of a typhoid patient will ac-
cumulate enought germs on his mas
ty fuzzy feet to inoculate an army.
Then he flies somewhere else and be-
gins to distribute the germs. Kill the
flies, and be careful of the typhoid
patients. Every community has an
interest in this, for every case of ty-
phoid is menace to every communi-
ty."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
WASTEfUL USERS
OF CITY WATER
commissioners Have Instructed the
Police to Enforce City Ordinance
And Trouble May Occur.

Wasteful users of city water are
going to come in for a lot of trouble
If they don't look out There is an
ordinance against the waste of water
and the Commissioners have instruct
ed the police force to watch closely
and catch some of these careless
householders and bring them before
the Mayor for punishment
The city has water for all legitimate
purposes and no criticism is aimed at
householders who make proper use of
1t. But hydrants are reported run.
ming night and day in some instances
lawn sprinklers are allowed to run all
night, and some householders have en-
larged their sprinkling permit into an
irrigation project, using the city
water to irrigate their garden and
small fields.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
OIL PROSPECTS
BRIGHT AT LAME
Expert DriIlers Conducting Boring
Seem To Be Highly Elated
over indications.

Lame, Miss, June S.-The Pasca-
goula Oil compaDy's well, De Lamor-
ton No. 1. was last night down $50
feet, with most gratifying indications,
and at intervals the oil is seeping out
of the three-foot oil-bearing sand
stratum struck last week, and occa-
sionally shows up in the slush ditch.
The three experienced drillers who
are operating the well, headed by Mr..
Johnson, are highly elated over the
indications.
A second fine indication was dis
covered yesterday, but will not be
made public until analysis has been
made, and perhaps not then, if the
drilling committee finds it to the
company's best interest to withhold
same from the public until the 1O-inch
casing is set.
Every day brings new visitors to
the field, both from Mobile and along
the entire coast.
The new company, already form
ing, has bought and paid for 12C
acres of the Lame oil fields and are
progressing as fast as possible tc
complete the organization of the com
pany,
Several manufacturing enterprises
are now negotiating with Prof. d.
La Morton for business sites a
Lame, to all of which he has Offered
to take one-half the capital stock IL
each company and the putting O
same in order to erect said plants.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
W0ODpECKERS Won BY
REAL NARROW MARGIN

with the willow and eased the PHI
out into the dim and distant seclusion
of the ball park. From then on ev-
erything was lovely.
In the second and third no one
rambled around the diamond. In the
fourth the Birds made another one
in order to cinch the game, but the
Zoos in the fifth awoke with a start
at least Parker did, and tried to lose
the ball, tieing the score, and In the
sixth they somehow made another,
and then Bagby put on the lid and
they simmered down. The Woodpeck-
ers getting the idea that the pyrotech-
mic scene should be brought on, start
ed the fireworks by making a couple
of runs. In two more innings the
string played out and the curtain
rolled down with the doings as fol
lows:
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
Reporting OF
TUBERCULOSIS
Required in twenty-five States-No
Provision in Twenty-eieht-
Value of Regulations.

New York, June S.-Reporting of
living cases of tuberculosis is now re-
quired by law or health regulation in
25 states, while in % states and ter
ritories, no provision whatever is made
for keeping record of cases of this in
fictitious disease, according to state
ment published today by the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis in it's official
organ, the Journal of the Outdoor Life
for June.
Connecticut, District of Columbia,
Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan,
Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Rhode sland and Vermont, are placed
in the honor class as having laws
which provide specifically for the re-
porting of tuberculosis and which
make provision for the proper regis
tration of living cases of this disease.
in fourteen other states, laws or regula-
tions of the state boards of health re-
quire that tuberculosis be reported
simply as one of list of infectious
diseases. These states are, Alabama,
California, Indiana, Iowa, Massachus-
etts, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Da-
kota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennes-
see, Utah, Washington, and Wiscon-
sin.
The following % states and terri
tories have no provision whatever for
the reporting or registration of tuber-
culosis cases Arizona, Alaska, Ark
ansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Ken.
lucky. Louisiana, Missouri, Montana
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexi
co, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma
Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vir
ginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming
Several cities in non-registratior
states, as for instance, Chicago, Cleve
land, st. Louis, and New Orleans, have
local ordinances requiring that tuber
culosis be reported. In all, there are
about 100 cities in the United States
which have ordinances Of this. nature
The National Association insists
that the first requisite for a compre
hensive campaign for the elimination
\ Of tuberculosis in state or city Is !
well-enforced law requiring that ever.
living case Of tuberculosis be reporte'
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
JOHN A. MitOD co.
To HAVE SALE
Bargain Event Will open Saturday
Morning. Low Prices on
Fresh Goods.

The John A. Mcleod Co. announces
in today's News the opening of their
June Sale for Saturday, the 10th. This
sale is not for the purpose of clearing
out lot of odds and ends, as this
firm has a fortunate contract with a
New York firm whereby all odds and
ends and remnants are taken off their
hands twice each year. But the sale
Is to reduce stock and prices have
been regulated with this end in view
Read carefully the big add in today's
paper. Reductions have been made
in all lines of goods, groceries includ-
ed, and there should be a saving for
every family in the Hattiesburg ter
ritory.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
|. & N. TO BUILD
new RAILROAD
Will Spend Several Millions In I'm
provements In Tennessee and
Alabama.

Louisville, June 8.-Official an
nouncement of perfected plans for i'm
provement costing several million
dollars was made today at the head
quarters of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Company here. Those
improvements which already have
been definitely arranged for will be
made in Alabama and Tennessee.
They include the construction of two
new lines of road, which will be in
cluded in the Louisville and Nashville
system, and which will give that sys-
TEN 20S miles of new double track
road in the States named.
In its announcement the Louisville
and Nashville calls attention to the
greater necessity for railroad facili-
ties in the new South, and says the
states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
Cook county, Illinois not included)
have a population only slightly great
er per square mile of territory than
Middle Tennessee, while the railroad
mileage per square mile in the North
ern states named is nearly three times
as great as that in the counties which
the new line will traverse.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
Sen. PERCY LEAVES
FOR WASHINGTON

Jackson, Miss, June S.-Manager
William Crump, of the Percy cam
paign committee, announced yester-
day that Senator Percy would leave
for Washington Immediately following
the delivery of speech at Charleston
on Friday, June 9th, to be in his seat
in the Senate for the vote to be taken
June 18th on the Bristow substitute for
the resolution proposing the election
of Senators by direct vote, a matter
Senator Percy considers of grave i'm
portance to the people of Mississippi.
Senator Percy will return to Missis-
sippi Immediately after the vote on
this question.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
GREAT Interest IN
SANITARY Matters

Jackson, Miss, June 8.-The State
Board of Health is very much graft
fed at the interest being manifested
in sanitary matters over the state, and
the increasing inclination of county
and city health officers to take ad-
vantage of the splendidly equipped
meteorological laboratory and the
trained chemist, DR.. Wood who is en-
ployed by the Board in charge Of
same.
Every mail is now bringing samples
of water to be tested for possible and
suspected typhoid or other contami-
nation, where there are epidemics of
diseases such as typhoid or. other
maladies, as well as samples Of blood
for the blood test on typhoid.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
DROUGHT DOING
DAMAGE IN TEXAS

Dallas, Tex, June S.-Cotton is do
ing well in the present dry, hot
weather throughout Northeast Texas,
but other crops are on the verge of
serious damage according to reports
by wire today from correspondents
throughout the drought section. Corn
is the crop most threatened. In some
places it is already seriously damaged.
Oats as a rule, ripened just in time to
escape the dry, scorching weather.
In a few places water for stock is
beginning to run short. Abilene re-
ports less than a quarter of an inch
of rain in forty day, but that crops
are holding up well in that section.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
SURPRISE WEDDING
OCCURRED LAST night

Mr.. Robert Rodgers and Mrs. Cath
crime Therman surprised their friends
and were quietly married last night
by Judge J. w. Bolton at his resi-
dence.
Mr.. Rodgers is connected with the
Mississippi Central railroad in this
city, coming here some time ago from
Chattanooga.
Mrs. Rodgers has been conducting
a boarding house on Gordon street,
and Mr. Rodgers boarded with her.
Mrs. Rodgers is the oldest daughter
of the late T. ]. Goodwin, of Macon,
Miss, and has many friends in this
city as well as at her old home.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-08
TYPHOID germ
Being FOUND
Samples Of Blood Sent State Baeter-
iolosist Shows Prevalence Of Dis
ease-Can Be Prevented.

Jackson, Miss. June 8.-The labora-
tory of the State Board of health is
now receiving a good many samples
all over the state of blood from sus-
pected typhoid cases. and in many in
stances, DR.. Wood is finding that the
test shows Che dreaded typhoid bacil-
lus.
Summer is the time In which. ty-
phoid is most prevalent" said DR..
Wood, "and It is a preventable dis
ease. 1t comes from carelessness on
the part 1t some one. II eases wherz