The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-10

Inc Ire Will pay q HlBu
and deserved tribute to J. J. Gaghan
the former member Of the organization
who dropped dead at the bail park An
honorary escort Of thirty-five men will
carry him to his final rest on Monday.
Another Washington resident has
been honored in the world outside
From San Francisco comes announce
ment that DR.. S. H. Woodrow has been
elected president of the Congregational
Home Missionary Association at its ma
tional convention.
That will be quite a reunion at the
cabin of The Poet of the Sierras' to-
morrow afternoon. Among those ex-
pected ara Charles Du Bots, who sold
Joaquin Miller the lot on which the
cabin stands; H d. Renninger, who
says he built the cabin, and Senator
Works and Representative Kahn of
California.
Mrs. Carrie Nations death recalls
TO many Washington people that she
was elected from the White House
during the Roosevelt occupancy, in
1903, that she was fined $25 for dis
turbing the United States Senate, and
that she was summoned before both
sides of the local court for one Of
Tense.
1t was an unusual thoughtfulness
which led Miss Lieberman's music class
10 present The Times with a basket of
American Beauty roses in appreciation
Of whatever assistance it may have con-
trlouted to the advancement of interest
in music in Washington To each of
the donors The Times bows its appre-
citation.
Formal exercises concentrating
Confederate soldiers lying peacefully
beside their former Federal foes in
Gods acre" will attract a large
throng to Arlington Sunday, when the
264 graves of those who wore the gray
will be heaped with flowers. General
Wheelers tomb will be the center Of
patriotic service, and the Southern
Cross will be unveiled.
Secretary Of War Stimson had the
laugh on a disconnected group of
Fifteenth Cavalry officers at Fort
Myer, and their embarrassment might
well be a lesson for thousands of
civilians. Several years ago Private
Stimson of Squadron A, of New York
had it rubbed into" him at Manassas
in the matter of holding horses for
these same cavalry officers. When
he visited Fort Myer as Secretary of
War he jokingly reminded them of
the fact.
There should be no delay in the pass
age of the resolution by Representative
Dent of Alabama, authorizing the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to investi-
gate the Andrew derailing Device
which it is believed would prevent many
railroad wrecks. The commission only
recently completed a fire Job of work
In extending the Use of safety appll-
ances on American railway trains If
the Andrew device is all that is claimed
FOR it, it cannot be adopted too soon.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
is the logical agency to test it.
The District fremen's coffee fund''
has been given a boost of SIS through
the generosity of Thomas w. Lockwood,
a resident of Massachusetts avenue,
who thus shows his appreciation of the
efforts Of the men of truck company No.
WIN iS'ShliN -eAIihSuisneu q Irc at
his home. The coffee fund" is decid-
edly practical and >beneficent institu-
tion. Into it are placed such donations
as Mr.. Iockwood's, and from it is drawn
money with which to supply firemen and
policemen with coffee during a fire III
cold weather. A much-needed stimulant
which cannot be purchased with money
from the regular appropriations is there
BY provided
One Of the most potent influences In
American municipal progress is the Ma