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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
NEW RUSSIAN WARSHIps.
Keels to Be Laid Shortly for -Four
Dreadnoughts.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

0relgn CORRESPONDENTS OF The Star.
ODESSA, April 10. 1911.
1t is announced from Sebastopol that
the keel plates of four dreadnoughts
for the Russian Black sea fleet will b
laid between the end of the current
month and the end OF May. two at Sc
'bastopol and two at Nikolaien. No ap
proximate dates are mentioned as to
when the new vessels will be completed.
The minimum period occupied In the
construction of the present Black sea
battleships has been sixty months and
the maximum seventy-fve months
A proposal to engage the services OF
number Of foreign shipwrights and art :
ficers In order to expedite the building
Of the new dreadnoughts was overruled
by the admiralty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

Snort speeches. were made by Mai. c. v.
Sayer. the battalion commander: Mai. r.
V. Walker and Capt. John E. Brooks.
adiutant. In his speech. immediately
following the supper. Maj. Sayer told the
many advantages of serving in the Ma
uonal Guard and explained the connection
Of the summary court with the admins
tration OF the company. The smoker was
largely attended. both by Company +
members and guests and the company
commander.
Among the guests the 2d Infantry was
represented by Maj. 4. V. Walker, Mai
{. V. Sayer, Capt. John E. Brooks. Lieuts
Earnshaw. Wilmarth Brown and c. E.
Gardner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

The range of the National
Guard Of the District OF
Columbia will open Tuesday morning.
The honor Of firing the first shot will
fall to some man in Company A or
Company B, I'd Infantry. as these two
organizations have been ordered to
march to the range Monday night, to be
in readiness for work on the range
by 1880 o'clock am. next day.
X *
The old quarrel between the people
ton came to a head Friday, when the
Oxon Hill Citizens Association present
ed their case formally before Col.
Smiley. Capt. Cookson, Capt. McAnally
and Capt. Caldwell at the range house:
Oxop Hill believes that the rifemen of
the National Guard will occasionally
send a bullet wide Of the target, and
that the conditions on the Mexican
border, where innocent Americans look
ing on at the toy battle between the
Mexican regulars and the insurrectos
are shot, are duplicated back Of the rifle
range. One OXon Hillite said at the
conference al. the range house that the
bullets could 'be heard whizzing in the
then the rifle range is dangerous
proposition, but the expert target and
range men say that is not the case.
For several years these complaints
have been coming into headquarters in
scattered. informal shape. There has
been a decided effort to get the COM
plainants together in one solid forma-
ton where both sides Of the question
could be argued. Several officers were
sent over to OSon Hill at one time dur
ing a rifle match. They inquired at the
Hill side of the case very thoroughly.
At that time it was occasionally pos
sible to hear the report of the rife and
the smack Of the bullet as one would hit
that fashion was taken to be the
"whizz' of ball flying wild.
There will be no change in the rife
range proceedings because of the meet
ing Friday. The range officers believe
that more than ordinary precautions
cartridge at a time is dealt out-not
even a clip full-isbelieved to indicate
that the guard Is anxious for safety.
even at the expense OF the experience
of handling cartridges in clips. such
as would be necessary in service con-
ditions.
Sergt. Bessmer. Company c. 4th
United States Infantry. and Sergt.
Schoening. Company D. 4th United
States Infantry. will be sent to the
range as instruction sergeants this
week.
The 4th Division, Naval Battalion,
won the company match at the gallery
April 20. The total score was 28S.
X * * X
Coal Passer B. J. Passet won the
Burkhardt match with a score Of 81.
* X x X
The report that company of the
guard would be on duty at the aviation
meet this week proved not to be true.
x y X X
One more inspection remains, that Of
the Naval Battalion. Maj. Leroy w.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

Heron, inspector general OF the National
Guard Of the District of Columbia, will
inspect the battalion and everything con-
nected with it the evening Of May 4.
To do honor to the memory Of the late
Brig. Gen. Michael Emmett Crell, n. q.
ID. c.. retired. the I'd Infantry, less Com
panies G and d, and q detachment from
the LIST Battery. Field Artillery, will pa
rade May in connection with the funeral
ceremonies. Interment Of the body will
be at Arlington.
The I'd Infantry will form at its armory
at 30 O'Clock pm. The battery will
furnish one chief section. the necessary
drivers and one caisson.
Maj. F. S. Hodgson is the chairman
Of the executive committee having the
details of the funeral In charge.
X X X
The two companies omitted from the
order requiring duty May will be on
duty at the rife range.
\ II x'*
Maj. Thomas S. King has been In con-
ference during the past week in connec-
ton with the preliminary details Of the
school-boy shoot at the range. The boys
will go over TO the range May 10.
x
Organizations assigned to range duty
this week will be as follows:
Companies A and B, I'd Infantry, Tues
day and Wednesday.
Companies G and D, I'd Infantry, Thurs
): 4 x *
It is expected that the federal pay
bill in revised form will be presented to
both houses of Congress within a short
time. An agreement on g. revision Of the
bill was reached after meeting in this
city Of leading members of the National
Guard Association and officials of the
v0 oVfr
this session, but its passage at the next
regular session is probable, according TO
the supporters Of the bill.
The bill is framed to bring the National
Guard throughout the United States to
the regular army standard of efficiency
and to pay officers and men certain
per cent of the regular army pay for at
tendance at drills and for coming up to
the standard in other respects.
Speaking of the possibility of the Sig
nal Corps company maneuvering with an
aeroplane at the next camp, a member OF
the company said recently:
lone of the interesting problems in con-
nection with the efficiency Of an aero
plane as q means Of inspecting an enemy's
dress an army in. il aeroplanes are to
sail over their heads to find out the
position, strength, etc. The Germans have
already seen At to adopt a gray-green
uniform which makes regiment OF
troops look more like a part of the land
scape than anything else. when seen from
the deck of an airship."
*
According to orders from I'd Infantry
headquarters, Maj. Thacker V. Walker
has been appointed summary court for
the LIST Battalion. Capt. Thomas s.
OHalloran for the I'd Battalion ana MAJ
Alexander Summers in the Sd Battalion.
Private Joseph D. Sweeny, Company L,
I'd Infantry, has been promoted to the
rank Of sergeant.
According to those present. the smoker
given by Company F. I'd Infantry, last
Friday night. April %. at teir company
room in the armory, was great success.
Music was furnished by Corp. Harry
Bradley of Company r and ". B. Jet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

Miss j. P. Hurndon. German and Latin;
Georgia c. Moore, English and History;
Hattie A. Shaw. music: Rosaiie Hanna
shorthand and typewriting: Ophelia Por-
ter. assistant sewing: Laura Austin, man
touring and hairdressing: DR. Willis
Jones, hygiene and physiology: Miss Es-
sic l.. Gray, millinery: Walter II. BROOKS.
D. D., lecturer on THE Life of Christ ::
W. Bishop johnson. q. D., l.. l.. D., lee
turer on 'Biblical Theology" and J: NJ.
Waldron, A. NJ, D. D., lecturer on Per,
son and Work Of the Holy Spirit" and
"Old and New Testament Interpreta>
ton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
Entertainments for the Blind.

The following is the program for volun-
teer readings and music for the blind in
the lecture hall Of the Public Library:
Tuesday, May 2, 2 pm, selected reading
by Mrs. John Milton Gitterman: Thurs
day, May 4, s pm, concert by pupils of
Prof. Emile Christians orchestra
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

hides. These Oil baths improve the ele-
plants looks he said. THE elephants
know it. too. The females especially know
it. They take to these beauty treatments
the same as women
The head keeper chuckied sardonically.
Women. though, go step too far he
ID. ~ youngtman from the lion rouse
told me that at 4 eall the other night he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
Beauty Treatment.
nm the New YORK Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
I Bill Snyder, the famous head keeper
OF the New York Zoo. was describing to
4 reporter the twenty-gallon oil baths he
gave the elephants in the autumn when
aha harsh beasts begin to chap thsir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

IT you want work read the want col
umnS of The Star.
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said to his hostess:

said to his hostess:
WHO Is that pretty little blond eating
lobster salad, ma'am?'
why, don't you know her.? his
hostess cried. She's the pretty little bru-
nette you firted with last week."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

sroms cab Eet Ns.n
In this large establishment where so much is de-
pendent upon electricity, reliable and economical
means of supply is essential In adopting Potomac
Service the officials of the Taxicab Co. considered that
from all standpoints it the best After using it for
some time they are still of the same opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

According to those present. the smoker
given by Company r. I'd Infantry, last
Friday night. April %. at Seir company
room in the armory, was great success.
Music was furnished by Corp. Harry
Bradley of Company and ". b. Jet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
Too Many Makeshifts.

Thousands OF young women are turned
out to make their living in the world
every year. and they constitute a class
of makeshifts. The fault is not with
the young women; many of them desire
to do better and viii do better if prop
erly trained and helped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

The report that a company of the
guard would be on duty at the aviation
meet this week proved not to be true.
y X
One more inspection remains. that OF
the Naval Battalion. Maj. Leroy w,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

According to orders from I'd Infantry
headquarters, Maj. Thacker V. Walker
has been appointed summary court for
the LIST Battalion. Capt. Thomas s.
O'Halloran for the I'd Battalion and MAJ
Alexander Summers in the Sd Battalion.
Private Joseph D. Sweeny, Company L,
I'd Infantry, has been promoted to the
rank of sergeant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

Coal Passer B. J. Passet won the
Burkhardt match with a score Of 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

The 4th Division, Naval Battalion
won the company match at the gallery
April 20. The total score was 28S.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-17
Mr.. Wolfe's Reply.

when he claims that Jew is UNI
patriotic, Mr., Bigelow shows himself
to be liar of the first cloth. 1t is an
historical fact, which found to be
true as long ago as 1894, that in the
Civil War there were more Jews per
ratio of population than of any other
faith. In the Spanish war
600 Russian Jews. driven from their
native country by persecution, volun-
tarily enlisted in New York City to
fight for their adopted country.
THAT Mr.. Bigelow's sentiment is
not shared by the general American
populace is shown by the recent ac-
ton in the case of Private Bloom. at
Fort Myer, The Jew is as faithful to
his country as any man on earth.
csa6susd sa Psss 2
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-17
HOUSTON, TEXAS, NOVEMBER II, 1911
PoULTNEY RlGELoWS
AMERlCANlSM


low for the Independent in which he
deploIed the disappearance from Con
necticut farms of the old Yankee
strain, whose places are taken by ltal-
ians and Jews, has brought about the
publication in the New York Herald
this week of a number of letters start
ing with an anti-Semitic contribution
by Mr.. Bigelow, and followed by spirit
ed rejoinders by DR.. Stephen S. Wise,
DR.. Henry Moscowitz, and others.
The quality of Mr.. Bigelow's preju-
dice is revealed in the following para
graphs of his letter:
Personally / love the Jew as love
my fellow man, and, indeed, all OF
Gods creatures but, like garlic in the
salad, little of the Jew goes long
way.
These United States are becoming
rapidly so Jew-rdden that while every
other nationality or race can be freely
discussed the Jew alone sets up
howl of persecution whenever a crti-
cism touches him.
'"The Herald, being in my opinion
one of the few surviving papers not
owned by Jew and not dominated
by it's advertising columns, can do this
country no greater service than per
sisting in seeing fair play between the
vanishing American and the horde of
Hebrew patriots who already tincture
our army and navy; who are harm
full element in our diplomatic and con-
sular service, and whose presence on
the Bench and in the halls of Con-
gress deserves to be noted with care,
unless we are to look forward to an
outburst compared to which the Drey-
fus days will be very tame indeed"
DR.. Wise's Letter, in Part.
Zone would fain be silent touching
fsathe vulgarity and scurrility~ of Mr.
Bigelow, in his reference to the Jew
ish people, for the sake of his honor
ed father, John Bigelow. But not even
the stainless character and noble2
services of the elder Bigelow shall not
exempt his son from the contempt
which is rightly the portion of the
slanderer and yillitier
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-17

Mention the Jewish Herald wheA
patrCnising our advertisers; II hslpa
us both.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-17


that they cannot rise
to the height of approaching the Jews
capacity for loyalty and devoted scrv-
ice to the country which gives him a
home.
This land the Jewish immigrant
loves and would serve with an ardor
and conservation which are inexplici-
able to creatures of shifting principles
and unstable purposes. To the Jew
this democracy means more than a
land, or home; to him America, with
it's hopes and visions and ideals, is
nothing less than a religion.
"Mr. Bigelow must look back to the
lives and deeds of his ancestors in
order TO find occasion for pride.
The Jew looks back upon many
centuries of history as honorable and
distinguished as the story of any peo-
pie. But the Jew, unlike the scions
of some noble American sires, hopes
that he may contine his peoples
proud record despite centuries of the
n-Christian, or Christless, conduct of
which Mr.. Bigelow chooses to offer
belated example"
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-17
LEFT FOR DEAD NOW
BECOMES NURSE

BECOMES NURSE
The following interesting item is
printed in the New York Times
With her parents and two brothers
slain beside her in the street by mob
III one of the pogroms in Odessa, in
1908, and her own body SO covered
with stab wounds and cuts that the
mob had left her as dead, a 17-year-old
jewish girl managed to drag herself
OFT OF The glare of the burning houses
that lit up the bloody night. and to
creep TO one of the hospitals of the
city At first it seemed to those who
caught her fainting form that life was
extinct; but under untiring care and
treatment she managed through the
long winter months, to revive and
slowly regain most of her strength.
1t was then that she determined, be-
cause of the kindness of the people
who had nursed her back to life to de-
vote that life to similar work. and
thus pay back while she lived. her
debt to the kindness of humanity.
The girl managed in the following year
to escape across the Russian border,
and still through the aid of persons
who she had not known before-many
of them her own people-to make her
way to a German seaport and to this
country. That was five years ago,
and last night Miss Jessie Smith, val
edictoran of her class of four nurses
graduated at the Har Moriah" Hos
pital on Second Street and Avenue A.,
saw the realization of at least the
first part of the determination which
the young Russian orphan girl formed
in the Odessa Hospital, that had vain
ly tried by kindness to efface from
her memory the terrible picture of that
bloody night. Miss Smith completed
the hospital training course in two
years and finished as we'll course in
the evening schools and an evening
high school. In honor of her achieve
ment and in view of the pathetic cir
cumstances which had first impelled
her to think of it, the directors of
the hospitals training school gave
dinner in her honor there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10

smiles as it regards the struttine popin-
jay who plumes and preens himself in
the borrowed olumage of a bygone repu-
tation
There are societies in America based
on the principle of ancestor worship. If
their motivation is nothing more than
this they do not deserve to exist II is
not to a mans credit to be born into
the world; he had no vOlition in the mat
ter The fact of descent from such an
one who bore himself valorously i'm bat
tie two centuries ago or another who
had the good sense to emigrate to Amer
lea before there We're customs and quar-
antine does not i'm itself provide a war
rant for social adhesion In an organiza-
ton with ancestry as the prime qualiiica-
ton for membership. Such societies have
their useful function when they inculcate
patriot ;--.i, when they guard such his
toric shrines and institutions as We have
from the piilage and sacrilege of malice
domestic or foreign levy. They are of no
pa rticular use when they meet only 10
glorify themselves or TO burn incense TO
the notion that their membe4' are set
apart from ordinary mortalS by the mere
fact of alleged superior descent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10

were given. Mrs. W. G. Foote. director
of the Federation of Young Women
Clubs, gave a report of the federation
meeting of November p. Tn S report was
and Mrs. Stokes. Mrs. Foote read let
ter from an associate member. Mrs
Wheeler of Grove Beach, Conn. Miss
Mariette Little was unanimously elected
to membership Response to roll call wa;
given by each member on current topit S
Mrs. Logan, chairman of the art com.
mittee of the federation. spoke of the
art symposium to be given at the Port
ner Wednesday, December Ii, at pm
After adjournment refreshments were
served by the hostess ass sted by Mrs
Heser and Miss Isabelle Heisler
M. Fielder president of the Argyle
Social Club, entertained its members
and a number of friends Thursday even
ing at his home, 1722 LIST street north
west.
Games of various descriptions were
enjoyed, prizes being awarded to Miss
Cecilia Barrett, Miss Bessie Ramsey,
Miss Helen Ramsey and Charles F.
Meyers. jr, Mr.. Meyers winning two
prizes
Several readings by Miss Rose Nell
son. vocal solos by Timothy J. Nc
Kinnon. duets by Misses Blanche and
Misses Ida Fitz Gibbons. Lowell Mackin-
tosh, Blanche Barrett and Charles /.
Schwinger received applause.
The reception hall was decorated with
red streamers, in which was hung the
sign Argyle" the name of the club.
The dining room was also decorated
with streamers of blue and orange, the
club colors, while a large fern. which
was presented to the president by the
young ladies of the club, formed an
elaborate centerpiece for the table.
Those present were Mrs. Rose A. Yost
Misses Lowell Macintosh. Daisy E.
DENT, Rita Remsburg, Eta Remsburg,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10
FLATTENING A TOWN.
Man Works 20 Years to Eradicate
Seattle's Humps and Holes.
n the American Magazine.

From the American Magazine
Reginald H.. Thomson. city engineer Of
Seattle. has worked for twenty years
with almost inconceivable enthusiasm at
the task of remedying Seattle's natural
defects. He has regarded more than
twenty-five miles of street and has moved
more than 16,0oo,O0o cubic yards of dirt. .
He has washed the hills into the bay
and torn down and regarded five square
miles of the city. He piles taxes on the
citizens, but although they grumble they
follow him. What Thomson Intended 10
do he has done. Mayors come and, go.
are but for a month or year., but
Thomson hangs on forever
For generation he has pounded away
with hydraulics at the hills OF Seattle.
has built boulevards and parks. put IN
sewers and water system ana Incl
dentally piled up taxes uron indignant.
citizens.
Today he is recognized as one OF the
great municipal engineers of the country,
but the opposition to him has been ire,
strong, well set, iron gray man with thei
closely .-clamped jaw to know he ls-A
fighter But he could never have woniE
he had not been diplomat, too.
He has had to move the minds OF the
people from their inertia so that they
would see with a vision broad enough TO
understand the situation as he did. To
hat end he has argued, explained, con
clllaI6Q,
time he was washing into the tide fats
glacial moraine that had been incon
siderately dumped in the way of the main
arteries of the city
In the early days Improvements were
made at the least possible expense, so
that many OF the grades were as high as
twenty-five feet in the hundred. Take
the case of Jackson street, an important
east and west artery Upon il We're
grades of u FER cent To reduce these
so that the highest should not be over ;
per cent required cut through seven
blocks at a maximum depth of ninety
feet. In order not to leave the street a
canyon il became necessary to regrade a
district five blocks wide. In other words.
every Improvement in a built-up territory
of fifty-five acres, stretching close to the
business heart OF the city, had to be de-
stroyed with the consent OF a majority
of the owners
Thomson believed 1t would pay the prop
erty owners to have this done, and with
characteristic energy he set about prov
ing il 20 them. A chart was prepared with
a series of pictures. The first showed
load that could be hauled by one morse
on the level, as shown in Trautwfne's en-
eineers' book. The last gave picture or
nine horses pulling the same weight up
jackson street. This argument was so
effective for the regrade that the work
was Endorsed by the owners, with the re-
suit that the surface of 10 acres re-
moved, involving q total Of 1861 900 cubic
yards Of earth.