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The Washington times., 1911-07-13
CHEAPER GASIN THE GEORGE.
TOWN DISTRICT.

The noteworthy feature of the reduc,
tion in the price of gas in the George.
town district from 81 to IS cents pei
1000 cubic feet is not that the com,
pany has yielded to public demand
and progressive business policy-but
that the consumers of gas have waited
for lower rates with such surprising
patience.
The Georgetown Gas Light Company
, has been a prosperous institution. 1t
has never been exploited by stock jug
glers, as has its sister corporation, the
Washington Gas Light Company. Its
stock IS only Sl5O,0OO. 1t has no bonds.
Certificates of Indebtedness to the
amount of S225,OOO stand against it,
but these securities were sold for cash,
in which respect they are vastly differ
ent from the certificates of the Wash
| ington company, which were issued as
stock dividend Business with the
company has been good, dividends of 10
per cent have been paid with consider
able regularity and a property value in
excess of the total capitalization has
been created. No reason exists why the
price of gas should not be reduced; it
could have been reduced several years
ago, so the Georgetown consumers are
getting no more than they have long
been entitled to get.
The outlook for continued prosperity
for the Georgetown Gas Light Com
pany is excellent. With its good rec
ord, with the big value in its proper
ties, and with its rapidly extending
business at a lower rate, it will have
no difficulty in financing the construc-
tion OF a new plant and the laying of
mains in the big territory it is sup
posed to serve. The section north of
Georgetown and west of Rock Creek is
building up rapidly, and the George
town company enjoys the exclusive
privilege of supplying it with gas.
The company should not only sell a
great deal more gas than it ever sold
before. but it should make more money,
and undoubtedly will.
Another evidence that the reduction
in price is nothing more than was to
be expected is the fact that the Wash
ington Gas Light Company holds a
majority of the stock of the George
town company. The gas business is,
therefore, monopolized in the District
of Columbia. So far as the consumer is
concerned, there is but one company.
For the monopoly to charge one rate
in one part of the city and another
rate in another part is manifestly alb
surd. This condition has prevailed for
several years, but the guiding forces
back of the monopoly have evidently
come to realize that there is no excuse
for failure to make prices uniform.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
ELECTION OF SENATOR HOKE
SMITH.

The progressive movement in national
politics receives a distinct impetus by
the election of Hoke Smith as Senator
from Georgia to succeed Senator Joseph
NJ. Terrell, the ad interim appointee
who was named to fill the place made
vacant by the death of Senator A. S.
Clay. Mr.. Smiths first term as gov
ernor OF Georgia was marked by the
adoption of a number of progressive
measures, including the strengthening
of the railroad commission of the State.
Unfortunately, however, his term of
office coincided with the year of the
panic, and the prevailing discomfort
found expression in the defeat of the
governor at the following election. In
the election last fall, however, he was
once more returned to office by an
overwhelming majority, and had Just
been inaugurated during the first week
in June. The Legislature which has
just assembled has now elected him to
fill the unexpired term of Senator CLAW.
which will be a period of four years
from last March.
The new Senator is active and ag-
gressive in the cause of the people, and
will bring great strength to every move
ment in their behalf. From the very
beginning he may be expected to loom
large upon the national horizon.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
GARMENTS THAT FASTEN
DOWN THE BACK.

Embarrassing developments incident
to the fact that her waist fastened
down the back caused West Virginia
young woman to hand the mitten to a
youth who was on the way with her
to the parsonage. In the first moments
of humiliation and surprise, the youth
of one-and twenty, who couldn't even
keep his true-love knot from coming
united, may fancy that the sun has
gone down while it is yet day, and that
life holds nothing else worth while in
store. 1t is the normal feeling of de-
spair incident to his age.
With no disposition to minimize the
value of the prize he has lost, it may
yet be said that he little dreams what
he has escaped by not having to wrestle
hereafter with those fearful and won
derful creations which fasten down the
back. 1t is generally believed that
they are fashioned by patients in the
psychopathic wards after. designs by
the inventor of the celebrated Fifteen
puzzle. At all events, they furnish a
large number of recruits for the wards
in question. The ingenuity of dress
makers is no longer displayed in the
novelty of texture and design, but in
the number of hooks and eyes which
can be concealed along the smallest
number of linear inches of a new gown.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Thinks Miss Tuckerman
Did Not Stop Chimes

Acquaintance of Miss Emily Tucker.
man in Washington are not inclined tc
believe that she is responsible for the
silencing of the Field chimes in Stock.
bridge, Mass, for the first time since
1878.
Miss Tuckerman, whose winter resi-.
dence is at l712 H street, has a villa
at Stockbridge, where she spends the
summer months. 1t is stated that she
objected to the sounding of the chimes
half hour each evening because II
disturbed her hour of meditation, and
though unsuccessful in having the prac-
tice stopped last year, she has been this
season.
BY the terms of the will of David
Dudley Field the chimes were given to
Stockbridge and $500 given to make
certain the playing of them each day
His relatives say that unless the chimes
are played daily the legacy will be for
felted.
Miss Tuckerman is we'll known In
Washington as a charity worker.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
CONTROLLING CHILDREN ON
THE STREETS.

Every person who is doomed to city
life in the summer will appreciate the
following plaintive protest, written to
The Times Mail Bag" and signed "Dis-
gusted:"
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
In the name Of a distracted neighbor-
hood, will some one tell me why we
| have no curfew law, and, If not why
not? OF all cities in the United States,
the City Beautiful needs curfew law
! young ones off the street by 8 o'clock.
The children are around the streets
yelling like q lot Of Comanche Indians,
so that their elders cannot read or write
line, or even talk in peace. What
are the Fairgrounds for?
Between the cars, which take passen-
gers on Dick Turpin rides, and the
hoodlums l shall soon be a subject for
sanitarlum. l am compelled to pa
tronize the road (sorry to say, and
when l go am wondering where shall
land at the end of my journey-on my
head or feet. DISGUSTED.
Disguised" touches the raw edges of
serious problem, whose solution lies
way beyond the enactment of curfew
law. In the first place, where is the
man or the community that is willing
to undertake the job OF keeping children
from making a noise? In the second
place, where are city children to spend
their evenings, when almost every
square foot of ground, except in the
streets, is covered by store or a house,
and when it is unbearably hot indoors {?
Are We to require our children to sit
down in the parlor with folded hands
and shut lips, and spend their time
twiddling their thumbs? If not, what
are we to do with them?
1t would take 1000 special policemen,
working at nothing else, to guarantee
"Disgusted" the quiet for which our
correspondent pines. Even they could
not enforce a curfew law to the letter.
A better remedy is more attention to
children on the part of parents and a
liberal display of patience on the part
of all of us.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Boy, Playing in Street,
Falls on Electric Rail

Burned on the face and head by fall
ing against the underground rail while
attempting to jump across an excava-
ton under the car tracks in Ninth
street, near r, northwest, twelve-year-
old Edward Wolf, 1919 Fifteenth street
northwest, is in serious condition in
Freedmen's Hospital .-.
Young Wolf. with several companions,
was playing in the street last evening,
when he ATTEMPTED to jump across the
tracks. Slipping on the loose earth, he
fell into the excavation.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Justice Gould's Sister
Meets Death by Drowning

Death by drowning Of his sister, Miss
Mary E. Gould. at New Boston, N. H,
was the news received late last night
by Justice Ashley NJ. Gould, of the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
Miss Gould has visited frequently in
Washington and Maryland. where she
has many friends. For twenty years
she was treasurer Of the Florence Saw
ings Bank. of Northampton, Mass. The
accident occurred while Miss Gould was
upon her vacation. She was fifty years
of age, being born in Nova Scotia and
removing yhen a child to Hampshire
county Mass
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Aeroplane Is Altar for
Pair at Atlantic CitV

ATLANTIC CITY, July 13.-while
seated in a Bleriot monoplane on
pier, Miss Milfred Tyler. a handsome,
young woman, who arrived here yester-
day from New York, and Theodore NJ.
Won Keller, of the sane city, We're mar
red by Rev. DR.. John Mcmillan. pastor
of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
In thorough keeping with the surround
ings, one of the witnesses was II.
Graham Carter, the well-known Eng
lish aviator. who is to give a series
of exhibition flights during the next
few weeks.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Steel Rail Company
Attacks Roads Rates

Complaint against the Baltimore and
Ohio and Norfolk and Western railroad
companies was filed today with the
Interstate Commerce Commission by the
West Virginia Steel Rail Company.
charging that the combination rates on
steel rail from Huntington to other
demanding s$1,27s.Se as reparation.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Subway Motor Cars
At Capitol to Go

The two little automobiles that ply
in the subway between the Senate office
building and the Capitol will have to
Co. Bids will be opened at the Capitol,
July %, for a small double-track cleo
trio line, equipped with cars, which will
operate in the subway at the Senate
end of the Capitol and also for a line
at the House end.
1t is said that some Of the more
timid Senators fear the automobiles are
not safe. They run sometimes as fast
as five miles an hour.
Mrs. Taft is an admirer of the auto
mobiles. She took a ride in one, and
was so pleased she made several jour-
news
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Concert by the United States Engineer
Band, Washington Barracks, p. m.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-New Je-
rusalem, No. 9. NJ. M; George C.
Whiting, No. %, E. A; Takoma, No.
%, special business. Royal Arch Chap
ter-Washington. No. 2, mark.
The following I. o. o. F. lodges will
meet tonight: Columbia, No. 70, and
Salem, No. %. degree work.
Meeting OF Logan Tribe, No. s, I. o. r.
NJ, Wisconsin avenue and N street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. 8, Patriotic Order
of Americans, Washington Hall,
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. Z, Patriotic Order
of Americans, 419 Tenth street north
west, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. s. Patriotic Order
of Americans, Congress Heights, to-
Meeting of Edward J. Ross Council,
No. 26, Jr. o. U. A. M, Seventh and
D streets northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Columbia Council. No. %,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ: $50 Twentieth street
northwest, tonight.
90, Jr. o. L. A. NJ, 419 Tenth street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of National Circle. No. 621,
projected Home Circle, Royal Area
nun Hall, Third street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, tonight.
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band,
Smithsonian grounds. 7:30 o. m
Concert by the United States Marine
Rand. Marine Barracks. 4:3t D. m.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Lecture for the Blind.

Professor w. C. Arnett will lecture
on The Starry Heavens on Saturday,
July Is. at 2:3o p. m. at the Public
Library. The lecture has been especially
arranged for blind users Of the library
and will be given IN the reading room
for the blind, basement floor, west end.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Amusements.

coI,,mbia-Columbia Players in THE
Barrier" 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, / to IL
CHEVY Chase Lake-Dancilg and mu-
sic BY section of Marine Band.
Glen Echo Park-Dancing and music by
section of Soldiers Home Band.
Ina Park-Midway attractions.
Arcade-Motion pictures. bowling, and
pool.
ments: boat leaves Seventh street
wharf 10 a. m. and and p. m.
Colonial Beach-Boardwalk, bathing.
and other amusements; steamers leave
Monday. 9 a. m.; Saturday, 2:30 D. m.
Marshall Hall-Steamer Charles Macal-
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. M; go and 6:i5 p. m. daily. Stops
made at Mt. Vernon.
Steamer st. Johns leaves Seventh street
wharf for forty-mile trip on the Po-
tomac. .. m.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

to be. He never gave unnecessary or
ders. In fact. silence is a religion witt
him. Silence and duty. He lives fol
nothing else. Even his family is a
secondary consideration when duty 1,
in the balance.
A little illustration to show his grit
and devotion TO duty:
He had been assigned to the supreme
command of the entire Japanese naval
forces. At the time he was a sick man.
hardly able to leave his bed. The gov
ernment called upon him iOr immediate
sea duty-namely, to attack the great
and seemingly invincible Russian fleet,
His wife, afraid Of the consequences
should he leave sick bed, went to
him with tears in her eyes.
Ask them to wait. my lord, you are
not well enough to go to sea-"
Togo struck her twice across the face.
Woman, you speak foolishness," said
he.
The admiral Immediately went into
and loving. dispensed with all her
servants and did the household work
herself. as is the custom. Even her
children she denied herself. sending
them to another city with their grand
mother.
The world heard more OF Togo in the
days that followed than did his family.
Just before his flagship. the Mikasa,
sailed from Sasebo. his eldest daughter
paid him a parting visit AS she left
she asked him If he had any message
for her mother.
Il think of nothing just at present,
the iron man answered. unless you tell
them 1 am we'll and happy'-he was
still weak from his illness-"and that
they must not distract my mind from
duty by sending letters"
II sounds brutal, but II is not so.
Togo's God Is stern duty-nothing else.
He loved his wife and children, but he
believed his country needed him more
and that II he was to give his beloved
land a full measure OF service, he must
not have his mind on aught else.
This rule sent home by his daughter
was strictly carried out. During the
grinding struggle, when each day per-
haps would be his last, he neither
wrote nor received any news from his
family. They might have died of fever
or been carried away by the enemy
and 1t would have been the same to
him.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Ambassador Dudley -
Is Reported Improved

RIO DE JANEIRo, July 13-Irving B.
Dudley, American ambassador to Bra
zil. who was taken i'll yesterday with
an attack of heart failure, Is reported
today to be slightly better.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Silence and Duty All
That He Lives For.

Il am not that important" answered
the admiral, ducking a shell that ex-
ploded above him. He was kindness it.
self to his officers, yet as firm as
man Of his character would be expected
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Now this is going to extremes when a
Washington husband. as charged in the
divorce proceedings nits his wife with
a shoe.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

PROGRAM.
March, Souvenir de Sussie''
Vereecken
Overture, Martha" .Flotow
Waltz, Vienna Beauties. ..Ziehrer
(a) Cornet solo, Palms .Faure
(b) Love song from Madam Sherry
Straus
Salome Dance, Dance of the
Seven NellS ...IODam
Selection, when Sweet Sixteen
Herbert
Polish Dance No. L.. .Scharevewka
Finale. Lorraine" Came
THE Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Now that Chief Willis L. Moore has
explained to US just why the weather
should be hot, let's wipe our brow and
permit the processes of nature to take
their course
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

The President will not take that aero
ride. 1t will be remembered that 1t was
other people whom he wanted to see
drop in
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Another bright spot has been discover
Cd in the early morning skies. and
Washington is beginning to arrange
series of comet parties.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

II Representative Willis wishes to set
the House on fire IL would almost be
better for him to do so with a speech
matches in his pocket.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

campment Of the G. A. r. at Roches-
ter in August, recalls that the last
encampment honored with a Presi
dents presence was in Washington in
1902, Colonel Roosevelt addressing
the veterans. President Mckinley at
tended the Philadelphia gathering in
1899.
The law has been claiming numerous
young women in Washington this sum-
mer, but It has nothing on. medicine
Not all the ambitious girls who have
determined on entering a profession
and working for a living, want to be
Portias. In the list of nine persons who
have just taken the examination for
licenses 10 practice medicine appears
the name of one woman.
The action of the District Commits
sioners in approving pensions to Wild
ows and families of deceased firemen
and to disabled employees Of the de-
partment calls attention to the fact
that Congress has as yet done nothing
toward amending the policemen's and
flremen's pension law, which does not
now produce sufficient money to meet
UAll
cense fees to the pension fund has been
pending for two years, and in the mean
time the policemen and fremen have to
suffer.
Annual outings of business men en-
gagged in the same class of work have
become popular in Washington, but.
none is more successful or more
thoroughly enjoyed than that of the
city's florists. who held their yearly
picnic at Huntsville. Md. yesterday.
Being in the business of raising flowers,
the excursionists did not mind the
shower of the forenoon. as they appre-
ciated its commercial value. The sky
cleared, however. in the afternoon, and
the outing was delightful. Every per-
son who attended congratulates the
committee on arrangements, John Rob-
ertson, jr.. w. w. Kimball, Otto Bauer,
Ed S. Schmid. and w. A. Bolinger.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
But Togo Has His
Human Side as Well.

But even Admiral Togo has his human
side After the fall of Port Arthur
and while the fleet was refitting at
Sasebo after the final struggle with
Rojestvensky's doomed squadron, he
rejoined his family and remained with
them as long as possible. He avoided
the joyful demonstrations that await
ed him at the hands Of the popolace in
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
By the U. S. Engineer Band, at
Washington Barracks at 9 p. m.
JULIUS HAMPER, Leader.
PROGRAM.

March, "Brabante". .Mauuet
Overture, Barber Of Seville .Rossini
Waltz, Golden Sunset. Hall
Selection. Martha. .Flotow
Daisies from floral suite In c
Bendix
You Live?'. .Briuuet
The Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

ington Times daily during the month Of
June was l,l65. 76s all copies left over and
returned being eliminated. This number,
when divided by 26, the number Of days of
Rpblication, shows the net daily average :or
&nne 70 have been Is S37.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month OF June
was 166, ,s19, ali copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number,
when divided by 4. the number OF Sundays
during June, shows the net Sunday average
for June TO have been Il, ,705.
Entered at the Postorice at Washington.
D. c.. as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

! Tokyo, because. he said, he was not
now on duty and his wife and children
were more to him than pageants. This
simply shows that duty is Togo's
fetish.
Even the navy department of Japan
did not wholly trust him even after
they had made him supreme commander
of the united fleets. They sent spies
after him who watched him at all
times. They wanted to see whether 1t
was love OF country or hatred for the
Russians that animated the grim Togo,
who did hate the Russians, but hid
II under a cloak of silence.
IF this grudge is all that makes our
Togo ready to take command he will
blow hot and then cold. II it is love
of country he will never give up; he will
conquer or die," argued the navy de-
partment.
SO day after day the spies followed
tory report. Togo knew he was
watched and finally resorted to a ruse
to aIlay their suspicious and to prove
his loyalty. Under the grewsome and
strict Samurai code-Toso's code-vOl-
untary death is the penalty for failure
or disgrace. The famous hara-kiri
knife, three inches long is the symbol
and the instrument of that code. Be-
fore leaving to attack Port Arthur,
Togo seemed to relax some Of the stern
discipline he was noted as enforcing.
He said to his officers:
Bring your wives and children and
we will be merry for day before we
leave port"
Midnight Reception
In Admirars Cabin.
The wives and children came and
many a happy party was held on ship
board, followed by the stoical leave
taking, a characteristic of the Japanese.
Then night fell. The last merry
maker had gone and the shores were de-
serted. On the great black men-o'-wars-
men naught but forced discipline. Togo.
ever mindful of the presence of spies
from Japan, prepared to demonstrate
his LOYALTY to his country and to the
Mikado. He ordered all captains and
officers of the fleet to report to him
that night on the flagship singly and
in order Of seniority.
One by one they entered his silent
cabin. He spoke no word of greeting,
but gave each a silent bow OF recog-
nition. In full uniform, his sword girt
on, he sat solemnly upright, and rest
ing on a cushion that lay before him
was the keen bladed hara-hri knife.
the knife of the Samurat.
AS each officer entered and saluted,
the chief acknowledged the salutation.
He spoke no word. None was needed.
with grave gesture toward the
cleaning blade, Togo motioned his
guest away and bade the next approach.
II was midnight before the i'm pam
tomime in the dim light of the admiraPs
cabin. And when Japan's navy sailed
away in the gray morning every officer
in the fleet knew he carried the EN-
peror's commission either for victory or
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Members Of the Chamber of Commerce
ought to have fne appctites for that
luncheon in honor Of Aviator Atwood
tomorrow. They have been expecting 1t
every dav since :he Fourth.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
What's S on the Program in
Washington Today.

CThe Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments in
this column)
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Concerts Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at
Marine Barracks, at ago P. Il
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN,
Leader.
PROGRAM.

PROGRAM.
March, washington Centennial"
Santelmann
VaIse Petite, FILTRATION" ....... Steck
Fantasia, Carmen .....-.......:Bl :BlZet
IdyI, "On Guard .....::.-. Neske
(Cornet obligato by Hans
Wunderlich.)
Invitation to the Dance"
eber-Weingartner
Transcribed for military band by
William H. Santelmann.)
Humoresque Fantasia, The Merry
widow. .Lehar Carr. Lampe)
The Star-Spangled Banner.
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band, al
Smithsonian Grounds, at 1890 P. NJ.
GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
Sunday.

The number of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF June was as follows:
June I...........4S,002 June 1S...........T1n
June u...........47,o55 June 25...........46 1871
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Total for month. ......................lSS,5 ,545
Sunday average for month............ 4.l36
The Washington times., 1911-07-13
PROGRAM.

GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

Now that the question of putting
man in jail for trying to kill himself
has been revived. why not revive the
cheerful pastime Of burning a few
witches, just 20 keep the memory of
the Dark Ages alive?
The Washington times., 1911-07-13

President Taft's acceptance of the
Invitation to attend the national en-