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The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Fight Over Hens
InciteS Shooting

Accused Of firing his revolver at Po-
liceman z. z. Porter, of the Seventh
precinct, Joseph II. Poore. a butcher.
was arrested this morning by Police
man McLucas and locked up in the Ten
leytown station on a charge Of assault
Poore and Porter live in adjoining
houses In Tenleytown. Both are chicken
fanciers. and failure to keep the fowls
In their respective back yards. is said to
have been the bone of contention.
After going on duty at o'clock this
morning, Porter went home and was
standing on his front porch when Poore
came out of his own house. According
to the police, the chicken question came
up for discussion. as usual. and Poore.
just to show that he intended backing
up his remarks, whipped out a revolver,
the police assert, and fired at Porter.
The bullet missed its mark.
Fearing that 'Poore might shoot again,
Porter summoned Policeman McLucas,
who placed Poore under arrest. He
made no objection to going to the sta
ton. He will be given a hearing In the
Police Court tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Real Estate Transfers.

Meridian HiIl-Charles SeIden. ir.. ct ux II
Amherst Realty Company, lot s, block 22
SO. " -
street northwest, between SeEenteenth ant
Eighteenth streets-B"rtha L. Fiske ct vIr
Joseph h, 10 TO Maitland c. Bennett, lot
li3, square Isl, So
Gartield-Matthew Coates ct al 10 Bania
min West, lot III, $50
l street northwest. between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Observation-Disclosures Club 70
Samuel Maddox, part lot 26. square I27. S.
hhOde Island avenue northwest, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets; 1871 Fifth street
northwest; 1921 Eleventh street northwest
1865 Vermont avenue; and Prospect Hill
Edwin 7. Collins to Emma W. Wingate,
lot III, square $40; interest in lot 10, square
S36; interest in part lots Il to 20. square
8Os; interest in part lot s, Prospect Hill,
H street northeast. between Sixth and Sew
enth streets-Cat thaTine Mcmahon to Her
man r. Howenstein. lot 8, square S5S, $40.
3322 T street rthwest-Susannah Young to
George R. Sims, part lot 146 square l245,
SO
Lanier Heights-Edgar H. May ct ux 10
Jane S. Holmes, part lot 1O2, SO
Lanier Heights-Joseph King ct ux. to Carrie
Berwanger lot 299, SO Carrie Berwanger
conveys same property TO Jane 5. Holmes.
SO
Rear of R street northwest. between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets-John W. Lewis to
William A. Bowie, lot So square 276. SO
West Rloomingdale-Wiliam c. Allard ct al.
70 Arthur NJ. Scott. lot 6, block , SO.
1nterest-Bessie Lock to Maria Murphy, all
interest in estate Of Edgar Murphy. 81.
Olive street northwest. between Twenty-sev-
enth and Twenty-eighth streets-Peter J.
Mcintyre ct uX. to Edgar B. and Sarah B
Murphy, part lot 10. and part Of Rock
street, in square 12l4. SO
I'll North Carolina avenue southeast-W.
Gwynn Gardiner ct al, trustees, to Will
liam J. Slater, lot q, square 900. 5000
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

| Years of unremunerated service as
cook, seaman and watchman on the
old steamer Jane Mosely, are reclteo
| by Peter Moore, a negro about sixty
wears of age in a libel against the
vessel filed today in the District Su-
nreme Court for collection of alleged
unpaid wages of sass.
Since September IS, 1903. the aged
negro says he has spent practically
every hour of his life on the steamer.
In those years he says he has re-
ceived only $425 in wages, banking
the balance with the owners in ac-
cordance with a custom of seamen.
Loss of most of the savings of more
than $4,000 now threatens Moore in
his old age, after faithful and loyal
service.
In his libel declaration Moore states.
through his attorneys. G. A Berry and
r. f. Downing, that he has often saved
the Jane Moseley from sinking, at
tending her as he would a child. He
has worked, slept, and lived continuous
ly on the steamer since his first day of
work. he declares. becoming greatly at
tached to the boat, which may now de-
prive him of a small fortune in his old
age.
Cannot Read or Write.
Moore is unable TO read or write. his
attorneys say, and may lose part of
his wages through operation of the
statute of limitations.
Sale Of the steamer under foreclosure
of a $4,000 mortgage is advertised for
o'clock this afternoon. but 1t is feared
that the vessel may bring only $4,000 or
$4,000. If the claim of Moore is allowed
by the court, It will be an additional lien
on the revenues derived.
The Jane Moseley was one OF the
original Washington and Norfolk boats,
but in recent years used as an excur-
sion steamer.
With the Lady of the Lake and the
John W. Thomas. the Jane Moseley
comprised the first fleet of steamers
making regular trips between this city
and Norfolk. The boats were operated
by the old Inland Seaboard Navigation
Company, which went out of existence
twenty years ago, when the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company
entered the field with feet of modern
boats.
Made River-Landing Trip.
After that the Jane Moseley was
taken over by the Potomac Steamboat
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Breathe This
Vapor For
Quick Relief
Fine to Break Up Cold; to
Stop a Cough and Re-
lieve Stuffed Up Head
HYOMEI SOLD The WORLD OVER

The direct route to the sore raw
tender membrane of the nose and throat
is through the mouth and nostrils
Try this simple and effective vapor
treatment and note the quick relief.
Into a bowl, three-quarters full Of
boiling water pour a teaspoonful of
HYOMEI pronounce it High-o-mel
cover head and bowl with towel and
breathe for five minutes the pleasant,
soothing. healing; germ destroying va
pOr that arises.
You can lsuy a bottle of HYOMEI
at Henry Evans or James O'Donnell.
and druggists everywhere for only 50
cents. 1t surely is a fine remedy for
instant relief from colds, coughs, sore
throat, stuffed up head and catarrt.
For catarrh, coughs. colds, asthma,
and catarrhal deafness, HYOMEI is
guaranteed complete outfit which in
cludes a pocket inhaler through which
you can breathe at any time through
the day, costs $l.00. Mail orders filled
ty Booths Hyomei Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MAURICE KIRBY
Former Washington News
paper Man Buried in Mt.
Olivet Cemetery.

Maurice Brown Kirby, playwright,
and former Washington newspaper
man, was buried in Mt. Olivet Gene
terry today, following simple services
at the home Of his mother. 20s I street
northwest There were no palIbearers,
and the Rev. J. B. Pittar conducted
the requiem mass at . o'clock this
morning at St. Aloysius Church.
A victim OF thugs who attacked and
fatally injured him as he stepped from
Eighth avenue to Broadway, New York
several days ago. Mr.. Kirby died in
that city Monday night.
Kirby, who was married and leaves
wife and small daughter. when at
tackled. was returning to his home from
a play. in which, as a member of the
STAFF of Henry W. Savage, he was in
terested. His skull was fractured, he
was badly beaten about the body and
one of his ankle was broken.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Eloping Bride Back At
Her Typewriter Today

Returning to Washington the wife OF
Grover c. Drummond. the young WON,
an who. until her elopement to Rich.
mond. Va. was Miss Julia Thomas
today resumed her work as stenog.
rapher in the law offices OF Brock
Beeken & Smith.
Il want to deny the statement that
was afraid would lose my place here
as soon as our elopement was found
out" said Mrs. Drummond today. 81
knew all along l could have my place
back
When asked where she is to reside,
Mrs Drummond said that she and her
husband would live with her parents
at lbs Fifth street northwest.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Wilkie UnearthS
Big Smuggling Plot

Almost the entire force Of the Secret
Customs agents are today trying to
trace hundreds Of packages of immense
ly valuable furs smuggled into this
country within the past few weeks. Ac-
cording to Chief Wilkie, the packages
figure in a gigantic plot framed by
prominent merchant in Montreal, and
which has probably been in operation
for more than two years.
The merchant. it was alleged, SOILS
furs to Americans with the agreementi
to deliver the purchases duty free. The
furs were smuggled across the line into
Houlton, Me-. and shipped to the buy,
ers by express.
The enormous number Of packagt&
sent out from Houlton Caused the
scheme to be discovered. Thus far, ac-
cording TO message received by Chief
WillSte today package containing e
fur coat worth $50 has been traced -
Buffalo and confscated, while anothe4
package containing furs worth more.
than $1,000 was seized in Chicago
The fact that the man who is thought
to have actually did the smuggling "
not a resident of this country makes
criminal action impossible.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
NEGROLIKELY
TOLOSE SAVINGS
Peter Moore Files Libel Against the Steamer Jane Nose
ley for Alleged Unpaid Wages Amounting to $2,286.
Vessel Is to Be Sold Under the Hammer

Company. and made twice week what
Is known as the river landing trip,
stopping at all the wharves between
Alexandria and the mouth OF the river.
In recent years the Jane Moseley has
been owned by the company which
controls Washington Park, resort on
used almost exclusively as an eXcur-
sion boat for colored people.
A suit In equity was entered against
the company by +. J. Dodd & Co, OF
Baltimore, in which Lewis Fisher was
made defendant. decree was rem
dered in favor of the complainant, and
w. Gwynn Gardiner appointed receiver
and authorized to sell the old steamer
under the hammer. In spite of her
years Of service, the boat is said to be
in good shape and repair.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Knox Writing Arbitration
Pact With Great Britain

Secretary Of State Knox has begun
the drafting of a new arbitration treaty
to cover all possible future disputes be-
tween the United states and Great Brit
ain. 1t is the purpose to expedite the
negotiation of the treaty that it may
be submitted to the Senate for ratifica-
ion at the coming extra session of Con-
gTess.
The treaty will be the first of the
kind ever negotiated. 1t will provide for
arbitration of all disputes. President
Taft has indicated his strong approval
of the idea and in a recent speech Sir
Edward Grey, minister of foreign affairs
Of Great Britain, said the British gov
ernment would welcome proposal for
such a convention. The proposed treaty,
if ratified, will be long step toward in
ternational peace. An interesting ques-
ton is whether the Senate will insist
on passing on every question which 1t
is proposed to arbitrate.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
REALTY MEN ARE At
WORK ON BIG DEALS
Negotiations Are Not Closed,
But Active Market
Expected.

Real estate TRANSACTIONS, so far as
ability of brokers to get deals closed is
concerned, show a tendency to drop be-
low the activity of last week. There are
many good sized deals under negotiation
which the brokers had expected to have
closed up before this, but from one cause
or another they have not been closed.
The volume of suburban lot transac-
lions keeps up to the mark and there
has been an average activity in home
buying.
suburban activity, realty men declare,
Is bound to be unusually great this
spring. Real estate men are looking
forward with interest TO the opening of
Massachusetts Avenue Heights next
Monday, and at least three large deals
Tor acreage for immediate subdivision
are now nearing consummation.
Corner House Sold.
The two-story corner dwelling at
S2l3 Georgia avenue northwest has been
sold by w. H. and o. T. Loving to Mrs.
Mary z. Straub for $3.50. The house
contains seven rooms and was pur-
chased for investment. The sale was
made through the office Of shannon a.
Luchs.
Buys Store and Dwelling.
Granville c. Bradford has purchased
the two-story store and dwelling
building at 10l5 NJ street southeast
for $4,000. The lot is 20 by 81 feet.
Mr.. Bradford purchased for invest
ment.
Hilles Leases House.
Mrs. F. P. Zahm has leased TO
Charles d. Hilles, the new Secretary
to the President, the residence at
2l19 Connecticut avenue northwest
through the office of Randall H.
Aagner.
To Build Bungalow.
DR.. G. P. Parton is having plans pre-
pared by Clauehton West, architect, for
tWo-story bungalow. SO by IS feet in
dimensions, on the southeast corner Of
Nebraska avenue and Fortieth street
northwest. The house will cost about
$4,000. Contract for its erection will be
lei as soon as the plans are completed.
To Build In Southwest.
Edwin w. Dickle has had plans pre-
pared for the constTuc of two two
story Colonial houses or the west side
OF { street below Third street southwest.
Ilans have neen drawn by Claughton
West, architect.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Woman Linguist Gets
Year for Drunkenness

Agnes Meaney. translator of ten Ian
guages lately employed in a responsible
position in the State Department, was
sentenced to a term of one year in the
workhouse this morning by Judge Null
lowny as the result OF a charge OF hab-
itual lrunkemess. The sentence was
imposed upon her in the hope that i'm
prisonment may effect a cure.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
zoe China
Mattings, 12Mc

100 rolls of heavy
weight seamless China
Mattings, close woven,
smooth finish straw
: with double corded edge.
In check, stripe and
plaid designs of red,
Sale price, 121sc yard.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

Orls' ew ash
Dresses of Chambray
and Percale, In a large
variety of plain colors,
checks and stripes: IN
low neck style with ell
bow leeves or Kimmono
sleeves; waists neatkv
trimmed. Plated skirts.
Sale price. CSC.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

50 doz- pairs Of child
ren's good quality Mus
lin Drawers. made with
hemstitched ruffle, fell
ed seams and worked
buttonhoies. Sizes nm
to 10 years. Sale price.
Sc pair.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

The lot includes fash
ionable Pa ma m a 8,
Serges, Fancy Mohairs
and Mannish Suitings,
50, "a and 50 inches wide.
In all the smartest ef-
fects for spring suits,
including pencil stripes.
Plenty Of wanted grays,
navy blue, and blacks.
Sale price, &C yard.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

Largest room-size OK
Il IT. Crex Mating
Rugs, wanted greens.
and other colors. Choice
of stripes, bordered and
plain styles.
Each one with a
"Crex" ira de mark
ticket attached.
Sale price s6.B.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Soft Collar and
Tie, 19c

Mems new style soft
Collars, with washable
four-in-hand Tie II the
latest fad In white,
blue, tan. and gray,
Sold elsewhere at g and
S5c. Sale price, 19c for
combination.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

Women's Gauze Vests,
low neck and sleeve
less, with taped neck
and arms, trimmed with
deep crochet yoke, IN
several designs, also
plain styles with mar
row or wide straps and
wing sleeve.
Sale price &c each.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

Yard-wide Black Taf-
feta Silk. soft chiffon
finish, all pure silk
quality; every yard
fully guaranteed.
Sale price, SIC yard.
The Washington times., 1911-03-29

24-inch Imported ALL
Silk Satin Foulards. IN
a complete assortment
of polka dots in navy
blue and black, also
neat set figures in old
rose, brown, Alice and
Copenhagen blue.
Sale price 49c yard.
The Washington times., 1911-11-27
GRAVE EMBARRASSMENTS OF
THE MEXICAN SITUATION.

The news that develops from day to
day with respect to the Mexican stu
alton is hardly such as to compose
the fears of those who are concerned
over the future of the Mexican re-
public. 1t is all of a tenor to bear
out the predictions made at the time of
the arrest of General Bernardo Reyes
that the Madero government is called
on to deal with deep-seated disorders,
and whether it will be equal to the
emergency is uncertain. s.
The state of Oaxaca is in open re-
volt and all over the country are NAL
contents who are plotting Madero's
downfall. One of the strangest fea-
lures of the whole business is the bit
terness manifested against the United
States because of fear of Intervention
by this country. The newspapers are
filled with violent screeds against the
"barbarians of the North" who. are
depicted as lying awake nights watch
The Washington times., 1911-11-27

brown brew itself holds out, however
deiectable the "fxin's" may be and
however conducive they may be to an
additional thirst. They will hasten
to.tell us that the Bismarck stein Is
the true fountain of youth and that
no man has ever been known to die
so long as he was able to fill and
drain it.
But on the other hand we may ex-
pect thrill of pride and appreciation
to run through the heart of Virginia
at the exaltation of the peanut. OF all
its food products the Old Dominion is
perhaps most proud of its peanuts. The
ham of Smithfieh, savory with the as
simulated acorns of the wildwoods, the
pippins of Albemarle which would work
disaster in a new Garden of Eden,
never fail to receive the tribute due
them, but when it comes to commercial
value rs well as delicacy Of flavor it
is the humble peanut which carries off
the prize. And to receive the high as.
surance of food expert that the best
beer that ever won bleat from
Gambrinus has but a '1ow food value
as compared with peanuts" is calcu.
lated to boost the peanut crop just at
che time when such boost can best be
capitalized in the market place. Sailed
or sugared or in state of nature, the
goober has taken high rank among
comestibles. It has almost displaced
the almond on the pink-tea table, and
whole families live for days on peanut
butter.
1t was an innocent looking query
which the anxious inquirer submitted
to the health expert, but it promises
to open up discussion of absorbing
and long g-continued interest.
The Washington times., 1911-11-27
MECHANIC" LECTURES
THE LABOR UNIONS
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
I see by the papers that the labor
unions object to having power presses
In the Bureau OF Printing and Engra -
ing. They also object to having the
Technical High School boys learning
how to print or set type. and remen-
ber they also fought against the type
setting machines being installed in the
Government Printing Office. The unions
are fighting against the Taylor SYSTEM
of shop management being adopted in
the Government shops of the United
States.
unions are trying to keep the country
from advancing and keeping up with
other improvements. 1t is generally
conceded that the typesetting machine
Is one OF the greatest inventions known,
and all men of advanced ideas seem to
think the Taylor system of shop man
agement Is the best in every way Re-
gardless of opposition every improve
ment for the benefit of man should be
encouraged, and no doubt will be.
As to Installing the printing press in
the schools, 1t will surely come sooner
CIR later, and the sooner the better. 1t
Is a duty we owe to the rising genera
tion to give them every advantage pcs
near future when mechsnic will be
on the same footing as the doctor, the
lawyer, and other professional men, and
will he called an artisan instead of a
mechanic.
In few more years II man wants
to work as an artisan he will have to
be real human being. i am a me-
chanic myself. and have worked at a
trade third of a century, and although
! am getting old could get work twen-
ty-four hours a day 365 days i'm the year,
and get more than S. fer every eight
hours. II were physically able to DO
the work. MECHANIC
The Washington times., 1911-11-27
FOOD VALUES OF BEER AND
PEANUTS,

In one of those departments which an
esteemed contemporary prints at the
top OF the column, next to reading mat
ter, conveying information on "How to
Keep Well" an anxious inquirer pro-
pounds the question whether one glass
Of beer day has any food value. It
goes without saying that any reply
would be based on pure mathematics,
since there has never been an instance,
perhaps, where a man has consumed
just one glass of beer day. If he
did SO it was an isolated case. and
was not kept up long enough after the
first OF January to justify any scien-
tifc and hygienic generalizations. To
assume, moreover, that one glass of
beer has exactly one-eighth of the food
value of eight glasses of beer would
certainly be misleading, SO instead of
becoming matter of pure mathemat-
les, it would, in reality, become pure
speculation.
THE interest attaches to the reply.
however. The learned doctor saws: at
'a,ss low food value, especially as com
pared with peanuts" One can easily
imagine the scorn which will be heaped
upon the doctor by all the Teutonic
races, who maintain that man can
very easily dispense with the pumper
nickel and the weinerwurst, the sweitz-
efkase and the pretzel SO long as the
The Washington times., 1911-11-27

the shef for many years. he took It
down. and on looking II over liked 1t
better than he had supposed, and he
told me he wanted to hear II played.
Before anything further was done In
that direction he died. Now his wild "
has had II published. Ny copy Is the
first that came from the press, and un-
less some one steals a march OF. us,
the performance by the Philharmoni,
Society will be the first In the world.
The Dvorak symphony is a very
long work. though 1t is in only the three
first. the usual SYM
phonic allegro; the second. an adagio
motto with the character Of a funeral
march: the finale. an allegro vivace.
Like Caesar Franck and his followers,
Dvorak here dispenses with the tradi-
tional symphonic scherzo."
Mr.. Stransky describes the first moye-
ment as Of "a rustic Bohemian charac-
ter; the second as typically Slavic In its
sadness. and the finale as frankly joy.
Gus. IT is. as You see, a long work,
and some OF the writings for the serings
are exceedingly difficult" -,
Other compositions which Mr..
Stransky spoke Of. and which he is to
The Washington times., 1911-11-27
DISCOVERY DAY" AND
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
There are millions of good American
citizens of Irish descent who are not of
the Society of Knights Of Columbus and
of conscience cannot be, and all Of the
glory of the Irish blood in American
history does not belong to Irish Roman
Catholics, and very little to those claim
ing most Of 1t, namely, the Columbuses
and others of recent accretion. ~
The best part of the Irish strain in
American history is the Protestant
Irish of the Revolution and the Roman
Catholic Irish under their direction.
1t is very little in the history of the
world the Celt has not had part In.
However. all that was of the Catholic
world before the reformation Is the
heritage of Christendom in common.
and not alone of the Roman Catholic
Church. Whatever credit belongs to
Haki and Haekia, Mr.. MacCarthy's two
Gaels in Liefs discovery OF the new
world. Is the common heritage of all
the Irish-Protestant as well as Roman
Catholic Of today, for II was a happen
ming when all were Catholic and there
The Washington times., 1911-11-27
DIM RENGIOUS LIGHT
ON SUBURBAN CARS

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Why this dim religious light in the
suburban cars Of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company?
travel twice a day on these cars
from Woodbridge to the Treasury and
back, a ride Of thirty minutes each
way.
On the 18th instant, about s p. m,
took at the Treasury a yellow car. No.
400. marked Riverdale, for my home in
Woodbridge. After boarding the car, 1,
with many other passengers, opened
our Times when, to our despair, We
discovered that this large car was only
dimly lighted with six small electric
bulbs for its entire length.
Many Of my fellOw-passengers, like
myself, found 1t impossible to read our
papers, and put them in our pockets,
wondering at the parsimonious policy
Of this prosperous line, whose cars are
WOODBRIDGE.