The Washington bee., 1911-01-07
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
by Miss G. B. Maxfeld.)

1t seems as if no more salaries will
be paid to public school teachers
when they are absent from the class
, rooms, whether from illness. acci-
I dent, unforeseen emergencies or from
any cause whatsoever.
, The people of Saratoga Springs are
! so prosperous that they have no use
tor charity organization. AT the
annual meetings of the Town Board
1t was reported that no application
tor assistance had been mads during
the last year. The money in the
poor fund will be donated to other
! purposes.
] Chairman Martin A. KnaDp. of the
interstate Commerce Commission
| look the oath OF office last week as
additional circuit judge of the United
states, thus becoming automatically a
member of the new Commerce Court
/ and severlng his connection of more
than 20 years with the Interstate
Commerce Commission
According to a report from Paris.
Or. Arthur korn, professor of physics
at the University of Munich, whose
experiments in long distance photog-
raphy attracted much attention a few
years ago, has exhibited his invention
tor synchronizing the phonOgraph and
cinematograPh, by means of which
the moving pictures appear to speak.
announcement has been made that
Andrew Carnegie has given SI,25o,ooo
for Carnegie Foundation for Life
Savers in Germany. The conditions
and purpose of the endowment are
similar to those of the hero funds"
previously established by the Ameri-
can philanthrOpist in the United
States, England and France.
A Susan B. Anthony memorial
week, beginning Feb. IS, is planned
by the National Woman's Suffrage
of New York to celebrate the birth
day of the great worker for the en-
reimbursement of women.
According to the will of James
Swan Morrill,, a statue of his father,
the late Justin S. Morrill,, former SEN
ator from Vermont, will adorn the
halls of Congress, if that body will
accept the sum of $4,000 offered by
the will.
According to w. H. Conde, Chief
Irrigation Engineer of the Indian
service, approximately $I,2oo,oo0 was
spent by the Indian Bureau during
the last fiscal year for the irrigation
OF Indian lands in Montana, UtSh, Ne
yada, Wyoming, Washington and
Idaho.
A committee to cooperate with the
American Institute of Architects in
bringing about the fulilment of the
Park Commissioners plan for the
Identification of Washington was aD-
pointed by William H GUIDE, Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce.
According to the experts of the
United States Public Health and Ma
rine Hospital Service, the mosquito,
common house fly and other fly spe-
cies play no small part in transmit
ting the leprosy
An amendment to the segregation
ordinance in Baltimore will be intro
duced in the City Council when it con-
venes. The amendment will make it
possible for mixed" blocks to re-
main mixed until the last house has
been occupied by a Negro or white
family, when the provisions Of the
law against invasion will become op-
erative
The National flag of Haiti was un-
furled New Years Day over the le-
CATION of Haiti in this city and the
Pan-American Union in honor of
Ha1tl's independence day, Jan I, 1904
The Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety and 100 of their invited guests
gathered to do honor to the memory
of Maj. George Gordon Meade,
commander of the Union forces at
Gettysburg, and who was born o5
years ago, Dec. 81.
A tract of land valued at 100000
was presented to the city of PhIla-
delphia for park purposes by the
daughters of the late Joseph Wharton,
who was a millionaire iron manufac-
turer of Philadelphia. The land is
located in Germantown and is known
as Fishers Park.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of
Col. Roosevelt, sent her Sunday
school class at St Mary's Episcopal
Church (colOred) in this city 81 apiece
and a beautiful Christmas card, as
her Christmas token, showing she
had not forgotten her little COlored
boys.
Through the cooperation of Rod
man Wanamaker and the city of Phil
adelphia, a fund Of $4,000 will be
established for the support of the
rents of all city employees who may
be killed or incapacitated by injuries
received in the discharge of their
duties.
1t is hoped among your good reso-
lutions you have resolved to subscribe
one year for The Washington Bee.
Gen. Evaristo EstenOz, the colored
leader, and II other colored men of
Cuba, who were arrested last spring.
with cOnspiring against the
has been released from
iail there 1t will be remembered
these men demanded their rights
when the Americans were making a
distinction in public places there.
According to the Philadelphia Trib-
une. there were only 50 lynchings
during the year OF 1910