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Evening star., 1911-08-27
SHOP MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS
Industrial Employers and the Physi'
cal Needs of Their Men.

W. A. Honeij NJ D.. in Engineering Magazine.
Since half or more Of the waking
hours of employees are spent In the
store or factory where they work, II IS
essential to the standard of modern
civilization that systematic and ade-
quate attention be given to the main
tenance Of health and the prevention
of disease during these hours. The
employees of a store or factory should
have the services Of the best physl-
clans and surgeons Obtainable. Moth
ing short of this should satisfy the
conscience or the good business judg-
ment of an enlightened business man
agement. This is possible only as the
need is seen and provided for by the
industrial management 1t cannot be
left entirely to the individual en-
ploye. for he has neither the knowl-
edge nor the liberty to keep himself
we'll But health matters must remain
securely confidential. The employer
has no right to any knowledge of the
condolences an employe gives his ply
sician. And the employe should have
every safeguard in this matter. The
physician should be employed by the
employe and not by the management.
1t should be the sense Of the manage
ment that the relation of the employees
to the outside physicians be considered
as absolutely confidential: that the
management neither invites nor wants
any direction or information, except in
cases of ntagious diseases. when the
welfare of the people in the store
would have to be protected. doctor
should not be hired by an employer to
treat employees. They should have no
ground whatever to suspect that their
medical adviser is revealing their per-
sonal affairs to their employer Practi-
cally the only thing that a business
house should do in order to secure the
best results in its health department
is properly and intelliaently to or
sanize it. IT need not add materially,
if at all. to the expense Of the busi-
ness. Whatever small investment may
be decided upon should prove to be
paying investment of the highest
order. in the increase of regularity,
efficiency and performance of the force.
There are cases of real medical need
in every establishment which cannot
be handled by the management direct
ly, however charitably inclined, with
out undue publicity and some embar-
rassment to the employee, which a we'll
organized medical department could
and would take care Of in the best
possible way.
The first duty of store nurse is to
the whole store, and not to the indi-
vidual. and while she should foster and
respect the confidential relations Of the
employees to her in her professional
capacity, she should where IT seems
necessary. report cases directly to the
store manager; and further, for the
protection of the whole store she
saould have authority to call girl to
har office and recommend to her that
sne see the regular physician, and in
case the matter is serious enough, in
order to keep the relations between
the emp1oye and medical department
confidential. she should have the au
thority. with the signature Of the store
physician. to ask for the resignation
or any employee.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
HOW FUNSTON SWAN RIVER.
An Adventure in the Philippines
That Won High Rank.

Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, in Scribners.
We could see that the farthest span of
the fine steel bridge had been let down
into the water SO that an attempt to
rush the structure and get directly into
the trenches on the other bank was not
practicable. l thought it might be done
by swimming around the broken span,
and called on the men nearest me to come
along. Most of these We're from small
detachment of Company E, under Lieut.
Colin H. Ball. that had just reported
from a reconnaissance down the stream
but ] was also accompanied by Barsh-
field and Warner and by First Sergt Ems
low of Company *. About ten of us ran
up the embankment to the end of the
bridge. and then discovered that the ties
and rails had been removed so that we
had TO work ourselves along the sides.
a slow and tedious operation. But very
few shots were fired ut US. none at all
after we had got half way across. as the
enemy had already begun to vacate the
works | thought it advisa BILE to get into
them at once nevertheless, for fear that
they might be reoccupied.
The bridge, including the siXty-foOt
span that had been dropped into the
water. was a little more than 40 feet
long, but In time We reached the gap. 1t
developed now that some of us could not
swim, but it would at any rate be good
idea for some men to remain on the
bridge and cover with their fire in
case the enemy should be playing pos
sum- or should make a counter attack
on those of us who succeeded in crossing.
Taking off our shoes and leaving behind
our arms and ammunition, Lieut.. Ball,
Sergt, Enslow, Chief Trumpeter Barsh-
field. Corp. A. M. Ferguson Of Company
and myself swung, ourselves down
until we could grasp e. steel rod that ran
diagonally from the top of one pier to
point on the opposite one few feet
above the water, slid down this and
were soon in. As soon as got in /
reached for bottom. blt could not find it,
subsequent examination showing the
stream to be ten feet deep at that point
so that had to swim for it, no great
task, as the distance was about forty-f1ve
feet Although l had got into the water
first, Ball beat me to the bank being a
faster swimmer and the four of US, bare
footed. unarmed and dripping, rushed
into the trench, to find in it only the dead
and disabled.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
VIM. B. Laub. Jr.

The Potomac Boat Club was unable to
participate In the regatta and water
carnival at Colonial Beach last Tuesday
as Capt. Frank Smith received the invita-
ton to send crews almost on the eve of
the event, and, therefore. found it i'm
possible to arrange the trip
Wingrove Bathon, chairman of the
committee in charge of the water sports
at the resort invited the captain of the
Georgetown Club Friday. the 18th. to
send his junior and senior crews to row
a match race for valuable medals over
q mile course, but though most of the
men in the two boats were willing
enough to attend, the matter of getting
leave on such short notice was the ma jor
handicap.
1t has also been intimated by several
members of the club that their officers
were loath to risk shipping the two frail
boats on the steamer, as it would have
been necessary to lash the craft along
the outside of the deck rails their length
of sixty-two feet prohibiting stowage on
the freight deck.
Everything is now in readiness for the
Middle states regatta which will be held
In Baltimore next Monday and during the
coming week the Junior crew will be
matched against the old senior bunch
every evening. The youngsters will be
driven from one end of the upper course
to the other until they equal the speed
OF the best crew to be met on Spring
Gardens. and it is suspected by those who
have seen them row that the Monumental
city won't hold them on the night of the
I'd
Coach Josh Slocome is very reticent
on the subject of his charges abilities,
but you can tell by the gleam in his eye
that he counts on opening a surprise
i'm ha itrnf fnr air
x < X
ADMIRAL as the boys know the Quiet
maSterful little man, who has but lately
entered the coaching field, was one of the
best coxswains that Cornell University
ever knew, and his Courtney training, to-
gether with his experiences under the
redoubtable Pat Dempsey, put him
foremost in the field of we'll informed
rowing sharks. If the Potomac junior
crew does not bring home a slice of the
bacon 1T won't be "JoSh'S' fault. Those
who will represent the club in the junior
eight race are Quintard. No / Milovich,
2: Poole, 3. Fisher. 4; Mcdonald. 5:
Chamberlain, 6: Hoppe, T. and Wander
grift. stroke. with John Mckinney at the
tiler lines. The crew has been handicap
ped almost discouragngly by Chamber
lains sickness during the past two
weeks and Bosch has been taking his
place at No. q. but il Is expected that he
will report for duty before Wednesday.
= <
Don S. Edmonds. former captain of
the Analostan Boat Club. left town last
Wednesday in the twenty-five-foot launch
Julia for a ten-day cruise on the river
and bay. Mr.. Edmonds took his mother
and sister as far as Marshall Hall. but
his wife accompanied him on the cruise
The Julia is an open Truscott boat
equipped with a even-horsepower engine
Of the same make. and is provided with
heavy canvas curtains that practically
make the craft a cabined boat, when
buttoned down.
X
Fred T. Schneider of the Analostan
Boat Club is cruising between Colonial
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Designing a Picture.
Kenyon Cox. in Scribner',

3
IL you are to paint a still-life it is evi-
dent that you must arrange the objects
somehow-they will not come together OF
themselves. You might conceivably, be-
gin portrait and wait for a happy acct
dcnt-a spontaneous pose of the sitter-to
give you the arrangement of the hands:
you cannot wait for the copper kettle and
dead fish to place themselves agreeably
And still less can nature or accident
determine your composition of a number
of figures. unless you rely entirely upon
snap shots. II you have any intention,
any story to tell. any idea to express
il 1t is no more than the idea of crowd
you must arrange your figures. we'll or
Ill. Even in landscape painting of the
most naturalistic kind, where 1t is not
uncommon today to accept what nature
gives, abdicating the right to put In or
leave out and retaining only that right
of choosing an agreeable view which the
photographer exercises equally with the
painter-even there, though you may re-
produce a natural landscape as literally
as you are able, you must determine
where to cut 1t off. You must decide
your chosen matter and the rest OF
nature which you reject, you must think
whether your material will go best onto
an upright canvas or an Oblong one, and
what are 10 De It's proportions and d1-
mensions. In that act you are exercis-
ing the art of design. You cannot escape
from design; you cannot avoid composing.
You may compose badly. but compose
you must
And IL the demands of design are fun
damental they are also universal 1t is
not only your lines and masses that must
be composed, but your light and shade.
your color. your very brushmarks must
be arranged: and the task of composition
is not done until the last touch has been
placed upon the canvas, although. for the
sake of convenience, the term compost
ton, or design, is generally limited to
the arrangement of lines and masses. the
arrangement of the other elements of the
picture being considered separately.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Motoring in the Sierra.

From the Sunset Magazine.
It all goes to show how a miracle OF
yesterday becomes the commonplace OF
today. Until within the last two or three
years the Sierra grades were considered
the supreme test for motor car drivers.
For man, owners even to attempt the
trip was considered as much as a cars
life was worth. Then improved roads and
increased realization of motor car pOssi-
bilities seemed to boost the Sierra routes
almost in a day into the position of
first popularity for automobile tours.
Scores of machines began to troop over
the grades where scarcely one had gone
before. Inhabitants of little mountain
settlements who had previously inspected
a chance car with all the breathless in
terest that a Halley's comet could inspire,
began to keep their chairs at the dinner
table, even though the honking of horn
Evening star., 1911-08-27

and wild cackling Of poultry proclaimed
the passing Of an automobile. Then the
merchants of these same settlements be-
gan to have calls for various accessories,
such as gasoline and lubricating oil. At
first they peered over their steel-rimmed
epectacles and shook their heads mega
lively, while the loungers raped their
heels against the barrels on which they
sat and grinned behind their hands But
it did not continue a joke. The gasoline
tank began to pay better than the grain
bin. Today the well-stocked accessories
department of the many ger, raj mer-
chandise stores that perch beside the
various Sierra roads eloquently evidence
the important growth OF automobile tour
ing in those parts. The early feuds be-
tween settlers and automobilists have
been completely dispelled through
greater regard cultivated by the latter
for the formers safety and the realiza-
ton but recently reached by the rural
inhabitants that the coming of the auto
means much for the development of his
locality. No motorist inclined to show
due courtesy and civiIity need now fear
any Inconvenience from the people who
live throughout the Sierra.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
SANDBURR II
SMALLEST AMERICAN COHPE TIToR,

and now being prepared for the elimlna-
ton races for the British international
cup at Huntington bay. l. l.. has beaten
the best time the new Dixie " has made
this season The Dixie has shown that
she can probably hit the fifty-mile mark
and sustain it, but from what little can
be CLEANED from the designers and build
ers OF the local craft, Victor Emerson,
who has the flyer III charge, Is thought
to have finally struck gait of fifty-seven
miles an hour. Mr.. Emerson will merely
say that Vice Commodore Blackton' 5
boat can run faster backward than the
rest of em can go ahead The Maple
Leaf III. owned by +. Mackay Edgar.
is one OF the British challengers. and
though she is more feared than any
other craft entered, 1t is doubtful II
she will ever reach the fifty-seven- nfsie
mark. Betting in New York is running
. 10 on Viva. The Sand Burr II. also
built by the local concern and credited
with an actual speed in competition OF
thirty-seven miles per hour. has also
been entered for the elimination races
which begin next Wednesday.
The Sand Burr Won three tirsts in three
races and $500 III silver trophies at the
Cambridge regatta. July 21 30.
This boat is the outcome of an expert
ment made just prior to the Post regatta
two years ago. when the first tunnel-bot-
tom speed boat was tried out on the
Potomac. Those present at that regatta
will remember the Emerson boat that
showed Such bursts or speed Whlle HylnB
up and down the course, but which IN
variably insisted upon diving when open
ed up. The Sand Burr is built on the
same Identical lines, but has been re-
markable success from the time of her
launching. The Emersons are working
with but one object in view, that of at
tanning sixty miles an hour and possibly
more, and an application for patents on a
turbine internal combustion engine of
their design is now in the patent Office.
This wonderful machine will weigh less
than three-quarters of pound per horse
power. and made in a two or three hun
dred horsepower size will take up less
room in a boat than the 3OO-horsepower
plant of today.
Two boats are to be built for the in
ternational races at Monaco next year
for Stuart Blackton and Harry Harkness
OF New York. respectively, and they will
each be equipped with turbine engines de-
veloping over 1000 horsepower
The Nova Scotia yawl Isru was launch
ed at Cumberland's last Monday fully rig
sed for cruising The craft is twenty
feet long and has a small cuddy forward
for shelter. She IS owned by David H.
Blackjack. who has planned number OF
cruises on the lower river.
The yawl Freya OF the Capital Yacht
Club left her anchorage last night for a
| trip to Marshall Hall. returning tonight.
| On board are George II. Bright. Oliver
| NJ. Bright. Frank keyes. Miss Rose
Bright. Miss Mary Bransom and several
members of the crew OF the Grace *.
Neither Otto Braitmayer nor Commo.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

life is to make his stay comfortable
| and as enjoyable as possible.
Then again. nothing is more conductive
to a full absorption of every necessary
point relative to the study of navigation
than close association with fellow yachts
men and the exchanging OF experiences.
II is for this and many other reasons
that you should get into club life. for
your own hetterment and for the sake
of the sport.
There are upward of fifty motor boats
owned in Georgetown by unattached boat
lists. and therein lies all the opportunity
in the world for another local club Why
not start it and call it the Rock Creek
Navy?
Sunday before last. the 18th to be eX-
act item was published regarding the
holding up of several motor boausts in the
harbor by officers of the revenue cutter
Apache And Yet we see fellows still
plugging along with no whistle. no bell
other than foolish little engine jingle
bell and rarely equipped with a fog horn.
Last Tuesday night several canoeists
were apprehended on the upper Potomac
without lantern of any sort. Although
il is almost certain that not one of them
gave his real name and thus all VIII
probably escape being detected and hned.
the incident should serve as a warning
to the hundreds that frequent the water
at night. An ordinary bicycle lamp show
ing white ahead and red and green on the
proper sides will conform with the law or
else a small marine lantern such as yacht
supply houses sell and which Is known to
.he trade as an engineer lamp.
It certainly seems that when devotce
of water sports has to choose between
spending 81 for light and paying fine
of from s. TO 500 for not having one
he would connect by hook or crook. The
law has been published in this paper and
copies of it may he had at any time ny
applying to the Department of Commerce
and Labor.
The time Of high water at Washington
for the coming week, beginning with to-
fn1l
Evening star., 1911-08-27

High tide at Colonial Beach Monday,
September 4, 1898 am. Low tide at Co
lonial Beach Monday, September 4, 80
pm. High tide at Colonial Beach Sun
day, September 8, Al pm. Low tide at
Marshall Hall Monday. September 4.
11:4O pm. Hight tide at Maryland Point
Monday, September 4. 1912 m. Low tide
at Love Point, Kent Island. Monday. Sep
tember 4, S:3S pm. Low tide at T1lgn-
mans Point September 4. I:2o pm.
:; + K
Commodore w A. Rogers Of the Wash
ington Canoe Club has traded his glass
cabin launch for the speed boat Auto.
The Auto will be remembered by those
who frequent the upper river as the
twelve-mile boat that lay off Reynolds
boathouse two summers ago, waiting for
chance to pounce out on every fast
thing that came along. She succeeded
in beating everything on the river until
one day Battenfield in his Grey Bat came
swinging upstream at Snails pace OF
eighteen or twenty miles an hour, and
the Auto thereupon lost her reputation.
So don't tackle the Grey Bat, "Commo-
dore."
x X ). x
1t has been learned during the past
week that the Viva. recently built by the
Emerson Engine Company of Alexandria
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Beach and the mouth of the river in his
power boat Zenobia.
The Zenobia was formerly modern
raised deck cruiser, but last winter the
more comfortable but less attractive
glass cabin was substituted.
The Kenton Canoe Club. situated on
the Broadwater of the Potomac, Just
above Little Falls. entertained members
of the local rowing and canoe clubs last
Thursday evening with a ladies' smoker.
George W. Barnes, chairman OF the COM
nittee in charge. provided an excellent
program. besides an unlimited supply OF
refreshments. The house and grounds
were beautifully decorated and lighted
with Japanese lanterns.
X
The Old Dominion Boat Club OF Alexan-
dria has almost completed an addition to
its house that will make the structure
more than hundred feet long The
lockers are to be moved out of the front
of the house, which is the old club INTO
the new building. and the former boat
room and lockerroom VIII be used as
recreation hall, while the entire uppeS
floor of the place VIII be left open so
that large dances can be given during
the winter.
The Eastern Power Boat Club, located
NJ the foot of 11th street southeast, has
provements on its property.
sThe organization has secured two
year lease on the ground IL now occupies,
with me privilege Of extending ii to
fve years, and during the coming winter
a new structure will probably be built
to replace the old boathouse, which has
served a home since the club was first
Organized last fall. AT this time the ma
iority OF the members are cruising on
the lower river, and will probably re-
main there tat sea- until after Labor
day.
Commodore William Mills and E. N
Cullen, first mate of the formers auxil-
iary sloop. Mary Esther, returned last
Sunday from a trip which took in almost
every inlet and creek the other side of
Colonial Beach Smiths creek was made
their headquarters during the cruise. and
the party reports that fine fishing is now
70 be had of the mouth of that stream
The motor boatists on the Eastern
branch are to be commended by every
local yachtsman for having formed an
organization in spite of numerous diff
entities that every new club is bound TO
experience, and their rapid growth shows
that the average boat owner needs but a
sight encouragement to convince him Of
the absolute necessity for organized
Yachting. The owner of a cruising craft
never appreciates his membership in
some recognized boat club until he visits
strange waters, and chances upon a for
efgn club. whose doors are Immediately
opened to him. He is provided with a
nooring. allowed every privilege of a
Snade to feel that his hosts one object in
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Pet Seal Missing.

From the Los Angeles Times.
Ben, the famous pet seal, has mysteri-
ously disappeared. For nearly two weeks
a sharp watch has been kept by boatmen
who have had the Catalina seals inter-
est in view. but today they gave up all
hope of its return.
Three years ago it was estimated that
there were over 500 seals in the colony
living between Church rock and Avalon.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Today. it is almost impossible to see one
of the pets. So afraid have they be-
come OF boats that Immediately one ap-
pears near them they hide In the crevices
of the rock shore line.
Mexican Joe, who had known Old Ben.
the seal, for over forty years, IS much
concerned about the disappearance.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
His Reading of It.
Prom the Boston Transcript.

Prom The Boston Transcript.
1.-The circus advertisement sez Secure
seats remarked Uncle Hayseed, Who
was on one of the top ro~s. ''but they
seem all-fired rickety to me-"
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Were You i'm the Crowd
GREAT FALLS
SumdayP
II not DO sure and 30 toda.

- !.
CAMP MEETING NOW IN PROGRESS.
MUSIC AFTERNOON AND EVENING BY FULL
MILITARY BAND.
Historic Grounds Large Park, Artesian Water.
Perfect Sewerage. No Malaria. No Mosquitoes.
LARGE Dancing Pavilion. Hotel Dining Room
Service q Ia Carte and Table d'Hote.
Take Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroa1s
s6th and n streets. Cars every few minutes.
ROUND TRIP. 86c
The scenic Lire q Virginia; rapid segvics. an@
Ioadhed. clean. sanHaRE Cars
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Joseph M. Davenport. a well known
resident Of Drawbridge district Dor
chester county. Md. was killed by
lightning during a storm.