The Washington times., 1911-05-03


The Mothers Congress took farewell
shot at Mormonism before adjournment.
Ryhey went even further than Arhemus
Ward, who said of the Mormons that
their religion is singuiar-but their
wives are plural
President David Fairchild. Of the
Washington Home Gardens Association.
plauted fifty delights along Park
road. They are roses that will keep!his
memory green and his name brightAand
fragrant for many year TO come.
Washington offers an excellent field
for the architect and the exhibition to
he held in June by the Washington Ar
chitectural Club. in the hemicycle of
the Corcoran Art Gallery. will be one of
the most attractive features OF the. sum
mer season.
Mr.. Louis Gregg, the Atlanta Consti-
tution's gifted cartoonist. was guest
at the National Press Club last night.
Mr.. Gregg's gopher is a welcome sig
nature wherever good cartoon work Is
appreciated and the artist has number
Of warm friends here in Washington.
The local banking fraternity loses an
able financier and estimable associate
by the resignation of J. Selwin TAFT,
for many years Washington manager Of
the International Banking Corporation.
In his residence here he has built up
the business Of his company and won
the friendship and esteem of many.
The Fire Protection Subcommittee of
the House finds that there is grave dan
ger of the destruction by fire of the re-
serve supply of "greenbacks." If they
are not burned there they are likely to
be burned by some future possessors
bent on getting rid of too easily acquired
fortunes.
The Interscholastic Rifle Association
of the District is to be organized to-
night at a meeting of delegates repre-
senting the preparatory schools. Ar
rangements will be made for entering
the third annual schoolboy tournament.
This looks as If we were teaching the
Young idea to shoot with a vengeance.
If the Washington baseball club puts
I'D the sort of game It played just be-
fore the close of last season and the
sort II H,es promise of being table to
play this season, there will be no diff
ficulty about earning that $4,000 a year
which it has obligated itself to produce
every year for five years, in order to
make UP the expense of its new stands
The Washington fan is the most loyal
in the country. All he asks Is a rea-
sonably exciting run for his money. II
he gets that he will buy admission
tickets by the thousand and the club
treasury will overflow,
1t is time to rejoice and be glad. A
site for a public school in Washington
has been selected without serious con-
flict between the Board of Education
and the Commissioners. It is the site
for the proposed new colored high
school. and the lot on First street north
west. between N and o streets, has been
selected. This location will be satisfac-
tory to all interests concerned in estab-
fishing the new school, and the high
school to be built upon it will serve the
young people whom it is to house more
effectively than would be possible AL
most anywhere else in the District. The
site is close to the center of the colored
population.
Any lingering doubt that spring has
arrived should be dispelled by the IA
miliar. semi-weekly announcement of
the programs of bard concerts at Pe-
tomac Park and the Capitol plaza.
" ashington welcomes the resumption
of outdoor concerts, but the fact re-
mains that thousands Of Washington