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The Washington times., 1911-10-31
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
OF GEN. HARRIES' SERVICES
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
The request of Citizen" for informa-
ton Of General Harries' services to this
city seems to call for some sort of a
reply. The $3.50 asked for the dinner
seemed to have provoked Citizen" to
the wrath which pervaded the letter.
and In this he will have the sympathy
Of many, and, / believe, of General
Barries himself. He'd II been a dollar
dinner Convention Hall would not have
hccn large enough for The occasion.
The trouble with IIarries is that he
has been doing things and nsver blhw-
ing about them. His promises have
been few, but his performance has Al
ways exceeded them. l first knew him
In addition to mis- vocation as n news
paper man his avccations have been
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Adventists Oppose
Restrictions to Church

Asserting it's belief in religious equal.
ity. and declaring its opposition to all
movements tending to unite the church
and state, the committee on religious
liberty at the fall council of the gen.
eral conference committee Of Seventh
Day Adventists, meeting at Takoma
Park, today recommended that a series
of big religious liberty conventions be
held in different parts of the United
States.
Every attempt at religious legislation
in Congress, or in any of the State
Legislatures, the committee declared, Is
direct violation of the great principle
of soul freedom.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
TWO FLEETS SEPARATED BY
FIFTY YEARS.

What difference fifty years make,
and what a tremendous development
they represent in the history of a
progressive nation may be seen in a
comparison of the two greatest fleets
ever brought together under the Stars
and Stripes.
Fifty years separate the two mo-
bilizations almost to day. On October
20, 1861, the first big feet assembled to
defend the Union, and the finest steam
fleet ever seen up to that time, left
Hampton Roads for Port Royal, on
the South Carolina coast. The flower
of this armada consisted of just four
teen vessels, ranging from the frigate
Wabash, the flagship, which now lies
at the Charlestown Navy Yard,
down to the converted gunboat r. B.
Forbes, which only short time before
had been registered as q tugboat in
Boston harbor. The bulk of this naval
aggregation of about 100 keels was
made up of miscellaneous transports,
some of them Atlantic liners and some
of them common, everyday ferryboats.
It was well termed "as variegated a
feet as ever set sail upon the sea-"
but it was the best Uncle Sam could
order forth at that time.
Today the mighty feet at anchor in
the Hudson resembles its forerunner OF
fifty years ago only in the number OF
keels to be counted. When we say
that it is the most powerful mass OF
sea. fighters the country has ever
known, we mean that in all-around for
midableness it commands universal as
well as national respect. A ship like
the Delaware, which took first honors
in the unparalleled coronation review
, at Spithead last summer, and which
now must divide honors with sister
dreadnoughts and super -dreadnoughts
might alone have swept the Atlantic
fifty years ago.
So each succeeding review shows moi
only our increasing naval strength
comparing the old fleets with the new
but also our steady advance among th'
foremost naval powers. The present
showing at New York compares yer.
we'll with what the Germans hav'
lately shown at Kiel and the French a
Toulon, and the promise made by th'
Navy Department is that if this re
markable rate of advance be maintaine,
for few years to come, the review
on this side of the ocean will take frs
place.
A big stick, indeed, with whicl
Uncle Sam will be able all the bette
to pursue his policy of promoting
peace.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Even the Landlady Sue
cumbs to His Benign
Influence.
PIECE Is TRIUMPH
OF J. X. JEROME.
Play One Of Most Impressive
on the English
Stage.

Few productions that have visited
washington have been more respectful
ly regarded than "The Passing OF the
Third Floor Back" In which Forbes
ROBERTSON opened at the Belasco
Theater last evening for q limited en-.
gagement. The literary position OF
Jerome X. Jerome is such that his work
IL not to be lightly treated, and his
rIay, Interpreted by such a master of
dramatic art as Forbes Robertson makes
a combination not often met with.
In the careful attention to details in
the stage settings, and thoughtful con-
sideraton of artistic detail the play
Is worthy the highest praise, but far
greater than these artistic accessories
Is the play itself, and the man by whom
1t Is presented. 1t Is one Of the most
Impressive plays that has ever been
given on the English speaking stage;
the most impressive, according to many
critics. that has ever been staged.
1t Is q play that brings with It a
reverent awe. that is profound and all
pervading. In all the plays that have
ever seen. there is nothing SO fine as
the scene In which the benign Stranger
comes into the cheap, sordid boarding
house, filled with lying. scolding, bicker-
Ing, cheating. unhappy beings, and by
appealing to their better natures, re.
forms them, one and ALL Accepting the
play as allegorical. 1t typifies with grea,
beauty, the regenerative force of the
Christ-spirit In man. Some writer in
speaking Of the lesson the play con.
veys. has that strong men were &C
affected that after each act they actual
ly said Excuse me-" when they climbed
over ladies trains and slippers to ge,
to the aisles.
Carries Great
Moral Lesson.
Certain 1t Is that the piece convey,
wonderful moral lesson-conveys II
most effectively through the mastery
art OF Forbes Robertson. This splen.
did actor, with his wonderful voice
like benediction, and his still more
wonderful eyes. and his stage presence
personal magnetism, or whatever II is
| that draws people toward him across
| the footlights-or to the character h.
portrays-that supreme quality of charm
| that he has to q degree that is mos
wonderful Of all. leaves in the mind,
| OF those who see him in this quaint
| compelling play an impression that 1.
| wholesome and pleasant and lasting.
One can forget neither the man no,
| the play. In fact, there has never beer
quite such another play. Talky it 1.
in the extreme, but every word Of tn,
| talk Is musical, every line has a charm
| that fingers like tune that is wortf
| remembering.
OF acting, as distinct from the elo
quent reading Of elegant lines, there 1,
| almost none. 1t Is talk, talk, talk, fol
almost three hours, but such talk az
| contents one and compensates for lacl
! Of movement and action and the othel
| things that enable actors TO make thei
| impressions In other kinds of plays
And this is no other play quit,
| like this. Perhaps, II there were, ther,
| the personal magnetism to make 1t go
| 1t Is play to make one think anC
feel. too, after the quiet charm OF 4
has gripped one along in the middl,
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Quiet Stranger Points Les
son for All in
Audience. |
ROBERTSON PLAYS
PART TO PERFECTION
Great English Actor Peculiarly
Equipped for
Role.

asks for the room In the third floor
back. in which he lodges. He agrees to
buy the swindling stocks the promoter
of little fake mining companies tries to
sell him. He tells the boarding house
young bunco steerer offers her are not
good enough for her. To the beautiful
young girls Of the boarding house he
shows that she does not wish to marry
she loves, and then he shows the old
man that he does not want the young
girl, anyway, but wants to help the ar
msson ss sne to toves paint sSF % The W elderly
man and wife who quarrel all through
the first act he sends back to the days
when they were sweethearts. and they
become sweethearts again. The young
musician who hates to write ragtimA
but d ,es 1t for the money, is braced up
to being the real musician he Is. Aeo
most Of us, they are all Largely arg yonS,t,on .ne S
which they have not the strength 70
And SO it is all through the cast, for
boarders in the eminentiy respectable
boarding house Of Mrs. Sharpe, who has
seen better days. of course And the
landiady! The us,,o miracle me ,,nhe5isSr Smssr
able One by one he talks to the char
acters and sends them to their oWn Sa
rsa sss II into tns sheir rea
she and %assa'y seseit cast aside: they md that
they cannot lie to the Stranger: ana
selves. and that whole boarding house
full Of mean, spiteful cats and dogs,
has become a happy family OF brotners
and sisters. not TO- mention ehs a.m, angelic pa
landlady mothering' them all.
Types Are
Delightfully."- Quaint.
The types represented by the boarders
are all delightfully."- quaint, such types
as one expects Jerome X. Jerome. VINO
wrote the clever little book from which
| the play was made, to draw. and, per-
haps. no one else could have drawn
them. Each man and woman OF the
| play is a splendid piece OF character
| acting, each perfect. Some OF them are
| indescribably funny at times. and eacn
one is transformed from a creature Of
| unloveliness to a decidedly likable ana i
! admirable human being under the spell
cast over him by the Stranger IN TINS
modern allegory. or course 1t SOUNDS
| impossible to make such things seem
compiished actor than Forbes R obertson
! would be able to do It, but one must
see him in it to understand how easy
| AS can be seen, the part Of the land
lady in the play Is no mean part to
! handle. In this role Miss Lena Del
| phine, to whom the lot has fallen, seems
) Especially adapted for just such q role.
Miss Maude Buchanan, as the Slavey.
gave an excellent character delineation.
and as the Painted Lady, Miss Florence
lie Clercq made the part effective. The
Characters playing their parts SO ef.
fectively that one realizes how greatly
real acting of small parts can add to
performance. The entire three acts o.
| are laid in the Bloomsbury lodging
! house Of Mrs. Sharpe.
the first Performance of THE Case oi
Becky" in which David Belasco will
present Frances Starr in the Nationa
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Light Sentence Given
To Man With Razor

A razor was the cause Of the SEN
tence Of a $50 fine or thirty days in Jail
imposed upon James Painkett, colored,
in District branch of Police Court to-
day.
The sentence Is one OF the lightest
Judge Mullowny has given in concealed
weapon cases. This is due to the fact
that Painkett had not made threat
to use the razor
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Last Day for Viles as
Chief Clerk of Census

Voler v. Viles will finish his last
days work as chief clerk Of the Cen
sus Bureau at 4:S0 o'clock this after
noon So far as can be learned today
Mr.. Viles has not made public his fu-
the Census Office again today.
William Hathaway will be sworn In
as chief clerk OF the bureau tomorrow
morning.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

her categorical denial Of the interview
in question. The price of popularity
seems little exorbitant at times, but
every now and then it has to be paid
in one form or another, with usury.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
OCCIDENTAL EDICT FROM AN
ORIENTAL THRONE.

Cnlnas emperor, aged nve years, mas
issued a proclamation in which he ad.
mits that he is no politician, and says
the politicians and the mobiles have
been fooling him. 81 have not en-
ployed men properly, and / am with.
out political skill. I have employed
too many mobiles in political positions
which contravene onstitutionalism, .
he admits.
This precocious youth seems to have
the idea. He has learned about all
that the most experienced rulers, in
any age, have managed to stow away.
Reading his pathetic confession, it is
hard to feel sure that
East is east and west is west,
And never the twain shall meet
because Orient and Occident here ap-
pear to have gotten together on broad
common ground.
"On railway matters one whom ]
trusted deceived me-" continues little
Pu vi. The boys must have been
violating the anti-rebate act, or knock.
ing down fares again. Maybe the
court of commerce has been enjoining
a lot of things that the interstate
commerce commission thought ought
to be done. Anyhow, it looks as il
the interstate commission were going
to get hearing for spell.
when I urge reform, officials and
the gentry seize the opportunity to EN-
bezzle," confesses the infantile boss ot
all the Chinks. Which is no way fol
the gentry to do, however well the
practice may be established as among
officials. "Much of the peoples money
has been taken, but nothing to benefi,
the people has been achieved"
Now, there is touch that makes
the whole world kin. The appropria
tions have been going right on, but tn,
promised downward revision of tn.
tariff has somehow failed to command
the confidence of the ultimate con
sumer. In China, as elsewhere, the
ultimate consumer has latterly become
more or less prejudiced against the
theory that he is myth. He finds
that when he is hungry, or when he is
called on to pay his taxes, or needs q
new suit and hasn't the price, he re-
acts to the tests exactly as if he were
substantial entity, living organism
Being a rude, unmannerly myth, he
doesn't act as amiably about it all as
a due regard for the Emp's feelings
would dictate.
1t is in the concluding paragraph Of
this proclamation that the boy rule,
shines forth with real Occidental radi
ance. 81 swear to REFORM" he de
clares, "and, with our soldiers ant
people, to carry out the constitution
faithfully, modifying legislation, pro
noting the interests of the people, anc
abolishing the hardships of the people
all in accordance with their wishes ant
interests
Which may be commended for plat
form to our own competing nationa
parties. Might as we'll promise aplent.
while promising, and swear to it. May
be if the national conventions shoul'
make affidavit to their platform
people would have more confidence tina
they meant what they said. Thi
seems a good and usable political idea
which causes wonder that the political
ly wiser West hadn't thought of i
ahead of the alleged slow and inexper
; East.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
St. Paul's Choir Boys
To Give Entertainment

The choir boys of st. Pauls Catholic
ChLrih will give q Halloween entertain-
ment at the church this evening. Theer
will be a number of songs, games will
oe played. and refreshments will be
served.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-Buffalo at San Diego. Chester
at Malta, Paducah at Guantanamo
M,ayihHGwer N,ayyiHS Utah, Culgoa' solace e
Cyclops. Sterling. North Carolina
Reid, Lamson, Preston, Flusser
Smith, Macdonough, Celtic, Uncas
Octopus. at New York.
Sailed-Barry from Sakwan for Hankow
Eagle from Guantanamo for Escon-
dido Bay, Cuba; Nanshan from
Shanghai for Manila.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
SCHOOL BOYS NEED
LESSONS IN COURTESY
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Anent Superintendent Stuart. of the
public schools, having the children in
structed as to the proper way of enter
ing and leaving street cars. / should
suggest that he have the boys taught to
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION.
The number of complete and perfect copies
ing the month of September was as follows:

The net total circulation OF The washington
Times daily during the month Of September
was 1,l07, I2. all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number. when
divided by g. the number Of days Of publi-
cation, shows the net daily average for Sep
temher to have been 54,1H.
september. 1911, Includes 2s, 100 extra papers
sold on Labor Day and 80, Ss6 extra papers
tBeattie verdicD sold September 8. De-
Quoting these figures the average net cir
cuation for September Is shown to have
been 61.l78
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
NAVY.

Commander D. w. BLAMER, to Wis
consin as executive officer.
Lieutenant Commander F. N. FREE
Washington, d. C.. and granted
leave two months
LieI tenant Gunior grade) f r. WOOD
WORTH. detached Ohio: to duty In
charge Wireless Station. Arlington
Va.
Ensign r. z. ROGERS. detached
Smith: to Des Moines.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

DR.. Wiley has declined to preside al
pure food congress in London. He
evidently believes in homo missionary
work along this line
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

etc., may find that the goblins seeking
to get them are very real.
1t is pertinent again to ask Chairman
Browne. Of the Board Of Trades pub
lie school committee. why the school
desk report was not made public eight
months ago.
And now the naval officers are to be
required to do little more walking.
Fortunately, however, they are not ex-
pected to have faith enough to walk on
the water.
If Commissioner of Education Clax-
ton could secure the adoption Of the
single suggestion Of school instruction
in gardening, he would be doing an in
valuable service to the country.
That the kindergarten is the most
potent force in Americanizing immi-
Miss Susan Blow, high priestess of
kindergartens," when she addressed Dis
trict teachers.
A bureau for school hygiene and sani-
tation and others to be announced later
are early signs of the activity of the
new administration of the United States
Bureau of Education under Commission
er P. P. ClaXton.
The thirteen Washington men who
were arrested for Intent to hunt"
ought to press their charges against
the constable in the interest Of per-
sonal safety for others who may ven-
ture into the wilds Of Maryland.
The police and flremen's pensions will
be paid for October, but beyond that
the outlook is gloomy. 1t will not be
much of a Thanksgiving at the end of
next month for a large part Of our
public servants unless the situation i'm
proves.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

The overzealous youths who celebrate
Halloween by removing signs and gates,
ETC., may find that the goblins seeking
to get them are very real.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

Midshipman H. c. RIDGELY. detached
Flusser: to Smith.
Passed Assistant Surgeon e. G. MACK
ENZIE. detached Naval Hospital,
New York. N. Y. and granted sick
leave six months.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

Jealous lovers who use a gun to re-
monstrate with their sweethearts are
becoming rather too numerous.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1911.
With butter at 40 cents q pound
Johnny may yet be forced to eat jam.

Interest in the Boy Scouts was never
so keen and the movement is gathering
strength every day.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Sunday.

The number Of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month Of September was as fol-
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

The following 1. o. o. F. lodges will
meet tonight: Golden Rule, No. 2l:
Washington. No. 6; 'Amity, No. 27;
Phoenix, No. 2S
The following knights of Phythias
Lodges will meet tonight: Webster,
No. 7; Excelsior, No. IA; Capitol No.
"a; Myrtle, No. rs.
The following l. o. r. NJ. organizations
will meet tonight: Idaho Tribe. No. l3,
Twelfth and H streets northeast;
Saltese Tribe, No. 16, Seventh and D
streets northwest; Osceola Tribe, No
49, Masonic Hall, Tenleytown; Waneta
Council, Degree of Pocahontas. Fifth
and G. streets northwest.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
Amusements.

National-''The Case of Becky" S:l5 .. m.
Belasco-"The Passing of the Third
Floor Back" $40 p. m.
Columbia-"The Challenge" S:15 D. m.
Chase's-Polite vaudeville, 2:15 and S:15
p. m.
Casino-Elite vaudeville.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville.
Academy-"A Man and His Wife" 2:15
and S:l6 p. m.
Majestic-''Beyond Pardon" afternoon
and evening.
Gayety-"The Passing Parade" 2:l5 and
S:l5 p. m
Lyceum-"The Merry Msidens." 2:l5 and
S:15 u. m.
Bowling. motion pictures, and
other features.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31
ARMY.

Captain HENRY F. PIPES. Medical
Corps. is relieved from further duty
at the Army Medical School In this
city.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

Tomorrow Miss Murdoch will review
the first Performance OF The Case OF
Becky" in which David Belasco will
present Frances Starr in the National
Theater.
The Washington times., 1911-10-31

The net total circulation of The washin gton
Times Sunday during the month of Septem-
Der was 1s5, all copies left over and re-
turned by agents being eliminated. This
number, when divided by I, the number Of
Sunday average for September to have been
Entered at the Poetoffice at washinston,
d. c.. as second class matter.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-06-16

teleton D. Sturgis, who is backing a
revival of the project to construct the
long contemplated railroad from Mil
lersville to Drum Point; and E. L.
Quarles, the publicity man of the
Greater Baltimore Committee, made
the trip in automobiles to Solomons
Island.
Governor Crothers took the trip on
two-fold mission-to inspect the state
built and state-begun highways and to
ascertain the possibilities and pros
poets of the two long slumbering rail-
road projects, namely, the road from
Millersville, on the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railroad, in Anne
Arundel county, to Drum Point, in the
southern extremity of Calvert county,
and the extension of the railroad from
Mechanicsville, ST. Mary's county, to
Point Lookout, the most southern point
of Maryland.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-06-16
Farms Raked by Furious Storm.

Saturday night about 8 o'clock a Sc
we're hail and wind storm swept over
an area of between three and four
miles in the vicinity of Brandywine.
A barn on the farm of Mr.. Aquilla
T. Robinson was blown down and three
cows were killed and buried under the
debris. The barn was full Of last
years crop of tobacco. The. wind up
rooted trees and laid low wheat crops.
Mrs. Hunt, who resides near Bran
DIVINE, lost barn and two cows.
Near this place three handsome horses
were frightened from under a large
tree by the approaching storm, and had
hardly gotten about 100 yards when
lightning struck and practically tore to
pieces the tree. A dwelling being
erected by Charles S. Early was blown
from its foundation. Telephone lines
were left in a dilapidated condition and
the service seriously impaired for sew
eral days.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-06-16
New Racing Association.

At the Laurel Four County Fair
Grounds last week there was meeting
of the stockholders and it was decided
to tnrn the outstanding stock to the
new organization which is known as
the Maryland State Fair.
The changes made in the organiza-
ton, will in no way conflict with the
Laurel Four County fair spring race
meeting. This will be held June % to
July 4, inclusive. Entries for this are
to close June 20, with Frederick Dali
lam as racing secretary.
The new organization, it is said, pro-
poses having an agricultural fair, and
four days of harness racing in October.
Following this there will be running
race meeting. AS the law of this coun-
ty prohibits poolselling on racing, ex-
cept during the month of October, the
racing will be done in that month.