The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The Introduction of the Hamill bill
looks as though former Senator Dick S
campaign on behalf of the committee
of one hundred were bearing early fuit.
The Rev. Zed Copp has resigned as
assistant pastor of Bethany Chapel,
but his activities will find expression
in one form or another. Just follow
the crowd.
II is rumored that the whole Cabinet
pf the President will accompany him 70
the top Of Mt. Rainier. and that the
marching song will be, "ThereH Be No
Wiley There
What's this? The Dolphin Swim
ming Club declining to enter a con-
test? Their friends believe that the
real dophins of the sea couldn't put
1t over them.
Speeding automobile drivers had time
ly ard friendly warning in Montgomery
county yesterday through the kindness
OF representatives OF the Touring Club,
but some of them seemed determined to
speed into the arms Of the law.
The army aviators al College Park are
not only prepared to fly over to Fred
erick almost any morning in time for
breakfast, but will be able to do so
without any impairment to their appe-
tite.
Hunters of the District are not pleased
by the poor prospects for marsh bird
shooting, the season for which opens
September l. In the Eastern Branch and
Patuxent river marshes reedbirds, orto-
Ian and blackbirds are said to be very
scarce.
DR.. James A. Watson, Of Anacostia,
is the recipient of an interesting In
dian relic 1t is a stone battleaxe that
dredgers brought forth from the mud
dy waters of Piscataway Creek. Many
other valuable relics have been found
there.
Forty-two miles in forty-nine minutes
is the record which Captain Chandler
ard Lieutenant Arnold made in their
flight this morning over mountains and
streams. Every day brings confirmation
of the fact that the army aviators are
reaching the highest degree Of skill
The House Glee Club is not exactly
perfect, but It will manage So get
through with Ia~few simple ditties like:
,s-sf4oTue, Sweet Home and Hail, He'll.
al Gangs All Eere.' The Iibrettists
are also finding that 1t is much easier
10 find rhymes for CLARK" than for
F''cannon."
With more than three hundred veter-
ans and their friends in the Washing
ton delegation to the G. A. r. encamp-
ment at Rochester, the District of Co.
lumbia is creditably represented and
I'll have numerical influence in the pro-
posed election of Col. John McElroy as
commander-in-chief.
The death of Happy" the familiar old
horse who drew the ambulance for the
Casualty Hospital for so many years,
has brought sorrow to the hearts of a
great many youngsters around the city
who knew and loved him, and a lot OF
the older ones think Of him with some
thing like a tear in their eyes.
Edward Clapp, the young Washing
tonian who died on Friday morning, in
Atlanta, where he had made his home
for the past ten years, is sincerely
mourned by a host of friends here in
his old home. The body was accom-
panied to this city by fifteen of the
leading citizens of Atlanta, represent
ing the fraternal orders Of which Mr..
Clapp was a member
Nathan Straus is the American della
gate TO the congress for the protection
Of infants. which meets in Berlin in
September. In a letter of instructions,
Secretary Knox tells him to communi-
cate to the congress the advance
made in this country Wonder IL Mr.