The Washington times., 1911-10-04

Three more citizens associations lined
up for universal transfers last night.
Prof. Willis Moore seems to be getting
a line on some fine football weather.
Hats will be of and heads bowed to-
morrow as the remains of Admiral
Schley are borne to Arlington.
The Bookbinders' Union is the latest
organization to volunteer TO work for
universal transfers. Who's next?
The District budget is said to total
SI2,5OO, 900. Chairman Johnson's $780,
900 would look pretty small beside that
pile.
BY the time Washington fans get
through selecting a manager to sue
ceed McAleer they will be eligible to
vote In a real election.
Officials OF the Juvenile Court COM
plain that spectators crowd the room,
and have become a nuisance. Why not
charge matinee prices?
One hundred and fifty Richmond
boosters will be in town tonight, Just
to let commercial Washington know
Richmond is on the map.
However the citizens associations
may differ on other questions, they are
all in favor of universal transfers.
Watch the movement forge ahead!
No wonder the price of tea is going
up as well as that Of coffee. The
Treasury Department is holding up
from entry 100000 pounds Of Chinese
tea.
Washington will be glad to entertain
those ten conventions which Rome had
to refuse on account of the war with
Turkey. Has the Chamber of Com
merce the list?
The District National Guard, which
opened its winter season yesterday,
promises to take in more recruits dur
ing the next two months than during
the last year.
II Admiral schley could read the
tributes in the newspapers he would un-
derstand that the great court of public
sentiment has given him its ungrudging
verdict.
College men in Washington were sur
prised to learn of the death CT John
Moves, a former Central High School
runner, who later won fame on tho
Dartmouth cinder path.
Governor wilson's criticism of certain
modern hymns has arouesd the ire Of
clergymen Of the Capital. who enter
strenuous objections to his classification
Of SILLY and meaningless"
Representative Sims wants the people
10 get back of him on the universal
transfer proposition. From the way the
citizens associations are falling into line
he will have little to complain of.
When Rear Admiral Nicholson sue
ceeds Rear Admiral MIdock as COM
,narder-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet,
Washington will have a native son in
the next to the highest sea command.
An official report from Consul Gen
eraI William H. Michael, at Calcutta,
seems to indicate that the Committee on
Expenditures in the State Department
has not yet pried him loose from the
payroll.
Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson.
chief Of the Bureau of Navigation, will
shortly take command Of the Asiatic
SQUADRON. This detail will remove from
Washington a naval officer who, as
head Of the Bureau Of Navigation, has
proved himself at once courteous ana
competent. His assistant, Capt. II. B.
Wilson. will take command of the bat
tleship North Dskota.
The adulteration SNAKE" says DR..
Wiley, rs not yet dead. 1t is only
lying low" Nevertheless, it is some
comfort that the doctor has been put
where he can give the sarpint a real
chase.
If Postmaster General Hitchcock sue
ceeds in finding husbands for all the
women who have asked him to, there is
nc reason why he, himself, should re-
main in the Maj Archie Butt class
much longer.
Plans have been completed for the
new Bureau of Engraving building, and
Secretary MacVeagh will now under
take to sec whether the Government
can't construct a big building with the
same celerity as a private concern.
Admission of seven more young
women to practice law in the District
is one more warning to men of the time
coming when they'll have to do the
housekeeping and earn their spending
money by taking in little plain sewing.
A fitting tribute to the memory of
Rear Admiral Schley has been paid by
the veterans of the Spanish-American
war. When a memorial was adopted
last night by Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Camp representatives of a number of
other camps were present.
Almost every day the disappearance
from home OF some pretty young miss
is made public and the police appealed
to for aid in the search. If the parents
of young girls were better acquainted
with their daughters there would prob
ably be fewer such cases.
INVESTIGATING THE ELEC-
TION OF STEPHENSON.
The investigation into the election