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The Washington times., 1911-02-09

had run out of ammunition were only
partially confirmed by the fact that
when the correspondents joined the in
surgent general at the close of what
one may call hostilities he had to
borrow enough ink to fill his fountain
pen. He also expressed an earnest
hope that he might live to reach FL
Paso and a square meal.
1t seems pathetic to think of four
or five hundred men enduring heat
and fatigue merely to amuse border
population and yet be permitted to go
to bed hungry under the chaparral
when the days work is over. Com
mon humanity would suggest that the
performers should hereafter be invited
to supper after the exhibition.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
NINE. EAMES TO PAY
WELL FOR HUSBAND
Famous Opera Singer Buys
Off Baritone's First
Wife for 100000. 1

PARIS, Feb. s.-Mme. Emma Eames,
after months of vain protest at the
cruelty of Nine. de Gogorza and fear
full Of growing wan with pining for her
operatic affinity, has consented to put
up the 100000 which Nine. de Gogorza
demands before she will permit her hus-
band to secure a divorce so that he may
marry Nine. Eames.
Since 1906, when de Gogorza went on
his first tour with Nine. Eames, his in
fatuation for her has been common gos-
sip on the grand opera circuit. Nine.
Eames made no secret Of the reciprocal
affection she had for the handsome
baritone. The couple claimed that thair
union had been planned in hesveA
Nine. de Gogorza, however, could not
be persuaded to believe in the divine
plan and although she and her husband
were legally separated in 1906 By the
French courts the separation was not
such a complete divorce as would per-
nit Of the subsequent marriage OF
either.
Finally she announced that she ap-
praised de Gogorza at 10000 and after
much reflection and pining Mime. Eames
has decided to pay.
Now the only remaining obstacle to
the hymeneal rites is the formality Of
the divorce proceedings, which will take
but few weeks.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
WOULD SUBSTITUTE WORD
CLERK FOR EMPLOYE

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
L wish to call attention to the Gillett
bill and why every employe of the Gov
ernment should work for its passage.
By the contributory plan in case Of
a change in the head of a department,
as a rule, some of the employees are
dismissed; that is, the resignation is
called for. which is just the same, only
the employe has a chance to get back
II he resigns. If dismissed there is no
chance of ever working for your Uncle
Sam again, so every one usually resigns
>if given a chance. Now, these cases
Of resignation in which the contributory
pension comes in handy just when it is
most needed.
You will notice that 1 use the word
employe, and not clerk, as you do In
your editorials. There are about 5000
non-cierical employees in this city that
are more entitled to a 'reclasSifed pay
roll than the clerks. There are firemen,
$720; electricians, $40 to $500; watch
men, $720. The former two classes work
every Sunday, in some of the depart
ments, and every other Sunday. In
others they work eight hours, and not
six and one-half. The watchmen, of
which there are good number, work
every day in the year except thirty
Gays annual IedN6. All liiICS VI IIOoO
classes work nights as well as days.
Messengers get $40. Now why a mes
senger Is worth so a month more than
those others Is a mystery to me, and,
indeed, to every one else.
But what we want is to have the Gil
let bill cover all, and wherever the
word clerk appears have it struck out
and substitute employees. And let there
be employees enough so that every en-
ploye gets one day in each week off.
Hoping YOU will print this so l can
EMPLOYE.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
GAS MONOPOLY BEGINNING
TO LEARN LESSON.

Yesterday we made a few observa-
tions in these columns regarding the
force of public opinion as a regulator
of public service rendered by street
railway companies. Today we desire
to make few more, this time on the
force of public opinion as a regulator
of gas companies.
Three years ago officials of the
Washington Gas Light Company de,
clared with horror stricken accents that
their company would be ruined if il
charged less than 81 per thousand cubic
feet for gas. In response to the pres,
sure of public opinion, however, they
reduced the price. to 80 cents-and made
more money than ever.
The first of this year the price was
reduced to So cents, and now the gen.
eral counsel for the gas company. in Il
statement to stockholders, intimates
that further reduction may be made
before next January. He supplements
this with statement outlining the
policy of the company TO increase its
output by encouraging more general
Use of gas.
The gas company has discovered what
the Consolidated Gas Company of New
York has discovered and what other
public service companies are discovering
all over the country-that it pays in
dollars and cents to make service cheap
or. in other words, that it is better
business to have large number OF
people use large quantity of gas
at a low price than to have a small
number of people use a small quantity
of gas at a high price.
1t has taken the officials of the loca
gas monopoly long time TO make this
discovery, but the company's latest an
nOuncement shows that enlightenment
is coming.
1t would probably be too much tc
expect the gas company to go one steE
further and deal honestly with the
people of Washington in the question
of the value of its properties. IT.
claim to a valuation of Sl3,OOO,OOO i.
again set forth in its report for 1910
just made public. If its officials arr
really converted to the policy of cheaI
gas, they will now come forward will
proposition to have made a valuation
of the gas company's physical proper
ties and to have created in Washing
ton public utilities commission fo
the control and regulation of publi
service corporations.
If the gas company would exert fo
these reforms the influence with whicl
it has always heretofore succeeded il
heading off gas legislation in Congress
the passage of a bill for valuation o
it's plant and for the establishment o
a public utilities commission woult
probably be assuFed.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
THE CLIMAX OF OLE BULLS
LIFE HISTORY.

More than thirty years have elapsed
since that master violinist, Ole Bull
passed away. The announcement that
his widow has just died will call up
many "reminiscences of that brilliant
period when the American people OF
the middle nineteenth century were
getting practically their first taste OF
Old World art and music. The out
pouring which greeted Jenny Lind upon
her arrival at Castle Garden set the
currents of our esthetic life and
thought flowing in new channels and
prepared the way for the enthusiasm
which greeted the great Norwegian
violinist. A generation which still
remembered the brilliant performance
of Paganini, whose witchery defied all
criticism until measured by the colder
canons of later days, gladly hailed Ole
Bull as the successful rival of the
eccentric Italian, His had been a va
ried and adventurous career before he
reached America. His mad effort tc
drown himself in the Seine had beer
the turning point of his struggle to
ward success. A defective title to the
Pennsylvania acres on which he haC
planned to settle large numbers of his
countrymen swept away his accumula
tions and drove him to his magic
violin again. With it he won another
fortune, and soon thereafter wife, then
still a girl, a native of Wisconsin, who
survived him thirty years.
Happy are the people" says Tho
proverb, "whose annals are brief" Lit
tie has been heard in recent years Of
the widow of the distinguished artist
who made her home in Cambridge, tht
center of an admiring circle of artists
and litterateurs. Possessed of an am
pie fortune, she passed her days il
serene enjoyment of life, but witha
faithful to the memory of the husband
Of her youth. 1t was her last wisl
that her body should be cremated anC
the ashes scattered upon the grave
in Bergen, where the great violinisr
had long rested. Her wishes are to b'
carried out, and in the meantime th'
very announcement of her death comes
like a voice from the past. The very
soul of music has taken up many habi
tations during the past three decades
Enterprising impresarios bring us from
Russia, from Hungary, from Italy
many brilliant artists. But, coming a
he did at a time when the American
taste for music, if less highly devel
oped was more sparingly fed, Ole Bul
has left memories which stand unchal
lenged and alone. What may be termed
the romance of his unique career find
fitting climax in the fact that death
in consigning dust to dust, unites hin
with the wife of his youth.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

ence the traditions and institutions OF
the past. The Curfew laws, the whip
ping posts, and other gone-to-seed regu-
lations of antiquity seems to them prop
er TO be revamped.
Under statutes already existing chill
dren are made liable to arrest by almost
any one with a hobby who is influential
enough to organize a society to back IT..
Born citizens, and in the theory of the
law, born with all the rights they will
ever have, children are treated by hasty
and inconsiderate enactments as il they
had no rights whatever.
If the children of this generation are
made degraded and servile by liability
TO constant and arbitrary arrest, the
generation of men which succeeds the
present will be degraded and servile in
the same measure. No curfew law should
be enacted and all attempts in that dl-
rection should be frowned upon by all
right-minded people.
EVERETT SPRING.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Will Test TWelVe-Inch
Projectile AS in Battle

To test the effect of a twelve-inch h
projectile upon an armored vessel at
battle range. 5000 yards, the ram
Katahdin today took position at the
mouth of the Potomac river, to be
fired upon by the guns of the monitor
Tallahassee.
The ram has been fitted with eleven
inch armOr plates. and it was stated
by naval officers here today that the
conditions of the test are practically
those of a battle.
Representatives EngeIbright and
Thomas, Of the house Committee on
Military Affairs. were among those
to watch the test on board the tor
pedo boat Bailey, as were also Cap
tain knight and Lieutenant Com
mander Holden of the naval bureau
of ordnance, and Major OHearn,
Major Hero, and Captain Fries, repre-
senting the army.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Choir Boys of St. Paul's
Form Charitable Club

The Choristers' Club has been form
ed by the choir boys Of st. PauPs
Catholic Church. Its bylaws, adopted
at the first meeting, last night, state
the object of the club to be to help
bows who are not so fortunate and
Of the club.
Part of the weekly dues will be de-
voted to charitable work in behalf of
young boys. William Creveltng was
elected president, and the Right Rev.
Monsignor Mackin is the guiding
patron of the club.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
QUAKERS DEFENDED
IN HOUSE SPEECH
Representative Butler Causes
offensive" Words to Be
Stricken From Bill.

Representative Butler of Pennsylva-
MIA, one Of the few Quakers in the
House, afforded an unusual angle to an
otherwise academic debate on the Moon
bill to codify the laws. when he came
to the front with a spirited defense Of
the attitude of the Quakers during the
civil war.
In defining the jurisdiction Of the
Court of Claims, the Moon bill lay par
ticular stress upon the requirement that
when war claim Is presented against
the Government 1t must be established
that the claimant did not give aid or
comfort to the rebellion, and that II a
claimant resided In a territory occupied
at any time by the Confederates, It
should be considered that he had aided
bill sets forth. is to be considered as
prima facie evidence Of sympathy with
the rebels
Mr.. Butler objected to such a whole
sale characterization. and, he finally
succeeded in having the language
stricken from the bill.
Language Is Offensive"
This language is offensive to the
class Of people with which you arc
familiar, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Butler
'It is offensive to the Dunkards, the
MennOnites, and the Quakers of Penn
sylvania. These people, during the war,
lived in the valleys of York and Adams
and Franklin counties. They did not
deem 1t necessary to have their allie
glance to theNJnion known; that they
should be noisy, or that they should
join in hostilities. At a certain period
of the war Lee and Gordon, under the
wording of this bill. held sway In
Pennsylvania.
This section of the bill is complete
without this language. 1t should not be
charged that because they were unfor-
tunatp enough 10 dwell in the slaughter
peEs Of the war they were disloyal to-
ward Union they had helped to main
tain since their forefathers set it up.
Let Them Give Quietly.
These people do not believe in the
philosophy of the Vikings-that It wa.
necessary to be wounded to be happy
and ! speak for that class of people who
live quietly and humbly in the shadow
of their own trees. not listening to the
teachings of the masters who talked like
angels, hut who lived like men.
Representative James of Kentucky al
so objected 10 the wording of the Sec
ton. declaring that many claimants In
Kentucky were Union sympathizers
whereas they occupied homes in the ter
ritory under sway OF Confederate
troops. which would Tar them from re-
Coverv for war losses under the Moon
bill as drawn. The House finally struck
ont the Objectionable clause by a vote
of 165 to 75.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

duced a classic. In a paragraph he has
condensed a volume concerning one OF
the greatest of truly great and infiuen-
tial men: a man who lived as a moral
Goliath in a period of which it may
truly be said: There were giants in
those days"
Alongside of Lincoln, Douglas, Sc
ward, Dix, Grant, Lee, Sherman, Stone
wall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Horace
Greeley often lowered above all OF
them.
Your editorial writer comprehends
Greeley and tells the story succinctly
and elOquently. SMITH D. 4sY.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Would Stop Peddling By
Boys on Street at Night

Judge William H. De Lacy, OF the
Juvenile Court, is in favor Of prohibit
ing small boys from peddling gum,
shoestrings, and other articles on the
street at night, and will recommend .
number of changes in the Juvenile cor
rection system. He CLEANED several
new ideas at the recent Child's We'll
fare Exhibit in New York, and will en-
deayor to utilize them in Washington.
The practice of holding juveniles In
police station over night and then TAX
ing them to Juvenile Court is con-
demned by Judge De Lacy, who said
such practices exist in other cities.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
CIIRFEW ARRESTS WOULD
DISGRACE THE CHILDREN

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
One of the most foolish of the relics Of
the times of William the Norman and
his tyrannical successors the curfew Is
about to be inflicted upon the city of
Washington.
There are many objections to the
enactment of such laws. But the one
paramount objection is that children are
already liable to be arrested too often.
Every arrest, whether warranted or not.
is a disgrace, and every time child Is
has heIped to make a criminal
There is a class of people who rever'
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
TRIBUTE TO GREELEY
A PROPER ESTIMATE

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The Times editorial under the cap
ton, 1.-The Centenary of Horace Greeley 5
Birth" should find a permanent place
in some standard book Of the literature
of America. 1t should be read by the
young men of America; and for all
time.
Your writer has unconsciously pro-
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
A PASTORAL TEST OF THE
"HIGH COST"

We await with interest the ADJUST
ment of the wage scale of Rev. j. ID.
Jowett, of Birmingham, England, who
has accepted a call to be pastor OF
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
New York.
The church in question has been
for some time attempting to secure
Mr.. Jowett's services. He is famous
I in his own country as an organizer OF
religious movements, practically ap'
piled. The United Kingdom so far
numbers him among its assets that the
rumor of his leaving called forth let
ters of regret from the bishops OF the
Catholic and the Established Churches
His acceptance of the call to New YORK
gave rise to considerable comment con-
nected with the recent political slogan
of American gold"
This criticism arose from the TACT
that the reverend gentleman was Of
fered salary of $4,000 .'ear and a
house. 1t seems, however, that the
natural assumption that the material
advantages of the move favored the
decision was unfounded, for in accept
ing the post MIR. Jowett has written
the trustees as follows:
7 am sure I shall not need the large
stipend you so graciously o1ered me, 1t
I hn
church l shall seek their judgment as
to what is the equivalent to the stipend
/ am receiving in my present charge.
This will make me perfectly happy III
my work.
Now. here is a situation which the
average American will view with sur,
prise, not . say misgiving. Why
should a man depreciate his own serv-
ices? What matters it to the employe
that the employer puts a value on his
work which he has not been accustomed
to put on it himself! In such circum'
stances the A. B. c of business philos'
ophv is to take chance and attempt
with fortified self-confidence to make
good" Yet here comes a preacher
looking his salary in the mouth and
thereby upsetting all standards Of
ordinary business acumen.
Personally, we rather think that MIR
Jowett has proved the purity of hi;
| motives at the cost of a reasonable
recompense. The salary suggested was
moderate one for what the Fiftl
| Avenue Church wanted and bargaineC
for. In England Mr.. Jowett receive,
81. 900 (about $4,000 per annum. He
| feels himself comfortable on that
| amount. and as true disciple wants
no more than his comfort. There arises
the different cost Of comfort in New
York and in birmingham, England
There is involved, in fact, the whole
question of the protective tariff, OF th'
higher cost of living, of the advanced
standard of American subsistence
When Mr.. Jowett comes to conside1
his natural obligations and expenses
we fear that his view Of $4,000 1
year will take the proportions of thing
viewed through the little end of tele
scope. Three moves equal fire" il
eternalIy true in humble life; when i
comes to crossing the ocean to make
new settlement, an increase of l25 pc
cent in salary is not the Croesuslik
proposition that it might appear a
first glance to modest country parson
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Mrs. Vanderbilt to Aid
New York OutcaSt Girls

NEW YORK, Feb. 9-The Big Sisters
movement is said to have enlisted the
aid of Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt. It's head
quarters are in st. Georges Deaconess
Home, at 2OS East Sixteenth street.
The Big Sisters plan to do for erring
Protestant girls what the Big Brothers
do for boys-that is. help them to new
interests that will tend to improve their
condition. They hope to be able to send
number of girls to a camp in the
country next summer.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
Last Lecture of Series.

The fourth and last of the series OF
lectures on woman suffrage will be de-
livered by Mrs. Hustled Harper tomor-
row morning at the home of Mrs. j. B.
Henderson. The subject of the talk
will be THE Causes that will Determine
the Final Results"
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

An anxious inquirer would like to
know how it is that loaf of bread
made in Vienna from American flour
is twice the size of the loaf made over
here and sold for the same price. The
only man who could answer is busy
lust now with the question as to wheth-
er the chicken or the egg came first.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09
TAKES A BROAD INTEREST
IN GREAT FALLS PROJECT

To the Editor of THE TINES:
/ am greatly interested in the Great
Falls power proposition, not primarily
because of any pecuniary benefit to be
derived therefrom, but for the reason
that / hope to see the development Of
the water power all over this country
progress in such manner that its
great value may be brought wildly to
the minds Of the whole people and re-
dound to their lasting comfort, while at
the same time neither doing injury or
injustice to present investments Of spe-
cial interests nor benef1ting them by
granting them profigate franchises In
perpetuity, or near perpetuity, at an
expense of deserving and long suffer-
ing people that might be expressed IN
much more pitiable terms than is rep
resented merely in the dollars and
cents.
While reading your commendable dis
quisitions on the subject and the inter-
views thereon, I have been moved TO
call to your notice, and ask you to give
us some information, II there Is any, as
to how the charter granted by Viz
ginia Legislature and held oy the Great
Falls Power Company, can secure to
that company any rights outside OF the
boundary of the State of Virginia which
is in this instance the Virginia shore of
the Potomac? Could not the Potomac
river at Great Falls be drained quite
totally on the Maryland side without the
Virginia Legislature or any of its Great
ures, including this charter. having con-
stitutional Jurisdiction or power to in
terfere? The waters of the Potomac are
in the State of Maryland, as the Legis-
lature of Virginia and its chartered
company must know.
CHARLES A. COMPTON.
Editors Note-It h not under its
charter that the Great Falls Power
Company holds any water rights at
Great Falls, but through its ownership
of about 800 acres of land on the Vir-
ginia shore, just below the falls. The
Maryland boundary is low water OF the
Potomac river on the Virginia side, the
river thus being in the State OF Mary
land. However, the agreement between
Maryland and Virginia by which the
! boundary was fixed, in 1877, provided
that Virginia should have "a right to
such use of the river beyond the line OF
low-water mark as may be necessary to
the full enjoyment Of her riparian
! ownership" Although the Potomac
river is Maryland property, owners Of
land on the Virginia side are entitled to
use it's waters. They could not be de-
prived of their riparian rights without
] compensatory
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

DR.. Tanner at the age OF eighty-one,
has started another fast as a protest
against the high cost of living. The
great abstainer seems to overlook the
fact that this thing of medical attention
is a considerable item in the cost of
living
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

column. Phone or write announce
ments)
Ioseph r. Talbert, of New York, will
address Washington Chapter, Amert-
can Institute of Banking, 1914 F street
northwest, S:15 tonight.
I,ecture, Catholic University, 4:30 p. m,
Rey. James ]. Fox. rs the State a
Divine institution"
Amusements.
National-Bernhardt in Madame *"
matinee, and La Tosca,'' S:15 p. m.
BeIasco-sothern and Marlowe in
"MacbeIh," 8 p. m.
coimmbia-wnton Lackaye in "The
Stranger" S:15 p. M:
Academy-Rose Melville in isis Hop
kins." DIS and S:15 p. m.
chase's-Polite vaudeville, 2:15 and s:15
Gayety-"The Queen of Bohemia" 2:15
and S:i5 p. m.
Gyceum-"Pennant Winners" 2:15 and
S:15 D. m
Maiestic-VaudeNille.
Casino-Vaudeville and motion pictures.
Arcade-Bowling and skating, afternoon
and evening.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

department their
frankly with that letter
Objectionable will publication Letters must
however written only
of paper Address
of
of but
OF he cOntri
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

The Virginia joker who held up his
friend, the bank cashier, for lark Will
confine his <exuberance to padded bricks
and sneezing powder If he succeeds in
leaving the hospital.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

The average American consul has TO
send enough, American citizens back
home in the course of his tenn of Of
fee to be at least entitled TO a good
home while he himself is away.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

The League of Republican State Clubs
must have had more to eat than at the
meeting last year in New York. The
attendance seems to have been fairly
good.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

The weather is usually regarded as a
safe topic. because it has no relatives
but the street cleaning department has
n rather brotherly feeling toward &
timely thaw.
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

The piper comes rather high when
Nine. Eames has to pay 100000 to a
baritone's wife in order to marry him
herself
The Washington times., 1911-02-09

wolf hunter was not at the White
House reception on Tuesday night