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Evening star., 1911-08-31
WRECK VICTIMS TO PAY
STORAGE ON BAGGAGE
Survivors of Crash at Middle
town, Conn.,, Fear Charges
Will Offset Damages.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, August 31.-Not
because Of the amount Of money involved,
but merely for the principle of the thing,
several persons who were injured in the
wreck Of the Valley division train of the
New Haven road last Sunday have en-
tered protests against being made to pay
storage charges on their baggage which
has been held at the. New Haven station
in Hartford since the wreck. AS some of
the passengers who were injured are still
in the hospital, with their day Of release
afar of. they contend it is unkind for
the New Haven Railroad Company to
charge them storage on baggage they
cannot use.
So far as any of the survivors Of the
wreck have been able to figure out, the
New Haven company has few qualms
when II comes to charging storage on
anybodys baggage. These survivors have
been unable to discover any silver lining
to their cloud. Even in the hospital lacy
are unable to free themselves from the
saddening thought that the passage of
each twenty-four hours means that they
must pass 25 cents the trunk more over
to the railroad company.
Some of the injured who at the time OF
the wreck had only suit cases or hand
bags with them get of easier. For them
the tariff is 10 cents a day, BUT as there
Is no possibility of the revision of this
tariff downward. and as not even the sur
geons in attendance can tell how long
they are to be kept in the hospital. they
feel they are paying q pretty high price
for the privilege of being in a wreck on
the New Haven.
Charges May Offset Damages.
Some of the recalcitrant passengers say
that had the New Haven road advised
them that the train on which they were
to ride was to take part in a week and
that storage charges on the baggage OF
the survivors were to be assessed they
would have taken another train or sent
their baggage on ahead.
AS it Is, they have been compelled TO
lose time and money they might have
earned had they not taken an active part
in the disaster, and, in addition to these
Inconvenience, they have been compelled
to keep on paying the New Haven for
taking care of their baggage. They fig
ure that 1t might have been cheaper to
have been killed in the wreck. In mat
case the coroner would have had to worry
about the storage charges.
If their convalescence Is long one
they fear that all the damages they will
be atie to recover from the New Haven
legal department will be swallowed up in
the baggage room.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
BIG INCREASE IN DEPOSITS
Condition of the District
Banks Compared With
That a Year Ago.

The controller of the currency has pre-
pared a. statement of the condition OF
national and other banks in the District
of Columbia from reports received from
these institutions June Z, last. This
statement shows that the aggregate as
sets OF the thirty-one banks of the Dis
trict are $1C6 800, s70 an increase Of ST.
043,54 over June 30. 1910. There are
eleven national banks which have total
assets Of $52 491 .21S and twenty others
having assets Of S53. 100, ,652.
The loans and discounts of the thirty
one banks are S56,076,4 476, an increase OF
1851. .O46 over last year at the same time.
the figures for the national banks being
$23, ,165.5 5s2 and for the other banks $32.
01O6N
The combined capital stock Of all the
banks in the District is SIS. 715. 300, OF
which So, 1O2, 900 is in national banks
and Sc, 800 in the others. The total Is
an increase of $3.50 over one year
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TOGO EXPRESSES THANKS.
High Appreciation Of Special Honor
Conferred by Naval Escort.

Acting Secretary Winthrop Of the Navy
Department has received a telegram from
Admiral Togo of the Japanese navy. ex-
pressing his high appreciation of tho
special honor you have kindly done me.
in providing an escort of naval vessels
on his departure from Seattle.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
Deposits Increase $5,e57.s3e.

The growth Of individual deposits. an
item showing the growth of the District
and the increase in its wealth. is most
interesting. The total individual deposits
held by all the banks is $6s.679, 726. which
is S5eJ7. .939 over the same time last
year The national banks hold $25-
9lO.4T0 of the peoples money, and the
other banks S37. I@, 256.
All the. bankers of the District are in
terested in the establishment of postal
savings bank here, and the deposits with
that bank will be watched by officials of
the national and other institutions. The
combined surplus and profits of the banks
are so. 701, 800. an increase of $500 $50
over a year ago The national banks
have surplus and profits of $j,412, ,5S4 and
the other banks, 5,295, 245.
Evening star., 1911-08-31

been graduated from an advanced normal
training course went out to rurai
school in the west. For month or two
this school ran so smoothly that 1t be-
came monotonous to the big bad boy
He came in late one afternoon ana,
out his right arm, his fist coming almost
into her face. and said: I've muscle
enough to knock out any teacner VINO
ever came inside Of this school,.
The school waited expectantly. but the
girl never quailed After moment nc ,,
silence she answered qulety: khom e",
a boy to be so strong. ! wonder II you
could turn that bookcase around for me-
the janitor isn't here now
The clenched fist was lowered. Joseph
struggled hard with the bookcase. which
was unusually heavy. When he had
placed it where the teacher desireo ne
tooi his seat No account was taken OF
his attempted rowdyism. although later
he was notified that his tardiness had
been recorded.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
Water Low in the St. Lawrence.

CORNWALL. Ont, August 31.-The st.
Lawrence river is so low at this point
that in order to keep the water in the
canal up to the required level 1t has
been found necessary to shut OFF all
water from the local factories.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT,
Arrivals.

Sloop Woodduck. watermelons from a
bay point. at 11th street wharf for the
market; schooner ]. p. Robinson. at
Alexandria, from Georgetown to load
merchandise for Upper Machodoc creek;
United States Army engineers tug Lieu
tenant Alonzo Gushing, at engineer S
wharf from an inspection cruise; power
boat Annie E., from fishing trip to the
lower river; Canal Towage Company
boats No. IS and No So light, from the
naval powder making plant on Malta
woman creek, Md. at Georgetown; tug
Camilla, from the mouth of the river
with a tow: schooner Virginia, light,
from the lower river. from summer fish
ing; tug Walter F. Meade. with a tow
Of loaded lighters from digging grounds
down river. at Georgetown; tug James O.
Carter, with a tow from Indian Head. at
Georgetown.
Evening star., 1911-08-31

When nunishment must be inflicted,
however. the teacher now tries to find
some means of
Means Of Discipline discipline that
of Real Benefit. benefit to the
child. II children are retained aIter
school, instead of having them write such
a sentence as 1.-THE disobedient child will
always be punished from 100 to 800
times, as was the cutsom a generation
ago, the modern teacher may give an
extra lesson on some subject which will
be helpful in the regular work. The
optimistic view that children do not in
tend to do wrong, that their offenses are
generally unprecedented and therefore
should be treated as mistakes to be cor
rected rather than crimes to be punished,
is the spirit Of present day school disci-
pline. While stern ritualists may protest
against the generosity of this attitude.
which does not always require blind
obedience on the part of the child. the re-
suits obtained are unquestionably advan-
tageous. There is much less rowdy1sm
and real mischief among the school chill
dren of the present day than there was
a generation ago, when severe punish
ment was bestowed often for trif1ing Of
fenSes.
Evening star., 1911-08-31

Anson King, a Bristol, Va, business
man, has purchased from NJ. L. Fowler
the Harmeling Theater there paying
10000
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Departures.

Schooner May and Anna Beswick. light.
for a North Carolina point to load 1um-
ber back to this city; schooner Oakland,
light, for Wades bay to load cord wood
for the dealers here; schooner Aleen,
light, for a bay point to load: schooner
E. E. Moore, light, for a lower river
point to load; schooner Kathleen, light,
for Mattox creek to load lumber for deal
ers here; schooner K. e. Riggan. light,
for a Chesapeake landing after cargo
of watermelons for the market here:
Evening star., 1911-08-31


The school city idea, however, had great
value in teaching children civic methods,
constitutional author
Aims to Teach ity and the real du-
Civic Methods slso es o. aemonstrsse9 to +,
| the teacher that the children were capa-
BILE OF considering matters for the general
good thus demonstrating the possibility
OF self-government to a degree never be-
fore considered. Even teachers who do
not fully advocate the principle Of self
government are each year coming more
and more under its influence, and there
is no doubt that this is the trend OF mod
ern pedagogical method. The ideal is
gained when the teacher is able to ex-
ert an unobtrusive authority when neces-
in the children's minds the economic
value OF conduct which is most helpful
to all.
The School Civic Club is one of the
latest outgrowths in school discipline
This civic club does not attempt to con
troll the school. as did the school city;
nevertheless. its meetings are very infiu-
entail in aiding the preservation Of order
throughout the school. A teacher in a
six-grade school. composed of a large per-
| centage OF foreign pupils. organized a
civic club. which met on the first FRIDAY
| In the month. just after the close of the
school session Informal discussions on
subjects affecting the condition OF the
school were brought up at these meet
| ings. At meeting held last fall the fol-
lowing code. of rules was proposed:
| DO not forget to clean your feet al
DO not raise and lower your desk
during study hours; it is not necessary
and IT makes noise which disturbs
other people.
| do not cough when you don't have to-
| people do. That Is not funny and it is
bad for your own throat.
! Tear the paper from your tablets
quietly; 1t won't go SO crooked II you
| Each Of these rules originated entirely
with the children. and the code was
adopted after q
Rules Formulated vigorous discus.
by the Children. manv nan IN intsrss,,na ~aIes
points were brought out. They were
typewriter and placed on the bulletin
i board of the school. Their influence was
clearly evidenced by the improvement
they brought about during the next few
months. The problem Of school punish.
ment Is each year becoming less i'm
| portant because the need for punishment
| Is lessened The schools are designed tC
| interest and to instruct the children and
busy children are not apt to misbehave
| The versatile teacher is apt to scent on.
coming mischief and to thwart 1t. Some
| times roOmful Of children who have be-
come restless after q long study period
! will be suddenly ordered to rise to theii
feet. There will be a three or five minute
| drill in calisthenics with the windows
4 thrown wide open. This exercise will re-
| iieve their surplus energy and they will
! return to their studies with increased
| interest. The plan Of alternating physi-
4 cal exercise with intellectual work is one
| of the most helpful ideas of modern dis
i cipline. =
| Any school is at any time liable to be
called on to deal with the much-talked.
/ of bad" child, but the modern teacher
Is less afraid of him since the school.
room whip has gone out Of commission
A clever young teacher who had JUS
Evening star., 1911-08-31
Memoranda.

tered to load lumber at Dover, N. c.. for
the dealers here: schooner Virginia Dare
is chartered to load lumber at Norfolk
for the local market; schooner Stephen
Chase is under charter to load cans and
boxes at Baltimore for packing houses
at the mouth Of the Potomac: schooner
Halle K, Is at a Potomac point loading
oysters in the shell for the market here;
tug Advance Of this city has arrived at
Providence, r. l., from Norfolk to take
up charter work: barge Clara Brooks is
chartered to load paving blocks at New
York for this port; schooner General E.
S. Greeley is due at the capes of the
Chesapeake with ice for this city;
schooner Henry s. Little has arrived at
Newport News. from Alexandria, to load
coal for a New England point; tug No.
~ has arrived at Baltimore. towing tank
barge No 80 from this city.
Evening star., 1911-08-31

schooner Stephen Chase, canned goods
for Baltimore: schooner East Lynn. light.
for a river point to load back to this
city: schooner Water Lily. light, for
Blakistones Island to load oysters in
the shell for the market here: schooner
Maryland, light for an eastern shore OF
Virginia point to load.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
EDUCATION.
XIII-SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

than one Official was found guilty Of COZ
ruption and malfeasance in ONCE.
Evening star., 1911-08-31

When punishment must be infiictec
however the teacher now tries to fin
Evening star., 1911-08-31

The school city idea. however. had great
value in teaching children civic methods.
Evening star., 1911-08-31
n Peaceful Revolution.

The Paas Royal revolution will the distribution OF
of furniture than usual The leading
makers the furniture cenerGrand Rapdshave recognized
the have been eager competition The result fur
nure has been bought prices the least possible Most n
has quality been sacrificed Each and
every piece has the unqualified of the noted maker
This you purchase here without question Of
only anxious to learn of any
plant ready fullest eparation future time With
mutual confidence and integrity the Paas Royal revolution
to result in golden for patrons and the
Evening star., 1911-08-31

The American teacher, from kinder
garten to high school. has been SO vel
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
MAYORS BIG
POTATO SALE
Indianapolis Commission Men
Say They will UnderSell
Shank
PRICE FORCED DOWN FROM
.$l.2O TO 80 CENTS A BUSHEL

BY The United Press.
, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 2s-To-
morrow will be the big day. Shortly
after noon the car load of potatoes
bought in Michigan by Mayor Shank
TO break the commission house corner
which had forced the price iip to 81 20
a bushel, will reach here. The Mayor
viii have his own wagons at the sta
ton and he says they will be pre-
ceded by brass bands to, call people S
attention to the sale, and the pota-
toes will be sold at cost to all who
apply.
The price has already dropped To
so cents a bushel and the commission
men openly declare tomorrow they
Will undersell the Mayors product, for
which about IS cents bushel will be
charged. That threat has not dis
turbed the Mayor. All he wanted,
he said. was to get the price down
where the poor people could buy, and
il he is TO be undersold it will be a
good thing.
Meanwhile leading citizens have as
sured the Mayor Of their support and
have told him they will buy potatoes,
apples or anything else he wants TO
send in here to keep the commission
men from robbing the people.
Because of the opposition OF the
commission merchants, the Mayor
potatoes will have TO be unloaded on
the outskirts and hauled across town
TO the market
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
MEN QUIT AFTER
THEY HEARD SHOTS
Italians Give Up Jobs on New
Read, Others Take Their
Places

Contractor Thomas Allen, OF Stan
hope, n. j., who has the contract for
the two miles Of road from Christiana
to Cooch's Bridge. brought twenty-five
Italians from New York to work on
the road
On Wednesday night the men were
aroused from their sleep by gun
shots fred into the bunk house. No
coaxing ON the part of the contractor
could induce them 20 stay at work
Tne men walked 10 Wilmington ans
took the boat to Philadelphia.
Another Net OF men arrived ycster
morning ana Robert +, Afmstrone
wishing to see tho road built. has AL
lowed the men to stop In his tenant
house.
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
HARMONY GRANGE
TO HAVE DEBATE

Harmony Grange met in their hall.
at Mermaid on Monday night. The
grange was entertained by select
readings by Mrs. Allie Walker and
Miss Annie Klair, recitation by James
Mitchell. and selection by Robert
Walker on'thc mandolin.
Tho chestnut subject was discussed
by Hervey Walker Great damage is
being done by blight TO the chestnut
woods. The program for the next
meeting on Monday evening will be
as follows: Duet. by Mrs. Clara
Eastburn and Miss Mary Walker:
conundrums, by Mrs. Lettie Dought;
essay on Niagara Falls; music. Harry
Brackin; recitation, Kimper Piorson.
reading, Ellen Hanna; debate, RE
solved. That with the same capital
and labor poultry is more profitable
than dairy products" Affirmative, j.
II. Walker; negative, Arnold Naudain.
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
SHOT FOR MAN
STEALING CORN

Corn thieves are working in tho
vicinity of Marshallton. A few evon-
ings ago A. +. Klair was aroused
from his slumbers by his daughter
who told him a man was in his corn
crib. At about 1ll5 o'clock Miss
Klair was on the porch next to the
barn. A lamp was burning in the
house and the door was open. but this
did. not stop the thief
The man went by a back lane 20
the chicken pen gate where the dog
is kept, but this time the dog was
at the house.
Mr.. klair went out with his gun
and told the man to drop the corn,
but he started to run and carried the
corn with him. Mr. Klair shot to-
ward him, but in the darkness the in
truder escaped.
Mr.. Klair found the corn where the
thief had dropped it, there was two
bushel baskets full. The man had a
large sach with him.
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
DUPONT ROAD
WORK STARTS
General dupont Gives One
Contract, and Other Awards
Today
BUILD FROM GEORGETOWN
DOWN TO SELBYVILLE

More contracts for building por-
tions Of the dupont Boulevard ia
sussex county win ha, awarded this
afternoon by General 4. Coleman du-
Pont who is building a highway from
one end Of tho state 10 tho other.
General dupont left this city for
Georgetown, his Sussex county head
quarters, on the l0.4f train this MORN
ing. lie said the new contracts would
be given ont this afternoon. They
VIII be for sections Nos 2, and 4.
which arc located between AHllsboro
and Dagsboro and SclbyvilIe. Each
section is about three miles long.
General dupont awarded the first
contract for road construction vestor-
day. George Z. Snyder. OF philadel-
phia, being the successful bidder THE
stretch of road is TO be four miles
and lies between Millsboro and
GEORGETOWN. Other bidders were.
Philips aud Neal. OF philadelphias
Nelson Meredith Company. of Cham.
bersburg, Pa. and Kelly and Com
pany. Of Philadelphia. Mr.. Snvde,
was tho lowest bidder. Tho road IRON,
near Georgetown 10 Millsboro viii ha
built FIRST
the road will be Of clay and gravel
foundation. covered with macadam
and me stone ana asphalt binder
Wnich VIII make q durable road. 1he
roadbed of asphalt and macadan, viii
be fourteen feet wide. with a dirt
roadbed seven feet wide each side cf
Jhat actual work on the biz hirh.
way Is started is evident. and bof5r.
long. judging from the activity dis.
played by the man who Is behind ths
project, hundreds of men will be "A
work ON the highway. A big SQUAD
OF iaborers was taken down tho road
from this city yesterday, and mora
will follow.
SignDoards along many roads in
Sussex county display tho fact that
mon arc wanted to work on the du-
Pont road, and Il won't be long before
the boulevard will be nosing its way
along
The contract to Mr.. Snyder is for
construction Of the road as well as
the grading. No part Of Delaware
is In need OF improved roads moro
than from Georgetown TO Selbyville.
General duPonts survey is for a new
route most of the way. the presen.
road being followed only in a few
instances.
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
CHICAGO. Sept. 29-According tol
tho semi-ofhclal announcement made
here today the $4,000 employees OF tho
Hartman lines who arc affiliated with
the System Federation, will walk out
tomorrow morning az 10 o'clock
The 10000 members OF the Fedora
tion employed ON the Illinois Central.
Il Is further declared. will quit Mon
day morning al 10 o'clock.
Official announcement, IL was said
would be sent TO the workers today.
In addition to the $4,000 men thus
ordered to strike, the heads of the
System Federation declare another
10000 of unorganized men viii walk
out at the first call and that approXi-
mately $4,000 railroad workers will Oo
out by noon Monday.
According to the same statement the
strike will shortly spread TO every
railroad In the West and Middle West
Aid From Other Unions.
10 is declared that at "a secret meet
ing at Cleveland the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. Order of Rail-
road Conductors. brotherhood Of L0-
comotive Firemen. and the Switch
mems branch Of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor notified the heads of the
Systems Federation that they will re-
fuse to handle cars from tho lines Oh
which the strikes are called.
Probably this would shortly involve
every railway in the United States ar
ears from tho Hartman linos and the
Illinois Central are transferred 10
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
SHE 63. HE s., AND
THEY Welded HERE
Came From Red Lion, Pa,
Married First Time, Too,
by DR.. Wolfe

From Red Lion. Pa, came a couple
today to get married II was not an
elopement or one or both love sick
swains being under age. He was So
and she-oh. we'll il does not matter,
but in confidence she confessed to be
SO and drossmaker. 1t was their
first trip on the great matrimonial
sea.
He was Thomas Donaghue, and the
hashful bride was Sallie e. Peterson.
They secured the marriage license
from Magistrate Gluckman. The fact
that it rainRd and that the day was
Friday did not arouse any supersti-
tion in the mind of the bride
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. George l.. Wolfe.
Evening journal., 1911-09-29
DISHES WERE
NOT THE SAME
Magazine Collector Held for
Court on False PretenSe
Charge
WOMEN TESTIFY THEY
WERE DECEIVED BY AGENT

Albert Goldenthal, representing the
Union Publishing Company, Of Phila-
delphia, was arraigned in the Munich
pal Court this morning on tho charge
of obtaining money by false pretenso.
He is a collector for the company. Tho
company is alleged to have sent So
licitor around 10 get subscriptions for
small magazine In soliciting, the
representative showed a piece of ine
china He is said TO have represented
to Mrs. A. w. Kish, of No. 23t3 Wash
ington street that as soon as she had
paid for 90 books at 10 cents each. she
would be giveni a set Of such china
but must continue TO pay until she had
bought 80 magazines.
In her testimony Mrs. Kish said that
she was promised a set Of Haviland
china. She said she went to the office
of the publishing company in Phiia-
delpbia and asked for the dishes The
man behind the counter offered her o
set of the commonest American china.
she testified. She refused TO take them
and said she would not have them IN
her house. Mrs. Kish said that the
clerk laughed when she refused TO
take the dishes. She said he showed
her other dishes and demanded more
money for them. These. she said. were
inferior to tho sample shown by the
agent when she subscribed for the
magazine
Mrs. Della Byron and Mrs, Clara
Day. both testified they had the same
experience.
Mr.. Goldonthal said that he was not
the agent who took the order but was
simply the collector. He further stated
that the man who misrepresented the
business here had been discharged.
Assistant City Solicitor Lynn ln-
formed the court that he had learned
that it was a practice Of this particp-
lar company to transfer its agents
from district to district instead of dis
charging them
Judge Cochran held the defendant
in $500 bail for the Court of General
Sessions.
Chief of Police George Black in
formed the court that he had warned
the company and despite the warning
they continued to send men here.