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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29

Mrs. W. c. Barton, of Washing
ton, ID. c.. has just returned home
after spending eight days with her
son, Mr.. Harry d. Barton. West
| street
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l. Weller. of
Washington, have returned to Arun-
delon-the-Bay after a weeks absence
and have re-opened Deer Lodge. They
have with them their granddaughter.
Miss May Weller Mccarthy.
Mrs. Griffith, wife of DR.. Griffith.
of Berwyn, is visiting Miss Claire
Martin, Prince George street. Mrs.
Griffith was formerly Miss Gladys
Mullan.
Mr.. ]. E. Belt, former secretary of
the Y. M. c. A. here, of Wellsville.
Pa, who has been visiting Mr.. James
d. Feldmeyer, Prince George street,
has returned home.
The Misses Cain, daughter of DR..
James w. Cain, president of Wash
ington College, Chestertown. are
visiting the daughters of Mr.. Harry
j. Hopkins, Murray Hill.
Mr.. Goodman Hines, of Govans, is
visiting his aunt, Mrs John Basil,
Prince George street.
Mrs. Robert Bowie will leave on
Tuesday for Braddock Heights, Freder-
ick, where she will spend month at
Washington Cottage.
The Rev. Henry H. Clark, D. D..
former Chaplain of the Naval Acad
VIC
Admiral Colvocoresses, u. S. N, and
Mrs. Colvocoresses, at Litchfield,
Conn. DR.. and Mrs. Clark will go
to the White Mountains to spend Au.
gust, and expect to return to Annapolis
late in the fall.
Mrs. George w. Hodges, of the
Duke of Gloucester Apartments, this
city, is the guest of Mrs. Arthur
Lee Bosley, at Liberty Lodge, Arun-
del-ontheBay.
Mr.. East, who recently passed his
examination for entrance to the Mill
tary Academy at West Point, visited
friends at Ka-noo-no Lodge, at Arun-
del-onthe-Bay, yesterday.
Mrs. Arthur Fletcher and daughter,
Helen, of Sparrow's Point, are visit
ing Mrs. j. A. Tayman, of German
town.
Miss Ruth Burnham, of Baltimore,
is visiting Miss Lila Wells, Melrose'
Farm.
Miss Bessie Dorsey is spending her
vacation in Harrisburg, Pa.
Miss Myrtle StaIlings is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Griffith, of Harrisburg,
Pa.
Miss Cassie Tucker, who has been
visiting friends in Baltimore, has re-
turned home.
Miss Beatrice Armstrong, who has
been visiting in Boston the past
month, has returned to her home,
Murray Hill, after having spent a
most delightful time, as well as profit
able. from an educational standpoint.
Miss Armstrong spent considerable
time at the Boston Academy of Fine
Art.
Miss Maize and Miss Helen Smith,
daughters of President James S.
Smith, of the County Commissioners,
have been spending the week with
their brother, Mr.. Norman Smith, at
Hotel Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Thomas Kemp and
children, Thomas and Louise, who
have been spending the month of July
with Mrs. Kemp's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George T. Melvin, at Hotel
Maryland, left today for the Eastern
Shore for a six weeks visit to Mr..
Kemp's parents.
Mr.. William N. French has returned
from ten days visit to Norfolk, Va,
where he visited the home of his faith
er, Mr.. w. Henry French, a we'll
known pile driver of that place. The
elder Mr.. French has just celebrated
his sixty-eighth birthday and his son
went over to extend congratulations,
and to be with his father on this happy
occasion.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
WaterFamine!

1t is with regret that this Company
is again called upon to warn it's pa
irons in the careful use of water. Our
storage supply is completely exhaust
ed, so that we are pumping into our
reservoirs alone the daily supply run
ming from our streams, which is di-
minishing day by day. Many rains
fallen in Annapolis have passed by our
wter sheds entirely. A personal in
spection of our plant reveals the fact
that our supply TODAY is lower than
at any time during the drouth of last
year.
1t is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE
that all street and lawn sprinkling be
discontinued. While the public has
cordially co-operated with this Com
pany towards this end, it is a regret
able fact that some persons still con-
tinue to sprinkle their lawns, gardens
and streets, utterly unmindful of the
injury they are working the com
munity.
No charge will be made for street
or lawn service from July /, 1911, un-
til further notice.
1t is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE
that this appeal be STRICTLY and
HONESTLY OBSERVED.
HARRY ]. HOPKINS,
President Annapolis Water Co.
Jy. 3-tf.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Candidacy of Joseph H. Bells for
the State Senatorial Nomination.

At the request of many Democratic
voters Of Anne Arundel County, urging
me TO become candidate for the State
senate l submit my name for the en-
dorsement of the Democratic Organiza-
uon OF said County, and the approval of
'he Democratic Voters of Anne Arundel
,oanIy at the Primary Election to be
oe.d ,l.l on the twenty-ninth day of August,
lSlI' as candidate for State Senator
0T Anne Arundel County.
J'so Signed JOSEPH IL. BELLS.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
Presbyterian Church.

Public worship tomorrow in the
Presbyterian Church, Duke of Glou-
cester street, near Conduit street,
Rev. DR.. George S. Bell, pastor, at IL
a. m. and p. m. Sunday School a
quarter before 10 o'clock. Mid-week
prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p. m.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
Reported For Duty.

Lieuts. Turner F. Caldwell and
Royal E. Ingersoll, u. S. N, have re-
ported for duty; the former has been
assigned to the department of steam
engineering and the latter the de-
partment of seamanship.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
PERSONAL MENTION.
Items Of Interest Concerning Those
on the GO-To and Fro-About
You and Your Friends.

II you have visitors and are not
ashamed OF them, please send the
names to Us. or give "PersonalsH over
you have visitors that they may call
upon your friends. Personals published
frcc.-En.1
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
St. Martins S Church.

Sunday School, 9.45 a. m: German
services, IL a. m. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29

lE- Banking hours daily 9 a. m. to 4
p m; Saturdays. 9 a. IN. to 6p. m.-
Annapolis Banking and Trust Co.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
DOH'T FAN

To let the CAPITAL follow YOU on
your vacation. 1t will keep YOU
posted ou all that is going on
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-07-29
WEATHER TODAY

r-- Apnapolis.-Fair tonight,
t9L Ai'ii- Increasing cloudiness;
sad95aflv sa9~Ifl followed by showers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

Moody and his assistants were greatly
disturbed. They saw that if this claim
of immunity were granted then officials
OF other trusts under investigation by
the commissioner Of corporations and of
railroads sending reports TO the inter-
state commerce commission might be
pardoned also.
Attorney General Moody did an I'M
precedented thing. He appeared in per-
son before Judge Humphrey in Chicago
and argued strenuously against this i'm
munity claim. He maintained that the
beef trust officials had not been sub
poenaed or sworn by Mr.. Garfield. and
that, therefore, what they had told him
was not legal testimony. as contem-
plated by the act of Congress, but simply
voluntary information. With other things,
Attorney General Moody said:
If immunity is given for this volun-
tary information Washington will be-
come the Elysian to which uncounted
captains OF industry can resort for i'm
munity of their offenses, and Washing
ton would become a great resort not
only in winter, but i'm summer All the
people in the land who were violating
the laws would go there at intervals and
get their immunity. I can fancy Mr..
Swift and Mr.. Armour on their way to
Washington and there meeting some
great masnate who has already washed
in the immunity bath. They will go
there to Carlsbad and French Lick
Springs in order to cleanse themselves
of miSdoing. ] can imagine their meeting
and saving. Good morning, good morn
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their great interests and tremendous ell
ersies were combined. Result: Ten thou
sand gold mines in the fresh meat bust
ness for the beef trust barons.
But 1t is very natural that the beef
trust officials should keep on looking for
legal technicalities to help them out now.
Remember how a technical plea got them
out of similar scrape in 1896? Practi-
cally the same beef people We're before
the bar of justice then. and for the same
offense. The legal technically that
served them in 1906 was the famous Jim
munity bath" claim.
The meat trust people made this claim
OF immunity at first under these present
indictments. and they may do so again
some day. Perhaps. therefore it may not
be embarrassing to recall here what the
principle of immunity Is and how the
beef trust people made use of it,
An ancient principle of law, reap pearing
in the Constitution of the United States.
is that no person shall be compelled in
any criminal case to be. a witness against
himself. The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided. however that this
means that the person who Is forced to
tell on himself cannot be prosecuted for
IL afterward: that he can be compelled,
but not prosecuted
Now Congress. evidently for the pur-
pose of inducing man to make a clean
breast in United States cases of shady
things, even though hit himself, passed
acts in 1858 and 1878 extending the privi-
lcse Of immunity. The witness got i'm
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Nickersham have said practically the
same thing; while we'll known writer on
evidence puts it this way:
a stranger from another legal sphere
might imagine that the guilty criminal
was the fond object of the courts dot
ing tenderness. guiding him at every step
in the path of unrectitude and lifting up
his feet lest he fall into the pits digged
Tor him by justice and by his own Of
lenses.
The ten men who have been having a
meeting once week for several years to
fix the price of fresh meat for three
fourths of the people of the United
States are: J. Ogden Armour. Louis F..
Swift Edward +. Swift, Charles IL.
Swift. Edward Morris, Francis a. Fow-
Ter. Edward Tilden, Arthur Meeker,
Thomas ]. Connors and Louis H.. Hey
man, ali of Chicago.
They are the real owners of those meat
companies whose signs and wagons are
so familiar in SIG establishments, in 6'S
towns and in % states-Swift & Co,
Armour & Co. and Morris G. Co The
three Swifts and Messrs. Fowler and Til
den run the Swift company: Mr.. Armour
and MeSsrs. Meekcr and ConnorS are the
Armour company. and MeSSrS. Morris
and HeEmau. the Morris company. Mr.
Armour controls ~ per cent of the CAPT
tai stock of his company, Louis and Ed
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munity from the direct consequences of
his own testimony without being obliged
to claim the right; the immunity flowed
to him by operation of law.
Under these acts an attempt was made
to compel man to tell a grand jury all
about, his wrongdoing. He refused. and
the Supreme Court said he was right. be-
cause the acts did not make the immu-
nifty broad enough. The court held that
while this man could not under the acts
be prosecuted afterward for the things
he himself told about, yet there was moth
ing to prevent the use of his testimony to
search out other evidence against him.
In other words. the Supreme Court de-
cided in this case that Congress had no
right to fly in the face of the consttu-
tional privilege of silence by forcing
person to be witness against himself
unless the promise of immunity was broad
enough to protect him not only from the
consequences of his own confession but
also from the danger of being sworn into
trouble by any one else.
Congress wanted to compel the great
railroads and trusts of the country to
throw their doings open to the light of
publicity. to force them to make dis
closures about their business. New legis-
laton was therefore passed. in 1893 and
1908, to that end. and at the same time
making the immunity broad enough to
suit the Supreme Court.
The new acts applied to only certain
cases and Investigations; to cases under
the laws relating to transportation be-
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ward Swift Us per cent OF theirs and
Mr.. Morris so per cent of his concern.
NO rival corner grocery stores in d
small town fought for trade against each
other more keenly than once did the
Swifts and Armours. Along about 1900.
however. these big meat people made
up and there was no longer cutthroa
competition. They kept up their separate
concerns. TO be sure, but they agreed to
have harmony and peace in their bust
ness relations. They put all their eggs
in one basket, they watched that basket
and in 1909 they organized a company
TO hold the basket. This company was
called the National Packing Company OF
New Jersey. and that is why the beef
trust officials are called packers"
X
The affairs of this packing company are
controlled or directed by the ten indicted
men. Forty-seven per cent of the capital
stock. or about 10000 shares, are con-
trolled by Louis and Edward Swift, Mr..
Armour has 40 per cent. or $1,000 shares,
and Mr.. Morris Is per cent, or about
2n'". shares.
In addition to the big companies. about
twenty-one other meat and packing con-
Germs have been allowed to come in.
National Packing Company all incentive
for the various meat concerns to comp etc
with one another was takGn away All
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

Nd. of July Il. 1897, is quaint and inter
esting. 1t says:
Pursuant to previous arrangements.
the citizens of Boonesboro assembled at
the public square on the 4th instant, at
$50 o'clock in the morning. to ascend the
Blue Rocks for the patriotic purpose of
erecting a monument to the memory of
him whose Name stands at the head of
this article. This spot was selected in
consequences of the great facility with
which the materials were furnished. A
little more than the foundation had
been laid the day before which enabled
us to proceed without delay to the grand
design before US. The men seemed
actuated by a spirit of zeal and ardor
almost bordering on enthusiasm.
About L. o'clock we heard very an
propriate cxtemporc address from the
Rev. Mr.. Clinghan, q gentleman of the
revolutionary period whose warm patriot
ism, anilnatlng Il constitution rendered
1nflrm by age and bad health induced
him to bear all fatigue and danger to ac-
complfsh the purpose of his heart
About 1 o'clock we partook of cold
collation., as our object was not to crafty
our pampered appetites: consequently no
sumptuous arrangements had been made,
neither were toasts prepared for the oc-
casion, put We enjoyed more heartfelt
satisfaction in partaking of our simple
fare than the most costly or highly sea-
soned dishes would have afforded. Our
thoughts and food We're both highly spiced
with the contemplation of our work, there
by needing no stimulants to excite an ar
tificial appetite. At the conclusion OF our
labors,. about 4 o'clock the Declaration of
Independence was read from one of the
steps of the monument preceded by some
pr T4tH4E -pSs.IE| 5sG~. atteI- winch sew
eral salutes of infantry were fired. when
we all returned to town in good order.
This monument is fifty-four feet in cir
conference at it's base. and fifteen feet
high 1--WE contemplate raising it after the
busy season has passed. The wall is
composed of huge stones. many weighing
upward of a ton. with the whole of the
center filled up with the same material
A flight OF steps, commencing at the
base and running through the body of
the fabric, enables us to ascend to the
top. from whence the most beautiful pros
pect presents itself that the eye can pos
sibly behold. Shepherdstown. Hagers-
town and Cavetown are distinctly seen.
with all the fertile fields of Jefferson.
Berkeley and Washington counties, az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19
ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
VA SHIN TON,
July f. 1927,
BY THE CITIZENS OF BOONESRoRO

The tablet has been lost. II has NOT
been seen by any person Interested in tae
preservation of the monument since 1878
IL may have been stolen by relic hunters:
IL may nave been blown down and shat
tered INTO fragments by some fierce wind
or 1t may have been carried off NV some
one who needed a kitchen slab, as some
or the Mason and Dixon markers were
carried OF to make doorsteps No tablet
was placed on the monument when re-
erected IN lSs2 by the citizens of Boons-
poro. The absence of the tablet, how
ever, does not affect the claim to prior
ity. as that has been settled to the sat-
lstactlon of historical experts.
Some Baltimore historians are inclined
10 dlSparage the mountain-top monument
and its precedence over the bea tiful
shaft that got Baltimore its sobriquet,
the Monumental city
Robert r. Hayes, jr, librarian of the
Maryland Historical Society. defends
Baltimore's right to the honor of having
the first monument.
Harvey S. Bomberger of Boonsboro the
leading spirit in the present movement,
ana president OF the society formed t.
restore the first Washington monument.
is not daunted by criticism He admits
that the Baltimore monument is the
finest monument, and that it was sta ted
first. but he has evidence to show that
the Baltimore monument was not finished
until 1886
1T has never been neglected by the
people of Boollsboro." says Mr.. Bomberg-
er, of the mountaintop memorial. 1T
was rebuilt I'm 1882 by the people of
Boonsburo 1t stands today, having blIf-
feted storms that swept over the noun
tain top, not a pile of rocks, it has
been slightingly called by those unfamil-
lar with 1t. but a memorial beautiful in
it's crudity and celebrated in its historical
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monument from being lost landmark.
In brief it is purposed to take the mon
ument apart, and build it over again,
according to original design, but with
element -defying science. Artists an.
patriots had hand in its rearing, but
expert builders did not
Out of similar limestone rocks many of
the lasting landmarks of the carly DAYS
have been erected, churches mansions.
inns bridges-the most beautiful bridges
in the country span Il stream-the historic
Antietam creek. that meanders along the
foot of the mountain that is the site of
the first monument to George Washing
ton. Furnishes bridge is one of them.
as beautiful and substantial as it was
century ago, when erected Burnsdes
bridge is one of the most famous land
marks on the battlefield at Antietam,
sharing honors only with Bloody Lane
and the bullet riddled Dunkard Church.
The nation has heard of Burnside s
bridge and the battle of Antietam, and
of Mckinley martyr President. The
nation is taking care of the battlefield
and the bridge, and few other his
toric memorials in the same vicinity.
The battle of South mountain in which
Gen Reno was killed was fought not a
mile away from the site of the first
George Washington monument, and the
war corresI ondents arch erected by
George Alfred Townsend. the Washing
ton author near his summer home, is
top of the same ridge. The valley below
contains not only the Antietam battle
field, but the scenes OF John Browns
attempted rebellion. At the foot OF the
mountain lies the old national road and
In the distance can be seen Harpers Ferry
and the Potomac river.
The nation is just beginning to hear of
the first monument to George Washing
ton, inasmuch AS Boonsboro citizens have
only recently realized that the task of
restoring it and preserving it is too great
for the inha bitants of a village numbering
only 800 Congress will be asked to I'M
dertake the reconstruction, and Repre-
sentative David J. Lewis of the sixth
Maryland district will champion the
project. Mr.. Lewis is enthusiastic in his
support of the project and says:
The Boonsboro monument is the oldest
monument that has been completed and
it has the strongest Of claims upon public
interest in that it was the free expression
of patriotic sentiment, having been built
by the labor of the freemen of Washing
ton county themselves. not merely erected
by the labor of hirelings. 1t is the most
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~%B DASHINGTONIANS and cspe-
cially those who hail from
AAl the state OF Maryland, are
wv interested in the news that
a nationwide movement has
tccn started To restore the monument TO
the National Capitals namesakc, george
Washington which is threatened with
ruin. because of its exposed position OF
the top of the famous South mountain in
Maryland 1t has sustained frequent
damage i'm furious storms. including
crevice riven by a lightning bolt. from
ron TO bottom, between the rude, un-
..arvcu rocks that form. not the nneSt,
but the FIRST and most picturesque me-
mortal to the hero Of Valley Forge.
The whole world contributed To tn"
towering obe.sk in Washington. perhaps
the greatest monument in the world with
IN, exception Of the pyramids of Egypt.
The statcN OF Maryland butt the classic
shaft To Washington IN the heart of Bal
timore's fine residence section. The peo-
uIe of village in Maryland, including
revoI utionary soldiers. bu 1t and repaired
the rpountain-top monument, which does
not rise above the trce-tops. but vies with
them in the modest height of half a
hundred feet This village is BoonSboro.
II contains 800 Inhabitants today, and
has never contained much more or less.
II is proud of the work of Its forefathers,
and the unassalab bic ella m 10 having the
NrSf monument To tIlt ielihSi vi ilio
country.
That claim has been disputed but
never successfully Only the beautiful
shaft in Mount Vernon Square. Baltimore.
has any right to consideration in estab-
fishing the question of precedence. The
Baltimore monument was started a
decade earlier but il was not finished I'M
Ill "A decade later than lie year-lS27-
when the people of Boonsboro went TO the
mountain top and reared the wildern IS
memorial Most of the work was done
on the 4th of July. 1877. The founda-
ton had been laid the day before. The
work was completed after harvest time
of the same year
The material used was the limestone
rock that is the ba kbone Of the famous
mountain. Zach rock put in place was
rude and uncarven but the monument
as a whole iustifies the assertion that
artists we'll patriots had a hand
in its rearing. Many of the rocks weigh
more than ton. Rocks almost as heavy
have. however. been overthrown by fierce
winds and there is need of modern en-
cheering skill and the cohesive fidelity
of concrete 20 keep the mountain-top
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DAPIERLIKE Thrusts

d APIERLIKE Thrusts of
IN Counsel for the Accused
and the Accuser Make the
Sparks Fly-Motions, Pleas
and Writs of Habeas Corpus
Prove Effective Dilatory Tao
tics-Splitting Legal Hairs
Resume of Beef Barons' Bust
ness-Similar Eff orts to Pun
ish Them in the Past and the
Celebrated Immunity Bath.
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tween the states, and to testimony before
certain government commissioners in
Washington. namely. the interstate COM
merce commissioners and the commits
soner Of corporations
Now, in 1904 some of the beef trust
officials who We're indicted in 1906 had
err of corporations, then James Rudolph
Garfield, who was making an investiga-
ton of the beef industry Of the country
by direction of Congress. The beef trust
officials who gave the information We're
not, however. either Subpoenaed or sworn
by Mr.. Garfield.
Some of this Information was used by
the grand jury in their indictment of 1905.
The beef trust magnates, therefore.
claimed immunity from prosecution for
the acts concerning which they had given
Information to Commissioner GARFIELD,
saying that they had told on themselves
through fear of the law and in the hope
of immunity.
United States Judge Humphrey, who
had impatiently waived aside all the
other technical objections of the beef
trust, Strengthened up at this claim of
immunity and said. fgurativeIy, Now
you're talking.
At this United States Attorney General