The Washington times., 1911-04-17
Sunda


The number OF complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month Of March was as follows
MsTcR MsTcR Marsh MsTsS as5 as5
Total for month. ................1s5. ~
sunday average for month ............ i6.IiS
The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month of March
was 1883. all copies left and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number.
Then fiyided by 4. the number Of Sundays
during March. shows the net Sunday average
for March to have been 42.lSS.
In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day plainly
printed at the head Of the first page at the
l7ft OF the date line.
Entered at the Postorice at WASHINGTON.
n. c. as second class matter.
Have you cast your vote for the
Chamber of Commerce-Board Of Trade
merger?
In the absence Of hay the daughters
OF the embattled farmers will be con-
tent to rake one another.
The stork that telephoned the Wash
ington hospital for foundlirEs is de-
scribed as having a bass voice.
II does seem a pity that the helmet
and armor worn by some Of the Scott
Story warriors should be spci ed by the
d;!st of conflict
With Spring and the r. +. G. f. in
conjunction over in Alexandria. the fes-
tivites for the next few days and
nights will be sort of secular Easter.
The Chevy Chase Hunt Club wants it
distinctly understood that none of its
trained pack has shown such ill-breed-
Ing as to start in pursuit of that coon
which escaped from the Zoo.
The police succeeded in ra'ding a large
poker game on the river front yester-
GAY. And vet they may have been hon
est'y mistaken in supposinS that It was
all right since Lent was over.
The man who sent half a dozen under
takers to a house where no death had
occurred and the joke-smith who calls
out the ambulances for accidents that
have not happened. are about sixteen
days behind the calendar
Washington has twice carried away
the honors in the Inter-City Marathon
and Baltimore is desperately determined
to break the hoodoo on May 13. At all
events. the interest in the race is be-
coming keener every day.
The inmost thoughts Of the French
Opera Company, when thirty-nine out
OF the forty members Of the orchestra
struck, were probably not as sacred as
The concert they afterward managed to
give with piano accompaniment.
II half the things proposed for Penn
sylvania avenue in the way of garish
illumination, isles of safety, subdivided
roadway and underground tubes, are
carried out. the famous roadway will
be a curiosity rather than a beauty.
William Olin, perhaps the most widely
known and best loved G. A. r. veteran
in New England, who died Saturday.
was one of the oldest of ex-Washington
correspondents. having represented
Hoston newspaper in this city immedi-
aAaly after the war.
" anybody wonders what the Cali
a. X con-
Vention means when 1t speaks of the
Eschscholtzia they may now learn that
that is the name of one of the Pacific
coast chapters and Is also the scientific
way Of designating the California pop
py.
The people OF the District earnestly |
hope that Columbia TypogI aphical Union |
will succeed in capturing the convention
of the International Typographical Union |
for 1915. 1t will bring together a large |
body Of intelligent visitors and contrib
ute TO the growing fame of the National |
Capital as the ideal convention city.
Hoch der Washington Saengerbund!
Its thousand members threw all the
Camaraderie and enthusiasm of their
nature into the celebration Of the six
tieth anniversary Of the organization |
yesterday. 1t is a fine body of men of |
which Washington may we'll be proud |
And, by the way, when is George KONG |
to be asked 10 make that speech?
1t is good TO see Washington setting |
the pace in another sensible reform, this |
time, the summer garb of policemen. !
Announcement is made that uniforms |
and helmets. will be of such character |
rs to assure the minimum suffering |
from heal. The policemans job in the |
good old summer time is pretty tough |
and the public Will welcome any reason
able measures that will make 1t lighter |
It was Cordelia, mother of the Grac- |
chi, who, when asked where her Jewels |
were, pointed to her sons and said: |
These are my jewels In a similar |
strain President Taft. standing on the |
balcony of the White House and |
looking across the lawn thick with |
happy children today. could find no
more fitting words in which to express |
his appreciation than to exclaim: Here |
are the most beautiful jewels of our |
civilization"
Weshingtonians will welcome the news |
that Works. Dixon. Gronna, or Kenyon |
j. likely 10 be given a place on the Sem !
ate District Committee. Any one of /
these untIld 20 n valuable addition I