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The Washington times., 1911-08-21
Poor Student Ten Years Ago,
Now High in World
of Finance. !
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THREE HEARTS FALL
VICTIMS OF CHARMS
Mary Hartman, Refused Match
by Father, Was First
on List.

Yet third affair of the heart came
to Mr.. Straight while in service at Muk-
den, If Dame Rumor told truly. The
famous Taft world-girdling party IVES
welcomed and guided during the trip
through the Far East by Mr.. Straight.
Roosevelt, and the official guide of tho
party were attentive to each other and
gossip had II at the time that there
was a real love match.
That Dorothy Whitney, who has
spurned offers Of marriage from titled
men and from society Beau Brummels,
should fail a heart victim to a poor
salaried man who does things, does
not surprise her Washington friends,
, Dorothy Whitney was born in Wash
ington while her father, the late
William c. Whitney, was Secretary Of
the Navy in the Cabinet of the late
President Grover Cleveland. The social
position, the brilliant receptions, and
ing their Washington life are still fresh
in the memories of the Capitals most
exclusive circles.
Rated as one Of the most beautiful
American beauties" as well as one Of
the richest, Miss Whitney will marry a
man who has proved himself master Of
drawing-room and club along with his
mastery in finance and craftsmanship.
Willard DiCkerman Straight is a hand
some man and shines in society, even
he mas DeeH no
1t was Mr.. Straight who brought 20
successful conclusion the negotiations
that gave United States capital an
equal share with that of Germany,
France, and Great Britain in the $780,,
10000 loan for Chinese railroad extern
sions and improvements. Pitted against
both the proverbially willy Oriental and
the keenest financiers of the western
countries, this young American, still in
his early thirties, secured for the
American bankers who employed him a
full and equal share in the loan And
he has secured promise of an equal
share in the $50, 900, 900 loan that China
will negotiate this fall.
From the State Department here in
Washington Mr.. Straight went. in 1903,
to the employ of J. Pierpont Morgan
and other capitalists in the Chinese ne
gotiatiOns Mr.. Straight was in charge
Of the Bureau Of Far Eastern Affairs OF
the Department of State in 1903 and
until his departure on his great financial
mission to China.
AS member Of the Metropolitan Club
and prominent in the cotillions Of the
Bachelors Club, and a welcome guest
in the most exclusive homes in Wash
ington, Mr. Straight's social triumph
here was complete.
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What's S on the Program, in
Washington Today

Meetine of following Masonic lodges
Benjamin B. French. No. 15. business
Anacostia, No. q. NJ. M; Pentalpha
No. %, F. c.; Knights Templar coin
manderics, Orient, No. s.; Eastern star
Chapters, Ruth No. l. Masonic Hail.
Brightwood.
Meeting of following lodges. knights OF
of Pythias: Decatur, No. 8; Calanths
No. IL, Equal No. II; Amaranthe, No
2S, and Century, No. 30, business.
Meeting of following lodges, Odd Eel
lows. Union, No. IL; Covenant, No.
L Deacon, No. Is; Excelsior, No. u,
and Langdon. No. Is, regular business;
Rebekah lodges, Naomi, No. l, regu-
lar business.
Meeting of following lodges, Improved
Order Of Red Men: Usage Tribe, NO.
6. Fifth and streets northwest;
Sioux Tribe, No. 1S, 623 Louisiana ave
nue. northwest; and Oneita Council, No.
2, Degree of Pocahontas. Masonic
Hall, Anacostia.
Meeting of following lodges, Patriotic
Order Sons of America: Camp No.
l, sic Ninth street northwest; Camp
No. 3, Mariners Temple, Seventh and
n streets southwest; Camp No. g.
O6d Fellows Hall. Georgetown; and
Camp No. 6, 81 Eighth street north
east.
Meeting of Benning Council, No. y,
Junior order of United American Me-
chanics, Benning, D. c.
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THE PUBLIC HOLDINGS OF
TRUST STOCKS.

Perhaps one of the most frequently
repeated arguments against the trusts
is that the process of consolidation is
rapidly concentrating the industrial
and railroad capital of the country in
the hands of a very few very rich
men. The Wall Street Journal has
undertaken to prove or disprOve this
assertion by comprehensive collection
of statistics as to how widely the
stocks of the major corporations are
distributed.
Its circular letter of inquiry has
thus far been answered by 224 COM
panies. They report their aggregate
number of sha reholders during the last
ten years as, in 1901, 22O,OO7; in 1906
422, 1872, and in 1911, S47 ,965. The
figures for 1901 are not strictly com
parable with the others, as some of the
companies had not been formed at that
time. But the fact remains that even
during the last five years the holdings
of the public in the largest corpora
tions have more than doubled. If
without regard to a more or less ex-
tensive duplication of names we esti-
mate that each stockholder is con-
tributing to the support of five people,
which IS fairly conservative, then near
ly 4,250,O0O persons have an interest in
the price and dividends of these stocks /;
or, in other words, one out of every
twenty -one inhabitants of the country,
The average number of shareholders
to each company reporting is almost
exactly 1000. 1t must be borne in
mind that the trusts are formed very
largely by the combination of concerns
which were either private or in which,
if they were incorporated, the stock
was very closely held by few indi-
viduals. The owners participating in
the consolidation certainly average far
less than 1000 to each combine. How
ever much the process of consolidation
may temporarily concentrate indus
trial wealth in the hands OF a few,
therefore, its ultimate effect is clearly
to distribute the equivalent of the
original owners holdings among a
much greater share of the public
There are many minor causes which
work to this end. The owners who
have received payment for their fac
tories in stocks of the trust are apt
to reduce their holdings on retirement.
from active participation in the bust
ness. The lawyers and promoters, too,
who have been paid in securities soon
turn them into cash for wider invest
ment elsewhere. But the chief cause is
the simple fact, which we are apt to
lose sight of, that the capitalists stock
in trade is not securities, but money;
and that the formation of industrial
combinations is but one way of turn
ing it over.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
A Game of Cards.

Hour after hour the cards were fairly
shuffied.
And fairly dealt. but still I got no
hand.
The morning came, and with a mind un-
ruffed.
only said-'I do not understand"
Life is a game of cards. From unseen
sources
The cards are shuffied, and the hands
are dealt
Blind are our efforts to control the
forces
That tho unseen, are no less strongly
felt.
I do not like the way the cards are
shuffed.
But still like the game and want to
play,
And through the long, long night will
I, unrufled,
Play what 1 get until the break of
day.
LIEUT.. FRANK A. TURNER,
1st U. S. Field Art, u. s. A,
Now serving in Engr. Corps, Phil Is
lands.
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NO PREJUDICE AGAINST EN-
LISTED MEN.

If there is any prejudice against the
uniform of the enlisted men of the
United States army it must exist in
the places of entertainment which are
only secondary in Importance, if we
.rr.Sy. accept the results of recent ex-
periments made by Gen. Fred D: Grant,
commanding the Department of the
East, with headquarters on Governors
Island.
From time to tinse complaints have
been made that enlisted men in uniform
were denied admission to theaters. res
taurants, etc, and this, has bought
forth a certain amount of natural re-
sentiment. General Grant was anxious
to get at the real facts in The case,
and being located on the very border
land of the metropolis, he was in a
peculiarly happy situation for doing
so. I =
He detailed three of the enlisted men
stationed on the island, and sent them
into New York in search of experiences.
They were all clean-cut, manly young
fellows, and their uniforms were above
reproach. They walked boldly into the
Waldorf Astoria and asked the, clerk
to direct them to the main dining
room. This he did with the greatest
urbanity, and lest they should lose
their way they were preceded by a
bellboy, who seemed proud of bis as
signment. Their order was taken and
served without so much as an inti-
nation that they were unwelcgme.
This was at breakfast.
When the hour of luncheon Arrived
they decided that Sherry's looked good,
so they went in, were shown TO the
choicest seats in the house, overlook
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The reason for it all IS that so many
of our foods are put up with some dan
gerous preservative. In our homes We
have better chance to avoid those that
are most dangerous, but every time we
allow ourselves TO be tempted and eat
the food SO aGulterated. 1t ends with a
headache, but more often something
worse. 1t would appear from what we
sec and read that large numbers of peo-
pie have in the past come to their death
by the crime above pointed out. And
so 1 believe che men who insist on hav-
ing us eat their adulterated food are ac-
tually murderers on q large scale and
are many times more dangerous at large
than our common murderer. In order to
put more people on their guard as to
what not to cat l nope you will find
room in your paper for the above few
suggestions. All men who allow them
selves to be brihed 10 force such pois-
Cned food upon the people are equally
Of the murderous kind. H. 8. KLINE.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The humdrum life and duties of the
customs service irked this genius. In
1904 came his opportunity 70! release
and the laying of other stones in the
substructure of his marvellous achieve
ments
The outbreak of the Russo-4apanese
war was the lure that took MIR. Straight
from the customs clerks desk. He
Joined the staff of Reuters and the
Associated Press. All through the war
he reported battles, and studied still
more the Orientals against whom he
was later to match his wits in playing
for millions of dollars.
Illness sent Mr. Straight to St Peters,
burg, where Secretary George Won L.
Meyer was then ambassador at the Rus
sian court.
This friendship, formed in 1905, to the
conquest OF the hearts Of Mary Harri-
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
COLLEGES BEST PLACE
FOR STUDYING SOCIALISM

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Please allow me a little space in
your paper. to say a few words on
this question of socialism. Your cor
respondent seems to be alarmed be-
cause this subject is being introduced
into the colleges. I think 1t is a good
place for 1t, because, the intelligent
student will quickly find the weak
places in this theory, and just as
quickly be able to puncture them. If
this subject is only studied by the in
telligent people of this country, the
life of such a movement as socialism
would be of short duration, let the
intelligent people study this question
and give to the people the results of
their work and see how quickly the
people Will learn that we have moth
ing to fear from the mouthings of a.
few discontented cranks, such as are
holding forth on the Avenue of late.
DAVID WATERS.
Bethesda. Md.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The basic principle of socialism is, &C
cording to Marks, confiscation. His
followers OF the present day deny this
fact. but it is fact all the same. Con-
fiscatioa OIL private property underlies
all his teachings and is openly avowed
In all their literature. One Of Mr.. Fer
guson's critics, Fred Norma, is honest
enough to acknowledge the truth. He
says among other things that socialism
Aims to destroy private property"
that is to practice robbery.
What sort of college graduates are
those young men who are getting up a
club to propagate socialism, robbery
May heaven help those colleges re-
sponsible for their education! The police
in Washington should be doubled as a
precaution against nocturnal visits to
chicken coops and other private prop
erty. MOULTON EMERY.
Johnson City Tenn
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AmuSements.

Bella pictures in colors,
2:3O and $50 p. m.
| Columbia-Columbia players IN Tne
Liars" S:15 p. m.
Chase's-Polite vaudeville, 2:15 and Sis
Academy-''The Chief Of the Secret
Service" sis p. m.
Gayety-'New Jersey Lilies 2:l5 and
CasjnoE"I.ove, BY Wireless" and con-
tinuous vaudeville, l p. m. to II p. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, ! to II
chew Chase Lake-Dancing and music
hy section of Marine Band.
Glen Echo Park-Dancing and music by
section of Soldiers Home Band. Free
vaudeville.
Luna Park-Midway and attractions.
Arcade-Motion pictures. bowling, and
pool.
Colonial Beach-Boardwalk, bathing,
and other amusements; steamers leave
Seventh street wharf daily, except
Monday, 9 A. m.; Saturday, 2.3o p. m.
Marshall Hali-Steamer Charles Macal-
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. M, $50, and 6:i5 p. m. daily. Stops
made al Mt. Vernon.
Steamer ST. Johns leaves Seventh street
wharf for forty-mile trip on the Po-
tomac, p. m.
Chesapeake Beach - Bathing, Fishing
and grabbing; other amusements.
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man and Dorothy Whitney The appre-
citation that Straight won from Ambas-
sador Meyer brought him into the dip
lomatic service Of the United States.
1t made him consul general at Mukden.
and in Mukden the two heireSses met
and loved him.
Mary Hartman gave her heart TO
Willard Straight and only positive pa
ternal prohibition prevented her from
giving him her hand
Dorothy Whitney, who will soon be-
come Mrs. Willard Dickerman Straight,
went to Mukden without the 'encum-
brance'' of a father and with almost
as many millions as the other Mukden
visitor She loved the manly and dash
ing young consul general There was
no one to say her nay.
Dan Cupid won victory in spite Of the
often insurmountable obstacle of wealth.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

ing Fifth avenue, and again were
served not only with every care, but
as far as could be observed, without
attracting any special attention.
The same thing was repeated when
they went to Delmonico's for dinner at
night, and when they went to the
theater afterward they were given the
best seats in the house. In the course
of their travels many favorable re-
marks were made upon their manly
figures, and nowhere did they meet
with anything which could be regarded
as prejudice against the uniform of
the army.
General Grant was very much graft
fed with the result of his experiment.
In commenting on the matter he seems
to have expressed the consensus of
opinion when he said that "the clean,
well behaved soldier, even when in uni
form, will be welcomed at any first
class place, SO long as he behaves him
self as a gentleman" He was also
glad to say that the number of those
who do not behave themselves as gen
tlemen was becoming less every day.
At all events, the places of amuse-
ment and entertainment which have
any predisposition to discriminate
against the gentlemanly enlisted man
in uniform may very well afford to
take their cue from such high class
places as those visited by the expert
ment squad from Governors Island.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-Octopus, Castine, Severn. Gray
ling, Narwhal, Stingray, Salmon,
Snapper, Bonita, Tarpon, and Trippe,
at Newport; Lebanon, and Cyclops
at Lambert Point; New Hampshire
at Rockport; Paul Jones, Perry,
Preble, and Stewart at Astoria; !;
Whipple. Hull, aud Truxtun at
Portland, Ore; North Carolina at
Provincetown; Connecticut, Culgoa,
Michigan, and Kansas at New York;
Chester at Hampton Roads; Albany
at Nazo; Japan, Abarenda, Balm
bridge, Barry, Dale. and Decatur
at Makodate; Rocket, Porter, Du-
pont, and Blakely at Norfolk.
Sailed-Walke from Newport for Bos-
ton; Princeton from Honolulu for
Tutuila; Mayrant from Provincetown
for Newport; Missouri, Maine, Mis-
sippi from Provincetown for Phila-
delphia; Idaho from Provincetown
for Hampton Roads; Prairie from
Hampton Roads for Newport; Della
ware from Salem for Provincetown.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
ROOSEVELT BOASTS
OF CREATING TRUST

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Mr. Roosevelt boasts-actually boasts
of having created one OF the greatest
Of trusts. He tells us that by doing
so he saved the country. He compares
himself to a man in a sailing craft
who cuts tammed sheet when a gale
arises.
There is a more graphic illustration.
DR.. Roosevelt began by undertaking tt
''ure Uncle Sam of the trust habit and
ended by prescribing for his patient an
enormous trust dose. But, Of course, It
would be inconsiderate to expect Mr..
Roosevelt to compare himself to q
quack doctor who prescriSes opium as
a cure for the opium habit.
GALEN.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
NAVY.

Lieutenant r. P. CRAFT. detached
Navy Yard, Washington, D. c., to
North, Carolina as ordnance officer.
Lieutenant G. W. CASTLE, detached
Naval Academy. Annapolis, Md; to
Colorado as senior engineer officer.
Lieutenant H. X CAGE. detached Col
orado; to home and wait orders.
Lieutenant s. c. LOOMS. to Navy Re-
cruiting Station. Los Angeles, Cal.
Lieutenant A. STATION, detached Navy
Recruiting Station. Los Angeles,
Cal: TO Florida.
Lieutenant n. H. GOSS. to duty as in
spector CT ordnance, Connecticut dis
tri.t. Bridgeport. Conn.
Lieutenant ]. V. OGAN. detached Navy
Rife team; to Navy Yard. Washing
ton, d. c. .....
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SOCIALISM STANDS
FOR CONFISCATION

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
In your issue OF the 18th instant sew
eral Socialists undertake to answer Mr..
Ferguson's letter of few days before.
His communication was a most excel
lent protest against Karl Marks doc
trines. 1t should be printed and dis
tributed broadcast throughout the land.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
FOOD PRESERVATIVES
KNOCKED OUT TOGO
To the Editor Of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
In glancing over the head lines OF
your valuable paper l saw one stand
out, viz, "Togo's Digestion Has Failed
Him" This at cnce brought to my mind
the facts as brought out in the hearing
before the Moss committee. 1t is not
alone the people from faraway lands
who travel in our country that get head
ache and have their digestion stopped,
but a large majority of our own people
get sick and feel weak from that cause.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
keep the pasteurized milk laboratory
In the Capital City open?

Seventy-five volunteer firemen from
Alexandria will attend the big annual
convention Of the Virginia State Volun-
teer Firenien's Association to be held
this week at Newport News. These
are among the most de-
IiGhtful gatherings of the Old Dominion,
and the boys from Alexandria are look
ing forward to the time of their life.
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A Toxic Dream.
(Air, 20, Susannahr)

(Air. 20, SusannahrO
I dreamt a dream at midnight,
When everythir" was sill.
thought I'd joined the poison squad.
And of poisOns ale my IiI.
Ny buckwheat-cake was alum all,
Tannic acid was my tea,
And benzoate of soda
Composed my fricassee.
Chorus
Then, o, DR.. Wylie!
You're the man for me,
The public isn't any poison squad!
With you We all agree.
E. N. s.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
INVADING THE ENEMY'S
COUNTRY.

| President Taft will devote approx
mately half of the Congressional recess
to an invasion of the "enemy's coun
try" The progressive West is the
enemy's stronghold, as Mr.. Taft re-
CARDS it.
The President or Presidential candi-
date who finds an "enemy's country
anywhere within the area from which
he hopes to draw electoral votes, COM
monty meets disaster before he has
concluded his campaign in the hostile
region. 1t is difficult to imagine what
sort of speeches Mr.. Taft will make
with the view to improving his own
cause and breaking down that of the
insurgent Republicans. But the evil
dent intention to attempt just this
is of the largest political significance.
Two years ago, as a preliminary to
the Congressional campaign of 1910,
Mr.. Taft, under the domination of AID
rich and Cannon, adopted the now
famous program of reading the insur-
gents out of the party" Their pat
ronage was withdrawn from them, and
Vice President Sherman, Speaker Can
non, Attorney General Wickersharn,
and other spokesmen of the Admins
tration did the speaking in which the
undesirable Congressman were notified
that they were not to be regarded as
in good odor with the party manage
ment.
That project of eliminating the pro-
gressives was exposed in all its details
by the publication of the Norton pat
ronage letter. In that letter, after ad-
mitting that the plan had been adopt
ed, the White House added that, the
primaries being over, the men who
had won would now be accepted as
regular once more, and would have
their patronage rights, etc, handed
back to them.
1t is evident that, at the approach
of new campaign, the insurgents are
once more to be subjected to the same
sort of attack. An insurgent is to be
regular from the time he gets his
nomination down to the time when he
starts after another nomination; but
he is to be irregular, and is to be
fought with all the power of the
Administration, throughout all the
stages of the struggle for his renomi-
nation.
The effort to destroy the insurgents
in l909l0 resulted in a sorry dis
comfiture for the Administration. The
insurgents won, the regulars lost, and
the party was hopelessly demoralized,
and finally soundly defeated in the
election of 1910.
One need not be the seventh son of
a seventh son to prophesy that a repe-
tition of that same program will bring
the same kind of disaster again. In
the Administrations policy throughout
the special session of Congress there
is nothing to strengthen the President
with the insurgent West, and almost
everything to weaken him. The East
might be pleased to hear him defend
the veto of the Arizona New Mexico
bill; the West will not. The East
might cheer for reciprocity's victory;
the West will not The East might
find some satisfaction in the vetoes
which assure that the Payne -Aldrich
schedules will stand pat for another
period; the West will not.
President Taft has little to lose in
the West, and perhaps it is as well
for him to spend his time there. At
least the progressives of that region
will not fail to understand that after
a truce of little more than a year
the fight is on once more
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
PRIVATE DALZELL
MAY FLY HIS FLAG

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
If Private Dalzells advertisement Is
in good faith. would state 1 have a
large front room from the windows of
which he can display the American
flag whenever he cares to. 1t Is in
good locality and nearly central.
MRS, S.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
ARMY.

Captain CHARLES H. BOICE, cavalry,
is assigned to the 18th Cavalry.
Second Lieutenant DELMAR s. LEM
NER, Coast Artillery Corps, is trans
ferred from the 10th to the 18th
Company, Coast Artillery Corps, and
San Francisco. Cal, for the Philip
uine Islands.
Captain FRED H. GALLUP, Sd Field
Artillery. is relieved from duty OF
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and will
proceed to Fort Myer, Va.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

Ensign W. P. WILLIAMSON. detached
as inspector Of ordnance, Bridgeport,
Conn; TO Utah.
Passed Assistant Paymaster A HO-
NEY-k1NG, detached Navy Yard,
Charleston, S. c.: to Port Royal,
S. G.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

Israel Sykes. according to all accounts,
must he Il very close relative Of the
celebrated Bill Sykes, with whom we
are all mere or less familiar.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The prospects are that Colonial Beach
will be so popular for the remainder of
the summer that the capacity even OF
the Queen Anne will be taxed
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

It was not strictly a news item that
T. R. once got almost mad enough to
fire Wiley.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

Kind O. football feeling in the air,
with Just hint of chrysanthemums.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The Introduction of the Hamill bill
looks as though former Senator Dick 5
campaign on behalf of the committee
OF one hundred were bearing early fuit.
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

And Anacostia, too. has become deep
ly, darkly beautifully blue
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

The net total circulation Of The Wash
Ington Times daily during the month of
July was l,lS,s4s. all copies left over and
returned being eliminated. This number
when divided by rs, the number Of days Of
puDncation. shows the net daily average for
July 70 have been Is $50
The Washington times., 1911-08-21

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