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The Washington times., 1911-01-28
BENNET CHARGES NEED
FULL EXPLANATION.

Representative Bennett of New York
owes It to the two civilian District
Commissioners, to the District Board OF
Assessors, to Congress, to the people
of Washington, and to himself to make
a full explanation of the blanket
charges which he has brought against
General Johnston and Mr.. Rudolph.
1t is hardly conceivable that men,
Der of the House of Representatives
would make such statements as Mr..
Bennet has made without definite in
formation upon which to base them
and with which to substantiate them.
If he is possessed ofno such informa-
tion he has laid himself open to the
most severe criticism for his utter
ances. If he is possessed of such
information, it is his duty to give it
to the House and to the public.
For many years it has been common
gossip in and out of Washington that
real estate assessments here favored
wealthy residents. If Mr.. Bennett can
produce anything like reasonable evil
dence to sustain these rumors, or if he
can show there has been any inclina-
tion on the part of the Commissioners
and the Board of Assessors to favor
owners of the more valuable property,
the House cannot do less than order
a thorough investigation of assessment
methods in the District.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

sions, and retirement is going to be
adopted by Congress which does not
appeal to Congress as good business.
1t has been anxious that all advocates
of the program should keep this in
mind. Its own Investigations have
convinced it, beyond all uncertainty,
that higher salaries and good pensions
could be paid without increasing the
ultimate expense of the service. More
and better work should be secured
from the individual worker
Better business methods are needed
to make this possible. This newspaper
has no protest to enter against looping
off every needless employe. 1t believes
there are very many of these. But it
does not believe that any economy
commission should be turned loose
with blanket commission and a meat
AK, to chop off heads without regard
for human considerations.
TO reform the service decently and
humanity there must be provision for
reducing the organization to fighting
weight. That must be done by working
out the superannuated and inefficient.
Retirement on pensions will provide
for the one class; reclassification OF
the salary schedule, fitting people into
places they are competent to fill, at
appropriate salaries, will care for the
other. People who, after that proce-
dure, are found worthless or unneces
sary- must be dropped.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
American Out on Bond
DefeS Police of Nice

NICE, Jan. 2s.-"Somebody is going
to suffer for this" today declared
Leonard Harry Kline, the suspected
American crook. who gave his resi-
dence as Dayton. Ohio, and who was
arrested yesterday charged with being
a criminal of international reputation.
Kline has been released on $4,000
bail. furnished by his wife. As the
police have so far been unable to find
any one who will bring a definite accu-
sation against him. it is probable he
will never be brought to trial The
police at first declared they had found
complete outfit of burglar tools in
Klines' rooms. but later they an
nounced they had been mistaken al
though they still maintained they had
found a number of skeleton keys. Kline
is well known to the captains of all
the transatlantic liners.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
CURFEW NOT NEEDED
IF PARENTS DO DUTY

10 iheI Editor of THE TIMES:
As the curfew agitators seem to be At
work in our vicinity a few pointers that
have been very effective elsewhere may
be inkorder for your citizens.
Tho curfew is a wholesale attempt to
take away the liberties of children and
parents, and make applicable state
paternalism and socialism. 1t is another
attempt to do by compuIsion what COM
pulsory education was promised to do.
Boys and girls do not want repression;
they want work and natural develop
ment
Curfew agitators aim to have Iegisla-
ton passed regardless of the will of the
people. They profess to know what is
best for the people They never essay
to educate the people up to their hobby
through articles in the press.
Wherever the curfew is established
the confession is made that the church,
the Sunday school. and the public school
and the home all have failed in the
work of training the youth in the way
he should go. FRANCIS 3. LIVESEY.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
SING SING A SEMINARY OF
CORNETISTS.

The authorities at Sing Sing now real
ize, what all tn eworld has long since
known, that the cornet is to be classed
among deadly weapons. Two burglars
and murderer, belonging to the prison
band, beat down their special keeper
and made their escape in the mists of
Thursday evening. Opinion is divided
as to whether the purpose of this anna
teur musical organization is the esthet-
ic uplift of the members or refine
ment of punishment for the other pris-
oners who cannot choose but hear. The
feeling is rather general, however, that
the sound proof walls and bastions of
some place of detention is the proper
field for the cornetist's disturbing ac-
tivities. One would expect them to be
sent there, however, in the hope of re-
forming them. 1t comes as shock
and surprise to learn that helpless
prisoners, guilty, perhaps, of hasty
homicide or some little confusion as to
the right of possession in personal
property, should be thrust into very
seminary for teaching men to play the
cornet. These men are not all bad,
and should be aided and protected, not
perverted. After few months in each
others company it is not to be won
dered at that they manifest symptoms
of violence and attempt to kill their
keeper with the very instrument of
their own undoing.
The keeper will recover. 1t is hoped
the fugitive hornblowers will be cap
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
WATCHMEN NEED A RAISE
TO MEET LIVING COST

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
l, with every good thinking Govern
ment employe. must congratulate The
Times for arousing much interest in the
increase of salaries of Government EN-
ployes. You have demonstrated by
vote that large majority OF Govern
ment employees favor an increase in
salaries. This is necessary to meet the
cost of living. The employe who Is
paid $45 a month has, to pay as much
for a pound of steak as the employe
who is paid $500 or more a year.
Inasmuch as the representatives Of
this Government know the facts rela-
tive to the increased cost Of living as
the years pass on. and know also the
attitude the corporations are adopting
toward their employees, it does seem
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Capital T ales II

of us. Speaker Cannon accommodated
himself the day he was married. When
the meeting heard of Cannon's mar
riage they sent a committee to him.
Joseph said the committee, thee
has committed a great wrong by mar
rying a non-friend. II thee will say
that thee are sorry thee will be taken
back into the meeting
Brothers, said Cannon, thee come
TO me too soon If thee will come to
me in about year l will be able to tell
thee whether l am sorry"
They would not wait a year." inter-
rupted the Speaker, who was enjoying
the story, "and they lost a good Quak-
er. However, am not lonely, because
although Palmer says Senators Dixon
and Scott are Quakers / don't think
either of them work at it any more
than / do"
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
AmusementS.

National-Frank Daniels, in "The Girl
in the Train,'' 2:l5 and S:15 p. m.
Belasco-"Excuse Me-" 2:15 and SD p.
m.
Columbia-Chauncey Olcott, in Barry
of RalIymore, 2:15 and s:15 D. m.
y-"Superba," 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Chase's-Polite vaudeville. 2:15 and Sis
d. m.
casino-vaudeville afternoon and even
ing.
cosmos-Coatinuous vaudeville. to IL
D. M
Gayety~Ginger Girls" 2:15 and SIS p.
m.
Lyceuln-"The Merry Whirl," 2:l5 and
S.16 n. m.
Arcade-skatlng and bowling, afternoon
and evening. -
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
THINKS CLERKS HAVE
LITTLE GROUND FOR HOPE

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The Government employees in Washing
ton are much indebted to The Times for
the interest displayed in their behalf.
but II will amount to nothing. The activ-
ity of the merchants and newspapers of
this city in favor of increased pay will
have no effect on the Congress.
Congressman and others say that 1t is
quite natural for the merchants to want
the pay of the employees increased. They
spend their money here and the more
money they get the more money the
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

! be paid for their ability When they
do not measure up to the mark thry
should be reduced and others put in
| their places. A percentage increase is
not what is desired: some would get
| too much and some would still get too
little. general reclassifCatiOn ~ whs I
Is needed, based upon the work done.
Under the present system four differ
ent salaries are paid in the same posi-
ton in some of the higher grades and
In other cases employees doing the same
work are not paid the same salaries.
Equalization is needed as we'll as
higher salaries.
AN UNPREJCDICED EMPLOIE.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

Annual banquet of the Kansas Asso-
citation Of Washington, New Ebbitt. to-
night.
Meeting of the Irish Home Coming
Movement Association, Raleigh Hotel
8 .. m.
Meeting Of the Missouri Society, Pyth-
ian Temple, 1912 Ninth street north
west, o. m.
Exhibition of gowns, etc, by the Ladies
of Charity of St. Roses Technical
School, Phelps place and California
street, to D. m.
Annual election of officers of Loyal
Lodge, No. 3, l. o. G. T. 62S Louisi-
ana avenue northwest. p. m.
Daviscn's assembly dance, National
Rifles Arn,ory. $50 D. m.
Address by Hon. w. f. Humphrey, on
Merchant Marine" Commercial Club,
tonight.
Exhibition drill by the. Boy Scouts Of
Washington, Y. NJ. c. A. building, 1736
G street northwest. s p. m.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

tured and that the damage may there
fore be all the more fully repaired. In
the meantime the incident will have
this salutary effect: it will put all
amateur cornetists under suspicion
until the Jail birds are captured. They
will be compelled to practice warily, or,
what is safer still, not at all. 1t would
be as a new world under such soothing
silence.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
WaterWOrks Keep CITY.

FARMINGTON, Me. Jan. 2S.-Surplus
earnings of the municipal waterworks
system will be used to pay the expenses
OF the city during the coming year
There will he no taxes collected next
year Salaries of the city officials have
been raised including that of the regu-
lar assessor.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Ecuador Will Demand
An Apology From Peru

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Jan. 8-Feel-
ing runs high here today following the
attack made on the border town of
ChaCres, Ecuador by 200 Peruvian
soldiersand it is freely stated among
high official circles that either the gov
ernment of Peru must make immmediate
reparation or an open rupture will re-
suit.
Three Ecuadorans were killed and
eight injured The ECuadoran govern
ment today took steps to demand for
NAL apology from Peru.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The mistrial in the Schenk case once
more raises the question whether the
agreement of all twelve jurors should
be required in arriving at a verdict.
The one recalcitrant is often very
costly to the State.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
-Four Tracks Blocked
By a Freight Wreck

ROME. n. Y. Jan. 2S.-A collision
between two freight trains and 4
light engine at East Rome this morn
ing blocked all four tracks of the New
York Central for several hours am
slightly injured freight Conductor
ParISOn of Albany.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

Paintings by the old masters are
selling as low as $500. Thus little
by little the plush album and the
chrome are being displaced by bring
ing art within the reach of the COM
mon DeoDle
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

Straus is said to be more shocking
than ever in his new opera, "The Rose
Cavalier" From which it may be in
ferred that Rose sheds her petals even
more rapidly than Salome dropped
her wells.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The finding of a young woman in
Pittsburg who could discover the
special sin of persons brought to her."
was hardly worth the announcement.
Such people are as common as June
brides on the Avenue.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

Bostcn's vocal mayor rendered
Sweet Adeline" at the Burns celebra-
ton which thrilled 10000 hearers. 1t
awakens the ancient question whether
the lark ever sang to Shelley such a
song as Shelley sang to him.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The Federation of Labor, in its fight
against that st. Louis stove company,
like the cat that swallowed the can
airy, has left but little for the Su-
preme Court to decide just at present
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
Sports.

Basketball-Catholic University vs. St.
Johns, and Freshman VS.. Loyola team
of Baltimore $3.50 p. m.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VS.. Rovers, at
Central Y. M. c. A.
Basketball-Ingrams VS.. Carroll, at In
gram Inst.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

Readers of Times this department their
To frankly with the that letter
Objectionable will be denied publication Letters
not, however length, only
side of the paper
Address MAIL BAG EDITOR OF THE TINES
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The descendants of Brigham Young
are organizing to- "vindicate" his
name. The mass meetings will be
held in sections
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The net'totaI circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month of December
ESs 0S6,S76. all copies left and returned
oeing eiimiHated. This number. when divided
by "a, the number Of days Of publication
shows the net daily average for December
TO have been 40, 80
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The Secretary of State gets his sal3
ary raised Just as the cost Of living
starts on the down grade.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28
CONVENTION HALL
CAMPAIGN PLANNED
Chamber Committee to Start
Canvass for George Wash
ington Memorial Funds.

The conventions committee of the
Chamber of Commerce has been called
together for tonight by it's chairman,
Granville NJ. Hunt, to plan for a meet
ing to which representatives of every
organization in the city will be invited
To plan for a universal canvass for
funds for the proposed George Wash
ington Memorial Convention Hall.
The subcommittee, of which Oliver Z.
Newman Is chairman, which was ap-
pointed to compile and publish a PAM
phlet setting forth the plans and pur-
poses of the proposed convention hall.
has completed fits work and the first
copies of the. pamphlet were received
from the printer this morning
Object of Pamphlets.
These pamphlets will be used to make
the people of the city familiar with the
purposes of the movement.
The pamphlet sets forth the history
of the movement and presents a strong
argument for the erection of such
hall.
This association proposes to erect in
Washington a convention hall that will
cost $2,000,0O0 and to establish an en-
dowment fund of $500, 900 for it's mainte-
nance. The officers of this association
purpose to raise money by contributions
from the people of the United States.
About $250OO0 already has been pledged.
About $4,000 in cash has been contrib
uted.
Questions Asked.
In soliciting funds for the memorial
the association has constantly been con-
fronted with the following question:
"'What is Washington doing for this
project, which means so much more to
its citizens than to anybody else
THE officers have had to reply that
Washington was doing nothing. Last
spring they put the case squaTely up
to the people of this city. They said:
"Tf Washington will contribute 800.
900 toward the endowment fund We will
get the other s2,250,OOO from the coun-
try
The pamphlet declares the building of
such a hall would mean the bringing to
Washington of s1O.OOO,OOO or more each
year by delegates to conventions.
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL.
l mo. 3 mos. mos. ! VT.
Daily and Sunday. $3.50 $3.50 $40 $50
Daily only.......... .25 .b L50 800
Sunday onIy.... w Is so
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What's on the Program in
Washington Today.

(The Times will be pleased to announce
meetings or entertainments in this COL
umn. Phone or write announcements
The Washington times., 1911-01-28

The net total circulation OF The Washington
Times Sunday during the month of
December was .332, all copies left over and
returned by agents being eliminated. This
number when divided by 4, the number of
sundays during December. shows the net
Sunday average for December to have been
S7,0S3
In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head Of the first page at the
LETT Of the date line.
Entered at the Postoffice at Washington,
d. c. as second class matter.
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Sunday,

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month of December was as
follows:
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DECEMBER CIRCULATION.
n0fIv

The number Of complete and perfect copies
! The Washington Times printed daily dur
LIZ the month of December was as follows:
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December 4.....4O,3S5 December 1s..... 42, 3S7
December u.....41.724 December IS 40, S9l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
DRUGGIST IS JAILED FOR
ILLEGAL COCAINE SALES.
W. D. Cornish, of Belleville,
Trapped Through Buyer.

William D. Cornish. a druggist, of
256 Washington avenue, Belleville, Is
locked up in police headquarters III
that village charged with selling CO.
catne without genuine prescriptions or
with no prescription at all.
He was arrested early this morning
IN complaint OF Chief of Police Michael
Flynn. His arrest follows hard ON
that OF George Boston, of this city,
who a caught the other night while
trying to get what is alleged to have
been q fraudulent prescription for CO.
cajne filled at d Frelinghuysen ave-
nue. place When arrested there o.
Plainclothesmen O'Gara and Mcclure
the man first said that he had OBJ
tanned the prescription from DR.. Joseph
c. Winans, of Belleville, and then ad-
mitted that he had lied and that the
prescription was forged.
Finally he confessed that he had
been buying drugs of DR.. Cornish at
Belleville for more than a year on
fraudulent prescriptions, and the lat
ter's arrest followed.
Cornish admitted selling cocaine t.
Boston on the alleged prescriptions OF
DR.. Winans and DR.. Epstein, of New
ark, for a year and a half. He says
he also sold to one other man.
He will have a hearing before JUS
tice Of the Peace Richard II. Ashwortn
tonight. Boston will be there to con-
front him with his confession, for he
is held to await the warrant of he
Belleville authorities. DR.. Winans is
the complainant against him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
TOO BUSY FOR
TOMS RIVER CASES.

TOMS RIVER, April i2.-The indiot-
ments against Joseph Z. Hoff. chair
ma of the Republican county commit
feeg and Policeman Charles Johnson. OF
Lakewood, for ballot frauds in Lake
wood. were o moved yesterday. jus
lice Voorhees, announced that another
Judge would try the cases at a time
yet to be fixed. Justice Voorhees, is TOO
busy III the Court of Errors and APP
peals to preside
Howard Apologize, Of Lakewood, Re-
publican candidate Tor Asembiyman
last fall. and who was the bondsman in
the ballot fraud indictments, was eX-
cused from serving on the new grand
jury, The court, ia its charge, made
reference in general terms to the condi-
tons in the county. but there was no
mention of the ballot frauds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
MAN NEAR STARVATION
ON NEVADA DESERT,

RENO, New, April 12.-Another man
has narrowly escaped a terrible death
on the desert. Frank Heine and Elias
Dart, yesterday, while on their way to
the holnestake mine, some forty miles
south of S~earchlight, came across a
man nearly dead from thirst and uf-
ser. He was picked up and taken n
camp, where he "a cared for.
The mans name has not been ascer-
tained, but it was found that he be-
longed to a party Of three sent out by
the Smithsonian Institute, of Wash
ington, [. G.
The party had been searching for In
dian arrows of the aborigines in the
neighborhood of Spirit Mountain. In
their wanderings they had become sep
arated from their Indian guide, and
this one man lost track of his compan-
ions. The man wandered aimlessly
around. looking for water, and when
found had had neither food nor water
for two days. But for the timely ar
rival of help he would have soon per-
ished.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
Ont of Town.
SEALED
PROPOSALS FOR COURT HOUSE PLOT
Office of the
SHADE TREE COMMISSION.

PROPOSALS FOR COURT HOUSE PLOT
SHADE TREE coMMIssIoN.
Sealed proposals for the work and materials
required in the erection and completion Of
gcanite walls, cement and granite copings and
brick walks. etc, for the Van Horn Lncoln
Memorial, at the junction Of Market street
and avenue. in accordance with
Of the Shade Tree Commission. will be 10.
ceived by the said commission at a meeting
mission. in the City Hall Of said, city, on the
seventeenth day Of April. 1911. from 4 p. m. to
I 10 p. NJ and publicly opened at that hour.
+ roposals will be opened at AIS o. m. sharp.
Eldders viii state prices In writing as we'll as
Plans and specifications, of work to be done
and materials to be furnished may be seen at
the rooms OF the Shade Tree Commission on
any weekday between the hours OF 0 a. m.
Proposals must be accompanied by the writ
ten consent OF two ~sureties or a duly qualified
8 lrety company, who shall qualify as TO ie.
sponsibiiity, to the satisfaction of the board, In
ne amount OF his bid, and bind Themselves
that II the contract be awarded to the person
making the proposal they will become surety
tnr the faithful performance Of the work, and
ulat II the person to whom the contract shall
De awarded omits or refuses to execute such
contract the surety will pay to the Mayor ana
Common Council of the City OF Newark any
difference between the sum to which the person
g whom the contract was awarded would haye
6aen entitled upon completion OF the contract
AID the sum which the said Mayor and Com
mon Council OF the City OF Newark may DO
0 J1iged to pay to have sucn work performed.
The said board reserves the right to accept
Or to waive any detects therein, as they NAV
cesm best for the interests of the city.
BY direction of the board,
JAMES A. BERRY. President.
GEORGE B. ASHLEY,
BERNARD NJ. STANLEY. JR-,
Carl Bsnnwart. secretary,
April II, 1911. aprii-R
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
HER SCREAM IS
M|GHT|ER THAN
SU|T0R'S PISTOL
Married. Woman's Yell Scares
Armed Barber Away, and
He's jailed.

It was with his pistol in one hand
and his trusty lead pencil in the oth9
that Michael Hausner, a barber, made
love to Mrs. Anna Huber, and when
she neither quailed beneath the pistol
nor the notes he wrote her, he went
to a cell in the First Precinct Court
yesterday protesting that, though he
had pointed the pistol and the pencil,
she was the one who had made the
love.
Mrs. Huber, who lives at 552 South
Eighteenth street, swore to a long list
of annoyances at the BARRIERS hands.
She said he used to be her landlord.
and proposed to her 30 many times n
that capacity that she told her hus-
band and they moved away.
But again Hausner came to her new
home yesterday, she said, and told her
he was either going to elope with
the pistol at her head to emphasize this
proposal, but she ran into the front
room and locked the only door.
Thought Pencil Mightier Than Gun.
Then Hausner quickly drew his
faithful pencil from his pocket AMI
wrote to her a note which he slipped
beneath the door. He wrote 1t on a
postcard all twined round with spring
flowers, and it said, You come away
with me or I'll shoot you up"
Mrs. Huber took the note from be
meath the door but she did not n
swer 1t, and a moment later the door
went down under a push from Haus-
ner's shoulders. He caught the woman
by the throat and leveled the pistol
again, but she says she screamed 50
loud she scared him away. Constable
Smith got him a little later.
81 never made any advances to her.
said Hausner before he was held III
$1,000 bail. Why, she gave me the
idea that she was crazy to go away
with me-"