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The Washington times., 1911-03-03
GOOD FEATURES IN
DISTRICT BILL.

As finally agreed to by both houses
of Congress, the District appropriation
bill contains many good features. Con
sidering the rush of business during
the short session and the congestion
of the last week, it is probably as
good a measure as could be expected.
The total sum appropriated under it
has not been accurately ascertained,
but it will be we'll within the esti-
mated revenues for the next fiscal
year. At the same time, most of the
worthy permanent improvements have
been provided for and most of the ap-
preparations for current expenses are
adequate.
Only one new park is contemplated.
This is Montrose park, which is badly
needed in Georgetown. it is possible
provision will yet be made in other
legislation for Meridian Hill park. If
the District can get one park a year,
however, until the park system is
completed, it will have nothing TO com
plain Of At that rate the chain of
parks through and around the city will
soon be established
1t is a decided advantage to the
District to be able to do its own street
cleaning instead of having the work
done by private contract The bill
cOnfers upon the commissioners au-
thority to perform this public service
The provision for municipal asphalt
plant was thrown out and the Com
missioners are therefore left at the
mercy of the private paving contrac-
tors. Opposition to municipal as
phaIt plant, however, was confined to
the House and was not very strenuous,
so there is hope that at the next ses-
sion the plant can be obtained.
Provision is made for a new bridge
across Rock creek at Q street and for
a new entrance to the Geological park.
These improvements are needed and
will materially enhance the beauty of
Rock Creek valley.
While Congress was setting aside
money for these external ornaments.
it also provided $4,000 for the recIa-
nation of Willow tree alley. This is !
not big sum, when the size of other
public expenditures is considered, but
it marks a beginning in the eradica-
ton of alley slums and will probably |
be followed by larger appropriations
in the next few years.
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emerged, pink and smiling, from her
informal ablutions she explained that
she lived in one of those benighted
sections of the Hub where there are no
bathtubs. Passing through the more
favored section of SomervilIe she
couldn't resist the impulse to borrow
a bath.
And when we get right down to
essentials, why shouldn't she? The
world would hardly be habitable unless
we were neighborIy, and the loan of a
bath is not half so annoying under
ordinary circumstances as the loan of
our most cherished set of spoons. Not
infrequently the muffin pans are across
the way or around the corner when
they are needed most, and it is a
known fact that the entire community
in any given city or village runs out
of sugar at the self-same hour.
OF course, there are families in which
a special Importance is attached to the
bathtub on Saturday night, If it
should become the custom for friends
or even strangers to drop in for a
casual bath, they should come in the
middle of the week, unless they are
sure of the habits of the household
Generally speaking, however, there is no
reason why this form of hospitality
should not attain to some popularity.
It is a form of godliness of which the
world can hardly get too much.
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public interest and public support are
concerned. This would be nothing short
of a national calamity, for baseball
today, with all its faults, is the great
American safety valve. Broadly
speaking it is a clean, wholesome sport.
1t furnishes inspiring recreation to
hundreds of thousands of American
citizens.
The 'magnates" show an intelligent
comprehension of the situation by dis
couraging baseball gambling. Baseball
should be preserved, unsullied. That it
will be so preserved seems probable, for
the reason that those who are threat
ening to corrupt the game are almost
certain to discover they have failed
to reckon with human nature.
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COUNSEL DELAY ON
DEPARTMENT PROBE
Democrats Argue Against
Tackling Job In Extra
Session.

The Democrats Of the House, con-
fronted with an extra session, are now
debating whether it is best to start
upon an immediate investigation of all
the Government departments as soon
as the present minority come into con-
troll Of the lower branch of Congress.
1t has been known for some time that
the Government departments, with their
obsolete business methods, their red
tape, and, according to the Democrats,
their extravagances, were to be made
the subject of an investigation. The
appointment of nine committees, one as
signed to probe each department, has
been discussed and virtually agreed
upon.
For Campaign Effect.
The situation now bothering the DEM
ocrats is this: Should an attempt. be
made to investigate the departments
during a busy extra session, or should
the matter go over until next winter,
just a few months before the campaign
of 1872?
1t would be good Democratic politics
to adopt the latter alternative The
Democrats expect to show up a very
unsatisfactory condition in the big Gov
ernment departments. They propose to
point out leaks here and there, where
thousands of dollars have been wasted,
through extravaganza or mismanage-
ment. Such revelations coming Just be-
fore a national campaign probably
would have their effect.
Chimes in With Slogan.
1t will be in line with the Democratic
slogan of economy" It might cause
the populace to demand a new deal and
to view with alarm the things that
have been going on since last the Demo-
Gratis were in power.
On the other hand, if a wholesale in
vestigation Is begun with the convening
of an extra session, the Democratic par
ty, already burdened with the duty of
revising the tariff-a class of legislation
that may make or break the party
may be assuming too great load II it
attempts to take charge of Uncle Sans
Government bureaus at the same time,
All this has led to the talk about the
Capitol recently that the Investigations
are to be delayed until the Democrats
II any of them new and inexperienced
in legislation, may feel their way a bit
It's good politics, reason the Democrats.
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BASE BALL BOCKMAKERS AND
HUMAN NATURE.

professional! gamblers are popularity
supposed never to overlook a bet. but
it will he surprising if those entcrpris-
ing gentlemen of the sporting fratcr-
nifty in kentucky who have started out
to make book en- prospective pemant
winners haven't given this theory a
rude jar
We all know it is ,human nature
especially american human nature-to
gamble. But We all know. too. that
the gambler must have action on his
wager. He demands a run for his
money" That's the reason betting OH
horse races thrivcd until public opinion
frowned it down. The man who laid
ten spot at good odds experienced that
delightful thrill that comes between
the start and the finish-brief but pro-
portionatcly delicious. If the truth
were told. it was the throb of uncer-
tainty the hope of quick profit and
the fear OF quick loss than the
confidence of being enriched without
labor that kept the bookmakers in
business and, incidentally, kept horse
racing alive.
Just where the thrill in baseball bet
ting will come in is not apparent. The
promoters of the sport surely cannot
expect much patronage for a betting
system by which a citizen OF Washing
ton makes n wager on June | as to
where the Nationals will wind UP in
the September finish. Even if the sys-
TEN is arranged to permit the placing
of wagcrs on the result of each dav's
game it is extremely doubtful whether
it would command attention from that
large class of people, who have the
gamblers itch to take a chance. The
action is too slow.
1t would be deplorable for baseball
to degenerate into the character of
sport which horse racing degenerated
into as a result of betting. The game
would soon be killed, so far as general,
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Fir MEN MAY BE
DENIED PROTECTION.

Unless Congress adopts the GallingeI
amendment to the sundry civil appro,
priation bill now pending, tiremen OF
the District of Columbia will be re,
stricted to thirty days sick leave per
annum. This means that if a fire
man is injured at a fire or if he becomes
i'll from exposure at fire and is un-
able to be on duty he will draw pay
for a month and will then be dropped
from the rolls and forced to support
himself during the period of his re-
covery.
Isn't that a broad, intelligent, hu-
name theory upon which to operate a
fire department? a municipality
should expect its firemen to render
invaluable service under such a system
shouldn't it? For instance, at big
fire a half dozen men are ordered into
a burning building, at peril TO their
lives. 1t must produce a feeling of
courage in their hearts to realize that
if they obey the order and meet with
accident their benevolent employer will
allow them thirty days pay and will
then force them to shift for themselves.
Policemen are protected by special
clause giving them more than thirty
days pay upon recommendation OF the
Board OF Surgeons, approved by the
Commissioners. The provision is in
tended to cover injury and illness
incurred in the course OF duty. 1t was
sought to make the same arrangement
for firemen at this session OF Congress,
and. an amendment making the annual
and sick leave OF firemen correspond
to that of policemen was offered. Con
grcss very accommodatingly incorpor
atcd it in the District appropriation
striking out the provision
for additional sick leave in cases of
There is still time for Congress to
correct this injustice. Senator Gal
Iinger has offered an amendment to the
sundry civil appropriation bill that
protects the fremen. Not one legiti
mate argument can be made against
its adoption, while the arguments in
It's behalf are so plain that even a busy
member of Congress, at the sessions |
md shouId be able TO appreciate them. !
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
A DEMOCRATIC LINEUP IN
THE SENATE.

The Senate is not the popular forum,
but it is the body on which the popular
eye most often rests. 1t is a BODY
in which power and authority are
concentrated, and in which, therefore,
responsibility can most easily be
traced.
Wherefore it is good to be assured
that there is to be a division of the
Senate Democrats into prOgressves
and tories. Those two elements have
long existed in the Senate Democracy.
but they have not been hcrded off def
nitely by themselves.
As a result of the Lorimer vote, it
is now declared, the progressive Demo
cratic Senators are going to do what
they can to make plain the line of
schism between themselves and the
men who voted for Lorimcr They are
going to protect themselves by making
1t plain that the Lorimer case deFeloped
an alignment between real Democrats
to cloak various and devious purposes.
Senator Bailey has long been re-
garded as the real leadership and
brains of this retrogrpssive element OF
Democrats who in times of pinch are
likely to provide endorsements for
the ultra conservative Republicans.
There will hardly be dispute as to the
brains and abilities of the Junior
Texan. The commomrst tribute paid
to him comedies that he is the abIest
man i'll the Senate But he is not in
touch with the present day ideas and
ideals OF the American nation. and
no measure Of parliamentary SKI.
cleverness, subtIety, and political per
spicacity can conceal this fact from the
people who observe affairs at short
range.
1t is regrcttable that Senator Bailey
should have demonstrated himself un-
able to grasp the popular conception OF
the great conflict of this day, between
the interests and the people. No man
has earned from more people the con
fession that his was the ideal intellect
to fill the Presidential function. But
Senator Bailey has managed SO often
10 get at cross purposes with the
strong. moving. sweeping currents OF
public sentiment that it has become . !
question how long he could be pre-
vented from developing schism in his
party.
Apparently. the time has come when
he must become an issue. He is to be
the leader OF a faction: he could never
he less than leader. Will his faction
he regular or insurgcut? That is the
question presently to be answered.
If the Democrats divide, in the Sen.
ate. into progressive and tory factions.
it will be just what the Republicans
did two years ago. Ii for that division
they suffer as the Republicans did. their
party will find itself in mos. uncom- !
Portable straits.
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NEXT HOUSE WILL
PASS RECIPROCITY
Democratic Tariff Policy
Leaders Have Reached
Decision.

If there is an extra session of Con
gTess, the first business of the House
of Representatives will be to pass the
Canadian reciprocity measure.
This is the decision which, according
to best information, the Democratic
leaders have reached. The men who will
make the tariff policy of the new house
have been in conference, and have de-
termined that, in no event, shall their
party be placed in the position of OPP
posing reciprocity, or any other measure
looking to more liberal trade relations
with other countries.
To Reject Amendments.
Messrs. Champ Clark and Oscar I'm
derwood, Speaker and chairman of the
Way and Means Committee in the next
plan of passing the reciprocity bill They
propose to put 1t up to the Republican
Senate, with the least possible delay, to
let the country know who are the sin
cere friends of freer trade. Not free
trade; that isn't the way they say it
freer trade.
1t is expected that various amend
ments will be offered to the bill, but the
Democratic plan is to reject all these
and force a vote on the bill that the
President has sent to Congress. Care
full canvass has been made, resulting in
the decision that the measure cannot be
amended and will go through.
Revision By Schedule.
Following this performance, the DEM
ocratic house will take up the tariff, and
a plan of schedule-by- schedule revision
will be carried out. The Democratic
managers believe that it is to their ad-
vantage to produce some results. They
feel that an omnibus revision that would
be rejected by the Senate or vetoed by
the President is not the thing the coun-
try needs now. They say they prefer to
get some results, even in a lesser way.
than to play politics.
In the tariff revision they propose to
deal especially with what have been
called the graft schedules of the
tariff-the textiles, metals, sugar, lum-
ber, agricultural implements, and the
like-which the country has come TO
suspect of representing special interests.
Passing these, one al a time, the DEM
ocrats believe they can force the Re-
publican Senate to accept them, and
thev are willing to risk the chance of
getting their fair share of credit out of
such result.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Poverty Plea to Free
Greene and Gaynor

ATLANTA, Ga, March $40 escape
fines of $4,000 for defrauding the Gov
ernment in connection with harbor i'm
'provements at Savannah, Benjamin ID.
Greene and John D. Gaynor will take
pauper's oath. Greene has fled an ap-
plicatiOn to be declared a pauper, the
hearing being set for March I, and GAY
nor is expected to file similar appli-
cation soon.
Greene and Gaynor are both practical
ly penniless, and must plead poverty to
secure their liberty, their prison terms
having expired.
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Relatives Get $4,000
By Mrs. Humphreys Will

More than 5000 is left in bequests
to relatives in the will of the late
Mrs Catherine NJ. Humphreys. filed
today with the Registrar of Wills.
a niece, Letitita Wrenhall, receives
the largest bequest of $4,000. Other
gifts arc: $4,000 TO Samuel H. Yonge.
nephew; $4,000 to the children of
Mrs. c. Humphreys, a niece; $4,000
each to her grandnieces. Jesse 2. and
Mamie II. Humphreys; $1,000 to Mary
II. Humphreys, a sister-in-law; $1,000
to William p. Humphreys, a nephew,
and $500 to s. Murray Humphreys, a
nephew.
she also leaves $500 to the vestry of
Christ Church. near the Navy Yard,
and 800 to her negro servant Ag-
mes Jackson. The remainder of the
estate is given to her nephew. Samuel
II. Yonge, who is made executor.
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1 LAX to lecv cen Wash. d. c.
Da greata man all time l see.
Eef l walk on da AvenoO
l see da Tillman an DepSw.
An eef l to da House side go
! see da Champ an Unkla Joe.
An one time ees sell da fruit
To da La Foil an Reeda Smoot.
Some dav | see da whola show:
look for beeg man wat l know
Da beega Pres wat always laugh,
| know heem by da photograph.
Bat cen da Senate gallerie,
| looka down cen front Of me.
An see da granda man wat sect,
In one beeg chair; aroun' hees feet
Ees leetle boy, five ten or more,
Wat always run cen out da door.
Dees man. All! finea man ees heem:
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Lord Cholmondeley to
Wed Mrs. J. A. Sterling

LONDON, March 3.-Lord George
Hugh Cholmondeley will soon marry
Mrs. John A. Sterling, formerly Miss
Clara Taylor, Of Washington, it is re-
ported. Mrs. Sterling, divorced from
Captain Sterling, OF the Scots Guards,
in March, 1909. has been a frequent
companion of Lord George, especially at
the skating Kinks, where both are ac-
complished performers. Mrs. Sterling,
after her divorce, was in the chorus Of
Our Miss Gibbs" Lord George is
years old, and one of the
hereditary lord great chamberlaIns of
England.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Officers Promoted
In Second Infantry

Officers of the Second Infantry, N. g.
D. c., will be promoted to duty as first
neutenants as follows:
H. W. Klotz, to Company C; Fred ].
Rose. to Company A; Henry ]. Stam-
baugh, to Company B; Clarence L Ad-
ans, to Company G; Claude Burlin-
game, to Company D. and Henry A.
Wingate, to Company I.
Capt. Thomas S. O'Hallcran will COM
mand Company H; Capt. Robert B.
johnson has been assigned to command
of Company c, and Second Lieut.. Frank
B. Schlosser, relieved from duty with
Company II, has been assigned to Com
pany E. Corp. Joseph E. Heffron, Com
pany A, is promoted to the rank of
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Northwest Citizens Will
Have Meeting Tonight

The monthly meeting of the Citizens
Northwest Suburban Association will be
held in the new Masonic Hall, Tenley-
town, at 7:30 o'clock this evening.
\ number of resolutions regarding the
betterment of the northwest will he
presented, and the reports of the dele
gate and alternate TO the Federation
OF Citizens Association of the District
will be heard.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Will of Myron L. Story
Disposes of $4,000

An estate of about $4,000 is left by the
late Myron l.. Story, formerly of 62S A
street southeast, according to his will
just filed.
Story's will provides a bequest Of
s., 600 for an invalid brother, Benjamin
+. Story, of Springfield, Mass, and he
also gives $500 to his namesake,
nephew Most of his estate is left to
his widow, Mrs. Mary w. Story, who is
made eXecutriX. The estate is repre-
sented by Attorney Henry NJ Baker.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

Ees Vicea-Pres' da Sunna Jeem.
He hol da hammer cen da han
An Senators wat come an stan
An aska fav- he say: You bet"
An den go on an write da let.
| lax to see da Sunna Jeem,
Wenn he Look up / smile to heem.
Hees face ees sunshine lax I see
Long time ago cen Seecily.
An eet da Bev' he speak long time
An beega crowd ees like eet fine,
Da Jeem he say: Il weel not stan
For amy one to clap da han.
He look up at da galierie:
l do not know eef he see me,
But eet ees max me proud. eet seem
AS eef I know da Sunny Jeem.
| lax to leev cen Wash D. c.
Where greata man ees look at me.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03


his family
When Senator ormer first entered the
Y A
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Those who know Mr. of
Illinois he
The perator.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Capital 7 ales
The Smith family is coming back

A Few there
dropped
o one.
in the
succeed the Hon Washington
ne likes things
ate Samuel W. J. NJ C in the
had Of and
sealed their letters with
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Tickets Exhausted for
. Fort Myer Horse Show

No more tickets are to be given out
for the Fort Myer military horse show.
The committee in charge has announced
that the supply has been exhausted Be
cause the entire garrison had to be ac-
commodated. there were comparatively
few for distribution to those not con-
neeted with the post.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03


been
give him equal standing official
of any kinds
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line beyond which
Lodge 1t
OIL lis sconfrm
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AmusenentS,

National-Mrs. Fiske in Becky SHARP
S:15 p. m.
Belasco-Faversham in 1.-The Faun. :,
10 $40 d. IN.
Columbia-Richard Carle In Cumming
Jupiter" S:15 D. m.
Chase's-Edward Abeles and polite
vaudeville. 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
Academy-"Jn Old Kentucky" Sis u. m
Gayety-"Cracker Jacks" 2:15 and sis
p. m.
Lyceum-"The Wise Guy" 2:15 and S:I5
p. m.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville 12:45 to
II p. m.
Arcade-Midway attractions. afternoon
and evening.
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SOuthernerS Forward
Protest to Congress

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March S.-A copy
of the resolution passed oy the South
ern Merchants Association, in session
here, condemning the passage of the
proposed parcels post measure, was
sent to Congress today.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

Meeting of the Park View Citizens AS
sociation, Whitney Avenue Christian
Church, Park road and Georgia ave-
nue. northwest. 7:30 p. m.
Interscholastic debate. Central VS.. Busi-
ness, at Central--High School, p. m.
Concert by the United States Soldiers
Home Band, Stanley Hall, $3.50 p. m.
Lecture by o. p. Austin, Modern
Photography" Masonic Temple, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue
northwest tonight.
Lecture by DR.. Herbert Snow, Humane
Regulation of ViviseCtion." New VIII
lard, 40 p. m.
Eckington w. .. T. L. will hold its
regular business meeting, followed by
n social and entertainment at the
lexington Presbyterian Church cor
ner North Capitol street and Florida
avenue, at p. m.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month Of February
was i. O77. 639, all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number when
divided by "a, the number of days Of publ
cation, shows the net daily average for Feb
ruary to have been a. 9O2.
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j substantial reward should be Of
fered for the real joke. told by a bar
Der. at which the customer laughed so
heartily that he cut off a finger
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

1t seems to be merely a question
whether the diplomatic relations be-
tween Turkey and Greece will be broken
or blown up.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

The Lorimer whitewash was not th+
occasion of that famous expression
And the next day it showed" But Il
might have been.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

The Emperor of Japan shows his
pacific intentions to the extent of Civ
ing to the poor almost enough money
to buy a battleShip.
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

Playwright Bernstein writes a little
drama with the title, After Me-" and
Immediately the mob starts in pursuit.
Rather an odd way of making a title
trOnd
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
Sunday,

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
curing the month OF February follows:
February 5......46.176 February l9....I6 424
February l2......47.lOl February 26......4 .4s 2O9
Total for month. nth........................ 1871
Sunday average for month........... 46,g77
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The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch >has
taken up a Lenten crusade. the battle
cry of which is, pave Church street
The Washington times., 1911-03-03

William Walling has wished more
than once of late, no doubt, that the
Russian government had kept him in
Jail
The Washington times., 1911-03-03
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today.

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nounce meetings or entertainments in
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