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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-17
Chapter XIV. Gretchen Decides

7 AWRENCE BERKELY was doing scout duty in the
- neghborhood Of the seat of war, keeping closely
in touch with Wray by wire code. Although he had
at the Brown Palace Hotel, he went elsewhere
for his meals and since the arrival of General Bents
party he had eluded the detection of Cornelius Bet,
Curtis Janney and Cortland He had been advised by
brief wire from Gretchen Janney of the date of her
departure from New York, and had noted the arrival
of his business enemies with mingled feelings. In
spouse to his note to her room Gretchen had stolen
away and met him quietly in of the hotel parlors.
where, unknown to Curtis Janney, they had renewed
their of eternal fidelity
Gretchen of course familiar with Larry's position
business rival of her father pet company and she
The Coconino sun., 1911-05-05
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS
Continued from page 4
rness of grandeur.

ing s2576 bottered and approved.
 The report deputy supervisors B checked with the lease book and approved
 The of the for the month of April show receipts disbursements S8 balance hand April S843 distributed the unds books receipt stubs and cancelled warrants and approved
 The following addition the school appropriation made No, 3, Chandler, S25o; No. 5, Greenlaw, SIoo
 The appointment of Messrs David Rabbit and M Powers delegates Road Association convention held Phoenix April 2G, roIr confirmed.
 Mrs. w. F. Demont, Williams, Ariz., allowed per relief for the IT, A. Hicks family Williams Arz. for food and clothing.
 of appropriated from the general road fund to the Fredonia road district
 The treasurer w. Black A. A. Allen nonresident, school and the year amounting S4.5o
 The following applications school land lease appoved Juan Armo Gall 64o), I6 township 20, range
 Ambrosa Armijo, Gall 64o 36, township I2
 lose Monoya Gall 64o), 36 township E. The following assignments school appoved Fred Paen w. G. Dickinson, (64o), 36 township range w. 28 N, range E.
 Dickinson Fred Platten, (64o), township range F..
 being further business the board adjourned special session, April 18th,
 Approved Jesse Gregg Chairman B. of 5. Attest: Geo A. Fleming, Deputy Clerk of 5.
The Coconino sun., 1911-05-05

degrees on May 3rd, and the lowest 2r degrees on April 30.
 The highest temperature pre- viously recorded for the same per iod during the past B years was 72 degrees in 1910, and the low est, I3 degrees in 1899.
 The total precipitation during the week was .oI inch.
 The prevailing winds were from the southwest and the average cloudiness was Io per cent.
The Coconino sun., 1911-05-05
Weather Report

The following data for the week ending at 9 o'clock a. m., May 4, is furnished by Observer A. E. Hackett, in charge of the local office of the United States weather bureau.
 The mean temperature of the week was A degrees, which is degrees below normal.
 The highest temperature was 6s
The Coconino sun., 1911-05-05
SOME BARGAINS

For Sale--The best paying hotel in Northern Arizona in the rapidly growing town of Holbrook. Will pay 30 to SO per cent net on the in- yestment. S3,5OO down, balance on easy terms. Ad- dress box 3I, HoIbrook, Arlz.
 For SaIe--8O acre ranch on Little Colorado River near Holbrook. Has perpet- ual spring, and a part of it could be irrigated at nomi- nal expense. Produces 20 tons of Sacaton hay annu-. ally. Cannot be beaten for truck and chicken ranch. Address box 3l, Holbrook, Arizona,
The Coconino sun., 1911-05-05

THE above picture gives slight idea of the beauty of the
 surroundings of the Thomas ranch Oak Creek The celebrated in front of the house. but not be in the picture Year after year the beauty of Oak Creek becoming known and hundreds of visitors annually visit this wilderness of grandeur ya
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
RULE OF THE ROAD"
SHOULD BE OBSERVED

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
l have lived in Washington five years
and l have found one really bad fault
of the pedestrians which should be cor
rected This fault is the tendency OF
nine out of every ten persons to turn
to the left, and to walk on the left
hand side of the sidewalk. Why some
thing has not been said or done long
before this | am at loss to explain
1t is equally difficult to explain the
reason for turning to the left. Street
cars are run on the right side of the
street; vehicles are compelled TO do so,
TOO; but pedestrians seem to do as they
please. 1t is very uncomfortable for
one who is out walking, for he is con-
stantly lodging the thoughtess or ig-
norant ones | have even noticed the
What can be expected of others II these
officers of the law do not leep to the
right?
In this connection pedestrians going
in one direction, and in ranks of from
two to five or more, fail to give over
half the sidewalk to those going in the
opposite direction. This is only fair,
and should be done. Why is II not
done? Is it ignorance, absent-minded-
ness, or don't effectiveness
1t is about time that these people who
insist on keeping to the left were walk
ing up. These faults have existed long
enough. If remedied, there will be COM
fort and fairness for all as result.
Let the policemen aid by reminding the
dreamers. PEDESTRIAN.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
THE WEEKS BILL OUGHT TO
PASS.

On February u vote of the Senate
will decide whether the forest reserve
policy of the country is to be sectional
or national. Thus far, the West has
had more forest reserves than it
wanted forced upon it, while the East,
begging hat<such reserves be estab-
lished, has been denied them.
The Weeks bill provides for spend
ing $ll 100000 in the next five years,
buying lands for reserves in the White
mountain and Southern Appalachian
regions. 1t passed the House last June,
and in all probability if it does not
carry the Senate next week there will
be no Eastern reserves for many years.
Washington is full of f-people, trying
to get. little matters" fixed before
March 4-matters of private interest /;
concessions, rights, privileges, oppor-
tunities. There are Indian Hobbies,
public land lobbies, irrigation lobbies,
all kinds of agents of private interest
in getting word, a phrase, a clause
into a bill where il will do the most
good.
In the zeal for private interest, that
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
SENATOR SMITH ON BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT.

John Walter Smith of Maryland is
one of the business Senators. He has
been first and foremost a man of bust
ness, all his life. He was an orphan
at five years of age; since then he has
been governor of his State, Congress
man, Senator, and is one of the States
men of wealth and distinguished bust
ness success.
When he gives testimony, then, in
behalf of the claims of Government
employees to fair treatment, he speaks
as one who knows what good business
demands in treatment of employees.
Likewise, he speaks as one having
authority when he says that as to
compensation and opportunities, -"all
other trades and professions have gone
forward with the time. The civil serv-
ice has stood still"
That is the whole complaint against
conditions in the civil service. 1t has
come TO be the most unpromising field
of employment that persons of the
requisite intelligence and capacity can
possibly find.
Because of the wide recognition of
this condition, the Government finds
increasing difficulty in getting compe-
tent people to enter its service, and
still more difficulty in inducing them
to stay.
Senator Smith knows that a great
business organization cannot be build
ed on the plan of const ant rotation in
positions. 1t is necessary to get the
right people, to keep and to encourage
them. That is just what the Govern
ment cannot do under present condi-
tions.
The young man or woman who takes
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
THROWS SOME LIGHT ON
THE SLUMP IN EGGS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
AS a farmer who sells produce in
Washington, l would like to enIighten
your readers in reference to the drop
in prices of farm commodities, and, es-
pecially eggs, and at the same time to
shake up a few sleepy farm readers of
your daily.
Every year about this time we note
in the columns of the press that the
busy hen is doubling her output, and
egg prices are Crumbling, which means
only one thing: The great American
octopus has laid hold of his slaughter
ing gun (millions of storage eggs), and
is hammering down the price of really
fresh eggs-he Is getting ready to buy
for storage again. Twenty cents is
about as low last year as "he" could
buy them.
1t would be just as well for every one
to remember that there is not liable
to be any great drop in prices not at
tendant at the same time with a good
sized panic, and also, that when Br'er
Fox gets through buying, the price will
be just as was indicated by the great
slump we have just been talking about.
Up again! Down again.
Mr.. FENNEGAN.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
SUGGESTS PREMIUM
FOR RESERVATIONS

Tc the Editor of THE TINES:
1t is very clear to me that Congress
will not pass either of the bills rela-
tive to superannuated clerks, viz, the
Goulden or the Gillett bill. Now l
would suggest that some kind heart
ed Congressman offer a bill to relieve
us old clerks. 1t might be called a
Temporary bill" l feel that \many
of us will never live until another
session of Congress meets. Should we
live we will surely be dropped from
the rolls. either for physical disabil-
ity or Be asked to resign. The Gov
ernment wants our places and will
get them.
| would suggest that a bill be offer
ed granting all clerks who are Nphysi-
cally incapacitated or unable to give
ed from fifteen to twenty-five years
and are sixty-five to seventy or over.
a premium to -resign-Say, that so
per cent of the present salary now re-
ceived be paid to said clerks for a
period of one or two years. Make this
effective thirty days after the bill be-
comes law. The heads of departments
should decide who came under the law
|-and give us three months time to
get out All who refuse to go out
after a prescribed time will not be
entitled to the benefit of said bill.
This would cost the Government
nothing, because many of us old
clerks are drawing from $1,000 to
$1,600 There are many young men
who would gladly take our places at
from 5000 to $1,000 with the under
standing or knowledge that they
would be promoted after a year or SO
just as we were You see the difference
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
BRINGING THE RECORD IN
REACH OF THE PEOPLE.

Let others dispense the doubtful
largesse of Government garden seed.
Senator Hepburn would give the peo-
pie the ripened fruit from the Tree OF
knowledge. From the vantage ground
of a close student and frequent con-
tributor, he knows the value of that
rich repository, the Congressional Rec
ord. and he would see to it that it
gladdens every farm and home. Nearly
five hundred fountains of wit and
wisdom. crystalline, nourishing, COM
pounded of all delights, mingle daily
in its ample bosom, and yet, like the
sea, it is not full 1t has all the charm
of the "Statesman's Year Book" and
The Ladies' Garland" With judicial
impartiality it presents all the mooted
points of exploration, Eliminates the
twilight zone between a tip and a
bribe, leads the eager student through
the bowery pleasances of the tariff, and
in a single issue has been known to
represent our noble English speech in
all its sectional dialects.
Too long it has been kept concealed
from constituencies back home that
impatient throngs form bread line, as
it were, and wait around the presses
in the gray mists of morning, strug-
Cling, shouldering, often coming to
blows, in their famished desire for the
first fresh copies. Out of town only
few favorites receive them, and there
must be thousands of men and women
scattered throughout the country who
would testify that it has never been
their pleasure to read the Record
through for an entire session.
A circulation manager has been one
of its crying needs. 1t is only the
thoughtless and the Philistine who
allege that it needs editing and head
lines and art covers. Could the dia-
mond mines OF Kimberley be edited !
Could the treasures of the great deep
be featured? Could the armament bor-
row glory from the futile brush of all
illustrator?
Ungarnished, it is worth thrice the
price at which Senator Hepburn would
circulate it alike in the homes of the
elect and the lowly. 1t will charm
away the mulligrubs when the boil
weevil walketh in darkness and the
potato bug wasteth at MONDAY. The
investment of a single dollar will yield
returns which would make the seed OF
water hyacinths and Bermuda grass
seem scarcely worth the planting. Sen
stor Hepburn will have to revise his
estimates. A million copies will only
whet the appetite of a Record hungry
republic.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

Government position takes it as a
means to maintaining himself or her.
self while getting an education, or
while seeking better and more prom.
ising chance in business. Of the
younger people-the class most needed
and desired-this is well nigh univer-
sally true.
Of the older people, on the other side,
the exact reverse is true. The people
whose age and decreasing capabilities
make them least desirable, least useful
as factors in maintaining high eff
cheney, remain in the service, and exert
every ounce of force they can bring to
bear in order to retain their. positions.
Nothing less than a sweeping reor-
ganization of the system, of the rela-
tions of the man to his position and
of his compensation to his services,
can even place the civil service in the
way of real efficiency.
The Times has pleaded for justice to
the Government employees. but as the
whole problem is made palmer through
development of all its phases, it be-
comes manifest that the employees are
not the only sufferers. The pubic
bears a more serious burden, in the
inefficiency of its public instrument
talities. The burden does not lay so
heavy on the average outside citizen
as OH the Government employe, be-
cause there are more outsiders than
insiders, and the weight is spread over
larger surface. But the fact remains
that the public suffers most, and in the
public interest, entirely aside from all
consideration for the nations employees,
reform should be effected. That reform
will be accomplished by
Completely reclassifying the civil
service.
Readjusting the salary schedules.
Generally increasing salaries of those
who earn them.
Retiring large class of people who
are not competent to render the best
service in the positions they now hold.
Providing living incomes TO those re-
tired, out of an adequate retirement
fund.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
Single Takers to Hear
Talks on Unemployed

John J. Lentz. former member OF
Congress from Ohio. will address the
Woman's National Single Tax League
tonight IN place of Robert Baker.
MIR. Lentz will speak on Taxation
and Unemployment" and George L.
Rusby, prominent merchant of New
York, and Jackson II. Ralston, OF
the Washington law firm of Ralston,
Siddons & Richardson, will make
addresses on that subject. In show
ing the relation between taxation and
the great numbers of the unemployed
Mr.. Rusby will use a chart which he
has compiled from economic observa-
tions of many years.
This meeting, which will be held in
the lecture hall of the Public Library
at o'clock, is the final session of the
tenth convention of the league. Miss
Lily Chenowith will sing. and Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas will furnish guitar
and mandolin music.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

of the public is in danger of being
eIbowed aside. 1t ought not to be; and
one measure that public interest de-
mands is the Weeks forestry bill.
If forest reserves are so good for the
West that it must needs have empires
of them which it does not want; if
cnethird the area of Il great State can
properly be withheld from entry and
development for the sake of the
futures need of forest-then certainly
the East ought to get a beginning OF
forest conservationy when it is crying
out for such measure.
Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,
France, have long ago moved to protect
and restore forests, at immense cost.
In another generation our East will be
denuded as France and northern Italy
have been, and then, when the work of
restoration will be many fold more ex-
pensive, we will be tardily undertaking
it, as those countries have done. The
beginning ought to be made now. :.
Western Senators have represented
most of the opposition thus far, some
of them despite insistence that they
are friends of conservation. Their at
titude is unfair to the East and to the
country. \ lop-sided conservation pro-
gram will ultimately fail utterly. The
East and South should be introduced
to the policy, and it must be done now
or delayed for years.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
PEDESTRIANS SHOULD KEEP
TO THE RIGHT.

A correspondent signing himself
Pedestrian writes to The Times to
protest against the tendency on the
part of pedestrians in general to dis
regard the rule of the road which, in
this country, requires them to keep to
the right Pedestrians" protest is
timely and well founded. This care
lessness in the matter of keeping on
the right hand of the sidewalk is not
peculiar to Washington, but that fact
is no justification of a practice which
is frequently the cause of collisions
and a deal of petty irritation The
sidewalks in Washington are, as a rule,
especially broad, and by tHe simple
observance of the familiar rule of the
road" much annoyance may be avoided,
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

!, In the pay of clerks and the amount
CT work done by younger men would
pay every dollar back to the Govern
ment by the time our year or two
years would expire. A bill to better
suit all conditions could be passed
later on. This would give US old men
ann women cash enough to live with
some friends. or in some home for
the aged. II we are compelled to go
out before Congress meets again, we
VIII be objects of charity. The bill
should read civil service employees
Many old men have rendered efficient
service for twenty years or longer who
are not classified. because the depart
ments in which they work draw their
appropriation in a lump sum. We are
classified by our officials. but not as
the word classified means by Con-
gTeSs. 4 CLERK
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
Teacher Unconsciously
HypnotiZed Little Girl

CINCINNATI, Feb. 1O.-Peggy Gordon,
aged six, of Hyde Park, a suburb. fell
asleep in the first-year room of the
Hyde Park Colony School, and slept
for two hours.
Miss Ida Isham, her teacher, had an
nounced:
, Now we will play the sleep game.
Everybody close his eyes and say over
his spelling words"
Peggy obeyed, but she did not open
her eyes when the teacher ordered 1t.
Miss Isham became alarmed and the
girl was taken to her home. There she
was revived.
Physicians say she was the victim of
hypnotism unconsciously exercised BY
the teacher.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
HAS A REAL PLAN -.
TO BRIDGE THE CHASM

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
What has become of all that tax
about a memorial bridge? want to sug-
Cest that instead of erecting a monument
to Abraham Lincoln the memorial
bridge across Potomac be at once COM
menced and on the District side have
I.incoln's statue and on the Virginia
side have Gen Robert Z. Lee. 1 do
not own any property in either place.
SO il Is not from self interest that l
call attention to this. I. u.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
Want Business Men to
Supervise Charities

A central advisory and supervisory or
ganization for the control of charity So
licitation. the members of which are to
be chosen from the Chamber of Com
merce and Board Of Trade, Is now the
plan upon which members of those or
ganizatiorfs and those interested in the
city's charities have practically agreed.
The subcommittee of the committee on
charities and corrections OF the Board
of Trade will hold a meeting next Tues
day to further consider this plan.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
THE REPORTS" OF THE GAS
COMPANY TO CONGRESS.

The Washington Gas Monopoly has
just put out another of its wondrous
annual statements. The document is
about as Illuminating as the radiance
from punk stick, shining through
night of Egyptian blackness.
That. however, is part of the policy
and method of our Gas Monopoly. 1t
has made joke, a derision, out CT the
solemn provision, by law of Congress,
that ii shall annually report on its
operations. 1t does, indeed, report;
but since that law was passed the
form of report has been each year so
far changed as to make comparison
impossible.
The present year the form of the
document has been more changed
taan ever, and the result is that
Philadelphia lawyer and a regiment
Of chartered accountants could wan
der about for a week in the maZes of
figures without finding out anything
worth knowing.
1t was Talleyrand who assured US
that language was made to conceal
thoughts. We might paraphrase the
Cynicism a trifle, and pay to MeSsrs.
Mclean, Goldsborough and their CO.
adiutors in the noble work of dis
seminating darkness, the compliment
Of saying that in their masterful
hands annual reports are obviously
designed to conceal information as to
annual operations.
After a sincere attempt to develop
a parallel and a comparison between
the annual report of this year and
those of the two preceding years, it
is only fair to say that there is not
city council or a public utilities COM
mission in the nation that would per-
nit itself to be played with in this
fashion by company falling within
its regulatory powers.
If Congress cared tinker's finger
snap about any interest of Washing
ton, if there was a shred of sincerity
behind the law requiring annual re-
ports, if annual reports were intend
ed to be more than an annual game of
bunk-then Congress would start
summary process for contempt
against the Gas Monopoly. That is
the right procedure.
This years report is about as con-
temptuous a flouting of the law and
the intent of Congress as could well
be imagined. We learn from it that
the Washington Gas Company re-
ceived from gas sales $2,OO0,S75.S4,
against S1,965. .934O6 the year before.
Looks like a fair growth, consider
ing that there has been a reduction
OF price in the interim. Next we find
that operating expenses have in
creased from $1,49 1855 in 1909 to
Sl,459,594 in 1910 Gross income af-
ter deducting operating expenses" is
reported at $647.174 for 1910, against
$672,333 for 1909.
These figures seem fair and rea-
sonable. But when we go down to
the analysis of the detail making up
these totals, it is utterly impossible
to find out what it is all about. Thus
in the 1909 report there was an item
stated thus:
Wages paid to inspectors and
miscellaneous labor Sis, ,2S0.56
The inquiring mind wonders if
that same item increased the next
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
Ethel lie Neve Sails for
Canada to Be Married

LONDON, Feb. 10.-The Evening
Times says Ethel lie Neve, who was
freed In the Crippen case, has sailed on
the Royal Edward for Canada, with the
object of getting married.
She Joined a party of two hundred
prospective, brides. 1t is stated she is
engaged to a wealthy Canadian. She
sold most of her property before leav-
ing.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10
TIMELY LETTERS TOTHE TIMES
MAIT Rae
MAIL BAG

Readers Times invited this their
To frankly with letter
Objectionable will be denied publication Letters must
ones of the MAIL EDITOR
of
of
nseBt of the cOntrI
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

NationaI-Bernhardt in "Sapho" at s
Reeissco-Sothern and Marlowe in
..The Merchant of Venice" D. m.
CoIumbia-WIlton Lackaye in THE
Stranger" S:15 p. m.
Academy-Rose Melville in sis Hon.
kins," 2:1o and Sis p. m.
Chase's-Polite vaudeville, 2:15 and s:l5
Gayety-"The Queen of Bohemia" 2:15
and S:15 p. m.
acknowledgements Winners" 2a5 and
S:l5 p. m.
Maiestic-Vaudeville.
Casino-Vaudeville and motion pictures.
Arcade-Bowling and skating, afternoon
and evening.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

No further need to try to wall Off the
suffragettes. The New York branch
has organized a whole orchestra OF
brasses.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

1t was more than suspected that the
headwaiter had something to do with
the matter when il was reported that
there had been a hOld-up in Chicago
lobster palace.
The Washington times., 1911-02-10

The second-story man who robbed
Ambassador Reid should come over and
receive a little instruction from the
sheriff of Montgomery county on the
amenities of Diplomacy.