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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Civic Federation Plans
Model Utilities Law

NEW YORK, June IA model pub
lie utilities law will be framed under
the auspices of the National Civic Fed
Grafton at a meeting here beginning
June g. Four railroad presidents, two
Interstate Commerce commissioners,
lawyers, labor leaders, manufacturers,
and college professors will make up the
commission to draw the law which the
Civic Federation hopes will be enacted
afterward by the various States.
President Seth Low. Of the federation.
also announces a meeting OF another
committee June IA, which will draft a
similar measure for uniform State regu-
lation of railroads and trusts.
Franklin K. Lane and B. H. Meyer,
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
are prominent members of the trust law
committee Others are B. A. Eckhardt.
chairman Illinois railway commission;
John Z. Bell, attorney general of Penn
sylvania; William c. Brown. president
New York Central lines; Daniel Willard,
president Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company; Frank Trumbull, chairman of
board, Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company; Robert Mather. president of
WESTINGHOUSE Company; Warren s.
Stone, grand chief. International Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers; A. B.
Garrison, president Order of Railway
Conductors: Timothy Healy, president
of International Brotherhood Stationary
Firemen; W; W. Finley, president
Southern Railway Company: H. =;
and Pacific railroad: P. H. Morrissey.
ex-grand master, Brotherhood Railroad
Trainmen, and Oscar s. Straus, former
Secretary Of Commerce and Labor.
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BOARD Of TRADE
MEN ALLEGE RIVAL
BODY HAS CONTROL
Amendment Necessary, They
Say, to Maintain Their
Policy.

prominent members of the Board of
Trade expressed their opinions today
mat the proposed amendment prohibit
ing any officer, or director Of the board
from serving in any similar official
capacity in any organization of like
purpose would, If passed, displace from
the board of directors twenty Of the
thirty members on the present board
and that these men who would be dis
placed are all members Of the Chamber
of Commerce, who have similar poGi-
tons with that organization.
1t is denied that this proposed amend
ment has any connection with the re-
cent failure to effect a consolidation of
the two trade organizations.
The authors Of the amendment say
that matters have been so engineered
that the Chamber Of Commerce now has
more than two-thirds representation on
gives them the opportunity to act as
they please, and to protect the Board of
Trade II was found necessary to offer
the proposed amendment.
Gen. George H. Harries, president Of
the Board Of Trade, said he thought
the proposed amendment good one.
and added: There is no warfare be-
tween the two organizations; only an
dmlcaDle spit IN control
Capt. James F. Oyster, president of
the Chamber, said that he had refused
to serve as a member Of the Board of
Trade directorate in order to give his
time to the Chamber and thought the
proposed amendment, If adopted, could
do no harm. He does not anticipate
any rivalry.
William F. GUIDE, Captain Oysters
predecessor as president of the Cham
Der. termed the proposed amendment
ridiculous and absurd and thought
that il would have no chance of adop-
ton. He considered it entirely imprac-
ticable.
Arthur c. Moses, second vice presi-
rent of the Board of Trade and chair
man Of the manufactures committee OF
the Chamber of Commerce, said that IL
the authors Of the amendment were cor
rectly quoted. their proposition is on a
par with the suggestion made at the
merger meeting of the Board of Trade
when H. II. Darneille invited the men,
bers Of the Chamber present to leave
the room and let those who belonged
alone to the Board TO settle the merger
matter as they might see fit. He charac-
terized as absurd the statement that
the directors of the Board who were
pembers of the Chamber might do any
thing they pleased with the Board.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
University Cashier Is
In New Difficulties

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. June 11.-At
the request Of Frank Stacy, deputy pub
lie examiner in charge Of the investi-
cation Of the university books, the pub
lie examiners office will Monday notify
the Northwestern National Bank. of
Minneapolis. not to cash certificates Of
deposit amounting to 5000 and payable
to ]. d. Prem, as cashier. The public en-
aminer's action followed the discovery
that the certificates are missing.
The disappearance of the certificates
is the latest development in the case
Of .Bren. former acting treasurer at the
university. Bren Is charged with en-
bezzling ;13,S26, which he asserts was
stolen from him when he was held up
on the river bank near the campus
June /.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Agitation for Archives
Hall Renewed in Congress

Once more the matter of erecting in
this city a repository for the Govern
ment archives is being agitated. The
need of such a building has been point
ed out for years, in view Of the fact
that Government documents of priceless
value are stored about Washington in
all manner of unsafe places and are
in constant danger of destruction by
fire.
A bill for an archives building is being
prepared by the House Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, under
the supervision of DIR. J. Franklin Jane
son, head Of the department of historical
research Of the Carnegie Institution 1t
calls for an $500, 600 edifice for a hall
of archives on ground selected twenty
years ago.
Whether the bill will pass is another
question. Many Government officials
have in the past pointed out the folly
Of the present system whereby inval-
liable documents are constantly in dan
ger of loss, theft, or destruction.
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They were clamorous that the races
should continue. The delirium which
stirs the blood amidst the scenes OF
intense excitement had deadened all
the softer sensibilities, and the throngs
assembled for day of sport felt that
theJ were being defrauded of their just
due unless the grueling races, with a
death here and there to intensity the
enjoyment, were continued according to
schedule.
1t is fifteen centuries since the last
gladiatorial contest in the arena at
Rome and yet here in the dawn of the
twentieth century we find the same
primitive instincts, the same reckless
disregard of human life, which delight
ed the populace under the Caesars,
when dread and circuses" were their
highest pleasure and most insistent de-
mand. Surrounded by all the refine
ments of an enlightened age, we read
with horror of the combats on the
bloody sands of the Coliseum when
the remorseless spectators turned
their thumbs down to signify that the
wounded gladiator must receive the
death stroke. If the MANNED victim
showed fear at receiving the fatal
thrust a murmur of derision, a storm
of contempt, was hurled at him from
the tapestried balustrades over which
leaned the elite of old Rome.
We fatter ourselves that we have
lived down those elemental passions
that the niceties of the age have sup.
planted the brutality of the olden time. |
But our complex civilization has de-
Veloped more hazardous sports than
the Romans knew, and with them, it |
appears, have revived the intoxication,
The madness, at which in theory, we
.evolt.
1t speaks well for the humanity of
he management of the speedway at
that, in spite of the jeers
# the crowd, the races were called off |
when one driver had been killed in the
irst race and another had been injured
n the second. The brutalizing ten
lency of the speed mania, of which the
incident was a symptom,
alls for serious consideration
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Lightning Strikes Loaded
Car, Causing Panic

BUFFALO, N. Y, June ia Niagara
Falls car which left Buffalo at 6 o'clock
this morning, carrying a number of pas
sengers. was struck by lightning near
Edgewater. Hiram Smith, the motor
man, narrowly escaped electrocution.
Every fuse was blown out.
Every seat in the car was occupied
when 1t left the Court street station.
The bolt struck the vestibule Of the
car, ripping the controller apart as
though 1t were made of paper. The
motorman was operating the controller
when the. lightning struck. He was
thrown against the door of the vesti-
bule. According to the passengers the
detonation was so terrific It could be
heard for blocks.
The force of the explosion, the fash
of the controller, and the roar of thun-
der threw the passengers into a panic
Many Of them jumped OF, while others
were too frightened to move. None was
injured
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Macdonald Model Prisoner.
Husbands Desertions Due
To Women, They Contend

BOSTON. June u.-Better food and
less tyranny are remedies to prevent L
great proportion of assertions by the
family bread winners, according to the
contentious OF two of the speakers in
the national conference on charities
here. who discussed the SUBJECT of The
ReCreant Husband and Father
Mrs Catherine L. Van Wyck, of Mil
waukee, commended that the fault large
" was with the women. She told how
in Milwaukee an expert housekeeper,
teaching women how TO make home and
especially meals better, had prevented
many a threatened desertion.
Miss Eugene Gelach declared women
need lessons in pleasantly. They are
inclined to tyrannize over their hus-
bands"
William H. Baldwin. of Washington,
and Joseph c. Logan. of Atlanta, laid,
the fault all at the door of the hus-
hands
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Rabbi LaudS Taft in
Sermon in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI. Ohio. June 11-Much
favorable comment is heard here today
on the sermon delivered In the Avon
Temple by Rabbi David Phillipson. His
declaration that President Taft serves
all the people has created decidedly
favorable impression. The remark was
made in the course of an address by
DR.. Phillipson. in which he eulogized
the President for protecting the inter-
ests Of the Jews against race prejudice
by other officials, and referred to the
rebuke President Taft recently admin
istered to Colonel Garrard.
AS an evidence of the lack Of preju-
dice on the part of President Taft,
Rabbi Davidson referred also to the
eulogy he delivered in Baltimore at the
celebration in honor of Cardinal Glib
bons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
BLOOD LUST REVIVED BY
SPEED MANIA.

1t seems at times that the veneer Of
civilization is very thin upon us. The
contests in which human life is placed
in jeopardy easily arouse all the old
primitive blood-lusts, or at least
atrophy our humanity. This was
brought out with striking force at the
automobile speedway at Hawthorne
just outside of Chicago, yesterday
when Maurice Basic, the driver of one
car, was fatally injured in the first
event, and Joseph Jaggersberger, driv.
ing another car, was seriously hurt in
the second event.
When it was announced that Basic,
at the end of fifteen minutes, had
died from his injuries, the crowds set
up a shout of "Robbers!" "Fakers!"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
GOVERNMENTS WORK FOR
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

By far the greatest establishment in
the world for practical work in the
sciences is that maintained by the
Government of the United States. The
Department of Agriculture, the Geo
logical Survey, the Bureau of Fish
cries, the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
the Naval Observatory, and a long list
of other departments could be named,
in which the most thoroughly practi-
cal, useful investigations and expert
ments are conducted constantly. Uncle
Sam is equipped with the people and
facilities to do anything in the range
of science, from weighing a star that
the eye cannot see to producing an eco
nomically useful hybrid of the horse
and the zebra or doping out plan to
swat the fly and exterminate the yell
low fever germ. He is engaged in all
the multifold activities that present
themselves to the scientific imagina-
tions as of possible utility. 1t was a
Government scientist, now at last come
into belated honor after his death, that
thought out and applied the principle
of the aeroplane.
So recently as six summers ago
Washington was ringing with Curl
Gus campaign of undertaking the scien-
tifc' departments of the Government.
They were accused of providing soft
berths for an army of dreamers or
grafters, and there was a noisy and
noisome chorus of insistent demand
that the waste be stopped.
There was some investigation-and
it ended in the vindication and
of the Governments sci
entific activities. The public needed to
stop and think the matter over, with a
view to getting a clear notion of the
benefits derived from this work It got
attention focused on the subject, and
as usual gave unqualified Endorsement
when it saw that the project was good.
No other government in the. world,
save possibly Germany, does so much
of this kind of work. Indeed, Ger
scientific activity is directed
more by the universities and techno-
logical institutions, and less by the
government, than that of the United
States. An illustration of the CO.
operation among nations in these de-
partments of 'humanitarial and utii-
tartan endeavor is afforded by the re-
cent forwarding to our Agricultural
of a great collection of
African insects, for classification and
study. They come from the British !
committee on chronological research,
and are sent to this country because
here is concededly the greatest prac-
teal establishment for such studies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Master Car Builders
Throng Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, June 11.-More than
1000 railroad men are here to attend
the annual convention Of the Master Car
Builders Association. which opens on
Tuesday.
workingmen labored all day erecting
the machinery and other exhibits on
the Million Dollar pier, and everything
viii be In readiness by tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
FURTHER ILLUSTRATION OF A
METEOROLOGICAL FLARE.
BACK"

In the beginning, let it be set dow
that observations about the relation
between weather forecasts and weathe
are not designed in the way of crit
cism of Prof. Moore and his bureau
The science of meteorology is in it.
infancy. For effective results, it il
manifest that data would require to bt
gathered from a much larger proper
ton of the earth's surface than can be
brought within the purview of any ma.
tional or international service yet or.
ganized. Even if a skilled forecaster
could have before him the results of
simultaneous observations fairly cover
ing the whole world, it would require
many years of study to classify and
assign the many influences that break
i'll from celestial sources to muss up
calculations as to probable weather.
Conceding all these things, it may be
permissible to indulge a bit OF con-
graduation on the new knowledge we
are acquiring as to the varieties of
meteorological bareback Recollection
is yet keen as to the original bareback
of March 3-4, 1909, which brought de-
rision on the promise of ideal inaugu-
ration weather and foot of snow on
the line of march. An embarrassed
forecasting officiary on that occasion
invented the bareback" description of
an unforeseen and presumably unfore-
seeable intrusion into the meteorologic
scheme of things which dumps a biz
zard when "fair and warmer" is the
correct forecast.
Yesterday morning and last evening
alike the forecasts for this vicinity
conveyed no suggestion of the wind
and electrical storm that passed over
a wide area last night. Fair; light to
moderate Winds" was the promise at
Baltimore yesterday noon; fair, warm
er tonight and Sunday" was the sub
stance of the Washington forecast.
Whereupon the heavens became ap-
palled, the pail was rent, and the ele-
ments burst forth in the fercest dis
play of their powers that they have
presented in many months. Trees were
blown down, lightning toyed with all
electrical apparatus, rain poured, the
block signal systems of the railroads
were put out of business, crops were
beaten into the earth.
But of course it was a bareback;
new kind, merely. We will with due
diligence have them all classified and
Jagged in due time. Perhaps later a
new forecasting authority will give US
tips on their periodicity, SO that they
will not give us these Halley's-comet
surprises.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Fire Alarm in Hospital
Almost Causes Panic

BUFFALO, N. Y, June 1.-THE sixty
five patients in the German Deaconess
hospital were aroused early this morn
ing by the alarm of fire, and 1t re-
quired the efforts of all the attendants
and nurses to assure them that there
was no serious danger.
The fire, from some unknown cause,
started in the attic of the institution,
where all the mattresses are stored. It
was eating its way into the mattress
stock when it was discovered by the
night orderly. who rang the alarm Of
the fire department.
Volumes of smoke issued from the at
tic and found their way into the va
rious wards, where old and young were
in all stages of disease.
Had II not been for the orderly
catastrophe would have resulted. No
body was injured as result Of the ex-
element.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Yale Graduates Discuss
Hale Memorial Plans

Twenty Yale graduates, a large num-
Der Of them of the older classes, met
at the Yale Club to discuss the plan
for placing q statue of Nathan Hale on
the campus at New Haven The move
ment was started in 1898.
In the meantime there have started
two other movements for memorials at
Yale. One is a memorial dormitory
building to Dean Wright, and the other
is a memorial to the Yale graduates
who died while soldiers during the civil
war.
At the meeting Charles T. Catlin. Of
the class of Sc argued that before the
soldiers of the civil war were remember
ed, II would be fair to erect the men,
orial to Hale, who was a graduate of
the college in I7T3. A resolution calling
the attention Of the Yale Corporation to
the fact that IL was time to act in &C
cepting the movement was passed. The
monument will cost 500 and the COM
mittee has raised $4,000
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
Wedding Cuts Short
Her Trip Around World

TULSA, Okla, June 1.-THE two live
ly young women from Oklahoma, Miss
Olive Adair and Miss Cralee List, who
sold newspapers to earn money to carry
them on a tour of the world, have met
an obstacle, at least one has.
The two got as far as Honolulu,
Hawaii, and that's as far as Miss Olive
Adair went. She is now on her way
back here, where she Is soon to be
married to a wealthy young man.
Her fiance couldn't wait any longer,
so having written to her time and again
and urgently, to that effect, Miss Adair
concluded that nothing else would do
and she left Miss List to proceed on her
journey alone.
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BOY SCOUTS FROM
GETTYSBURG AGREE
WITH GEN. SHERMAN
Thirty-nine Arrive After
Weary Three Days of
Hiking.

| Forty boy Scouts from Gettysburg
are ready to subscribe to General Sher-
| mans definition of war-even amateur
| war. Footsore and weary. they arrived
in Washington at $50 last evening after
! a hike OF seventy-seven miles. Thirty
three of the forty who left Gettysburg
wednesday morning quit at Rockville
yesterday and took an electric car the
rest OF the way. A redoubtable six
stuck 1t out and marched in with colors
nying to the Church of the Reformation
at Second street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast. The other Scout returned
home sick. Marching with them and
commanding the whole squad was the
Rev. j. D. Baker, pastor of st. James
Lutheran Church, of Gettysburg. The
six were Harry Troxell, Sturgeon
Keeny, Clarence Epley, Lloyd Gal
braith. Frank Kelly, and Carl McDon-
aid
Story of the Mascot.
Fritz Pfeffer. the ten-year-old mascot,
declares they had rough going all the
way.
I'VE slept the first night at Fairmont
in the town hail." said he,
I'VE didn't sleep much because there
was nothing to sleep on. The second
night we stayed in the armory at Fred
erick. We slept better. but there wasn't
anything to sleep on there. either.
THE next night some of the boys
slept In a mans house at Clarksburs
and others walked to Gaithersburg,
where they slept in a hotel and real
beds.
Last night We slept in the church
here, and the cushions in the pews felt
nice and soft. We are going home Fri
day l guess we shall take the cars.
Most of US have walked all we want
to for awhile
Pastor Busy Shepherd.
The Rev. Mr.. Baker marshaled his
flock this morning to lead them into
service at II O'Clock. He found that
about one-third had deserted temper |
arily, and were out seeing the sights,
which appealed to them more than
church on a hot morning.
Willie Timmis, aged fourteen, devel- |
oped pain in his stomach. and was |
sent home by train.
Those who walked the whole distance |
say they would rather walk back than |
take the cars. Pastor Baker says the |
cars will suit him better.
Five hundred Washington boys are en- |
thusiastic over the success Of the Boy |
Scouts outing yesterday and the good |
time II brought Not an accident &C. |
Cured to mar the day, and the steamer |
Queen Ann, when she locked last night, |
discharged a tired but perfectly happy !
cargo OF young America enrolled in the |
seventeen Scout troops of the Washing
ton division of the Boy Scouts Of Amer
lea.
The program at River View was car
ried out without hitch. The athletic
contests and the baseball games
brought out close competition, and the
victory that Hyattsville troop won for
largest number of points in the general
events was we'll earned.
There isn't a thing in River View that
could interest a healthy boy that was
missed.