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The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Bureau of Engraving
Bill Up to Senate

Upon the action Of the Senate de-
pends whether the construction of
the new building for the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing shall be be-
gun soon. A bill, providing for i'm
mediate construction and increasing
the limit of cost fixed by a previous
act at $50, 900, has passed the House,
and will be considered by the Senate
tomorrow.
The bill was brought up in the
House last night by Representative
Sheppard. chairman of the Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds. Con-
sideration of the bill caused a long
debate. The Administrative officials
of the Government were criticised for
having delayed the construction so
long.
Former Speaker Cannon defended
the officials, saying that the delay re-
suited from the change in plans, ow-
ing to the desire to have limestone
faced building.
The bill calling for immediate ac-
ton, was passed without dissenting
VOfe
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
LIEUTENANT MANN,
OF NAVY, WILL WE'D
NEW ENGLAND GIRL
Announcement of Engage
ment to Miss Emily Spald-
ing Received in Capital.

Lieut.. Richard Ray Mann, L. S. N,
and Miss Emily Spalding. niece of Chap
lain L. P. Rennolds, U. s. N, stationed
at the Portsmouth, n. H, Navy Yard,
will be married in January.
Announcement of the engagement, re-
ceived by friends of Lieutenant Mann in
this city, came as a great surprise to
naval social circles. Lieutenant Mann
at present IS at sea on the battleship
Vermont, now cruising off the New Eng
land coast.
Lieutenant Mann is the son of the late
Captain Mann Of the Army, who was
fatally wounded in the battle of Wound
ed Knee. He was born in Montana, but
was a resident Of Washington, until he
received his appointment to the Naval
Academy from Theodore Roosevelt, in
September, 1902 He was graduated from
the Academy with high honors. He
probably will be given a long detail
ashore.
Miss Spalding comes of an old New
England family. Her great-great-grand-
father was a captain in the Revolution
ary war, and served on the staff of
General Lafayette at Yorktown. She
is beautiful, accomplished, and has been
the belle of Portsmouth for two seasons.
She was immensely popular at the navy
dances and social affairs at the Ports
mouth yard, and 1t was while at an Of
ficers' ball that she met Lieutenant
Mann. The wedding will take place at
the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Unruly Boy Is Ordered
Back to Pennsylvania"

Back TO Pennsylvania" was the SEN
tence passed upon Michael Olivet, Of SO
I street northwest, who was arraigned
before Judge Callan in Juvenile Court
yesterday on a warrant sworn out
by his brother, Charles Olivet.
The charge against Michael was incor-
rigibility, his brother complaining that
the boy was shiftless and stole contin-
ually Michael and Charles are both
natives of Morristown, Pa. Charles
said his brother had a charge entered
against him at home and that he had
been released provided he left the State.
The elder brothers attempt at refor-
nation of tn youth proved a failure.
'FWe have enough Of this kind here"
said Judge Callan, indicating the boy.
The best thing you can do will be to
send him back home and be sure that
he gets there"
Charles Olivet was given forty-eight
hours in which to raise the cost Of the
trip home. In the meantime Michael
will be held at the House Of Detention
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

With developments such as the rail-
way strike IN England, serious as 1t Is
and tnconvenient as it must be for
Americans stranded abroad, our mar
kets are not concerned to any great
extent. OF course anything that ham,
pers International trade, If continued
Tor any length Of time, would have a
serious effect upon this country. for
England Is our largest customer. How
ever, the strike will, In all probability,
not continue long enough to seriously
impede our export shipments. At the
present time these constitute the
brightest spot in the entire industrial
situation. The trade statement for July
published during the week shows excess
exports of S9,529,S8 as against excess
imports for the same month last year
or 2,6S8,99. For the seven months Of
the calendar year the excess Of ex-
ports Is reported at $233, ,6O4, ,476 against
an excess Of but S2,647,143 in 1910 The
great credit balance which we are pill
ing up abroad will be heard from in a
satisfactory way in time.
A Condition of Mind.
1t is peculiar of the present situation
that one hears very little in the discus
sions Of the days Of matters to which
Wall Street usually devotes much atten-
ton, such as industrial conditions, rail-
way earnings, bank exchanges and
clearances, the money market, and the
like. Upon the other hand, such fea-
lures as political disturbances, tariff re-
vision, the attitude of the Commerce
Commission toward the rate situation.
the position of the Industrial trusts, the
possibility OF additional Federal suits.
the possibility of labor troubles, and the
ike, appear to be matters Of greater
Importance and absorb nearly all the
attention of the financial district. Even
such a reassuring development as Con-
gressman Littleton's movement for
business inquiry for the purpose of es-
tablishing big business upon a sound
and secure basis passed with but little
comment.
1t seems quite apparent from this that
in dealing with Wall Street at present
one deals rather with a condition of
mind than with concrete things The
money market Of the week presented no
novel feature. Liquidation naturally
contributed to ease and rates continued
unchanged. Reports were current of
some discrimination by banks in regard
TO collateral, mainly industrial stocks
In loans, but inquiry discloses that this
bears particularly upon some new and
unseasoned corporations into which
much water has been injected. The
bank statement of the day was in line
with the known developments of the
week. that is, liquidation resulted in a
contraction Of loans which amounted
averages. and s23 621 200 in the report
of actual conditions. Net deposits de-
creased S13,906, 900 in the former and
S. 10000 in the latter statement. The
gain in cash, according to the actual
statement, was 6,o27, 900. and the in
report was SS,579. 400. Banks now hold
sS5, 49, $50 cash in excess Of require
ments, which appears ample for all
legitimate demands.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
STREET BEMOANS LACK OF SUPPORT,
CHARACTERISTIC OF HARTMAN DAYS
Standard Oil Crowd Withholding Helping andMany
courage Selling SdeFew Make Buying
Taking of Profits.
GRANT DATER,
Special

T the Statehood bill, but political ten
denotes appear so disturbing that few
persons can make up their minds
whether the obnoxious provision for the
recall of the judiciary Is killed or only
scotched. AS to the vetoes of the WOO
bill and the farmers free list bill. bank
ers have regarded this as inevitable
from the fi-st, but in the present de-
pressed condition of sentiment. they see
little in this but prolongation OF the
agony of doubt for the merchant and
manufacturer concerning the unsettled
question of tariff revision.
Depression of Sentiment.
Assuredly the extreme pessimism
which is prevalent in very many infiuen-
tial quarters in the financial district and
elsewhere at the present time can do the
general industry of the country no par
ticular good, and 1 find that some
bankers are taking cognizance Of 1t and
are advocating something In the nature
of modified sunshine movement" "
Western merchants and buyers who have
come to town, according to this banker,
have been chilled to the marrow Of their
bones by the line OF conversation that
is handed out to them in some quarters.
In particular, the dry goods trade Is
mentioned as an offender in this respect,
but for that there is probably the spe-
cial reason that II has been disturbed
by the dual influences Of tariff uncer-
tainty and the necessity OF revising
prices to meet the expected abundant
cotton crop.
The Iron Age, in its report of the
weeks developments in the iron and
steel industry, dwells briefly on the
foregoing subject when 1t says, while
the iron market and the security market
Of the latter has made consumers eau
uous," and 1t adds that buyers OF iron
and steel are rather more hesitant in
view of late developments" Reports
OF further price reductions in steel
products. which has been one of the
regarded as likely, however, for, as the
trade authority points out. THE situa-
ton Is one in which deeper cuts might
come II there were any need OF con-
tracing for extended delivery. AS
long as consumers buy sparingly they
limits
Business Conservation.
Cautious, conservative buying is in
order everywhere and there seems no
reason to look for anything else in view
OF the various unsettling influences
present in the situation; however. as
repeatedly pointed out in this column,
there are nearly 100000 persons In
tIlS COuHlIy 10 DC leu anu ClOtueu anu
housed, and their requirements alone
will provide considerable business.
Though the harvests are not up to the
early enthusiastic expectations. the
principal cereal crops are by no means
short. The increased area given over
to agriculture this year is a saving ele-
ment in the situation. Despite a some
what lessened yield In spots the final
output Of the grain crops bios fair to
equal the average of the past ten years,
while cotton promises a bumper yield.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Brokers May Have to
Become Messengers

BOSTON, Aug. 20.-The spectacle OF
corpulent floor broker rushing across the
floor of the stock exchange with a shear
of messages in his hand is apt to be
common sight there tomorrow unless
the hoard of governors finds boys will
inq TO work for IS a week in place OF
the 81 previously paid.
The former floor boys. many Of whom
have been on The exchange for several
wears have struck because OF the
ciIt in their wages, and when the board
oT governors refused to listen to their
raoSest for the old rate, they quit on
Saturday
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Taft Gets Papers in
Court-Martial Cases

Papers in the court-martial case OF
Second Lieutenant s. W. Braden. Twen-
ty-sixth Infantry. on duty at Fort Bra
dy, Mich, have been sent to the Presi-
dent for his action.
Lieutenant Braden was recently tried
on charges alleging violation Of his
pledge in respect to the use of intoxi-
eating liquors. The sentence OF the
court was dismissal from the service.
The President will also have under con-
sideration in the next few days the
court-martial proceedings in the case
of Capt Frank H. Cook. OF the sub
sistence department Of the army. who
is under sentence of dismissal for al
legged intoxication at San Francisco;
Lieut.. Robert G. Rutherford, jr,
Twenty fourth Infantry, at Madison
Barracks, is also under sentence OF dis
missal, and the papers in his case are
now before the President.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Date Set for Trial
Of Charles A. NeWland

The date fixed for the trial OF the
charges made by the Health Depart
ment against Charles A. Newland Is
August q, in District branch OF Ponce
Court. The defendant is charged with
violating the health regulation for the
prevention of the spread OF contagious
II is alleged that on July 2, the de,
fendant permitted his daughter, Etnei
NewIand. to 20 out on Seventh street
northeast while Ill with diPhtheria-
Newland was released under MS per-
The defendant claims that he was
told bv his family physician that the
airI was convalescent and could 60 OUT
of' doors. Attorney Samuel n Irultt
is counsel for Newland.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Second Recall Election
To Be Held in Seattle

SEATTLE, Aug. 20.-This city is to
have it's second recall election in less
than seven months. The petition signed
for the recall of Mayor George Dilling
has been canvassed by the comptroller
and declared to have 20 per cent more
signers than necessary.
Dilling was elected mayor on February
6, last, at a recall election in which
Hiram c. Gill was unseated as mayor.
The citizens of Seattle said the town
was wide open and the women declared
for a cleaner administration. A petition
was signed against Gill and the recall
election held. 1t was the first time wo-
men, had voted in Seattle and their votes
landed Dilling in the mayors chair. =
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
! loWstone Park
Roads to Go Unsprinkled

Tourists in the Yellowstone National
Park are apt TO be annoyed by the
dust on the roads for the remainder Of
the season. The army engineer in
charge Of improvements and upkeep Of
the roadways has notified the depart
ment that the money available for
sprinkling roads is exhausted. AppH-
cation was made by him for authority
TO draw on the administrative fund Of
the park, but a decision of tho Comp
trolIer Of the Treasury forbids.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Wagon Victims Mother
Sues for Ten Thousand

For the death of little Gladys E. Hur-
ley, run down while riding bicycle at
Thirteenth and s streets northwest
October II, 1870 by a wagon of the
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company,
Hariette L. Hurley has filed suit in the
District Supreme Court against the
brewing corporation, asking $4,000 dam
ages. Negligence Of the driver is
The Washington times., 1911-08-20
Frick Going West.

PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 20.-Pasadena
has the promise that H. c. Frick, Of
Pittsburg, will come to this city to
make his home. It is said that Mr..
Frick will give up active business and
settle In the crown city with his family.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

THE STOCK MARKET OF THE WEEK


1910
-lHp--Ml- w ending 19-,
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

Meats have advanced: stocks and bonds
gone down. Moral drawn by the FL
nancial -World-Buy packing house
issues of debenture bonds.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

The financing of the cotton bills. a
proposition undertaken a year ago, with
a Liverpool cotton bills of lading con-
ference ana a committee of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association rs still up IN
the air. although the Liverpool commit
tee, after abandoning the claim that
American banks guarantee cotton bills,
has decided 20 install a central bureau
in New York city, where cotton bills
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

Total sales for the week, 3,656.6Oo.
The Washington times., 1911-08-20

Robert y. Harper. road builder. f1nan-
cier and clubTnan, left yesterday after
noon for busy week-on the boardwalk
at Atlantic City.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-07
Primary in Massachusetts,.

Some reforms. in the turbulent realm
of politics. move forward at the pro-
verbal pace of the snail: others are
fairly catapulted forward to success al
most from the day of their inception.
The rapid progress made by one of the
latest ideas in the scope of national pol
iticS has taken some of the forces of
Standpatism unawares.
The Presidential primary has now
developed sufficient headway to arouse
the critical attention of machine poll
ticianS throughout the country, although
it has hardly progressed far enough to
have serious effect upon the nomina-
tions OF 1912 The progressives, Of
course, are almost solidly in its favor
the conservative forces are Indifferent
where they are not actively opposed TO
it. The most interesting fact in its
development is the certainty that in
staid old Massachusetts the primary
will be adopted.
The triumphant Massachusetts De-
mocracy. headed by Gov. Foss, Roger
Sherman Hoar. and others. some time
ago announced that the primary pro-
gramme would be pushed through at the
present session of the legislature. A
considerable public sentiment has been
crystallized behind it, and the Repub-
lican machine, playing politics in char
acteristic fashion. has cndeavored to
take the wind out OF the Democratic
sails by presenting a Presidential pri-
mary bill. and making the movement
genuinely bipartisan. There seems to
he no doubt that the measure will pass
with but little opposition.
To take the Presidential nominations
out of the hands of machine politicians
and place them in direct control of the
popular will is the purpose of the new
primary, 1t is bound to attract increas-
ing attention in the next six months.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-07

Somebody sprung the other day what
purported to be a new yarn about Rep
resentative' J. G. Cannon, of the Eight
zenith Illinois district, whom many will
remember as a former Speaker of our
national House Of Representatives.
Apologies and a rain check go with the
story II it has been printed. Anywey,
here 1t is:
Uncle Joe went home one evening aft
er a stormy day in the House, during
which time he had been called on many
times to decide close questions of par
liamentary law. His daughter was seat
ed near the fireplace reading a book.
Father she inquired, what does
this word 'ophthalmia' mean?"
And right of the bat, the Speaker re-
piled:
Il don't know what it means, but the
eyes have It."
When one knows young Mr.. Alfred SEE,
tho new Chinese Minister, now on his
way here, the talk about a Chinese re-
public seems more plausible. In fact
the more one considers Mr.. Alfred SEE the
more one may expect to see China start
in with torchlight professions and work
nicipal ownership Of league baseball
parks.
For young Mr. SEE is the sort of Min
ister that one might expect TO see hailing
from the least conservative nation In the
explored worId-whatever nation that
may be. Or, to put It more accurately, he
sizes up as just the logical style of Chi
nese Minister to figure prominently in
musical comedy written by George NJ. Co
han to settle a wager with John Drew.
The new Minister is as modern and up-to-
date as a dictaphone.
In the first place, Mr.. SEE is by educa
ton and tastes an American. He attend
ed high school here in Washington, was
graduated from Cornell University, and
dotes on baseball, football, and horse
racing. He relishes an occasional cock
tail. thinks the national game of poker a
better game than fan-tan. and can speak
English Just as well as Henry Cabot
Lodge. Mr.. SEE would no more think OF
wearing queue than he would of adorn-
ing himself with side whiskers. He
dresses himself up to the full limit of
American STYLES. and no one need be sur
prised If he gets OF the boat when he
lands in this country wearing one of
those fuzzy hats and leading a Boston
terrier.
And yet he's the Minister from China!
Mr.. SEE is barely thirty-five years of
age. About the only strictly Chinese
taste he has shown vas in his mar
riage. During his college days at Itha-
ca he fell in love with the usual number
Of American girls, but Nine. Sze is a
Cantonese woman, who has never. be-
fore been to this country.
At Ithaca, by the way, the future
Minister from China caused Cornell
The Washington herald., 1911-12-07
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR.
By FRED C. KELLY.

I University to establish a brand-neW
precedent in regard to entrance squire
ments. He found that he would have tC
enter with a condition standing against
him on account OF having no knowledge
of Greek. He was up in his modern Ian
guages, all right, but the faculty start
ed to count him out on dead languages
for he knew only a little Latin and less
Greek.
well, our requirements call for a
good working knowledge of at least one
ancient tongue" the faculty representa-
tive told him.
Tn young SEE spoke up and. said:
''One ancient tongue! Why what's
I the matter with Chlnese?'
The faculty had never thought of that.
They had never before had a prospec-
tive student offer Chinese in lieu of
Greek. So they held a meeting. stroked
their boards far into the night and
finally decided that young SEE could
waive a knowledge of Greek, inasmuch
as he could express his wants fiuently
in Chinese.
Strangely enough Mr. sze is greatly
opposed now TO any Chinese students I'm
American universities coming to a SINH
lar agreement with the faculty. He thinks
they should learn Greek, Sanscrit, or
whatever else American students are re-
quired to know.
SEE is an accomplished after-dinner
speaker, and has been much In demand
in Peking to preside at banquets given
by association of American college grad
yates.
One indication OF his pro-Americanism
Is his adoption of the name Alfred. Just
why he selected Alfred rather than Her
man or Roy. does not appear. but that is
the name he goes by. His real prelim-
mary name is Shao-ki. and his formal
signature is written thusly: Shao-kI (Al-
freO SEE. He signs II that way al
ways, whether on a hotel register or
check. And he is particularly facile,
by the way, at signing checks, for he is
worth ton or two OF Chinese money.
Even when his wealth is changed into
American money, without any holes in
1t, he is more than comfortably fixed
Senator James E. MARITIME. the
farmer orator" from New Jersey, was
once asked what he had found to be the
most profitable feature of farming.
Judging by my own experience" he
replied, my recipe for making the most
money out of a farm investment would
be this: Select good farm. as large as
you can a1ord TO buy. within an hour s
ride of some big and rapidly growing
city, and walt for the city to grow to-
ward your farm-either that or for
prosperous suburban section to grow up
around your farm Then lay off part OF
your farm in town lots and sell the lots.
You Will make more money this way than
you can raising hay or cabbages or
onions even under the most modern. sci.
entific schemes of intensified farming
MARITIME knows whereof he speaks, too.
Years ago he inherited from his father
a farm of 16O acres in Plain eld. n. J.,
which is now a hOtbed of New York COM
muters. He has been selling OFF lots
until he has only about fifty acres left,
and 1t is mostly just front yard. with
shrubs and walks and arbOrs and per-
golas and such
Copyright. 1911. by Fred c. Kelly. All rights re-
serTed.)
The Washington herald., 1911-12-07
Some New Dogs of War.

4 new version Of the dogs OF war
has been revealed in one OF the de-
cisions OF the Comptroller OF the Treas
ury, who was recently called upon to
determine whether the appropriation for
the mounted service school at Fort
RILEY, Kans., could be used in MAIN
tanning a pack OF hounds at an csti-
mated cost Of SIS a month Such dogs
would not. ordinarily. be recognized as
a necessary auxiliary of the fighting
force of the country, but it was repre-
sented to the Comptroller that it is the
policy of the War Department to en-
courage in the cavalry arm bold and
superior riding and that there is no
better way of accomplishing this than
in following the hounds All military
riding schools in Europe, it was pointed
out, recognize this fact. and maintain
government packs OF hounds; besides,
conditions at the service school are
eminently suitable for conducting these
hunts under official auspices"
The assistant comptroller. who passed
on the question, decided that the cx-
penditure for the hounds was not au-
thorized by law. He found nothing in
the statute which would permit the
expenditure of public money for this
particular form of encouraging spec
tacular equitation 1t would have been
a surprise if he had allowed it, and
perhaps the army officers who made the
proposition are, least of all, diSappoint-
ed. If hounds can be bought or main
tained from the army appropriations for
the betterment of military horsemanship,
it would be no difficult thing 10 stretch
the law in all directions to get any
thing which individual whim and fad
might conceive as desirable, on the fc-
ton that it is necessary or educational.
The law is now interpreted with great
elasticity respecting army allowances,
which circumstance has led to constant
ly increasing demands, ingeniously
wrought, Tor the expenditure of the
army appropriations.
in this latest phase of the situation,
the fact that the military reservation at
Fort Riley would make an excellent
place to conduct hunts does not warrant
the government in furnishing army of
fcers at the mounted service school
with the equipment of country club as
means of developing bold and SUI
perior riding" That sounds a good deal