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The Washington times., 1911-08-01
AMERICAN GENIUS EVOLVES
A MILLION PATENTS.

There is a peculiar fitness in the fact
that patent No. 100000, which will
be issued next week to an Ohio man, is
for an improved rubber tire which will
contribute greatly to the efficiency of
the automobile.
1t was with the means of transporta-
tion that the first numbered patent was
issued when the Patent Office was re-
organized, seventy five years ago-a
steam engine designed to run on an
inclined plane being patent No. land
it is in the perfecting of more modern
methods of transportation and commu-
nication that the genius of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries has
most signally displayed itself. The
electric telegraph, which flashed "What
God hath wrought" between this city
and Baltimore, had long been a COM
monplace when the telephone began to
assume its present position of impor-
tance in the social life and commerce of
the world. With its many successive
improvements it, too, had ceased to ex-
cite our special wonder when the weird
possibilities of wireless began to make
communities of principalities and
neighborhoods of nations" Concurrent
in development was the automobile,
which is already more common today
than was the bicycle of the early SOS.
Each of these great inventions and
discoveries has been carried forward
year by year, and it is at least an in
teresting coincidence that the millionth
patent should be concerned with one
of them. But the most notable of all
transportation devices perhaps is that
by which the conquest of the air has
at last been accomplished. 1t has the
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
LA TOILETTE GREATEST
WISCONSIN STATESMAN

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
1t is quite gratifying to learn. and
from himself, at that. that J. B. j.
has concluded to quit the field Of
argument" q field in which he can
only shine like the Moon, on a dark.
cloudy night. 1t is a pitiful sight to
see a man start out to accomplish a
great undertaking and fatty fail on
account of his own inability to COM
prehend the magnitude of his under
taking.
We can account for his sudden ap-
and in the capacity of the Statue of
Liberty, in no other way than that he
has a Crouch" and saw the political
star of La Toilette ascending out OF
the misty haze of Trust ridden poll
tics, and IN his haste to befog its
bright appearance, jumped aloft, only
to fall to earth again by his own
weight-a heavy burden OF imagina-
tion.
1 would not again have appeared in
answer to his unsupported conten-
tions only that he has charged me
and overwhelming majSrity OF voters
in the good old State of Wisconsin,
as being "half-demented; an argu-
ment one resorts to only when they
have no argument, in fact;
him 1 was born in wisconsin and
lived there all my life, enlisted and
served with the Badger" Boys In
their great war for liberty and the
freedom Of humanity, and that l was
acquainted with d an ~ the Hsrnantag Saegef r.
our own La Folette, and during all
the long period intervening between
the two.I 10 man In the; political his.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
Cosmos Bill This Week
Proves to Be Pleasing

BY her clever singing and acting, Miss
Ray Dooley, Of the Metropolitan Min
strels. at the Cosmos this week, has
won high place in the esteem of the
theater's patrons She appears to
especial advantage in an act entitled
The Dutch Kiddies." She rendered
several songs in an inimitable way. The
comedy Of the act was shouldered by
Will and Gordon Dooley, and their
burlesque Of two ambitious Germans
is as good as many seen in higher
priced houses. The entire act, which
also includes wooden shoe quartet Of
Young beauties, IS the biggest thing
in small time vaudeville.
Fritz Houston, cartoonist, and pro-
tege of Bert Levey, was a revelation.
He carries a patented reflector that
shows off his clever drawing to an ad-
vantage. His sketches received great
applause. Curtis and "a Van, in comedy
singing and dancing, work we'll to-
gether. and were we'll received Bar
tion's aerial dogs had a fine routine,
and many new feats were performed
Sasha Gardiene, a Russian violinist,
was a finished artist and pleased the
large house. The motion pictures were
new and attractive.
AS this is to be the last appearance of
the minstrels IN the East until next
summer, the management has arranged
for them to put on their former big
success, The Buster Brownies" for the
last half of the week.
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What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

Supper and lawn fete, Chapel Of the
Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase, IL
brary grounds; supper, to 8 p. m.
Concert by United States Engineer
Band. Logan Park, Anacostia, 7:So
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry Band,
Fort Myer, 7:30 p. m.
The following knights Of Pythias lodges
will meet tonight: Webster, No. I;
Myrtle, No. 25.
Meeting of Idaho Tribe, No. IS, I. o. R.
M, Twelfth and H streets northeast
tonight.
Meeting of saltese Tribe, No. Is, I. o.
R. NJ, Seventh and D streets north
west, tonight.
Meeting of OsceoIa Tribe. No. 10. I. O
+. NJ, Masonic Hall, Tenleytown' to-
night
gree OF Pocahontas, Fifth and q
Streets northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Jefferson Council, NO. Il, Jr.
o, u. A. NJ, Twelfth and H streets
northeast, tonight.
Meeting of Washington Council, No. l2
Jr. o. U. A. NJ, 800 Twentieth street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Potomac Council. No. %, Jr.
o. U. A. NJ. 1915 Thirty-flrst street
northwest, tonight.
Meeting Of Jasper Council, No. q, Jr.
O. u, A. NJ, Fifth and G streets
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Independent Council, No. 2,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ, Seventh and D streets
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Camp No. 3, Patriotic Order
Sons Of America, Little Falls Station,
Conduit road. tonight.
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CHURCH PLANS TEN
MILLION FUND FOR
PASTORS PENSIONS
Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, Working on Elaborate
Relief Scheme.

SPRING LAKE. n. j., Aug. 1.-If
plans discussed by the executive COM
mission Of the Presbyterian General AS
sembly at a meeting here today are
carried out the aged and needy minis
ters Of the Presbyterian denominations
are likely 10 have their wants provided
for in future out OF S1O,OO0,oC fund to
be raised for that purpose.
At present Presbyterian ministers at
the age of seventy and over, who have
spent thirty years in the ministry. re-
ceive $3.50 year from the Board of
Ministerial Relief. Ministers widows
and disabled ministers receive smaller
pensions, ranging from $500 down to $50.
The income is scanty. and some
veterans who have given their lives in
the service Of the church, and whose
small salaries have given them no op-
portunity to save money, are left in a
condition bordering upon want The
Board OF Ministerial Relief believes II
will be able to provide adequate pen
sions if its endowment is increased to
so, 900, 600.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
DENOUNCES DOUBLE
STANDARD OF MORALS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Apropos of the terrible affair in Rich
mond, 1 am so tired OF hearing women
condemned, and men, IN spite of the
same offense, looked up to and received
everywhere with open arms. A man
can commit the some crime a thousand
times, with impunity, as far as the law
and public opinion are concerned, while
the woman is refused employment, SYM
pathy, and a chance to reform. Does
she sin alone?
Do the Commandments apply only to
women?
Every woman is good and pure until
some vile man. either by brute force or
by winning her love, knowingly and de-
Hberately wrecks her life.
l cannot understand why a man
should go free with unsullied (?j repu-
tation, while for the woman the wages
Of sin is death-a living death, or sui
eide, or: life! A poor, little, innocent,
cursed life,
BY his acts he confesses to being a.
beast, and to think of his daring to call
any woman had!
Are we afraid to take a decided stand
in these matters and to insist upon one
code of morals? Why not, in the name
of justice, common sense, and deccncy,
at least, Judge all alike. JUSTICE.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

sublimity of simplicity about it. The
desire, if not the effort, to emulate the
birds seems to have been implanted IN
the human heart since the days which
gave birth to the myth of Daedalus. 1t
was one of the things which, by very rea-
son of their apparent impossibility, were
ever before us, and if some recluse could
suddenly come forth from a Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep and survey all the inven-
tions of today he would probably mar
vel most at the flying machine. This is
not to say that it is to be regarded as
the most important achievement of
science and invention, though its pos
sibilities are yet but partially explored.
1t simply comes as the climax of l2l
years of ingenious activity among the
most fertile minded of the people of the
earth. The results have been accumu-
lating in geometrical progression. Dur
ing the forty-six years from the first
patents granted, but not numbered, in
1900, to the official establishment of
the Patent Office in 1886, when the
numbering began, approximately 10000
patents were granted. In the succeed
ing seventy-five years there have been
q million.
While there will be no special cere-
monies to mark the significant number
next week, the occasion will call forth
appropriate expressions of self-gratu-
lation that in comparatively SO short
a period we have done so much to amel-
iorate the conditions of life, to harness
the hidden forces of nature to serve
the ends of man, and to mark the peo-
pie of the United States as the most
skillful and acute of which the world
can boast.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
AmusementS.

Columbia-Columbia Players in When
Knighthood Was in Flower" s:l5
Cosmos-Continuou vaudeville, l to II
p. m.
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing and music
by section of Marine Band.
Glen Echo Park-Dancing and music by
section Of Soldiers Home Band.
Luna Park-Midway and attractions.
Arcade-Motion pictures, bowling and
pool.
River View-Dancing and other amuse-
ments; boat leaves Seventh street
wharf 10 a. m. and 2 and 2. m.
Colonial Reach-Boardwalk, bathing,
and other amusements; steamers leave
Seventh street wharf daily except
Monday, a. m; Saturday, 2:3O p. m
Marshall Hall-Steamer Charles Macal-
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. M, 2:30 and 6:45 p. m. daily. Stops
made at Mt. Vernon
Steamer st, Johns leaves Seventh street
wharf for forty-mile trip on the P0-
tomac. .. n.
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COLUMBIA PLAYERS
SCORE BIG SUCCESS
IN ROMANTIC PLAY
when Knighthood Was in
Flower" Most Ambitious
Presentation.

Those good old days of swash-
buckling heroism, when men skewer-
ed each other on the points of ra-
piers, at the drop of the hat, those
days When knighthood Was in
Flower" were portrayed last even
ing before a crowded house, by the
Columbia Players. That romantic
and stirring play by Paul kester,
dramatized' from the novel of the
same name by Charles Major. was
presented in a manner more ambi-
tious than has before been attempted
by this company. In all Its magnih-
cence of costuming and scenic ef-
fects IT was elaborate and entirely
satisfying, even TO those who have
seen IT with the original company,
with Julia Marlowe in the role Of
Mistress Mary Tudor.
Miss Nelson Charming.
This part was most admirably por
trayed last evening by Miss Frances
Nelson, who in the moods alternate
ly of vixen. pouting child, and most
charming and lovely maiden. gave
to her character a conception that
was thoroughly artistic and satisfy
ing Her dramatic ability was best
exhibited in the stormy scenes be-
tween herself and that daring viii
lain and arch-fiend. King Henry VIII.
the part assumed by George W. Bar
bier, and most excellently played, be
it said en- passant.
As Charles Brandon, who seeks
Mistress Mary. A. H. Van Buren, was.
as usual. an ideal lover In the ra-
pier duel with the Dauphin of France,
and, earlier in the play. with the
cousin of Buckingham. played by VIII
lard Robertson, he showed his skill
as a swordsman to the breathless de-
light of more than half the audience.
Cast a Large One.
The cast was a large one. requiring
the entire strength of the company,
with several new recruits whose
faces are strange to the regular pat
rons of the playhouse. Miss Jessie
Glendinning as Jane Bolingbroke was
winsome and charming. the only
drawback to her entire success being
her lack of distinct enunciation.
Then there was Everett Butterfield
as Sir Edward Caskoden, master Of
the dance, lover Of the fair Jane and
a most charming and delightful
character, admirably played. Fred
erick Forester as the Duke of
Buckingham, Arthur Richie. as the
Kings jester, Stanley James, in the
character of the Bishop of Lincoln.
Queen Katherine of England, a shrew,
played by Miss Emelie Melville. Mis-
tress Anne Boleyn. the part assigned
to Miss Nina Melville. all important
characters, were well played.
The costuming was historically cor
rect, and the scenic accessories elab-
crate and artistic. The first act, the
scene of which was laid in the park
Of Windsor, near the river landing,
on May day had a beautiful setting,
with the rose entwined sun dial, the
vine covered giottoes, and the bios
soming trees and shrubbery. The
play is in five acts, and was staged
by Edwin H. Curtiss.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
GLEN ECHO PARK TO
OPEN NEXT SUNDAY
DESPITE BLUE LAW
Manager Schloss Announces
He Will Have Resort Run
ming Full Blast.

Regardless OF the outcome of the test
cases of the Maryland Sunday blue
laws being tried today before Justice
Joseph Reading, in Rockville, GleE
Echo amusement park, with all its con-
cessions, will be opened next Sunday,
according to a statement made by Man.
ager L. B. Schloss this mor2lng. The
coat OF indigo applied Throughout the
length and breadth of Montgomery
county is to be washed away after one
weeks wear.
The people Of Maryland are ra-
tional." said Mr.. Schloss, and We know
that when they cannot buy a cigar or
stick of candy they are going TO rebel.
We do not expect to be arrested when
we reopen Sunday" Mr.. Schloss denied
that his confidence is based on assuT-
ance given him from napolis. the
Maryland capital yesterday.
The aftermath Of the radical apptica-
tion of the Sunday closing laws came
today when c. A. Winslow. holding
concession at the park and employing
thirteen people there on Sunday, ap-
peared in Justice Readings court to
stand trial. All the other concession
fines without trial Mr.. Winslow put
up 800 collateral. and If he is con-
victed today he probably will have to
pay fines aggregating $780,
Another Sunday case is that Of Mrs.
Charles E. Wood. of Washington. Her
chauffeur was arrested for working on
Sunday while going through MOntgom-
cry county. She also was charged with
speeding. One other automobile case
is up today, and Constable Walter
Shaw, who made the arrests, says he
has collected evidence which will lead
10 another arrest for violation of the
Sunday law.
Warrants are to be sworn out" he
said today, against NJ. Fisher, Samuel
Case, and Mates Jackson for operating
the Great Falls Hotel on the Maryland
side, last Sunday. Those who will be
summoned as witnesses are Frank Bis
sett, Robert Jenkins, Hamilton Davis,
Cn,illnAf
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
BEAUTY CHORUS FALLSFOR A
YANKEE NOTION"

The ingenuity which developed the
wooden nutmeg is still abroad in the
State of Connecticut and still has a
gusto for capitalizing human credulity.
This accounts for the fact that couple
of hundred Maude Mullers are raking
the upIands, sweet with Sumatra wrap
pers, and are preparing for an effective
campaign against any old judge who
may come along later on. Of course, it
is not strictly news that our finest
Sumatra wrappers come from Connecti-
cut. Improvements upon the processes
of nature are among the easiest things
that Connecticut does. But heretofore
it has not been supposed that the pic
turesque country maidens who lend
color to the tobacco fields have come
from the rustic wilderness in and
around Forty-second street and Broad
way.
The man who first inveigled monkeys
into gathering cocoanuts by making
the simians think they were having a
good time pelting the natives was the
veriest piker compared to the labor
exchange artist who circulated the re-
port that green tobacco leaves, gath
cred fresh from the fields, were incom-
parable for the complexion. So deli
cately worded were the hints that the
impression was left that it was a great
privilege for young women, faded and
wan after a hard season along the
Rialto, to get out in the great out of
doors and gather Sumatra wrappers.
1t was getting SO far back to nature
that it was almost reminiscent of the
Garden of Eden. 1t was not long be-
fore the impresario of the tobacco farm
had more applications for a course in
beauty culture than the green fields
could accommodate So there they are
up in Connecticut-blondes, brunettes,
transitioners, broilers from the first
row and tall Amazons whom long ex-
perience has taught skill in the hand
ling of a spear. They are all up there,
living in tents, gurgling for very JOY
as they inhale the ozone and imbibe
the exhalations of the clarifying Su-
matra wrappers. The polish is gone
from delicately manicured fingers and
the features that were pallid have
taken on decided tan. But they have
faith that can remove freckles, dan.
druff, and circles under the eyes, and
they are going to grow beautiful If it
takes all summer
There should be special flavor about
the long Havana fllers-dressed in Su-
matra wrappers-which come out OF
Connecticut next season, and only the
initiated will suspect the reason why
If the beauty chorus in the extrava,
ganzas which come this way early in
the fall look much the same as in the
years gone by, the misguided coryphees
will at least have had a pleasant sum,
mer and the Connecticut farmer will
console himself with the ungallant phil.
osophy that
"a woman is only a woman,
And good cigar Is a smoke"
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

tory of the State, ever existed or
eQualed Robert NJ. La Toilette in the
political reforms brought about by
his untiring efforts in behalf Of the
people; the common people, from
whom the great Trusts, Com binat ations
and Corporations have been sucking
the life blood Of their daily toll, un-
remitttngly for years through law
enacted through weaklings, the paid
tools of the special interests"
b M r
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

mine whether he may take Oft his muz-
gle on August IL Since there have been
no cases Of rabies recently. he is hope
full Of being allowed to display an open
countenance.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
x In the Mail Bag =

Is
freely and frankly with
will denied
be
Of
contributor
Dress
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
Oklahoma Girls Fortune.

CHICKASHA, Okla, Aug, Miss
Alice Meyers, of Blackwell, Okla, who
is telephone operator in the city sta
ton here, left Yesterday for Hartford.
Conn, to claim an estate valued at
$50, 900, to which she has fallen heir by
the death of her grandmother.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

That little allusion to the pensioning
Of pullets has at least made the feath-
ers fly.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The exhibit of sweets spread before
the Sugar trust probe looked like an
insidious effort to corrupt the court.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The man who played odd man wins"
in the Capitol grounds and lost all his
money will have a hard time getting
even.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Gene Ely's successful race with the
storm at College Park entities him to
be known as the Tam O. Shanter of the
q
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Congress Heights is preparing to turn
on the gas.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The policemen who did not participate
in the handbook affair might make up
a little pool among themselves as to
who did.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
Concerts Today
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band, as
Fort Myer, Va, at 1890 pm.
GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.

GEOhGc r. hhEll-. Dlrector.
PROGRAM.
March-"The Elks'' ,Seitz
Overture-"La Gazza Ladra"
Rossini
Dance Of the Nile Maidens. :. .Losey
Excerpts from the opera Mar
celle" .Luders
Mignonette-"Romeo and Juliet"
Tobani
waltz-"Enchanted Nights" .Moret
Selection from "Elisir D'Amore"
Donizetti
Finale-''Noisy Bilr'. lr'.............I.osey
By the q. S. Engineer Band, at
Logan Park, Anacostia, at 1890 p. m.
JULIUS HAMPER, Leader.
PROGRAM.
March-"National Emblem. BagIey
Overture-"BronzeH Horse" .Auber
Piccolo Sclo-"Through the Air"
Damn
Ry Corporal Leven.
Selection-"n Trovatore" Verdi
Waltz-"Danube Waves. .Ivanovici
Czardas-"Last Love" .Gungl
Excerpts from Bright Eyes"
Hoschna
Medley-'1se3' Calvin
THE Star-Spangled Banner
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

TUESDAY. AUGUST l. 1911.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
sunday.

The oct total circulation OF The Washington
Tinhes tSunday) during the month OF July
tr agents being eliminated. This number,
when divided by 5, the number of Sundays
curing July, shows the net Sunday average
for July to have been 4O,5l5.
Entered at the Postoffce at Washington,
=. C. as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Perhaps the field secretary Of the
Ant-Cigarette League has unconsciously
derived some of his impressions from
rabbit tobacco.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
Daily average for onth.......... 81, $50

Thu net total circulation OF The Wash
ington Times daily during the month Of
July was llS, 94s, all copies left over and
returned being eliminated. This number,
when divided by %. the number Of days of
publication, shows the net daily average for
July TO have been 49, $50.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01
JULY CIRCULATION.

The number of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month Of July was as follows:
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The Washington representatives are
going to do their part toward making
Boston aware OF their presence at the
convention of the ad. men.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The clothiers are advertising a cut
tn everything except bathing suits. On
the grounds OF public policy, perhaps,
these couldn't be cut any lower.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Fido Is taking an unusual interest In
the investigation now going on to deter
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

William F. Brown, who died yester-
day, was a real Washingtonian. He
was born In the District, as were his
parents and grandparents before him.
He was a member of the Oldest In
habitants' Association
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

1t was great day yesterday for the
United italian societies, which had its
annual outing at Marshall Hall. The
bands played Venetian music, and the
merrymakers danced Italian dances
Some fifteen hundred people enjoyed
the festivities.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The ARRANGEMENT of the delivery de-
partmert in the new Washington post
office will be "a silent testimonial" to
John Washington, who died on May q.
The entire plan of the new postofffce
will be a model Tor the other cities of
the country.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Electric fans will do much to keep the
Juvenile courtroom comfortable. The
room is small, and the crowd in at
tendance generally large, so the at
taches greatly appreciate the newly in
stalled air machines
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Anything they want in Kentucky, ex-
cept a drink. they ask Ollie James for.
They wanted the United States Marine
Band for the State fair, they wired Ollie
and they are going to have it. Some
Representative, Ollie.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

The only persons who fail TO appre-
Ciste the humor in the Glen Echo situa-
ton are those who are running the risk
OF typhoid By using bad water.
The Washington times., 1911-08-01

Admiral COwles is sixty-fve years
young today. and Robert T Lincoln.
the son OF the martyred President, is
but three years older. They are re-
ceiving the hearty congratulations of
their host Of friends.