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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
HARNESSMAKER DIES
FROM ASPHYXIATION.
Especial from United Press

Especial from United Press.
Hartford, Jan. 23-Illuminating
gas was more poisonous than infiam-
mable, today, ina Broad street room
ing house where Fred w Gross. "a.
a harm essmaker of this city, was
found dead from gas asphyxiation In
the same room was burning another
gas fame. The coroner suspects that
Gross blew out one light.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
SALESMAN WEBS ACTRESS

a marriage return from Hartford
shows that Mario Fasano. aged 90,
salesman Of this city. and Miss Bertha
Wagner. aged %. actress. this city,
were married in the Capital City. Jan
uary II. by Edward L. Steele, justice
of the peace. -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

George Windsor and Sigmund Loe-
with, a subcommittee of the Board
of Apportionment, met Judge Patrick
Kane and Commissioner Behrens of,
Ithe Charities Department today to
Id scuss the financial needs of the de-
partment
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFER

John S. Griffith and wife have sold
to Thomas l.. Bartholomew property
with 45 feet frontage in Beechwood
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
WoMEN's RELIEF CORPS.

The meeting of the Women's Relief
Corps will be held on Thursday at &
o'clock. at c. A r. hall.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

TO RENTING good size connect
ing rooms with range and sink in
kitchen and use of bathroom, fur
nished complete for housekeeping,
$3.50 per week, $14 per month. 119
1Wordin Ave-, 11th house from State
street A % s*p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

A NAUTICAL KNOT, musical COM
edy given by the Red Cross Dra-
matte Society of st. Paul's church
for the benefit of Adelphian Oxford
Guards, I. o. o. F., in Warner hall,
Thursday evening, Jan. 26, 1911.
Tickets 25 cents. A % b*
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Stein
way Grand Piano for upright piano
as I need the room. S44 Noble
Ave- A23 u*o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

AT FRITZ G. HARTNIANN'S stuffed
and baked CLAIMS, half fried chick
en- speciality. 126 Wall st.
Fl Q =" tt.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

BIG SALE on finished and unfinished
night gowns beginning Tuesday the
oath. Mrs. HI. Cram, 194 East
Main St., near Stratford Ave. Pri-
vate residence. A % b*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
LAW LIBRARY FOR SALE. Red
fields new shop, 286 Fairfield Ave.
*D

MACHINIST TOOL CHEST FOR
SALE. Micrometers, surface gauge,
squares, caliper, ETC., at Redfeld's
new shop, 286 Fairfield Ave. a*p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

BRATWURST better than ever az
Mark NagePs. 652 e. Main st.
/ % tt. q
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

STAG .PINOCHLE. waldemere Coun-
Gil, o. u. A. M, Wednesday even
ing, JAM 25th, at 925 Main street.
Tickets Csc. A % b*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
I UNCIASSIFIED

FOR RENT.-Six room tenement, ali
Improvements. Rent SIS. I'll
Orchard st. SA23 d*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

JOIN the Casca Laxine tablet users
jGreat for constipation. &c.
H1s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

FOR RENT.-FIat of rooms and
bath, steam heat furnished, the two
large front rooms are suitable for
offices, dental or tailoring parlors,
new building, 800 Fairfield Ave.
T 20 If. O
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23

field Ave. is the place for you to
get Don Rex Whiskey, Ruppert's
and Geo. Ehret's N. Y. lager as
we'll as fine free lunch and the
best of cigars. al
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Mrs. Silsby Says She Had
Good Time on vacation

The first few days to come won't be
so hard for Mrs. Annie Silsby, arrested
and returned to ST. Elizabeth's Asylum,
from which she escaped several weeks
ago, for. the woman declared she had
great time on her recent vacation"
Mrs. Silsby, whose husband committed
suicide about two years ago. after d.
vorce proceedings had been instituted
in the District courts. pried OF the fas-
Jennings of her window at the asylum
and departed. She left a note for the
physicians there. saying that she needed
little rest and recreation, and was
going to take II. She gave her future
address as Asbury Park
Mrs. Silsby didn't get that far, how
ever. She stopped off at Atlantic City,
where she varied her vacation by fall
ing down the steps OF her hotel and
spraining her ankle.
Yesterday afternoon she returned to
Washington, and the police OF the Sixth
precinct arrested her shortly after 8
0 clock in a hotel near Union Station.
Il had a good time on my trip" said
the woman, as she was being returned
to the asylum. Much too good a time
TO remain out at St. Ellzabeths If I
get another chance TO escape"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Victor Records for June
Have Many New Voices

Solos by Anna Gluck. the newest and
youngest prima donna of the MetropoIi-
tan Grand Opera Company, are features
OF the June issue of records of the
Victor Talking Machine Company, now
on sale.
Grand opera selections of unusual
character mark the June Victor Issue
Mario Sammarco, of the Chicago-Phila-
delphia opera, and Tetrazzini being
other noted contributors
Peculiarly seasonable are many of the
records issued Saturday, including selec-
tons by the popular Atlantic City
Band, Veselle's Italian Band, and James
Whitcomb Riley's "Knee-Deep in June. +"
Mother Goose Songs" sung by Eliza
beth Wheeler, are a new feature OF the
Victor repertoire, arranged specially for
children.
Ragtime vocal and instrumental hits,
monologues, college songs. and musical
selections by Victor artists are other
features Of the June Victor records.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
MRS. DREX[L SEEKS
SECLUS|ON AFTER
TALK Of DIVORCE
Former Baltimore Belle at
Girlhood Home and
Reticent.

BALTIMORE, May 2S-Mrs. Anthony
J. Drexel, social leader in Philadelphia,
and active in the most exclusive society
in London, is today back in her girl
hood home here, seeking secIusion from
public attention following the report
she Is about to ask a divorce from her
wealthy husband
She is with the Cabell Bruces. This
morning she as well as Mr.. and Mrs.
Bruce, refused to discuss the subject.
Mrs. Anthony ]. Drexel, jr., who is a.
the home of George ]. Gould, in Lake
wood. has dismissed the report of d.
vorce as ridiculous" At the Bruce
home there is no such statement, but
rather the impression is given that. with
no denials, 1t is simply a case where
none of those concerned Is yet ready to
give admissions to the public.
Mrs. Drexel was Marguerite Arm
strong, of Baltimore, one of the famous
beauties of her day. and she still has
many very intimate friends living here.
To practically all of these she is deny
ing herself today.
Her husband, Colonel Drexel. Is In
England, at his magnificent home, p
Grosvenor square.
According to reports, when Mrs.
Drexel returned from Europe few
weeks ago she consulted an attorney
about a divorce, and since that time the
entire Drexel family has been trying to
suited John G. Johnson, the noted at
torney, and also engaged apartments
there for six months. Cause OF the
divorce has not yet become known.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
DEAD BODY WASHED
UP ON THE ESTATE
OF HOWARD GOULD
Throat Cut and Stab Wounds
in Chest, and Thus Far
Unidentified.

NEW YORK, May 2s-washed up on
the beach of Howard Gould's estate.
Castle Gould. at Sands Point, L. l.,
the body of man was found with the
throat cut and three stab wounds IN
the chest. The body apparently had
been in the water several days. Cor
oner's Physician w. L Cocks, who had
been summoned from Port Washington.
did not think the man had committed
suicide; that he would have been IN
able to inflict so many mortal wounds.
The body was found by Joseph Her
bert, a foreman on the Gould estate,
who was walking along the beach.
While the clothing was of good quality.
tattooing on the mans hand and fore
arm seemed to indicate he had been a
sailor. On the forearm was a four
pointed star and an anchor rope, and
upon the hand, between thumb and fore
finger, was a small heart.
The man apparently was about forty
years old. six feet in height, and
weighed 80 pounds. The left eyetooth
was very prominent and the eyes were
blue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
MARYLAND MOTOR
A. CAR OWNERS MUST
GET DISTRICT TAGS
Refusal of State to Adopt
Reciprocity Proposal Leads
to New Regulation.

For the privilege of using the roads of
Maryland the motorists of this city are
compelled to register their cars with
John E. George, motor vehicle commits
sioner of Maryland. The fees secured
from Washington automobile owners
amount to about $40, 700 this year.
Efforts to secure a reciprocity agree
ment with Maryland whereby District
motorists would be able to tour over
the roads of that State in return for a
like concession from the District, hav-
ing failed, the Commissioners have
adopted a regulation, which is now in
effect, requiring Maryland motorists en-
tering the District to display a District
license tag on their machines. The
new regulation is as follows:
Motor vehicles brought into the Dis
trict Of Columbia by tourists or other
non-residents, for their use during
transient sojourn only in said District,
and who, with respect to such vehicles,
have complied with the law requiring
the registration of owners or operators
of such motor vehicles in the State or
Territory or foreign country of their res
dcnce, and where the registration num-
Der showing the identity of such State
or Territory or foreign country is dis
played on such vehicles. shall be ex-
empt from the police regulations re-
Quiring the registration of and placing
of numbers on motor vehicles to such
extent as under the laws of the State,
Territory or foreign country where such
an automobile is registered, like exemp-
tons and privileges are granted to mo-
tor vehicles duly registered under the
laws Of the District of Columbia and
owned and operated by residents there
of. Upon such vehicles not more than
three registration numbers, including
the registration number of the State,
Territory or foreign country of which
the owner or operator is a resident,
shall be displayed"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
George Washington Ready
For Commencement Week

The calendar of exercises for COM
mencement week at the George Wash
ington University has just been issued.
The ninetieth annual commencement be-
gins on next Saturday evening with
the graduating exercises of the training
school for nurses, and will continue un-
til the following Saturday.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached at All Souls Church next Sun
day afternoon at O'Clock by the Rev.
the university commencement viii be
held at the Belasco Theater Wednes-
day morning. June Z. at 1880 O'Clock.
On Wednesday of this weel; the class
exercises OF the senior class Of teachers
college will be held at the Central High
School hall at S:l5 in the evening, and
the remainder of the week will be given
up to student events, consisting OF
dances, debates, and banquets
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
POLICE MAN FIRES
At THIEF, AND KILLS
HIGH SCHOOL BOY
New Jersey Tragedy Results
From Mistake Made in
Darkness.

NEW YORK. May 28.-RoIand Rud-
dock. the student in the Englewood, N.
j., high school who was mistaken for a
burglar by Policeman Michael O'Neill
late Friday night, died in the Engle-
wood Hospital yesterday. The police
man had been sent to guard the resi-
dence of Cameron Blake in Lincoln
street, two attempts at burglary having
been made of late, the last attempt on
Thursday night.
O'Neill was hidden in the shrubbery
when he saw two young men crossing
the Blake lawn, going toward the house.
Stepping out on the lawn the policeman
told the men to halt. 1t was so dark
the youths could not see who was
speaking to them. Grin Lozier, who
was Ruddock's companion, said later
that they believed a highwayman was
endeavoring to effect a hoId-up, and
they started to run. Policeman O'Neill
says that at this he was convinced that
the men were at least suspicious char
acters, IL not burglars, and he drew his
revolver and started after them.
The young men began to draw away
in the air. This made the fleeing men
run the faster. Then O'Neill fired two
more shots and after the third Ruddock
continued 200 yards before he stopped.
ONeill caught him as he sank on the
porch of his home.
When O'Neill realized his mistake he
almost collapsed, and asked Ruddock
why he had not stopped when told to
do so. The student said ne could see no
uniform and did not recognize O'Neill's
voice. Young Ruddock was removed to
the Englewood Hospital, where 1t was
not believed the wound was serious I'M
til yesterday morning, when the young
man suffered relapse. Death came sud
denly. An autopsy revealed that the
bullet passed almost through the body,
penetrating the lung and liver and frac-
turing a rib
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Funeral of Mrs. Almy
Tomorrow Afternoon

Funeral services for Mrs. Aida Gard
ner Almy will be held at the family
home 1919 Vermont avenue, at 4 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. The Rev Edward
H. lngle, of the Church of the Epiph-
any, in which Mrs. Amy had been ac-
tive for many years, will conduct the
services. Burial will be in Congress
sional Cemetery beside the body of her
husband, Rear Admiral Amy
was born at the New Jersey avenue
home on Capitol Hill, and for several
years after her marriage to Rear Ad-
miral Almy in New York city, they
lived there. Later a home was built
in Vermont avenue. Admiral Amy
died there May IS, 1895. Mrs. Almy died
yesterday. She had been I'll since the
latter part of April. She Is survived
by one son and two daughters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Farmer Disappears
On Eve of Wedding

LOS ANGELES, May 2s.-Telling
his flance, Miss Olive Rhodes, of 213
North Fremont avenue. that he was
going to the bank to receive the first
payment for his farm. which he had
sold for $4,000, Clarence F. Huffman,
a wealthy farmer formerly of Gran
by. Mo, has disappeared. Nothing
has been seen or heard of Huffman.
The distracted young woman has ask
ed the police to locate him.
All that Miss Rhodes has left OF
her shattered romance is a diamond
ring, a wedding gown and the mem
DRY of a whirlwind courtship.
About a month ago Huffman met
Miss Rhodes and fell in love with
her He pressed his suit 'ardently,
finally gaining the young woman's
consent to a marriage, which was to
have taken place June 81.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Sunday Baseball Plea
To Go to StimSon

BOSTON. May 8.-Armed with a petit
ton bearing 10000 signatures, Benjamin
F. Sullivan. of East Boston. intends to
20 to Washington this week to per-
suade Secretary OF War Stimson to al
low Sunday baseball kames at the forts
in Boston harbor.
Opposition to the games, Mr.. Sullivan
said. comes from ministers. who fear
that Sunday baseball at the forts might,
IL permitted. be an entering wedge for
general Sunday baseball movement in
Boston and throughout the State.
Baseball on Sunday has been played
at Fort Banks. Fort Warren, and other
places down the harbor until last year,
when protest by the citizens Of Win
throp was carried to the United States
district attorney, and the War Depart
ment ordered the games stopped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Police Seek Owner of
Flea-Bitten Gray Mare

Have you lost a fiea-bitten gray
mare?
The police of the Ninth precinct found
one, and have her now. Besides being
fiea-bitten and gray, the mare is fifteen
hands high. The description given by
the police suggests that classic Of the
tender Juveniles" beginning with the
inspiriting invocation, "Hey-diddle-
dumping. My Son John" for the flea
bitten mare is related to have three
shoes off and one shoe on, an impos-
sibility, of course, for the bipedal John.
The mare was found astray, but no
charge of vagrancy is lodged against
her. With rare courtesy, too, the police
refrained from alleging any age against
her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
NAG[L ON THE GRILL
IN SEAL SLAUGHTER
INQUIRY next WEEK
Secretary Must Explain to
House Destruction of
Pribilov Herds.

Representative Townsend Of New Jer-
sey, better known as "Chimmie Fad
den," has camped on the trail of those
who are extinguishing the seal herds
of the Pribilov Islands, In the North
Atlantic. The result is that Secretary
Nagel, of the Department OF Commerce
and Labor, will be put on the grill
Monday before the Committee on Ex-
pendltures in the Department OF Com
merce and Labor, to tell why 1t Is the
herds have been allowed to be ruth
lessly slaughtered.
To Go Beyond Nagel.
The developments promise to be high
ly interesting. The investigation will
doubtless extend further than to Sec
rotary Nagel. In 1872 there were 500, 600
fur seals about these islands. Now
the number is reduced to 10000. Since
1890, the North American Commercial
Company has had the monopoly of
killing these seals.
Then, there were a million of the sea6
left. but somehow they have steadily
diminished The company consisted
originally of Stephen B. Elktns. Lloyd
TeYis, d. o. Mills and Herman and
isaac LleDeS, the last TWO OF Sdn IRAN
cisco, and also the only survivors OF
the five who originally formed the
company.
Illegal Killing Alleged.
The females and the young seals have
been slaughtered, it is charged, in spite
of the fact the company is restricted to
the killing of two-year-old males. What
the committee will try to find out is
why the alleged illegal killing OF seals
has been permitted.
Many protests have been made TO the
department and to Congress. Among
those who have protested are William
7. Hornaday. head OF the New York
Zoo and the late DR.. Charles Sprague
Smith, president of the Peoples Insti-
tute. Prof. Elliott, who made an
exhaustive study of the seals for the
Smithsonian Institution, has fought hard
against the course pursued.
Elliott is an authority on seals, and
his table of weights and measures Is
the standard in the London market for
seal furs. 1t is charged the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor has been
repeatedly informed OF the facts, and
yet nothing adequate has been done. A
long closed season for fur seals is one
of the remedies proposed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28

lHS l<OH6 course, VIII also De
made by the delegation.
According to advices received by Man
ager Ted S. Johnston, of the Buick
Motor Company's Washington branch.
the Buick Company is now manufacture
Ing 100 cars a day, this being tne limit of
the present capacity. 1t is believed the
seasons output will reach the sum Of
1900 cars.
Roy D. Chaplin. president of the Hud-
son Motor Car Company, sees nothing
ahead but fair weather in the automo-
bile business for this year. Running
back to 1901. when the first automobile
production of any size started in this
country, have watched the up-and-
season." he said. at used to be the an.
nual prediction of the croakers that the
next season would always show a
slump. The real facts are that no in
SGustry IN America SO consistently has
increased in volume year after wear"
A party of motorists, including Mr..
ana Mrs. Joseph Strasburger and Mr..
and Mrs. I. Cans, left Washington to-
day on a three days automobile tour
through Maryland, Virginia, and Penn
sylvania: Today's journey will he 10
Frederick and Braddock Heights.
Monday the party will 90 to
Gettysburg, and after inspecting the
Monterey, and Pen Mar, returning TO
Martinsburg, w. Va, via Hagerstown.
Decoration Day will find the tourists 90
Ing down the Shenandoah valley, with
Winchester, Middletown. Woodstock,
and Luray Caves the objective points.
On Wednesday the tourists will re-
turn by way of Winchester, Charles
Town, W.. Va, and Shepherdstown,
crossing the Potomac river to the An
uetam battlefield and thence back TO
Washington by way of Braddock
Heights and Frederick.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Insanity Trial for Hay,
Who Attacked His Son

A lunacy jury in Chief Justice Cla-
baugh's court will next Thursday test
the sanity Of Harry E. Hay, the de-
partment cerk who almost killed his
six-year-old son, Kenneth, with
Ratchet. and then tried to cut his own
throat with a razor March is in his
home at 1923 Park road
Attendants at the Government Hos
pital for the Insane say Hay has shown
little appearance of insanity since his
confinement there. If he is declared
sane by the jury criminal prosecution
may follow. The boy is nearly restored
TO health, although suffering from par
tial blindness. His skull was fractured,
and he was unconscious for days after
the attack. Mrs. Hay has visited her
husband frequently at the hospital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Vain Hunt for Parents
Of Abandoned Boy Baby

A little mite of humanity, thirty-dve
hours old, probably will become one of
the unidentified many in the Washing
ton Home for Foundings because the
efforts of the police to ascertain who
abandoned it on the asylum steps last
night have so far been unavailing.
Together with the police of the Third
precinct. Central Office Detective How
ard Vermillion investigated the case
According to the facts now in the hands
of the police, the baby boy was ADAM
doned early Friday evening. Some Of
the nurses heard the baby's cries and
went to the front door, where it lay on
the steps. The child was clothed in a
cheap linen dress, around which an
old black shirt had been wrapped.
There was nothing about the garments
to furnish clue to the child's pa
Ientage.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Ryan Illness Slight;
He'll Be Out Soon

NEW YORK. May 2s.-An infection
on the leg is the serious" illness of
Thomas Fortune Ryan, hefalded over
the country and causing turmoil and
uneasiness in financial centers.
MIR. Ryan has been suffering from
mild infection on the leg. which
prevented him getting around. 1t has
been treated and he will be out short
ly There is absolutely no evidence
Of any constitutional trouble"
This is the official bulletin of Mr.
Ryan's physicians. Drs. William H.
Rockwell and George T. Stewart,
puncturing the reports of the finan-
cier's dangerous illness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Ambassador Bryce
Praises De Sumichrast

BOSTON, May PA communication
from James Bryce. British ambassador
at Washington, was read at the fare
we'll dinner to Prof. and Mrs. F. c.
De Sumichrast at the Tuilleries today.
Prof. De Sumichrast, who has been pro-
fessor of French at Harvard, has re-
tired from educational work, as far as
teaching Is concerned. He intends to
spend his future in England.
The following is portion of Ambas-
sador Bryce's letter:
Prof. De Sumichrast has shown an
excellent grasp of those conceptions
which the empire embodies, and has
been unwearied in his efforts to make
them familiar and living to British
minds abroad, who now see and ought
TO see in them influences favorable to
peace and good will al over the world"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
French Cruiser Pays
Visit to Boston HarbOr

BOSTON. May 28.-On a two days
visit to Boston. the French cruiser
Distress arrived in the upper harbor
yesterday. The cruiser is here otter n
visit to Newport, which port she left
late Friday.
After leaving here she will proceed on
her cruise along the coast of Newfound-
land. Many people from the French
colony in Boston visited the cruiser dur
ing the afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-28
Haggin Orders Employees
To Shave Every Day

LEXINGTON. KY. May 2s.-Believing
that whiskers act as incubators for
germs. J. B. Haggin, multimillionaire
owner of Elmendorf stock farm of 5000
acres. has ordered that each of his en-
ployes snail be shaved every day. A
large barber shop is being installed.
with a 500, 200 bath room. The privi-
leges Of facial and bodily cleanliness
are to be given free.