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The Washington times., 1911-04-28

officers in the past, with all their ex,
cellent qualities, have not been guilt
less of the same kind of conduct. Those
responsible for the reflection cast upon
Miss Beers could offer practically no
explanation. There was nothing to be
done but tender complete apology.
But all this concerns the superior
officers alone. The midshipmen have
not figured in it, except to the extent
that one of them was responsible fol-
the invitation to Miss Beers. On the
very face of it this was anything but
snobbery. The midshipmen are in a
delicate situation. They are being
severely criticised all over the country
and at the same time, under the naval
regulations, they are not allowed to de-
fend themselves. 1t is hoped that the
facts as set forth in The Times OF
yesterday will go far toward vindicat'
ing them from the unjust aspersions
which have Been cast upon them, and
that the real blame may continue to
rest just where it belongs.
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RECORD PRICE FOR
GRAYS "ELEGY At
HOE BOOK AUCTION
Forty-fve Hundred Dollars
for Copy Which Once
Sold for Sixpence.

NEW YORK. April 2s.-Another great
record was made at the Robert Hoe
sale last night
This was $500. price for a COPY Of the
first edition of Gray'es "Elegy." The
highest previous price paid for that
work was s1.R5. given Dr. Rosenbach
at the Van Antwerp sale in London, the
sale in which the record price was made
on q Shakespeare's first folio.
1t waS secured last night by Samuel T.
Clark. acting as agent for Ernest D.
North. Printed by NJ. Cooper, in Lon
don, in 1751, its price was sfxpence a
copy, or exactly 1850 times less money
than was given for it last night
The night session of the sale, after a
rather dreary afternoon, TOOK on the
aspect of lively awakening. Its total.
realized on 1S numbers of the catalog,
was 33,607.O. That sum brings the
grand total to date UP to $3.50, ,341.50, and
there are still six remaining days of the
sale of this part of the collection.
A Franklin imprint, Cato's Moral
Distichs,' a copy with all edges uncut,
printed by Franklin at Philadelphia in
l735, and containing the unusual pref
ace by Franklin. "The Printer to the
Reader" started at $3.50, and by rapid
advances was brought to $, 800, where it
fell to George D. Smith. Mr.. Hoe had
paid $500 for 1t.
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NOT THE MIDSHIPMEN WHO
ARE SNOBS.

1t is distinctly unfair to the midship-
men at the Naval Academy that they
should be held up to the public as
''snobs" because of the indignity put
upon Miss Beers by their superior Of
ficers. 1t should be borne in mind that
it was, midshipman who invited and
escorted the young lady to the hop
which has now become nationally
famous, and it is not surprising to
learn that practically the entire stu
dent body stands squarely behind him.
They have shown by their attitude
that they regarded. the young woman
in question as entitled to the social
recognition offered her, and that the
blame for the unfortunate incident
which occurred at the dance belongs to
the "men higher up"
The hasty intimation from these Of
ficers that the young lady's social
status was impaired by the fact that
she earned her living may not have
been snobbery. but at any rate it was
something very much like it. Naval
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The Result of the Poll for President:
First Choice.
Second Choice.

every school district in the United
States. though the great bulk Of its
readers are. of course, in the Middle
West.
These figures have been discussed in
the greatest detail, dissected, analyzed,
and projected over the whole political
situation OF the country. by many Of
the most important politicians in Wash
ington. In both Administration and
anti-Administratson circles they have
been accepted as OF large significance.
though weighed differently by different
calculators.
OF course, the big, striking first fact
that impresses is that Roosevelt gets
more first-choice votes than all the 9TH
ers put together. The Roosevelt voters
are almost all frst-choice men. La Fol-
lette, Bristow, and even Taft have more
second choice support than first; but
Roosevelt has five times as much first
choice support as second.
Next to this in significance is the poor
showing of President Taft. With all
the prestige of being a first-term Presi-
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dent and a candidate for denomination,
he gets less than 10 per cent as many
votes as were cast for Roosevelt, only
one-fourth as many as went to La Fol-
lette, and barely more than one-half as
many as were cast for Bristow.
The Bristow vote, Of course, is the
compliment OF Kansas progressives to a
favorfte son. But, aside from this one
element, the general conditions indi-
Gated by the poll may be projected over
the whole middle West with some rea-
son to regard them as fairly indicative
Of comparative strength OF men,
The cold, uncomfortable fact remains
that Kansas Is not Taft's State, and no
more Is It La Follette's State. There is
no favorite son sentiment that prompts
the people Of these States to give La
Toilette four times as many first-choice
votes as they give Taft, and more than
four times as many second-choice votes.
President Taft, by any analysis that can
be made, appears woefully weak in the
middle West.
One of the most interesting deductions
from the table is made by a Western
Senator who analyzed It thus:
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Report Shows Increase
In All Food Supplies

A healthy increase in the supply of all
food animals except cattle and decrease
in receipts Of grain at primary markets
were the features of the March mar
kets. it was stated today in a report by
the Bureau of Statistics. of the Com
merce and Labor Department.
The supply Of hogs was said to be
especially notable. March receipts being
1892, ,76, or nearly 60 per cent larger
than the receipts for March, 1910, and
nearly as large as the tremendous re-
ceipts of March, 1909, when they were
more than 100000. The receipts of cat
tie at the seven primary markets was
approximately per cent below the
average receipts in March for five years.
Sheep and calves also showed Increases.
March shipments Of packing house
products showed a considerable Increase
for this year over March shipments in
1910 and 1909. Cured meats alone showed
a decline in the monthly shipment.
The total grain receipts at fourteen
primary markets for the month was 81
9629 927 bushels, compared with 66,27, 091
In 1910 and 63,S57,1 ,1I bushels in 1909. Flour
shipments for March showed a decline
from 3,35S,645 barrels in 1910 to 2.I14,123
for 1911.
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La Toilette and Bristow
Strong in Divided In
surgent Allegiance.
INDICATES NOTHING
COULD STOP COLONEL
Wisconsin Senator, II Candidate,
Would Fight Hard for Middle
West Delegation.

'Bristow is the insurgent favorite Of
his close friends at home. He stands
for insurgency in their eyes. After him,
most Of them would be for La Toilette,
in all probability.
add together the La Toilette and
Brstow votes, on first and second
choice, and you have 10,917. That is
against 1859 first and second choice for
Roosevelt and against 1,705 for Taft. It
seems very clear that the insurgent SEN
timent is in tremendous majority. The
Roosevelt and La Toilette strength Is
all representative of protest against
Taft. The President seems to have only
1,76 first and second choice votes.
against a total of 22,2s7 first and second
choice votes for Roosevelt and La Fol-
lette."
From these. analyses, the deduction
has been freely made that IL Roosevelt
is candidate, nothing can stop him; /;
that IL he is not a candidate, and If the
La Toilette candidacy, now regarded az
an actual fact, is pressed, the Wiscon-
sin man will give Taft a hard fight for
the middle Western delegations.
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Relations With Mexico
Described i'm Munsey's

Throughout the long Presidency Of
Porfirio Diaz, which began in 1sT. the
relations between Mexico and the
United States have been, On the whole.
of a peaceful, even prosaic, character.
Several factors have contributed to the
maintenance Of reciprocal good feeling.
One Of them is the recognized states
manship Of President Diaz himself. An
other Is the fact that during most of
this time. until recently. Mexico has
been at peace within her own borders,
and foreign interests In the republic
have been secure.
A third consideration is the increas-
ingly close commercial and Industrial
relations of the two countries. and the
frank recognition in Mexico that the
prosperity of the nation is in no small
measure dependent upon the capital and
enterprise Of citizens Of the United
States. OF eleven hundred foreign min
ing companies now operating in Mexico
1t is said that 81 per cent are controlled
by United States citizens: and of the
fifteen thousand miles Of railway In the
republic, more than twelve thousand
have been built by American capital
Munsey's Magazine.
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FEDERAL STATUTES TO
SOUND LIKE ANTHEMS.

If the laws and ordinances of the
country henceforth adopted are as dry
as summer dust it will be because they
retain nothing of the grace and charm
with which they are given their official
readings. All Washington congratu-
lates the House of Representatives on
the wisdom it displays in selecting
bluff, good natured pat" Haltigan as
reading clerk. He has a voice, as they
say in Kerry, which can coax the
fishes out of the sea. He has proven
it on many rostrums where his services
as a spellbinder are in constant de-
mand, whether it be to hymn the
glories of the "ould sod" on the birth
day of his namesake, or to bring to
Washington the international conven-
tion of stepmothers. That fine Celtic
fancy of his shimmers and glows with
dazzling splendor and rolls with mel
lifuous fluency.
We foresee some astonishing results
in the deliberations of the lower house.
There is grave danger that the round,
golden notes with which he reads bills
and resolutions will give them an al
together deceptive aspect of merit. The
measured cadence of his barytone
running scales up and down an ap-
preparation bill, will make it seem
right and proper to appropriate what
ever funds may be in the national
treasury. If snakes" are cunningly
coiled beneath the plausible surface of
measure, that velvet voice will un-
consciously exert the spell of the snake
charmer.
The experience through which he
must pass in executing a dull routine
will be irksome to one so much ac-
customed to wander over those frag-
rant expanses of thought "where tides
of grass break into foam of flowers
To wean his mind from soaring SMILES
and chromatic adjectives, and narrow
it to the drab monotony of whereas
and "be it enacted" will! seem like de-
grading Hyperion to a satyr.
The Federal statutes have never been
set to music in the past, but hence
forth, in the process of the making
they will sound like moonlight sonatas
No man in Washington has more
friends than pat" HaltigaR. Con-
gratulations are in order, less for
Haltigan than the House
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ONE SORT OF OLD-FASHIONED
WOMAN NEEDED.

In the early days, before everybody
including the children-knew how to
call up Central" grocer in a small
town declared that the two most effec-
tive inventions of the devil were the
book and the telephone. Twenty
years afterward, not only grocers but
every other sort of tradesmen would
as soon think of doing business on a
back street and advertising with hand.
bills, as to attempt to get along with
out their "phone-order" trade. My
lady lays aside her book, gives a
magic number, has an impersonal say
and the stuff arrives. At the end OF
the month the bill arrives. The Sa,
tanic quality of the passbook and the
telephone is still in working order, but
it is the consumer and not the grocer
who pays the freight.
This matter of the telephone has re-
Gently been taken up seriously by the
civic league of New York women as il
large part responsible for the high cosl
of living. There is more in it thar
an idea. Not alone the extra delivery
expense which the grocer and the
butcher must bear to make the deliv
cries incident to the phone service il
to pay, but there is the greater cost
of lack of personal attention. Mar
keting is a highly individualized mat
ter. 1t is in many ways an art. Il
cannot be delegated successfully, mucl
less put off on a mechanical invention
What comes over the telephone is, per
haps, good. 1t is not as good as i
might be, or as it would be if marke
baskets were half as common on tn,
streets as hobble skirts.
Recently several big papers hav'
been doing large business with cor
respondents on the matter of the "old
fashioned woman" There have beel
many views of many kinds. But il
the multitude of expenses that 60 t.
make income metaphysical retro
spect, the telephoned order has its Ger
tain part. One good sort of oldfash
ioned woman was she whose inquisitiv
thumb marked the quality and who's
eagle eye assured the quantity of tn
meat which father blessed at table.
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Former President Gets More
Votes Than All Others
Together.
POOR SHOWING OF
TAFT SIGNIFICANT
President Gets Fourth AS Many
Votes As La Toilette, Half As
Many As Bristow.
By JUDSON C. wELLIvER.

'~wanted-A President for 1872"
That was the caption under which
the Valley Farmer, of Topeka, Kan,
for two months conducted a poll of Its
readers to determine how they stood
on the Presidency. The poll has just
been completed. and the results. re-
ceived in letters from Kansas and quiet
ly circulated among statesmen, have
aroused the keenest interest.
The Valley Farmer is owned by Ar
thur Capper, who also owns the To-
peka Capital Capper is one OF the big
gest progressives in his section, and his
paper has a circulation in which 1t Is
assumed that progressives predominant.
However, the Farmer is in no wise
political, and all kinds OF farmers In
Kansas, Missouri. Nebraska, and Okla
homa take IT.
1t is the boast of the Valley Farmer
that it has one or more subscribers In
The Washington times., 1911-04-28
Tom L. Johnson Left
No Will, Widow Says

NEW YORK. April 2s.-The statement
that former Mayor Tom L. johnson, OF
Cleveland, left no win was made in the
application of his widow for appoint
ment as administratrfx.
Mrs. Johnson stated In the petition
fiied Yesterday afternoon that 30 far she
had been unable to find q will. She
filed a bond of $s50, 900, and averred that
the estate In this county Is worth about
$125. COO.
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ASheVille Citizens
At War Over a Baby

ASHEvILLE, N. c., April 2S-Con-
tests over a founding have stirred
fashionable circles. Mr.. and Mrs R. H.
Jellard have the child again, but only
after much persuasion and show of
force.
The baby, about six weeks old and
nicely dressed, was left on the doorstep
of the Jellard home. 1t was turned
over to Mrs. Victor Stern, but Mr.. and
Mrs. Jellard later decided they wanted
applications came from persons who
also wanted the baby. The child's par
ents are said be prominent local resi-
dents.
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Nbat's on the Program, tn
Washington Today.

Twenty ninth Church Congress, sessions
at Continental Memorial Hall, at 1890
a. m. and 8 D. m.
International Congress on Child We'll
fare, the Arlington. session at a. M
Gems of the Opera" by the Washing
ton Chorus Club, Odd Fellows Hall,
423 Seventh street northwest, s p. m
Reception for the Rev. Robert L. Fult1
by the members Of the congregation,
at the Epworth NJ e. Church, Seventh
and A streets northeast, 5 D. m.
Dance and entertainment, under the
auspices of the degree team Of Kalli-
polls Grotto, No. Is, NJ. o. v. P. E RI
tween Ninth and Tenth streets north<
west, tonight
Concert for the benefit of the Children's
Home Of Alexandria, Calvary Baptist
Illustrated lecture by James B. ]. Ari
chibald. China as q World Power"
the Playhouse. 1914 N street northwest,
The following Eastern Star chapters
will meet tonight: Takoma. No. Il;
Cathedral No. A.
The following I. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Central.
No. 1, and Metropolis, No. 16, degree
4, grand visitation.
The following K Of P. organizations
Will meet tonight: Lodges-Syracus-
ian. No. 10, page rank and esquire
rank. Rathbone-Superior, No. 29. spe-
cial services. Pythian Sisters-Rath-
bone Temple, No. s, regular business.
Interscholastic debate. between Business
and Eastern High Schools, at Busi-
ness High School. S:15 D. m.
Man In the Ditch" Y. NJ. C. A. 9
entertainment for the benefit Of church
baseball team at North Carolina Ave
nue. Methodist Protestant Cnurcn. TO-
Final meeting of the Home and School
Association to be held In Sumner
school, Seventeenth and NJ streets
northwest. tonight.
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POLITICIANS WATCH
WILSON FOR EFFECT
OF STUMP ING TOUR
Old-Fashioned Oratory and
Storytelling Apt to
Win West.

Politicians are craning their imag-
nations as to how GOV. Woodrow VIII
son is going to take among the COM
mon folks when he goes on his Western
trip for the purpose, as they are giving
it out over in New Jersey, of getting
acquainted.
VIII the governor make a hit as a
public speaker travelling up and down
the country in quest of support, max
ing the proverbial Swing around the
circle preliminary to a run for the
Presidency. or will he be a fizzle and
a. failure2
It depends .on the way DR.. Wilson i'm
presses the Westerners on this occasion.
II he makes good with them he will be
extremely formidable as a factor In
the Presidential situation. If he fails to
get on well with the West his chances
for the Presidential nomination will
be greatly crippled.
DR.. Wilson's friends here say that
the fact he has so long been a college
president has given many people an
entirely wrong impression of him. He
is not the stiff and dignified person that
one is apt to imagine the college presi-
dent to be.
Old-Fashioned Politician.
IT have never known a man, who,
though a college president, has so COM
pletely the makeup of the old-fash-
ioned politician" said a friend of DIR.
Wilson today. II believe he will make
a great hit on the stump. He Is won
derfuI story teller. ! have sat and lis
tened to him by the hour and never got
tired of listening to his stories. There
is nothing stiff or formal about him. He
is entirely natural. He has a keen
sense of humor and he grasps the point
of anything told him instantly. He has
a most clear and incisive method OF
speaking on the stump and I believe
that he will be well liked by the West
ern people among whom he is going In
short time"
Can't Beat Clark's Oratory.
OF course, when 1t comes to speaking
in that homely phrase that is dear to
the hearts of the people, DR.. Wilson
has no edge on Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,. AS a stumper Champ Is an at
traction not to be sneezed at. Neither
is your Uncle Judson Harmon, for that
matter.
Some of Speaker Cark's friends are
worried Just now over the question OF
how he is going to take with that body
of Democrats that sweaers eternal al
legiance to Grover Cleveland. In one OF
his lapses of oratory, when he was ap
parently not listening to the buzzing o1
the Presidential bee, Mr.. Clark said, In
effect, that the election of Grover Cleve'
land was one of the worst crimes the
country ever committed
Probably Champ would give goodly
| sum IL he could now efrace that speech
from record and from the memory OF
the voters. In a heated campaign, some
Of his friends fear 1t may come up tc
trouble him, and especially they fear il
may help some of the other candidates
win the nomination.
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Amusements.

Nattonal-Mlle. Trentini In Naughty
Marietta" S:15 p. m.
Reiasco-Edith wynne Matthison In
sfThe Piper" S:15 p. m.
Coiumbia-Columbia Players In "Aris
zona," S:15 p. m.
Chase'|Consul and polite vaudeville,
2:I5 and Sis p. N.
Academy-"James Boys In Missouri
Maiestic-"Sapho," tonight.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville. 12:4a
to IL p. m.
Lyceum-"The Florida StrolIers." 2:15
and 8:15 D. m.
Gayety-"Behman Show" 2:16 and
8:15 p. m.
Arcade-Motion pictures, skating, and
bowling, afternoon and evening.
Howard-"Star of Zanzibar"
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spread by flies and mosquitoes would be
reduced to the minimum in Washington.
The proposed merger Of the Chamber
Of Commerce and the Board of Trade
has struck a snag. The membership
of the Board Of Trade is against 1t, and
will so report TO the directors of the
Board on Mondav. The membership
committee has done good work in get
ting new members in the last few
months and may Re pardoned If it does
not get very enthusiastic about consol-
idation. The same energy, however.
in behalf of a united organization would
produce even better results. If the d.
rectors are alive TO the interests of
Washington, they VII promptly turn
down the membership committees re-
port.
The Washington times., 1911-04-28
PL ANLUNCHEON TO
AIDPLAYGROUNDS
Teachers and Pupils in Anacostia Have Aroused nteres
of Parents in Helping to Maintain Recrea-
ton Plot.

Those who will represent the Ana.
costa chapter are Charles r. Linger
president; Miss lola Gator, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Crawford, Misses Virgie Stone
Catherine Potbury, and Albert Haven.
nsr.
The Anacostia Methodist Episcopal
Church will be represented this year by
two baseball teams which will play a
schedule Of games on the Christie place,
selected from among the married and
the unmarried men Of the congregation,
with the view Of having each side dis
play its ability on the diamond. At
recent meeting of the men w. c; James
was chosen as the manager Of the nine
representing the married men. and Rus
sell Phtpps was named to manage the
unmarried mems nine. Daniel c. Smith
son was selected as one Of the two oni-
one game each week until probably
July, when two games each week VIII
be had. II was announced that MT.
Smithson has secured the use OF tne
Christie grounds for the ball teams.
William Reed, living on Douglass
road, aged thirty-three years; was
struck on the head by the crank OF q
windlass last evening as he was helplns
to haul bricks from a well. He went
to the office Of a physician, ana tne
wound was closed with a number OF
stitches
A colored woman Of advanced years
was found on the Baltimore and ONO
railroad tracks near Anacostia last
evening by Sergeant Cornwell and Po'
uceman Horton. She was unable to tel
anything concerning herself except thai
her name Is Priscilla Scott. She said
she walked from Upper Marlboro, Prince
George county, Md. She was dressed if
rough clothing, with skull cap, and ap
peared to be mentally deranged. While
at the Anacostia station house she
talked in a rambling way about having
seen George Washington when he was
Young man, and other men famous III
history she asserted she had known
mentioning Lincoln and Zachary TaJ'
lor.
She was sent to, the House Of Deten.
tion to await Identification. She could
not tell her age.
There was a fire in the woods at the
Anacostia and Ridge roads last night
which was extinguished by No. Chemi
cal Engine Company. The reserve:
from the Anacostia station Responded
also.
Miss L. Daisy Green, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Green, Of Arecostia
and Turner A. Chinn. also Of this place
were married on April 10 in Fredericks
| burg, Va, and announcement OF theil
marriage has just been made. Thel
] will return to Anacostia to live.
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Couch for Motorists.

A pneumatic couch has been invented
for the comfort and convenience of mo-
torists who must lie on their backs be-
meath cars to make repairs.
The Washington times., 1911-04-28

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month OF March
was 1883, all copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number,
when divided by 4, the number of Sundays
during March, shows the net Sunday average
for March to have been 42 lSS.
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Sports.

Meeting of Marquette League. at Ma
tionai Guard .Armory.
Meeting of Commercial League, at 6z7
Louisiana avenue northwest.
Meeting Of Riders and Drivers Associa.
ton, at st. James Hotel
Meeting Of Sunday School League. a
"a Eleventh street northeast.
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Washington's tanest man leaves town
today to make his debut with ''the
greatest show on earth" So they leave
US, the big as we'll as the great.
The Washington times., 1911-04-28

The eternal litigant" confined in st.
Elizabeth's is living up to his reputa-
ton by going to law to secure his Hb-
erty.