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The Washington times., 1911-08-27
'MiSBRANDING" LAWS
MAY GO TOO FAR

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Having suggested to the pure food
authorities the prosecution Of certain
people guilty of grossly misbranding a
certain product, l wish to suggest that
good sense counsels a reasonable toler-
ence of some kinds of misnaming.
The resolutions passed by the Stew
ards Association in favor of the pure
food law reminds me that l myself. as
steward and caterer. have served twenty
tons of chicken salad made without
shortening-that is to say, without
The salad was made of turkey, which Is
just as good, and 4 good deal better.
and cheaper than chicken for salad.
Chicken salad is trade name. There is
no chicken salad in a hotel run by a
man who knows his business. In such
pure food people will err If they prose-
cute for the innocent deception. Turkey
salad is better than chicken salad, but
no one would like to order turkey salad.
But If a man attempts to serve veal
salad for chicken salad the pure food
people might we'll protest. Yes, there Is
a good deal In name. The Govern
ment itself, in an effort to induce peo-
pie to eat certain fishes, well baptized
but badly christened, suggested to fish
dealers that 1t might be we'll to give
them prettier names.
Citizens, let us pause: the nation Is at
the parting of the ways. Must West
phalia ham disappear frcm our hotel
menus unless it can prove that its
germs were made in Germany? Surely
1t is not crime-eXcept against the
bird-to serve a Washington pigeon as
a Philadelphia squad. Any SQUAD. re-
gardless of nativity, becomes a Rhila-
delphia squad when cooked over a slow
fire.
Friends of liberty! shall a cook be
shackled II he serves a saute la chas-
seur and eats or fails to insert ths
truffes? Must he certify under oatn
and in duplicate that his English plum
nuddins was made in England?
Arise, Americans, or you may yet De
forced to import your French preaa
from France your Irish stew from
Dublin. In conclusion, with all possiDie
EX-STEWARD.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

two policemen make a small boy who
did not look to be over ten years Of
age back his horse. hooked to a Dayton
wagon, f1fty-five feet by actual mea-
surement, WREN they could have let him
60 on ten feet the way he was going
and he would be out of the trap they
had allowed him to go into. This small
boy was mace to back his rig all this
way. The only assistance from the two
policemen was the waving of their Cluts
in front Of the face of the horse the
small boy was driving l was behind
this boy and tho Dayton wagon and
got out easily.
l demonstrated with the officers for
the work they did. They jeopardized the
life Of the boy and the property he mad
any minute of backing into the excava-
tion and being mixed up with all that
underground work of the street rail-
way | considered that those men, for
the work they did that day, should be
Centured by their superior officers. |
wrots to the Commissioner Of the Dis
trict, &hc has charge Of the Police De-
partment I received an acknowledS-
nent from him OF my letter.
Now, comes the funny part: ten days
after the occurrence 1 am served with
a summons to appear in Police Court
10 answer the charge of driving on the
wrong side of the street at Twelfth and
streets southeast, on the fourteenth day
of August. If these men had considered
/ had done anything to be arrested for,
why did not they srrest me then! |
gave them plenty of Opportunity for l
stonped and told them what 1 consid-
cred poliqeman's duty is in sucn
cases. Did the officers do this of their
own yolition or were they made TO do
II by their superfors?
Nov. Mr.. Not A Kicker, I see where
your head Is level by not signing your
1on,e ]. D. ROBINSON.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
TRUTH OF THE BARBARA
FRIETCHIE INCIDENT.

Special interest attaches to the story
which the late Henry Clay Naill, of
Baltimore, used to relate as to the real
incident which Whittier immortalized
in his ballad of Barbara Frietchie Ac-
cording to this interesting gentleman,
who at one time was surveyor of the
port of Baltimore, he knew Dame
Barbara well, and was intimately ia
miliar with the facts.
As he tells the story, two Incidents
were welded into one, by the imagi-
nation of the poet, and, clothed in
poetic form, the story has gone around
the world. And yet both incidents
were ludicrous in their nature, rather
than heroic.
1t appears, from the Naill narrative,
that Dame Barbara displayed no flag
whatever, but that a few soldiers
from "Stonewall" Jackson's army went
into her garden without permission
and drew some water from a we'll The
old lady berated them in a mixture of
English and Pennsylvania Dutch for
the unwarranted trespass, and then in
a spirit of fun two of the soldiers went
up on her porch and threatened to
drink up Barbara's buttermilk-
whereupon she expressed her opinion of
them and of the whole art of war in
terms which were vigorous rather than
polite.
Further down the street of Fred
erick lived young Mrs. Quantrell. 1t
is slyly intimated that she well knew
she would be entirely safe in making
a little grandstand play as the soldiers
marched by, so she rushed out to the
gate waving a small American flag. The
young fellows who composed the army
greeted her with good natured badin-
age, asked her if she was prepared to
accept their surrender, and, in short,
made her SO ridiculous that she finally
went back into the house.
The only command given by the gen.
eral was to "pay no attention to-"
1t was generally understood, accord
ing to Mr.. Naill, that she was very
much chagrined to find that Dame
Barbara had won Immortality by the
incident. At all events there was moth
ing like
Shoot, IL you must, this old gray
head" etc.
Because, in the first place, it was not
an old gray head, but a very young
and attractive one, while on the other
hand the real Barbara was defending,
not the honor of her country, but her
garden sass and her buttermilk.
Thus do the iconoclasts break down
our most cherished traditions.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
CAPITAL DRUMMER
MAY GET A PLACE
IN MARINE BAND
Thomas L. Randall, But
twenty-five, Is Recon-
mended for Position.

Thomas L. Randall, master drummer,
and recognized as one If the most skill
full man!pulators of snare and kettle
drumsticks in this country, probably
will become first drummec In the United
States Marine Band on September l.
The recommendation that Mr.. Randall
be appointed to the position to be made
vaCcnt by the retirement on that day Of
Benjamin Johnson. Tor twenty-five
years first drummer of the Presidents
own band" has been made to the Presi-
dent through the Navy Department
What action will be taken has not teen
learned.
Mr.. Randall. who is only twenty-five
years old, Is a Washington young man,
and since his youth has occupied q
prominent position in local musical cir
cleS. For years he has played with
Washington bands and orchestras.
There is scarcely a theatergoec in the
Lieut.. William H. Santelmann, who
knows a good musician when he hears
one, has observed Mr.. Randalrs WORK,
and the young mans application for
Johnson's position accordingly was in
dorsed.
Mr. Randall now is the first drummer
in the band at the United States Naval
Academy, at Annapolis. He has been
in the service of the Government for
only one year. When it became known
Washington with the Marine Band. the
officials at the Naval Academy and the
middies in general sent up protest.
They did not want to part with his
services
During the next two-or three days
Lieutenant Santelmann hopes to ges
definite information regarding the ap-
pointment
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DR.. MARY WALKER NO OCTO.
GENARIAN.

:, Washington will always take a
friendly interest in DR.. Mary Walker,
and it shares in her resentment of GER
tain statements exaggerating her age.
The distinguished physician and ex-
ponent of masculine attire for women
recently offered to sell one of her
fingers, with the intention of using the
proceeds charitably. The little incident
has given DR.. Walker a great deal of
that notoriety for which she has SO
pronounced an aversion.
But the worst of it all is that in
writing up her offer, and incidentally
sketching her life and eccentricities for
the thousandth time certain ungallant
newspapers made the perfectly ridicu-
ious statement that the estimable lady
is eighty years of age. She was on her
way to the G. A. R. encampment at the
time, where she annually foregathers
with the boys in blue and talks over
old times, but she stopped long enough
to send back a statement to the effect
that her family records show she will
mot be eighty years of age for years.
She does not attempt to deny that
she was old enough, during the period
of the civil war to render very valuable
hospital service, but this is no reason
why slipshod newspapers should at
tempt to convey the impression that
she might have shaken hands with
Lafayette or that she made mud pies
with Mrs. Amelia Bloomer.
We dare say that among the vet
Grams in attendance upon the encamp-
ment at Rochester no step was more
spry, no heart more blythe, than those
of DR.. Walker. Indeed and in truth
she is growing younger every day. This
newspaper eXaggeration is merely a
covert effort to cast odium upon the
costume which DR. Walker sees fit to
wear. The penny liner would convey
the impression that it makes a woman
look older than 4 be is-whioh would
be fatal to the feminist movement
throughout the world.
In point of fact it only goes to
prove, what Mr. Edmund Burke re-
marked some time ago, that the age
of chivalry is gone.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
MORE OVERZEALOUS 81
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
In Sundays edition is an open letter
to you by one who signs himself Not
A Kicker" Now Mr.. Not A kicker'5
points were very we'll taken, and all he
said in the letter should have been said
and more could be very easily written
on the same subject, and then it would
not be overdone.
But Mr.. Not A Kicker did not sign
his own name and 1 want to tell you
why: Because if he had. that police
man would take special pains TO get
something on him even II ne nag 70
TRUMP II up. Now, am speaking from
the card. On August a. l saw about
the rawest piece of police work that 1t
has been my fortune to see since came
to the city twenty years ago. l saw
at Twelfth and B streets southeast,
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
Native of Illinois, He Was
With First Volunteers
for Civil War.
SERVED HONORABLY,
THEN STUDIED LAW
Pension Plans Will Be His Most
Serious Effort in
Office.

sion system applicable to the veterans
of the civil war.
Wanted Office to Aid
In Plans for Pensions.
One of his chief objects in desiring
to be elected to the position of COM
mander-in-chief was that he might bs
able to further his pension ideas. At
the Rochester convention his friends
recounted his pest work along that line.
A native of Illinois, where he was
born about sixty-seven years ago, Judge
Trimble has ST ent the greater part Of
his life in the Prairie State. At the first
call to arms made by President Lincoln
at the outbreak Of the civil war he en-
listed with the Ninety-third Illinois
Volunteer Infantry. Throughout the
four years struggle he remained with
this organization, and rose to the rank
of captain.
In some Of the fiercest battles Of the
war Captain Trimble was at the fr1lA
He was wounded several times, but re-
mained with his brigade under all con-
diticns. The Ninety-third Illinois was
a fighting organization, composed Of
fighting youngsters. Trimble himself
was barely twenty years old when be
enlisted, and, like hundreds of his COM
rades, he was not much taller than the
short guns issued To that brigade.
Took Up Law On Close
Of Long Civil War Service.
At the close of the civil war he re-
turned to Bureau county. He rested for
awhile and then took up the study Of
law. He was associated with some Of
the best known attorneys Of that part
of the Prairie State during his student
days. 1t was only a few months after
receiving his diploma. and passing the
State bar examination that he entered
into the active practice of his profess
sion. He built up a good practice, which
he still retains.
He was made probate judge soon after
he became an attorney. being elected TO
that position. He held this fifteen years,
when he resigned to become common
pleas judge. He held this office six
years.
In 1902 he was made department COM
mander of the Department of the 1lli-
nois, Grand Army of the Republic. He
served in this capacity one year.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
Life Insurance Company
Of Virginia Is Building

The Life Insurance, Company of vir-
ginia has just begun the erection Of
a handsome new office building on Capt.
tol street in Richmond, the home city
OF the company. The old buildings have
been removed and the new structure is
expected to be ready for occupancy next
spring.
soonest in the South, being Of stone
and steel construction, fireproof
throughout, and occupied entirely by
the owning company,
This company does a large business
in Washington, where 1t Is represented
the company in various capacities for
the past sixteen years.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
German Societies on
Marshall Hall Picnic

The excursion of the United German
Societies to Marshall Hall today call
ed out a large attendance. The morn
ing boat, was well filed. the o'clock
boat was crowded. and hundreds
more are planning to take the s
o'clock trip.
There was no formal program.
Members of the several German sing
ing societies will give impromptu
numbers, and members Of the gym
nastic team of the Turn Verein will
give an exhibition.
The excursion. arranged by Emil
SPAIN, is for the purpose of raising
money for the fund to entertain the
convention of the National German
American Alliance that will meet in
Washington in October.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
Preston Gibson Buys
Historic Furniture

Preston Gibson. clubman and play
wright Of this city, has purchased the
library furniture used by King Lud-
wig I, In his palace in Bavaria, in
1S4S. Mr.. Gibson is in Bavaria search
ing for the costly furniture which
Ludwig lavished upon the Countess
Lansfeldt, better known as Lola Mon
tez famous beauty and adventures.
In addition to the library furniture
he has bought several gold chairs
that adorned the main foyer Of the
palace.
Mr. Gibson will use this furniture
in his new play, Lola Montez," which
will depict the adventures of the
young King and the countess, which
scandalized the courts or Europe. Mr..
Gibson also Is obtaining some first
hand data for the production, and ex-
poets to acquire some of the furniture
and trapping used by Loda Montez
in her private bed chamber.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
Rapid Extension OF
Postal Bank System

Rapid strides are being made by Post
master General Hitchcock in the exten-
sion Of the postal savings bank system.
In the course of the next two months.
every first and second class office in
the country. and many third class Of
fees will be accepting deposits. Banks
are now in operation IN every second
class office, and more than a hundred
first class offices have been designated.
Sixteen of these will open for deposits
at 9 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
It is estimated the banks will keep in
this country nearly hundred million
dollars that is annually sent by money
order to Europe for deposit In govern
ment banks.
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BILE, and then saw him veto revision
of it.
1t is made up of people who believe
the President was progressive before
election, but reactionary after.
1t is made up of people whose loyalty
to party traditions and names has been
hopelessly weakened by the per-
formances of the last three years.
The President confronts the crisis
of his Administration in the forthcom-
ing stumping tour; and he has shown
the country how he expects to meet it.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
TIMES is GROWING
IN POPULARITY
To rne Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Please accept my sincere corfmenda-
ton for your able and concise reports
of the Wiley case and excellent edl-
torials on the same 1t was an ACT
of providence when the people elected
the present Congress. Otherwise those
frauds would have gone on forever
The increasing and Sever-growirs iopu-
Iaritv of The Tines Is because we have
one paper In this city that Is not C"nea'
lock. stock. and barrel, pY,rINHSSrrSS pY INHS Gu
ministration. 1CN
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
He Got It.

Lady-Yes, I've an umbrella that
needs mending, but how am to know
that you will bring It back?
Umbrella Mender-Have no fear, mum.
I allus charges more for mendin' than
could sell the umbreller for.-Red
Hen.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
Seeks Custody of Epps.

A requisition for the return to Fair
fax county, Va, of Edward Epps. col
ored, upon a larceny charge, has
been received from Governor Mann Of
Virginia at the office Of the United
States District Attorney.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

a small number Of his comrades. those
few supporters had confidence IN MIN.
and in the whirlwind campaign which
carried him tc his present high position
this confidence was shown.
Judge TrimbIe has taken only a small
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

part in the affairs of the national or
ganization of the Grand Army of the
Republic, In his native State. however,
he has been the prime mover in depart
ment matters. For the last several
years he has given close study to a pen
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In the Mail Bag x

write frankly with letter
public
or
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The record shows that the sane Fourth
once more reduced the number of
deaths and injuries as compared with
previous years. And toward this end
Washington contributed her full part.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

Will Rear Admiral Peary please rise
and settle this dispute as TO whether
there are any red-headed Eskimos in
the frozen North?
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

The rain falls upon the Just, and
therefore the meetings at Great Falls
had TO be curtailed yesterday. That
kind OF overflow meeting was not SO
popular.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

DR.. George e. Myers leaves many
warm friends behind him, but the fra
tsrnity memberA whom he opposed, find
consolation.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

Seen anything o: Ernest P. Hoye
around here? His sister out IN Texar-
kama would like to hear rom him.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

Circus day came and went without 80
much as affecting the peanut market.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

high. HIS fraternity associates gave
him a delightful banquet last night at
the New Fredonia- ..
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SUNDAY. AUGUST q, 1911.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

The net total circulation OF The Washing
ton Times (daily) during the month OF July
was !, ,lS7, $40, all copies lef1 over and returned
being eliminated. This number, when di-
vided by 26, the number OF days of publIca-
tion. shows the net daily average for July
TO have been $50.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
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., 1911-08-27
Rumor of Taft Support
Did Not Dismay Winner.

But Judge Trimble was dndismayed by
this report. He called his lieutenants
into conference and had a little talk
with them.
If the President has indorsed Colonel
McElroy. we are doomed. But we do
not know that he has. Nothing has
happened to show that he has not But
nothing official has come from the
President that he les. Until we receive
definite information. we will not throw
up the sponge"
The lieutcnants left the conference
room, went into the assembly hall and
renewed their work. Judge Trimble was
elected
His earnestness and "stick-to-it-ive-
ness" which characterized his recent
campaign, always have been his chief
qualifications. Known officially to only
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

The Indian Head experiments show
that the new gun invented by Admiral
Twining has a greater range than any
airship that has ever flown, so there
seems nothing to do but to learn to
soar higher or use armor plate.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

The net total circulation of The Washington
ran soq 57s All cipjes len over and retuTne5
by agents beingf eliminated. This number
when divided byI5, the number Of Sundays
during July. shows the net Sunday average
for July &c have been 40,5l5.
Entered at the Postoffice at Washington,
d. c.. as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27
New Commander-in- Chief
Victor in a Notable
Battle. 4.
DISTRICT VETERANS
r. NEARLY SUCCEEDED
Only Determination and Refusal
to Quit Won in the
Last Hours.

Judge Harvey NJ. Trimble. who has
just been elected to the highest position
In Americas most honored and famous
military organization-the Grand Army
of the Republic-is a native Of Illinois.
He Is highly respected by those who
know him, but he has a limited ac-
quaintanceship.
Judge Trimble, after the results Of
Fridays election at Rochester were
made known, had the distinction heap
ed upon him of defeating for the posi-
ton of commander-in-chief. a recog-
nized leader in Grand Army circles, and
one of the most popular Of the sur
viving veterans Of the conflict of 81
Col John McElroy. Of Washington.
He became commander-in-chief Of the
Grand Army Republic only after one
of the most vigorous and spirited cam
paigns seen in that organization for
years. He went into the convention
feeling he would be elected. and never
once changed that belief.
Two or three days before the election
some friend of Colonel McElroy, his
opponent, circulated the report that
President taft indorsed the lat.er's can
didacy. This was unknown to Colonel
McElroy II served to strengthen the
latters cause, however, and for awhile
1t looked as II the Washington candI-
date would receive an overwhelming
maiority
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Total for month. 233, ia
Sunday average for month. ............ 46,623
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Sunday.

The number of complete and perfect copies
Of Tie Washington Times printed Sundays
duting the month OF July was as follows:
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The Importance of the Government
aviation school at College Park, as one
OF the sights of the Capital. grows
daily. The school will have seven ma
chimes by October l, and the number
will be increased to fifteen before next
summer.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

The children of the Columbia Heights
playground have at last come to the
sad realization that they can play there
no longer. The youngsters have been
reading a big sign at the playground.
which DEGREES that they must vacate
September %.
The Washington times., 1911-08-27

While so many young girls are break
ing swimming records in every bay and
inlet on both coasts. Carl Carrick and
Edward J. Ford, out at the Municipal
Bathing Beach, are valiantly uphold
ing the honor Of their sex and of the
District
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The departure of DR.. w. F. R. Phil
lips, who goes to Mobile to accept the
chair of anatomy in the University of
Alabama, is a matter of deep regret
to a large circle of friends. AS dean
OF the George Washington Medical
School, he was very popular. and in
knights of Pythtas circles he ranks
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courageous in the declining years Of
his life as he was at the front in the
EOS. 1t appears the coloneFs injuries
in the Manchester wreck were received
while rescuing an unfortunate woman,
and the gallant old soldiers friends to-
day have the assurance that he will
speedily recover.