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Evening star., 1911-08-30
FLEETS CRUISE POSTPONED.
Repairs Hold Up Sailing of the Pa
cific SQUADRON.

The proposed cruise of the armored
cruisers South Dakota, West Virginia.
California and Colorado of the Pacific
fleet from San Francisco to the Hawaiian
Islands has been postponed from Septem
ber Is to October | on account of repairs
to the South Dakota. In the meantime
the three other vessels will rendezvous off
San Diego for preliminary maneuvers
with the Pacific torpedo fleet. The trip 10
Hawaii will be made under command of
Rear Admiral Chauncey Thomas.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
CELL FOR GENEROSITY.
Boston Man Arrested in Gotham for
Giving Coin Away.

NEW YORK, August 3o.-The generos-
ity of John B. Prescott of Boston landed
him in police station cell last night
\ howling, scramblng mob of nearly 800
persons on the Bowery was acting like a
crowd of college boys in cane rush
when the police reached the vortex of the
disturbance and found Prescott hurting
silver coins into the street. An officer
who arrested him did SO almost at the
risk of his life at the hands of the mob,
which was enjoying the fruits of Pres
colts liberality.
The man was locked up on the charge
of disorderly conduct. Nearly 500 in
small coins was found in his pockets. He
had planned to distribute it all to the
mob which had gathered round him.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
MUST ANSWER W|FE'S
SUIT FOR MAINTENANCE
N. A. Bowen, Who Got Divorce
Unknown to Her, Made
to Give Bond.

Michael A. Bowen. whose wife, Cora
A. Bowen, recently learned that he had
secured an absolute divorce from her
in Cincinnati last month and then re-
turned and lived with her. was re-
quired today by Justice Stafford to
give bond to remain in the District of
Columbia His stay here is demanded
until the determination of a suit for
maintenance instituted today in the
District Supreme Court by the wife
through Attorney George c. Gertman.
Mrs. Bowen tells the court they were
married in Cincinnati October 16. 1895.
but have lived eleven years in this
city.
They have two children. Hazel, six
lteen years old, and Mabel thirteen
years old. who are in the wife's Gus
tody. The wife says November %,
1909, her husband filed suit for divorce
here and on her emphatic denial of the
charge of misconduct preferred by
him and realizing the falsity of the al
legation entered the suit was dis
missed.
Her husband lived with her, Mrs.
Bowen says. until November. 1910,
when without cause, she ayers, he told
her he was going west to visit his
people May II last. according to the
wife's petition: Bowen, representing
himself to be resident of Hamilton
county, Ohio. filed suit there for alb
solute divorce. charging desertion by
the wife and cruelty.
In connection with these proceedings,
the wife says, Mr.. Bowen made an affi-
davit that he was unacquainted with his
wifes whereabouts and that her last
known residence was COvington, KY,
where notice of suit was mailed to her.
A decree of divorce was entered July 3,
1911, and the custody of the children
awarded the father, according to the
copy of the Ohio court record filed with
the petition of Mrs. Bowen.
Said Nothing of Divorce.
The husband returned to this city, but
said nothing of the decree to his wife, and
proceeded to live with her.
Mrs. Bowen swears she never deserted
her husband and children, and was never
cruel to him. She says she has not been
in Covington, KY, for seven years, and
then only on short visit. The conduct
of her husband in twice suing for divorce
from her is inexplicable to her, the wife
declares, and she is at loss to under
stand his motive.
July % last the husband took his wife
and two children to Ridge, Nd, ana
WnlIe there MIS- boNei "a. Si.c io' ~"
of the suit i'm Cincinnati. On inVestlga-
ton she found the decree and has en-
nIoyed counsel to have il annulled.
Mrs Bowen complains her husband mas
never provided for her corhmensurately
with his income. She states lie conducts
a saloon at 4O7 10th street northwest and
a billiard business on 9th street, and has
$4,000 in bank.
Since his departure, the wife says.
he travelled extensively and sent her
postcards from Newburg, Ind: Savan-
nah and Atlanta. Ga; Cincinnati. Ohio;
Richmond Va: Evansville, Ind: Mo-
bile, Ala: Newport, KY; Louisville,
XIV, and Memphis, Tenn.
Her husbands brother has been
sending to her from her husband $40
a month, Mrs Bowen says, for the
support OF herself and two children.
This sum the wife declares inadequate
and requests that she be given an In
creased allowance.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
A. KAHN, o35 F St.

to be weighed. He wouldn't weigh IL for
me. but a policeman came at that time
and when he made them weigh il II was
two pounds short"
Morris Within, proprietor said his
clerk had made a mistake. and that was
all. The mistake cost SIS Leo Schoen-
thai. deputy sealer of weights and meas
ures. was in court to assist Assistant
Corporation Counsel Schuldt conduct the
case.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
Louis McLane Hamilton Dead

NEW YORK. August a0.-News reached
this city of the death in Paris of Louis
McLane Hamilton, a great-erandson OF
Alexander Hamilton. He was native OF
New York city and a former lieutenant
in the United States Army. He was
court-martialed in 1903 for using offensive
language and again i'm 1908 for being ab-
sent without leave. He had been in Paris
for some time
Evening star., 1911-08-30

United States cities have adopted it and
twice as many are now considering it.
At the same time the growing tendency
on the part Of citizens to act as business
stockholders, selecting their executives
regardless of party politics. supporting
them and at the same time holding them
to strict account, using the short ballot
and city-wide direct nominations as a
means of getting the right man. and In
some cities the initiative. referendum and
recall or any of them as a means of di-
recting, restraining and removing their
agents. are among the varied means sug-
gested and employed. But all agree that
il is the spirit of the community and
not the form or machinery OF govern
ment which is the all-important thing.
Good government can be had under bad
forms and bad government under good
forms.
'It is. therefore, the solemn and JOY
Gus duty of every man. woman and
child living in these great porulous.
wealthy. needy cities of ours to be
right and to see that the spirit of the
city gets right in patriotism of peace
equal to the patriotism OF war.
The Athenian Oath.
Every boy and girl should be train
ed to willingly take the oath Athens
administered to her youth Yes, every
one of us might we'll swear such al
legiance. Hear 1t:
I'VE Will never bring disgrace to
this our city by any act of dishonesty
or cowardice, nor ever desert our suf-
fering comrades in the ranks; that we
will fight for the ideals and sacred
things of the city. both alone and with
many: that we will revere and obey
the city's laws and do our best to in
cite Il like respect and reverence in
those who are prone to annul or set
them at naught; that we will strive
INCREASINGLY to quicken the public's
sense Of public duty; that thus, in all
these ways. we will transmit this city,
not only not less. but greater, better
and more beautiful than it was trans
mitted to us ;"
Evening star., 1911-08-30
Will Distribute 100000 Trees.

ALBANY. n. Y, August 30.-The New
York state conservation committee will
distribute 100000 trees to private land
owners for use next year The plan is
to assist in tlie efforts being made to
reforest idle lands.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
MISTAKE ON SCALES
COSTS BUTCHER SIS
Judge Pugh Assesses Fine on
Charles Porter for
Short Weight.

ut is very singular thing that these
scales which cheat always cheat the GUS
toner and never cheat the man on the
other side of the counter. l have never
yet heard of pair of scales that went
back on the owner"
That is what Judge Pugh said in the
Police Court this morning just before
fining Charles Porter fifteen dollars for
selling six and quarter pounds of shoul-
der in place of the eight and a half pounds
for which Mary w. Smith. colored, had
asked.
Mary Smith had gone bargain hunting
along Louisiana avenue last Friday morn
ing, and was attraced by the meats of
Morris Within, 952 Louisiana avenue. She
told the judge she had asked the price of
meat. and had been told by Porter that
shoulder was selling for IL cents that
morning.
Evening star., 1911-08-30

Mrs. Catherine S. Roelkey. seventy
seven years DID, died Monday at the Dun
kard Old Folks Home at San Mar. She
was a native Of Frederick county, Md.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
Awakening of the Cities.

"A city. like a man. is body, mind and
spirit. 1t is more than the individual
citizens, for it lives un and is not only
a legal but an actual entity separate from
them. Even in the nineteenth century
there was little community consciousness,
and generally the citizens thought of their
city simply as a place in which to make
money and spend money. City patriotism
was almost unknown: hence in the United
States the general failure of municipal
government. hence the terrible indictment
of one Of the greatest Of our cities as
corrupt and contented.' On both sides of
the invisible line which does not separate
the Dominion from the Republic, now,
fortunately. closer friends than ever,
thanks to Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Presi-
dent Taft, we were too busy in that
period of construction to think fully of
what we were doing. to see far ahead or
to look much below the surface.
But late in the last century noble men
and women appeared in different cities
who began to see what the city might
be and what their particular city ought
to be and then to try to make other peo
pie see the vision, too. Like all men of
vision, they were first ridiculed as vision
aries. but the braver ones fought till they
got a hearing and then until they got
others to see what they saw. Books, peri
odicals addresses, the organization Of
such national associations for mutual inn
provement and inspiration as the Union
of Canadian municipalities have SO al
fected that great sovereign OF us all.
public opinion as to change the entire
mental attitude of most intelligent peo-
pie. Now that the whole world has been
made a neighborhood by the marvellous
facilities for intercommunication and
measurably a brotherhood by the marvel
Gus development of fraternal interest.
every city learns from all others, and at
the breakfast table we compare notes.
discuss failures, plan successes and hear
en- one another to new endeavors.
Evening star., 1911-08-30

At Jed, w. Va, Rock Scabo. an Ital-
ian. stabbed Jesse Hayes to death after
a quarrel.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
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Evening star., 1911-08-30

BENJAMIN J. Lewis. ifty-eight years old
well known resident of Hacerstown.
Nd died Monday at his home.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
Declares Her Innocence.

Vt last Inspector Shaneberger was pun
10 work TO run down the writer. and the
evidence he secured during the last two
months caused him TO make the COM
pIant that resulted in Miss Dewitts ar
rest. She declares she is innocent. and
says she has also been receiving let
ters from the anonymous writer.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
The Mind of the City.

But as no thinking being can he con-
tented simply with physical development,
our cities have now also a noble discon-
tent with the Improvement of their mind
The educational system. including public
schools of all kinds. up to and including
city colleges: the public libraries and
museums and public Fairgrounds, all the
forms Of public education. show the evil
dence of this new feeling. Public play
grounds. indeed. have been practically
created in the past decade. They have
not entirely passed the stage of ridicule
by the ignorant. including persons of gem
eral intelligence and education, of whom
many oppose every. step forward. The
need for them had to be shown first by
public-spirited citizens, who provided
them until the municipality took them up
offlcialiy. as was the case with the kinder
earten and other modern improvements
in public education. But now they are
on municipal programs and municipal
budgets, and millions have been spent
Evening star., 1911-08-30
SAYS Clerk Made Mistake.

Then this man, who sold me the
meat, said the boss was not around. so
he could sell me the shoulder for. 10
cents. He put it on the scales quick and
took it off again. When I got home I
thought it was light so I took it back
Evening star., 1911-08-30
Character of the Missives.

In nearly all of the letters the anony-
nous writer attacks either the charac-
Ter OF the person TO whom the letter IS
addressed or that OF some near relative
or friend. In several instances there are
charges OF criminal conduct.
For nine years these offensive. annoying
letters have been received and many
complaints have been sent to the postal
department. Several inspectors and secret
service men have.been assigned to fathom
tIe case and failed.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
The City Beautiful.

Naturally. When We were nrSt Wdken-
ed up by our more progressive citizens.
we first thought of the body of the city.
The city beautiful became the natural OBJ
ject of those our side Of the line at
least, who suddenly opened their eyes for
the first time to see that they lived in
smoke amid ugly and incongruous build
ings, with unattractive highways. often
poor and almost always inadequate, and
without suitable parks. park space. trees
and other esthetic essentials. Even Wash
| ington, which has more esthetic advan-
tages than other American cities, deter
mined in 1900 to be really a beautiful
capital and celebrated its centenary by
| engaging Burnham, Olmsted, Saint
| Gaudens and Mckim to report what could
be done. They. after months of study at
| home and abroad. wisely reported that
| there was nothing better than George
Washington's plan for the federal city.
and that simply 1t should be carried out,
not only in the city of Washington, but
throughout the District of Columbia. The
National Capital. maintained half by the
| national government and naiI py tns
$4,000 residents, has the interest ana
over one hundred million dollars in mu-
nicipal construction and current expendi-
lures during my administration
Other United States cities caught
the idea Of city planning. as IL was
| called engaged as advisers those or
| other experts and now over nifty cities
| have adopted plans for developing a
| civic center of principal public build :
ings and from that parks. avenues and
| boulevards which shall in the course
of wears avail of every natural op-
| portunity for making the city beauu-
| full over one-half million dollars has
| been expended in such plans in the
United States. and they call for the
expenditure of at least FIVE hundred
times as much money in the course OF
the next fifty years. No such program
of city establishment was ever dream
ed of. or at all possible before. 1t
is the united endeavor, as 1t were. OF
our modern municipal civilization even
though each city has acted separately.
All our other cities will follow the
example and many of them have al
ready taken steps toward it. At the
end of this century cities Of incom-
parable beauty will be found in all the
states and provinces of America
Evening star., 1911-08-30
CHARGED WITH WRITING
MANY OBSCENE LETTERS
Young Woman Arrested in Pennsyl-
vania After Evading Detection
for Nine Years.

EASTON. Pa, August 3o.-CharEed
with having written hundreds of anony-
nous letters of a scurrilous defamatory
indecent character, and sending them
through the mails TO more than a score
If residents Of this city, including clergy
men, business men and women, Miss
Harriet Dewitt. daughter OF one of the
city's we'll known and respected citizens.
has been arrested. and is held in bail
for a hearing Friday before United States
Commissioners Turner.
Evening star., 1911-08-30
SEEKING THE IDEAL
H. B. F. MacfarIand Discusses
Twentieth Century City.
NEW BIRTH OF CIVIC SPIRIT
Addresses Union of Canadian Mmic-
ipalities.
TELLS OF REF0RMERS' AIMS
Commends Commission Form of Gov
ernment and Points to It's Opera
ton in the District.
TELLS OF REF0RMERS' AIMS

Special Dispatch The Star.
QUEBEC, Province of Quebec. August
3o-Mayors and officials of every Cana
dian city. including many representatives
from cities in the United States. gath
cred here yesterday for the opening ses-
sion OF the annual convention OF the
Union Of Canadian municipalities. which
convened in the city hall. with welcom-
ing addresses by the lieutenant governor
of the province and the mayor of Quebec.
Henry B. F. Macfarland of Washing
ton, former District Commissioner. who
was the principal speaker of the evening,
made strong appeal for the twentieth
century city. embodying the most mod
ern ideas of civic government and i'm
provements. Mr.. Macfarland took up the
commission form of government. which
he asserted to be the best form under
taken by American cities, and cited the
Washington government as an example.
The Twentieth Century City.
Mr.. Macfarand spoke as follows:
The twentieth century city is the only
one l have known officially, for l began
my service as president of the Commits
sioners, the executive government of the
District OF Columbia from which l re-
tired last year, with the opening of the
century. But it was not the opening
of the century which made Washington
twentieth century city. for there are
nineteenth century cities and even eight
eenth and seventeenth, and in some coun-
tries medieval cities even in the twen-
tieth century In this, as in all things,
We are cotemporaneous with all stages
of civilization. The city, which is the
SYMBOL of civilization. may belong to any
nf he CT ppS hn fr1fp fv1-on f{ofh
tury city is one which is conscious of its
duties and opportunities as the present
heir of all the ages and is striving to
meet them fully. In a sense every city
in Canada and the United States. thanks
to the decade of civic awakening through
which we have just passed. is a twentieth
century city. But We all have in mind
an ideal twentieth century city. to which
the best of our cities is only approaching
more rapidly than the worst
Evening star., 1911-08-30

On Basement Floor, with the bar
gains quoted above, are Decorated
Cups and Saucers, Vases, Puff Boxes,
Tooth Pick Holders. Ash Trays,
Bread and Butter Plates, Deco
rated Pitchers. etc. Worth up zc
Evening star., 1911-08-30
See These Two Tables Full.

Carlsbad China Salad Bowls,
Figures and Vases, 10 inches high;
Oatmeal Sets, Chocolate Pots, Cake
Plates, Comb and Brush Trays,
Jardineres, Cuspidors, etc. 17~
Worth up to S1.0O. .... n0S
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-02
Needful Knowledge
Norwich People Should Learn to Detect the Approach of Kid
 nsy Disease.

The symptoms of kidney trouble ere 70 unmistakable that they leave no ground for doubt. Sick kidneys ex- crete a thick, cloudy, offensive urine, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding. The back aches constantly. headaches and dizzy spells may occur and the victim is often weighed down by feeling of languor and fatigue. Neg lect these warnings and there is dan ger of dropsy. Bright's disease, or dia : betes. Any one of these symptoms IS warning enough to begin treating the kidneys at once. Delay often proves fatal.
 You can use no better remedy than Doan's Kidney Pills. Here's Norwich proof:
 D. J. Brown, 6 Summer Street, Nor wich, Conn.,, says: The results that followed the use of Doan's Kidney tory. I procured this remedy at N. D. Sevin & Sons Drug Store. and in view of my experience can heartily recom- mend it as an excellent preparation for toning up the kidneys and relieving aiI complaints due to disordered kid neys."
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. New York. sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name--Doan's-and take no other.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-02
GINGERBREAD MAN.
Described in Story and Then Eaten
 by Cradle Roll Children.

The older children of the Cradle
 Roll of the Congregational church met
 at Mrs. F. A. Faust's Wednesday af-
 ternoon at four o'clock. They had
 regular opening exercises, and then
 Mrs. Faust read to them Trip with
 Everyland. Then as a preparation for
 their surprise which is awaiting them
 at every meeting, she read the Ginger
 braed Man story, and as they march
 ed through the rooms after the story,
 they were confronted with an array
 of gingerbread men,. They sang songs
 and enjoyed themselves exceedingly.
 Their collection was Al cents, good
 sum for little people. Those present
 were Robert Hogg, Lena Morrow, Is-
 abel Marshall Freda Walsh, Bessie
 Thompson, Alice Shak, Dorothy and
 Payson Hooper, David Ballou, Mildren and William Burton, Anna Campbell, Daisy Young, Harry Paul, Carl Mel win. Bernice and Gerald Wolfe, Henry Hill and Gladys Jeffers.
 Captain Phelps Death Regretted. Mrs Clara Sweet Phelps, the wife of Captain Henry $. Phelps. is sis ter of Dr. J. Byron Sweet of Griswold. of the sudden death of Captain Phelps in New London early Tuesday morning.
 Frank H. Tiilinghast of Central Vil- lage was in town on Wednesday. To Stack 1000 Tons of Ice. Shea Brothers have finished harvest ing their ice crop and have $500 tons If the weather holds cold, they pro- pose to stack about 1000 tons neal their big houses. Last year, they were obliged to stop supplying Boston milk cars earlier than they would have done had their supply for local consumption been larger.
 Personals.
 l Mir. and Mrs. Charles Carlyle of Norwich spent Tuesday with MT. ane | Mrs. Charles E. Spicer.
 Mrs. Abbie Kenyon of Moosup spen l Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. Nancs Barrett and Mrs. Mary Burdick. | R. L. Frost returned Tuesday iron l Backus hospital.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-02
NOANK
Captain Stone to Command One of the New Steamers-Fraternity Meetings.

The funeral services of Mrs. Orrin Miner will take place in New London this CThursday) afternoon. Burial IS to be in Noank Valleye cemetery.
 Mrs. Walton Potter called on friends in New London Wednesday.
 Captain Henry Specht is spending a few days in town.
 Mrs Melville Daboll and Miss Mar garet Joyce are guests of friends i'll New York.
 Mrs. Edwin Carson of Pearl street is the guest Of her daughter, Mrs. Walter WoIverton, in Norwich.
 Mrs. Kate Adams is visiting her sis ter. Mrs. Prue Chesebro, in Mystic.
 Captain Ellison Lewey has returned to Boston, after a short visit with his family here.
 To Command New Steamer.
 Captain and Mrs. Stone are keeping house in the Myron Chester tenement on High street. Captain Stone is to have command of one of the steamers under contraction at the shipyard.
 Miss Eva Ashley has returned from a visit to friends in Massachusetts.
 Mr. and Mrs. George Specht have returned to Taunton after visit to Mrs. Henry 5pecht.
 Miss Nivienne Sta'bler of New Lon don is visiting Miss Eleanor Lamb.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Tryon of Elm street are entertaining Miss Hattie Slocum of New London.
 The Daughters of America helG their meeting at Mechanics hall Wed nesday evening.
 The True Blues are busy preparing for fair.