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Says Circulars Are Held Up.

Mr.. Morrison also made the allegation
that the postmasters Of Chicago and Min
neapois had failed to deliver circular let
ters sent out by the federation.
We understood, he said, that a let
ter addressed to any clerk with the title
Railway Postal Clerk after the name
would have immediate delivery when
properly stamped. Yet the postmaster at
minneapolis held up delivery on the
ground that the addresses were improper
and the postmaster at Chicago notified
me after five weeks that eighty of these
letters were being held in his office. To
see IL this discrimination was general, |
wrote the postma ster at Washington and
New York and was advised by them that
patches Of letters with similar addresses
had been promptly delivered from these
offices through regular mail service
channels
Mr.. Morrison was asked if government
clerks wished to organize In order to
strike for their demands.
Even on railroads the strike is the last
resort" replied MIR. Morrison. 1T is far
fetched to say that there may be a strike
OF government employees This is not the
way to get their rights. The employees
want the right to petition their represent
atives in Congress. Their remedy lies in
legislation. but under executive order is
sued by President Roosevelt and APPROX ed
by President Taft they are forbidden in
any way to petition for a redress of
grievances or to ask for increa s,ad pay
The postal employees have been ntmi-
dated. ! have scores of letters that /
can present to the committee from clerks
who are afraid to make move for their
own betterment.'
Difference of Opinion.
After all, it is a mere matter of DIFF
ference in opinion regarding administra-
ton suggested Representative Yalcott
a committee member.
Call 1t that if You like said Mr. Nor
rison. The clerks In the railway mail
service want protection they want steel
cars TO insure greater safety: they want
promised in the democratic platform. and
they want reasonable hours and compen-
sation. l would regard these things as
more than a mere difference of opinion
concerning administration of the depart
ment."
Il think the administra ton agrees that
the clerks ought to have steel cars, such
az are provided on some of the roads
for passengers said Representative GIL
lett, "a republican member of the COM
mittee
The administration always agrees
but it takes its time about nstituting
these Improvements. was the retort of
Secretary Morrison.
The committee will meet again Friday
morning, when Mr.. Morrison will resume
He will be followed by Second Assistant
Postmaster General Stewart and by
President Nelson of the National Mail
Clerks Protective Association
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|GA|N UP BUSHES AND BULBS
Beginning Made in Culture of
Flowers in Park View.
BOTH SIDES OF PARK ROAD
Experiment in Charge of David
Fairchild, the President of
Peoples Gardens.

David Fa!rchild, president of the Peo-
pies Gardens OF Washington. superin-
tended the planting of about forty rose
bushes and several hundred bulbs OF
Montebretia in front OF forty houses on
the eastern end Of Park road northwest
and Manor Place northwest yester-
day afternoon. and the planting of
these bushes had in it horticultural dis
tinction which places that special section
Of Park View at the forefront of all
such garden movements throughout the
world.
The houses are on both sides Of the
streets, running from Warder street
down winding thoroughfare to
Soldiers Home. They are of the de-
tached and senli-detached type, red or
reddish brick. with white woodwork in
plenty the outside and all of them
having neat lawns surrounding them. They
are double rows OF very pretty houses,
INTELLECTUALLY similar and in general
giving even the most casual observer the
impression of pleasant neighborlness.
Neighborhood Affair.
j. G. McGrath, a resident of the neigh
borhood, is extremely interested in the
work OF the Peoples Ga rdens, and is him
of the Park View Citizens Association,
but explained yesterday that the plant
ing of the roses was not a citizens as
ISOLATION matter, but a neighborhood af-
fair.
The idea Of choosing the particular block
and flower was this: Peoples Gardens
aims to treat whole streets and rows and
away from the disjointed sight of a street
full of gardens, none OF which has been
planted with any idea Of the effect to be
produced by the garden next TO it. To
dens has now an expert gardener who has
dealt with this subject in other cities and
In other countries, particularly in Eng
land, where gardening has been brought
to high state OF perfection.
Mr.. Fairchild's Address.
The gardener had prepared trenches for
the roses in advance OF Mr.. Fairchild
arrival The residents OF the block on
both sides of the street met at the home
OF d. D. Cameron, 40 Park road, and
listened TO Mr.. Fairchiids talk. His story
of the rose bushes had a touch of world
interest in Il. The rose is a new hybrid
the Delight white one with touch
Of pink-and is not double rose 1t Is
the result OF the careful labors of rose
lover in Woods Hole. Mass. II Is said TO
be one of the toughest. most desirable
for general purposes, one of the best
climbers and to have leaves that hang on
like grim death 1t is diffused with the
blood" OF a fine Japanese rose. and al
together Mr.. Fairchild. who knows the
flowers of every country on the globe.
said that he believed that It was just the
rose with which to start an experiment
of the present kind
The roses were distributed by People S
Gardens through the generosity Of Bar
bour Lathrop Of Chicago. Mr.. Lathrop
has been a close friend of Mr.. Fairchild.
Indeed Mr. Fairchild said yesterday that
work OF the Department of Agriculture is
due to Mr.. Lathrop
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SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS
Agrees to Approve Expense Should
Investigation Be Ordered.
EXPLANATION BY CHAIRMAN
Senator La Toilette Indicates Pur-
pose of Pressing for Second Probe.
Senate to Decide.

The proposed second investigation OF
the election of Senator Lorimer Of ILL
nois by United States Senate committee
came step nearer to realization today,
when the Senate committee on contingent
expenses agreed TO report favorably Sen
ator La Follettes resolution on the sub
ject.
In announcing the result of the commit
tees action, Senator Briggs of New Jer-
sey. its chairman declared that the
merits of the proposal for a second ia
yestigation were not considered The
action OF the committee is simply TO the
effect, he explained, that if there is 10
be a second investigation the committee
on contingent expenses will approve the
expenditure of the money for it.
Senate Must Decide.
Whether there is TO be a second investi-
cation, he added, is a matter for the Sen
ate to decide, and the committees favor
able action is not TO be interpreted as an
expression from it that the second inves-
tigation should be made.
The next move Of the anti-Lorimer con
tingent, led by Senator La Toilette, Wall
be In the Senate, when the report or the
made. Senator La Toilette has announced
that he is opposed to a reference OF the
resolution to the Senate committee on
privileges and elections. That committee
in the last session made a report favor
able to Mr.. Lorimer, with only two dis
senting votes. and the anti-Lorimer sena'
tors fear reference of the resolution to
that committee might result in its being
pigeonholed.
Majority Vote for Lorimer.
On the committee on privileges aud
elections are fifteen members. OF those
nine--a majorlty-voted in Mr.. Lori
mer's favor at the last session. Both
of the dissenting senators on the com
mittee last session are now out of the
Senate Not only would all the new
members of the committee have to vote
for a second investigation, but two
of the old members who voted for Mr..
Lorimer would have to go over to the
anti -Lorimer forces to give favor
able report on the resolution.
A test vote would probably result.
should an effort be made to have the
resolution referred to the committee
on privileges and elections over the
protest of the out-and out ant. Lori
mer senator's.
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Alleged High Royalties.

In reply to Senator Smoot, the witness
said the royalty charged by the shoe ma
chine "tr!.st'' in less than year would
be sufficient to buy the English ma
chinery outright.
The senator commended that under these
circumstances the duty should not pre-
vent the American manufactures from
buying European machines.
Mr.. d. Oench declared however. that
the shoe manufacturers could not get all
of their machinery in England. and to
get part of it from the American con-
Germ they We're required to buy all.
Senator Bailey declared that il the re-
port of the hearing were transmitted to
the Attorney General it ought to make
trouble for the shoe machine trust
Senator Galinger said he thought pat
ents on machinery would protect the ma
chinery manufacturing company from the
charge of being a trust" Senator
Bailey asserted they would not
Partially to English.
Mr.. D'Oench said the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company sold some of its ma
chimes in England, and that it did not
bind the English manufacturers by any
such contracts as those in this country.
Milton s. Florsheim Of Chicago told
the committee that the American manu-
facturers had been obliged to sign a
seventeen-year contract, and that no other
shoe manufacturing company would enter
the field because II could not ma pur-
chaSer6.
No Trust. Says Weeks.
While the shoe manufacturers were
complaininR TO the Senate committee on
finance of the shoe machinery trust
Representative Weeks of Massachusetts
was declaring in the House that a 'benef'
icent monopoly by one corporation OK
such machinery enabled it to lease the
machines at a very low rate to American
manufacturers.
The clash Of testimony was almost
simultaneous Mr.. Weeks onered MS
TO the free list bill. The Senate hear
ing, while ostensibly on reciprocity. has
been thrown open to discussion OF
the free list bill.
Mr. Weeks used an array or SHOES,
brosans, boots slippers and sandals to
illustrate his argument against the
democratic measure. The lecture on
shoes drew the largest audience or
members that has listened to tar1n talk
in days.
samples and Mr.. Weeks undertook to
show that English-made shoes already
are gaining a standing In the United
States. and that the removal OF duty
would give large part OF the American
market to the English shOemakers.
There is no combination in the shoe
industry" declared Mr.. Weeks, nor In
the leather or tanning industry. There
is no trust or monopoly connected with
these trades.
Leases Cheap, Says Weeks.
Mr.. Weeks asserted that the United
Shoe Machinery Company by its cheap
leasing of machines had prevented
general combination among manu-
fActurers of shoes. Now the English.
French and German manufacturers are
adopting American machinery, styles
and methods, he said, and are prepar-
ing to flood the American shoe mar
ket. The removal o the tariff would
greatly aid the foreigners.
The machinery cost is the only item
in shoemaking that has not gone up
in the last ten years said Mr. Weeks
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Are Taking Precautions.

While credit is given to Gen Diaz, and
indeed to a large percentage of the popu-
lation of the city, for their friendly atti-
tude a a time when the official authority
is coIlapsing in so many places. and bar
harous crimes or what appear to be such
upon the information at hand. are being
permitted, it is natural that the 4,ut
american men here, upon whom in case
of emergency may devolve the duty of de-
Tending large number of women and
children. should Re taking certain pre-
cautionary measures.
While. of course, everything OF a provo
Cative type is being avoided. our colony Is
fairly we'll armed with pistols and am
lnunitiou. There are, however, very few
rifles available.
Unfortunately. members of the colony
and transients, who are principally refu-
gees from distant plantations and mines,
are scattered all over the city and IN the
suburbs. However with the genius OF
our race for organization, they are nat
uralIv falling into bodies of 100 such as
the hundred members of the Young Men 5
Christian Association and the University
club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-03
Ossian ]. Ryan, Frederick j. Ham
mer and George E. Clark Winners.
ONE MAKES TRIP EACH DAY
Contestants to Take Skyward
Journey at Benning Meet Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday.
Winners of Aeroplane Rides.
OS>ian j. Ryan
Frederick J. Hammer
George T.. Clark

Winners of the aeroplane ride contest
AT the coming Bennin2 meet have been
determined by The Star. After totalinS
the votes il was found that the success
ful contestants We're Ossian j. Ryan 949
18th street northwest; Frederick J. Ham
mer, lclo Euclid street northwest and
George T.. Clark HWi street northwest.
These will he given rides in the order
named tho first ride being on the open
lnS day of the meet. Friday of this week.
The rides will he for not less than five
minutes. The aviators have not Yet been
selected. but the furtiSs team at the meet
will he represented by Glenn Curtiss. J.
A. II. McCurdy. Lincoln Beachey, Hugh a.
Robinson and Roland Middleton.
The meet will occupy Friday. Saturday
and Sunday of this week There will he
not only air flights, but there will he
motorcycle races each day, a company
of the District National Guard camped
on the ground for guard duty and to aid
in the military experiments and a repre-
Washington. whose model flights will be
one of the features of the meeting.
The BOYS Aero club was organized here
by \. &. Wells some weeks ago. The
boys have been building models and fly
ing them ever since. and during the meet
there Will be regular contests of the mod
els for speed distance and altitude.
The boys have proved enthusiastic in
their work and there have been forty-flve
entries for the flights at Benning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-03

tragedy has brought them so near nome
to US in the capital, it is natural and right
that Americans here should be taking Sc
rious thought of their situation, and they
are doing so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-03
Machine Carries IA People.

The French navy rather favors diff
ferent type from the army. II is the
Breuget that has lately been heard of In
this country as the machine that carried
fourteen people at once. 1t looks rather
like an American biplane in front, but
has tail decidedly like the other French
monoplanes 1t is designed to carry three
people-an observer, operator and a
mechanic. The last named sits in the
Prov, the operator aft and the observer
in the middle. The machine is very pow
erful weight carrier and reasonably
fast. 1t is steadier in a wind than the
monoplane.
The first of the English aeroplanes de-
signed to carry artillery is the Sanders
biplane. 1t looks rather like an old-fash-
toned Wright machine. The bomb throw
ing gun is reported TO be a remarkable
weapon. Possibly because this is SO it is
being kept a great secret by the British
war office. 1t is possible that the secrecy
observed is the cause of some Of the
extrayagant claims that are made for it.
Another OF the English aeroplanes in
which a great deal OF military interest
has been displayed is the Bristol. II is
a biplane and several of this type have
been accepted for the British army, and
recently an order for eight of them was
placed with the factory by the Russia N
government. These are to be delivered
soon s they can be built.
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Aerial Target Practice.

One of the features of the meet will
be the military experiments. The Rem
ington Arms Company has arranged to
send one of their marksmen for aero
plane target practice. This is the first
time there have been any experiments
in that line here. There will be at least
one bOnb-dropphg competition between
members of the CurtiSS team, and mill
tary observers will be taken up to try
experiments with photography, map MAX
ing and wireless biography.
The most immediate interest in the
aeroplane is the possibility of its military
use. Most of the experiments that are
being tried now tend toward that devel-
opment. All of the European armies
have gone into that branch of the sport
very largely, and there are now more
military officers abroad who can fly
than there are aviators altogether in this
country. The Wright factories abroad
have been turning out military machines
for the use of Germany England and
France. and while the Curtiss company
has established no factory abroad. they
have sold some machines to the German
government and these are now being pre-
pared for delivery at the Hammondsport
factory.
The FRENCH army is ahead Of all COM
petitors in the military flying line One
of the favorite machines of the army that
is we'll known in this country, by repu-
tation at least is the Bleriot. OF this
French general staff They each carry
an operator and an observer. They are
intended primarily for scouting, but the
machines SO arranged that by open
ing trap at the feet of the passengers
they can be used for bomb dropping.
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PROBING THE TRUSTS

Continued from first page.)
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25

A handsome woman who had been
so unfortunate as to find occasion
to divorce not one but several hus-
bands was in Chicago, where she
happened to meet her first husband,
for whom. by the way, she always
has entertained a real affection.
Upon my soul, if it isn't Char
lie!" exclaimed the ex-wife, cordial
ly shaking hands with the gentle
man whose name she formerly had
borne. 1'm awfully glad to see
you, Charliew Then, after a visit
full expression of regret had come
to and been banished from her
countenance, she added:
"0ld chap, I've often wondered
where you we're and what you we're
doing. 1t was too bad we didn't get
on better together. | hope your ex-
perience hasn't been as unpleasant
as mine. I'm just sick and tired OF
marrying strangers"-New York
Press
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25
HORRORS OF SIBERIA.
sufIerinss Of ExiIsd Women Rsvels-
tionists Of Russia

One OF the most picturesque figures
among women revolutionists II Russia
Is Vera Figner. whose father was one
Of the distinguished generals ~ lie
NapOleonic wars. Betrayed by trai'
tor. she was condemned 20 twenty
years in the SchlllSselhurg fortress for
alleged participation In every one Of
the attempts on the life ~ the late
car. These incarcerated in this fer
tress are considered rs buried alive.
no intercourse or communication with
the outer world being allowed. not
even with their own nearest relatives.
But Vera Figner survived the horrors
Of twenty years solitary confinement
and exile IN Siberia and is still work
Ing for the enlightenment IL ignorant
Russians.
\ name revered by all Russian reyo-
lutiOniSts Is that II Nine. Sigida, who,
aroused 10 frenzy II indignation
through seeing an invalid female pris-
oner In the Siberian colony of Kara.
10 NulNu lufA uAu pNAh tNNh fNss'N,
flogced by wardcr. was herself fog
ged 10 death because she struck him.
In the prison records IL Is written.
mime. Sigida committed suicide by
poisoning herself" but truth, like muir
der. will out. and the crime Of the
warders Of Kara has been fully proved,
Terrible indeed We're the fortunes
and cruelty melted out 10 Marie Spiri-
donsva. who three years ago shot
Colonel Luzhanovsky, who logged the
peasants when they were unable 10 pay
taxes or ordered the Cossacks 10 shoot
down the strikers and TO torture their
wives and children. She was condemn
ed 10 death. but the inhuman treat
ment she had suffered before her trial
induced the authorities TO commute
the death sentence, although il would
have been more merciful TO have car
ried out the extreme penalty Of the
law, for today she is working out
miserable existence in Siberian mine
and is said 10 be the only chained
woman convict in Siberia.-London
Tit Bits.
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25

Thaekeray was not vain man.
and he disliked vanity in others and
made it the subject of his ridicule
and sarcasm. After long pleading
his family induced him to have his
portrait painted, and Lawrence, a
famous London artist, gladly I'M
dertook the task. Soon after the
picture was completed Thackeray
Glanced to be dining at his club
when a pompous officer of the
guards stopped beside the table and
said:
"Haw, Thackeray, old boy, | hear
Lawrence has been painting your
portrait
$50 he has," was the response.
"Full length?'
"No; full length portraits are for
soldiers, that we may see their
spurs. But the other end of the
man is the principal thing with au-
thors," said Thackeray.
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25
Daddy sBedtilne
Otoly- Saved by Beetle
Saved by a Beetle

- course youngsters you what beetle is:' asked daddy
~oh yes" Evelyn and Jack together and daddy went On
Wei is story u how beetle once saNeu
man from being Imprisoned in the s" lived man! years ago
ne was a nudge and and the people trfS' Nun g u-e vs."
when pv quarrel They called him the lus' jau-' ana
~, wise man for he really wise But sad ns al'
., ne enr ~ the country judge a- became Jealous 81 NM
afraid that tue people might
~ 'n ~ Ne snr instead his soldiers TO arrest the
,rre and had him locked the story Of hish tower
a window winch 2" e"" ~
o, roundabout looked eat from the WINDOW anu saw
Ma % string ana CRYING the She loved hf
sy and wanted 10 help him. could woman d" against W
wicked and all his soldiers: ,.-p..n
wbe The iuse saw his hut do a tell You
ps,,ps VAN can save u the wicked king Go home ana
90, these things ~ butter han ~ hne sk ol "
another of heavier cord ana @ Vt ss WV ~ ~
befor he soldiers
of time with the things now
said the man do Fsn end OF the me sA
Of the butter on It's head h
will climb window When reaches me
shall take of the silk must en the me cord
the end OF the thick cord you must W
bed IN this anu uel sa
slide down the rope shall together
her husband had told her tie '
the buer on the anxious reach "
course the oor climbing trying all The u
reach IL In short high the prisoners window
Then the man took of the thin cord then '
And he escaped from 'ne o"e '
wicked king how beetle saved a man.
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25

The language question In Belgium
has heea settled in favor of French so
far as Brussels is concerned. The
Belgian parliament decided some time
ago that the choice between instruc-
ton in French or in Flemish In the
public schools Of the capital should be
left to the pupils parents. a canvass
Of three Of the largest schools resulted
in an overwhelming vote for the
French language. OF the parents of
pupils IN the first school 26l out Of a
total Of 2G4 selected French, in the Sec
ond $3.50 out Of $40 made the same
choice. while in the case OF the third
school. situated in an Overwhelmingly
Flemish quarter, 45G parents out OF
470 decided for the same language, the
total being therefore: French, 1914;
Flemish. 1S.-London Globe.
The Monroe journal., 1911-07-25
sl;,h.r.' Luck

You're In pretty coed luck. amt re
partnerT- said 81 Hawkins as be
drove up 10 where Blithers sat on his
overturned automobile. which bad
most successfully emulated the turtle
IN getting over On its back
Luck growled Rlithers- Lack.
Do you call i; luck TO have your ma'
chine turned down side np IN the
middle of n muddy road and no derrick
IN your lit TO set her rightt
.Ya-as." returned S!las. with a pless-
ant grin. with all her machinery
turned up that way We don't halter lie
down on your back in the mud under
meath her 10 see what's gone wrong. -
Harper's Weekly.