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Expense Reduced to Minimum.

Some Of the land companies have their
own sleeping cars or lease them from the
Pullman Company and undertake to
lodge and feed the land-lookers at a
maximum expense Of 50 day each while
they are on the journey in addition to
the $50 or $25 railway fare. Parties
made up from the same neighborhoods go
together making very agreeable excur-
sion for the cold winter months
Mr.. Hilton tells me that the Frisco
Railway Company has expended more
than $4,000 advertising the Texas
coast and in working up the business
since 1907. most of the money having
is estimated that each new settler is
worth $500 per annum to the railroad
and therefore the company is satisfied
with the investment.
Upon their arrival the excursionists
are met by officers OF the boards of trade,
chambers Of commerce, commercial clubs,
industrial associations and other Or
CARNATIONS. which exist to boom the
mobiles SO that they can see not only
the rough land, but sections that have
been cleared and cultivated and planted
to orchards and growing crops. They
those who have gone before. and most
OF the entertainers were first brought
down to the gulf coast In similar excur-
sions. Those who have been successful,
ana mere are remarkably few exceptions.
are the escorts Of the visitors and tell
their own experience in their own way.
Being accustomed to meet such inouisi-
tors regularly twice month, they are
ready to prove their statements and con-
vince the doubling Thomases who appear
with every party.
They open their homes to the strangers
and give them a hearty and hospitable
welcome. There is nothing to conceal
there is nothing to regret: there has
Deen al al NJ
able crops which gives the entertainers
plenty to brag Of and a successful far
mer always takes pride in showing his
crops and corn cribs
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Labor Organizations in Dispute Over
Jurisdictional Question.

CHICAGO, April 12.-New iurisdic-
tional strife which will prob ably tie
! up the construction on every building
In the city broke out yesterday More
IMAM 10000 building laborers, brick
layers and stone masons are involved
In a Jurisdictional dispute with 5000
or 5000 cement workers
The cement workers are ordered 70
have nothing to do with concrete work
within the walls of any building. nor
with the raising. moving and snoring
OF any building" This order, sent TO
the architects, engineers and builders
Of the city, practically Gusts the cement
workers
The order will not be acquiesced in by
the 5000 cement workers. and any at
tempt upon their part TO 80 inside work
probably Will cause a walkout of the
masons and other building trades work
ing on the structures.
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1 never was attacked on the street and
never had any trouble with anybody
Ritter is known to thousands in the
financial district as Jake His home
is neat two-story frame house, where
he lives with his wife and two sisters.
Never had any children Ritter con-
tinued Then a voice interrupted. 1t
was Ritter's wife. She said:
"Old Enough to Keep Shut"
Jake. you stop that talking. You're
just talking to hear yourself talk. You
oughter have better sense. You're old
enough to keep shut
Mrs. Jake" warned her husband that
he was saying too much about money.
He was asked what pension Morgan
would grant to him.
That's a personal matter" he answer
ed. MIR. Morgan just let me know I'd
be well taken care of and that was
enough for me. I'm sixty-eight years
old now and sometimes get tired. My
work was to go to all the downtown
banks and make collections. and 1 was
kept on the jump all the time business
was going on
While Cake would not tell what his
pension would be. it was known generally
in Wall street that Morgan had arranged
that $40 a week should be paid to his
faithful messenger as long as he lives.
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Need of the Automobile.


The automobile is not a luxury, but
necessity because Of the long distances.
If ordinary carriages were used in this
| state of magnificent distances people
could not accomplish half or one-quarter
as much as they do with their motor car.
Instead Of doing a district in one day
| as is always possible, it would require
several days for excursion parties who
| come twice a month to get view Of the
country.
| The automobile is used for teaming,
for carrying mails and hauling sample
trunks of commercial travellers to and
from towns which have not yet been
| provideded with railways. Motors have
| not yet been introduced into agriculture
or horticulture, although there are many
steam plows, road graders, dredgers, roll
ers and other self-propelling machines.
The st. Louis Brownsville and Mexico
railroad is 731 miles long. From New
| Orleans to Houston is $50 miles, and
| from Houston to Brownsville 81 miles.
1t is under the control Of the st. Louis
| which Is called the Frisco for short.
1t runs parallel with the coat between
fifteen and forty miles from the water,
and the towns and farms l have alluded
to are all within twenty or thirty miles
of the track. The engineers located the
right of way far enough from the water
to give an area sufficient for a large pop
ulatiOn, and so near that no competing
company will ever build a parallel track.
The average elevation of the track above
tidewater between Houston and Browns
vile is forty-siX feet, which is the natu-
raj grade of the coast. There are no des-
erts: there isn't a mile of swamp be-
tween the Sabine river and the Rio
Grande; the beach is wide and hard and
lined with sandy alluvial soil composed
Of disintegrated limestone and granite,
which was covered with water until a re-
cent geological period. which accounts
for its marvellous fertility.
Rich Soil of Silt
Il There are many streams running into
the gulf, and their banks are composed
Of silt washed down from the interior by
the spring floods. Which makes richest
kind of soil. The land is covered with
underbrush chiefly the mesquite trees and
considerable cactus, but can be cleared
by contract for $16.an acre.
A number Of Mexican padrones make a
business of clearing land. They have Or
ganized forces and move their camps
from place to place, each man having his
particular part to perform and all work
ing tremendously under the boss. Next
can labOrerS seem to do a. deal Of loaf
ing and to smoke a good many cigarettes
They love to stand with sleepy eyes to
watch the movements of the energetic
"gringos'' who come down in search of
homes or health, but notwithstanding
their apparent Incidence they get over
a good deal of ground anc can clear an
acre day without half trying.
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CUSTODIAN Of BILLIONS
PLACED ON RETIRED LIST
White-Haired Negro, Who
Served as Messenger for
Eminent Financiers.

NEW YORK, April 12-"No, sir; I
won't go down to the Office in the morn
ing. It'll be the first time I've missed,
saving holidays and Sundays. for going
on forty-five years. Mr.. Morgan told
me ] needn't come any more unless /
felt good and spry. but that I'd be we'll
taken care off,
Jacob Henry Ritter, a white-h haired
Negro who became a messenger for j. P.
Morgan's father in August, 1865; con-
tinued on with the firm of Drexel. Nor
gan & Co. and went with ]. p. Morgan
when that man took control Of the BUSH
ness. was telling last night In his home.
3S1 College avenue. the Bronx, why he
had retired from business
Once Had $l2, 600, 900 in Pocket.
IT expect I have carried about as much
money in my time as any man. alive or
dead the old negro continued. THE
biggest amount ever had in my pockets
at one time was $4,000 600. l carried
millions and millions every day. Some
times it was in cash, but mostly it was
In checks.
''If all the money I've carried could he
nut together. there wouldn't be vaults
enough to hold it. never lost cent
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NEWS OF ROCKVILLE
AND THE COUNTY
LAWYERS Lose Suit for $500
Fee-PoIiticaI Notes.
General Items.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, April -, 1911.
After having been in progress. two da VS.
the suit Of F. Marion FaubeL Frank l..
Stoner and Leo Weinberg. lawyers of
Frederick, against the National Shutter
Bar Company of Frederick was decided
in the circuit court here yesterday after
noon, the jury returning verdict in
favor of the company. The case was re-
moved from Frederick county to this
county for trial at the suggestion Of the
defendant.
The case was an action to recover 500
alleged to be due for legal services. The
company commended that the lawyers had
been paid all that the contract called for
claiming that any additional pay was con-
tingent upon the success of suit In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-12

Advice From Health Boards Re-
garding Danger Of Rats

Health boards In leading cities are starting q
crusade against rats, rs the greatest danger to
both property and health, carrying disease germs
into the home. ---'4--.
Every citizen should aid in exterminating rats
and use Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste
Endorsed by health ofacers) and kill of the rats.
It is also sure death to mice, cockroaches water
bugs and other vermin. Money back IL it fails.
Sold everywhere. Be sure to get the genuine
Csc and $I.0O. Stearns' Electric Paste Company
Chicago. Ill.
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handicapped by inferior pitching, both
HICKS and Story, who worked the first
TOUR innings, being wild and ineffective.
ANDERSON. who pitched the las three in-
nlngs, did better. Western made fifteen
mus ana four errors and Rockville seven
hits ana seven errors. The batteries
were Schofield and Leaman for Western.
ana HICKS. Story, Anderson ami Hayes
for Rockville
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Representative Stack WEEDS.

CHICAGO, April 12.-Representative
Edmund ]. Stack of the sixth Illinois
district and Miss Mary Agnes Brazzel
were quietly married last night in the
chapel of the Church of the Precious
Blood, this city. Rev. William L. Kear-
ney read the marriage service.
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which the plaintiffs represented the com
pany, but which went against the com
pany.
The plaintiffs were represented by
themselves and Attorney Robert B. Peter
and the company by George A. Pearre
jr., and Talbot e. Prettyman.
Funeral Of Mrs. Reading.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy n
Reading, wife of Hugh Reading, who
died OF pneumonia Sunday morning al
her home near Jamestown. were held In
Humphreys chapel, Rockville. yesterday
afternoon. The services were conducted
by Rev. Webb Waters OF the Southern
Methodist Church, and burial WAS in
Rockville Union cemetery.
Mrs. Reading was fifty-four- years old
and was before her marriage Miss
Blanchard Of Baltimore. She Is survived
by her husband and a son. John G.
Reading.
j. Frank Lewis of Boyds has announces
himself a candidate for one Of the four
democratic nominations for the house OF
delegates. 1t is understood that I'll
Maurice Talbot OF Rockville, formerly
states attorney for the county, is also
expecting to seek one Of the house OF
delegates nominations.
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Western High Wins Ball Game.

The baseball sea son in Rockville opened
yesterday afternoon with a game at the
fair grounds between the Western High
School team of Washington and the
Rockville High School aggregation, the
Washington boys winning In a SEVEN in
ming contest % to 5. Rockville was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-12

Those who are qualified to answer
questions and give Intelligent informa-
ton are used as object lessons and are
persuaded to prepare affidavits setting
forth in detail their experience, which
are printed with promise to furnish fur
Their information IL desired. In order to
tighten their labor the railway company
employs itinerant stenographers and
typewriters. who go from farm to farm
and town to town to answer letters at
who know when to expect them and
make their plans accordingly. In this
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way thousands of possible settlers are
| reached by personal correspondence and
are enabled to obtain clear and reliable
knowledge OF the situation before. they
buy their railway tickets.
One farmer near Kingsville who has
been remarkably successful has written
more than thousand letters in reply to
INQUIRIES from every corner OF the United
record crop last year received 119 let
ties OF inquiry in the same mail.
The cooperation between the success
full farmers and the real estate agents
ing for every visitor to see the best side
Of things is often amusing, and
very few are allowed to get away with
out buying forty acres, which is the
standard farm, or twenty acres, or even
ten.
Homes All Attractive.
The attractive appearance of the farm
homes along the gulf coast is the best
advertisement that can be found. Every
house is new; every human habitation
has been built within the last five or six
years; the people who come here always
bring money with them; they are almost
without exception men of means: they
are educated, cultured Americans of ma
tive birth and accustomed to comforts
and :Xuries and the esthetic side of life.
No more sod houses are built in the
west. no more lOS Si1dCkS, no more SlaD
shanties. The first business started in
these new towns is lumber yard. The
pioneer settlers are architects and there
is lively competition among new set
tiers in the designs and decorations OF
their homes and the gardens that sur
round them.
Years ago the first house in a western
town was always a saloon and behind it
was a gambling hell or something worse.
A boom town wasn't fit for decent men
or women to live in until the scum had
been cleared and moved on to the next
settlement, but down here there are no
saloons it is a prohibition country; there
are no gambling hells or dancehouses
and the first provisions made by the
promoters of town site are a school,
house and church-and the architecture
of the schoolhouses and the churches is
equal to that Of any section of New
England. Ohio or New York.
The number of automobiles is aStonish-
ing. At every town at which the excur-
sion trains stop there are always enough
to accommodate the entire party, al
though sometimes they have to pack in
as many as the vehicle will hold. 1t is
important down here to take visitors
about quickly and comfortably so that
they can see as much as possible under
the most agreeable circumstances.
than $1,000 automobiles. which, at an
average value Of S1.5OO each, represents
an investment of $4o.OO0.OOO. This num-
Der is constantly increasing. and count
ing the average life Of a machine at
three years. the new automobiles pur-
chased to take the place OF old ones cost
at least S15OOOOOO annually,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-07-26

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Goleta Meibourn 7. Smith. sails Il
def Gle dc New Noz'lz spesra San atssass> )
Ponce.
Goieta. RSnneas W. Sprague.> En4r-
IA Il cargar afa 4 de ~Agosto " :e,N4sr.k J
Ia Ssass ,Iaasaz, y 4Magag,lez ell II dcl +: :,
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-07-26
BUQUES ANUNCIAD0S

Vapor espanol Balmes. Sali6 ell 10
del corriente de Tenerife para Puerto
Rico y Cuba. s.e,
Consignataries, s. Izquierdo Co.
Vapor espanol Martin ,Saenz, sai6
Gle Barcelona ell % del actual para
San Juan, Pto. Rico Y Cuba. -.
Censignatarios, S. Izquierdo Co.
Vapor americana S. V. Lukenback,
sai6 de New York para esta ell dis %
del corriente.
Consignatarios, Insular Line~
Vapor americana Harry Luckenback
Ell 70 del presente saldra de New York
para esta.
Consignatarios 1nsular Lime.
Vapor cubano Julia. Ell 80 del co
rriente estara aqui procedente de Haba,
na y escalas.
consignatarios, Villar y Co
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-07-26
DE LA COSTA.

Costeros: Carmelita, Maria Amparo
Angel Maria y Brillante y vapor anne
ricano Coamo.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

Atlantic City. Feb. ia movement Is OH
toot among the beach front hotei men W
have the deck of the Boardwalk pa'eu WIN
yooden blocks The planking, they say al
though easy TO the feet, soon becomes "oi"
and makes frequent and constant repair ine
rocessary. Freuuenters Of English water
,no nlaces. and especially Brighton never
tire of praising the comfort OF tramp
ON the walk. as in Brighton they are COM
ne,led to plod along on hard, unyieldlhs
csment The creosoted wood block, with
,,bich experiments will be made on the
boardwalk. will last without repairs, 1t Is
estimated. for fifty years or more.
The Hotel Storck, Maryland avenue ana
the beach. under the ownership and man.
oooroent of William j. Storck. has just
onened for the 1911 spring and summer sea-
son.
The Hotel Lorraine, ST. Charles Place and
the beach, during It's opening week mas
been compelled TO entertain more people
than the management was prepared lot
The hosiery has been renovated from top
to bottom, and the bookings In advance are
beyond those of former years
The Hotel Westmont, Massachusetts ave-
nue. and the Beach, is already entertaining
guests from all parts of the country almost
TO capacity Among important functions
soon to be held at the hotel named will be
the gathering of the Mask and Wig Club, OF
the University of Pennsylvania, ninety
strong, ror the Easter holidays. They VIII
be accompanied. it is expected. by as many
more students and friends.
The Hotel Iroquois, South Carolina ave-
nue. and the beach. with its newly reno
waited and thoroughly overhauled guest
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

strats il still largely the Aou
He told The Tribune reoor,. ~
could prove everything tina, "s
in the pictures. Cal
mo longer" he went on "A.
anything except to have my mas,
construed, wilfully or otherxIs.
on for participating In the ,.vh
simply that ] believe they sr..s
opportunity TO present to n.
people In an unusual and impress M
ner what ! regard as a NOS, ror.
story, showing an almost unbel,..s
spiracy, OF which / have been -
victim. The method appeals IN -
the story which the pictures Tan
be garbled or changed after ,b.- <
yond my control. which, I rey,.. ~
has not been my experience With
given out for publication. Ths,.
are not for America only. rhr
all over the world, before On aud,.l
can be reached in no other Vsv
never confessed behave thu,
been az the pole. Ultimately 1, 4,
pie who will decide this question
be decided on the merits Of the
MFR. Peary's hook and nv book n
what all explorers claims have ,.,..
on the books they have written,
A Lion once came upon a Mss
painting q picture. In the pictu-,
was shown tearing lions ns,
I with his hands.
"Ah," said the Lion. You m.,
paint pictures of men oyercou,r, \
II the lions painted the pictures y y
be a different story"
The picture was found in the s.,..
aftsrwsrd. but the man nho h,a ~
IL was not there. He had been o..
/ the Lion.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
They VIII Illustrate His Argument That Ion'
spiracy Exists to Deprive Him OF the
Credit for Discovering 1t.

ur Truth About the Pole is 10
como ONT AT last Not the naked
ttruth about the pole as already set
forth in shameless print by distinguished
American This is the truth" clothed In
quotation marks as black as WIDOWS
,nourning. The quotation is from the
mouth of Or. Frederick a. Cook ana oi
no other. The doctors version of the
truth" is TO be shadowed modestiy before
the world by Esquimaus from 42d street
and faithful sledge dogs from tIushins'
through the lenses of moving picture ma
chimes.
70 be precise. DR.. Cook has been photo
sraphed as the central figure In a MOVING
picture play. to be entitled The truth
About the Pole" The other characters
are represented by professional actors. but
that is only half the story. This IS play
with a purpose. In the happy phrase ct
the doctors press ageSt:
The pictures in which DR. Cook partici-
pates arc Of well defined dramatic con-
struction and purport 10 give in dramatic
form a pictorial representation OF scenes
incident 10 his conquest of the pole, and
incidentally to disclose 10 the public for
tho first time the details OF an alleged
conspiracy on the part OF BODY OF men
who are dubbed the Arctic Trust 10
discredit Dr. Cook and rob him Of the
fruits Of his accomplishment
That is all. 1t is an argument IN a
form that IS new 10 logic--the argument ty
celluloid. or accusation of nobody in par
ticular For the Arctic Trust is not
dubbed anything more definite than "a
ghouish lot of old dried-up scientists who
hesitate al nothing" Who the members
may be is left quite to the imagination
That the doctor regards the picture as
argument pure and undetled is brought out
in another passage by the press agent:
Having in mind the large sums which
moving picture producers arc forced 10
pay Tor the participation of celebrities in
their productions. DR.. Cook was asked to
state as a matter of information how much
his latest venture has netted him. Red
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
On the o3on4dtuuA

rooms, It's spacious sun parlors az
changes and its up-to-date equipmxi
the comfort and convenience OF glssuj
opened its doors for The season OF I'll
Last Sunday more than thirty taez}
visitors promenaded the vast Bosrlu|
and the weather encountered was !,
Nearly all Of the beach front hotels I
crowded 10 capacity. and the thrcaga'
great broad way during the eariy q
noon hours was suggestive OF Ear
summer skies. And the winter s,ya
furs displayed. The boardwalk sssa'
more sealskins az they were all real
the Pribylov Islands ever saw.
Henry George, Of New York. sirgs
lecturer, spent the week end in Al'
City and addressed a Young Mems y
tan Association meeting Sunday
Charles W. Dwight and Edmund L 2
SAINT. OF New York, are at the Ho'ss o
fonte. =.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Edwards, oil New
are at the Hotel Strand.
NIr. and Mrs. l.. L.amintz, OF New
are at the Hotel Rudolf.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Schofeld, OF Nea
are at the Hotel Shelburne.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Williams a'
York, are at the Hotel Traymore.
Mrs. John Alden Dix. wife OF Go's
Dix of New York. accompanied y
daughter. Miss Pauline Dix, is eia
a fortnight at the Hotel Marloorousf'
helm.
Mrs. Curtin Douglass. sister Of Nrs
Alden Dix, wife of Governor lu'
leased suite at the Hotel Mar'eea'
Blenheim, and will remain Tor an inS
stay.