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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-04-25
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Participa SUI numerosa clientela que
fila las horas de / a 3 de la tarde, para
La consulta diaria, en- los altos del No.
81 de la calle de Tetuan, donde tiene es~
tablecido su despacho professional
Tel6fonos No. 326 1917.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-04-25
In honor meIecido

Nuestro distinguido ilustrado ami
so el senior don Julio Sarria, Consul ge-
neral de Venezuela en- Puerto Rico, ha
recibido la siguiente carta del secretario
de la Sociedad academica International !:
Senor:
Tengo el honor de participate que
propuesto por su Presidente el senor
Vizconde de Faria, diplomatico his
toriador, la ,Sociedad acad6mlca inter
naclonal, le ha dedicado a Vd. en- su
session del 81 de Mario, una medalla de
orc con diploma insignia, y le ha NOM
brado miembro, (art1culo Is de los es-
tatutos) como homemade sus meritos.
Estoy encargado de poner en- su CO.
nocimiento, esta decision, de enviarle
nuestros estatutos y de pediros vuestra
aceptaci0n. Tan pronto como nos llegue
esta, le enviaremos q Vd. ell diploma.
Nuestra academia expresa la convic-
cl6n de que Vd. guerra hacerle Ell honor
de entrar en- su seno.
Reciba senior, ell homemade de nuestra
mas alta y distinguida consideration,
Henry Martaa,- Vile,
Secretario general,
Official de la Sociedad Ptblica.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-04-25

Ell seilor Julio Sarria es un escritor
venezolano de bien cimentada reputa-
ci6n, y Sc ha distinguido mucho en- los
trabajos de investigation historical.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
WHY NOT PROSECUTE UNDER
EXISTING LAWl

In the movement to eXterminate the
usurers in the Government depart
ments, SO vigorously commenced by
Director Ralph of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, it should not be
overlooked that to the extent the
movement is a success-as it will be if
resolutely carried onto that extent
additional business is created for the
money lenders outside the Government
service. By them SUCH a movement is
welcomed, for it gets rid of dangerous
competitors and drives the necessitous
borrowers into the offices of the loan
sharks maintained in Washington to
the present time by the failure, of Con-
gress to enact legislation designed to
regulate the business, and in large
measure to put an end to the monstrous
evils that now flow from the unre-
stricted commerce in the necessities
of the poor. .
While the Government is undertak-
ing to purge its. service of employees
wig prey upon their fellow-employes
in the manner indicated, why would
it not be a good idea for the Attorney
General to direct the local District
Attorney to institute prosecution
against one of the habitual violators of
the usury law, who maintains an office
for the purpose, on the ground that he
keeps a disorderly house?
Within two years, the highest court
of New Jersey sustained such prose-
cution, and last summer Philadelphia
court, following the judicial precedent
thus set, upheld similar Indictment,
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
ONCE MORE, THE CASE OF
JUDGE ADAMSON.

If the committees of the House of
Representatives. were being named. by
Speaker-to-be Clark, the party in
power would not need TO feel so much
responsibility for them as it must in
view of the fact that they are to be
named by committee and approved
by the party caucus.
Champ Clark, Speaker, might name
Judge Adamson chairman of Interstate
Commerce, and not involve his party
in immediate responsibility. 1t could
be urged that the Speaker had made
a mistake, for which he must be re-
sponsible, and the unfortunate results
of which must be shouldered by him
rather than by the party. Though
sophistical, that argument would have
a certain force with the public.
But a new situation is presented
today. The Democratic House caucus
has deliberated and chosen a commit
tee which is making list of commit
tees. That list will be presented to the
House Democratic caucus, which must
approve or reject it.
If the caucus accepts this list, with
Adamson as chairman of Interstate
Commerce, it will accept the Adamson
views and policies.
No other construction can be placed
on this action.
From the day Judge Adamson is
indorsed by the new House for cnair
man of this committee, there will be
pressure to impose his views of inter
state commerce questions upon the
House and the party.
A national convention appoints a
committee on resolutions, receives the
report of that committee, and then
accepts, rejects, or modifies it. 1t be
comes, as at last adopted, the Official
pronomccmont of the party.
The parallel, in this matter of nam
ing committees. is perfect. The list
reported by the Ways and Means Com
mittee and accepted by the caucus be-
comes the deliberate expression of the
will and purpose of the new House.
Therefore, if the Ways and Means
Committee makes a mistake, through
excess of amiability toward a pleasant
but utterly unqualified gentleman, the
Democratic caucus must undo that
mistake or else indorse Adamson and
his policies.
To make AdaElson chairman and
then "pack" the committee in the hope
that he will be overruled by it, is q
cheap and cowardly expedient. There
is intimation that the committee is to
do this. 1t is unworthy of the COM
mittee, and ought to be repudiated by
the party caucus.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTED
LIGHT BILLS.

If the electric light company accepts
the District Commissioners offer OF
settlement of the disputed bills for arc
lamps the District will probably have
received as great measure of redress
as it is possible to obtain. Although
the light company has been using 700,
candle-Power lamps for ten years in
spite of the provision of the law and
its contract calling for 1000 candle
power lamps, it is doubtful whether
the District could get back any of the
money already paid out. 1t can, how
ever, obtain a reduction on the bill still
unpaid. These run back to November
%, 1910.
The company's claim amounts to
S44, 10000. This is based on an annual
rate Of $S5 for each arc lamp. In the
last appropriation bill is a provision
fixing the rate for these lamps at $50,
and giving the company three yem 3
to change them TO lamp OH which
the rate will be $3.50.
There is certain degree OF justice
to the District, and great deal to the
company, in the settlement which the
Commissioners now propose They offer
to make a theoretical rate of $50 per
lamp from November % to the date OF
settlement and to deduct three -tenths
from the total thus obtained. The
deduction is to be made because the
lamps give only seven-tcntbs as much
light as the law demands. This would
amount to a reduction of Sl3.259. 90
from $44, ,l9O.90, and would allow the
company S3O,93l.
The light company is lucky to escape
without heavier penalties, and for this
reason it is expected to accept the
Commissioners offer promptly. II
might have Jared much worse.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
MARCH OF REFORM REACHES
THE HORSE TRADER.

In certain sections of the country,
even within the past few years, that
picturesque character, the horse trader,
has fingered on to lend color and
variety to the drab monotony of life.
He was the connecting link between
the reckless audacity of the pirate and
tho unctuous suavity of the promoter.
Generally speaking, he had more gem
ius than was necessary to fly the Jolly
Roger and gave his victims more of
an equivalent than did the dealers in
The one good book which is said to be
lying in solution in the system of
every man took the form of David
Harum in the mind of Edward Noyes
Westcott, who enriched the world with
the classic of the horse trader Every
village community recognized the faith
full portraiture, for in every such COM
munity there was such David.
Under the peculiar code which gov
erned horse trade a little jugglery
with the truth was not only legitimate,
but the measure and hallmark of the
born dealer in 'critters," whose ever
lasting motto was, Treat, trade, or
travel" In concealing stringhalt and
SPAWN, in the barbering of fetlock,
name, and tail, in the general restora-
tion of decrepit Dobbin to a spright-
illness positively coltish, he displayed a
veterinary skill worthy of a better
cause.
The leveling processes of reform have
now reached him, however. He is 60,
ing the way of the buccaneer and the
bad man of the frontier. A striking
evidence of the fact has just been
brought to light out in Chicago where
matter judge, with no regard
for the traditions, has imposed $50
fine and thirty days sentence on a
leading horse trader for misrepresent-
ing the age and qualities of a certain
nag he had bartered away. The ethics
of the transaction are further compli-
Gated by the fact that it was to a
woman that the David Harum in ques-
tion ~misrepresented the age of the
animal. A discrepancy of twelve years,
added to the fact that the nag which
was represented to be without flaw
suffered from the heaves, brought down
upon the luckless trader the full weight
of the scales of justice with the result
that he is now haltered in the stall of
punishment and the whole brotherhood
of gentry who regarded horse-swap
as a law unto itself mourns the pass
ing of their sacred institution. The
general public, which has a fondness
for the picturesque, is inclined to drop
furtive tear.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
PLANS FOR CLERKS
CRUSADE DISCUSSED
Maximum Su b S criptions
Asked to Be Paid as
Needed.

The newly formed executive commit
tee Of ten. elected to carry forward the
p. r. Chase plan for campaign to Sc
cure Increased salaries for Government
employees will meet and organize within
a few days. The committee consists Of
". S. Corby, w. J. Lambert, A. c.
Moses, William F. GUIDE. J. Louis VIII
lige, John w. Yerkes, Isaac Cans and
the officers of the committee of twenty
one, p. B. Chase, chairman; William
Knowles Cooper, secretary, and A. NJ
McLachlan, treasurer.
Under direction of this committee Of
ten the whole work of the countrywide
campaign in the interest Of the Govern
ment clerk will be conducted. The plan,
as outlined by Mr.. Chase at the meet
ing in the rooms OF the Chamber of
Commerce last night, Is TO organize an
active, paid bureau of promotion and to
secure sufficient subscriptions for its
maintenance month by month. Mr..
Chase said that he had modified his
plan to raise a fund of 100000. He said
that It would be necessary to secure only
subscriptions as would be needed for the
maintenance of the bureau. Subscrip-
tions will be asked TO make maximum
subscription, but will be called upon to
pay small parts of the whole as the
money is needed. In this way, Mr..
Chase pointed out, nothing more than is
actually required need be secured.
I'VE shall go before Congress-" said
Mr.. Chase, with convincing, clean ar
guments, not in spirit of antagonism,
but as free citizens seeking justice for
those to whom it is denied to seek it
for themselves. We are not going to
drive Congress from us but bring tkem
to US"
Two subscriptions of $1,000 each have
been made to the guarantee fund, one
by Mr.. Chase and the other by Corby
BROTHERS.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
BABY BELT DOTTED
WITH WEE c. CLARKS
Fond Democratic Parents
Naming Their Boys After ;
New Speaker.
Il christen thee Champ Clark Jones"

Il christen thee Champ Clark Jones"
Reports from the outlying sections in
dicate that It is becoming quite frequent
Of late-this calling babies after the new
Speaker of the House.
They have been naming youngsters
down in Missouri after Mr.. Clark for a
long time. During the recess last sum-
mer he visited one home, where several
families of the neighborhood had gath
cred, and there the Democratic House
leader found three flaxen-haired tod
dlers whose parents had used Champ
Clark's name, in whole or in part, at the
christening ceremonies.
The epidemic is spreading now that
the Missourian is to become a real
Speaker of the House. Babies in Ken
lucky, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia
and numerous other Southern States, to
say nothing of Ohio, Indiana, and SIM
liar States with Democratic leanings,
are having the Champ Clark label pin
ned upon them almost as soon as they
see the light Of day.
Many fond parents drop the Missouri
ian line, something like tfis:
Dear Sir: A twelve-pound boy ar
rived at my house yesterday. He has
already been named Champ Clark
Scroggins. You are a great man. 1
am glad the boy wasn't a girl"
Sometimes Mr.. Clark will reply, ex-
pressing the hope that the youngster
NAV some day come to Congress. pro-
yided he comes as Democrat
So far as the reports received in
Washington show. no baby has yet been
inflicted with Champ Clarks real name
which is Beauchamp. Mr.. Clark early
in life found the front part of his name
a great hindrance, so he cut off the
beau" part of it, and has been since
that time, plain Champ.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
SPEAKERS MOTOR
FACES ARUSTYEND
Champ Clark Remembers His Erstwhile HowlS About
Republican Extravaganza, and Will Use His Trusty
Legs to Save Money for the Government.

chase OF the cars was not authorized
without vigorous protests on the part OF
numerous Democrats, prominent among
whom was Representative Champ
Clark of Missouri. Democratic sue
cess at that time was but dream, the
same kind of a dream that Champ
Clark and his followers had been dream
ing for fourteen years. Champ berated
the majority for presuming to spend
public money to furnish the Vice Presi-
dent and Speaker with automobiles.
Two years later he indulged in similar
remarks and led fight which resulted
in depriving Cannon of an appropria-
ton for the maintenance Of the auto
mobile, including the pay Of the chauf-
feur.
On March 4 Josph G. Cannon ceased to
be Speaker of the House, and on that
date he lost the privilege of using the
automobile The car is now in the pos
session of the clerk of the House, await
ing its new owner.
Awaits An Owner.
NO automobile for me-" said Champ
Clark, when asked If he would inherit
the car which was bought by the Gov
ernment for the use of Speakers of the
House. II made some observations about
that automobile a couple of years ago,
and 1 was opposed to it. When L say
something in the minority am pre-
pared to show that 1 will back it up
when l become a member of the ma
jority. 1 don't care what becomes of
the machine-I certainly will not use it,
Aside from his belief that Congress
made a mistake when it bought the au-
tomobile, Mr.. Clark fears that to inherit
the car used by Speaker Cannon. would
interfere with his daily exercise. He ex-
poets to be busy day and night during
his term as Speaker, and has figured out
that the best way to get his exercise
will be to walk to and from the Capitol
each day. The new Speaker. therefore,
will be a familiar sight on Pennsylvania
avenue each day, unless, by chance,
some one can prevail on him to take
that fine automobile out Of the garage" +"
The Washington times., 1911-03-24

When Champ Clark ascends to the
Speakers chair of the House Of Repre-
sentatives on March he will have the
right to summon his private messenger
and give an order after this fashion:
James, please telephone the garage
and have my automobile brought to the
Capitol"
Mr.. Clark will have the right to give
such an order, but it is doubtful If he
viii do so. There are mighty few men
who could gain possession of a 5000
automobile merely by expressing a wish
to have it, and without any initial ex
penditure. Mr.. Clark will be one of the
few men.
There is a perfectly good automobile
of the limousine type standing in the
garage built for it by Ellie Woods, su-
perintendent of the Capitol buildings
and grounds. 1t awaits the order of the
next Speaker Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. The next Speaker of the
House of Representatives is authority
for the statement that he will never
give an order which will bring the ma
chine to his side. and that he win never
indulge in 4 joy-ride in that particular
machine.
A Sad Story.
It is a sad story, this one of the au-
tomobile. A little more than two years
ago a generous Congress decided that
the Vice President of the United States
and the Speaker of the House should be
provided with suitable vehicles to trans
port them to and from the Capitol and
to enable them to make social calls.
Sunny Jim Sherman and Uncle Joe"
Cannon gratefully accepted the appro-
priations in the spirit in which they
were made and promptly bought two of
the best cars on the ms rket.
1t should be remarked that the pur-
The Washington times., 1911-03-24

and the accused, being convicted, was
fined $500 and was warned that the
next offender would suffer Jail SEN
tence
Such proceeding may be novelty,
but no stone should be left unturned
to bring about the needed reform. The
money lenders of the District are laugh
ng their defiance at local public senti-
ment, and have already laid their plans
for defeating the desired legislation,
changing them from those lately fol-
lowed, in order to make them equally
effective with the anticipated change
in the House Committee ON the District
of Columbia.
Will they succeed?
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
DoWie Wore Harem Skirt
His Followers Declare

wAUKEGAN. ILL.,. March 2.-Harem
skirts like Dowie used to wear, with
some hobble skirts, will form part Of the
garb of the choir that w. Glenn Voliva
will take with him to Chicago in May.
He announces this plan for the singers
in the series of meetings that he will
IA. .. =
Voliva and his followers hold that the
harem skirt should be known as the
"Elijah Second" skirt on the ground
that it is the identical sort of gar
ment that John Alexander Dowie in
vented and wore.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Nozv They Say Girls Who Expect to Marry Must Know Hozu
To Prepare Food for Their Husbands to Ea-Wy, the Idea!
Expert Opinions on Subject of Girls
Learning to Cook

If bdeelec took at cooking school, domestic
tragedy would be ae Miss Ellen Rugg president of the
Housekeepers' Alliance.
Washington" Mrs Mary airline Zurhors young
already educated necessity of every girl
becoming a good cook before she becomes a wife"
Rugg believe training
selfsuppoing suggests cooking
Hnckley, Miss Laura Merriam
society girls
have cooking school -
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Common Snail Has
Ten Thousand Teeth

About the last creature on earth we
should think of as being able to bite is
the poor, inert, namby-pamby snail. But
seeing is believing, and Frank C. Baker,
curator Of the Academy of Sciences, at
Chicago. exhibited at the last micro
seopicai convention in that city a sec
ticn of snairs mouth which under a
powerful magnifying glass plainly
showed true and veritabIe teeth fworld
without end" They number 10 900. This
was the mouth Of land snail while
that of pond snail, though one-third
smaller, has an equal number of teeth
Louisville Courier-Journal..
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Oysters Milk Offer
Will Be Acted Upon

To determine whether the offer Of
George NJ. Oyster, jr., to take over :
Straus laboratory shall be accepted, tn
Chamber of Commerce committee me.
at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Judging from the opinion expressed
by several of the members before en-
tering the conference, the offer will be
accepted, and the effort made to raise
money by popular subscription to main
tain it will be abandoned. Mr.. Oyster
in his signed offer, agrees to begin the
operation of the plant about April 1.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Kaiser Will Entertain
Morgan at Corfu Palace

NEW YORK. March 24.-Emperor
William of Germany will entertain ].
Pierpont Morgan as his guest at the i'm
perial summer palace at Corfu. The
news of the visit comes in dispatches
from Rome that state that Mr. Morgan
will soon board his yacht Corsair at
Naples, and after a sail to Sicily will
make the visit to the Emperor.
Morgan then will cruise in the Adriatic
to Venice.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Refused to Eat or Talk
With Wife, Is Divorced

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 24--Absolute
divorce has been granted to Mrs. Ger
trude NJ. Horrigan from William ]. Hor-
rigan, because he refused to eat with
her or talk 10 her. The couple was mar
ried on September g. 1907. Mr.. Hor-
rigan has been vice president Of TIE
Northwestern Ice and Fruit Company.
He is ordered 10 pay $500 at once. and
500 a month alimony for the support Of
his wife and two-year-old child
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Underground Wireless
Tests. Prove Successful

BERLIN, March A.-wireless teleg-
raphy has been successfully applied as
underground communication by DR..
Leimbach and DR.. Loewy, it was an
nounced today. Messages were sent at
4 depth of 600 feet and more than mile
and a half.
The discoverers believe messages may
be sent at much greater distances, and
that underground wireless will be of in
estimable value in cases of mine disas-
terS.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Court Orders a Division
Of Forty Million Estate

SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, March "a
BY court decree here distribution can
at once be made of the estate of sA,
365,5S left by George S. Meyers, of St
Louis, tobacco manufactures.
He sought to have the estate MAIN
tanned as fund for seventy-five years,
but the heirs have obtained immediate
distribution.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24
Forcible Compensation
Held Unconstitutional

ALBANY, N. Y, March 24.-The court
of appeals today decided the so-called
Workmen's compulsory compensation
act passed last year to be unconstitu-
tional in that 1t takes property without
due process of law.
The law had the Endorsement Of the
National Civic Federation.
The Washington times., 1911-03-24

elect to cooking SCHOOL," asked Mrs.
Mary Airline Zurhorst. principal Of the
National School of Domestic Arts and
Domestic Science. well, rather. III
you only knew all that have learned
about the ignorance of the average girl,
YOU would not wonder that + advise the
nah, who is in search of a wife to
choose a girl who can cook, or IL he is
so unfortunate as to fall in love with
one who can't, to insist upon her start
ing at once on a course of cooking les
sons"
And Mrs. Zurhorst knows. She has
had more experience with the girl who
is absolutely innocent os any knowledge
of the culinary art, and has educated
more women along this line, than any
other woman in Washington. Several
years ago, she started a cooking class
which was joined by a number of girls
who were soon to assume the response
bilities of the housewife. The cooking
class proved so successful that SINH
lar one was organized by Mrs. .Zurhorst
few months later, and the work finally
grew into the School of Domestic
Science of which Mrs. Zurhorst is now
principal.
Many Society Girls
Are Learning.
At any time during Lent, the debu-
tantes of the season, or the society girl
who is to be numbered among the spring
brides, may be found in one of Mrs.
Zurhorst's classes, sleeves rolled to the
elbow, and faces besmudged with -four.
Miss Gladys Hinckley, Miss Laura Mer-
riam, Miss Margaret Draper, Miss
Frances Noyes, Miss Bower, and Miss
McCawley are among the popular MEM
bers of the younger set who hav.. gone
in for cooking lessons. Mrs. Sherman
Miles is another young woman thor