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The Washington times., 1912-07-12
EXTENSIVE PLANS
MADE FOR PAVING
SUBURBAN STREETS
Schedule Largest Ever Pro-
vided In One Year In
the District.

In accordance with the provisions Of
the District appropriation bill, plans are
being made by the Engineer Department
for the Improvement of the suburban
of the District. The
bill contains an appropriation of S129.J25
for the construction of suburban streets
and roads. Congress has authorized the
use of bituminous macadam on all
streets hereafter to be improved or
paved. The material costs more than
ordinary macadam. but Is more durable,
and is being used by all the large cities
suburban streets.
Schedule Is Large.
The schedule is the largest ever pro-
vided for in one year and includes the
following:
Northwest-Belmont street, Thirteenth
to Fourteenth street; Irving street,
Eleventh to Thirteenth street; Fairmont
street, Eleventh to Thirteenth street :
Thirty-fourth street, Macomb to New
ark street: Columbia road, Georgia ave-
hue to Park place; Ninth street, Kansas
avenue to Allison street; Allison street,
ferson street, Georgia avenue to Ninth
street; Thirty-fourth place, Newark
street to Ordway street; Seventh street,
Taylor street to Upshur street; Fessen-
den street, Wisconsin avenue to River
road
In the Northeast.
Northeast-Fourtecnth street. Barry
place IN Euclid street: Jackson street,
Seventeenth to Eighteenth street: jack
son street, Tenth to Twelfth street
Monroe street. Fifteenth to Seventeenth
street; lIamln street. Rhode Island
avenue to Twentieth street: Seventeenth
street. HnInlin street to Rhode Island
avenue: Jackson street. Twentieth to
Twenty second street.
Southwest-Ealelsh place. warlocl;
place to Nichols avenue; Brothers
place. High View. to Esther place
Twenty~seCOnd street. Minnesota ave-
nue. to Railroad avenue; Minnesota
avenue. Pennsylvania averue to Twen-
ty-cighth street.
The sum OF 5000 IS appropriated also
for the grading and Improvement Of
The streets in Ana"osta. TIE work will
begin about August !.
The Washington times., 1912-07-12
Will Succeed w. r. Smith

c. l.. Reynolds, assistant superintcn-
| dent of the National Botanic Garden,
| is likely to be chosen successor to Will
| liam Robertson Smith. who died last
| Sunday. The joint Congressional Com
| m!ttee on Library, of which Senator
Wetmore IS chairman, has the matter
The Washington times., 1912-07-12
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ALEXANDRIA. VA. July 1,


Barricaded in a little hut on Wilkes
street, John Britt, a colored man. suf-
fering from an extreme case of relig-
ious dementia, was with difficulty taken
into custody last night by officer Julian
Rawlett. Before Justice White this
morning, a lunacy commission consist
ing of DR.. Walter A. Warfield and DR..
e. A. German, committed him to the
Central State Hospital, ct Petersburg.
Britt, who has been well-known
character about town for years, Inn
agined that he was 1.-THE voice of an
apostle, waling in the wilderness"
When, an attempt was made by the
owner of the property to collect rent
yesterday, he flourished an axe at his
Imagined prosecutors. At the approach
Of the officer, whom he saluted as the
SULTAN" he was finally placed behind
the bars. All night he amused the sta
ton house attaches with incoherent
ramblings as to "the great book of
seven SEALS" which he possessed, and
recount Of the prosecutions which 1--WE
martyrs" had to endure. Thinking he
was to be beheaded, he patiently sub
mitted to his doom.
A large delegation of members OF Po-
tomac and Sarepta Lodges Of Odd Fell
lows, escorted the Canton Alexandria
Order of Patrtarchs Militant, left la st
night on a special train to Falls Church
Va, where they witnessed the installa-
ton Of the newly elected officers by
| District Deputy Grand Master j.
Thomas O'Meara.
Following the exercises, an elaborate
banquet was enjoyed, during the course
OF which speeches were made by w. E.
Latham, past grand patriarch, and D.
X; Stansbury, past grand master, Of
Alexandria.
Louis N. Duffey, deputy clerk of the
| corporation, has rendered to Gov. Will
lam II. Mann his resignation as second
lieutenant. battalion quartermaster, and
| commissary Of the Second Battalion,
First Infantry, Virginia Volunteers
| which commission he has held for sew
eral years. Mr.. Duffey states that his
resignation came as the result OF press
| of business duties.
II accepted, the vacancy will be filled
by recommendation of Major James
King, to whose staff he was attached
Prominent among those mentioned as
candidates is Conrad johnson, who was
| last week appointed principal of the
! Alexandria High School.
An absolute decree of divorce was
| granted to Grace E. Taylor Yerkes from
| her husband, Arthur w. Yerkes, by
Judge Louis c. Barley, in corporation
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
Campaign opens Mt Jones,ilIc.

lSpccldl 10 Inc tines DlSpdtc
Bristol. va, September with hun
dreds of citizens. including men of both
parties. in attendance. the Ninth Dis
trict campaign was opened at Jones'
Vile for Lee County to-day, both par
ties being represented. The Democrats
had the courthouse for the forenoon
and large audience listened to stir
ring campaign speeches by ]. Norment
Powell. prominent attorney Of
Wytheville. and former Common
wealth's Attorney Preston w. Camp
bell of Washington County Both of
these men made stirring appeals to the
citizens OF Lee County in the interest
OF General Ayers, the Democratic nom
inee for Congress. and for the support
of Wilson for President.
The Republicans were in charge of
the courthouse In the afternoon when
enthusiastic supporters OF Slcmp made
noisy demonstrations Speeches were
made by Charles S. Pendleton. Kepub-
lican district chairman; former state
Senator John c. Noel and a. p. Crock
EFT, secretary to Representative slemp.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
THE TIMES DIsPATcH TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1912

Ninth Virginia District. the new dis
trict chairman. Charles S. Pendleton.
to-day named the following committee
TO officially notify Slemp OF his nomi-
nation: NJ G. Ely. OF Jonesville chair
man: F. II. Witten. OF Grundy: c. c.
Anderson, Of Lebanon: John W. Eek
man. OF PULASKI. ]. W Dougherty. Of
Gate City W. D. Spratt. Of Tazewell
County; II. F. Widener. OF Abingdon
L. + Horton. Of Big stone Gap. and
j. Wilson McGavock. Of Wytheville.
III convenient TO Representative
Slemp, IT is the program for this COM
mittee TO meet him in Bristol next. sat
urday night. when ne will receive for
NAL notification
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
Fatal FALL rnon scAFro,.n
INC Hnn's Life Crushed our ,,d o,,
Seriously Int.tred "S'

IS1eclaI 70 The Tlrleg-riera,-h
spenrer. y 9. Sopterlber -' ra,,.
NJ =, o.,i i.hsn' ase thirty-hve wears. an en-
ggt0ye Of construction force on The
W Mcpherson "a FELLOW w.ors !, ma j.
seriously s,o Injured in Spencer this aftsrs
Ho9n the accident was caused Nv ~
btii rbIh 81 seaftold, eighteen feet
WIN the timbers Huffman feil 81 !, i
ne"a ana heavy plank fell endwiss
On ms chest. inflicting a deadlv bloS'
re Was carried to hospital and died
lion college. to which place his nod
Mcpherson was given medical a,
tention and Will recover
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03

longest together in married harmony
they were married In 1890.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
GARDNER WINS NJ ONE vorr.
Elected President of Common,
of DnnyilIe

special u Tho Times Dispatch.
banville. Va. September The new
: o.ltnon council and tho Board of Al
.t!iHen met for the first time this AZ
ternoon and organized Bv the mar.
row marSain OF one vote. D e. Card
net vas elected president OF tho com
kaufman. obtained seven votes " r
; wann was elected president OF the
boaEG OF Aldermen unanimously
The heat record was ,,,t,,,.:, tina
to-Hay when thermometers in the shade
registered 20 degrees. The dronsb, a.
becoming very serious with the farm
ers and special prayer for rain wa
So,ierea yesterday in the Episcopal
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03

CATTLE MARKETS..


Snieaso. III, September Close: Cattle
receipts 1900 head Market strong to Toe
nisne'; calves generally 5s-. lower Reeves
s.. 'o9S: Texas steers 81 a $50; western
s'se's. 20 = - s'oekers and feeders si25ar
90; cows and heifers. s3GSoo: calves ssfI
i iias hogs-Reeeipis 2S,ooo head Make,
Mixed, $500 eco; heavy. s7.s5Gs.s5: rough
S755als5: pigs. s5Gs.io; bulk OF sales. sSn
$50 sheer Receipts 1900 head. Market
STEADY TO higher. Ntiive. $500 i75. vest
efn, N5oMtl5 yeaFl'ngs. $3.50 q sos. lambs
native Si15 07.e5; western. Si75G7so
New York. September .-Beeves-Reeeipts
s.iss head Sixty cars on sale steer,
STEADY TO loc higher bulls and cows iof7
&c higher steers l5.logs.-5 buus s3sose
$50: cows. Se5o6 SIS Calves-Receipts 3s7o
head 25a on sale. Sales, . G SOC lower.
Grassers and but;ermilks. SOC lower Venls.
S. 0ii75: few choice. sie cults. ssGs0O:
srassers and brttermilks s48sco. Sheer
and Lambs-Receipts 1906 head: ~ cars
on sales Sheep steady to weak; limbs. % q
Soc lower sheep. s250G go; cuils. $50 q
?25; lambs. s5s5 d7d2i3; few at $40. ouls
siSS.& Hogs-Receipts 1876 head II cars
on sale Market higher al sse0g 20; roughs.
81 g 71S5
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03

James River landings merchandise and pas
scnsers. Furman Line
SAILED.
steamer Brandon Harvey. Norfolk mer-
ohandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line
Steamer Berkeley Shelly. Norfolk rner-
chandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line
Steamer Aurora, Furman. Petersburg and
James River landings. merchandise and pas
senEers. Furman Line
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
WAN notify sIcn,n
tspecial Ia THE TimesDlsn,

Especial to The Times-Dlspatoh.J
Brist-l. Va, September with
positive information from Representa-
tive G. B. SIemp that no will again
make tho race FOR Congress In tho
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF RICHMOND. SEPTEMBER ,. 1911.
ARRIVED

ARRIVED
Steamer Brandon. Harvey. Norfolk. mer.
chandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line
steamer Berkeley. shelly. Norfolk mer-
chandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line
steamer Pocahontas. Graves. Norfolk and
James River landings. merchandise and pas
senseFs- virginia Navigation Company
Steamer Aurora. Furman. Petersburs and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-03
Prizc- WinninE ilubIcs.

longest together in married harmony
4hey Were married In 1890
Prize Winning nubIcs.
the infant son Of j 2 Burchen. OF
III Louisiana Street took hrst prize
In the bay show. and Master Dolan.
oil ga south Pine Street ths second
Prize. In the five to ten-year-old class
Miss Mosoy. OF 2SlG Street. won INST
Prize the girls division. Percy Rid
dick. OF 322 North Twentv-seve,,th
street took first prize in the boys
The Judges in all Of the contest,
were G. 7. Matthews. OF Rocky Mount.
y O. r. L. Knight. OF South Rich
rnond. and George Martin. of this CITY.
In the dancing contest first honors
went 10 C. c. Davis. Of PA North Thir-
ty-second Street. and Miss Minnie
Cfowder OF BIG West Seventh Street.
Soutn Richmond The second prize
was won By G. " Tinsley. of 2io+
Iayior Street. and Miss Goldie Levin.
Of BIG North Twentieth street.
Other Events.
The winners in the other races were
i,i eaider running broad jump. and
" W. baur 2oo-yard dash. The TYLER
paseoall team won from the Barton
heisnts nine by a score which no ono
Yesterday afternoon was able to dater.
mine. 80
Horse racing began a, 2:so o'clock
win number OF fast entries. This
feature was in charge Of w. J. carter.
OF south Richmond. who oflciated a.
starter r. w Moore was clerk or The
course The winners were:
rree-for-all race-Lady wealtb
T Tin' b ,odsi'on' second yelling third,
one mile 2.2a pace-Nenie Mezens
rp1ti S4yard H., second Kelly King.
,l moad raes-Releet. hrsti Annie vir.
Time. 2.27is. 'hira.
special race-The snaniard. FIRST.
1osle Dillion, second Baron Cal third
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

would synchronize perfectly with the international peace celebration. as the Canadian road will not be completed for two years.
 The completion of the Panama canal will also be celebrated by the San Francisco exposition in that the first English king to set foot on American soil will have the extra ordinary privilege not only of assist ing in honoring a hundred years of peace between the two great English speaking nations. but also of help ing celebrate the completion of these two great commercial enterprises.
 Apropos of the Panama waterway, already Germany is making extensive preparations to capture the trade that will be opened up by the canal and to take a large part in the San Francisco exposition. No more effective move to offset German ac tivity in this direction could be made than by having the British king attend the Western celebration in person, and court officials of London. who are responsible for visits to foreign countries, are known 10 view with favor an extension of his majesty's tour to San Francisco Chicago Examiner.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25
CHOPPED THATCH IS
 DIET FOR STARVING

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb 24 - As the Russian winter draws to a close scenes of bleak misery deepen and starvation among the peasantry intensifies. Especially is this so in the southeast
 From Saratoff, whence cOmmuni. cations are more open than from other afflicted provinces, comes end less variants of the same tale. A doctor of Teherkassk district has no tified the council that he is besieg- ed by hungry crowds of people. who have not eaten for three days and are thoroughly i'll. They cry for bread and fuel.
 In Ribuska 134 families have fin ished with everything they can eat, even the dross scraped from the granary doors There are houses where the peasants try to extract nourishment from the chopped thatch of their miserable dwellings. Parents go mad. One father of seven children believes that bread is scattered all around and he crawls about collecting the dirt of the roads and offering it to them.
 4 little girl asked for bread of her mother, who had not eaten for several days. The appeal drove the mother to fit Of madness, and began to gnaw her body like a wild beast. The neighbors hurried up in time to rescue the girl
 Another child who asked it's moth CT for bread was told, ''I have only bread for father" so lay down. too weak to say more.
 One relief party found an old man eating bread which was half made of earth. Starving as he was he could scarcely swallow the stuff, and he hiccoughed back helplessly when he was asked where his wife and chil- dren were: They are in the church yard, to be warmer, near the others"
 A priest writes that life in his parish is impossible amid the de spair of men, crying wives and vail ing children. Fuel and clothing are alike used up. In a neighboring village 40 hungry children go around in shirts in the frost beg ging.
 One notable result of the famine is seen in the governments spirit stores. There has never been such a stock of unsold vodka The gov ernment report of Saratoff shows that there were 126,000 gallons less of vodka drunk by the peasantry than year ago.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25
Big Business Blamed by Judge
 Lindsey for Lawrence Outrage

Clearly, these children and their natural protectors, the parents, are being denied every right granted by the Constitution. But the Con- stitution has long ceased to mean much when the dollars of privilege have depended upon it's violation. These children will probably not miss the COnstitution-theV have missed so much else. These child ren-and millions of others-are missing the Godgiven right of child hood, of the very right to live. Their little bodies are now in pris- ons. They simply receive bars for the chains they have worn-the chains of injustice, of exploitation, of denied opportunity.
 Big business everywhere is bru- tai. Everywhere it depends on the needs Of little children to terrorize parents into submitting to injustice. Everywhere it cares nothing for the sufferings of these little ones, if it can but add to its piles of mill ions.
 The children are ever the vic tins. Today they are paying per haps with their lives. They pay quickly and perhaps they are more fortunate than these millions of other little victims subjected to the slow torture of half-starvation, hard labor, lack of education and lack of care, which are responsible for the twisting of innocence into yiciousness or stupid existence.
 Perhaps these brutal exploiters who would hold aloft a starving child as means of driving it's father back to the treadmill, in justice deserves thanks, not blame. They are showing the world the depravity of greed and the inhu- manity of our industrial system.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

DENVER Colo. Feb. 24.-Declar- ing that the children of Lawrence, Mass. and their parents today were ruthlessIy denied the right guaran- teed by the institution of the United States. Judge Ben B. Lind sey, judge of the Denver Juvenile Court, today issued a signed state ment for the United Press regarding The action of the soldiers and police at Lawrence this morning in refus- ing to let the textile strikers send their children out of the city. The statement follows:
 Big business simply throws off it's mask. l. is working with the direct action" that in the strikers is den-unced as anarchy.
 The world will be startled when the forces of greed use policemen and soldiers to capture children and use their sufferings to enslave their parents The world will look with horror upon the brutality of the mill owners. who would hold the spectacle Of starving pitiful child hood before fathers and mothers in order to force them to submit 10 injustice.
 IL is horrible, brutal, unchristian. But it is what the exploiters of child labor are doing in every sec tion of this country. The only diff erence is that these mill owners are doing it so openly that the world can see.
 In time of peace these same children are held captive They are exposed to the same torture in a milder degree. Instead of the slow starvation of half-fed, poorly clothed, poorly housed and poorly educated childhood, these mill own CTS propose to do in a week what others take months and years to accomplish.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

be a feature of the celebration of the centenary of peace between Great Britain and the United States The actual date of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent was December 24, 1874, but full notifications were not exchanged between the two countries until the following spring, and the spring of 1915 has therefore been chosen for the joint celebra- tion.
 Hammond Is Chairman.
 John Hays Hammond is chairman of the organization committee and Colonel Roosevelt is chairman of the American National committee, which has the matter of the joint celebra- tion in hand. It is significant in this connection that MT. Hammond, Colonel Roosevelt and Joseph H. Choate, the latter the honorary vice. chairman of the committee, all met the Duke of Connaught in New York, where it is now surmised the subject was uniformly preached It is further planned that King Georges trip to Canada shall be made the occasion of celebrating the completion of the new Canadian transcontinental railroad. This
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25
KINC PLANNING A
 N. '. VISIT

LONDON, Feb. 24. - King George has definitely decided to visit Can ada during the Duke of Connaught's term as governor general, and plans for the king to visit the United States on the same trip are now being seriously considered in the very highest court circles.
 This information I send without reserve, comes from the same high source that enabled me to send the Examiner the first announcement of the Duke of CCnnaught's contemplat- ed trip to New York. The kings visit, however. will not take place this year. At present arrange ments are being made for a brief visit to Paris in the spring, to be followed by state visit to Berlin in the fall. The plan now being considered in official circles is that the kings visit to America should
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

self into an application for elem enW, based upon grounds of contri- ton and reformation.
 Instead of that, according to re ports, Brandt attempted to gain the sympathy cf the governor and other officials by posing as a martyr un- der the infamous suggestion that Brandts presence in my clients house was to keep an appointment with one dearer than life itself.
 With an instinct natural to hus- bands. or fathers. my client has felt like resisting the call of the civic duty which demanded exposure of charges so vile and outrageous but he resists no longer He hopes now for trial that will enable the public to judge of the prisoners crime and affording him the opportu- nity of vindicating his honor and that of his beloved wife.
 Judge Parker read long letter from Schiff. in which he said:
 The facts are simple Brandt wrote an insulting letter to my wife and was at once discharged from my employ About a month later he entered my house at night and lay in wait for me in dark room.
 As I entered the room and be- fore I realized his presence or q word had been spoken, he struck me on the head with a heavy tenpn. Near at hand he had a carving knife
 Thinking I had an armed maniac to deal with, 1 argued with him, gave him money and got rid of him as best l could. and asked him to come 10 my office When he came had him examined by eminent alienists, as I believed he was of unsound mind. The alienists de clared him sane, and l caused his arrest
 "I was told that unless I favored leniency to this man he would at tempt to spread scandalous stories. 1 felt it was my duty to nE family as well as to society to refuse to be influenced by such threats, as l believed that the man was murder CT al heart, even if by my fortunate escape he had not become one in fact"
The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25
London Living Grave
 For Yankee Crooks

right here in London as a lowly driy. CT Of cab, where I saw and talk. ed to him myself No one seemed to want him. In fact I don't know that he ever was hunted very close ly or earnestly, although l know our agency kept an eye on him while he was in the Orient. There he sWelled around in society, especial ly in the English section of Hong Kong, and did nothing but spend money
 It's the same cid story, of course money gotten the way he got it had to go the way it went, and his final end-up as a 'kebbg' in the dark, dark streets of London was a fitting end of the biggest bubble that ever burst in Milwaukee"
 Stolen Money Hidden In London.
 This interesting sleuth also said he was practically certain that the odlcNy utpoSlL vaults Ol LODuOn trust companies contained hundreds of thousands of dollars of money stolen in the United States and brought here for safe keeping. He knew positively of robbery in a Western American city which sent a man to prison for eight years af- ter he had slipped over to London and left big share of his stealings in sealed steel box; but no one seemed to know just where the for tune was, in what banks vault. and there was no way of finding out ex- cept to watch the relatives of the thief or the thief himself on his dis charge from prison; and in either case that would be too much of an undertaking, even though the amount involved might be, as reported, $25,- 900.
 One of the best men in Scotland Yard told me today" continued the detective, while We were discuss ing some of Americas great unsolved crimes, that he was almost certain that Willie Tascott who murdered Amos Shell, Chicago millionaire, buried himself in this great city"