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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
G|TT|NS BILL AGAIN
Up BEFORE ASSEMBLY
AssembIymani CuviI|ier Fa-
Tiers Measure to Relieve
Race Track. Owners.

ALBANY, n. Y, February 15.-With
the name of Assemblyman Louis Cuvil
lier of New York attached. the bill to
permit racing in New York state which
was introduced by Senator Gittins last
year made its appearance in the assem-
bly, yesterday. The effect of it is to
free race track directors from criminal
responsibility where betting is made at
the tracks without their knowledge.
1T was a surprise to me-, said Sem
ator Gittins when he learned of Cuvil-
lier's move. Il do not intend to intro
duce the bill in the senate, although I'll
do all I can to pass it there if it comes
over. I have no pride of authorship.
If Cuvillier wants to take my bill and
put his name on it he's welcome to it,
Senator Gittins said he believed the
chances for passing the bill are as good
as last year. He had apparently not
taken into consideration the reported at
titude of Gov. Dix. Last year the gov
ernor intimated that he wouldn't stand
for any change. He is thought not to
have altered his mind.
Assemblyman Cuvillier explained his
reason for introducing the Gittins bill.
He said numerous agricultural societies,
as well as the State Grange, have adopt
ed resolutions favoring its passage. He
furthermore said he believed no set OF
| men. not even race track directors,
should be held responsible for violations
of the law to which they are not parties
or of which they have no cognizance
Cuvillier is believed to have drawn his
| inspiration from an editorial appearing
| in Republican State Chairman Barnes
| Albany paper advocating the repeal of
the Agnew-Hart law. This, too, has en-
cOuraged the race track interests to be-
lieve that with bipartisan support the
bill may be damned through the assem-
bly,.
New York Civic League. appeared at the
capitol yesterday to fight the BILL After
making a hasty poll Of the assembly he
announced he didn't think it had
chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

coin was not cursed throughout all his
public life. AT one time but for Morton
in Indiana and Brough in Ohio the oppo-
stion would have carried those two great
states over TO the assistance of the Con-
federacy. South of Mason and Dixon s
line he had not a friend until he was
dead. He never. heard any OF these
eulogies-nothing but anathemas. down to
the moment he died, 1t Is better late
than never. but to those few OF US who
stood steadfastly by him at the risk of
our lives this pean has sorrowful
pathos indeed. When we old men Of the
SOS and COS who passed through that
stormy time and were part of it look back
on it now. we can only sigh to remember
Lincoln never heard word OF praise
He was deaf in death when 1t came
Grant had been opposed. misrepresented
and illuminated, and SO was Washing
ton for q time, but yet during their lives
they lived to hear themselves the theme OF
almost universal praise, north ana south
Scarcely q voice was raised against NC
Kinley at two great general elections, and
he. like Grant and Washington. was uni
versally loved and praised by not only a
majority. and a great majority OF the
voters, but by his countrymen generally.
To all this Lincoln's life stands In star
Ting contrast-hated and opposed by a
vast majority OF the American people all
his life, and supported only by militant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
FIREWORKS COST $4,000.
Chicago Chinese in Last Celebration
of Old Calendar New Year.

CHICAGO. February 15.-Celebration OF
the Chinese New Year will begin here
Saturday night with a display of fire.
works which, it is said. will eclipse any
thing of the kind ever seen in China
town.. More than $4,000 has already
been subscribed for the fireworks.
Frank Moy, mayor of Chinatown, in
applying to Mayor Harrison for a permit
for the celebration, said it would be the
last celebration under the old calendar.
and that the 1900 Chinese he represented
were anxious to celebrate the establish
ment Of a republic in their native land.
With the passing of the Manchu dy-
nasty the Chinese will adopt the Gre
gorian calendar. For this reason, and Tor
the further reason that the present China
town is about to leave the quarters IT
has occupied for years, Moy said his
countrymen were anxious to make the
display the greatest ever undertaken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
The Tardy Praise of Lincoln.
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the EDITOR OF Inc star:
To one who knew personally and twice
voted for Lincoln, there is a pathos. l
suppose. no one can understand who is
under sixty about all this tardy recogni-
ton and praise of Lincoln. It comes very
late. indeed. Not until he was dead. a
martyr for his country. were words like
these pronounced. He came to his own
and his own received him not. He was
truly a man Of sorrows and acquainted
with griefs. He was without form or
loneliness, and there was nothing about
him which the people of his own day de-
sired or admired. Those nearest him, like
Chase, Seward and Stanton, were ashamed
of his primitive manners and homely
talk, and for four years so thoroughly
misunderstood him as to be constantly
criticizing him in private and opposing
him in public. They then regarded him as
but a very common man and easily lent
themselves to the cabal which tried to de-
feat his last election in 1864. right in the
midst Of the war;
This august trio nearest to him only too
well represented that public opinion
which expressed itself at the ballot boxes
of 1860 and 1854, when he was i'm 1860
elected, by the skin of his teeth. and by
a vast minority of his fellow-eitizens. Not
only did eleven states refuse to give him
one vote, but of the twenty-three north
ern states almost as many votes were
cast against him as for him in 1864. He
was lampooned and caricatured by the
press-no man ever half so much-down to
the very night he fell under the assassin S
hand. He was so unpopular in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia. Chicago-es-
pecially in Indianapolis, Columbus and
washington-that the rioters and con-
spirators against him and his administra-
ton were only held in check and thwarted
bv the strong military arm of Butler.
Grant and the other generals active in the
war. Revolution reigned in New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. and was only
controlled by the military arm strongly
manifested Not town or hamlet, not
a crossroads in all the north where Lin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

acters. running through the hero. the
villain. the faithful negro servant the
college boy, the senator. the southerner
and others to the. lawyer every one of
which is a type instantly recognized by
the theatergoer upon it's appearance on
the stage. Then he proceeds to tell why
such types Of dress and carriage came
to be adopted and why they have persist
ed through all the ages OF modern plays.
For instance. why must the hero be
tail, straight shouldered, slim.. hair
Jewelry.. pipe. shoes not too highly pol
ished, derby or soft. hat: never fur
.overcoat"?
Why must the heroine be ''slim,. blond,
never dress in colors. never look strong.
small handkerchief, shoulders bit
stopped?
It is because in these cases. as in the
others. it Is the type that convention rec
ognises, and away back in the early days
was the only depletion that seemed TO
carry out the idea. Any departure from
these standard figures would be instantly
least general way is always adhered
to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
GOING BACK TO IRELAND.
Mr.. Bowling Sells Out Best Paving
Saloon in New York.

NEW YORK, February 15.-Michael
bowling, who has been Il saloonkeeper in
New York nearly a generation, will re-
tire this month to spend his declining
years on fine estate In Ireland. For
the past nine years he has been the
proprietor of what is known as the best
paying saloon i'm New York city, and
when he decided to retire he had no diff
ficulty in disposing Of the good will OF
the business for 100000 In addition to
this substantial nest egg he will receive
for life an annual rental of S25,000 for
the lease of the property, which he
bought years ago with his savings The
property is located In the heart of the
Broadway tReateri and restaurant dis
trict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
STAGE TRADITIONS
Of Character Types Explained. by
Yankee Doodle Comedian

upon what basis do the more lingering
traditions of the stage rest: that Is, the
traditions of character types?" This was
the question that floored George M. Co
han for a long time. until, piqued by his
inability to find ready answer. he went
at the solution hard, and fAund 1t: with
the result that our next Sunday Maya
zine has one of the most interesting ar
ticles on the stage that has been printed
IN long time.
He itemizes eighteentof the stock char
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
HITS HARD At TAFT
RoOSeveIt'S Chief Local Boom
er Scores Administration.
HEADQUARTERS is OPENED
Medill Mccormick Begins Campaign
by Severely Attacking
the President.

Medill Mccormick. formerly one of the
managers of the La Toilette boom. but
now in charge of the Washington head
quarters of the Roosevelt boom, issued
last night the first manifesto of the or
ganization which is working might and
main for the denomination of the colonel
By q coincidence the new Taft headuuar-
| ters and the Roosevelt headquarters were
| thrown open on the same evening. the
Taft people at the Raleigh Hotel and the
Roosevelt folk in the Munsey building. 1t
was observed by the politicians that
whereas Director Mckinley Of the Taft
forces laid down as the first precept of
his campaign that nothing unkind should
be said about Col. Roosevelt, the opening
statement of the Roosevelt management
was severe attack upon Taft and his
administration.
| Mr.. McCormick's statement follows:
The administration has embarked upon
a policy of political suicide and murder
| murder if possible and suicide if neces-
| sary. In its effort to dScredit the friends
OF Mr.. Roosevelt it has sought to destroy
| the republicans who favor his candidacy
and has cast it's lot with the morlbund
| reactionary leaders of the republican
party, at the risk of losing the support
/ of the great mass OF progressive voters
| throughout the country.
Political Paranoia.
Not content with Viciously attacking
| the progressives in one speech, in another
| it has sought to divide the republican OPP
| position to the President by confusing
| facts with reference to Senator Cummns,
senator La Toilette and Col. Roosevelt.
| 1T is not creditab BILE that the Secretary Oh
the Treasury could have made his Lan-
sing speech if he had not been m.Sinform-
ed as to facts.
The country will not be confused by
the Presidents Characterization of Col
RoosevelPs supporters as political neu-
rotics. 1t has not .ced that the elements
which opposed President Taft's nominal
ton in 1905 are back of the movement
for his denomination under the leadership
and Senate. Those republicans, who really
secured his nomination and election, are
now opposed to his denomination. AT
first they were merely disappointed by
the administration vacilation, and
hoped that the administration eventually
would adopt consistent and progressive
course. But what at first they took for
temporary weakness they have now dis
covered to be political paranoia.''
1t was reported in political circles today
that the Roosevelt organization here Is to
be presided over by men of national
prominence, and Washington will be the
headquarters of a vigorous effort from
now on to work up sentiment for the
colonel.
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and determined minority of all the peO-
pie in the Cnion-a vast minority.
1t is well to recall this lest we forget: 1t
is so strange, SO little known and so SUI
tpremely sorrowful thus Ito build the
tombs of the prophets and garnish the
sepulchers of the righteous" when that
knocking reverence is shown only by the
children of them which killed the
prophets as is literally the true story
Of Lincoln. PRIVATE DALZELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

1.-THE tricks Of the theatrical trade are
trademarks" says George NJ. Conan in
satirical article, called Stage Eradi.
tions." in our next Sunday Magaziik6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

It pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
filled through them.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
PLAN REJECTED BY U. S
Wickersham Insists That Harvester
Firm Be Divided Into Six
Parts.

Washington Attorney General
Wickersham has rejected the proposal
to dissolve the harvester trust" by
dividing the concern into two compa-
MES.
He demands the division OF the cor
poration into six parts, each Of which
shall manufacture one Of the patents
on harvesters controlled by the con-
Germ. This is the first serious compli-
cation Of the negotiations for an ami
cable reorganization Of the Interna-
tional Harvester company so as to
make it conform to the Supreme
courts Interpretation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
1t was stated, however, that the ne
gotiations are not entirely off, but
that a further attempt will be made
by the representatives of the company
to reach an agreement with the de-
partment of justice.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
TAFT HITS JAPAN BUGAB00
Jap Colonization at MagdaIena
Bay Absurd and Groundess.

Washington-The Lodge resolution
calling upon the president to send TO
the senate information obtained by
the state department in the investiga-
tfon of the report that the Japanese
government was seeking from Mexico
a naval base at Magdalena bay is now
said to have been part of an admin
istration plan to smash the constantly
recurring bugaboo Of Japanese inva-
sion or colonization of North Amer
lea.
Huntington Wilson, action Secre-
tary Of state, and Representative Sui
Ger of New York, chairman of the
house foreign affairs committee, had
a long conference with President Taft
a. the White House.
After his talk with the president,
Chairman Sulzer said he was con
vinced that there would be an inter
vention by the United States in Mex
leo and that reports of Japanese col
onization at Magdalena bay were alb
surd and grodndless.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
OVER 100 SAVED IN SOUTH
Flood Twenty Feet Deep Sweeps Away
an Entire Arkansas Town-Refu-
gees Lose Everything.

Memphis, Tenn. - The levee at
Helena, Ark, breaking, shot a food
of water twenty feet deep into the val
ley town OF Modoc. Ark. completely
depopulating the town and washing
out even the strongest houses in the
valley. The great mass of water
formed a lake, hemmed in on three
sides by the hills and fed from the
fourth by the river.
The steamer Kate Adams was near
Modoc when the levee broke and res
cued those imperiled. A hundred or
more panic stricken negroes We're Ia
ken from government barge. Later
motor launches rescued a number or
farm hands from the roofs OF cabins,
from trees and peaks Of knobs which
were above the water. -
The refugees saved none of their be-
longings. Many Of them were almost
naked when they reached the river
boats The boat captains and more
fortunate sufferers divided clothing
with the needy.
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tor told ne to go to a hospital i did
not like that idea very well, SO, when /
saw your advertisement in a paper, 1
wrote to you for advice, and have done IS
you told me. / have taken Lydia E
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Liver Pills, and now have my health
IF sick and Giling women would only
know enough to take your medicine. they
would get relief. Mrs. BENZ. II. STAINS
Berry, Route 6, Box Is, Upper Sandusky,
Ohio.
If you have mysterious pains, irregu-
larity, backache, extreme nervousness,
inflammation, liberation or displace-
ment, don't wait too long, but try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound now.
For thirty years Lydia T. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, has been the standard remedy
for female ills, and such unquestionable
testimony as the above proves the value
of this famous remedy and should give
every one confidence.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
TWO RECEIVERS ARE NAMED
D. W. Call and Otto n. FaIk to Take
over Alis-Chalmers Com.
pany's Affairs.

Observation-Disclosures have been
appointed for the Allis- Chalmers COM
pany by Judge A. l.. Sanborn Of the
United States district court The re.
ceivers are D. W. Call, president OF
the company, and Gen. Otto H. Falk Of
this city, a prominent manufacturer
and president of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association.
The appointments were made on the
application Of the First National and
the Wisconsin National banks of this
city, both creditors Of the company,
and W. w. Nichols of New York. a
bondholder and stakeholder.
The court directed the receivers to
continue the business Of the company
so that all its assets and interests as
a going concern will be fully protect
ed. The court appointed Max w. Babb
of this city attorney for the receivers
The present capitalization of the AL
disclaimers company consists of $15,-
100000 bonds, Of which $11,15S,000 is
outstanding; preferred stock, s25,0O0,-
900, of which $16,150,0O is outstand-
ing. and common stock, $25 5000, 900, of
which 19,S20.000 is outstanding.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
II LIVES MENACEO
20 PASSENGERS SAVED FROM
BURNING SHIP FAST ON A
sAND8AR.
CREW or Fl FIGHT FIRE
Blaze 10 Extinguished After a Hard
Fight-Life Savers Of Great Service
S. o. S. Signals Make the Res
cue Possible.

Ditch Plain Life Saving Station, l..
1.-The rescue OF ship in peril at sea
was again due to the wireless, when
the 80 passengers OF the coast-wise
steamer Ontario, plying between Bal
timore and Boston, were taken off the
craft after a fire had broken out in
the hold.
The ship ran aground of Montauk
Point and the passengers taken to
New London by the tug Tosco, sum-
moned by wireless. The crew, IL men,
stayed with the captain on the boat,
and after hard fight succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the blaze.
The vessel is hard aground with
light sea running and only a little
wind. and there is slight danger. ap-
parently, OF her going to pieces,
Life savers lowered near the vessel
In their boats, ready TO take of the
crew, but Captain Bond, when the fire
was under control, said there would be
no need for their services.
The fire broke out during the night
and became so threatening that Cap
tain Bond ordered the wireless opera
tor to send s. o. S. distress signals.
An hour later he turned back upon his
course and drove the vessel full speed
ahead for the reefs off Montauk Point
The wireless sputtered along the en-
tire north Atlantic coast with news OF
the vessels danger. Ten minutes Ia
ter the men at this station saw the
ship on the rocks, hurried off with
breaches buoy apparatus and later
dragged their surf boat on its truck
three miles over the beach to the
burning steamer.
The life savers, reinforced by crew
from the Hether Plain station, two
miles away, transferred the passen-
gers in small boats TO a tug and stood
off In readiness to take the crew
ashore if need be. The passengers
were transferred in the Ontario's life
boats.
The revenue cutters Mohawk and
Seneca picked up the wireless call at
New York and the cutter Acushnet at
| Boston hurried to the scene. They
were able TO give little assistance,
however
The Ontario is a vessel of 1887 tons
net She is 200 feet long. of steel, and
was built in 1904. She left Baltimore
| Saturday.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
Something the Matter, Anyhow.


Little Harold lives In Broad Ripple.
His mother got him ready for bed
one cold night, and to be sure he
would be warm enough during the
night she took extra precautions, re-
lates the Indianapolis News. After
she had put on his little fuzzy pala-
mas she tucked him carefully in be-
tween the wool blankets. Then TO
make doubly sure she got hot water
bottle for him-and the youngster
was apparently as snug as could be.
with only his little nose sticking out
from beneath the covers.
When his mother had finished the
tuckingin job she turned down the
light. Soon the entire family was In
bed. But Harold Is like most young
sters. He loves his mother. and wish
es lots of attention. So in his child
mind he figured out way 20 get her
to his bed.
Mamma" he walled, I'm cold!"
Nonsense, son!" replied the moth
er, but. she never made a move to go
20 his rescue.
The little boy tried the opposite.
well, I'm too hot. them" he yelled.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
Grant to Abandon Command.

New York.-Maj. Gen. Frederick
Dent Grant, U. S. A. commanding the
eastern division of the army. will not
return to Governors island to resume
command of the division. That Gen
eral Grant has suffered an almost COM
plete breakdown in health is admitted
by many of his army friends, but that
he is suffering from cancer or the
throat, the disease that killed Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, his father, is denied
by those close 20 him.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
TROOPS GUARD MILLS
THREE COMPANIES PARADE
STREETS NEAR UTICA, NJ. Y.
Fear of Violence by Striking Textile
Workers Causes Sheriff to
Appeal for Militia.

Utica, n. Y.-Fearing violence on
the part of foreigners and others who
are out of the textile mills in the
New York mills on q strike for in
creased pay and other concessions,
Sheriff Becker called for the national
guard to protect life and property, and
three companies of militia are doing
patrol duty In the streets and guard
ing the closed suburban mills.
The sheriff notified the local militia
officers that the situation was beyond
his control, and the Twenty-eighth
and Forty-fourth companies of Utica
and the Thirty-first Mohawk separate
company were at once ordered to pro-
ceed to the village.
Their arrival in the place was a
complete surprise to most of the 5000
textile workers and their coming was
greeted with wrathy mutterings.
Colonel Hitchcock Of Binghamton is
in charge OF the troops.
Several small riots occurred in vari-
Gus places, but these were quickly
quelled. A dozen arrests were made,
one woman being taken into custody
because she hurled half a pound Of
red pepper into the eyes of a deputy
sheriff.
Passaic, n. 1.-THE riot act was
read from the steps of the Forstman
& Huffman company silk mill at Gar
field to a crowd of 400 strikers, and a
double force of police and deputies
soon cleared the streets.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-04-19
WILSON IN DENIALS
TESTIFiES AS TO ALLEGATIONS
IN EVERGLADES CASE.
Department Has Not Made CompIste
Inquiry Of Florida
Project.

Misunderstanding of Agricul-
ture James Wilson testified before the
house committee on expenditures In
the agricultural department, in an
swer to critics in and out Of congress,
on his conduct in connection with re-
ports on the drainage of the Florida
Everglades.
Mr.. Wilson has been under fire OF
opposing interests and factions In
Florida lands and Florida politics.
First he was attacked for permitting
to be published departmental reports
which doomed Everglades lands. and
more recently because he suppressed
the information.
Mr.. Wilson denied that the original
excerpt of the report of Major ]. G..
Wright on the Everglades was given
out with his consent This excerpt
was used in advertising purposes in
Florida. It was obtained in the de.
partment by Henry Clay Hall.
Later, Mr.. Wilson said, he wrote
former Governor Gilchrist of Florida
and authorized the publication OF
parts of his letter IN relation TO the
Everglades.
Mr.. Wilson expressed the opinion
that the department had not made q
complete investigation Of the Ever
glades project Oh any of the features
covered In the reports in controversy
He dismissed the details of the riv
airy between department experts and
their complaints that they were being
robbed of credit for work.