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Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
EVENING CLOTHES IN EUROPE
Mems Dress in London Hotels and
 Theaters.

Naturally a comfortable travelling coat or wrap will be useful on the promenade deck of the ocean liner. Equally naturally full dress evening clothes should be recommended for wear at the dinner table and afterward as we'll on the boat as at the hotel or place of evening entertainment.
 In London evening dress is compul- sory in the grand dining rooms at the best of the big hotels, although prlVate dinners are served in the smaller rooms without this being enforced. At the theater or the opera evening dress IS expected, and generally speaklns' m sisted upon in private boxes, orchestra stalls and first circle.
 In such places of al fresco entertain ment as the Shakespeare eXnloltlon at Earrs Court and the White CltY d xomewhat mixed crowd is usually pres' ent: but after the dinner hour the great majority of the best people wear evening clothes, the tuxedo and the swallowtail finding equal favor
 On Sundays evening dress is seldom worn. except in Bohemian clrcies' o"- ing probably to the general Saphath custom of serving dinner in the midaie of the day.
 On the continent, especially Tn France and Belgium, formal oress' which is the same thing as evening dress with us, is donned at every con ceivable opportunity. No matter whether it is morning, noon' or hish'' or whether christening, birthday mar riage. or funeral, the event is made the occasion for bringing out the cher- ished swailowtail
 When it happens. as sometimes It does, that an invited guest or olher participant in the proceedings Is not the possessor of the necessary sdiilieii' of distinction, frock coat IS oIten made to serve the purpose of the uresS coat by being taken to an amehapie tailor, who temporarily adapts the skirts to the required shape, remouel- ing them to their original form day or so after use.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
PARADE IS THREE MILES LONG
Barnun and Bailey Circus Builds New
 Pageant at Cost of $1,0O0 900.

It has cost the management of the Barnum and Bailey circus $1,000,O0O to rebuild their street spectacle. Those who turn out on the streets of PhOe nix in the forenoon of September 23 will see something entirely different from what they have been used to sec ing on circus day
 The equipment stretches out for length of three miles like d panorama of the world It was designed by the best artists of France and Italy and built under the direction of the prop erty masters of seven of Europe's larg- est producing theaters. over 300 art isans and master mechanics labored in the foreign workshops of the circus for many months, both night and day, to build the various vehicles, floats, how dahs palanQuins, carriages of state, thrones and tableau wagons. The cos tunes were made in Paris. The laces came from Ireland. The scarfs, flags ard tanners are expensive works of Japanese art. The rugs and tapes tries are from Turkey and Persia. The harness is the only part of the equip ment that was made in America.
 The foreign agents of the show had a great deal to do with this pageant. They have peopled it with strange types of the human race and have ad- ded to it's variety a vast collection of Italian statuary, the graven images of savage tribes and the idols of Orlen- tai religions In fact the parade is a congress of nations, geological gar den on wheels. fairyland carnival a gallery of mythology and a horse fair. Fifty different kinds of music are fn- troduced, from the weird string and reed musicians of the barbarian to the great brass bands of European and American nations.
 Taking part in this parade are 1,2S0 people. 40 elephants, TOO horses, 40 camels and 500 menagerie animals dis played in open dens.
 Some idea of the magnitude of this great circus may be had from the fact that ii travels on five long trains, the combined length of which is more than one mile When the twenty eight tents are erected, fourteen acres of ground are covered. Thirty-twO nations are represented by the company of 400 per formers The circus has visited every city of size in the civilized world dur ing it's fofty-five years of travel. In q single season it often covers 10000 miles. It's tours may extend from New York City to San Francisco and from Quebec to New Orleans in a single summer.
 On the show grounds are a dynamo plant furnishing current for 1000 cleo tric lights. a poStoffice, receiving mail daily from all parts of the earth; all the shops found in the average town, and a hotel where 4,00O meals are cooked and eaten every day in the week. The main tent is the largest audience room in the world Besides it's many grandstands, it has three rings. two stages and quarter mile hippodrome track. The show carries fifty of the best clowns in the world and the greatest travelling zoo. Among
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
NO QUORUM
 0F GOVERNORS
Monthly Board Meeting Will Be Held Later; Rec lamation Service Still Un- advised Concerning New Water Contracts

The meeting at the Water Users building yesterday was shy some members of the board of directors, in fact there was no quorum present, and those who did attend were not able to transact any business.
 The reason for the shortage of di- rectors is the prevalence of the va cation habit at this time of year. Earlier in the summer, most of the members were here, so the meetings were filled. President Orme is among those away from the valley. He is just now in Los Angeles on a mis- sion with specialists. his health hay ing been impaired of late.
 Sometime about the middle of the month, the entire directorate is ex- pected to be in Phoenix, and at the first opportunity a special meeting will be called. It will be necessary to confer on the report of Captain Christy when he returns from Wash ingtOn, where he has been two weeks in consultation with the director of the reclamation service over the pro- tested change in the manner of water rent assessment. No direct word has been received from him per sOnally, but the telegram of Carl Hayden indicates that he is on the job there for the association.
 The local administrators of the pro- iect have not been notified by the department what will be done about the proposed new form of water ser vice contracts, and as the month for making new application for the win ters supply has come around, it is beginning to look as though there would be some indecision in the first part of September and a congestion
 of business toward the last. Of course there is always a tendency on the part of many farmers to de
 lay making their applications until
 the last two weeks. but in this case those who come in early will have to be turned away until definite word has come from Washington disposing of the present difficulltly.
 Dr. Van der Veer thinks there will be one change made surely in the contract form proposed by the local officers of the service, and maybe others me point III WIlCn lHe agree ment will be modified, he says, is | that regarding the time of payments | As the form now reads, it will be compulsory to pay the charge for the allotted three acre feet on or be- fore the first day of the new year 1 October first. After that if the far mer wants more water, he must make l payment on a scale of increasing 1 charges, and in advance for each months service. A split in the pay ment was proposed by Louis c. Hill
 so the assessment will fall due in two
 parts a times six months apart; and he made a recommendation to the di- rector to that effect
 As Secretary Van der Veer has il | figured out that is a request MT 1 Newell is practically certain to grant 1 and there may be other ways in
 which the form will be altered to
 make it less burdensome on the user
 of water. But as far as things are still studying the proposition and to date have not reached definite l conclusion.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04

Contributions to The Republican Want Ad section are good business get in on it.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
THREE GAMES ARE ARRANGED
Nellis Connects With Tempe for Thursday and Will Likely Take All A. s to Tucson for Week End Series l. ,. s,.

A total of three games were pulled out of the sack of possibilities yes terday by Manager Nellis of the Phoe- nix All Americans.
 Thursday afternoon the Ans take on the Tempe team to satisfy the southsiders cry for a contest Satur- day and Sunday the locals play in Tucson with the same team that was so nicely refrigerated here.
 Through some stress and trouble the affairs of he A As have deVeloTt l into the more satisfactory stage of SOlidity. The team is stronger lfter each practice, and the boys are get ting into line to help pull things out of the mass of difficulties that beset the path of amateur organiza tions. The managers of the other two teams to be taken on this week are both more than anxious to make connec- tions with the strong Phoenix aggre- gation. The Tempe game is assured, and it is practically certain Tucson will find the agreement all right for the week end series.
 Easaw who has been with Tempe, is now hard and fast Phoenician. Everybody has to admit the little h. dian is playing fine ball, and as long as he is at his old station at third there will be few hits laid down along that line.
 Tomorrow's contest will start at 2:3O, with practically the same line up as on the two occasions Tucson went down to defeat. All the boys cannot get away to fill the Tucson dates, but the team will be amply re- cruited from outside to give the Reds | a game battle.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
ORDINANCE NO. 521

AN ORDINANCE to amend Sections
 2, 5 and z, of Ordinance No. 516. The Common Council of Phoenix do
 ordain as follows:
 Section l. That Section of Ordin- ance No. 516 be amended to read as follows:
 Section 2. The Public Market
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04
WESTERN CANAL CONSTRUCTION
 COMPANY

Phoenix, Arizona September 3, 1912.
 Proposals will be received at the office of the Western Canal Con struction Company (Goldburg BrosD ur to D. m. mountain time on Sep tember IA, 1912, for the construction of 42h miles of canal and lateral ditch, involving the excavation of 240,00O cubic yards of earth and rock in connection with the Salt River Project. Arizona
 Particulars may be obtained at the office of the Project Engineer at the Water Users building
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04

the 1900 wild animals is the only baby giraffe exhibited in America. With it in the same pen are the three tallest giraffes in captivity.
Arizona republican., 1912-09-04

Hire a little salesman at The Re- publican office. A Want Ad Will see more customers than you can.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14

1852, On Feb. 3 David Glasgow Far
ragut. U. S. N. sailed from Hampton
Roads for the western gulf in the war
ship Hartford. Many of the vessels
which were to attack the Confederate
forts at the mouth Of the Mississippi
were already at the rendezvous. The
Hartford became Farraguts flagship
at New Orleans. She was one of the
first class war sloops in existence when
hostilities began, type of the twelve
screw wooden vessels which give a
after ironclads appeared.
On the day that Farragut sailed the
brand new United States sIoop of war
Kearsarge sailed from Boston to cruise
for the daring Confederate privateer
Sumter. then of the coast OF Spain.
The Kearsarge was a fourteen screw
vessel, wooden. of course, and destined
to add 4 new hero to the United States
navy. Later in the war her sides were
protected with chain plating of one
and seyen-tenths inch iron. fastened
amidships to cover the engines. The
material for this chain armor cost only
SIS and was put on by the sailors
themselves at no cost to the govern
ment She carried seven guns and
would have made a formidable ship
for line of battle fighting had fate not
set her apart for a cruise and to de-
stroy the renowned Alabama. On the
same date, Feb. 3, the Confederate pri-
vateer Nashville sailed out of the port
Of Southampton, England. under the
very eyes of the United States steam
sloop-of-war Tuscarora. The Nashville
had been at Southampton for weeks.
having taken into that port the crew
OF a United States merchant ship
which she had captured and burned In
the English channel The Tuscarora
watched her meantime, intending to
attack, but the British authorities COM
PEELED her to give the Nashville TWEEN.
ty-four hours start before attacking,
and the prtvateer got away unmolest-
ed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14

-Four of them helped win victories
while they were owned BY Captain
Eads.
One of the sEads gunboats was the
Essex. named after the United States
frigate Essex, famous in the war of
1912, and among the first great Amer
lean cruisers. She was commanded by
w. D. Porter. son of David Porter.
who made the name Essex historic by
sailing the original on long cruise in
the Pacific ocean. The ironclad Essex
carried eight guns. Her iron armor
was one and three-fourths of an inch
in thickness.
Confederate Submarine Torpedoes.
The ironclad Carondelet was one Of
the first two Of the Eads boats to take
the water. She was launched at Ca
rondelet, Mo-, in sixty days after the
contract was signed Her commander
in the Fort Henry expedition thus re-
lates the experiences of the first iron
clads going to battle on the Tennessee
river:
Heavy rains had been falling and
the river had risen rapidly to an I'M
usual height The swift current had
brought down an immense quantity Of
driftwood. lumber. fences and large
trees. and 1t required all the steam
power of the Carondelet, with both an
chors down and the most strenuous
exertion of the officers and crew, work
ing day and night, to prevent the boat
from being dragged down stream.
This adversely appeared to dampen the
ardor of our crew, but when the next
morning they saw large number Of
white objects, which, through the fog,
! looked like polar bears, coming down
the stream and ascertained that they
were the enemy's torpedoes, forced
from their moorings by the powerful
current, they took heart, regarding the
freshet as providential and as a pre-
sage of victory The overlooking riv-
er which opposed our progress swept
away in broad daylight this hidden
peril, for II the torpedoes had been dis
turbed or had broken lo"se at night
while we were showing the driftwood
from our bows some of them would
surely have exploded under or near
our vessels"
The torpedoes had been so placed in
the river by the Confederates that their
own vessels in going down stream
would slide by them and vessels NOV
ing upstream, Federal, of course. would
catch on the internal machines and ex-
plode them. They contained seventy
pounds of powder and were anchored.
On the 4th the feet was within six
miles OF Fort Henry.
Other Sea Fighters Start For the
Fray.
There were other naval enterprises
set in motion in the early weeks OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14

an audience of ministers and laymen.
Branding the bunny hug turkey
trot." grizzly bear" and the chicken
reeP' as duets to the ~hoochee COO
chez" of Little Egypt" he asserted
that leaders of the 400" in New York
and other cities chose these dances
for entertaining the smart set.
These Infamous dances are gath
cred from the vice markets of the
world, and applauded by society in
many of our large cities" he said.
vice is often spoken of as a neces-
sary evil. and people are wont to say
that women would not be safe on the
streets If vice were not allowed. If
segregated vice is indicative of safety
to women who are obliged to walk up
on the streets, then Chicago is surely
the safest place in the world, for vice
is surely rampant here.
People who believe that vice is
necessary should be under suspicion
of using their heads only for hatracks.
Make it as hard as possible to do
wrong and as easy as possible to do
right.
| The deepest corrupt root of lust is
the immoral play, depicting the wife,
the husband and the lover. Invaria-
bly, marital infidelity is treated as
joke. The writer's of such PLAYS are
frequently in the divorce courts. When
once they are divorced, they are no
longer qualified to write love stories,
and everyone who has books written
by such an author should burn them
1T is not the power of lust we have
to fight, but the power of greenland
lords and grating politicians. What
we need here is a law whereby a
Judge may issue an injunction against
an immoral place
When the speaker Of the Illinois
house of representatives last year
killed the bill which would have made
this law he marked himself for politi-
cal burial. If he had let it pass 5000
girls and ten times as many men
could have been saved. Iowa has this
law and is accomplishing much in this
respect"
In speaking of conditions in Wash
ington he said:
THE red light district of Wash
ington practically surrounds our CAPT.
toll and is national disgrace. We
want this condition changed before
the Inauguration of another president.
People in Washington say that the
vice district is not in the residential
part of the city. No 1t is not among
the rich, but among the poor. The
people who live near these houses are
negroes.
Now is the psychological moment
to strike, with the inauguration of an
other president in sight"
At the close of the meeting the fol
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted:
ITO Men and Religious Movement
Washington, D. c.: Chicago Meth
odist preachers meeting sug
gest men and religious forces
ask President Taft to apply the find
ings of the Chicago and Minneapolis
vice commissions by requiring police
to abolish unlawful segregation in ma
tional capital as a good example &c
other cities and preparation for in
auguration"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14
By capt.lu' GEORGE I. KILr1ER. Lat.

BY Captain GEORGE L KILNER, Late
Y. s. ".
NN Jan. 20 the United States war
department prohibited the use
v OF articles Of foreign manufac-
ture in the army and annulled
and revoked all outstanding contracts
for such goods. The object OF this
radical step was to favor home manu-
featuring. 1t may have been a coun-
ter blow at England for prohibiting
the expectation OF munitions of war.
This England had done IN December
on purpose to prevent war supplies
from reaching the United States. On
the same day congress considered
bill to abolish regimental bands In the
volunteer service. The 100 in service
employed 1900 men and had already
cost 100000 IN addition to the pay
of the men, their food and the expense
of transporting them. This was, Of
course, a measure of retrenchment. 1t
was plain at this date that the war
was to be a long and costly one.
Battle Music q Myth.
Contrary to popular belief the army
band Is not part of the fighting ma
chine. Soldiers going into battle In
spired by music is all a romance.
Some people insist that this often hap
pened, and yet soldiers who fought all
through the war never saw anything
OF the kind. The musicians were reg
ularly enlisted soldiers. who could not
be forced to take up arms and fight
unless they chose. The only way to
abolish the bands was 10 muster them
out OF service. This was the result
OF the bill in the end. But music was
not totally banished from the army
camps. Brigade bands were formed.
and some regiments or their officers or
patrons Mt home paid the expenses and
retained the music.
At the end of January Burnside's
expedition was causing great excite
ment throughout the north and among
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The southern storm which is now
central over the east gulf coast has
been attended by precipitation from the
southern sections northward to the
is reported from New Orleans. Rains
on the Pacific slope are resulting from
the northwestern low, the center of
which is over Alberta. High pressures
prevail from Washington, Oregon and
northern California eastward to New
England, with separate crests of high
pressure over the middle Atlantic coast
and Wyoming. The northeastward
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14

the Inhabitants Of the Carolina coast.
II was lying in Hatteras inlet. North
Carolina, which It reached on the 18th
and remained for two weeks, storm
bound 1t comprised 100 vessels, all
OF them wooden ships and not strong
nj that. A fierce southeastern storm
ragged over the region for several days
and was followed by high tides, which
favored the passage OF the ships over
the bar into PamlicO sound The land
fighters Of the expedition numbered
10000 men. They were organized into
three brfgades. The first was COM
manded by General John G. Foster.
Thirty transport ships were required
for the soldiers alone, I've for the
horses OF the troops and eight or ten
for their supplies, siege train and pom
toon bridges. On the 31st the strong
est vessels Of the feet were in the
sound On Jan. 80 General Q. 8.
Grant. then a brigadier general Of vol
unteers. received his orders to move
20 the attack Of Fort Henry. The in
ception OF this important move has
often been misstated in print These
are the facts: Grant was the COM
mander OF a district OF territory lying
on both sides OF the Mississippi river.
His headquarters were at Cairo. Ill
He was subordinate 10 General II. w.
HaIleck, who commanded the depart
ment Of Missouri. which included
Grants territory. Subordinate to Gen
eral Grant was Btgadier General G.
r. Smith.
FIRST Move Against Fort Henry.
Early In January General Haneck
instructed Grant 10 send out forces
and make demonstrations against the
Confedsrate posts In his vicinity.
Grant delayed carrying out his orders
for several days. now on aecoont Of
unfaverable weather and again be-
cause re-enforcements had not arrived.
General Smiths column was delayed.
but between Jan. IS and IS It marched
from Padueah, KY. 20 within two and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-14

mention on the Federal side Of pro-
ceeding against Donelson. Halleck
had received warning from the east
that the Confederate General Beaure-
gard had started from Virginia for the
west with fifteen regiments of soldiers
to reinforce the defenders of Nash
Vile. Nashville was then the Confed-
crate base of supplies in that region,
and Fort Donelson was one OF its de-
lenses. Halleck told Grant he must
get ahead Of Beauregard and act be-
fore he reached the field.
The very day that Halleck urged
Grant on Beauregard did leave Manas-
sas. Va, for the camps In Kentucky.
he had no troops with him, however
Beauregard was the captor OF Fort
Sumter in April. 1861, and had led the
Confederates successfully in the battle
of Bull Run. His transfer to the west
ern army was therefore important.
It'was a combined land and water
or army and navy expedition, which.
pursuant to Haneck's orders, set out
on Feb. 2 to subdue Fort Henry. Foote
made the ironclad Cincinnati his Dag
ship and prepared to attack the fort
and at the same time guard the trans
parent vessels carrying Grants sol
diers and protect their landing. Foote'S
outfit consisted Of the Cincinnati, Es-
sex. Carondelet and st. Louis. all iron
clads, and the wooden gunboats Cones
toga, Tyler and Lexington
The First Fleet Of Irenclads.
The ironclads were Of the type
known In the navy as the "Eads iron
elads." They were built at St Louis
or other neighboring ports on the Mis-
sissippi BY Captain J. B. Eads. whose
frst contract for the construction of
irOnclad, ships stipulated that they
should be ready for service In sixty
days. Lack Of funds. the most OF
which Eads supplied himself. and 9th
er causes delayed construction. and the
main part OF the neet was net deliv-
cred until ninety days had elapsed