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The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Montana Democrats
To Vote for Clark

BUTTE, Mont. May S.-Montana
Democrats. in State convention here.
unanimously adopted the committee res
olutions indorsing the candidacy for
President of Speaker Champ Clark, and
instructing the eight delegates to Balti-
more to vote for him. They are to sup
port him as long as the majority of the
delegation believes that he has a chance
to get the Presidential nomination.
The platform indorsed the actions or
the Democratic House on its legislative
record warmly commended the record
of Speaker Clark, reaffirmed the Dem
yer platform, and referred to the strug-
gle between President Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt as a 'disgraceful episode"
The delegates to the national conven-
ton are Gov; F. L; waSsS NSrris; e seGster Gste
w. ]. johnson, d. r. Purcell, s. j.
Coffey, and NJ, E. Baldwin.
], Bruce Kremer was reelected ma
tional committeeman.
PHOENIX, Ariz., May S0-Speaker
Clark carried ARIZONA in today's Demo-
cratic Presidential primary by vote
at least three to one over Governor
Wilson.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
THE BLIGHT OF EMPTY CRADLES

Race suicide in France is menace to which that
otherwise prosperous republic endeavors to shut its
eyes, There is more less open effort to juggle
with the figures. 1t is sometimes explained, for ex-
ample, that there is not real excess of deaths over
births but that the ratio is merely tending in that
direction.
Figures important enough to be cabled abroad
carry the specific and melancholy announcement,
however that for the year 1911 the deaths in France
were more than $4,000 in excess of the births. 1t
is frankly conceded to be the most marked decrease
in the history of the country 1t would be useless to
assign any one thing as the cause of this alarming
condition Every expert has his own theory and his
own remedy. The one outstanding fact is that the
blight of empty cradles threatens national disaster
to of the most thrifty and progressive countries
in the world
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
WORKING. TO REDUCE
INFANT MORTALITY
IN THE DISTRICT
Meeting Will Be Held Next
Week to Discuss Plans
for Bettermnet.

Plans for obtaining q reduction In
infant mortality in the District will be
considered at q conference next week
between Health Officer w. c. Wood
ward, Walter 8. Ufford. secretary OF
the Associated Charities; Miss Isabel
Strong, superintendent of the Instruc-
tive Visiting Nurses; George 8. VIII
son, secretary Of the Board Of Chari-
ties. and George NJ. Oyster. jr.. founder
Of the Oyster Philanthropic milk sta
tons.
BY obtaining a closer cooperation be-
tween the societies OF the city dealing
directly with the care of infants 1t is
the intention to make more effective
the work OF the several agencies en-
gagged in an effort to reduce the infant
mortality. The report Of the Health
Department, made public today, shows
that during the week ended May Is five
children under two years OF age died of
Intestinal diseases. From now until fall.
the report says, many babies may be
expected to succumb to this disease un.
less great care is exercised with regard
to feeding. While detailed plans have
not been formulated 1t Is expected that
a Joint committee consisting OF repre-
sentatives of the various societies Will
be appointed te consider plans for the
education OF mothers IN tne care anu
feeding of infants, especially through
the summer months.
The number Of contagious diseases on
record at the Health Department Is as
follows: Measles, 344; whooping cough
45l; diphtheria. Z; scarlet fever, 16; chick
enpox. 72, and typhoid fever. 81.
The number OF deaths during the
week ended May 25 was 102. IS amone
the white and A among the colored
population. The births numbered 12S
Sc white and II colored.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
TO FIX
BLAME FOR DEATH
OF TWO WOMEN
Bodies Of Victims of River
Accident Recovered Yes
terday Afternoon.

An inquest to fx responsibility for
the death Of Mrs Bessie Waller and
Mrs. Sarah Nelson, who were drown
ed last Sunday night when the
excursion steamer Angler rammed the
pleasure launch Lofts. will be held at
the District morgue at 2:so o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
L. e. Dameron, Arthur w. Simpson,
Charles Toepfer, Claude Burlingame
and Jerome Kaufman, who were on the
launch with the two young women and
who were pulled from the river. were
today served with summonses to ap-
pear before the Coroner's jury. The
crew Of the Angler, who claim the
launch did not show any lights, have
also been summoned as witnesses.
The bodies of the two victims of the
accident were recovered late yesterday
afternoon. They were found floating
short distance from the scene of the
collision. They were brought to Wash
ington by the harbor police and taken
to the morgue.
Mrs. Haller's body was taken in
charge this morning by Underaker
Thomas II. Hindle. Funeral services
viii be held omorrow afternoon. In
terment will be made In Rock Creek
Cemetery. No arrangements have
been made for the funeral Of Mrs.
Nelson.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
TAI 7 AND NAVAL
OFFICERS TO GREET
GERMAN SQUADRON
President and Secretary
Meyer to Leave for
Hampton Roads.

President Taft and Secretary Of the
Navy Myer. with many other officials
of Washington, are preparing to go 10
Hampton Roads Sunday aboard the
Mayfiower, the Dolphin, and several
revenue cutters to review the German
imperial squadron on Monday and to
greet the German princes and officers OF
the fleet.
The Bremen, the flagship of the Ger
man squadron, arrived on the virginia
capes last evening and anchored In
Lynnhaven bay. The other two vessels,
the Moltke and the stettin, are anchor
ed off the capes today, and were saluted
by the second torpedo fiotilla, COM
manded by Lieut.. Com. X. M. Bennett.
The three visiting ships, escorted By
the fotilla, will steam into Hampton
Roads tomorrow.
While the ships are anchored In
Hampton Roads the officers Of the fleet
will come to this city and be feted by
the President, Secretary Meyer. and the
German ambassador. Trips to Mt. Yer.
non. Annapolis, and other points of In
terest have been arranged.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
SENATOR RAYNER'S ATTACK.

The attack of Senator Rayner upon the street
railway corporations of the District in particular,
and public service corporations of like character
everywhere, touched upon subject that is fast
thrustng itself upon the people of nearly every COM
munty for solution, the subject of urban and in
terurban transportation.
The large fights today in our municipalities are
over the question of street car transportation. In
State legislatures the old Hobbies of the steam roads,
insurance companies and school book concerns have
given place to the lobby Of the electric ransporta
ton companies, and it is a very formidable one.
The next line of battle in this country between
Big Business and public interests will be formed
along the tracks of local and interurban trolley COM
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
COLORED LAWYERS
SENTENCE CONFIRMED
]. w. Patterson Must Serve -Four
Years For Keeping Clients
Money.

The conviction of John w. Patterson.
a colored attorney, of embezzlement, in
the District Supreme Court, was today
affirmed by the Court Of Appeals in an
opinion handed down by Chief Justice
Shepard. Patterson is under sentence
of four years in the penitentiary.
Wrongful conversion of $s0.60 which he
collected from the Equitable Life In
surance Company, as attorney for Mrs.
Cora Harris, was the charge in the in
dictment. At the trial Patterson at
tempted to explain that he was holding
the money out of fear that the judg-
ment on which he obtained the sum
would be set aside. and he would bo
the loser.
He got possession on an assignment
made by Mrs. Harris. il.
ITO permit an attorney to OBTAIN sucn
an assignment from a trusting client.
thereby converting himself into deb
tor, merely, and enabling him to con-
vert a fund that he had collected as an
attorney, would open the door to the
perpetration of crime impunity," says
the Chief Justice in nis opinion.
Patterson was tried before Justice
Dan Thew Wright in Criminal Court,
No 4. n. - $50 y
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
MR.. OYSTERS BENEFACTIoN.

The philanthropic milk stations, established at
his own expense by George M. Oyster, jr, have now
been in operation long enough for the resulting bene
Ats to become apparent The first of these was estab-
lished at Georgetown Hospital on April "a Of last
year. the second at Friendship House on the first Of
the following June, while still others came afterward.
The report read yesterday at the meeting Of the
advisory board of physicians who give their services
to this benefaction shows that out of the total of 63
infants prescribed for at the phanthropc milk sta
tions there were only twenty-six fatalities
The establishment by Mr.. Oyster of this public
benefacton came as the welcome solution of grave
local problem Tritely but truly it filled long felt
want The administration Of it has abundantly vndi-
Gated itself, and the community is duly grateful to
Mr. Oyster
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.

This is day given over to patriotism and to
memories of the heroic dead. The noise Of the
market place is hushed throughout the United States
while a reunited people pay tribute to those who
died that the Union might live. At "the Tomb Of
the Unknown" where namelessness lends peculiar
pathos to the grim toll of war; the grzzled survivors
have gathered together with those who passed through
later conflict, and the Chief Magistrate commemo-
rates the virtues which smell sweet and blossom in
the dust" As long human hearts pulse with sacred
sentiment there will be magic in the name Of Airing
ton. In other Cities of the Dead other memorial
groups have assembled and the country is carpeted
in wilderness of flowers on this Decoration Day.
There will be no discordant notes in the tributes
which mark the exercises here or elsewhere. AS
the first half century since the civil war nears its
close, mutual regard between North and South has
become so much a matter of course that Miniature
alone could do violence to it. The victors realize
that il is disparagement Of their own valor to mini
mze the courage Of the conquered
So it is in the spirit of broad fraternity that
flowers are strewn and the memories of the past are
recalled. Love and loyalty, without exultation or
bitterness, render homage to the impershable virtues
Of those who sealed their patriotism with their life.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Unveil Tablet Where
Mass Was Celebrated

NEW YORK, May 3o.-The Sabbath
like quiet that usually pervades the
financial district on a holiday was in
terrupted this afternoon, when a large
crowd of Catholic clergy and latty
gathered about the United States Gus
tom House, in Bowling Green, for the
unveiling Of a tablet to mark the spot
where the first mass was celebrated
by a Catholic priest on Manhattan Is
land.
Where the magnificent new custom
house now stands there stood in the
early days Fort James, within the pre-
cincts of which the sacrifice of the mass
was first offered up in 1885, by the
Rev. Thomas Garvey, a Jesuit priest,
who was chaplain to Gov. Thomas
Dongan.
The tablet commemorating the event
was erected by the Order of the Alham-
bra, which has for one of its primary
objects the marking of places notable
In the Catholic history of the United
States.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1s1
DEATH OF WILBUR WRIGHT.

That aviation has been developed within dec
ade to a point where its marvels have becor COM
monplace is due to the brothers Wright r ne than
to any other individuals, and the death of Wilbur
will create sincere sorrow throughout the world.
A paragon Of modesy and quiet determination,
he devoted himself to the conquest of the air, and
not to spectacular parade or primarily, to money
making. His forty-hve years yielded rich harvest
Of achievement. As pioneer in the most striking
work of the twentieth century he will hold an en-
during place in the beadroll Of great Americans
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Disposal of $4,000
Settled By Court

Sitting as a member OF the Court Of
Appeals, Justice Stafford today handed
down a decision affirming and revising
in part the action of the lower court
in two cases involving the disposal Of
$4,000 in the American National Bank.
The fund was held In the bank pend
rem Mitchell in Kentucky to be paid to
John A. Armstrong and others on the
establishment by them of their claims.
The decision rendered today Is that
the claims against the Armstrong es-
tate were not established, thereby re-
versing the lower court, but a decision
of the lower court in getting aside a
lien of Henry E. Davis, lawyer, claim
ing the fund for professional services.
was upheld.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
HOUSE MEMBERS
LOSE ALL HOPE OF.
EARLY GETAWAY
Numerous Important Meas
ures Yet to Be Considered
This Session.

Members of Congress who are hoping
for an early adjournment are rather
worried today. The House isn't In ses-
sion. and this does not augur well for
getaway" on June Is. No member,
of course, could oppose adjournment
over Decoration Day, but ordinarily the
House is rather sparing with its time
when but fifteen days remain until the
prospective end of the long session.
1T looks bad to me-" commented an
anxious member as he wandered
through the Capitol this morning. I'VE
have more work now than we can do.
without missing day."
When Congressman Underwood, the
majority leader, moved that the House
various early adjournment advocates
sank. Time Is precious and contested
matters are numerous, and IL the ses-
sion ends on June Is, according to the
tentative program of the House leaders.
that body must stay at work ten or
Two appropriation bills, the sundry
civil ana the general deficiencies. are yet
to te passed by the House. and the
Senate calendar Is piling up with about
six other appropriation measures which
have been sent over by the lower BODY
Most of these bills, especially the post.
office, naval. and legislative appropria.
tion budgets, are loaded with legislation
which may cause long deadlocks be-
tween the two houses.
Two Sundays and two calendar Wed
nesdays intervene between now snc
June Is, and a day or 30 must be de
voted to the District of Columbia meas
ures and to unanimous consent bills.
1t looks unfavorable for a June Is ad
journment and dozens of members pro
feaaed IN zee the handwriting on tn.
wall when the House resolved to ad
journ over Decoration Day. The Hous'
members are not lacking in sentiment
but then II IL unusual to lose any tim
within fifteen days Of the supposed ent
of a session.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
BUTT IS PRAISED
BY MRS. HAMMOND
FOR HEROIC WORK
Randle Highlands Pays
Tribute to Former Presi-
dental Aide.

A monument of flowers was the
tribute of the citizens OF Randle High
lands to the memory Of Major Archi-
bald Butt, the Presidents aid, who
went down to an ocean grave with the
Titanic. Mrs. John Hays Hammond,
secretary of the Titanic Memorial AS
ISOLATION, delivered the principal ad-
dress. Mrs. Warner A. Gibbs, of WASH
ington, sang several solos, and Mrs.
Howell Smith of Washington. recited
the Charge of the Light Brigade"
After the address of Mrs. Hammond
a detachment Of the District National
Guard fred salute Of twenty-one
guns. Exercises were also held by the
Boys Brigade, of the District of CO.
lumbia. Music was Furnished during
the afternoon by the Naval Gun Fac
tory Band.
Mrs. Hammond spoke as follows:
my friends, we are gathered here to-
day to honor one who lived and died
nobly. II cannot be that life so fun
of loving kindness and patient. unsel-
never end. They are the seedlings
planted In other souls to bring forth a
harvest of blessedness.
Boys. do you realize that this brave
man built up his souls character by do.
ing the simple little everyday duties
No doubt they often girded aH1 tried his
patience, but he did them because they
were his duty, and when the supreme
test came in that black hour Of death
Major Archibald Butt was there brave
| iy to meet it-a soldier on duty.
1--WE bring sweet flowers to honor him
Those blossoms are visual witnesses o.
l the life which Is planted in weakness
and resurrected in the glorious ligh
| Of God.
"Our sheaves of palms, which speak o.
suffering, and the laurel crown Of tn
Hero, we bring to lay in reverent mem
| ory. But the true memorial to our be
loved friend Is in the extension of hi
/ lffe's finest aim In our own living. LIE
US perpetuate that which he was at hi
best"
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Boarding House Owners
Defrauded By Forger

Complaint was made to the police to-
day by two. boarding house proprietors
that they had cashed worthless checks
for a man, who represented he wanted
to rent a room.
RS. Martha Byrne, of 2S1 z street
northwest, said the man came to her
house yesterday, engaged a room and
affered to make 81 deposit. He gave
change. Rudolph Moraht, of 22S John
Marshall place, took a SO check from
the same man and gave him s. in
change. Both checks were drawn on
the United States Trust Company.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
District Government
Beaten In Court

Efforts of the District Commissioners
to collect $4O.21sA from the Fidelity and
Deposit Company because OF the failure
of Samuel P. Bayly. jr. to renew a con-
tract with the city to remove ashes,
came to an end today with a decision
by the Court Of Appeals, holding that
IL Is impossible to recover.
Bayly made a two-year contract with
the Commissioners August l, 1905. to re-
move ashes. 1t contained a provision
for a renewal for three years, but Bayly
declined to renew.
A demurrer to the bill was sustained
in the lower court. and on the appeal
the action was affirmed.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Woman Is Moved
To Death House

BOSTON, May 80.-Mrs. Lena Cusu-
mano. under sentence to die in the
electric chair for the murder of her
husband, was removed from the
Plymouth, county Jail to the death
house of the Charleston state prison
early today.
In an adjoining cell is Enrico Mas
cialt, who was the womans admirer,
and who was convicted jointly with
her for the killing OF Cusumano.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
WILL HOLD MEETING
DR.. D. c. Macleod to Tell Of
Legislative Situa-
ton.

Several important matters will be the
subject of addresses at the meeting Of
the Anti-Saloon League tomorrow even
ing at Wesley Chapel. Fifth and F
streets. DR.. d. c. Macleod, chairman
of the legislative committee of the Dis
trict league. will consider the legis-
lative situation In Washington. and
the status of the interstate bill will be
F. c. Dinwiddie, legisiative superin-
tendent of the league. s. z. Nicholson,
assistant secretary of the American
league. will consider the general situa-
ton and the prospects for the league
for the year to come.
The program includes a cornet solo by
Robert s. Nash. Andrew Wilson, presi-
dent of the District league, VIII be
chairman Of the meeting, which will
open at o'clock.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Events
On Memorial Date

The national Memorial Day is also
the memorial anniversary of the death
Of many famous men. On this day, 1910,
died Peter Paul Rubens, the famous
Flemish painter; in l744. Alexander Pope.
the English poet; in 1877, John Lothrop
Motley, the historian, and on this day,
lS4s, cholera appeared in Philadelphia
which swept away more than 1000 lives
before the epidemic ceased.
on this day, 1854. the Kansas and
Nebraska territories were organized.
Seven years ago today the monument
In New York to Gen. Henry w. Slocum
was unveiled. On May 80, 1865, Patrick
Henry introduced Ave resolutions in the
Virginia assembly against the Stamp
act.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Birthday of Poet.

Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Eng
land, Is seventy-seven years old today:
This is the birthday of ]. B. Baylor, OF
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and OF
Col. Edward d. Meier, formerly presi-
dent of the American Society OF Me-
chanical Engineers. and the inventor OF
the water-tube boiler, The Right Rev,
William Lawrence. Episcopal bishop OF
today, and Bishop Henry Clay Morrison
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, has reached his SEVENTEEN birth
day on May %
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Sanatorium Rules.

Rules of sanatoriums as to nursing
and discipline were the subjects OF ad-
dresses before the spring session of
the American Sanatorium Association.
in the Willard last night. The following
officers were elected:
President. Vincent Y. Bowditch, Bos-
ton, Mass: vice president, DR.. Lawrence
Brown, New York; and secretary-treas-
urer, DR.. Harry L. Barnes, Rhode
island. After the business session in
the evening, DIR. b. T. Crane and z.
8 Bullock spoke.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Rhode Island Primary.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., May 30.-Rhode
Islands ten delegates and ten alternates
to the Democratic national convention
at Baltimore will be selected in a
Statewide primary to be held tomor-
row. The primary will be the first OF
it's kind held in this State. The names
Judson Harmon will appear on the boil
lots,
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Sultan Frightened
By Attack on Fee

PARIS. May so-The Moroccan rebels
about Fee again attacked the city to-
day, and were repulsed with heavy
native loss of life, dispatches say. The
sultan, who was said to be very much
frightened was calmed and somewhat
reassured by the outcome La Patrte's
correspondent estimated the number Of
the rebels to be 5000.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
BATTLE NEAR IN
WEST VA. STRIKE
Miners and Guards in Belligerent
Mood-Shots Are
Fired.

CHARLESTON. w. Va, May So-A
pitched battle between nine guards and
1,5OO striking coal miners is imminent
at the Paint Creek Mine, in the Kama
wha valley, where armed detectives
have been placed about the mine to
prevent interference with strike
breakers.
In a skirmish, this morning. strikers
fred eighty shots into a boarding house
where the special guards are quartered.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Americans Passport
Ignored In Russia

EYoTKUHNEN. Prussia, May 30
When Herman Bernstein, well-known
New York traveller, author and corre-
spondent, attempted today to cross the
Russian frontier, the police turned him
back, refusing to honAr his passport.
despite the fact It had Ben vised by the
Russian consul general in Paris.
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
Professor Carter
Succeeds Millet

ROME, May 3o-Prof. Jesse Bene-
dict Carter has been appointed direc-
tor of the New Consolidated American
Academy here In succession to Frank
d. Millet, who was drowned on the
Titanic
The Washington times., 1912-05-30
What's on tie Program IN
Washington Today

Meeting of Logan Tribe. No. S, I. o. R.
and N street, tonight.
Meeting of Sioux Tribe, No. IS. X street,
near Four-and-a-half street southwest
tonight.
opening of summer home of the Y. w.
e A. at Cherrydale, va, with enter
tainment by dramatic club, italian
orchestra. to be followed by buffet
Dinner for veterans Of the Confederate
army now in congress. at the Rocham-
beau. by Congressman A. w. Rucker
of Colorado, tonight:
'' sressionai. Mt oliyet, and Prospect
rinai exercises at Colonial School to-
day.
f,ece meeting, under the auspices Of the
National Capital Motor Cycle Club.
Annmai Convention of Association for
Study and Prevention Of tuberculosis,
the New Willard.
| parade of Boy Scouts.
| Lair and entertainment under auspices
Of the Ladies' Aid, Camp Spring, Md.
Exercises by veterans Of the Eighth
battalion, Prospect HUI Cemetery.
Amusements.
@HarseI and Gretel' and Cavaliers
p6alTsoPon 6FstlfSnaP Players A in "Ths Forum.
| Hunter 215 and s:15 p. m.
! cohImbia-Columbi Players in "Wilc
| Fire" 2:16 and S:l5 p. m.
Beiasco-Butterfield Players In 'Tht
| Hypocrites," 2:15 and S:16 D. m.
| Glen Echo Park-Amusements for all
| Admission free.
| Casino-Elite vaudeville.
Majsstic-Family vaudeville, to II p. m
Cosmos-Refined vaudeville. to II p. m
| Arcade-Bowling, motion pictures. and
| other attractions.
Gentry Bros. Show, Sixteenth and