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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
PETITION CARRIED AS FREIGHT
Monster Plea for Liberty Bell Signed
by California Children.

PHILADELPHIA, December Mrs
Emma Doane. the representative chosen
by the children Of California to present
10 Mayor Blankenburg OF this city a
petition signed by them. asking that the
liberty bell be sent to San Francisco 10
be exhibited during the Panama exposi-
ton in 1915. arrived in Philadelphia today.
The petition contains more than 100000
signatures, and SO formidable was II that
1t was carried here as freight on a reel
measuring more than ten feet in dame
ter
The petition will be presented TO Mayor
Blankenburg In his Office on Monday.
After Mrs Doane has made her plea to
the chief executive, the reel will be
placed on a truck and be driven through
the principal streets OF Philadelphia The
latter action will be taken, 1t is said. to
create public feeling that the bell
should be permitted to be taken west
Several civic organizations and a num-
ber of prominent persons have declared
against the project on the ground that
the danger of an accident to the priceless
relic was too great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08

PHILADELPHIA, December Limited
States Senator BOies Penrose, in a speech
at a dinner here tonight given by clasSi-
fled civil service employees of the govern
ment and city of Philadelphia, declared
himself in favor of Congress enacting a
law providing for old age retirement PEN
sions for federal employees. He also said
the pensions should be granted without
the employees being called upon to con-
tribute toward the fund while in active
service. Senator Penrose said, in part:
Il have had, as chairman and member
of the committee on post offices and post
roads of the Senate for many years, op-
pOrtunity to realize that the pension sys-
tenn for postal employees is specially de-
siIable.
Do Not Lose Zeal.
"A notion which has gradually been
given up. but which once prevailed gen.
orally and still exists in places, is that in
some way the pension system tends to
enervate and emasculate employees and
causes them to lose Zeal or ambition in
their work. Experience has shown. how
ever. that the contrary condition results.
The old-fashioned idea of a pension in
!,
paid when the retiring age is reached and
based on contributions from employees,
private gifts and perhaps appropriations
by the government is conceded to be in
effective and unsatisfactory and gives no
assurance OF SOlvency.
Plan Is Supplanted.
This plan is being supplanted every
where by the service pension wherein the
allowance made to the employe is a per-
centage Of his average salary for the pre-
ceding term of years multiplied by the
number of years of service.
''The evolution from the contributors
plan to the service pension system is
gradually coming to be realized, and the
straight retirement and pension at the
expense OF the government and without
contribution from the employees is the
only one that will in the end prove salts
factory and give assurance of sOlvency.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Train Hits Auto, Killing Two.

YORK, Pa, December Henry Stein.
cant of Lancaster and Charles Krodel
a we'll known musician of Columbia, Pa.
were killed when an automobile in which
they We're riding was struck by rail
road train at Stoney Brook. near here
The machine crossed directly in front OF
the approaching locomotive and the occu
pants were thrown a hundred feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Many Questions Await Him.
BERNHARDT SHOPS EARLY.
Actress Buys Toys for Her Great
Granddaughter.

CHICAGO. December Mime. Sarah
Bernhardt did her Christmas shopping
here today. She took most pains with
the toy engine and dolls she bought for
her great granddaughter, Sarah Gross.
who lives in London.
Nine. Bernhardt could not shop in Chi
cago herself without difficulty because
few Of the shop girls speak French. Her
secretary. Mile. Seylor tried it. but found
her English inadequate. so Nine. Bern
hardt applied to the management of her
hotel for two drummers sample rooms
and had an assortment of such articles
as she desired sent in from the shops.
She spent a large part of the day select
ing gifts from the assortment.
Her purchases totalled nearly $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
MURDER CASE GOES TO JURY.
Defense in Fisher Staying Claims
Evidence Is Only Circumstantial.

BALDWIN. Mich, December THE
case of o. NJ. Arebaeh of Chicago, charg-
ed with the murder Of his employer,
Harry W. Fisher. went into the hands of
the jury early tonight. AT late hour
the jury was still celebrating.
The scene of the shooting was visited
by the jury today.
In their closing arguments this after
noon attorneys for the defense laid spe-
cial stress on the assertion that the prose-
cution had offered nothing but circum-
'stantial evidence to implicate Arebach
with Fishers death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
FLAMES IN ARM0RY
Loss in National Guard Quar-
ters Will Reach $1,000.
THOUSANDS SEE THE FIRE
Throngs Rush to Scene After Alarm
Calls Engine Companies to
Blaze.

Fire which did $1,000 damage was dis
covered in the National Guard Armory
over Central market about II O'Clock last
night. Had it not been that the flames
were discovered and an alarm sent in be.
bore they had gotten we'll started the
entire Center market building might have
been destroyed.
The fire. which was supposed to have
been caused by spontaneous combustion,
originated in a room occupied by Com
pany 1 Of the I'd Regiment, commanded
by Capt. c. n. Walker. The entire room
was gutted by the fire before it was ex-
tinguished Damage was also done to
Infantry. located under the room in
which the fire originated.
Sergeant Sounds Alarm.
Sergt. c. w. Moore Of the District of
Columbia National Guard. detailed as
watchman at the armOry, was making his
rounds when he discovered smoke emerg-
ing from window of Company is quar-
ters. The watchman sounded an alarm
from a private box at the armory.
Four engine companies, with two truck
companies and Battalion Chiefs Sullivan
and Proctor were soon on the scene. Chief
Sullivan directed the work OF the fire
men on the upper floor. while Chief Proc
tor took charge Of the work on the sec
Ond floor.
When the fire department arrived or
the scene the flames had burned prac.
tically everything in the quarters of Com.
pany ]. Several streams of water were
soon thrown into the room and within
short time the fire was extinguished
but not before 1t had burned through the
floor into the quarters of Company H.
Thousands of Spectators.
1t was stated that several combination
trunks containing camp material were
stored in the quarters of Company 7
and 1t is believed they caught fire from
spontaneous combustion. With the arrival
of the fire department, several thousand
persons went to the scene Reserves O,
the first and sixth police precincts KEEP
the spectators back, that the firemen could
| work to advantage.
The prompt arrival of the fire depart
ment confined the fire to the two quar-
TEN Had a strong wind been blowing
last night at the time of the fire, i
| would be hard to estimate what damage
might have been done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
KILL REsCUERS BY MISTAKE.
Two American Mining Men Now in
Jail in Mexico,

Ell PASO, Texas, December ii Long
and Oscar Lagendorff, American mining
men, are in Jail at Parral, Mex, ac-
cused of murder according TO letters re-
ceived today in FL Paso. The letters ex-
plain that the camp of the two men was
attacked by bandits, and they sent to
Parral for aid.
The Parral chief of police and a band
of civilians responded. and when they
arrived without uniform the Americans
thought they were bandits and fired on
them. The chief of police was killed
and the Americans were arrested Long
is a brother OF the American consul, J..
II. Long, at Parral
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
WILLIAM D.. CRUM DEAD.
United States Minister to Liberia
Victim of African Fever.

CHARLESTON. S. c.. December T.
William d. Crum, colored, United States
minister to Liberia died here today from
African fever contracted in Monrovia.
Crum's appointment as collector of the
port here by President Roosevelt stirred
the south to bitter protest. President
aft deposed Crum after he had served
two terms as collector.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Get Three Hours Start
GIVES FAREWELL RECEPTION.
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice Enter.
tains Stockholm's British Colony.

STOCKHOLM, December Sir Cecil
Arthur Spring-Rice, the British minister
to Sweden, who will succeed James Bryce
as ambassador at Washington. gave a
farewell reception today to members of
the British colony, who presented him
with a bronze statuette. The Rev. Mr..
Swenstead delivered an address In behalf
of the British congregation.
A delegation from the British factory at
Gothenburg will tomorrow present the
retiring minister with silver plate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
TAFT OFFERS WILSON
TRIP ON bATTLESH|P
President Thinks Governor
Might Like to Inspect
Panama Canal.

President Taft his written letter to
Gov. Wilson offering to place at his dis
posal one Of the big battleships of the
navy to- make a trip of inspection to the
Panama canal some time before Mr.. Will
son is inaugurated
The President has a thorough knOwl-
edge of the work of the army engineers
on the isthmus himself. through per-
sonal visits to the Canal Zone and is of
the opinion that his successor would like
to know as much as possible about the
nations great engineering feat before
he enters Office.
Many Questions Await Him.
Many questions of policy concerning the
canal may be looked for in Mr.. Wilson s
administration and Mr.. Taft decided that
1t was only fair to the man who takes
his place In the White House March to
offer him an opportunity to inspect the
canal and gather information at first
hand.
The letter to Mr.. Wilson was mailed to
his Bermuda address. No. answer had
been received at the White House up to
last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
OFFICIAL VOTE IN OHIO.
Wilson Carried State Over Taft by
146.O8o Votes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. December THE Of
fiicial vote of Ohio for President COM
pleted in the secretary Of states Office
today, shows that Wilson carried the
state over Taft by 146OS6. Wilson polled
423.152 votes; Taft polled 277.O66 votes.
leading Roosevelt, who polled 229,327, by
47,739
Chafin. prohibition candidate for Presi-
dent, received H. ,459 votes; Debs, social
list, polled $3.50 votes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
In Department Four Years.

DR.. Alsberg has been in the Department
Of Agriculture four years. He was edu-
Gated in Columbia University and Stras-
burg University. Germany. He engaged
in research work in Germany for several
years. Before coming to Washington he
was in charge Of the department of bio
logical chemistry at Harvard University.
The President has given careful con-
sideration of the claims made for all
other chemists. Several times reports
arose that he had decided upon a chief
chemist to fill Mr.. Wiley's place, but they
later were proved erroneous. His deci-
sion to name DR.. Alsberg is said to have
been made only yesterday afternoon.
The appointment does not have to be
confirmed by the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Methods in Contracting

The subcommittee further finds:
That tine receiving of alternate bids
under a published specification without
the knowledge OF all the bidders for that
contract is unfair
THAT the lowest bids under specifca-
tiOns offered for proposals have been re-
Jected in favor of higher bids. although
the low bidders We're responsible houses
OF established character. on the ground
that in the Judgment of some officer OF
the District. sometimes subordinate OF
the assistants To the Engineer Commits
SiOner. the goods offered by the higher
bidder We're more satisfactory
That the comp ,aints OF manufacturers
that contracting methods in vogue at the
District building are unfair have been
justified by the testimony IS also assert
ed in the report which says that:
specifications nave been so drawn as
TO exclude all manufacturers save one of
some stated supply; and that the lowest
bids. when submitted by houses of IN
questioned character and standing, have
been rejected in favor of higher bidders
he opinion of a subordinate officer
as to the vGiue of the goods offered"
= In great detail the report scores the
Districts method in regard to contract
ing for fire hose. 1t says plainly that
the system results in excluding from
bidding all manufacturers of fire hose ex-
cept one" The Commissioners as a
Continued on Fifteenth PaSe)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Dr.. Carl AIsberg Selected, Ac-
Cording to Report.
FOR BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY
Has Been in Department of Agri.
culture Four Years.
Is A POISON PLANT EXPERT
Decision to Name Him Said to Be
Principally That of Sec
retary Wilson

DR.. Carl Alsberg of the poison plant
laboratory. Department Of Agriculture, il
was asserted last night in we'll informed
circles. has been selected by President
Taft and Secretary Wilson TO succeed
DR.. Harvey Wiley as chief of the bureau
Of chemistry.
Dr. Alsberg is a chemist of prominence.
and has been spoken Of for head of the
bureau made famous hy DR.. Wiley. his
name first being mentioned last October.
Since the retirement OF DR.. Wiley DR..
Doolittle has acted as chief of the bureau
Of chemistry.
The decision to appoint DR.. Alsberg is
said to have been reached only after
lengthy deliberation and numerous con-
ferences between President Taft and
Secretary Wilson. the final choice be-
ing largely that OF the Secretary him.
self
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
DERELICTS OF CAMPAIGN
COME IN ON CRUTCHES
"Longworth" Offers to Sacrifice
Wife's Relatives for Party.
Is IMPERSONATED AT BANQUET
New Members Initiated and Fare
well' Is Said for the Late ]. S.
Henry, G. w. Rouzer, J. M.
Carson and T. C. Noyes.

CONSERVATION reigned at the beginning
Of the Gridiron dinner at the New VIII
lard Hotel last night. and for while the
club was profoundly embarrassed and
nortified. and the guests were deeply
stirred. 1t fell out this way:
The guests, including the President Of
the United States. members of the
cabinet, men high I'm public and private
life and notables from this and other
cities, had assembled. had fraternized I'm
the reception room, and to the clang OF
the old dinner bell had marched into the
beautifully decorated banquet hall, re-
splendent with silver and g.ass and
snowy napery. all glttering under a
myriad Of colored lights.
All signs pointed to a feast OF good
things and flowing bowl President
Garthe had made his little speech OF wei
come, supplemented by the Gridiron Quar-
tets song of cheer; cocktails had been
dispatched. oysters had followed and soup
likewise.
The guests We're munching almonds and
buzz of bright conversation filled the
hall. when there sounded a shrill whistle.
Everybody looked up. and 10 and behold.
every waiter in the place was marching
stolidly from the hall
The walters are on strike" was the
horrified whisper that went round the
hall. Manager Hight was wringing his
| hands I'm despair, President Garthe look
ed aghast and every member OF the club
sank back in his seat with a groan. Hur-
ried consultations We're held among the
officers Of the club and Manager Hight,
the while the guests sat still In panied
embarra SSment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
Exiled President in Antwerp.

PARIS, December 1..Cipriano Castro,
former president Of Venezuela. disem-
barked today at Antwerp from the
steamship Windhuk. according to q spe-
cial dispatch from that city. His move
ments since landing have not been ascer-
tanned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
FAIRBANKS PAYS HIGH
TRIBUTE TO MARSHALL
Both Seated Together at In
diana Society Banquet
in Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 7.-Some five
hundred Indianians who now reside in
Chicago gathered at the state society S
eighth annual banquet tonight. Charles
Warren Fairbanks and Thomas r. Mar
shall were seated together at the ban
quet table.
Former Vice President Fairbanks in a
speech referred jocularly to the recent
democratic victory and later paid high
tribute to Vice President-to-be Marshall.
You would not recognize the old state
now were you to return to the haunts
once so familiar to you." he said. "Uhere
there once was light and hope and faith
you will find the wreck and ruin of a
noble party: gloom fills the air; our fair
fields are overcast with doubt and de-
spair; the sons of unrighteousness,
through one of those inscrutable dispense
tons of an overruling Providence, have
captured the citadel of your fathers and
now hold high carnival in the seats of
the mighty.
Tribute to Marshall.
my friends. wish to speak to you for
a moment in a serious vein, for l know
that in what 1 shall say j shall faith
fully interpret your own sentiments with
respect to the distinguished guest who
graces your board tonight
1T is a matter for congratulation If
we leave partisan politics aside-a diff
cult matter, l grant you-for politics
and literature are innate with us.
1T is a matter for congratulations,
say, that the next Vice President Of the
United States is to be one worthy OF
high distinction. Scholar. lawyer, states
man. we honor him as such. but beyond
this We esteem him as a loyal personal
frien. a fine type of Christian gentle
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
WEATHER

Unsettled today. Monday fair
and much colder; moderate vari-
able winds.
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Bourne'S Criticism.

CONTINUED ON Second Page)
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CONTINUED on Fifteenth PaSe.)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-24
PERSONALITIES

DR. VICTOR s. CLARK, commits
sioner of immigration, is reported as
having gone to Austro- Hungary in his
hunt after immigrant laborers.
MR.. AND MRS. JAMES LYLE, 972
Spencer avenue, attain the fifty-eighth
anniversary of their marriage today.
They we're married at Mystic, Conn,
on Oct. "a, 1854, and they have been
residents of Honolulu for over thirty
years. " Seven children, living, of the
venerable couple are scattered here
and on the mainland, and they have
many grandchildren and greatgrand-
children.
MISS BETTY DEVEREAUX, men,
Der of the Ferris Hartman Company,
which was recently in Honolulu, is
reported by the Japan Times to have
narrowly escaped serious injury in
Toxic recently. Jumping out of the
way of a frightened horse, the puller
of the kuruma in which she was rid
ing threw her directly in front of a
street-car, which caught her and
dragged her several feet. Beyond a
few painful bruises she escaped Sc
we're injury.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-24
HAWAII FOOLISH TO HEED
DEMOCRATS.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir:-As the soapbox is occupied
every day by spielers of different po-
litical faith, and, besides, couldn't
say anything if had the chance TO
mount the box. am going to again
say few words through your paper
to the young men who. are about to
cast their first vote, always bearing
in mind that We in Hawaii have little
to say in the way OF electing a presi-
dent, STILL there is a chance that good
seed may be scattered and take root
in the young voter.
What a man receives in the way
of compensation for what he has to
sell. be it brains. labor or produce, is
considered his income, that which
keeps body and soul together. not only
OF himself but of those he loves and
cherishes in his little home. The only
way he can protect that income, no
matter how small or how large it may
be, is by a system of protection that
is offered by the principles that go to
make up the Republican party, and
which maintains a Protective Tariff
on foreign-made goods. That protect
i've arm that guards your interests,
your income, your prosperity. your
home and all in it that you love is in
danger of being pulled down. and will
be pulled down If the Democrats gain
the day on the 5th of next month.
Twenty years ago, beyond the rec
objection of the younger voter of to-
day. the country elected Democratic
nv Nj fnly
rushed into effect a measure known
as the Wilson bill. 1t did just what
the Republicans said it would do, and
warned the voters against, and that
was to close down the factories of the
country by the hundreds and opened
up the soup-houses throughout all the
big cities of the states so that the peo-
pie should not starve. Now, the DEM
ocrats want to do the same thing
again There is danger ahead if you
do not look well to your way of Vot-
ing. %.
You frequently see the following
marked on goods, Made in Germany"
or Made in France. = At a glance
that does not mean much to you or
anybody of the ordinary mind for
such, things But let me tell you
what it means. 1t means that the
goods so marked we're made by farm
laborers on rainy days when they
could not work on the farms, at
wages that hardly keep them in good
health. 1t means that it is made by
little children after school hours. 1t
means that the tiny tots, after having
been in school from early morning
go direct to the factories and work
until half past in the evening, and
are paid four and one-half cents to
seven cents for six hours work. 1t
means that whole families are damned
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-24
MOTLEY MAKES FRIENDS-ANB VOTES

David Motley, candidate for supervisor
a resident of the Fifth district, was intro
duced last night to the voters of the Fourth at
the Republican luau. To many of those pres
ent Motley was introduced and spoke for the
first time He made an excellent Impression
his talk was brief but to the point and he gave
the effect of a man sincerely devoted to the
interests of his city and his country. Motley is
not one Of the men in politics for revenue only
a life of hard work has brought him to the point
of financial Independence; and he cherishes the
praiseworthy ambition of every American citi-
zen to do something for his community
The STAR-BUILETTN is glad that the Fifth
district candidate made such an excellent i'm
preston last night, for in way his appearance
was at critical time. The Fifth district has
felt that the Fourth should vote for Motley, that
he represents very large percentage Of the cleo
torate which will not be represented on the board
If he is defeated But Mr.. Motley made many
friends last night and will continue to make
them. To the charge raised by anewspaper that
he is under guardianship he made answer clear
", completely and with credit to himself He
told just why the modest competence left him
by his father had been placed in trust-placed
in trust by Motley himself. 1872 cs~a.s~-
The STAR-BUILETIN recognizes now, as it has
recognized throughout the campaign, that many
Fourth district voters hesitated to support Not
ley because they did not know him and were un-
willing to trust the important affairs of the city
to man they did not know. And this paper is
pleased to know that many Fourth district
voters who met Motley last night and heard his
modest but cleancut little speech feel that he is
entitled to just as strong support in the Fourth
district as the Fourth is asking from the loyal
voters of the Fifth, ~