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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-23
Nelson Weds in Chattanooga

Chattanooga, January 22E(Special)- Terry Nelson, the Chicago and Philadel- phia lightweight became benedict here tonight, marrying Miss McCanu of Chi- cazo. The girl, who met Nelson here, ar rived this nioruing They have been en- gagged for two years.
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CHAS. R. CRANE NEW
 HEAD OF CRANE co.

Chicago, January 22.-Charles R. Crano. who was appointed minister to China and recalled before sailing from San Fran cisco, today was elected head of the
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Crane company to succeed his father, the late Richard Teller Crane.
 R. T. Crane, Jr., was made first vice president, and R. T. Crane III, second vice president.
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pointment. The governor himself was at the other end.
 What's the matter with you fellows about that Jefferson county tax com missionership?' he chided. "I have made the appointment, and not soul has put his usual query to me-
 The reporter was deeply chagrined. When did you make it. governor?' he queried back, in a lame sort of way. Then came a great laugh of relief. The
 governor said that he was happy to state that he had just made it five minutes ago." and he left the telephone d new man.
 To those who have been closely asso- ciated with the governor since he took hold of the affairs of state more than year ago. it has been evident that the question which has given him more con- cern than all of the others was the va cant office to which Captain Allen has
 just been appointed. Scores of appliea-
 tions were received by him from men ranking high in the business and polit- ioal world, and numberless delegations 1 visited him in his office at the capitol. urging their. friends for the office
 Warning Was Issued | So insistent became these friends, in l fact that the governor several weeks | ago issued warning that he would re- celNe no more delegallonS, nor any HloTe personal applications Not a week since the office was vacated, however was the chief executive able to get away from the fact that the appointment was an imperative one, and that the sooner made the better Because of this. the entire past week was taken up almost entirely in consideration of the merits of the can- didates. The requirements of the office were carefully made, and the selection of Captain Allen came only after a long fight had been fought, and after scores of meritorious candidates had been strick- en off the lists.
 The appointment of Captain Allen now
 clears the officials desk of all appoint
 ments of a pressing nature. and permits him the first calm period of year. Cap tain Allen spent tonight in Montgomery and will leave for the Magic City early tomorrow morning to receive there the congratulations of his friends.
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Inter-COmpany Profits

Large inter-company profits. the re- port says, were revealed by the exam ination of the many companies linked up under one control through various sub sidiaries, ore mines, blast furnaces. steel works. etc. Those component parts of ono interest, it is charged. treated each other as unallied concerns, charging a profit as the material went from com pany to company, in the process of man ufacture.
 Citing steel rails as an illustration. the report shows tho cost of manufac- ture from the raw material to the fin ished article, in comparison between the book cost of the corporations, which includes the inter-eompany profits. and the actual cost. The commissioner em- phaslzed the fact, however, that the req condolences of profit in this connection must be determined in connection with the total investment of an integrated company.
 After going through the various stages of inter-company treatment tho book cost on heavy Bessemer rails was Se1 .g7 The intermediate profits were E i7, mak- ing the rails cost SIS. 60. The total differ. ence is thus a very considerable amount the commissioner adds. The price Of -~---~~>~--s -,----~--~~>-~-------~~>~-- (CONTINUED ON PAGE Al
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Segregate Railroads

This situation clearly raises the aues. ton whether the interests of the public may not require the segregation of it's railroad properties from the Steel corpor- alton. IL would thus stop what is un- occasionally an evil and that is the ifn- position of high rates upon competitors shipments which puts them at d great dis advantage, while al the same time fore ing them by reason Of this very fact to contribute ulmnly to the profits of the Steei corporation on transportation.
 While in the case of ordinary manu- featuring enterprises it may be entirely proper that the most aggressive concern should reap the beneit of its enterprise. 1t is unquestionably different in tho case of public utility, sucn, for instance, as a railroad. Competition in the construc- tion of railroads is often impracticable. Moreover. tho important ore railroads of the Steel corporation were obtained not through superior ability. efficiency or foresight. but simply through superior command of capital, as q result of com bination."
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Ore Profit Kills Competition

The excessive profits on ore, the report says, has kept effective competition in the products of pig iron. and steel, by con cerni which must go into the open mar ket for their ore.
 The transportation profit of GO cents a. ton realized by the Steel corporation on it's own orc, over it's principal ore car rying roads, ana m lake vessels from 1902 to 1901, was grossly excessive the re- port alleges. As evidence of this, 1t Is said, the corporation recently reduced the rates on its two principal ore roads.
 The report adds:
 While integration of industry to permit Of large scale operations at minimum costs is exceedingly desirable, these enor- m"as profits of the Steel corporation on the transportation of ore, present a prob- lem of very great importance.
 "The situation is this: lntegratfon of the steel nduftry with respect to trans partation this far. instead of working to the advantage to the public in the form of lower costs to all shippers and lower prices. has inured to the benefit of a great combination. On the other hand to let the Steel corporation retain this advantage al low transportation cost and to let this work itself out in the form of lower prices, might be undeslra ble be- cause 1t would tend to give the Steel cor poraton an unreasonable and undesirable advantage over competitors in the sale If finished products.
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Layman to Report

A. R Layman, inspector of the state beard of railroad and warehouse commis- sioners, visited the scene tonight and will
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Preliminary Report Made of Production Cost by Her
 bert Knox Smith
TRANSPORTATION
 PROFITS EXCESSIVE
"The Prices of Lake Ore" the Report Declares, Have Been Kept for Many Years at an Unrea-
 sonably High Leyel'

Washington, January 22.-Unreasonable profits are made on iron ore of. the lake region, excessive earnings flow into the treasury Of the United states Steel cor poration from it's ore transportation fa- cilties which suggest the necessity from the standpoint of public policy of segre- gating the ore railroads from the giant corporation, and large inter-company profits are made by consolidated ore. iron and steel companies according to pre- limnary report on tho cost of production in the steel industry, by, Herbert Knox smith, commissioner of corporations. made public tonight.
 The report was presented to President Taft and sent to the House committee on ways and means for consideration in connection with the proposed revision of the steel tariff schedule, upon which the democrats will caucus tomorrow. Lake Ore Too High 'rrhe prices of lake ore,' the report de- clares, have been kept for many years at very unreasonably high level, com pared with the cost of production and the cost of the investment in the produe ing ore properties"
 In connection with the alleged excessive profits realized by the Steel corporation from it's ore railroads, Commissioner Smith says the control of public agencies of transportation carries with it such pos abilities of abuse that the question is raised "whether the public interest in this industry does not require segrega- ton of the ore railroads from the steel corporation"
 The report is based upon an investiga- ton of two-thirds of the country's pro duction of iron and steel from 1902 to 1906. inclusive. Limited data for 1902 to 1910. MT. smith adds makes it clear that these five year figures substantially rep resent present conditions also.
 Insofar as the Steel corporation cn- ioys monppVltstic power" the report | states. "lf as chiefly in it's holdings of orc and bts iilroad transportation facili- ties" This company, the report declares. has acquired unduly large ore reserves. holding, at the close of 1910 at least 50 years supply, at the present rate of consumption, exclusive of the Great Northern properties, the lease of which has been cancelled, Jisluary 1, 1915. It is estimated that the corporation has fully l,2O0, GOO tons of other ore in the lake re-. zion.
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EXPANSION THE RULE
IN BUSINESS SECTION
Many Changes in Downtown Area Indicate
Progress Of Development of Capital.

A phase of the real estate market which
Is of interest from the standpoint of the
investor, and which also offers an indica-
ton of the progress in the material de-
velopment of the city, is the activity in
business property. During the season
which is now drawing to close when
property of this class usually is traded
the record has been unusually full. While
attention has naturally been directed to
the operations in what might be called
the recent additions, forming the expan-
sion of the business section, the older
portions of the business area have not
been neglected.
1t is quite evident from the course or
the buying as we'll as of the record OF
the prices paid that the central portion
or the older business locality is not being
abandoned. but is expanding. The newer
areas, such as the Connecticut avenue
section and that along 14th street. are
evidences of the demand for more room
The central portion of the business sec
ton remains today as 1t has for years
in about the same locality. only its bor-
ders have shifted to the north and to the
west.
Reflects City Growth.
The section Of the city north of Penn
sylvania avenue and west from 18th street
today Is the center of the business life
and activity of the city, but is no longer
bounded on the north by F street and on
the west by 18th street as was the case
not many years ago. In other words, the
growth of the city is reflected in the
change in these bounds.
This expansion is entirely natural, be-
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South Carolina avenue southeast. was in
tered here In August, 1880. Among
others buried in the following year were
Col Samuel Hanson, Col William Ben
ming, NJ Booth. long clerk at the navy
yard: Henry Timms, doorkeeper Of the
House of Representatives c. II. Warden
and William Smith, who was at the time
the sexton or superintendent of the
ground The latter had succeeded Ben
son Mccormick, and after him came Rob
ert Clark.
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cause it could not be presumed 10 be
possible for the trading center of a pop
ulation of over 100000 people to be con-
fned within the same radius as that
which was found to be ample for the
needs of population of 100000.
1t is interesting to note some of the
more recent transactions in this general
locality For example, the old-tme resi-
dence standing detached in the midst of
what was once lawn on the south side
OF New York avenue between 18th and
l4th streets northwest has just changed
hands. The house is to be torn down, the
embankment on which it stands is to be
removed and on the site, or, at least, a
portion of 4, a fve-story business build
ing will be constructed by the new owner,
Charles @. Stott.
Good Prices in Trades.
The new structure Will have a frontage
of p feet. The lot extends along an
alley on the west side about 100 feet.
The adjoining q feet frontage on the
east was purchased by Edward G.. Perry
The entire area of the property is a
little over 4.OC0 square feet While the
consideration in the transaction was not
given, Yet it is thought that about $50
per square foot was paid for the property
The ownership of the property 1916 F
street has recently changed, and it is
understood that the present owner, Frank
Walter, paid about $25 per square foot.
The lot has a frontage of 33 feet and
the unusual depth of $50 feet to an alley.
The entire area is about 6,0O0 square feet.
An addition has been made to the hold
ings of Mrs. Velati at the southwest cor
ner of 9th and G streets. The newly pur-
chased property adjoins the corner and is
known as 800 G street. The dimensions
of the lot are 25x97 feet, with a total area
of 2,5S1 square feet. The price paid was
stated to be S6OO 900.
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PROPERTY
FIGURES IN TWO SALES
Tract at Vermont Avenue and
K Street Now to Be improved
by Apartment Hotel.

The large piece Of property at the
northeast corner of Vermont avenue and
X street northwest, which was purchased
during the week by Harry Wardman,
has figured twice in sales during the
past two months. 1t was sod in the
first instance by Story & Cobb, real es-
tate brokers, to a local investor, and
through the same agency Mr.. Wardman
has acquired 1t.
The consideration in the last trans
action, which was over 100000, showed
an advance over the price of the preyf-
Gus sale. 1t was owned for number
of years by the late Senator Proctor, and
some time ago an option of purchase was
secured from his estate by the trustees of
the Unitarian Church. A site further to
the north on 10Th street was finally Sc
lected for the proposed church edifice
and the option for the X street property
was not exercised.
Since then the property has been twice
sold and it is understood the new owner
proposes to erect there building which
will be planned for use as a hotel and
apartment house, or an apartment hotel.
The erection of the New Arlington Hotel
and the new home for the University
Club, just TO the south on the other side
of Mcpherson Square, as we'll as the gen.
eral advance of business in that locality,
is supposed to have called attention to
this property and making it an active fac
tor in the market after a long period OF
apparent neglect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-18
NEW WIRELESS INVENTION
RECORDS CALLS ON SHIPS
Automatically Registers Warnings
to Vessels of Danger
in Their PATH
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, May ISN'T. Marconi is mis-
taken If he said. as reported in published
kilograms, that there is no signal OF
alarm other than those in common USE
and that the operator cannot receive a
signal without his helmet on his head.
for which reason it is necessary that an
operator should always be on duty" An
apparatus has been invented and pat
ented by which messages sent by a
particular station can be received and
automatically registered by a ship. Mr..
Marconi says that there exists an ancient
apparatus used on board vessels for ring
ing a bell when q message was received.
but 1t was a failure because it rang
bells indiscriminately on all ships
touched and not on any one ship only.
Registers Automatically.
The new system would not ring bells,
but would automatically register the
distance at which the various receiving
ships happened to be from the emitting
station or ship. In a case like that Of
the Titanic, II a message had been sent
from Cape Race it would merely have
gerous zone Of icebergs. but IL a message
had been sent from the Titanic all the
ships receiving it would have known
what distance they were from her.
The primary object of the invention is
to give warning to vessels which have
deviated from their course in fogs and
are In perilous proximity to land or reefs
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Hadfield, architect; Capt. Michael Bulley
of the navy yard section: Richard Bland
Lee, judge of the Probate Court who
died in 1926: also Representative Christie
pher Rankin of Mississippi
Representative James Jones of Georgia.
who died in 1901, was first buried at Rock
Creek cemetery. as also was Gen.
James Jackson of the same state, an Of
fcer of the revolution; Maj. Gen. Jacob
Brown, who died in this city in a home
on the site Of the present Riggs office
and theater building, in February, 1898,
was buried in Congressional cemetery a
few days afterward with full military
honors. Or. William Thornton, who de-
signed the Capitol was buried "A month
afterward. also Commodore Tingey, the
commander of the navy yard from 1890
to his death in 1879 Gen. Phillip Steward
a representative from Maryland, an Of
ficer of the war of 1872, and at the time
of his death residing at 9th street and
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AFTER MOUNTAIN GAME
Representative of Smithson-
ian Institution Going to
Siberian Region.

Through the iberality Of friend, the
Smithsonian Institution will be enabled
to participate in a geological expedition
to the Altai mountain region Of the
Siberia-Mongolian border, central Asia,
an exceedingly interesting territory. from
which the National Museum at present
has no collections.
Ned Hollister, assistant curator Of the
division of mammals, United States Ma
tional Museum, will represent the institu-
ton and make a general collection of the
birds and mammals. He will have as
field assistant Conrad Kahn of Vienna,
Austria, a celebrated Alpine guide
Party Sails May 90.
The party leaves New York, May q.
on the Mauretania, for London, whence
the field will be reached by way of st.
Petersburg and the Siberian railway.
The scene of the survey and explora
tion the Altai mountain region, is par
ticularly wild country and quite unset
tied, although it is we'll stocked with
game These mountains are inhabited
by the largest Of the wild sheep which,
with the ibex, will form the principal big
game animals sought by the party, but a
complete and general collection of smaller
mammals and birds will also be made.
At present it is the expectation of the
party to remain in the field for four
months. hunting and collecting, returning
to the United States about the 1st of Oc-
tober.
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OLD WASHINGTON.
Congressional Cemetery, 1925 to 1889.
By James Croggon.

The Congressional cemetery up to 1923
was. to all intents and purposes, III the
county, for there was no settlement east
Of the navy yard, commons Intervening
between the plot set apart for buriais
and the town, although at long intervals
there was some gardening and not few
squares of corn. oats, potatoes, etc The
square west now included in the grounds,
and some others south were so used, and
it is related that the farmer thereof, with
some of his family, repose on the ground
he once cultivated-the spot on which
dance took place at the marriage of his
daughter being now the family burial lot.
But little Improvement had been made
to the avenues and streets, but the travel
to the graveyard. the naval magazine and
the Naval Hospital at 10th street had
worn a passable road. Over this the
funeral professions passed, for, owing to
the few public conveyances obtainable,
more people walked than rode and when
there was a military, naval or fraternal
escort bands of music played '.Mary's
Dream and other marching tunes. 1t
is needless to say that when the honors
called for salute by cannon there was
ample room on the commons north
Up to 1925 there ha been but few
deceased member o I ongress inferred
there, the term Congressional Burial
Ground was often applied and already
there had been erected over them ceno-
taphs whose unique form attracted the
attention Of visitors. These are uniform
in size. shape and material, after q de-
sign by b. II. Latrobe, once architect of
the Capitol They are OF sandstone on a
base about six feet square, on which a
square block about three feet in height
surmOunted by q cone-shaped top. the
whole being about five feet above the
ground. With but few exceptions the
inscriptions on them are as follows:
The Honorable -. a member of
Congress OF the United States, from the
State Of - tor in case Of a senator
reading senator). Born -, died -"
priation was made for a monument over
Vice President Gerry, who died in 1914.
| Nearby other burial grounds had been
| established-one for the members of the
| old Ebenezer Methodist Church on 4th
street southeast. now Trinity NJ +.
| Church. 5th and c streets, and another
| for co,ored people-and travel to and
from these helped to solidify the roads
The first was on the square northwest OF
Congressional cemetery. known as square
/ AlU<s winch was UouSHt III 1914 OF Col
Elgar, commissioner Of public buildings
This contained about the same amount OF
ground as the Congressional, and was
located between 18th. 18th, D and i
4 streets. The sum Of $50 was paid for IT
| 1t was used as burial ground until afte,
| the civil war. Over twenty years ago il
was sold and converted into building lots
| the bodies being removed to the Congress
sional ground.
1 These two cemeteries became well popu.
| lated, the families of the Methodist per
| suasion using their own ground, but the
Congressional was in general use. Amoni
those buried here were Daniel Rapine
| bookseller and printer on Capitol Hill
and in 1912 mayor Of Washington; Georss
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and it might not have served any special
purpose in the case Of Titanic except where
any vessel may have been. and apparent
ly was, close to the scene of the disaster
without her wireless apparatus working
or whose operator was of duty. Never
theless. 1t is we'll to correct the state
ment that no vessel can receive q wire
less signal unless the operator is at his
post.
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and parts Of the cars and accessories.
appeared In the Police Court yesterday
and were placed under bond of $4,000
each for a hearing May 81.
The two men are charged with TAX
ing the automobiles OF Lowery Waters
and Harry E. Chandlee. 1t is also
charged that property valued at $50
was taken from Mr.. Waters car and
tools valued at $35 from Mr.. Chandlee's
car.
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Long Cough.
rom the London Standard.

From the London Sfandam.
The tiger came toward me. believing
and grunting. and when he got opposite
the screen he gave one of those fearful
coughs. which only man who has been
close to such a beast can appreciate. 1t
was eleven feet long.
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HELD FOR HEARING MAY 81.
Colored Men Accused Of Appropriate
ing Other Peoples Autos.

George Banks. alias Burke. Of 1904 w
street northwest, and George Davis of
2e1Sk 18th street northwest, both coll
ored, charged with taking automobiles
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There were many others prominent IN
official life, some of whom stood high IN
this country's military and naval annals.
who found a final resting place there.
Among these prior to 1910 were Commo-
dore John Rodgers, then the senior ofil-
Ger of the navy, who died in 1886; Com
modore Daniel T. Patterson, who at one
time was in charge of the naval force
about New Orleans and who died in 1899:
Commodore C. G.. Ridgeley and Maj. Will
liam Gamble, long a marine offcer ana
resident of This city There were also
here many members of the old Washing
ton families. among them the Waiter
sons, Coltmans, Weightmans, Forces and
GuntonS.
Although other cemeteries had been es-
tablished ST Johns Episcopal Foundry
Methodist among them, the Congressional
ground was the leading one of Washing
ton At some funerals the professions
were most imposing, but there were many
conducted with simplicity.