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The Washington times., 1912-02-17
LAST CHINESE NEW
YEAR COMES TOEND
Orientals Hereafter Will Observe January l., Same as
Rest of World-Season at Hand When All Accounts
Must Be Squared.

Policeman Boswell, Of the Sixth pre-
cinct. wandering through Washington's
Chinatown In lower Pennsylvania ave-
nue. shortly before noon today, came
across a representative OF the Flowery
Kingdom, armed with an old-fashloned
lantern. the rays from which were do
ing their utmost to make themselves
seen in the bright sunshine.
Same old gag that's been worked ever
since Greece began sending over to us
her surplus supply of shoeshiners, fruit
venders. and wrestlers," the 25O-pound
blueooat unused.
i've got. you, steve; come on over
and let me ask you the question, and
get 1t over WITH he said as he halted
the funny looking Oriental, and eyed
the suspicious looking lantern. Are you
Dtogenes? And IL you are, you are in
the wrong section of the city. That's
the Capitol right up there on our left"
Chinaman "No Comprehen'."
"Dodgin' these what?" the Chlnaman
In pidgin- English inquired.
"Aw, come on" the policeman replied,
i've asked the question which YOU
knew / would, and it's time you mean
dered Move along and douse the Iight, -
ihe oriental in question moved along
all right, but he disappeared in one build
ing, only to return a minute later and
dart into another. The secret of the
whole thing is this:
Today is CHINESE New Year, and
all bills are paid before the rising of
today's sun. In the event that bust
ness duties or too many bills prevent
the debtor from visiting all his creditors,
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
HARROVERS PARTED
BY DIVORCE AFTER
YEARS Of SILENCE
Jackson and Rebecca Break
Bond Grown Irksome in
Thirty Anniversaries.

A nuptial knot that was tied thirty
one years ago was severed today when
Justice Wright in Equity Court No. ..
granted a limited divorce to Rebecca
Ann Narrower from Jackson Narrower,
a motorman, and awarded her alimony
of $40 a month.
For the last seven years the couple
lived together but never spoke to one
another, the husband testified, except
when he told her that he would not
work next day and not to mind about
putting up his lunch. Regarding the
lunches. he told the court, that often
they were mouldy and "unft to eat"
Quarrels between the two reached a
climax according to testimony, when
their only son, william J. Narrower,
reached his twenty-first year, and his
father told him he would have TO get
out and hustle for himself.
He was home picking his old banjo
or walking about the streets" testified
Narrower about his son, after explain
ing that the latter labored only three
months in two years following his
twenty-first birthday.
Attorney w. A. Coombe appeared for
Mrs. Narrower. and William J. Neal
represented the husband.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
YOUTHFUL BANDITS
BREAK PROBATION
WITH NEW THEFTS
Boys Confess Looting Boats
and Stores After For
mer Escapade.

Raymond F.. Hurdle, thirteen years
old, OF 1903 street southwest, and Al
bert E. Lynch, eleven years old, OF
l122h Eleventh street southwest, the
boys who furnished a sensation in the
Juvenile Court on January "a when
they were charged with robberies, were
today before Judge DeLacy on the
charge Of having broken into motor
boats at Thirteenth and Water streets
and stealing accessories. Both boys
pleaded guilty.
On January "a both boys, in company
with a boy named Thompson, broke
into Shea's store, at Thirteenth and e
streets southwest, and stole &l6, cigar
cites, candy, and cakes. They also
stole toy pistols, and decided to see the
world. Journeying to Alexandria and
thence tc Munroe, We, they spent four
days in q barn, and were finally brought
Lack to Washington.
Restitution was made and the boys
were put on probation. Last night after
attempting to break into n store they
went to the wharf and looted motor
boats. @. w. Tarrott, employed rs
watchman by the Tailrocd, saw the
boys attempting TO enter SafCr's store
at Fourteenth and streets southwest,
and notified Policeman Kleinschmidt,
who caught the boys with the stolen
articles. The boys confessed to other
robberies.
Judge De Lacy committed Hurdle TO
the Children's Bo6id of Guardians for
one year, and Lynch was placed on pro
baton for six months longer.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
LINES ARE SHARPLY
DRAWN IN ELECTION
FIGHT OF PRINTERS
Progressives Seek to End
"Whanetaism" and Gust
Lynch Forces.

Lines are being sharply drawn be-
tween the two factions in the ranks of
union printers of Washington over the
election of officers of the International
typographical Union, and literature is
being printed and disseminated by both
Sides Unions all over the country are
similarly engaged and II will not be
the fault OF leaders on either side II
printers are not informed of the claims
of both parties. Tomorrow afternoon
the "progressives" of Washington ex-
pect to carry the day when Columbia
Union meets to vote Endorsements.
The candidates for which local pro-
gressives will vote are the same as
those which carried the New York
Union recently, the ticket being head
ed by Fred Parker, OF Spokane. Sample
copies OF the ballot used in New York
have arrived here and will be dis
tributed before the meeting tomorrow
afternoon. The printers unfolding Pres
ident James M. Lynch also will have
ballots for distribution.
The progressives' ballot contains the
caption "Unionism versus Wahnetaism." )"
This Is interpreted by local members of
the antl-Lynch faction to mean
"straight-out union labor, democratic
conduct of union affairs as against Sc
cret star-chamber methods employed by
the inner council"
The anti-Iyuch men charge that there
Is secret ring in the International Ty-
biographical Union administrtion, which
is known as the "Wahnetas," and that
will be so long as President Lynch and
his followers hold office Lynch men
deny that any such 'Hnner council
exists. The anti-Lynch men report that
of this secret ring, a document known
as The Book"
The Washington times., 1912-02-17

he must pretend that the sun has not
risen and he turns back the hands of
the clock like they do at the Capitol
sometimes
HTe then arises on the New Year
morning, lights his lantern, and con-
vlnces himself that II is still dark. He
makes his rounds with the glimmering
lantern until the last bill has been paid.
He then can look any man squarely
in the face and tell him to go to
Brandstreets and get his financial
Barely had washington's Chinese pop
ulation recovered from the three days
celebration accompanying the rise of
the new Chinese republic and the down.
fall OF the Manchus, than the Orientals
found themselves at the end OF the
Chinese year.
0rientals Celebrate.
They are celebrating this event to-
day with much vigor, for 1t will be the
last New Year of theirs to fall on the
18th of February. After the new re-
publican officers become accustomed to
their new duties of directing the af-
fairs of the Chinese republic, then the
Gregorian calendar will be adopted, and
their New Year will fall on January 1.
Throughout Chinatown today. the Or
ientals have ceased work. Shops, stores
and laundries have been closed, and
every native Is In holiday attire. Nu-
merous banquests and dinners, at when
nothing except native foodstuffs and
drings are served, are taking place and
will take place this afternoon and to-
night.
the Stars and Stripes, are seen wherev-
er a Chinaman holds forth. The cele-
bration began at midnight, and will end
at the same hour.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
PUBLICITY BOARD
= REPORTS ON MEN
AND RELIGION HERE
Capital Campaign Leads
Committee to Make
: Recommendations.

Recognizing the great force of news
paper publicity in moldinR public opin-
Ion and the service which the press
Of America is rendering in the cause
OF Christianity, the Washington COM
mittee on publicity of the Men and Re-
lgion Forward Movement has made a
strong report to the main body of the
movement The report and recommen-
dations read as follows:
Two sessions of the publicity insti-
tute have been held under the leader
ship of Eugene NJ. Camp. of New York,
of the Churchman editorial staff, and
Allan Sutherland, religious editor of the
Philadelphia North American. Sixty
committeeman attended each session.
These are the first formal institutes on
publicity in the present continental
campaign.
The value of space advertising in
the local newspaper was clearly dem
onstratCd, but quite as clearly II was
shown that no church by its isolated
action is using space advertising to an
extent that would insure results could
afford to follow this plan as a financial
proposition. FederatIve action in ad-
vertising the great fundamental things
for which the churches all otand, was
advocated as a practical advertising
plan.
"As a means of educating the mem
bers of the city-wide committee on pub
llcity, which is made up of the repre-
sentatfves from all local churches par
ticipating in the present campaign, q
series of five sessions of the present
body will be held on successive Thurs
day evenings, beginning February 20,
and will continue the instruction on pub
licity for churches under the leadership
of the present publicity committee and
with assistance H specialists who are
qualified to teach. Among those who
have already agreed to contribute to
this institute are George w. Coleman,
chairman of the publicity commission
for the National Christian Congress,
and president of the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs of America; William S.
Powers, of the MacManus Advertising
Company, Detroit; Frederick J. HaslSin,
president of the National Press Club,
Washington; and other members of the
editorial and repertorial staffs of Wash
ington newspapers.
This commission will report a survey
of the facts relating to the whole sub
ject of religious life in America and the
relation publicity sustains to 1t. This
report will be presented at the Chris
tian congress in New York city, April
1924 Washington should be represent
cd in this congress by some of the mem
bers of the publicity committee"
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
SLEEPERS AROUSED
/. BY FIRE IN WINOLA
APARTMENT HOUSE
Smoke Drives Occupants to
Street in Early Morn
ing Blaze.

Occupants of the Winola apartment
house, 1905 Massachusetts, avenue north
west, a five-story building with one
apartment on each floor, we're driven
to the street this morning when fire
was discovered in the basement of the
building.
Smoke filled the corridors and stair
ways, but no difficulty was experienced
by the nine persons sleeping in the
building in getting out.
The fire, caused by hot ashes being
piled against a wooden partition, reach
ed the dining room of the apartment on
the first floor occupied by Mrs Robert
Wilson. Everything in the room was
destroyed. The loss, which is several
hundred dollars, is covered by insur-
ance.
The building is owned by Ferd T.
Schneider. an architect, who lives Oh
one of the upper floors. Mrs. Wilson
discovered the blaze and notified Mr..
Schneider, who sounded an alarm from
a nearby box Mr.. Schneider estimates
the damage to the building at $500.
Fire of unknown origin shortly after
midnight last night damaged the base
ment of the home of Miss Lucille Fer
guson, 1918 Twelfth street northwest
The damage was $40.
An overheated pan of grease caused
a small blaze this morning in the kitch-
en- of Minor Hall. at Howard Univer-
sity. The damage was small.
Explosion of an oil lamp caused a fire
this morning in the house at 2022 YER
mont avenue northwest. occupied by
Annie Carter. The damage was SIS.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Lincoln Bodyguard
To Be Buried TodaV

Funeral ceremonies for Henry wal
ther, one of the few ramaining members
CT President Lincoln bodyguard dur
ing the civil war. will be held at his
home. as L street northwest, Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Mr.. WaIther
died at his home yesterday, after an i'll
ness of about n week, at the age Of
r!Ghty-four years. He came to Wash
inRtun IN 1850.
For the last fortV years Mr.. Walther
had been 4 Photographic printer in the
National Museum. He was a member
Of the G. A. r. of the District, and of
the Odd Fellows. who will take a promi-
nent part at his funeral ceremonies.
IIe Is survived by his wife and two
daughters. Mrs. Francis Pollock, and
Mrs. Natalie Parks. Interment will be
in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Bolivia Is Theme
Of Church Lecture

Bolivia and the land OF the Incas"
was the theme OF a lecture by DR.. Ger
hard J. Schilling. superintendent Of the
American Institute. La Paz, Bolivia, at
the Metropolitan Memorial NJ. E.
Church, last night. The musical part
of the program was furnished by Mrs.
Isaac. Burch, orgarist for the church,
and included the rendering of the ma
tional air of Bolivia.
Dr. Schilling will preach the sermon
tomorrow morning at the Dumbarton
avenue NJ. e. Church
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Slashed Throat in Cafe,
Shannon Will Recover

Physicians at the Emergency Hos
pital said today that Morris L. Shannon,
an employe Of Fredonia IN. W lum-
bel. firm. who tried to end his life last
night by slashing his throat with a
razor in saloon at Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
would recover. Although Shannon
slashed his throat several times, he did
not sever the jugular vein, and his con-
ditlon Is not regarded as serious
The police received a dispatch from
Shannons brother, f. L. shannon, OF
Fredonia, stating he would come to
Washington and look after the would
be suicide.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Australian to Speak.

Lieut.. J. J. Simons. of Australia, who
is making a tour of the world with forty
Australian boys, will speak before the
Stanton Club and Consumers League
for the District of Columbia, Tuesday
night, in the Chamber of Commerce
room. The subject for the lecture will
be The Success of Equal Suffrage in
Australia After Eleven Years"
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Asylum Gets Funds.

Gifts totaling 1851 were received ny
the German Orphan Asylum, according
to report Just made to the directors by
Martin Wiegand. from tre Christmas
fete. The asylum will profit even more,
1t is expected, from the Metzclsuppe re-
Gently given by the Washington Butch
ers Benevolent Association. The exact
amount that will be realized has not
been announced as yet.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Price $1,000
r $500 Cash
$26.o2 rlOnthly

Only $500 mighty small price to pay for modern Groom
home equipped with modern convenience home of
pressed brick construction spacious front and back poe
home with puey floors and where all the attention
has been given details tiled bathroom and plenty of
light and ventilation evidenced by the fact that the dining
S three large windows and many other features too numerous to
mention here that nightly part of the modern home
home whose atractveneS many times enhanced by ideal
location in buit-up residential community
Every home sold High View" thus far has found
completed you the nearly ready
for immediate occupancy you had better act quickly else when do
inspect you will be looking at the home of other
TO NSPECTTake any street car marked "Brookand" get
off at Rhode Island avenue and walk one square east
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Miss Dalngerfieid Buried.

Funeral services for Miss Ellen c.
Daingerfied, who died at her residence,
14 B street northeast, Thursday, were
held in st. Joseph's Catholic Church this
morning at 10 o'clock. Interment was
private, only the family and few i'm
mediate friends being present.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
WinbiGler to Speak.

Spiritual Therapeutics and Its Chan
mel Power will be the subject of an ad-
dress by DR.. Charles F. Winbigler be-
fore the Washington sycho-Therapeu-
tic Society, Monday night at 8 o'clock,
in the parlors of the w. c. T. U.
building, 522 Sixth street northwest.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Wives to Market.

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Members of the
Housewives League have decided that
the best way to cut down the high cost
of living is to do ones own marketing
instead of entrusting II to servants.
S1.a5 To Baltimore and Return Satur-
days and Sundays via Pennsylvania
railroad. Tickets good returning until
a. m. Monday. All regular trains ex-
cept the Congressional limited. .-Advt
The Washington times., 1912-02-17

The owners are about to break ground for
more these homes. 1t will be several months
before they completed
II you haven't the necessary $500 first payment
to put into one of the homes about ready for
cupancy now. you can have us reserve one of the
next lot for you by arranging to make small
monthly payments. In this way, by the time the
homes ready for occupancy you will have
saved enough to make the first payment. After
that all you need pay is $26.S2 per month, which
applies directly the home. including all inter
eSt
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
Price $4,000
Tau,,c. $500 Cash
$38 Month

These S38 monthly payments include all interest Instead pay
ing rent you buying home of your
TO NSPECT-Take any Fourteenth street going north Get
of Fourteenth and Spring Road and you right
only a minutes ride from center of city.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17

$1.aS Baltimore and Return,
Baltimore and Ohio. every Saturday
and Sunday. Good to return until 900
A. NJ. train Monday. All trains both
ways, including the Royal Limited.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
YOUR
OPPORTUNITY
To Own
-. Spring Road Home
Depends Largely Upon the Weather

EATHER conditions sound like little thing to stand between
wv you and the kind of home you expect day.
don't they? But is the little things that largely influence
lives
In Washington the number of people wanting just such home
offering Spring Road at 14th Street many times the
number of houses for sale in this most desirable locality
We refer to the Spring Road Properties There isn't another home
buying opportunity like this all Washington The location character
of construction of the homes type architecture and the fact that
every necessary modern convenience already installed all combine
to make this the chance of lifetime
And why such desirable homes still the market do you
ask? Simply because this is the when magnes himself
herself comfortable indoors The present inactivity of others is
your opportunity-f you take advantage of it,
in all realty operations there preferred locations among the
Spring Road PropereSal very desirable locations but
y desirable than Others Now your choice unrestricted AS
spring advances and these properties find the selection will be-
limited until finally the opportunity will pass entirely Of
your reach
You will understand exactly what when you inspect the
Spring Properties and there time inspection like the
present.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
Wyoming.

With the completion of the BuYling-
ton extension II is thought the mining
activities at Crosby will be materially
increased.
The first cleanup was made at the
dredge of the Shoshoni Gold Dredging
Company recently. The run was a
short one and is therefore not a
thorough test of the entire proposi-
tion. The clean-up showed n nice saw,
ing of gold, however. and looks very
favorable. Some changes will be nee.
essary in the gold-saving devices. and
these will be made. The operators
are studying the river and feel very
well satisfied with the results of this
cleanup. With the changes that are
to DO made In adapting the dredge to
the peculiar kind of sand found in the
river there is every reason to believe
that the dredge will be success and
that placer mining on Wind river will
become IA good, safe, commercial Ell.
terprise.
With a capital stock of s1,O0O.0O0.
the West End Twin Falls Irrigation
Company has been incorporated un.
der the laws OF Wyoming and its prin'
cipal offices will be in Cheyenne.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
WIRELESS FOR ARMY FLIERs
instruments for Aeropiane Use In
vented by OFFICER Weighs Only
rs Pounds.

Washington.-Probably the smallest
wireless telegraph set ever made has
Just been perfected by the officers in
the army signal corps laboratory here.
and has been sent to New York for
the aeronautical show which Is to be
held there. The receiving and trans
mitting apparatus weighs only 26h
pounds. and Is confined within a boz
15 inches square and 16 inches deep.
The generator from which the appar.
atus derives It's power adds an addi.
tional 20 pounds.
The machine Is the result OF the Of
forts of the army signal officers un-
der the directicn OF Mai Charles
NICK. Saltzman, to perfect the lightest
machine possible for use in the "fifth
military arm" or the aeronautical d.
vision.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
Geisha Driven to It by Monotony
... of Life.
Girl Says She Doesn't Want to Die
Now, but May Later II She 10
Seized With Another Meian-
choiy Fit.

Tokio.-7A sensation was created in
Toxic by the recent attempt at sui
eide OF one of the most famous Of the
Shimbashi geisha. who are In their
turn the most famous Of all the thou
sands OF geishas In Toxic.
The first reports stated that the un-
fortunate lady had been driven to her
attempted death by mountains OF debt
contracted as the result OF passion
ate attachment to certain popular
actor. The Toxic Asahi. indeed. con-
sidered the matter OF such Importance
that after the recovery OF the would
be suicide the editor induced her to
write the history of the incident and
her own feelings during the attempt
for the benefit OF its readers. Hero II
Is:
THE mere idea OF debt OF 1000
or 1000 yen could never drive me to
suicide. / am subject to fits OF melan.
choly. and when In the grip OF one Of
these want to get out of the world.
Why? Simply and solely because I
am tiJed OF life. its monotony and
quietness. A geisha's life contains
no excitement 1t Is always the same,
day in and day out.
"Publicans sell drink. cats catch
mice. dogs watch burglars and nen
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
PLAN HUGE OFFICE BUILDING
New York skyeraper In Park Row
Rises $50 Feet In Air VIII Cost
$13,50O,o 900.

New York. The tallest habita-
BILE building In the world IL 20
ing up on Broadway. between Bar
clay street and Park row. 1t will
weigh 250.000,0OO tons 1t rests on
sixty-nine pillars Of cement, reaching
down to solid rock from the street
level
This building. the tower light Of
which. $50 feet in the air. will be
| seen ninety-six miles out at sea, has
In 1t 10000 tons of structural steel
Forty-five thousand dollars worth of
glass has already been ordered for
windows and doors and skylights. In
the walls and floors are to be more
than 10000 square feet Of hollow TIL
ing and terra Gotta. The cement or
der will run Into the tens Of thousands
of bags.
On the weekly pay roll is a regi.
ment OF men from mere lifting and
carrying laborers to the circus per-
forming iron workers who play around
at 700 feet in the air on slender steel
beams like orioles on an elm bough
Their wages run from $150 a day for
the laborers to $3.50 and upward. and
the pay roll is $4,000 day This has
been going on for two years.
The 10000 square feet OF land on
which the building stands cost about
$4,50O.000. 1t cost 100000 to dig
out the foundations and the basement
and endorsements. The cost Of con.
struction will be nearly $4,000, 900,
making the whOle nile m ipvoatmart
OF approximately $13.500. 900. The
mere knowledge that such building
was to be erected on the spot caused
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-30
BOY SAVES CHILD'S LIFE
John crumIish, Aged IA, Rescues Un-
conscious Four-Year-OId From
Drowning.

Wilmington. Del. John Crumlish,
aged IA. of No. $40 West Fourteenth
street, proved himself hero by saw
ing Clark Vernon, aged four, No. 1929
Tatnall street. from what seemed GER
tain death by drowning in the south
race in Brandywine Park. Vernon.
with several small boys and girls.
wandered from home and into the
park. and while playing near the wa
ter Vernon fell from the retaining
wall. The swift current was carry
ing him away when Crumlish was at
tracted by the cries of the drowning
boys companions.
Crumlish ran to the wall. saw the
drowning boy and plunged into the wa
tetr. He caught Vernon and had a
hard struggle to get back to land. Yer.
non was unconscious. SO Crumlish car
ried him home. where a physician re-
vived him.