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HOOvER--On February IA. 1912, Frank Ba
husband of Rebecca X. Hoover, aged 80
years, 1892 Springfield avenue, Irvington.
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JACKSON-On February 16, 1912, at his
home, at Summer venue, John W."
husband of Julia jackson.
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RIEGLER-On February 10. 1912. at his
residence, Ss1 Springfield avenue. Irving
ton. Theodore. beloved husband of Cath
crime Riegler.
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SAL .TER-Departed. this life OF Thursday.
February Is. 1912. Charles H.. beloved son
OF Mrs. Vicey A. Salter.
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PRICES OF BONDS.

The following quotations were fur
nished by Post & Flagg:
Open. High. Low. Close.
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RFlLT.YA-On February 10. 1917. Helen. be
loved child of John and Catherine Reilly
n'ee Smith.
Relatives and friends are kindly in
Nited to attend the funeral from parents
residence. 10 Bowery street, on Satur-
day. February II. at 9 p. m. lntermept
in the Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre.
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e., beloved wife OF Fletcher WATERS,
III North Fourth street.
WARRIOR Thursday, February Is,
1912, william T. Ward. aged 81 years
| month % days, 81 Newton street.
zAvONDY-On Wednesday, February
IA, 1912, John, beloved husband of
Anna Zavondy (nee Faynor), aged
Al years, 1877 Howard street.
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spCHLER-Entcred into rest eternal. on
Thursday. February 15. 1912. William
Spuhler. beloved husband of Catherine
Spuhler (nee Burkhardt), IN his 9th
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RIDGE
Franklin av., at J%oralemon st., Bloomfield, N.
j.: tel. 1643-J, Bloomfield; plots, four graves
and over, $65 up: graves. adults. s14.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
THE DIRT-ROAD STATESMEN.

The drt-road statesmen are now hard at it. The
Postoffce appropriation bill is up in the House, and
these patriots are attempting to set aside some eight
cen million dollars of the public money for paying
rent for country roads that are used by rural mail
carriers. This sum is the estimated amount for the
first year. The charge will be annual one, and
will increase every year.
! The States and counties and townships that own
these roads have not asked the Federal Government
to pay for their use. They have, up to this time,
thought that the Government was doing pretty we'll
to send man out every morning to bring the mail
to the farmers door. They never thought, before,
of charging the postofce authorities for doing this
service
But statesmen Of the dirt-road type be-
thought them of this scheme to get some appro-
prations for their home districts as cheap method
Of campaigning for reelection Not one of them
appears to consider the good Of the country-ther
own reelection is all they AFTER let it cost the
Government what it may.
Mr. Shackleford and his twenty-seven fellows
(some Democrats and some Republicans) are put
ting the courage of the House to the test. If their
scheme for renting roads is voted in the House it
will prove that the members of the House are cow
ards and that the present majority party in the House
is unfit to undertake control of the Treasury. A
more vicious scheme has not been put forward in
Congress in generation.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
ROOSEVELT MAY
Be CHOSEN ON =,
FIRST BALLOT
Conclusion Is Justified BY
Fair Analysis Made
BY Dixon.
CONTINUED from First Page.)

uncertain. with chances in favor of
Roosevelt. who, in this lone Southern
State, controls the organization. Wyo-
ming is expected to send Taft delegates.
Ohio will divide; it's convention comes
very late, because the Taft people,
knowing the Presidents weakness in
his home State, did not dare let II come
early lest II ruin his chances with the
rest of the country. Ohio thus has de-
MED itself any voice in deciding, for the
fight will be over before It votes. IL,
at that time, Roosevelt Is seen certain
of winning, he will probably get the
bigger end of the delegation.
Summarizing, II appears as certain as
anything in the realm of futures can
be that Roosevelt will have a safe ma
tority Of votes before the national con-
vention meets, and not improbable that
he will get two-thirds on the first and
nominating ballot.
The Massachusetts contest at the mo-
ment focuses national interest. Yet II
will have no important effect on the
result SO far as concerns Mr.. Rooss-
Welt. To lose II will laid definitely the
Taft campaign. The Taft people admit
II. To hold II will he merely to hold
after a desperate fight, that of which
few weeks ago they were absolutely
certain.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
Colonel Saves Girls
Life While on Way to
Worcester Yesterday

NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 27.-Trav-
cling from New York to Worcester yes
terday afternoon, Theodore Roosevelt
probably saved the life of Miss Ruth
Vance. senior in the high school at
Norwood. Mass, who was on the same
train with him, with others who had
been spending a vacation in Washing
ton, chaperoned by Mrs. Eugene Field
At the station here, which was reached
about o'clock this afternoon, the high
school girls Joined the crowd about the
Roosevelt car Independence, and, for
getful OF the time, many had to rush
for the forward cars when the train
began to move. Slower than her COM
panions. Miss Vance was being left on
the platform. when Mr.. Roosevelt called
to her to board his own car.
She was fast losing ground when she
reached for the handrail of the Inde-
pendenCe, only to slip almost beneath
the wheels of the car. Then Mr.. Roose-
velt's right arm grasped her wrist. and
she was hauled over the guard rail and
to safety amid the cheers of the crowd
that had just heard him declare he was
going to make '.the speech of my life
tonight at Worcester" News of the life
saving act was quickly circulated, and
he received a demonstration as he stood
on the rear platform, swapping his teeth
and waving 1.-The hat" and several times
three cheers were accorded him.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
THE SENATE'S SALOON BILL.

There may be some unj justihable details in the
new excise bill that passed the Senate yesterday,
but they could we'll be overlooked, rather than let
the measure die If there is anything revolutionary
about cutting the number of saloons in this town to
800, then let US have revolution.
There need be no fear of restriction of per-
sonal liberty" in order that saloons may be kept out
of the residence districts away from churches, parks,
etc. Neither need anybody become excited because
of provision that will make it practically impossible
to have more than one saloon in block.
There are now some 500 saloons in Washing
ton. To reduce that number by less than half and
to do it gradually, so that property leases may be
disposed of and business losses reduced, is not
luton. 1t is application of common sense to situa
ton that is now thoroughly bad
Saloon licenses are indeterminate affairs at
present. issued by excise board that is in effect
continuing institution. The saloon man with a
license once secured, and sufficient drag with the
excise board and police to keep it, has copper
riveted cihch.
1t is condition that too readily lends itself to
vicious influence and bad administration. The ex-
else board is composed of the of real prop
erty which is an utterly indefensble system.
II is proposed to have new and independent
board named by the President for three years. and
with the restriction that none may be reappointed
just why Hlelo siouiu pe oo h'aNii NoiiiueiSS
that this bill will die in the House is not apparent
majority of the men who make up the Democratic
side of the House come from districts that dry,
or in which the liquor business is vastly rgidly
controlled than here. Why deny to Washington the
same privileges of decency and orderly administra
ton that they enjoy at home?
Saloon conditions in this town have been a dis
grace, bordering scandal, for long time This is
good time to sound warning to members of the
House. that they will be called upon to answer to the
moral sense Of their constituencies if they preven
reforms for which there is crying need
And word to the saloon men will not be inap
proprate. If they call in the powers of the nationa
liquor organization, and lobby to kill this measure
they will surely injure their own case. The defea
of so fair and moderate measure this will brnl
them face to face with a serious campaign for
dry" Washington.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
SCHOOL GIRLS GO
BEHIND THE SCENES
Meriden Party Meets Actresses
Who Are Alumnae Of Their
Own Institution.

1t was a happy, smiling crowd of girls
from the Meriden. Conn. High School
who last evening went behind the
scenes III Polls Theater and shook
hands with Miss Izetta Jewel, A. H.
Van Buren,. and other members of the
Poll Stock Company, at the little I'M
promptu reception that was arranged
in their honor by Manager Thatcher.
About seventy-fiVe girls, accompanied
by the principal of the Meriden High
School, attended Polls Theater last
evening as the guests of 5. Il. Poll and
Representative Pilson of New Haven,
who Is a neighbor of Mr.. Poll. Mrs.
Pilson, Representative and Mrs. Thomas
Riley, and a number of other we'll
known Washington residents who are
natives of the Nutmeg State accom-
panied the young women. When the
girls discovered Miss Izetta Jewel, the
leading lady OF the Poll Stock Com.
pany, had once been a pupil at the
Meriden High School, and that Mis-
Hazel May. another member of the
company, had been born in Meriden
they were more than anxious to mee
them, and 1t afterward developed A. H
Van Buren was a representative II
good standing of New Haven.
concerned when the daintily dressed
high school girls were invited to pene
trate the mysterious realm behind tn,
footlights and view at close range thu
hidden secrets OF the stage. Miss Jewe
made an ideal hostess, and was abl.
assisted IN entertaining the girls b,
other members of the company.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
A TELEPHONE JOKER IN THE PUBLIC
UTILITIES MEASURE.

Attention should be directed to section 81 of
the Senate bill to create public service commission
and to regulate public utilities in the District of Co.
lumba, which section grants any public utility in the
District the right to rent any facility necessary to the
conduct of its business and paying reasonable rent
therefor" We wonder what effect this provision
would have upon the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company
No public utility should be denied this right if
it rents from foreign party, but is any rent which
subsidiary corporation pays to its parent owning
corporation reasonable" rental? To illustrate:
In hearing before the Wisconsin public service
commission to determine what should constitute
'reasonabe" rates for telephone service based upon
investment and operating expenses, the local Bell
plant of Milwaukee showed it was paying heavy
rental to the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company for use of much of its mechanical equip
ment the patent rights of which controlled by
the latter corporation.
In similar hearing before the house of dele
gates at ST. Louis the local Bell plant of that city
showed it was paying something like 4 per cent of
its earnings as rental for equipment, furnished by
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
In both instances the telephone interests insist
ed this was legitimate operating expense.
In both instances the investigating bodies de-
INJURED upon the ground that the local plants were
merely part of the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company which manufactured the mechanism
and it was virtually charging itself for the use o
its own property. clearly "watered" expense.
Such contingency should be prohibited in the
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
Biological Experts
To Hear Talks Tonight

At the regular meeting of the Biolo-
gical SucietY of washington, held to-
night In the lecture hall of the Cosmos
Club, there will be three discussions
Of much interest 10 the scientists.
G.. w. Gilmore will discuss "A Kkcle-
ton of the Didnosaur Siege sa urus;" ].
w. Cidlay will point out the arguments
as 10 whether rabbits are rodents: ana
the early bird migration IN the District
OF Columbia during the cold spring of
Il9 will be the theme of a talk by w.
W. Cooke. Brief notes ana exhibitions
Of specimens by members of the society
will precede the formal program.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
ARMY:

The following named officers are de-
tailed for service as first lieutenants
in the ordnance department June
20, 1912:
First Lieutenant CHARLES T. RICH
ARDSON, Coast Artillery Corps.
Second Lieutenant CLARENCE e.
PARTRIDGE, Twenty-sixth lnfan-
try.
Second Lieutenant \ DWIGHT X.
SHURTLEFF. Seventh Cavalry.
Second Lieutenant HARRY T. Pill
LANS, Coast Artillery Corps.
Second Lieutenant BURTON o. LEWIS,
First Field Artillery.
The following changes in the stations
and duties of dental surgeons are
ordered:
First Lieutenant FRANK H. WOLVEN.
relieved from Vancouver Barracks
Wash, to Fort Mcdowell, Cal.
First Lieutenant RAYMOND z. IN
CALLS, relieved from Fort Doug
las, Utah, to Vancouver Barracks,
Wash.
First Lieutenant JOHN II. HESS, re.
lieved from Fort Mcdowell, Cal, to
Fort Douglas, Utah.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
TWO OF A CHEERFUL KIND.

Champ Clark in speech declared that if we
wanted Canada, we would 60 and take it.
Now President Taft publishes letter of his own,
in which he told of his plans for making Canada a
mere adjunct to the United States"
And these two skful diplomats are serious
candidates for the Presidential nominations of the
two great partiesH
Who can wonder that American public affairs
constitute a standing joke for European observers!
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
ROOSEVELT ON TAFT.

mo other man was as much interested in having
Mr. Taft succeed as was" declares Colonel
Roosevelt in his Worcester speech. mo other man
with my principles and convictions has supported
him long and so bitterly regretted being unable
to support him longer. | do not think Mr..
Taft means i'll; think he means we'll. But he means
we'll feebly, and during his Administration he has
been under the influence Of men who are neither
wemeaning feeble. 1t is this quality of feeble
ness in a normally amiable man which pre-eminenty
fits such for use in high office by the powers
of evil"
There is concise statement Of the national
grievance against President Taft He is a nice man,
utterly untitled for his task. Everybody knows it,
everybody says it, Yet his supporters, who are sup
porting him. not in expectation that he be elected
but in the desire to retain their own hold on the
party machinery, are prepared to plunge the party
into disaster in order that the second-term tradition
may be sustained.
This two-term tradition needs to be examined
and challenged. We hear a vast deal about the
hirderm tradition. The managers of the Taft cam
paign are taking exactly this position:
THE PARTY OWES A SECOND TERM TO
AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT, EVEN AT THE
RISK OF PARTY DEFEAT OR NATIONAL CALAM-
ITY; BUT 1T is STOPPED FROM DEMANDING
THIRD TERM FROM A COMPETENT AND
PROVED PRESIDENT.
That rule is altogether impossible of defense
at the bar of national common sense 1t is going
to be smashed this year, because the people know it
is indefensibe.
Colonel Roosevelts Worcester speech sets forth
the whole case. 1t demolished the fmsy claim that
Mr.. Taft has been loyal to the progressive policies
1t convcts the President of dealing unfairly and in
sincerely with Roosevelt the Roosevelt policies, and
the people
The indecencies of Tafts attack on Roosevelt,
the violations Of the code of gentlemen, the mis-
representation of facts, seem characteristic, not
casual or the result of over excitement Mr.. Taft
has never made explanation Of the incident Of the
suppressed Lawler memorandum in the Banger
case; he never CAN make explanation of the fact
that the existence Of that memorandum denied
and then faked-up and predated document was in
serted in the record. That was characteristic Taft
performance and the disingenuous assault Roose-
welt, completely answered, was off the same
piece of goods.
Mr.. Roosevelt lands singing blow when he
recalls that, when the Harvester Trust be-
fore his Cabinet, 1T WAS MR.. TAFT WHO MOVED
THAT NO PROSECUTION BE STARTED PEND
ING THE INVESTIGATION BY THE BUREAU OF
CORPORATIONS That proposal was acquesced in
Now Mr.. Taft goes before the country, charging
Roosevelt with omitting to prosecute the Harvester
Trust for improper reasons He goes into comb
nation with the Lorimer Democrats and gets oil
them to introduce a resolution which affords pre-
text for publishing A PART OF the documents in the
case.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
BEEF.

Most of the talk for the past few days has been
about politics and the TITANIC disaster and baseball.
The most important thing that has happened to
a great majority of the people of this town is that
beef has gone up another nickel pound
We are able to discuss the cost of living prob
lem in the large, but are still utterly incapable of
knowing what to do or what to say when the powers
that be boost the price another notch
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
THREE NOTABLE GUESTS.

The newspaper publishers at dinner in New
York entertained three guests who have in way
contributed more to the making of the modern news
paper than has any journalist.
They we're Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A.
Edison and Gugelmo Marconi. These three living
men have shaped hands to use the forces of the
lightning, and thus to prevail against distance against
darkness, and against the isolation of the ship at sea-
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

First Lieutenant FRED ]. CONZEL-
MANN, Medical Reserve Corps, re-
lieved from duty at Fort Mott, n. J.,
June l, 1912. and will proceed home.
Captain OTHO V. KEAN, ordnance
department. attached to the Fifth
Field Artillery, June 20, 1912, and will
then proceed to Fort Sill, Okla.
Captain HARRY B. JORDAN, ordnance
department, assigned as first lieu
tenant to the Eighth Cavalry. June
20, 1919.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
Concert Today
By the United States Marine Band
at Potomac Drive, at S P. m.
WILLIAM H. SANTELIhANN.

WILLIAM H. SANTELIhANN.
Leader.
PROGRAM.
March, Universal Peace" Won Blon
Overture, "Di Ballo" "..........Sullivan
Ange1us and Fete from Scenes
Picturesque" .Massnet
Cornet solo, The Premier"
Llewellyn
Musician Arthur S. Witcomb)
Grand fantasia, THE Walkure."
NEF$'' Wagner
Invitation to the Dance"
'' Weber Weingartne
Transcribed for Military Band by
William H. Santelmann.
Entrance OF the Gods in Walhall."
Wagner
March, Sons OF the Brave"
Bidgood
THE star-spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-Vesuvius at Newport: Terry,
Lebanon, and Roe at Norfolk; Mis-
assippi at Provincetown; Mccall at
Hampton Roads; Rainbow at Shang-
hal; Maryland, Fortune, AS, and
AS at San Diego.
from Norfolk for
Portsmouth, n. H.; Ajax from Nor
folk for Lambert Point.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27

Senate bill now under consideration. Otherwise,
fictitious charges may be added indefinitely, and the
public be in nOwise benefited by the regulation" of
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
Queen to Visit Paris.

PARIS. April N.-Queen WilhelminA
OF Holland, and the Prince ConSort
plans 3 visit to Paris in Juns.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
What's on the Program, In
Washington Today

Meeting of Canton Washington, No. !.
l. o. o. F., social and drill, tonight.
Annual banquet of the American Inter-
national Law Society, New Willard,
Thirteenth annual banquet Of the en-
pioyes Of Station G, Washington Post
office. Freund's. p. m.
Regular meeting of the Biological Soci-
ETY. OF Washington, Cosmos Club. 7:3o
p. m.
Boy Scout and Indian performance Ar
Observation of the ninetieth anniversary
of the birth of Gen. U. s. Grant by
the Department of the Potomac, G. A.
r, Metropolitan Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church, S p. m.
Teacher training addresses and confer
ence. First Congregational Church.
Liberty G y He'll Council. No. 55. Jr. O. u.
Northeast Temple, s p. m. visitation
Amusements.
National-Aborn, Opera Company. in
la Tosca." 2:l5 and S:15 p. m.
ColImbia-Columbia Players. in Bobby
Burnt" 2:l5 and S:l5 p. m.
Belasco-Butterfield Players. in "The
Spendthrift," 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
PoIis-Poli Players in THE Virginian."
2:15 and Sis p. m
Academy-"East Lynn" 2:l5 and SIZE
caasino-vaudeville. a. /. $3.50. 7:SO, and
Cops:mo;s-vsudeville O.: no; and pictures to II
Ma Majestic-vaudeville. l, $780, 1880. and 8
Imp mperial-vaudeviile and motion pic
lures, continuous.
Gayety-Al Reeves Beauty Show. 2:ls
! and s:15 p. m.
The Washington times., 1912-04-27
NAVY.

Lieutenant ]. S. ARWINE, to Bureau o
Ordinance, Navy Department, Wash
ington, d. c.
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The Taft Platform.

President Taft is the first to re-
ceive attention as to the probable
platform which he will urge adopted
at the convention in Chicago next
week. The platform is at present be-
ing drafted by Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president of Columbia University
in New York city. 1t is understood
that the platform is based on that
adopted by the Republican party in
Rochester while in state convention.
William Barnes, Jr., arrived in
Chicago from New York a day or so
ago and brought with him several
copies of the Rochester platform.
Among its planks, the following may
find their way into the Taft plat
form:
Scientific revision of the tariff with
a decrease in duties on necessities.
Revisions of the Sherman anti
trust law to make it effective in the
prosecution of monopolies.
Stringent prosecution of existing
monopolies looking toward their dis
solution.
Extension of reciprocal tariff
agreements with other countries.
Endorsement of the universal peace
movement.
A new currency law, similar to the
Aldrich currency bill now pending
before the United States senate.
1t is said that the part of the plat
form which will indorse the Taft ad-
ministration will be patterned after
the plank in the Connecticut state
platform which refers to Taft as one
who elias kept faith, revered and de-
tended the constitution, enforced the
laws and obeyed them himself"
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Zealand's export trade. Subsequent
" Mr.. Mackenzie filled several i'm
portant posts in the New Zealand
Government and was particularly
successful as minister Of agriculture.
Congratulations to:
William Butler Yeats, noted Irish
poet and dramatist, forty-seven years
old today.
DR.. Samuel tPlantz. president of
Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.,
fifty-three years old today.
Rev. Calvin II. French, president
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country. was born in Edinburgh,
June 10, 1854, In early youth he
accompanied his parents to New -zea-
land and received his education in
the public schools there. He began
his public career in 1887 az q men,
Der of the New Zealand parliament.
The following year he went to Aus
tralia as the representative of the
New Zealand Government and a year
later he visited England and Ameri-
ca, on q special mission that had for
its purpose the extension OF New
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Died July 10, 1852.

Died July 10, 1852. b
1795-Dr Thomas Arnold. OF
Rugby. famous historian, born. Died
June IL, 1912.
1S17-Ebenezer Hazard, postmas-
ter-general of the US 1929, died
in Philadelphia. Born there, Jan Is,
1744.
1S55--Metropolitan cattle market
in London first opened.
1S64---House of Representatives
repealed the Fugitive slave law
1S73--Public funeral of Sir