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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19
Inspect Norfolk Navy Yard.

n
spection OF the Norfolk navy yard
ana naval training station to-day by
Secretary Of tho Navy Meyer. tho
Presidents yacht Maynowcr bearing
the Meyer party. sailed this evening
Tor Yorktown, where the famous
revolutionary battlcnelds Will be
visited tomorrow.
Secretary Meyers visit to the Nor
folk yard followed the launching at
newport News to-day OF the battle
ship Texas. At the navy yard Secro-
tary Meyer was received with usual
salutes. upon landing, he at once he.
came Interested in the crippled torpcdo
boat destroyer Warrington. which
lost thirty feet OF her stern as the
result OF collision a, sea Some
months ago with n coasting schooner
which afterw. rds sank
me Warrington remains hauled out
81 the Norfolk yard in tho same con.
niuon as when first brought in after
Inc accident Secretary Meyer was
also much Interested in the mammoth
new dry dock here and likewise In
the naval training station at ST.
Helena
Miss Helen Taft daughter Of tho
President who was in tho Meyer par;v
| attracted much attention. Others
| ABOARD tho Mayhowcr are: Mrs. Meyer
ADMIRAL Fletcher. Representative and
MIS- Riley. Of Connecticut; Repre-
sentative and Mrs Cravans. Of Arkan.
sas; Representative and Mrs. Hughes.
OF New Jersey. and Representative
! Thomas Gallagher. OF Chicago
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MOST POWERFUL
BA11LESH|P IN.
WORLDL LAUNCHED

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snapped hundreds of pictures of the
crowds. the sponsor and the ship.
Guests mt Luncheon
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19

are in course OF construction. Tho
/ iurrets also are being built.
The contract for the construction
or the Texas was signed on December
IA. 1910. and tho keel was laid es-
actiy four months later. or on April
~ 1911. Thus the chip has been
three-hfths completed In Just thirteen
months. which Is the fastest cons,ruc-
ton time ever made on any battleshio
In this country. 1t Is estimated now
mat the vessel will be delivered III
the Navy Department within twelvs
months from this date. so that sho
WIZ be completed within thirty
hiohlhs after the signing OF the con-
tract That Will be six months before
the contract timo OF thirty-six months
ana within twcny-siN months after tho
laying or her kcel-thc record time for
"arship construction in America.
After she took to the water to-day.
Inc Texas was towcd to one OF tho
shipyard piers. where tho work OF
completing her will be done.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19
No, Unlike tho Delaware.

In general appearance, the Texas
VIII not b unlike the drcadnought
Delaware, the last battIeship to be
buht at the plant of the Newport
News ShipbuildinS and Dry Dock Com
pany. The chief difference will be tho
absence OF the high deck forward.
The Texas has a straight run deck
from stem to stern and just forward
of amidships is the small Superstruo.
ture il which will be located the cap
Evening star., 1912-09-29
Obviously.

DROF. ZEPHANIAH HOPPER, hale
and vigorous at lightweight. said at
the Philadelphia High School, where he
has taught SO many years:
My advice to the young is that they
sow no wild oats. Wild oats in youth
mean an old age sad and decrepit. And
Yet, the way some people talk, you
think that wild oats were essential
part of youth as domesticated oats are
an essential part of Scotland
Prof. Hopper smiled and added:
"A friend of mine i'm Scotland said to Q
boy:
What do you have for breakfast
hereabouts?
.Porridge,' was the answer.
And for dinner?
'Porridge.'
And for supper?
= 'Porridge
:. Goodness said my friend. 'Por.
ridge every day for every meal. Do you
never have anything else?'
!" What else would you have?' said the
boy
Evening star., 1912-09-29
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beginning But the French clerk. madly
in love with Elsie twhOm he imagined TO
be French American following free
courses at the Grenoble University, la
mented to her his coming departure for
Marseille despite the honorable position
he would enjoy, transferred to the Of
fees of the great chiefs
Immediately the girl notified Hauser.
She grew sentimental with Pehssler'
stopped him spending money on her. ana
opened a vista of emigration to America
felicity in the livery-stabe business with
'be, brothers at Bordentown. if only the
vo,nr French conscript could get hold OF
a lump sum.
These French mobilization clerks are
all younc-it is incomprehensible. except
that they probably count on the broken
up character of the great secret gualu
cd by them collectively. They are cnoseh
one in each regiment. among pIlSht
fellows during two years compulsory
service Hauser had worked among thelh
in other parts of France. win i'lilu'e
ruse and patience. Inc mopiilZa''oh VI :"
s;nnle army corps would of course. rep
resent a wagon-load of papers. but All
are not necessary. But YOU can imagine
the danger and difficulty in jealous lot
eisn land of discovering so seeinlhslH
simple a thing as who Keeps eeftalh p"
pers in a given regiment.
II is not necessary to name these req
mental PAPERS They are known only TO
ul the major. I9 the officer charged win
mobilization and Co this unpaid scream
of his for two years, the mobiilzauon
clerk i'm question. But how PICK ou. .ne
bow He is not as prominent as the dfuhi
major How "envelop' him, compromise
% him. tempt him. And if he remains
"nickeled" how discover the young lei
low who preceded him in offlce-now re-
turned to civil life-and worm out Oh nii,l
,yb.t ba ren1emberso Dark work. which
made Pelissier an easy mark for Fer
dnand
Hauser and Elsie followed him to Mar
seille-he did not dream they knew edch
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ing traces of age. but majestic ana IN
telIectuaI and / remarked then not one
which we would call commonplace.
THE Persian women have glorious
voices and so many possess voices WHICH
in our country would make them dlvas
that | was interested to learn that they
all study music from their first teachers
and that the gift of song seems theirs
by inheritance. They play all manner OF
small musical Instruments many OF
which | had never seen nor heard of.
They bring their instruments with them.
and the pretty maid comes out time after
time bearing the music and the small
guitar or mandolin.
Many Persian women compose songs
and they transcribe them most artistical l.
ly on vellum for their friends. l found
that all are most accomplished needle
women. They sit under their trees ha-
bitually with their needle flying swiftly
through intricate patterns Of embroidery
or of fine sewing designed for their home
use or for their children.
so much has been written of the
heroic part taken by the women OF
Persia in their efforts to shake of
foreign interference that L feel that
am repeating a twice-told tale in refer
ring to it. There was one incident which
stands out luminously in my many eX-
periences / could not understand that
women who never leave their homes ex-
cept rarely, and who see other women
only on formal occasions and have little
or no opportunity to exchange more than
the commonplaces of the day, could pos
sbly understand the subtle politics OF
the orient. l was destined to be well
enlightened.
''It was only a short time after our ar
rival that youth called on Mrs. Shuster
in our home. He said that he was con-
nected with the treasury department of
Ieheran, and that what he said must
be considered of the most sacred con-
1idence and his identity never disclosed
He then asked Mr.. Shuster not to per-
NIT me to go the following afternoon
to garden fete given by the wife of one
of the most powerful state officials in
Persia. He said that these people who
We're to give the garden fete were SEEM
ingly friendly to the reforms, but that
they were in reality aiding Russia and
that if l accepted their hospitality it
would destroy the belief of the people
in our sincerity.
Mr.. Shuster was very much surprised,
ard asked how he knew that | was
going to the fete Such matters are never
discussed in Teheran as here and we
thought the party merely impromptu and
informal to introduce me to a certain
inner set among the officials. He replied
that his mother belonged to a secret
society and that all had received notice
to watch what part we played in these
matters. Time and again 1 was warned
about similar attempts to trap us into
open alliance with the parties hostile to
the reform crusade which Mr.. Shuster
had been sent to Persia to execute.
II found the women wonderfully con-
versant with current affairs in history.
literature, even in law and medicine
formed many friends whom l hope a kind
fate will permit me to meet again"
Mrs. Shuster possesses the charm and
Evening star., 1912-09-29

afternoon, and the betting ring went
crazy when the tout and his friend be-
gan to cash in their tickets 1 don't know
exactly how much they won but il WAS
somewhere in the neighbornood of $50
CHt. 1t caused several of the bookmakera
TO go out of business right then and there.
and the killing was the talk of the track
during the entire meet. No. ii was NOT
a frame-up. IT was just one of those
unexplainable accidents where nag that
should be dragging an ice wagon goes
in and makes lot of thoroughbreds look
like truck horses. 1t happens once i'm a
million years on every track. The tout
had simply been attracted by the big
odds against the horse and had been
lucky enough To find some one willing to
follow the tip. But here's the strangest
part of the yarn: Unlike the average
tout, he disappeared from the tracks right
then and there. and the bookmakers never
got a cent of the money back.
Evening star., 1912-09-29

Hauser had Just laid hands on the mo-
hilizatiou of the French army of the
Alps.
The latter exploit beginning at Gren-
oble, nearly kindled the European war
last summer. Germany, had been wor-
ried by Italy's lukewarmness in the triple
alliance How far had the Irritation with
France gone? Germany sent Hauser and
the lovely Elsie Re2i To the south of
France. where. at Grenoble. they ZEN
vcloped'' Pelisser. mobilization clerk of
a regiment of the army of the Alps.
Hauser hoped To get a few papers--a
Evening star., 1912-09-29

recent mysteries. Did she get it, really.
or only papers referring to it? Cruel
enigma Based on the new railways.
which are based on it, to completely
Astonishing Maize, OF nights in her
little bedroom. she photographed the
documents, without camera. f1ashlight or
printing frames, by simple contact of
sensitive paper enlargement paper, be-
tween two sheets of window glass,
Josephine Laurent has done things as
strong Some say she is Alsatian, some
ltallan-German Swiss. In any case her
great spring seems to be professional
pride. in Berlin. where her mission had
been to collect handbooks in military
bookstores ''slate notes of courses in
officers schools, instructions mimeo-
Sraphed in the etats-majors or private
ly printed in the National Press, she per-
fected her job by going to work as
chambermaid in quiet but elegant
boarding hotel frequented by officers
temporarily in the Prussian capital.
So she had opportunity to snoop
through the mail of brilliant young
lieutenant, steal some of his private letter
paper, make list of his correspondents
and keep tab on their movements. Among
them she chose captain, FELLOWSHIP
dent in the leutenant's special course. or
perhaps an instructor, and when the
lieutenant quit Berlin on his vacation
Josephine forged a letter in his name to
the studious captain-whom she still saw,
going and coming daily, in the hotel.
The letter begged the loan of all the
special and secret documents she dared
make the lieutenant ask for-''belng
anxious to study during his vacation y
Please to send them poste restante Carls-
bad. mot addressed to lieutenant. but
plain herr.
Mapipe. Josephine's spy partner. mailed
this letter from Carlsbad. 1t succeeded
perfectly Receiving the precious pack
age shortly after. Mapipe Photographed
its contents, and sent the originals back
honestly TO the mSuSpectine captain.
Brilliant work. Yet truth compels one to
Evening star., 1912-09-29
Race Track IT outs" and Their Smooth Schemes

two-dollar bill and a one-dolar bill IL
bet on the good thing. Sam was pretty
we'll disgusted at that. | can tell you.
The last | saw of him he WAS pulling of
his little stunt at the outlaw track al
Gloucester, y. j.
:; :;
..One of the funniest incidents that ever
came to my attention in connection with
the touting game occurred at the old
Benning track right outside of this city.
1t was at the fall meet about fourteen
years ago. There was clever little tout
who used to hang around the stables. |
ran string Of horses in those days and
used to notice him because he was al
ways shooting craps with my. stable boys
and never seemed to be without plenty of
money / had a horse entered one day
in the third race. She ruled an odds-on
fayorite. but / was positive that she'd
lead the bunch from the start. l was III
the betting ring, getting my money down.
when l noticed the tout, accompanied by
a tall handsome gentleman, approaching
from the paddock.
Now in this race was also entered q
horse that the bookmakers regarded as
a laugh A man could write his own
ticket against her and some of the bookies
had marked ief uoWli Oh tHelf DOCKS dt
odds as high as 2G0 to l. The bookmaiers
noticed the tout and the gentleman APP
proaclling and such remarks as THE kid
has got another sucker and Here comes
some easy money, passed around the
betting ring.
There was "A yell of laughter when
the pair marched up to one of the books
and placed $40 down on the long shot.
The bOokmaker grinned, but made them
out a ticket calling for $32 IL the nag
won. From there they went to the next
book. and for the $40 they bet received
a ticket calling for thousand under the
same condition. They went up and down
that line of bookmakers, dropping ten
and twenty dollar bills. The bookmak-
ers got scared and brought the odds
down TO sixty: from there they dropped
to twenty. and closed at ten to one.
well. gentlemen. that long shot romp-
ed home q mile ahead of everything that
Evening star., 1912-09-29

sites. made little picnics like the rich and
happy. and honkcd. delighted. through
the villages. They were desolated when
he quit them: but he promised to come
back, with his photographer. But he did
quit. their rich friend, the Belgian. Wha [
nice man. The French do not make
acquaintances easily: but when you force
into their families. they are often very
enthusiastic and innocent. These We're
sincerely sorry.
But the sergeant soon received a big
package of lovely post cards and a short
letter from The Hague Their friend had
not forgotten them. Then more from
Luxembourg. where he wrote he was do
ing good business. BY this time. you
understand, they knew all about him and
his family, and it was with commotion
mixed with delight and dilemma that the
French couple next received a joint let
ter from the Belgian and his wife. dated
Ostend-charming seaside resort-invit-
ing the sergeant's wife to come and
spend two weeks with them-and inclos-
ing a second-class go-and-return railway
ticket
How could she refuse? The poor French
sergeant's wife had enjoyed no vacation
for three years. Behold her at Ostend in
SchwartZs family" writing enthusiastic
letters to her husband back. home i'm Am
berieu. The fourth day. friends of
Schwartz came unexpectedly. Great ira
la-la, excellent dinner fine wines: and.
at dessert, suddenly, she found herself
alone with the Friends Insinuatingly.
then brutally. they proposed her the bar
gain-she should take handsome pay
and report on the bomb-practice. She
could get the information. unsuspected,
from her husband, the artiiicier-sergeant,
daily in the midst of it.
1T works, often. with women says
Schwartz, cynically. las it worked with
the wife of the Belfort artillery pointer
neslecting to add that it led to the hus-
bands loss of honor, desertion and en-
rollment as traitor-spy). This time, it
failed. The wife. Mortified, took the train
for -Amberieu. and arrived, weeping. with
her terrific story. The sergeant was per-
picked and angry; but next day nice
letter from Schwartz explained all. and
he came home to lunch laughing at his
wife. as a little goose. There was no
question of spying. The friends We're
American journalists, seeking informa-
ton proper for publication. Americans
pay lavishly. and the papers never enter
France. They wanted story rather pic
turesque than accurate, not technical
enough to reveal secrets. but just enough
to give a good impression of French
genius. Why not undertake it. Schwartz :
letter inclosed post office order for 2o'
francs.
1t ruined the artificer-sergeant Writ
ing an innocent article. omittinS techni-
Evening star., 1912-09-29

the condition is over in phrases 'it.
mean volumes, and. learning olten VI
one another's doinSs ANONYMOUSLY i,o. @
their chiefs. they often give legendary
names to one another Wltioo' "'s
met.
How different from Hausers patient.
burrowing was the coup of Maize Smyfhe!
Arriving in Berlin with American pass.
port; distinguished ad,ssa handsome sociaiiv aTv
through a consulate, 10 which she haa
been brought by well respected Amerl-
can resident family. How did she scrape
their acquaintance? The French consui
took her up Did he have secret orders:
And on the edge of embassy society she
won the acquaintance and later the: ad-
miration of a high Prussian military ram
lily. To these one day. bursting INTO
tears she confessed sudden loss OF for
tune and the disgrace of dear one at
home. which would make return to the
United States great unhappness.
Could she get employment as English
governess or lady companion? With
past so apparently known and irieproach-
able-an American to boot-she appeared
an acquisition TO the closed military
caste of Berlin. Several offered. but
Maize. pretending delays, finally got into
the kind of family she needed-that of a
poor but trusted functionary of the great
etat-ma jOr, the soul of honor labor and
circumspection. consulted by the en-
peror and often charged with making Sc
cret briefs for great chiefs and princes
Of the empJ:e.
From his desk she distracted and
photographed the formula of the Kraft
detonator astonishing wireless device
for exploding buried mines from any
point. at any distance), the plans of the
real aeroplaEe destroyer tmarvel of YER
teal pontng). maps of two forts and
a report on light artillery. But chiefly
she got forty-page brief of the mobliza-
ton against France, veritable cream of
the invasion plan, whose possible exist
ence in the hands of the French so wor-
ries the emperor-and explains many
Evening star., 1912-09-29
FORMER TREASURER GENERAL OF PERSIA


President Taft and those directly con-
cerned in the Treasury Department of in
sular affairs. His rise to international
celebrity has been phenomenal and most
gratifying to his old friends here
Mrs. Shuster spent much time in Wash.
ingtOn, where she has many relatives,
and in this way she met her husband.
The courtship was short and was fol"
lowed by marriage i'm February. 1907.
Mrs. Shuster possesses the mental attain
ments to be thoroughly sympathetic with
the lofty ambition of her husband. Shs
was most gratified when he was selected
with the powerful group Of financiers i'll
New York city to go on his present mis-
sion.
Mrs. Shuster has received much atten-
tion from the Latins. and should she re-
main here this coming winter she will
not have chance to be lonely. But her
present plans are to join Mr.. Shuster with
her children should he decide where To
eSta bliSh Il permanent home. All his
plans We're tentative when he left here
about four weeks ago.
Evening star., 1912-09-29

stock and she also has resided in WASH
ington all her life.
X X
Mrs. Shuster remained here with her
husbands parents until he sailed for the
south. when she went for visit to her
own home in GLASGOW, Ky. Young Shus-
ter or Morgan. as he is known here. re-
ceived his entire education i'm the Wash
ington public schools. graduating from
the Central High School in 1895. His
teachers count him among their valued
traditions and illusions to him are not
uncommon during the training OF the fu-
ture great men and women of the nation.
One of the really gratifying episodes of
his return after his great isappointment
in Teheran was that his class presented
the high school with excellent photo
graph of him and that il is framed and
suitably placed in the classroom Mr..
Shuster went to the Philippines and he
soon attracted the favora ble attention of
Evening star., 1912-09-29

hin, tn some secluded splace> Then Sam
would hand out this line Of conversa-
tion
my friend, short time ago you ask
ed me to give you tip. l never give
tins, but | can let you in on good
thing on certain conditions l was sent
out here by the owner of a horse entered
in this race. 1 was given $4OO to bet on
him for my employer. Some one has
touched me for my bank roll or l have
lost it about here. The horses will be at
the post in a moment or two. and this is
my proposition: If you have $500 to bet
and will give me half of your winnings
on the race i will give you the name of
the horse. I'm afraid that the man l
was to bet for will hardly believe that 1
lost the $4OO He will think that L am
holding out on him. If you care to bet
under those conditions, why my share OF
the winnings, coupled with few hum
dred dollars I can borrow, will just en-
able me to return him the $40O and what
his money would win. That is the only
reason why l am submitting the PROPOSE
ton to YOU. What do you say?
..'rhe victim would usually fall for it
because it looked good. You must realize
that Sam worked it up great deal better
than I am telling it. The sucker would
produce his roll and Sam would give him
the name of the horse that looked good to
him in the workout that morning. Ii the
horse won, Sam would pocket his Win
nings and usually borrow hundred or
two dollars from his friend in order to
square his boss. If the nag lost, Sam
was nothing out.
why, didn't Sam bet his own money?
Well, he preferred to have the suckers
bet their money for him and in that man
ner he took no risk. Now and then he
had his troubles though. He once told
me that one day he had bought well
dressed Young fellow five bottles of wine
before he concluded the game was right.
When he returned to the chap with his
tale of woe about losing his roll. the man
dug down in his pocket and handed Sam