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The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
WHY the New Haven Collapsed.

Mr.. Louis D. Brandeis has contrib
uted to a New York paper an exposi-
ton of the New Haven Railroad sys-
TEN and an analysis for the reasons
for its breakdown. These are, as he
attempts to prove, monopoly and big
ness. The evils of monopoly in such
a case alone would be enough to ac-
count for the collapse of the man.
moth New England system of trans
portation.
The New Haven system has been
crushed under the. weight of the two
evils. And New England groans un-
der the burden. Mr.. Brandeis shows
what the New Haven system comprises,
as follows:
Substantially all the railroads in
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, and Connecticut, except
the Grand Trunk from Canada to New
London and to Portland, the Canadian
Pacific lines through Northern Maine,
and the Bangor and Aroostook.
Substantially all the trolley lines in
Rhode Island and Connecticut, the
most important in Western and Central
Massachusetts, and some in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, and New
York.
All the steamship lines from any
New England State to New York or
Philadelphia or Baltimore.
For any man or set of executives to
administer business of such vastness
and variety as this, and to administer
it effectively everywhere, is beyond
human capacity. The wonder is not
that Mr. Mellen and his associates have
failed, but that they should have
seemed to succeed for a time.
Mr. Brandeis demonstrates that gov
ernment regulation has its limits. 1t
cannot inspire efficiency. as the best
regulation scheme in the world would
fail TO make the New Haven system
an efficient servant of New England in
transportation.
The disintegrating monopoly cannot
be patched. 1t must be broken up
Mr.. Brandeis believes it may be
smashed either under the Sherman law
or by the States exercising their SOW
ercign powers to take away a part of
the New Haven's property.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
We Should Aid Ecuador.

The approaching completion of the
Panama Canal makes the request of
the government of Ecuador for the
loan of Col Gorgas to improve the
sanitary condition of that country most
timely. The harbor of Guayaquil is
one OF the worlds notorious pestholes.
The town lies in low plain with large
areas of shallow water around it, and
with a poor water supply. Tropical
heat, natural breeding ground for
mosquitoes, and insanitary sewage
have combined to make yellow fever
and malaria a constant menace to resi-
dents and visitors and to the rest of
the world having relations with that
port. The American Consul, Thomas
Mast. was the victim of yellow fever
shortly after his arrival at his post
The opening of the canal will bring
the United States and Ecuador into
closer. relations than ever, and make
yellow fever at Guayaquil almost as
much of a danger to the people at
Panama and Colon and in our own
Gulf ports as yellow fever at Havana
used to be to New Orleans and
Charleston. Therefore, self-interest
and motives of humanity call for a
favorable response to this appeal, if
Col. GorgaS is willing 10 undertake the
task.
1t may not be easy to make the ma
tives of Ecuador screen their houses
and destroy all mosquito-breeding
places. Still, with the firm backing of
the government, Col Gorgas might do
what was done under American rule
in Cuba to conform TO sanitary regu-
lations. At any rate he could greatly
reddce the present dangers, and the
disposition of Ecuador to undertake a
sanitary reform should receive every
aid from this country.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
ANIMAL AND FLOWER RESERVE.
Kangaroo Island for a Preservation
Of Australian Species.
nm The I.nndnn standard

Prom the London Standard
Kangaroo Island, which is situated
some six hours steaming from Adelaide.
the capital of South Australia, Is re-
garded as an ideal place in which to
preserve permanently animal and bOtan-
ical species distinctive Of the Australian
continent. At present 10 square miles
on the island are utilized as a fauna and
flora reserve. and II is now suggested
that the area should be considerably in
creased Certain islands In various lakes
have been set apart as bird sanCtuaries,
close seasons for different kinds Of birds
are proclaimed. and in various other
ways efforts are made to prevent the
destruction OF the native fauna and iOra.
Recently the attention of the South
Australian Commissioner of Crown Lands
was drawn to the desirableness OF pro-
tecting the opossUm, which he had as
certained is now being destroyed in large
numbers for the sake Of it's skin, for
which there is a good market.
To prevent the wholesale destruction
of the marsupial and also to give power
to the state government TO protect other
native animals from time to time as Oc-
casion may require, the commission has
directed that a bill shall be prepared for
Introduction into Parliament at an early
date to provide for the protection Of
wild animals.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
|STA ESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

| pens. is Irving. When he came to New
York from his native Detroit. he got
shut of the Irving, signed his name
just F. l. Cobb. and let 1t go at that.
After William Alden Smith, in his
speech. had scattered an assortment OF
fruits and flowers on the World manage
ment, he said he wished to speak Just a
few words about his boyhood chum. a
sclf-made journalist who. starting as a
newsbOy in Detroit had become one Of
the conspicuous figures in metropolitan
journalism. Il refer" says he, Ito my
| friend, Irving Cobb"
Whereupon all Irwin S. Cobb's friends
gave loud cheers. while the F. !. Cobb
faction sat comparatively silent And for
the rest Of the night the humorist drifted
around garnering the lilies that right
fully belonged to F. J.
F. I. got even, though. About two
months later he attended a dinner which
Adolph Ochs, of the New York Times.
gave to the directors OF the Associated
Press.
William Travers Jerome was there. He
and Cobb. the editorial writer. hadn't
been particularly friendly, but that night
they made UP. The others noticed this,
and when Jerome got up TO speak he
.
I'm going to tell little story that
was told TO me by the man whom I re-
gard, next to Pete Dunno. as the fun
nicst man alive-Cobb. Of the World"
The entire company arose and whooped
it up for F. ]. Cobb. who carried out his
part of the joke by making jerome be-
lieve he was the man referred to.
Senator Newell Sanders of Tennessee
and his wife are both plain. democratic
folk who put on no airs, regardless of the
wealth he has taken from his big plow
works in Chattanooga Mrs. Sanders
comes to his office occasionally and helps
him rid out his desk.
Not long ago one Of the Senator
friends proposed a vacation jaunt FOR
him.
Why should / taxi a vacation SAID
he. when I can go out in my factory
and smell the smoke and grease and have
more fun than I can at anything else?"
Theron Catlin. OF Missouri. who was
expelled from the House at the last ses-
sion on the ground that his folks spent
too much money in his campaign, and
who was defeated last November, will
be missed here socially. Being one OF the
comparatively few eligible bachelors in
Congress, he was constantly sought after
by fashionable hOstesses 10 fill in al DIN
ners and such. He was invited out 50
often that an ordinary twenty-One meal
ticket would have lasted him almost a
month.
lCoUnyht, 1872, ~ Fred G. Kelly. AL riEhts re-
SrrTed)
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MRS. ETHEL, CAMPAIGNER.
Women ProgressIves to Form Ma
tIonRI Finance Committee.

From the New York American.
For the first time in the history Of poll
tics in this country women will comprise
a national finance committee, which will
assist in the campaign of the Progress
i've party.
The new committee with Mrs. Amos
Pinchot as acting chairman. will open
offices next Monday at the Hotel Man
haitian.
One OF the interested attendants at the
conference yesterday was Miss Ethel
Roosevelt. who has been asked to serve
on the National Committee OF Fifty,
composing, as II will. representative
women of the North. South. East, and
West. Miss Roosevelt expressed a keen
interest in the proposed work Of the
committee.
One of the active members OF the
woman's National Committee is Mrs.
Elon Huntington Hooker. wife of the
national treasurer. Mrs. Hooker re-
Gently sent her personal check for $2,50d
to the campaign fund.
Mrs. Pinchot declared she. with other
women members OF the committee, was
immensely interested in the campaign,
which. she said. stood so clearly for the
betterment of women and children in
dustrial workers Of the country.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
GOSSIP ON MATTERS OF
INTEREST ON TWO CONTINENTS

erations marked by his grandson, Philip
lie Beau Cl47S-15oD. The sons Of Philip.
Karl " Q5OO-1550. and Ferdinand I
Q6os-l56l had similar lips. The Spanish
royal family received this characteristic
through Karl v, in whose realms 'the
sun never set"
One peculiar!ty of this trait Is the fact
that II is apparent almost exclusively IN
the male members Of the family. On
the other hand, women Of the family who
had normal lips frequently transmitted
the feature 10 their sons. Thus Maria
Theresa had normal lips, but her chill
dren had thick ones. This is not. how
ever, q clear case, since the husband of
Maria Theresa, Emperor Francis, also
had Hapsburg blood through his grand
mother. although he personally did not
have the family lip. 1t was he after
whom the present dynasty is called
''Hapsburg-L
The transmission Of characters to male
m embers of a family through mothers
who do not manifest the character in
question is a well-established law for
a number OF human traits.
FLANEUR.
Copyright 1872. by Court Gossip syndicate.l
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
The Tale of virginia Brooks.

From the Chicago Tribune.
About four years ago Virginia Brooks,
coming of age. inherited from her IA
ther. some real estate in West Ham
mond worth. nominally, 500
West Hammond is a town of 5000 in the
southeastern corner of Cook County, on
the Indiana line. Four thousand of its
inhabitants are Poles, six hundred Ger
mans. four hundred Irish. There are
practically no Americans, except Virginia
Brooks and her mother. ~
West Hammond was a village, run by
board of trustees, when Virginia
Brooks inherited her property. The
board of trustees was run by the vice
ring, consisting Of seven saloon-keepers.
The saloon-keepers were getting rich by
the sale of beer, whisky, knockout
drops. girls and political contracts.
They taxed the property of Virginia
Brooks just as hard as they taxed the
property of everybody else without a
pull. That was where they make a
mistake. When they assessed her $40
for improvements on a 500 lot she re.
tanned lawyer. When she discovered
that the improvements for which she had
been taxed had not been made she
moved to West Hammond to live.
It didn't take her long to see that she
couldn make any headway against the
seven saloon-keepers while West Ham
mond remained a village The board of
trustees was self-perpetuating ring.
So she fought to change the form OF gov
ernment. Last May, West Hammond be-
came city. 1t had been a desperate
fight. There was no expedient known
in practical politics, bribery, slugglng.
rniscounting, stuffing. repeating, which
the seven saloon-keepers didn't use to
beat Virginia Brooks. But she beat
them. 4
Now, having put the seven saloon
keepers out Of politics. Virginia Brooks
has started to put them out Of business
the business Of selling adulterated wbis-
ky, knockout drops and girls. She is
trying TO make her city hahitabla for
the dumb foreigners who live there. And
unless she is killed by her enemies she
will do it.
West Hammond has 5000 inhabitants
And Virginia Brooks is ths,pest man Of
the lot
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
DOG IN CELL WITH MASTER.
And Court, DIschraEInE Man, Bids
Him Initiate Animals Devotion.

From the Nov York Times.
After Thomas Brennan. fifty years old.
janitOr of the apartment house at 81
West One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street.
had been lodged in a cell of the One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street police
station, following his arrest by Detective
Phelan on Wednesday night on a war
rant obtained by his wife, Catharine,
charging him with cruelty and intoXica-
ton. his little dog, Pete, who had tagged
after him, put up such whine OF pro-
test at the enforced separation. varied
with vigorous barkings. that the police
allowed the animal to share his mas
ter's cell for the night.
Sitting beside him, with his head cock
ed on one side. Pete was an interested
spectator at Brennan's arraignment yes
terday morning in the Harlem Court,
and Magistrate Kernochan, shifting the
moral, discharged the prisoner with a
reprimand, telling him to be as devoted
to his wife as doggie was to him.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
DISCUSS ORE QUALITIES.
Engineer Describes Output of Haw'
thOrne Mines.

New York. Dec. 1.-THE quality Of the
ore taken from certain workings in the
Canadian fields occupied the attention of
JustIce Hough in the United States Dis
trict Court. where Julian Hawthorne, Jo-
siah Quincy. DIR. William J. Norton and
Albert Freeman are on trial charged with
having used the United States malls TO
defraud in the promotion OF alleged
worthless Canadian mining claims.
Albert AIbrecht Hasselbring, a mining
engineer in the employ OF the Lake Su-
perior corporation. testified that in
March. 1908. he had been sent to Will
bur, Ontario. TO take charge OF the
property of the Wilbur Iron ore Com
pany, a Hawthorne concern. He said
that an average of 10000 tons of iron
ore a day was taken out OF the mine.
He said the ore was OF a low grade,
containing about 50 per cent iron.
James b. Hanna, president Of the Haw-
thOrne Silver and Iron Mines, limited,
demurring when asked for the books of
his company. was told TO produce them
tomorrow or assign a reason for not do
ing so"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
SOCIETY WOMEN PLAN
TO CLEAN UP STREETS
OF WMLIAMSPORT, PA

Willamsport. Pa. Dec. 1s-Wives OF
milIionaires. prominent judges and law
yers. wealthy merchants. publishers and
manufacturers-the society women OF
WiIliamsport-to-night launched a move
ment to clean the streets of this city.
The society women, armed with brooms,
shoveIs and scrapers. will do the clean
ing. In squads of fifty they will attack
the dust and dirt next Thursday. The
experiment is being followed with interest
by the city officials, who, up to the pres
ent time. have been unable to keep the
streets clean.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

bility and efficiency of a system
which for more than a quarter of
a century has given good admins
tration, has produced great results,
has been free from scandal, and
which has presented a splendid ex-
ample for the government of every
municipality in the United States.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
Not to BE Followed.
FTn JudT

Frrm JUdge.
Brownie, do you expect TO keep on
shaving people when you get to heaven
asked a customer, as the towels were
firted of.
Deed. l dunno. boss 'spects. ef I
does. I'll be obleeged 10 drum up new
bunch of customers"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

Get into a cod sFeat ths fact that the aarth
h going to freeze up in a few billion y-arS
On the scaffold he was so afraid that the
newspapers wouldn't spell his name right
that he didn't enjoy the occasion at all.
1t is no trick at all to worry. and II
doesn't develop the brain any. But It is
fine for the imagination. II people could
put as much imagination into their work
as they do into their worry most Of US
would be geniuses.
Copyright. Is1.. by GeorEs Mathew Adamkl
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
ALITTLE NONSENSE,
THE CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Little present from sfar.
How wonder what you are!
With your ribbons and your gilt
Very handsomely you're built.
Ny fair lady, so she says,
Worked upon you many days.
All a-glitter like a star,
How I wonder what you are!
You are gorgeous, 1 confess,
But O puzzle more or less.
Mysteries / much abhor;
What were you intended for2
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
Putting 1t to Use.
From IudEl

From Judge.
This is the season when a last years
stove-pipe hat, suitably decorated with
ribbons and rosettes, can secure a new
lease Of life as Christmas present for
q literary friend in need Of waste bas-
ket.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
L Sad JOlt.

Il don't mind tipping all the bellboys
and walters in town. or buying 800 worth
of toys. But there's one Christmas eN-
pense that hurts"
What is that
Giving my daughter the money to buy
present for her mutt of a beau"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

When Csrmi Thompson. the new Treas
urer OF the United States. was a small
boy his teacher made HIM stay in one
night and write the letter IN" on the
blackboard one hundred times. Even
ed pretty rickety.
You'll never be 'able even to sign
your own name so anybody can read it,
observed the teacher, crabbedly.
When he became Treasurer and had TO
prepare a signature to be engraved on
bank notes. the first thing Thompson
thought of was the incident of the Grip
pied IN" and the schOOl-teaCher's re-
mark. which came back to him for the
first time in more than thirty-ive years.
He made UP his mind TO write his
name 50 plainly that he would have the
laugh on that teacher. with everybody
who uses bank notes as witnesses.
Sorry to keep you waiting" says
Thompson TO the messenger who had
come for his sample signature. but
want to get a good one for this" And
he stuck his tongue against his check
and wrote his name nearly A hundred
times before he got one that suited him.
But he had outwitted that teacher.
His signature looks like a wOman's.
lie says II is because when he was a
youngster he took his mothers hand
writing for a model.
The first bank notes bearing Thomp-
sons signature as Treasurer OF the
United States will he a big bunch of
1913 model 81 bills. to be placed on the
market In January. Thompson intends
to keep the first two or three bills struck
on for souvenirs.
And that serves as an excuse to recall
the case of J. c. Napier. the colored
man who holds the position OF Register
OF the Treasury. His name also is
printed on all bank notes. When he first
took the job he, like Thompson, wanted
few OF the first bills with his name
on, to put among his keepsakes.
He called up the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing and requested that a few
OF the first ones be tagged so that he
could get them later, in exchange for
older bills.
How many do you WANT" asked the
man at the bureau.
oh. just a few-six or seven" said
Napier.
The man at the other end laughed
DO you know what denomination the
issue is?' he asked.
No. WHAT
oh. they're the $4,000 variety"
Napier said he never was much OF a
hand for souvenirs. anyhow.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

Here We have the tale of how Senator
William Alden Smith Of Michigan uncon-
sciously played joke on a New York
newspaper man.
When the Pulitzer Building was opened.
the World brought trainload of Senators
and Representatives and such from
Washington to attend the exercises
Among them was William Alden Smith,
who made a speech.
Now at that time there were two Cobbs
on the paper-Irvin S. Cobb, now the
wsll-knOwn comedian for the Saturday
Evening Post. and Frank I. Cobb. editor
ia. writer. The two are not cousins, not
even brothers-no relation whatever. But
Frank Cobbs middle name. as It hap
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

about this fact. because he Is so busy
trying TO figure out what will happen
to the country when the plutocrats have
made themselves kings. There was once
great catch-as-catch-can worrier who
killed a man and had to be hanged for IT.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
Life I'm n Flat.

What's the trouble now. Wombat?"
mo trouble at all. Do you know
where can buy a folding Christmas
tree?''
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
? Perhaps.

A New Jersey graphophone firm is max
ing a disc record 40 feet In diameter-pos-
sibly to record the voice OF the people.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
In the Chair.

THAT dentist says he won't make me
yell"
Don't you believe him.
I'D like TO believe him, but why has
he gone to shut the windows?'
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
December II in History.

December II, 175S-Boswell and DR..
Johnson peddle mistletoe through the
streets OF London.
December II, 1359-Chaucer learns to
write poetry on the typewriter with one
finger That is why his poems have that
pied effect.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
In a Couple of Years.

What is this eugenIcs, anyhow"
IT dunno. I've been seeing, the word
constantly in print for 'yearl II keep
seeing 1t, I'm going TO look 1t up In the
dictionary some time"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17

In much ofthe recent writing on hered-
ity and eugenics reference is made to the
''Hapsburg lip as an example Of we'll
marked hereditary character in the human
race This characteristic lip is seen in
the portraits of the present King OF
Spain, whose lower lip is rather thick,
pendulous, and prominent. This char
acteristfc5 first was noted In the descrip-
tons and portraits of Frederick III Ql5-
1889 and repeated in the series of gen.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
His Method.

How do you manage TO pick out a
present to suit your wife,
II 60 to a store that she tells me OF. u"
Yes"
And ask for a clerk, whose name she
gives me-
"wen?'
And the clerk always has something
suitable put aside
The Washington herald., 1912-12-17
4 Year of Plenty.

4 Year of Plenty.
The Christmas trees nodain the breeze;
The candy from them drops.
And folks declare they'll surely bear
The heaviest of crops.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-02-08
Is rh. Gun rot.r Increasing Z

Cleveand.-It is not clear from
the annual police report exactly what
relations exists between the number
of arrests for carrying concealed
weapons and growth Of the habit it.
self. The largely increased number
of arrests may indicate keener atten-
ton to the evil on the part OF the
police rather than eny material In
crease in gun toting. AT least. that
suggests a pleasanter explanation OF
the figures. Regardless Of the fuller
Interpretation Of the figures, II Is
hoped they may arouse public inter-
est in a matter of deep moment TO
court has taken firm stand against
the carrying of concealed weaons.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-02-08
Victims Of AsphYxlatlon.

Nowata, Okla.-Harvey Hurst, his
wife and Elsie Adams. 10 years old,
who lived with them, whose bodies
were found in the ruins of the Hurst
home at Delaware, small town near
here. were not murdered, but were the
victims Of asphyxiation.
The presence of small wound III
Mrs. Hurst's head indicated that all
three might have been killed and the
house fred in an attempt to cover
the crime. County officials who view
ed the bodies and the premises, con-
cluded that fumes from an over,urned
gas stove had overcome the family
and that escaping gas had subsequent
~ been ignited by a lamp and mad
partially destroyed the dwelling.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-02-08
Will Reduce Cotton Acreage.

Mayesville.-From the reports OF S.
w. RafIield, the canyasser for the
Rock Hill plan" for the reduction Of
cotton acreage for this township. the
planters, both the white and the ne
roes, appear to have entered into the
Ian with unanimity, and if all the
ownships throughout the cotton belt
as well, there will certainly be a
considerable reduction in the acreage.
Some of the heaviest planters in the
tate live in this section, and they
ave not hesitated to agree to cut
heir acreage this year