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The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Weeks Realty Transfers in the District

lanier Heights-Mary II. Warner ct vir.
Brainard H.. to Charles f. Wire, lots IOl
10 4D7, SO.
Purner estate-Mary T. Jones TO Charles L.
Tankerslcy, lot u. $40.
Mt. Pleasant-Mary Z. ORrien to Frances
Il. and Viola V. Mitchell. part lots l62
Rosedaic and sherwood Robert F. Crome
to 8yron 4. Bower, lot ~, block 2S' $40
Iiil. lot n block 10. SO
Widows Mite-Chares Poe. trustee. to Her
Iuan ". Van Sender. lot 20. $500.
Whitney close Edith II. Gottwals TO Theo-
dorc and Anna Lcrch, lot 2s block Il, SO
Petworth-John j. Hcmphill ct uN. to Thrift
Iuildng Company, lots ~ and ~. square
-, and lot II, square y. $40 William w.
kinsley ct uN. to same, lots Al and g.
square -. SO
Widows Mitc--AuGusia \. Ketcham to John
J. Hamilton. lot 50. $500.
Mt. Pleasant Pleasant Plains, and Columbia
Heights-I,ewis +. BrcurinEer ct EX. to
Antoine Nj D and Marie c. Gran lot
100. block l6. OF Mt. Pleasant and Pleasant
Plains. and of block %, Columbia Heights.
North Grounds Columbian College-Herbert
a. GIL and Richard E. Pairo. trustees. TO
Harry Wardman and Thomas Bones. lots
Is. A, and As. block 3s. $4,000.
Mt Pleasant and Pleasant Plains-Harry NJ.
Dante to Oramel p. and Harriet l.. Walker,
lot GA and part lot G75, $40. Harry NJ.
Dante to ]. Cary Petty, lot 673. and part
lot 675, SO.
dal Mackey lot S6. block 10. SO.
Petworth Addition-Thomas Bones and S.
Percy THOMPSON TO Thomas J. and Ellen
NJ. McGrath, lot 43. block IS, $40.
Columbia HeEhts-Lewis T.. Breuninger ct
ux. to stacy II. and E. May Myers. lot l67,
| block %. $40.
Whitney Close-William *. Butler ct uX. TO
| French Kirby. lots 81 to G6, square 3O37, $40.
Lanier Heights-Charles +. Wire ct ux. TO
Jessie X. Mosburg. lots 4Ol to 407 SO.
| Jessie X. MussburE conveys same property
| to Charles f. Wire and William NJ. Ter
| Tel SO
Mi. Pleasant and Pleasant Plains-William
| Wimmel ct uX. to Lillian NJ. Essex, part lot
| %, block g. $40.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Buildings on Virginia Bluffs
Now Are Nearing
Completion.
INTERIOR OF HOUSE
WILL BE IMPOSING
Four Hundred-Acre Tract Will Be
Stocked With Game
by Owner.

The buildings upon the first modern
country estate to be established in the
of Washington are nearing COM
pletion. The country home of Joseph
Letter, on the Virginia bluffs of the
Potomac, about five miles above this
city, is under roof, and the rock and
macadam road three-quarters Of a mile
long, from the house to the LeesburR
pike, also is approaching completion.
Planned for elaborate entertainments
the Letter house probably is the most
lavish of its kind in this vicinity. 1t
is not an imposing house on the ex-
terror, but no pains or expense have
been stinted to make the interior all
that could be desired in the country
residence of a wealthy man. The ma
terials used are shingles and stone. 1he
roof and sides are entirely of shingles,
a material which harmonizes with the
abundance OF trees surrounding the
place. The stone is the rough rock of
the neighbqrhood, and is used in the
chimneys and for some of the columns.
In color it blends we'll with the shingles.
Stands On Bluff.
The house stands on the brow of the
high bluff which Is the river bank, so
that a view commanding the river both
above and below is available from the
north Ade. The entrance is from the
south side, between two wide wings
which extend southwark and to which
the road leads.
The drawing room is the interior fea-
ture OF the first floor. It is a large
room on the river side, 3lX46 feet in
dimensions. Besides this room on the
first floor are the dining room, break
fast room, library, white servants din
ing room, Colored servants dining room,
laundry, kitchen, pantry, and a large
porch from which view Of the river is
gained.
The mezzanine floor has an orchestra
balcony for the dgawing room, an office.
sewing room, a Vaiet's room, and seven
servants rooms.
Ready by Spring.
Six guest rooms, six bath rooms. a
| large sleeping porch. a nursery, diet
| kitchen. children's room. and nurses
| room are on the second floor.
The work upon the house and the
road is being done by the r. ]. Beall
Construction Company, from plans by
| r. J. Beall. jr. The house is in 400
| acre tract purchased last year by MI
| Letter. He intends to stock il with
game. among which are TO be English
| pheasants. The place is expected to be
ready for occupancy this spring.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Many Permits for
New Buildings Issued

Three hundred and ninety-five building
permits, involving ar expenditure of
81, ,lGl ,376, were issued during the month
OF February, according to the monthly
report of Building Inspector Morris
Hacker. made public today.
The permits include 17S brick dwell
in"s, S5G3,S5O; eiGhty-ave brick repairs,
Sl34, ,G29; one apartment, $4,000; fiV.
stores, $4,000: one store and office build
img. 500, 900: one Office building. $4,000
and two garages, $3.50.
The following summary will show the
distribution Of improvements in various
sections Of the District and their cost:
RITII.DINGS
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Ben Schwartz to Take
Floor in New Building

Ben Schwartz, a tailor, will occupy
the first floor of his new four-story
building at $50 T. street northwest on
next Wednesday. At a cost of about
$4,000 Mr.. Schwartz had the old three
story building which formerly stood
upon the site demolished and the new
structure erected. 1t has just been
completed, ana forms one of the most
CinitY.
The entire fourth floor Of the building
has been leased TO Chandlee a. Chandlee,
patent attorneys. A part Of the third
leased.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Southeast.

9O1 Third street southeast-Mitchel April to
Milla April. lot 40, square 767. SO
y street southeast between First and Sec
ond streets-MargaTet l.. Williams to Car
lie GUldenberg, lot 4, square 742, $40.
Second street southeast between E and G
streets-John II. OntriCh ct uX. to Allan F..
Walker, lot SO, square 76j. SO.
Navy place southeast, between G and I
strects-Mae NJ. Davis to Edward W. Davis
lot L.. square SIS $40.
Navy pldC" southeast, between C and
streets-Margaret +. Little to Milton d.
Campbell. lot &C., square SIS. $40.
G street southeast. between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets-Herman Il. Howenstein
ct uN. to Richard w. Garner and Cornela
L. Garner, lot ll2. square lO4S. so.
Twelfth street southeast. between b and G
strects-GeOrEe c. Pumphrey ct al. to Fred
erick W. and Clara V. DierkoDh. lot 20
square 1915. SO,
b street southeast between Third and
Fourth strCets-RObert H. Hazard ct ux.
To Charles +. and Florence l.. WOrthing
tom lot 36, square 7S9. $40.
l. street southeast. between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets-Hnda Toussaint TO
Frances f.. and Viola V. Mitchell. east
one-half original lot c. square 1O47, $40.
1913 street southeast-Albert j. Peterson
to william A.. Boss, lot %, square 1864 $40.
South Carolina avenue southeast, between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets-MarGarct
A, Dwyer to Emanuel SpeiCh, jr., lot g.,
square 1860, 80
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
REP AIRS.
Robert L. Mason Buys
An $500 Residence

Robert !. Mason has purchased from
l.. r. Breuninger the twO-story, eight
room dwelling at $OoI Thirteenth street
northwest, one Of the ten new houses
just completed at Columbia road. The
sale Was made through the Office of
Harry V. BuuiC Il CO.. for 81. zoo.
lLiEht of the others have been sold
for S7,u1p each. The sale of the nine
room DWELLING at 2Sl9 TwCnty-Pighth
street northwest. for &7,QIn FOR Mr.
Ercuninger is also announced today.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Alumni Officers.

Officers for the year have been elected
by the Washington branch of the Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute Alumni As
sociation as follows: Luther w. Haw-
ley, president: Ralph p. Clarkson, vice
president, and Edward c. Merrill. sec
retary-treasurer. The annual banquet
of the Washington branch of the asso-
citation was held last night at the Uni
Versity Club. DR.. L. L. Conant, acting
president of the institute, delivered a
short address.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Residences to Be
Built in RosSIyn

Fourteen houses are to be built on the
military road beyond the Aqueduct
bridge in Rosslyn, and the Arlington
National Bank will build in Rosslyn this
spring. The houses are being built for
Harry II. Palmer, of Washington. who
recently purchased the property. lie
also sold the site for the hank buldiuS.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
New Real Estate Firm.

The new real estate tirm OF Norman y
Robinson today entered the field. aud
occupied offices on the Fifteenth street
aide OF the Woodward building.
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Northeast.

Tcuuh street. northeast, between ! aud X
streets -MidduuEh & shannon to Frank II.
and IsIca \ waluolo, lot -. square af2.
Lexington place northeast. between SAJh aud
The Washington times., 1912-03-02

Seventh streets--Kennedy Bros to John j.
Mcdowell, lot $50. square So. $40 Same 1"
Thomas w. and Margaret r. jenkins. lot
l47, square So. SO
twelfth street northeast. between and +
srects-Charlcs r. Benjamin ct al. trus-
tees. TO Patrick White. lot $50, square zoos,
$G.lSO
= street northeast. between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth stTcets-MiddauEh Il shannon 10
Norman o. Brigham. lot a. square 1863, $40
Sixth street northeast. between NJ and y
strCCts-JOhn NuOs ct uN. to John 4. Noos,
lot >. square S5I. SO
G street northeast, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Streets Capital Realty Com
pany to Jennie G. Graham lot l3l, square
1927 $40.
\ street Northeast near sixteenth street
John G DeChman ct to Albais j.
Cunningham and isabelle cunningham, lot
"a, square 1910 $40
The Washington times., 1912-03-02
Southwest.

Sixth street southwest, between and l.
strects-Sarah Wholihan ct Vr, Patrick, to
Robert $. Rouse part lot "A, square 500,
$40 Patrick Wholihan ct uX. 10 same,
same property. $40. Robert =. Rouse con-
veys same property to Levi IL. David, $40,
SiX-and- half street southwest, between ID
and T. streets-lsaaC Herman ct al to w.
Douglas Clark, lot 81 square 49, $1,000.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
1T COSTS TO KEEP EATING
U. S. Bureau of Labor Shows How
Food Prices Have Scared.

Washington.-The most marked up
ward trend of the cost of living is
disclosed in the Federal bureau Of la,
boris report of an investigation OF
prices for the past ten years conduct,
ed In the important Industrial oeI'
tiers of thirty-two states. Fifteen
most important articles of food, as
we'll as coal, comprising two-thirds of
a workingman's needs, were inyesti-
gated.
On June 5, 1912, the report shows,
fourteen of the fifteen articles of food
We're higher than year before, and
ten had advanced in the past ten
years more than fifty per cent. over
the average retail price for the ten.
year period 1S90-lS99.
During the last decade prices of po-
tatoes changed most and sugar the
least Their advances were 111.9 and
S.5 per cent, respectively. During the
last year bacon, which decreased just
one-tenth of one per cent, was the
only one of that fifteen principal ar
ticles of food that showed a decline
in price, while nine of the fifteen in
creased more than ten per cent, car
rying from "a per cent. for milk to
1876 for round steak. OF the fifteen,
only eggs, butter, milk and sugar
were lower; but the price of three of
these four is 'nominally lower during
summer than during winter.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
SWEARS 70 Kill AMERICANS
IF THE UNITED STATES SENDS
TROOPS IN THE MEXIC N
REPUBLIC.
Rebel Leader zapata Issues a ProcIa,
nation Filled With Bloody
Threats.

New YOrk-Gen. Emiliano Zapata,
the rebel chicftain who is threatening
TO attack Mexico City, gives his rea-
sons for his uprising against Presi-
dent Madero in a statement forward.
ed from his camp at Yautepec More
los. He says
SO that the people of the United
States may know why the revolution
is going on against Madcro in south
ern Mexico, | make this statement.
81 charge Madcro with ignoring the
men who helped him win and with
putting into places of trust at large
salaries seventy-three of his rela-
tives
81 demand that Madcro resign the
presidency; that he and his family
leave the republic forever. The gov
eminent must not give them a cent
on which to go for the Madero family
has had enough of the government
money.
81 do not want the presidency, but
do demand an honest election, at
which | will agree not to be candi-
date. Immediately on the election the
laws must be revised from top to bot
tom so as to give the poor man a
chance.
81 have $4,000 men under arms in
eighteen states of Mexico, while Pas
cual OrO2co, with whom | have no
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
36,038 NEW Wards
OF CIVIL SERVICE
PRESIDENT TAFT TO SHELTER
ALL THE FOURTH CLASS
PoSTMASTERS.
HITCHCOCK FAVORS PLAN
Order Placing Fourth Class Postmas-
tiers in Classified Service Will
Be Issued.

Westinghouse has been practical
| ly decided that President Taft will
soon issue an executive order placing
all fourth class postmaster in the
CLASSIFIED service, This order, relieV-
ing 3G,O3S postmasters from the I'M
certainty of political appointment,
will be one of the most cOmprehen-
sive and far-reaching, as affecting the
civil service ever issued.
That the president would take this
step, his first act toward putting into
practice his often expressed belief
that all government officers below the
| grade of cabinet members should be
removed from the influence of politics
and placed under the civil service, be-
| came practically certain, after a dele.
CATION of postmasters returning from
the annual convention of their asso-
citation at Richmond, Va, had been
| received at the white house, and by
Postmaster General Hitchcock The
visitors submitted a monster petit
ton signed by about 10000 postmas-
lerS, asking tnaL tnGy De placed IN
the classified service.
After discussing the matter briefly
with the delegation, President Taft
referred the executive committee of
the association to Mr.. Hitchcock for
further consideration of the matter.
Later the committee called upon the
postmaster general to DISCUSS the
subject with him.
Mr.. Hitchcock will submit to Presi-
dent Taft a formal recommendation
that the petition be granted and the
president is expected to act promptly
and favorably upon the recommends.
ton.
In the entire country there were
1852 fourth class postmasters at the
end of the last fiscal year. BY eXecu-
tive order issued July, 1908, President
Roosevelt placed all the postmasters
of the New England hates and of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wscon.
sin in the civil service a total of 10,
G34. Those still without the service
number 36,O38.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
CLUBS MUST BE MADE TO
PAY LICENSE FEES.
Mushroom Social Organizations Are
Springng Up in Rural Districts
and Cause the Complaint.

acksonville.-Clubs that are operat-
ed in Duval county for the ostensible
purpose of social enjoyment, and
which includes the sale of liquors to
members as one of the means of max
ing that enjoyment certainty, will
be called upon to pay license fee,
as is charged in other places where
liquid cheer is distributed
Not only will Tax Collector ]. Wal
ter Rast get out after all clubs in this
county where liquor is being sold I'M
der the name of club, but he also in
tends that such club will have to Sc
cure and provide themselves with the
regular liquor license. This will
mean big annual expense to be paid
by the social clubs. This decision of
Tax Collector Rast follows upon the
advice which he received from ITALIA
hassee Comptroller w. V. Knott re-
plying to Tax Collector Rasts letter
of inquiry.
Collector Rast has learned that in
OllSl NbuhllNo VI biiV Slh'N lliN iiit't1 ~
of the word Club counts for naught.
and no matter how high-sounding may
be the given name of the organization
it cannot maintain a bar across one
end of the assembly hall unless the
prerequisite is supplied in the shape
of the regulation license fee.
He is also informed that in these
counties there is no special license
fee, as booze is booze, whether 1t be
sold to imtators of Indians, birds, ami
mails or Just ordinary human beings
who walk on two legs. The counties
in which liuuor is sold in Florida are
no numerous, so it is easy to figure
where the license on clubs is effec'
tive.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
Six Persons Killed,

Green Bay, Wis.-One passenger
and five trainmen were killed. two
other persons were seriously injured
and twenty-one were slightly hurt
when train No. 112, on the Lake
Shore division of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway, running thir-
ty miles an hour, was derailed two
miles north of Lyndhurst, Wis, as
the result of a washout, caused by a
cloudburst. The locomotive, mail car
baggage car, smoker and coach left
the track and all but the day coach
turned over.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
FLORIDA NEWS NOTES.

Representative Angle of Polk coun-
t,y who was the leader in the good
roads movement in the legislature Of
1911, introducing bills providing for
working STAKE convicts on the roads,
and for a bOnd issue of $lO,0OO,OOO,
has since moved to Tampa and there
appears to be some doubt al to his
legal right to sit as a member of the
special session. If he is permitted to
retain his seat, Mr.. Angle will make
an effort to have the special session
act on his two bills.
At the annual meeting of the Allan
tic Deeper Waterways Association in
New London, Conn, Jacksonville
was chosen as the place of meeting
next year over the competition of sew
eral much larger cities. Jacksonville
is an ideal convention city. The as
made no mistake in its
choice.
New Smyrna has purchased
chemical engine, ladder truck and
other fire apparatus and the city
council has arranged to have a suita-
BILE building erected for the accoTo-
dation of the apparatus and the men
who will be on duty. The first floor
of the binding will be for the ma
chinery and the second floor will be
fitted as a gymnasium for the use of
the Rremen,
The federal building for Mariana
is now sure thing. The matter has
been passed upon favorably by the
and will come up again
pext December.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
Bore comrade So Miles on Back.

New York-For SO miles afoOt
through the northern woods, w. s.
Cowing, a teacher, carried on his
back companion, Charles ClaXton,
Jr., who was helpless from an at
tack of pneumonia. Cowing and ClaX-
ton, near starvation, reached the Ill
tie French village, St PomphilO, Que
bee, and travelled thence by rail TO
Bangor, where ClaXton, son of ply
stefan in Philadelphia, lay. near death
in a hospital. The men We're etgh-
teen days in reaching civilization.
They had been on a canoe trip.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
CREDIT BANKS
FOR FARMERS
FAVORED IN A REPORT SUBMIT.
TED TO THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT.
HERRICK WRITES DOCUMENT
Report Based on Study of Credit Sys'
tenn to Farmers in
Europe.

Paris, FranCe.-Sweeping recommen-
dations for legislation designed to
help development of agriculture in the
United States are contained in an
elaborate report forwarded to Wash.
| lngton by the American ambassador,
Myron T. Herrick, who has complet-
ed an exhaustive investigation of the
systems of agricultural cvredit faci-
tiles in operation in Europe. The am
bassador wrote the document after re-
ceiving reports from other American
diplomatic representatives in Europe
and comforting with others.
The work Of gathering and compil-
ing material for the formulation of
the plans of efficient land and agricu.
tural system has been carried on UNI
der instructions from President Taft
and Ambassador Herrick has been as
sisted by commission which reach
ed here from the United States in
July
The ambassadors report recon-
mends the adoption by the United
States of the reiffeisscn system of
agricultural cooperative credit aocie-
Ties. This system has been particu-
larly successful in Germany, where its
operations represent half the business
of the commercial banks. 1t includes
organizations composed of small CO.
operative societies where farmers are
able to borrow money for short time
on their collective guarantee. These
societies have become the NUCLEUS of
a series of central cooperative
banks.
The report also recommends that
persons interested in the welfare of
the farmer should form a general COM
mittee to direct a movement for the
lOning of money to farmers for long
period of lower rates than they now
obtain.
The report urges the president to
place the matter before the people
and suggests holding state conven-
tons and then a national convention,
In this way the people would grad
uully DGCOluC tuuCdlGu w lCullLlIS inc
necessity of adopting uniform state
laws authorizing the establishment of
new banking credit institutions whose
sole purpose would be to loan money
to farmers under conditions which
would permit the complete wiping out
of the loan through the payment of
interest over a long period. This is
the essence of the European system.
These credit banks would be com
Elementary to the cooperative loan
societies, which the ambassador ia
vors as a first step in the financial
relief of farmers. AS in the case Of
co operative societies, these new loan
institutions in the various states
would make establishment of credit
banks in large commercial Centers
necessary.
These central banks could handle
the securities of the state loan insti-
tutions and sell them in the interna-
tional market.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
Dies in Electric Chair.

Boston.-Chester S. Jordan, entenc-
ed to death for the murder four years
ago at Somerville of his wife, Homo,
rah, whose body he cut up and pack.
ed in trunk, was executed in the
electric chair at the Charlcstown
state prison. Jordan went to his
death calmly and without making any
statement A suspicious cabman was
respondble for the discovery Of the
murder of Mrs. Chester S. Jordan,
for which Jordan was executed. The
murder was committed at Their apart
ments in SOmmerville.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
Bows FIGHT to Death.

Chicago-An amazing story of a
deadly feud between two boys for the
love of a girl companion was told TO
the police as providing the motive
for the murder of Solomon GOlep. IA
years of age, by Tony Bruno, Is years
of age. in the presence of 1900 chill
dren, at the McLaren Fairgrounds
Lowell place and West Polk street
Golep was shot twice, one bullet en-
tering the left side and the other the
eye He died on the way to the hos
pital. Rose Marks is said to have
Rssp the girl for whom they fought
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
He Saw Pompeii DESTROYED.

Perhaps the most famous descrip-
lions of the destruction of Pompeii by
Vesuvius in the year 10 are the let
ters of Pliny the Younger. Both he
and his uncle, Pliny the Elder, were
near Pompeii at the time the city
was destroyed, but Pliny the Elder,
venturing too close to the scene, was
killed 1t is only in recent years that
this city, which had been buried for
centuries, was uncovered by the Ital-
ian government. Now the traveller can
walk through the old streets Of Pom
cell
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-09-27
In the Early Days Of Missouri.

Three varieties of wolves were to
be found in large numbers In early
Missouri, the black the gray, and the
coyote or prairie wolf" Hunting
wolves was a duty as well as a pas
time, for the animals did much dam
age to stock. Wildcats, catamounts
and an occasional lynx were seen, but
were not destructive or troublesome.
Their raids were usually confined to
visits to the chicken coop or the goose
pond. Beaver and otter we're plenti.
full.