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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
BIG GROWTH IN COMMERCE.
Porto Rico Making Rapid Strides in
This Direction,

The bureau of insular affairs is advised
that the total value of the commerce
of the Island of Porto Rico for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1912. amount
ed to approximately $92.OO0,OO0. COM
prised of $43OOO.OoO Of imports and $49.
100000 of exports.
The remarkable growth of the COM
merce of Porto Rico is indicated by the
fact that this is 1900, 900 more than the
commerce of the proceeding fiscal year.
Even a better indication Is a comparison
between the value of commerce for the
last fiscal year and that Of 1901, when
the total value was about ST., 100000, a
gain of approximately $74,50O.OOO in
twelve years.
Between eighty-five and ninety per
cent of the total commerce represents
shipments to and from the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
RUDDOCKS IN NEW HOME.
Take House in Berlin's Fashionable
Quarter.

Special Cahlegram Ia The Star
BERLIN. August 1o.-Third Secretary
and Mrs. Albert 3. Ruddock have taken
possession of their handsome residence
in the Rauchstrausse, the fashionable
quarter of the Tiergarten, where the
American embassy is located. Their hav-
ing a house of their own will mean more
entertaining by the embassy staff, es-
pecially with the advent of Erwin Laugh
Inns bride next season.
Mrs. Ruddock's mother and brother,
Mrs. Alexander Kirk and p. Kirk of Chi
cage. have been staying with her at the
Hotel Adlon until now and VIII be guests
in the new home until the middle of Sep
TENDER. when the mother and brother
Will return to America.
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DISCUSS WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Matter Taken Up at German-Ameri-
can Alliance Meeting.

MILWAUKEE. Wis, August 10-vot-
ing strength OF $4,000 members of the
German-American alliance in Wisconsin
may be thrown against woman suffrage
at the fall election if the alliance as a
body adopts the sentiments expressed to-
day at the opening session of the annual
meeting here.
''It is the duty of every member of
our organization to vote for or against
woman's suffrage when the question
arises in the fall" said President Leo
Stern. assistant superintendent of the
Milwaukee schools, in his opening adj
dress.
1T is a question on which all should
express themselves. ! do not mean TO
dictate which way you shall vote Per-
j shall vote against it,"
The convention opened with 900 dele
gates, representing all sections of tho
state in attendance.
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APPEAL TO SUFFRAGISTS.
Woman Members of Roosevelt Com.
mittee Ask for Votes.

CHICAGO, August 10.-Three of the
four woman members OF the progressive
national committee today decided to is
sue an appeal for support Of the new
party to suffragists in the five states
where women have the right 10 vote.
These states are Colorado, Wyoming.
Washington. California and Utah. The
appeal also will he addressed to the
women of five states where a vote viii be
taken this fall on constitutional amend
ments granting women the right of SUI
frage. These states are Ohio, Kansas,
Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin.
The three woman members OF the com
mittee, who met with Senator Dixon, are
Miss Jane Adams, Mrs. Charles r..
Blaney of California and Miss Frances
* eller of New York
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Split Not Probable.

A week or two ago the papers were
full of statements assuring us that the
government was about to fall because
of a serious split in the cabinet, where
Mr.. Lloyd-George was said to be OPP
posing his friend, Mr.. ChurchiIrs. plan
of spending much more money on the
navy.
The conservative press was delighted
when il was rUmored that the chancellor
OF the eXchequer would rather resign
than consent to any fresh taxes.
Now 1T appears that any such rumors
We're unfounded, and that the chancellor
is opposed only to new taxes which
would principally burden the smaller
incomes. The navy will be Increased,
as the tories have long clamored for, and
new taxes will be imposed. but these
will fall principally, if not entirely. on
incomes of $4,000 a year and over |
can imagine the delight of that part
OF the press that has been continually
shouting for increased naval SXpendi-
lures.
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EXPECT GREAT MAJORITY.
Democrats Hope to Hold House Lead.
ership by Hundred.

With the declaration that they would
have clear majority Of one hundred
in the next House. the managers OF
the Democratic congressional cam
paign committee announced yesterday
that they would open headquarters
at once in Chicago.
They already have opened headquar-
ters here, but the fight is to be waged
by them chiefly in the middle west.
Representative Lloyd of Missouri
chairman of the committee, said tina.
Immediately on adjournment of Con-
gress active work would begin in tho
campaign.
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GOES INTO MARINE CORPS.
Former Midshipman Passes Exam
ination for Lieutenant

w. c. McCrone. formerly a midshipman
at the Naval Academy. has passed the
examination for appointment as a second
lieutenant in the United States Marine
Corps. There are now eleven vacancies
in that grade. The naval appropriations
bill adds thirteen officers to the Marine
Corps. so that twenty-four appointments
to the lowest grade are yet to be made
These places will be given to properly
qualified civilians. An examination Of
civilian candidates probably will be held
in this city next month
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
LOVES COUSIN; ENDS LIFE.
Twelve-Y ear-0ld Boy Hangs Him
self in Fathers Shop.

HOBOkEN, N. j.. August 1O-Infatua-
ton for his pretty twenty-year-old cousin,
Mary Bussanich, is believed to have led
James Bussanich. twelve years old, to
commit suicide by hanging in his fathers
carpenter shop today. The young woman
herself found the body when she was
searching for the boy to take him home
For some time the boy had displayed a
violent liking for the cousin, and no
amount OF talking would restrain him from
a display Of his infatuation, which she
tried to repel.
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Museum in Ancient Chateau.

In the ancient chateau of Saumur has
been inaugurated a Museum OF the
Horse Nowhere could such a museum
have been more appropriately lodged. for
the cavalry school of Saumur sends out
the finest horsemen in France. perhaps
the finest military horsemen in the world
The museum is not yet complete, but al
ready there is splendid collection of
casts. skeletons, photographs designs of
the horse and or rare books that give it's
history throughout the ages Naturally.
too. there is wealth of harness and
trappings, ancient and modern, of the
east and west, including spurs, saddles
and shoes.
Many private persons have contributed
generously to- the museum, including
Nine Edmond Blanc. Jean Stern Cab
riel Hanotaux and Edouard Detaille and
further funds will be voted by the city of
Saumur. which has already subscribed
handsomely.
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Goes to Panama on Business.
,ciai Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. August 1O.-P.
o. Childers, superintendent for the Nc
Clintock & Marshall Company. Pitts
burgh. putting in the new Western
Maryland railway bridge across Wills
creek, Cumberland. will sail next week,
with his family. for a years residence
on the IsthmuS of Panama The Nc
Clintock & Marshall Company has
contract with the government for the
erection of more than $4,000 tons of
steel. One thousand men are employed
at this mammoth undertaking for two
years. and will require another year to
complete.
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Means New Navy.

Just as Great Britain had to build a
new navy at the time when steam re-
placed sails. she will have to do so again.
now that oil is about to drive out coal
but While a country rich in coal, like
England, had the advantage when the
former change came, she will now be Sc
verely handicapped. because nowhere in
the British empire is oil found in sucn
quantities as Will be needed before long.
To the dread of not being able to get
food supplies in times OF war, which has
long been haunting England. now comes
the dread of being cut off from the sup
ply of oil abroad which is to insure the
lighting strength of England's floating
line of defense.
Quick and alert as First Lord of the
Admiralty Mr.. Churchill always is, he
Immediately grasped the importance
of the new invention, and he was
among the first to inspect the Selan-
dia during her first visit, and it is
also he who has seen the necessity of
appointing a royal commission to de-
eide what is to be done on the eve of
a new revolution on sea.
Another scare. and this time not
newspaper made one, has been added
to the many forebodings which haunt
the soul of the poor Englishman, who
is asking himself if, having lost his
world supremacy in sports, he is also
about to lose forever his naval SUI
premacy.
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caused the dining room to be decorated
by Pellanger and L'Huilier. The revolu-
ton drove the prince into exile and the
place was sold as public property.
Its proprietor became Marshal Lannes
Due de Montebello, under whose owner
ship 1t knew certain splendor, as when
Napoleon rested there. On one OCCASION
when the emperor arrived unexpectedly
crossing the Seine in the ferry, he fell
into the water and was fished out by a
passerby. who was unaware Of the iden-
tity of his subject until the following day
when he received certificate and sum
Of money.
Longueil. could he be awakened from
his sleep. would not recognize the beau
tiful park that Joined that of St. Ger
main. but the house still remains as a
perfect monument of the time. and a
clever piece of gardening utilizes the
remnant of the estate in providing a
vista to the river. Gobelins and old state
furniture occupy the halls where supped
an emperor and two kings of France.
Dead Leaders Memory.
Antoine. the former leader of the
Christian Scientists. though dead, still
exercises influence over his followers in
France The other day the cpmmissary
of police in the Sorbonne quarter was in
formed that permission to bury an infant
of four months, Marie Augustine
trate went to the address given him-a
howell occupied by a certain Jules
Leclercq and his mistress Mathilde
Santed. He found the mother and father
on their knees by the bedside of their
dead child Everything In the room was
filthy. and the doctor who accompanied
the magistrate announced after an ex-
animation that the child had died from
lack of medical attention.
The parents freely acknowledged that
they had called in no doctor for their
child. When asked the reason of their
criminal neglect they replied: Eve are
the faithful followers of Antoine. the
healer. and We hold that God alone has
the power. If He will, to save and to
cure The Most High preferred to call
our beloved child to Himself. His will
be done"
This explanation. which proved that the
parents of the dead child belonged to the
Belgian edition of that sect OF Christian
Scientists founded by Antoine. the healer
did not satisfy the magistrate. Iseclercq
and his mistress Were arrested and i'm
prisoned and the body Of the child taken
to the morgue for the autopsy. Inquiries
showed that another child, of whom
Leclercq was not the father had fallen
a victim in the month of June to the in
fiuence of this couple.
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SLAP AT EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Objection Made in Senate to Publica
ton of Taylor Speech.

The cause of woman's suffrage received
a check in the United States Senate yes
terday when objection was made to the
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Interest in Expedition.

French scientific circles are greatly in
terested in the expedition of the ship
Curieuse, which sailed from Boulogne-
sur-Mer July %, under the orders of
Capt. Rallier du Baty. The expedition
goes to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
to study the fauna and flora of the I'M
known islands in those two waters, and
sailed under the auspices of the ministry
of public instruction, with subsidies
from the French Geographical Society
and the Museum of Natural History.
The Curieuse was especially built for
this voyage. She is both sailer and a
motor craft AS a sailer she is of the
yawl rig and her fortyhorsepower motor
is to be used in calm weather.
Capt. Rallier du Baty has with him
two young naval officers and six seamen,
and has provisions for over two years.
the expected length of the expedition.
They will especially explore, to begin
with, the Tristan Oceana islands, which,
situated to the south of the Cape of
Good Hope. are very little known and
offer much to be studied from the an
thropological standpoint. The Curieuse
will sail thereafter to the islands to the
north of Australia, will visit Polynesia
and will finally go through the Panama
canal soon after it's opening, to return
to France by way of the Atlantic.
Plate on Oldest House.
commemorative plate is about to be
placed on the oldest house in Paris. No.
81 Rue de Montmorency in the Temple
district 1t is a corner house, just off
the Boulevard Sebastopol, at the juno
ton of the Rue ST Martin with the Rue
de Montmorency. The house, which was
built in 14O7 by the philanthropist, Nico-
las Flannel, is now known as the Hotel
Helvetia. and also as the T.averne Nicolas
Ia iii.
hosiery for wOrkingmen, the revenue
from whose lodging was used to pay for
the food they consumed. Some years
ago. when the front of the house was re-
stored, inscriptions were laid bare which
revealed the original purposes of the
building
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ASSA|L LABOR LAW
Conservatives Bitterly Attack
English Insurance Measure.
PARLIAMENT Is ADJOURNED
Politicians Scatter and Enjoy Well
Earned Vacation.
GOVERNMENT IS ALARMED
Possibility of Oil supplanting Coal
as Battleship Fuel Causes
Grave Concern.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. August 10.-Parliament has
dispersed and the politicians have
scattered all over the country to en-
JOY well earned vacation. The press
political agitation goes on with I'M
diminished fervor and supplies the am
munition during these otherwise dead
months. Like a threatening cloud in
the horizon hangs the chancellor's
intended revision of the domesday
book, but directly overhead and af-
fecting us all is the labor insurance
law, which came partly into force a
little over two weeks ago. and which
will be in full force in October Against
this measure, which for campaign pur-
poses was originally hailed with loud
cheers of welcome, even by the most
bitter opponents of the liberal gov
eminent, the whole conservative press
is now using it's heaviest artillery
So INSCRIPTIONS has one sensational
conservative paper, the Daily Mail,
been in the choice of its arguments, that
it has repeatedly encouraged its read
ers to break the law of the land
Opposition Disappearing.
Though the conservative press has
succeeded in tanning up considerable
bitterness among the people against
the law. which keeps them out of want
and insures them medical attention
while they are sick, the opposition to
the measure, which has been praised
and is being initiated all over Europe,
is rapidly disappearing. and but for the
violent agitation in the press it would
have disappeared entirely long before
this.
No vessel ever came to England in time
of peace which has probably even been
the indirect cause of SO much anxiety and
alarm to the government as the big Dan
ish motor ship Selandia, which arrived.
here the first time four months ago and
which has just left the port of London
for her second trip TO East India.
The success of this vessel means that
oil will displace coal in the navy that
the internal combustion engine will BAN
ish the steam engine and that in a COM
paratively few years every battleship and
cruiser in the British navy will be anti
quated and outclassed, for not only will
motor battleships be less vulnerable and
steered with much greater ease. but they
will be able to carry heavier guns and
arIIlor, freed from the enormous weight
of boilers and coal.
1t has not relieved the public mindAin
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them at moments notice and whenever
he liked. The rente had been described
as a bank note; at any rate, its holder
could convert it into cash with similar
ease.
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England that the kaser's friend. Herr
Balm of the Hamburg-American line, has
bought the only other large motor ship
from the Danish East Asiatic Company
and that the results of all the tests which
poSal of the German government, that in
the strict secrecy of Germany's naval
dockyards may be put down and fin
ished motor battleships before the fact of
this may become known in England.
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OHIO REPUBLICANS
AT DIVIDING LINE
Continued from First Page.)

and Sailors Home at Sanddsky, Ohio,
having been one OF its organizers and
founders. He has always been a stall
wart republican, and though never an
officeholder he has been a power in the
party in his state
In the civil war he served in the 15th
Ohio Regiment and was severely wounded
at Chickamauga.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
KICK AT NEW RULES
Paris Drivers Object to Street
Regulations.
INSTRUCTIONS ARE PRINTED
Signals, Speed and Other Phases Are
Fully Covered.
INTEREST IN TRIP OF CURIEUSE
Expedition Will Study Fauna and
Flora of Unknown Islands in
Two Oceans.
INTEREST IN TRIP OF CURIEUSE

PARIS August 1O.-The coachmen and
cnauneurs of Paris are muttering and
protesting over the new series of regula-
tons relative to street traffic. French
men dislike changes of any kind and it is
not strange that the veteran Partisan cab
drivers should grumbie over any rules
which pretend to tell them how they shall
drive through the streets of Paris which
they know so Intimately.
Louis Lepine. the project of police, has,
however, become a believer in the system
OF the American inventor William Phelps
Emo. which has already been SO success
fully applied in New York and London.
Each coachman and chauffeur has been
given a little book dealing with keeping
to the right side of the road, the rights
and duties of hirers and drivers respec-
lively, and such questions as signals
speed s; and the treatment of horses; There
is also special page devoted to the reg
ulation of traffic on the world-famous
avenue, the Champs Elysees.
Stock Depreciates.
Some alarm has been felt in France
at the depreciation in the price of the
national gilt-edged stock. the rente,
which In 1897 stood at 1O5. fell to 1O2 in
l9O2 and at present is quoted at about
~. M. Klotz. the minister of finance, in
a recent speech took the opportunity of
explaining this situation. at the same
time declaring his entire agreement with
the decision of the senate committee on
the income tax to exempt the rente from
taxation.
1t was quite true. said NJ Klotz, that
government stock had everywhere fallen
but the fall was merely manifestation
OF more general depreciation of ALI
stock which yielded a fixed interest
There was nothing surprising in this de-
cline: 1t had been seen every time that
business was very brisk and industry
very active.
Another consideration was that the
capitalist felt the necessity of increasing
his income. on account of the cost of liv-
ing. and this motive widened the action
of the movement TO which he had re-
ferred.
1t would, however, be a disastrous mis-
take to draw differences prejudcial to
public credit from this fall in the rente.
The credit of France was today show
ing it's superiority. and he took that op-
portunity Of warning Frenchmen against
persistent criticism of the rente. which
might have the unintended effect of fur
Their depreciating it.
The holder Of French rentes, no mat
ter how large his holding could realize
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
DULL TIME IN PARIS
Foreigners Relieve Monotony
in Fashion Center.
ROCHEFORT BECOMES FRAiL
Physicians Deprive the Public Of
His Scathing Editorials.
ATTRACTION FOR TOURISTS
Museum Established at Historic
Chateau Dedicated to the Horse.
Generous Contributions.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabegram to The Star
PARIS, August 1O.-Paris in August is
not very interesting place in spite of
The fact that our streets, thanks to our
faithful foreign visitors. are as bustling
as ever There is semblance of life.
but life itself has departed In former
years at least one gifted Journalist
writer. old Henri Rochefort has re-
manned with us and delighted us with
the witty articles OF his pointed pen. but
this year even the pleasure of reading the
old fire-eater's editorials has been taken
from US. His body has grown frail in
ceaseless fighting and his doctors have
peremptorily forbidden him To write
another line until he has had a long rest
Henri Rochefort and rest, The two are
incommensurable, and what has happened
can mean only one thing The old jour
nalistic warhorse will never again return
10 the journalistic arena and we shall
never read an0 her of his stirring. witty
and scathins articles.
As poor substitute for Rochefort's
singing idShes We are daily treated to
the malodorous outbursts in the Guerro
Sociale by Gustave Herve the harmless
anti-miitarist whom the president par
doned following the brilliant review at
Longchamps on Bastille day, and who re-
Narded the executive by publicly insult
ing him in az open letter.
IN List of Attractions.
one more museum has been added to
the already large number OF show places
which no foreign tourist can afford to
miss ] refer to the Afaisons Lafitte.
Hitherto mostly known for its race course
and training stables whose old chateau
has just been opened as public museum.
Interesting memories associate them
selves with the mansion. which was
known as Maison"s tout court until
Lafitte. the banker. bought il and turned
part of the estate into building lots,
whence arose the town known as Maisons
I-afitte-
Foltaire, one of the distinguished guests
of the house. nearly set fire TO it through
The overturn of his bedroom candle. He
wrote here "Mariane'' and part of Hen
riade- Another habtue of this hand
some residence. built for Rene de Lon
Sueii. was the Roi SoleiI. Nine Du POM
padour, and Mime. Du Barry both ehvied
II. and Louis XIV had a notion of buying
li. but II fell eventually to the Comte d.
Artois, who acquired IL for two million
francs. The future Charles spent a
great deal of, money on the house and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
TAFT BEATS MRS. M'CAMMON.
Winner in Golf Match on Chevy
Chase Links.

On the links of the Chevy Chase Club
yesterday afternoon, William Howard
Taft, President Of the United States. won
in golf match with Mrs. Ormsby Me
Cannon of Chevy Chase. The score was
D up and to play, but the match was
closer that the score indicates The
card follows:
President Taft
Out. . 6 s : ) G 5-53
In. ........... ; q q 4+4- 81
Mrs. McCammOn-
Out. .... 6 & 6 6 8 SIS
In. ..-.......... 4 D 5-57-115
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