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The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
ON TO RICHMOND
GO BUSINESS MEN
Chamber Of Commerce Excursionists
Start on Trip to Old
/ Dominion.

With promises Of one of the most en-
joyable trips ever undertaken by local
organization, 100 members Of the Cham
Der OF Commerce sailed down the Poto-
mac aboard the steamship Northiand at
SIS o'clock last night for Old Point Com
fort on the annual excursion Of the body.
The excnrsfonistsl win return TO this
city Monday morning.
II was a joyful party that started on
the trip down the peaceful Potomac last
night. The excursionists we're acccmpa-
MED on the boat by distinguished party
OF members OF Congress, army and naval
officers, and persons of local prominence
on their way to Old Point Comfort to
attend the launching OF the battle ship
Texas to-day.
Every stateroom on the vessel was oc-
cupied. All OF the party wore Chamber
of Commerce excursion buttons. The ex-
cursionistH Will reach Old Point Comfort
this morning, breakfasting at the Cham
berlin Hotel The party will leave at 10
o'clock by train for Richmond, arriving
there at noon. The local delegation win
be guests OF the Richmond Chamber Of
Commerce while In the Old Dominion
city. The party will leave the Virginia
capital tomorrow morning for Q trip
down the James River to Old Point Com
fort, where they viii dine, leaving Sun
day evening and arriving in Washington
at o'clock Monday morning.
Among those who booked for the trip
were George II. Judd. Fred Eichelbergsr,
s. Is. Slick and Mrs. Slick. A. L. Davis
and Mrs Davis, @. @. lincoln. George
Gan. ]. J. Sinnott ]. c. South, r. p.
Andrews, South Trimble. James Ryan
and Mrs. Ryan. F. s. swindle and Mrs.
swindle, e. Horning, r. Edwin Joice. c.
J. Cressey, S. s. Mattison, Joseph d.
Sullivan, J. r. McCrosson and Mrs. Nc
crosson, S. zerldn, Max Needle. s. d.
Frazier. @. E Frazier. Charles II. Jer-
man and Mrs. Jerman. F. W. Mackenzie,
George Harris, John Quinn and Mrs
Quinn, ]. G. Mccarthy. Geo &c Nick. Nc
Clellan, Robert Blair. John Ockershousen.
Charles Bawin. Charles Schafer, Benja-
min Woodruff, H c. c. Stiles, Thomas
Grant, Isaac Cans. A. Lisner. Julius |
Judge Robb. z. K. Fox. Fred |
r. Walker, A. II. Anadale. W. B. Nc |
c. S. Bell. Harvey Kirby, e F. |
Droop. H. K Fulton, b. F. Saul. Persey |
McGIue. o. e, Darnell. and Nicholas |
Shea
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

CATION. headed by Col Henry Lincoln
Johnson He was an easy mark for a
great national political manager. I was
thoroughly convinced that an amateur in
politics could run a campaign better than
he was running the Roosevelt campaign.
He readily answered every question 1
asked him, and I found out everything
went for. 1 was to return to him the
next day with the signed document
was promised everything
1 did not call at the hour $50 a m,
the next day, as / promised, so he
'phoned me Previous to the phone call
which caught me. he had 'phoned three
times 10 my once. When he did catch
me Bradshaw was in my Office and re-
auested me to put a certain question TO
him. which I did. and he readily bit"
to our satisfaction. This question caused
him to smell a mouse, so he said that
he would have a friend present. I i'm
mediately said 1 would come with Brad
shaw, but he would come alone. Neither
had any idea OF going. That day he
called up four or five times. II this
statement is doubted the telephone COM
pany will correct it. He left word. IL
Mr.. Chase can't come 10 him he would
come there. He was desperate, and he
has been desperate ever since. wednes-
day. May Is, this week. he sent a mes
sage by George w. Hall for me to come
to his ONCE at once
Will he deny this? VIII he deny that
Rev. s. L Carrothers, a few weeks ago,
phoned him from my ONCE, and he was
informed by Carrothers that he was
making a deal with Chase to vote for
Roosevelt? Was not his answer "AII
right?' In this connection will he deny
that Rev Carrothers offered me 500 to
turn The Bee over TO Roosevelt. and 81 900
later on? Is it not a fact that would
only publish matter for the Roosevelt
committee as advertising matter and not
coming from the paper? / found Sem
ator Dixon an easy man to handle
gave him to understand in plain English
that wanted none OF his money. VIII
he deny this? He is like all other poll
icians that cannot use me. am a good
fellow II I can be used. I am the Lords
anolnted. If 1 will do what I am asked
10 benefit others. He only found out
mat I was so bad when he could not
Use me- Why would this bad mans doc
lment have such telling effect on the
II ne had given II TO Senator
Dixon and when he has been convinced
hat / caught him in his own trap he
las suddenly found him so bad? In
'peaking about the jail, venture the
assertion that there are many Senators
Who, no doubt, ought to be in Jail. and
here have been many who have been
ent to Jail 1t depends on what they
20 to Jail for. Many an innocent man is
ent to Jail and many a guilty Senator
5 only waiting to be sent. I started out
o catch Mr.. Dixon, smart as he claims
o be. and I caught him. He did en-
eavor to influence me to repudiate Mr..
raft He did make me promises. and I
IN thoroughly convinced that the Roose-
cit campaign committee. controlled by
enator Dixon, will resort to anything
o win this fight and in this fight I am
repaired to meet him. notwithstanding
he millions behind him
W CALVIN CHASE.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
A Newspapers Duty.

The latest London mail brings the
dailies containing the news of the ap-
pointment of Baron Marschall Won
Bieberstein as German Ambassador to
the Court of St. James. Not a single
one of them, opposition or administrs-
ton organs, but what comment in the
most delightfully."- satisfactory terms
about the coming of the new representa-
tive of the Kaiser. The Washington
Herald has no apology to offer for what
it comments upon and how it is done.
But it has "a very. exalted idea of the
mission of newspapers, and it abhors
seeing irresponsible scribes deliberately
trying. to create wrong public impress
sion, as in the case of our contempo-
rary twice this week in this important
international case
Washington is a city where excep-
tional care ought to be exercised in the
dissemination of foreign news, because
of the many diplomats it contains, ac-
credited by their governments to the
United States, as well as numerous high
officials and Cabinet ministers, who, as
a rule, know better, but who, by the
merest accident, may be misled into a
serious error of judgment when reading
such Misrepresentation as that Baron
Msrschall Won Bieberstein "is no dip
lomat at all, but hre-eating bulIdozer,
whom the Kaiser sends only to places
where he means to strike, and to do so
not by declaration of war, but by wait
ing until the nation in question is en-
broiled with another power" &c.
Just to pick out one paper of the
number at hand, let US quote the Lon
don Daily Chronicle, one of the leading
sheets of the British metropolis:
Baron Won Bieberstein generally is
admitted to be by far the ablest di-
plomatist in the service OF the Kaiser.
We, on our side, shall be glad to
have him here, believing that none bet
ter than he will Improve the Anglo
also that, Kaiser Wilhelm has picked
him out for the most important mission
in his gift. = We should do the
same, as we believe that on both sides
the very sblest men, ought to be har-
messed in the effort to maintain peace.
: - The Baron is one of Gernlany's
most tactful and successful diploma
lists. To his peaceful methods largely
is due the supremacy of Germany at
the Porte (our all-wise contemporary
-alled the man a swashbuckler and bull
iozer) His appointment has Gre
ated the utmost satisfaction in diplo- |
natic circles here. - He has never
shown any anti-British bias. -
"Nuf saidl" Our contemporary falls
into the same error that
anne pretty near creating trouble sew
.ral years ago, for its owner is any
hing but opposed to Germany, and, be-
'ides, is warm friend of the Kaiser's
Ambassador here.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

Although extremely modest nature
honng hat The Big Stick scord another To-day pnt
Foducon Of Of showing est cit, GeorCs
spSe truly chaAeestc attitude For it
uy screened fu the the public and would tn
It not been for alert and his trusty
For the benefit Of those
It,
would have been selected poet laureate long
With C SpdT the writing both
amusement and defense for mind gentle reader he vieds
e1u Sper
poems Of fourteen a.n1as each without even much a referring
AdiEes while presiding
ngs Of the Deh-bund Poets Club IN the saengebund
Spder his to
club members nature
have said meaning
the
Cit sPs greatest desire life persuade all the
ef Of Germany TO visit Washington matter what IL
day he accomplish this task and in the meantime he
writing poems in anticipation the event.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
Whose Fault Is Itf

With the public utilities, universal
transfer, and excise bills waiting zfor
consideration in tie committee, Chait-
man Johnson OF the House District
Committee, was -unable TO collect. a
quorum of members in time to transact
business yesterday.
Members of Congress frequently are
crying out against the, dissatisfaction
continually manifested by the press and
citizens of Washington against the
House District Committee. Whether the
Republicans or Democrats control the
House, the end of the session usually
brings out some of these expressions
of dissatisfaction, they complain.
Quite true, and, with apologies to
Mr.. Post, there's a reason" The end
of every session finds the same condi-
tions-lots of good District legislation
in the committee and very little passed
by the House or even on the House
calendar.
Perhaps the dissatisfaction. would be
less marked did the citizens not have
a similar body from which to draw
comparisons in the Senate District Com
mittee. The record of that committee,
session after session, tells the same
story-good District legislation and
,plenty of it, passed by the Senate and
Awaiting action by the House District
Committee.
Why?
Will the members of the House Dis
trict Committee contend that their time
is more valuable and harder to COM
msnd than that of such men as Sena-
ters Gallinger, Dillingham;, Curtis, and
many others of the Senate Committee
who occupy positions of prominence m
the Senate organization?
Or are they in the position Of the
small boy who, when pressed for the
reason that he couldn't" do task as
signed him, finally bIurted out that he
didn't want to-"
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
Those Through Cars.

When our good friends, the Cleve-
land Psrkers, want thing they usually
know how to go about to get it. They
took hand in the matter of through
car service into the city without hav-
ing to undergo the trouble of changing
at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and
Dumbarton Street to the F Street line,
after the Georgetown Citizens Asso-
ciation had wrestled with the question
for well-nigh year. We do not pro-
pose to go into the merits of the case
here. If Georgetown merchants labored
under the impression and fear that, by
using through cars, the ladies of the
suburban district, which is fed by the
Tennallytown and the Rockville lines,
would do their shopping in the down.
town district with its greater displays
(but higher rents), twas their priv
ilege to work with all their might
against such through service.
Sure enough, they almost succeeded
IN stopping the movement, but differ
ent counsel prevailed after all, and the
society finally went on record favoring
the same. But somehow for the Cleve-
land Psrkers, things did not move rap
idly enough. They met-of course they
have an association of their own, Just
as any well-regulated suburban settle
ment should have, even if the COM
nuters are all wealthy. They chose a
committee This body chose a delega-
ton to 'lay the matter before the Dis
trict railway commission" and unless
all signs fail, the through car is an
assured fact, inasmuch as inspectors of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company are beginning to keep tabs"
on the amount of traffic at certain
hours and places, which goes to show
that q change in the schedule is con-
tempIated.
But our Cleveland Park friends seem
to have overlooked one rather impor-
tant factor, although it did not occur
in their time, but before Cleveland Park
was thought Of There was a through
car service at, one time from the Dis
trict line (Drurimond and Somerset) |
via. Wisconsin Avenue into the heart
of the business center, but as premi-
neft citizen, who has resided in that
locality all his life, a gentleman whose
opinion upon things pertaining to his
section as a retired merchant and pres
ent director in several large local banks
ought to be valuable, put it: @In the
days Of the FIRST through service those
who clamored for il the Ioudest could
not get it changed back again soon
enough.
Let US listen to his weiI-reasoned ar
yument:
As 10 the comfort Of the commuters:f
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
Second Place.

DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, apropos Of his
resignation. said to a Washington Cor
respondent:
Il believe in enforcing the pure food
laws In the interests Of the people. Put
the people first-that Is my theory. Don't
put the food manufacturer FIRST and the
people second. Don't, in enforcing the
food laws, give the people that painful
feeling Of second place which Hilary
McMasters experienced
Hillary McMasters sat In the drawing
room awaiting his hsncee when the little
daughter Of the house entered.
Here, said the child, here is q
candy for you
oh, what nice white lozenge,' said
the young man. putting 1t in his mouth.
=" Yes, isn't it?' lisped the little girl.
Tt was striped wiv pink once"
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
SIR COSMO DENIES
LIFEBOAT STORY
Says He and Wife, Lady Duff
Gordon, Did Not Counsel Sailors
Against Going Back.

London, May n.-sir cosmo Duf-0or-
don. whose wife, Lady Dun-Gordon, has
been accused in evidence taken at ths
Titanic inquiry here OF preventing rescue
Of struggling men and women passengers
IN the water after the ship went down.
took the witness stand at the govern
ment investigation to-day and denied tha.
either he or his wife had counseied
against their nNeboat returning to the
scene Of the disaster.
Sir Cosmos said he had been ordered
into the nfeboat by an onicer. He ad-
mitted that II was. less than half full.
but declared that he was 80 busy caring
for his wife, who was sick. and that he
was SO excited from the tragic circum-
stances OF the situation that he took no
part In any discussion as to the advis-
ability Of returning to the scene 10 pick
up drowning men and women, nor did
he hear such q conversation In the life
boat
Sir Cosmos virtually took the stand In
his own defense to refute ugly attacks
upon himself and wife, and had not
finished when adjournment was taken
until Monday.
Rewarded with e26.
Charles Hendrickson. a fireman on the
Titanic, who was one of the crew which
manned Iifeboat No. In which the DuR-
Gordons were passengers. and who testi-
hed that despite the fact that. the life
boat was only partially hlled, Lady Duff-
Gordon prevented him from returning TO
the scene OF the disaster TO pick up men
and women who were struggling in the
water. was again called 10 the stand.
Hendrickson had also testified that he,
as well as the other seamen manning the
boat had been rewarded with q nve-
pound note 020 by Sir. Cosmos.
Just before noon a wave of excitement
swept over the court room when Sir
Cosmo and Lady Duf-Gordon unexpected
ly entered. Every eye was upon them
as they made their way through the
crowded aisle to the counsel table, where
seats were provided for them. They were
just in time to hear Mr.. Duke ask Hend-
rickson:
when you received your I'VE pounds
from Sir Cosmo did you believe every
body In the boat had done his duty?"
Well to certain extent" replied the
witness.
You DOR asked Lord Msrsey in sur
prise
mo. don't believe they did" amended
Hendrickson had testified earlier:
After we were taken on board the
Carpathia met Sir Cosmo on the deck
and he offered me a cigar. Then he said: !
i am going TO make q present Of fve |
pounds to each one Of you men to make |
good your kits which you lost on the |
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18


docs Il train any the less when It rains
lon F Street than on Wisconsin Avenue.
when passengers have 70 wait for their
carr Is It any more wet in Georgetown
on q wet day than on F Street, Are
the fifteen minutes one is obliged to
wait lschedule time. except during
rush hours, when it is Supposed to be
from sevensto ten ninrtes9, !, any shorter
when waiting on F Street than on the
corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P
StreetY No; Al this does not enter
into the questions at al. Those who so
strongly advocate the through ride are
the better paid of department employees
and well-to-do professionals, &c, who.
have built themselves fine Suburban
homes, and who mean to get good,
comfortable seat, right downtown in
the vicinity of the Pension or Patent
Offices 'or other nearby departments,
for nice, quiet, and undisturbeds ride
all through the city and out to their
homes Those cars would be filed long
before they turned of F Street at Four
.teenth Street, thus leaving the tired out
girl workers in the big stores, trying TO
get home as straphangers as best they
can"
Now, isn't there a great deal in what
this old resident out there says. I'll
the company could be persuaded to let
all its cars on that District line go1
through to the city. things might not
become quite so bad, though even then
the 'crowding would be almost unbear-
able for tifed-out woman after a hard
days. work. BUTT IS contemplated to
let only the short run" cars go through,
and not the Rockville line, starting at
N Street, and Wisconsin Avenue. 2
What 7this snsW move. really would
mean, according to another old COM
nutsr out there, is that those who are
wise and do-not mind the expenditure
Of two extra cents, and wish for
comfortable ride nome, not picked like
1errings, those who do not feel like
wasting precious minutes waiting for
! through car, or another through car,
when they 60 by full to the platform
edges on F Street, will walk to Penn
'ylvania Avenue and take a George
own car, timing themselves so that
hey will reach the NJ Street junction
ust in time to catch the Rockville car
before it reaches P Street, where the
zig crowds are bound to pile in.
The little Wisconsin Avenue line
heretofore has been the only branch of
he Washington Railway that never has
'een tied up to any extent With
through cars being added on F Street
or the new run, the Wisconsin line will I
lso become choked.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
POETRY GIVES RELIEF.

Bristling with rage, Doe Tin
dali, sec. 10 the est. Commission
es Of the District. called on the
ed. Of The Big Stick last night TO
inform him that he Is thinking g.
riOSsly Of boycotting the local news
papers. The cause Of the display
Of this animal passion is that
Doc was aboard the Monitor dur
ing its fight with the Merriinae in
Hampton Roads during the civil
war. and that when the ami
versary Of the famous naval bat
tie was celebrated not long ago.
the interview with Dec TindaIl
on. the famous hght-which was
written by doc" and sent 70 an
the reHspapers-w1s seriously toma-
hawked BY the city eds.
With a Wild FIRE in his eyes
Dec paused on the threshold Of
our ofice last night and redted
these sorrowful lines. which viii 20
down TO posterify as near rivals
Of the poeticslines Of Col. John A.
Joyce.
Every tale that I propoun.
City ed, he cuts Il down:
Makes no Difference how It soun,.
You got T. quit cuttin' my stories
down.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
The SEASONS BEST SELLER

The following book. with the ink
still wet from the presses. has
made its appearance IN some OF
our fair city' leading bookstores:
'Self-control, or How to Re
strain Yourself from Hurting a
GHFel at an Unrlly Member" BY
one who knows s-AIo. Prics. two
bits net. I'VE are informed upon
coed authority that the anthor Of
this wonderful work Is none other
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
TO CELEBRATE CANAL OPENING.
Southern Commercial Congress VIII
Hold Convention.

At q meeting of the executive ofaeers
Of the Southern Commercial Congress
yesterday II was decided to have the 1913
annual convention coincide with the
opening Of the Panama Canal The 1913
convention Of the Congress will be held
in Mobile, Ala. and the Chamber of
Commerce OF that city In outlining plans
for the convention has asked that the
life and services Of the late Senator John
p. Morgan be particularly recognized.
Senator Morgan for several decades was
the most persistent American statesman
advocating an Isthmian canal
The executive officers also decided that
the 1913 convention should use the COM
pletion Of the Panama Canal as a means
OF impressing upon the nation the i'm
portance OF Southern ports viewed from
the standpoint OF greater commerce 20
be made possible through the canal.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

family like most OF his rivals in ths
Presidential race and Is 50 respectable
that If he should drive an automobile
through Columbus a mile a minute he
would cast a shadow Of reproach upon
the snail chasers who stuck to the
low gear.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
BrouEht Together.

why did she remarry her divorced
husband?'
''Well, the judge gave her the children
six months IN the year, and she found
II too much Of a care. She'd never been
used TO anything like that, you know"
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

We saw the stern and rock-bound
eountenxnce Of William warwiek
corcoran on F Street yesterday.
William has Just sold a fve-foot
shelf Of books He threw away the
dearest thing he owned Is 'tEers q
careless trihe.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

than Capt. James F. Oyster. Pres.
c. Of e. We also are informed
that Jos. strasburger and Tom
Noyes already have sent in orders
for cupies.l
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
May Is in History.

May IS 17S5-Dr. johnson gets hold Of
q pound OF tripe and invites Oliver Gold
smith t0 lunch.
May IS, 15Ss-william Shakespeare pro-
duces Hamlet to q box ONCE Of SlI,
about the average ever since.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
SAW WOMEN HURL BRICKS.
Witnesses Say Mrs. Pankhurst
Threw Missiles at windowa.

Threw Missiles at windows.
London. May 17.-Evidence to show
actual participation in violence by Mrs
Emmeline Pankhurst. leader Of the MILL
tant suffragettes. was introduced by the
government to-day at the conspiracy
trial Of Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr.. and
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, editors OF Votes
for women whose case Is on In the
Central Criminal Court.
The prosecution produced witnesses
who had seen Mrs. Rankhurst and other
women smashing the windows Of the
Official residence OF Premier Asquith.
Justice Coloridge.- who is presiding, an
nounced at the opening that the trial
would probably end next week, although
this is uncertain owing to the large num-
Der of witnesses.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
FAST MAIL KILLS TWO.
signal Men struck by Train Die
Instantly.

Syracuse, N. Y. May 1.-Two men
were struck and instantly killed a half
mile west Of Oneida by the fast mail of
the New York Central Railroad early to-
day. The men were employed by the
Hall Signal Company, of New Jersey.
Two others narrowly escaped.
The victims were Hayden Wilson, of
Canastota, and George Beeman, OF Chit
tenango.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

1t is amusing to note how sad but re-
signed the Attorney General of New
Mexico tries to look every time he dis
covers that there is no constitutional
method Of preventing prize lights in his
Commonwealth.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18
Cannot Name Child Titanic.

Budapest, Hungary. May IA baker.
living at Arsd. desired to have his infant
daughter christened Titanic, as the child
was born on the day that ship sank.
AS there is no saint by the name the
register refused.
The Washington herald., 1912-05-18

Boies Peurose, one Of her best
known expatriAtss from PennsyI-
Tania, was thrown from his dapple
gray riding horse this week, but
was not injured Boies always did
have habit Of landing on his feet,
even when thrown BY the Preiden-
tial primary.