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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
ASK FOR COLLECTOR
FOR HUTCH|NS ESTATE
One of the Sons of the Late
Millionaire and Lawyer
Apply to Court.

Alleging the pressing need of some
legally constituted representative of the
estate of the late Stilson Hutchins, valued
at $4.OOO,OOO, Walter S. Hutchns, a son,
and Attorney Charles l.. Fraley. two of
the executors named in the latest will of
the financier, today applied to the Pro-
bate Court to appoint a collector for the
estate. The statement Is made that the
trust under which William J. Dante has
managed the Hutchins millions for more
than two years has been terminated by
the death of Mr. Hutchins.
The two executors tell the court that
Lee Hutchins, another son of the de-
ceased and the third executor under the
WILL has announced his intention to pro-
test all the wills of his father and to set
up the claim that Stilson Hutchins died
intestate and that his estate should be
distributed under the law.
An allegation is also made that Rose
Keeling Hutchins, the widow, has re-
! moved to Newport, r. l., for the sum-
mer, and has had transported beyond the
Jurisdiction of the court a number of
valuable paintings, household ornaments,
silverware, china and glass ware, table
and bedroom furnishings, and the con-
tents Of trunks which, it is alleged, be-
long to the estate of her husband The
executors say secrecy was observed and
no notice given them of the transfer of
the household goods, and say they may
not be able to trace them and would have
to abide such disclosure concerning them
as Mrs. Hutchins should give This
property was removed from 1908 Massa-
chusettS avenue, it. is stated by the
Adams Express Company, the Security
Storage Company and the Union Trans
fer Company.
No One to Collect Insurance.
Insurance policies calling for the pay
ment of $4,000 to the estate are payable
the two executors tell the court. but say
there is no one to receive the money. The
two executors also claim they are entitled
of right to have the possession of the per-
sonal estate, and declare their right is dis
puted by the trustee, the widow and Lee
Hutchins.
The fear Is expressed that the personal
estate is in danger of loss or dissipation
by inability to collect the insurance money
and the alleged removal of portions of it
from the District.
A judgment for 5000 was recently rem
dered against Mr.. Hutchins in personal
injury suit, and there is no one with
. thority to appeal the case, the court is
told and the creditor has threatened to
take some steps to secure the money.
Attorneys r. Ross Perry and Edward
H. Thomas represent the two executors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
ALL NOT IN ATTENDANCE
Contest Hearings May Be Started
Some Time Today.
PUBLICITY TO BE GIVEN
Press Associations to Be Admitted
During Deliberations-Hil
and Vorys Confer.

CHICAGO. June 6-Although the rep
resentation was not complete, a major
ity of the members of the republican
committee assembled at the Coliseum to-
day prepared to enter the first day of a
ten-day series of meetings which will de-
termine what men shall fill 254 contested
seats of total LOIS seats on the floor of
the convention when ii is called TO order
June Is.
The meeting today was expected to de-
velop a skirmish between the Taft and
Roosevelt forces which might become
highly important as foreshadowing the
line of fighting that will be carried into
the convention.
The Taft leaders. according to reports
from various sources, had decided to use
their claimed majority of the committee
to seat Taft delegates in nearly all of
the many contests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
Prospects Encouraging.

Cnquestionably the Presidents pros
poets at this writing are very encourag-
ing to his friends and they are taking
heart in situation which for the past
two weeks, every one knows. has been
Tar from cheering.
Those Washington correspondents who
trooped into town yesterday afternoon
soon became aware of the ozone in the
political atmosphere. and Immediately set
about to discover its source. They found
that it was largely attributable to the
firm attitude OF the republican national
committee. and The intention of large
majority of that body not to be either
bluffed or browbeaten into abandonment
of orderly methods of procedure in the
conduct of the business of the conven-
tion in conformity with the precedents
and traditions of the republican party.
They also found that the national COM
mittee as well as not allowing itself tC
lie shouldered aside, is determined to set
tie contests from the southern states up
on their merits and not to be steam rolled
by any one, which means that trumped
up contests will be thrown out of court.
They also discovered that Roosevelt
has not made the headway he expected in
winning recruits from among the south
trn men and that the crux of the situa.
ton depends upon his picking up from
nat source the number of which he j.
low shy to control the convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
WEATHER.

Unsettled and somewhat cooler
tonight. Friday fair and cooler;
northwesterly winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
Subject of Disputation.

The board of education and the engi-
neer department have been fighting over
the question of janitors and furnaces for
years, The District building authorities
say the furnaces are ruined by the jani-
tors. the school officials say the municipal
architect does not put the furnaces in
right. I. +. ]. Mcguire was the first
witness today. He said it would be per-
fectly easy to establish a standard of
heating for each building, and a standard
of fuel consumption, instead of work. ng
at random as at present. He had con-
siderable to say about the ventilating
fans used in the schools. The janitors,
he claimed, do not know what a venti-
lating fan is for, in many instances, and
do not use them intelligently. The re-
suit il. according to Mr.. Mcguire, q
school filled with carbon dioxide.
Samuel A. Gregory, who has been
dealing in hot-air furnaces for thirty
years. and who has sold many to the
public schools in the District of Colum-
bia, said all hot-air apparatus was sold
for definite consumption of fuel, and
that it would be perfectly easy to estab-
lish a standard.
1.-The sale of your furnaces inquired
Mr.. Redfield, is predicated on its con-
sumption of fuel. and the school officials
know this?'
YES"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
Mckinley Answers Dixon

Representative Mckinley, in a state
ment answering Senator Dixon's COM
ment on the capture of Ohio's six dele
gates at large by President Taft, said:
cit makes nc difference to them that
these delegates to the Ohio state conven-
ton were elected at a popular primary.
They were instructed for our candidate at
the primary and they get no credit Tor
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
ROLLER STEAMS Up
TO CHARGE COLONEL
Roosevelt Arrayed Against
Machine He Once
PiIoted.
FEELING OF FACTIONS
IN CHICAGO BITTER
Neither Side Knows How Many
Delegates to Count On.
TAFT PEOPLE sTIFFEN UP
Presidents Chances Encouraging, as
Majority of National
Committee Stands
Neither Side Knows How Many
Delegates to Count On.
TAFT PEOPLE STIFFEN UP
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO. June 6.-Goodness gracious
here is dreadful state of affairs IL
really seems that Roosevelt Is likely to
have the steam roller hit him-the very
same steam roller which four years age
he engineered so ruthlessly in the ma
tional committee in behalf of Taft
is plumb shocking the way that ma
tional committee steam roller is blowing
off steam and spluttering and getting
ready to charge through the Roosevelt
ranks. of course. it will be highly rep
Tehensible and all that sort of thing, but
quite characteristic of the porch climb
ers,'' the "second-story men and 1.-THE
enemies of the plain people," as the
Roosevelt folks are pleased to term those
who oppose the colonel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
Nothing Is Certain.

Now. the cod fact is that neither of
these contending political camps know
TO certainty just how many delegates
they can actually count upon. The
Roosevelt people are fooling you when
they announce their swollen claims, and
the Taft people hope that they have all
the delegates they claim. but they are
whistling i'm the graveyard. all the same.
Ii all depends upon how many of the
southern gentlemen will stick and how
many of the contests will be sustained
by the national committee. Back of these
considerations is the contingency Of some
dramatic ''grandstand play" by the
colonel. =.
When Is T. r. coming to Chicago" is
the question heard on all sides. Every
body expects him to come bustling in
and fguratively shove gun up against
the national committee.
No one could fail to note the marked
and distinct stiffening up of the Taft
people here in the past twenty-fOur hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
BLAME ON JAN|T0RS
Troubles With School Fur
naces Charged Up to Them.
CARELESS USE OF COAL
Trio of District Officials Make Allie
cations Of Incompetence.
HEARING BEFORE COMMITTEE
Representative Redfeld, Presiding
Over Inquiry, Shows Intimate
knowledge of Subject.
HEARING BEFORE COMMITTEE

y trio of officials from the District
building drew picture OF incompetence
on the part of school ianitors in the
office of the House District committee
this morning. blaming them for all sorts
OF troubles that have been registered
against the heating apparatus in the last
four years. Parents whose children con-
tracted ailments while sitting in cold
schoolrooms last winter would have
heard much testimony especially dedcat-
ed to them.
Henry Story. superintendent of repairs:
I. +. j. Mcguire. an engineer from the
District building. and William l.. Web
ster all jumped on the janitors. One OF
the charges was made by Mr.. Story. who
accused the janitor of one building of
trying to 1ubricate gas engine with
floor oil. The hearing was held before a
subcommittee. of which Representative
Redfielo of New York. democratic candi-
date for the vice presidential nomination.
is chairman. During the hearing the
chairman gave brief lecture on how to
throw coal into a furnace. and the cor
rectneSS of his views was testified to by
the engineers present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06

The Star is the only afternoon
paper in Washington that prints
the news of the Associated Press.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
RACE PRIDE AND
 DOLLSCONNECTED German Christmas Shoppers
 Warned by Writer INDUSTRY IN DANGER Stern Believes American Influence in South America Is Going to Injure
 German nTrade-Craze for Oddities
INDUSTRY IN DANGER

Berlin, December 2S.-fSpecial)- Some serious attention and not lit- tie amusement has been aroused by the latest published warning lest Germans lose their pride of race. Christmas shoppers were urged seriously to avoid the brunette type in purchasing dolls for the rising generation. The writer said that the children should be sup piled with Teutonic blondes The fabri- cacation of dolls, he, asserted.h passed into the hands of persons whose in- nuence was along lines foreign to the German people. They did not make dolls representing. the German ideas and ideals of their makers. The change has been greatly in favor of the brunette type.
 Naturally" he added naively, those members of our folk who depart from the blonde type are not therefore the less worthy but we recognize the value of an inborn racial unity for theawhole folk and its culture and desire at Least in the representations of our ideals to take this into. account. Therefore one should reject these instinct-v -violatfn g dolls, no matter whether they are of fersd to us with evil purpose or not"
 q warning of another character is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

advanced another s675 to Wilson for the syndicate.
 We landed about 150 miles west Of Tripoh." said the draper. when examined al the bankruptcy court and traveled with the guns and ammunition for 100 miles inland, under the guidance oS na- lives, until we came to Turkish forts There we were met by an officer who sove Wilson draft on the Turkish gov
 rnment. r
 All of us fought in the war One man was wounded, and Wilson and another were killed. I he draft, which was in Wilson's possession, was,never recovered.
 Shortly afterward l fell III with sun stroke, and was nursed by the Turks for two weeks. When 1 recovered I was conducted to the coast by Arabs, and I arrived at Souraampton on March IS with sI0e left out of the sS0Co I had before I started"
 At the end Of his story McF'arlane was asked by the official receiver if it was true that after his return from Tripoli he had lived in London under the name of Fortescue2 The answer was a sheep sh affirmative. ano later the man who ran guns and fought in the desert admit ted amidl laughter that at this time he was "hitsng from his wife"
 MT Polly No. ? is in the bankruptcy court at present because another drapery business which he started at Wimbledon with the S7O0 ne had left after his bid for fortune as d gun runner proved. like that enterprise. bad investment. He has discovered that Wells was right in say ing. as he did in MT Polly.' that If the world does not please you. you can change it." but he has found out. too-- what the author fails to mention-that this transformation of the universe may be costly business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
SCOTTISH OFFICER,
 WEEDS AMERICAN

West Point, Miss, December cs.--- James Bruce Miller of Aberdeen. Scot land. an officer in the Scottish military service, and Mrs. Isabelle Maupin Cor don of Great Falls Mont, were married here today at the Church of the Incar- .nation by the Rev. pr. James Lundy Sykes, assisted by the Rev, Richard Blund Miller. The bride is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. R. |. Maupin of this city Mir. and Mrs. Miller win visit points of Interest Tn the south, Cuba and Washington before going to Scot, land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
DRAPER ENTERED
 FIGHT WITH TURKS Invested His Savings in Gun
 powder Scheme LAID LOW WITH SUN After Facing the Italian Bullets and Risking Death Otherwise, He
 Confesses to Hiding from
 Wife in London
LAID LOW WITH SUN

i London, December 2S.-tSpecial)-H. C.. Wells must have rubbed his eyes and looked again when he opened his news ps per, a few morning ago, for there among the other intelligence of the day. vas his own story of MT. Polly''-only a lot more surprising and exciting in the real life version, according to the well known habit that truth has of getting miles ahead of fiction
 You remember "The History of Mir Polly" of course. He was a miserably poor little draper-or dry goods dealer, as we say in America-who suffered from indigestion and naggng wife, and ap- pa rently had nothing but the drabbest of existences before him. and was on the point of making way with himself in sheer disgust. when fate took the thing into her own hands and sent him forth on the ''br0ad highway of life-a free nIan-with money in his pocket and d lor of surprising and pulse stirring adven- lures in front of him.
 But Wells forbore to make his little draper do anything more sensational thal set his shop on fire, save an old woman g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

life and play Jack the Giant Killer to a local ogre. Even novelist has to respect the probabilities and it's doubtful if Wells would have thought of turning his dra per into a gun runner or making him fight side by side with Mohammedans in q des- er' war. But real life, not being ham rered by the demards of probability. did just these things and many more wit the flesh and blood MT. Polly" whose name is Charles William McFarlane and who told his story the other day in a London court, in which he appeared in
 Jmantic role of 'declared bank rrpt."
 than year ago he was an ob- sCure and respectable draper of New rort, in the Isle Of Wight. who, never In all his 42 years had had a real adventure But. exactly like Wells hero, his health got bad and he and his better half led a cat and dog existence, and so one day he decided as MT. Polly did, to "cear ort'' ;tnd look for hfe with a capital l.. and since then he has packed the romance af many years into q few short months
 Unlike MT. Polly Charles William Mo- Farlane didn't attempt to commit arson. but he sold his draper and outfittei'' House Newport, for $3Qoo and came to London with that sum in his pocket to see what real existence had to offer him in exchange for if. He arrived on January l3, an unlucky day for him, at all events fcf he promptly fell into the hands of designating strangers, had more of the 'crather' in Strand saloon than he vas used to. and forthwith began to sur render portions of his "wad."
 Three men who marked McFarlane as their own at shc ''Bodega' told him that they were members of syndicate formed to land guns ond ammunition for the Turks in Tripoh and assured him that if he would put money into the scheme he would double 1t three or four times over. So the new MT. Polly. being flushed with wine, parted with s2J0 to an lex army man named Wilson,, in return for which he was allowed to join the expodi- tor and share in the profits.
 There were no profits. alas-only losses and s2l50 more of McFarlanes money went after the original s250-part of 1t in gambling. The gun running expedition was real enough, however, and it sailed frcm Mapping in q ship named the Iss- neralda which carried. besides the mem bers of the "svndicate," who numbered six including the ex-draper. crew of between 20 and %. To relieve the tedlum of the voyage, the adevnturers plavei banker. brag and nap" which games set McFarlane back just sl05. and he also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
RENSFORD'S NEPHEW
 WILL GET LICENSE

On the appointment of Harry Rens- ford as administrator of the estate of the late Harry Rensford, his uncle, the excise commission announced yesterday that the license held by the deceased would be given to the young nephew. Harry Rensford, it will be recalled. was killed in a shooting affray with Jones Abbott Several days ago.
 The excise commissioners considered the Stagg saloon operated by Rensford as one of the most orderly in Bir- mingham and deeply regretted the af- fair that occurred in front of the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
HANNAY HEADS THE
 DELTA SIGMA PHI

Washington, December 28.-The Delta Sigma Phi concluded it's eleventh an nual convention today Officers elected were president, Robert E. Hannay, Jr., Texas chapter; vice president, Earl o. Tennant, waynesburg, Pa chapter: secretary. Meyer Boslley, College of the City of New York chapter; editor, Vic tor P. Frank, Chicago, chapter; treas urer, Harry Axelroth, Washington and Lee chapter, and historian, Dr. A. L. Smolen, New York University chapter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

until a force of police with difficulty cleared narrow passage in the road way for the-cars.
 The postmaster, as favor to the curio seekers. ordered the time stamp, kept at 12 the entire day, and all mail for the day showed the five numbers '12-l2- 12-12-12.D The crowds began to line up before the opening of the station,I and at 10 D.. m, when the postoffce closed for the night the street was still thtonged. IT. addition some 30.oo0 pieces of mail were turDed in at the substatfon the day before with requests that il be held for stamping and transmission the next day.
 Despite the encouragement given to duelling in high quarters, the fact re- mains that it is a crime under the em- pire's penal statutes, and the prosaic Berlin police have just prevented two liertenants from exchanging pistol shots. One of the intending ,combatants was arrested as he eleft hls home, and the police then went to the appointed meet ing place, arrested the other lieutenant and confiscated the pistols.
 The seconds and physicians were taken with the principals to the station house to establish their Identity. The issuing and the bearing of challenge to duel are both punishable by fine or imprison- ment, but the penalties imposed in such cases are always trifling.
 It is intimated that the police had their very accurate information from women friends of the prlicipals who feared the outcome of combat. =
 The centenary Of, the Napoleonic wars calls attention to the existence of the smallest state ir Europe, the au. tonomous republic of Moresnet, on the boundary between Germany and Bell giunl, which win scon celebrate the hundredth anniversary of it's estab- lishment .
 Moresnet has an area of barely 1A square miles and population of $500 It owes it's existence to a boundary controversy for the control of a once important mine A Boundary commis- sion settling the frontiers of Holland and Prussia after the fall of Napoleon in 1874. were unable to agree upon the ownership of this tiny piece of land with its valuable lnining rights and finally left the question for future set tIement. Neither power was to occupy 1t, and'it was to be administered joint ly by the two states.
 In practice the Joint administration soon resulted in an administration by neither state and the community be- came autonomous under the protection and tutelaEe of Prussia and Holland
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

sounded by Richard Stern, prominent ten from Valparaiso, calls on Germany to oppose the widening of. the Ameri- can sphere of commercial influence. We can count on good allies in such fight he writes. These allies are the South American states"
 In all these states, says MT. Stern. there exists a very lively and fruitful agitation against the United States. Argentine, Brazil and Chile are discussing an alliance that shall form the first step to a union of South American states against the advance of, American in fluence Important newspapers devote many columns of space each week to awakening the sentiment of opposition to what they. call 'the expansion of North America"
 MT. stern however, pays high trib- ute to American methods. .'As danger ous as the Norths American expansion is to German industry he says. we cari- not avoid admiring it. Surely and -une.r- ingly it goes its way, its object. the win ming of new markets under terms more advantageous than those of the coplpe- tltors. always in view" E.,
 The German craze for oddities was well Illustrated December 12, when thou sands of Berliners assembled at post ofhce sub-station No. F to obtain on postcards and letters~the rare -postmark combination of four or five successive 'tweIves' which will not appear again for another century. The crowd was largest between Il and o'clock, when in addition to the four twelyes indicating the day. month, year and the number of the su5-station the cancellation ma- chine would impress a fifth tYe.ve to in- dicate the minute. For d time. the street car and vehicle traffic was interrupted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

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