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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Street Gar Air.

1t Is announced that a chemist of the
District government is about to take
samples OF air in the local street cars for
analysis to determine its degree Of purity.
Much of it will be found to be very bad.
and again ii will be good enough for
breathing by any one. The whole thing
depends to certain extent on the con-
ductor and also on the number Of times
the front door Is open, especially in. old
type cars. The pay-as-you-enter car is
not SO easily ventilated from the forward
end, owing to the fact that the small
swinging door in front checks the inflow
of air when the side sliding door is
opened to allow passengers to- alight
Furthermore. in that type of car the
conductor has no opportunity to leave
his position TO attend to the ventilators
Consequently In such cars the vents must
be kept open permanently. beyond the
reach Of passengers to some of whom the
slightest fresh air is unwelcome- In
some of the cars in use in this city ven:
tilators which cannot be disarranged by
passengers have been placed beneath the
roof and the air is kept fairly clear most
of the time. 1t is very difficult, with the
best type of car now operated, to keep
the air pure when 70 or 100 people are
riding. The District chemist should take
his samples from oil types Of cars.
In dintllent conditions Of trahac and at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Friday Clearance of
WOmen'S High Shoes.

Styles that have been most pop
ular with our patrons this winter
now so broken in sizes that they
do not afford choice for regular
stock, and SO we have grouped all
small lots and marked them for
clearance. Included are patent
kidskin, gun metal calfskin, dom
COLA kidskin and few black vel
vets. Quite a variety of models
various shapes in toes and heels.
Clearance price, $3.50 pair.
Regular prices, $3.50 to 5000.
And these remnants:
IL pairs Women's Pink and Blue KidskIn
Evening Slippers, slightly soiled; pink sizes 5.
sizes ). 6. 61s and IA: 3, @ and 7B Reduced
from s.. 90 to $3.50 pair.
leather vamp: sizes 121aB, 131aC, II, 70 and
BID; 10la. liz. II. 12ia. 13 and 2E. Reduced
from 1915 tor 81 so pair.
Third floor. Tenth ST.
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Of the rorn. people II 4. : lamen,aaae

Of the young people. II Is q lamentahae
fact, proof Of which is to be had any
night in the downtown streets. that many
parents are not faithfully discharging
their duties toward their children, and
some method of compulsion must be
adopted by the community. Existing
laws all fail to reach the case of the
young boy who goes out after supper
and makes his way TO a sbrightly lighted
street corner to stand. on the curb, per-
haps in front of saloon or spoOlroon.
to smoke and talk with older boys and
young men, to hear their doubtful stories
and to acquire their profane speech.
They DO not reach the case OF the young
girl who, dressing herself meretriciously
to attract attention, parades UP and down
the thoroughfares with others of her own
age. willing to make chance acquairit-
ances and accept invitations to motion
picture theaters and treats There is
no disposition on the part of those who
advocate a curfew law to curtail the
wholesome pleasures of the children.
They ought to be given the fullest pos
sible chance to play and exercise and
relax from their studies. but they should
not be given opportunity to acquire doubt
full habits and extravagant sways. and
unwholesome views Of life, and to be-
smirch themselves by contact with the
evil-minded. If the parents will not see
that they are indoors after certain hours
or make sure that they are in coed COM
pany when away from home it is the
business of the city to see that they are,
and that is the function of a curfew law.
The responsibility cannot be thrust back
upon the parents, for every moral failure
reflects upon and Injuries the community
itself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
The Commission Idea Spreading.
From the philadelphia Telegraph.

The latest of old and noted American
cities to take up and urge change from
its present mode of administering pubic
affairs to that of commission form OF
government is New Orleans. 1t is look
ing now to the legislature Of Louisiana,
in which the Good Government League,
supreme in New Orleans, has a majority,
to enact legislation that will supplant the
old order of municipal government with
the new and popular plan in force in
many other cities. This proposition Of
the Crescent city follows on the heels Of
the election of reform candidate for
governor and of the same sort Of man
for the United States Senate in the per-
son Of Senator Ransdeil. New Orleans
was, perhaps. about the last place the
average American would have thought OF
looking to see commission-governed
city, its hard-shell, fossilized democratic
rule having been for many years in the
hands of a clique of bosses who held the
people under their domination as COM
pletely as the rulers of New York in the
days of Tweed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

various hours OF the day. SO that his
analyses will cover all the circumstances
OF the public's use Of these vehicles.
From his report 1t should be possible to
formulate regulations for the ventila-
ton OF the street cars that will insure
the most 1ealthful conditions possible.
Few street car riders appreciate the dam
gers to which they are exposed in their
daily use OF the traction lines through
the lack Of good air, and probably If all
the contents of the bottles filled with
street car atmosphere which are discov-
cred by the chemists were made public
serious uneasiness would be caused In
the minds of the people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Friday Clearance of
Fine Wall PaperS.

Beautiful Pastel French Tapestry Pa
per. suitable for large hall or living room
30 inches wide.
$I.Oo piece. Was $I.5o.
IA pieces Rich Red Velvet Flock Paper
for dining room or library.
500 piece. Was S.. So,
30 pieces Hand blocked Rag-stock Side
wall Paper: treatment after Adam, old
blue on white "round.,.
.$I.25 piece. Was .$2.oo.
Remaining Stock of Cuf-out Borders
and Decorations to match, marked at
one-half regular prices. ! -
Borders I21zc.. -"
Decorations Ioc yard.
A few small lots Bedroom and Ceiling
Papers, good designs and shades.
7c, Ioc and I2Lac piece.
Were I21ac to 25c.
Fourth floor. q st.
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The Need Of a Curfew Law.

From time to time in different parts of
the District sentiment is expressed for
the enactment OF curfew law to pre-
vent the distressing spectacle Of children
gathering and parading on the streets
after darA in circumstances to create the
belief that IL they are not actually in
state OF Decentralization they are within
unsafe range of II. The latest demand
for such a measure OF child protection
was expressed at a meeting of the North
east Washington Citizens Association.
and was referred to q committee for con-
sidsrataon. An argument was advanced
against II that the District has already
to many laws. There are not enough
laws Tor the government and protection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Furniture Department.

CHARTERED Oak Library Table, large drawer
and shelf. Reduced from $500 to $500
/ Solid Mahogany Dresser. plain design, dull
finish; four drawers. Reduced from $500 to
$2375.
CHARTERED Oak Leather-seat Dining Room
Chairs we'll braced. Reduced from $3.50 to
81. IS eacn.
1 Early English Oak Buffet. Reduced from
$40 90 TO $500
12 Early English Oak Dining Room Chairs
leather seats. Reduced from 1890 to $500
each.
CHARTERED Oak Armchairs. well braced; dull
finish Reduced from $1,000 to $500 each.
Mahogany Desk. with French legs; brass
1 Large Mahogany Chinonier. large mirrors:
eight drawers and brass casters; finest make.
Reduced from $4,000 to $500.
I Highbac Early English Rocker. leather
sprine seat Reduced from 1850 to $11.5O.
/. 1 Large Wing Rattan Chair broad arms. Re-
duced from $500 to So. 80.
Sixth floor G. at.
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Winters Parting Blasts.
rom the Boston Transcript

From the Boston transcript.
The backbone of winter has been the
stiffest this season known to the off1clai
recorders i'm the history of their service,
which covers a period of over forty years,
and even the oldest inhabitant must de-
pend more upon his imagination than his
memory to look back to a year that has
surpa ssed it in severity. We mean, OF
course, with respect to the low tempera-
lures that have prevailed, for it would be
easy to recall even recent years when the
snow burden was much greater and more
obstructive than 1t has yet been. Still,
weNhaye had sufficient amount OF the
snow to give us an unbroken period of
sleighing, not only for the more inland
towns but even in parts Of Boston and
most of it's suburbs. for nearly six weeks.
The steady cold has operated to conserve
what we have had. We are now near the
middle of the last winter month. The
sun is riding every day higher in the
heavens.
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Friday Special in
Mems & Young Mems Suits.

rs Suits, IN mems and young
mems styles; neat gray, brown and
blue mixed patterns-ends of our
winter lines, made for us by Hart
Schaffner & Marx and other max
ers; sizes 81 to AZ, priced as fol-
lows:
SI2.5o each. Were up to $22.5o.
$3.50 each. Were up to $4,000.
And these remnants:
3 Mems Heavyweight Overcoats. dark brown
fancy patterns; sizes 40 and A. Reduced from
So. to $3.50 each.
10 Mems Raglan Overcoats, medium weight:
in grays. browns and blues; sizes SO, 3S and
40. Reduced from $500 to $3.50 each.
Mems Gray Diagonal Striped Raincoat, silk
yoke and sleeve lining: 46:inch length size ss.
Reduced from $1,000. to $3.50.
Mems Medium weight Overcoats. gray and
brown patterns; sizes 35, 81 and 50. Reduced
from $1,000 to $3.50 each.
"a Mems Wastcoats, neat, fancy patterns and
desirable colorings; slightly soiled sizes SO. 81.
49, 40 and A.. Reduced from $3.50. $500 and
$3.50 to $3.50 each.
Main floor, F st.
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A National Work for Washington.

Inc newly organized District council OF
the National Civic Federation is an i'm
portant step in the development of the
national character of the District Its
purpose chiefly Is to secure the enact
ment for the National Capital OF laws
which will stand as models for all the
states. In short. the object of. this organ
ization is to evolve here an ideal system of
municipal government. Many other forces
have been at work to this end for long
time, but the new body will probably find
field for activity In which 1t can be
useful. There is work to be done here on
many lines. The District is entirely will
ing to be used as model but It does not
care to be an experiment station for try
ing out queer new schemes Of municipal
organization and administration. It's
needs are really very simple. 1t wishes
to have the organic act respected by Con-
gress and its appropriations made i'm ac-
cordance with that principle. 1t wants,
and should have, a system of long-tcrm
refundins Of permanent Improvement in
debtedness, enabling II to do without
further delay the work Of development
and equipment which is urgently needed
for the ccmmunity's health, comfort, Sc
NoiitS anu COOC0tlOI- IL the local re-
quirements were summarized they would
MI but little space. The necessities of
today are chiefly negative. That is to
say, the capital community is in q de-
fensive position against menaced inva-
sions OF its rights. and what 1t chiefly
needs IS protection from attack The Dis
trict council of the National Civic Fedora
ton can do its best work by enlisting the
national sentiment for the maintenance
here. on equitable terms, Of a govern
ment for the capital that will permit de-
velopment and will grant to the people a
maximum OF benefits. That such a senti-
ment exists has been manifested hereto
fore. and any organization that can bring
it to bear upon members OF Congress.
the Districts legislators. to cause them
to realize their responsibilities and the du-
ties they owe TO the District municipalit,
will be OF the highest usefulness not only
to the people Of Washington. but to the
country at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
China Department.

l dozen Daintily Decorated English Porcelain
Dinner Plates Reduced from 800 to 81 so.
1 Richly Decorated French China Salad Bowl,
Reduced from $500 to $1.OO.
Decorated Japanese Vases. Reduced from
Csc to Csc each.
Daintily Decorated Porcelain Covered Butter
Dishes. Reduced from LOO to 5Oc each.
3 Daintily Decorated English Porcelain Bakers.
Reduced from SOC to &c each.
1 Greenland gold English Porcelain Turkey
Platter. Reduced from $3.50 to"x1.2 5.
2 Decorated Porcelain Gravy Boats. Reduced
/ from 35c to &c EACH. -;
Richly Decorated French China Hot Cake
Dish Reduced from $3.50 to $3.50.
2 Decorated Japanese China Sugar and Cream
Sets. Reduced from 75c to Soc set.
Mat Green Jardineres. Reduced from 800
to 81 IS each.
Richly Decorated Bouilon Cups and Saucers.
Reduced from $500 to 81 90 each.
; Handsomely Decorated French. Cups and
Saucers, odd patterns. Reduced from $50 to
81. 90 each.
dozen Decorated English Porcelain Coupe
Soup Plates. Reduced from s.. 90 to 81 90 dozen.
Fifth floor G.
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Corset Department.

pairs Parame Corsets, medium high bust and
long hip: heavily boned with whalebone: sizes
3d. "a and %. Reduced from $3.50 to $3.50
pair.
4 pairs Parame Corsets, medium bust and
hin: boned with whaebone; sizes IS, 10 and 90
Reduced from $3.50 to $500 pair.
) pairs Florta Corsets, medium bust and long
hin; walohn boned sizes 20 p, % and %. Re-
duced from $3.50 to 500 pair.
pairs Florita COrsets, coutl; medium bust
AMI hip; size 10. Reduced from $50 to $3.50
pair.
10 pairs Corsets, coutil and batiste; medium
brst and long hip; sizes Is to %. Reduced from
81 so to Soc pair.
8 pairs Corsets, coutil and batiste: medium
bust and long hip; sizes 25 &c and %. Re-
duced from 81 90 to SOC pair.
Third floor, Eleventh st.
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Girls Department.

IL Girls Goats, blue and eray mixtures: full
length; sizes to IL. Reduced from $1,000 to
Girls Refers. navy btSs, and gray; lined
throughout; sizes 10, IL and r. Reduced FROM
$500 to 81. s. each 80.
5 Girls Blue Serge Dresses. long waist, style
sizes 8. and 10. Reduced from $40 and
$12. 20 to $4.15 each.
10 Girls White Linen and Pique Dresses
sOiled and mussed from handling: sikrs =. y.
and Is. Reduced from $50 and 1915 tn 81
EACH
% Ohildren's Sweaters, .sosled and mussed:
sizes q to -. Reduced from 30 and 81 40
to $1.1S each.
Also a lot Of Women's House
Dresses, in one-piece style; ;
stripes, checks and figured effects /;
sizes 81 to a. Special at $500
each.
Third floor G at.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
The South and the Presidency.

The Kentucky house of representatives
votes that no prejudice should run against
a presidential aspirant because Of resi-
dence in a southern state. Certainly not,
and never was there better time to dis
cuss the subject than the present.
Three men of southern birth-two of
them of southern residence-are now un-
der consideration as presidential quanti-
ties. Woodrow Wilson is Virginian
and Champ Clark and Oscar Underwood
are Kentuckians. None of them was old
enough to participate in the civil war.
Mr.. Clark was lad of eleven when the
war began. Mr.. Wilson was not more
than tad" while Mr.. Underwood was
not born until the war had been in
progress a year.
All three. therefore. have developed
reunited order Of thing. None of them is
open to the slightest suggestion of nursing
a grievance growing out OF 1.-The lost
cause" The country, the whole country.
and nothing less than the country, is the
cry upon which they have been reared.
and are now acting. Their patriotism is
no more open to question than that of
any three northern men of like age and
activity.
But. for that matter. many of the men
who served the southern Confederacy as
soldiers, served the restored Union aft
erward with distinction and unchallenged
fidelity. Morgan of Alabama, Lamar of
Mississippi, Eustis of Louisiana, Harris
Of Tennessee, Watterson of Kentucky.
Vance of North Carolina, Hampton and
Butler of South Carolina, Daniel of Eir-
ginia. and Reagan of Texas, are recalled
readily. The list is long one. The war
has been over for many years.
II the south has appeared to suffer in
presidential calculations for the past
forty years she has herself largely to
blame. Her managing politicians rather
than her statesmen and men of large
business enterprises have made the rec
ord. They have toadied to the Crokers
and Murphys of New York and the Tag
garts of Indiana entirely on machine
lines. The controlling question has been.
mott the best man or best policies, but
with whom, and what, success at the
polls cou'd be achieved. AS Tammany
and the Taggarts have decided has the
course too often been laid.
The south furnishes the bulk of the
democracy's electoral votes. and the,
ablest of the party's representatives be-
fore the country. She can take the lead
If she likes. Mr.. Wilson, because of his
long residence in the east, may not be
reckoned strictly as a southern man in
this matter. But both Mr.. Clark and
Mr.. Underwood are the undiluted stuff.
They have known no other than the
southern atmosphere. and they breathe
it today. They have been. faithful to
their congressional trust andto the Con-
stitution, and on personal grounds are
generally and greatly respected.
Has there ever been deep sincerity in
the talk Of that good southern man"
for President? Now is an excellent
chance to test it. Here are two men,
not only good southern men, but good
all-around politicians, who have definite
ideas about democracy and what should
be done in it's name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Cotton Dress Goods Dept.

l21sc Printed PercaIe, 10c yard
I2lac Outing Flannel, Zoe yard.
12hc Checked, Striped and Plain Bingham,
Zoe yard
lac Zephyr Bingham, 1212c yard.
l:,c Samson Cialatea, 12lsc yard.
1211c Printed Batste Lawn. Zoe yard
Zoe and 1sc Linaire and Irish Linette, l2lsc
gard.
c5c Costume Chiffon. Zoe yard.
:;Sc jacquard Tussah 2Jc yard
pie Mercerized POplin, 2Oc yard.
Second floor q st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15

The indictments returned at 1ndianap-
oils present a question Of the profoundest
gravity and Importance. AS yet they are
but charges All the men accused are en-
titled TO a fair trial. and are assured Of
that. Our court machinery is sound. and
the controlling public sentiment Of the
country bows to it's operations. If these
men. or any number of them. are guilty
they should be punished to the extent of
the law in the interests Of all the people.
II innocent. they should come clear in the
interests of all the people. For. in the
last analysis. the question is one of
safety for both life and property and the
rights of labor, organized and morgan
lied.
When the McNamaras were arrested
there immediately followed the counter
charge of plant Some hasty and
unfortunate expressions escaped the lips
Of men prominent in labor circles. who
testified to an acquaintance with the
brothers. and a belief in their integrity
and the way they had conducted them
selves as friends of union labor. A capt.
talistic scheme for discrediting union la
Dor through paid detectives was scented
and charged. We all know now how
baseless that suspicion was The Nc
ing time-one for life-for as abhorrent
work as bad men could be guilty Of
In the cases now docketed we shall
probably hear no such suggestion A
plant involving so many men SO widely
scattered Is outside of all reasonable con-
ception. The basis. or bases, of the many
indictments may bear a different aspect
in open court to that borne in the grand
h,f 4 10
was laid before the grand jury is of a ma
ture calling for thorough explanation
1t is but fair to say now, as was said at
the time the McNamaras were arrested.
that union labor is neither founded upon,
nor in sympathy with. anything resem-
bling anarchy. Its objects are of the
highest. Its Accomplishments have been
substantial. and of general benefit. If its
leadership has not always been of the
best. as much may be said of other or
ganized efforts for reforms and advances
in public affairs. The rank and file have
always meant well, and they mean we'll
today.
Mastering under this banner is a great
army-great in numbers, great in pur-
pose, great in the respect Of all men who
believe in progress and subscribe to the
principles upon which this government is
founded And that army is strong enough
TO correct mistakes made In it's name, and
to cast Off those who abuse its confidence
and commit or connIve at crime in fur
thering desperate and hideous conceptions
OF union labor's interests. The dynamiter
should go. He has no place in labor
ranks nor in the ranks Of any organize
tion pledged to and working. for human
brotherhood in a civilized country. He is
an enemy of all society, and the architect
only of ruin and desolation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Picture Department.

6 Colonial Serving Trays, oval wAin1t- finished
frames: cretonne centers and brass handles. Re-
duced from 81 IS to Loo each
Colonial Serving Trays. oval walnut dnisbcd
frames: cretonne center and back. Reduced from
$3.50 to 81 rs each.
> Colonial Serving Trays, oval walnut finished
frames: cretonne center and back Reduced
from s., 80 TO 81 .95 each.
Colonial Serving Tray. mahogany finished
frame: cretonne center and felt back. Reduced
from S. 80 to $3.50. 49,;
Colonial Serving Tray: cretonne center and
felt hark Reduced from 81 90 to $50.
cretonne center and back Reduced from $500
to So. % each.
8 Colonial Serving Trays; antique gilt frames.
with French print and glass: cretonne back Re
duced from 81. to 81. 90 each.
1 lot Coored Prints in gilt and rosewood nm
ished frames, Reduced from $500 to $50 each.
Fourth floor, 10th ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Friday Specials in
Millinery.

Untrimmed Felt Hats, in black
and colors; large and small
shapes.
CSC each. Values, $I.oo and ST.. so.
Girls Felt Hats, trimmed with
satin scarfs and bows; also Tam
o'-Shanters, trimmed with quilts
and fancy feathers; various colors.
soc each. Values up to $3.50.
Second floor, Zenith st.
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And these remnants
Friday Special in
WOmen'S Combination Suits.

40 dozen Women's Jersey Rib
bed Combination Suits, in low
neck styles, without sleeves ;
drawers lace trimmed. Sizes 4 to
6. A value far above the average.
Special price, 35c each.
And these remnants:
II Women's Medium weight Jersey Ribbed Cot
ton Vests high neck and long sleeves; sizes 5
and g.. Reduced from SOC TO 35c each.
q WOmenAs Swiss Ribbed Lisle Vests. low
neck and no sleeves; trimmed with lace; size
5. Reduced from 35c to csc each.
% Women's Swiss Ribbed Vests. low neck and
sleeves; tape neck with colored embroidery;
size ). Reduced from/5c to 121sc each.
Main door. ST. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
Friday Special in
Children'S Knitted Caps.

Children Navy Blue and Gray
Knitted Caps offered at very low
price-half regular value.
CSC each. Regularly soc.
And these remnants:
Is pairs Chldrens Muslin Drawers. tucked
and trimmed with embroidery rufle. Reduced
from 25c to 15c pair.
o Children's Muslin Skirts, finished with tucked
rufae or embroidery edge. Reduced from 50c to
Csc each.
and embroidery trimmed neck and sleeves. Re-
duced from $1.OO to SOC each.
/ ChIdren's French Felt Hat, poke shape trim
med with ribbon and ribbon rosettes. Reduced
from 81. 80 to $1..O.
. Children's French Felt Hats, mushroom
shane trimmed with ribbon around crown and
rusette on side. Reduced from 1915 to $1.OO
each
l.irIl oor ST