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The Washington times., 1913-02-05
REFORMED CHINESE
GREET NEW YEAR IN
OLD-F FASHIONED WAY
Wise ceIestiaIs Know How to
Bring FIocks of Visitors to
Mott Street. .

NEW YORK. Feb 5.-Can il be, after
all. as set forth in the unconventional
hut expressive language OF Mr.. Chuck
Connors, the oracle OF Chinatown, that
the story of the Chinese adopting the
fashion of celebrating the Occidental
New Year was pretty much bunk
The adoption of the Western calendar.
ie will be remembered, was among the
many important changes ordered by the
new government soon after the estab-
lishment of the Republic of China. Ac-
cerding to all reports. the Chinese of
America were delighted with the change.
and with all the zeal of recent converts
they celebrated their New Year on jan
nary !, last.
of the fact of the celebration there
were many outward and visible signs
in the little district bounded by Pell,
Mott, and Dover streets, known as
Chinatown. The store fronts were pro-
ftisely decorated with the emblem of
the new republic, intertwined with the
stars and Stripes. And some of the
Young Celestial "bloods" celebrated the
birth of the New Year in approved
Western fashion by eating chop suey
and drinking wine in the Oriental way
until almost the peep o day.
IN o6IuC Olu
But 1t is evidently hard to break away
from a custom that is centuries old.
Today marked the beginning of Sun
Min, or the old Chinese New Year, a
season of celebration with the Chinese
long before republics and reform ad-
nfnistrations were dreamed of in the
F1owery Kingdom. And in this fact,
perhaps, is to be found the reason why
tie local Chinese, in spite of queueless
heads and Occidental clothes, today
went about their preparations for a
fortnight of jubilation in precisely the
same manner as they did before they
hung the Caucasian calendar on their
walls.
The narrow streets of Chinatown are
bright with flags again, and great red
placayds bearing words of greeting are
pasted at the side of the doorways.
Within doors immense pictures of the
great men of China, peacock feathers.
and bright colors adorn the rooms,
while immense quantities of nuts,
candies, and imported wines and liquors.
with generous pots of tea, are placed
where callers may help themselves
Say They're Sincere.
Some of the younger Chinese, when
questioned as to the double celebration,
were emphatic in their declarations that
their countrymen were sincere in their
adoption of the Occidental New Year.
and that only the old men and. the
women were sdhering TO the cusfofn OF
their venerated ancestors. A more salts
factory explanation probably lies In
the statement of one OF the leading
Chinese merchants, who expressed the
opinion that while it might be more
progressive to pay $50 for table at a
cafe on the night of December 81, II is
better business 10 celebrate in the Old
way on the wane of the twelfth moon.
For the old-fashioned celebration with
flags and firecrackers never fails to at
trsct multitude of visitors to China
town.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
ORDERS FRESHA|R
FOR STREET CARS
Commission Notifies Electric
Company That ventiIators
Must Be Operated.

Ventilating apparatus installed in the
roofs OF the new cars of the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Company
Is not there for ornament, in the opin
ion of the District Electric Railway
Commission, but must be used. accord
ing to an order of the commission, ap-
proved today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
IL is ordered that from November
to April any arch roof car in service
which is equipped with a ventjlating
device shall have such apparatus In
operation
The reason for the order is that the
apparatus Is not being used much OF
the time. conductors being much more
willing, according to the commission, TO
turn it OFF than on.
The apparatus consists of four vents
In the roof, which are the outlets OF a
false chamber. In this false chamber
are suction fans. which draw the air
from the car chamber beneath. Fresh
air enters the car when the roof ap-
paratus Is working through ducts In the
flooring. These ducts lead over the
heaters, so that the air Is fresh bus
NJ, chilly when II reaches the pas
sengery' level
The apparatus works like a charm.
according to the commission. when IL
is allowed to work at all. Hereafter Il
must be working all the time the car
Is running.
An order for improved service on the
Brightwood line, from Ninth street and
Pennsylvania avenue to the District
line, was handed down today. The
change Is from a five and one-half-
minute headway from 4:32 to 5:22 p m.
to five-minute headway.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
Sc A|NARY PUPILS
p DON SAPKCLOTH ON
DAY AFTER REvELS
Rex and ConsOrt Leaders of
Mardi Gras Dance at Ma
tionaI Park.

Rex. king of the Mardi Gras revels
at National Park Seminary AMI his
fair consort made triumphal eutry
before their subjects at the ball at
the Forest Glen school last evening
which brought to an end the pre-
Lenten festivities Today. King Rex.
who, except at Mardi Gras. is Miss
Leila Budd, of Duluth, Mimi, and
his (or herr Queen. who is Miss
are attending classes just like tte
other school girls and going to
chapel for Ash Wednesday services.
the pomps and vanities of this world
have given over to sackcloth and
ashes.
But there was no thought of the
services of today when Rex. the
queen. and their train entered the
hall of the school last night. A
throng of about 500 beheld them. The
500 included girls of the school end
young men, especially invited for
the dance from Washington and
neighboring cities.
When the King and Queen had
swept around the hall in royal process
sion and their admiring subjects had
w-towed and sataamed their obcis-
nance. the dance was begun and until
midnight the 500 two-stepped and
waltzed. Occasionally some daring
young couple would Boston" during
ever ventured to turkey-trot. because
the turky-trot was under taboo, ban
and Indictment and anathemas were
all ready to launch at the heads OF boy
and girl who did anything so indecor-
GUS
The ball was a pretty one even IL
the modern gowns worn by the young
women were not so lovely as the
Eighteenth century French costumes
seen the night before at the fete
xra Ia nfa uybap Wa ttaou cbonhord.o,.,
and Greuze ingenues appeared on the
stage.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
Car Type Criticized.

Section - of the new regulations.
which provides that "a driver shall! not
drive in a street vehicle which is so
constructed as to prevent the driver,
while driving the same, from seeing
traffic in the street. In the rear and
front and at each side OF the vehicle. -
called forth the condemnation OF Mr..
Emo and others. MIR. Emo declared that
the regulation would eliminate every
Limousine and many automobile touring
cars. as well as trucks and wagons
that obstructed the View to the rear.
He said the regulation was impractic.,
able and could not be enforced.
Section &C. which prescribes that in
crossing from one side of the street to
the other, driver must first drive for
ward at least twice the length of his
car. Mr.. Emo and other members of the
committee said this would be impos-
sible when there was another car i'm
mediately in front of the car seeking
to cross the street. Another provision,
that driver shall not run his car back
ward in turning about or crossing from
one side of the street to the other,
would make il absolutely impossible
for a car to move unless the car imme-
diate,y in front wanted to move, said
Mr.. Emo and other members.
Favors New York Law.
Other less important defects in the
new regulations were discussed. and
Mr. Emo pointed out that the New York
regulations cover the points fully but
briefly and without Inconsistency.
"A mistake has been made" said Mr..
Emo, "' and the sooner II has been rec
ognized and rectified, the better for all
concerned
lie Roy Mark said the committee on
street traffic had existed before the
new regulations were promulgated and
that he had been promised by Commits
sioner Johnston that his committee
would be shown the new regulations
before they were published. This, he
said. had not been done and every ef-
fort made to have hearing before the
Commissioners since the pyomulgation
of the new laws had proved fruitless.
No more hearings will be held by the
Board of Trade. but the subcommittee
to be appointed by Mr.. Mark will. with
Mr.. Eno's assistance, prepare new
code which will be much shorter and
more simple than the code now in ef-
feet and will urge the Commissioners to
adopt the new code.
This will be done as soon as pos
sible, for the sentiment of those attend
ing the hearings was that the drivers
of the District should not be forced
to learn two sets Of regulations.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
MRS. ARMOR GIVES
ILLUSTRATED TALK
Georgia Cyclone Compares
Excise Law With Jones',
Works Bill Now in Congress.

A comparison between the present ex-
else laws and the Jones-Works excise
bill which IL now before Congress. was
made by Mrs. Mary Harris Armor. the
Georgia Cyclone" in the fifth Sf .
series of temperance lectures In Pet
worth M. Z. Church last night. Mrs.
Arnior illustrated her points with
man of the city which showed the io-
cation OF every saloon by q dot and
every school with q red mark.
Mrs. Armor stated that one Of the
best features of the yones-Works- meas
ure is that 1t will keep women away
would be beneficial for this reason II
for no other.
Mrs Arr,or will be granted hear
ing before the committee which has
the bill under consideration some day
this week
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
NEW TRAFFlCLAW
OPPOSITION
Board Trade Subcommittee Protests Rules Which Require
Chaufeurs to Stop Behind Street Cars to Allow
Passengers to AHght Safely

Unless the Commissioners again re-
fuse to grant them a hearing. represen-
tatives of the Board of Trade will ap-
pear before the city authorities at as
early date as possible-xith detailed
objections to the new traffi regulations
which took effect February /. They
will be accompanied by William p. Emo.
who has studied the traffic regulations
of New York. London. and Paris, and
who is exerting every effort to have
the traffic regulations of every city in
America made uniform.
There is little probability that the
Commissioners win grant the hearing.
Requests from the Board of Trade and
other organizations and individuals
have been repeatedly turned down by
the city authorities, who have an
nounced as an ultimatum that they will
be glad to receive suggestions as to
amendments of the new regulations,
provided these suggestions are submit
ted in writing, but that no personal
hearing will be granted the Board of
Trade or anybody else But this ulti-
matum will not keep the Board of Trade
from making another attempt.
Subcommittee Named.
AS a result of the public hearing on
the matter in the Board of Trade rooms
yesterday afternoon. Chairman LIE Roy
Mark was authorized to appoint sub
committee to advise with Mr.. Emo.
simplify the new regulations which are
claimed to be ambiguous in many cases
and unnecessary in others, and present
the amended form to the Commission
ers ss--A A--s
Mr. Emo. F. L. Siddons. of the Ma
tional Civic League; Henry III. Ward,
n. Landon Burchell, and two profess
sional chauffeurs. appeared at the
hearing and took up the new regulations
section by section. The clause which
compels vehicles to stop fifteen feet be-
hind a street car when the car stops
came in for severe condemnation. -
That clause is not only unnecessary.
but IL enforced will result in the great
est congestion in streets where there
are car tracks" said Mr.. Emo. The
chauffeurs testified that in driving from
the Willard to the Union Station that
day he had been forced to stop at every
corner between Thirteenth street and
Fifth street, and thar as a result he
was o late he had to violet the police
regulations and drive through the park
to reach the station on time.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05

now housed in building erected more
than thirty years ago. and. while II II
safe and possibly sanitary. yet 1t was
built long before the modern hfgh
school was dreamed Of. and the lack Of
conveniences Of many kinds Is the cause
of an every day loss OF time and energy
by pupils and teachers alike
Modern Facilities Lacking.
1t is pointed out In support Of Mr.,
Larner's remarks that the old Central
High building. which 1.los pupils attend
daily. never had provision for locker
rooms. for rest rooms for girl pupils.
has no place for a lunch room. Tor ART
study rooms. and for many other things
needed In a modern school.
In addition to this 1t n pointed, out
that the location OF the school u unde-
sirable In many ways. Within a radius
Of two or three blocks are forty saloons.
The Board of Education Is meeting
this afternoon, but Il 10 not likely that
the death of the appropriation for the
new high school buildings win be dis
cussed otherwise than informally.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05

LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine removes the
cause. There is only one "BROMo QUININE."
Look for signature Of z. W. GROVE. e5c.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05

Dr. W. 3. 01Sxm0rt - ne - Io04ys
Owes B1D nobuDt Health 1od Gat.
u - Yoon1B - Tak1ng HI
Own Medicine, A NEEDED
fer the Pns9 - YeaKs.
4 II only costs you = cents to get rid
of that bad, sick. sour, bloeted stom-
ach. that mean. bilious liver. kidney
trouble. constipation. and that sick.
dependent feeling from headache
give you more for . cents than
any one else could give you for 500
and what Is more, you simply deposit
the 8 cents with any DRUGGIST, and II
you are not satisfied. he win return
your money. Take me at my word
You take no chance and you VIII al
ways feel grateful towards me for
this offer.
Shake on the burden of sickness. my
friend. Dor II today. IS cents win put
you on your feet. Remember. the drug
gfst knows that for twenty-five years
have kept my word. to let you be the
judge No cure. your money back for
the mere asking Get the treatment
today. Be sure to ask for and see
that you get DR.. Burkhart's Vegetables
Compound
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
ALUMNI
PROTEST FAILURE
TOPROV|DE FUNDS
New High School Urgently Need
ed, Is Declaration of Grad
yates and Educators.

Alumni of Central High School, MEM
bers of the Board of Education, and
school officials united today In express
ing regret at the death warrant for the
appropriation for the new Central High
School building. which was signed in
the House yesterday when Chairman
Johnson, of the District Committee,
made point of order against this item.
Similar regrets are expressed over the
similar fate Of the appropriation for the
desired new M street high school build
ing.
Capt James F. Oyster. president of
the Board OF Trade; Vice President
Henry F. Blair, and John B. LArner
are among the board members who say
that the outcome OF the appropriation
proposition Is most regretable.
Money Tied Up Two Years. y
Congress" said Mr.. Blair. ..bas mad
quarter Of a million dollars tied up in
the site for the new Central High build
ing for two years. The need Of the new
school building is admitted 81 everyone.
The subcommittee Of the District Com
mittee. which specially studied the
question reported unanimously that the
need for the new building Is most ur-
gent. The need for the new NJ street
high school building Is equally great
Anything which happened to prevent
the consummatfon of the plans for the
new Central High building Is most de-
plorable.' said John B. Larner, the at
torney who recently was named to the
board and who has particularly
studied this question. Central High Is
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
King Eats Penny Pudding.

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Ex-King Manuel OF
Portugal ate 2-cent pudding In a Drury
Lane lodging house. and when he
praised the fare the manager offered TO
board him for a quarter a day.
The Washington times., 1913-02-05
Webb Calls on Taft.

Senator Webb. newly elected from
Tennessee, called on President Taft to-
day in company with Senator Luke Lea.
1t was the first visit of Senator Webb,
who succeeds Senator Sanders, to the
executive offices.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16
$2l, 10000 REALIZED
FROM VARSITY STOCK

1910 to July, 1913: Cattle mostly
beef, $1,000; hogs, 5000; lambs,
bought for experimental purposes and
resolO $52O5; sheep, $3.50; wool, $165;
,, l pure bred colt, $780, milk and cream,
$1765; prize money, $1235; cups and
medals, $14O; miscellaneous. $3.50. To-
tai, $21, $50.
AS a further detailed account of the
revenue from the varsity stock as the
most prominent factor in the improve
ment of this department might be
mentioned one of the prize Duroc Jer
sey sows on the farm which has in
two years netted through actual cash
sales of three litters of her offspring
1898. Adding to this the value of three
of her pigs that have been retained on
the farm for breeding purposes the to-
tai reaches $793 Another SOW of the
same breed has in a like period of
time produced a revenue of $491.
The stock that has been sold at the
university has gone to all sections of
the west. Much of it has been pur-
chased by Idaho breeders and has been
retained in this state.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16
BUCKEYE STATE
WANTS MURDERER

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 16.-The au-
.thorities of this state are preparing to
make a demand on California to 8, T.
render Simon P. Helfinstine, who has
been arrested in Los Angeles, charged
with forgery, and who is wanted for
murder in this state. Helfinstine is
said to have confessed to eight MUIR
ders in Ohio, including the Staying of
Pearl Bryan, for whose death the med
ical students Jackson and Walling
were executed. Some of the circum-
stances of the crimes as related by
Helfinstine do not coincide with facts
on record in this state, however.
Helfinstine said he started his ca
reer of murder in 1896 with the killing
Of farmer named Dedricks and his
wife and the stealing of $4,000 which
they had hidden away. In 1908, the
prisoner said, he killed two farmers
named Fletcher and Butler at Kenton
Pike, Ohio. Pearl Bryan was suppos-
ed to have been killed in Cincinnati,
but Helflnstine asserts that he murder
ed the girl in Toledo, and then ship
ped the body to Jackson and Walling
in Cincinnati.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16

Safe deposit boxes for rent. Thomp-
son Brothers. x
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16
"COOLING PERIOD"
DIVORCE SEEKERS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July 49,
Several of the pastors and leading
citizens of this city have taken up sug-
gestiOns made by the Rev. j. Leonard
Levy of Pittsburg of having cooling
period" of three months from the time
OF the final hearing in divorce suits
until ultimate decision is handed down
by the courts. DR. Levy says: 1.-The re-
duction, l believe in the separations
between married couples would be
startling" he declared. Let the con-
Guiding chapters of a suit for divorce
be held up for quarter of year from
the day of completion of the trial,
making it conditional upon the impos-
sibility of reconciliation.
"This cooling period might thus
elapse, during which neither of the di-
vorced persons could remarry. This
might not only serve to restore the
former relations but would surely save
us the shock to our moral sensibilities
caused by the announcements such as
divorced and married in an hour An
other thing that should be advocated
is uniform federal marriage and di-
vorce laws
THE hasty marriage must be cur
tailed if the rate of divorce is to dis
appear A rabbi should demand at
least twenty days notice before per-
forming ceremony.
Great as the divorce evil is, there
can be a still greater evil in domestic
life, the impossibility of obtaining
divorce in spite of legal grounds.
When domestic conditions are immor-
al, husbands and wives should be Leg
ally put asunder. Nothing can be
more debasing to innocent children
than to be reared in home in the pre-
sence of parents who have lost all re-
spect for each other.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16
BRYAN NOT THE ONLY
CABINET "TEETOTALER"

WASHINGTON, July 16-Whenever
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky
wants a little recreation or wants to
prepare an extraordinary brilliant
/ speech, he collects his constant pal,
Representative TON" Heflin of Ala
bama and takes drive around the
Potomac park speedway in ''sea-go-
! ing hack"
| James and Heflin are the Damon and
Pythias of congress. For years they
have been practically inseparable, and
many bright afternoon after the
house and senate have adjourned they
are to be seen ambling down Pennsyl-
vania avenue for all the world like
a couple of kids after schools out.
Senator James has the "sea-going
the same habit is among Heflin's list.
James takes to an open barouche-one
of Washington's cherished institutions,
despite the advent of the automobile
like duck to aqua pura. And he al
ways employs the same hackman,
grizzled Irishman named Mike, who
prides himself on two things: first and
foremost because he is Irish, and Sc
cond because in his youth he fed his
fathers pigs on the refuse from the
table of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Mike is extremely and perhaps slight
ly snobbishly proud Of the fact that he
is the pet hackman of Senator James.
But there is one buzzing fly in his 9TH
erwise ointment of bliss. Representa-
tive Helm isn't SO heavy but Senator
James has enough avordupois for sew
eral men and the weight Is sore
trial on the squeaky, Anticipated hack
and it's protesting springs.
When Senator James was preparing
his speech on sugar, in answer to Sen
ator Ransdell's threatened bolt if the
present sugar schedule was adopted
with the tariff measure, he and repre-
sentative Heflin drove about the speed
way practically the entire night
threshing over what James was going
to say. Of course they rode in Mikes
hack.
When Senator James cannot get his
constant companion Heflin to ride with
him-and since he has moved over to
the senate from the house, the con-
gressional Damon and Pythias cannot
arrange their dates so well-Senator
James carts his secretary, James Rich |
about with him. Secretary
by the way is some sartor-
ial secretary. He is sometimes called |
the secretarial Beau Brummel of the |
senate, and it is some sight to see |
Secretary Richardson most correctly |
dressed in high hat and English cut
away riding through the park beside
his boss" in Mikes hack.
While all this prohibition stuff is be-
ng handed out so freely, with Secre-
AIRY of State Bryan boasting that he
luaffs only grape juice, it is but meet
hat one other member of the Wilson
cabinet be given his due. Attorney
General McReynolds doesn't drink; he Il
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16

Lucy E. Bull. $1.0O. undivided rs in
terest in lot l 4-41-4
Mortgage.
Robert Otness ct ux Christine of
Moscow to H. r. Smith. $500, due Z
1914. lots 10. 20. 81, %. 90, blk. 5 of
Lieuallen's Sd ad to Moscow.
Chattel Mortgage.
VIM. Bower of Moscow to A. H.
Averill Mchy Co., $1,000, due 11-5-13,
l saw mill complete
Releases.
H. r. Smith to Louis F. Henderson.
filed 12-3-1O.
Ole Olson to Edwd. N. Keane. filed
Bill.
Ole Olson to A. J. Christie. filed g.
27-O5.
Ole Olson to Emma McRoberts, fled
3-22-1O
Potlatch State Bank to Potlatch
Brick Co. filed 1-13-13.
Miscellaneous.
Marriage License-Clarence o. Witt
of Potlatch and Lucille Hyanes of Spo-
kane.
Marriage License. E. Huntley and
Dorothy Halverson, both of Moscow.
Decree of Distribution-In the mat
ter of the estate Of BENJAMIN r. A Id
rich, deceased.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-07-16
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Tuesday, July Is, 1913.


Mary X Walsh of st. Maries to
Ole Olson, $1.00, s1a lots l and 2, lots
8 and 4 blk. 10 of West adj to Gene
see.
Emma McRoberts ct vir P. w. of
Canyon City, Ore, to Ole Olson, $500,
lots l and 2, blk. Is of North ad to
Genesee.
Ole Bohman ct uX Hilda of Troy to
Johanna Person, $1,000, sR First ave-
nue. between blks 4 and 8, lot u and
blk. 8, all in State adj to Troy.
State of Idaho to Swan Frisk of
Troy, $l55, blk. IS (fractionaD 1893
4, State ad. to Troy.
Mrs. Jennie Duncan of Kendrick to
Mary Gilmartin, $l.00. VIE lot and
lots and 6, Kendrick, also furniture,
fixtures, etc, contained in bldgs.
Elmer Bechtol of Kendrick to Jas
F. Bridwell, 81, lot 2, blk. 90 of Oaks
ad. to Kendrick.
Potlatch Lumber Co. to VIM H.
Bull, $780, undivided "a interest in
lot l Aid.
Potlatch Lumber Co. to Heirs of