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The Washington times., 1913-04-27
LOCAL FINANCIAL CIRCLES
By GEORGE II. GALL.

parison with the normal rate of abou,
100000 pounds per month, and there
ID nothing in sight at the moment to
indicate that the situation is on the
point OF turning for the better.
In the five years from 1903 to 1912,
inclusive, eight railroad systems op-
Grating In the South spent Sl22. 23O. 7s5. "a
Tor betterments and improvements, ac-
cording to the Manufacturer Record
Only three OF the railroads paid any
dividends at all in that period, and
they paid an aggregate OF $24 1s4, SOS. TO-
Thus 10 presented the spectacle Of the
owners OF eight railroads receiving in
five years but S24.164,55 10 from the op-
erations of the roads. but spending
more than five times that amount in
bettering the service Of the property to
the advantage Of the South.
The following figures show the ex-
penditure during the last FIVE fiscal
years for betterments and improve
ments by these roads:
Norfolk & Western Railway. S5 ,E s6s q
81. Louis S. Francisco Railroad 2osi0, s74 60
The Seaboard Airline. e............. "a sss 3sl "a
Rich. Fredk' sburs Pot. r. r. l.s47.lss 81
Georgia Railroad ................... l. s04 $40 Sc
Carolina. Clinchfeld & Ohio Rwy. sasi. 90 %
Florida East Coast Rwy............ le I36 $50 ~
Mo. & n. Arkansas Railroad. ...... I250. 900 %
The figures are taken from state
ments prepared by the presidents Of
the several roads.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
Juror Was Glad to
Find Stopping Place

IN recent ong-drawn trial in New
York the defense introduced n miner
as witness and Went into a detailed
inquiry as TO his exact whereabouts
TOR the past ten years. II was most
wearisoms. For Q day and a half the
lawyers asked this man to tell mis-
wanderings year by year. Finally. they
got down TO 1911 and asked him:
What did YOU do on May IS, 1912"
Il went 10 Cobalt
How long did you remain there"
Il have been there ever since
Juror Number Nine rose In his place
and said tervspuy: Thank Cod"
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
Two Welded Couples
In Divorce TangIe

TRENTON. y. j., April 2s.-Two d.
vorce suits and one action for the pur-
pose OF recovering $4,000 for aIlena-
ton of affections is the record 10 date
Of the marital troubles of Mr. and Mrs
Frank J. Alexander. OF Hoboken, and
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Heitmeyer, the
York
Mr.. Alexander obtained a divorce from
ms wife on the ground of her alleged
Intimacy with Heitmeyer. Subsequent
~, Nj. Alexander sued for aIiena ton
OF affections and asked $4,000
This suit is now pending Now Mrs.
Heitemeyer has brought suit In the
court of chancery for a divorce from
her husband alleging intimacy between
Ar. Heitemeyer and Mrs. Alexander.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
JOHNSTON CHOSEN
YACHT CLUB HEAD
Organization Leases New Site
for Permanent Quarters on
North River Shore.

RANDLE HIGHLANDS, April 81
The washington Yacht Club held its
annual meeting in its temporary quar-
tiers here and elected officers They
are: L. ]. Johnston. commodore; Wilbur
Jarvis, vice commodore; r. NJ. Collins,
feet captain: Richard G. Taylor. secre-
tary and treasurer: Thomas Kelley and
X Buffin, trustees.
The club has leased a new site on the
north side of the Anacostia river. be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets,
for permanent quarters. 1t was voted
to hold the second shad bake of the
organization earlyIin May. The feet Of
the club will be increased soon by two
cruisers, now in course Of construction
for Mr.. Winnan and Mr.. Taylor.
The pupils of the eighth grade in the
Randle Highlands Public School have
named May and 80 as the dates for
their festival. the proceeds of which are
to be used in purchasing a curio cab
met for presentation TO the school at
the graduation exercises in June.
Col. Arthur E. Randle is having ex-
tensive improvements made to his villa
at Twenty-eighth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue 6. F. Snyder has been
awarded the contract.
Mrs. G. W. Loudenslager entertained
at her home in Q street on Wednesday
afternoon, with luncheon in honor of
Miss Marsh, of Lewes, Del
A musicale was given by Mesdames
Reichard and Appold. Of Twenty-ifth
street, at the home OF the former, We'd
nesdsy evening.
The organization OF a Parent-Teacher
Association for this section has been
proposed and early action will be taken.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
Got Tip in Time From
His Would Be Bride

DO you think. my darling he CUR
gled. that your father will consent to
our marriage"
We'll. pet she replied. of course
papa will be sorry TO lose me-still-'
But" interrupted the ardent one. Il
Will remind him that instead Of losing
a daughter he will gain son"
A deadly pallor o'erspr cad her damask
cheek
Clarence she cried. ''if lou really
want me, implore YOU to say nothing
80 foolish. Papa has three such sons
living with him now. and he's extra
egdiparily touchy on the subject"
The Washington times., 1913-04-27

Mrs. G. W. Loudenslager entertained
al her home In Q street on Wednesday
afternoon. with luncheon in honor Of
Miss Marsh, Of Lewes, Del
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
Astor Visits Summer Home.

NEWPORT. r. J.. April 27.-yiucent
Astor. accompanied b. Herman OcI.
richs, is spending Sunday here. Sir
Astor and his guest took drive aboui
town, visiting Beachwood. the former
summer home of Mrs. Ava Willing
Astor. and where she and yincen; Astor
W1u live this summer.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
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The Washington times., 1913-04-27
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The Washington times., 1913-04-27
STEFANSSON FIRED
BY BIG PROSPECTS
Young Explorer Enthusiastic
Over Possibilities of Trip in
Frozen NorthIand.

NEW YORK, April @I.-Nilhjalmar
Stefarsson, the young arctic explorer
who made himself famous by discover
ing the blond Eskimos, arrived in this
city today from London. where he
completed the details for his next trip
into the far north. June 1 Stefansson
will leave Esquimault, h. &. on the
special steamer karluS. OF - tons.
for his four-year voyage into arctic
waters.
The young Harvard man is enthusi-
astic over the prospects of important
geological and anthropologicsl discov-
cries. Accompanied by twelve sc;en-
tifc men in addition TO his crew. he
expects to throw much light upon the
course of northern ocean currents, on
the nature of the ocean bed. and TO
survey generally million square
miles of unexplored territory
1t is my hope" he said. that at
the expiration of another year the Ca
madam government, which is backing
the expedition. will be able 20 provide
a system of wireless through which
We may be in communication with the
outside world
No Meats.
In speaking of the precautions
against scurvy the explorer said he
was taking only oatmeal. rice. and
other cereals, and that whatever meat
was needed would be procured at the
base of operations.
Heretofore said he, the difficulty
with travellers has been their failure to
exercise. In the past explorers would
build some sort of a shack and pro-
ced to eat canned stuffs. To preserve
health in the far North it is necessary
not only to eat meat native to the
country, but to exercise.
The old-time men were afraid of the
cold. The cold is not the thing to be
feared. 1t is the sedentary life which
leads to trouble"
Mr.. Stefansson was asked IL he still
adhered to the theory that the blonde
Eskimos were descendants of some Of
those stranded Vikings who penetrated
into the northern wilds hundreds Of
years ago.
Absorb Environment.
He said that he knew that this theory
had been more or less questioned and
that it was possible the blonde Eskimos
living in a land perpetually white might
have acquired light color from their
environment.
Among the scientists who will accom-
pany the expedition are James Murray,
Of Glasgow, the biological expert; DR..
Forbes Mackay, of Edinboro, surgeon,
both of whom were with Shackleton,
Henry Beuchat, and DIR. Edward Janess,
OF New Zealand, anthropologists.
DIR. Anderson, of the American mu-
scum of Natural History. will be Mr.
Stefansson's assistant. The Karluk will
be in charge of Captain Pedrason, q
whaler OF twenty years experience.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
THE STOCK MARKET OF THE WEEK


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and the to dat
The Washington times., 1913-04-27

A musicale was given by Mesdames
Reichard and Appold. of Twenty-fifth
street, at the home OF the former, We'd
nesdsy evening.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
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The Washington times., 1913-04-27

stock. no assessment paid.
Total sales for the week, 1,52S,3 ,3J1.
The Washington times., 1913-04-27

Bond buying dropped off considerably
during the week from that shown in
the previous weeks business on the
Washington Stock Exchange. but there
was a greater volume Of business in the
stock list. Only $1,000 in bonds were
taken, as compared with SS,soo the
week before. but 1,4s3 shares of stock
were sold, as compared with 1.42o In the
preceding week. and 1.oso two weeks
ago
In the bond list Washington Railway
IS were chiefly In demand for invest
ment purposes, and this issue absorbed
over half Of the buying, $l5.oO0 worth,
but the price eased off toward the end
of the week to S3Ia. though earlier there
were sales as high as s37s. Potomac
Consolidated SIS hardened slightly in
price. and s., 900 Of the bonds were sold.
In the stock list Washington Railway
shares, Washington Gas. and Lanston
were the leaders In activity. In the
case of Railway common there was
stiffening Of price and the preferred
made a new high of 92h but Gas fig-
ures did not change and Lanston went
of a fraction to a new low for the year,
san. Three other new lows were re-
corded, o6S in National Savings and
Trust, a drop OF points; in National
Union Insurance, a drop of point; and
Is0 in Chapin-Sacks. also a l-point loss
A new high was recorded for Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat. 203l1 an ad-
vance Of ~. Union Trust sold of to
its low figure.
The only sensational movement of the
week was yesterday in United States
Trust. when the stock was bulled on
the ground OF the acquisition of the
Comptroller OF the Currency to be the
company's president. 1t was predicted
on the floor that the stock would sell
at 200 before It would sell again at 40.
the price at which thirty-five shares
sold yesterday.
Two stocks not hitherto this year
dealt in came out. Firemen's Insurance
and Merchants Transfer and Storage,
but only a small lot OF each.
One new stock vas listed. that Of the
Continental Trust Company, and quota
tons of 115@l l25 were recorded.
The Mexican revolution has affected
the affairs Of stock on the Washing
ton Exchange, Greene-Cananea. and
they are still unimproved. according to
the Wall Street Journal The COM
panys operatiosn have now been inter
rupted for about month owing to the
tieing up OF railroads and consequent
inability to move materials and sup
plies. but the revolutionists have not
damaged the company's property nor
harmed its employees. The smelter and
mines are being operated in small
way. but production bulks small in COM
The Washington times., 1913-04-27
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The Washington times., 1913-04-27

The organization OF a Parent-Teacher
Association for this section has been
proposed and early action will be taken.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
AMERICAN HEBREW
IS SEIZED In RUSSIA
Sehkopp Emigrated twenty-five Years
Ago, Became Rich Here, but Is
Forced to Enter Army.

Special Gable to The Washington Heald.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 50-An American
Jew OF large means, by the name OF
Schkopp, has just experienced the disas-
trous results Of returning TO his native
land.
Twenty-Five years ago he emigrated
to the United States. He prospered there,
eventually controlling a large manufac-
turing business He kept in correspon-
dence with relative in Russian Poland.
Some weeks ago. being in Europe on a
pleasure trip, he decided TO come to War
saw to attend his niece's wedding. When
he reached there the Russian police ar
rested him on a charge of avoiding MILL
tary service by escaping abroad twenty
five years ago.
He was let oIt some days ago on 80, 900
rubles bail. pending Identification from
his Russian birth paper. but was not al
lowed to leave Warsaw. When he was
Identified no trial was allowed him. but
he was sent to serve two years as
private in a Tula infantry regiment
Mr.. Schkopp is forty-six years old.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31

TO SPEAK HERE
viii Visit United States and
Lecture at Various
Colleges.
THEIR TOUR Is ARRANGED
C.L,I.-. T.I-.oI L. VIA TT..k.I
THEIR TOUR Is ARRANGED
Scholars Induced to Visit United
States by Columbia University
Professor.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Berlin, Aug. SG-Four Germans. dis.
tingulshed for their scholarship or lit.
erary achievements, will lecture in
America during the coming year.
They are DR.. Ludwig Fulda, the great
poet and dramatist, who has visited the
United States; Otto Ernst, a novelist,
well known to German-Americans: DR..
Karl Rathgen, who goes to Columbia
University as the eighth incumbent of
the Kaiser Wilhelm professorshlp. and
Prof Ernst Elster, OF the University of
Marburg, who has been appointed TO a
professorship at Cornell University for
a twelvemonth.
The services OF these learned men were
secured largely by Prof. Rudolf Tombo,
Jr.. of Columbia.
DR.. Fulda will lecture in New York
on October 81 next, and will deliver ad-
dresses in most of the great American
universities and In the larger cities, go
ing to San Francisco.
Prof. Rathgen will sail on September
10 next. and lecture at Columbia on the
science of colonial administration. on
which he Is an authority. Prof. Elster
will tour the Middle West, lecturing on
modern German literature.
Prof. TOmbO, after several long con-
versatiohs with Gerhard Hauptmann,
the dramatist, and other educators, has
gone TO Hamburg, where, at the invita-
ton of the Hamburg Senate, he will lee
ture on university life in America.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
TRIO RULE BRITAIN"
QUEEN Is REAL POWER
King, Queen, and Lord Rosebery, and
the King Seems the Least
Important.
ble to The Washington Herald.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
London, Aug. 30.-Lord Rosebery has
popped up in a way rather discerting to
the members of the British Cabinet
When King George went to Balmoral,
Lord Rosebery was not even in Scot
land. yet he. arrived at Balmoral only
few hours after the King.
He remained there more than . week,
during which time the King dispensed
with the attendance Of members of the
Cabinet This is the first time that a
prominent unofficial politician has
been at Balmoral to the exclusion of all
the Kings responsible advisers, but Lord
Rosebery is now regarded as the real
keeper of the Kings conscience.
He is never seen in the House of
Lords. but nobody is seen oftener in
the Kings palaces.
It is significant that his visits are
rarely mentioned in the Court Circular.
1t is truly, said that the British throne
is now occupied by a trinity, of which
the members are the King, the Queen.
and Lord Rosebery. In the order of
their Importance, many would arrange
them as the Queen, Lord Rosebery, and
the King. There is little doubt that
Queen Mary, in her quiet way, is one
of the most masterful women in Europe.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
Symbolism in Poe's Poetry.

From the Westminster Review.
The creative power OF Poe's imagina-
tion appears in his poems in a different
way than in his tales. Did We admire in
his poetry the wild beauty OF the seem
cry for its own sake. without consider
ing its symbolic significance, We should
lose a great part of the aesthetic effect.
Landscape description was to Poe an ar
tistic device to express his personal emo
tions; the suggestive capacity OF musi-
cal words offered to him the means to
emphasize the subtle analogies between
image and feeling. between matter and
spirit. The peculiar charm OF his land
sc1pes can only be adequately felt by
those readers who perceive that the poet
did not merely intend to evoke a real
scene, but rather to give us a symbol Of
his psychological condition, of his strange
melancholy, of his sumptuous and bizarre
dreams, of his deep sorrows.
In no lyric, perhaps, more than in
'Ulalume" does he clearly show US his
conception of Nature as a symbolic rep
i -sentation of ideas and sentiments. The
star of .starte is an emblem of Love;
its meaning is manifest in "Eulalie"; in
"Ulalume," however-ar elegy and a
dirge-the symbolic star assumes cruel,
fateful look; 1t shines with a sinister
above the Titanic expresses"
its 'bediamoned crescent" casts a hrid
spell on the misty woodland, the black
taru, the dying forest; II Is here the
star Of Love and Death. The ''sinfully
scintillant planet floods the scene with
D vivid. weird splendor, with a crystal
line light instinct with a helIish power:
IT leads the poet to the forgotten grave
Of his dead Ulalume-'Ah, what demon
has tempted me hereT'
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
AMERICAN WEEK" IS
OBSERVED AT CARLSBAD
Brilliant Events Mark Time at Hotels.
Many Smart Arrivals in
Resort.
iAl Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Carlsbad. Aug. 3O-The season Is now
ending, but the American week" has
been particularly brilliant. There have
been balls and other entertainments at
the leading hotels. tangoes proving ire
sistible.
Among the latest arrivals are Mrs. w.
X. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Elkins, Mrs. Lulu
Kelly, Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine EIkins, S. B.
Elkins, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph and Ralph
Basch. Of Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs. Syl-
vanus Schoomaker, Mrs. Virginia, Van
derbilt. and l. Faust, of st Louis.
At the Savoy smart dinner parties have
provided excellent concerts. Among the
hosts are Judge Clinton Gray, Mrs. WILL
lam Post, Mrs. F. S. Gray, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Julian Mitchell.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
ELNOR GLYN AMUSED
BY MANY "FALSE PAULS"
Author of "Three Weeks" Refers
Caustically to Claimants Of
"Beinp Hero"
Special Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
London, Aug. 3o-Mrs. Elinor GIyn,
who recently denied the claim Of the
so-called Prince Paul de Clairmont that
he was the original hero Of Three
Weeks" said today she had no knowI-
edge Of him beyond what has been sent
to her in press cuttings
when any one creates q character
which attracts the public eye," she added,
numbers of cranks and imposters try
to get some benefit out Of II. 1 have
had many amusing experiences in the
last six years of queer people posing
as the Paul in my Three Weeks
The funniest of an was when was
last in America, some ridiculous little
man, who sold hops, sent long articles
to the papers announcing that he was
the hero. If it amuses these funny little
people to have these halIucinations about
themselves they are welcome to them,
but it. is rather hard on the American
public.
This particular impersonator of Paul
seems to have had a most varied career,
but one must hope it is now ended in
peace with the kind lady who
has been good enough to overlook his
misfortunes."
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
ART TREASURES FOUND
TWENTY CENTURIES OLD
Valuable Sculptures, 1000 Years Old,
Recovered from Wreck on
the Tunisian Coast.
Special Gable to The Washington Herald.


London, Aug. 30.-Sunken art treasures
Of fabulous value have just been recov-
cred from the wreck of a ship off Madhia
on the Tunisian coast.
A Tunisian squadron sent to investigate
che report of Greek sponge fishers found
a sunken vessel of about 400 tons, 100
feet long and 3 broad. She was laden
with an extraordinary cargo, consisting
of blocks of marble, bases and capitals
for columns, effigies. statues, furniture
tiles leaden piping. lamps. smphorae,
&c.
Among the fragments were found fig
ures of a demi-god and a maiden and
faun, which correspond almost exactly
with the Borghese vase dug up in Rome
and now in the Louvre. A Hermes of
Dionysos bears the signature 'sBoethos,"
the sculptor OF the celebrated Child
with q Goose of the second century
B. c.
In the bottom of the hold the treasure
seekers found about sixty columns Of
bluish-white marble thirteen feet high.
All the inscription deciphered relate to
Attica and personages of the middle
fourth century B. c.
Some writing on lead ingots also is in
the Latin OF that epoch, and experts have
concluded that the vessel was loaded in
Attica for Rome, and probably the cargo
was the soil after the taking of Athens
by Sulla in S6 B. G.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
Wrench ACTION
FORECASTS WAR
Conflict with Germany May
Take Place Within Year,
Is Belief.
M. CLEMENCEAU URGENT
Wants Three Years Military Law Put
Into Effect at 0nce-Com-
parison of Forces.

Special Cable TO The Washington Herald.
Paris, Aug. 30.-M- Clemenceau has in
creased the belief that the long expect
ed European conhagration will occur
within a year. He declares there must
be no delay in putting the three years
military law into operation.
Gen. Pau, of the Supreme Council of
War, has given an official idea of the
relative forces. The general, who lost
an arm in the war of 1870, says:
TT is obvious We have to count on
quality even with the three years mill
tary service. Germany now has 5000
men on a peace footing. The new law
will bring US up to $4,000. To those
We add our excellent troops in the colo
nies. Yet even then we shall be in a
minority.
Minority of 100000.
Turning to the reserves, Germany
has 4,S7O,0OO men against our s2,g7S,O0O
This leaves us in a minority OF 100000
men
1T is true the African soldier can
be brought to Europe to fight for
France. The Senegalians make good
soldiers. They are naturally warlike. and
bear hardships of all kinds. The French
Soudan supplies the majority of our
black soldiers.
"Our black army is slowly but surely
forming itself in Africa. There are
5000 Senegalians wearing the French
uniform. This body can be easily in
creased to 100000. Employed in Algeria
and Morocco, they have shown admir-
able qualities.
Austria Is raising its army from 402,-
900 to $4,000 men on a peace footing.
IAN outlay of s5O0,OOO,OOO has been
made by the great powers for army
increase Germany adds 100000 men,
France 10000. Russia 100000 and Aus
tria 100000 So the strength stands rela-
lively where it was, leaving US numeri-
cally inferior. but not dangerously so.
THE quality OF troops depends upon
instruction and cohesion; these we have.
With the new law there will be no more
skeleton regiments"