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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
CHEVY CHASE SCHOOL TO OPEN
Children to Be Housed Temporarily
in Portable Structure.

The new Chevy Chase public school pro-
vided by the Montgomery county school
authorities in view Of the NONRESIDENT
legislation of Congress last year, will
open Monday, September %, in the new
subdivision Of Chevy Chase on Rosemary
street. ore square north OF Bradley lane
Through the generosity of Senator
Newlands and the local real estate in
terests. a fine lot was placed at the dis
posal Of the county school board, and a
group of public-spirited residents financed
a large fOur-rOOm frame structure of the
portable type, which will be heated by a
modern heating plant and have water and
sewer connections. The seven grades of
the Maryland curriculum and the first
and probably second year of the high
school course will be taught. with Mrs.
Florence Muir Barksdale as principal.
The temporary structure will evntually
become the property of the county school
board when the permanent building plan
ned for two years hence is available
The high school for the lower end of
Montgomery county, 1t is expected will
be located at or near the present school
site north of Bradley lane and between
Connecticut and Wisconsin avenues.
serving Glen Echo, Friendship Heights.
Somerset. The Hills, Drummond, Bradley
Hills. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, kensing-
ton and all the intervening country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
LOW WAGES, POOR MEALS,
CAUSE GIRL TO KILL SELF
Social Welfare Workers of Chicago
Interested in Fate of
Factory Employe.

CHICAGO, September 20.-Social well
fare workers were interested today III the
fate of Selma Peterson, a nineteen-year-
old girl employed in a clothing factory
who committed suicide after she had
lived for six months on meals which food
experts had said were sufficient to sus-
tain life. Her reason for her act was
given in a note.
Wages too low. Life not worth liv-
ing"
In a note book she had set down her
weekly expenditures, showing that meals
room rent, car fare and laundry took
1925 Of her So wages There We're en-
tries which stated that her daily diet
consisted of the following:
For breakfast coffee and rolls; for
dinner beef stew and milk and rice pud-
ding: for supper. fruit, salad, graham
crackers and milk.
Shortly before the girl died she re
gained consciousness. OF a physician
she asked:
Doctor. did you ever live for six
months on NJ cent dinners?
The menu in the girls diary was sub
mitted to an expert food values. who
asserted II contained all of the elements
necessary to support life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
LIQUOR REGULATIONS OUT
FIRST OF NEXT WEEK
Excise Board Has Few Minor Points
to Clear Up Before Final
Announcement.

Regulations adopted by the excise
board for the enforcement of the
Jones-Works liquor law may not be
made public before Monday or Tues
day Of next week. 1t was expected
that the rules would be announced to-
day. but Chairman Sheehy stated that
there are a few minor points which
still remain to be cleared up. The
board today inspects thirty-five hotels
with the object Of ascertaining what
establishments that desire to be desig-
mated as such are equipped with not
less than fifty rooms as required by
the new law.
Simultaneous with the publication of
the regulations, the board will give
out an official list of restaurants and
hotels.
1t Is expected that the board next
week will also begin consideration Of
the applications for liquor license re-
newals for the license year which be-
gins November I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
DRAFTS LOBBY REPORT
House Investigating Commit
tee Has Enormous Amount
of Data Before 1t.

The House lobby investigating COM
mittee began today TO formulate re-
port containing the ideas of the mem
beers Of the committee as to whether or
not there is an insidious lobby in Wash
Ington, working 10 influence legislation
rs slick and sinister methods. The last
II The witnesses. in all probability. has
been heard, and the committee has be-
.ore it an enormous mass of testimony
which contains many finely drawn dis
tinctions.
Former Representative Littlefeld OF
Maine and former Representative John
Y Gardiner were the last witnesses &c
>, heard. Mr.. Littlefield produced affi-
4avits from bankers in his district to
prove false the charge that the National
association Of Manufacturers had spen,
.'siss., 10 elect him in his district Money
spent turre. he said. amounted to little
more than S2o.UD, and il was used for
tie support OF the entire state and coun-
ii ticket well as for his own support
Representative Gardiner denied about
: eTything Col Mulhall had said ne did
- did not do while he was chairman oi
'#e labor committee Of the House sew
al years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
CERTIFIED MILK POPULAR.
Department of Agriculture Shows
Great Increase in Production

Certificate milk is growing in favor
according 10 the Department OF Agri-
culture. which announced today that the
Gaiis y. lduction Of l26 diaries in the
United states now is nearly 25UD gal
.'rs. "a Increase OF nearly COS per cent
ave years. The department points out
however. that this amount is only about
rHe-haif IF one per cent of the total milk
! pihS ~ the country.
The department experts lay empha sis
% zine laet that expensive apparatus is
ut 80 necessary to the production OF
certified and absolutely clean milk as is
i careII. and unremitting attention TO
sanitary details In q bulletin which the
department has just issued the proper
methods 10. turning out certified milk
are sal forth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
NEED NEW WOOD FOR LEGS.
English Willow Scarce, Say Arti
fetal Limb Manufacturers.

Makers Of wooden legs have appealed
to the forest service to find for them a
substitute for English willow. which in
the past has been used almost exclusive
ly in the manufacture OF artificial limbs.
The willow is especially adapted TO this
branch of manufacture, because of its
lightness and strength. 1t is growing
scarce, however. and substitutes for it
are being sought. Forest service officials
believe they will be able to find a substi-
tute in the Port Oxford cedar of the Pa
cisc coast, and they are now conducting
experiments with thsewood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
BOTH HITS BULLS EYES.
Government Submarine Achieves
Record Under the Sea.

NEWPORT, r. l., September 2V.-Two
center hits made with Whitehead tor
pedoes at 5000 yards. while running
twelve feet under the surface of the sea,
is the remarkable record reported by the
United States submarine Ell on its return
from target practice in GARDENERS bay.
During Wednesdays practice the Ell,
under command of Lieut.. u. Causey.
while running submerged at full speed,
discharged both of her eighteen-inch tor
pedoes at a ten-foot moving target. Both
Of the hits were bulls eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20

and Mr.. Burch went out in search OF
wagons or other carriages for tile trans
portation of the books and papers. Every
wagon and almost every cart belonging IL
the city had been previously impressed
into the service of the United States Tor
the Transportation of the baggage Of the
army, TIE few ne was able To- find We're
loaded with the private effects Of ind!-
Viduals. who We're moving without the
city. those he attempted to hire. but not
succeeding. he claimed a right to impress
them. but having no legal authority. or
military force to aid him. he, - course.
did NOT SIIcraai
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Gray Honors Union Commander.

LOUISVILLE Ky, September 2O.-An
unusual tribute was paid former Union
commander by Confederate organiza-
ton here yesterday, when the survivors
of the noted Confederate Orphan Brigade.
al their annual reunion, elected Col. An
drew Cowan of this city an honorary
member of the brigade. Col. Cowan was
In command of troops at the battle OF
GettySburg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Ban on West Virginia Strikers.

,'EtA RLESToN. ". Va, September 20.
Thomas Cairns. president OF district
No. II, United Mine Workers of Amer
iea. has issued an order that no moro
strikes are 10 be tolerated unless sane
TONED b. The proper authorities SeN-
"ral trivial walkoufS took place recently
AS troubled zone eff West Virginia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
"a dime at all newsstands.)

Ethel Keats, teacher of music. graded
schools: Miss K. +. Kaiser, seventh grade.
Abbot; Miss NJ. E. Whitzell. sixth grade,
Gales; Miss Dorothy Whitford. first grade.
Tenley: Miss F.. NJ Linkins, second grade.
Wheatley: Miss L. NJ. Martin, second
grade. Blow; Samuel Robinson, laborer.
Lovejoy; j. r. Boyd. laborer. Emery: w.
H. Robertson, janitor. Powell j. W.
Berkeley, janitor, Polk: Robert Booth,
laborer, Sumner; Miss d. NJ. Waring,
second grade Logan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
OPPOSED TO "RUSH|NC"
CHILDREN INTO SCHOOL
Bad for Child to Start His
Studies PrematureIy, Local
Officials Declare.

Mr.. and Mrs. Parent: Don't try to
get your child in the kindergarten I'M
til he is five years old. or into the first
grade until he is fully six
That was the advice given today by
DIR. William NJ. Davidson, superintend-
ent of public schools in the District.
DIR. Davidson bases the advice on long
years Of educational experience, and
points out that a contrary course must
eventually be bad for the child.
Despite the fact that a rigid rule
has been made by the school authori-
ties governing the minimum ages of
admission for children. large numbers
of parents try to have special cases
made Of their children, it is said, III
order to give them a good start" Ex-
perience has shown the local educa-
tors that the child who enters below
age falls back either mentally or
physically in practically every case.
Statistics Support Claim.
In support OF his statement. DIR. David
son called attention to the fact that the
retardation percentage in the first grade
is greater than in any of the other grades.
For instance, the number of first-grade
children in the schools last year was
$685. In the second grade the enroll
ment dropped to 6.277. The drop between
the second and the third grades, how
ever was very slight, this enrolment
being 6.124 The fourth grade showed
only slight loss also. the number being
5,90l. or loss Of only 223
OF course, the superintendent pointed
out, the enrolment each year was not
the same, but the great number OF chill
dren found in the first grade each year
is due partly to the fact that the per-
centage of children retarded here is
greater than in the higher grades.
I'VE have watched the cases Of chill
dren put into school before the proper
age many, many times" said Ernest l..
Thurston. assistant superintendent IN
charge of white schools. and another Of
fetal in favor of not trying to rush
children into school. There is not SUI
pervisor In the system but has watched
the cases of these children. A child may
enter the kindergarten or first grade and
make out very well during the first year.
but eventually the fact that he entered
below age shows.
Two Entrance Periods Each Year.
Several other. educators declared them
selves in favor of the rule that children
be of the proper age before entrance.
It also was pointed out that whereas a
child in days gone by might lose an
entire year because it's birthday fell in
the middle part of the school term, and
was therefore held over to the next
scholastic year. the child OF the present
day labors under no such disadvantage.
A child now may enter school in either
September or February. the classes now
being divided into half-year groups
rather than whole year groups. These
groups are rapidly nearing the same
proportions. although at the outset the
midyear classes were considerably small
err than the classes entering in September.
With the rigid enforcement of the age
rule, however, they will soon be approx
mately the same siZe 1t is said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
NEW WIRELESS DEVICE
TAKES PHOTOS AT NIGHT
Inventor Claims It Will Prevent Col
lisions at Sea-Navy Depart
ment Interested.

VALLEJO, Cal. September Ca local
inventor has evolved a wireless photo
graphic instrument, which works only at
night and reflects on a mirror. it is said,
a picture of everything within radius
of several miles.
He has been invited by Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels to take the machine
to Washington for inspection by experts
of the Navy Department. The. instru-
ment receives it's impressions from a
web or wires attached to a tall mast.
For this reason it is adaptable to SHIPS
making impossible. its inventor claims'
night collisions, accidents due TO logs
and running afoul of icebergs.
Valuable for Army Use.
1t would be valuable. too. 1t is claimed,
for army use, In which the movements
of an enemy at night could be easily
followed.
a test was made recently or the IN
strument here. The night was dark, but
observers say they reflected on the
machines mirror a picture OF the dis
trict for a distance OF TWO miles, saw
the shipping in the vicinity OF the mare
Island navy yard. railway trains pass
ing up and down the valley ana persons
on the streets of the city.
The inventor formerly was wireless
expert in the government employ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Ruins Sold in 1917.

The ruins were sold August T. 1917
by George G. Washington grand
nephew of the President. as trustee in
the suit of Washington against Wash
ington. to David English and w. $.
Nichols the former selling his half
to Peter Morte. who used the old end
walls and erected the two houses which
are now above the second story Of the
building.
In the twenties one of them was oc-
cupied by John G. Mcdonald. then a
clerk in the office of the secretary of
the Senate In 1880 the property was
put up for sale
Nicholas Callan bought it for $4,000.
and three years afterward sold 1t to
Lieut. Charles Willis Wilkes. after
ward admiral. for $4,000. Subsequently
Lieut.. Wilkes was sent on an exploring
expedition to the Pacific and Antarctic
regions and during this expedition he
made many valuable discoveries and
returned home after an absence of
nearly four years with many speci-
mems, some OF which are on eXnlDl-
ton at the museum.
These were first deposited in the mu-
scum in the patent office, and the plants
were cared for in the greenhouse erected
north of that building. but subsequently
found their way to the Botanical Gar
dens Lieut.. Wilkes and force of Off
GERS and clerks used one of the houses in
making up mis- reports from that eXpedl-
ton before removing his residence to
Lafayette Square.
About 1851, when the work on the ex-
tension Of the Capitol was commenced,
the street in front was cut down at a
depth of over twenty feet in order to
facilitate the hauling of the marble and
other material from the Baltimore and
Ohio depot. The stone quarried near
Texas. Baltimore county, Md. was un-
loaded at about the corner of North Cap
tot and D streets and hauled to the shops
about the Capitol grounds. The mono
iths came here rough hewed. and they
were worked up capitol Hill by a capstan
to which horsepower was attached.
Subsequent to the war. the street was
improved and beneath the building two
stories were constructed. and 1t was de-
voted then to hotel purposes, being first
known as the Hillman House. then the
Kenmore, Hotel Burton and Washington
Inn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
CLASS FIGHT IS FATAL
TO COLLEGE STUDENT
Coroner Decides Death Was
Due to Heart Disease, Caused
by the Excitement.

LAFAYETTE. Ind. September ao.-F.
w. Obenchain of South Whitley. Ind, died
during the annual tank scrap between
the freshman and sophomore classes at
Purdue University here last night. oben-
chain. a sophomore. and his classmates
wore leather collars reinforced with met
al to protect their necks. The dead stu
dent had a goiter of the neck. and dur
ing the excitement attending the fight
his neck became greatly swollen
shortly before the fight ended two
freshmen. noticing the sophomore lying
on the ground. dragged him away. When
the man made no resistance they exam
med him and discovered he was dead.
Physicians said Obenchain had been dead
fifteen minutes when found.
Tank Scraps Prohibited.
University authorities issues state
ment i'm which il was said ODenchain
death was not due TO any injury re-
ceved i'm the fight. and il was announced
that the historic tank scNip would never
be held again.
The annual freshman- sophomore fight
got the name OF tank scrap because OF
its being held near a water tank. The
freshmen were victors in the fight anu
were paradlnS their victims around the
campus and had lighted the bonhres
when news of Obenchain's death was an
nounced The sophomores We're then Ie-
leased and the fire ext!nguished.
Coroner's Statement.
County Coroner Roy :. Howard. after
viewing Obenchains body late last night.
rendered verdict In finch he said the
student died of heart failure caused by
the excitement o fthe fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Captain of Industry.

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of West Virginia has ended its
convention at BluelslA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
death Of JAMES ROSS,
VETERAN R.R. BUILDER
One of Group Whose Names
Are Linked With Construction
of Canadian Pacific.

MONTREAL. September ao-James
Ross. millionaire railroad builder died
here today of heart diseases after a two
week illness. He was sixty-five Years
old.
group of railroad builders whose names
were linked with the construction ot
Canada's transcontnental railroad, the
Canadian Pacific He was born In Scot
land, came to America I'm 1858. when he
twenty years old was identified IN
his early career with the Wisconsin Cen
trail, and on coming to Canada was an
pointed first chief engineer and after
ward general manager OF the Victoria
railroad
At the age of thirty-iive Col. Ross Was
intrusted with the difficult task Of build
ing the Canadian Pacific west of Minni
peg through the Canadian wilderness.
Two years later he had completed the
line over the Rocky mountains. Selkir.
and the Gold range. Thereafter he UNI
dertook the settlement of the uninhabt-
ed stretches along the road east OF Mon
treal.
On the completion of this task he was
given the contract for the remaining por-
ton of the line and built IT,
captain OF AuduStTy.
During the last twenty years Col. Ross
was interested primarily in traction,
power and mining operations He ac-
quired the tramway systems of Birming-
ham England, in 1886 He became large
ly interested In the coal industry of Nova
Scotia, and reorganized the Dominion
Coal Company, of which he was presi-
dent at the time of his death
In 1900 he was appointed lieutenant
colonel of the Duke OF forks Royal Can
adian Hussars. He was one of the
wealthiest men in the Dominion.
Col. Ross was identified with many
nhilanthropic institutions. and was a
member of large number of clubs.
Among these was the Royal ST. Law
renee Yacht Club, of which he was COM
modore from 1895 to 1893. lie owned the
Glencairn, winner OF the Seawanhaka-
Corinthian cup in 1896
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Ok Teams Used in Moving.

He then sent off three messengers into
the country. one of whom obtained from
Mr.. John Wilson, whose residence is sin
miles from the city the use of a cart and
four oxen: it did not arrive at the office
until after dark Monday night. when il
was immediately laden with the most i'm
portant books and papers which Were
taken. on the same night. nine miles to
a safe place in the country We continued
to remove as many of the most valuable
books and papers, having removed the
manuscript records. as We were able to do,
with one cart. until the morning Of the
day of the battle of BIadensburg, after
which We were unable to take away any
thing further
Everything belonging to the office to-
Sether with the Library of Congress. we
venture to say, might have been removed
III time. II carriages could have been pro-
cured: but il was altogether impossible
TO procure them. either for hire or by
force
The most material papers which have
been lost are the last volumes of the
manuscript records of the committee on
revolutionary claims. The clerks We're en-
gagged in bringing up these records pre-
viouS TO the alarm, and as it was not
certain that the enemy would get to the
city, and being DESTROYS to have them
completed. they We're not packed away
with the rest, but We're kept out that
they might he finished by the meeting of
Congress, but with the intention OF taking
them to a private residence. IL such re-
moNal should be found necessary.
After the defeat of our troops at Bla-
densburg Mr.. Frost removed them to the
house commonly called Gen. Washing
tons, which house being unexpectedly
consumed by fire, these records were thus
unfortunately lost
Mr. Frost was lifelong member and
secretary of the Columbia Fire Com
pany. located near the Capitol build
ing. and in 1857. when a fremen's con-
vention was held to establish the SEN
iority of the volunteer fire companies.
MI Frost, in his letter, stated that his
company was the first to be organized.
but the books, papers, etc, were de-
stroyed in the confiagration of my
dwelling in the attack upon the city
in August, 1871"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-05-30
Whitening HANDS.

For softening and whitening the
hands there Is a simple home remedy
that has the great merit Of being far
quicker In its effects and less trouble
to use than cold cream. 1t Is Just the
mixture Of cornmeal and kerosene.
Take a handful Of the meal. as one
would take soap. moisten this with
the kerosene us with water and rub
the hands as though they were being
washed. After this wash them in
warm water. The results. particularly
II one must do homework. by which
the hands are always coarsened, is
very satisfactory.
No odor Of kerosene Ia left after
rinsing. and. strange as 1t may seem.
the effect Is excellent on the tiny cuts
and bruises which come from house
work
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-05-30
HOuCciR GARMENTS.

Negligees and petticoats matching
are everywhere 10 be had in pink crepe
de chine. One perfectly plain one I'M
lined. with very scnnt elbow length
sleeves. Is finished with the border of
white eiderlOwi.
Another model Is Of pink charmeuse
draped with white chiffon and trimmed
with revers effect in shadow lace
which IL caught in with a rosette Of
the chiffon ut one side of the skirt.
This gown has satin girdle.
For those who care to dress little
out Of the ordinary there is a boudoir
gown Of greenish yellow nearly Of mus
tard tone Its material Is crepe de
chine and. Of course. stockings Of silk
and carriers Of satin. and the petticoat
Is to be had matching. Almost all the
boudoir slips are Of clear white lace.