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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
New Span@for Rock Creek May
Be Provided for in Esti-
mates at Next Session.
COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER
OTHER NEEDS OF DISTRICT
Next Fiscal Year Expected to Be
Banner One for Street and
Park Projects.

Calvert street bridge, spanning Rock
creek. may be replaced by a new struc-
ture at an early date. Consideration is
being given the need Of this improve
ment by the Commissioners, and there
is possibility that 1t may be provided
for in the estimates to be transmitted
to Congress at the next session.
When the bridge was repaired in the
summer of 1911. officials of the engineer
of bridges office expressed the opinion
that the structure not only would be
safe. but adequate for traffic conditions
for ten or fifteen years
Col. Chester Harding has been looking
into the matter since he became En-
gineer Commissioner and has about ar
rived at the conclusion that the bridge
should be replaced.
Projects Receiving Consideration.
With preliminary estimates indicatins
that there will be an increased amount OF
District revenues available for improve
ments next year. consideration already is
being given to the question of what
projects shall be included in the budget
1t is likely that the fiscal year begin.
nlng twelve months from the 1st of next
July Will be banner one for street anC
park improvements in the District OF
Columbia. municipal asphalt plan,
may again be recommended. while a new
bathing beach and other improvements
are likely to come in for consideration
w neither new projects will be provided
for in the estimates or recommended in
separate bills is a question that has not
been decided. Many improvements were
struck out of the last budget on points
o. order that new legislation was in
volved, and it is possible the Commits
sioners may endeavor to avoid a repeti-
tion of this parliamentary practice by
urging new improvements in separate
measures.
Since Col. Harding has been at the
head Of the engineer department he has
gone carefully into the needs of the mu-
nicipality. He has about made up his
mind as to what engineering improve
ments should be included in the esti-
mates and will be ready by the middle of
next month to begin preparation of the
budget in conjunction with the men
President Wilson may name to be his
associates on the board of Commission
erS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
OPERATE TO MAKE BOY GOOD.
Surgeons Relieve Brain Depression
Hoping to Change Department.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 1s.-An
operation which. the surgeons declare.
will make good boy of eiSht-year old
Claire II. Jamison was performed yes
terday I'm the West Philadelphia Home
opathic Hospital, when piece of bone
about two inches long and one inch
wide was removed from the boys skull.
The child it is stated. was a good
little bow when he first went to school
three years ago. His second year he
was not quite so good. and since then
he has been a terror to his teachers,
parents and other children.
An X-ray operation disclosed the fact
that there was a depression on his skull,
probably the result of fall or a blow,
which the surgeons say, caused the
change in the boys department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
AIRSHIP MAY CROSS ATLANTIC
Count Zeppelin Interests Berlin in
Voyage This Summer

LONDON, June 1S.-"Count Zeppelin
and his technical staff at Friedrichshafen
are convinced that the modern dirigible
airship can cross the Atlantic" says a
Berlin dispatch to the London Express,
and it is probable that a voyage from
Germany TO New York will be under
taken this summer"
Count Zeppelin is said TO have been in
communication with the German gov
ernment, which is disposed to regard his
pan favorably, and in the event of the
voyage being undertaken several Ger
man warshps would be stationed in the
Atlantic to render assistance. Count Yep
pelin believes that with good weather the
voyage could be made within three days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
FIRE KILLS ONE; HURTS SIX.
Minneapolis High School Destroyed,
With Loss of $375.OOO.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, June lS.-One
fireman was KILLED and six were seriously
injured when fire destroyed the North
High School building today.
The fire left the school, in the north
western part of the city, mere shell OF
brick and twisted iron. The loss to the
building is placed at $32j.OOO: Oh con-
tents, including equipment and supplies,
$4,000
Frank <Kanesky truckman. was killed,
and John Gray. captain, so badly hurt
that he probably will die.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
RAT PROVES HIS UNDOING.
Gold Found in Hole in Floor-Hotel
Porter Is Arrested.

LONDON, June 1s--An unexpected Sc
nuel to the recent burglary in the Berke-
~ Hotel In Ficcadilly is the arrest of the
night porter. Arthur James. charged with
beinx concerned i'll stealing from the
hotel safe cash to the value of $4,000
and attempting to murder Covers, the
other night porter.
The movements of a large gray rat in
the hotel dining room few days ago
led to James arrest. Employees of the
hotel. in hunting down the rat. found its
hole under the radiator and through il
saw CLEAN of gold. The floor was
taken up and there was found more than
half of the booty.
n Is charged that James. who was
found bound and gagged near the safe on
fhe night of the burglary, acted in con-
f.inctiou with a continental gang of
thieves and hid the loot for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
SUBMARINE OFF FOR TEST.
Trial of New Torpedo Boat Thrasher
Near Cane Cod.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1S.-The sub
marine torpedo boat Thrasher, built for
the government by the Cramp Shipbuild-
ing Company, passed out to sea today
bound for Cape Cod. The little diving
craft is being conveyed by the tug Bax-
ter and is bound for a deep-water point
on the New England coast, where her
trial tests will be held. These will take
place near Cape Cod about July 16 and
will be i'm charge of a board of experts.
The submarine is required to go down
200 feet under the surface of the water.
which is the severest test of her trial and
after that she is required to develop a
speed Of nine knots under the water and
fourteen knots on the surface.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Second Attempt to Blow Safe.
FIRES BULLET THROUGH DOOR.
Mrs. Hannah Erke Seriously Hurt.
Alleged Assassin CAPTURED.

QUINCY. ILL.,. June 1s.-Mrs. Hannah
Erke sustained serious wound in the
shoulder when an unidentified man fired
bullet through the door at her home
near Fowler. eleven miles from Quincy
yesterday
A posse was formed and the would be
assassin was found i'll "A wheat field.
Rather than be taken by the enraged
farmers armed with shotguns. rifles and
reyoIyers the man either shot himself
through the head or was killed by bull
LET from a revolver in the hands of one
of the posse
the leg.
Mrs. Erke. who is sixty years old. is in
a serious condition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Outlook Brighter for Tennessee.

sees financial outlook. seriously affected
Yesterday when efforts to float an eleven
million -hundr ed d-thousand-dollar bond
issue failed was frightened today by
hope that a quorum would be present in
the legislature tomorrow. 1t is believed
short-tefm bonds can easily be disposed
Of but there is no law providing for
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Cornelfs New Alumni Trustees.

ITHACA, y. Y, June 1S.-Cornel Uni
versitys alumni by A mail ballot an
nounced have elected Franklin Matthews
of New York and Justice Cuthbert w.
Pound of Lockport alumni trustees for
FIVE years Justice Pound received 6U-
votes and Mr.. Matthews $50. The next
highest was Representative Maurice Con-
molly of Dubuque, Iowa, 214O votes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Fakers and Crooks!

The advertising columns of The Star are
edited as carefully as the news columns Fakers
and Crooks are barred.
Every advertisement known to contain an
untrue misleading statement has been re-
jected.
Every reader is asked to be on the Vigilance
Committee and help police the columns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
COMMITTEE FAvORS PAGE.
Other Nominations Voted on Favor
ably Today

The Senate foreign relations commit
tee today voted to report favorably
upon the nominations of Thomas Nell
son Page as ambassador to Italy, Ben
jamin l.. jefferson as minister to Mica
ragua. Edward J. Hale as minister to
Costa Rica Pleasant A. Stovall as min
lister to Switzerland and William T..
Gonzales as minister to Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Effort to Connect Oil COMPANIES.

DALLAS. Tex, June 1s.-in the ninety.
nine million dollar oil penalty suit hear
ing the state today continued its effort
to connect the Standard Oil companies
with the Magnolia Petroleum Company of
TOxaA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Senate:

senate:
In session pm
Lobby investigating committee
continued reading Of letters and
telegrams from anti-free sugar
mems files.
Finance Committee democrats
continued consideration of tariff
bill schedules
Foreign relations committee
voted to favorably report nomi-
nations of Thomas Nelson Page
as ambassador to Italy and sey-
eral other diplomatic appoint
mentS.
House.:
Not in session; meets Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Seattle for Public Ownership.

SEATTLE. Wash. June 1S-The voters
Of Seattle authorized today a bond issue
Of 100000 for the development of
terminals on the east waterway under
direct public ownership and operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
TWO WEEKDAY HOLIDAYS.
Merchants Favor Closing
From Thursday Evening I'm
til Monday Morning.

In view of the fact that July falls on
Saturday and that many of the stores
close half a day. propretors of many of
their intention of closing their places of
business on the evening of July 5 and
remaining closed until Monday morning.
July Z.
proprietor of large F street store
declared today that he intended to give
his employees the two weekday holidays
at that time. regardless of whether or
not the other stores. conducting similar
business. close.
II think that the clerks Of the stores
deserve that additional half. day." he said.
'.Our store closes Saturdays during the
summer months for half day. and al
though we do considerable business Satur
day, | do not see why the clerks could
not be given the additional rev hours'
which would enable them to leave the
city Thursday night and remain away
until Monday morning.
Will Appeal for Federal Employees.
Proprietors of several of the large de-
partment stores paper companies.
iewelry, gas fixtures, etc. have signified
their intention of closing for the two
week days.
1t is the intention of several of the
leading merchants to visit the govern
ment departments and request the Sec
retaries that they take up the question
with President Wilson to issue an order
for the closing of the government de-
partments for the two days.
The government departments. like many
of the stores close for half a day Satur-
DAYS during the summer months, and it
is contended Uncle Sam can well spare a
fa hours fO his pmDOyeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Death of Thomas A. Janvier.

NEW YORK, June lS - Thomas Alli-
bone Janvier. author of many books of
fiction died i'm a hospital here today. Mr.
Janvier was born in Philadelphia sixty
three years ago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18

Michigander Virtually Picked
to Head Democratic Con-
gressionaI Committee.

Representative Frank E. Doremus Of
Michigan will be the chairman of the
democratic congressional campaign
committee. according to the lay Of the
land today The committee will meet
again Monday night to choose a chair
man and a secretary, and the opinion
in the House, say friends of Mr.. Dore-
mus. is that the matter is "sewed up"
for Doremus without doubt AS will
be recalled. Ben Johnson of Kentucky
was elected chairman little more
than two weeks ago. and resigned be-
cause he was of the opinion that his
affairs would not permit him to assume
the added duties Of managing the con-
gressional campaign two years hence
Representative Doremus has never
been an active seeker for the position
He is well liked in the House and in
the congressional committee, however
Following Representative Johnson's 8
resignation the name of Representa-
tive SABBATH Of Illinois was mentioned
as candidate Tor the chairmanship
Senator James Of Kentucky was favor
able to DOremus and SO was Senator
Hoke Smith.
Postmaster General Burleson is under
stood to be friendly to Representative
DOremus. although II is not considered
good form for ca binet officer to mingle
in matters of this kind. and his friend
ship. it is understood. never reached the
point where he injected his influence into
the situation.
Reluctantly Agrees to Accept.
Senator James sent for Representative
Doremus, and urged him to accept the
position If a sufficient number of votes
could be obtained. Representative Dore-
mus begged off, saying that he could not
afford to accept the craftsmanship: but
under the hypnotic gaze Of the senator
from Kentucky, he reluctantly assented
Since that time, X is asserted, members
of the committee have voluntarily pledged
DIR. Doremus their support in sufficient
strength to elect.
Representative Doremus comes from a
district in Michigan which has previously
returned republican majorities, although
the Doremus pluralities have been in the
neighborhood of IL 600. He comes from a
district on the Canadian border, within
a mile of Canadian competition, there
fore high tariff has been the Cry there.
Mr. Doremus, a democrat. voted for
free sugar in the face Of this demand
for high tariff and in the face of Michi-
gan sugar industries. and his position in
regard to the tariff was we'll known be-
fore he was elected to Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Town Suffers $15O,OOO Fire Loss.

HARRISBURG, Pa, June 1S-Fire at
Dillsburg, Pa. last night caused a loss
of $15O,OO0. Among the buildings de-
stroyed were the Lutheran Church and
the public school building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
EARTHQUAKE in Martinique.

FORT DE FRANCE. Martinique, June
1S-A severe earthquake shock was felt
here shortly after midnight. 1t caused
considera BILE excitement, but no damage
or loss of life has been reported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Interior of Car Wrecked.

Covered with revolvers in the hands OF
one OF the bandits the engineer. firemen
and two express messengers were forced
to stand nearby and watch the attempts
OF the other bandit to force the strong
box. The interior of the express car was
wrecked by the series of explosions. AS
soon as the train was stopped Conductor
McWilliams of Chicago ran across fields
q distance of mile, to a farmhouse
where he notified the dispatcher in this
city.
A switch engine carried police officers
there In automobiles. The first detach-
ment of police arrived while the bandits
were still attempting to blow the safe.
Detective q Leary was some distance
ahead, walking along the railroad track,
when two men sprang up from the weeds
and covered him with their revolvers.
They took O'Leary's gun and watch
and engaged in an exchange of shots
with Detective Adams, who came UP In
time to catch feeting glimpse of the
two men.
Second Attempt to Blow Safe.
The two men then boarded the engine
and ordered the engineer TO run further
down the track. They stopped near
Cotton Hill, three miles away. and
another attempt was made to force the
safe after the engineer had been told
to beat 1t" back to where the train was
first stopped
must make their escape the bandits
boarded the engine and ran it to Goth
and Laurel streets, where they left the
locomotive dead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Hold Up "Diamond Special on
Illinois Central Railroad
Early Today.
SECURE $500 IN LOOT
AND ESCAPE ON ENGINE
interrupted in Work by Police, But
Are Able to Put Through Job
Successfully.

SPRINGFIELD. Ill, June 1S.-Two
masked men who early today robbed the
express train on the Diamond Special"
the Illinois CentraIs fast train between
St Louis and Chicago. were sought in
this city After being interrupted in
their work by police, the bandits forced
the engineer to run before the bluecoats
and later tried with dynamite to force
the safe. They ran the engine into Spring
field and escaped. The safe, according
TO the local express agent. contained not
more than $500. In their attempt to get
this sum the robbers threatened the en-
gine crew with death. overpowered the
express messenger. fired promiscuoIsy
at passengers. disarmed one detective and
exchanged shots with another. No one
was hurt so far as known.
The hold-up took place ten miles from
Springfield. The danger signal brought
the train to a stop and the enginemen
We're promptly covered by revolvers.
After firing fusilade of revolver
shots along the sides of the coaches to
intimidate the passengers they ordered
the engineer to uncouple the express car
from the train and to proceed two miles
down the track. The engineer obeyed,
and five charges of dynamite. which
could be plainly heard by the passengers,
were fired in an Intellectual attempt to
get at the contents of the safe in the
express car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Would Handle Committee.

In fact | am PERSONAL, OF thc Obin-
ion that il would be well for Us to put
few good men on the campaign coinmitte"
who will give particular attention 10
sugar. | believe that more people are 10
be reached in this way than in any otter.
.You asked me particularly with refer
ence to DIR. Wiley. As You were adj
vised the doctor made us a proposition
for lectures which was accepted. w hen
he got into harness, however. he found
that he had undertaken more than he
coI,ld perform and asked 10 be relea SEQ.
We did not deem il wise to insist. as We
felt il highly desirable 10 have Dr
Wiley's friendship and co-operai on lie
bae agreed however, to deliver few
lectures BY looking carefully after the
publicity end of these lectures We believe
We can secure some good results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
Wide Publicity Sought.

Generally speaking, We expect 10 avail
ourselves of any avenue of publicity
where the results promised seem to justi-.
fy the expenditure.
Another letter, objected to by Yerkes.
was unsigned, addressed to Henry T.
Oxnard and dated at Chicago in April.
1877 1t said, in part:
Maj. Cove is showing anxiety about
either buying starting a paper. as
well as securing the columns or an In
Hnentjal eastern daily and a large lins
of patent insides.
..Nr. Ceilings Is very anSpus about
the Taft situation and hopes that there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Thursday;
mild temperature light to moder-
ate northeast and east winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-18

About every one in Washing
ton who reads at all reads The
Star.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13

who had gone TO the balcony railing
and was looking out into the dark.
ness, cried:
why. papa. snowl"
slow, laborious loops the bare bul.
warks Of the mountain. Had the girl
The information seemed to startle
every one. The men crowded from
the doorway and balcony into the
street. McVeigh set down the bags.
and. turning his weather-beaten face
to the sky, uttered a smothered ejac-
ulation Of a profane character. Can
non came forward to where his daugh-
ter stood and looked into the black
ness beyond. The girl had drawn of
her glove and held her bare hand out,
then stepping back to the light Of the
window, she showed 1t to her father.
The white skin was sprinkled with
snow crystals.
Sure enough" he said in a thought
ful voice. We'll, It won't be the first
time I've been showed up in Ante
lope."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13

admirers with a genial good humor,
he entered into conversation with
them, his manner marked by an easy
familiarity, which swept away all
shades Of embarrassment, and drew
the men around the stove, eager to
respond to his questions as to the con-
dition and prospects Of the locality.
The talk was becoming general and
animated. when the ancient man re-
turned and announced that the cold
lunch" was ready and to please step
after him into the dining-room."
This gaunt apartment, grimly un-
adorned and family illumined, an oc-
casional lantern backed by a tin re-
nector projecting a feeble light into
its echoing emptiness, was swept Of
all tntruders, and showed a barn-like
baroness Of wall and lOftiness of roof
Lines Of tables, uncovered between
fianking wooden benches, were ar
ranged down its length. Across the
end Of one Of these a white cloth was
spread and three places set. Jake
McVeigh, less innocsntly democratic
than the hotel proprietor, was about to
withdraw from the society of his dis
tinguished patron and seat himself in
| seemly loneliness at an adjacent
table, when Bill Cannon's voice arrest
ed him.
What are you going off there for,
SONNY, as IL you were a leper? Come
| over here and sit side of u.s."
Cannon, his overcoat removed, was
seen to be a powerful, thick-set man,
with a bulkiness that was more
matter Of broad build and muscular
development than fat. His coat set i'll
upon him and strained at the buttons.
1t had the effect Of having worked up
toward the shoulders, noticeable in
the clothes Of men who are deep
chested and sit bunchily. He had a
short neck which he accommodated
with turn-down collar, a gray beard,
clipped close to his cheeks and square
on the chin, and gray hair, worn rath-
er long and combed sleekly and with
out parting back from his forehead.
In age he was close to seventy, but
the alertness and intelligence of a
conquering energy and vitality were
in his glance, and showed in his move
ments, deliberate, but sure and full of
precision. He spoke little as he ate
his dinner, leaning over his plate and
responding to the remarks of his
daughter with an occasional monosyl-
liable that might have sounded curt,
had It not been accompanied with
lazy cast Of his eye upon her that was
as full Of affection as a caress.
The young lady, who had also put
off her outer wraps, still wore her hat,
which was wide-brimmed and cast
shadow over the upper part of her
face. Below it her hair showed fine,
bright blonde, giving forth silky |
CLEANS in the lamplight. To the peep
ing heads in the doorway she seemed |
a creature instinct with romantic |
charm, which was expressed in such !
delicacies of appearance as a pearl
white throat, rounded chin, and lips |
that smiled readily. These graces, ca