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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Mellen to Testify Later.

BOSTON, May 1.-When the interstate
commerce commission hearing was re-
sumed today it was announced that Presi-
dent Mellen had decided to appear as a
witness later, with the purpose Of de-
Tending his management of the New
Haven railroad. Mr.. Mellen heretofore
has refused to appear as a voluntary wit
ness, and waive immunity and the COM
mission has declined to subpoena him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Police Fire Upon Strikers.

NEW YORK, May Mounted police,
goaded by volieys Of stones thrown by
700 striking laborers on the Long Island
railroad in the Borough of Queens, today
drew their revolvers and fired. wounding
two men. one Of them seriously. Two OF
the policemen were badly hurt. The
strikers. who went out this morning for
more pay, refused to dispense and en-
gagged in stoning q number of their fellow
laborers who stuck to their jobs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Proposed Collection Bureau.

The establishment in this city of a
credit and collection bureau will be con-
sidered at a meeting of the credits and
collections section of the Retail Mer-
chants Association to be held next Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Gerson Nord-
finger Is chairman Of this section. A
large percentage Of the merchants of
Washington are interested in the pro-
tect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Cincinnati Gets Catcher King.

CHICAGO. May manager Joe Tinker
OF the Cincinnati team today signed John
King, the catcher. who will report for
duty at Cincinnati next Monday. In ex-
change for Kings release Tinker gives c.
Mcdonald, an infielder, and a cash con-
sideration to Boston. The size of the
latter was not announced, nor was the
salary King is to receive made public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
ASKS REPORT ON SLAVERY
Senate Hears That It Still Exists in
the Philippines.

\ report whether or not human
slavery exists in the Philippines was
called for today by the Senate from the
Secretary OF War
This action was taksn upon motion OF
senator Borah. who had read a letter
from Secretary Dean c. Worcester of
the Philippine government. to the presi-
dent of the Humane Society, stating that
slavery did exist right in Manila. but
thai the Philippir>- assembly had de-
ciined to pass remedial legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Postmaster q British Subject.

MADISON. N. J., May Thomas
Rawsthorne Of Green Village. near here.
served four years as a postmaster there
while he was British subject. The fact
became known when Rawsthorne got his
final citizenship papers yesterday. He
had thought he enjoyed citizenship after
the first application.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Col. Halsey Gets Promotion

Col Edwin A. Halsey. a member of the
stan OF Gov. Mann OF Virginia, nephew
OF the late Senator Daniel of Virginia
and VINO for some time has been assist
ant superintendent OF the press gallery al
the United States Senate. has been pro
moteo 10 q position on the floor OF the
Senate. where he will have charge of am.
pioyea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Things Alaska Wants.

Speaker Clark has transmitted to the
House petitions from the Alaskan assem-
bly, requesting reduction Of commercial
cable rates on the federal cables. an in
crease in fees to justices Of the peace
and $4,000 for construction OF a new
school building at Juneau, the Alaska
capital.
The petitions were forwarded by Will
liam L. Distin, secretary Of the Alaska
territorial government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
TARIFF UNFAIR TO WEST,
SENATORS TELL WILSON
Confer for Two and Half
Hours With President Prin-
cipalIy on Sugar and Wool.

Six democratic western senators We're
with President Wilson two and half
hours today trying to convince him
with both quantity and quality of argu-
ment that the tariff bill. soon to be in
Senate is unfair to the west and Pacific
coast: that it is full of inequalities and
that it should be changed so as to give
that section more consideration. The
President listened with close attention
and promised to give the views of his
callers every possible consideration. He
will, 1t is learned. see a number OF
democratic tariff experts and go over with
them the claims of the westerners be-
fore deciding whether there should be
changes in the bill.
In addition to presenting the tarln
view from the western standpoint. the
democratic statesmen gave the President
to understand that if free wool and free
sugar become law there will be a swift
change i'm the political complexion of
some senators within the next few years,
with the possibility that Mr.. Wilson will
not have a democratic Senate to aid him
in the last two years of his administra-
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Electric Lines as Revenue Farmers
4lne

From the Unic1&O hecofu Herald.
New compilations. showing the gross
and net earnings OF the electric RAILWAYS
In the United States. furnish evidence of
the steadiness OF growth in the revenues
OF that class Of properties. Records that
run back over a series OF years show that
in this matter the electrical lines-urban
and interurban-are In quite q different
category from that of the steam railroads.
Earnings Of the steam roads often fuctu-
ate sharply from year to year. Crop fail
ures, complete or partial, and the conse-
ouent reduction Of buying power In the
affected districts lessen the movement OF
freight In one season, while In the next
a reversal Of those conditions may bring
a recovery In reveaues and perhaps a SUBJ
tantial gain.
With the electric roads the situation is
different. The earnings are less affected
by countrywide conditions. They depend
for their income on the activity of cities
and the development Of local territory.
Virtually all the centers which they serve
grow more rapidly and more steadily than
the country as q whole. ana in that re-
spect the electric tines have IN advantage
over the steam lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Price Of Ice to Advance Again.

NEW YORK. May 1.-The price OF
ice. already raised from II to 80 cents
a hundred pounds to hotels and cafes
may be increased again shortly. although
the retail price to families will remain
at 40 cents, the same as last year.
Wesley M. Oler, president Of the Knick-
erbocker Ice Company, so asserted to-
day. The mild winter and resultant
shortage of 100000 tons were re-
sponsible. he said. His company sup
plies nearly half the city's ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
City Can't Fill $4,000 Position.

CHICAGO. May The city has a
$4,OO0-a-year job which nobody seems to
care for. April % the civil service COM
mission advertised an examination for
assistant city electrician. but no applica
ton has been filed up to today. The
commission is considering waving local
residence in order to get a suitable man
for the place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
MAY DAY MARKED BY
FEW DEMONSTRATIONS
London Socialists Oenounce
Capital in Hyde Park
Meeting.

LONDON, May Labor day, which
hitherto has been celebrated in a minor
key in the British Isles, was today
greeted I'm louder tones. Some 10000
men, mostly socialists. paraded the
streets. and subsequently congregated
In Hyde Park.
There they received with loud cheer
ing the fiery denunciations of the
thraldom OF capital and militarism de-
livered in half a dozen languages by
numerous orators.
Clash With Police in German City.
WILHELMSHAvEN. Germany, May
1.-The police attacked and wounded
number OF workmen participating in
q May day procession in the village OF
Rustringen this afternoon. There were
1000 men in the parade. and they dis
regarded the warnings OF the Prussian
boundary police and attempted to cross
the frontier into Prussia from Olden-
burg. The police thereupon attacked
them with drawn swords and dispersed
them.
May Day Quiet in Paris.
PARIS, May 1.-For the first time in
many years. May day appeared destined
this morning to pass or without any
disturbance Of the peace, the general
confederation of labor having decided
not to call upon its members to demon
strate in celebration of labor day"
More Than 10000 Women in Line.
NEW YORK, May 1-Parades and
mass meetings of workers and socialist
organizations today I'm various parts of
the city marked the first day of May
The celebrations began this morning with
parades on the East Side by the United
Cap Workers and the children of the
socialist Sunday school.
More than 10000 women were i'm line
all in white dresses with red sashes
A thousand or more silk mill strikers
from Paterson Joined the uptown parade
Of the socialist organizations.
5000 Parade in Paterson.
PATERSON. n. j., May 1.-Six thou
sand workers. the majority OF them
striking employees Of the silk mills, pa
raded behind six bands through the
streets Of Paterson today. Many wore
red sashes bearing the letters Il. w. w"
and a number of women We're dressed
entirely In red. Passing the silk mills the
paraders booed and shook their fists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Fraud Not Indicated.

CHICAGO, May 1.-Having been given
no evidence indicating fraud in the pur-
chase OF 100000 worth Of voting ma
chimes by this city, the April grand jury
adjourned today without making any
recommendation in the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Fifty Woman Students Here.

A party of fifty young women, students
at Irving College and Music Conservatory
Of fredericksburg, Pa, is in Washing
ton on a sightseeing tour. and will be at
the Metropolitan Hotel for several days.
The party is in charge Of E. e. Camp
bell, president of the college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Duchess Of Connaught Improves.

LONDON, May IA slight improve
ment was noticed today in the condition
of Duchess Of Connaught. wife OF the
governor general OF Canada, who was
operated on a second time for abdominal
trouble April %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Four Drown With Sinking Steamer.

CUXHAVEN, Germany. May -Four
of the crew OF the Swedish steamer
Flora were drowned when that vessel
sank today after q collision here with
the British steamer Mozart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01

Mrs. Bacon-Is your husband a fire.
man?
Mrs Egbert-No. no.
But I heard you say he was fire.
fighter"
.sOh. well. he is He fights hard every
morning against getting up and starting
the fire"-Yonkers Statesman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
KING ALFONSO LOOKS
FOR VIOLENT DEATH
A FataIist, He Is Unperturbed
at Attempted Assas-
Sinati0nS.
Special Correspondents of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF Inc star
LONDON, April 10. 1913.
With reference to the attempted as
assassination Of the King OF Spain, a well
known diplomat. recently returned from
Madrid, tells a rather curious story. He
states that when the news Of the murder
of the late King OF the Hellenes was con-
veyed to King Alfonso the latter quietly
remarked that he was not in the least
surprised, and that in all probability he
would be the next monarch to meet his
death in similar fashion. He was then
counseled to ride abroad only when at
tended by a strong escort. His reply was
thoroughly characteristic.
IF l am not to be allowed to go about
as / choose" he said, then / don't mind
how soon my end comes"
King Is a Fatalist
the King of Spain was there some little
time back recall that he then declared
that he had no expectation Of dying In
his bed. and that when the end came it
would come very suddenly King Alfonso
is a fataliSt, and makes no secret OF the
fact.
In the opinion of intelligent observers
of Spanish affairs, the attempt to kill the
King of Spain was. In its result, an ex-
collSnt tIlIlS LOT Ills SdlHOllC MAJESTY huQ
Count Romanones.
Had Lost Popularity.
King Alfonso has rather declined in pop
ularity recently with the conservative
classes, owing TO what they regard as
his undue partially for the liberal gov
eminent They have disliked especially
his consent to the new law of compul-
cory military service which recently came
into operation. But a short while ago
the we'll TODD could purchase exemption
from service In the ranks. Now that priv
ilege is at an end, and grandees of Spain,
and SO on, or their sons
come under the control of the drill SER
geant.
There has been no escaping the net of
the law. 1t is therefore deemed especially
fortunate that at this moment King Al
fonso should have had a chance of prov
ing his mettle once again, and of leaping
to the first place in the favor OF the Span
ish nation as a whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
B. F. Chase's Funeral Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Benjamin F. Chase,
who died yesterday after an illness OF
several months. will be held at his late
residence, POI D street northeast, tomor-
row afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock. Interment
will be at Glenwood cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Not q Pleasing Picture.

From the Atclisen Globe.
AS daughter grows older she doesn't
think much OF that picture for which
she pcsed in a washA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Only Discussed Tariff, They Say.

Talking two hours and half to the
President the senators who did not ap-
pear particularly radiant, disposed of
newspaper inquiries in less than two min
utes. simply saying that they discussed
the tariff from the western viewpoint.
1t is understood that especial emphasis
was laid on the belief that the consumer
will not get the benefit of free sugar that
Is expected and that the refiners will
profit more than anybody else. Attention
was called 10 the fact that the stocks of
the beet sugar companies have declined
in value since September last from 40 to
e. per cent. while the American Sugar
Refining Company has lost only IL per
cent of its stock valuations.
Frank Interchange Of Views"
Later the President issued the follow
ing statement:
1T was not a conference to arrive at
any conclusion, but merely for the pur-
pose of effecting a frank interchange Of
views as TO the possible effects of sew
erai schedules of the tariff upon the In
dustries Of the states represented by the
senators present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-01
Decision Against Monopoly.

The judgment given in Mr.. Hammer
toms favor. besides being Q great triumph
for the waterman. is big score for pub
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
Scarcity of Sailors.

Hardly ever before were sailors
known to be so scarce, it being al
most impossible at the present time
for vessels at New England ports to
secure crews, says the Kennebec
(Me.) Journal. White crews seem to
be thing of the past on board the
large sized coastwise craft, and the
colored sailors who of late have been
filling their, places seem to be drifting
into other pursuits. Many of the lat
ter secured places as firemen on board
steamers at the time of the unsuccess-
full strike of the Coastwise union last
May, and have held on to the Jobs ever
since. At any rate, very few of them
have been seen in this port of late,
and, despairing of getting a crew here,
the owners of the schooner Clarence
H. Venner and Malcolm Baxter Jr,
have engaged the Boston tug Baxter
to tow the two bessels to PHILADELPHIA
where they are under charter to load
coal. The tug will get 1926 for the
tow, and, with the uncertain weather
conditions, she is likely to earn It.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
Speed of American Trains.

Should passenger train be permit
ted to run at speed of so miles an
hour was asked of Mr.. H. W. Bel
KNAPP, chief of governments inspectors
of safety appliances.
No person in the world" Mr.. Bel
KNAPP replied, can give an answer to
such question and make it of general
application. Fifty miles on some
roads may be safer than 80 miles on
other roads-it is a matter of road
bed, weight of rails, cars, signals and
management. Very few American
trains, however, reach an average OF
81 miles an hour. The fastest of the
eXtra-fare specials between New York
and Chicago average "a miles for the
trip, but at places reach the speed OF
IS miles. But those are the most
scientifically operated trains in the
country. They are operated for speed
and for safety, and steel cars give
some assurance that the worst thing
which can be imagined won't happen
even if rail gives way or a wheel
breaks down in the middle. Steel cars,
| want to say, are great protection
to life, as was shown on the Fourth
of July, this year near East Corning,
n. Y A stan&ng train of one buffet
car, seven sleeping cars and two day
coaches, all made of wood but one of
the coaches, which was the second
car from the end of the train, was
run into by an express going at high
rate of speed. Thirty-nine passengers
were killed and Sc passengers and two
employees were injured. The wooden
coach was pounded into splinters. The
steel coach was bent at the ends, and
after telescoping the sleeper just
ahead for two-thirds of its length, was
torn from its trucks and turned over.
Only two fatalities occurred in this
car 1t was placed on new wheels,
and was sound enough to be taken to
the repair shops. The wooden coach
and sleeping car, or what remained
of them. were gathered up and de-
stroyed by fire at the side of the
| track"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
Thinks Employees Careless.

All cars are now equipped with self
couplers," relates a railroad expert,
talking of accidents to employees. Still
257 men we're killed or injured last
year while adjusting couplers with
their feet as the cars came together.
The cars would have coupled mechan-
ically; kicking was wholly unneces-
sary. 1t is these little unneces-
sary risks that habituate men to take
all kinds of chances, and some day
passenger train goes into siding and
be is ground to pieces. All railroaders,
from the Italian who repairs the road
bed to the president of the company,
should have the fact driven into their
heads and then clinched that they are
the custodians of the lives of hundreds
of human beings. That, it seems to me.
is the first principle of railroading. Fur
thermore the railroad is no place for
booze fighters, poker players, dream
ers or reckless lads who like to expert
ment with hazards. The service calls
for steady reliable and conscientious
and for intelligent men whose minds
act instantly and accurately"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
Sporting

George NJ. Cohan, the playwright, in
discussing the coming pennant races,
said: Nearly everybody l meet in
my profession here believes that the
Pittsburghs will win the National
League pennant this year. Fred
Clarke has a powerful team and a
great pitching staff"
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight
champion of the world redeemed him
self at the umpire A. G., New York,
when he p actically knocked out
George Kirkwood of ST. Louis in the
sixth round
jeff Tesreau, the big, good-natured
pitching phenom of the champion
Giants, is very shortly to take unto
himself a wife.
The Chicago Cubs, thirty-six strong,
arrived at Tampa, Fla, to begin
training for the approaching baseball
season. Archer, the great catcher;
Larry Cheeny and AL Bridwell were
among the missing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
General

A woman sued Duveen Bros. for
$4,000 due her, she said, as commits
sion on the sale of tapestries of King
Alfonso to J. P. Morgan.
The United States District Court
decided that owners of patents do not
have the right to fix the price for the
resale of their patented articles.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
approved without amendment the
House bill establishing the $780, OOO,-
600 Rockefeller Foundation
New Jersey will be governorless on
March 4, but as the population of the
state will be in Washington on that
date, the defect will be overlooked.
The Central garage of Lewistown,
Me-, was destroyed by fire which also
burned out % automobiles The loss
is $4,000.
The largest tipple of the M. B. Coal
Co at Elkbridge, in the Paint Creek
district of West Virginia, was de-
stroyed by fire, supposedly of incendi
airy origin. The loss is $4,000
The railroad managers and their
firemen agreed to arbitrate under the
provisions of the Erdman act and
documents binding each side were
signed. There will be no strike.
Petitioners for a receiver for the
Union Bag and Paper Company, a
$27,000,0O00 New Jersey corporation,
charged directors have conducted the
concern for their own gain.
The substitution of steel for whale
bone in corsets, has forced the price
of bone from So to 81 per pound in
San Francisco. The demand is so
small that no whalers are going out
this year
Governor Foss of Massachusetts,
signed bill allowing the First Church
of Christian Scientist of Boston to ac-
cept the bequest of 100000 provid-
ed in the will of Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy.
Wall street got into a great furry
over a false report that J. Pierpont
Morgan was dangerously i'll in Cairo,
There was heavy selling of stocks be.
fore the truth was learned.
Three boys were skating off Pough-
keepsie, when the ice fioated away
from the Hudson River bank The
boys were rescued by occupants of a
motorboat.
Nevada has passed into the discard
as Mecca for would-be Divorces.
The famous six-month residence law
was repealed by the Legislature and
hereafter divorce seekers will pay
rent for at least year in Reno.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
Personal

John d. Rockefeller paid $3.50, 600
for the residence of Mrs. w. Seward
Webb at No. $50 Fifth avenue, New
York, to enlarge his private family
home park on Fifty-third and Fifty
fourth streets.
Miss Louise Smith, twenty, a mani
cure in the Hotel Taft, New Haven,
Conn, announced that she is to be
married to Frank A. Hall, seventy
years old, who is reputed to be mil
lionaire.
w. H. Taft, professor of law at
Yale, will receive $4,000 salary. How
ard Jones, football coach, will re-
ceive $4,000 wages" year.
Doctor James H. Taylor and Mrs.
J. Ryland Kendrick, president and
principal for Vassar College, have re-
signed
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-28
MANY PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
Railroad Being Built in Peru has
Furnished Engineers an opportu-
nifty 10 Show Their Skill.

Another trans-Andean railroad un-
der construction III Peru presents
problems unique in the annals Of rail
way building. The road will traverse
the territory from the summit OF the
ANDES TO the navigable headwaters of
the Amazon rivera distance of $50
miles-but in that short distance
there is a sheer of about three miles
that the engineers will have to over
come. The whole length of the line
is only about 270 miles. but il is the
first hundred which present the great
est engineering difficulties, The hun
dred miles of tunnels, curves, bridges.
embankments and switchbacks from
the summit of the Andes down their
eastern slope. Here will be employed
devices in railroad building such as
have no counterpart in this country.
nor even in the most difficult passes
OF the Rockies.
Marvellous as the railroad will be
from an engineering and scenic stand
point, it will be even more notable for
its economic effect on world trade. Al
though Peru is not more than 500
miles wide from east to west, its trans
Andean products must take a journey
of 10000 miles down the Amazon and
to Europe, returning by way of Pan
anna. in order to reach the CONNER
cial cities of it's west coast. The new
road will permit the interchange of
Oriental and Occidental Peruvian
products in four days instead of six
months.
The concession for the building of
the railway is held by Americans to
whom the Peruvian government has
undertaken to give $4,000 900 in bonds
to the builders, payable in install
ments at the completion of every
twenty-five miles of the railroad. In
addition Peru will convey to the syn
dictate 100000 acres of land in the
mountain country when the road is
completed