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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06
CLASPS WIFE
AS SHIP SINKS
Pathetic Indident in the Wreck
OF the LuckenbaCh
seventeen LIVES WERE LOST
Steamer Was Rammed In Chesapeake
Bay by British Vessel and Went
Down Like Rock.

Steamer Was Rammed In Chesapeake
Bay by British Vessel and Went
Down Like Rock.
Baltimore, Md, Jan. 6.-One OF the
most pathetic incidents of the wreck
of the steamer Julia Luckenbach was
the death of Captain H. A. Gilbert and
his wife in the pilothouse of the ship
as it went down.
When the crash came the wife rush.
ed from her room into the pilothouse
into the open arms of her husband.
There was not a moments time for
thought of escape and they died to-
gether.
This story was told by five surviv-
ors of the Luckenbach, who were
picked up by the Indrakuala. They re-
peated 1t to the officers of the reve-
nue. cutter Apacha and to party from
Crisfield, which visited the beached
ship on Diamond Marsh, in Tang1er
sound.
Again and again Mrs. Gilbert, who
insisted on travelling with her hus-
band, had told friends that if the ship
ever went down she wanted to be as
close as possible to her husband and
that she did not want any one ever
to try to rescue her if he was to be
lost.
From the reports of the men who
were saved, all Of whom owe their
lives to jumping from the deck OF the
sinking ship or seeking a refuge In
the rigging, it seems that she died as
she had said she wanted to- die. Men
who saw the incident said that there
was, however, no opportunity for any
rescue of the captain or his wife. II
there had been the chance the men OF
the Luckenbach say they would have
been at her side to give her aid.
The Luckenbach, from Port Tampa
to Baltimore, was about to anchor on
the Tangier gas buoy at the mouth OF
the Potomac, when the Indrakaula
caught her and cut her practically In
two at the line of her No. hold. She
went down like rock, and only the
men on deck had a chance for life
The Indrakaula, badly damaged and
in danger of sinking; drew off and
beached to save herself.
Eight of the survivors, were taken
from the topmost pirt Of the rigging
where for six hours they fought fol
life, while others, exhausted. dropped
one by one to death. With wind
blowing at cyclonic velocity and the
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

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FINISH-Au bright part s
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EOUlPMENT - Mohafr top
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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

EOR RENT-lO6 Choptank avenue, IL rooms
all modern conventences; excellent con.
dition; fine for boarding house, or large fam
lily. Immediate possession. L. B. Phillips,
Cam bridge, Md. I2l3-tf.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

FOR RENT-Property on Cemetery Ave.
l. f,rmerly occupied by MCCauley & Co. as
q shirt factory. Has been thoroughly reno
waited. Rent very reasonable For particu-
lars see Matthews Company, Ill High ST.,
Md.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

The men were immediatel
graphed. dressed in the penfte4e
clothes and formally enrolled as CO..
victs.
AS Frank M. Ryan, president Of the
Ironworkers' International union:
Olaf A. Tveitmoe, the Pacific coast la
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06
For Rent.

FOE RENT-Livery stables in rear of
Straughn property, formerly occupied
by Allen Tyler. Apply to w. Lake Robin.
son or Edward 8. Phillips. 5-3l-tf.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

TOR RENT-Eleven room house on Locust
street, In first class CO adition; mediate
possession. Apply to Howard Brannock
Route !, Cam bridge Md. 12-5 tt
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

FOR SALE

EOR SALE-Good cord wood, oak and pine;
T 3yokes good steers; old steer; mber
carts, large. medium; pair mules; Gor-
dy b. Smith, Cam bridge, Md. s-l7-tf
1tOR SALE-First class cord wood. Apply
L J. Fred Dunn or William L. Dean.10-3l-tf
TOR SALE-Building lots on Park Lane
L and Edgewood avenue. Easy ter ms
Small purchase payment and monthly de-
posits Will buy one. Apply to Edward =
Phillips. ~. ll-i5ti.
For Rent.
hi In n
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: sForsRent.

Tor RENT-Livery stables In rear OF
+ Straughn property, formerly occupied
hy Allen TyIea Apn1Y to w: fla ke=E Eohsn;
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-06

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IGNITION-Battery and mag.
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COOLIEG-Water coo 9 d
Thermo-syphoa cellular rad
1ator.
Splash system for
crank and cam shaft bear
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gears oiled with KtnEood
fOrcefeed oiler.
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CENTER CONTROL.
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TRANSMISSION - Seiective,
three speeds forward and re-
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New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
THE VOTE OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN
How Suffrage Would Strengthen the
Native American Power at the Polls.

To the Editor Of Tn" Tribune.
Sir. VIII you allow me a little Of your
valuable space 20 correct a wrong impress
sion concerning the woman suffrage
amendment. which passed our Legislature
last winter and which We expect to have
presented 10 the voters I'm 1915?
Mr. Everett 4. Wheeler. In a lettor
which has been sent broadcast over the
state, is trying 10 sweep back the rising
tide ~ sentiment FOR woman suffrage 10y
an appeal TO the fear OF increasing the
ignorant vote he says. A man who Is
foreign born must reside I'm this country
five years before he will be admitted 90
the franchise. His wife may have landed
Yesterday. She may be- unable even TO
read But because she is his wife she be-
comes at once n citizen" SO far Mr..
Wheeler is right. but he ought To go
further and explain that citizenship and
the franchise right are not the same
thing. and that the bill a. passed by the
Legislature provides especially that be
fore receiving the franchise right "A
woman must have been an inhabitant OF
the United States FOR five years. the same
az is required of her husband.
According TO the figures in the last
United States census report. giving the
vote TO women will not increase the pro-
portion of the foreign vote. but. on the
contrary. will actually decrease it, The
census Of 1910 gives total forcign-born men
and women ll,6539 925. while there are ~,
5iSsi5 native white females over twenty
one years. II goes on further Ia say that
III the case Of persons from Southern and
Eastern Europe. from which, recent immi-
grafton has been largely drawn. there
was a marked excess OF males. there Is
cases of foregn-born from Northern and
Western Europe. The figures vary from
BUlgarians lio1 males To loo females.
10 sweden with rs males TO 100 females
1Ne figures OF the immigration societies
show, approximately one-third females TO
two-thnus males. even In New York
State. Every one OF these males can quail
ify for the franchise right II he de
slres TO offset this vote We want TO add
the lsjCo,yJ OF native American women
Mr., Wheeler adds that he does not OBJ
ject 10 the activity in politics OF the "cdu-
ca ed women who have no superior home
duties Since the male franchise right
is not confined To the educated men who
have no superior business duties, Why
should We limit this right where women
are concerned?
GERTRUDE FOSTER BROWN
Mrs. Raymond,
President New York State Woman Suf-
frage Association.
New York. Dec. 10, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
Jules Claretie.

Journalist novelist. dramatist and director of the
Comedie FRANCHISE for nearly thirty years the late
Jules Carete perhaps most typicalIy himself
in the first of these his varied fields of activity
His novels and his plays, many of them dramatiza
tions OF his fiction. are already forgotten the
best Of his books remain those which he made up
out of his chrOniques in the French press. Although
an Immortal, he essentially man Of his own
period, like his contemporaries and fellow members
of the Academy, Meilhac and Halevy, whom he
survived so long. In his directorate of the play
house OF Moere, too. he man of his time
which of many changes that neither he
nor greater man than he, had he been forhcom
ing could have ayerted. much less stopped. II was
not lack of energy or administrative ability in him
that brought about the diminished prestige which
has undoubtedly befallen the Theatre Francais
The drift OF the modern spirit away from classical
tradition made itself felt IN France rs well as else
where. That Carete, with all the difficulties that
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
Teaching and Having Children.

Statistics show that married women teachers in
the city schools absent often, but that they
are more efficient instructors than unmarried
teachers. What Of it? Why should such statistics
he collected? 1t would be exactly as useful 10
know whether brown eyed teachers were more fire.
quently absent than blue eyed. and which class
ceeded better as discplinarians.
Rules regarding the usefulness Of teachers cam
not be laid down in that way, except by "A Board
Of Education benz upon enforcing some crotchet Of
its own. Teaching Is one of the most individual Of
gifts. The best teacher in the school may be mar
ried and the mother Of several children The worst
may be unmarried. When a teacher mother be-
comes inefficient she should be dismissed not be-
cause she is mother but because she is inefficient
II is precisely because the Board Of Education
does not recognize that teaching and learning are
matter OF individuality that the teaching and
the learning are no better than they are In the
city's schools.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
Christmas.
as abroad.

Christmas Day is Of all the days in the year tue
childrcn'S own. First of all it commentaries the
coming of a Child born TO save all other children
Then too if is for children that its delights of cele
hration are conceived and carried out the stocking
hung by the mantel; the Santa Claus legend OF I'M
personation: the tree and its trimmings. fnalN
this annual festival has not little To do with
keeping the rest Of uS-eXchildren, alas.-from
losing touch with the youth we have lost.
There is no doubt about il. the custom oi present
giving has been overdone-is overdone. The "Spugs
have caused an improvement. but their efforts are
only n drop in the bucket Ostentation masquerades
in the white whiSkerS and red cloak of Kris Kringle
self-interest rides in proud faulty behind the rein
and stupid persons beautiful institutions will be
perverted and abused. But the institution itself
remains unspoied for those who don't spoil it,
Perhaps we shall in time arrive at that wisdom
which distinguishes the French for in France
Christmas gifts are presented to the chidren-and
that is an end the matter. If one wants to make
presents to older persons. there are 36i other days
for it-includng New Years But until we are
sensible enough to manage il as the French do let
us at least enjoy this Christmas of ours. That Is
best done by sharing il, of course. Some of our
this season because not everybody can he happy.
We don't follow the logic of that argument Those
of us who have can at least help few others tow
ard Cheerfuness. No. everything can't be riGhted
in day: not even Santa Claus regenerate So
ciety between Christmas Eve and sun.up of the day
Of days. What Of it:
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
Saving the Day We Celebrate.

Two alarming rumors reached our ears yeser-
day which made us fear the worst for Christmas
One related that the sacred time-honored cornu
cOpa was practically extinct. The other declared
il TO he impossible to buy barley sugar candy in
the guse of canes elephants and in other lnspirit-
ing mOulds.
1t is pleasure TO say that both these rumors
are false Cornucopias, the only true receptacles
for candy at this season, somewhat frowned
upon by the innoyators but still exist for every well
regulated Christmas. Barley sugar WAS never more
marvellous or long enduring. There frilly sub
stiptes for frly children. But the real stuff again
hangs from every proper tree for every proper
mouth.
The movement to abolish Christmas. cornucopias. :.
barley sugar and children is again rebufed
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
The Governors Stand No Credit to Him.

Governor Gynn may be standing with his feet
on the bedrock of law" he says, in refusing to
have District Attorney Whitman named special
Deputy Attorney General to carry OH the contract
or-poitican graft hunt all the state. But why
does he make so much fuss over it? Why does he
use this natural expected and rather commonplace
position of any faithful executive to abuse the Dis
trict Attorney, who surely is no lawbreaker him
self and has no wish TO encourage lawbreakers or
TO do anything but find them and Jail them?
The Governor insists he has said his last word on
the subject 1t is TO be hoped so, for they have
been ili-natured words, an injustice to Mr.. Whit
man and no credit to Mr.. Glynn. They have not
discredited the District Attorney with the public
but they have encouraged the crooks he is hunting
10 believe that the prosecutor is discredited with
the authorities. That is business for the states
Executive.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
THE NEEDLE CASES
A Reader Pleads for Their Serious
Investigation.

I To the Editor OF Int tribune
Sir: In these so-oalled poisoned needle
cases" il is strange and d!sluieting 10 OBJ
serve how the police have contradicted the
stories. produced doctors adverse opin-
ions. silenced public rumor and diScredited
the young women involved by imputng
hysteria. Yet the police must knoW-lor
We OF the general public. who do not have
their special sources of information, know
that the French criminals have long
since passed beyond the crudity of
. ".uock-out droas" for stupefying and
seIzing their victims.
The hypoderm.c needle is quicker IN its
action. iuasmuch as It removes the ueces-
sity OF gaining the young girls confidence
and she may be captured easily I'm any
crowded place.
They have another efiicacious method.
They put the drug that they know will
serve their purpose into one OF those little
glass capsules that physicians use, con-
ccaling IT I'm a pocket handkerchief. At
the desired moment they break il AT the
mouth Of the unhappy victim. who falls
over faiutins.
These methods being known 10 the
Partisan Apaches our police and detective
, force ought To know all about 1t, as IL is
matter OF time only for them To reach
US.
Intelligent women everywhere are dis
cussing the question seriously and with
alarm. wondering at the apathy and in
credulity oC the police. the doctors and
the newspapers. They are asking what is
1. Il 4 s.1f ,itttF In
crease OF the traffic In wOmen-young
women-why this sad wastage OF woman
hood and motherhood The answer has
been given: The white slavcrs' are get
ting ready for the opening OF the Panama
Canal!'
The authentic cases known TO intelligent
and serious minded women are SO numer-
ous that they cannot be scoifed at and
laughed away as idle vaporngs. Some
thing must be done about IL. Cannot the
public conscience be 50 stirred that the
police-our paid servants and protectors
may be forced TO give the attention to the
subject that II requires?
1t is well known that subtle poisons
exist in South America which are used by
savages on their arrows and by others
for private vengeance. our physicians
naturally know little about them, practi-
cally. TO take this ignorance AS proof Of
the impossibilty OF using such pOisons is
SO Illogical as To be ridiculous and even
suspicious.
Think, rather. that certain people Of
South or Central America have this
knowledge and are putting it TO their own
base uses. Cannot The Tribune undertake
the cause OF protecting our young and in
nocent women-The Tribune with its long
record Of good works?
How do we know which OF us may be
the next to have a beloved and tender
daughter spirited away, To be returned 20
us secretly and at night, after few years
OF agony. shattered and broken-a hope
less lunatc? +. Il. II.
Dec. II, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
1t Might Have Been Worse.

At last the Poet Laureate has spoken and the
Tight Little Isle sigh with relief 1t might have
been worse, and in that the cynicS are obviously
confounded. Basng their predictions on the post
he occupies. they awaited his first effort in his
cient office with Satanic expectancy and impaired
their fears to the tremulOus public. And the pub
lie, sensitive In spite of itself TO foreign ridicue
prayed to the MUSES. that the good man might have
enough TO keep still. This in our opinion IL
asking too much of any man these days, and asking
very much too much Of poet, Among the ards
the saying is that can purchase pretty much
anything except silence. and that any attempt TO
secure that is impertinence, not TO say restraint Of
trade.
AS to the production itself. we only have room
for two lines Of it, which inform us that
The consolidated sounds ran sprnkling on earth's
floor,
As the dark vault above with stars was spangled
Ger.
This. obviously, has particular meaning. or at
least the first line hasn't, but lack of meaning has
much to be said for it. If the thing meant any
thing somebody would certainly find fault with it:
but how find fault with nonsense: One might as
well quarrel with the practice Of yodeling which
has the Endorsement OF the administration itself
"rbe London Times" dismisses this rarity with
the profound observation that nothing could be more
appropriate and with this we heartily concur.
Nothing could so we'll symbolic the depths To which
British verse has fallen In the last decade nor
indicate well the lyric taste of the British pub
lie Or Bridges it continues. may he regarded as
both conscious of and happy III the duties of his
ancient office" Well no doubt. no doubt but let
him practise il in that fashion over here and we
defy Mrs Heath or anybody else 10 boycott the egg
market.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

beset his management Of the historic pa!houSe'
nreseryed so much Of what continues in danger oi
being gradually lost, that he steered so wisely "l'h
tho stream he could not breast, is honor and fame
enough for him.
In the most prominent position i'll the world Vi
the theatre he experienced the entrance OF deihoc
racv into the field of the arts and encountered tue
first AS vet uncertain ana bewildering manliesta
tions of It's steadily growing influence 1t Is lor
this reason one hopes that he has lett memoirs
They should prove interesting reading for US ana
for future historians Of his period at home AS wen
abroad
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

of Governor Sulzer that brought about
his ultimate removal from office BY Tam
many Hall. The road grafters must be
protected. apparently. even IL Governor
has TO be sacrificed.
Would It not be wise TO look into this
matter to ind out who is protecting the
road grafters now and since Salzer's re-
moyal from Office r. f. BARDEN.
New York. Dec % 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
The Tiger and the Governor.

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Governor Glynn has thus far kept
his Tiger whskers very closely cropped.
only few stray hairs showing / was
surprised in reading in this mornings s
Tribune his expressions OF Mr.. Whit
mans insincerity Mr.. Whitman is an
honorable man and would most willingly
cooperate with all honest district attor-
neys H. ID. NJ.
New York, Dec. %, 1919
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
The Man Who Began the Graft Hunt.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | read your editorial on the CON
viction OF Bart Dunn for highway
grating with deep interest
As constant reader of The Tribune,
my recollection !s that Governor Sulzer
instituted the proceedings by an ex-
traordinary grand jury last May or June,
and have been told by those who seem
to know that 1t was this act on the part
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In an article ON THE True Liberality of switzer-
land published recently in Germany the elevation
Of Dr. Arthur Hoffman,. Of St. Gall to the PresI-
dency Of the republic is referred another proof
Of the broad mind Of the Swiss people According
10 the laws Of the little republic the Chief Execu-
tive must be selected from among the Council OF
Seven which Is elected TO serve three wears. This
year the choice fell Dr. Hofmann. who is a
jew. The incident attracts unusual attention be
less than fifty ago citizens Of that per
suasion were not allowed TO vote. Dr. HOFFMAN,
will serve In 1914 and the Vice President no viii
succeed him, is a member OF the Clerical party.
"sprggins is a forceful tslker. isn't he?"
Yes, indeed. Hear him lately"
Heard him last night. lie was at a $40 a plate
banquet condemning the high cost Of living. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
CHRISTMAS
What no my jolly pipers. greet
With song the blthesome day;
For mirth shall be welcome guest
Come, haste merry lay!
What tho the years are nying past?
What tho the grave doth yawn?
Wen speed the time with wine and lest
Til breaks the morrow's dawn
Confusion to the churlish wight
Who'd have the world be sad,
The darkness quickly follows light
This day shall see us glad, X. r.
'You say your husband likes hard work." said one
woman
Yes indeed" replied the other.
He never appears TO be doing any around the
house
NO: but You just ought to see him in a bowling
Washington star.
Richard carrie. the comedian was sitting in his
favorite corner Of he grill the Friars club
just before his engagement at the Globe Theatre
ended Mr.. earle Is very lean. and most of his com
panons were very fat. Therefore. when a page ap-
peared and announced that Mrs earle was "on the
wire the actor took glance at his company
hesitatcd a moment and said:
"'ren Mrs Carrie to cut the wire"
1--WE are never too old TO learn" quoted the Wise
Guy.
never realizes how little ne knows till his small son
gets old enough to ask questions. s."-Philadelphia
Record.
4 group of alcnists examining a woman the
other day and were than little inclined to
declare her sane. They decided let her talk some
more before reaching decision. Most people will
hang themselves If given rope enough. This woman
did II take keen interest in the most important
things Of the day and have come in contact with
important people" she said. Here is "A letter am
proud Of" The alienists looked at it, then looked at
each other. How did she come to get it? "Oh,
wrote letters of encouragement and sympathy TO
him and he answered it," she declared. The alien
lists retired and came to quick and unanimous de-
cison. she wrote letters Of sympathy to Thaw-
the sympathy of maniac for another" one of
them explained. 1T is a common and sure symptom
Of insanity
What are you rummaging over there?
Some old cook books and the like
What are YOU hunting for?'
I'm trying to find some recipe for making eggnoR
out Of graUe iuce"-Pittsburgh Post
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25
TRYING TO MAKE IT so.

From The Pittsburgh Dispatch.
\ New York church is TO have a special
barber for the choir Sunday mornings.
Well, isn't cleanliness next TO godliness?
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

In issuing his first poem the new British Poet
Laureate wisely took advantage Of the season Of
brothcry kindness.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

less valuable and venerable are likely TO be pre-
sented 90 the new Federal Reserve Board.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

The Tribune uses its best endeavors 10 insure a u"
trIstworthiness of every advertisement IT pr.s "r
90 avoid the publication Of all advertisements '0'
ing misleading statements or claims
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

How much longer is IT going to Ice possible for
20 lock their employees In their work
rooms. and permit smoking amid inhammahle goods,
and then get Of with merely nominal fines
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

The church burglars who stole both Christmas
presents and LOT Of manuscript sermons evidently
had an eye to making the punishment 1T the crime
New-York tribune., 1913-12-25

Down in Arkansas they are taking in eggs instead
Of cash at the moving picture shows. Many assets