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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
OFTEN WARS EVILS
Turks Now Prepared to Care
for the Wounded.
CLEAN UP CHOLERA CAMP
American and British Residents
Have Aided in Task-Two Women
Are First in Field.
UP CHOLERA CAMP

Foreign Correspondence Of The star
CoNST ANTINOPLE February !. 1912
Thu renewal of fighting along the
Tc;latalja lines and at Adrianople will
bring again to Consta tincplc the long
lines of wounded men, some in filters.
others walking stoically by themselves.
still others supported by hospital stew
ards or their own companions in arms.
The situation. however, for these unfor-
Inmates will have improved in some ways.
for today the Constantinople hospita Is
are better equipped TO care for the
wounded.
Two months have passed since the
fighting was discontinued TO give diplo-
macy a chance to make peace in London,
and these weeks have been utilized to
make preparations of many kinds. The
possibility of further fighting has never
been lost sight of, and chief among the
eventualities provided for has been the
care of the wounded and the sick. Many
of the wounded who We're I'm the city
hospitals when the armistice was de-
clared have recovered and been dis
charged to return again to the firing line.
The hospitals at the front have been
cleared of all cases that could be moved
to make room for new cases. and in Con-
stantinople there have been established a
number of iniirInaries for the housing of
c0n val ec
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Of the three years. IL; less than that Of
Washington in one of the three years, 10
and less than that OF Washington In
none Of the three years. %. In the case
OF few cities comparisons could not be
made on account Of deficiencies in the re-
turns.
The following cities are among those
which showed a less per capita tax levy
than Washington In one year of the
three. a greater In two: Baltimore. De-
troit and New Orleans.
The following cities are among those
which showed less per capita tax levy
than Washington In two years of the
three. greater in one: Chicago. Cincin-
natl Milwaukee. Jersey City. Portland.
Greg; Duluth. Mimi; San Antonio. Tex.
Sioux City. Iowa; Springfield, ILL.,, and
Chelsea, Mass.
The following cities are among those
which showed a less per capita tax levy
than Washington in all three years: Phil
adelph!a, Newark. Minneapolis. Louisville,
Indianapolis. st. Paul, Toledo, Ohio:
Memphis. Tenn: Omaha. Neb.: New Ha-
ven, Conn: Scranton. Pa: st. Joseph
Mo; Paterson, N. J.; Atlanta, Ga. Fall
River, Mass; Nashville. Tenn: Dayton
Y: Reading. Pa; Trenton, N. j.; Bridge
port. Conn; Wilmington. Del; Camden,
n. j.; Kansas City. Kan: Lynn, Mass. ;
Oakland. Cal; Lawrence. Mass: Savan-
NAH Ga: Norfolk. Va; Hoboken. n. j.:
Peoria. Ill; Utica. n. Y; Manchester. ~
H.; Schenectady. n. Y: Evansville. Ind. {;
Elizabeth. n. j.; Waterbury, Conn;
Wilkes Barre. Pa: Erie, Pa: Youngs-
town. Ohio: Terre Haute. Ind: Fort
Wayne. Ind: Akron, Ohio; Harrisburg.
Pa; Charleston, 5. c.; Brockton, Mass;
Covington. Ky: Saginaw. Mich: Lincoln.
Neb.: Altoona. Pa; Lancaster, Pa; Bir-
mingham, Ala Bay onne. N. j.. South
Bend. Ind; Butte, Mont; Mckeesport.
Pa: Johnstown. Pa: Dubuque, Iowa;
Augusta, Ga; Mobile, Ala: Topeka.
Kan; Springfield, Ohio: Allentown, Pa;
East st. Louis. ILL.,: Wheeling. w. Va:
Montgomery. Ala Passa.c. n. j.: Lite
Rock. Ark; Bay City, Mich; York. Pa:
Maiden. Mass; Quincy. H.: Canton.
Ohio; Superior. Wis; Davenport, Iowa;
Chester. Pa: South Omaha, Neb; New
castle. Pa: Salem, Mass: Haverhill.
LASS; Jacksonville. Fla: Joplin. Mo-;
Wichita Kan: Rockford, H.. Knoxville,
Tenn: Elmira. n. Y; Galveston, Tex
New Britain, Conn: Chattanooga, Tenn.
Kalamazoo, Mich: Woonsocket. r. L.;
Racine, Wis; Auburn. n. Y: Macon. Ora.
Joliet, ILL.,; Oshkosh, Wis. Taunton,
Mass, and La Crosse. Wis
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of Washington with that of other cities
it is to be considered that the contribu-
ton in lieu of taxes of the largest QUASI
taxpayer is, in Washington's case, omit
ted from the calculation. 1t is as if the
property of Andrew Carnegie and the
steel trust and other great plant-Owning
corporations We're omitted from the tax
levy of Pittsburgh. III Uncle Sam was
treated in the calculation as a simple tax
payer his tax contribution added to the
levy and his own name added to the pop
ulation. Washineton's per capita would be
doubled. amounting to S26.G6, greater
per capita than that of any other city
over 100000 in population except Boston
There is no way of handling the ques-
ton which makes it fair to omit from the
Washington calculation of per capita con-
tribution all consideration of the largest
property owner and quasi taxpayer in the
equation.
Eliminate the governments exempted
property from consideration and what is
there of property and resources in the re-
naming fraction of Washington to cause
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OFF FOR BERMUDA.
Manager Chance Goes to Tropical
Training Ground Today.

NEW YORK. February l5.-The first
move in preparation for the American
League pennant race was made today by
the New York club with the departure of
:ts new manager. Frank Chance. for
Bermuda accompanied by Arthur Irwin.
the business manager To prepare for the
training of the New Yorks there. Chance
also took along the new chef who VIII
begin at once to study the possibilities Of
proper nourishment for the team. The
party will arrive i'm Bermuda early Mon
day morning and the rest of the men will
follow in two squads. one d week from
today and the other March |. The en-
tire party will arrive home April 3. pre-
pared for the first appearance Of Chance
IN a New York uniform in an exhibition
game with Brooklyn at Bbbets Field
April >.
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legaliZed enemy of morals. for price.
regulated by the excise board. according
to law for criminal production. Incl
dentally. Man was not born criminal.
He became criminal specially. as We have
made him So by creating AN occupation
for those who live by their wits, and
stand behind a legalized bar and retail
"a legaiiZed hell to their ncighhorS and
their neighbors' children on the silly ny
pothesis that drunkenness Is a respecta =
Die necessity. established by custom and
protected by law. Shall ii be said that
the church and the school mus; take sec
ond place. and the saloon stand ar
bitter in its dcmOraliZing haTVests. in
selling. selling. don't stop selling" Shall
the work of the church and the schoel
be swallowed mp in the monstrcsities ~
the legalized bar? Can I..,:L! children pa -
::s.'S saloons to and from their schoo. :
every day i'm the school Year without
some contamina ton?
y NJ. BROWN.
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Public Sentiment the Motive Power

To the Editor of The Star:
That public sentiment measures the
pace of the people in the work of reform
was .attested at the overflow meeting at
the Wesley Methodist Church, on the oc-
casion of the discussion of the Jones'
Works bill, now before Congress. The
welfare of the people, illustrated in the
purity of the home circle, and the guilt
less lives of It's boys and girls goes with
out saying on the highest plane of life.
The time has been when vicious laws
were hard to be amended or repealed; but
the spirit of the church of Christ de-
mands the repeal of the conflicting con-
ditions which supply the gallows, the
ja:ls and the penitentiaries of the land
with criminals for the daily sacrifice.
Washington, with all its churches and
thousands of communicates and hangers
on, ranks as Christian city, even with
it's fostering corruption represented by
the saloon and it's associations, side by
side with its churches and schools. WASH
ington holds in its greedy grasp the
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C0LUMBIA'S BIG MEET.
Athletes From Sixteen Colleges to
Compete in Gotham Tonight.

NEW YORK, February 15.-PGomirent
athletes from sixteen different co1e2es
and many well i.nown non-colleSiate
amateurs will compete tonight in the
annual athletic carnival of Columbia nj
versity, with the prospect that some new
indoor records may be set. Thirteen
events will be contested in the list Regi-
ment Armory. with the mile run for the
Baxter cup as a efature. Abel kiviat OF
the Irish American Athletic Club, Nor
man Tabor OF Brown University and
Oscar Hediund OF the Boston y a will
be competitors in this event. Cornell
has been made a favorite for the two
mile relay championship 1t holds the
trophy now and with John Paul Jones as
the anchor man of the team il will give
the Dartmouth. Harvard and Pennsyl-
vania teams which are also entered, q
hard race.
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British amba ssador; Hoffman Philip.
secretary Of the American embassy; c.
F. Gates president of Robert College;
Mary Mills Patrick. president of the
American College for Girls, and Maj.
Clyde $. Ford. L. S. A., are interesting
themselves in the cases Of Miss Alt and
Miss Schneider two old ladies, residents
of San StefanO. who not only did such
valorouS duty at the cholera camp be-
fore help came from the outside, but who
until the former became i'll of the dis
ease and the latter was compelled to
stop on account of absolute exhaustion
Left to Their Misery.
party of Americans the latter part Of
November came to San Stefano in an
automobile. They found the gay little
seaside resort sadly transformed. The
population had mostly fled to the city.
and the streets, the open squares. the
dooryards and the now famous Greek
school We're filed with terrible cholera
stricken figures. the dead lying unburied
as they fell by hundreds. the dying
moaning for help, those able still to
move about vainly trying to draw water
from the wells to assuage their burning
thirst.
San Stefano had become cholera camp
and there the stricken men from the
army. fighting desperately at Tchatalja,
were sent by trainloads. But in the strain
and stress of the days of battle when all
eyes were turned toward the front and
the terrible danger from cholera had not
yet been realized the camp was still I'M
organized, and no help was ready for the
miserable suffering hundreds left by the
wayside
Devotion of Two Women.
Only two women, Miss Alt and her
friend. Miss Schneider. residents Of San
Stefano had stuck to their posts and de-
voting all Of their small savings to the
task were making soup and feeding and
caring as best they could for the soldiers
stricken down with this terrible disease.
These women. both nearly seventy, had
been working there alone, quietly. care
less of self, for several days when the
little party in the automobile discovered
them at their wonderful labor: and for
MANY weeks more even after sort of
field cholera hospital was started at
the Greek school and others We're there
to bear the burden. they continued their
noble work, stunning recognition wish
ing no thanks, working for suffering hu-
mainly in its most repellant form.
Miss Alt Is now recovering from an at
tack of cholera both ladies are much
broken in health by their terrible days
az San Stefano cholera camp. and both
are in very Strengthened circumstances
Their friends in this city are endeavoring
to make them some recompense for their
self-sacrifice. and Mrs. Rockhill has en-
listed friends in America to aid in the
recognition of these heroic women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
PACKEY DENIES MATCH.
Chicagoan Says He Is Scheduled to
Meet WEIGH.

CHICAGO. February 1.-the Packey
McFarland-Jack Britton boxing bout
which has been hanging fire for some
time, was declared off finally by McFar-
land here yesterday. Mcfarland gave as
his reason a ten-thousand-dollar offer to
fight Freddie WEIGH before the National
Sporting Club in London. which, he said
he expected to accept.
Mcfarland also said he had received an
offer to box Willie Richie on the Pacific
coast July 4. The weight was named al
1873 pounds. which, Packey said, meant
that the bout would not be held.
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Cholera Camp Horrors Past.

camp at San Stefano are now happily a
thing of the past The noble and self
sacrificing work done here by devoted
women and men for the suffering Turk
ish soldiers brought not only alienation
at the time when the situation in the
camp was at its worst, but If has re-
suited In the establishment of better
sanitary and general conditions al the
camp. so that if the dread visitor cholera
again makes it's appearance among the
Turkish soldiers at the front a place of
refuge will be open for the stricken.
The American and British residents of
Constantinople, including Mrs. W. w.
Roclehill the wife of the American am
bassador: Lady Lowther, wife of the
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IF Others Were So Treated.

How ridiculously low would be the as
sessed valuation of any of these com
mercial and manufacturing cities if it's
hist of taxable property We're similarly
treated and there were stricken there
from its principal factories and business
establishments. How quickly would the
people of any of these cities perceive
and complain that their assessment valu-
alton was excessive if after such elm
nations their city's tax valuation was
greater than that of some equally popu-
lous neighbor whose tax list had not
been thus curtaied. Washington's popu-
lation is' less than that OF any of the
cities above enumerated. Its assessed
fraction lacks the indicated important
factors of business city's valuation.
which cut so large figure in the assess
ment of these other cities. yet the valua-
ton of the assessed fraction of Wash
ington was in 1907 on the basis OF the
actual valuations 14f per cent of that
of Cleveland. 154 per cent of that of
Milwaukee. Ia per cent of that of New
Orleans. 100 per cent of that Of Detroit
and 100 per cent OF that of Cincinnati
Gin whose figures real and personal prop
erty valuations are combined) or. put
ting all valuations the 100 per cent
basis. Washington's valuation was 15I
per cent of that of Detroit. 100 per cent
OF that of New Orleans, 1oI per cent Of
that of Milwaukee 100 per cent of that
of Cincinnati. l12 per cent of that of
Baltimore more than twice as much as
that OF Louisville. st. Paul or 1ndianap-
oils, more than that of Mime polls and
st. Paul combined. and 100 per cent OF
that OF prosperous and busy Cleveland.
OF course, the assessment is only one
factor in the tax burden and is TO be con-
sidered in connection with the rate.
But the discussion of this phase of the
question of assessments is, helpful in de-
Gliding what Is fair per capita tax levy
on n population with the small resources
of the Washington local residents and
taxpayers, with all the great manufac
turing plants and industries cut out of
calculation. since they belong to the gov
eminent. and with population one-third
colored and including an unusual per-
centage OF transients. both of which ele-
ments of population reduce the per capita
tax levy without materially increasing
the tax revenues.
In comparing the per capita tax levy
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it or to enable it to bear high per capita
of tax burden? What has II of business
property values to make it compare ia
vorably with much smaller American
cities? Its mills, its factories, its great
plants $50 far they exist are in the
governments exempted fraction of the
city and do not count in the local assess
ment and tax levy. Then there is the
third of the population colored and an ex-
traordinarily large percentage of tran
sients and nOn-taxpayers How much per
capita of tax levy could Buffalo or Cleve-
land or Cincinnati or Detroit afford to
pay if it's largest taxpayers. the owners
of it's mills, the manufacturing plants.
etc, were omitted from the calculation
and third of it's population was colored?
Not one OF these cities has so large a
percentage of floating non-taxpaying pop
ulation as the capital. with it's one third
negro population and it's thousands of
temporary visitors and the government
employees, and this mountaineering popu-
lation reduces the. nominal per capita tax
levy without reducing it in fact by cash
mcTated has few money-mak!ng re-
sources in manufactures, trade and com
merce. In proportion TO It's population, to
meet this drain of taxation.
Clearly Washington tax levy not only
averages mp I'm actual figures with those
of other American cities. but tor the
reason stated 1t must be doubled i'm order
to make fair compar ison with other
cities: and even without this doubling it's
tax burden is owing to it's peculiar con-
ditiOnS, harder to be borne than that OF
any other municipality with approximate
ly the same census figures of tax levy.
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Showing of the Table.

OF the f57 cities. excluding Washington.
which exceed 10000 In population. the
number whose tax levies Were less than
that q Washington in all three years is
1O9; less. than that of Washington in two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
Special Consideration

The figures of Washington's population,
real estate assessment, total property as
sessment, per capita assessment valua-
ton. per capita tax levy. total debt and
per capita debt in 1892 1905. 1906 and 1907
are given in the following comparative
table:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15

Elias Burner. 1K; years old. is dead al
his home in the mountains near Wood
stock Shenandoah county, Va. from
paralysis.
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There has been reasonable growth in
Washington's assessed valuations and in
per capita tax valuations and in per
capita tax levy in the three years from
1905 to 1907, inclusive The figures also
show by the census methods of compute
ton n steady reduction of the total and
per capita debt
Washington's increase in assessed valu-
alton is the more notable in that there
has been a constant decrease in its as
sessed and taxed area. While other Amer
lean cities are steadily enlarging their
boundaries and by direct annexation in
creasing from year to year by millions
their assessed valuation. in the case of
the District of Columbia there Is steady
reduction in the absolute amount of tax
able real estate from year to year, cor
responding to the concentrations made
by the national government I'm the fed
eral district and the nations city for pub
lie purposes For instance. in creating
Rock Creek Park and the Geological Park
the government took nearly 1880 acres of
land from the Districts tax list and put
them I'm the exempted column. similar
effect was produced. for further example.
when valuable blocks of land were con-
demned as the sites for the Congressional
Library building and the so-called city
post office. So in the recent condemna-
ton Of land south of Pennsylvania ave
nue. resulting in the withdrawal of five
city squares from the Districts tax reve-
nue-producng property. i'm which case the
District taxpayers were required to pay
one-half the cost of proceedings which
decreased by several million dollars the
assessed real estate which bears the bulk
of Washington's tax burden. Clearly
where an increasing aggregate valuation
is placed upon a decreasing property list
the burden of assessment upon that prop
erty grows heavier and heavier with alb
normal rapidity.
The increase in Washingtons assessed
valuation is also notable, because 1t lacks
the great factors of increase in manufac-
turing plants and commercial industries
assessment in the ordinary American city.
The great plants and industries Of Wash
ington are governmental and while they
have expanded normally they exempt
from taxation, and this growth does not
figure in the tax assessment
Therefore in comparing the growth of
assessment valuations in Washington with
turing cities like Cleveland. Baltimore
Cincinnati. Milwaukee. New Orleans and
Detroit. for instance, it must never be
| forgotten that Washington largely lacks
| the millions of taxable property which
are found in the American business city
| In the twenty-scory skyscrapers. in the
solid blocks of business establishments,
and in the warehouses and factories.
| WaShingtonS greatest and almost only
| conspicuous and notable factories are
the government workshops, such as the
| bureau of engraving and printing and
the government printing Office. Wash
! ingtons greatest business establishments
are the government departments, with
their thousands of employees. These fac
tories and these business establishments
cut no figure in Washingtons assessed
valuation. for they within the
| empted fraction of the capital, which
belongs to the nation.
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Columbia identical In
i
those 70 Washing the original city in that
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constituents and as local legislature
should decide questions affecting these
constituents solely from the selfish view
point Of other constituents in the home
districts in the states.
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