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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
Y. nj. C.. A. BOWLERS
DOWN b. A. c. TEAM

The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton won the third round of the bowl
ing tournament last night from the
Birmingham Athletic club without
much difficulty. They had piled up a
surplus of ia points when the last
ball was rolled down the alleys. The
Y NJ. c. A. has now won three rounds
of the 10-round tournament being
played by the neighbor clubs.
The highest average score last night
was made by Brown of the Y. NJ. G..
A. He averaged 173 for the three
games Bell of the B. A. c. came sec
ond with 159 points and won first
place for single game, making 1s6
in his first game rolled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
HUNTERS MUST HAVE
LICENSES THURSDAY

Montgomery November 25.-(Special)
Game wardens and deputy wardens have
been warned to arrest every person who
appears in the field without a hunters
license and permits on Thanksgiving Day.
Orders were sent to all counties by John
II. Wallace, Jr, state game and fish
commissioner, and the officials were in
structed to place under arrest every hunt
er who is unable to show that he has
the owners permission to hunt on pop
erty.
Wardens and deputies will be in every
section of the state Thursday. Commits
soner Wallace believes many persons will
attempt to hunt without licenses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
BIXBY RESIGNS
FRISCO POSITION

st. Louis, November 25.-The resgna-
ton of w. n Bixby from the board of di-
rectors of the st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad and the severance of connections
between B. f. Yoakum, chairman of the
board of directors of the Frisco, and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26

AT 1880 o'clock this morning the fire
department made run to Berkeley ave-
nue. and Twentieth street where a
smalf blaze was discovered on the roof
of the residence of !. A. Lewis The
fire was quickly extinguished, little, If
any, damage being done
About 4:30 o'clock this afternoon a
call was answered to Eighth avenue
and Eighteenth street, where the house
occupied by Whit Basher was on fire.
The fire was of the roof variety and
Is thought to have originated from "A
defective flue. Little damage was done
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
Building Nears Completion

Bay Minette November 25.-(Spe-
al.)-The work of plastering the now
Stapleton building at this place Is ba-
ing pushed very rapidly. The plasterers
began their work last week and have
much OF the surface covered. The
expectations are that by the first Of
the year the building will be ready for
occupancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26

board OF directors of the st. Louis Union
Trust company, became known here to-
day.
Mr.. Yoakum did not formerly resign.
but ordered Il local broker to sell his
80 shares of st. Louis Union Trust COM
pany stock. The sale automatically re-
moved him from the directorate, as a
director must own at least 10 shares of
stock Mrs. Yoakum still owns 100 shares
of the stock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
Sir Seawell Bali Dead

LUIuoIl, NOVtmUef zO-TSlr RODert
Seawell Ball. Lowndean professor of
astronomy at Cambridge university.
and for the past 21 years director Of
the Cambridge observatory, died today
at the age OF 73. Sir Robert was born
at Dublin. He was professor OF astron.
omy In the University of Dublin and
astronomer royal of ireland from 1874
to 1892. He was knighted on January
25. 1886
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26

The social which was given tonight
by the ladies of st. Aloysius' Catholic
church at the new school building or
Sixth avenue and Seventeenth street
was a success in every particular, a
large crowd being present. An inter
esting musical programme was rem
dered. After a series of games tempt
ing refreshments were served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-26
II ALAN GROCER IS SHOT
DOWN BY UNKNOWN WHITE
NAN IN PRATT Gil .--'e7N'nPE
MaEe is Escape Mans Wife Only Witness Tragedy
TV Men Had No Quarrel Six Weeks Old Baby Has
Marrow Escape When Wife Faints Across
Her Husbands Body

laf'e Falilia, a young Italian
gr ar itt City, was shot through
tn, 3ca I'd instantly killed by an
UNI ay-p ute man at 9 o'clock
las tieh the steps of his store at
the ris1 railroad crossing in Pratt
Cit, 4la uaknown man escaped.
L wong wife of the dead man
was the nli eye witness of her hus-
ban, sss nation. She is pros
trat,
Tn aeraaslu alton of Faiiiia was
want fnrrtcy, according to the Ems :
ley - ee Vhe accounts of the affair
are T.. se known white man, de-
scribe as ace 30 years, weight 14O
pound. res hf ded, wore brown suit,
blue thlrt tna light check cap, entered
FaIiIii rrreer about s,30 O'Clock.
The eflsary Falilia is a combina- =
tion a r hei operated also as 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
ONE KILLED IN WRECK.
Twenty-Four Injured Remain in
Hospital at LAFAYETTE. Ind.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, January s.-Twen-
ty-four Of the thirty or more persons in
3ured in the wreck of the Big Four pas
senger train, No. 10, near Stockwell yes
terday afternoon remained in a local
hospital today and all We're said to be
doing nicely.
Unless more bodies are found in the
wreckage 1t is believed the death toll will
remain at one. Reuben Akesson, Con-
nersyille, Ind. and Elmer Leary of this
city are said to be the most seriously in
jured.
While the railroad company has made
no statement, it is generally conceded
now that the wreck was caused by a
truck on the baggage car becoming loos-
ened. 1t will be several days before all
the debris is cleared away, but 1t was
hoped to have the wreckage sufficiently
removed before night to learn If any
other bodies lie under it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
BUREAU METHODS
BEHIND THE TIMES
Administration of Adjutant
Generals Office Target of
Scathing Criticism.
WAYS CALLED OBSOLETE,
WILDLY EXTRAVAGANT
Report of Commission on Economy
and Efficiency.
INDORSED BY THE SECRETARY
Claimed That Reforms Recon-
mended Would Effect a Saw
ing of More Than
Report of Commission on Economy
and Efficiency.
INDORsED BY THE SECRETARY
Indictment of the A. G.. O.

There has been an insistent ad-
herence tn an absolete method of
indorsing. recording. Carding and
cross-reference which has stood in
the way of improving these prac-
tiCeS.
There has been Slavish ad-
herence to a system and to prece-
dents established i'm previous years,
as q result of which there has been
built UP in this Office one of the
most elaborate and expensive
plants for doing some very simple
things that is to be found any
where in the government service.
New methods have been resisted
at every point
In all its work and methods eX-
cept that related to the personal
records of the army the adjutant
generals office is some twenty five
years behind the times.
BY adopting an up-to-date
method for handling the volumin-
Gus correspondence of the office
alone not less than a quarter of
million dollars each year could be
saved.
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PATIENT LEAPS TO DEATH.
Jumps From Fifth-Story Window
of New York Hospital.

NEW YORK. January S.-William
Shine. a nty-seven-year-old attorney
of Orlando, Fla. committed suicide just
after midnight this morning ] y jumping
from a room on the fifth floor of the New
York Hospital, where he was a patient.
He was an athlete and two attepdants
were unable to restrain him as he jump
ed from his bed and dashed toward the
window They threw themselves upon
him twice. with all their force, but he
pushed them aside. and after tearing
heavy wire netting from the window he
plunged headlong. falling to the roof OF
a one-story structure. He was killed in
stantly.
The young lawyer had been persuaded
by his brother to come from Florida last
week to be operated upon for minor
internal trouble. The operation had been
performed successfully and he was con-
valescent His father. Thomas Shine,
and his widow are at Orlando.
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BRIDGE ACROSS HUDSON.
Plans Revived for Span From New
York to Jersey Shore.

HACKENSACK, n. j.. January S.-The
much discussed project of a bridge across
the Hudson was revived at a mass meet
ing here last night under the auspices of
several organizations interested in the
scheme, when it was announced that bor-
ings were started in the river bed and
along shore yesterday to test foundation
possibilities.
Plans were submitted for span sus-
pended from 57th street. New York, to the
Jersey shore-a span of 900 feet, which
would be the longest in the world. The
sum of $JO,O0O.O0O was the mean of sew
eral estimates of the cost.
Numerous engineers. who have favored
tunnels and in the light of success with
these have described bridges as archaic -
opposed the bridge building, declaring
that two tunnels could be built in three
years at cost of $11.OOO,OOO as compared
with fifteen years estimated for the con-
struction of the bridge.
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CARRIES OUT OLD THREAT.
Young French Painter Kills Him
self in Spectacular Fashion.

PARIS, January S.-After threatening
suicide so many times that his friends
took his threats only as joke. Marcelin
Ader young painter of Bordeux. has
carried out histhreat in a highly spectac-
ular manner 1t is learned that when he
invited his friends to a banquet Monday
night he warned them that 1t would be
q suicidal affair and that his friends
would witness his self-destruction.
Believing this another of his jests. his
circle of friends spent a merry evening.
They were Mortified when after. dinner
Ader produced a revolver. When he said
he had no cartridges the diners laughed,
however and one of his friends, still
thinking that ne was joking, furnished
the ammunition. The young artist loaded
the revolver, clinked glasses with his
guests and, putting the weapon to his
forehead killed himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
SAVES HIS YOUNG MASTERS.
Scotch Collie Successfully Defends
Two Bows From Coyotes.

TRINIDAD, Col. January S.-A Scotch
collie dog saved the lives of his two mas
ters. Louis and Samuel Salverno ten and
twelve years old, respectively, who were
attacked by three coyotes on the snow
covered plains ten miles from here yes
terday. The boys were badly bitten by
the hungry animals and their clothes
were practically torn to ribons. The dog
was badly lacerated.
The children had been sent to ranch
two miles away to get provisions HAN
wav over the trail they were attacked by
the coyotes. The collie charged the
beasts, killing two of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
VERMONT TO SUPPORT BUTLER.
College President Will Get Votes
Intended for Sherman,

MONTPELIER, w.. January S.-Polit-
leaf leaders here expect that the four
electoral votes of Vermont, or half the
total number in the national republican
column, will be given to Nicholas Murray
Butler of New York for Vice President
Whether Utah. the only other repub-
lican state. will join Vermont in support
ing Mr.. Butler, or carry out a reported
plan of voting for a woman, has not
been learned. The four Vermont electors
stated today that they would not vote for
a woman for Vice President.
The electors will meet Saturday for or
ganization. and will cast their votes
Monday, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Constitution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
BOTH HOUSES YIELD POINTS
Pawnbrokers Will Fall Under Provi.
sions With Other Lenders.
LIMIT SET ON BORROWING
No Person Can Obtain More Than
$2OO-Bill Expected to Be
Passed in Near Future.

That loan shark bill will be put
on the statute books within short
time was practically assured today,
when the conferees of the two houses
of Congress appointed to adjust differ
enceS. reached an agreement The adOp-
tion of the conference report by the
Senate and House. possibly late this
afternoon or tomorrow. is all that re-
mains to be done to make the bill
law. the signing by the President being
taken for granted.
The agreement of the conferees was the
climax of a fight which has been con-
tinued at the doors of Congress for sew
eral years-a fight based on disclosures
that some persons engaged in the busi-
ness of loaning money in the District
were charging as high as 2fO per cent on
loans to those beset by poverty
Agreement was reached by the yield
ing on the part of the Senate conferees
to the House provision that pawnbrokers
should be included in its provisions. This
dispute over making pawnbrOkers sub
ject to the same regulations as to interest
charges as money lenders had threatened
to tie up the legislation and prevent the
enactment of any loan shark legislation
at ALL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
SCHOONER FUTURE WRECKED.
Boat Bound for This Port Found
Abandoned OFF Cape Hatteras.

PHILADELPHIA, January S.-The
waterlogged and abandoned schooner Fu
ture of Boston was sighted off Cape Hat
teras Sunday by a steamer which arrived
here today. The Future sailed from Port
Tampa. Fla. for Washington December
%, and undoubtedly encountered the
storm which recently swept the Atlantic
coast.
Nothing is known of the fate of the
crew OF the Future, but it is believed
here that the men were rescued by a
passing ship.
The Future sailed from Port Tampa.
December % with about 100000 feet of
hard pine lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt
of this city. The schooner is a three
masted vessel. and was formerly in the
ice trade from Maine to this port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Woman Voters Aid Democrats.

PRESCOTT, Ariz.. January SIN the
first election since the enfranchisement of
women in this state. the democratic cam
didates for municipal offices Won every
contest here yesterday except that for
chief of police. the successful candidate
for that office being a republican. W. H.
TimerhofY was elected mayor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
House,:

Convened at noon.
Considered miscellaneous legisla-
ton.
Tariff revision hearing on earth
enware and glassware schedule be-
gun by ways and means committee.
Chairman Underwood announcing
that present tariff on potteries
probably would be unchanged.
Loans and securities of national
banks formed subject Of inquiry at
hearing of money trust investi-
eating committee.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie NJ. Shaw testified before
Glass currency reform committees
hearing.
Alleged Brazilian pool of Ship
ming trust again was subject of
inarfiry before merchant marine
committee.
Military affairs committee COM
pleted army appropriation bill car
rying $9;, ,S:;0,111. and will report it
after passage of indian and post
office appropriation bills.
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CASTRO KEPT ON ISLAND.
Must Be Detained There at Least
Until Friday.

NEW YORK, January s.-Cipriano Cas-
tro. Venezuela's former president, who is
detained by the immigration authorities
at Ellis Island. must remain under deten-
ton there at least till Friday. Immigra-
ton Commissioner Williams so announced
today.
The writ of habeas corpus is return
able Friday. and Castro will then make
application for release under bond pend
ing further proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Rid for u. S. Motors Property.

NEW YORK. January S.-A bid of
81 600 for all the properties of the
United States Motors Company and its
subsidiaries was made today by the Mer-
chants National Bank at the foreclosure
sale held by the United States district
court. which took the bid under consid-
GRAFTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
INFANT KILLED BY CHINESE.
Robber Band Attacks Party of Mis-
sionaries Aboard Boat.

PEKING, January S-Chinese robbers
shot and killed today John, the infant
son of the Rev r. o. Jelliffe of the Ca
madam Methodist Mission.
A party of missionaries were returning
by boat to the town of Tzeleutsing,. when
they were attacked by the robbers be-
tween Chengtu and Chungking, in the
province of Szewchuen. One of the rob-
bers was captured, but the rest took
fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
POLICE ON GUARD.
Efforts in Albany to Cope With
Strike of Hotel Employees.

ALBANY, n. Y, January S.-Albany's
principal hotels and restaurants were
guarded by police today and the reserves
were held in readiness to cope with pos
sible trouble as a result of the strike of
walters, cooks and bus boys. The strik-
ers, who demand more pay and better
sanitary conditions, held meeting dur
ing the forenoon to discuss the situa
tion
The hotel men say they will not meet
the demands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Dock Strike Halts Shipping.

CALLAO. Peru, January S.-The ship
ping industry of this port was brought
to a complete standstill today by gen
eral strike of dock laborers and long
shoremen. Efforts are being made to set
tie the dispute by arbitration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Falling Wall Kills Eleven.

ROME, January S.-Eleven eXcavators
were killed and four others seriously in
jured today by the falling of an ancient
wall. which almost completely buried the
party beneath the ruins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
SHIP REBATES|
Lowrey Urges Prohibitory Law
at "Trust" Hearing Before
House Committee.

Further testimony about the so-called
shipping trust between the United States
and South America was given today to
the House merchant marine committee
William Lowrey. South American agent
for the Pan-American Mail. which 1t is
claimed was driven out of business by
the trust" testified how large shippers
declined to use the new line for fear Of
losing their deferred rebates from the
European lines. He suggested statute
excluding from American ports European
ships giving such rebates, remedy
for the situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Canal to Benefit British.

I'VE have built the Panama canal for
the benefit of British ship owners. un-
less this government aids an American
marine" said he. Representative Hum
phrey said he had been told that a Royal
Mail Line official has boasted that the
company intended to get a monopoly of
lines on the Atlantic and Pacific to South
America before the Panama canal was
finished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
japanese Coronation Next Year.

TOXIC. January S.-The Japanese cabi-
net decided today that the coronation of
the emperor should take place in the
course of 1914.
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Limit of Ownership.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Senate:

Convened at noon.
Resumed consideration of omnibus
claims bill.
Final argument of House man.
ayers in trial of Judge Archibald
begun before court of impeach-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Proposed Saving of S324, ,O15.

The present force of the adjutant gen.
erals office numbers 613 and the aggregate
salaries authorized to he paid are $685.
the commission. this force would be re-
6dced to ESQ employees at an annual SAL
AIRY cost of $4SO,02O. The hcanges recon-
mended would result in a decrease of 233
in the number of employees, and the de-
crease in the salary roll would be $27S.-
$50 Other recommendations having to do
with stationery printing, kilograms. ca
Diagrams, etc, bring the total estimated
annual saving up to S32i.O75.
The estimated saving I'm printing repre-
sents the net decrease, after taking into
consideration the saving to be effected by
reducing the quantity of printing and the
effec of abolishing the printing section
In The adjutant generaIs office. The saw
ings in salaries are set forth in the re-
port. For example, in the mail and rec
ord division 105 clerks are employed,
whereas. in the opinion of the commits
sion. thirty-five are adequate; in the
ployed. whereas with the adoption of up
to-date methods II is stated that ninety
SIX would be adequate: in the publication
division sixteen are employed, whereas
six are held to be a sufficient number to
transact the business efficiently.
Although the commission commends
the work of the former adjutant general
for his achievement of bringing order ou,
OF chaos in tthe personnel records of the
is so organized as to make impos sible
economic handling OF work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08

Probably the most significant feature of
the report of the Cleveland commission
on economy and efficiency submitted to
Congress today by the President is a
Scathing criticism of the business meth
DDS of the office of the adjutant general
of the army. Those methods were in
augurated and developed by Gen. AIMS
worth. former adjutant general, and
gained for the Office the reputation of "a
model office" It's wholesale condemna-
ton by the Cleveland commission has
caused considerable surprise.
The commission states that the adm
tant generals office is the larges. single
office of which a detailed study was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08
Red Tape in Handling Correspond
ence

The report says that the office force
was found TO be widely scattered and
tie personnel of the different units -
vrganization so located that the work
cannot be done to advantage. As an IL
-ustration Of defective organization. IL is
stated that the work of subdivisions is so
arranged that a constant Interchange Of
communication between these subdivi-
SONS through the medium of an elaborate
messenger service is necessary The
course taken by the average case. due
- the bad organization and obsolete
methods. SAYS the commission, necessi-
tates forty operations in the mail and
record division. besides thirty-nine opera
Tons in those divisions which have tn
take administrative action i'm the case, a
total Of seventy-nine operations in con-
n'ction with the handling of the average
.ece OF incoming correspondence from
the time ii is received in the Office until
tie reply is prepared
Years Behind the Times.
mother statement is that the Office
methods are twenty-five years behind the
I mes 1T is asserted that there has
been an insistent adherence" says the
commission, Ito an obsolete method of
Endorsing, recording carding and cross
improving these practices; that there
has been slavish adherence to a system
and To precedents established in previous
years. as q result of which there has
been built up in this office one of the
most elaborate and expensive plants for
doing some very simple things that is tc
be found anywhere in the goyernmen,
service: that new methods have heen ra
sisted at every point. and that in all its
SoTk and methods except that related to
The personnel records of the army. the
adJutant generals office is some twenty
fiFc Years behind the times: that nv
adopting an up-to-date method for hand
ling the voluminous correspondence M
the office alone. not less than a quarter
Of million dollars each year could he
saved.
1T was found. after detail inquiry into
the use of kilograms. that frequently
they sent when letters would serve
as we'll or even better: that day telegrams
are sent when night rates could be OBJ
tanned without affecting the efficiency OF
the service: that kilograms and cable
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