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BACK FROM SURVEY TRIP.
Army Steamer Castle Returns From
the Rappahannock River.

The United States army steamer Castle,
tender to the United States engineers
office at this. city, returned yesterday
from a trip of about ten days, and is
lying at the army wharf on Potomac
Park abreast the foot of 14th street
southwest The Castle while away from
the city visited the Rappahannock river
and made surveys of that waterway in
order to obtain data for the engineers
office as to improvements needed in that
waterway to keep it open to navigation.
She is also said to have visited other
points in the Washington engineering
district, SO that the officials aboard her
could look over the improvements in
progress in them.
The Castle. it is stated. will remain in
port here for few days, and will then
go to West Point and the tributaries of
the York river to inspect work being
done there.
The government snag boat York is
working in the tributaries OF York river
removing snags and other distractions
from the channels of those streams.
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Discrepancies Discovered.

I'm certain instances forest service
officials declared 1.-The discrepancies of
the old surveys made generally with
compass and surface measurements,
are much more than this amount. Such
an instance is that of a tract in north
eastern Tennessee, which was supposed
by the owners to contain $50 acres. The
survey by the forest service, made with
transit and horizontal measurements,
credits the land with 1,4s2 acres.
Ancient methods of measurements We're
so inadequate that the government sur
veyors found frequent underestimate OF
from to per cent
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BALKAN WAR INQUIRY
UNDER CARNEGIE FUND
Representatives of Powers to
Sift Mass of Conflict
ing Testimony.

PARIS, August 2o-On the initiative
Of the division of intercourse and educa-
ton Of the Carnegie endowment fund for
international peace. committee repre-
senting the United States. Great Britain,
France, Russia, Germany and Austria
has been appointed to make an impartial
inquiry into the alleged massacres in the
balkans during the recent war and the
economic consequences arising from the
war The inquiry will not be affected
by any political considerations
The work of the committee will have
as its basis evidence published by the
various governments and by official news
agencies and the testimony of American
and European travellers who have visited
the scene of events
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Named to Make Inquiry.

At a meeting held here yesterday at
the Carnegie bureau, presided over by
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, the
following persons We're delegated to pro-
coed today TO the various Balkan states
to prosecute the inquiry: DIR. H. n.
Braisford. who has written extensive
reviews on Balkan and Macedonian
questions, representing Great Britain;
Prof. Samuel Train button of Columbia
University. representing the United
States; Justin Godart, member OF the
chamber of deputies. representing
France: Prof. Paul y. M!lukoff. leader
of the constitutional democrats in the
Russian duma, representing Russia
Prof. PazspoWski of Berlin University,
representing Germany, and Prof Red
Itch, a member of parliament, repre-
Senting Austria.
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field Of action. Mrs. Hodges aided in
serving to the workers fried chicken
which had been prepared by Mrs. Major
Women Aid the Movement.

Women took an important part in the
campaign. The 5000 members of the
Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs
throughout the state aided the move
ment in every way possible. and thou
sands of farmers wives and other women
prepared and served meals.
Local members of the Daughters of the
American Revolution took advantage of
the occasion to outline the route of the
old Santa Fe trail through Kansas City.
Trolley poles were marked with red,
white and blue stripes to show the
route
In Jasper county protest of the
farmers caused the county court to re-
scind an order providing that prisoners in
the jails participate in the road work.
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VARIANCE IN THE LINES
OF PEAKS AND VALLEYS
Excess of Land Over Old Surveys in
Appalachian and White
Mountain Regions.

More land is tucked away in the peaks
and valleys of the southern Appalachian
and White mountain regions than hth-
erto has been suspected, the forest serv-
ice announced today. basing its declara-
tions on reports from its surveying par
ties in the field. The surveys are being
made with a view to the purchase of the
lands by the government for forest reser-
walton purposes. The acreage on the
whole exceeds by ! per cent the esti-
mate placed on the tracts for sale.
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MAY RETIRE FROM SENATE.
Stephenson of Wisconsin Is Silent
as to His Intentions.

ASHLAND, Wis, August 20.-lsaac
Stephenson will not be a candidate for
the United States Senate to succeed
himself, according to dispatches re-
ceived here from Madison, Wis Senator
Stephenson. it is reported. declared his
intention to retire to private life.
MARINETTE Wis August 20-United
States Senator Isaac Stephenson will
neither affirm nor deny the story from
Ashland that he will not be a candidate
to succeed himself Mr.. Stephenson mas
been asked to make definite statement
many times recently with regard TO his
political intentions.
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Earnings of the Railroads.

The interstate commerce commission
has made public the statistics on the
operation Of railroads of the country for
the year ending June 80 last The total
revenue for the year was given as S.
Cos. 1S2, $50 and the total operating eN-
penses 1880. $40. 35S The net operating
revenue was $685.. 562. 601, as compared
with $761. O48. 255 the year previous. The
net revenue per mile for the year
~ ftl a 81 lnf
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Report in Many Languages.

1t will endeavor to verify this mass
of testimony and compare it with evil
dence the committee adduces, and after
a careful sitting the result Of the COM
mittees findings will be published in a
general report, which Will be translated
into many languages and widely dis
seminated
The committee believes the work will
meet q widely expressed desire by the
people in drawing out the moral of the
drama. which was played for nearly a
year before the whole world, and that it
also will point out consequences that are
feared. The work viii not be eXclus. vely
retrospective, but VIII call attention to
fresh dangers that are liable to arise
and ella m further victims in both the
Balkans and As.atic Turkey Finally, the
committee hopes to draw from an excess
OF evil a great lesson in favor of set
tied order and the friendly or judicial
solution of international conflicts.
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Detective Berman Returns to City.

Detective Jacob herman of police
headquarters and Mrs. Berman have
returned from trip abroad. They have
been away nearly three months.
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Senate Confirms Nomination.

The Senate has confirmed the nominal
ton of Preston West Of Oklahoma rs
assistant attorney genera. assigned to
the Interio. Department..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20

Baltimore, Md. died Tuesday at the home
of his brother-in-law, r. W. Herbert, in
Greensburg. Pa.
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ARMY $4,000 STRONG
OUT AS ROAD BUILDER
Citizens Heed Governors Re-
quest to "PuII Missouri
Out of Mud"

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. August 2o-t4n-
Unused by the new spirit of road building
In Missouri thousands of volunteers
marched forth from every county In
western Missouri this morning to become
a part Of Gov. Majors army of 3oo,Ooo,
which, in response to his proclamation'
began a two-day campaign that was ex-
pected to add one million dollars in bet
terments to the pubic highways or the
state. This, the first statewide move
ment in favor of better roads. was eX-
pected to be not only an epoch IN the
development of Missouri, but an exam
pie that would be followed by other
states, and thus lead to general I'M
provement of highways all over the
United States.
This movement will unite the farm
and the market" said the road over
seers, as a message of encouragement to
the workers.
1T will bring the city and the country
districts closer together, was the fepiy
of the volunteer iabOrerS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20

Mrs. Theresa FURY, aged eighty-seven
years widow of Henry Jury, died Mon
day at Cumberland, Md.
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Rivalry Among Counties

A spirit of rivalry among the counties.
each of which wanted to make the best
record during the two days promised
much for the general result.
No army ever was better prepared for
campaign than that which marched
forth to pull Missouri out OF the mud.
Eight thousand road overseers In the
state for weeks have been assembling
equipment and laying out the work to
be done so Systematically that every
squad of men was put to work without
delay or confusion.
Every city, town and hamlet was rep
resented in the movement, and In the
farming districts nearly every able-bodied
man enlisted.
Gov. and Mrs. Hodges Of Kansas came
to Missouri to give their active support
to the work They were the guests OF
Gov. and Mrs. Major Tho two govern
ors donned tehir overalls. and, setting
out from Jeffers6p City early this morn
ms \ -, .,..,on- the iirSl to get on tlc
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GUARD AGAINST PAN|CS
Campaign for the Protection
of Theatergoers in
New York.

NEW YORK, August Gas the first
step in the campaign of protection against
panics in theaters. which will later in
clude compulsory fire drills. Fire Commits
sioner johnson has ordered the following
warning conspicuously displayed upon all
theater programs:
Fire Notebook around now and
choose the nearest exit. In case OF
fire walk out don't run, OF that exit.
Don't try to beat your neighbor to the
street.
In addition to the largest theaters. there
are more tran 500 moving picture show
places in New York where this warning
will be given, and where fire drills will
be required of all employees of the theater,
including members OF the orchestra, at
least once a week.
Duties Of Ushers.
Separate duties Will be assigned TO each
OF the ushers and other employees a num-
Der being stationed at certain posts
ready to urge the spectators to make use
Of the exits nearest at hand instead OF
boiling, as is usual in panics for the
doors through which they entered
Another plan under consideration is that
OF giving to each seat beside the seat
number. another number. indicating the
emergency exit through which tie holder
of that seat should make his way i'm case
Of fire. Fire drills in which the audience
would be taught To make use of the
emergency exits may be q future devel-
opment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20

Show Us the Roof
We Can't Make Right.
After - years experience VT can
follow leah the magnet follows
the polr. Let call and estimate.
wash Loan
Grafton s. Son, Inc. T s m5sS + E 9ss
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AoI WILL, APPRECIATE OH ENAMEL.
rriutip- and ,Inl.e~itlg. Ths newest thing in
prir ting CARPENTER PRINTING co, Inc,
l;I. New York ave.
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6ETAII, STORE. MOST DESIRABLE ON ST.
available oct. L. Interested parties address
Roy ,.lt, Office
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

kHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the East Washington Heights Trac-
ton Railroad Co. for the election of directors
and such other business may properly come
before the meeting will be held Wednes-
day. August ~. 1915. at The Office of the com
PAW in the Central National Bank building.
eth - and ia. Washington. u. {.
Polls oges frrm 1 Ia > Pm
j. HENRY BROWN. Secretary.
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SAVE FREIGHT ON SHIPMENTS TO WEST
ern points on our consolidated carloads. Sc
tTRiTY STORAGE CO.. 40 10Th st. Ware
hnr.nr.1c,l- forwarding Agents
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NOTIFY rs To CALL AND GO AHEAD WITH
the necessary rcrairiua: on house The ''cne
cost estimate i Il grrat convenience. HERR
NAN REPAIR 60. fi"l Vermont ave-
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MORTGAGES RECORDED.

NEWARK.
Miles W. Baney ct al to Fidelity
Trust Company. south side Bridge
street, 156 feet east from Atlantic street,
$4,000
Gandolfo Banana to Frank Calabrese.
west side Telford street. SO feet north
from fremont avenue, SO.
James Lee to. Fred Kelgus. west side
Jelliff avenue s25 feet north from Van
derpool street, 1921.
Markus Dussler. ST.. to Marcus Duss-
Ter, jr., north side Chestnut street,
southeast corner Henry Jones's land. $500
Max Mendl to Ralph Ross. north side
Park avenue. 100 feet west from Mt.
Prospect avenue, $2,100.
Sophie T. Rochelle to West End Build
ing and Loan Association. south side La
fayette street. S. feet west from Con-
gress street, $500.
Arthur B. Ward to German Savings
Bank, south side Wilbur street, 500 feet
west from Elizabeth avenue. 5000.
Francesca Chinsano to same. south
west corner Bloomfield and Highland
Loring r. Cadmus TO Carl A. Giese.
east side Hillside avenue. % feet south
from Bigelow street, 1900.
TOWNSHIPS.
Edmund Peltowitz TO Police Building
and Loan Association, West orange,
west side Watson avenue. 375 feet north
east from Chestnut street. $50
Brnntmore Company to Andrew II.
Weller, Verona, northwest corner Beech
wood and Chestnut roads, $1,000.
Michael Raimo TO Knights of Pythlas
Building and Loan Association, Bellevue,
east corner HeckeI and Lawrence streets.
and other tract $3000.
Oscar H. Schoelzke TO lrvington Build
ing and Loan Association lryingfon,
south side Park place, 450 feet east from
Yale avenue, 5000.
Richard W. Ballard to Charles F. Ner-
ner, Nutley. north side Centre street. 5oO
feet west from Miller street, $500.
Same to Nutley Realty Company, Nut
lev same property l50.
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THREATENED BOURcHIER;
HANSEN CALLED MAD

LONDON, May 1s.-J. salter Han
sen. the American theatrical manager.
was brought up al Bow street Police
Court today charged with threaten
irg Arthur Bourchier, the English
aetor-manager. with violence. The
case was continued until Friday.
The attorney for the prosecution
described Mr.. Hansen as man u
very violent character" The pa
lice testified that they had % throw
him to the ground to search nin.
Detective Inspector Cariin said ne
though AIR. Hansen was mad.
II the prison doctor reports favor
ably on the state Of the prisoners
mind, Mr.. Hansen viii be released
on Friday on a bond Of $1,000 bind
ing him to keep the peace.
The quarrel between the two men
arose over the method Of the produce
ton OF play at a London theatre.
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sheriff's office were in the crowd wait
ing to arrest him on bench warrant.
He left early by a circuitous way
through the woods to an automobile
which whisked him out of reach of
the men with the papers.
Upton Sinclair looked pleased when
he appeared on the balcony used as
a speakers stand.
you are giving the world its great
est exhibition of solidarity in the
labor world" he said. You have
been unable to win your strike thus
far because the police of Paterson are
trying to club the life out of you,
trying to club the brains out of you
by putting your leaders in Jail.
Pat Quinlan, the convicted one.
said:
Everybody is denouncing the jury
and the rotten police force; every
body is denouncing this piece Of put
ty, the sheriff of this county.
Before another week is out we
win have the wires laid for a federal
investigation of the silk industry In
this city, yes, over the head of Mr..
B';'ie Hughes"
Miss Flynn said that the demand
for an eight-hour day is the one thing
that the Paterson manufacturers are
afraid Of
Behind the Paterson Forbes" she
said, II believe is the Allied Ma
t'cnal Manufacturers Association,
The bosses of America realize that II
you win your strike those in Paterson
will be beacon light to work RS
elsewhere
Big Bill Haywood took fling at
the conviction of Quinlan in his
fashion:
This is a meeting to say to Pater-
son that we are opposed to Jersey
justice as we find it in your courts.
There is no justice in Paterson"
Haywood outlined his scheme for
transferring the Paterson strike to
New. York city by means Of per-
formance at the Hippodrome.
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Says Bowery DereIicts Hon.
onered Leader for His Big
Heart and Fellowship.
BY MARY BOYLE o'REILLY


NEW YORK, May 19.-ChuclS Con-
nors, king of Chinatown" who died
last week, has been walked" with
the customs of the peasant Irish.
since a man should return at last to
his own people, and went to the
wake
For four days whispering pro-
cession of children and neighbors.
politicians and white denizens of
Chinatown streamed through the sor-
did two-room tenement under the
shadow of Brooklyn bridge. Kindly
hands had emptied the tiny living
room and hung the scarlet walls with
coarse net curtains. Plates of tobacco
and snuff lay on table. A cross-like
standard of candles illumined the
death chamber. where all who came
took silent farewell
Their tribute recognized the pass
ing of a natural leader in the street
race New York Is making, a victim
of. the forces and conditions imposed
on the children of the pavements.
Among the scores who came and
went were no Chinese. In Pell
street joss-house they We're silently
offering ancestral honors to the shade
of the king who had never abused
their confidence.
In the box-like kitchen, where six
chairs crowded the floor space, an
old woman with thin hair trained
back from her wrinkied face sighed
her sympathy.
Chuck never harmed nobody. >
she said gently.
Even the monks (Cliinese) had a
sort of faith in him." whispered a
human dereliet from twisty Doyers
street The grip of the yang-yang
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

-~~-~0~>~~~>~~~~- <7~~>@-~~r~~>
SEALED PROPOSALS Will be received by
the COMMITTEES on Seventh District Bridges
of the Board Of Chosen Freeholders OF the
County of Essex N. j., for the alteration
ana extension Of the stone arch bridge over
Toney's Brook. on Ridgewood avenue, Glen
The plans and specifications Of the above
work may be seen at the oftice OF Fred: A.
Reimer County Engineer Court House. New
The bids will be submitted on Thursday:
May %. 1913, at p. m, at the rooms Of
Speedway, $40 Court House, Newark. NJ j.,
and at no other time or place
mon of the Committee on Seventh District
bridges. All bids must be indorsed on me
outside with the name of the bidder. and
must be further indorsed Proposal for the
alteration and extension to bridge over
Toney's Brook, Ridgewood avenue, Glen
Ridge
FRED. A. RE1MER,
fnyi2,16.l0 County Engineer
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(hunger for opium stared from her
red-rimmed eyes, the siekly reek Of
joss smoke chung to her loose silk
coat.
when the first monks came into
Pell street Chuck picked up their
lingo. Then he played at being king.
For all of thirty years the Hip Sing
and the On Leon Tongs trusted him
with their secrets. Often he made a
cool twenty in night. but he thought
nothing of money, just gave his all
away What's more, he never hit the
pipe" The hoarse voice sank into
silence.
An alert, pugnacious precinct cap
tain leaned across the narrow table.
"Chuck hung out in Chinatown he
commented quietly. "but he never
played. Tammany was de bull to
him. the rest only kiyis. He knew
every voter in the district. More
than that. he knew what they needed
Big Tim was his friend. That's why
I'm here
The speaker resumed his pipe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
TOLL OF SMOKE is
100000 A YEAR
And, at That, cIeveIand's New
Department lnsures a So
Per Capita Saving.

CLEVELAND, May 19.-At a mini
mum figure, Cleveland loses $4,000. 900
year on account of smoke.
Smoke has a tendency to increase
sickness and lessen the effective life
of Cleveland's people,
A dividend of several hundred per
cent to the community is claimed
by the establishment of the city
smoke department.
These are statements of Smoke In
spector Roberts in booklet, Smoke
Abatement in Cleveland just pub
lished He states that the annual
SO individual loss because of smoke
is reduction of 81 per person since
the Chamber of Commerce report in
1910. Roberts was chairman of the
committee that made the 1910 re-
port.
Pure air is of just as vital inn
portance as pure water.'' says in
spector Roberts. Smoke is not only
injurious in itself, but it serves as a
vehicle to carry sulphuric acid, re-
sulting from combustion. If it were
not for smoke, the acid would be so
diluted in the air that its injurious
effects would be much lessened.
How much can the smoke pro-
ducer afford to expend to abate his
smoke? The emission Of smoke shows
that part of the fuel passes un-
burned through the chimney and is
lost. This loss is usually at least 10
per cent of the fuel consumed, al
though in some cases it may be con-
siderably more, and represents the
saving when the fuel is completely
burned and mo- smoke made. The
owner Of a 100 horsepower boiler in
Use 1000 hours year by burning his
smoke cuts down his fuel bill $3.50, or
enough to buy seventy-five tons of 81
coal.
The minimum annual loss to the
community is $40 for each person.
Not least among smokes injurious
eeffcts is its tendency to increase
sickness and to lessen the effective
life of Cleveland's 100000 persons"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19
CONTRACTS FILED

These contracts were filed in the
county clerks office today:
South Belmont Construction Co,
contractors. general work, $4,000: 80
Watson avenue
George III. Kurz. owner, with Peter
German. of Irvington, contractor.
plumbing work. $47s; $50 South
Eleventh street
Ernest Krauss. owner, with same
contractor. same work, S47S; 5SS South
Eleventh street.
Klein & Mailer, owners, with Jo-
seph Kazmierczak, contractor, paint
ing work. $3.50; $50 South Grove
street Irvington. Same owners with
c. p. Oschwald, contractor plumbing
work. 500. same premises. Same
owners with David RAttenburg, COLI
tractor. mason work, 1880; same
premises.
Rudolph Heller. owner, with Max
Glassner, contractor, carpenter and
mason work. $1,000; 14s-i5O Ferry
street.
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EssEx COUNTY ORLEANS. COUNT

ESSEX COUNTY ORPHANS COpRr--In
the matter of the estate Of Henry Bird. de-
ceased. On petition for sale OF lands to pay
debts Order to show cause.
George Penek, substituted administrator
with the will annexed Of Henry Bird. de-
ceased. having exhibited under oath true
account Of the personal estate and debts OF
said Henry Bird deceased. whereby It APP
pears that the personal estate of the said
Henry Bird. deceased. is insufficient to pay
HIS debts and requesting the aid Of the Court
in the premises.
II is thereupon, on this twenty-sixth day
Of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen. or
dered that all persons interested In the lands.
fenements, hereditaments and real estate OF
the said Henry Bird, deceased appear before
this Court at the Court House. in the City
Of N,wark on the sixth day Of June, nine
teen hundred and thirteen, at 10 a. M. TO
show cause why so much OF the said lands.
tenements. heredItaments and real estate o.
the said Henry Bird. deceased should not be
sold as VIII be sufficient to pay his debts
- H. W OSBORNE j.
Lambert e. Stewart. Proetors OF Petitioners,
p-I1 Clinton street. Newark. N. J.
Isaac Shoenthal. Surrogate, aprt-tt