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The Washington times., 1913-11-16
TO GUARD POINT
OF WILSON'S DANGER
Sylvester Stations Guard on Cor
ned Where Trolley Menaced
Safety of Presidents Motor.

As result of the near-collision Of
President Wilson's automobile and 4
car coming out of the Capital Traction
Company's barn at Thirty-siNth and NJ
streets northwest, Major Richadd Syl-
vester, Superintendent of the Metropoli-
ton Police Department, will have de-
tailed at this point tomorrow a police
man who will perform duties similar TO
the work of crossing officers.
Several months ago Major sylvester
investigated traffic conditions at this
point and recommended to the street
car company that watchman be
placed at the entrance of the barn.
This the company failed to do. The
narrow escape of President Wilson
brought the matter to the attention of
tn authorities again.
Major Sylvester also urges the street
railway company to discharge all pas
sengers for the corner of Thirty sixth
and NJ streets inside of the carbarn.
instead of on the street. The present
practice of letting people off in the
street blocks traffic. he says, and also
endangers life.
Other suggestions will be made to the
street car company, pedestrians, and
drivers of horse-drawn and power We
hicles, so the danger to life at this
point greatly will be minimized.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
OBJECTS TO A DOG
SLEEPING IN BED
Husband Says "Fritzie' Has
Fleas-''It's a Cruel Libel"
Asserts Wife.

LYNN. Mass, Nov. I6.-''When my
husband says our dog has fieas, he Is
guilty of a cruel libel against dear little
'FritZie,' and the fact that he refuses
to live in the house simply because
'Fritzie' always sleeps with me shows
what a heartless man he is" asserted
Mrs. Florence Cook, of I3i Main street.
today, as a final shot against her hus-
band. whose arrest she caused on a
charge of nonsupport
In court Cook was found not guilty,
after he had testified tnat he refused 20
sleep in the same bed with a dog that
scratched all night because of 'feas.
and that when he married he did rot
include the dog in the nuptial agree
ment
The animal barks, squirms, and
snores every night he testified, and
one night when / was utterly Disguised
/ kicked him out Of bed. He jumped
back into bed and bit my foot
Mrs. Cook is now living apart from
her husband, and is preparing to file Ii
suit fer divorce, asserting that her hug
bands defense of the dog is only an
excuse. and that if he cared for her
he would put up with the dog. which
made her lonesome life bearable.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16

Among the angles Of the forest problem
which the congress will try TO solve are.
the cost of wood. the regulation Of
stream flow for the generation OF power,
the presewation of irrigation sources.
ard the berpetuation OF forests for
health and recreation.
Secretary Houston will open the con-
gress, and Secretaries Garrison anu
Lane Of the War and Interior Departs
ments. respectively. will addFcss the 6sl-
egates. Chief Forester Graves viii bss
a speaker.
Forest taxation Is 2 subject to be pre-.
sented by Clifford Pinchot. as chairulas
of a subcommittee. In, most States IL
Is asserted, taxes tend to destroy forests
by not recognizing them Is crops 20 be
perpetuated. Prevention of forest ifFes-
will be another theme for discussion
along with the floods that follow forest
destruction.
As a preliminary TO the congress, the
National Association of lCenservattof
Commissioners will hold one-day meet
ing at tie Willard tomorrow morning
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
Will Drag North River
For Valuable Coins

NEW YORK, Nov. 16-Ths police to-
day prepared to drag North river for
rare coins worth more than $4,000. par,
of a collection stolen from Waldo New.
conner, a banker, of Baltimore De-
tectives said that Frecerick Holtz. elec.
trician. confessed that he threw the
coins in the river from the Albany boat
because they were silver and cumber-
some. Their face value Is S2,4i2.
HoltZ told the story, the officers said
after sl7,500 in rare gold coins belongings
to Newcomer were recovered Iii a
safety deposit box rented by Holt In
branch of the Corn Exchange Bank
Stanley r. Walker, of the bank, Of
fered an old $50 goldpiece in payment
of a bill at the RitZ-Carlton Hotel, in
Philadelphia. 1t was identified as one
of Newcomers, and Walker remem-
bered that he had got the coin from
HoltZ when the man paid for the de-
posit box. Holtz is said to have robbed
Newcomers collection while doing cleo
trical work in the bankers home.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
BOOKS IN TROLLEY
PROBE FILL WAGON
W. R. & E Co. Ready to File
Records of Dividend-TeIe-
phone Tariffs Asked.

A wagon-load of books. representing
data in possession of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company bearing
on its connection with the Potomac Elec-
trIc Power Company and the recently
declared / per- cent dividend on w. r.
X +. common stock, will be backed up
to a door of the Municipal Building to-
morrow morning for the secret session
OF the Public Utilities Commission.
This data was promised at last
Wednesdays meeting of the Commits
sion, which is Investigating the source
of the / per cent dividend which the
railroad recently declared or its ccmmon
stock At that meeting. Attorney J. J.
Darlington. counsel Ior the railroad, SUI
ceeded in having a secret session of
III ecomrnission called, TO prevent "eX-
ploitation in the newspapers of the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
rany's archives.
The records are OF several classes
the books showing the record made 10y
S. r.. Bowen. secretary of the company.
when the dividend was declared; the
accounts showing the earnings credited
TO surplus: the books showing the in
come of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company from the perlou of
its organization until June %, 1913; the
books showing from what sources in
come was derived; books showing the
income derived from transportation and
the separate income derived from div
idends on the stock OF the oPtOmac c
Electric Power Company, and the rec
ords showing how and to whom the
original stocks and bonds of the COM
pany were issued.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company today announced.
through its District managers, that it
would turn over to the Public Utilities
Commission, on demand, all tariffs and
files of tariffs bearing. on telephone
rates in the District of Columbia.
This statement. following the contem-
plated action of the commission, was
based on the resolution introduced in
the Senate recently by Senator Norris
calling for a rigid investigation of tele-
phone charges in this city and in the
District.
Although it is generally believed that
the commission has issued demand
for the data, the telephone company de-
nieS that II has been asked. Although
disclaiming any wish to shield its books
from the gaze of the commission, Off
Gals of the company say a request or
demand from the Public Utilities peo..
pie is necessary.
The commission means to get all the
light possible on the telephone situation
here, 1t wants to know in what way.
il any, the company manipulates its
tariffs, with a view to determining
whether discrimination is practices in
violation of the law. Not only will the
Washington and New York offices IF
the company be asked for tariffs, but
for copies of the instructions to the Dis
trict managers as we'll
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
What's on Program This Week
MONDAY,

MONDAY.
Meetings, evening:
| Masonic-Potomac Lodge, No. ). Benja
| min b. French. No. 10. Anacostia, No
| u. Pentalpha. No. ., and Mt. Pleas
ant. No. %: Washington Council, No
], Royal and Select Masters: Ruth
Chapter No. !, Order of the Eastern
Star; Orient Commandery, No. 5
Knights Templar
| National Union-Potomac Council. Ply.
THAN Temple; Central Council, Per.
petual Building Association hail.
odd Fellows-Union Lodge, No II
Covenant, No. Is. and Beacon, No. Is
business; Langdan. No. 26. degree
work: Naomi Rebekah Lodge, No. l.
business; Ruth, No. >. social session.
Red Men-Osage Tribe, No. 6. Society
Temple, Fifth and G streets north
west.
Knights of -Pythias-Equal Lodge, No
II, Amaranth, No. ~, grand vista
ticn: Century. No. 30. esquire rank;
Pythian Sisters, monthly meeting
Past Chiefs Association.
Socialist Party-School conference, Sll
+ street northwest
TUESDAY.
Meetings. evening:
Masonic-National Lodge, No. T. $50
O'Clock; Arminius. No. >. o'clock;
Myron NJ. Parker, No. -: King David,
No. IS; Takoma, No. %; Lafayette
Chapter. Royal Arch. No. 3. and
Washington Naval, No. G; Robert de
Bruce Council of Kadosh, Scottish
Rite, and Mithras Lodge of Perfec-
ton. No. l: Mizpah Chapter, No. s,
Eastern Star.
National Union State, War and Navy
Council, Pythian Temple.
6. degree wo:k: Golden Rule. No. y.
and Amity. No. 81. business; Mount
Nebo. No. 6, Encampment, business.
Red Men-Idaho, Tribe. No. 10, North
east Temple, Twelfth and II streets
northeast: Waneta Council, No. 6, de-
gree of Pocahontas. Society Temple.
knights of Pythias-Webster Lodge.
No. 4: Excelsior, No. Il; Capital, No.
a. and Myrtle, No %.
Socialist Party-Executive committee.
AS O'Clock; Jewish branch, S:15
o'clock. Sll Z street northwest; Local
Southeast Washington Sis o'clock, Is
Second street northeast.
WEDNESDAY.
Meetings-evening:
Masonic Washington Centennial
Lodge, No. II: Osiris, No. %; King
Solomon. No, 81; Mt. Pleasant. No. 50,
East Gate, No. 81: Columbia Chapter,
No. g.. Potomac Commander' No. 8.
10. Eastern Star.
National Union-Treasury Council, G..
\. R. Hall; Congressional Council,
Typographical Temple.
Odd Fellows-Eastern Lodge, No. 4, and
Federal City, No. 20, degree work;
Harmony, No 9, business; Friendship,
No. u. grand visitation.
Auxiliary, division
No. l. annual dance, Knights of CO.
luInbus Hall.
Red Men-Osceola Tribe, No. 10, Ten
nallytown. great chiefs visitation;
White Eagle Tribe. No. IL, Pythian
Temple; White Eagle Council, No. 4,
Degree of Pocahontas, Society Temple.
knights of Pythias-Mt. Vernon Lodge,
No. >. and Union! No. 30, page rank
Friendship Temple, No. 9, Pythian Sis
tiers.
Socialist party-Local Northwest WASH
ington, Sis o'clock: Sunday school
conference, Sis o'clock S11 E street
northwest.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
THURSDAY

| THURSDAY.
MISUNDERSTANDING:
| MaSonic-NavaI Lodge, No. 4; Hiram
No. 10, $50 O'Clock; La Fayette. No
19, and Corinthian. o'clock: William
r. Singleton, No. 30; Esther Chapter
No. ;. Eastern star. Adoniram Coun-
Gil. Nc. ,, Royal and Select Masters.
National Union-National Council,
Eagles Hall; NonpareiI Council,
Schmidts Hall; Mt. Vernon Council,
Eagles Hall.
| Odd Fellows-Columbia Lodge. No. 10,
degree work; Excelsior, No. Il de-
gree work; Salem, No. %, business.
Red Men-Lodge Tribe, No. S, Wiscop-
sin avenue and n street northwest;
Sioux Tribe, No. Is, h street, near
Four-and- -a-half street southwest.
knights of Pythias-Franklin Lodge,
No :.
Study Club in Economics-Ingram
Church. "Woman's Rights; What
They Are: What They Should Be-
Miss Jeanette Gershanck
X. O. T. M.-Georgetown Tent, No. 6,
odd FelIowIss Hall, Georgetown; Dis
trict Tent No. }. Mariners Temple.
FRIDAY.
Meetings, evening:
observation-disclosures NJ. -, anu
Lebanon, No. Z: Hiram Chapter. No.
10, Royal Arch; Columbia Command
cry. No. :, knights Templar; Martha
Chapter. No. 4, Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Central Lodge, No. l,
and Metropolis, No. 10. degree work:
Phoenix, No. 2S. business: Mageney
EIcampment, No 4. degree work
Dorcas Lodge, No. 1. Rebekahs, de-
gree work.
Red Men-Seneca Tribe. No. 10. 316
Pennsylvania avenue southeast; Minec
ola Tribe, No. IA, Anacostia Idaho
Council, No. !, Degree of Pocahon-
tas, Northeast Temple, Twelfth and
III streets northeast.
Knights of Pytnias-Syracusians Lodge,
No. 10; Rathbone Temple, No. s,
Pythian Sisters
SATURDAY.
Meetings, evening:
Odd FellOws-Canton Washington, No
]. Patriarchs Militant social and
drill.
Socialist School Club-Social and lunch
con, to O'Clock, 81 f street north
west.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
One Drink Means
Fortune to Sister

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Nov. 16.-If Ben
May takes one drink of anything
stronger than pineapple sodas within
the next two years. Mrs. Floy' Wad-
dell. 1872 Jeannette street. New Or
leans. will be s.. 333. SO Is richer.
Should May abstain two years from
alcoholic stimulants he will reap a
fortune of sdO,ooo
Mr.. May is Mrs. Waddells brother.
Their mother. Mrs Demetria MAY. I'm
her Will provided that the son must
give satisfactory proof that he has
abstained from intoxicants and is self
supporting for two years. II he fails
ms slO,0O Is to be divided equally
among his three sisters.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
Dr.. Jordan Criticises
British Universities

LONDON. Nov. 16.-David Starr Jor-
dan, chancellor of Leland Stanford,
Jr.. University, lectured at the Birk-
beck Institute under the auspices of
the education compittee of the Lon
don county council
IVY Jordan compared American and
British university methods, greatly to
tie detriment of the latter The es-
sence of scholarship. he said, was to
know what 20 do in life. and the basic
idea of American universities was to
give man and woman the opportunity
OF making'the most of their powers.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
Senator Lodge Well;
Will Be Back Soon

BOSTON. Nov. Ex-senator Henry
Cabot Lodge has been given a clean
bill of health by his physicians. After
a few weeks rest in the Hotel Puritan
he will return to Washington.
With many OF the lines in his face
gone. with good color and with clear,
bright eyes, Senator Lodge received the
reporters at the home of his friend. Will
lam Sturgis Bigelow, 5e Beacon street.
He said he could not discuss politics
because he had been out of touch with
the situation since his illness.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
Archduke Ferdinand
Guest Of English King

LONDON. Nov. 16.-Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand. heir to the Austrian
:nrone. and his consort, the Duchess OF
Hohenberg, arrived here, and will so to
Windsor Castle as the guests of King
George and Queen Mary.
This visit is not official, as the duchess
is not of royal Srth and cannot be
placed on an equality with her husband
Now that the lrchduke is believed to
at royal functions
lie within reasonable distance of the
throne. the governments of Europe are
anxious to show some attention TO him
and his wife.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
friedman Patient
Completely Recovered

LYNN. Mass, Nov. 16.-George Leake.
one of The two Lynn sufferers from tu-
berculosis who was treated by DIR.
Friedmann, has practically regained his
health, and tomorrow will return to
work at his trade in a Boston cigar
factory. He received the first treat
ment of the Friedman serum at Prov
idence in April from DR.. friedman,
and a second treatment was given in
August by a Providence physician.
Physicians who have examined him
say that he has practically recovered
from the disease.
The Washington times., 1913-11-16
HOUSTON TO OPEN
FOREST CONGRESS
conservationists to Discuss
Many Angles Of Problem
Confronting Country.

Protection of American forests will he
the principal topic for discussion By the
fifth National Conservation. Congress
which will meet here on Tuesday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
NORMAL MAY GET
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
PRESIDENT COOK AND SUPT.
POWERS TOOK UP MATTER
WITH TRUSTEES OF FUND.

m President Joe Cook, of the Normal
College, has just returned home from
Washington, New York, Chicago and
eastern cities where he and State Su-
perintendent of Education Powers
have spent three weeks in the interest
of the public schools of Mississippi
MIR. Cook says that the results of the
trip will be greatly to the benefit of the
county agricultural high schools and
of the Normal College. Mr.. Cook and
Superintendent Powers visited the
trustees of the Carnegie fund and were
promised library for the State Normal
College, provided the state will furnish
a part of the money required for the
building. This matter will be brought
before the trustees of the Normal Col
lege and the legislature will be asked
to provide the required funds.
These gentlemen called on DR.. Brad
ford Knapp, special agent of the de-
partment of agriculture to assist the
agricultural high schools, of which
there are more than thirty in the state.
DR.. Knapp has addressed letter to
the 100 or more demonstrators in the
employ of the department of agricul-
ture operating in this state, directing
them to aid these agricultural high
schools in every way possible within
the legal limit of their power. Special
instructions are outlined to these gov
eminent representatives in DR.. Knapp's
letter.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25

Pennsylvania, acting for the county of
Philadelphia, rendered the use of the
building as the temporary home of
Congress. Congress, which was meet
ing then in New York, after much de-
bate fixed the permanent location, of
the national government on the banks
of the Potomac, and PHILADELPHIA
mainly through the efforts of Robert
Morris and to the disappointment of
New York, was decided upon as the
seat of Government for ten years On
December 6, 1870, the third session of
the First Congress met in the hall. the
first speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives being Frederick Augustus
Muhlenberg. George Washington was
lnaugurated in the hall on March A.
1893, and in it he delivered his fare
well address. John Adams was inau-
gurated as the second President of the
United States within its walls and
Thomas Jefferson was there sworn in
as vice-president.
While Congress sat in the hall the
United States mint and the United
States bank were established; Yer
mont, Kentucky and Tennessee were
admitted to the union; the army and
navy were recognized on a perma-
nent basis; jays historic treaty with
England was considered and ratified:
the whiskey insurrection was sup.
pressed; the wars with the Indians
were successfully conducted by Har-
mar, ST. Clair and Wayne: the brief
war with France was undertaken, and
within its walls was officially an
nounced the death of George Washing
ton in 1899.
Congress (the first session OF the
SIXTH sat in the hall for the last time
on May IA, 1900. The last act of the
Senate was to request the President to
instruct the attorney general to prose
cute William. Duane, editor of the
Aurora, for defamatory libel.
A committee of Congress recon-
mended an appropriation of 100000 to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25

Then followed the delivery of the
building to the city by the president
of the Philadelphia chapter of the
American Institute of Architects, John
Hall Rankin, and its acceptance by
the city.
The Grafton of Speaker Champ Clark
and the address of President Wilson,
who stood on Che rostrum of the
house where Washington delivered his
farewell address, followed
The exercises were closed with the
singing of another patriotic song and
the announcement of the benediction
by the chaplain Of the United States
Senate, the Rev. Forrest J. Pretty
man.
= AS the ceremonies came to an end
a salute of twenty-one guns was fired
by the warships in the Delaware river.
+ Congress Hall is two story, shin
gle-roofed building. 1t stands on the
southeast corner of Sixth and Chest
nut streets, or in other words, in the
northwest corner of independence
Square. To the east of it is Indepen-
dence Hall.
The building was. constructed for
county purposes. Two different funds
were raised to cover the expense. In
colonial days it was the custom for
the mayor of Philadelphia when going
out of office to give,a banquet. Instead
of doing this one of the mayors con.
tributed the cost of the feast, $50
pounds, to the building fund for the
new county hall The other money
used in its construction came from the
sale of an old jail and work-house.
Gangs of convicts known then as
wheelbarrowmen," began it's construc-
ton in 1887 and it was completed in
1889.
On March 4, 1889, the Assembly of
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
CAP A COLD FOR Csc
Cong E S BALL Is

Turing the exercises today President
Wilson sat in the chair, occupied by
John Hancock when he presided over
the Continental Congress at the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. 1t was the first time the chair
had been used since President Grant,
requested the privilege Of sitting in
1t in 1876. -. ~ 7es 3.
The invocation was delivered by
Rev Henry NJ Couden, DID. the chap
lain of the House of Representatives
at Washington. This WIS followed
by the singing of Hail, Columbia
Frank Miles Day. of Philadelphia,
read brief statement concerning the
restoration of the building. Mr.. Day
was chairman of the committee Of
architects having charge Of the work.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
WILL APPOINT
A. new BOARD
BREWER PETlTloNED TO FILL VA
cANcIEs CAUSED BY REsIeNA.
TIoNs IN sHARkEY.

jackson, Miss, Oct. 25.A numerously
signed petition has been received at
the Governors office suggesting the
personnel Of a new board of supervis-
ors of Sharkey county to replace the
five members who rendered their res
ignations Immediately after they had
been indicted by the grand jury during
the early part of the week.
The successors suggested are James
H. Stevens, T. H. Powers, J. B, Sinai,
Henry Kline and w. c. Gill. 1t is prob
able that commissions will be forward
ed to them by the Governor on Mon
day.
The supervisors indicted were charg
ed by the grand jury with misfeasance
in office, the offense consisting Of
purchasing county supplies exceeding
$50 in value without having asked
competitive bids on same.
The supervisors frankly acknowledge
ed their guilt, which was conclusively
shown by the minute book of the board,
and, rather than stand trial, they STEP
ped down and out. 1t is expected that
they will be given nominal fines, there
being no evidence of moral turpitude,
and the purchase of supplies without
bids therefor was doubtless due more
10 IGNORANCE than infant IN ViOlata the
law.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
Severe PUNISHMENT
Of Mrs. Chappell, Of Five Years
Standing, Relieved by Cardui.

MI. Airy, N. C.-Mrs. Sarah M. Chap
pell OF this town, says: 81 suffered fol-
five years with womanly troubles, also
stomach troubles, and my punish nent
was more than any one could tell.
| tried most every kind of medicine
but none did me any good.
Tread one day about Cardui, the wo-
mans tonic, and | decided to try it.
had not taken but about six bottles until
| was almost cured. II did me more
good than all the other medicines had
tired. put together.
My friends began asking me why
looked SO well, and told them about
Cardui. Several are now talingIt..' ~
DO yen, lady reader, suffer from any
Of The ailments due 10 wonianly trouble,
such as headache, backache, sideache,
sleeplessness, and that everlasti1gly tired
feeling?
II so, let us urge you to give Cardui a
nial. We feel confident it will help you,
Just as il has a million other women in
the past half century.
Begin taking Cardui to-day. You
won't regret it. All Druggists.
w,a. y. Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Lsd,.s
Asvlsery Dspt.. Chattanooga, Tenn. for Sy<rsai
IsSysssisss 81 your aass and Stage beck, "Homs
lrs<snsu fsr wsnsn. q pssin wsppr. Nc. ia<
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
Oct. 20, Is Red Letter Day
At o'FERRALL'S.
10 rs. & H." Trading Stamps Free In
Addition to Double Stamps on all
Purchases.
CAP A COLD FOR Csc
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS TO MEET

Mobile, Ala, Oct 25.-The advance
guard of delegates and visitors to the
fifth annual meeting of the Southern
Commercial Congress arrived in Mo-
bile today. The sessions will begin
Monday, with President Woodrow Will
son as the guest or honor and chief
speaker With a large attendance of
other men of note, the meeting prom
ises to be one of the most successful
and profitable of it's kind ever held
in this country. The addresses, papers
and discussions will revolve around
the general theme of THE Relations
of the United States to the Panama
Canal, to Latin America and to World
Commerce