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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-26
TRIBUTE FROM NOTED MEN.
Memorial Services for Late DR.. John
Shaw Billings.

NEW YORK. April ga memorial
service for the late DR.. JONI shaw Bl-
lings. director and Librarian .of the New
York Public Library. was held here yes
terday. DIR Billings died March ~.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell. author and sur
geon. OF Philadelphia; Sir William Osler,
regius professor at Oxford University.
England; DIR. William III. WEIGH of Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and Andrew
Carnegie were among those who paid DR.
Billings tribute In speeches. His career
as soldier, surgeon. medical photographic.
librarian. and adviser to the Carnegie
foundation was described in the presence
of men gathered from many cities.
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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
State Auditor Finds TaIesmen
Were Paid Too Much.
CHURCH is 139 YEARS OLD
Special Services Will Be Begun by
Trinity N. E. Congregation
Tomorrow.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, April &C. 1918.
The allowance of $1,000 given each OF
the twenty-five talesmen summoned here
from Richmond Wednesday last from
which to select a jury for the trial of
Lewis Hooff, former secretary and gen
eral manager Of the defunct Mercantile
Railway Building and Loan Association.
will not be allowed by c. Lee Moore. state
auditor Of public accounts. who will allow
only the actual railroad fare. a letter
giving this information was received to-
day by n. S. Greenaway, clerk of the
court, and T. w. Robinson. city treasurer.
This, therefore, means that the jurors
received $3.50 more than the law allows
according to Mr.. Moores Interpretation
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MOUNT vernon CARRIERS
ARE TERMED MONOPOLY
Management Of Washington's
Homestead May Be Probed
by House.

Everything connected with the business
administration OF Mount Vernon, includ-
ing the rates of boat fare and railroad
fare. the admission price and the charge
that the Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall
Steamboat Company and the Washington
Virginia Railroad Company have entered
into a combination to sustain exorbitant
rates will be investigated by the House
committee on interstate and foreign COM
merce. Representative Adanhson Of Geor-
STA, chairman, IL the resolution intro
duced by Representative Cary of Wiscon-
sin is given a clear pathway by the COM
mittee on rules.
This is not the first time an attempt
has been made to investigate Mount Yer
mons status as a money-making show
place for the benefit Of a corporation. The
interested people who are behind Mr..
Cary have caused an investigation along
the same line to be taken up by the Vir-
ginia state legislature. An investigation
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cents for each passenger landed at the
dock. exclusive of the % cents charged
for admission, thus placing the revenue
OF the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
at 40 cents for each visitor over ten years
of age.
The'resolution states that the "unreas-
enable and discriminatory rates charged
for transportation and the charge OF .
cents exacted by the Mount Vernon
Ladies' Association for admission TO the
, grounds. which charge has been exacted
since the year 1885, coupled with the
fact that the grounds are not open TO
visitors on Sunday. have kept thousands
of patriotic persons from visiting the
home of the father of his country.
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of the law. The Richmond men upon
receiving their certificates for mileage
and attendance fees had them cashed at
the Hotel Rammel, this city. and have
now returned home. A total of Sill 4C
was cashed by the hotel people, represent
ing the certificates of thirteen OF those
summoned. Mr.. Rammel will therefore
have to look to the Richmonders to pay
him the difference, which would total $50
Church Is 139 Years Old.
A weeks program in observance of the
1S9th anniversary of Trinity NJ. E.
Church. which will end Friday night. will
be begun at that church tomorrow. Some
OF the most noted speakers in the church
Will be here to participate In the affair."
among them a number of prominent min
listers Of that faith.
The services tomorrow will be opened at
1918 o'clock with q love feast. led by
Rev. G. w. Hobbs, one of the Oldest
members of the Baltimore conference
and at IL o'clock Bishop Cranston OF
Washington will preach
Primary Date Is Set.
primary for the purpose of nominal
ing candidate for the house of dele
gates to represent this county will be
held July s. This was decided upon
last night at a joint meeting of the
democratic committees of this city and
Alexandria county, held at the Hotel
Rammel last night. May was fixed
as the time limit for candidates filing
their names with Walter L. Varney,
who served as chairman of the joint
session.
There was also a session of the city
committee. when the following candi-
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Four Parties Formed.
But Forty-Six Qualify at Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS. Md. April 21-Out of
-l9 additional candidates who took the
recent mental examinations for entrance
into the Naval Academy. only forty-six
were found TO have qualified, according
10 announcement made by the academic
board This is the smallest percentage
10 qualify in the history OF the entrance
examinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-26
UNITED STATES DELAYS
RECOGNITION OF CHINA
Halt Caused by Failure of Con.
stituent Assembly to Prop
erIy Organize.

Though nearly three weeks have elapsed
since President Wilson signified his in
tention of recognizing the new republic
of China. Mr.. Williams, American charge
of the legation at Picking, has been I'M
able to carry out his instructions by the
formal act of recognition. The delay has
been caused by the failure of the con-
sti;uent assembly 10 organize By the cleo
ton of its officers and committees and
10 provide for the choosing OF perma-
nent president and executive officers.
Parliamentary Tangle Develops.
The latest advices received from Picking
disclose the existence of a most interest
ing parliamentary situation. the controll-
ing minds In the assembly being divided
In the ordinary manner into conservative
and liberal parties. and in addition divid-
ing into smaller groups. each charged
with some special mission or set of ideas
10 be engrafted upon the organic law OF
the new government. or these minor d.
visions. the one of most Importance exists
In the radical party, between the adher-
ents of the British versus the American
system of parliamentary government
The extreme element desires TO curb the
executive branch by installation of a cab
met. dependent entirely upon the, will OF
the majority in the national legislature
The moderate wing of the radical part,
would follow the American plan of tn,
complete independence of the executiy,
branch OF the government from the legis
latiye.
Four Parties Formed.
Altogether there are no less than -four
parties in the field at present. the sur
vivors of nearly dozen that sprang int
existence Immediately upon the downfall
OF the Manchu dynasty. Though the rad
fcal party. headed by Liam Hin Yen
strongest In the south Of China, probably
IS most numerous in the assembly. il car
secure control only by enlisting the sup
port of one or more of the other groups
Negotiations are in progress in Pekine
between these various elements 10 insur,
the collection of a majority to organize
the legislature, and when this is done
and only then. Mr.. Williams, the Ameri
an charge. will be able to carry out hi.
Instructions and extend the formal recog
milton OF the United States government
to the Chinese republic.
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Fire Friday destroyed the house at
tina Stevens residence. This building was
used by the Confederate soldiers during
the war as a hospital. Gen. T. r. r. Cobb
Of Georgia was wounded in the yard of
this house and was nursed in the house
until his death.
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There are two completely
equipped bathrooms. The
second story bath has a
modern overhead shower.
There is plentiful supply
of closets throughout the
bedrooms-not mere cup
boards. but full trunk size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-26

While al work at the Norfolk and West.
ern shops at Roanoke. Va. Friday. John
i. Hundley, foreman of carpenters. waf
killed in the presence Of two of his song
when he Was run down by a freight car.
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w. & j, SLOANE:
New York WASHINGTON San Francisco
LimO1eurn1S
OF Dependable
Character

In addition to its sanitary quail
tiles there are features of high
srade Linoleum which make ii an
especially suitable floor covering
for Summer Cottages and Bunga-
lows. and these are-its dura bflfty
and economy
Our stock of Imported and Do
mestic Linoleums affords a+selec-
ton that is unequaled elsewhere in
the city. We are showing fine
Inlaid Linoleum in new Hardwood
Floor. Tile. Floral and other at
tractive effects. in the best shades
OF blue. brown. red and green;
also Printed I.inoleum in many at
tractive patterns. and Plain Limo
Ieum Of serviceable quality-all at
very reasonable prices.
Our special method of cutting re-
duces waste to a minimum.
li12-1414 III STREET NV.
PHONE: MAIN 1909
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These Ashmead homes
are at the southern end
of this bridge.
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Association Raped.

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
which supports the historic home, comes
in for a rap by Mr.. Cary in his resolu-
ton. The association, it is declared, re-
ceives from the steamboat company Is
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TO INSPECT-Take Chevy Chase car to
Rock Creek. Bridge. walk south Goth to
Ashmead to Our Green and White Sign"
take any Mount Pleasant car. get off at the
Highlands and walk two. squares north
Connecticut, Ave.--to Our Green and White
Sign"
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Price, $7,65O-$47.26 Monthly

TO INSPECT Chevy Chase
car to Garfield street or Cathedral ave-
(which is right in Woodley Park and
walk one square west-to Our Green
and White Sign" on 27th st.
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Monopoly Is Charged.

The resolution is positive in its state
ments. The Marshall Hall and Mount
Vernon Steamboat Company is called a
monopoly" and the statement is made
that the Charles Manchester is the only
steamboat plying the Potomac which is
allowed to land at the last resting place
Of the first President.
Not only is the steamboat company
charged with being a monopoly. but the
resolution says that the line for many
years has charged and is now charging
exorbitant rates. in that passengers for
Mount Vernon are charged IS cents for
the round trip from Washington. includ-
ing admission to Mount VERNON, while
other passengers are carried on the same
trip and on the same steamer. the Charles
Manchester, to Marshall Hall, abou one
ane One-haf miles farther down the
river. for - cents the round trip
The resolution raps the car line to
Mount Vernon, which also charges ex-
orb!tant rates, the round-trip fare being
50 cents. not including admission to Mount
Vernon 1t also complains that the
steamboat company and the railroad line
refused to enter into an agreement for
interchangeable tickets permitting pas
sengers to go to Mount Vernon by boat
and return by rail or vice versa
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Importance Of Bedroom.

DIR. Trask declared that he regarded
the bedroom as possibly the most impor.
tant chamber of all, for it is here, he said
that the average person spends one-third
of his life. Open-air work in the day.
time, he maintained, would not make VI
for the deleterious effects on the consti
tuition Of q stuffy, ill-ventilated sleeping
apartment. The room ought to have al
least two windows. preferably on differ
emit sides. so as to insure a free move
ment Of air.
The whole house. he said, should be sc
situated as to command plenty Of sun
light. which he regarded as a disinfec
tant and germicide. Sunlight Is also ar
enemy of dirt, he declared, and in add
ton has an important influence upon the
temperament of the family inhabitine
the dwelling which 1t enters.
DIR. Trask deplored the practice Of over
heating the house. a practice, which hi
said was too common in America Among
other ill-effects, he said, the air was otter
rendered drier than the atmosphere of q
desert, with the result that the occupant.
subjected to It's influence were rendered
liable to such affections of the muco.
membrane as colds and catarrh The
temperature of a ROOM he said, should bt
about IS degrees. The method Of light
ing a house with gas was also dis.
couraged
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was asked at the last session of Congress.
but the resolution was never reached by
the House. The present resolution is diff
ferent in several respects from the pre-
vious resolution.
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Groom Homes of
Distinctive Difference
IN WOODLEY PARK

Connecticut Bridge.
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Treatment of Cans.

'.All garbage should be placed in closed
metal cans, which ought to be emptied
every two or three days. After emptying.
the cans ought to be scraped clean and
treated with chloride of lime or other
disinfectant.
1T is more difficult to cover up piles of
stable refuse, but this. also. should be
done. Boston now requires all this type
of refuse to be placed. like garbage. in
alright cans, which must be emptied at
least every forty-eight hours. This action
was taken when the health authorities
traced the spread of infantile paralysis to
a certain type Of stable fly that bred in
the heaps of refuse about the city's
barns.
Garbage should also be closely COW
cred in order to deprive rats of one
source Of food supply. Rats are danger
Gus about the house. not alone on ac-
count Of the damage they do to the build
ing itself. but also because they are
agents in spreading certain diseases,
notably the plague the black death
Of the middle ages. This pest will not
infest any house where 1t is unable to
obtain food. and the careful safeguarding
both of garbage and provisions intended
for human consumption from their in
roads is one very effectual way of rid
ding any house of rats. In addition. a
type of dwelling known as the ratproof
house has now been developed, into
which no rodent can find entry.
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||SHOWS DANGERS
| To FAMILY HEALTH
Garbage, Which Breeds Flies.
Should Go, Says Or.
Trask.
RATS, WHICH FEED ON 1T.
ALSO ARE GREAT MENACE
Better Hygiene for the Home Also
Discussed Before Y. N. C. A.
Gymnasium Glasses.

Grave dangers to the health of the FAM
lily arising from conditions which en-
courage the breeding of the house fly
were discussed by DR.. ]. w. Trask. as
sistant surgeon general of the United
States public health service. in a lecture
on THE Hygiene Of the. Home. delivered
last night before the gymnasium classes
of the Y NJ. c. A. The lecture was the
first of a series of four, to be given
every Friday night by DIR. Trask and DIR.
W. G.. Rucker, assistant surgeon general
of the public health service. in which va
rious phases of hygiene work are to be
treated.
I'm former years." said DIR. Trask, 1t
was believed that garbage heaps lying
about the house yard constituted a men
ace to the amily by reason of the
miasmas which they threw off, 1t is now
known. however. that exposed garbage
piles should be done away with. not be-
cause of any poisonous vapors that used
to be attributed to their presence. but be-
cause they furnish a breeding place Tor
the fly. This insect can spread many
diseases, among them consumption. ana,
when IL gets access TO infected cesSpools,
typhoid fever we'll
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Pools Should Be Banished.

mo pools of standing water should be
allowed about the house yards. for these
are the favorite breeding places Of mos
qLitoes." %
. In discussing the hygiene of the home
proper. DIR. Trask said that the cellar
should be dry, and he deplored the fact
that many houses in Washington were not
constructed with proper drainage sys-
tenn to meet this requirement. The kitch-
en-, he said, should be neither so big that
II causes the housewife unnecessary
steps nor so small that 1t is difficult to
keep the room clean. He insisted that the
kitchen should contain no crevices, in
either floor, walls or ceiling, where ver-
min could flourish. The living room, to
his mind should be large enough to ac-
commodate the whole family at once.
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These Woodley Park
homes are at the north
ern end Of this bridge.

The cellars are just IS
complete in their way as the
a
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-26
WILSON IS BACKED
ON CURRENCY BILL
MAJORITY OF MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE
AGREE TO PROGRAM.
THE PRESIDENT IS PLEASED
At Conference at the White House
Congressman Express Their Views
Upon Measure.

Washington.-Presi Wilson Sc
cured from a majority of the Demo
cratic members of the house banking
and currency committee expressions
of harmony and acquiescence In the
administration program OF enacting a
currency bill during the present ses-
sion of congress.
At a two-hour conference held
around the cabinet table in the white
house Offices, the congressman were
asked their views on the administra-
ton currency bill. Some of them had
not yet thoroughly examined the meas
ure, but those who expressed opinions
were favorahly inclined toward it.
When the fourteen committeeman filed
out of the office and group OF cor
respondents met them, Representative
Glass smiling referred the correspond
ents to the president. Just then Mr.
Wilson himself walked to the door of
the office and talked with the news
papermen.
The president explained that the
meeting was chiefly a get-together af-
fair, that naturally some of the de-
tails in the bill had brought out con-
siderable discussion, but that so far
as he had observed there was friend
ly feeling toward the fundamentals of
the administration measure. Mr.. Will
son said, moreover, that the members
of the committee seemed all to desire
action at the present session, but that
they had asked him not to hurry con-
sideration of the bill, so that it might
be deliberated upon carefully. The
president remarked that he had had no
intention of seeking hasty action and
hoped that by common counsel and
conferences a measure satisfactory to
the party could be obtained.
There was no detailed examination
of the bill section by section at the
conference. 1t was to urge upon them
the necessity of standing by the adj
ministration measure, subject to any
amendments, that the conference was
called. There will be other confer
ences at the white house
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-26
Blue and Gray at GETTYSBURG.

Gettysburg, PJa.-Tne hills Of Get
Lysburg, where the armies of Meade
and Lee pitched their tents fifty years
ago, are fiecked with canvas, harbin-
gers of the tented city which will
arise on the battlefield. The army of
Civil war veterans from the North
and the South-40,O00 in number-are
coming, some few in ehread-worn uni
forms and all without their muskets.
to hold a jubilee reunion on the if
tieth anniversary of the battle Some
of the scouts are here; the advance
guard will bivouac on the field; =
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-26
MANY PERSONS ARE
INJURED IN WRECK
so PERSONS ARE HURT IN A RAIL
ROAD WRECK IN NEW
YORK.
FAST TRAIN JUMPS TRACK
Some in Serious Condition-Excursion
Trains Roll Down an
Embankment.

Rochester, N. Y.-Fifty persons
were injured, some of them seriously,
when a Pennsylvania railroad excur-
sion train was derailed near Sterling
station.
The train was filled with excursion
lists bound for Olean, Rock City and
Bradford, Pa.
While the train was running at
about 40 miles an hour, three of the
five coaches left the track, rolling
down an embankment. AS it rounded
a curve, the smoking car left the
track, followed by all but two rear
coaches The locomotive also remain
ed on the track, breaking away from
the train after dragging the coaches
about 200 feet.
Physicians and nurses we're rushed
to the scene from Rochester, and 9th
er nearby towns, and the most seri-
ously injured were hurried to hospi-
tails.
Practically all the injured were res
idents of Rochester.
1t was said that District Attorney
Frank E. Cook was refused permits
sion to examine the wreck when he
arrived at the scene. Railroad Off
Gals had thrown a Gordon of employ
ees about it, and Mr.. Cook could not
get within 20 feet of the nearest car.
After the district attorney had re-
turned home a message brought him
word that the railroad men we're 60
ing to burn the ties for a hundred
yards on both sides of the wreck. Mr..
Cook, accompanied by Sheriff Acond,
rushed to the spot in an automobile.
They found that the ties had been
thrown together in an adjoining field,
but a railroad man said this was done
to get them out of the way. Sheriff
Acond demanded that the officials re-
frain from burning any ties or cars.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-26
AVIATOR LOSES LIFE IN BAY
Lieut.. j. A. Towers Tells of How He
Chung to Plane and Was Saved.

Lieut.. j. A. Towers Tells of How He
Chung to Plane and Was Saved.
Washington.-The tragic story of
how Ensign William D. Billingsley was
hurled from a disabled biplane, 1900
feet in the air, and fell, straight as
a plummeht, to his death in the depths
of Chesapeake bay, was related by
Lieut.. John A. Towers of Rome, Ca,
chief of the navy aviators, who chung
to the hurting wreck that followed his
comrades course from sky to water
and escaped death, almost miraculous
ly. Ensign Billingsley, in a biplane
that had been converted into hydro
aeroplane by the addition of pontoons,
with Lieutenant Towers as a passen-
ger, left the aviation grounds at the
naval academy here to fly to Claiborne,
some eighteen miles across the bay.
About ten miles down the bay a
gust of wind struck them. Ensign Bill
Kingsley was thrown forward across
the steering gear, which was disabled.
The front planes of the craft fell, and
it dropped like a dead bird toward
the water. AS it fell the pilot was cat
apulted out, and turning over and over
his body outspeeded the disabled ma
chine toward the water. Deep in the
bay, the body sank.
When the aeroplane started on it's
dive for the bay, Lieutenant Towers
chung desperately to one of the up
rights between the planes. Although
at times his body swung clear of the
rapidly falling airship, he maintained
his hold with his hand and arm al
most wrenched apart.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-26
Hunting a Rat, Cash Found.

London.-An unexpected sequel to
the recent burglary in the Berkeley
hotel in Picadilly is the arrest of the
night porter, Arthur James, charged
with being concerned in stealing from
the hotel safe $4,000 and attempting
to murder Covers, the other night
porter. Movements of big rat in the
hotel dining room led to James ar
rest. Employees of the hotel in hunt
ing down the rat found it's hole un-
der the radiator and through it saw
a CLEAN of gold. There was found more
than half of the booty.