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The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
RAILROAD EXECUTES MORTGAGE.
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Follows New York Central.

New York, Dec. l1.-An elastic general
and refunding mortgage with no limit as
to the amount of bonds to be issued was
executed today by officers of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway.
This mortgage is similar to that author
lied some months ago by the New York
Central.
The new mortgage is an open one and
bonds may be issued hereunder to three
times the outstanding capital stock. Pro-
ceeds will be utilized for taking care of
maturing obligations and paying for new
ly acquired or constructed lines, extern
sions, additional terminals, rolling stock
and other improvements.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
Literacy Test Is Favored.

Secretary Frank Morrison, of the
American Federation of Labor and H.
G. Wills, legislative agent for railroad
brotherhoods, yesterday urged the House
Committee on immigration to pass an i'm
migration bill containing a strict liter
acy test. They endorsed the Burnett
immigration bill, which was vetoed by
President Taft
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12

At the regular monthly meeting OF the
board of directors of the Union Trust
Company held Tuesday, a quarterly divi-
dend of 1 1-2 per cent was declared, pay
able January 10, to stockholders of rec
ord January ], 1914, the books for the
transfer of stock to be closed from
January l to II, 1914, both days inclusive.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
Will Test Auto Fire Engine.

Tests of the new motor-propelIed fire
engine assigned to Engine Company No
l6, in d street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets northwest, will be held
early this morning. The new engine was
purchased by the District at a cost of
$500.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
FRAN NOT TO USE CANAL.
Capt. Amundensen VIII Take Shir
Around Horn to san Francisco.

Around Horn to san Francisco.
The exploration ship Fran will not
pass through the Panama Canal as was
previously intended. but will make the
trip to the San Francisco Exposition by
way of Cape Horn. Secretary OF War
Garrison was informed yesterday.
Capt Road Amundensen, of the Fran,
has been told by Col. Goethals that IL
Is impossible definitely to promise that
any ship can go through the canal be-
fore next May. AS Capt. Amundensen
is under contract to deliver the Fran at
San Francisco by May /. he has decided
not to take any chances on the opening
Of the canal, but to proceed to California
via the old route around the Horn.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
PIANO TUNING.
RAILROADS.
NORFOLK G. WESTERN RAILWAY.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. %. H1

SCHEDULE IN EfFECT NOV. u. MI
Leave Washington. New Union Staten.
$50 q. N. Daily-Al points on HortoR q Western
1910 p. N. Daily-Roanoke, Bristol. Winston
Salem. Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, New Or
leanG Through deeper. Dining cara
$40 q m--For Bristol Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Nashville. Memphis. and all points In the South
west. washington-Mem Glsepen opsn at 70
D. m Dining car.
For EcrfolE-Leays daily Iap . N and mn nooa-
Arrive NorfoR II - l. N and SD p N Parlos
carr
so .. m. Daily-BeryviIle. Luray. Shenandoah-
Trains from the Southwest arrive ss5 q N. io:a
D N. and I2i5 q N daily.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
Of Columbia Bankruptcy, No. 92-ro the creditors
Of The CSysrly Company. q corporation: Notice Is
hereby given that the 3Ith day Of NoEembe- 49,
the aid corporation vas adjudicated bankrupt, and
that the frt meeting Of It's creditors viii be held at
my ohice. No ne Filth street northwest. Wishing
ton, D. C, On the I'd DAY OF DECEMBER 49,
at II O'Clock q. M. at which time its creditors may
attend. prove their claims. elect trustee erarine
the officers Of said corporation and transact such
other business as may properly come before said
meeting. Z s. McCALMoNT, Referee in Bank
F11rfr
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wishes to compliment him for his brevity
and n.odesty and hopes that other mem
bers of Congress will refrain hereafter
from using good space to exploit them
selves.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12

In the hope of introducing 1t into the
United States an expert from the De-
partment of Agriculture has been sent to
Manchuria to get specimens of q peach
that weighs q pound
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
METROPOLITAN POLICE pEPART,lENT.
Washington, d. c.. December Z 1917
THOMAS BOWLING, Auc1ioneer, No 6l3 st NV

In accordance with Section Es Of the Revised
statutes OF the United States, relating to the Dis
t11 OF Columbia, the Undersigned will sell AZ usiblid
auction at the eStAbiShment Of Thomas Dowling 81
y street northwest on the I'd DAY OF DECENI-
BER, 1913 At 10 O'Clock a. N, one mule. EDWIN
B. HEsSE Chief (Also ProueTtvl Clerk. Metropoh-
tan Police Department delSB5BElsl9D2
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12

- Work days remaining in
which to do your CHRIST
MAS SHOPPING. Don't
- be selfish. SHOP EARLY.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
WINDOW SHADES & SCREENS.

Comprehensive assortments IN stock and made to
order shades. serena and doors. Price always NS
sonableI Satisfaction guaranteed.
s sHss \. z : &leeblat&'s, Ll 9
The Washington herald., 1913-12-12
CLOCK REPAIRING.

WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING
Called for and delivered anywhere. NJ
3. NORMAN, the Washington expert.
l6S III 81 ne. Phone. Lincoln 800
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09

The fireless cooker Is a restraining In
fiuence on the gas meter which is now
bringing hope into many struggling
family.
1t is sort of a heat calaboose, in
which a high temperature can be i'm
prisoned overnight. 1t is chest filled
with nonconducting material, and when
a pot of beans has been brought to a
boil on the fire il can be locked up in
the chest and kept in a fervid and tor
off and the meter folds Its tired hands
and rests.
The 6reless cooker keeps the heat in
the Deans instead of allowing it to roam
around the kitchen. warming up the fur
niture and the back porch. A modern
fireless cooker will not only cook beans
but 1t will boil potatoes, roast beefsteak,
and make ambrosia out of oatmeal More
than this, the fireless cooker will take an
ancient hen with wire-wound legs and
a gutta- percha breast and will reduce her
i'm the course of twelve hours to a ten
der and dainty morsel which can be
dlssected without the use of explosives
The fireless, cooker is not only taking
swat at the dizzy price OF living, but
it Is causing bridge whist TO spread
the fireless cooker, the tired housewife
can put her dinner into solitary con-
finement at l p. m, 60 of to the whist
club, and return at o'clock to find II
ready for the table. The cooker also will
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
DisSolving the Paci1lcs.
Prom the Buffalo Express


A strong effort is being made by rail-
road officials to readjust the Wickersham
plan for the dissolution of the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific combination
so as to meet the approval of the Cali
fornia State Railroad Commission before
the expiration of the underwriting syn
dictate on Saturday next. The chances
are. however. that nothing will be ac-
complished. In that event, it is said.
there will be fight in the courts against
the commissions ruling
AS the California commission puts the
matter, the case appears to be very
much like the dissolution of one monop-
oily to re-establish another. 1t is better
for the new Attorney General to make
perfectly sure of the situation before
giving any opinion on it, 1t is said that
the railroad interests have been trying
to get him to approve the Wickersham
plan.
There is no such pressing need for this
combination to be dissolved that the De-
partment of Justice cannot take sufficient
time to study the matter from all sides.
dissolution that destroyed one combi-
nation only to set up another would not
be of much value
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
The Marching Woman and the Back
Seat,

The value of advertisement which
that brilliant young suffragist, Miss
Inez AIilholland, proclaimed as indis-
penSable to the cause of votes for
women has again been justified by a
demonstration in our broadcast thor
oughfare; and, in spite of the order
that was maintained along the route
of the procession by the police, rem
dered acutely vigilant by the criticisms
and dcnunciations of month or so
ago, there are interested ladies who
subscribe TO the sentiment, and yet
we are not happy"
From the standpoint of incidental ex-
citement there are at least a few mill
tant" souls who consider that the April
7 demonstration fell rather too fiat to
suit them. They would have prefer
red that matters would not have gone
quite so well, or, to put it into a few
lines, nothing whatever happened"
that any reasonable woman could pos
sibly object to. As regards Supt.
Sylvester and his men, the votes for
women" April parade was like a sue
cessful first night performance of a
play after rather a ragged dress re-
hearsal on March J.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09

Jusserand. it has nevertheless so far
not succeeded in gaining the support
of any men OF great wealth. The ex-
tent of opportunity, therefore, which it
can offer to the sons and daughters of
this community, must depend upon the
generosity of the community to large
extent.
Three years ago the university was
in desperate straits financially. 1t had
been making an effort to offer more
in the way of instruction than it had
the means to pay for, with the in
evitable result of financial failI-e 1t
saved itself only by stopping short,
selling its valuable building on the
corner of Fifteenth and II Streets, on
the site now occupied by the Wood
ward Building, and going into hired
quarters. Later il bought the build
ing at 2o23 G Street Northwest, bor-
rowing for the purchase $32,5oo, but
paying in interest less than the amount
paid previously for rent Only $1,000
of this Indebtedness has since been
Cancelled.
The effort now being made to pay
off the balance of the trust and to
relieve the crowded classroom condi-
tons by acquiring more property in a
locality which has proved to be adj
mirably suited to the demands of the
work done by the university, clearly
is good sense And so is the frank
ness highly commendable with which
the university officials place before the
public the details of its business and
standing.
The policy of the George Washing
ton University is that of good sense
and honesty. All who know its prcsi-
dent, Admiral Stockton, will realize
that its policy cannot be anything else.
The institution has no secrets from
the community. offers its best service
to it. and confidently looks to receive
the needed strength from the citizens
of the District.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1913.


Before the appointed time the Presi-
dent appeared in the crowded House
of Representatives and read his brief
message to the assembled Congress
The message confines itself to very
general outline of the Presidents ideas
on the tariff and the need for down
ward revision. 1t is worthy OF note
that the President seems to speak from
the industrial and the, consumers view
point. rather than that OF revenue
only He objects 10 tariff which
j. made by concerted arrangement of
those who benefit by it, and wants one
which will keep our citizens hustling
10 stay in the game.
This is quite different from the ar
eumcnts used by Mr.. Underwood in
;hc tariff hearings in answer to those
manufacturers who spoke for great
moderation and care in reductions so
aS not to injure business. Mr.. In
dcrWood explained that the question is
one OF raising revenue, and he could
not consider the matter from the pro-
lection viewpoint. On the contrary,
Mir Wilson does not wish 10 I'M ure
our industries. The Herald believes,
however. that they both want lower
rates than is justified at present, though
We are against the present high tariff,
as we are likewise opposed to fsec
trade
The Democrats will fail to find in
the reduced tariff the great remedy for
the high cost Of living-they will raise
enough revenue by means of direct
take, and some tariff, but they will not
80 easily help the consumer (our old
friend the Ultimate one) to buy
what he needs and wants at lower
prices.
NJ lis close. the message refers to
other reforms in the future. and names
banking and currency as the most ur-
gent alter the tariff.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
What the Gettysburg Reunion Means

Preparations are being perfected by
the State OF Pennsylvania for 10000
persons to attend the Blue and Gray
reunion at Gettysburg. We do not be-
lievc that so many survive who fought
upon the historic field Gen. Meade
had about 10000 men, and Lee about
10000. Those who were there and
still are among the living must be at
least three score and ten or Older.
The participants at the reunion will
present a sight that the world never
has looked upon before, for there is
no record of any civil war. which
shows that those who were facing each
other in death grip ever met in COM
mon fellowship fifty years later, all
citizens of a country united by ties
stronger than ever before. The third
generation after the War of the
Roses in England continued to trans
NIT to its posterity the bitterness of
strife And long after all those who
had an active part in the French rev.
olution were dead, its influence was
felt in the politics of the country.
But here, after fifty years. and while
there arc survivors by the thousands of
the greatest civil war in history, are
found men ready to clasp hand in
honest admiration of the bravery
shown on either side. Men of the
South have testified that Lincoln is un-
derstood better now in most commit
mites there, also that there has been
a great revulsion of feeling as to
Grant And so it is toward Lee in the
North, where there is more honest
recognition of his eminence as a great
leader and of the nobility of his char
acter.
Gettysburg will present a real re-
union of men that did the fighting,
and who knows, it may not be many
years before statue of Lee will stand
on Gettysburg field.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
Court Gossip of Interesting
EpentS on Two Continents

The curtain which has so long hung
over the inn II history of the Balkan
League is gradually rising, and each
day adds to our knowledge of that re-
markable combination. Considering the
parties of which IL consists. and their
secular rivalries, the manner in which
the secret has been kept borders on the
miraculous. 1t would be difficult to men,
ton another instance where, under con-
dtionS so disheartening, and full OF
pitfalls, complicated negotiations have
been brought to more successful close.
What surprises the future may have
in store the results which the league al
ready has attained place its advent
among the most notable events of the
century. The most salient facts relating
to the Balkan Alliance, and the exact
character OF the agreements on which it
is based, besides the historic interest.
present considerable practical impOr-
lance, sine many of the questions which
will confront the allies after the res
toration of peace are connected with
those preliminary agreements.
The first steps which eventually led to
the conclusion of the Balkan League.
we're taken in the early autumn Of 1911
Before that date no political under
standing existed between any of the
Balkan states, and the reports spread
by the Hellenic press during the acute
stage Of the Cretan crisis, that Bulgaria
and Greece had settled their differences,
may be dismissed as fiction. When the
present Bulgarian cabinet assumed office
in April. 1911. its hands were unfettered
both as regards to Turkey and the other
neighboring countries.
The last thing that NJ. Question: and
his colleagues thought at first of doing
was to adopt a course that ran in OPP
position to their well-known Turkophile
proclvities II was not until some months
later. after repeated rebuffs had been
experienced in Constantinople, that they
gave up all hope of reaching a friendly
arrangement with the Young Turks In
power.
The new orienta ton in bulgarian for
eign policy synchroniZed with the out
break of the Turco-Italian war. AL
though its determining causes had little
to do with that event. the example set
by Italy greatly helped to crystaliZe the
then vague aspirations of the Balkan
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09

peoples. The Bulgarian government.
which otherwise might have let itself be
drifted by mere chance. was reused to
activity, and lost no time in preparing
for possible developments An entente
with Servia was deemed of prime
urgency, and measures were taken to
sound the views of the Servian govern
ment. AS some doubts were entertained
about the success of the negotiations, it
was decided to act with the greatest cir
cumspection and to keep the matter in
absolute secrecy. only two or three per-
sons being taken into the confidence Of
King Ferdinand and his minister. NJ.
Gueshoff. The first meeting of the latter
with DR.. Milovanovitch. the Servian
premier. took place in the night train
from Belgrade to Sofia. and resulted in
establishing complete accord between
the views of the two statesmen. Some
weeks later regular pour parlers were be-
gun at the Bulgarian capital. Servia be-
ing represented by the envoy, Dr. Spalai-
kovitch.
The object aimed at was to reconcile the
diverging interests of the two nations in
Macedonia, and in that way tc prepare
the ground for combined action on be-
half of Macedonian autonomy. At the
express wish of the Servian government
the method adopted was to define the
vaious districts in that province which
were to form their respective spheres OF
influence. In view Of this circumstance, it
is surprising that complaints OF the ter
ritorial redistribution should be heard in
quarters to whose initiative the scheme
was mainly due The negotiations lasted
nearly three months, and the treaty was
only signed on March IL, 1872 During
the interval secret meetings between the
principal actors took place, and there was
a constant exchange OF ideas between
Sofia and Belgrade; but everything was
managed with such discretion that no in
formation leaked out.
During the summer of that year, while
King Ferdinand was paying an official
visit to the Courts OF Vienna and Berlin,
lie Temps. of Paris, announced the
conclusion of the Servo-Bulgarian alli-
ance. This news appeared so unlikely
that no one felt inclined to attach much
Importance to 1t, while most people de-
tected in the report an intrigue intended
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
BOUGHT BRIDE FOR $2,25O.
Gypsy Now Charged with DesertiOr
and Threatening Her Relatives.

Nashville Dispatch to the New York Herald
That he paid $3.50 for his wife is
the remarkable statement made by
Frank Thompson. twenty oneAyears of
age, a Gypsy. He says that two years
ago, in Oklahoma, he married Mary
Demetro, and that the money for her
purchase was paid to her father, Eli
Demetro, by his father.
Thompson Is in the Davidson Coun-
ty Jail. charged with wife desertion
and attempted assault upon her rela-
tives. The woman's brother asserts
that Thompson eloped with the girl,
and that when called to account
threatened the lives Of the family Ac-
cording to Thompson, a ceremony that
lasted three days marked the union of
himself and his wife.
Thompson came to Nashville recently
from Chicago. When he arrived he
sent for his wife to join him, but she
failed to do so. Investigation disclosed
the fact that her parents and other
relatives were preventing her, meet
ing her husband, and his arrest fol-
lowed when he insisted that his wife
be allowed to come to him.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09

IN spoiI the cordiality of the royal re-
ception.
The Servo Bulgarian treaty established
a political alliance between the two sister
nations, whose primary object Is TO work
in common for the establishment or SELF
government in Macedonia. Ii Is not
war treaty, but a peace treaty ana was
submitted as such to the approval Oh
some friendly powers But It's authors
were not oversanguine of the success OF
a peaceful policy, and the treaty stpu-
lated that, should the necessity arise, the
contracting parties would wage JOINT war
against Turkey. IL also determined that
in such a case the territorial arrange
ments with respect to an autonomous
Macedonia would be respected in the re-
partition of the conquered lands
Shar-Dag was accepted as rough line
of dema rcat iorf between the Servian ana
Bulgarian spheres OF influence, every
thing to the north being left to Servia'
while the districts to the south were
recognized belonging TO bulgaria.
Several important districts, n uinaho1o'
ITskub. Kitchevo and Dibra, were omit
ted from the list. and their apportlonment
was reserved for the decision or the
Russian Emperor. Some time atter the
treaty of alliance had been signed the
rately. and consented to act a mediator
Russia. however. had no share in the
elabora ton of the treaty. and when the
present crisis began. no power did more
to dissuade the Balkan states from pre-
cipitating a war which endangered their
very existence than Russia.
Besides this political treaty. Bulgaria
and Servia also concluded a military
convention as their original plan did not
provide for armed intervention as an I'M
avoidable necessity. negotiations for this
convention were initiated at a later
period, when all hope of peaceful settle
ment of the question had been given
I'D. The best proof that the Balkan
countries did not from the beginning con-
template an attack on Turkey, will be
found in the circumstance that the mill
tary convention was signed almost stimuli
taneousIy with their decision to mobilize
The agreement in question deals with
the military obligation of the allies in
the event of war with Turkey. 1t lays
down the general lines of their respective
duties and establishes a cooperation
between the armies of the allies in the
various theaters OF war. A great deal
has been written on the subject of spe-
cial services rendered by some of the
allies Many seem to be under the i'm
preston that cach-ally acts for himself,
and had no concern i'm the military
operations of the rest This is in direct
opposition both to the political treaties
and the military conventions. The war
is one and indivsble, and Turkey is as
much the enemy of Bulgaria in Epirus
as she is the enemy of Servia in Thrace.
Military assistance rendered by some of
the contracting parties beyond their
natural spheres of action. far from Gre
ating titles to special remuneration. is
no more than literal fufiIlment OF
treaty obligations. FLANEuR.
troIy1ight 1915 b. Court Gossip - indicated
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-09
What Mexico Needs.
M the New York Globe

From the New York Globe.
Mexico just now needs" says De la
Rarra, who apparently has ambition II
lie the Pecksniff and Jriah Heep of
Mexico. 1.-The earnest sympathy and sup
port of the people of the United States in
the serious efforts her best citizens are
making to restore order and open to the
world the country's vast resources"
The best way for Mexico to get thus
sympathy and support is to lesson the
number of murderers and supporters OF
murder connected with her government.
The blood of an assassinated President
and Vice President is over Huerta and
his associates. The world will not have
confidence in Mexico until she puts CIV
ilized men in charge OF her affairs and
Furnishes those responsible for the recent
atrocities.
Ambassador Wilson is not likely long
To remain at his post. IL Is not con-
eeivahle that his Willingness TO associate
with and To be errand boy for Huer:a
viii commend him to the new adminis-
tration at Washington. There must be
restoration of legal and constitutional
and nonmurderous government i'm Mexico
before there is talk Of sympa&hy end
support.