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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06

the reJuvenated herdic line, has sent
letter to President Wilson. asking the
chief executive to study Endorsements of
candidates for commissonerships with a
view to their relation to the two princi-
pal electric railway systems.
Says They Defy Law.
Mr.. Lincoln recalls the law requiring
the rehabilitation of the 10th street herdic
line and the reciprocal issuance Of trans
fers between it and the Washington Rail-
Way and Electric and Capital Traction
companies.
Both Of these companies are defin-
antly preventing the enforcement of an
act Of Congress requiring free transfers
between their lines and the coaches of
this company" Mr.. Lincoln comments.
And he thinks the President should be
careful to that the new Commission
public utilities commission in the Dis
trict. will be impartial in acting upon the
enforcement Of this law.
Letter to the President.
Mr.. Lincoln's letter says:
'As q citizen and as one interested in
the ownership and operation of public
utility, / venture to write to you in re-
gard TO the appointments to be made to
fill vacancies In the office of Commissioner
of the District of Columbia.
In addition to their already large pow
ers the Commissioners have lately been
invested with sweeping authority and
control over public utilities. BY the very
comprehensiveness of the law comforting
this authority the Commissioners have
been provided with powers containing the
possibilities of great evil as well of
great good. In Hmproper hands these
powers could be welded against the pub
lie interest quite as effectively as they
COULD in proper hands, be used to pro-
tect the public.
1T is evidently most necessary that the
Commissioners to be appointed, and who
will form q majority of the board. should
not onll be men of the highest character
and qualifications, but. as well, men who
would be free from bias.
Wants Endorsements Scrutinized.
May J. therefore. respectfully suggest
that the Endorsements of candidates for
the conlmissionerships and the influence
that is brought to bear in their behalf
be scrutinized with view to determining
to what extent these Endorsements and this
influence emanate from the two principal
electric railway companies of Washing
ton. list of whose directors is here
with attached.
Both of these companies are now de-
family preventing the enforcement of an
act of Congress requiring free transfers
between their lines and the coaches of
this company. and l think it is fair in
ference from their attitude in this and
other matters that their influence is not
likely to be used to secure the appoint
ment of Commissioners who, as members
of the public utilities board. would be
strictly impartial in passing upon the
rights of the public as well as the rights
of the corporations coming under the
supervision of the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06
Personal to Court Offended.

Inc sentence IN contempt cases. re-
marked another lawyer is peculiarly
personal to the court offended A far
stricter rule should be applied in these
cases than in criminal sentences, which
the court has determined it NAV no,
disturb.
Some lawyers expressed the view that
the appellate tribunal might have the
authority to change the sentence by de-
creasing it. as was done in the Com
pefS case.
Such modification of sentence If was
pointed out. was approved by the Su-
preme Court of the United States in
cases arising in the Philippine Islands
The change may be made when the re-
viewing court. it was suggested. is of
opinion there had been a gross abuse of
discretion.
The action of the appellate court
caused quite a discussion In reference
to this power today about the city hall.
Houston Case Recalled.
The finding of the appellate court
that contempt of court is not a crime,
because ii is not bar to criminal pros
ecution, is sustained in an opinion of
the old circuit court, the predecessor of
the present Supreme Court Of the Dis
trict of Columbia
Chief Justice Cranch delivered the opin-
ion in the celebrated case of Sam Hous-
ton of Texas. who was hailed before the
bar of the House of Representatives and
sentenced for an assault on William
Stanbery of Ohio. a member of the House.
for words spoken in debate rejecting
upon Mr.. Houston. After the conviction
and sentence in the House an indictment
was laid against Mr.. Houston for as
sault and battery. The court held the
action in the contempt proceedings was
no bar TO criminal prosecution.
Further Proceedings Not Determined
Attorney Jackson II. Ralston. when
seen this afternoon. had not determined
on the procedure to be adopted by the
labor leaders in reference to further
court proceedings. He said Mr. Com
pers, although quite i'll. has been ap-
prised of the action of the Court of
Appeals. but is in no physical condition
TO discuss the case
The general impression about the city
hall is that GOmpers and his associates
may sue out a writ of error to remove
the case to the United States Supreme
Court for review under the provision of
law that a constitutional question is in
volved. Mr.. Ralston was not prepared
to admit or deny that this course would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06
First Public Recognition.

Mr.. Brashear is maker of mathemat-
ical instruments at Allegheny, Pa. He
was an intimate friend of Prof. Lang
lay. and helped when Prof. Langley. in
charge of the Allegheny observatory
was making his first experiments in
aerodynamics. DIR. Bell was, of course,
a friend Of Prof. Langley for years,
and was one of the few men who was
in his confidence during the trying
years at the Smithsonian. when he was
cropping in the dark to gather material
for designing the first flying machine.
He was present at the first successful
trial of the aerOdrome and took a pho
tograph of il. the first picture ever
made of flying machine in operation.
DR. Bell, afterward. with Prof. Lang
ley's consent. wrote short account of
the flight that was communicated to
the French Academy of Sciences, and
this was the first and almost the only
public recognition that the achievement
received during Prof Langley's life
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06
WEATHER.

Cloudy tonight Wednesday un-
settled and cooler: light variable
winds. becoming west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06
UNVE|L A TABLET
TO PROF. LANGLEY
Scientists Pay BeIated Tribute
to Memory of Aviation
Pioneer.
WAR COLLEGE FLIGHTS
A PART OF PROGRAM
Original Model of Langley Machine
on Exhibition at Smithsonian
Institution.

After an interval of seventeen years.
scientific America and scientific Washing
ton in particular. this afternoon paid
belated tribute to the memory OF the
late Samuel Pierpont Langley. former
secretary Of the Smithsonian Institution.
and the first man In the world TO fly an
aeroplane.
The Aero Club OF Washington has for
the past three years observed Langley
day. May 6. which was the date of the
historic flight This year in the vestibule
OF the old Smithsonian building. where
Prof. Langley had his office. the Smith
sonian regents unveiled bronze me-
mortal tablet. designed by John Flanagan
of New York. There We're addresses in
honor OF Prof. Langley by John A. Bra
shear and Alexander Graham Bell At
the same time the Langley medal estab-
iished by the Smithsonian for valuable
contributions to aerodynamics, was pre-
sented to Glenn IL. Curtiss in recognition
OF his development of the hydro-aero-
plane and to Gustave Eiffel of Paris 70,
hs la boratOry researches i'm aero
dynamics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06

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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23
Suffrage News.

Referring to the International Wo-
man Suffrage convention in Budapest,
Hungary, next June, the Woman,s
Journal says: For the first time in
the woman movement it is expected
that Hindu, Buddhist, Comfucian, Mo-
hammedan, Jewish and Christian Wo-
men will sit together in Congress,
uniting their voices in common plea
for the liberation of their sex from
those artificial determinations which
every political and religious system
has directed against them"
Preparations for the great suffrage
parade March 8, the day before the
inauguration, are going forward rapid
~. Headquarters have been opened
(at 1920 F Street, Washington, D. c.,
with Miss Alice Paul, representing the
National Woman Suffrage Associa.
tion,, as chairman of Procession Com
mittee.
in his inaugural address at Albany
on New Years Day, Governor Sulzer
of New York, said: TN accordance
with the pledge made to the people
in the recent campaign, recommend
that the Legislature declare in favor
of submitting to the voters of the
state, as soon as possible; the Woman
Suffrage Constitutional Amendment"
New Jersey suffragists are prepar-
ing plans for an active campaign this
year. AS soon as the Legislature con-
venes a bill will be introduced asking
for a constitutional amendment ex-
tending the franchise to women.
A statewide campaign is about to
be inaugurated in Tennessee, and the
question of equal suffrage will be sub
mitted to the incoming legislature for
the purpose of securing an amend
ment to the state constitution.
The Woman Suffrage hearing be-
fore the House Committee at Mont
pelier, Vermont, few days ago, re-
vealed the fact that in the city of
Manchester two-thirds of the proper
ty is owned by women, and almost all
the remaining one-third by non-resi-
dents.
Now comes Saskatchewan demand
ing votes for woen. An animated de-
bate on the subject is in progress in
the Provincial Legislature, and latest
reports show the opposition to be in
the minority.
Darkest Nevada" is the point on
which suffrage workers will concen-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23
: :. OF Interest To Women :.
A Department Store
Woman Clerk


She rubbed her clothes, boiled, starch
ed, blued and ironed them. This
was done after a day of standing in
the store, and was a vital strain
more severe, perhaps, than may be
readily realized by those who never
have had occasion to do it. Sales
women and shop girls have not the
powerful wrists and muscular waists
OF accustomed Washer-Women; and in
most instances are no better fitted to
perform laundry work than washer
women would be fitted to make sales
and invoice stock.
Custom requires the same freshness
in a saleswoman's shirtWaist, ties and
collars as in those of women of larger
incomes. In New York the amount
the girls of the st. Georges Working
Club found it absolutely necessary to
spend in year for laundering clothes
was almost half as much as the
amount spent for lodging, and nearly
two-thirds as much as the amount
originally spent for clothing.
Where this large expense for rlaun-
dry cannot be met financially by sales
women, it has to be met by sheer per-
sonal strength. One department store
girl, who had to be especially neat
because she had a position in the
shirt waist department told us that
sometimes after days standing in
the store, she worked over tubs and
ironing boards at home till twelve at
night
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

is. said to- be 0nesof itheaHlosts intellec-
tual women in France, been
active lin the rapidlysgToWingi Femih=
list movement for the last fifteen
years., t4,,1 epsSt t% q
Miss Margaret Foley the well
known Boston SUI Eragistya has been zap.
pointed a. tHuustees tofqthei Ghildren's
institutions Department. by the mayor
of her city MissqF Foley is one of the
mOstsuceessfuie campaign workers in
the suffrage ongRniza tiona3i6R ass1a
ii The Prussi4na Woman Suffrage LAS
ISOLATION u has ssissuedgsas dpamphlet
which shows the necessity for profess
sional women too be represented on
boards OF strade, 0noW .thatEtfe number
of women engaged in earning stheir
own liYinge Isl increasing ESQ greatly
and that their rights in7Nariouss direc7
tons areabeginning to be3reeognized.
For the first time indERglish history
al woman has been admitted by the
Royal GpllegeIof Surgeonsdin' London
is icentiate in dental asurgerya Miss
Lily Payne els the young woman who
has been thus hOnured. II 4ies l
The progress cot i the women OF
India is evidenced by; the fact that the
latest number sofilthe most 3impprtant
magazine published in Bombay con
tains twelve leading articles written
by 5Womens the subjects including
White Slavery Social and Political
discussions;5a s WE'LL ASH Educational
Religious and Philanthropic questions.
In accordance with the newly EN-
acted ordinance aof.Std Paul. Mimi,
two women have just been amounted
regular members of the Police Depart-
ment of that city. The duty which
deY0lyes upon atheses women is that
OF watching dance halls Wherenthes ap-
thoritiea claim young boys and girls
are surrounded by bad influences.
Women teaehersD of Glasgow Scot
land,r are campaigning in favor of
equal pay oreqtal york. with fair
prospect Of winning victory, public
sentiment being on their side gen.
orally. : 10 = - - 80
The last OFFICIAL =, statistics from
France show that there are 10, IN, 9S2
women in, that, country that 1857, 900
are, earning their living \ in profes-
sions,. trades or industries that B.
100000 are at, the head of establish
ments in a trade, profession, or indus
try; while 100000 are employed as
clerks, assistants, or IN domestic ser
vice. !. ..5.g4s ...s<z..3, =. .a.a -
Ht is not generally known that there
are. upwards of four, thousand women
ministers in the United States. Many
Of the state spffraga ORGANIZATIONS :
thgelgR9uf the Onion are under ne
eadersihps Of women MI ministers whose
expert in the various j, missions I1
have Brought them, like settlement
workers; into the suffrage ra1 Itl5
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

the next two years the franchise will
be extended to Belgian women. Two
of the political parties have included
q woman suffrage plank in their
platforms, and the third party is not
opposed to the measure.
In Norway, a woman, Fri. Elise
Sem, has been appointed to the re
sponsible position of Counsel for the
Defense at the High Court OF Justice,
an Office never before held by a Wo-
man in Norway. Fri. Sem is known
throughout her country as one of the
cleverest lawyers of the day. Al
though she passed her examinations
in 1901 abe was not permitted to prac-
tice until 1904, when, owing to a de-
termined agitation on the part > of
Norwegian women, law was passed
granting women the right OF entry to
the legal profession. ss
During the debate on the Woman
Suffrage bill in the, Danish Paghar
ment, a member Of the, Conservative
Party-which is the only party oppos-
ing; the biIl-said: st is hardly pessi-
BILE to resist this reform any longer,
it has so many warm and eager
AlGAuS IL fa11ss PO1teENcAAi sPA1 %So.
The greatest deputation aeYer sent
to the British Parliament in the inter
est of Woman Suffrage Is being OF
ganized and will be- entirely represelr
tatiYe of the working people. Self
supporting women from all sections
of the United Kingdom will cooper
ate in presenting their petition to the
Prime Minister in behalf Of votes for
women.
Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, who was
elected a state senator of Colorado
in November, was duly installed in
office on January 2, amid the applause
of all the masculine members Of the
Upper House, who gave her the first
choice of seats.
In view of the assertion so frequent
[Iy made that French women do not
want the ballot, it is interesting to
note that woman, Marie Bernhard,
has announced that she is a candi-
date for the Presidency of France,
merely as test case. Mile. Bernhard
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23
ALL WOOL TROUSERS
- 4 $50 GRADE
Nc 81 less e

trate for victory this year, as soon as
the Legislature votes to submit a wo-
an suffrage. amendment to the cleo
tors of the state.
Sixty-three meetings in progress at
one time was the record made by the
woman Suffrage Party of New York
on New Years eve, when every As
sem3ly and Senatorial District Of the
city was visited by band of outdoor
speakers who held meetings In front
of the homes Of the newly.slected
legislators and reminded them of the
pledges made by all the political par
ties of New York state. ~.
In Tasmania the Parliamentary vote
was granted to women in 1904, and
that they lave used it Conscientious
ly is generally conceded. They take
keen interest in the welfare of the
children of the country and are credit.
ed with the passage 5of many, reform
laws for the greater protection Of
children.
The Moscow Branch of the Russian
League for Women's Rights is collect
ing a library of books. on. questions
concerning women, organizing lecture
courses, and has an economic section
which is amassing Information, and
statistics dealing with conditions un-
der which women students work and
live. i -
Students and faculty of the Indiana
State Normal School have organized
a suffrage club with ESQ charter mem
bers. The association includes both
men and women, and a membership
of 500 within two weeks is the mark
Iset by the organizers.
Well known Catholic women of New
York have formed league, which, in
addition to pursuing an active cam
paign for industrial reforms for wo-
men and children, includes a strong
plea for the ballot.
The Belgian Federation for Woman
Suffrage has become an auxiliary to
the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance, and Belgium will be among
the countries represented at the
Budapest conference next June. It is
among the probabilities that within
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
; . = - 3 y . F4t4tHfsStt<
Unexpected Guests.

Unexpected Guests.
We live some distance from the
city, thus we can not run OUT to
make extra purchases. In order to
be prepared for the unexpected
guests l have set aside a little cup
board in which I keep ported meats,
YegetabIes, nuts, raisins. canned
soups, etc. Also a few Jars of each
kind of pickles, preserves and jam,
several glasses of each kind of jelly.
There Isl always a nice cake and
some cookies,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23
INVALID DISHES.

The greatest Importance IS to be
attached to: the preparation of food
for the sick. OfteHfimes the diet is
OF much more importance than the
drug.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

The balance had been paid out for
necessaries not itemized-heavy win
ter underwear, stockings, petticoats,
carfare, vacation expenses, every lit
tie gift she had made, and for recrea-
ton. She told nothing about church
attendance and church collections.
The Sum of 1t All.
Five years of her life were gone
and she was in a poorer condition,
financially and physically, than when
she began the task, although she had
had no serious sickness. Yet she was
i'll, thin-blooded and nervous. She
had given practically all her time and
force to the work, and had not re-
ceived a return sufficient to preserve
her health for the future, or to sup
port her in the present without the
aid of philanthropy. She belonged to
no benefit society, and, of course, had
not been able to save any money in
any way even with the assistance
given her by the Home.
Did Her Own Laundry.
Most working girls do their own
laundry, and Lucy Cleaver did hers.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

Lucy Cleaver was a young Ameri-
can woman of twenty-five, who had
entered New York department
store when she was aged twenty, at
a salary of $3.50 a week.
In the course of her five years SER
vice her salary had been raised a
dollar. She stood for nine hours a
day. If, in dull moments of trade,
she made use of the seats lawfully
provided for employees, the first floor
walker who saw her seated gave or
,ders that she do something.
During the week before Christmas,
She worked, standing, over fourteen
hours each day-from eight to twelve
the afternoon, and from half past six
fifteen in the morning, one to six in
in the evening till half past eleven
lat night. Standing for so many hours,
becomes so painful to the feet that
some of the girls eat nothing at noon
that they may give themselves the
temporary relief of foot bath. At
Christmas time her employers gave
her a Christmas present of $20-a
Christmas gift" nothing was said
for pay for overtime.
- ne ududS0I dlSO dltOWSO uCI d
weeks vacation with pay in the sum
mer and presented her $40 as a gift.
She and the FIoor-WaIker Disagreed.
After nearly five years in this posi-
ton she had a disagreement with the
floor walker and was at once dis
missed.
Then she spent over a month in a
fruitless search for work, and finally
obtained position as stock girl in
a Sixth Avenue suit store at 81 a
week-a sum less than the wage for
which she had begun such employ
ment five years before. With few
weeks, dullness of trade caused her
dismissal, and she again was facing
a period of unemployment
Her income for the year had been
1921. She lived in a large, pleasant
Home for Girls, where she paid only
$3.50 a week for board and room
she shared with her sister, half what
she would have paid for like accom-
modations at the ordinary boarding
house. Without the philanthropy of
the Home she could not have made
both ends meet" 1t was fifteen min
utes walk from the store, and by TAX
ing this walk twice day she saved
carfare and the price of luncheon.
She did her own washing, and as
she could not spend further energy in
sewing she bought cheap ready-made
clothing. This she found great ex-
pense. Cheap waists wear out rapid
ly.~ AS nearly as she kept or could
recall it her expense account was as
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

"A Minnesota health official says
that the only place to kiss a woman
is on her photograph. Not on your
tintype- =
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-23

This cupboard is never called upon
to furnish food for our regular meals.
It remains supreme as an extra"
In this way my mind is at rest.
Guests may arrive without warning,
or one may have little "feasts" after
the theater without interfering with
the ordinary household routine Since
seeing the despair, the hustle and
worry Of my neighbors, / view my
little cupboard with increasing salts
faction, and think others might like
to give my idea a trial.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-25
COTTON ACTIVE
DURING WEEK
Early Killing Frost Over the
Cotton Belt Excites
Market

New York. October 24.-It has been
an extremely active and excited week
in the cotton market owing to the ap-
pearanee of abnormal1y early killing
frost over greater part of the belt
Prices have made new high records for
the season. with December contracts
selling a shade over the 14-cent mark,
or more than SIS per bale above the
low level of last August. Realizing be-
came very heavy around the figures,
checking the advance and while pri-
vate crop advices from the south have
remained of a very bullish average SEN
timent toward the end of the week was
somewhat more reactionary or I'M
settled. Killing frosts have been report
ed at scattering points in the south
earlier than the present date during
some previous seasons, but local cot
ton people claim that killing temper
atures have been more general this
year than during any recent year be-
fore the end of October and local bulls
base prediction of still much higher
prices on renewed confidence in small
estimates of the yield. Such private
crop estimates as have been published
during the week have ranged from
about 1a,000,000 up to 1430O 900 bales,
but most of these figures are said to