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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS
PARTY REORGANIZATION
Law Body of Republican National
Organization to Meet in Wash
ington Tuesday.

Preliminary steps to determine some of
the pressing reorganization plans which
the republican national committee is CON
sidering will be taken on Tuesday. when
the law committee of the national COM
mittee meets in the Willard Hotel. The
committee is empowered to draft an
opinion as to whether the national com
mittee has the power to change the basis
of representation at republican national
conventions: whether it can change the
methods of choosing delegates. and
whether it has power to call a special
national convention. probably next spring
for consideration of the two previous
questions. The judgment OF this special
law committee will be reported to the
national committee when il meets here
December -.
The members of the law committee are
Charles i. Warren. national ommittee-
man of Michigan. Representative Mann
Of Illinois, Senator Jones of Washington,
Roy West of Chicago, and James A.
Fowler. Illinois.
1t is believed the law committee will
decide that the national committee has
not the power itself to change the basis
of representation and the method of
choosing delegates but that it has the
power to call a special convention for de-
Gliding the issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

to Washington is along the route traV-
ersed last March by Gen Rosalie Jones
and her armiette of suffrage mixers. Pro-
prietors of egg farms along this route
declare that egg production fell almost
to zero within month or SO after Gen.
Jones and her troops passed along ana
that the hens have never gone back on
the job. poultryman who papered his
henhouse with newspapers containing IL
Illustrated reports of the hike says his
hens have not laid a single egg since
the papering was done. and even repa-
pering with the society pages of the sun
day papers has not sufficed to induce the
hens to take more optimistic view OF
the Importance of their sex.
Treasury officials yesterday declared
there was no truth in the report that
owners of 100 or more hens are subject
to the income tax, regardless Of any lfml-
tations, immunities or exemptions And
il was stated there is no foundation Tor
the rumor that a dozen fresh eggs which
the owner wished to deposit in the vaults
of the Treasury were refused for the rea-
son that it was considered the building is
not sufficiently well guarded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Portsmouth, N. H.. Man Increases
Conscience Fund.

Saving of conscience on the installment
plan is the moral-financial method Of a
Portsmouth. y. H.. contributor to the ma
tional conscience fund \ one-dollar bill
received yesterday at the White House
and transferred TO the Treasury Depart
rnent was one of a series of such receipts,
apparently from the same sources. The
money was contained in an envelope post
ma rked Portsmouth but containing no
information as tn the sender or the Of
Tense for which he was trying to make
amends.
Four two-cent stamps were also con-
tributed to the conscience fund in an
envelope postmarlled Putnam, Conn.
\ troubled conscience in New York city
also increased the same fund by 81, with
out explanation.
"A troubled conscience read slip
of paper inclosed-sent a ten-dollar, gold
certificate to the Treasury Department
yesterday. in an envelope postmarked on
"A train of the st. Paul and Jamestown
railway. The letter could have been
mailed at any one of the many points
touched by the railway. The money
was added to the conscience fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
HOME CANNING REDUCES
YOUR LIVING EXPENSES
So Declares a Specialist Who Advo-
Gates Consumption by House
wives of Surplus Products

How much the home canning Of fruits
and vegetables may reduce the cost of
living is not generally appreciated, states
a specialist of the bureau of plant indus
try, Department of Agriculture in a re-
port just issued on the subject of can
ming such articles
The writer states that even those who
are accustomed to use a supply of canned
goods in the winter do not realize that
they sometimes pay transportation on
goods from distant parts of the country.
when there is a surplus of the same
product in their own vicinity during the
summer months. which might have been
saved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
GIFT TO MISS WILSON
MAY Be RARE JEWELRY
Members of House Have Not
Yet Chosen Their Bridal
Present.

1t is expected that the gift Of the House
of Representa- tives to ldiss Jessie Wilson.
the White House bride, will be jewelry
in some rare and beautiful form.
The committee of representatives, form
ed to act for the House, is at present in
favor of a gift of adornment of some sort
for several reasons. All of the reasons
are more or less personal, and the mem
bers of the committee decline to talk of
the matter for publication, but if the
gift were to be selected today it is GER
tainly true that it would not be a massive
silver service or plate or some such
heavy article but would be something en-
tirely personal to the bride. and gift
which would be distinctly feminine in its
sense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

on hand and a large feet OF vessels To
select from. from both river and bay
beds Late yesterday evening eleven YES
sells were lying at the wharf with about
5000 bushels aboard
The wholesale market ranged from 90
TO ~ cents q bushel in large lots. Those
who want to buy by the bushel or less
viii pay this morning from so TO a.,
cents bushel, according TO quality. Tn.
|, oysters now on sale at the wharf are
said 10 he particularly fine in fiavor.
though il is said they are not large in
size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Vegetables Promote Health.

IF every family would provide diet of
fruits and vegetables for every day in the
year. he declares, they would have bet
ter health He says that more home
canning. done at the proper season. would
enable the average family to have always
the proper quality of canned products.
and would save an astonishing amount OF
food that gots to waste every year.
1T is estimated that over 30 per cent
of all the vegetables. greens. fruits and
berries that grow in this country go to
waste and are actually lost to those who
need them. This is simply because house
wives have not learned to care for these
surplus products efficiently and to make
them available for the winter months by
canning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

erty. These French patents are still in
force and every manufacturer in the
United States who produces such articles
during the three years covered by the
Kahn act is Immediately liable to me
and irtprisonment and may be compelled
to surrender all the profits he has made
during such three years.
On the face of 1t, il the manufacturers
prove to have the right view. Congress
viii remedy the defect Representative
IOldfield. chairman of the patents COM
mittee. has promised to take the matter
up in December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
DROP IN OYSTER DEMAND.
Supply at Wharf Market in Excess
of the Sales.

There has been somewhat of drop in
the demand for oysters in the shell. and
as a consequence vessels arriving here
from down-river points with oysters are
not able to dispose of their cargoes as
quickly as they did early last week
Those who call at the wharf market
today after their Sunday feast of freshly
shucked oysters viii find plenty of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Oldfield to Take Matter Up.

"A French manufactures OF automo-
blles. wrote one manufactures to his
congressman may bring his patent to
San Francisco and have it registered
there and absolutely prevent the manu-
facture of automobiles, in the United
mobile for the exposition. 1t is an actual
fact that many French patents have been
granted on inventions which have been
generally used in the United States for
many years. and which are public prop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
BOOSTERS Appear Henpecked.

Other -poultrymen report similar con-
di tons in their hen yards and houses.
BOOSTERS, they say. for several months
past have worn a henpecked look, and
go about with heads and tails dropping,
while the hens assume truculent man
ner, ahd in some. instances refuse TO
permit the chanticleers to reside in the
same houses with them, or even tn eat
from the same food receptaces.
1t is said that the greatest shortage in
egg production in Tie section adjacent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Memoranda.

Barge PatUxent at Occoquan 10 be
shifted To Somerset Beach. Va. schooner
Cora Mckinney vii! go 10 a down-fiver
point 10 load back to this city: schooner
5. {. colbourn is due at this city with
oysters from the Potomac beds. schooner
Edwin and Maude has sailed for New
bern. y. C., To load lumber back to this
city: schooner Oscar. at Alexandria. will
return TO a Potomac point TO load pulp
wood. schooner G. Il. Shepherd is at a
Virginia point TO load lumber for this
market; sloop Flora Elsie is exported in
Coan river loading railroad Ties for Alex
and ria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

Practically all the members or the bar
Of Shenandoah county Va, nave signed
a paper indorSing Circuit Co}trt Jud..
Thomas Walter Harrison Of Winchester
FOR n position on the bench of the Vir-
SiEia supreme co3rt of appeals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
MANUFACTURERS WANT
KAHN LAW AMENDED
Claim "Joker" Clause Leaves
American Patents Open to
Foreign Pirating.

Nearly every member of Congress has
been begged by the manufacturers of his
district to have the Kahn law amended
so that American patents may not be
open to the merciless copying pirating
of the manufacturers of the rest of the
world, and this question. which today is
agitating American manufacturers almost
as much as the tariff bill did a few
| months ago, probably will receive a
swift settlement soon after Congress
convenes for the regular session in De-
cember.
The Kahn act. passed for the express
purpose of encouraging foreign exhibits
at the San Francisco exposition, contains
a clause which thousands of American
manufacturers today regard as a serious
joker. as they claim ii would allow a
| foreign imitator of American patent
to gain exclusive control of the Ameri-
can market for a period of three years
by exhibiting one sample of his initiated
product at the San Francisco exposition.
Stipulations of Act.
This act makes it unlawful for any
manufacturer in the United States Ito
copy. initiate, reproduce or republish
any pattern, model design, trade mark
| or manufactured article protected by the
| laws of any foreign country by registra-
| ton, copyright, patent or otherwise.
| which shall be imported for exhibition
at the Panama-Pacific international eN-
| position and there exhibited =
Manufacturers believe that under this
act any citizen of Greenland or Peru OF
any other country can select some prof
| liable American product, take its trade
mark to the patent office register it As
| the trade mark of the foreign concern
upon the importation at San Francisco
of single one of the articles in ques-
| ton. and under the Kahn act as read
| by these protesting manufacturers, the
| American who has the rightful claim
would be Immediately liable to fine ard
| imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Lawmakers Amused.

Members of the House have read with
considerable amusement of the chase
through New York of a flock of news
paper reporters who acted under the
misapprehension that Miss Genev1eve
Clark daughter of the Speaker of the
House. went shopping to make the final
decision i'm the matter. Miss Clark s
views on the subject of the gift will be
discussed by members of the purchasing
committee" However, the selection OF
the gift lies with the committee. which
includes Representatives. Page, Fowler
Chandler and Mann.
When the matter was first agitated III
the House and was being discussed in
formally by a committee of twenty. some
one suggested that silver service or a
chest of silver be chosen. One of the
members argued that the thing had bet
ter receive careful attention
Il would like to hear what the young
women have to say about this gift. and
looking at the Speaker. who was sitting
in the circle "for instance, | would like
to hear what Miss Genevieve Clark would
raI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooner Martin Wagner. oysters from
the lower Potomac beds, at 18th street
wharf. for the market: schooner May and
Anna Beswick. lumber and railroad ties
from Stratford. Va. at 10th street wharf.
for +. Madison Hail; schooner Eleanor
Russell at Alexandria, from this city, to
load for Posey's wharf. Nd: schooner
Edith VERBAL, railroad ties from a Po-
tomac point for l.. a. Clarke & Son:
L. ;. inspection launch Tarragon. at 9th
street wharf, from Baltimore. schooners
j. X. Dixon, D. j. Ballard and Quick
time and sloop Girls, oysters. at 18th
street wharf from the lower Potomac
beds: schooner l.. w. Courtney, at
Georgetown, from river beds, with oys-
tiers for the market there: schooner John
Fisher AT Alexandria. with pulp wood for
shipment to West Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Hens Have Suffrage Spirit.

In some mysterious manner, he says,
the hens of this entire part OF the coun-
try have become imbued with the SUI
frage spirit, and they have become mill
tant i'll the way best calculated to at
tract attention. They eat just as much
as overland feed is high, too-and they
behave otherwise as normal hens should
But they don't lay. 1t has come 10 such
pass nowadays that the poultryman
who hears a hen cackle pays no atten-
ton whatever to her: he knows she
lying. not laying.
a few days ago. tho Maryland man
continued. .'one III my hens. which used
to be about the best layer | owned. pro-
duced an egg. At least it looked like an
egg but when ] took it from the nest
| noticed that it seemed extraordinarily
light in weight In fact, 1T was mere
featherweight gently cracked the
egg open to what IT contained, and
to my surprise ! found il was merely
an empty shell. there wasn't a thing in
it, But as | looked at the sheI
noticed some peculiar markings, and
looking more closely, | found the mark
ings spelled words. After close scrutiny
| deciphered the words on the shell
They We're No votes. no eggs. OF
course the letters forming the words
were not as regularly formed or as per
feet as printed or even written letters
but there they were easily enough read
when one looked closely.
The owner of this peculiar egg. .. T.
Ieyre. says he has preserved the shell
which lie intends To present to the
Smithsonian Institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

1t matters little what it is that YOU
want-whether situation or a servant
Il want ad in The Star will reach the
person who will fill your need
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

If YOU want work read the Want col
imns OF The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Spend Sleepless Nights.

Later. Miss Clark went to New York to
spend few days with friends: and the
New York reportorial population has
spent sleepless nights ever since endeav-
orng to settle the gift question for the
House of Representatives.
The members who are handling this
question are naturally averse to talking
about the gift or the selection or the ad-
vice they are getting. which is coming
to them from interested and disinterested
sources. Solicitors are dropping in on
the committee members daily, and photo
graphs of every conceivable kind of wed
ding gifts are as common about the Cap
itol as antitrust speeches in mailing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Senate Plans for Gift.

The present which the members of the
Senate are planning to send to Miss
Jessie Wilson may take the form OF
some personal ornament for the bride.
ii diamond pendant or a necklace. II
was said last night
Senator MARITIME of New Jersey, who
with Senators Bacon and Overman had
been III charge of a movement for max
ing IA present to Miss Wilson on the
part of the Senate. said last night that
a meeting would be called for tomor-
row, and that Immediately a canvass
OF the Senate would he made for con-
tiibutions probably OF $40 each with
which to purchase the present He said
that all of the senators to whom he
had spoken had expressed their approval
of the Senates sending present to the
daughter of the President when she is
| married.
Three carloads of horses were shipped
/ from the governments remount station
near Front ROYAL. Va, a few days ago
| 20 fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. and anoth-
er shipment of three carloads was sent
to Fort Riley. Kansas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Sixty-Five Cents a Dozen Is
Asked Here and Dime More
in New York.
SUFFRAGE SPIRIT is HELD
AS CAUSE OF SHORTAGE
Maryland Poultryman Deciphers In
scription or Empty Shell:
No Votes, No Eggs

While experts of the bureau of animal
industry. Department of Agriculture.
and poultry wiseacres all over the coun-
try are cudgeling their brains in vain i'll
the effort to learn the reason for the eN-
listing shortage in eggs, the price of the
hens product continues to soar. Strictly
fresh eggs sold in New York yesterday
for 10 cents per dozen, while the price
in Washington reached 90 cents Friday,
and some dealers yesterday asked 10
cents for eggs of irreproachable ante
cedents.
\ nearby Maryland poultry raiser Of
fers the latest solution of the problem
that has baffied government scientists
who have been trying TO find out why
hens all over the country have gone on
strike This gentleman, whose poultry
plant is extensive and who Is connected
with many larger and smaller egg farms
throughout this region, declares the fem
mist movement is responsible for the re-
fusal of the hens to perform tile leSit-
innate function Of their species and sex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Departures.

Po~er fishing boat Mary F'aGnce. on a
Il hing trip to the lower Potomac: schoon-
er Mabel and Ruth. light. from the East
ern branch. for a Chesapeake bay port,
with gravel: schoone: Charles l.. Rohde.
In tow for Norfolk 10 load lumber back
10 this city: schooner Minerva, light, for
a river point To load cord wood for the
dealers here: schooner Willie Clearance,
light. for Ragged point. after oysters in
the shell for the market here; schooner
Emma r. Angel, light. from Alexandria,
for Norfolk to load coal for Newbury
port Mass; power sloop Hermansou.
tight. from 18th street wharf for Cape
Charles City; Bryant lighter. oyster
shells for Alexandria crushing plant;
schooner May, light for Blakistones
Island after oysters in the shell for the
local market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09
Tugs and Tows.

Tug Walter f. Meade sailed towing
ram schooner for a down-river point
tug D. NJ. Key sailed towing shell-laden
lighter for Alexandria and light schoon-
er for down river: tug NJ. NJ. Davis is
on her way from Norfolk to meet tug
Capt Toby to take two light schooners
from her for Norfolk: tug James o. Car
ter arrived towing oyster-laden vessels
from the lower river: tug Resale sailed
with lighters for digging grounds near
Alexandria tug John Miller arrived with
lighters from Little Hunting creek for
the Eastern branch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09

Will afford prospective purchasers better opportu-
nifty than ever before to secure real bargain We
anticipate disposing of every instrument i'll stock
Our removal sale prices on and used Pianos and
Payer-Pianos are 75 to $3.50 below normal and there
fore, you reap the benefit
The Only Executions to the Above Statement Are the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-09
procession in which $4,000

torch-light procession in which $4,000
Germans will march. On Saturday,
the first jain monument in the United
States will be unveiled in Forest Park
Turner Societies and school children
will take part in the ceremonies. Fred
erich Ludwig jain was the originator
of physical culture as now taught in
the schools and colleges. He started
and was in charge of the work of Civ.
ing German soldiers systematic instruc'
tion in physical culture just prior to
from German soil, and for this work
the war in which Napoleon was driven
he was given q great portion of the
credit for the German victory. Adol
phus Busch is honorary president of the
centennial celebration, Charles Nagel
ex-secretary of commerce and labor;
Frederick W. Lehamann, former solici
general; Max Loehr, German con
sui at st. Louis; Mayor Kiel, and Ber
Altheimer are honorary vice-presidents
The centennial celebration in Germany
will be held next week, and on October
IS, Kaiser Wilhelm will unveil ma
tional monument on the Leipzig bat
| tlefield.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-09

The hop situation is improving stead
lily from the growers standpoint. Buy
ers want hops, but they want to keep
the price at % cents, or perhaps it were
better to say they seem to think they
are not safe in paying more. There is
no getting away from the fact that the
supply is unusually short and that high
prices must prevail. Every report from
the continent and England shows worse
and worse conditions. Growers have
nothing to lose by holding, and every
thing to gain. However, there is con-
siderable trading on 23-cent basis,
which shows that the optimistic opinion
of the Capital Journal is not that of
many of the growers. Wheat is quiet
and Canadian buyers are shipping to
the Orient, which has cut off sales
somewhat on this side Of the line. Poul-
try is in good demand and eggs keep
chasing after beef prices. The hens
are getting their new fall wardrobes
and there will not be much doing in the
egg -prodcing way until February. Pro.
duce market well supplied and prices
unchanged.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-09
HILL MAKES ADDRESS
AT BANKERS MEETING
UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRE.1

Boston, Oct. 9.-Reports Of commit
tees, formal consideration of invita-
tions for the next convention, commu-
nications from the executive council
and report of the committee on nom
nations with addresses by Joseph
Chapman, vice-president Of the North
western National bank, of Minneapolis
and James j. Hill, st. Paul's railroad
king, were included in today's program
for the closing sessions of the thirty
ninth annual meeting of the American
Bankers association. The meetings
were held today in Symphony hall.
Vice-President Chapman s address
followed the report of the committee
on agricultural developments and edu-
cation, James j. Hill took for his sub
ject, agriculture in the United
States" He emphasized the necessity
for better cooperation between bankers
and farmers II the agricultural inter
ests are to continue to develop in
ratio proportionate to the development
and growth Of other business Of the
United States. A radical change in
the present system of loaning money
to farmers, declared the western rail
roader and financier, is absolutely es-
sential to the future success of agri-
culture.
Dr. George E. Vincent, president of
the University of Minnesota, followed
James j. Hill with an address on "The
Tendency Toward Practical Education"
and on "The County Agent" F." This
afternoon the newly elected officers
were formally installed and the con-
vention adjourned sine die, Immediate
ly following the new executive council
met for organization at the CopIey,
Plaza hotel.