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Camden county prison. in default Of
81 900 bail each on a charge OF atrocous
assault. The detectives say the boys
protest that they had no srudge or ILL
will against De Fine and that their only
notion in submitting him to the powerful
shock of compressed air was by way of
playing a Joke" on him. They assert
despite the marks of bruises on his arms
and neck, that they did not force the
tube down his throat. They deny that
they held him down and forcibly kept
the tube i'm his mouth after they had
persuaded him. as they say. to insert it.
1t is expected that the charge against ths
youths will be changed to mans.aughter
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FAMOUS OLD FR|CATE
WILL UNDERGO REPAIRS
Constellation Win Play Part in
Centennial Celebration
in New York.

Memories Of the good old days OF a
ruled the seas. have been revived by The
announcement that the famous old frigate
Constellation. sister ship of the Constitu-
ton (Old Ironsfdes), 10 to be taken from
Newport TO the New York navy yard.
there to undergo repairs in order that
she may play part in the centennial
celebration to be held in New York a
year hence.
Less famed than her sister ship. the
Constelia alton played an important arr in
those sea battles prior to the war OF
1872 which caused the stars and Stripes
to be feared and respected whenever it
appeared above the horizon.
Won Naval Victory.
The Constellation was one of the ships
authorized by an act of Congress in
1874. when the Algerian pirates were
making depredations on American COM
merce: Her first fight. February q. 1888
was victory. the French frigate In
surgente being taken off the Island of
Nevis. One of the Americans In that
battle was Commodore David Porter.
then midshipman. and TO him fell the
honor of going aboard the lnsurgente as
a leader of the prize crew.
Almost a year later another French
frigate. the Vengeance, although equipped
with more guns and with larger crew.
also fell before the Constellation. Dur
ing the war with the Barbary states in
the following year she took an active
part in the blockade of the ports of the
African coast.
Later Service for United States.
whsn the war Of 1873 broke out. the
Constellation was at the WASHINGTON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-25
COMPANY REORGANIZED.
Independent Harvester Accepts Res
ignations and Elects New Managers.

AURORA. Ill. June 25.-Oficers and
directors of the Independent Harvester
Company at Plano, whose methods of
stockholding are being Investigated by
the government, have resigned and new
officers have been elected William Deer
ing Steward, president of the Plano State
Bank replaces w. c. Thompson as presi
dent and general manager.
The company is a -million-dollar cor
poratipn and has issued approximately
$1,en.0oO of stoc', but only $4,000 OF
the stock is common or voting stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-25
RUPTURE STOMACH,
RESULT IS FATAL
Thought|ess Boys Cause Death
of Comrade by Injecting
Compressed Air.

CAMDEN, \ j.. June 2I-Victim OF
a most atrocious act, Joseph De Fine. an
eishteen-year-old employee Of the Victor
Talking Machine plant here. died in
an ambulance that was taking him to
the Cooper Hospital Two boys, one
seventeen and the other sixteen. now
under arrest. have admitted to the police
that without realizing what would be the
consequences Of their act they persuaded
De Fine to put the brass tube of COM
pressed air machine into his mouth and
then turned on the air full and violently
into the lads body, rupturing his stomach
and the intestines. The boys are Eugene
Byscher of No. 211 South 9TH street
Philadelphia. and Walter Simon of No.
1923 High street Camden. Young De
Fine lived with his parents at No. 1O4
Christian street, Philadelphia.
Wanted to Test Machine.
1t was during the noon hour at the
plant that De Zine was tortured. Three
new compressed air machines had been
placed in the plant in the morning and
the boys. in the idle noon hour. spent
some time seeing how the machines
worked There Was none to witness
what really occurred when De Fine re-
ceived his injuries. The other lads came
running into the office. saying that De
Fine was sick. The men who went to
investigate found him unconscious and
gasping, his face empurpled.
The superficial examination made by
an ambulance physician indicated that
the boy was suffering from heart dis
ease in conjunction with a fit 1t is be-
lieved that the frightened torturers lost
considerable time before calling for aid
in efforts they themselves made to re-
vive their victim. but in any event De
Fines injuries were SO terrible that he
could not have recovered. He was dead
before the ambulance had gone three
blocks on the way to the hospital
When the body was stripped for ex-
animation at the hospital Coroner Bent
lev and physicians noted the greatly
swollen condition Of the body and later
it was said that marks of violence were
found on the boys arms and throat,
which may at the coroner's inquest be
adduced Al contradicting the story that
Byscher and Simon tell.
They were arrested last night and
committed by Justice Huyett to the
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prove living conditions in the island must
provide for pure drinking water and the
artesian we'll will fill the bill.
The work was hampered at first through
lack Of funds as the revenue Of the av-
erage municipality was inadequate. The
insuar government came to the rescue
and all the work is now done by the arte-
sian we'll division of the bureau of pub
lie works, with the central government
supplying most of the cash. In 1905 two
wells were driven as experiments and
in the next year three more wells were
added. The plan was found feasible as
well as popular and In 1905 twelve wells
were dug in various parts of the islands.
The people often travel several miles to
get water from them. acquisitions for
wells are received faster than it is posi-
BILE to drill them with the funds avail
able. This department is under the direc-
ton Of j. l.. Vickers. superintendent of
the artesian well division. He is an eX-
pert and puts enthusiasm as we'll as
brains into his work, and the FilipinOs
owe him a debt of gratitude for what he
has done for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-25
As He Views Society.

In other words. he continues, II am
satisfied. beyond any question. that the
society has been organized to gather the
scattered forces that are now at work to
preserve the present regime in the Phil
ippine Islands and systematic and con-
centrate their efforts.
1T is thus apparent that what, in the
opinion OF the society. is a sympathetic
interest between the American and Fill
pino people is nothing more nor less than
the continuation of their present govern
mental bond
Quezon declares in unmeasured terms
that neither philanthropic. religious nor
commercial aid will reconcile the Filipnos
to the policy of colonialism. which the So
ciety is undoubtedly advocating i'm a more
or less disguised though none the less de-
fined and energetic form.
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Veteran Lighthouse Keeper Dead.

LONG BRANCH, y. j.. June 25.-Capt.
Samuel Parker Jewell, siXty-four years
DID, for forty years keeper of the Sandy
Hook lighthouse. is dead at Ocean Port.
He was keeper Of the Sandy Hook light
from 1859 to 1909, when he was com.
PEELED to retire because Of poor health.
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More Than $500, 600 a
Year for Artesian Wells.

ment of sJOO,OO. The insular, PROVING al
and municipal governments are now
spending more than 100000 a year for
artesian wells. The artesian we'll divi-
sion operates either directly or by gen.
eral supervision twenty-five deep well
steam-rigs and forty-two jet-rigs. The
steam-rgs sink wells at an average cost
Of 1872 per foot, including depreciation
on equipment and interest The wells
range from 60 to 800 feet in depth.
Whenever possible the wells are located
in the center of the towns. Sometimes
they are right in the municipal plaza and
always are sources of interest to the Fill
pinos. The well N the plaza in the town
of CabuyaO, Laguna province, is quite q
village institution The flow of this well
are being driven at the rate of from fifty
centers.
In connection with this problem of CIV
ing the Filipinos good water. mention
might be made Of the Osmena water
works in the city Of Cebu. This project
was begun in February, 1911, and finished
a year later The main pipe system is
four miles in length and the total length
of the pipes in the distributing system
within the city is thirteen miles. Its
storage reservoir has a capacity of
3OS. 10000 gallons and its distrib uting
reservoir has a capacity of 100000 gal
Ions. The system was built by HI. F..
Cameron at a cost of 1868 900. 1t is
named after Sergio Oemena, the young
Filipino speaker of the Philippine as
sembly.
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Heads Milwaukee Delegation.

Hale and hearty, and showing no out
ward evidence of the weight of years he
carried, Mr.. Brosius marched at the head
of Milwaukee delegation, keeping step to
the music of the band that preceded the
visitors to their destina ton at East
Turner Hall
In the early part of the nineteenth cen
fury the first turner society was founded
in Germany by Friedrich Ludwig jain,
whose name has since been handed down
among devotees of health giving exer-
else. through the medium Of German
turning societies. both in the fatherland
and in America, as Father Jahn.''
George Brosius. in early life in his ma
tive land, became disciple OF the phi
losophy of Father jain that healthy
body produced healthy mind, and when
he emigrated to this country at once set
about spreading the doctrine and organ
iZing societies in America to put the
theory into practical use Mr.. BroSius
is the author of most of the modern GYM
nastic exercises in use at the present
time in all the turnvereins in America,
and to him is assigned the duty of for
mulating the athletic events that make
up the program of the Olympiads of the
North American Gymnastic Union.
Honor Diplomas Awarded.
At this bundles funniest the honor
diploma for fifty years continuous MEM
berships in turning societies will be given
to three odd reliables. and tomorrow
afternoon a reunion of the pioneers will
be held at which these three will be the
honored guests. All three now are resi-
dents of Denver and have their member
ship in the East Denver turnvereins.
but their original memberships were with
eastern turnvereins. They arf Christian
Schaefer who Joined a society in Chicago
in 1852; Conrad Walbrach and John c.
Mayer, both Of whom originally affiliated
with turnvereins chartered at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
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THE PHILIPPINES.
xII.-Irrigation and Arte-
sian Wells.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

When the United States cheerfully
gave Spain $20.000.000 for the Philip
pine Islands after they had been won
by force Of arms, 1t did not happen to
think that the money could be better
used for the well-being OF the nat
ural owners Of the islands, the Fill
pinos. That sum would have given
the people the public works that 1t has
taken us ten years to build by piece
meal appropriations, raised from the
taxes of the Filipinos. 1t would have
given them extensive irrigation systems
in the various islands with money to
spare. and would have saved the $7O,-
100000 that have gone out OF the
islands in the past fourteen years for
the purchase of rice. AS it is, Spain
got the 100000 and the Filipinos
are still importing rice.
Rainfall in the islands is heavy but
it is so unevenly distributed through
out the year that the necessity for IT.
rieation has been universally recog-
nized. Owing to lack Of funds and
other causes no definite steps were
taken in regard to irrigation and ar
tesian wells until 1908. Within the
past four years a great deal of plan
ming and replanning has been done in
turning out an irrigation system that
Quate. Costly mistakes were made in
putting such important work under the
direction of young engineers or those
of slight experience in irrigation. The
employment of real irrigation experts
was contemplated at one time. Ne
gotiations were opened with re-
nowned Britisher who had done won
ders on a large scale in Egypt and
India. This man was so interested in
the opportunity presented to help
along other people. under foreign
flag, that he agreed to come to the
islands at the same salary that he was
drawing in Egypt. This salary was
$4,000 year. and the Philippine Of
ficials were promptly struck dumb
with horror. They turned to less ex-
perienced men. earnest and enthusiast
tic enough, but with very little knowl-
edge of tropical irrigation and engi-
neering. The result was the loss on
one project Of sum greater than the
entire years salary that the British ex-
pert asked for. to say nothing of the
waste Of more than a year of valuable
time
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Efforts to Furnish Good
Water More Successful.

proposition which the Filipinos under
stand. and they are much more enthusi-
astic over the digging of hole in the
ground by queer machinery that they
never saw before than they are when
sanitary inspectors. either Americans
or FilipinOs, come around to inspect
their houses in spite of their lugubrious
protests. One of the greatest menaces
to health in the islands always has
been poor water. In days gone by it
killed untold millions through dysen-
terry, cholera and other diseases. All
foreigners and few careful Filipinos
always have drunk boiled or distilled
water. The first lesson a rookie in
the Philippines has to learn is not to
drink water out of the tap. If he is
on a hike he must spurn all inviting
little brooks and quench his thirst on
cocoanut milk.
Your Filipino takes no such precau-
tons. He never has and probably never
will. So it was up to a paternal govern
ment to give the Filpinos good potable
water. Investigations prior to 1903
showed that nearly 10 per cent of the
total deaths were due to intestinal dis
eases. Cholera frequently was epidemic
II was evident that any attempt to inn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-25
TURNER'S PAY HONOR.
TO FATHER jain"
George Brosius, Aged Eighty,
Athlete, Attends North Ameri-
can Gymnastic Union.

DENVER, Col. June 25.-While the
thirty-first bundles funniest, or Olympiad
Of the North American Gymnastic Union.
which is holding forth in this city. was
we'll launched yesterday with the arrival
Of the national officers and other national
figures in German circles, it was not COM
pleted until this morning. when George
Brosius of Milwaukee. eighty years. the
oldest active instructor in the turnvereins
of America, and hailed as Father jain
Of America by turner's, arrived.
Surrounded by members of the turning
societies of Milwaukee, who accompanied
him. Mr. Brosius received fluctuations of
the local committee and crowd that
gathered at Union station to greet this
distinguished visitor and his escort of
trained athletes.
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Dam Of the San Miguel M
System Failed During Flood.

large irrigation project and was to fri
gate 4OOO hectares in the Tarlac valley
and was to cost $4,000. In July. 1911.
the dam. then nearing completion. was
destroyed by a flood The dam failed
at an extraordinary flood during the
rainy season. but before the peak Of tho
MOOD was reached. A searching inves-
t1gatlon proved that the dam was iocated
at the wrong point. was inadeouateIv
designed and probably would have failed
IN an ordinary flood, according to the
oHc1al report of the director of public
works The blame was put upon the
shoulders of many individuals. and Dr.
rector Greene felt that the time had come
FOR radical reform in the irrigation
division. particularly when this disa ster
was considered in connection with the
otherwise unsatisfactory progress Of the
irrigation work, The loss on this project
was more than S3S,OOO including some
damage to the canal system which CO.
CURED at the same time. Investigation
then showed that the project would cost
over S1,OOO,OOO at the rate of S138 per
hectare, as compared with the average
Cost OF $l5 per hectars in the United
States,
A new chief irrigation engineer was
brought out in the person of w, l., Cor
ton, VINO had had many years of expert.
ence in the United States reclamation
service. Extensive changes In the per-
sonnet OF the irrigation division Wsre
made. At the present time there Ia not
In the service of the bureau a single
engineer who is directly Responsible for
the design or estimate Of this San Miguel
system. or course. 1t is true that costly
beginning Of irrigation and hydro. sieetrie
Developments In this and other coun-
tries.
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Gorton Is Working Out
Plan of the Government.

- u
plan Of the government which calls for
an expenditure Of from $4,000 to $780,
600 a year for a number of years Up
to date about $1,OO0,OOO has been spent on
irrigation work since 1908 When this
important work is finished Luzon. the
Fisayas and Mindanao will be provided
with excellent irrigation systems, which
will be Of tremendous aid to the people
as more than fifty separate projects will
then have been completed. In 1911 the
bureau of lands, with funds supplied by
the bureau of public works. made ex-
tensive cadastral surveys or irrigable
areas that had been recommended for
construction projects.
one small irrigation project was
opened in 1910 in Bataan province
which is across the bay from Manila.
II works fairly well. and is under the
administration Of the bureau Of lands
The government has done some irriga-
ton work on the friar land estates in
Gavite and Laguna provinces More
than fifty head gates have been in
stalled in these estates.
From now on the work will go ahead
rapidly and thoroughly. great aid
will be the new irrigation law passed
by the Philippine legislature early in
1912. This act is a thorough and COM
prehensive measure and is the result
Of much labor on the part Of the bu-
reau of public works and special
irrigation committee, and was discuss
ed at two sessions of the legislature.
This act provides in sufficient detail
a system for the appropriation of pub
lie water and for the determination of
the existing rights thereof: for the
public registration of all water rights;
for the creation and use of water
power; for the investigation. construc-
rion, maintenance and operation of all
irrigation systems by the government;
for the repayment Of money expended
therefor: for the construction, mainte-
nance and operation Of irrigation sys-
TENS by private persons; for the in
spection and regulation of all works
pertaining to the use of water and
penalties for it's violation.
The efforts of the Philippine govern
To uiN E,ilininnS far
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Nearly $50 deep wells and jtU jet-rig
wells have been driven up to date at an
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This was the San Miguel system in
Tarlac province, about sixty-five miles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
FRENCH SOCIETY PLAY
NicCodemi'S "leS Requins"
Acted at the Gymnase.
SHARK AGAINST SHARK
M. Guitry and Nine. Van Doren
Seen to Advantage-Ex.
Wives in Abundance.

Paris, Oct Lies Requins." by Dario
Niccodemi. at the Gymnase. are not our
sharks" The "requin" is not French
slang. but NJ. Niccodemi's own particular
figure Of speech. The chief shark" in
the play Trashy. explains that the
'requin' In modern society is the man
who wants 10 swallow everything he has
a taste for. irrespective OF other peoples
convenience. The misfortune is that the
chief shark though played by NJ
Guitry In his very best restrained man
ner' did not strike one as particularly
fierce. He has married four or five wives
ard had innumerable love affairs besides
He has got rid OF mlstresses and wives
somehow. without consulting them.
But he is very good sort, after all.
He has pensioned of all his eX-wives
with 400 or 5000 year each He has
kept very expensive household. In which
his aged mother his present wife. a
neurotic cousin and three or four of his
legitimate children by various wives, all
live In luxury. Not only that but he also
made handsome allowances 10 all his
illegitimate children. who live in various
parts Of the world-Nancy. Stockholm,
London. etc.-and who all, curiousy
enough, seem TO be more or less OF the
same age. Finally, the generous shark"
is ruined man when the play begins.
The shark" continues ruined through
out the play. and becomes still more sym
~.
other shark" the husband Of the neu-
rotc cousin. The second 'requin' we
would hardly call a 'requin" at all. He
seems 10 be more a mere sot, who is
described in the earlier part OF the play
as given to alcohol. opium and tho COM
pany OF prlzehghters and drunken women.
He appears Unexpectedly at the end to
claim the wife he has made miserable.
The latter openly adores her cousin. who
as frankly rejects her advances. The
sottisn husband all the same accuses her
OF being her cousins mistress. and pro-
duces a love letter written by her. But
the audience had already been told that
she writes love letters nightly to Trashy
only for her own satisfaction, and burns
them Immediately. She has evidently for
gotten TO burn this one The second
shark threatens. The first shark nobly
defies them to shoot. But he does shoot.
Trashy, hit, and knowing that he is dying,
summons strength enough, first, to queli
the husband, secondly to console the
wife and thirdly to satisfy his own wife
that he is faithful as he staggers out on
her arm.
A telegram had just before arrived an
nouncing that an uncle has died. leaving
a fortune to the neurotic lady. and she
promised Trashy that she would look
after his family. The shark. on his
vife's arm. goes out TO die very shortly
and thus TO end as sympathetically as he
had begun. BY the side OF VI. Guitry
Nine. van Doren was remarkably realistic
as the neurotic lady
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
FRENCH LIKE OUR AUTOS
American Makes Stand High in
Paris Exhibition.
SELLING PRICES LOWER
Plenty of Cars Available for the
Man with the Modest
Purse.
tBy Caple to The Tribune. J

Paris, Oct 1s.-The fourteenth an
nual International Automobile Exhibi-
ton, opened yesterday by President
Poincare at the Grand Palace of the
Champs Elysees, is strictly business
like manifestation, without the costly
decorative features that have char
, acterized the shows Of former years.
William S. Hogan. European repre-
sentative Of the Automobile Club Of
America, who accompanied The Trib-
une correspondent through the exhibit
ton, pointed out that the dominating
traits this year were the advances
made in perfecting mechanistry rather
than in making startling novelties.
Great improvement is noted in electric
starters, in compactness and lightness.
In the simplifcation Of complicated
devices and the lowering Of prices
splendid advance IS made by Amer b
can manufacturers, many OF whom
have established workshops and supply
stations near Paris.
Among American cars having i'm
portant stands in the exhibition are
the Briscoe, Ford, Packard, Overland,
Cadillac, Hudson. Studebaker, Buick
Mitchell, Krit. Case, Jeffery and Hup-
mobile. Some American makers are
showing 1914 models Of 16 horsepower
costing complete IN Paris only $4OO.
Experts point out that the weak
point Of American automobiles is the
carriage work, which is less finished
and not so graceful or light as the
French carriage work.
American trucks, chassis and mech
anism are greatly admired by all; in
fact, no other foreign country makes so
good showing in the exhibition as the
United States. After the United States
comes England and then Italy.
The tendency everywhere is TO bring
motoring within the reach Of the man
with the modest purse and to democ-
rattle the automobile by cheaper prices
for low power cars.