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Evening star., 1914-08-01
SCREEN BEFORE WINDOW
CAUSES W0MEM's STRIFE
One Seeks Injunction Against
Neighbor to Prevent
Interference,

Mrs. Josephine H Throckmorton lives
at 1905 F street northwest and has a
side yard to her home. The adjoining
house is occupied by Mrs. Log1atha john
son. who has a window in tho wall Of her
house overlooking her neighbor's side
yard. Mrs. Throckmorton in a suit for
Injunction yesterday asked the District
Supreme Court to prevent her neighbor
from disturbing metal screen which she
had erected In front Of her neighbor's
window. but entirely on her own land. :
Through Attorney William G. johnson
the plaintiff says Mrs. johnson prior to
February. 1913. allowed trash. sweepings
and other rubbish to be thrown from the
window upon the grounds Of Mrs.
Throckmorton. In February, 1913. the
plaintiff says. she caused a metal screen
to be erected on her land directly oppo-
site the window of the neighbor so as to
prevent the throwing Of missiles out of
the window. Mrs. johnson employed
air had been excluded from her window
by the placing of the screen.
The plaintiff tells the court she success
fully maintained her right to erect the
screen. June IA, 1913. she alleges, the de-
fendant by her agents and servants. with
the aid Of heavy battering tmbers pro-
jected through her window, forced the
screen away from its position and rem
dered 1t worthless. By placing heavy
timber through the window the screen
has been held away from the window, the
court is told.
Mrs. Throckmorton asks that the de-
fendant be required to remove the pro-
jecting timber from the window and to
permit the replacing Of the metal screen.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Personal to River Men.

Capt William Neitzey, with his fam
lily. has returned from a cruise of three
weeks on the lower Potomac aboard his
power boat Benjamin N. While on the
cruise Colonial Beach, Blackstone
Island and Coan and other tributaries
of the Potomac near its mouth were
visited and delightful outing fol-
lowed.
Capt. Neal Walcott has returned from
a three-week trip to the lower river
aboard the power boat Wanderlust.
The fishing grounds and summer re-
sorts on the lower Potomac were vis-
tied by the Wanderlust on her cruise.
Lewis Burrows. formerly chief en-
gineer Of the Smoot tug Rosalie, has
been transferred to the charge Of the
engine room of the new Smoot tug
Herbert and Is aboard her to get her
machinery In readiness for service.
Frank Passano has succeeded Mr.
Burrows in charge of the engine room
Of the Rosalie, employed in towing
sand and gravel laden lighters from
dredging machines down river to this
city.
A. L. Clarke Of L. A. Clarke & Son
has gone to Atlantic City to spend sew
eral days.
John Beavers. owner of a Water
street cooperage, has gone to Montreal
and Toronto and will return home the
coming week by way of Niagara Falls
and Buffalo.
$40 -outing-Asheville & return-Aug. z.
-Adyertisemenf
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Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard, she went
to the cupboard, to get her poor
dog bone, but when she got
there the cupboard was bare, and
so the poor dog got none. Then
old Mother Hubbard she sat
down and blubbered, and roasted
the scandalous trusts: They're
surely inhuman, to rob a poor
woman of even the bones and the
crusts. I'll write to the papers
and show up their capers, and
prove that we need a reform; I'll
skin them completely, and do it
up neatly, while l am indignant
and warm" The old woman's
neighbors. who stuck to their
labors, had plenty of grub in their
fat; they promptly made payment
for bonnets and raiment, their
bow-wows were rolling in fat.
But old Mother Hubbard, she
idled and rubbered at suffragist
meetings and sich, and so she was
hollow, with nothing to swallow,
while sensible beldames got rich.
The wise danes are baking, the
iohnnie-cake making; they work
the old stove till it busts; with
ladylike ardor they stock up the
larder, and so they can laugh at
the trusts. WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Mr.. BIacksnake' Changes His
Suit.I

Now that Mr.. Blacksnake had made
up his mind to have a new suit he was
in hurry to get it. So he hurried
about looking for a retired place in which
to take of his old suit but all the time
he took the utmost pains not to be seen.
Ordinarily he does not care who sees
him, but getting rid of an old suit for
a new one is very serious matter with
Mr.. Blacksnake. In the first place. he
feels very uncomfortable while he is
getting the old suit off. and his temper,
never Of the best. Is very, very short
then. Also he has rather a helpless
feeling. You see, he cannot slip his
suit off easily in the way a boy can.
lie is like the little girl who has a dress
with a great many hooks and eyes where
she cannot gst at them easily. and SO
must take considerable time, and some
times lose both temper and patience.
At last he found just the place he was
looking for. 1t was on the edge of the
thick around little pile of old logs.
There was room to crawl under these
You know Mr. Blacksnake does not re-
quire very much room. and here he
found plenty for his purpose He felt
sure no one "Oulu ulSIuED CncTG
and that was a very important matter.
Still more important was the fact that
two of those logs were just far enough
apart to make it a tight squeeze for
him to wriggle between them. He smiled
when he saw this. It was going to
make 1t much easier to get that old suit
of. You see. he has no hands with
which to pull it off as Old Mr.. Toad pulls
his suit off, and SO he has to try some
other way.
He glided all around under and between
the logs to make sure that no one else
was there, and then he glided this way
and that way through the brush to
make sure that no one was hiding there.
At last he was satisfied that he would
not be disturbed. and he hurried back
to the pile of logs to begin the task of
getting Off his old suit. Now you know
Old Mother Nature has queer ways Of
giving her children new clothes. All
this time Mr.. Blacksnake really had his
new suit on underneath the old suit. He
had got to get the old suit off, but he
wouldn't have to put the new one on be-
caure 1t was already on. Old Mother
Nature had attended to that.
He went straight to the two logs that
were so close together. and then he be-
Evening star., 1914-08-01
SUFFRAG|STS INVITED
TO MARBLE PALACE
Washington Women Among Those
to Confer With Mrs. Belmont
at Her Newport Home.

Among the prominent suffrage workers
who have been invited to participate in
the campaign conference. August 80. with
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont in her marble
palace. at Newport, under the auspices
Of the Congressional Union for Woman's
Suffrage, are the following:
Mrs. Florence Kelly, secretary National
Consumers League, New York city;
Senator Helen Ring Robinson. Denver.
Col. Prof. Lucy NJ. Salmon. Vassar Col
lege; Mrs. Lionel s. Marks Josephine
Preston Peabody. Cambridge, Mass.
Miss Lavinia Dock, secretarya Interna-
tional Council of Nurses, New York city;
Mrs. John Winters Brannan, New York
city: Mrs. Marie Jenny Howe, New
York city; Mrs. Dora G. s. Hazard,
vice president Women's Political Union
Of New York, Syracuse. N. Y;
Mrs. John Rogers, jr.. member execu-
tive board. Women's Political Union of
New York; Mrs. William Colt, chairman
political committee, twenty-fourth sena-
torial district. Women's Political Union
of New York; Mrs. Frank Cothren, vice
president Woman Suffrage Party, Brook
lyn, N. Y; Mrs. Inez Milholland Boisse-
vain, New York city; Mrs. John Jay
White. Washington: Mrs. Marsden Perry,
Newport. r. l.; Mrs. Glendower Owens,
Boston, Mass, Mrs. Sophie u. Meredith,
Richmond, Va.
DIR. Cora Smith King, treasurer Nation
al Council Women Voters, the Olympia.
Washington; Mrs. Charlotte Anita
Whitney. formerly vice president of
National American Women Suffrage
Mana, Van lnkle. president wom-
ems Political Union of New Jersey;
Mrs. Edwin c. Grice, president Mount
Holyoke College. South Hadley. Mass.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson-Seton, vice presi-
dent Connecticut Suffrage Association.
Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton. Md; Mrs.
Lillian Harris Coffin, president New Era
League of California; Miss Ada L.
James, Richland Center, Wis: Mrs. Flor
Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley. 627 West 13eth
street New York city: Mrs. Charlatte P.
Gilman, New York city, and Mrs. John
Dewey. New York city.
Mrs. o. F. Ellington. president Of the
Arkansas League: Miss Grace Wilbur
ton; Mrs. E. F. Feickert, president OF
the New Jersey association: Mrs. Alden
Potter, a member of the executive COM
mittee, and Mrs A. H. Bright. president
of the Minnesota association: Mrs. John
Leonard. president of the Massachusetts
ton, president Of the OHIO association.
Oppose Secretary Bryan.
Secretary Bryan has been notified by
a group of men in his home state that
they are not in accord with his recently
expressed views favoring equal suffrage.
These men style themselves the Nebraska
Mems Association Opposed to Womane
Suffrage.
They have also sent a copy of their
manifesto against granting the franchise
cuff
ton Of the District. requesting that i,
be distributed among citizens of Nebras-
ka, living in Washington. but retaining
their voting privilege in Nebraska
Evening star., 1914-08-01
MARYLAND MEN GET JOBS.
A. N. Marbury and Cecil Ewing
Made u. S. Deputy Collectors.

A. Marshall Marbury of Prince Georges
county. Md, has been appointed deputy
collector in the bureau of internal rev.
enue, with headquarters in Washington
The appointment becomes effective to-
day.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has
also announced the appointment Of Cecil
Ewing of Rising Sun. Cecil county. Nd.
as an income tax deputy for the district
of Maryland, which includes the District
of Columbia and Delaware.
This appointment was made upon the
recommendation of Representative J.
Harry Covington. though 1t Will be on-
cia.ly charged to the account Of Senator
John Walter Smith.
Evening star., 1914-08-01

Phone Your Want Ad to The star.
Main 2440.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
MISS CATHERINE TURNER
SHOWS PRESENCE OF MIND
Discovers Effort at "Short-Chang-
ing" Captures the Man and
Forces Return Of Cash.
By Pop

Miss Catherine Turner, employed as
cashier in a 9th street cafe. ha. qualified
as policewoman. her friends state. al
though she is not one of the two score
Of applicants for one Of the two posi-
tions created by a recent act Of Con-
gress.
She displayed her policewoman ability
yesterday afternoon when she detected a
shortage Of IS in her accounts. went in
pursuit Of the man who had the money.
overlook him and made him return to the
store.
1T was all a mistake said the man.
taxing a roll Of bills from his pocket and
handing over a five-spot
Miss Turner said she was the victim OF
what the police call the ''short-change
game. although the man who worked II
declared it was an unintentional mistake
Shifting of Bills.
The shortage resulted from a shifting
money about the time the man who had
confused her passed out of the cafe.
Without stopping to ask another en-
ploye to guard her cash, Miss Turner
hurried from the cafe and went down
9th street in search Of the well dressed
man. overtaking him and demanding
that he return to the store and rectify
the mistake.
It was useless for him to offer resist
ance- The young woman's determined
look made 1t apparent that flight on his
part would mean an outcry, pursuit and
probable arrest and SO he returned to
the store, counted his money and handed
over the $5 bill.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
DIR. J. K. GLEESON HEADS
UNITED SERVICE CLUB
New Organization, Projected for
Some Time, Formally Launched
Last Night.

The United Service Club. a new or
ganization which has been projected
here for some time, was organized
Thursday night at the New Willard Ho-
tel by war veterans, representatives Of
veteran organizations, and members Of
the National Guard Of the District of
Columbia
DR.. ]. K Gleeson, department COM
mander. q. A R.. was elected president:
Jere Costello past department COM
mander. United Spanish War Veterans.
vice president; Winfield Jones. COM
mander Gen. Mcintyre Post, No. Is.
Army Of the Philippines, Cuba and
Porto Rico. secretary. and Capt.
Sheridan Ferree,. treasurer.
The following board Of governors was
elected: DR.. J. K. Gleeson and Maj. E.
r. Campbell, for the Grand Army Of the
Republic; Jere Costello and Capt. Sheri-
dan Ferree, for the United Spanish War
Veterans; Capt B. B. Donnelly and Col.
M. A. Winter. for the Army and Navy
Union: Col. Charles H. Ourand. COM
manding 1st Regiment. for the National
Guards; Winfield oJnes and r. B. Wal
lac, for the Army OF the Philippines.
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Six different buildings are being con-
sidered as clubhouse headquarters. Sew
eral hundred dollars was subscribed last
night as an equipment fund for furniture.
The charter members of the club are:
Gen. H. Oden Lake. Col John McElroy,
Col M. A. Winter. Gen. Andrew 8. Burt
U. 8. A.. retired: Capt. B. F. Donnelly
Col R. c. Galbraith, Capt. R. F. Funnu-
cane, Col D. L. Rice, DR.. ]. K. Gleeson
Dr.. N. A. johnson. E. R. Campbell. Sam
uel r. stratton. John Finn. John Lewis
Smith. Jere Costello, Capt. Sheridan Fer
rec. Albert E. Smith, John e. Hogan
Winfield Jones, r. E. Wallace, Edward
Keegin. Frank Eckam. Paul J. Christian
Gen. George H. Harries. N. q. D. c..
Lieut.. Col Almon L. Parmerter. U. 8. A.
Col. Charles H. Ourand. N. G. D. c.; Col
William e. Harvey. N. 6. d. c., and
! Mai. C. Fred Cook, N. 6. D. c.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
BOYS AND GIRLS HOLD
LAST ATHLETIC MEET
Hundreds Participate in Event at
Ludlow School Play
ground.

More than 500 boys and girls Of the
Ludlow School Fairgrounds participated
enthusiastically last evening in the second
and last of their series of Friday even
ing athletic meets. Just as keen rivalry
among the participants and as strong
partisan spirit among the rooters was
shown as marks similar contests in the
District high schools or intercollegiate
matches. There were foot races, tether
competitions, croquet games goal throw
ing contests, QUOT games and base ball
matches.
Dorothy Colburn won the first event on
the program, a tether contest for girls
under twelve, and was awarded a red
badge.
The tether match was followed by a Do
tato race. Margaret Madigan, the winner
in the event two weeks ago, again COM
ing off victorious over the larger girls.
Ottilia Maui received badge for winning
the event for girls under twelve.
Agnes Lee. of the girls over twelve and
Cecilia Quigley, under twelve, were the
winners in the final heats in a thirty
yard dash.
The two base ball teams which have
been formed on the ground, the Washing
tons and Ludlows, played an evenly
matched game up to the fifth inning, when
the Ludlows rallied and beat the Wash
ingtons 16 to 8.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
DONATES HISTORIC CUP.
Son Of Late Commodore Kearney Pre-.
sents Token to Old Shin,

Secretary Daniels today sent to James
Lawrence Kearney. son OF the late Com
modore Lawrence Kearney og Perth Am
boy. N. j.. letter accepting his dona-
ton Of cup to the historic old man-of-
war Constellation. which was presented
to the commodore by the officers Of the
Constellation in 1s43 The Secretary re-
quested that the cup be sent to Norfolk,
Va, where the commandant Of the navy
yard will have 1t placed ON board the
Constellation.
The cup is OF china. ~ inches high
and Sla inches In diameter, and is artis-
iicaily decorated with a painted scene
representing the ships Constellation and
Boston lying at anchor in a Chinese har-
DOR. The representations Of the ships. IL
is said, are wonderfully accurate.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Champ Clark Carnival Speaker

Champ Clark, Speaker Of the House OF
Representatives, is to deliver an address
the opening night Of the block carnival"
to be held between 10th and 11th streets
on Massachusetts avenue northeast Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The carnival is to be held in the interest
Of the Park Road Methodist Protestant
Church, Park road near 1lth street north
west A baby parade Is to be held Tues.
day evening and a musical program wiu
feature the entertainment Wednesday.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
PLAN PROHIBITION FIGHT.
Alexandria County Citizens Plan to
Aid War Upon Liquor.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CLARENDON. Va. August LA meet
ing Of Alexandria county citizens was
held at Mount Olivet Methodist Protes-
tant Church Friday evening to discuss
plans for aiding in the campaign for
statewide prohibition. Rev. W. l. Hof.-
man was chosen temporary chairman,
and a committee was appointed to ar
range for a permanent organization. A
meeting for this purpose will be held at
the Union Church, Park Lane, Friday
evening. August Z, at 8 o'clock. Churches,
citizens associations and other bodies
will be asked to send one or more dele
gate, and all citizens interested in max
ing Alexandria county safe, sane and
sober" suburb Of the nations capital are
expected to attend.
L. T. Everett. chairman of the commit
tee, represented Ballston: H. J. Lock-
ling, Cherrydale; E. A. Reid, Park Lane,
and F. H. Caldwell and g. L. Chandler,
Clarendon.
Evening star., 1914-08-01

gan to push and wriggle and squirm as
he tried to pass between them. He
puffed and he blew. and suspect that
II he had been anybody but snake he
would have grunted. It was easy enough
to get his neck through after he had
got his head through. but the thickest
part Of his body was a terribly tight
squeeze. Little by little he managed
to get through. When enough of him
was through to allow him to lift his head
and LOOK back he gave a little sigh of
relief. You see, his old suit had caught
between those two logs and he was
pulling himself right out Of It just the
same way in which you pull your hand
out of a glove.
When he saw this he went to work
again and pulled harder than ever. He
was afraid that that old suit might pull
loose from the logs: but 1t didn't, and
presently as he got the thickest part Of
his boy through the old suit came of
easier. A few more w1ggies and pulls
and he was out of 1t altogether. There
1t lay. turned wrong side out complete.
clear to the tip Of his slender tail. And
the funny thing WIS that instead Of
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Financial Affairs Taken Up,

Plans for the organization Of a joint
committee representing the Chamber Of
Commerce. the Board of Trade and the
Retail Merchants Association in the dis
posal of funds which the present joint
committee on raising funds may obtain
were outlined at a meeting Of the present
joint committee yesterday in the rooms
of the chamber. Reports were made by
the several committees as to the amounts
Of money contributed, and as to the gen.
eral progress made. John Dolph, the
chairman, presided
Evening star., 1914-08-01

being black it was white. Yes. sir. It
was white, and so thin that you could
almost look through it! But his new
suit was black, oh. SO black! And it
was very handsome. Right away Mr..
Blacksnake was in a hurry to show 1t
off, and he didn't even give his old suit
another look as he rushed away.
Now, what do you think-all the time
he had supposed no one was about a
certain thrifty little person Of the Green
Forest had been watching him!
Evening star., 1914-08-01
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING.

P. J. Ryan. Plate Printers Local, No,
2. will go to Baltimore Sunday evening
to attend the convention Of the Mary
land State and District of Columbia Fed
Grafton Of Labor. It will be the tenth
annual convention Of that body and the
fifth delegateship Of Mr.. Ryan. Thomas
F. McQuaid also Is q delegate from
the Plate Printers.
Robert Jones Of the Plate Printers
Local will represent the Washington
Central Labor Union at the Maryland
State and District Of Columbia Fedora
ton OF Labor.
John J. Diviny Of Plate Printers Local,
No. 2, was elected from the International
Union Of Steel and Copper Plate Printers
Of North America to represent that body
in the twenty-fourth annual convention
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
which will be held in Philadelphia next
November.
Edward J. Lane Of Ottawa, Canada,
ex-president Of the International Union
Of Plate Printers. visited the new bureau
Monday Of this week with other visitors.
Capt. Sam Krigbaum Of the plate print
ers is entertaining his father and mother
at his home in Clarendon. Mr.. Krig-
baum's father Is a resident of Philadel-
phia.
President William D. Clark has ap-
pointed the following as members Of the
reception committee for the annual ex-
curslon to be held to Marshall Hall Au-
gust 8: William D. Clark, John ].
Diviny, Thomas Lavender, S. r. McCully,
James NJ. Hassett, James N. Thompson.
Charles T. Smith. George J. Cleay, P. J.
Ryan and Joseph A. Hardie.
Frank ]. McKenna is a regular Mon
day evening attendant at the meetings
Of the Washington Central Labor Union.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Assaulted by Party Of Negroes.

William H.. Day. colored, a resident of
Fairmont Heights. visited Casualty Hos
pital about 1880 this morning and was
treated for a slight cut over his left eye
and an injury to his wrist Day COM
planned that he had been assaulted by a
party Of young colored men at the inter
section of 58th street and the tracks of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
TRIBUTE TO COL. HASKELL.
New Farmers Stand on B Street Now
to Bear His Name.

Tribute was paid by the District Com
missioners yesterday to the memory of
Col. William c. Haskell. superintendent
Of weights. measures and markets. when
they officially designated the new farm
ers' shelter stands between 10th. 18th, B
and Little B streets northwest. the Has
kell Produce Market"
The action was taken on a motion by
Commissioner Siddons, 'fn recognition Of
Col. Haskelrs earnest and indefatigable
labors in the performance Of his official
duties"
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Starts for Distant Post.

W. J. Yerby Of Memphis, Tenn, United
States consul at Sierra Leone, Africa, has
sailed from New York for his post after
a vacation Of several weeks in this coun-
try. He conferred with ohicials at the
State Department before taking his de-
parture.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Motor Vehicle Operator Wanted.

An examination for motor vehicle
operator at the Washington navy yard
is to be held October /. Applicants must
file their papers by SEPTEMBER 16 with
the labor board at the navy yard. The
position pays $2.4S to $2.72 per diem
and is open to persons over seventeen
years of age. No educational test will
be given. Forty points are to count for
ply steal ability and sixty points for
training, experience and fitness.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
H|KERS WILL FOLLOW
POTOMAC PALISADES
Wanderlusters Will Gather Tomor-
row Afternoon at Park Lane
for Journey.
H1KERs' INFORMATION.

The walk Of the wanderlusters
tomorrow afternoon is to be in
Virginia, starting at 2:45 o'clock
from Park Lane, the fourth sta
ton on the Great Falls line. g.
A. Gambs will lead. The route
will lead along the river and end
at Cherrydale.
Evening star., 1914-08-01

Maj. Rhoads Heads Colon Hospital.
Maj. Thomas L. Rhoads of the Army
Medical Corps. formerly aid to Presi-
dents Taft and Wilson. has been appoint
ed superintendent Of the Colon Hospital
at Colon. Panama After leaving Wash
ington several months ago Maj. Rhoads
was stationed In Philadelphia as attend
ing physician up to q few weeks ago
when he was ordered to the Panama
Canal Zone for medical service
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Files Bankruptcy Petition.

William Brown, a secondhand cloth
ing merchant of 1904 7th street north
west. has filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy. He places his debts at
$739.S0, and declares he has no assets
Attorney David Rothschild appears for
the petitioner.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Death Follows Operation.

Mrs. Ecretanes Kowntakes. thirty-two
years old. died at Emergency Hospital
about o'clock this morning. She was
desperately Ill at her home. 927 D street
northwest, and last night her attending
physician had her taken to the hospital,
where an operation was performed.