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The Washington times., 1914-07-28
SEND JAIL BREAKER
BACK TO VIRGINIA
Detectives Capture One on Mall.
Later Arrest an AccompIice
at a Canal Camp.

Arrested by Central Office Detectives
O'Deah and .Springman. Joseph VII
iams, one Of the three youths who
made sensational escape from the
Alexandria county Jail. at Fort Myer
Heights, early Sunday morning, and
Joseph Ais. John Hodges. and George
w. Hagen. alleged to have been impIi-
Gated In the delivery, were today turned
over to the county authorities. All were
locked up In the county jail, where a
close watch Is being kept against a
livery.
Williams was found by Detective
oDea walking through the Mall late
yesterday afternoon. An hour later
Hodges. and Hagen at camp on H he
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, near TIE
District line. Joseph Mullen and John
Norman. the other two who ;scapeI j
from jail Titn Williams are still a,
large.
According TO the story told by Hodges
the delivery was planned several days
ago, the youths at the camp deciding To
make n desperate effort to free vii.
liams and Mullen, who were confined ir
a cell on the bottom tier. A saw and
other tools were obtained.
Hodges told the detectives that ALI
ond Hogan did not accompany him 10
the Jail Sunday morning. and were not
directly implicated In the delivery. The
saw was passed INSIDE 10 anC
Mullen who, with Norman. a prisoner
in a cell on the second tier, cut the bar.
and escaped.
Mullen and williams, Washington
youths, were arrested with several 9th.
er young men at Fredericksburg. Va
about two weeks ago and brought &c
Alexandria county to answer charges
growing out of the robbery of a store
near Del Ray. Both live in washing.
ton. Norman lives in Alexandria anG
was serving a sentence for vagrancy.
Jailer Johnson was aroused Just a.
the three youths were escaping through
an opening made by saving a bar ir
Norman's cell. He sounded An alarm
and opened fire with a revolver, but the
shots went wild and the tria escaped.
johnson said there were a crowd ot
fifteen or twenty youths near the jai
when he discovered the delivery, bu
this was denied by Hodges and Will.
Jams.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Expect Record Crowd
At Kallipolis Gambol

A record-breaking crowd is expected
to attend the annual excursion of Kali
lipolis Grotto, No. Is. Mystic Order Of
Yelled Prophets Of the Enchanted
Realm, which will be held at Chesa-
peake Beach tomorrow. Special trains
have been ordered and will be run at
frequent intervals. affording com
Portable accomm odaton, both going
and returning.
The set program for the "grotto gam
boi,' as It has been termed, will COM
mence promptly at 3:45 p. m. with a
parade forming at the casino. headed
bv KallipoIis Band During the forma-
ton of the line, the original overture.
Our Band will be rendered
The athletic events will follow the
parade. Prizes will be awarded for
the following races: 15-yard dash for
children. eight years and under: 25-yard
dash for boys and girls; l5-yard dash
for ladies; bag race for men: pie-cat-
ing contest: three-round boxing exhibit
ton An exhibition of fancy dancing
by pupils of Miss Ida Hayes, accom-
l'8nied by Miss Verena Schnlid, will fol-
low
Monarch Peter r. Pullman announces
that he has arranged for free oX-cart
rides for all. II is also hinted that a
number Of grand surprises" will take
place during the afternoon and evening,
the nature of which has not been di-
vUlged Rest rooms for the women and
children have been provided.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
HOLY NAME ELECTS
DOYLE AS PRESIDENT
Unanimously Chosen to Head
Society Here at Meeting OF
Washington Branch.

John Hadley Doyle. leader of the Holy
Trinity. or Georgetown, conference of
the Holy Name Society. was unani-
mously elected president of the Wash
ington branch at a meeting last night
at st. Dominic's hall
Mr. Doyle succeeds Michael Schaeffer
who has become president of the do
cesan Union. Frank P Cunning, OF
St Mary's conference. was elected vice
president TO succeed Mr.. Doyle.
Delegates from all of the Washington
parishes were present at the meeIlnE
last night. and reports from all oi
them were made. The membership o.
the society will near the 100 mari
" hen the Third SunnaY Club. If st
Aloysius' Church, Is taken into mem
bership at the next meeting.
The proposal for a demonstration bl
the Holy Name societies in Washington
this fall was given up at the meeting
and it was voted instead to have &
representative delegation participate II
the big celebration and parade OF Cath
olic societies to Ee held in Baltimore
in september. A demonstration will b,
held in Washington in the autumn
OF 1915.
The next quarterly meeting will b
held in the parish hall of the Church
of st. Vincent de Paul.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28

This Is the gabbiest Congress yet.
To speak in plain English, that Is
the fact shown bv an examination
tive volubility of the present Con-
gress. and. more specifically, of the
present regular session Of Congress.
Not in all the years since the re-
public was founded has there been
so much talking done at the Capitol
in anv single session.
The Congressional Record up to
this date contains about 1900 pages
for the present session. since the
first Monday Of last December. In
those pages. he who IL curious may
find discussion Of almost every sub
tect under the sun. from high ques-
tions Of International policy to
garden seeds.
The largest Record achieved in
single session prior to this time.
was in the regular session of the
Fifty-fifth Congress. 1t met in De-
cember, 1889. and continued to the
first OF the next october, 304 days.
1t filled a Record of 1o,soO pages.
The present session Of Congress will
last at least five or six weeks long
er.
Something like 400 pages are filled
weekly. It is safe to predict that
by the time this session ends the
record will contain well up toward
1900 pages. Fer one thing, II Is to
be remembered that the size Of the
House was much increased in the
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
By Feeding a Dog Snow
Escaped From Occoquan

Edward Snow, twenty-five, who
escaped from Occoquan June l, has been
apprehended by the Baltimore pohce'
snow admits that he was convicted
on a charge of forgery, and sent 70
the workhouse for nine months on May
81. At Occoquan he was set to work
in the boiler room, and after insp@ec.ins @
Ne stuffed some food in his pockets and
went about his duties. The fence around
the workhouse had been removed ano
a pack Of trained hounds were on duty
To see that no one escaped.
The road before a dog discovered him,
and that when one did. he threw some
food TO the animal and MADE MS
escape undetected by the guards
Snow gave his address as nj ID stree'
northwest
The Washington times., 1914-07-28

Unremitting attention to cleaning
up and keeping clean all places
where flies may breed, with unceas-
ing vigilance in the war against dirt
is the secret of success in the cam
paiSn to make Washington a flyless
city.
The use of borax as a preventative
in manure and garbage will be given
a thorough trial by all persons VINO
really desire to reduce the ever-in-
creasing fly census. but borax is
preventative and does not eliminate
the present insect population.
The only way to rid Washington
of the flies that now distress you
is to starve them to death. Flies
thrive on foul matter. Clean ZIP Gnd
clear out all refuse, garbage, and
other filth and dirt and the pests
will subside. Let uncleanliness reign
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
DR.. Egan Convalescing.

According to reports today. DR..
Maurice Francis Egan. minister to
Denmark, who Is In Providence Hos
pital recovering from serious orer-
alton, is convalescing so rapidly that
he expects TO start on the return
voyage to Copenhagen about August
II. He Is expected to leave the hos
pital some time this week. DR.. Egan
then expects to spend short time
with his daughter. Mrs. Elmer z. Muir
ply. 23os Nineteenth street north
west. to regain his strength before
sailing for his post.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Redfeld Honors 8 Heroes

Secretary OF Commerce RedneId To-
day sent letters Of commentator to
Charles E. Respess. keeper, and Edward
Davis, assistant keeper of Windmill
Point Light station, Virginia, and f. c.
Mott. assistant keeper OF Deer Island
Light Station, Massachusetts,, for brav-
cry in saving life at sea. Respess and
Davis rescued a disabled gasolene
launch contanng SIX women and eght
men which broke down near their sta
ton Mott saved two men from burn
ing motor-boat, taking the burning boat
n tow and beachng and revvng the
exhausted men.
s1o. Asheville & Return, Friday, Aug. J.
-Adyl
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Starpe the Flies--keep All
Garbage AWay

and flies will be the chief attend
ants at court.
That the little buzzing, disease
carrying pests are possessed of suf-
ficient intelligence to keep clear of
the sticky. gummy fly paper is made
evident by the success of the traps.
A sheet of fly paper may lie exposed
in room and an entire day may
elapse without more than a half
dozen insects being caught The
insects have learned the dangers Of
other forms of traps. AMI actual
killing by enemies of the flies is
more difficult by reason of the
alertness of the insect
The hope of Kidding Washington
of flies, therefore. remains in the
effectiveness of borax to prevent
flies from developing out of the
eggs and the elimination of filth
on which the pest must feed.
KILL EVERY FLY.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Asks House to Probe
District Telephone Rates

A resolution calling upon the Public
Utilities Commission to furnish inform
alton regarding the financial affairs and
operations of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company was intro
duced in the House yesterday by Con.
gressman Johnson of Washington
The resolution asked the commission to
investigate the capitalization and finan-
cling of the telephone company and to
report upon the cost to the consumer
Of the service furnished by the COM
pany.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Record Breaking Year
In Pottery Industry,

A record breaking year In the pottery
industry is reported today by the Geo
logical Survey In a review Of this In
dustry for 1913. The value Of pottery
products for the year was placed at
ss7, 900, SIS, the largest yet reported, ex-
ceeding that of 1912 by O. .fss.2i1. Ohio
is given first place among pottery pro-
ducin1 States.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Colored Girl Shot Down
By a Stranger; May Die

Shot down by a colored man at FIRST
and NJ streets southwest, Estelle Ball;
coIored. seventeen, living in the rear OF
iSOe Third street southwest, is in a
critical condition today in Emergency
left arm. breast and lung. The girl
told detective Springman the man who
shot her was a stranger.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Silver Awaits New Idaho,

When the newly authorized battle
shin Idaho is completed, there will be
awaiting her at the Washington navy
ward the silver service which was on
the old battleship Idaho, recently sold
to Greece. The service was removed
from the battleship.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Address on Socialism.

Predicting that the whole world would
eventually become socialistic and tha
Europe is making rapid strides in tina
direction, Signor Arturo Caroti. a dep
uty in the Italian Parliament, addressed
the Italian Federation of the Socialis
party last night at G. A. r. Hall
The Washington times., 1914-07-28
Outing of Veterans.

Members OF Richard Harden Camp.
United Spanish War Veterans, are at
Marshall Hall today on their annual
excursion. An elaborate program Of ath-
leuC events has been provided, with
prizes for the contestants.
The Washington times., 1914-07-28

Atlantic City-Next Sunday.
Pennsylvania Railroad $500 excursion
by special through train. Leave Union
station 7 40 a. m. Leave Atlantic City
90 D. m. Surf bathing fine.-Advt
The Washington times., 1914-07-28

s3.oo-Atlantic City and Return
Next Sunday. August 2. Pennsylvania
Railroad. Special train leaves Union
station 40 a. m. No change of cars.
long day at the shore.-Advt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13
Born OF an Ouor.

President Alexander Graham Bell
once gave an account. which is here
condensed. of an invention founded on
a smell.
First, chemist detected in sulphur
ic acid waste an odor which on analy-
sis was found 10 come from a hitherto
unknown substance. This was called
silenium.
Second, silenium crystalized was
found to be a conductor of electricity
OF phenCmenally high resistance.
Third. the new resistant, having
been put to use in place OF whole coils
OF wire to balance the Atlantic cable
during the period of laying. was found
TO have at night twice it's resisting
power of the daytime.
Fourth, Professor Bell playing upon
silenium's sensitiveness to light pro-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13
lst. Louls Post -pIspatehD


II is legendary that Napoleon. a
century ago. warned France that with
in 100 years Europe would be either
republican or Cossack. What he prob
ably had in mind was the idea, that
unless western Europe should advance
to point where it's rank and file were
free, home-making, home-defending
citizens, they would be. unable to
guard their territory against the nat
ural overflow of the Slavic hordes of
eastern Europe, creeping glacier-like
down TO the western ocean.
Napoleons prophecy has been In
part fulfilled: Western Europe is sub
stantially. in large part, republican.
The French. Swiss Dutch, Belgian,
German, Danish. Swedish, Norwegian,
Portuguese, British and Italian peo-
pies are in large measure self-govern-
ing. The form of monarchy persists
in all of them except Switzerland.
France and Portugal, but the sub
stance has gone out of it; the peoples
will. expressed at the ballot box, meas
urably controls governmental action.
Spain lags somewhat, but is moving
The power of the Turk in Europe is
broken; most of the territory he cap
tured centuries ago has been taken
from him. Out of little group of
little nations has been created-Ser-
via, Rumania, Bulgaria, Montenegro,
the Balkan kingdoms - with Albania,
struggling desperately for nationality,
Greece, at Europe's base line, is COM
ing back, and coming back democratic
cally.
Western Europe is chiefly Teutonic.
The Franks, main factor in the
France amalgam were a German
tribe. France harbors today 100000
persons either of German birth or re-
cent German parentage. The Latin
countries have strong Teutonic adj
mixture.
Civilization either checks the birth
rate or it weakens the animal fiber of
the people that acquire it, or it does
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13
RAILROAD MEN.

American railroad employees are de-
clared to be the most efficient in the
world. The recent annual reports Of
the railroads to the Interstate Com
merce Commission show a remarka-
Bile increase in the efficiency of rail-
road employees in the last % years.
Comparative figures with European
railroads are lacking, but there seems
little doubt that the efficiency of
American railroad men has increased
with that OF the employees of Uncle
Sans post office. Representative
David J. Lewis of Maryland has shown
by the postal statistics of the world
that the efficiency of foreign postal
employees does not compare with that
of the Yankee letter handlers, and
there is reason to believe that this
same comparison can be carried to the
railroad employees also.
Analysts have been going over the
railroad figures and showing some re-
markabie facts. Not only has the pro-
ductive efficiency of American railroad
labor increased enormously, but there
is reason to believe that it will in
crease even more in the future
Railroad efficiency is rated accord
ing TO transportation units" which
means in the case of a freight ton
transported one mile. or in the case of
passengers, per passenger carried a
mile.
In 1880 engine labor costs to the
railroad for each 1000 traffic units
was Sc cents; last year it was 50 cents.
In other words il cost the railroads p
less for wages of engineers and fire
men to carry 1000 passengers one
mile, or 1000 tons of freight one mile.
than it did in 1890. But the wages paid
to enginemen I'm 1913 were far higher
than those of 1880. The cheapened
cost was due to the increased effici-
ency OF the employees.
Such figures run all through the
various classes of employees and on
all American railroads. Larger en-
gines, heavier equipment and greater
loads, added to increased skill on the
part of the employees, have brought
about efficiency that no other country
on earth can meet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13


| to take care of Helen. Whereupon
| German told him that the youngster
was wild, without ambition and would
not be likely even to take care of any
| one, not even himself.
German died without again referring
to the matter. Helen had the good
sense to send for Hunter and ask him
to take charge of her affairs. There be-
ing no funds. he provided for her i'm
mediate wants out of his own pocket,
concealing the fact from her. After
her fathers funeral she consulted
Hunter as TO what she should do. He
told her that there was no income for
her. but said nothing about the mort
gage he held. That was at a time
when the fields for self support for
women We're no. open to them as they
are now. Helen looked very much
troubled.
1T seems to me-" said Hunter, that
you had better be married. Isn't there
some one you would like to marryT'
Yes" was the reply, there is. But
he couldn't support a wife just yet
Besides, he is at sea all the while, and
l should be left alone
1T is pity that am so much older
than you. l would be only too glad to
provide for you as my wife"
Helen made no reply to this. and
Hunter left her. At the end of every
month he gave her $50. She asked hiIl
if the property had produced the
amount, and he told her that it might
produce the total during the year. but
the income was not regular. ehis was
saved from being a falsehood only by
the word might
Since Bracket, the sailor, did not re-
turn-and there was nothing TO be ex-
pected from him when he dld-Helen
made up her mind to marry Rich
ard Hunter He was kind to her-she
did not know how kind-and she took
comfort in having him for protector.
She also felt companionable with him.
But she had built up an imaginary
idol out OF the sailor boy. and it would
not crumble. Her decision to give her
self to Hunter was therefore made re
luctantly and after a copious flow OF
tears.
Hunter flushed with pleasure when
she told him that she would marry
him. She had made resolution TO
Danish young Bracket from her mind
and acted n loverlike part toward
Hunter so well that he was deceived
into thinking that she was quite con-
tent. If not possibly happy. in her de-
cision. But he did not hurry her, pre-
ferring that she should have plenty OF
time to be of with the old love before
taking on new one.
AS time wore on Helen seemed 10
grow more and more satisfied with her
decision. and at times Hunter thought
he could perceive glimmer or true
love in her treatment OF him. Indeed.
SO encouraged was he that he asked
her to name the day. She did so quite
willingly.
Hunter. though not sheering or So
far from the truth as 10 leave II en-
tirely. convinced her that she was Nv
ing on her own income and when the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13
EUROPE'S GREAT DRAMA

both. Always Il burdens them with
numerous new habit needs and with
the care OF enormous quantities or
new wealth requiring to be used and
defended. Primitive peoples, like the
Slavs i'm their great mass escape these
handicaps. They breed freely, live
hardy and die young-but their natur-
al increase outruns that of the sophis-
ticated peoples. When they overflow
their own breeding grounds they inev-
itably overrun, either as conquerors
or as servants, the lands of the more
ing that in western Europe in ever in
creasing volume during the past half
century They have been doing it in
the United States very rapidly during
the decade last past. We now have
100000 Slavs in the American melt
ing pot
For their own immediate interests
the rulers-the pasteboard kings and
the real industrial and financial kings
T-sedulously keep alive racial and ma
tional ambitions, checking the natural
process of amalgamation that would
otherwise, in civilized times, take
place, in a very large degree.
The war flare that now lights the
map of Europe is proof that mankind
has not advanced spiritually sc far as
1t has mechanically: that the clean
concept, heritage of earliest ages, still
rules most human brains. The Serbs,
Slavic people, emerging from Turkish
tyranny. aim at Serb monarchy in
western Europe, comparable in size
and power with Germany and France.
They have hoped and intended to ac-
quire a large share of their territory
at the expense of the Austrian mon.
archy-that anomaly wherein a dozen
million Germans rule 30,000,000 per
sons of Slavic origin and maintain a
shaky partnership with a dozen mil
lion Hungarians. The Serb aim is a
Slavic outpost strong against all leu
tonic attack. on the western ocean.
The Teutons resist this advance in
to their territory. They will accept
SIavs as servitors, but not as masters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-13
Loose Cartilage in the Knee.
Brady,M.D.

T. B. C. inquiries: What is soften
ing OF the brain?
Reply.
Technically. it means the late eff
fects of arterial thrombus or clot in
tie brain. Popularity the term signi-
fies paresis-insanity
Teacher writes: Speaking in your
professional capacity, at what age
do you think children should enter
school?
Reply.
IN the eighth year the average child
is anatomically and physiologically-
ready to enter school, and not before
that age without serious risk TO the
nervous system. in my opinion.
Mason asks: Can a man doing fair
ly hard Muscular labor like in my
trade live and thrive without meat?
Reply.
Most of the laborers OF this globe
do.
]. NJ. inquiries: What causes a
stroke of paralysis?
Reply.
Arterial hardening. high blood-press-
ure, alcohol, over-eating, mental ex-
element.
D. II. X. asks: What is "exoph-
thalmis goitre?"
Reply.
a disease of nervous younger per-
sons, mostly of the female sex, char
acterized by prominent, or staring
eyes, very rapid pulse, and attacks of
palpitation, fine tremor OF the hands
and usually a slight enlargement of
the thyroid gland at the root of the
neck.
c. NJ. C. asks: Is there any cure
Tor varicose veins?
Reply.
The only cure is surgical treatment.
The limbs will be less troublesome If
elastic stockings are worn.
Mrs. G. a. G. inquiries: Why are
chronic skin troubles worse in cold
weather?
Because the skin is less active than
IN warm weather. and hence less ncur-
ished with blood.
Anxious writes: I sweat excess
lively with slight exertion. especially
about the face and neck. Is there any
thing safe TO use to prevent sweating?
Reply.
No local application is safe or effec-
tive for the purpose. The general con-
dition needs looking into. This is one
OF the trivial symptoms that warrant
a sort OF general inspection or physi-
cal examination by the family doctor.