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The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-07

Morning prayer and sermon at 1l @. m. Subject of sermon: "The Cnrstian's Contract Special music by full vested choir.
 Sunday school meets at 12:SO.
 Evening prayer and addess at s D. m. Subject of address: "The Com solation of DanIelp Special music by the Quartette including 0ffertory Solo by Miss Crystal Snow who will sing Just for Today"
 Ladies' Guild will meet on Friday afternoon at two o'clock with Mrs. Bayless; a full attendance is request ed.
 Choir practice on Friday evening at 7:30 D. m.
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CHANGE OF PROGRAM AT RINK
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 There win be a complete change of program at the Rink tonight. es'
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skAewAY OFFICIAL
 GETS FIVE DEER

Frank Page killed five deer on his recent hunting trip to Admiralty isl and and brought back three of them with him to skagway where he now has them in cold storage (Slagway Alaskan.)
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ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD

Juneau Camp, No. 81, meets 2 F every Tuesday night at SEQ o'clock at Moose Hall.
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PERSONAL MENTION

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AMONG THE CHURCHES. Z Trinity Epleeopai Church. (Rev. George D. Reaison. Rector)
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Established by Wilson.

The Washington office of the Panama
canal was established by executive order
of President Wilson March ., 1914. to
provide temporarily for the organization,
officials and employees, and to continue
in force the Panama canal rules, regu-
lations and executive orders which may
have been made for the isthmus canal
commission. The Office here has taken
such an important part in the building OF
the canal that it now seems possible that
it will be continued Indefinitely. 1t is
not under the War Department The
President, however. requested the Secre-
tary of War to take charge and direct
the work.
The amount of work in the great
task of building the canal which has
been directed from the Washington
office can best be stated in the fact
that the total value of equipment and
materials purchased in the past year
amounted to s12.392. .407.7S.
All of the records of the Panama
canal in the United States are kept
under the system in the Washington
office. For this reason it is not prob
able that the opening of the canal yes
terday and taking over of the organi-
isthmus will in any way affect the 10
cal office. 1t has become an estab-
lished necessity.
The officers who have directed the
separate departments under Maj.
Boggs are c. E. Dole. chief clerk of
the purchasing department; w. A. p.
Doying. inspecting engineer: w. L.
Flint. assistant to Maj. Boggs in de-
partment of general correspondence
and appointments; r. L. Smith, chief
of appointments division, and b. F.
Harrah, assistant auditor.
Evening star., 1914-08-16

dren. like me. SOS you could take out
your longings on them. It's an old and
true sayin', that what's in the bone will
come out in the
Miss Gummidge. who was even loner
and lorner than her literary twin. in
that she lacked the laurel-or maybe
weeds is the better selection-of widow
hood, interrupted to put in a defense.
Il s'pose that's what I'd oughta have
done. but when the young man 1 was
keeping company with said he couldn't
afford to take care Of the old lady. why
had to stay single and do it by myself.
Ny aunt lived to an awful old age. He's
got grandchildren married.
well, say. why don't you buy yourself
something red. anyhow"
Miss Gummidge lacked the conjugal hon.
ors Of the Dickens widow. but there was
nothing wrong about her discretion:
I'D love to, but you know how folks
would go on about my trying to make
myself younger'n what I am. and call me
old-mutton-dressed lamb. No. them red
days are over and gone. That gray ones
right neat and suitable, and if they mark
it down again I might go in and
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Panama Canal Is Open
to Commerce of World;
Cargo Ship Makes Trip

PANAMA, August 15.-The Panama
canal is open to the commerce of the
world. Henceforth ships may pass to
and fro through the great waterway
which establishes a new ocean highway
for trade.
The steamship Ancon, owned by the
United States War Department, with
many notable people on board, today
made the official passage which signal
lied the opening of the canal. She left
Cr1stobal at o'clock this morning and
reached Balboa, on the Pacific end, at
o'clock this afternoon, having navi-
gated the waterway in nine hours.
The Ancon did not anchor at Balboa,
but proceeded into deep water in the
Pacific beyond the fortified islands.
where she anchored in the channel of
when she landed her passengers.
The Ancon will remain at the Balboa
docks for some time, discharging her
cargo. this being the first commercial
voyage made through the canal.
The canal having been officially open
ed. it will be used tomorrow for the
transfer of four cargo ships, which
will thus shorten their routes The
private yacht Lasata. owned in Los
Angeles. also will be transferred to the
Pacific. homeward bound.
The trip OF the Ancon was the fast
est yet made by large ocean steamer,
the locking operations being quicker,
owing to greater experience. The
steamer went through the Gatun locks
in seventy minutes, speed never be-
fore equaled. The other lockages were
equally rapid.
Col. George w. Goethals, builder of
the canal and governor of the zone,
watched the operations closely and
was manifestly pleased at the i'm
proved handling Of the locks. He de-
clared that even this would be made
much better with time. Capt. Hugh
Rodman, superintendent of transporta-
ton. who directed the trip, voiced
similar sentiments.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
A California Canyon.
From scribner's Magazine.

TOm Scl1DileI hdsdZme
Our canyon is not grand. We see it
from our windows. fold of greeness,
always beautiful and full of intimacies,
between kindly hills. Up it's gentle path
the man of books and 1 have climbed SO
often that for us the groundsel bushes
fringing the narrow way are peopled
with the shades of former moods, some
weary. others wistful, more merry or
consoled, and yet the August day when
first we sought it out our eyes, all un-
accustomed to this western world, found
much of strangeness in its air and as
pect. At the heart Of Its sunny atmos-
phere. aromatic with tarweed and aralia,
there turks the freshness of Pacific fogs
twists between tawny hill fanks that rise
steep and bare. save for a few live oaks
now and then. and the blue patches of
young eucalyptus groves Here and there
scented leaves freighted with odd double
connotation of Mrs. Rorer's Cook
Book" and Botticellrs Spring" Surely
Flora and her Graces could hardly pose
their curves against more becoming
background than the straight. conven-
tionalized shafts of this sturdy laurel
with a dread beauty. akin perhaps. to
that of tiger, fame and snake, the poison
oak extends enticingly it's leaves of few
erish red. Lizards rustic in and out Of
cracks The very birds differ from their
eastern relatives. F1ickers face their
wings with red. l frankly miss their
yellow plumage. The larger number of
the plentiful towhees are tamely brown
although some handsome eastern-looking
ones are also visible. Jays, shorn of
crest wear coats of bright cerulean, and
humming birds have lost their ruby
throats.
Against this strangeness. familiar OBJ
jects stand out with heightened value
Walking through alien greenery where
mottled eucalyptus like great giraffe.
silently stretches an eIaborately slim
trunk, one may discover that elder and
thinlbleberry bushes. always slighted in
the Berkshires. have become possessed of
charm.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Bismarck, Music, War.

From the London Chronicle.
The feelings of statesman pondering
whether he will have peace or war are
difficult for the ordinary man to imagine.
There is a strange story concerning Bis
marck during the critical days before
the war of 1896. HIS subordinate, Ken
dell, was an accomplished pianist, and,
as Grant-Duff puts it in recording the
story, used to fulfill toward the chancel-
Tor 1.-The function which David fulfilled
toward Saul" One evening Bismarck
was unusually moody, and Kendell sur
passed himself at the piano. At last Bis
marck said: THANK you, my dear Ken
dell you have soothed me. and done me
an much good; my mind is made up
we shall declare war against Austria"
Evening star., 1914-08-16

necessary arrangements for the DrlnS-
ing home of the bodies.
The office here appointed all Americans
who went to the zone in any capacity
above the grade of laborer. with the e&-
ception Of those employed under the civil
service. In the past twelve months 2,2is
persons within the United States were
rendered employment on the tsthmus in
grades above that Of laborers. More than
1.4Oo accepted and were appointed. In
the last year 4.140 persons were furnished
transportation to Panama or from 1t by
the United States through the Washing
ton office.
Maj. Boggs stated that the Washing
ton office has civil service system of
its own and that there have always been
hundreds on the waiting list. A hurry
call from the governor for more men can
be filled. as a general rule, in lew
hours. If the grade wanted by the canal
officers is of high order and the Wash
ington office is unable to fill the position
from its list of applicants, an advertis-
ing campaign is begun.
I'VE have never failed to fill any or
der" said Maj. Boggs. Il have com
petent corps of assistants and all the Or
ders from the isthmus are of such vital
Importance to the engineers there that
we have forgotten the word can't at this
end just as they have down there. Our
motto, too, is must. y
Maj. Boggs said that on many oc-
casions serious trouble had been caused
in the shipment Of orders because OF
unforeseen mishaps He told of the blow
ing up in Baltimore harbor of boat
being loaded with dynamite for the enst-
neers the isthmus.
THAT caused no end of trouble for us
ALL he said. .'as the vessel was nearly
ready for clearing and the order was a
rush one and most important. We man
aged to make arrangements. however. in
time to avoid any serious trouble in
Panama. These are the situations the
Washington office has had to contend
with and will have to contend with in
the future"
Evening star., 1914-08-16
HOSPITAL SHIP FOR BRITISH.
Canadian Pacific Road Supports
Movement of Dominion Women.

MONTREAL. August 15-The move
ment to place a hospital ship at the
disposal of the British government
during the war has finally material
ized. message from Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy. president of the Canadian
Pacific railway at St Andrews, yester-
day states that acting on behalf Of
the company he has offered a ship for
this purpose.
The national chapter of the Imperial
Order of the Daughters of the Empire
called an emergency meeting in
Toronto OF all Of the women's societies
of Canada and it was decided to equip
a hospital ship and place it at the
disposal of the admiralty during the
war as gift from the women Of
Canada
This offer was met with keen en-
thusiasm by Premier Borden, their
royal highnesses. the Duke and Ouch
ess of ,Connaught and the members of
parliament. 1t is in cooperation with
this movement that the Canadian
Pacific railway is supplying a suitable
ship.
Evening star., 1914-08-16

A preoccupied woman strolled across
the asphalt as If for the sole purpose of
being run down. An automobile that
looked capable Of performing the job
tremendously imposing machine, with
thrown back top Of tan leather and
body OF anarchist red-gave a warning
toot.
The woman ignored it. Came another
toot, The woman kept up her slow stroll
ing as II the Avenue were one Of those
things you call a fowery mead. After he
had sounded third warning. the chauf
feur, who had already slackened speed.
curved around the woman and whizzed
on. And for that one time. anyhow, the
situation was saved.
Two men on curb took in the incid-
dent, and when it was over the one who
was smoking a cigar. said to the one
with a cigarette:
The majority of automobilists are as
careful as that man, but it is the occa-
sional reckless idiot who races down
everything in his way who gets into the
Evening star., 1914-08-16

paper or other material of sufficient
density to prevent the light being
dazzling or binding to persons on the
streets.
Date for Enforcement.
In the order referred to Maj. Sylves-
ter says:
You are hereby informed. and YOU
will promulgate the information to
the members of the force in the vari-
GUS precincts. that the regulations for
street traffic as provided and promul-
gated by the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia under date OF
July IA. 1914. become operative on
and after August Il. 1914"
Printed copies of the regulations,
Mai. Sylvester says. will be ready for
distribution Wednesday morning. Sup
plies will be sent to the several police
precincts and copies of them Will be
distributed among owners and drivers
Of vehicles
Evening star., 1914-08-16
THREE SUFFER BAD FALLS.
iclIce,nan Alexander Tumbles il
Chase and Injuries Knee.

Policeman f. T. Alexander of the
seventh precinct fel. over an embank-
ment at Both street and Prospect avenue
about :: O'Clock yesterday morning, and
received so painful an injury to his right
knee that he went to Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital. He was pursuing a
colored man who was wanted to answer
a charge Of disorderly conduct when the
accident happened.
Mrs Ellen Mcfarland. 14a5 k street
southeast. stumbled over a chain yes
terday morning. fell and fractured her
right wrist. She was taken TO Casualty
Hospital.
Mrs. Johanna Smith. colored. 1916 X
street northwest. fell from street car
AT 18th and III streets northwest Friday
night about l. o'clock and received q
fracture OF her right wrist. She went TO
Emergency Hospital
Evening star., 1914-08-16
MEMORIAL TO MAI. LAT1MER.
Granite Statue Unveiled Today at
Harrisonburg, Va.

HARRISONBURG. Va. August 10
A granite statue of Joseph White
Latimer. a major in the Confederate
army, was unveiled here today
It was erected by the United Daugh-
ters Of the Confederacy, Virginia divi-
sion, and the Alumni Association of
Virginia Military Institute.
Evening star., 1914-08-16

Druggists were advised TO be on the
lookout
Police believe that the strict enforce
ment of the law against the sale of such
drugs has materially decreased their uee.
Many women in the segregated section
used drugs. Closing that section
moved many such dope fiends from Wash
ington. and dealers in narcotics are little
in evidence.
Evening star., 1914-08-16

ness they want while they are under
your wing. and when the time comes to
get married they are ready to settle
down. II your ma had let you have
your fill Of red. you'd have got all you
wanted and forgot"
How could she, when she died? All
the raisin' got was by an old-ma!d aunt
who was too pious for pale pink. let alone
red
Then why IN kingdom come didn't you
get married and have a houseful of chill
Evening star., 1914-08-16
WOMEN OFFER WAR HOSPITAL.
Mrs. George Keppel and Mrs. Sarah
Wilson Would Start Institution.

LONDON, August 15.-Mrs. Sarah
Wilson and Mrs. George Keppel have
offered to establish a French English
hospital at LIE Touquet or wherever the
French government considers it con-
venient. The establishment is to con-
tain 1000 beds and is to be kept up
as long as the war lasts.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Time Required to EIapse Be-
fore Regulation Is Operative
Expires Tonight.
ORDERS TO THE POLICE
FOR RIGID COMPLIANCE
Arrests for Violation to Be Followed
by Heavy Fines, Upon
Conviction.

Although announcement had been made
that enforcement Of the Districts new
traffic regulations would begin today, no
arrests for violations will be made be-
fore tomorrow. It was stated at police
headquarters last night.
This decision followed discovery by
Maj. Sylvester. superintendent of police.
that the thirty days required to elapse
from date of publication OF the regula-
tons before they can become legally eff
fective do not expire until l. o'clock 70
night. The Commissioners had been III
der the impression that the notice period
would terminate yesterday
While drivers Of automobiles and other
vehicles are thus given an extra day in
Whlch to operate under the old rules,
they will more than likely have cause to
regret any decision which would cause
them to attempt to follow these rules for
longer period. Beginning tomorrow, the
police will maintain a strict lookout for
violators Of the new regulations. They
have been given instructions to show no
corporation counsel at the Police Court
also has been directed to ask for heavy
fines following convictions.
Say Glaring Lights Must Go.
The Commissioners are particularly in
terested in the provision OF the regula-
tions prohibiting use Of giaring lights on
vehicles and intend to break up this prac-
tice at all costs. If the rule adopted
proves to be efficient, they will amend
the regulations by barring use Of reflec-
tors of any description.
Also it is their intention to press citi-
Zens into service as special policemen,
| should it be found that the police force
is unable to compel compliance with the
regulations. This plan, of course. will
not be adopted except as last resort
The Commissioners regard the regula-
tons as being concise and easy to under
stand and do not anticipate that there
will be any complaint on this score. They
are of the opinion that the public will
manifest desire to cooperate with the
authorities and that the regulations will
prove effective in reducing the dangers
of vehicular traffic.
Instructions to Police Captains.
ers that these regulations be made
effective, according to an announce
ment order from Maj. Sylvester to the
several captains of police.
"An6." the order continues, 'ft is de-
sired on the part of the authorities that
special attention be given the enforce
ment of section SO of the new regula-
tions, making it unlawful to use any
acetylene or electric headlight or side
light on the streets, avenues or public
highways of the District of Columbia
unless the rear reflectors are removed
from the same, or the front glass
either ground or covered with muslin,
Evening star., 1914-08-16
PRESCRIPTION BLANKS STOLEN.
Physician Thinks Thief May Use
Them to Get Done.

A book 0. prescription blanks disap
peared from tho office of DR.. George
Clark. 81 E:as. Capitol street. yester
day Afternoon. The police We're in
formed that 8 so;:ng man suspected OF
having taken the bool. might utilize
them to write prescriptions for cocaine.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Working Up a. Voice.
70 Roston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Briggs-Great Scott! You'll catch cold
being out in this weather without your
overcoat-
Griggs-Thats all right! One Of our
choir singers has just been called away
and I've got to sing bass tomorrow.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
My Country Home

Out on the farm at a con-
venient distance from the city,
surrounded with all that
makes country life desirable,
is the individual dream of
many of US who have become
tired of the din and battle that
seem to be a part of the daily
routine of city life.
Well. we think that at least
after a few more years of toll
and trial we will buy a neat
little farm and settle down,
where business conditions will
never again annoy US.
Why not be interested right
now in buying that farm?
Look over the list in The Star
Want Ad pages from day to
day until you find the place
that suits you.
TeIephone your Want Ads to
The Star. Phone, Main 244O.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
Employed Labor.

The local Office of the Panama canal
has also handled the matter of obtain
ing skilled labor for the engineers on
the isthmus. 1t has also acted as a
general bureau of information and will
continue to do so. 1t takes charge of
the estates of Americans employed on
the zone. who die. and makes all the
Evening star., 1914-08-16

A. T. Bradlee has been awarded the
medal offered by the National Cotton
Manufacturers for investigations upon
the effects of moisture in testing cot
ton yarns and fabrics.
Evening star., 1914-08-16
FIRES ES|NFORESTS
CAUSE Of CONCERN
Grave Conditions in Two
States, With Thousands
of Acres Threatened.
DRY WEATHER CREATES
DANGEROUS SITUATION
Emergency Fund Is Drawn Upon at
the Rate of $5,0o0a
Day.

Officials of the forest service In Wash
ington last night acknowledged that a
grave Eituat!on exists in connection with
the numerous fi-os in the national forests
Of Montana and northern Idaho Dry
weather conditions. moreover. IN the
northwest. from the plains westward to
the Pacific, are admitted as more threat
entng than at any time since 1910. the
year famous for Its heavy losses from
forest fires.
Fifty fires at present uncontrolled are
blazing, and one thousand fre-fghters
-four hundred on a single line-a-e la
boring to preserve both public and private
property.
Freedom from the high winds which
play such a leading part in the annual
fire risk Is the one hope Of avoiding
heavy losses, the officials announce. In
case the winds are only moderate 1t is
hoped that the condagrations will be held
in check by the regular protective sys-
tenn and the special forces Of emergency
help which are being thrown into the
burning sections
If, however, hot winds Of relatively
high velocity become generally prevalent,
1t Is feared that the many small fires
will be famed into fury and swept to-
gether into large ones. while those which
are now taxing the resources Of the fire
fighters may pass beyond the power of
human control.
Evening star., 1914-08-16

honey, when l was chile you couldn't
please me better'n to have one them lit
tie green wums medjurin' me for new
frock. But amt never had no quaint
eat'n up ver'thing same as locusses."
Lady suggested army worms.
"Thems the ones! Ahmy wums.
Yessum. Why. chile. them wums are
chaws up crops. An you can't pick out
nothin' sensimler ma p'tater bug. Them
bugs takes care Of themselves like they
was p'leecemen. They kin dodge and
on the fahm chasinn' after 'em. An even
when you killem they don't pear to
know they's daid-the way they keeps on
chawin'. Yessum, these cattahpills got
as much sense as ptater bugs. an you
can't say no more n that. Ever steddy
over them teency tinecy gnats. mostly
the green ones you see on rose leabes?
Them gnats is SO small you can't hardly
see 'em even with young eyes. but If
sot your finger directly in front of 'em
they would switcher roun' an skedaddle
t'other way. Don't that show gnats got
sense? Suttinly they got sense. B'fore
nah eyes got sorter weakened out
woods an steddy them black ants that
runs outer de rotten bark when you
tech it. Why. honey. you'd be 'stonished
to see the way them ants acts-though
side tumley bugs. / seen a pair of tum-
ley bugs last mont a rollin' up"
There was wealth of detail that end
ed at last with fraternal interchange Of
blessings. two car tickets and a cone
dime-but this is enough to prove to you,
Horatio, my boy, that all the naturalists
are not Gagged.
One of them lives on the aidge of the
pine woods down yander in Merlen-when
she isn't visiting kinfolks in town. And
what knows n
snake-waiters and tumley bugs would
give pointers to even so eminent an au-
thority as-whoever he may be who has
inherited the knowledge-mantle of Nat
uralist Alphonse Karr.
Miss Gummidge and Mrs. Local-a
hearty body. entirely satisfied with her
extra chins-were considering a mark
down in hats.
em-" it was Mrs. Locals verdict
Too many flowers, and the flowers too
gay. I wouldn't mind that brown straw
If they'd rip of those red roses and put
me on brown bow"
"Oh, don't you admire red?" the Gum
mtdge voice was as lone and lorn as the
Gummidge person Il was just wishing
l was young enough or that scarlet straw
with the poppy wreath. I'd a gone to my
death for a hat like that when I was a
cherry delaine and strand Of coral
beads, but I never got neither. Seems
like I'll keep wanting red things till
die
That's because your longings wasn't
satisfied at the right time Ny mother
the tom-foolery We took notion to-in
reason, of course-and do the same by
my own girls AS mother used to say, let
the youngsters have all the gay foolish