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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
FIRST VISIT TO POTOMAC.
Fay Schooner Florence A. at Alex
andria With Cargo.

ON her first visit to the Potomac
though in service on Chesa peake bay and
its tributaries for several wears, the two
masted schooner Florence A. is living
at the Bryant fertilizer factory wharf
at Alexandria to unload cargo of fer
tilizer-making material The vessel is one
OF the largest two-masted schooners In
service on Chesapeak bay. and is one
OF the few craft of her size equipped with
gasoline power engine for hosting sails
and doing other heavy work She is
handsome craft and is fitted out in the
most comfortable manner, both for crew
ard officers
The vessel was built at CherryfieId.
Ne. IN 1890 and registers 1875 net tons
she is 800 feet long, PA feet beam and
~ feet deep in the hold. She carries
a crew of SIX men. Tappanhannock Va,
is her hailing port.
II Is understood that the Florence A
viii be frequent visitor to this city and
Alexandria.
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daughter? and was not her mother
laundress? What. pray, did Betsy expect
her to be more than her own father and
mother? She was filling the girls head
with foolish ideas which might prove
her ruin later.
But Betsy knew Elizabeth. And her
pleasure was the child's. When she
bought violin for Elizabeth and began
to give her lessons she lived again the
unrealized ambition of her own youth.
1t was evident certainly that Elizabeth
would never set the Wilowlemoc affre
with her playing, but she had sufficient
intelligence and facility to make some
very pretty music. BY the time she
was fifteen or so everybody knew that
she was not to he washerwoman. like
her mother She was going to graduate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
NATIONAL LAWN TENNIS
STARS MEET THIS WEEK
Williams, Johnson, Clothier and
Thayer on Long List of En-
tries for Philadelphia Title.

PHILADELPHIA, June 22-When the
twenty-first annual lawn tennis cham
pionship Of Philadelphia and district
Germantown Cricket Club three of the
best ten players in the United States will
compete in the preliminary round of play.
They are William ]. Clothier, Merton
Cricket Club: Richard n. Williams. I'd,
Philadelphia Cricket Club, and Wallace F..
Johnson, Merton Cricket Club.
All are rated among the best ten play
ers in the country and have gained ma
tional reputation on the courts and with
this trio. in addition to the best tennis
talent in this section of Pennsylvania.
New Jersey and Delaware, the German
town Cricket Club tournament promises
to be the best event ever held at Man
helm. The entry list includes sixty rae
quet wielders, and more sought a the
eleventh hour to enter with Jacob Bentz,
secretary of the tournament committee,
but the drawings had been made.
Real Big Surprise.
The real big surprise was the entry of
William J. Clothier, who has not taken
part in tournament play in this vicinity
for many years. 1t will afford local ten
mis- enthusiasts the opportunity of watch
ing Clother in play. for he will play
through the event and this afternoon
meets II. X. kitson. Germantown Cricket
Club. He is in the lower section of the
draw, William T. Tilden, jr.. runner-up
in the state championship, also playing in
this section. while Wallace F. johnson,
1913 state singles champion, and Richard
n. Williams, who won the title at the
Merton Cricket Club Saturday. will come
together in the upper section of the draw,
if both win their matches until they
reach the third round.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Navy Medical Corps Vacancies.

There are now thirty-fye vacancies in
the Junior grade of the Navy Medical
orps- Examinations of candidates for
appointments to the corps, which have
been held during the past few months,
have produced list of nineteen proyj-
sionaIly qualified candidates, who will
form part of the next class. beginning
October ]. at the Naval Medical School
in this city. May : the Navy Depart-
ment stopped issuing permits to candi-
dates to take the examination but il is
expected that additional permits will
he granted about June 80. On the
list of applicants to take the pre-
iimindry examination there are nine
teen names Of those who desire to be
appointed 10 the Naval Medical Re
serve Corps. which is the initial step
toward their being sent to the Medi-
cdi School, upon final graduation from
which the student officers are commits
stoned in the regular corps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT,
Arrivals.

steamship Austriana paving block from
Middlesboro. England. via Baltimore. at
9th street wharf. to the Crawford Paving
Company; schooner Oscar wood and
lumber from Currioman bay. Va, for
local dealers; schooner Orbit. cord wood
from Maryland point. at 18th street
wharf; schooner Grape Shot at Alex
andria with cord wood from a Maryland
point for William A. Smoot & Co.:
schooner Five Sisters. at Alexandria.
from this city, to load merchandise for
a Potomac point: schooner Neddie. at
Alexandra. to load merchandise for a
river landing: steamer Southland. from
Old Point and Norfolk. to the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company:
steamer Fhree Rivers. from Baltimore
and Potomac points; steamers Wakefield
and Volunteer, from river landings
Departures.
Schooner Bertha Nav. light, for Manic
moy creek, to load cord wood back to this
city: schooner Lanclott. light. for May
land point to load cord wood for the deal
ers here: steam yacht Gaviota, for a
cruise to the mouth of the river attn J.
r. Dos Passos, owner, aboard; scno )ner
Five Sisters from Alexandria with mer-
chandce for a Virginia landing: schooner
Maud S.. merchandise for a Maryland
point; power boat Daisy. from ALEXANDRIA
for Piscataway creek, with merchandise:
steamer Northland, passengers and
freight for Old Point and Norfolk
Tugs and lows.
Tug Capt. Toby. arrived at Georgetown
with two light coalboats from naval
powder plant at Indian Head. Nd;
tug James 0. Carter is due from the
mouth of the river with a light barge to
load coal for Boston; schooner Eugcnia
arrived. towing lighters laden with sand
ana gravel for the District: tug Minerva
left Georgetown. towing lighters Cor dig
eing machines down river: tug 1oan Mi
Ter left with tow of lighters for Little
ers laden with material for the workhoGse
at Occoquan, Va.
Memoranda.
Schooner J. P Robinson is due at this
city with lumber or wood from Upper
Machodoc creek; schooner Mary Lee has
left Baltimore for bay point en- roIte
to the Rappahannock river to load um
Der: schooner II. l.. James is ut Balt-
more with lumber from Norfolk: schooner
Mabel & Ruth is at Newbern. y. G., load
ing lumber for this city: barge .'".unhia
is lying light at Alexandria. waiting
tug to take her to a Chesapeake bay
point: schooner Carrie Revell is at n
Maryland point to load wood back To ,his
city: schooner NJ. & F. Moore is at
Shoots wharf Alexandria to unload
railroad ties consigned to Washington
dealers for shipment north
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Suffragists Complete List.

COLUMBIA. Mo-. June 22.-The re-
auired $4,000 names have been signed
to the petition necessary to the sub
mission of a constitutional equal suf-
frage amendment in November. accord
ing to announcement just made here
by Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Column
bia, head of the equal suffrage move
ment in Missouri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Anacharch:sts on Way to u. s.

ROME, June pa number Of alleged
revolutionaries and anarchists who are
being sought by the Italian authorities in
connection with their participation m the
recent riots at the time of the general
strike. are reported today to have left
for America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

Lying undiscovered for two days in
a chicken house in the rear of his
residence. the body of Luther Raby. at
Mercersburg, Nd. was found by neigh
bors Raby had been i'll for several
weeks and lived alone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Euerybody's Agent

The Star acts for YOU and
for your neighbor with abso-
solute impartiality. Want Ad
pages OF The Star give every
body the highest quality of
service-you call The Star.
Main 2441. and give your or
der for a Want Ad. That
same day your message is
delivered into most of the
homes of Washington.
The Star Want Ad pages
give service to these read
ers in these homes more
complete than can be gotten
by them in any other way.
II you want to prove the
value OF these pages to you
begin today to read Want
Ads.
Telephone your want Ads
to The Star. Phone Main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

The tax rate for Carroll county. Nd.
was fixed al Is cents. The rate has been
steadily increasing for several years, and
is e cents higher than last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

Among the 1.5O0 inhabitants in the
Joliet 1ll) prison there is not one printer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

I
lis
his
o lis
eanda also
the heavy urde hich cara ao with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

James Lane of Templeville. Nd. drop
ped dead. His widow and two chill
dren. j. Frank Lane OF Goldsborough,
and Mrs. Harry Davis of Edgemoor,
Del, survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Insurance Act f.
Costs MANY Millions.

tinction of being at once the most pop
ular and most unpopular act passed by
parliament in many years. These labor
ing men and women who have been out
of a job or who have been sick and
who have received benefits from the fund
or treatment from the doctors employ ed
by the fund undoubtedly acclaim the ma
tienal insurance system as a great sue
cess. Oth2r workers who have received
no benefits, but who pay in a part of
their wages every week for the insurance
fund, are not at all convinced of the
wisdom of parliament in enacting it,
The insurance act is extremely COM
plicated. but it is based on the princ pie
that the state, the employer and the
worker all three have an interest in
taking care of the health Of those per-
sons who for any reason are temporari-
ly out Of work. and who are too poor to
live on their savings.
For that reason every workman In the
trades affected by the act pays in SO
much of his weekly wage, the employer
pays in a certain amount and the state
contributes a certain amount. the three
amounts varying in proportion to the
wages received by the insured person
1t has not been IN enect long enough TOT
one to form a definite opinion as to its
ultimate success or failure, and even its
friends admit that ii will require severa
years to work out the details of its en-
forcement in a satisfactory manner
Payments on account of the civil serv'
ice taken In a lump sum are larger thar
SOME of those items already reviewed
1t is difficult to separate the variou!
classes of the civil service. but abou
$50 900. coo goes to education and abou
500 600. 600 to other branches of the 'civi
service. The $60.O00oOO devoted to edu
cation is supplemented by about $7O.0Ss
Aa0 raised by local taxation. Even t
add these sums together does not give I
correct indication of the amount o
money spent on education. as many pu
pills in schools receiving local and stat
aid pay tuition.
The next largest item is that Of interes
| on the national debt, which. togethe
| with the expenses of administering tn
debt and the sinking fund. amounts L
So. 600 0O0 a year. In addition to this tn
national debt itself is being reduced b
payments on the principal amounting I
$50 cor. ON or $40. 000 O00 every year.
Another. national expenditure of whicl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
THE BRITISH CRISIS.
XXXVI.-John Bulls Expenses.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

The fact that John Bull collects and
spends almost exactly the same amount
every year as does Uncle Sam makes a
glance at the British balance sheet in
teresting to an American. AS has been
penditures ard economies is impossible,
since so many things taken care Of in
the British budget are not to be found
in the federal appropriation bills in the
United States, but are taken care of by
the states and municipalities. At the
same time, local authorities in England
take care of some things that are a ma
tional charge In the United States.
The largest single item of expenditure
in Great Britain Is the navy. which re-
quires about SOS .OOo. 900 a year. This
expenditure, enormous as it is. repre-
sents a much smaller outlay per ship or
per sailor than the smaller naval bud
get of the United States. 1t takes care
of the largest navy in the world. and
one that Britain still maintains at the
two-power standard-that is. it is theo-
retically as strong as the united navies
of the next two strongest maritime
powers. The return for this expendi-
ture Is. of course. indirect, but no Eng
HShTndit. toTy OF Tduicdi' uouo's .ias ms
tight little island gets value received for
every penny of these millions.
The army is the next most expensive
establishment. requiring about $4,000.
900 year This, too, represents much
smaller outlay. in proportion to the
strength of the army than does that of
the United States. The great difference
is in the payment of soldiers and officers.
British army officers in many regiments
have barely enough salary to pay their
servants, and must live and keep up the
dignity of the regiment, perhaps by
lavish social expenditures. out of their
private means.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
Graft Held Due
to Small Salaries

companies furnishing the army with sup
plies the newspapers generally cited this
fact as proof that the salaries of army
officers ought to be raised to the point
where they could at least live upon them.
so as to reduce the temptations to graft.
Next in order in the amount of expen-
ditures comes the post office. which costs
about S124 ,OO0, 600 a year. The American
post Office now is approaching the $780,
U0O, 600 mark. 1t must be remembered
also. that the British post office not only
out that it also operates the telegraph
and telephone systems of the United
Kingdom.
The United States post Office just about
pays expenses. but the British post Office
pays handsome profit, as its revenues
amount to $1J0,00O.O00. leaving S26 OO0, 900
net revenue fer the imperial exchequer.
The only part of the postal establishment
that does not pay a profit is the telegraph
system, and 1t manages to pay expenses.
The mail and parcel carrying and the
telephone systems are profitable
Much has been said of the compare
postal services. and more of the COM
parative efficiency of the British postal,
telegraph and telephone service as COM
pared with the same service under pri-
waite ownership in the United States. Tn
doubtedly, the British telephone is a
primitive thing, better calculated to irrI-
tate the nerves than to facilitate commu-
nication. How much of this is the fault
of the post office and how much the fault
of national characteristics in the use
and operation of conveniences is matter
for dispute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22

the address and the signature are
charged for, but even after that the
rate is very much cheaper than Amer
leans ever have experienced.
There is absolutely no sentiment in
England against the government owner
ship of the telegraph, although there is
considerable feeling on the subject Of
the telephones. The theory is advanced
by many British economists that the
post Office should continue to own and
operate the long-distance telephone lines,
but the local exchanges in each city
should be operated by that particular
municipality.
The next largest charge on account
of direct expenditure is on account of
old age pensions health and unempIoy-
ment insurance and the labor exchanges
These services, which represent an ex-
penditure entirely unknown to the Amer
lean economy, cost S1UoUUuD annually
or a little more than half of what our
military pensions cost The old age
pensions of themselves come TO more
than $50, 000,0D a year and, as few. if
any, of the pensions amount to more
than Sis a week. it is easy TO see how
many old people in England are in need
of this assistance.
The national insurance act costs the
or
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1t is interesting to note In this connec-
ton that when several army officers were
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26

which lies a newspaper or two, a few
magazines, a current novel, cigars, ci-
garettes and stationery.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26
FRANK RECEIVES REPORTERS
IN CELL; DISCUSSES HIS CASE

in the factory on Saturday, April &c.
II was said that the negro could not
have concocted such tale had 1t not
been so.
But just let me call your atten-
ton to the first statement the negro
made. When he talked to Black and
the other detectives, he went into the
finest details as to what he did on
Saturday. and he never once mention
ed being in the factory.
Conley's First Story.
He told about going from one sa :
loon TO another; told on what streets
he walked; described how he went TO
one saloon and got a glass Of beer,
and how he went to another and got
a double header, and to still an
other, where he mixed his beer with
wine. He related from whom he
bought drinks
He told of shooting craps in
hack room; told how much he won
and from whom he won ii. He told
of emerging onto the street and of
meeting a man with a whip around
his neck. lie said he bought whisky
from this man.
yet not a word was true"
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26

men bring about" asked Leo Frank
looking UP from the little blue volume
which he held. Listen;
LOT Freedom weeps
Wrong rules the land and waiting JUS
tice sleeps!
lie paused and looked affectionately
at the little blue book When he
spoke again his voice was lower.
81 think very likely that it is the
hardest thing in the world to wait
while justice sleeps" he said quietly.
Leo Frank is young man OF easy
and engaging manners. If you fancy
that the same may not be displayed
in a heavily barred cell. YOU are en-
tertaining an Illusion. There was no
hint of embarrassment, no shyness,
no hesitation in his address. He in
vited questions.
"Shoot Your Questions
shoot them at me, he alughed.
I'm simply bursting to tell all
know. and | only wish it were more.
I've got nothing to conceal, and
wish everybody In the case would say
the same Then we'd mighty soon
get at the thing that is back of all
this sorry business
in talleing, Frank looks qou square
ly in the eyes He talks readily and
to frame his replies. He has a fond :
ness for expressing himself epigra M
maticallN and II is easy to guess he
is a bit vain of his conversational
powers and to justify that harmless
trace of vanity.
Il assume that YOU want me 10
talk about my side of this case" he
said but if YOU care to call again,
and not so formally, ! shall be de-
lighted to talk about something else
and not feel so restricted AS in an
interview. / really can talk about
something else, you know"
Doesn't Ask Sympathy.
Commenting on his own attitude
throughout the investigation he said
| that, while he had been described as
the silent man of the Tower" he
either personally or through his at
torneys had met every issue fairly
and squarely and never had sought
| to eVade or avoid any question that
came up.
Il believe / have acted the part of
q man from the time | was arrested -
he said. II have been a man and have
endeaVored TO have every charity for
those who have been unfair and uu-
! just 10 me
Il don't want sympathy | don't
need sympathy in spite OF the ter
rlDle position IN WnlCn am IN. All
| want and need is justice. am
entitled to that as a man and as a
citizen. But | haven't received it.
! have deserved more consideration,
! but il has not been given me.
Solely Question Of Justice.
Il have come To a point where | n
willing to submerge my own indi-
NidualitS. My own personality sinEs
to nothing in this matter Ii has be-
come solely question Of Justice and
| fairness. and fair play and decenY.
IL my Incarceration or + my deaG 4
will serve o SHOW ~ the r0tteuueSs
/ and Crookeduess IN public life Il il
| will serve to uncover the onSpiraSJes
! that have put me where / am. then
am willing that they DO what they
wish With me am just a bubble an
| they can crush me as ga silly a thcs
! wish.
~ am not worried however. as t,
the outcome. am clipper and cheer
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26
Doomed Man Hints He
Is Victim of Political
Ambition. and Re
iterates Belief That
He Yet Will Go Free.
Jokes with Inter
viewers.
Continued From Page I.

cards on the table shall play the
game out 10 the end-and shall ex-
pect the reward OF a man, OF an limo
cent man. when the last trick Is
played"
He stopped and looked hard at his
visitors Behind their heavy lenses
his dark eyes were very bright, and
the heavy brows a boye them were in a
straight line. Then he smiled.
Charges Collusion.
Frank said that he had been i'm
pressed by the evident collusion that
existed between Solicitor Dorsey and
William NJ. Smith, attorney for the
negro, Conley Dorsey, said Frank,
apparently had worked hand in hand
with Smith in an endeavor to get the
negro off as lightly as possible.
The prisoner then went into a
minute analysis OF the notes that
we're found by the dead girls body
to show that. as he had declared in
his formal statement of a few days
ago, "the hand that wrote the notes
was the one that strangled Mary
Phagan'
"The Solicitor argues that no one
ever heard of a negro leaving notes
bv the body OF his victim said
Frank, hut he Is begging the ques-
lion, for IL can be asked with equal
logic, Whoever heard Of a white
man debating notes TO a negro 10 be
left at the side Of the white mans
victim.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26
Tells of Daily
Routine in Jail.

Fra = steel cell 3 about six feet
wide by eight feet long and eight feet
deep. A passageway three feet wide
runs along between the barred front
Of the cell and the steel cell house
wall Pointing through the steel lat
tice to the big steel door leading to
the balcony, Frank told of his daily
life. He said:
II haven't been outside of that door
since / was convicted. Yet | have
gained 15 pounds. my color is good
and ] feel fine. ! read current fiction.
visit with my friends good deal
and write innumerable letters.
Hundreds of letters are pouring in
on me all the time from men, women
and children who take kindly inter
est in me. Some of the letters, of
course, are from old friends and |
answer each one personally, whether
from anyone | know or not
Time Passes Rapidly.
II sleep ten hours every night, take
what exercise | get by using my In
dian clubs and walking up and down
this little place. ! sleep like a top
and the only reason don't sleep more
than ten hours is because don't per-
nit myself to.
"In spite of the fact that 1 am in
solitary confinement here. ! find
plenty to do to pass the time away.
A few of my personal friends call
to see me. my attorneys come to
consult with me once in a while and
withal | find that time flies, and it
is bedtime before | know it every
day.
Il read a great deal of light f1c-
ton. all the Atlanta papers and prac-
tically all the Southern papers.
keep card indexed filing system of
every line that is printed about my
self or the Phagan case and I find
this an interesting occupation"
Knows All in Newspapers.
Il smoke good 5-cent cigars and
cigarettes. Won't. you have one ,"
And Frank showed a package of
cigarettes through the bars, smiling
The man has at his tongues grip
the salient points OF every line of
newspaper matter that has been
printed about him. and of these there
are reams. His conversation was con-
stantlY interrupted by himself with
quotations from editorials, feature
stories and reviews printed of the
Frank case When he forgot the pre-
else wording of any article, he quick
ly turned to his card -indeXed file and
iead the article in full
Franks cell is fully lighted. and
quite comfortable in a plain sort of
way The sun streams in at one of
the two windows practically all the
time it shines In the center of the
cell is a small flat-top desk, upon