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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-12
CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
Further Progress Toward Convnlcs-
cenCc By IkinE OF SWEDEN.

Stockholm. Sweden. April ll.-Furth-
or progress toward convnlescence was
announced In the surgeons bulletin
regarding the condition OF King Gus
tave or sweden, Issued o-day from the
sophia Hospital. where his majesty
was operated on for liberation of the
stomach on Thursday. The bulletin
SAWS:
Ills majesty passed quiet night
and enjoyed IA good sleep The pain ne
was suffering has diminished consid-
crably. and his condition gives reason
isStV'S recpVerV"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-12
HEARING is POSTPONED

Militant SunraYettc Throws Hall of
Paper at Trial Mngistrntc.
London. April ll.--May Stewart, the
militant sufrngette who, with a cleaver
tried to demolish n case OF valuable
porcelains in the British Museum on
April 8, created such a disturbance
when charged to-day that the police
magistrate was compelled TO adjourn
the trial
When the public prosecutor opened
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-12

and also the vast accumulation Of COM
HEurcs which Mr.. Moore has
complied since taking charge OF the
Office of Auditor OF Public Accounts
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-28

National Training School Of the
Young w 1en's Christian Associa-
ton at Fifty-second street and Lex
ington avenue. They are ready to
serve In any part Of the world.
Some Of them were distinguished
in various fields before they came to
the United States for the two years
course at the training school.
Baroness Olga Meyendorff was al
ready mistress of six languages wien
she came here to At herself for the
position of Worlds Y. w. c. A. Sec
rotary. Her territory Will embrace
Europe. A. . preliminary she will
attend the Worlds Y. w. c. A. Con-
ference in Stockholm, Sweden, in
June, with Miss Caroline Dow, dean
Of the training school, and Miss Ger.
trude Macarthur.
The work Of the training school IL
marvellous" said the Baroness.
There Is no other such Institution.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-28

act ~ q travelling secretary in the
Transvaal. Cape Province and Orange
Free State, said the English militants
have done the suffrage movement In
calculable harm In Africa, where the
men had shown great interest.
Miss Alice Shields Of Lahore, india,
goes back to carry on work we'll ad-
vanced. Mas Myra Withers Of Kan
sas City goes to India as travelling
secretary. Marion Ossood and Mar
garet Matthew return to Toxic. Japan.
Miss Jeanne Head Of Lynchburg.
Va. carries her training back to help
her in social service among the FAC
tory girls Of that place.
Miss Grace Dodge presided at the
ample exercises. The Rev. Harry E.
Fosdick spoke on The Efhcacy OF
Prayer" The alumni dinner followed
the commencement,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-28
SUES FOR GIFTS he MADE.
P1saaer Wants Back Rang aaa
Money He Gave Mrs.. Staples.

P1oomeP wants hack Nhw9 ene
Mssey He Gave Mrs.. staples.
BOSTON. May sS.-Presents Of . $500
diamond ring and numerous sums Of
money figured in the testimony OF .
suit brought By Samuel Piummer Of
Portland. Me-. against Mrs. Catherine
O'Brien Of No. az fremont street. this
city, which was heard BY Judge DVn
to-day. The ring and the money were
given 70 Mrs.. Maud Stapees. nra
O'Bricn's daughter.
plummer. In his testimony. declared
that his friendship for Mrs. Staples was
only plat0nic. Pummef declared that
he made a loan OF $500 to Mrs. O'Brisn.
She contends that the plaintiff made q
gift OF money TO her daughter In order
that the latter might purchase . player
plano.
and she IL a very attractive younG
woman Of about twenty.
She testified that Mr.. Plummer had
made many GIFTS Of money aggregntina
hundreds OF dollars to her she did moi
know that he was married at hrst. she
said.
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statue which occupies position on the
wall above the top Of the gateway on
the 18th street side Of the grounds at
the rear of the old house. The Rambler
is now in position to tell more about
that old house, he having received a
letter saying that the information could
be had either from Henry Randall Webb
or Justice Alexander B. Hagner.
Mr.. Webb. telling the story of the
house, said:
William Writ. once Attorney General of
the United States. He died long before
the house was built.
This house was built in 1854 by my
grandfather. Henry Knapp Randall. as d
home for himself and family, and for his
Munroe. who was the first postmaster
of the city of Washington, and who held
other important Offices in connection with
the organization Of the city. Mr.. Ran
dali lived in this house from the time it
was built until his death in February,
1877
my father, William B. Webb. and my
mother. who was a daughter of Henry
Knapp Randall, were married in this
house in 1855, and my mother died there
in 1893. From 1877 to 1885 the house
was rented as boarding house. In
July, 1885, my father, who was then a
Commissioner of the District Of Column
bia, moved with his family into this
house and lived there until the summer
of 1894
"Afterward. when the estate of Henry
Knapp Randall was divided, his house
was sold to Senator Stewart Of Nevada,
and was eventually sold by him to the
government The dog over the gate on
dog, is an iron dog, and was put there
by my grandfather about 1872 or 1873,
and was painted to represent dog IN
the family at the time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03

members of the commission having in
charge the erection and dedication of this
monument are A. B. Parks of White Sui
phur Springs, N. Y; G. T. Curry OF LIB
erty, n Y, and H. c. Boas of New York
city.
Il was born in New York city at the
corner of 18th street and Sd avenue,
where the Stuyvesant House stood. Away
back in the f1fties I was cash boy for
Dater & Timpson, No. 20 Wall street
was not old enough to enlist in 1861. but
in the fall of 1863 I enlisted in Company
B of the 25th Cavalry. That regiment
was attached to Clusters Brigade. There
were eight troops of us engaged at Fort
Stevens. under command OF Maj Samuel
w. Mcpherson
Living next door to Mr.. Woln is g. T.
Cashell. who. during the war. lived
farther up or to the west along the 18th
street pike. He was d boy when the bat
tie of Fort Stevens was fought, but he
remembers the sound of the firing and
the hordes Of troops in the fields and
along the road. He told the Rambler
that as little boy he was out in that
part Of Montgomery county with his
father hunting bees Sunday. July 81.
1851, and the roar OF guns came from
the southwest 1t was the first battle
OF Bull Run that was being fought. The
Rambler has often heard that the sound
of the guns of that battle were clearly
heard all around Washington.
Mr. Cashell told the Rambler that the
Silver Spring house known as Early 8
Headquarters was owned at the time OF
the fighting by Montgomery Blair, but
that a man named Louis Graves lived
in the house, and later acquired It by
purchase from the Blairs.
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nomical Situation and the Tasks OF the
Working Class and she said things
which made worthy citizens rage.
She said that the people must soak
themselves in revolutionary spirit; that
if soldiers are asked to turn their
weapons against their French brothers.
they must refuse: and that the weapons
might take direction which the ruling
classes would not like.
In court Rosa made a fiery speech. in
which she admitted having said all these
things but declared that her enemies
had read into them other things which
she did not mean. She added that war
is a barbarous. highly immoral. reac-
tionary and anti-popular thing Rosa
was found guilty of attempting to induce
disohedience in soldiers and of other
charges; and so she goes to jail.
Many excellent citizens heave sigh OF
relief. Citizens of all kinds. Conserva-
tive upholders of the existing social Or
der because Rosa luxemburg is their
tiercest. most unrelentng foe among all
F,urope'S socialists. And socialists them
selves These are secretly glad to be rid
of the dSputatious Red Rosa. For ter
ror as Rosa is 10 all foes of socialism,
She is a greater foe still TO weaklings,
towards and compromises on her own
side The talented, eloquent, imperious.
dashiug Rosa Is a plague and nuisance
to Germans OF both kinds. and all are
heartily glad to have her put away
K
This is not the first time that Red
Rosa" goes TO Jail not will it be the last
Rosa has been four times sentenced IN
Germany; four times III Russia, and odd
times-which she does not trouble to
count--in other countries. She has been
sentenced for libel, for e-maJeste
against the kaiser, for melting different
classes of the population to mutual Vio-
Ience. for organizing revolutionary con-
spiracies, and merely for being social
democrat Any other propaSandist would
be satisfied and take a rest but Red
Rosa is Unsuitable; and she now goes TO
Jail for a year with the brave intention
next time TO go for two years.
And these periodical internments, whlcn
naturally please the tinid champions OF
no less For Rosa Is one of those un-
comfortable allies who always burn with
zeal and manage TO make ridiculous every
one who burns less brightly.
For five years Rosa has kept the party
in turmoil by insisting against its orpor-
tunists on the extreme doctrines of Marx
ism, and by insisting at the same time
on ultra-revolutionary tactics of a high
ly risky kind. This union Of doctrinal
purity and fighting fanaticism originated
in extremist Russia, where Rosa. Jew
ess by race, was born forty-three years
ago
strongly represented In the German social
Rosa, with the Russian economist, Dr..
Elephant. who calls himself "Parvus,
and some other sympathizers, formed .
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part OF our political program. Kautsky
and the official socialists. in vain. pro
fessed that they are sound republicans
but that they are against precipitate agi-
tation. This only confirms Rosa's be-
lief that the official socialists will never
dare to fight for the principles which
they profess.
Red Rosa" is not only the one resolute
man socialism, but she is a woman OF
marked propagandist talents and of
strong character. Outvoted at party con-
crosses. derided as mere gas-bag End a
visionary, she never loses courage: and
her assaults on the bureaucratic leaders
and flaming indictments to action and
combat provide the only dramatic fea-
lures of socialist meetings.
She is a good speaker and writer and
can address meeting or compose a
man, Russian or French Also Red
Rosas' life Is a self-sacriflcing one and
a reproach to some of the official social
lists who think more of their comfort and
Of the party conveniences than of the
socialist cause.
Rosa's charity Is famous. Her little
apartment at Sudende. In the south of
Berlin is an asylum for the poor and I'M
fortunate She fights always for her
cause and not for herself. "Comrade
Rosa said Bebel in one of his last
speeches. has made a target OF US all
and we have made target of her. But
never has there been such fierce con-
troversy with so little ill-feeling.'
That is true of Rosa and of some su-
perior socialist spirits such as Bebel was
but it is not true of all socialists. Many
leaders detest the angel of the social
revolution as a perpetual menace to
their position in the party hierarchy; and
the putting of Rosa into jail for year
has caused these much secret satisfac-
ton.
Rosa's most faithful friend and cham
pion is the reichstag socialist, lawyer
and author, Arthur Stadthagen. Hand
some arthur is one of the ablest men,
bers of the left socialist wing. whose
members more or ess sympathize with
Rosa; his extremist views even led him
twenty years ago to be expelled from the
corps of advocates.
Stadthagen is renowned as an expert
on the best way to carry on an anti-gov-
ernmental propaganda without falling
into the clutches Of the law: and to his
advice is due the fact that Rosa during
the eight years. 1906-1914. escaped getting
into Jail Even now there is a chance
that Rosa will escape her twelve months
Jail, for she has put in an appeal. Rosa's
best argument here is not her political
innocence but her weak health, the re-
suit of sacrifices made and prfvatfons en-
dured for the red cause.
Jail treatment Is sore point with tho
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timore and Ohio railroad station We went
west along Pennsylvania avenue to It'll
street. and there we halted for some
time. Then orders were received and we
marched out 18th street double-tming
part of the way. l remember passing
the Schuetzen Park. At Brightwood
there was great confusion. The people
were coming in from the outlying coun-
try, and all said that Early was coming.
The size of his army or his division, as
reported by these people was bigger than
the whole Confederate army.
II remember what a poor-looking lot Of
soldiers we saw as we came up to Fort
Stevens. A great many of them appeared
to be inyalidS or convalescents. and, OF
course, ! learned later that many Of these
men had been brought from the hospi-
tails on the heights around Washington
for emergency service in opposing the
Confederate advance.
when we got past the outer line of
the works we formed as skirmishers and
advanced in that formation to the old
tollgate, which stood on a rise Of ground
just where Battle cemetery is now. BY
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supine leaders and to proclaim war to the
knife on bourgeois society.
Rosa as an outsider is new. Until five
years ago she was not SO much the
plague of the official socialist party as its
recognized prophecies. In those days
Germany's socialism was split up into
only two factions, the radicals and the
revisionists The radicals, under Bebel.
controlled the machine, and prosecuted
as schismatics the revisionists under
Bernstein. AS revisionsm consists in
watering down Marxist doctrines and op-
portunist tactics. Red Rosa" who. by
the way, has the university title of doc
tor, stood with the radical majority.
She even considered herself an official
socialist The indictments accused DR..
Rosa of running the party on Kaiser
Wilhelm's autocratic lines and they
classed her with two other dictators. the
''theorist of socialism,. Karl kautsky'
and Mehring. With them was Bebel.
These pushed the extremist radical"
policy ruthlessly, and expelled six of the
ablest editors Of the Vorwarts for dar-
ing to disagree.
Then Rosa was at the height Of her
power. Since then the revisionist move
ment has gained ground. Bebel. before
his death. moved long way in its direc-
ton, and at the last annual congresses
Bebel and the official chiefs were an in
termediate party half way between the
tame revisionists and the remnant of
the old uncompromising extremists whose
leader was DR.. Red Rosa.
Since then Rosa has been devoting
her energies and her talents to forcing
on the temporizing party certain extre1n-
list principles and certain extremist eX-
pedients which it desires to shirk. Such
are the proclamation of an immediate
general strike as a protest against the
reactionary PrusSian franchise and the
initiation of an active, no longer merely
doctrinaire, republican propaganda d.
rected against the reigning German SOW
ereigns.
The official leaders say that the gen.
eral strike would fail, as the time has
not come for it. and they know that an
active republican propaganda would get
them into jail Hence Rosas extreme
faction is always voted down. But Rosa
takes her defeats imperturbably. and
meantime she has the JOY Of proving to
all genuine-that is. revolutionary-social
lists that the official leaders are falterers
and poltroons.
Red Rosa" is almost the only leading
spirit of German socialism who accepts
the SOCIAL revolution In the sense indi-
Gated by Marx in the Communicate Man
ifesto-that Is, an overthrowal OF the
present order by violence. The RUS
sian section has always stood tof this,
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by the state of New York to the 18th
New York Volunteer Cavalry. which
fought at Fort Stevens. will be dedicated
at Battle cemetery-the little cemetery on
the east side of Georgia avenue, few
hundred yards north of the site of Fort
Stevens and in which rest the bones of
majority of the Union soldiers who fell
in this engagement.
The pedestal Of the monument is OF
light-colored Barre granite. and the
statue of marble. which surmounts 1t, Is
five and one-half feet tall. The COM
bined height OF pedestal and statue Is
eleven feet and Six inches. The monu-
ment will be inscribed:
Sacred to the Memory of Our Com
radcs Who Gave Their Lives in Defense
OF the National Capital. July II, 1854
Erected by the State of New York In
Honor of the 18th New York Volunteer
Cavalry"
Mr. Wolff told the Rambler how the
25th New York Volunteer Cavalry came
to be at Fort Stevens on that July day
fifty years ago. He said:
In June, 1864. after the battle of
White House landing on the Pamunkey
river, Grant moved his headquarters to
City Point. He left behind him on the
Pamunkey river train of 300 army was.
ons and supplies under command OF
Gen. Abercromhy. The instructions were
to follow on to City Point with those
wagons The 18th New York Cavalry
was a part of the escort and nearly all
the way from White House landing to
City Point we We're harasSed by Confed-
crate cavalry-Wade Hampton's, / be-
lieve
Arriving safely at City Point, the regi-
ment was detailed as bodysuard to Gen.
Grant. In July. when Early was threat
ening Baltimore and Washington, Grant
received orders from Washington to send
q back
The 25th was dsmounted and in the
James river we marched on board the
steamboat Exchange and landed at Bal
timore. There we heard that the battle
of the Monocacy had been fought and
that Early seemed to be headed for
Washington. Our regiment was loaded
on coal cars on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad and we went through to Wash
ington.
When We marched out of the old Bal
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and Rosa and Parvus bitterly gibed at
Kautsky. who claims to be stalwart.
for Sinking the issue.
Rosa challenged Kautsky in 1910 by
launching the idea of q general strike
as first step to revolution. The strike
was to be "a test and an example"
Rosa was in fiery mood: for she had
visions of millions of workingmen drop
ping their tools and sweeping govern
ment, church and kaiser into the dust.
kautsky and all the official socialists
showed the white feather and the Off
cial newspaper Vorwarts refused to pub
lish Rosa's flaming letters, and decreed
that q general strike must not even be
discussed.
Rosa retorted with bitter reproaches.
She declared that the magnificent en-
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MaG,bbon Curzey
MONUMENT TO 18th NEW YORK
VOLUNTEER CAVALRY TO BE
DEDICATED IN BATTLE GENE
Terry JULY II.
that time both skirmish lines were pop
ping away and the fort guns and some
Confederate artillery were firing. We had
our hands full in skirmishing. We drove
the skirmishers of the enemy back onto
the grounds where Walter Reed Hospital
is now and there they made long
stand. But finally they went on back
to the Blair place.
Things looked pretty dark for US at
shutdown the 18th Of July. even though
we had forced their sklrmish line back.
We were veterans, and forcing skirmish
line back didn't mean as much to US as
to younger soldiers What counted was
what that line of skirmishers was falling
back on That evening and night we
buried the Union dead on the bit of
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Heavy-Handed.

POSTMASTER GENERAL. BTRLESoN
smiled. at luncheon in Washington.
over the suggestion that the parcel posts
rivalry of the express companies was bad
for the peoples transport trade.
bad for the people," said MIR Burle-
son. We'll. sir. when you say that, you
remind me. in your abysmal ignorance.
of one of our oldest post office stories.
According to this story, a postmaster
said to a customer:
This letter won't go for > cents
Whats the matter with it,
Too heavy
TOO heavy, hey? Wall. that's Just
about what 1 expected. My son wrote
that letter. and l told him at the time he
was writn' too heavy a hand: but ne KEEP
bearin' down and bearin' down. Here,
give 1t back. I'll take it home and make
him do 1t over in lead pencil.
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The Randall.Webb House

THE Rambler made rather an extend
ed reference last Sunday to the fine
old house which stands with ample
grounds at its rear and on its west side,
at the southwest corner Of and 18th
streets The property is now owned by
the government. and for some time
has been occupied by a part Of the
bureau Of insular affairs. It was writ
ten last Sunday that 1.-The Rambler has
made many inquiries concerning the his
tory of this house, but the information
Obtained has been contradictory and
otherwise unsatisfactory
Reference was also made to the dog
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dlsputatious Rosa. She carries on a
vigorous propaganda against "czarisin. :"
Russian prison barbarities and despotisn
and she is suffered to be the chief of A
German organization which helps Rus
sian prisoners to escape. Between 1905
and 1911 this organization managed to
liberate from prison or Siberian penal
servitude nearly a hundred persons.
Being an ex-Russian subject. and hav
ing been in collision with Russian law
Rosa cannot openly visit Russia. but she
has been there often in disguise: and her
adventures would fill a book. The cars
government has repeatedly taken steps
at Berlin to have an end put 10 Rosas
agitation. 1t got. says rumor. from
Prince Bulow the humorous advice To
lddnap Rosa and relieve Germany of the
most troublesome political problem il has.
Copyright 1914. by Curtis Brown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03

- BERRY WALL, 1.-THE king of the
LIE dudes" was strolling the Promenade
des Angiais in Nice.
Bronzed from his yachting trip round
the world, Mr. Wall. with his huge Glad
stonian collar. his superbly balanced coat.
his delicate and crisp linen and his fresh.
rich tie. lived well up to his proud title.
Passing an American with a cropped
mustache, he said:
THAT chap is a type. met him once in
Smyrna
"'where are you goingr he asked.
1--WE are going to Jerusalem said l.
Holy smoke he growled, you don't
want to go to Jerusalem. Nv Just been
there It's a slow town. Why. You can't
get decent cocktail in the pfAes.'"
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associated with this house and with the
man who. with his wife. dwells there.
The story goes that this house during
the attack against the northern line Of
The defenSes of Washington which Gen
.fubal Early and his division made July
~ and IL, 1864, the semi-centennial OF
which approaches. was occupied by Gen.
Early during a part of the time when
the Cenfederates were engaged against
the Union troops in the fields in front
Of Fort Stevens. Because of this fact
the old house has acquired and main
tains its distinction as Gen. Earlv's
headquarters"
That in itself is an Interesting fact. bn+
the interest is considerably heightened
by the fact that the present owner and
occupant of the historic house is a mo,
VINO, as a Union trooper, fought on the
helds around Fort Stevens His name is
3ohn II. Wolff. He is employed in one
of the government departments in Wash
iugton and is 4 particularly we'll pre-
served man, with clear memory.
The Rambler stopped at that house
quite by accident a few days ago and,
seeing several rusty cannon shot in use
as parlor ornaments. asked the question
which brought forth the reply that This
vas Gen. Early's headquarters and
Was one of the men who fought against
aim," and also ELECTED other inforna-
ION which the Rambler means here to
II down.
\ bit of news cleaned in the interview
gas that on July IL a monument provided