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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
WHITE.
COLOREII.
Graduates.
Changes in Schools Approved.

The following changes in the personnel
of the school corps were approved:
Resignations-Miss NJ. E. Turner, West
ern High School. teacher; Miss F. L. Hun
gerford. teacher: James Ormond Wilson.
Normal School: \. G. Alden, teacher in
Central High School. Miss Enogene Bear,
teacher in Peabody School; Miss NJ. V.
Slater. kindergarten principal: Marie
Langhorn. caretaker at Emery School;
Theima Raymond. caretaker at Lovejoy
School; Jessie Brown, laborer at Bryan
School
Promotions-William Wilkes, laborer,
from Gales building to Normal School No.
2; II. d. Myers. from iaborer. Seaton
School to Normal School No. =; Philip
Gaines, janitor Sumner School to Normal
School No. .; l. W. Crump. janitor.
Syphax School to Sumner School: John
Gaines. janitor, Payne School. to Syphax
School; H. NJ. jenkins. janitor Stanton
School, to Payne School.
Leaves of absence granted-Miss A. p.
Jones. kindergarten assistant. one year:
Miss s. b. Brown, perpetual leave Of alb
sence: Miss E E. Saxton. teacher domes-
&c science in grade schools. six months
Observation-Disclosures Williams la borer
Franklin School 20 Armstrong Manual
Training School: Arthur Bolden. laborer,
Armstrong Manual Training School to NJ
Street High. Simmons and Douglas
Schools: r. y. Thompson. laborer, NJ
Street High School, to Franklin School
J. II. Thomas. laborer. Birney School to
Bryan School, and Charles Matthews,
ianitor. Miner School, to laborer. Birney
School.
Appointments-Miss f. E. Ryan and
Miss F. 3. Skinner teachers of domestic
science IN the white graded schools; Miss
Marian Aver, substitute teacher of do
nestle science in the graded schools
Mss J, Il. Wilkens and Miss Mary East
1act- Shs-fs
schools: Wallace Taylor. janitor Stanton
School. 9. r. Grayson. !aborer Gales
School: II. A. Briscoe laborer Normal
Schoo. 80. .: w. E. Kerper. laborer Sea-
ton sehoo': Sadie Peasants. caretaker
Emery Cooking School: r. E. Raymond,
ca-etaker Lovejoy Cooking School; Miss
l. NJ Lucas. .aborer in school gardens
Deanwood and Crumme,D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY
HOME OF E. NJ. HERR
Head of Westinghouse Company Es-
capes Disaster-Man Who
Blocks Plot Is Shot.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. July "Details of
what is believed to have been an attempt
to destroy the residence of z. NJ. Herr.
president of the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufa curing Company, were made
public today. when it became known that
Robert Miller. a steam heating contrac-
tor. was in a Williamsburg hospital with
a bullet hole in his hand. According to
the story Miller saw a man creeping
along a hedge at the Herr residence In
Edgewood Tuesday night. He attempted
to intercept the man and three shots
were fired at him. one bullet going
through his hand Four pounds of dyna-
mite. with a twenty-foot fuse attached,
were found on the Herr lawn. Troopers
of the state constabulary, county detec-
tives and the police We're today hunting
for the man who shot Miller.
Westinghouse strikers today are voting
on whether they would accept the prop
osition of the companies and return to
work. Balloting began at Turtle Greek
at O'Clock and continued almost with
out interruption, each striker being pro-
vided with a printed ballot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
WEEDS MONTH AGO
AND DOESN'T TELL
Woman School Teacher Steals
a March on the Board
of Education.
CUPID IGNORES THE RULE
FORBIDDING MATRIMONY
Board Reflects Officers, Installs
New Members and Approves Num-
Der of Changes in Personnel.

While the District board of educa
ION is still struggling over the prob
lem Of the married womanteacher
question which stirred New York for
several months. a bomb was exploded
20 speak. at the meeting of the
board yesterday when it was unofficial
j. learned that woman teacher in the
public schools had married and retained
DER position. The marriage was kept a
secret. becoming known to officials of
the schools, as stated. only yesterday.
although it occurred more than month
ago.
According to the rules of the board
teacher automatically resigns when
she marries. But the teacher in ques-
ton did not resign and as the wedding
was kept secret the automatic dropping
machine failed to work. The woman
teacher in question is-or was-Miss
Frances Thompson Towers. instructor
in history and English at Eastern High
School. Her husband. Allan Thomas
Doggett. is also a teacher at the same
school, having as his subjects mathe-
mates and physical culture. besides be-
ing the athletic coach. They were mar
ried a Annapolis May 80 Miss Towers
or Mrs. Doggett-has not resigned.
OtdcerS Reflected.
AS exclusively predicted nearly two
weeks ago in The Star, Henry P. Blair
and Ernest II. Daniel were yesterday
elected to succeed themselves as president
and vice president of the board. respec-
lively Mr. Blair was nominated for re-
election by Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes and
MI Daniel was named for vice president
by Mrs. Edith kingman Kern.
President Blair, in a very brief ad-
dress, urged the board to remember that
its efficiency depended not upon the Of
fees, who merely voiced the opinion OF
the body, but upon the individual
members
One new member, Mrs. Coralie F. Cook,
was enrolled by the board yesterday. She
whose term expired at the end of June.
Friends of Mrs. Cook sent her a bouquet
yesterday while the board was in
session.
Action to prevent a license for pool
room at 9O1 Sd street southwest being
issued. was urged in a letter from citi-
zens of that vicinity. 1t was declared that
this building was within 100 feet Of the
:. j. Bowen and 5. n. Smallwood
schools and was also close to another
school. The matter was referred to
committee.
Ernest L. Thurston. superintendent of
schools. read statistics showing the num-
Der of pupils who were to continue
studies in higher institutions. Following
is a list showing the total number of
graduates from each school and the num-
Der who will attend colleges and uni
seTSities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
To Accept Panama Invitation.

Represe NATIVE Flood of Virginia, chair
man OF the house foreign affairs commit
tee. yesterday introduced a Joint resolu-
ton authorizing the President to accept
the invitation OF the Panama government
to participate in the Panama City expo
sition. which opens November 8, and ap-
propriattng $4,000 therefor, including
$4,000 for a building and $4,000 for ex-
hib;ta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03

Ridsway's Pharmacy. Cor. Of Connecti-
cut and Florida avenues. will take your
little household wants and forward them
to The Star for insertion. If you want a
servant or to rent a room or to sell some
personal article for which you have no
further use Ridgway's will take the ad
at the usual Star rate, a penny a word a
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
REAL, LIVE VOLCANO
ASAPART OF SHOW
Lassen Peak Likely to Erupt for
Benefit of Panama Pacific
Visitors.

Real volcanic eruptions one OF the
exhibits for the Panama Pacific en-
position Is among the realm of posi-
bility. according to "A report received
at the geological survey from J. :
Diller. who has been investigating the
activity of Lassen peak. in California
The geoiogist points out. says a
statement issued today by the survey,
that old Vulcan may be preparing an
American Nesuvius for III. Panama
Pacific exposition. The Pacific ocean $
Girdled by volcanoes. and live ones are
common IN the Central American conn
tries I" which Panama belongs. Mr..
Diller reasons thus. SO il is up 60 vIl-
can to prepare u nearby exhibit for
the occasion. and he evidently sees his
duty and is retuvenating the energy
of Lassen peak as a kind OF volcanic
moving picture
Formed Crater in Snow.
Mr.. Diller. who has been at the scene
OF the eruptions stated that they began
May 80 with an outburst of steam.
which formed a crater in the SHOW
covered summit of Lassen and that
with successive eruptions the new
crater is enlarging."
That heat has recently risen in the
core Of L.assen peak is evident from the
fact that whereas il was once cold, now
ii is not and steaming." he says. when
f. E. Hayden and ] were on the noun
tain in July. 1889. and slid down TIE
two-thousand-foot snow bank into Hat
creek on our way to Yellow Butte. there
was no sign of heat in the summit OF
Lassen peak. The rocky summit of the
peak. struck by many thunderbolts durin.s
storms and specifically fused here and
there by the lightning to fulgerite.
still it was then and the little lake
is there as in 1SS3, but the heat and
the crater are new. Mr.. Rushing tells
me that these new features appeared
with the first eruption
Vesuvius Is Recalled.
But the fact that the other hot places
about the mountain are not vet per-
ceptibly hotter indicates that the rise Of
temperature is local and does not at least
as yet affect the mountain mass. Time
alone can tell what Lassen is going 10
do The volcano may subsde to its
former quiescence. But We must not for
get that it was only the top of the old
Vesuvius that was blown off to MAKE
Monte Somma and the Vesuvius of today.
Krakatoa blew UP from the very base
with tremendous effect. There seems no
good reason at present to fear kraSa-
toan outbreak at Lassen peak but the
part of wisdom dictates close watch
.Eruptons as rule break out sud
denly. Sightseers will generally find tn"
viewpoint from which photographs We're
taken close enough if the mountain is
active. but if all is quiet and the seeker
after knowledge must see the crater for
himself he should be sure to ascend on
the windward side and approach vita
caution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03

Eleven surveying parties WILL be sent
out this year by the United States geo
logical survey to investigate the mineral
resources of Alaska
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
Officials at Bethesda.

Bethesda-First precinct. Alexander A
Braddock and NJ. Walton Hendry, judges;
Edward E. Crockett and Leroy Lochte.
clerks. Second precinct. Thomas L. Rob-
ertson and William ]. Callaghan, judges:
Evans Browne and John H. Stout. clerks.
Olney-First precinct. Tarlton B. Sta
bier and Samuel P. Thomas, judges: r.
Roland Moore and Nicholas Il. Griffith,
clerks. Second precinct, Lafayette NJ.
Dwyer and Frank B. Mussrove. Judges
]. Janney Shoemaker and William P.
Jones, clerks.
Gaithersburg-Eldrid D. Kingsley and
Samuel B. Briggs. ju3ges; Harold L.
Kingsley and John #. Martin, clerks.
Potomac-Charles r. Stone and Thomas
e. Jackson. judges; John W. Lynch and
Harrison Myers. clerks.
Barnesvi!le-A. Clinton Brown and Isaac
n. Emmert, judges. Charles o. Robertson
and Daniel 7. Shreve. cleyks.
Damascus-SamUel V. Broadhurst and
Hiram G. King. judges; James w. Bur
dette and Archie W. Souder. clerks.
Wheaton-First precinct. Alfred c.
Warthen and Frank D. Stubs. judges;
Clarence v. Saver and william A. Fid-
Ter, clerks. Second precinct, James r.
Pattison and Walter E. Thompson, Judges
James E. Benedict and Aldridge q. Hi
ieary clerks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03

Only One "BROMO QUININE..
To get the genuine. call for full name LAXA.
TIVE BROMO QUININE- Look for signature of
e W. GROVE. Cures Cold In One Day. sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Final Decision in Contest to Break
the Will of Henry
Bradley.
Correspondence of The Star.

Specia. Correspondence of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. July 3.-rhe suit to
break the will Of the late Henry Bradley
OF this place has been finally settled by
a decision of the Maryland court of ap-
peals dismissins an appeal from the de-
cision OF the circuit court of Montgomery
county.
Mr.. Bradley, who died several years
ago. bequeathed his entire estate to his
widow, Mrs. sane Bradley. Certain
heirs-at-law Of the testa.or sought to
have the Will declared null and void on
the ground that at the time 1t was exc
cuted Mr.. Bradley was mentally incapa-
bic OF making valid will. Undue tnflu-
ence was also charged. After a long and
bitterly fought trial the jury returned a
verdict sustaining the will
1t was sought to obtain a new trial on
the ground that the verdict was against
the weight Of the evidence and because
one of the jurors was related by mar
rage 70 Mrs. Bradley. The court Of ap-
peals dismissed the appeal on the ground
that the appeal had not been noted with
in the sixty days required by the statute
and because the bill of exceptions was
not filed within the time specified by
law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
WEEDS Washington Man.

Rev. Samuel r. White of the Baptist
Church ofhciated at the marriage here
yesterday afternoon of Miss Lillian May
Caslow. nineteen years old, of East Falls
Church, Va, and George Emil kiessling
aged twenty-one, of Washington, the
home Of the minister being the scene Of
the ceremony.
The farm of the heirs of the late
James T. Ayton, near Laytonsville this
county. has been sold to Cha T.
Hawkins for $500. The tract con-
tains 1879 acres.
Miss Sarah Veirs. daughter of the
late Clark Veirs, died Wednesday morn
Ing at her home near Beane. this coun-
ty, aged fifty-four years. She had
been i'll about year of a complication
of diseases. but her death was sudden,
the immediate cause being heart dis
ease. The funeral took place this
morning. the services being conducted
by Rev. Oscar w. Henderson, pastor of
.he Baptist Church at Became. Burial
was in the cemetery near the church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03

Municipal ownership in Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
No Control by People Here.

The movement for municipal owner
ship in Washington Is premature and I'M
timely. also because the people here do not
control the municipality and would not
control the railways under municipal
ownership.
The kind of municipal ownership pro-
posed by the Crosser bill should be de-
nounced by every sincere and intelligent
advocate of municipal ownership in gen.
eraL For 1t violates the vital principles
on which the advocacy Of genuine public
ownership rests. The whole argument
for municipal ownership is based upon
the theory that the people of the COM
munity operate and control the railways
in their own interest. The Crosser bill,
by giving absolute control of the street
railways to the Commissioners. who are
not chosen by o. responsible to the local
taxpayers or the people of the commu-
nifty. distinctly reduces the control now
exercised by Westinghouse over rail-
road management
Under the present system those Wash
ingtonians who as stockholders own the
railways can choose by the election of
directors those who are to manage the
property, and if they are displeased with
that management a majority of the
stockholders can change the directors
and officers and overturn the objection
able policies. When Washingtonians own
the street railways as taxpayers under
the Crosser bill. and as provided In that
bill the Commissioners have control of
the railways without responsibility to the
taxpaE1ng owners. the people of the
community, if displeased with the per-
sonaliries or the policies of street rail-
way management, can change neither the
unpopular managing officials nor the OBJ
noxous policies.
Even the travelling public is better safe
guarded in its rights by the present sys-
tenn than by the Crosser brand of
municipal ownership. Since the rail-
ways are largely owned in Washington,
the pressure of enlightened public opin-
ion upon the owners developed from the
complaints, circumstances and petitions
OF w-Washingtonians influences the
stockholdlng owners. and through them
the directors and officers of the railways
to be fair and considerate of the COM
munitys rights and welfare. Moreover, il
abuses of community rights do arise the
travelling public can now secure correc-
ton by appeal to the public utilities
commission. which has been created and
endowed with large powers for the very
purpose o. guaranteeing fair treatment
by the corporations to the travelling pub
lie.
If the Commissioners are no more sue
cessful in the full management of the
railways under municipal ownership"
than they think they have been in the
limited equitable regulation of the rail-
ways as public utilities commission, the
travelling public and the community in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
Wife Sues for Divorce.

Sarah Davidson Schoenthal. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Bradley, ST.,
Of Potomac, this county, has filed suit
Cor an absolute divorce from Henry -
Schoenthal. now a resident of Marietta
Ga. The bill charges desertion, nom
support and excessive drinking. Mrs.
Schoenthal also asks alimony and coun-
Sc. Gees and to be awarded the custody
Of the couples only child, Laura Gas
saway Schoenthal, eight years old.
At the recent annual meeting Of the
Chevy Chase Equal Suffrage League
dent, Mrs. W. C. Brooke; vice presi-
dent. Eugene E. Stevens: secretary,
Mrs. E. c. Bebb; treasurer. E. D. Hath
away; executive committee. the officers
and Mrs Clarence E. Dawson. Mrs. F..
H Esch. Miss K. NJ. Raber. DIR. Ryan
Devereux and Stanton ]. Peelle.
The supervisors Of elections. Thomas
Vinson, Maurice Browning and Julian
Griffith, have appointed the following
judges and clerks Of election for the
various districts Of the county:
Laytonsviile-Henry II. Grifhth and
Ledoux E. Riggs, judges: Garry W. Bell
and Lloyd c. Coliifiower. clerks.
Clarksburg--J. William johnson and
William e. King, judges: James F.
Purdum and Robert l.. Hickerson, clerks
Poolesvile--Csher Charlton and Samuel
.. Byrd. judges; William J. Compiler
and Edgar B. Chiswe!l, CLERKS.
Rockville: First precinct-J. Gardiner
Darby and George A. NJ kelchner
judges: Duncan Smith and Montgomery
Harris clerks. Second precinct-Urban
X. Wagner and Thomas N. Bailey
judges: ]. Somervell Dawson and Cliff
ford II. Robertson. clerks.
Colesville-Samuel s. Bond and Edmund
c. Davis. judges; Francis s. Mcleod and
Lawrence E. Harding. clerks
Darnestown-E- Maurice Crawford and
Charles G. Duf1ef judges; Reuben F.
Martin and CLYDE Harris clerks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
Railway Conditions Today.

In striking contrast with these con-
ditions or the past are those existing
today The steam railroad urban grade
crossings have all been eliminated. A
wonderfully attractive as we'll as prae-
tically serviceable Union station. archi-
tecturally a classic structure as strik-
ing as the best Of the public buildings,
one of the largest finest and most con-
venient stations in the world, has been
substituted for the discreditable rattle
traps OF the past. From control of Con-
gress by the railroads we have adj
vanced to control of the railroads by
the people through Congress and the
interstate commerce commission.
The street railways have developed
from projecting, wheel-wrenchinE r
rails to gro0ved rails; from horses to
underground electric motive power of
the budapest type with improvements.
without passing through the inter-
mediate stnEe of use of the ugly and
dangerous overhead trolley In the ur-
ban section; from division into many
weak and impoverished lines to con-
solidation into two great systems; from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03

agement and control OF the property u
the District Commissioners whom they
do not select and over whom they have
no control? While nominally municipal
or public ownership is substituted for
private ownership. is not the transaction
in Its essence the substitution Of alien.
irresponsible control by three men not
chosen by the owners Of the roads for
democratic and representative control by
the community through directors elected
by stockholders?
The radical advocate of public owner
ship of public utilities denies any right
Of private ownership in these utilities,
just as the radical single-taxer denies
any right of private ownership in land.
Neither sees anything criminal, and rec
ognizes only a virtuous act in confiscat-
ing for the public from private owner
ship either land values or public utility
franchises.
The crosser proposition as it stands
taints US with either idiocy or dishon-
esty. This community is to be either
fool or knave. If. with vital powers of
control in it's grasp through the public
utilities commission, ample to safeguard
the public interest, It insists upon bur
dening itself with the responsibilities and
risks of actual ownership and pays for
the property or runs in debt for it in an
amount represented by the market va.ue
of watered stock then the community
figures a fool. If. on the other hand.
the community in eHect cOllllScateS the
roads and franchises. as radical single
takers would contiscate land values, and
as radical socialists would confiscate and
re-divide all property, then the com
munity figures as a knave. 1t has been
suggested by District official that the
fitting time for the community to conf1s
cate the roads is after private ownership
has wasted money and energy in the long
period of experiment and failure and
fresh experiment and has finally after
severe losses put the property on a pay
ing basis. This is the fitting time for
the community. ignoring private owner
ships previous losses, to take over the
property IA a price practically fixed by
itself.
Robbery in the guise of philanthropy is
the essence Of the extreme proposition
Of the radical single-taXers. The same
faint OF unconscious dishonesty is in
forcible municipal ownership by confis-
cation OF public utilities. Land values
and public utilities, 1t is argued, belong
to the public. Individuals cannot acquire
rightful title to them. Therefore the
community may take them away from
the individual at any time it pleases
without compensation or with Inadequate
compensation. without violating any pros
hibition. human or divine. Those OF the
old time who killed to do God service
find their counterparts in those OF the
new time who rob to do the public
service.
Summary.
Municipal ownership in Washington
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-15

was a carpenter by trade and as the
city of Washington was then only q
village containing Twenty-Five build
ings, he had all he could do for many
years at his trade. In fact he was
very active until some fifteen years
ago, when he retired. His wife died
many years ago and he is survived by
five children, Mack, OH, Minnie and
Eta of this city and Will of Minckley,
MINI. Miss Minnie is the present
county superintendent. He has been
in good health all summer and fall and
no thought of his death was imminent
until Sunday evening, when he said
he did not feel weAl. He died of old
age during the night.
He seldom missed a day that he did
not come up town and was familiar
figure upon the streets of Washington.
During all of his seventy years resi-
dence in this city, he has not been
away but some two weeks, when he
returned to Pennsylvania in 1847 and
remained two weeks. He soon became
homesick for Washington and came
back There is probably no person in
the city or county, who has such q
record-a continuous record Of resi-
dence in one place for over sixty
years, with only two weeks Interrupt.
ton is remarkable.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-15
SAMUEL CONNER
PASSES AWAY

Washington, Oct. 13.-Samuel Con-
ner, the oldest continuous resident of
this city and perhaps the county, died
Monday at the age Of 80 years. He
was born in western Pennsylvania in
1924. And when but two years of
age, in the fall of 1874, he in company
with several other parties decided that
they would come to Iowa. They had
heard reports Of the great state to the
west and had heard particularly of
Washington, when struggling village
in the wilderness. They took passage
down the Ohio and up the. Mississippi
to Keokuk, where they disembarked.
They asked the way to Washington,
and were directed wrongly. The men
walked and the women were secured
conveyance. His story of his walk
from Keokuk to Washington and the
early years of his residence here are
familiar to nearly everybody, as he
liked to elaborate upon, the details. He