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The Washington times., 1914-05-05
Military Pomp to Mark
Gen. SiCkles' Funeral

NEW YORK. May 3.-Major General
Sickles. hero OF dozen battles If the
civil war. will be buried with military
honcrs after funeral services at =
O'Clock Friday morning from st. Pat
rick S Cathedral
The family today planned the details.
II Is probable that interment will be
H. tn. National Cemetery at Arlington.
Va on a hilltop among his comrades
of the old Third Army Corps. The War
department offered a detachment of
REGULAR troops as a guard of honor,
but for some reason unstated the Tam
lIl C"clincd the offer. Militiamen will
Le the guard of honor. From the
SIckIes home to the cathedral, the cuf-
fin. haE-drapcd. Will pe borne on Il
gun carriage. followed by veterans
who were with the general at Chan
CellCrsville and Gettysburg.
The Washington times., 1914-05-05
V|NSLOW ASSERTS
S[UM MEASURE IS
NOT PRACTICABLE
iouSe District Committee
Again Discusses BorIand A.
ley Bill.

The alley problem Of the Capital was
ain considered by the House Dis
ct Committee TODAY. when ii re-
med hearings on the Borland bill
ovtding for municipal aid in elimlna-
ng slums.
Congressman WinslOw of Massachu-
tits expressed some doubt at the hear
g that the alley question could be
attled by a municipal bond issue. and
nnseouent loans to a sanitary housing
oncern. He criticised the Borland bill
s Ito vague and suggested that
we must get down to brass tacks."
Committee members asked questions
egarding the ability of the Sanitary
Iousing Company to pay > per cent
7terest TO investors and at the same
me keep up surplus fund and repair
ork on their houses. Representatives
( the company present today said that
hey could 60 this with municipal aid
the way of loans.
Six Supporters.
These who advocated the Borland
III today were Congressman Bo-land.
gorge verrall. Of the Bureau of Sta
Gorge NJ. Sternbers. William H. Bald
in. and J. A. Watrous.
Congressman Borland said that the
ley problem is now recognized as a
ational one in Europe. He showed
hotographs of homes supplied by
ousing concerns in England for work
e men, which contained three rooms
nd scullery at rent from six to
week
1embers expressed wonderment at the
Ugh class homes provided for such a
rntal.
The problem in Washington" saio
r. Borland, is to get good homes
or men who pay s12 a month or less
or rent, and there must be no alley
enements."
Is Not Sufficient.
Mr.. Verrall furnished statistics of
. hat is being done in foreign coun-
ries TO solve the alley problem. These
satistics showed, he said, that private
pital has not been sufficient to
eet the alley problem and that gov
rnment funds and credits have been
xtended abroad to housing companies
$ ho have operated for twenty years
more. Even in Wales. he said,
T.0o0,o has been loaned out to elm
nate alleys.
The witness said that the housing
Ompanies were making good profit.
nd Congressman Winslow commented
he investment here must be made at
rsctive. mixing philanthropy with
Isiness.
General Sternberg. DR.. Kober, and
Or Baldwin detailed the operations OF
he Sanitary Housing Company, Cen
raj Sternberg saying that one of the
Methods whereby such companies could
cen their repair bills down to the min
mum is to offer rebates to good ten
nts who keep their homes in excellent
'roer.
The committee will continue its hear
ngs at some later date.
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river and habor hills before. ard Sen
ator Burton agreed with him.
The amendment was described IN de-
tail by Senator Norris. lie said II
authorized an appropriation of sla,Gl.-
co for development of the power plant
below Great Falls in the Potomac. A
dam was to be erected at Chain bridge
II. feet high. Such Il dam would create
a lake nine miles long. which would
reach to the foot OF Great Falls. This
lake could he used for water supply
for the District.
Scenery Not Impaired.
He pointed out the scenery about
Great Falls would not be impaired, and
the creation Of a beautiful lake such
as proposed would be a benefit TO the
public
The plan Senator Norris said. would
generate power enough to furnish the
Government with the light and power 1t
needed in the District. Then, by further
development, light and power could be
furnished for private purposes, for resi-
Dental use. lighting streets. and run
ming street cars.
At the outset. Senator Norris said,
80 400 horsepower would be develoned.
The average daily requirement. OF the
Government ir the District of Column
bia is l0.72S horsepower, and the high
est, or peak" requirement is li.I5l
horsepower.
Senator Norris gave the cost per kilo-
watt hour of power from the project as
S7-10O cents whereas the Government
now pays 20,l cents.
If the District government docs not
purchase tie street railways and light
ing plants of Washington. Senator Nor
ris thought the District would be able
to sell them light and power. since the
roEect he proposed would furnish light
more cheaply than the private compa-
MES can furnish il.
The Washington times., 1914-05-05
Today's Sales on
The Local Exchange

Capital Traction 5s. Soo@10sa 5000
1864, S5OCd1O5a4.
Washington Gas IS. E.oco6IoS1t.
s.. .c0ca 1861. sl.O0od l0S1i. 5000 1855, SJOJn
1C62s
c. & p. Tel SIS. s1.OOoaIO4l.
Washington Railway, com. 2:JftS6'... II
as61z. l0ds6l3. lGSSlz 2Jfa as5I2. 25GS5l9
JqS61z
WASHINGTON Railway and Electric pf
81. 1CQs4.
WASHINGTON Gas 25d79@s. 5a79s4
After call
Washington Railway and Electric pf
GIa4k4
Mergenthaler. 21q2l5. 2G2l5H.
Washington Gas. 12II9as. 2I7@E
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Director of Mint to
Address Unitarian Club

The weaknesses of the old system of
national banking. our disadvantages IN
relation to other countries and kindred
questions allied with banking. will he
explained in an address by Geor3,, i:
Roberts. director of the mint. in lec-
ture on THE 4. 3. G of the Federal
Reserve System before the Unitarian
Club. at All Souls Church. the riSht
Of May l3. The address will be pre-
ceded by the annual dinner of tn" Uni
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St. Stephens Mems Club
Gives "Country Circus

The first Of 4 series Of "rountry
circrs' performances viii take uIacc
tonight under the auspices Of the
Mems Club Of -. Stephens Protestant
Episcopal Church. at Fourteenth
street and Columbia road. Th" fes-
tivities will end Friday night. and the
proceeds will be turned over TO the
church
The Washington times., 1914-05-05
Pulmotor ReSuscitates
Girl Overcome by Gas

The puImotor probably saved another
lfe last night. when Miss Ella Rhodes
TiXteen years old. was overcome by il
Uminstins gas at her home. s37 keefer
rla'e northwest. Miss Rhodes younger
prother discovered her unconscious in
Yer room. DR.. Paul Zmkham. or Finer
.ency Hospital. resusCitated the girl
With the pulmotor al her home.
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William Ernest KrauSe
Dead in New York

News Of the death, IN Sunday in ST.
Msrys Hospital Brooklyn. OF William
-Tnest krausc, was received here to-
lay. Mr.. krause was formerly en-
ol, yea in the composing of The Times.
The body will be brought here by Mrs.
hrause to J03j o street northwest, for
nterment. Pneumonia vas the cause
II death.
The Washington times., 1914-05-05
Burns Rat to Death;
Court Fines Him Sis

BUFFALO. y. Y. May 5.-For burn
ing rat to death. Joseph Arduini was
roasting the animal in a steel trap
over a street bonfire.
The Washington times., 1914-05-05
.FEATURELESS DAY
ON STOCK EXCHANGE
Activities Evenly Divided Be-
tween Stock and Bond Lists,
With Prices Firm.

Trading on the Washington Stock
Exchange today was fairly active. but
featurcICss with sales being evenly
divided between the stock and bond
lists and prices generally firm. Wash
ington Gas issues showed slight ad-
vance, the per cent bonds selling up
q Of a point over the last sale. $4,000
worth bringing from 1861 to 1868
while the first sales of the stock
showed a gain of =. Fnurtyfour
shares were disposed of within a price
range from 79s, and 1919.
Washington Railway and Electric
common sold off a point from yes
terda5's price, lOl shares bringing an
even price of S6h. Forty-one shares
of the preferred brought from 81 to
S4t. other sales in the bond list were
confined to s1.50r worth of Capital
Traction SIS. which sold for 1863, and
a $1,000 c. & r. Telephone which
brought 10+1i, or point less than
the last sale.
Making the best exhibit of TIE year.
commercial failures in the United
States during April. as reported to r..
G.. Dun & Co. numbered 1886 and sup
piled an aggregate Indebtedness Of $?V.-
5i9. 144. This compares with 1.i64 in
solvencies in March for 81, ,4sS. .2S6. l.Sc5
in February for So, ,3J4,1s3. and l,s57 in
January, when the amount involved
was no less than SS31i.a7.
There was however. some increase in
contrast with April. 1913. the numbct
of defaults AT that time being LSl4 and
the liabilities slS4i5,3 ,355: in the same pc
riod of 1912 the record showed 1,27D re-
verses for s16S74.727 while three years
ago 1,266 concerns suspended owing
s16 92i,TG. Apart from manufacturing
lines, each of the three classes into
which the statement is divided reveal
ed higher business mortality, both
numerically and otherwise. than In
April last year, with trading Occupa-
tiCns making the least satisfactory
comparison.
Thus. 92O such failures for slO.627 30
exceeded the 9O6 insolvenCies for So
3l0.3Ol in 1913. and in the group embrace
ing agents. brokers, etc. there were SO
defaults for S3497. s56 against 81 involV-
ing s2i12,69S in 1913. On the other hand,
the manufacturing Indebtedness was
slightly smaller-s6, ,424, ,G59 against $6,-
662, ,356-although 347 firms met with re-
verses, as contrasted with 341 year
ago.
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New York Coffee.

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NAVY.

Commander W. s. WHITTED, commits:
stoned January II 1914.
Lieutenant Commander E z. SPAF-
FORD. commissioned from January
H. 1874
Lieutenant II. E. HEWITT. commits
sicned from January IL. 1911.
Pay Inspector GEORGE BROWN, conn.,
nlissioned from February l9. 1914
Passed Assistant Paymaster II. c.
SHAW, commissioned from August
2. 1913.
Passed Assistant Paymaster P. 7. NJ
I.ATHROP commissioned from
August % 1872
Chief Gunne: c. H. ANDERSON. COM
missioned from February 3, 1914.
Chief Gunner c. II. FOSTER. COZ, mis-
stoned from February }, 1914
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New York Market.

Quotations received by ". B. Hioos q Co .
members New YORK Stock Excnsnge wash
lnston Stock Exchange. and Chicago Board
OF Trade. Hibts Building.
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Army and Navy
ARMY.

Leave of absence to include June :. 1914,
Is granted First Lieut. WALTER E.
PRGDGEN. First Infantry.
First Lieut.. WILLIAM B. BORDEN.
Medical Corps, is relieved from duty
at the Soldiers Home, Washington.
and will proceed to Fort Washing
ton for duty to accompany the
FOrty-fourth Company, Coast Ar
tillery Corps. to Fort Sherman.
Canal Zone.
Major THEODORE c. LISTER, Medi-
cal Corps, from Fort Monroe, Va, to
Vera Cruz, Mexico. for assignment to
temporary duty.
The resignation by First Lieut.. RICH
Corps, of his commission in that
corps has been accepted to take
effect May 4.
Leave of absence to include June .. is
granted Capt. BRADY G. RUTTEN-
CUTTER. First Infantry:
teenth Infantry, will report to Col.
AUGUSTUS P. BLOCkSOM. Third
Cavalry, president of army retiring
board at Fort Sam Houston. Texas,
for examination.
Leave of absence to include June , 1914.
Is granted First Lieut.. LEONARD
W. PRUNTY, Fourth Cavalry.
First Lieut. CHARLES T. RICHARD
SON, Ordnance Department, is re-
lieved from duty at Plcatinny Arse
nal, Dover. n. J.. May IA. and will
proceed to New York Arsenal for
Capt. ROBERT DAVIS. Field Artillery.
to Boston. Mass, in connection with
the organized militia.
Second Lieut.. JOSEPH c. MORROW,
jr., Twenty-sixth Infantry. is detail
ed for aviation duty with the Signal
Corps and will report in person 20
the commanding officer. First Aero
Squadron, Galveston, Tex. for duty.
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New Orleans Futures.
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Chicago Grain Market.

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New York Futures.

Sales. 500: middling. 732; yeSterC
"a,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
The Watchful Waiting OF buSl'
ness and the Dwindlins
Democratic Vote.

"rbe Evening Post" challenges The Tribune 5
=. .h+ hard times account for the Democratic
slrmn in the Paterson-Passac Congress district
.rhe facts don't bear out the explanation says
THE Post" and it quotes 1.-THE Passa1c herau ~
the effect that the silk mills of Paterson ana tne
,ox.yo mills Of Passaic have been buster than ever
since the new tariff went into effect. PROBABLY tue
iii mills ~ Paterson have been running full time.
They went through long period OF 1dienesS IN Tue
strike year ago. Their stocks were cleaneu up
and even the general dulness of business ana the
moor market for all kinds Of commodities have not
been sufficient to force slowing down In these mills
Rut silk making is not the only industry In TINS
Congress district There is steel manufacturing
There are plants which depend upon the railroads
as customers There are woollen mills All or these
have been hard hit by the existing Industrial de-
nression Competent observers report Il great deal
OF unemployment in both Paterson and Passa1c. MT
Drukker the Congressman-eect Is OF the opinion
that the tariff is responsible for his success Moth
ing less than the hard times lack OF employment Oh
the part Of many and the fear of it on the part OIL
others who know of its prevalence would account
for such an overturn as that which has taken place
in this New Jersey Congress district
Mr. Wilson must have had an extraordinarily
successful administration to weather such business
depresSOn as prevails to-day without suffering IoH
some reaction. And his administration has not been
Of that kind The applause which the Democratic
marty has received has not because OF its doing
we'll but because Of its doing anything at ALL Every
one has been amazed that it did not develop at once
its traditional incapacity for government In sur
prise at the novel spectacle of the partys not going
TO pieces at the public has been willing to over
look more or the scandals of the looted dipo-
matte service the discredit of Mr.. Bryan's conduct
in office and the many bunders which would ordi-
narily have been damaging to an administration
The Democratic party was novelty in office. Mr.
Wilson was a novelty. They have passed that stage
They face from now the ordinary tests. The
sun" put it we'll in saying that the honeymoon was
over So it is. An empty larder is one of the most
threatening incidents of married life
The Paterson Passaic result is the first sign of
what Mr.. Wilson must expect next fall if conditions
do not grow better before Election Day. The best
thing that can happen to him is the prompt settle
ment of the rate controversy in favor Of the rail-
roads And the best thing he can do is to drop his
antitrust programme. This is no time to enforce
"watchful waiting" upon business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
No Apology Necessary.

The Tribune is in favor Of paying Colombia
S2jOOOOOO as a solace for the loss of the Depart
ment Of Panama and for other damages arising out
of the acquisition by the United States from Pan
anna of right Of way across the sthmus. But It
should be understood that this payment is act Of
generosity and free will. 1t should not be accom-
panied by an apology subscribing TO the theory that
the United States had no moral right TO recognize
the Republic of Panama and to make treaty with
the latter providing for the construction OF canal
through its territory
Colombia was well aware that it was taking big
chances when it rejected the Iay-Herran treaty.
The Colombian Congress wanted to kill the goose
that laid the golden eggs. It wanted to put the
screws of extortion the United States, although
Panama was weak and that the people Of Panama
were likely to seize for themselves the prize which
Bogota was pretending to hold at arms length.
That is just what happened. Panama seeded. Co
Omba, trying to get too much lost all, and since
1908 has been living the bare hope Of capitalizng
a grievance
If Mr. Bryan has undertaken TO offer an apology
TO Colombia for the recognition OF Panama by the
United States he has exceeded the proprieties of
treaty making. Let the United States compensate
Colombia as matter Of friendly and neighborly
consideration. Each country should be willing to
wipe its mistakes Of a decade ago off the slate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
Contemporary Testimony VS.. Higher
Criticism.
Higher

Everybody is interpreting the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty nowadays. We reproduced Rule I of Article
III the other day in order TO sustain our argument
that the makers Of the treaty did not intend to
exempt American coastwise vessels from payment
Of tolls when they said: "The canal shall be free
and open to the vessels Of commerce or war of all
nations observing these rules terms Of entire
equality that there shall be no discrimination
against any such nation, its citizens or subjects
in respect of the conditions charges of traffic or
otherwise" Whereupon Mr. Thomas Young, an at.
torney of Huntington, Long Island, writes US:
The very language you quote there shall be no
discrimination against any such nation" pre-
cludes the construction for which you contend Did
eminent would discriminate against itself? The
nations referred 10 were nations against whom it
was thousht there was danger Of discriminating.
1t is of course, open to any to decide for him.
self what the treaty makers had in mind. There
can be little doubt however, what the negotators
Of the HayPauncefote convention thought they were
doing Mr. Henry White, first secretary of embassy
at London while the negotiations were on, and Mr..
Joseph II. Choate, the ambassador who had much
to do with framing the second treaty are positive
that nobody either side ever contemplated con
structiOn which would exempt American coastwise
vessels any than American vessels in the for
charged against the vessels of other nations Mr.
White has just made these statements in a letter to
Senator McCumber:
ID That the exemption Of coastwse shipping
from the payment Of tolls was never suggested to.
nor by, any one connected with the negotiation of
the Hay-Pauncefote treaties in this country or in
England.
- That. from the day on which ! opened the
negotiations with Lord Salisbury for the abrogaton
Of the Clayton Buwer treaty until the ratification OF
the Pauncefote treaty, the words 'all nations"
and equal terms' were understood to refer TO the
United States as well to s other nations by
every one Of those, whether American British,
who had anything TO do with the negotiations.
Mr. Choates view accords with Mr. Whites, aud
so did Secretary Hays The Tribunes arguments
for repeating the coastwise exemption have been
based on the suppostion that the negotiators knew
what they were driving at OF course, IL there can
be no agreement what meant by the trainers
Of the treaty even In the light Of their own testi-
mony, we can hardly carry on an intelligent argI-
Incnt with readers like Mr.. Young. who try 10 in
ten ct Article III ten years aflerward in the spirit
~ higher historical criticism
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
Prompt Help for Wellesley.

The gift of $4,000 from the funds of the Rookie
Teller Foundation to Wellesley College is deserved
and timely aid. It will stir the friends of the In
stuton to Quicened effort in It's behalf and should
make reasonably certain the raising of the 100000
fund which the trustees have decided Is necessary.
Thus out of a destructive fire is likely TO come
greater and better Wellesley Now that the growth
and needs Of the college are reviewed, it is seen
that it had outgrown its old plant and that much
added equipment is required TO house and educate
its 1900 students The appeal Of Wellesley for
future of wide scope and usefulness will carry far
throughout the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
PITY the Poor School Teacher.

Courteous loyal prompt, accurate obedient, in
dustrious. enthusiastic, neat and tasty of dress,
pleasant Of Speech dignifed optimistic and sympa-
thetc-these are the principal adjectives which our
honorable Board of Education considers should char
acterize the perfect teacher There are other points,
such as a knowledge of the subject taught, for in
stance But the important equipment is the as
sorted array OF virtues set down above.
We can see two criticisms of this theory. One Is
that good teaching depends not at all upon an array
of abstract virtues, but upon concrete ability to
interest and lead. Good teachers are born rather
than made and it often happens that they utterly
lack the pretty qualities enumerated
The second criticism is that 1t is difficult, in this
world at least, to find human beings Of the saint
like proportions indicated. What chance have we
of enlising ideal teachers when we cannot get even
a sensible, competent Board Of Education?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
New York Should Vote Yes.

1t is desirable that Republican convention should
be held in this state to pass upon the changes made
nv the Republican National Committee In the appor-
tionment Of delegates to the next national conven-
ton States having a majority representation in
the Electoral College must approve those changes
before they become effective and approval must be
given before January |, 1915.
The Republicans Of New York worked hard for
special national convention TO reform the present
Anticipated and unequal system of representation in
national party councils Timidty in the National
Committee blocked the convention scheme and led
TO the submission Of plan only partially reducing
the power Of the "rotten boroughs. But it is better
accept much too merciful cut than to get cut
at all Republican prospects are Frightening the
country over, and New York's ninety votes should
he without fail for reform which will tend to
make the national organization more progressive
and more representative.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-10
The Coming Tover
Culinary ImperfeCtiOnS

Full many glorious cook we've had'
From Clara to the current queen
And some were good and some were bad,
And some were only just between.
Their minor faults | can forgive;
This is what makes me cross and cruSty:
WHY. why-no matter where | live
Why is the spinach always dusty
We've had 'em that could broil steak,
We've had 'em that could stew or Try;
Our Olive, once a week, can bake
A far from tastelesS lemon pie
Our Lena-oh, her splendid soup
Our Margaret-oh, her brilliant scrappIe'
But there is not in all the group
single one can core an apple.