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The Washington times., 1914-10-05
La Toilette Declines to
Accept the Nomination

MADISON. Wis. Oct. 5.-Senator La
Toilette has teiesraphed Editor Rich
ard Lloyd Jones. Of the Madison State
Journal, that he would not accept the
invitation of the conference of inde-
pendent voters in Milwaukee extended
last week TO run as an independent can
didate for governor of Wisconsin. The
independents are expected to run Sena-
tor J. J. Blaine. of Boscobel, for COVER
nor.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Daughter of Ex-Mayor of
Boston to Wed Banker

BOSTON. Oct 5.-Miss Rose z Fitz-
Eerald. eldest daughter of John =
fitzgerald. former mayor OF Boston.
"ill be married on Wednesday to JOSEPH
p Kennedy. who is twenty-six years
Id. and the youngest bank president in
Boston. The ceremony will be cer-
'ormed by Cardinal O'Connell in his
private chapel
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Cardinal Gibbons to
Head Relief Committee

BALTIMORE, Oct 5.-CardinaI Glib
'2hs mas announced his acceptance of
ne honorary presidency of the central
0inmittee OF the Belgian relief fund.
" INCH is collecting money for the Bel
0 cen rendered homeless and desti,u,, ~.
he present war
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Resume Meetings Tonight.

With the election OF officers this eve
ming, the North Washington Citizens
Association will start the fall and win
ter season. The meeting tonight will
be held in the parish hall of the Church
of the Odvent. Second and L streets
northwest.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Declines Invitation

PRESIDENT Wilson told group Of Con-
gressmcn from the Middle West today,
he would be unable to attend the ma
tional dairy show at Chicago. October %
to 30. He may open 1t, however, with a
wireless message
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Bicycle and Motor Crash.

Clifton Waters, LBS Thirty-third street
northwest. was knocked from hts bicycle
in collision with the automobile of j.
a. Kimken. Of Baltimore. at Thirty-third
and N streets, last evening, and bruised
about the knee. The police reported that
the accident was unavoidable
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Is Granted Divorce.

WILMINGTON. Del, Oct. 5.-Josc-
phine Pyle Rogers. formerly of Will
u.irgton. and now living at 900 West
18th street. New York. has been
< granted divorce on statutory grounds
rom her husband. Theodore Beauclerc
Rogers. of New Castle. Del. Justice
Gavegan has signed an interlocutory
iccree in the New York supreme count.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Ellen A. Nasch,

The funeral Of Ellen A. Nasch, who
died yesterday will be held from her
residence, sos Fifth street northeast, to-
morrow at 8 80 a. m. Mass will be said
for the repose of her soul at st. JOS
eph's Church, at 9 o'clock. lnterment
will be at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
May Postpone Conference.

Because OF conditions resulting from
the European war. the fifth Pan-Ameri-
can conference. scheduled for Santiago,
Chile, on November g. probably will le
postponed until the cessation Of hos
tilities. The governing board. Of which
the Secretary OF State is chairman will
meet here Wednesday to consider the
matter.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Irene e. McCann.

Funeral services for Irene E. Mccain,
who died yesterday at the residence Of
her son, Bernard P. McCann, sos F
street northeast, will be held at the
Maryland Avenue Baptist Church tomor-
row at 10 o'clock. The inter1nent will
be at Granite, Baltimore county, Md.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
John Jerome Lightfoot.

The funeral of John Jerome Light
foot who died Friday will be held from
his residence. Terrace Heights, Ridge
road, this afternoon at 2 30. 1nterment
will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Thomas Holdup Stevens.

Funeral services for Rear Admiral
Thomas Holdup Stevens will be held at
St Johns Church tomorrow at II a. m.
The interment will be at Arlington.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Mrs. H. C.. Feller.

Funeral services for Mrs. II. c. Feller,
who died Saturday at 936 NJ street
northwest. will be held this afternoon
at her former home at 2 p. m.
The Washington times., 1914-10-05
Funerals
lula Brinkley.

The funeral of Julia Brinkley, who
died yesterday, will be held from the
family residence, SIS Sixth street north
cast tomorrow afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

chimes and airships is possibly the
most thrilling and most imaginative
use to which flying war fleet might
be put.
Another use of the flying machine in
war time is the direct attack on con-
voys and on troops on the march, or
halted in close formation, by aero
planes carrying machine guns.
Not least in Importance among the
uses of the aeroplane is the quick
transport of staff officers and dis
patches and the promoting of general
INSTRUMENTATION.
The methods of defense against the
agile fighters of the air furnish a pretty
problem. Most recent experiments
have shown that at a great risk of life
and expenditure Of ammunition artil-
Iery fire can be employed in destroying
the airships, but the defense is SO I'm
certain, the ranges so hard to deter
mine and the chances Of hitting the
machine or the driver either with
shrapnel1 shells, bullets or artillery
shells so small that great damage
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

of the canal respectively. The forts
have batteries Of fourteen inch guns,
twelve inch mortars and six inch guns,
while at the Pacific end in addition
there will be the big sixteen inch gun.
Some idea may be had of the ire
mendous power of this gun, destined
to protect the Pacific entrance to the
Panama canal, from the fact that it is
fifty feet long, weighs 142 tons and
fires a projectile about six feet long.
The projectile itself weighs ton and
Is discharged by 665 pounds of powder.
1t requires eight men to carry the pow
der charge. This gun has a maximum
range Of from twenty-five to twenty
three miles, or half the distance be-
tween New York city and West Point.
The elevation permitted by it's carriage
will enable the gun to fire projectile
about eleven miles across the Pacific
ocean. 1t has sufficient power theo-
retically to pierce two feet Of the best
armor at the muzzle. At eleven miles
the gun is calculated to pierce a twelve
inch armor plate or any side armor
afloat
When shell leaves the gun it is re-
volving around its axis at about 1000
revolutions a minute and develops a
pressure Of $4,000 pounds to the square
inch. The pressure to the rear on the
gun and forward on the projectile
amounts to 7,600,0 pounds. The pro-
jectile's velocity Of $3.50 feet per sec
ond gives a muzZle energy Of some
what more than $4,000 tons-that is,
energy capable Of raising forty two
tons one foot every second.
"Henceforth Panama must be the
great highway Of commerce on the
globe" says Colonel George w.
Goethals in an interview. "The mighty
stream of trade and travel between
east and west, between Europe and
Asia, must flow by way of America
rather than eastern Europe America
now occupies the same position with
regard to world trade and world
movements that ancient Rome once
did All Americans of today should
feel proud and thrilled to know that
this achievement has been accomplish
ed in their generation, an achieve
ment that has required the devoted la
Dor of $4,000 men and the sacrifice of
many brave American lives"
The picture of the sixteen inch gun
that Is to be mounted on the fortifca-
tions of the canal gives some idea Of
the warm reception that will await any
foreign power that tries to interfere
with the canal.
WALTON WILLIAMS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

EL1STADlEEE NTEN EESAl1
- in commemoration Of the CEN
81 IN tenary of the raid and burn
Aszz=ne1 ing of Washington Aug. a.
1914, planned an outline of maneuvers.
1t was sort of bloodless battle. AS
may be imagined, it is far more diff
cult now to reach the city than then.
The British had little trouble in 1914
in sending its raiding party to loot,
plumber and burn. This incident of our
second war with England was one of
the most picturesque events in Ameri-
can history.
A stirring dramatic episode it was,
and it's heroine was none other than
the famous Dorothy Madison. Vivid
even at this day is the picture of the
scene as she herself described it in
letters written actually while her ears
were being assailed by the booming of
the British cannon at Bladensburg,
for fighting was already in progress
just outside Washington and utmost
haste was being made to pack up and
remove from the presidents palace, as
it was then called, everything Of value
that could be taken away
While streams of dismayed fugitives
passed. over the EO(OII1aC Dy way Oh
the Long bridge, leaving Washington
almost depopulated, Mistress Dolly, in
the absence Of her husband, coolly di-
rected the activities of a force Of clerks
detailed for the business Of salvage. At
her order linen sacks, roughly sewed
together for the purpose were hung
around the walls to receive portable
stuff All of the silver and the costly
velvet draperies were duly bagged, and
special care was taken to insure the
preservation Of the constitution Of the
United States, Washington's commits
sion as commander in chief Of the
American armies, and, most precious
of all, the Declaration Of Independence,
which last, by the way, afterward hung
for many years in the dining room at
Montpelier, the Madison home in Yir-
ginia A much priced bit of loot it
would have been for the British If
they could have got hold Of it. In the
midst of hurry and confusion when
the army was laundering at the gates
of the city Mistress Dolly found time
to sit down and write a letter to her
sister as follows:
will you believe it, my dear sister,
we have had a battle near Bladens-
burg? And I am still hare ritbin
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

sea-" has less fighting strength than
any other country. She has only
about 100 aeroplanes properly equipped
and ready for service at the present
moment.a 8g 8Bs A0 8s
What are the possible uses to which
a flying machine may be put in war?
The first is reconnaissance-tha is,
the examination by trained officers of
definite tracts of country or localities,
with view to ascertaining the nature
of the country, the roads, railways, riv-
ers and bridges, battle positions, the
nature and extent of Notifications, po-
sition, number and nature Of the enc
my's troops, position of supply trains,
military depots and military move
ments that are in progress.
Then, there is the harassing and de-
laying of an enemy by the discharge
of light bombs on encampments, biv-
ouacs and large formed bodies of
troops and of incendiary bombs on
supply stores.
Attack on Airships.
The attack on an enemys flying ma
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

and if it is friend we can do no harm
in going above it. If an enemy, it is
all important to us that we should
reach and keep the upper level Little
time have we to decide on our acNion.
We were only twenty miles apart when
we first made it out, and at five miles
we ourselves may be visible.
I'VE are rushing toward each other
at tremendous speed, and in ten min
utes that fifteen miles shall have been
covered.
1--WE turn backward on our course,
push the motor to it's utmost limit and
rise. Now our speed Is reduced to that
of the airship, and five minutes hence
we are still fifteen miles apart, but we
are $500 feet high.
Another five minutes and we pass
the 5000. Still another and we are at
$500 feet, higher than the probable
level of the airship, SO we can afford to
close with her. We turn again and
rush full speed toward her. She looms
up larger and larger, and we recognize
her as an enemy-a stately, graceful
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

today the queen of the air." from a
military viewpoint, having about $50
aeroplanes at her command, the great
est number of which are of the most
modern type, capable of carrying as
many as eight passengers with 5000
pounds OF ammunition. Austria has
only about $50 flying machines of va
rious types. Italy has about 200 well
equipped airships of various types,
while the Italian army aviators have
had the benefit of training in the re-
cent war with Turkey. France has a
large feet of airships with well
trained corps of aviators who are
ready to go into action at a moments
notice. The French army and navy
together have about $50 machines.
Germany has an aerial fleet operating
about 500 aeroplanes and dirigibles.
The latter are considered by many
aviation experts to be below the aero
plane in warfare, being too clumsy and
too hard to control, as well as more
easily discernible. Curiously enough,
Great Britain, the empress of the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

would be affected by the airship or
dirigible before it could be brought to
the ground. Speaking on this point,
Colonel J. E. Capper Of the British
army says:
"All things considered, 1t may be
taken that, though the occupants of a
flying machine must run some and
possibly considerable risk in flying
over territory occupied by hostile
troops, the risk is not so great but that
they would be justified in facing it in
the interests of their own country.
1.-The best way OF disabling the flying
machine of an enemy would be to send
a flying ship to engage it in battle
On this point Colonel Capper says:
LET us imagine ourselves on a flying
machine, gliding along at fifty miles
an hour, 1000 feet above the earth.
Suddenly, in the far distance, we see a
speck which our trained intelligence
soon tells us is an airship. Is it one of
our own or the enemys? In any case
our action is the same.
1--WE know we are invisible from 1t,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

creature, moving on sereneIy uncon-
scious of her peril.
Five minutes pass, six, and still she
holds on her way. Sevep-see, she
suddenly turns, her bow shoots up,
stream of ballast falls NEn her. She
has seen her danger and is trying to
escape by rising and by flight. Can
she do it?
Every Moment Precious.
Every moment is precious. It is
certain that she was well below us
when her lookout first saw US, prob
ably not more than 5000 feet. Had we
only escaped notice one minute longer
and were her captain End crew novices
at their trade her destruction had been
assured.
'But her crew are perfectly disci-
plined and trained. They have not
| lost a moment. STILL the turn has
taken her nearly a minute, and we are
but three miles away. She has risen
200 feet during the turn and can now
rise at 500 feet a minute, while our ut
most power is 800 feet a minute. Our
speed is twice hers so long as we do
not rise, but only equal to hers when
we are rising fast.
1--WE keep straight on, still at $500
feet. Two minutes pass. Only two
miles are now between us, but she is
now on our level.
ut must be a chase to the highest
attitudes. The sky is cold and clear;
without one grateful cloud in which
she can wrap herself impenetrable and
hide from her mosquito torment.
Minute after minute passes. We
rise, pursuing her. Each minute she
gains 800 feet Of altitude on us, and
we gain no single inch in distance. but
no matter. Stream after stream of
ballast falls from her side, and see
how they are throwing their petrol
tins, garments, anything to enable her
to rise still higher.
"Their only hope Is to keep up and
up, trusting our fuel may give out u {
the engine cease to take us upward.
Vain hope. Our engine is working al
well as ever and we have fuel for sew =.
eral hours yet.
eft is only question Of endurance
now. At such a level no airship yet
built can have any reserve of fuel left
Ultimately her engine must stop, and
she will drift a helpless mass before
the wind. She may begin to fall"
The British expert then concludes:
| I'm a fight between flying machineA
victory will go to that which can fly
and rise fastest, maneuver easiest and
shoot the straightest. Numbers and
tactics will have their effects. just as
! in fight on sea or on land"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

that the Notifications had been com
pleted.
The building of the forts guarding
the canal has gone on for years sur
rounded by the greatest secrecy, and
even now little is known about the de-
lenses. At the Pacific end Of the ca
nal forts have been built on the is
lands of Flamenco. Perico and Naos, in
Panama bay, and on the mainland at
Balboa. At the Atlantic end the forts
are at Toro Point and Margarita is
lands. guarding the vast and east sidas
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
Photo b America PezsA socat

and will not be shipped to Panama be-
fore next spring.
When Lieutenant George R, Goethals,
U. S. A, son of Colonel Goethals, the
builder of the Panama canal, who has
been in charge of the building of the
Notifications at the Pacific entrance to
the canal, arrived in New York on his
way to West Point, where he acts as
instructor, he would not discuss his
work on the canal. but his leaving at
that time, declared men familiar with
the construction in Panama, indicated
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13
Centenary of Washington's Capture by British

Philadelphia, where he remained.
The British troops entered the city
after nightfaH on Aug. % and en-
encamped a short distance east OF the
capitol. After burning the capitol
they marched up Pennsylvania avenue
to the presidents palace. General
Ross, their commander, with the Off
GERS Of his staff, ate supper at the
house of an old lady named Sutor
close by, and at the conclusion of a
leisurely meal he ordered his men to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

gust no regular meals were served in
the palace" Mrs. Madison, the clerks
and the servants of the household
snatched bite when and where they
could; hence there is no truth in the
oft told tale of rsumptuous banquet
which the British invaders when they
arrived found smoking on the table,"
Before his final departure Mr. Madi-
son distributed what food and wine
there were in the house among the
tired and hungry American soldiers
who happened by
The last person to leave the man
sion was John Siousa, a porter, who
carried Mrs. Madison's pet parrot to
Colonel Tay1or's house four blocks
away, left it there, came back, locked
10 and took tbs kags With him to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

sound Of the cannon. Mr.. Madison
comes not. May God protect him!
Two messages covered with dust come
to bid me fly, but I wait for him. At
this late hour a wagon has been pro-
cured. I have had it filed with the
plate and most valuable portable arti-
cles. Whether it will reach it's desti-
nation, the bank of Maryland, or fall
into the hands Of the British, events
must determine.
On that lamentable 23d day OF Au-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

ARMY ordnance officials believe
"a that when its breech locking
- device has been perfected at
q n Wateryliet arsenal, the great
sixteen inch gun, the biggest piece of
ordnance in the world, viii be a tre-
mendous instrument of peace when it
is finally in position on the Panama
canal The carriage for this gun is
now UNDER construction in the Water
town (Mass) arsenal and the gun
probably will be taken back to Sandy
Hook for tasts after haing mounted
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

Photos by American Press Association.
AN aeroplane in flight over Brit
ish ship. 2.-ProjectiIe used on aero
planes, 3,--French bomb throwing
aeropIane with aviator about to drop
missile. 4.-Winston Churchill (cen-
Ter Iower) alightng after naval aero
plane flight. 5.-German dirigible
sIighting on French territory. o.
English military aeroplane flying at
night. Flowing aeropIane out to
English battIeship. 8.--Rear of Yep
pelin 4, German dirisible, after
aighting across the frontier of
E~anee and French cavalry officer.
BY JOHN j. BREEN.
EH''R HE question in the minds of
every military man when
Austria declared war against
IA Servia was, What will be the
role Of the aeroplane in a conflict be-
tween the great European powers? 1t
was the first time that the world
would have chance to behold in ac-
ton the most ingenious method Of de-
struction ever devised by man.
Discussing a war between the triple
alliance and the triple entente over the
Austro- Servian imbroglio, British off,
GERS in London predicted that the
aerial corps Of both sides would play a
most important part in the lighting
and that the relative aviation strength
Of the various nations that will be
drawn into the war would in great
prnasura dnterDnine thair oanaral fight i.
ing power
Russia, more so than any other coun-
try, has gone in for aviation. She is
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-13

RIGADIER GENERAL MILLS,
in commemoration Of the CEN
tenary of the raid and burn
ing Of Washington Aug. "a,
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-02
Uric Acid is Slow Poison

Unseen in its approach. hard to de-
ect In Its early stages, and cruelty
'ainful In its later forms, uric acid
poisoning is q disease too often fatal.
BDight's disease is one of the final
stages Of uric acid poisoning. 1t kills
our country every year more men
and women than any other ailment
except two-consumption and pneu-
nonia. Bright's disease and uric acid
poisoning usually start In some kidney
weakness that would not be hard to
.ure, II discovered early, SO it is we'll
% know the early signs of kidney dis
ease and uric poisoning.
When uric acid is formed too fast
and the kidneys are weakened by a
cold, or fever, by overwork. or by over
ndulgences. the acid collects, the blood
gets impure and heavy. there is head
ache, dizziness, heart palpitation, and
\ dull, heavy-headed, drowsy feeling
with disturbances Of the urine.
Real torture begins when the uric
acid forms into gravel or stone in the
kidney, or crystallizes into jagged bits
In the muscles, joints or on the nerve
tubings. Then follow the awful pains
Of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, sciat-
lea, neuritis, lumbago or kidney collie.
The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-02

will tell you that, cooperation natu-
rally begins with cooperative credit,
rather than with cooperative market
ing. 1t does not necessarily follow,
however. that in America cooperative
credit associations should precede CO.
operative marketing. Conditions in
Germany differ greatly from those In
the United States.
In the first place, the privately
owned banking houses of Germany did
not serve the German farmer even as
adequately as the American banker is
now serving the American farmer.
In the second place, marketing in
Germany presents practically none Of
the difficulties encountered In Amer
lea. Germany has by high tariffs forced
the consumer to depend upon domes-
tic production. The local demand for
almost every tarm product exceeds the
supply. AS result there are two
buyers demanding butter, for example,
when only enough butter for one is
available.
There are no long hauls, as in Amer
lea. no long distance commission busi-
ness. The producer more nearly meets
the consumer face to face and gets his
price. German marketing as compared
to American is direct. simple, and free
from complexities.
We must take the counsel OF the
German who ranks cooperative credit
as more important than cooperative
marketing with caution, since he has
dealt with reversed conditions. We
are firmly convinced, after a careful
survey, that at least in America, the
more prosperous scheme OF co-opera.
tive marketing is more important than
cooperative credit.