davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
fashion Note.

One blessing, at least, will come
to US from this dreadful war. We
shant be inundated with shocking
French fashions"
The speaker was a leading club
woman. She resumed:
AT club dinner the other evening
man fashion writer-man fashion
writer's are the best-said to me:
A truce to these foreign modes!
They are caricatures.'
'Caricatures p said I. Caricaturest
Yes, perhaps. But wouldn't it be more
accurate to call them take-offs?"
Accounting for II.
How stiff those new people are!"
Don't you know why? They made
all their money in starch"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Rumsnia to Stay Neutral?
Portugal is Ready to Join.

While no confirm
tion of the report from Berlin that
Portugal was preparing to join forces
with the Allies against Germany had
bbeen received by the Portuguese
legation here, the minister Viscount
De Alte. said his country was pre-
pared to take that step whenever
Great Britain should call on it to DO
so
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
To Leave Capital.

To Leave Capital.
Vienna-In anticipation of the inn
pending siege of Vienna. the emperor
and the cabinet have decided on the
removal of the capital from Vienna
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Brussels Near Starvation.

London.-Seyen hundred thousand
persons in Brussels are facing starva-
tion, according to Hugh Gibson, the
secretary of the American embassy
there, who is now in this city. Ef
forts to get food from Antwerp have
failed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-10-10
Austria Offers Indemnity.

Rome-The Austrian goyernment
has replied to the Italian protest
against the floating mines in the Adri-
attic sea. Austria deplores the sinking
OF Italian vessels and promises to
take measures to remove the menace
te shipping and to fully indemnify the
families of the victims. 1t is reported
that Italy demands an indemnity from
Austria Of 81 900 00o
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point dipped its tip down into no mean
body of water. The shore was covered
with small stones. shells and with broken
pieces of flint and quartz, foreign to the
locality-red, yellow, gray, blue and black.
Until about three years ago the dirt
road leading down to the point was wash
ed by the tides. But the shore line has
been much changed. The shoal water
and a baylike formation extending from
the wharf line of Alexandria to the tip
of Jones point have been filed in under
the direction of the Engineer Corps of
the army and forty-four acres Of river
bottom turned into land.
Before this improvement it was COM
mon for the tides to give up arrowheads.
Spearheads. axes and vast quantity OF
fint chips. Most of the sharpened stone
points were broken. some at the tip and
others at the shank, but many perfect
specimens of the Indian aImorer's art
have been cast Up. 1t was believed that
on or near Jones point there must have
been AL Indian armory or workshop
after the manner of that on
Piney branch near the line of 18th street.
though in the latter place the Indians
had their raw material. water-worn
stones. at hand. while the relies at Jones
point were in most cases of stone not now
found in that neighborhood.
At low tide children in the southern
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when Washington was much stnaict
town than now. found. under the date OF
January :. 1853 the following indignant
letter to the editor concerning the ead
boys of Washington:
II heartily approve OF the remarks OF
your correspondent. ". He is right in
ascribing 10 the want Of proper training
of the children and youth of the country
the chief source Of roWdyism. Did par
ents and guardians discharge their duty
to their children and to those committed
TO their care as they ought to do, very
different state of things would ensue.
Did they iustll into the tender mind
those principles which lay the founda-
ton of right feeling in youth and en-
force these duties till they formed the
charac ter of manhood, We should see but
few boys from eleven TO fourteen Years
of age collected al the corners Of our
streets. hear less vulgar ana profane
language from their lips and see fewer
still strutting along our streets with
cigars in their mouths jostling the aged
with their elbows and putting smoke III
the faces of ladies'.
I'VE should have no societies OF Kill
ers' and Regulators. for such boys
being properly trained would h. kept
from temptation till their habits and
tastes were formed. and then they would
be too highly elevated in their moral
feelings to stoop to such things.
That teachers should aid in this work
and develop the moral and religious as
well as the merely intellectual nature
there can be no question. And here is
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umn the Washington Knights Templar
were under Commander b. B. French and
the Baltimore Tempiars under Commander
Sterrett.
The orator of the day. Thomas s. Bo-
cock made a long speech, as was the
custom then. and a custom which has not
altogether been reformed. Clark Mills,
the sculptor, was called on by the assem-
bIage for speech, and he said that the
statue was designed for greater eieVa-
ton than ii had been given. that the ap-
preparation had not been sufficient to en-
able him to carry out his ideas. that the
incident selected for representation had
occurred at the battle of Princeton and
might be found on page BIB OF Upham
Life of WASHINGTON" that in rallyins
the troops shington advanced so close
to the British lines that his horse in ter
lor refused to go further though the
rider appeared calm and dauntless. that
the likeness was taken from the celebrat-
ed Houdon statue and that the models
for the horse trappings had been found
in the works OF Trumbul, the artist OF
the American revolution.
= :.
Tie late S H. Hartmann, in his Men
on horseback" a paper on the equestrian
statuary in Washington. which was read
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by Mr. Kaufman before the Columbia
Historical Society in March. 1901, devoted
d chapter to the Washington statue.
Following his account of the Clark Mills
statue of Jackson in Lafayette Square
he wrote:
In chronological order. inc next equestrian
statue up in this city that OF Wash
ington, also made by Clark Mills, which otcu-
pies the circle bearing the Father of His
Countrys name. at The crossing Of Pennsylvania
avenue and X and 2:it streets. This group was
appropriately unveiled Oh the I'D Of February,
1850. with most imposing ceremonies. which
wtra participated IN by an unusually large
number of organza tiuns both military and civic
Rev. DIR. Nsdal Of the Foundry Church implored
the blessings of Divine Providence; the orator
Of the occasion Hon. Thomas ). Bocoek.
then representative In Congress from Viz
sinia, ard the statue was formally dedicate
Icy President buchanan.
THE sculItor's original conception for this
monument contemplated much elaborate
and pr"trht!onS group than 1t por-
'rayed Washington represented. and t.
may htly be- mentioned here that tide face
WAS modelled from the well known Hpud"n
head: that the uniform copied from
actually worn by him. and that the trappings
of The h@rse were taken from those represented
hg Truim!.u!t, the painter. whu had been the
generals ad-decanip. But. instead Of the
parariveiy low and severely tlain pedestal upon
which the rgura stands the artist had
contemplated massive and richly decorated
structure, thirty feet in height, divided
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the chief defect in our public schools.
They will become hotbeds of rowdyisin
unless the teachers can and will eXeT-
else some influence over them between
the schoolhouse and their homes as well
as in the schoolroom.
That clereymen ought to enforce the
duties of moral training and filial ODE
dience We all admit. And yet the clergy
man has less influence in these matters
the most of US seem aware | nave
heard parents complain Of this very
thing. saying: He had better look after
his own children and further adding:
No man shall dictate to me as to
schools and the training of my chill
dren.
And so ought editors to aid in this
work but many Of them will not admit
an article, however short. on the subject
into their columns. They will announce
the falling of a child into the gutter
and such things as interest no one OF
their readers but the immediate family.
yet they have no room for anything OF
general moral utility.
The large portion of the rowdies are
sons of parents who never attend church.
and therefore the voice of the preacher
never reaches their ears. But these are
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Charles Nallach, William c. Darlington,
C. w. Boteler. John a. Linton, Andrew
CoyIe. Richard B. Irwin and George An
dreWs.
The procession was i long one. The
military division was said TO be impress
sive. The 1th Regiment. New York Ma
rional Guard. under Col. Lefferts. came
down and after the parade accepted the
hospitality of the citizens, the Charles
County Mounted Guard, under Capt. Cox.
marched up from Port Tobacco, the Law
Grays came over from Baltimore. the
Baltimore City Guard was in col
umn. the Reed Rifles. Captain Perkins,
came from Chestertown, Md. the Mont
gomery Guards. under Lieut.. langdon.
took part; the Alexandria Rifles, under
Capt. Morton Marye, came up and
among the District troops were the
Georgetown Potomac Light Infantry,
Capt. Hollingsworth: the Washington
Light Infantry, Capt. Davis; the Wash
ington Rifles, Lieut.. Nietzy; the National
Blues Capt. Watt; the Union Guards.
Capt. King; the Georgetown College Ca
diets, Capt Semmes. and the Washington.
Artillery. Maj. Henry.
The Masons were led hy Grand Master
q. c. Whiting. The Fredericksburg lodge,
under Grand Master Hayes, was in col
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kEsemer. loan McwiH,sns: Robert = peE Gn1
Thomas Williamson. A. F; Berry. John T!cm-
ing, Thomas A. Lomax. Sias Tucker. William
Whaien. William oonnor: j. Il. Pettet, stephen
GIL, ". C. Harvey. John T. Clements, Arson
Smedley, Andrew Ferguson. John Mansfield,
John F. CHI. John Pierre, j: T. kidwell.
Andrew. Archer, j. w, W. Wells. TN, Thomas
Joseph A. Burch, Samuel Loma1; samuel {.
Espy. John l.. Brooks Thomas CASSIDY, John
G. Stafford John Buckley; |. MeyerTy John
Dwyer Dennis Griffin William I. Mctain.
James W. Watson Richard Earl, Michael Kelly
and Jeremiah Rearlon.
On this memorable occasion The aids TO
the chief marshal of the procession We're
Col. Philip ST. George Cooke, United
States Army; Capt. NJ. S. Miller, Maj
Henry c. Wayne, Maj. Don Carlos Mueil.
Mai w. A Nichols, Mai. James Belger
and Capt s Williams, all Of the United
States Army. and Lieut.. \. S. Nicholson
of the Marine Corps.
The assistant marshals We're Col
James Monroe. Col. Lewis Washington
Col. ]. T. Pickett. Clement Hill, J. D.
Hoover. Robert Ould, Alexander Cross.
John c. Clarke. George w. Riggs,
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Henry Breckenridge.
Assistant Secretary of
War, Believes the Boy
Should Be / aug h t
Workmanship
in Promoting Rife
Practice Competition
Keen Among Military
Schools" Dotter Fir
ing d Fascinating Game
Subject Is OF Ma
tional Importance, He
Urges.
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Breckenridge Wants to Teach Young Idea How Shoot ARMY Rifle

late and interscholastic competitions.
The adjutanss general OF the different
states were appealed to for assistance
and urged to detail National Guard Off
GERS to instruct school clubs.
OF course. il is not pra cticable to find
open air ranges for all these school
and college clabs, SO very much Of the
work done has been confined 10 proinot-
ing indoor or gallery practice. To stimu-
late this the national board presents
trophies for interciub gallery COMPETE
tons which are national i'll scope.
Right now the competitions for the
1911 championships III gallery shooting
are Oh. with many more entries than
last year. ThiTty-four colleges and uni
versities have teams entered in the inter
collegiate competition. The inter-high
school competition shows an entry OF
teams representing thirty public hlsh
schools covering a territory from Maine
t" California. Seventeen of the most
prominent military schools and INSIST.
tutes are competing against one another
Tor the military school trophy. and in
the competition for civilian rifle clubs
tWenty-e1ght such clubs representing
twenty-seven cities in the United States
are struggling for the interclub cham
pfonshi2s.
These matches III their various class
ihcations. will run through the winter
months and until each clih in each class
mas nred one Itch with every other
team of that class.
runs Is pra.'.e. promotion work. 1t
IS meeting with favor ON the part Of
young America and increasing the ma
lion reserve of qualified riilemeu
he cost of ammunition for extensive
Practice and wider extension of rifle
practice always is handicap, hut
modern invention has shown a Uay 10
get valuable practice without extending
any powder. of course such practice
Is only for the minor stages of instruc-
ton. but it serves It's purpose.
IT is done on what is known as a sub
target gun machine. An army rifle
mounted on one of these machines, can
be sighted on miniature target but a
few inches away, and pressure on the
trigger releases a spring that shoots a
needle from the muzzle. indenting the
target and showing what would have
happened If the firer We're using am
munition at long ranges.
This 'dotter' firing tests both steadi-
ness of hold" and accuracy of eye and,
moreover. furnishes a fascinating game
A supply of the machines was acquired
by the board and offered to boards of
education in different cities for the use
Of school pupils. A number have been
placed.
But all this Assistant Secretary Breck-
inridge regards as only a beginning He
wants to reach not only the youth in
schools and colleges. but the citizens in
much larger numbers than at present
= i
For country like ours which depends
on volunteers to fight its battles, a ma
tional poHcy of general instruction in
the use eff the service rife should NC
encouraged" said he tie other da.-.
One Of his projects Is 10 harc tn Wa
Department issue military ~ -
civilian rife clubs, proyi.l.5 a..
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rJa,,-,- r,,oos
srai OF .he army anu "iie4
ms Nouth. ,,,..:l -,
NOW ti!s Sue ~ 49, - -
ny, beginning WIN hopeIl -, ..1
Iather, traaltiohai9 NE 80. - ~ -
f1ehIs y III olits 1rl..+ - p,t,,'...,,,
II Was ~ g I,a+i
ifo,.a MlLiSi ~ 80 - ne, -,
IN ish'i, tfidt ne p.r.i ny ililpr 49,, -, ~
ocrtic dostrlne lie s,or. Iu,ls ~ -. ~
drew ms democracy rom ms liis,i -.
dent OF the lhstltuttoh t'lt P'9eite
dent OF the eiHeeu ottees
F.rI& IN ~. Young Rr.ckinridce IN
.,......- :, ..-~.,,,i,., . ,,,.,,..,,,an. :, I,en
-. WI, 80
tucky in behalf q Noodfo" hson TOT
the presidency. The regular democratic
organization gave nm no eounterau,..
l. I.a a,;,,.- mans ana fnr IN. vouu.:
ifliict'o4ii'iH lapo. ~ ti'e't - i-eAi'r ~
with his letter Hritiag ana ms card M
dexes ard his system Of follow up let
-, 4 III; 1,-;fs,,, .,,,t organizing in
-
hao Elue but Sohtciip@
Still Henry Bfeckinrldge kept on. tlg.s
under the noses OF the ORGANIZATION no
Then came the Baltimore convention.
Kentucky Went down to that convention
firmly convinced that Wilson was not to
be nominated It went back somewhat
confused in mind. hut certain Of one
thing-that young Rreckinridge Of Lex
!ngton had a clear title to the designa-
ton the original Wilson man Of Ken
lucky
When all the tumult and the shouting
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Bad Boys of Old Washington.

ONE of the high officials Of the public
~ school system of Washington was
reported as having said at recent public
meeting that there never was time
when children had so little respect for
authority as at the present.
The had boy has come in for a good
deal of criticism in other times. and it
would appear that even the old-fashion-
ed boys of more than half a century ago
were roundly censured for their fndecor-
Gus behavior. In connection with this
subject, the Rambler. while reading some
musty and scar newspapers published
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Costly Speed.

ORVILLE WRIGHT. at a dinner IL rs
~ honor in New York, talked about
tie fast French monoplanes which now
make iJo miles an hour.
They're very fast" said Mr. Wright.
shaking his head but they re
Fast indeed Interrupted a young
millionaire. Mr. Wright, is there any
thing on earth those machines can't
overtake?"
Yes" said Mr. Wright. with froWi,
there's one ding they can't overtake,
and that's their own running expenses"
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fusing the knowledge OF rifle shooting
more generally through the country?
of course, congressional authority is
needed before any such loans of arms
can be made, but 1 hope that the present
Congress will grant that authority to the
chief of ordnance for the issue to clubs
not only of rifles. but of ammunition as
well. The legislation which has been pro
posed would also make the krag rifles
available for high school cadet corps and
school use generally.
THE result it is hoped to. be obtained
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will agree to have them used in practice.
Other nations do u great deal more than
this to the same end.
We now have on hand, stored at the
different arsenals. more than 100000 Krag
rifles said the young secretary. They
are the model used by the army before
the present Springfield model was adopt
cd In every res ect they are efficient
as,ns Rifles do not grow better by age
ADD storing. Why not put them in the
lands q American citizens. our poten-
'isi soidi.rs. and have them used In diff
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by such issue will probably be disappoint-
ing, owing to the situation which it will
bring prominently to the front-that is,
the lack OF rifle ranges throughout the
country. especially near large centers of
population. With the rapid growing up
of the country, old established ranges
have been swept away by the onrush of
building progress and new ranges
have not been built to take their place. or
have been built far away from large
cities as to be inaccessible to the average
citizen.
''Of the fifty cities in this country haN-
ing over 10000 Inhabitants. not more
than five have a range which can be
reached, within d hail hours journey and,
in all proba bility, these ranges are not
available for civilian school use. being
maintained for the National Guard.
The situation is probably worse in the
east than in the west. 1t is getting to pe
almost impossible for the regular army to
find places for practice for its troops
along the Atlantic seaooard. This Situa-
ton must be met before it becomes too
late. for land values are SO increasing
that 1t would be almost prohibitive to bug
tracts which are large enough near large
cities for rifle ranges without tremen-
dous outlay of money. The national board
hopes that the present Congress will rec
ognize the situation by adopting perma-
uent policy OF range acquisition and con-
struction.
..The importance Of this is recognized
BY every great nation. Germany since
1888 has spent thirty-three millions in ac-
quiring and eauipping field ranges. France
has spent nearly as much and now has in
operation seventeen large field ranges.
Both of these countries are smaller i'll
area than the state of Texas.
we are sadly deficient in the rife
training of our citizens-inen who would
compose our army in case of invasion. !
cannot help but draw comparison with
the little republic of Switzerland, with
population one-thirtieth of our country
and with an area about the size of Rhode
Island. She has 5000 shooting societies
with a total membership of trained
marksmen of 214,OOO. If we. should train
our citizens in the same ratio. We would
have in the neighhorhco I'd OF i've million
trained marksmen; more potent arsu-
ment for peace could not be imagined. for
what country would undertake to land an
army on our shores knowing that they
would face such horde of trained rifle
men?
I'VE have in this country approximately
twenty million males between the ages
of eighteen and forty-five. Of whom not
more than 121 600 are enrolled in the Ma
tional Guard and Of this number not more
than 40 per cent are instructed in rife
practice Taking our National Guard and
the regular army together, we have but
one soldier to every 1,S0O male citizens.
Approximately We have about 207 900 men
trained in warfare. more or less, of whom
proba his, NOT more than So DER cent have
ever had proper training in the use of
the ride.
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journalism in Washington at that tim.
1t would be interesting TO know what
has become OF all those wicked boz.
Perhaps a good many of them went TO
Jail and perhaps a good many are now
sitting around the fireplace or la
steam radiator and telling their grand
children that when they We're young
they never behaved as inconslderately
as the boys Of 1914
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NUN BROWN.
Bargains.

A pRoPoS OF railroad proper5s that
\ had been sold at a ruinousiy hign
price, DR. George c. Winston, the Denver
statistician. said;
1T takes two TO make L bargain. out
only one of them gets il.
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every man in the District of Columbia
would be able to join in that procession.
and as matter of fact It was one of the
great professions which have wound
along the Avenue
At the end of the printed official pro-
gram was the announcement that the cir
Gle inciosing the statue will remain unoccu-
pied until after the arrival of the pro-
streees anu aee:.leS III me nm -, mo,
Cj,,aT II ~ Hen,,,o,d e.bsiryoan of tbe
committee on th.. part of the Senate, ard
Lawrence N. keitt. chairman of the com
1ll'tee on me part oil lhs House OF rep
- 49, t;,,,. e;s.,.-,e.,,,. ,,,.-s 400 Tho
MAYOR .. Washington was James G.
Rerret; Charles Alert was president Of
re board 81 common councii: and WI,
~ s1d a,r,,t,, II c|1Ga-5 VI ~
police.
TWO hundred Washi..Gtonians were
S~of;l III as Special police on me occasion
vi we se't1lt ceremonies ana II appears
70 tne ..slt4ipie- thtit .He iiat MeS4o ilahe
NC eoottS ied"tiis 20 ~" "dsnhisto ION
people' ManE OF the men named III thiS
llsl were the iatneFs ana efandfathers
OF 'housahas ol washington! people VINO
through old records il is the usual filing
70 T,icit ont oTIv ~. n,T,,s- a. new WIS, mbe
az the lih4e "ere prominent IN municipal
life or were the owners OF those fne
The impression apt 10 be conveyed by
.hls psocesS Is that N lhe o.osr "ashli1s-
ion eFefFhodE was prominent. owned
slaves, had great hoGses in hiS grounds.
or ueIt IL colonial mansions built OF
brick ii}ported fro.7l t,nmlard
IN. q. -sr.sa-, a,,,,or- ,.saz-,r.,,, ~, the
''"7N S"..''"i l 'i-e'etisu pH cue
STANDARD OF TIE times. vas high among
the ,eonIa of oI7 V-esi,;np+a,, but +be,-
mus va. "u' .'ieS
were not all prominent and rich. These
men VI no were appointed as special police
by Mayor Berret were generally well
known in rho corrn,,,,i+,- f.capsa nearly
everybody knew everybody else. and in
prominent nler, but the reasonable IN
,.asras.at,' - go - ,.,- u
respectable standing. Just Ike the aver
age RIM of pIai, cjtize-s ~ the Wash.
- -. y, pa r., ~ VI ing
ana tnt- memories tlt+t VIII pe recalled TO
many men and women by these names
the Rambler cop.ed them from the Ma
tionaI InteIlieencer Of January : 1870
- =, - VI 's+'N''tS - o'o'
ana tle3 Iolto"-
Frade-ics Haper ,,aorye Adamso, Jsues
yai;enar SsmueI Tinller T. X Uoirznan
SarHnsY Sn.iiit,p +. Pf..c,,, y HoIIzmsn
William uacer"y Jarnss Chairman nan,ei
Mes. George Il FJw,rls. Pairi"S Hag@rty
WiiIIiau TirEi.- VIII, ~ 6tha van,
ar f;-,-ae n ,iaptn1n P"t~icr CrC.1IabaSS
Jnjyf Mci;ulre Daniel Cab.iI Solnman Fowier
y rT, I;I ,r; iiitah S S,Imoou,
t;tss.r5 T S+antor ra,;e, Vemr.- Iornas