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Evening journal., 1914-03-06

An element which enters into the
proposed purchase by the Federal
Government of the Chesapeake and
Delaware canal for S1.3OO 600 is that
a large amount of the outstanding Sc
curities for the Chesapeake and Del
aware Canal Company represents not
value received by the company but
the enormous stealings OF Henry v.
Lesley and James A. l.. Wilson, who
were successive treasurers Of the
corporation. It was not until June
30, 1886, that the scandal caused by
the discovery of those thefts became
public property. II shocked the
financial world, as both Lesley and
Wilson, up to a certain time, had
been looked upon by the public as ir-
reproachable business men and ex-
emplary citizens.
AS late as April n. 1905, the scan
dal was in the public eye. On that
date the news was published in the
Philadelphia newspapers that a judg-
ment entered in 1896 against Lesley
and Wilson for S1.296. .39O.54 in favor
of the canal company had been re-
vived in the Common Pleas Court
The original amount of the judgment
with interest. was 500. 0.05O.S7. Il
was recovered in q suit that was be-
gun in 1887 to recover from the two
men the amounts they had stolen
from the company.
On July 1, 1886. the Philadelphia
newspapers published long stories to
the effect that discovery had been
made that Wilson, secretary and
IN 9.N Il l.. =
made an over-issue of the canal
bonds to the amount of S6i5.0OO and
that he had stolen the money arising
from their sale. Il was recited that
Wilson was an old and trusted en-
ploye of the company; that he had
served as assistant secretary for over
thirty years and that at the reor
ganization OF the board of directors
in June, 1888. he was elected secre-
tary and treasurer in place of
Lesley in whose accounts some irreg-
ularities had been discovered, and
whose subordinate Wilson had been
for many years. Both Lesley and
Wilson had fed. it was asserted and
detectives were looking for them.
The defalcation was revealed on
June 30, 1886, by a letter which Jo-
seph F. Gillingham, president of the
canal company received from Wilson
II was in part as follows:
There has been an over-issue OF
the bonds of this company amounting
to S615.200, and the balances in banks
Will be found misrepresented for q
long time. AS the loan is to be re-
newed tomorrow the facts must
certainly be known. and as am
afraid to face the issue. I have de-
cided to run away. Henry V. Lesley my
predecessor, has been carrying on
this thing before me. as an investi.
cation will plainly show.
Il expected to have spent the day
in fixing up everything as straight as
possible in order that I might leave
behind me no more trouble for others
than was necessary and then to have
written you a full account Of it,
had no chance. and it is new too late
What can ] say? My heart and life
are broken. I care little for myself
but what can I say of my family anC
friends who have trusted and be-
lieved in me. I took this burden on
myself alone-and you don't know
what the word burden means-thre'
years ago last June. because I has
been partly responsible for il, and
bad not the courage to bear the
shame, as 7 could no longer hide it
Yet I have borne il and hidden It
Evening journal., 1914-03-06
BLOOD DISEASE
TELLSITS OWN STORY

Pimples, spots on the skin. sore throat.
swollen tonsils, bone pains, catarrh. falling
hair. dulled eye and haggard look Not
only does the victim of blood diseases suf-
fer physical weakening and mental depres.
sion, but has the tormenting humiliation Of
knowing that the malndy cannot be concealed
from the eyes Of friends. Blood diseases
above all diseases. should have treatment
the moment any Of its symptoms are mani.
fest Write 10 Or Brown. 935 Arch St..
Philadelphia. Specialist on Blood Diseases,
OF send for bottle Of
BROWNS BLOOD TREATMENT. So
enough to last a month Take Il and note
the improvement. For sale I'm Wilmington
only at Eckerd's cut rate medicine store.
sos Market street.
Evening journal., 1914-03-06
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS.

For exclusive makes of the finest con.
fections, Guths and Liggett's chocolates,
bon bons. etc. No candies sold in bulk
all package goods, and hence clean.
81 boxes, soc; SOC boxes. 4Oc- Danfortn's
Dependable Drug store, Market and Sec
ond streets
Evening journal., 1914-03-06
SPOT DANCE.

There will be a Spot Dance in Pol
ish Turner's Hall, Saturday evening,
March Z. The winning couple will
receive prizes. Admission. Gent, 25
cents: ladies. 10 cents.F
Evening journal., 1914-03-06

Meeting the needs OF the mousse
bold or of business IS one &C the ways
in which the Wants may /, used to
good advantage.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1914-03-06
DELAWARE LODGE, NO. /, LO.O.F.

Delaware Lodge. No. 1. !. o. o. F..
will hold their weekly dance in their
new hall Tenth and King streets.
Music viii be furnished by the Lodge
Orchestra, with eight pieces.s
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

brugiere said. had given Earle a scandal
GUS reputation as a moral pervert, but
on the other hand English and American
critics regarded him as a poet, and n
man of the highest intellectual quality.
The lawyer crnt-nded that Earle had
never been notified of the courts award
of the exclusive custody of the. boy,
Harold, to Mime. Fischbacher and inti-
mated that steps would be taken later
to upset the judgment. The Fischbach-
ers. he said. has cruelty eNiled Harold to
n school, where he was unhappy and
placed every difficulty in the way of
Earle visiting the by. He had disguised
himself merely in order to see Harold and
the kidnapping was unprecedented.
Many pathetic letters from Earle to the
child's mother were read. In palliation
OF Miss Hermann's offense. Debrugiere
pointed to her excellent family in
America.
Applause greeted the verdict. Earle
and Miss Hermann left the court guard
ed by gendarmes.
Contrary to expectations the prisoners,
instead Of being freed tonight, probably
will remain In prison for several days.
The minister of the interior is determined
to issue a decree of expulsion against
both, while the local public prosecutor
has refused TO give orders for their re-
lease without instructions from the pub
lie prosecutor OF orleans. who is await
ing instructions from Paris.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
OFFERS NEW SOLUTION
FOR JAPANESE PUZZLE
Prof. Culick Tells Religious Education
Association How to Limit Immi-
grafton Without Ofense.

New Haven, Conn, March IA move,
immigration law was advocated here To-
day by Prof. Sidney L. Quick. q,
Lioshisha University. Kyoto. Japan. Hs
urged that the number Of immigrant,
from each nation be limited by Fad.r,,
law to per cent of the natives OF each
nation already naturalized in the United
States. including their American-born
children.
The scheme was advanced in an ad-
dress before the annual convention Of the
Religious Education Association.
This rate would allow to enter ALI
who would come from North Europe"
said Prof. Gulick. 1T would cut onIv
a slight immigration from Asia. This
would avoid the objection Of diferential
treatment of the nations and so be in
equal harmony with the dignity of all"
Prof. Gulick also urges a burden of
registration: all aliens to be registered
until they become citizens
Certificates of graduates from the bu-
reau Of education and for good behavior
from the bureau of registation should be
essential to naturalization, he said.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
DA Hustled HARPER ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE

as responsible member of the community,
having authority rather than as one receiving favors
from privileged class
While all expressed desire to use the ballot for
the general good of humanity yet personal indepen-
dence liberty sef-respect the right of the citizen
the dominant notes. the primary reasons of the de-
mand for enfranchisement. These were not new;
nearly every one of them urged by its advocates
more than fifty years ago; the only difference
that then they subordinated to the worlds need
of woman suffrage and the great social reforms that
could be accomplished by it. while the individual bene-
fits to the woman herself were given second place.
This is the chief distinction between the old and the
new woman; the former patient persuasive, se-sacri
fcng the latter aggressive, sef-assertve determined
and to her will victory 1t will come because the
early workers prepared the way for her and
take possession but she will never know it and it
doesn't matter The victory will be for all women for
all time and book can be large enough to
tain the of those who helped to make it possible
Hail to the fortunate who shall speak the last
word!
The Illinois Pimanes
1t has been many day since there was such a
rejoicing in the camp of the antsuragists as when
the papers announced that only $1,000 had voted
at the Chicago primaries. They had been much cast
down when $4,000 had registered the first day.
as it was difficult to square this circumstance with their
slogan that women did the ballot thrust upon
them, but when few weeks later not third of this
number really voted their spirits scared aloft.
There are about 10000 women in Chicago" said
Mrs. William Cogswell, of the Washington official
board, "and only $4,000 votes cast 1t would al
most that the suffragists already tired of
their toy. Great capital made out of the large
registration and it predicted that every who
registered would vote"
There are about 100000 women in Chicago but fig
of the weak, points of the "ans" There
is still another day for those to register who did not
to vote at the primaries and it is probable that
March u will very large proportion of the women
on the registration books. Instead of its being pre-
dicted that every registered would vote, the suf
frage leaders made special business to persuade
them not to vote When the news that the Illinois
legislature had passed the bill received BY Miss
Addams at Budapest, during the International Suf-
frage Convention almost her first words were: Our
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
The Washington Herald's Symposium on
"Why Am a Sufragist" Is Striking
Example in the Concrete Of the Mod
ern Spirit that Is Dominating This
Movement" Says Mrs. Harper-The
Old and the New Woman.
By IDA HUsTED HARPER.

The two rival suffrage organizations the old, es-
tablished National Association, and the young but Wig
orous Congressional Union, occupy half page in the
New York Sunday papers setting forth the difference
in their plans of campaign This condensed is simply
that the former will work against the election of
Congressional candidates, Senators and Representa-
tives, who are opposed to suffrage irrespective
of their party affiliations The policy of the union is
to hold the Democratic party responsible for the fail
ure of the suffrage measures before Congress and to
try TO defeat enough Democratic candidates to destroy
the parts slender majority of seven or eight in the
United States Senate What it will do to the big ma
iority in the Lower House is not made quite clear In
support of its position the leaders say that little be
hoped for from the favor of individual members, as
the policy of the party will control the situation Pres
dent Wilson certainly has given the strongest possible
justification of this view in his declaration that even
the President of the United States dare not much
as express personal opinion woman suffrage until
authorized to do so by his party.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the national president, is
quoted as saying: "In America there is no party in
power legislation is not, in England, decided by
the dominant party" a statement so absurd that it
seems impossible she could have made it. With all
the Republican members voting in opposition it is
trey possible for the Democrats in Congress to adopt
every suffrage measure before that body, and they
must take the full responsibility for the defeat
in committee and in caucus of the proposed Special
Committee on Woman Suffrage. On the other hand
TO the Democrats belongs the principal credit for the
Senate Committee report in favor of amendment
the National Constitution the final goal of the whole
movement, and the discussion and vote it in the
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
The New Woman and the Old.

The eleven interviews published in The Washing
ton Herald last Sunday on "Why Am Sufragist,"
were striking example in the concrete of the mod
ern spirit that is dominating this movement. The
women with exception belong to what may be
called the third generation of workers for the fran
chise and every based her demand for it on her
right under democracy; the ground that it
just; that she had demonstrated her equal capacity at
college and entitled prove in the government
that she did not be under a trusteeship any
more than President Wilson did: that it was essential
to fair chance in the industrial world; that it
necessary to seff-respect and self-dcvelopment
Stronger than anything else" said in summing
TIP the whole matter SIS the overwhelming desire for
personal freedom-to be able to think and speak freely
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

to the annual meeting OF the Grand
Lodge.
There will be a meeting Of Marley En-
campment of Odd Fellows Monday night.
when patriarch's degree will be con-
ferred on six candidates
The funeral of John Miller took place
this afternoon from his home in Del Ray.
Alexandria County. Services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Lambert. and burial
was in Bethel Cemetery.
At a recent meeting of the congrega-
tion OF the Methodist Protestant Church
II Was decided to ask the Maryland an
nual conference of that church 70 return
Rev. c. r. Strausburg. pastor of the
local church, to this charge. The con-
ference will be held April l at Milford.
Del. George ". Carter was chosen dele
gate to the conference.
The membership committee of the
church elected John De Vaughan chair
man OF the board of stewards and Fred
Eberhardt treasurer. ]. II. Trimyer act
ed as clerk of the meeting.
Pierson II. Bristow. of Washington. at
$50 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon will de-
liver an address before a mems meeting
tut bululDe OF IDe sec
ond Presbyterian Church
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison. pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church. will preach
tomorrow at Gunton-Temple Memorial
Presbyterian Church. Washington. OF
which he was formerly pastor. and Rev
DIR. c. Everest Granger. of Gunton-Tem-
pie Church. will occupy the pulpit at the
morning services a: the local church.
Cards of thanks to those who assisted
in making the parade held here Feb
ruary q, under the auspices OF the George
Washington Birthday Association, a sue
cess. were sent out today by a committee
consisting of ]. William May. chairman; !;
II. Noel Garner. and II. B. Cation.
In the Circuit Court, for this city today
the motion OF Col F. L. Smith to set
aside the verdict for $3.50, given Entihcy
Forsuch in his suit against the Southern
Railway Company. was withdrawn and
a motion was entered affirming the YER
dict.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
TOBACCOCONCERN
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Department of Justice Prob
ably Will Act Against
Metropolitan.
THE RESULT OF PROBE
Suit Against Telephone and Telegraph
Company May Be Settled
Out of Court.

Important develo- nents in two cases
involving charges Of violation Of the
Sherman antitrust act are expected to
result in a few days from negotiations
now being carried on under the direction
Attorney General McReynolds.
1t is likely that an agreement will be
reached for the settlement out OF court
of the Governments suit against the
American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for the dissolution of what was
charged to be a monopolization OF tho
telephone business in Oregon, Washing
ton. Montana and Idaho.
This suit was filed in July, 1913, several
months before the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company voluntarily
agreed to reorganize, and its status was
not affected by the agreement
There are strong indications that the
government will prepare a bill of indict-
ment under the Sherman law against the
Metropolitan Tobacco Company of New
York.
1t became known yesterday that during
the last few weeks representatives OF
this corporation have negotiated with
officials of the Department of Justice
with the view of effecting some plan for
reorganization which would do away with
the alleged violations of the antitrust
law, but hope for an agreement is not
strong.
Inquiry Begun Months Ago.
The government began an Investigation
of the Metropolitan Company several
months ago for the purpose of determin-
ing IL the Supreme Courts decision dis
solving the tobacco trust was being lived
up TO by the components of the so-calIed
trust. The investigation grew out OF
CHARGES filed with the Attorney General
by independent tobacco dealers that the
METROPOLITAN Company, through It's
practices as distributing agent for the pro-
ducing companies of the former trust,
had to all effects maintained the mo-
nopoIy which the courts decree had been
designed to break.
The chief discrimination which the gov
ernment is expected to lay at the door
of the corporation has TO do with its al
legged denial of wholesale prices to whole
sale dealers in New York and other
States, who desired to purchase the
products ot the companies in the old
tobacco trust. Mr.. Marshall has re-
ported that the Metropolitan, acting as
sole distributing agent for these COM
ronents demanded of wholesale dealers
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
FORTUNE SWAPS HIM NOT.

John ]. Thompson, Knight of the
Tray, Holds On to Job.
Though left a small fortune several
John I. Thompson, employe Of a cafe in
Pennsylvania avenue, continues to WELD
the tray.
Mrs. Annie Thompson, an Arkansas
woman, died leaving a bank balance Of
sl1, 900 and several thousand dollars worth
of real estate. Though she had other
nephews and nieces. Johnny Thompson
was the favored one. Thompson came to
Washington from Vienna, Va. The aunt
who left him the fortune had not seen
him since he was a boy OF seven years.
Then she wanted to adopt him and take
him with her to Arkansas.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
B. & o. LOSES TO UNCLE SAM.
Penalties of s1,125 Assessed foI
Illegal Handling of Cattle.

Baltimore. Nd. March 7.-Penalties
amounting TO s.125 were assessed today
by Judge Rose in a judgment given the
United States i:over. Int against the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad for seven vio-
lations of the interstate commerce twen-
ty-eight hour law in regard to handling
of stock in transit.
The twenty-eight hour law requires
that live stock be taken from the cars
every twenty-eight hours and exercised,
fed and watered. While the action by
the government is to penalize the rail:
road, 1t is legally regarded as a civil
suit. In the present cases animals were
kept in the cars as long as fifty-one
hours without food, water, or exercise.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
DINE AT HOME, SAYS BISHOP.
Declares Rich Food Eaten at Hotels
Contaminates the Blood.

Paris, March Mgr. Tissier, Bishop Of
Chalons-sur- Marne. one of the first prel-
ates to condemn the tango, has just
issued a warning against the dangers Of
dining out.
Society people think too much of
highly favored meats, and frequent
courses of fiery stimulants of the gas
Economical Senses" says the bishop.
These contaminate the blood and make
one feyerish. Christian people would do
well to avoid these by dining at home"
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

the same prices that were asked for small
consignments sold direct to retailers.
This practice, the government is ex-
pected to charge. constitutes a violation
of the Sherman law in that IT makes i'm
possible the handling of these products
by competing distributing corporations
Representatives of the Metropolitan
Company. who have conferred with off,
cials OF the department, have declared
that the company has worked a great
benefit to the consumer and to the re-
taller because OF the high eiciency II
has attained as distributing agent
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
WRIGHT CASE ACTION DELAYED
House Committee Has Not Taken
Up Charges Against Judge.

No action will be taken for a week or
two by the House Judiciary Committee,
it was learned yesterday. toward consid-
ering Impeachment charges against Fed
eral Judge Daniel Thew Wright, OF the
District of Columbia
The charges were referred to the COM
mittee by President Wilson and Attorney
General McReynolds, but for the present
the packet of papers containing the aIle-
cations will remain sealed.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
HOLD THREE IN LUMBER CASE

Three colore6 men are held by the
police of the Harbor precinct In connec-
ton with the sudden disappearance OF
5000 feet of Virginia pine lumber from
the yards of the Elm Lumber Company,
Fourteenth and Water streets southwest
Recently this large amount Of wood
seemed to fade away without any par
ticular reason. Yesterday Clarence
Dozier, of 30s Second street southwest;
Sam Williams, los K street southwest,
and George Kicks, of Third and G streets
southwest were arrested and held for
investigation"
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
Men, When i'm Chi
cago Come and
See for Yourself

The Or. Lorens Electro
Body Battery is the great
est self cure for weakness
and debility the world has
ever known. No drugs, no
medicines. no dieting. no
unusual demands Of any
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The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
ENDS LIFE IN ART GALLERY.
Business Reverses Lead Dealer in
Paintings to Commit Suicide.

New York, March Theron J. Blakes-
lee, noted art dealer. committed suicide
this evening by shooting himself through
the right t-temple while seated in his main
showroom in the Francis Building. 6S5
Fifth avenue, surrounded by masterpieces
of the worlds most famous artists.
Business reverses impelled the tragedy.
according to Mr.. Blakeslee's friends. He
had made heavy purchases of late and
found no sale for his stock. This had
necesstated reorganization of his affairs.
Mr.. Blakeslee was siNty-one years old.
He entered the art field in Boston and
came to this city in 1885. He was one OF
the first art dealers to establish public
sales OF paintings.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

incomparable. Or. Lorenz' Dry Cal Storage Bat
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The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
T. RS DAUGHTER A MOTHER.
Mrs. Richard Derby Presents Col
oneI with Grandson.

New York. March IA son was today
born TO Mrs. Richard Derby, who before
her marriage was Miss Ethel Roosevelt
A cablegram was dispatched to Col
Roosevelt, who is in Brazil.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
LOST" WITNESS RETURNS.

Hunt of Twenty-four Hours.
The police search for Miss Lillian
Reeves, star witness in the Ffsher-Alt-
vember, ended yesterday. when the young
woman returned to 1852 Tenth street
northwest, where she has been living for
several months.
Miss Reeves was reported to the police
Friday afternoon as missing. A general
lookout was kept for her. She returned
yesterday, saying she had been visiting
friends.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
ARMORY HEARING WEDNESDAY.
House to Consider Question OF
Home for District Militia.

A hearing on the Dyer bill appropriat-
ing s175.000 for the construction Of a
model armory for the District National
Guard will be held Wednesday morning
before the Public Building and Grounds
Committee of the House. The bill is ad-
vocated strongly by the National Guard
organizations Of the country, the militia
division of the War Department and sew
eral national defense organizations.
1t is hoped to obtain a small initial ap-
preparation at this session Of Congress.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
1ao HOMELESS BY FIRE.

Montreal, Quebec. March lone hun
dred and twenty persons were made
homeless today by the destruction by fire
Of big tenement house In Bordeaux
street.