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The Washington times., 1914-06-05

directors own only about l-s per cent
Of all the stock.
Robert j. Wynne. deposed president
Of the First National Fire Insurance
Company. is today sending to more
than 800 stockholders of that company
a request for proxies to be voted at the
stockholders meeting of June II. next.
The stockholders with whom Mr..
Wynne is communicating are the send
ers Of the more than 500 pieces OF mail
which Mr.. wynne received last night In
compliance with a decision given by
Assistant Attorney General William II.
Lamar of the Postoffice Department,
relating to impounded mail directed to
Mr.. Wynne as president of the First
National Company.
Wynne Wins Case.
Mr.. Lamar. having heard arguments
and testimony wednesday in the con-
troversy between Mr.. wynne and the
officers and directors of the company
relative to the possession of the mail.
late yesterday afternoon handed down
decision holding that the impounded
mail should be delivered to Mr.. Wynne.
Just the number of shares repre-
sented by the proxies inclosed in this
mail. Mr.. wynne said this morning
he had not YET been able to determine.
Meanwhile, he added. he has die
tated a general letter to these stock
holders. advising them that he is re-
turning their proxies, made out to
himself. Frederick S. Vudley, and
Robert f. Tuttle; setting forth the
manner In which Mr.. Tuttle and his
associates have conducted the affairs
of the Commercial Fire Insurance
Company. and suggesting that stock
holders interests will; not be properly
represented by Messrs. Tuttle and
Dudley in the election of a director
ate. and requesting that each of the
stockholders addressed send a new
proxy. made out to Robert j. Wynne
and Fred T. Dubois.
The Washington times., 1914-06-05
WILSON GIVES ADVICE
TO NEW ENS|GNS
Urges Class Of 154 Midship-
men to Be Sample
Americans.
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fellovmen. particularly of that ereat
body 100,000.000 strong whom you rep
resent In the United States.
What do you think is the most last
ing impression that those boys down
at Vera Cruz are going to leave?
They had to use some force. I pray
God 1t may not be necessary for them
to use any more. but do you think the
way they fought is going to be the
most lasting impression? The new
things in the world are the things that
are divorced from force. And the last
ing impression that those boys are to
leave will be that they exercised self
control"
After the commencement exercises
President Wilson was an interested
spectator at the ceremony where the
cadet ''plebes' became third classmen,
and as such paraded through Lovers
lane" on the quaint old campus.
The President was the guest OF the
academy superintendent at luncheon.
and planned to leave for Washington at
8 O'Clock, but he may stop at Hampton
Roads and tour tn clover Chesapeake
tomorrow and Sunday, II the weather
Is fine, returning to Washington Sum
day night or Monday morning.
The Washington times., 1914-06-05

receiver for the Georgetown Building
Association. When shown A copy OF
the docket in the receiVership matter
two entries were shown to have lines
drawn through them. Mr.. Cunningham
could not explain the presence of the
take in our office
He said he did not recall an order of
Justice Wrights s for some papers in
the case, and on cross-eXamination by
Attorney Darlington the witness said II
such an order had been received. he
would have kept notation TO show to
whom the papers had been delivered.
His knowledge OF the Developments in
the Georgetown RuaslinE Association re-
GTansTP attorney Wiriar THfs 20 s ssliSan GS an as @
sistant in the offi69 of Attorney Dar-
| lington. He said ht appeared for scv-
eral intervenors in the case entitled
Ball VS.. First Cooperative Association
of Georgetown, and when asked by Mr.
Nelson what he knew about the setting
aside of Messrs. Reside, Lester ana
Lambert as receivers and the apoplnt-
ment Of Attorney William l.. Ambrose,
Mr.. sullivan said:
Attorneys In Court.
81 was in court on July 10, and there
were several other attorneys there
representing clients. The names OF sew
eral persons were presented for the
appointment Of receiver l suggested
the name of Frank p. Reside, and
urged his appointment. l contended II
the cour: was disposed to name more
than one that they be in addition to
Mr.. Reeside. ] asked that the court
appoint some attorneys interested i'll
the case, or if no agreement could be
reached on that point between attor-
neys. that an entirely disinterested
party be named, The attorneys could
not agree, and Justice Wright appoint
ed Mr. Ambrose"
WAS there any objection to the ap-
pointment Of Mr.. Reeside. Mr. Lambert.
and Mr.. Lester?''
but their appointment was generally
opposed among the attorneys.
You read in the papers the night
before of the scoring Justice Wright
gave the attorneys
Yes, and it was the consensus OF
opinion of attorneys that the scoring
was wholly proper"
Was there any necessity for haste
in the appointment OF receiver in
the NATTER
Yes. sir. Members of the bar felt
that Miller the secretary OF The COM
pany. was feigning sickness. and We
all felt that action should be prompt.
but the objection was to the irregular
action Of the attorneys in getting the
receivers appointed by order of JUS
tice Gould, who was not sitting in va
cation"
"FresuminC that the exigencies of
the case demanded the action as taken
by the attorneys. would you say there
was anything Irregular" asked Chair
man Mccoy.
Presenting such an eXigency,
would say that it was regular, but
there was no such emergency"
Well that's a matter OF opinion
The hearing then adjourned to per-
init Attorney Darlington to catch
train for his country home.
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Would Give France Craft
Used in Building Canal

Presentation of the steam launch
Louise, built in France in 1886 and
used on the construction work of tho
Panama canal. first by the French con-
army engineers. to the French govern
ment. as token of the gratitude of
the United States to France for its
part in the great work. was provided
Tor in a resolution introduced this af-
ternoen by Senator Root of New York
Senator Roots resolution provided
The Washington times., 1914-06-05

The Munsey Trust Corrpan3
has capital of S20oo. 90. II
started right. with jts capital
fully paid in before ~ opened
its doors for business. Capital
enough to make IL ~ solid -
the Rock OF Gibraltar"
The Washington times., 1914-06-05
POSTPONE VOTE ON
INSURANCE STOCK
Counsel Agree to Delay Refer
ence OF Value Reduction to
Commercial Stockholders.
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New York stockholders. were filed to-
day. The principal allegations in
both bills were denied, and the
charge made that the litigation is
result OF a conspiracy ito 'ipjurs
the company and procure a reduction
of the appraised value of the realty
holdings of the company"
See Ulterior Motives.
"Ulterior motives" were imputed to
the plaintiffs by the answer. which
sets forth the claim that S. Herbert
Wolfe. New York actuary. employ
ed by the directors. planned the re-
capitalization scheme, and not Presi-
dent Tuttle. 1t is stated that the
superintendent of insurance Of the
District within the last ten
days has characterized the Com
mercial Fire Insurance Company as
next to the First National Fire In
surance Company. the strongest in the
District"
Denial is made to the claim of the
plaintiffs that the Southern building.
which is one of the biggest assets of
the company, cost only s77. 500. 1t is
set forth that the payment made was
now worth s35i.5oO. instead of $780,
plaintiffs.
Regarding the contention Of Mr.. Glenn
erce in his petition that dividerds
amounting to upwards of s2S0Jo were
paid by. the directors, even when the
corporation sustained heavy losses. the
answer says that the dividends were
paid out of the earnings of the COM
pany and not out Of the proceeds from
the stock sales. one-half being for the
latter half of 1911. and the remainder
for the first part Of 1872 before the
earnings Of the company were ascer-
tanned.
Grants Permission.
Justice Stafford granted permission for
two intervening petitions to be filed to-
day, and Attorneys McNeill & McNeill
announced that they would make an
application to intervene in behalf Of
stock kholders next week. -
s Attorney James B. Archer fled a petit
ton In behalf of Robert ]. Wynne. Fred
T., Dubois, and John Lewis Smith, for
mer directors. who still hold stock. The
petition sets forth the allegations
averred In the two first bills filed. At
torneys Ralston and Richardson inter-
vened for stockholders In Elgin. Ill. who
own 1880 worth of stock, and stated
that they had several other clients own
ing stock.
Mr.. Richardson informed the court
that efforts on the part OF an Illinois
attorney representing the Elgin stock
about the condition of the company,
were unavailing. He called attention
TO the fact that the First National and
the Commercial Fire Insurance Com
panies have interlocking directorates,
and that President Tuttle and the other
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also that the launch should go through
the canal first at the formal celebration
OF the opening, and should fly the
flag of France. In writing to Secre-
tary OF War Garrison in regard 10 this,
Senator Root said it might be an op,,
pnrtunity to do one of those graceful
little things which might go long way
m softening and sweetening ipterna-
tiOnal feelings"
The Washington times., 1914-06-05


No"
The administration has been salts
,fectory?"
so far as am concerned"
Put your interests were wiped out,
anyway, in the beginning, were they
not7"
That depends. I would not Say that
exactly"
Did you wonder why Ambtose was
named receiver by Judge Wridht?''
Il simply thought the court appointed
some one that he deemed proper. This
| locked ike a plum. and they fall now
AMI then in front of all OF us. thought
Ambrose was fortunate in receiving it,
Other lawyers wanted it. and ! was not
different, ] suppose. | believe I'd rather
Be the attorney for a receiver, however,
than the receiver"
Court Clerk Called.
Frank f. Cunningham. an assistant
clerk in the District Supreme Court,
was questioned about the filing Of the
order appointing Frank p. Reeslde as
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Sullivan Cross-examined.
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Attorney W c. Sullivan. when first
put upon the stand, was crass-exa1nined
/. Attorney Darlington. He said that
h- was not an assistant of Mr. Dar-
'urTvns, but that he had been as
-, i:t'd with the latter in cases. Mr..
harrington reviewed briefly the procur-
ing % the original order for receiver
Iu IHc GeogetOwn Building Association
crs-'.. and asked Mr.. Sullivan as 10 the
efficacy of the receiver without a
h"wl properly approved. Mr.. Sullivan
replied that the bond was what made
ins IcceiVership operative. In this
Connection, the witness reiterated what
H. said yesterday to the effect that he
dId rot think there was any emergency
app ent that would make the action Cf
Attorneys Lambert and Lester in GET
Ing the original order from Justice
Could on the day before the matter WAS
So for hearing before Justice Wright.
pCn taking the witness Chairman
. sirtcy went into The matter of pro-
lc0dlnSs in the District courts In the
coiloquy. the distinction between form"
and substance" was brought out. and
air Sullivan said that the appointment
OF three receivers was more costly to
the estate than only one.
What did you know of Mr.. Ambrose
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13
The Relation OF Our Roads
To Our Countless Rural Schools.

are easily reached. the average attend
ance greater, the efficiency largely in
creased. and economic consolidation
made possible. Regular attendance at
school means consistent and regular
growth of both school and pupil, and
consolidation of schools means max
imum of efficiency at Il minimum OF
cost 1t is also noteworthy that there
is q marked tendency for the CONSOLE
dated school to become the social and
intellectual center Of the community.
Most modern rural schoolhouses are
so constructed as to serve the COM
munity as gathering places for various
kinds of public meetings. and where
vans are used to convey the children
to school during the day they are fire.
quently pressed into service to haul
the farmers and their wives to insti-
tute work, lectures, OF entertainments
at the schoolhouse. The consolidated
school becomes a sort of community
center to which all educational and So
eial activities converge. and IL order
that it may properly perform that
function all of the highways leading
to It should be so improved as to rem
der it readily accessible throughout the
year.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13

(F'rom United States Dept of Agricul-
ture)
The rural population is more willing
to support better schools today than
at any previous time. 1t is being real
lied that all educational activities or
agencies must be more or less eorre-
lated, and, more than all else, that
they must be made accessible to the
children. In many counties where bad
roads prevail, most of the schools are
of the antiquated one-room variety.
They are usually located along bad
roads, which, during the winter. WREN
the schools are usually in session.
become so nearly impossible as to
make it difficult for the children to
reach them. This condition causes ir-
regular attendance and restricts the
educational opportunities of the child.
Not only this, but it often fmpedes the
economic consolidation of these small
er schools into larger, stronger graded
schools, with high-school courses, Ill
rected by a competent principal and
corps of teachers, according TO the
Office of Public Roads
On the other hand in counties which
have improved their roads the schools
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13
Editorial Comment.
Puncturins the Peril.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)


While the Hobson type of statesman
is picturing the yellow peril as a
plea for more warships it is interesting
te note what Japan is doing. The low
er house Of the Japanese Diet has al
ready reduced the naval estimates Stl,-
600 900. Yesterday the budget commit
tee of the upper house cut out 10000
900 more.
Reference to the debates in the Ja-
panese Parliament during the past
month shows that Baron Shimada,
leader of the opposition, in attacking
the naval increase bill. publicly de-
clared his purpose to be to disabuse
the minds of Americans of suspicious
aroused about alleged japanese con-
nivance with Mexico and designs on
the Panama Canal. that the naval ex-
pansion was aimed against the United
States. The reduction of the naval es-
Inmates by s30,000,000 will certainly be
a substantial setback to the American
alarmists who have been exploiting the
Japanese naval increase bill as proof
of the reality of the yellow peril"
But aDSGt from the reason suggested
by Baron Shimada the dominating fac
ter in Japan is the imperative necessi-
ty of curbing expenditures and keeping
down taxation already overburdening
a Nation which has had suffering from
famine and earthquake disasters added
to an economic crisis.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13

The annual report Of the financial
condition of the county of Aroostook
ending Dec. 81, 1913, has been received.
It contains a court directory and the
county officers, as we'll as a brief re-
port of the decisions Of the county
commissioners. The estimates for the
fiscal year called for $4,000, with an
expected revenue of about $4,000 from
fines. costs and fees. leaving $4,000 to
be raised by taxation. The receipts
for the year were s72, ,950.59 and the
expenditures s69. 9.322.49. leaving an un-
expended balance of s3e2S19. Fees and
costs brought in s534t47. There re-
NAMED due on taxes $40, 0S. The
county's liabilities were placed at
279,570.22 and the resources at s50,-
37S.07 The sinking fund amounted to
1921, ,S90.59. giving q grand total of re-
sources of s342. 1856 and an excess of
resources of S62. .696.44. The sheriff col
lected and paid over to the county
treasurer $724,37. The jail had SAG COM
mitments, 326 males and 20 females.
The cost per week of feeding the pris-
oners was S1.23.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13
Destruction by the Militants
In Many Ways and Many Places
New York worldly

Militant the active campaign Oh
violence through sporadic outbursts ever
Of earned for them name o
hing the 'Rokeby venus OIL
Tuesday
shop End of London costing
pounds, smashed
destroying letters and packages
Bomb in McI<enna, the Home Minister
Orchids and destroyed Kew Botanical
Lloyd country practically destroyed
Royal Dublin; hatehe thrown at
Preme which hit John Redmond
running the Deroy ny
who
efreshm pavilion the Regents Park burned
of
in Jewel N broken
Many railway burned doing damage
nearly $t000000
Bishops Throne ST. Panls
other places
pictures Manchester
of hope causing
to burnt the British Museum
Many to fire old
ked of London Standard.
ed Cabinet
remie armed with dog whips
whipped mistake the Prime
property 100000 burned at
the King while he was London.
outside the Houses Parla-
me the Ministers
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13

hibition as under any one of the rum
trust plans?
Then. if he is not advocating the
business of booze making and selling,
why does he seize every opportunity
to utter that silly, parrot-like repeti-
ton: Prohibition never will be en-
forced?
We hope Cardinal Gibbons will live
to see the federal government enforc-
ing a country wide prohibition of the
rum traffic We hope he will live to
realize how asinine his utterances
now appear to thinking Christian
gentlemen. We hope he will live to
give public acknowledgment of Gods
purpose to lead men up to point
where they will PREVENT disease
and crime, rather than reap selfish
commercial returns from its cultiva-
tion, and then hypocritically urge
CURE.
If we were Cardinal Gibbons we
would never use the word 'hypocrites"
while standing as a pillar of Christian
progress and allowing himself to be
used commercially by the most devil
ish and powerful traffic that the
world has ever known.
Does Cardinal Gibbons pretend that
prohibition of murder and arson and
stealing leads to illicit" murder, and
"illicit" arson, and illicit stealing? :?
Does he pretend that bad" murder,
and bad" arson, and bad" thievery
have replaced the good" kind in
vogue before laws were made?
Oh, the hypocrisy of men of lntelll-
gence who lend their words to the
uses of gigantic evil!
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13
Easy Lessons on Tariff.

Who pavs for the reduction" in
e your high cost of living? Haven
seen it,? We are surprised. Don't
YOU remember what the Democracy
promised? Have you forgotten the
pledges made by woodrow Wilson, at
the same time he was promising the
stIffragists to use his influence as
President df elected) in their behalf;
at the same time he was standing
with his party organization and advis-
ers for a free canal for American ships
have you mislaid these declarations
that Democracy would lower the high
cost of living by lowering the tariff?
Perhaps if you would now dig up
those promises and read them in the
light of developments you woul dis
cover the cutest little "joker" you ever
saw. 1t was this. Democracy did not
mean that 1t would reduce YOUR high
cost of living, but the high cost of
living of foreign capitalists and man
ufacturers and merchants.
The Boston News Bureau of March
5, quotes a member of the Boston
Stock Exchange, who now has his eyes
wide open. He says:
"Whether the wretched showing of
the American Woolen Co. is wholly or
only partly traceabIe to tariff reduc-
ton, the futility of the new law is
clearly apparent. It has probably es.
capped the attention of the average
citizen that practically speaking the
beneficiares of these tariff cuts are
the foreign manufacturers, while some
half million persons of wealth in this
country pay the freight. Manufac-
turers abroad were not slow to mark
up prices of their goods an amount
corresponding to the tariff reduction.
Consequently the American people as
a whole arc no better off. Now, to
meet the deficiency in revenues ocea-
stoned by tariff reduction, an income
tax was imposed, to be paid by 100000
persons, who to large extent are
resident in New York and New Eng
land. The only net result can see,
therefore, from the lower tariff is that
the purses of foreign producers are
beins lined with gold of our income
tax payers"
Better think about these things be-
fore you are tempted to give encour-
agement to the present regime of in
competence and failure.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-13
Let Us Look in the Mirror.

Distinguished Americans and great
American newspaper editors boast
vainly Of what America would do with
such as the militant suffragettes of
England. They point to ''the crime of
the century," the infamous destruction
of the beautiful Rokeby venus" in
the London National Gallery, with a
sort of awed restraint as though
trembling from the very thought of
what would happen in America, if a
woman fanatic should do a thing like
that. The New York World says, edi-
torially:
"a little handful of women have made
q Joke of the boasted pax Britannica
few thousand Englshmen quietly rule
hundreds of millions of natives in India,
but at home a few obstreperous women
have demonstrated that they can rise
superior to all the powers that govern
the British empire.
Mrs Pankhurst and her posse of petit
coated outlaws have reduced the Gov
ernment to state of terror. If Cabi-
net Minister happens to incur their dis
pleasure, he may expect to have his house
set on fire by trained arsonette or to be
assaulted on the street with loaded
whip by reliable representative of the
cause"
And yet, Q Lord, the spectacle! Over
here handful of notoriously lazy and
worthless enemies of peace and Chris
tion brotherhood, are permitted abso-
lutte freedom in their course of breed
ing sedition, class hatred and genuine
wreck of civilization. The Bill Hay
woods, Ettors, Meyers, Giovannittis and
other dry and cool "laborers," are
constantly engaged in conspiracies
against industry and community life.
They are fostering sores of hysteria
and devil-inspired sentffnentalism that
appeals to the illiterate, the unthink-
ing and the anarchistic haters of hu-
man progress. They breed idleness
and misery in every place they visit,
and reap the financial reward Of their
worse than devilish occupation from
the blood and tears and anguish Of
those whom they pretend to save.
They infame the vicious and furnish
excuse for the lazy; they fool the in
efficient and fan slumbering jealousies.
And yet, these vultures are permit
ted in America to go on and on, lay
ing the foundations for Kelly's Armies
and I. w. w. church desecrating mobs
in the very heart of civilization.
And what do we do about 1t. right
here in boastful America? Why, we
arrest and warn few poor fool dupes
and turn them loose. while the direct
ing scoundrels go on unscathed, and
the yellow journal mush writers go on
inhaming and pointing to martyrs
of the cause