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The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
GATHER $500 FOR BEIGIANS.
Money Will Be spent Here fol
Nece.sItIes which Go There.

Over 81 500 has been collected by the
District committee Of the Belgian rehel
committee since its establishment in the
Cripps Building a few weeks ago. This
money will be spent in the city for food.
clothing. and other necessities for the
suffering people of Belgium.
Thanksgiving Day large box OF WOOL
en- underwear, with a consoling note
written in French on each garment, was
received at headquarters from a woman
empIoye of the Government Printing Oh
fice. Three large boxes, also contain
ing underclothes, have been received
from Mrs. Simon Wolf. A number OF
small societies and clubs have shown
great interest in collecting for the fund.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHITE


Richard O. and Leonis Z. Tania, bog,
Charles A. and Mary Sdhench, Eiri.
John McF. and Ahce n. Sylvester, bog.
James J. and FfAnces d. Smith, boy.
William W. and Pauline s. Raley, bog.
Archie Rae and Sarah r. Onyun, gid.
Frederick o. and Pearl +. Ned, boy.
James A. and Margaret N. McDGmott bog.
Michael and Helene Hertz, girl.
GeoCTe II. and Lena Heitmnllr, Eiri.
william b. and Bthel @. Quick, girl
Herbert 3. and Catherine A. Grimes, boy,
Edward J. and May r. Gsrdnef, boy.
Richard II. and Lena Entenman, Eiri.
CArencs B. and Lillian Dutton, EtrI.
Dennis r. and Mary R. GArk, bog.
b. King and DoFothea @. CornWen, boy.
Ben and Ida Canisky. Eiri.
Leo B. and Mng Abernethy, girl.
COLORED.
James A. and Corine Z. Wright, boy.
james and CAIlis VuTerz. girl
Addison n. and Mamie Scurlock, bog.
William and Amanda Newman, bog.
John 3. and Oordelia Hill, rrl.
GeorTs ". and Mary B0one, girl
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Nav Name strike Commission.

President Wilson will probably appoint
a commission to try to settle the coal
strike in Colorado. Seth Low, Of New
York, and Patrick Gilday, of Clearteld.
Pa. are suggested as probable~members
OF the commission. 1t was stated at the
White House that the President would
have an announcement to make Monday
morning on the Colorado strike situation.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Bike Rider Kills Aged Man.

Charles ]. Rittershofer, siXty-five years
old, of 81 Fourth street northeast, died
at Homeopathic Hospital yesterday from
a fractured skull three hours after ne
was knocked down by a bicycle ridden
by John F. Collins. jr., of Seat Pleasant.
Md, special delivery messenger. The
accident occurred at New Jersey avenue
and L street northwest. An inquest will
be held tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
DEATH RECORD.
WHITE

Helea o. Johnston. 60 ysarA. 3lol = Il M.
Pred johnson. &C. As Louisiana ave- NV
Annie L suman- 50. NatiOasI LutAsran HOns fOi
Aged
Mesksr HynsOa. "a. slA Ninth It. ns
waller H. Gsbicks. q. eos d. ne.
Annie V. wise. s.. Government Hospital Insane
Rsbeoes A sansan. "a 81 81 ~.
EdEE B. KAY. 90. siblsy Hospital
MarJ L, Gro.s. "a l3II Four-and- s-half 4. ~
MnrEarst BrodlgAn. g. Sl2 n IT. ~.
Josephins coIlinS hours. 1se II u ~.
CoLORED
yossphins wsst. 50 years. $3.50 Fourth O. nv.
George Crawford. a.. Freedmem Hospital.
AdEIns johnson. IS. Homeopathic Hospital
HAuu G. Henson. 81. l57 IL Ridss e. NV
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
WOULD UPHOLD CONTRACTS.
Potomac Electric Company Denies
Old Rates Discriminate.

The Potomac Electric Power Company,
in a letter to the Public Utilities Com
mission, yesterday intimated that II
would institute proceedings in equity in
the District Supreme Court to find
whether it must consent to the can
collation. OF four special rate contracts
for electric power.
When the public utilities law became
effective. the company had contracts at
special rates with several big companies
here. Most of these have expired. The
public utilities commission. in ordering
the remaining four to be voided. held that
they were discriminatory, as the rates
were not on the schedule filed with the
commission as required by law.
The company. in canceling the con-
tracts under protest, said that it did not
waive any right to appeal. but COM
piled under the duress OF a criminal
proceeding and ruinOus and destructive
penalty to which it might otherwise be
exposed"
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
VIII Put More Men
nt Mn.hInRton CrossInEa.

SommlssloneEs
at Washington Crossings.
Three or five additional crossing po-
licemen are to be employed by the Com
missioners, following q decision OF the
Comptroller Of the Treasury that sub
stftute crossing policemen may not be
employed.
Street railway companies pay the sal
aries Of the policemen. and have pro-
tested against an addition to the force,
which is independent Of the police force
The Commissioners, however, have de-
cided to find during what part Of the
month FIVE substitute policemen, who
were dropped, were employed II they
were employed not more than fifteen
DAYS a month, three policemen win be
added to the force; II more than that
five will be necessary to do their work
the Commissioners held
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Temperature and condition Of water at A. m
Great Falls: Temperature, -; condition. & Dale
earhA Reservoir: TemprT1ture. 2; condition at
north Connection Z; condition at sOuth connection
o Georvrtosu DHtributing Reservoir: Temperature,
.: condition At innuent E2tehouse. 10; condition At
ehluent gatshouse L
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
LOCAL MENTION.

SarEeant's Fourteenth street Lunch,
opposite New willard Hotel. Succulent
steaks and piquant salads a speciality.
Polite, efficient service.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Harvey's ann0unee that q apeefaI n
table d'hote dinner wifi be served on
Sunday from i've to eight o'clock.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Get Hin . Fountain Pen for Xmas.
Fountain Pen Shop. 1871 Pa. Ave
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Roer Rebels Loot Towns.

Pretoria. South Africa, Nov. 2.-Ths
Boer rebels in South Africa are lootinE
towns that they capture, only to Ghan-
don them to forces Of British.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Sa:P order S;s :; :;ss ss.s 50. Il las s
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Up-Riyer Waters.
TO ADD TRAFFIC OFFICERS.

Hnrpers Fern, W. Va. Nov 7.-Tbe PotOnA
and Shenandoah rivers both were clear this morning
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Tide Tables.
rhe Sun and Moon.

Todsy-Iow tide. L a. m; high tide 80 a. n.
and $50 p m
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Flowers for Social Functions.
When you .entertain consult GUIDE
about flowers and decorations, l21l +.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

eEE.. Jaa. oyster,a. Ioe. F.F.v. Laneh.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
Condition of the Water.

roday-sun rose. SIS a. N. sun sets. 40 p. N.
Moon sets 500 an.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

TIME Rev. DR.. Russell II. Conwell,
pastor OF Grace Baptist Temple
l. and president OF Temple Uni
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

sixty years aso. The world is now pro-
ducing every six years more gold than
existed in the hands of man half a GEN.
fury ago. Tho stimulus for gold produce
ton was then not great. for the nations
of the world were not using 1t AS a
basis Of their circulation. The Bank of
England then had n paltry sS5.000,000
in gold, while the Bank of France had
s15,000,000. Despite the fact that these
were the palmy days of the California
gold fever the world production was
only little over s100,o00,O00 in gold a
year In fact, with little fiuctuation this
small yield of gold held up to the dawn
ing Of tho golden era of the world, to
the coming OF the past score of years.
In 1890 the world produced si1s.-
100000 In gold. That was the last of
the old conditions. That was the dawn
ing OF the golden era. For from that
year the tide OF gold has been bearing
In upon the peoples of the civilized
world in an ever increasing flood. BY
ten and twenty and fifty millions year
did tho Increases mount until in seven
years production had doubled and
twenty years showed n production of
nearly four times that OF 1890. A table
of ever increasing production will tell
the tale of the mourning golden tide
until 1918. when production fell slightly.
II Is here given:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

that time the great nations of the world
began adopting gold as the basis Of their
currency. Since that time practically
all the great nations Of the world have
gone upon the gold basis. They needed
great stores of gold that might be held
in lieu of certificates of credit Issued
against It. The treasure vaults of all
tho world were opened to gold and gold
responded at just the right moment and
has been pouring increasingly into them.
So has 1t recently come to pass that
here and there the world around have
been concentrated great amounts Of
gold. The United States has vastly
more gold than any other nation, but
this is split up among a dozen minis and
treasures in such n way that this ma
ton may not claim the greatest amount
OF gold under single roof.
This distinction belongs to France
and to Russia. The Bank OF France
and the Bank OF Russia are the greatest
single treasure houses on earth. There
Is about 6OO,000.0O0 in gold in each
OF them, aud concentrated under a sim
gle roof in each case. In these treas
uries there is stacked up some 1.150
tons OF gold in each case. 1t would
take man with good wagon ana team
something like two years to transport
this money dozen blocks as wheat
might be hauled from one granary to
another. It's existence is an important
element of strength on the part OF the
nations holding it in the present Euro
pean situation. Likewise does 1t Of
fer attractive prizes TO possible invad-
ers.
After these two great banks there is
more gold in the mint at Denver than
at any other place in the world. In tho
new treasure house OF that mountain
city there was on the first day OF the
year 1914 s510000.O00 in gold. Most
Of this gold was at San Francisco at
the time of the earthquake and fire at
that point. Had the mint at San Fran
cisco dropped into a crack in the earth
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

"a many as those enlisted in our navy.
TO shoulder the actual gold OF the nation
The largest force that worked on the
Panama Canal could just about pick It
up. 1t would break the backs of the
populace of any Of our cities OF 100000
people to carry this gold a block
The gold of the nation would weigh
about 1870 900 pounds. This would
make 1873 box car loads OF the precious
metal, for a box car Is supposed to
haul Co.CJ0 pounds. TO put this $500
tons of pure gold through the paved
streets OF one OF our cities would re-
quire about 1000 horses and these teams
would stall IL they got onto the COM
paratlvely bad roads of the country dis
triCts.
Such Is a sort of measure of the gold
for money that is in the baby nation of
the West at present. There Is not
nation on the earth that begins to ap-
proNlmate the amount. In France there
is ll,tle more than half as much and
Russia has about the same amount as
France. These two nations taken
together would have little moro gold
than has the United States. There are,
however, no other two nations whose
combined gold stock can approach that
of the United States. The stores of
Great Britain, Germany. Austria and
Italy combined are less than those of
the United States. Therefore these ma
tons turn 10 the United States in the
hour of need.
This country has been riding upon the
very crest Of the great golden wave that
has been sweeping the world for twenty
years. For in the past twenty years
sterile lands on many continents have
been awakening from a browse of pons,
have been showing their hidden charms
to the venturesome spirits of many ma
tons and those adventurous have been
Garnering tho hidden wealth. This
latent gold has found it's way into many
activities and the whole world has
found Itself possessed of that fever for
accomplishment which success breeds.
The world was poor In gold at the
middle Of the nineteenth century. In
1850 there was less than $500. 00O. 900
worth OF gold In tho whole world, and
this included all gold plate and jewelrv
Uncle Sam has one little mint out in
Denver that contains nearly twice as
much gold as the whole world possessed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

rattle OF shifting coins which gives
warning OF the approaching collapse
Of a great stack Of money. Hanson Is
the past master Of the art OF SO piling
these sacks OF coin that they will lie
safely in place. He losses the sixty
pound sacks about as though they were
playthngs and wherever they are
placed there they may be depended upon
to stay.
DO you know Just how Europe re-
Gently got that si25,000,000 in American
gold? We'll, here is the way It was
done. Europeans hold great amounts In
American securities, which is to say
they have bought bonds issued in this
country. When the war crisis came
they saw the need Of actual money In
place Of these bonds. They cabled TO
their American brokers to sell at the
market price. They took whatever they
could get, but there was always some
thing offered, so the sales were heavy.
The purchasers of these bonds gave
their checks. These the brokers cashed
at their banks and got currency. This
currency OF the United States Ia made
good by the deposit of gold in the treas
uries. For every gold certificate in OK
istence there is the actual metal in the
DO lIlt btlAlHS INV
currency from the banks. went to the
Sub-Treasury in New York and asked
for the actual gold. They received II
and sent the gold to their customers
abroad.
A large business Of this sort was made
possible only by the fact that the Stock
Exchange offered Europeans n chance
OF immediate sale OF their securities. n
tho Stock Exchange had not been open
they could not have sold their securities
any quicker than they could sell house
md lot. They would have been COM
PEELED to ferret out a purchaser and
sales would have been slow. So Amer
lea resorted to the expedient of clos
ing the Stock Exchange that Europe
might not have this means Of immediate
sale of her securities. II was the first
Lstep in stopping a possible panic.
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The Philadelphia Mint United States second house

the wealth OF the Denver treasure house
is greater than that of any other store
in America and threatens to soon sur
pass the treasures of France and Rus
STA.
The mint at Philadelphia is the sec
ond greatest of Uncle Sans treasure
houses. In It is usually TO be found
$500, 900. 900 to s400.000.000 or something
more than coo tons Of gold. At San
Francisco there is s170,000,000 in gold
at Chicago. New York, st. Louis and
the different minis and assay offices
are to be found various odd millions in
coin and bullion.
The nations Of the world, being on a
gold standard. are pledged to buy all
the gold that Is offered. The United
States is now getting nearly 100000
900 a year and at that rate will double
her treasure in ten years. In that time
the supplies in the minis will be such
as to make those of the present look
paltry. At the very lowest estimate 1t
seems safe to say that a billion dollars
will be added to the boarded gold Of
this nation every decade. BY the end
OF the century. at this rate, we will
possess $4,000. 100000 in gold. The
storehouses viii nave to be enlarged
that there may be places TO pile the ever
incoming stream of yellow metal In
two and three centuries the wealth OF
it will be beyond conception, for the
figures of to-day stagger the irnagina-
ton.
There is a strapping son Of Sweden
named Hanson who works In the coin
vaults at Washington. His sole busl-
ness Is to pile great sacks Of money one
upon the other. Coin in the great vaults
is as treacherous AS qulcksand. These
bags of silver and gold must he care
fully deposited or the mass Is likely at
any time to shift and come tumbllng
down upon the heads of the workers.
Not long ago a worker In the mint at
San Francisco was crushed and killed
by having 100000 in gold fall upon
him. The trained men who work in
these vaults are ever watchful for the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

w IAR ridden, gold hungry Europe
\A/ stands licking its chaps at the
w thought of the vast gold re-
sources Of the United States.
When a transatlantic liner the other
day crossed with the little matter OF
of twenty-five tons of American gold
aboard there was CONSERVATION abroad
as to It's safety. When 1t was an
nounced to the public that there had
gone across the ocean altogether Sl25,-
100000, an amount Of the yellow metal
sufficient TO load to capacity four
freight cars. an awestruck world stood
aghast.
Yet the young giant OF the West.
Gro sus among nations. hardly misses
from her we'll filled Golfers a nero baga-
telle OF "A hundred wagon loads ot yellow
gold. For be it known that the United
states has as much gold as France and
Russia combined. She has vast store
houses where the precious stun is
stacked up like sacks in a granary.
Would you like to take a look at these
sold possessions and get an understand
ing measure Of them? Come with me
into the vaults.
As We 20 along will tell You that the
balance sheet shows the United States
10 have already put aside a thousand
million gold dollars. coined and ready
for use. These actual gold dollars are
snugly tucked away in her mlnts and
treasures Aside from this, she has
$500 600 900. or more than 500 tons. i'm
gold bullion ready for the coming. Then
there is the matter of 800 900 900 in
coin that is being circulated among the
people and held by banks. Altogether
the gold of the nation. despite Europes
little war run, is worth above TWO billion
dollars.
Two billion dollars is a term too large
90 be grasped 10y the intelligence of
man. To appreciate the amount OF this
gold It must be reduced to grosser
terms; 1t must be translated into the
large measures in which the bulky
things of ordinary life are handled. \
beginning may he made by stating that
thousand dollars in gold weighs Just
8.s6 pounds. Forty thousand dollars
would weigh a little over $50 pounds
and might he carried upon the shoulder
Of an unusually strong man. So It
would require a force Of 10000 men, or
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
War Ridden Continent Covets Wealth of Precious Metal
Hidden Away in Treasure Houses of United States--
How Europe Got $125,OOO,OO of American Gold

at that time more than $500 900 900 in
gold would have been lost. But this
greatest treasure OF Uncle Sam re-
manned intact. Afterward IL was de-
cided that Den ier was a safer city. not
only from the earthquake standpoint
but because of its immunity to attack in
time OF war. The wealth OF the Denver
mint would be no small treasure to be
captured by nation with which the
United States was fighting.
Uncle Sam found himself so weighted
down with his wealth at San Francisco
1t TO Denver, n thousand miles away
In fact there were $50 tons of this gold
to he moved. This would make up one
freight train of twenty snugly loaded
box cars. But Uncle Sam was unac-
customed 20 shutting solid freight
trains loaded with gold from one part
of the country TO another, so he decided
to let this transportation business out
to an express company. He found one
that could give an ironclad bond for a
carload Of gold and allowed this COM
pany to take the money through in
piecemeal. which It finally did.
In the Denver mint there arc twin
tiers of vaults that are made as for
bidding and immune to attack as it Is
possible to build them. There are some
thirty of these vaults. In eleven of them
there are sealed $50, 1000, 900 each. When
the money Is once checked in, these
vaults are sealed In such a way as to
make access to their contents possible
only through tho most elaborate cere-
mony. Other vaults have smaller
amounts. Finally there is about $780,
900. 900 in gold bullion stored away at
this treasure house. for Uncle Sam is
not now coming all his gold. Altogether
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
Rev. DR.. Conwcll has
Delivered Acres of
Diamonds" More Than
5000 Times

TIME Rev. DR.. Russell II. Conwell,
pastor OF Grace Baptist Temple
Il and president of Temple Uni
verstty, in Philadelphia, has
earned s2,000,000 by the delivery Of ono
lecture entitled "Acres OF Diamonds"
and he has used every cent OF the money
in educating thousands OF deserving
young men and women all over the
United States.
DR.. Conwell has delivered the lecture
Just 5000 times. All over the world he
has stirred vast audiences with tho
logic, the insight into human nature
end the knowledge Of tho broad funda-
nentals of life It displays. 1t is based
on the legend of an Arab who sold his
farm TO go in search OF diamond fields,
lie searched vanly for years and finally
in despair cast himself into the sea.
Then the man to whom he sold the farm
found a diamond mine in the fields
abandoned by the Arab.
Using the experience OF the Arab as
his moral DR.. Conwell argues that the
great opportunity les at home. The lee
ture Is frightened with scores of anec-
dotes Of DIR. Conwell's versatile career
as preacher, lawyer, lecturer, soldier
and educator When recently he gave
his five thousanith delivery Of Acres
of Diamonds" there were men and
women in the audience that had heard
u twenty-four and twenty-five times.
They were held as tightly In its spell as
those that were htarng II for the first
time.
DR. Conwell's great purpose in life Ia
the education OF young men. During
the past fifty years he has personally
expended upon individual students in
,hc United States sums which II in
vested at compound interest would
v~ech a total OF SIC, 900, 900. As the re-
suit OF his personal work $4,000 students
have been enabled TO obtain an edu-
cation in college.
DR.. Conwell has never attempted since
he entered the ministry to lay up any
money for himself. For twenty years
part of his lecture income and part OF
his salary as pastor OF the Baptist Tenn
pie have been devoted 10 carrying out
plans for the development of Temple
University. Each year he gives $40 900
u this institution. During his twenty
seven years service as president OF the
university 1t has never paid him any
salary.
The average Conwell lecture contains
lZ.0OO words. 1t is safe to say Nhat
upon the lecture platform alone Dr.
Conwell has spoken 10000 900 words
This is exclusive of his sermons and
political and after dinner speeches
These lectures have been delivered in
every state in the Union, in all eastern
provinces OF Canada, in every large
City In England, France, Germany, Italy,