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Evening star., 1914-11-19
WORK ON HIGH SCHOOL
MAY START NEXT MONTH
Bids for Construction of Foundation
of Colored Institution
Are Opened.

Bids for construction of the founda-
t1on for the new cclored high school,
to be located at 1st and N streets
northwest. were opened at the District
building this afternoon. Following
examination of the proposals, Snowden
Ashford, municipal architect, will make
recommendation for award of contract
1t is expected that work on the founda-
tion will start early next month, and
that put five months will be requir-
ed for completing it. The total appro-
priation authorized for the school is
s55O.000.
Contract has been awarded to Rich
ardson & Burgess of Washington to re-
build the Western High School, which
was partially destroyed by fire last
spring. The amount named in the
contract is s2s,s00. This work will
start at once.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Defeats Suffrage by 10000.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. November 10.
Woman suffrage was deefated by
140,206 votes at the Missouri election
November 3. according to official re-
turns given out by the secretary Of
state. The vote, in round numbers, on
Evening star., 1914-11-19

that and the full-train- amend
ment was:
Full-train-crew law. yes. $4,000; no,
$4,000: negative plurality. $4,000.
Woman suffrage. yes, 1s2. 900. no. 322..
900: negative plurality. 100000.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Park View School Bids.

Indications are that bids for the con-
strutcion of the Park View School, for
which Congress has appropriated $780,
900, will be opened the latter part of
January.
Because of the numerous substitute
proposition submitted with bids for
the construction of the Pennsylvania
avenue bridge, which is to span Rock
creek it will not be known for several
days which Of the bids is the lowest.
The proposals are now being inspected
by D. E McCohb, engineer of bridges.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Care of Juveniles.

The committee found that juvenile
prisoners often are kept at the house
of detention awaiting trial. but that
it seldom happens they were detained
there for as long as one month. The
committee found only one case where
a juvenile prisoner had been detained
there for more than a month, and that
was for thirty-four days. The commit
tee concluded it's report with a recon-
mendation that a more suitable house
of detention be provided and that the
District courts hold sessions during
the summer months for the trial of
criminal cases and thereby lessen de-
lays which now exist.
Mrs. Edwin Elmer Wood appeared
before the committee to enlist the as
sistance of the chamber in arranging
for a lecture to be delivered in this
city in December by Thomas Adams. a
housing expert.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
BUSINESS MEN REPORT
ON CONDITIONS At JAIL
Find That No Prisoners Are Held
for Year While Awaiting
Trial.

A report on the number of prisoners
being detained at the District jail
awaiting trial was submitted to the
executive committee of the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday by a special
committee, of which r. L. C. Moncure is
chairman. The report is to be sub
mitted to the board of directors and
later Will be placed before the entire
chamber for action.
The special committee made an in
vestigation of conditions at the jail.
following the receipt by the chamber
of a letter from Edward S. Schmid, who
said he had been informed a number
of prisoners had been confined there
for more than a year awaiting trial.
The committee found that Of the 103
prisoners now at the Jail. only few
had been there as long as six months
awaiting trial and none as long as a
year.
The delay in trial of prisoners often is
due, the committee reported. to postpone
ments asked by their attorneys.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
State Bank Applications.

While officials have no idea any
where near all the state banks in the
country will apply for admission. at
least for many years, many score ap-
plications already have been received
and taken under consideration. No un-
usual increase in these applications is
expected until the regulations govern
ing their admission are issued. The
law provides that no such banks shall
be admitted unless 1t has an unim-
paired capital sufficient to entitle 1t to
become a national bank in it's own To-
cality. and imposes certain other re-
strictions on entrance.
Although the board yesterday re-
ceived report of the operations Of the
twelve banks Tuesday. it was an
nounced that the second days business
was about like the first. and that the
figures would not be made public at
this time. A statement showing a sum-
mary of their operations probably will
be issued later in the week.
Evening star., 1914-11-19

Struck down by train within two
blocks of his home, William Higgins.
fifty-eight years old. of Baltimore, re-
ceived injuries from which he died
while being taken to hospital.
Evening star., 1914-11-19

Edward NJ. Purnen of Elkton, Md,
son of the late Greenbury Purnell, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed
win Prettyman. in Wilmington. Del. of
paralysis, aged sixty years.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Desire One Glass of Banks.

There is said to be a great desire
among those financial experts who have
established the new currency system
that there shall be only one kind OF
banks in the United States. Whether.
to accomplish this, the smaller banks
should be put out of existence. or
whether the minimum capital required
for membership should be reduced low
enough to take all in. is a problem that
has had no decision up to this time.
Figures given at the time national
banks began to subscribe to the new
system showed total of about $4,000
banks in 'the country. of which about
$500 belonged to the national system.
In addition to all the national banks,
with one exception, applications for
membership were received from few
state banks. In other cases state in
stitutions became national banks and
in this way gained entrance. The num-
Der which gained admission through
these processes. however, was exceed
ingly small compared to the total num-
her of such banks,
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Crossings Are Provided.

None of the park spaces encroaches
on the crossings of the intersecting
streets. There also are openings for
crosswise traffic, about midway in each
of the longer blocks, being those be-
tween 9th and 10th streets, between
18th and 18th streets, between 18th and
14th streets and between 14th and
18th streets.
1t is explained that the parking of
Maryland avenue northeast is the re-
suit of economic as we'll as esthetic
considerations, the thoroughfare being
too wide for the demands of traffic ana
the maintenance of the central park
Ing being cheaper than the mainte-
nance of an unnecessary area of pave
ment. The parking on Maryland ave
nue. is similar to that on B street
northwest, but differs from the park
ing on New York and Indiana avenues
northwest and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. The parks in the last three
named avenues are small lawns bor-
dered with trees, and traversed by
electric cars. The electric lighting of
Maryland avenue down the middle of
the street as well as on both sidewalks
Will be a distinctive feature of the
improvement.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER
PRAISES VOLUNTEER NAVY
Tells Local Sons of American Revo-
luton of Services of Privateers
to the Colonies.

The Volunteer Navy During the
Revolutionary War" was the title of a
paper read by Rear Admiral c. NJ
Chester, United States Navy, retired
last night before the District of Co
lumbfa Society, Sons of the American
revolution, at a meeting held at Rau-
schers. Admiral Chester recited little
known history OF the great deeds of
the privateer warships and paid tribute
to their services to the fighting colo
nies.
Sea power is the vital force that will
maintain the supremacy Of the
United States. he asserted.
Protests Against Disregard.
He entered his protest against the
disregard paid to the navy by writers
of American history, who laud the
accomplishments of land forces to the
disparagement of the services of the
sea fighters.
Little credit is given to the navy for
it's part in the war of 1912, he said,
although history recognizes that serv-
ices on sea effected abandonment Of
the right of search.
Rear Admiral Chester complained Of
the paucity of records. He told Of his
own research work, and stated that he
has asked old families in Connecticut
to seek through their garrets for let
ters and papers that may give, light
on the happenings of other days
Proposals for Membership.
Frederick c. Bryan, president, pre-
sided and introduced Rear Admiral
Chester. The following proposals for
membership were referred to commit
tee: Edward Whitaker Bell, Chicago;
John Clement Kennedy Campbell,
George Luther Clayton. Jonathan
KIock, Joseph Washington Trtmble,
Matthew TrimbIe, jr., all of Washing
ton, and William Darling Woodbridge.
Parkersburg, w. Va.
Deaths of members during the year
were announc<i as follows: Robert
Hartley Marcellus, May IL: John
Brown Bloss, June 13: Frederick Will
liam True, Tune 25; Daniel Hall Bough-
ton, Az III "a; John Sprigg Poole.
Septem - Il; William Edwin At Lee,
September 10, and Bernard Richardson
Green, October %.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
ESTATE Of GEN. BURDETT
IS SD|STR|BUTED BY WILL
National Encampment, GAR, Given
S500-several Others to
Share.

The National 1sneampment, G. A. r.,
Is given ssee to be added te Its per-
manent fand by the will of Samuel 8.
Burdett, enes commander In chief of
that organization. The Will of Gen.
Burdett. dated April 10, lpos, and modi-
fed by eodicil Of May "a, 1919, has been
offered for probate by his execu-
tor. the American Security and Trust
Company.
Charitable bequegts made by the will
include 500 to the Little Sisters of
the Poor. $3.50 to the Florence Critten-
ton Help and Hope Mission and $3.50
60 the Home for 1ncurables.
Other legacies include $4,000 to Mrs.
.dartha V. Graham. $4,000 to Mrs.
Juliet B. G. Town, $1,000 to Mrs. Ada
Graham, $4,000 to Nancy G. Anderson
of Waurika, Okla; $500 to Edward B.
Graham of Livingston, Mont: $500 to
William Dale Graham of Los Angeles,
Cal, and $500 to Caroline S. Hopkins
and Theodore W. Hopkins Of Roches-
er, n. Y.
After disposing of certain interests in
real estate, the testator provides a
fund of $4,000 for a library to be erect
ed on property devised for that purpose
at Glencarlin, Va. William NJ. Backus,
as trustee, is also to receive the in
come from an additional fund of $4,000
for the maintenance of the library.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
PARK SPACES PLANNED
FOR MARYLAND AVENUE
Twelve-Foot Strip Midway Between
Curbs Now Being
Constructed.

Maryland avenue north, between 9TH
and 18th streets east, is to be i'm
proved with twelve-foot strip of
parking midway between the curbs.
The wide thoroughfare has been paved
recently by the District Commission
ers, with the exception of the spaces
in the center reserved for park treat
ment These spaces aggregate 34,3S3
square feet of ground and each is bor-
dered by concrete curb. At the re-
quest of the District Commissioners,
Gen. kingman, chief of engineers of
the United States Army, has accented
jurisdiction over these spaces and add
ed them to the general park system OF
the government
BY his direction, Col. Harts. the en-
gineer officer in charge of public build
ings and grounds, has arranged with
the District Commissioners for their
immediate improvement. The general
plan of Improvement is not very elab-
crate, but it's execution undoubtedly
will add to the attractiveness of the
avenue and the section of the city
through which it passes. Electric
lights on ornamental lamp posts will be
placed by the District government in
each of the spaces, and shrubbery and
towering plants will be planted to the
best possible advantage, under the di-
rection of the landscape architect of
Col. Harts office.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
Distribution of Remainder.

The remaining estate, if it should not
exceed s25,OO0, is to be distributed in
five shares to the children of Selma
Knight, William Burdett, Elizabeth
Cough, Clara Townsend and Julia
Sexton, deceased brothers and sisters
of the testator. Should the residue ex-
ceed $4,000, then it is to be dis
tributed in eight shares among the
benef1ciaries named for the five shares.
and the three additional shares to go to
Juliet &. G. Town, Nancy G. And erson.
Edward B. Graham and William
Backus, trustee.
BY the terms of the will of Jessie T..
Petit, dated November 4, 1914, and
offered for probate, a bequest of 81 is
made to her father. Henry c. Petit.
Laura Petit, her stepmother, is given
1000 and a number of relatives are
remembered for small amounts. The
remaining estate is devised to her
brother, Harry Howard Petit, who is
also to act as executor.
Ellen H. Bray, by her win dated Oc-
tober 19, 1914, provides bequests of
S25 each TO the children of her brother,
Philip Bray, and S100 to another broth
er. stephen Pray. The remaining es-
tate is devised to her sisters, Eliza
beth and Annie Bray, or to the sur
vivor of them. Annie Bray is named
as eXecutriX.
Evening star., 1914-11-19
FEDERAL BOARD TAKES UP
STATE BANK ADMISSION
Regulations Governing Their Recep-
ton Will Be Promulgated Soon
by Reserve Officials.
Financial Experts Greatly Desire
That There Shall Be Only One
Kind of Bank in U. S.

Admission of state banks into the
federal reserve system will be the sub
ject of regulations soon to be promul-
gated by the federal reserve board.
While the applications have been con-
fined to the neighborhood of 100. the
attitude of the federal reserve board
toward membership of state banks may
be expected largely to increase this
number, if favored.
So far no special encoura cement has
been extended to state banks. State
legislation offers advantages in some
instances which would be lost by mem
bership in the federal reserve system;
in other instances membership in the
system Is barred to state banks by
state legislation. Other reasons have
entered into the Withholding of appli-
cations, among them purpose to await
developments and an indication of the
attitude of the federal reserve board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
Union Pacifc's "Melon" Cut.

Justice Greenbaums decision yesterday will PROB
ably allow an immediate cutting Of Union Pacifcs
melon" The decision is brief and decisive and on
the courts showing the holders of the per Get
preferred stock had only shadowy basis for their
protest against the distribution of the Union Pa
cifc's Baltimore & Ohio holdings. Ability to pay
per cent the preferred stock will not be
endangered by the distribution
1t is popular TO call this division of surplus a
"melon cutting What it really amounts to for
the common stock holders is taking money out Of
one pocket and putting it into another. The Bati-
more & Ohio holdings would bring in just as much
If retained in the railroads treasury as they will
if parceled out among the present stockholders.
income Of about 81 year per share of stock
owned But the dividend on the Union Pacific
stock itself is to be cut 50 a share, so that Q
transaction is clearly stand-Of
From the public point of view it is a good thing
to discourage the holding by railroad of large
block Of another railroads stock especially If there
is any possibility of such ownerships even ind
rectly restraining competition.
The Union Pacific traded Southern Pacific stock
for Baltimore & Ohio stock and is now getting rid
o. most Of its Baltimore & Ohio holdings. The
Pennsylvania Railroad traded Baltimore & Ohio
stock for Southern Pacific stock, thus getting rid
Of an investment in possible rival in It's own ter
ritory and making an investment on the other side
Of the continent. Such readustments are beneficial
The government is trying to force them all along
the line, and the Union Pacics "melon cutting"
is entirely in harmony with government policy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
Mr.. Bensels Peculiar Sense of Propriety

State Engineer Bensel discoses mistaken sense
of honor when he says IT is an insult for the
Assembly investigating committee to ask him to
sign waiver Of immunity before giving testi-
mony about his conduct of the states business.
In spite Of his refusal to give up the "whitewash
bath" when asked to sign a similar waiver by Dis
trct Attorney Whitman the public will be In
cned to think it would have been insult-or
an accusation-if the Assembly committee had not
given him the chance to waive immunity and
testify
Any man-even a state officials presumed TO
he innocent Of crime until he is proved e Y.
Failure to ask Mr.. Bense to sign this waiver !
immunity from prosecution would have been equiv
alent to declaration that he would need the immu-
nifty granted by the law to those who give testimony
regarding violations of law in which they are con-
cerned The State Engineer is within his tech
meal right in his course. But he does not improve
his reputation in the community by insisting on
these techncalities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
The Lost Sealers.

Sealing in the North Atlantic is about the most
perilOus Of seafarng work, and the loss Of a hun
dred and more men with the seaer Newfoundland
tells no new tragedy.
From st. Johns the fleet Of steam sealing YES
sells goes out the middle Of every March, bearing
a small army Of sealers. The bulk Of the work is
done on ice foes. where the seals are caught and
killed. The Newfoundland was an old, wooden YES
sci, and though strengthened inside poorly
fitted to withstand the pressure If caught in great
ice field. Whether the loss of life occurred through
her collapse and laundering or whether her men
caught foe by a sudden blizzard is rot
altogether clear.
In either the loss Of life is Of the worst
in the history of North Sea fishing At such time
the large returns from hazardous trade seem very
small. Yet, as in the case Of whaling in years gone
by, there are always men ready for the chance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
A Political Start for the New Bank
.o Sxctar,
ing SYSTEM.

Tho orqanizine committee has yielded 10 iocai
nyessure and will start the Federal Reserve 5! sen
off with the maximum of districts authorizeu ~
law. twelve TO do this and no. have any one us
trict bank completely overbalance the smaiier anu
weaker ones it has paid no attention 10 ha'ui
lines of trade The sole aim has been 10 get "
etber areas OF as nearly equal banking capital Us
nossible irrespective of whether the territory III
cuded went together naturally or not
The hest illustration Of the lengths to which the
committee has gone IS furnished in the case or Ne"
York This city has always been the proplem Vi
those who wished to divide the country into many
districts and avoid having some OF them insisnlh-
cant alongside Of New York The more dstrc's
that were made the smaller some OF them "ouiu
he while New York was an irreducible minimum"
with large banking capital sure to overshauo"
the others In the plan that has been adopted Ne"
York has been brought down TO the 1rreuucloie
minimum The district Of which this city is the
capital consists only Of this state This cuts on so
far as the Federal Reserve organization Is con-
cerned all the territory that is tributary to the
metropolis and runs in the face of the natural
tendency of trade
Northern New Jersey. so far as business is con-
cerned is virtually part of New York All OF It's
trade relations are naturally with this city. Yet
Northern New Jersey Is put lhlo 'ho
district so as to make the banking power OF the
Federal district here arbitrarily more nearly equal
10 the banking power of the weakest district In
rural territory. Similarly, Southern and Western
New England naturally belong with New York, but
they are thrown in with Boston for the same rea
son that Northern New Jersey is placed in the dis
trict with Philadelphia. This is to sacrifice the best
interests of the communities whose natural trade
relations are ignored 1t is to jeopardize the sue
cess of the new reserve system from the outset
And all to satisfy petty spirit of jealous locaism
Personal considerations also outweighed the good
of the public in the choice of reserve cities. Mr.
John Shelton Williams, for example, being one of
the committee, secures the preference Of Richmond
as a reserve city over Baltimore, the real CONNER
cjal capital of the region in which both are located
It was a weak committee which had the organiza-
ton of the new system in hand, and its work has
been bad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
ASK THE HUSBANDS
Do They Object to Having Intelligent
Wives?

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Is not c. l.. Matthews asking a lit
tie too much TO expect an answer OF
facts applied to each separate query"
irstead of ''glittering generalties" when
his own statements are so glitteringly
general?
Why mix the sweatsEop, the factory and
store, where women are Obliged to earn
their bread with tango halls, which are
Cstenslbly for recreation and where the
male toes are quite as agile and as much
in demand as the female ones? Would
Mr.. Matthews forbid us both work and
play?
Does he think for an instant that
because women marry at twenty-seyen
instead Of twenty 1t is merely be-
cause no men have asked them? Fie. Mr.
Matthews! Why not lay this embarrass-
ing state OF affairs at the door of the in
come tax, or the higher cost OF living. or
our own intelligent discrimination.
rather than TO our suffrage lack OF
charm?
But why ask the suffragette to answer
all these pertinent questions? Go to their
husbands direct (names furnished upon
requesD and inquire II they are continu-
ally embarrassed by the intelligence of
their wives; if their home lives are
vretched and In danger of being wrecked
by divorce; il they had It to do over
again would they choose wives less fitted
to discuss and mingle with the events OF
the day MRS. DAVID ROBINSON.
New York, April l, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-03
Reforming the Universe to Death.

The incorporation of the American Posture
League, organization ito induce people to sit up
and stand up straight not April 1 joke.
1t appears to be enterprise of serious and worthy
people who convinced that the "slinker SLOUGH
and similar mannerisms are dragging the world
into eternal degradation Therefore the people in
ii must be reformed.
From birth to death-frOm eugenics to funeral
sermon-a person making his way through life Is
now the raw material Of reform Politics, business
religion, morals manners, clothes and converse
ton must be operated on by censorious Comstocks
who pass law prohibiting something or form
league for the promotion Of something else. The
Order of Mnders of Other Peoples Business seems
to be growing daily. 1t should be reformed by
League to Encourage the Winding of Ones own
Business.