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Evening star., 1914-03-13
NEW INSPECTION FEES
URGED FOR THE DISTRICT
Morris Hacker Would Make His
Building Department Self
Sustaining.

Recommendations for the establishment
and enforcement of system of fees for
the quarterly inspection of passenger ele
vators in use in the District of Columbia,
and for other inspections for which no
fees are now charged. are contained in a
communication from Morris Hacker. in
spector of buildings, to Capt. r. G. Pow
ell. assistant engineer commissioner Of
the District of Columbia. The recommen-
dations have been approved by Conrad II.
Syme, corporation counsel. and have. Of
course. received the approval of Engineer
Commissioner Harding.
In order to make the building inspection
department self-supporting Inspector
Hacker recommends that u fee of 81 .
te charged for each inspection of pas
senSer elevator in use in the District of
columbia. The four inspections each
year. if this recommendation is adopted,
bring the total fees to 81 a year for each
elevator. The building inspectors Office
nov has under Inspection 631 elevators,
of which tiirtysiS are under control OF
the United States or District government.
and the fees from the remaining s.o ele-
vators would mean total of s2.?1o an
n;ialiy from this source.
Further Recommendations.
Inspector Hacker further recommends
that all hotels and places of public
amusement which are now required to
take out an annual license shall pay
an inspection fee of So in addition to
the regular license fee. and that
charge of 81 be made Cor the inspec-
tion of places where one-night enter
tainments are to be held.
Such places now pay license fee of
So for each one-night entertainment.
Inspector Hacker estimates that these
additional fees would bring in revenue
sufficient to cover about one-haf of
the cost of inspection work done by the
fire escape inspector and his assistant.
The further recommendation is made
that all apartment houses other build
ings equipped with fire escapes shall be
made subject 10 inspection. that they
of inspection similar to that required in
the case of passenger elevators, and that
for such inspection and certificate they
shall pay q fee of SO. This fee is TO
apply 10 buildings already equipped. as
well as to buildings in course Of
construction, many of which. on inspec-
ton, are found to he disregarding some
of the provisions of the District fire es
cape regulations.
IN his communication Inspector Hacker
sets forth the fact that the building in
spection department last year failed to
collect fees sufficient to make the office
self-supporting. The deficit, as stated by
Inspector Hacker. was approximately
$3.50. Under the system of fees sug-
cested In his communication the inspector
believes this deficit would be wiped out
and the Office would become wholly self
supporting.
Evening star., 1914-03-13

Commander z. r. G. f. Evans of the
British royal navy. arrived in Washing
ton last night to deliver a lecture this
afternoon at 4:15 o'clock before the Ma
tional Geographic Society at the New
Masonic Temple. which will be repeated
tonight at SD o'clock. Commander
Evans is i guest at the British embassy.
Commander Evans IS the last man who
shook hands with Capt. Scott, the Brit
ish arctic explorer. VINO perishcd on the
return journey from tEs south pole after
reaching that goal shortly after Amund-
sen. the Norwegian. discovered it.
Comma nder Evans was second in COM
mand of the Scott expedition. His own
personal hardships were great He was
stricken with scurvy. and for thirteen
days his two companions dragged him
on a sled He nearly died, but his two
companions refused to desert him. not
withstanding his pleading that he he
left to his fate. The, two men were
Lashly and Cream. Capt. Scott had
pushed on with four men toward the
pole. when Commander Evans and his
two men turned back. as had been
agreed. Scott's four men perished with
him.
Evening star., 1914-03-13
Commerce Department Changes.

The Department of Commerce announc-
ed today the following changes in its
personnel:
Maurice kebesky has been probation
ally appointed as telephone operator, at
$40, in the office of the Secretary.
In the bureau OF foreign and domestic
commerce the following clerks have been
promoted: Waiter Asmuth. to 81, SEQ;
Frederick l.. Roberts, to $1,000, and Ed
win +. Ludwig. to 81 400.
Roy O. Fitch, laboratory assistant in
the bureau of standards, has been pro-
NOTED to SI.2G0.
Edwin Il. Henry has been probation
ally appointed as clerk, at $500, in the
coast and geodetic survey.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

John Lane Company, by an eccentric
will. is called upon to spend $4,000 IN
n wear under the direction OF a noble
spendthrft. He Is honest and level
headed and does not let dissipation spoil
him. At the end. when the peculiarly
malevolent purpose of the testator Is
disclosed he returns unframed TO his
former more congenal employment.
Into this harmless but amusing tale the
author lnjects, apparently with no con-
sclousness Of the offensiveness. a black
mailing plot turning on a most degrad-
ing form Of vice with occasional intlma-
tons of other vicious practices. These
undoubtedly show his villain up as Il
repulsive bleckguard. bun makes us
Mccarthy wrote his book
In 1.-THE Vanguard" George II. Doran
Company. by Edgar Beecher Bronson.
we have realistic romance OF the Wild
West. crud' and dlsjonted enough to
b. the actual biography It processes to
be. There Is some account of the doings
of the California volunteers during the
civil war. told perhaps as man In the
+ 'ks might tell Of them, with some
pretty brutal incidents. There Is a pic
turesQue tale of bull fight and many
accounts OF shootings by the narrator
and h. his ~ friends The selection
of incidents, as the narrator seems TO
have preferred the towns Of IL repute
on the frontier, will convince youth that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04
the wildness Of the West was all tina
his fancy paints It.

the wildness Of the West was all that
his fancy paints It.
Realism OF a different sort will be
found in the anonymous THE Confess
sions Of an Inconstant Man" (Apple-
tons), the record Of his amatory exploits
by a male flirt. AS in all revelations OF
the kind he ingenuously shifts the
blame from his own shoulders. In the
earlier episodes his indiscretion Is OF the
sort that gentlemen usually avoid, In
the later ones he enters on field that
the younger British authors have eX-
plotted in recent years. but that so far,
we are glad TO say, Americans have
avoided.
The torture Of q young girl through
her steadfast and unreason.ng faith
fulness to "A promise improperly exacted
from her is the cheeful theme of sidney
McCalrs "Ariadne Of Allan Water" U-it-
tie. Brown and Company. She Is
dragged by 3 selfish. shallow minded
stepmother and the Levantinc adven-
turer she. has married around Europe
and the reader is treated to picturesque
descriptions of Holland and London, va
ried by attempts on the he-oine's virtue
by her stepmothers husband. These
incidents do not shake her noble per-
sistence, but the death Of the step
mother fortunately sets her free to re-
turn TO sane mode of life. The hero
ines lack of good sense is equalled by
the authors lack of good taste in a
book that is often dull.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

The Romance Of Names, by Or. Ernest
Weekly. DR.. Weekly begins by compar-
ing two lists of medieval names names
OF men who have been dead and buried
for six centuries. with the modern forms
To be found in any directory. He shows
that the surviving spelling is largely a
matter of accident and illustrates the
variants produced in given localities. The
index indicates that over 5000 summaries
have been investigated In these re-
searches.
Noderrittes, BY Horace r Samuel Ten
studies OF certain NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
hal. Heine, Dsraeli. Nietzsche. Strnd-
berg, Marie Corelli. Frank Wedeklni
Arthur Schnitzler. Emile Verhaeren and
The Futurists-n whom he finds notable
expression OF the spirit of modernity
The quality common to them all seems TO
be eager energy In analysis and a tend
ency to find In experience and achieve
ment the whole aim OF living. button.
The Story Of Merico. by Charles Nor
ris. timely and comprehensive work
written in popular, interesting style
The book includes description of the
country. the cities. the contrasts OF Grea;
wealth and AFFECT poverty, trac the de-
velopment of civilization and discusses
frankly the present unrest and It's causes
Winston
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

response TO their summons lie not only
happiness but much also OF health. DIR. Ca
bot sharply dist inguishes work from play
on the one ha nd and drudgery on the o he-.
ITO be concerned with either ones mind
or ones body is a morbid practice" he
says. "One should be occupied with tasks
which make US forget both mind and
body In the higher union OF both Seri-
BUSINESS he re2ards as one OF the things
worth having In the backgroQnd-and
keeping there. The book has humor.
vi.or and buoyancy.
Annals dpd Memoirs ~ the Court Of
Picking. by Edmund BackhOuse and J. o
+. Bland A series Of pen pictures L
ting before us the history of China for
close on four centuries. from the declining
days Of the Ming dynasty In the sixteenth
century to the eviction of the Manchus.
The story IL told largely in the language
OF the actors gathered by the authors
from diaries. letters. petit'ons and de
grees. The DO k has much descrpti n and
anecdcte and some delightful love stories
embedded In the records OF political In
trigue give a distinct impression OF fatal
ism; and to the student OF history and
politics Its revelation of Chinese charac-
ter affords peculiar interest. especially
now In the beginning OF the republic,
--Houghton Mifnn
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04
RECENT FICTION--MUCH
ADO ABOUT NOTHING

The intersection of Charles and Bea-
con streets in Boston IL not very
remarkable spot and 1t can only have
been the annoyance OF waiting for a
car. a horse car in Mr.. Howells's case
and a trolley car in that OF Arthur
Stanwood Pier, that can account for
is intrusion into literature. In THE
Women We Marry" (Houghton Mifiiin
Company Mr.. Pier apparently has
strong recollections of Mr.. Howcllss
later manner, with perhaps an exag-
gerated estimate of the value OF accu-
rate detail. His topography of Boston
and its environs, geographical and so
cial Is beyond cavil. His notes
Of the conversation and manners Of
Boston men and girls are admirable.
Undoubtedly some women prefer their
pleasures To their children while others
have motherly instincts, and undoubt-
eddy there is trouble ir all young
families until the right balance is es-
tab shed between the husbands life
interests and the. wife's due OF atten-
ton There is the material here for
story that can be interesting, but II
calls for human beings and human feel
ings Now the author does not care
to 20 below the surface; IL is Il toss up
as to which girl shall go one way
and which the other, while the men
show little emotion and merely wait
for developments. The things that worry
them are the prophecies and not morals
or pass on. So at the end of Mr.. Piers
long story, with all its neat observa-
ton and technical skill, the reader must
ask himself; What is II all about and
why was 1t written?
A succession of delightful portraits
draws on the reader of John Ayscough's
"Monksbridge" U.ongmans. Green and
| Company, The mother, with her two
daughters and son, whom change oi
fortune takes to the ar.stocratic littl,
town. are charming. and so are the peo-
Pile they meet in rapid succession, not
wlthstanding their gentllity. The story
deterlorates. however, into an account
OF the rand rise of "A managing girl
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

whose first attempts are amus.ngly
bumptious. but who turns into "A de-
signing adventures. The amiable
mother. with little excuse, is con-
verted into a Mrs. Malaprop. The boy
becomes a Catholic not so far as We
can make out through any religious
conviction, but because of his indigna-
ton that catholics should be excluded
from the benefits of a schc astc founda-
ton that was confiscated at the tine Of
the Reformation. The violence of his
belated sense of injustice seems excess
sive. Mr.. Ayscough writes with great
charm and much humor. yet his story
stops short to the readers great con-
fusion, which is not cleared by the
profusion of extraordinary marriages
that is thrown in in n sort of post
script.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04
o DEATH, MY DEATH
By Rsbindranath TaEore.

DN se6otNs
WHY do you whisper so family in my
w ears o Death, my Death?
Is this how you must WOO and win me
with the opiste Of drowsy murmur
and cold kisses. o Death, my Death?
Come with your conch shells sounding,
come in the sleepless night.
Dress me with crimson mantle, grasp
my hand and take me.
Let your chariot be ready At my door,
withyourhorses neighingimpatiently.
Raise my veil and look At my face
proudly, o Death, my Death!
From The Gardener"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04
HENRY COLLINS BROWNS
BOOK OF OLD NEW YORK

The rare old prints are from the private col.
lections Of Mr.. Robert Goelet. Mr. Perry r
ryhe "a. MT. j. Pierpon, Morgan. Ma
ROBERT w. de Forest. Mr. 4. Van Horn,
Stuyvesant. Mr. VIM. +. Havemeyer. Mr.
simeon Ford. Mr. j. Clarence Davies. Mr.
Robert L. bowling. Mr.. John y. Goiding. Nj
John ID. Crimmins. Mr. Henry Morgertb,.
Mr' y. f Palmer. Mr.. e. W. Arnold NJ
Hero-rt l.. Pratt and others. Pr!va;ely
printed Tor the subscribers a, III s!t4
Avenue. New York. Room ills
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

\ middle aged bank clerk in Justin
Huntly McCarthy's Fool of April"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-04

Advertisements OF second
hand books for sale. exchange
or wanted will be inserted in
HE SIN, Saturdays. at zoe. +
line seven words to the linz
fourteen lines to the inch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
GOAT FEASTED ON ORANGE
BLOSSOMS VALUED AT $40
Animals Taste for Delicacies Led
Owner to Distant Courtroom.

Animals Taste for Delicacies Led
Owner to Distant Courtroom.
A goat, accused of eating $40 worth of
orange blossoms, held pending the pay
ment of damages, was the subject of a
heated argument before Magistrate PEN
mock in the Germantown police station
this morning AS a result John Green,
S4th street and Lyons avenue, who is
keeping the goat In captivity, was held
under $500 bail for further hearing.
The goat is still In Green's barn and
has nothing to eat but hay, According to
the owner Nathan Rovener, SD street
and Lyons avenue, BILLY" will not live
long on this diet, for he Is accustomed to
eating the very choicest delicacles from
the family table. Rovener also says II
almost breaks his heart to pass the stable
and hear the woe-begone bIeating of the
pet,
Billy was captured on Sunday. Ac-
cordng to the testimony of Rose Rovener,
aged IL, and her brother John, aged s.
Green deliberately united the goat and
led him to the stable. According to Green
the goat came into his yard to seek or
ange blossoms, which seem to be the ami
mails favorlte dellcacy. Since the goat
$50, Green says he decided to hold Billy"
until the meals were paid for.
One feature of the case which puzzled
Magistrate Pennock was why Rovener
should come all the way to Germantown
to swear out warrant for Green's ar
rest when both men implicated in the
ahair live in the neighborhood of Darby.
No explanation for this was offered bv
the owner Of the goat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
MILLION IN RESERVE NOTES
CARTED THROUGH THE CITY
Funds in Certificates of $40 Denomi-
nation Go to Sub-treasury.

luIluu SO 10 y.
One million dollars in crisp, new Fed
eral Reserve notes OF $40 denomination
was carted through tho streets OF the
central business section of the city this
morning to the Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia. Chestnut street above 4th.
vaults of the Subtreasury, adjoining the
regional bank.
The shipment was the second which the
regional institution has received from
the Treasury Department in Washington
since the opening Of the bank on Novem-
Der Is. The first OF the new Federal Re-
serve notes received was 100000 of the
IS denomination.
Few persons who saw the express wag-
ons, in which the money was transferred
TO the regional bank realized that a
fortune was passing them. The wagons
we're carefully guarded and the money
was sealed in heavy iron boxes.
This money will be issued to the mem
ber institutions of the Federal Reserve
Bank from time 20 time as the regional
bank redscounts commercial paper for
the member banks. AS yet none of the
new $40 bills has been put into circula-
tion in this city, but I'm all probability
some will be today. A large amount of
the So notes has already been issued
This morning the Federal Reserve Bank
rediscounted S25O0OO worth of commercial
paper for member banks, making the
total rediscounted 5000. 900 since the Penn
National Bank, the first bank making ap-
plicatlon, rediscounted $4,000 worth of
paper last week. All of the paper re-
discounted thus far has been of maturity
less than 80 days and has come under
the 51S per cent. rate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
DYING FROM STAB WOUNDS
Eighteen Persons Held Until Police
Learned of Mans Suicide Attempt.

Eighteen Persons Held Until Police
Learned of Mans Suicide Attempt.
Eighteen persons were arrested in a
house at 517 South 9Th street early this
morning whore a man was found dying
from stab wounds in the stomach. He
admitted later they were self-inficted
The man is Mayer Singer, 800 Monroe
street.
Singer is at the Pennsylvania HospitaI
where physicians say he will die within
few hours. The man was found uncon-
scious in bathroom over a Russian tea
room at the South 4th street address To-
day by Theodore Kessler, janitor of the
building.
Kessler suspected murder and notified
the police of the Sd and De Lancey streets
station. Special Policemen Troyano and
Cunnen, with squad of bluecoats and a
patrol wagon, hurried TO the house and
arrested all the inmates pending investI-
cation Among them were men, women
and children.
Magistrate Harrlgan then went To the
hospital and obtained a statement from
Singer He said he was despondent be-
cause he had been out of work ana that
he inflicted the injuries on himself with
a potato knife. The man virtually was
disemboweled' Those arrested were re-
leased
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
EARL HACKETT, WHO TRIED
TO DIE, FACES MAGISTRATE
Youth Loved Detroit Girl, Came Here
to Make Fortune to wed. Failed.

@Outh Loved Oetrolt blrl, Game HCre
to Make Fortune to Wed, Failed.
Because he loved beautiful debutantc
IN Detroit and was unable to mako
good" In this city in order to marry her,
Earl d. Hackett. % years old, OF San
Francisco, attempted suicide in the Con-
tinentsl Hotel, by stabbing himself with
a pen knife, on Saturday night.
He was taken to jefferson Hospital,
where. after a hereolc fight to save him.
he was discharged this morning and
brought before Magistrate Renshaw in
the Central police station.
Hackett told Special Policemen Neral
and Lazelle, who took him into custody,
after his discharge from the hospital that
he was brought from San Francisco to
Detroit by the wealthy and prominent
Post family OF that city. lie was given a
position at sl25 a month with the full
faith and confidence in his capacity and
desire to succeed
Shortly after his arrival in Detroit, at
an entertainment nt the Post residence,
Hackett met the society girl and fell in
love with her TO win her he posed az a
wealthy young man and in general tried
to impress upon the young lady the fact
that he belonged to the same station IN
y
freely until, unable to obtain more money
and driven by remorse for having de-
ceived the girl. he confessed to her tell
ing her that he was "a poor boy from
San Francisco"
But the girl was IN love with him. and
declaring that she had full confidence in
his honesty and ability, she told him to
go to work and make good" Hackett,
however, was so downcRst by his decep-
ton that he left Detroit for Philadelphia,
where he thought he could make moro
money. Things did not turn out as he ex-
pccted. For days he walked without OBJ
tanning a position until driven by despair
he tried suicide
Meanwhile, the Post family we're so in
terested In his fate that they secured
the country to find him. They found his
whereabouts early this week by reading
the news of his attempted suicide in the
Philadelphia newspapers. They at once
sent n man to this city and this morning
offered to take the young man to Los
Angeles and put him again on the road
to success.
The girl with whom the young man fell
In love, IT is understood, declares that she
will marry him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
COURT SCORES POLICEMAN
FOR NOT HAVING EVIDENCE
Judge Barratt Summons Lieutenant
When Stolen Whisky is Not
Produced

THE police seem absolutely inefficient
when It comes to bringing in evidence
collected" said Judge Barratt, in Quar-
Ter Sessions Court today, when Police
man Smith, OF the Front and Master
streets station, failed to produce a bot
tie of whislSey which Matthew Raabe had
pleaded guilty to stealing
III this man had pleaded not guilty
he probably would have been acquitted he
cause the evidence was not here. Let a
subpoena be issued for Lieutenant Knoll
and perhaps he can explain why this eyi-
dence is not in court"
Gilbert, OF the Department OF PubIic
Safety. who always requires a recent for
evidence brought to court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
In a Barber shop

1t was In a suburban barber shop, and
a farmer with weeks growth OF stubby
beard had seated himself In a chair 10
have his whiskers cropped
Guess you'll have a time gittln' them
or" he remarked, as the barber began
rubbing on the lather
-Oh. / don't know" said The barbsr.
carelessly. "All boards look alike TO me. p
sWunst I went into a barber shop 10 Iii
shaved" resumed the farmer. "and after
the barber WAS done, and / was payin'
him, he remarked, Say. old man. If an
boards was like yourn I'D quit the barber
business ! sez 70 him, / sez. Well. you
haven't got ANYTHING on me. old man II
ail BARRIERS Has like you Ia let my beard
grow Columbus Dispatch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
SUED BY s1sTER-IN-LAw
aoldie Noble Asks for Money Loaned
to Reuben Rubinoviteb

Reuben RubinOviteh. of 22s6 South 9Th
street, Is being held in $500 bail Tor fur
ther hearing by Magistrate EmeIv On
charges preferred by his sister-in-Iav,
Goldie Noble, OF COatesvine, Pa. Miss
Noble alleges that on three occasions d,r-
ing a period Of two years she gave bsr
brother-in-law money-SlOO, $50 ana 90
respeetively-whieh he was to invest IN a
downtown buildirg and loan association in
her name.
Rubinovtch, who Is in the gentlemen,s
furnishing business, put the money 10
his own use, according 70 his sister
After an Is months illness In the nos
pital Goldie needed the money. ana ~.
manded It from him. He was unable 10
comply at that time. He said on three
occasions he gave her money-in sums ~
S25 s. and S4-but she denied this Tbs
hearing viii be held next week.