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Evening star., 1914-04-05
CAPITAL YACHT CLUB
INAUGURATES SEASON
Many River Pleasure Craft Being
Overhauled and Made Ready
for Service.

The Capital Yacht Club inaugurated the
1914 yachting season at ; clock yester-
day afternoon with the firing of the
yachting gun of the club and the hosting
of the flag to the top of the fagpole on
the clubhouse at the foot of 9th street
southwest The ceremonies were attended
by many members of the organization and
their friends and many plans FOR pleasure
during the season were discussed. The
Capital Yacht club is preparing for a
busy summer season and il is stated will
arrange races and other events to keep lip
interest. At the different lighthouses
pleasure craft are being overhauled in
large numbers and between this and thu.
middle of April considerable proportion
Of the pleasure fleet viii be put into com
mission
At the home Of the Potomac Fishing
and Cunning Club at the foot of 9th
street southwest the launches Violet
Roamer, belonging to Robert Meade: th.
Juanta. belonging TO Fred Deb Weston:
the OleS. belonging to L. V. Berger: the
Josephine. belonging 10 Frederick Walker
and the Pelican. belonging to c. Dingley.
are being painted and overhauled
At Gregory's, foot OF 9th street south :
west. the Gallivant. belonging TO Capts
Ronceville and West. is on the railway
being painted: the Wanderlust belonging
to Walcott Bros. is having a new cabin
placed on her. and the Bessanna owned
by Donohoe & Brooks, is being painted
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FOR AMMUNITION SUPPLY.
Army Officers Study Problem of
Reaching Firing Line.

The ordnance department of the army.
a special board at the School of Mus
kerry and some of the commanding Off
GERS of the I'd Division are working on a
number of proposals for method 10
supply ammunition for the firing line
during battle. 1t is generally recog-
nized that the modern small-arm demands
better system of sending forward am
munition from the ammunition train in
the field. That will become of increasing
Importance in the event of the adoption
of an automatic rifle. 1t is contended that
even with the present service rifle the
method of supplying ammunition for the
firing line is Inadequate Several light
packs for mules have been submitted to
the ordnance department.
While it is admitted that mules with
light packs can be brought closer to the
firing line than the field trains, there still
remains the zone of fire over which it
would not ordinarily be safe to attempt
to pass with the mule. That zone must be
covered under ordinary conditions with
men. On that account it is thought de-
sirable to devise some light ammunition
pack to be placed on the back or shoul-
ders of man. Several suggestions for
such packs are under consideration, and
it is thought that eventually a satisfac-
tory plan for communication from the
supply train to the firing line will be de-
veloped.
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HEIRS FIGHTING REQUESTS
TO CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY
Suits Filed by Relatives of Jane K
Sather and Ernest v.
Cowell.

San FRANCISCO, April 4-Suits were
hled today In the superior courts of
Alameda and San Francisco counties dis
putting the right of the University of
California to S1,450.000 bequeathed to it
by the late Jane X. Sather and Ernest
y. CoWell, both of whom died in 1911.
Mrs. Satner left the university 100000
out of which she directed there should be
established the Sather chair of classics,
the Sather chair of history. a law endow-
ment of $4,000, and that there should be
erected the Sather campanile. steel and
white granite shaft 300 feet high, now
partially completed. and the Sather gate
way to the campus. now standing. She
was the widow of Bedar Sather pioneer
Ernest V. Cowell a wealthy cement
manufacturer of Santa Cruz Cal, left
the university sTJo,00o, from which he
directed there should be established a
81 0,o9o scholarship fund and that there
should be erected a S25o,03O athletic stadi-
um.
The Sather heirs and the Cowell heirs
contend that the laws of California for
bid any decedent to bequeath more than
one-third of an estate to any public or
benevolent institution when there are
rightful heirs.
Evening star., 1914-04-05
HORSES FROM THE WEST
IN COMPETITIVE LIST
Springfield, Ohio, Owner to Exhibit
at Washington Show-Many
Entries.

John /. Bushnell of Springfield Ohio,
owner OF some of the finest thoroughbred
harness horses of the west will again be
an exhibitor at the National Capital
Horse Show to be held May to $. ac-
cordng to announcement yesterday by
Manager Melvin c. Hazen. Bushnell $
entries captured several ribbons at the
last meet and were prominent competi-
tors in classes in which entries We're
made by Edward +. Mclean and other
eastern owners.
Stable reservations Were made yester-
day for a string Of hunters owned by
DIR. " r. Churcnman Of Charleston, W.
Va, who will make his initial appearance
at the local show this spring. The
Churchman entries include Starlight,
Golden Sceptre and Shawnee. all hunters
with good records. and Jimmy Trigger. a
pony Which has never teen beaten. Out
of twenty seven appearances. Jimmy
Trigger has Won twenty -four blue RIB
bons and three cha mpionship>.
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GOES TO STATION IN ALASKA.
Capt. Albert G. Love Ordered to
Fort Gibbon for Duty.

Capt. Albert g. Love of the Medical
Department who has been on duty at
the War Department as an assistant to
the surgeon general of the army for
several years. has been relieved from
that duty and ordered to Seattle, Wash.
to accompany a body Of troops to Fort
Gbbon, Alaska where he will take sta
ton.
Capt. Love is from Tennessee. and en-
tered the medical department in June,
1896. He is an honor graduate and med
al!st of the Army Medical School, a
graduate of the Memphis Hospital Medi-
cal ColleSe and an \. B. of the University
of Mississippi. During his service in this
city he introduced many hygienic and
sanitary reforms in the War Department
and other military establishments.
Evening star., 1914-04-05
FOOT BALL PACT APPROVED.
Ten-Year Agreement Made as to
Army-Navy Game.

A ten-year foot ball agreement pc
tween the United States Mli1taf! ana
Naval academies has been approved os
the Secretary of War. Under the agree
ment formulated at joint meeting held
in New York March 80 the games are
not to be held in a city north OF New
York OF south of Washington, D. {.
The academies are alternately for ten
wears to have the right to select the
date and place of holding the game i.
is understood that the Military
Academy was given the privilege of
selecting the place and time for the
first game. This. it is said. was de-
cided By casting lots, and the army
won Iii all probability this will mean
the holding of this years game in New
YORK and next years in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1914-04-05

pretty wedding was solemn:zed
Thursday at Clifton. the home OF Ma i.
Finley Wilson Houston. near Lexington.
Va when his Youngest daughter Miss
Mary Alexandar Houston. MAS married
to Americus Frederic White of Donora.
Pa.
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he had built Fort Necessity during his
expeditions against the French.

-. -. >-... a,,.;~-r hi.
a,s,a,f;,.o.,s, Ia syains+ tho Frencb
:.
:: =
To MAX. This land of value ne entered
on the task nj fmproying the WATERWAYS
The first step
Buil+ q conol was the pro-
motion of
drOunQ Gredt f6llS. canal around
the Great L-,11s of tho po.omac HE 1et
'ied' ais vi tiie foeo'ii"e- iiis iee-
'eis covering many years contain reIer-
ences to the best methods of canal con-
struction. innuiries for canal engineers
Evening star., 1914-04-05
Proprietors Made
Considerable Trouble

made necessary Iy the contour of tbc
, 'e oitoui Vi tHe
i'"i'' "'snhHs'oh
Gesire 10 obllSe Benjamin Stoddert and
10 save a noted spring which WAS on
Stodtert's estate b,- .xc1udir., :, fro,,
a.. -. -, - -
s'-iI stH''' % VI 'i'e ne" ei'S- ihis
FAVOR to Stoddert as well as supposed
favors 10 others of the more prominent
pruprietors was the cause of some dis
s.rsion and 81. =. -.
" q" "'eo"o'e OH "s
Soou du'hority as many other historical
anecdotes that David Burns, the Grabbed
Old Scotchman who owned the land on
which tho r,,on,,,,.,,,, .. -.
-, 7'"ii n'"
s'"''"s' dssu'heu an i-SFessiNe attitude
toward the President. II is said that the
President asked him if rp knew whom
he was talEin., 10 and -h. alleged re-
joinder of BURNS was an ino,1frv a. m
what Washington u,oI.ld have a,o,,n,d
Evening star., 1914-04-05
Society for Prevention Of Sickness
{. stRllNER. Secretary

The Bulletins of the Society
for Prevention of Sickness, sign
ed by Mr. E. Berliner, are based
on much careful study and they
deserve the attention of the
public, for whose benefit they
are issued.
Gen. GEO. NJ. STERNBERG.
Sturgeon General. L. s. Army.
retireO.
DIR. GE.J. NJ. kOBER.
professor of Hygiene, George
town University.
Evening star., 1914-04-05

Levi Schindeidecker. seventy-four years
old died Thursday at Greensburg. Md.
He was Union veteran of the civil war.
Evening star., 1914-04-05
THE REMEDY.

A great deal of milk and
cream is now rendered safe by
being pasteurized. and if butter
was made of pasteurized cream
it would also be safe article
of food.
And if the interstate COM
merce commission would forbid
the traffic in butter made of
raw cream it would probably
result in considerable reduction
of sickness. particularly in the
annual crop of winter epi-
denies.
Evening star., 1914-04-05
The FEDERAL CITY.
II.-George Washington.
Promoter.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

George Washington was a military
genius and a great executive, and by vir-
tue OF the qualities which made him both
of these he was a splendid business man
Foresight breadth Of view and methodi-
cal habits qualified him to be a prince OF
merchants or u captain Of industry if his
lot had been cast in another time The
classic saying that George Washington
never stopped over is nowhere bette
proved than in the couduct of his private
affairs Ia remained unmoved BY the
feyerish speculation which attended the
first months of TIE foundation Of the fed
eral city. and the.e is no warrant for the
suggestion that he participated IN H. lie
purchased some lots after he had re'i' 90
from the presidency. but his purchases in
dictate his purpose as use and not as
speculation. He bought one s;Uar" o.
land in the western portion of the ne"
citv a somewhat smaller parcel IN the
eastern portion. and certain water lots m
tended as the location of wharves ne
mus mad. selections which would De
useful whatever the course OF develoP-
meut of the city might be, but ne incur
red no obligations which might be en-
barraSsiu1. if. as afterward proved. thf
authorizations of rapid growth shouiu
not be realized.
Washington was promoter IN the ad-
mirable sense of the word and the loca-
tion OF the federal city on the Potomac
was an incident of a big idea, one which
was entirely logical and which was only
defeated by considerations which could
not have entered into WashnSton's cal
CulationS.
In early life he had made surveying
expeditions in the interior and had been
engaged in military expeditions against
the French forts on the Ohio, which made
him thoroughly conversant with trade
route to the great interior waterways
Of the United States by way of the Po-
fomac river His brother. Lawrence
Washington. was one of the leading men
in a company formed TO develop trade
over this route.
During his service as commanding gen
eral and as President Washington had
opportunities to compare this entrance to
the interior with others i'll Pennsylvania
and New York. and it was his lifelong
opinion that western trade would be
chiefly done on the Potomac river. This
river is navigahle for vessels of shallow
draft nearly to the Cumberland noun
tains and after Il short land portage
through the mountains. water connection
can be made by way of the YouShiogheny
river with the great interior waterways.
CoutrasIiuG this almost continuous
Evening star., 1914-04-05
LAWS COMPELLING
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Review of Situation in States En-
couraging to Bureau of
Education.

Although six states in the Union are
still without compulsory school attend
ance laws. and four others have laws
that apply only partially definite prog
ress during the past decade is reported
in a bulletin just issued by the United
States bureau of education. Since 1903
eight states previously without compul-
sorry laws have adopted them, aand it is
thought to be matter of only few
years when compulsory school attend
ance will be in effect in every state and
territory of the United States
The six states still without compulsory
| school laws are South Carolina, Geor-
Gia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas. The four local-option states
where the law is in effect in certain
Arkansas and Louisiana.
Wide Variance Shown.
| The states vary widely in number of
years and amount Of attendance requir-
| ed each year The age of compulsory
attendance is from eight to twelve years
| in North Carolina and Virginia. In most
states it is eight to fourteen or fifteen
| The preser. tendency is to raise the up
| per limit of compulsion. In seventeen
states the compulsory age limit is six
| teen years above; in Idaho it is
| eighteen. AS a general rule. however.
children in all these states are allowed
to leave school at fourteen years of age
| if they secure employment have COM
pleted the eighth grade in school. There
| is a constantly increasing effort to safe
| guard the child between fourteen and
| sixteen years of age. the period of spe-
| cial Importance for the vocational prep
| aration of most children.
| AS little as twelve weeks of school at
| tendance during any one year may be
| required in Virginia, Oklahoma Della
| ware and Nebraska, while in Vermont
| and other states there must be $50 or
more days of actual school attendance
| every year. Many states require at
| tendance during the full time school is
in session." which may mean ANYTHING
| from forty-one to 1914 days. Some states
secure attendance during long terms by
| conditioning state appropriations upon
| the number of days of actual school at
| tendance.
Exemptions Noted.
| A variety of exemptions are found in
the laws of the different states Con-
\ necticut and Arkansas will not enforce
the compulsory attendance law eff the
| parent is not able to provide proper
| clothing for the child. Physical or
mental incapacty is a general exemp-
| remoteness from school facilities. Occa-
I sionally exemptions are made on re-
| ligious grounds. Thus the Michigan law
| eXempts children from compulsory at
tendance between the ages of twelve and
| fourteen hi1c ~ -, low at co
Evening star., 1914-04-05
Others Agreed On
the Potomac Route.


there was flaw discernible in Washing
tons day in the deduction that the west
ern trade must ultimately proceed for a
large part by way of the Potomac river.
This was acquiesced in by all of the
prominent men of Virginia, and Thomas
jefferson sets it forth at considerable
length in his study of the resources and
possibilities of his state. 1t was the
logic of this presentation that made it
possible for the Virginia delegation finally
10 secure the selection of a site for the
federal city on the Potomac.
Discretion was given to President Wash
ington 70 select location within the first
eighty miles above tidewater on the Poto-
mac This discretionary power. however.
WAS probably merely to furnish Washing
ton with influence over the Iandholders
near Georgetown. as this was the only
place where the-e z was sufficient depth Of
water to accommodate the ocean traffic
which Washington expected from the es-
tablishment of a depot of western trade.
The point where the Anacostia river.
Eastern branch joins the Potomac and
where the city of Washington was located
was described in 1I!I as having the best
harbor on the Atlantic coast.
President Washington did not give out
at once that he had fixed on the location
at the mouth of the Eastern branch as
the site OF the federal city. but inoicated
sites and that the advantages which
would accrue from the location would be
reaped by landholders who exhibited a
liberal spirit toward the federal govern
ment. Benjamin Stoddert. afterward
Secretary OF the Navy. was a resident of
Georgetown. and ne was assigned the Of
flee of sounding the nineteen orig nal pro-
prietors of tracts of land on which it was
proposed to build the city to ascertain
what they would be disposed to do to-
ward assisting the enterprise. 1t appears
by letters still existing that the general
outlines of the plan to he followed were
talked over with two or three of the
principal proprietors
Then President Washington attended a
rleeting of ali the pToprietors in George
town in March. 1871. at which the whole
subject was opened and the proposition
made that the proprietors should place
their land in the hands OF trustees. to be
held until plan of the city had been ap-
proved by the President when the streets
should he conveyed by the trustees to
the United States in fee simple: the loca-
tions for public buildinss and other res
cTeationS should be purchased by the
United States at - per acre (about
*l2.'4, which VAS calculated to be about
double the value OF the land as it then
existed. and one-ha1f of the residue to be
in the form of building squares should
be Teconveyed to the proprietors. the bal
anrc to be conveyed to the United States
10 he sold to raise money to pay for
building the Capitol. ', hte House and
other executive buildings.
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If you want work, read the want col
umns of The Star.
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TO INSTRUCT MOTHERS
IN CARE Of INFANTS
Welfare Station Opened at the
Children's Hospital and
Dispensary.

Practical instruction of mothers in the
care of their babies is to be prominent
feature of the work at the newly opened
infant welfare station. at the Children s
Hospital and Dspensary. The station.
which is a branch of the parent station
operated by the Washington Diet Kitchen
Association in Georgetown, is to be con-
Quoted along lines identical with those
of the original station.
The newly opened station occupies a
room at the extremity of the south wing
of the hospital. the entrance being on the
18th street side.
Practical Demonstrations.
Practical demonstrations in infant well
proper care of children are to be con-
Quoted daily, and each day between the
hours of 9 am. and noon physician will
be on duty to attend to and prescribe for
any cases among the infants requiring
medical attention.
The new station is in charge of Miss
Margaret NJ. Weller. who will be on duty
during the entire day.
At this station, as at the Georgetown
station, milk for the use of babies is dis
tributed free of charge to those who are
circumstances permit. the milk will be
furnished at cost.
Methods of Pasteurization.
Modern methods of pasteurization at
home as well as home modification OF
milk for feeding babies. will be taught,
along with the practical instruction in
the care of infants, which is a feature
of the work
The section of the city adjacent to the
Children's Hospital has been without an
infants milk station since the closing of
the Oyster station about a year ago.
Miss Weller, who had charge of that sta
ton, stated that frequently during the
summer months as many as $50 babies
were brought to- the station in single
day, these infants including white and
colored. Those in charge of the new sta
ton anticipate an equally large patronage
as soon as the fact becomes known that
the station has been opened and is in
operation.
Evening star., 1914-04-05
ARE ANNUAL WINTER
EPIDEMICS INCREASED
BYINFECTED BUTTER?

Butter made of infected milk
is infected and may cause
disease.
Disease. germs retain their
dangerous character in butter
very long. because they are
protected against light and
drying. The same germs ex-
posed TO sunlight would die in
few hours.
These statements are based
on careful tests made by
trained Investigators. In one
instance butter made of cream
that contained tubercle bacilli
was put in storage for
months and then fed to
healthy hogs for one month in
no greater quantities than the
average person eats. Most of
the hogs developed tuber-
culosis
Experts of the United States
Department of Agriculture es-
innate that there are over two
million tuberculosis cows in
this country. In addition to
tuberculosis. cows are often
afflicted with other diseases.
and dairy employees are not al
ways free from sickness. the
germs of which may get into
the milk. cream. butter and
cheese Many epidemics of
different kinds have been
definitely traced to infected
raw milk.
In winter cows spend most
time in stables which are often
very dirty, dairy employees may
be less careful about personal
cleanliness. most milking is
done without daylight and
with hands stiffened by cold.
Imagine the conditions of
stables and cows at 4 am. in
winter time. Hence the danger
of infected dairy products is
greater in winter than in sum-
mer, when cows are in the
open fields.
May we not conclude that the
increased frequency of some in
fectious diseases during winter
is closely related to the less
sanitary conditions under which
dairy products are then pro-
duced?
Remember that healthy adults
may often partake of infected
food with impunity when chill
dren. invalids or persons in a
rundown condition. whose re-
sistance to disease is low or i'm
paired, may not SO easily es-
cape. .-
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1t was not an easy task to bring all the
proprietors into the agreement. The
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Contrasting this almost continuous
water route with the long overland jour
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-12


who made two hits in ten games.
Either Bresnahan or Leach will get
the job in the event that ODay is
ousted. That is the report, with the
chances favoring Roger, though it is
doubtful if he is eager to take over
the responsibility.
At that, he would be better quail
fed than Leach, for he would drive
the athletes harder and not be such a
conciHator as Tommy What that
West Side crew needs now is pow
erful gent with bull whip. In the
recent past there has. been too much
bull and not enough whip.
The Cobb rumor was inspired by
Edgar Wilett alnd Delos Drake, form
er Tigers, now members of the Slou-
feds. They weren't playing yesterday,
so decided to get their names in the
paper.
They say that Ty has a one-year
business contract with Detroit that
calls for $4,000 and no questions
asked. There is no ten-day clause in
the agreement. Ty is understood to
have leanings toward the third league
because of the loud money talk shot
off, and would sign three-year con-
tract when his term with Detroit ends
for $75, 900 for the entire time. So far
President Weeghman of the Chifeds
has not written a check.
Ed Walsh, former White Sox pitch
ing staff, is decidedly off form, and
NOT able Tn cone with the caIiber of
batting employed to win big league
ball games.
The Big Reel had his first chance
of the season in an exhibition against
the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday, and
was hammered from the box in four
rounds. Eleven hits were rung up
by the National Leaguers in the four
rounds that Walsh occupied the hill.
When the attack was going against