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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
UNIVERSAL TRANSFERS
: NOT TO COME UP NOW
Public Utilities Commission to Con-
slider Other Issues in No
vember.

Although the public utilities commits
sion will give hearing November ID
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of ordering
the issuance of reciprocal transfers be-
tween the Capital Traction Company
and the Washington and Maryland
Railway Company at 18th and kenne-
dy streets northwest, the commission,
it is understood. probably will not give
consideration at this time to the gen.
eral question of universal transfers.
The particular object of the hearing
scheduled is to inquire as to whether
or not there are any charter require
ments regarding transfers at 18th and
Kennedy streets which have not been
complied with. As to the desirability
of ordering universal transfers through
out the city, this is a problem the COM
mission will not likely take up until
1t has completed valuation of the
properties of the public transportation
concerns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
Expect a Busy Month.

November promises to be a busy
month for the utilities board, several
important hearings being scheduled.
Announcement was made today that
the commission will give a hearing
November on the question of whether
1t is lawful for the Potomac Electric
Power Company to furnish electric cur
rent at special rates under contracts
with the Washington Loan and trust
Company, Aaron Brylawski and others
The corporation counsels office has
handed down a decision that these
rates became null and void with the
passage of the utilities law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23


stood by the mantel for two minutes
perhaps.
Repeats Story Regarding Telephone.
Before she was excused Mrs. Carman
described in detail how she tore out
the telephone instrument and its wires
between her room and the doctors OF
fee and hid the wires. batteries. sound
satherer and the receiver in the garnet,
under the floor. Mrs. Carman, sald
the district attorney, IF your suspl-
cions were dispelled by what you heard
over the instrument why did you Duy
the thing on June % when your lease
on it had two more months to run
To this Mrs. Carman would give no
direct answer, although the district at
torney framed the question in several
different ways
Mrs Carman said she learned the
identity of the victim late Tuesday
night She said she felt sorry for the
family of Mrs. Bailey, but that she had
not expressed her sympathy to them
because she didn't feel at liberty to
do So"
Mrs. Carmans crosS-examination end
ed at 1875 o'clock. She had been on
the witness stand then for an hour and
thirty-fve minutes. Her redirect ex-
animation was begun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
Offers to Rent the Apparatus.


HE also told me of the difficulties the
installers had overcome. The man as
sured me that one could be installed in
my house without anybody knowing
it. 1 told the man I could not have 1t
known that there was any trouble in
my house on account of my little girl.
He wanted to sell me the instrument
for 500. I told him that was too
much, so he said he would rent it for
three months for $50. l told him if 1
could arrange to get my husband out
Of the house l would write him a let
ter and he could send the man to in
stall it. I took DR.. Carman away
while the thing was being put in.
81 saw the man-Boissennaul
hear everything that went on in DR..
Carman's office. l told him that. He
told me the instrument might have
been placed wrong, but he gave ne
three dry batteries to make it stronger.
I also got back the letter 1 had written
had paid him. I burned those before
the homicide.
81 took the instrument out the morn
ing after the murder. l took part of it
out before breakfast and parts later L
thought DR.. Carman had enough trouble
on his hands.
Il did not know Mrs. Bailey. I had
never seen her alive. I saw her dead
body at the morgue three days after the
murder. You (Mr. Levy) made me go
there and make sure whether I knew
the woman"
ct have never fired a gun or n pisto
in my life," continued Mrs. Carman. I
know nothing about firearms.
when first saw you after the muir
der ! knew I was under suspicion. I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
Asks Only One Question.

On cross-examination District At
torney Smith asked only one question
elizabeth, you are very fond of your
mother aren't you?
Yes, SIR she replied.
That's ALL" said the prosecutor.
Just as Mrs. Sarah A. Conklin. Mrs.
C.rnlans mother, seventy-two years
o.4 took the stand, the defendant burst
40 tears. She buried her face IN her
..luKercnief and her shoulders shook
! ttn Sous
Irs. Conklin's testimony corroborated
l.,as given by Mrs. Carman and Eliza
Deth.
similar corroborative testimony was
sIsen by Mrs. Carman's sister, Mrs. Ida
lowell
Mrs. Powell said she let two women
VINO had been in the doctors waiting
room out OF the front door. The night
latch snapped, shutting her out, she
said, but she went around the side OF
the house and entered the waiting
room door. She didn't see Farrell. she
said, although she was on the front
steps less than a minute after She
heard the report of a revolver.
The witness denied that sac mad seen
Celia Coleman IN the doctors Office that
night. Celia had testified that She saw
Mrs. Powell there the first time she FOL
lowed Mrs Carnan TO the office. Mrs.
Powell said IL she who told Mrs.
Carman what had happened. thereby cor
roborating the Defendants story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
Defendants Daughter Testihes.

Mrs Carman's ten-year-old daughter
Elizabeth was the next witness. In
childish treble she gave her version OF
what had happened in the Carman
household the night of the murder.
After dinner. she said, she had gone
out and played on the lawn
Mother went upstairs" she con-
tinued.
My aunt and grandmother were on
the porch. Later / went into the par
lor and started to practice on the
piano Ny mother told me to stop.
Then 1 went into the dining room.
walked through the hall and sat in a
chair in the dining room. Presently
heard glass break and shot l met
my aunt on the stairs. l went in my
mothers room. My mother was there:
when 1 ran back into the hall L
saw my mother put on her slippers
and kimono and 1 followed her down
stairs Then l went up again. When
she came up in minute l went into
her room with her"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
MRS. CARMAN UNDER
AP|T|[ESS QUIZ
Continued from First Page.)

rectly upstairs again, after having
stood by the manteI for two minutes.
perhaps.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
EXPLODING BOILER
GOES TWO BLOCKS
LOUISIANA MAN KILLED, ANOTH-
ER DYING-TREES UPRO0TED-
AND HOMES BATTERED

MONROE, La, Nov 21.-The boiler
at the plant of the Monroe Single Co.,
located in the tower part of Monroe,
exploded with terrific force at $50
o'clock this morning, almost instantly
killing C. S. Stewart, proprietor of
the mill, and probably fatally injuring
Sid Harris, negro fireman.
Robert Flournoy, negro employee,
was injured about the legs by flying
debris. The mill plant was completely
demolished, that portion remaining
standing being twisted out of line so
that it is worthless. The engine ad-
joining the boiler was torn to pieces.
The boiler gave way on the under
side, and the force was so great that it
was torn from its foundation and
blown two blocks away. In the course
of its fight it passed over the dwell
ings, cutting the chimney from one
and fell between two other homes.
The force was such that two large
trees were cut off about half way up
and third tree was torn up by the
roots. Tubes from the boiler were
scattered in every direction, several
piercing residences. One tube was
driven into the side of the room occu-
pied by Captain r. A Young, Jr., and
his fathers home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
ARMY Of KHAKI
CLAD HUNTERS
VERY BUSY FRIDAY
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 21.-Early
trains to the country Friday bore a
different looking lot of passengers
from the usual run. There were men
in khaki and boots, with gun-cases I'M
der their arms and game-bags in their
shoulders. The baggage cars were fill
ed with barking settlers and pointers,
eager to feel the stubble beneath their
feet. The two railroad stations re-
sembled a dog show in full blast.
For yesterday was the first of the
hunting season. Oh, of course, the
law has permitted the chase of the cat
squirrel and the deer and migratory
ducks for some time, but not what the
Southern hunter calls birds" Today
is the first chance at the quail, the only
honest-to-goodness game in Georgia.
For a week the game wardens have
been busy issuing licenses and the
sporting goods stores have sold enough
powder and lead in the form of shells
to blow up fortress. There is nc
such ardent hunter as your city man
who must travel fifty miles, perhaps
to get shot at bird, and the man
who has a friend with a big plantation
full of quail is the envy of his asso-
ciates.
The state license permits a hunter
to kill as many as Is quail or plovel
in a single day, or forty doves, if he
can find that many. No game can be
transported by rail, except that in the
possession of the hunter s. nobody car
keep that promise to ship home {
box of birds"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
BILLY SUNDAYS BIBLET

Twenyodd years Holy guide
into the art gallery of the Old Tesla
ment Noah Jacob Abra
ham, Elijah other prophets of old
Then passed where spirit
keyboard brought forth the dirgeke wall
exultant the
tyourth
respond played
King n melancholy moods
passed
chapel Ecesae
conservatory the lily the
pointing others nearby
nearby all concentrated the Bright
oMrnng the moon hills
Will the shepherds guarded b. night
audience vision of
Matthew,
in formation o the infant church.
where Matthew,
their
epstles the church.
the throne Revelation
sitting upon
a
Billy Sunday delivered Denver September H. 1914
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
RAILROADS WILLING
To IMPROVE THEIR
ROADS AND EQUIPMENT
(By Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 21.-The
construction of wooden passenger cars
for the railways of the United States
practically has ceased, according to
the report of the committee on rails
and equipment, of which c. C. McChord
Of the interstate commerce commission
is chairman, made to the annual con-
vention of the National Association of
Railway commissioners today.
The committee finds that sixty-six
per cent. of the 1921 derailments in
the ten years from 1904 to 1913, inclus-
i've, were due to defective roadway and
equipment. These derailments were
the cause of 3,727 deaths.
Not only defects in steel but heavy
wheel loads and high speeds are blam-
ed for some of the breaking of rails or
failure of rails in other respects.
There can be no doubt" the COM
mittee reports, that steel cars are
better and safer than those of wooden
construction. A statement from the
Pullman company shows that in four
years seventy-three persons were kill
ed in wooden Pullman cars while only
six were killed in all-steel cars.
There has been a noticeable in
crease from year to year in the loads
to which rails and equipment have
been subjected and the increase is still
going on" says the report. In no
other situation involving danger to
life is material used with so slender
margin in strength, judging from the
annual statistics of accidents. In COM
parison with other engineering uses of
Ildt6IldlS VI COuSLTuCIlOu, KNOW leuSS
of the working stresses in railway ma
terials is in very backward state. No
other service furnishes so extended a
list of annual failures which, in part,
is attributed to this lack of informa-
ton nor would such an exhibit of fail
ure be tolerated in any other branch
of engineering. Many of these fail
ures are believed to be of preventa-
BILE nature, and, even in the light of
present knowledge, could be guarded
against"
The committee suggested considera-
ton whether there should be some
state of federal supervision of this
class of material which is exhibiting
so many failures. 1t recommends that
accurate information of the cause of
the fractures of rails should be OBJ
tanned.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
PRETTY GOOD ADVICE

DO right
no
This
tells
speak, familiar
gish Why not, also: Think three times
o reall
in
THE PEACEMAKER
I'm painted youngster with
slackening
Where
yonder acknowledged boy lodging
NO ROOM LEFT FOR DOUBT
Which inquired teacher Of
crowd of boys before
I'm him" urchin, pointing his face
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
AMERICAN CHILDREN PLAY
SANTA CLAUS TO LITTLE
RUSSIANS
(By Associated Press.)

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 21.-Russiat
children will receive their Christmas
gifts from American children if Amer.
lean children have done their duty
Nelson Morris, the American minister
in Stockholm, has taken up with the
Russian authorities the question of ad-
hitting the gifts and of facilitating
their shipment and distribution. His
efforts have met with ready response
on the part of the Russians and he
gives assurance of arrangements for
the prompt handling of the part of the
Christmas ships cargo destined for
that country.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
PINK OYSTERS
LATEST FAD
Especial to Times Recorder.)

Especial to Times Recorder)
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 21.-Do YOU
like oysters? Do you like them pink
Now don't be alarmed. If you buy a
nice quart of bivalves, take them home
and cook them and they show up a
rosy pink, don't throw them away.
The official health bureau at Wash
ington says pink oysters are perfectly
digestible. They ar ca peculiar freak
which turned up on the eastern coast
this season, and some of them have
found their way south.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
Handsomely Gowned Women At
New York's Grand Opera Opening
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-Among the
handsomely gowned women at the OPP
ening of the Metropolitan grand opera
season here Tuesday night, were the
following we'll known society leaders:
Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt wore a gown
of green velvet with shoulder straps
of brown fur and had on wonderful
necklace of diamonds and emeralds.
Miss Julia Chester Wells was in old
lace and wore some of her famous
pearls. Mrs. William North Duane,
who was with her, was in green and
white, and Mrs. Charles H. Sheriff.,
another guest, was in white brocade,
with diamond ornaments.
Mrs. Ebert H. Gary was in white
satin with green spangles. Mrs. Lewis
Nixon wore pearl white lace and satin
with diamonds. Mrs. John Grant was
in white satin, draped with green chof
fon.
Mrs. George Henry Warren wore
light blue velvet with garlands of sill
yer crystal lace. She wore a pearl
dog collar and diamond necklace.
Mrs. H. l., Roy Emmett was in black
and gold brocade with jetted lace
sleeves and wore a pearl dog collar
and diamond ornaments.
Mrs. c. B. Alexander wore sapphire
velvet and pearls. Miss Mary Croker
Alexander wore turquoise silk with sill
yer lace and pearls. Miss jeanette
Alexander wore pink satin.
Mrs. Edmund Randolph wore rose
satin tunicI over white satin skirt.
Her ornaments were diamonds.
Mrs. F. Egerton Webb wore white
satin with big pink rose on her bod
ice, and diamond ornaments.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., wore
white satin with tulle draped bodice
and diamond aigrettes.
Mrs. C. Old. Iselin was in black
velvet combined with chiffon, and wore
a pink rose on her corsage.
Mrs. Lewis Iselin was in pale blue
velvet and diamond ornaments, and
Miss Adrienne Iselin had on white
satin.
Mrs. William Douglas Sloane wore
black satin, jetted diamond orna-
ments.
Mrs John Henry Hammond was in
rose satin, trimmed with jetted lace
Mrs. william A. Burden wore black
velvet, the bodice draped with silver
lace. t,.
Miss Ruth Twombly had on pale blue
satin combined with self-colored tulle
Mrs. Whitney Warren wore REQ
latin and chiffon and pearls.
Mrs. 0ren Root was in black velvet
.immed with silver lace and fur.
Mrs. William Ross Proctor was
dressed in black spangled gown and
,er daughter wore white chiffon. with
rose satin.
Mrs. Jack Mccullough wore Gre
clan gown of white brocaded crepe
combined with satin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
THAT'S NOT ENOUGH

church bearing shake
advice smile;
hypocrisy
shake hands MEAN Tor all Shake and
Smile it,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
LITTLE, BUT A HARD HITTER

minister to family
getting While
mother experimenting the preparation the
boy opening statement
Mister that you a big going
to a inc dinner"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-21
TOUGH LUCK

unexpectedly
The hosptable family
minister's remaining and preparing
while minister chicken the back
tough, but the minister hungry ate heartily
the minister invited chair
yard
dishes The sitting the bottom Presently
little chicken Approaching the
exclaimed the I'm
nanny"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-14
REPUBLICANS TO
HOLDCONVENTION
Official Call Sent Out By Chair
man and Secretary of Cen
trail Committee.

George ". Johnson, chairman, and
y. A Larson, secretary. issued the
Official call today for the convention
and caucus of the republican party or
Moline township. to be held next Fri
day evening, March 20. in the Svea
hall. starting at s o'clock. Candidates
for Offices at the township election on
April 7 will be nominated.
Following is the official call issued
by the central committee OF the re-
publican party following meeting IN
the Manufacturers hotel last night;
All voters of Moline township de-
string to affiliate with the republican
party are hereby called to meet in
mass convention Friday evening.
March 20, 1914, at s o'clock, in Svea
hall above the Shallberg garage on
Library avenue. for the purpose OF
nominating candidates for the offices
to be filed by an election of April z,
1914, as follows:
Town clerk, two years
Assessor. two years.
Collector. two years.
Five assistant supervisors, two
years
And for such other business as
may properly come before the con-
vention. All women voters are urged
to participate in ~ convention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-14
4 HISTORIC BELL.

From, the Gusrriere to the Constitution
Then to q Mill.
One would hardly expect to find Al
object of historic interest in so pro
sale a place as a New England mill
an object older than the oldest title o.
the English peerage. an object made
before the English parliament wal
formed. Yet such an object Is in DAFT,
use in a factory at Sayiesville.. r. I. =
In a bell, whose history Is most n
teresting one. Around tse bell, about
four inches from the crown, IS this su'
prescription: Peter Secest Amsterdam,
Ammo 1858, me fecit"
The date, together with other well
authenticated facts, leads to the oeaeI
that. the bell was long used In a con-
vent belfry In England and vas taken
therefrom for public use during the
reformation. But the correcting link
between its life in the old world and
fits advent to America In the famous
naval battle between the Guerrero
and the Constitution.
The Guerrero, a helpless wreck, was
rolling in the trough of the sea, while
her brave but defeated commander,
Captain Dacres of the royal navy, on
the deck of the American fr1gate, the
Constitution, was offering his sword to
gallant Captain Hull
The two officers had been friends In
time Of peace, having often exchanged
hospitalities at fhe Mediterranean
ports. and now Hulrs magnanimity
snone out.
"I,n not take your sword, Dacres,"
said he. Keep t."
In the meanwhile the boats OF the
Constitution were busily engaged in
transporting the crew. of the defeated
ship to the deck of the victor. A mid
shipman reported to the first lieuten-
ant that the ships bell had been car
ried away by a grapeshot from the
Guerrero and that there was no way
If announcing the time to the ships
company.
At that moment the Guerrero gave a
succession Of heavy plunges. and tie
clear tones of a fine bell rang over the
water.
Go get the Euglishman's BELL" said
the lieutenant to the midshipman.
There will be no further use for it on
board that craft"
The Guerriere surrendered at Z
o'clock IN the evening Of Aug. 10, 1872
and at 5 o'clock tho same evening Pc
ter Secest's bell in sonorous tones fang
out the hour on board "old Ironsides. .
With the lapse of time the bell, amid
the confusion and debris common to q
great navy yard. became misplaced,
lost It's identity and was thrust care
lesslyjto one side. 1t found its way to
the scrap heap. was afterward sold by
the Emitted States and finally came to
rest I'm its present quarters, Boston
Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-14
HUSBAND HAS HIS
wife LOCKED UP
Finds Her in Michigan City
With Another Man and
Shows No Mercy.
Especial to The Argus-)

LaPorte, Ind. March 14.-R. II.
Meiser of East Moline, Ill, was not in
clined to show his wife any mercy
here yesterday when she was arrest
ed in company with another man who
had claimed to be her husband, and
as a result she is now occupying cell
in the county Jail for term of 80
days. Mrs. Sadie Meiser is her real
name, though Harris is the name I'M
der which she registered at Mich1-
gan City hotel with Lewis Harris.
The couple eloped from East Moline
and coming to Michigan City repre-
sented themselves to be man and
wife. The husband succeeded in trac-
ing the couple to Michigan City, where
he had the wife arrested. Harris evil
IDENTIFY suspected trouble for he could
not be found in spite of a search by
the police. Mrs. Meiser was fined but
the husband refused to pay it and she
therefore went to jail for 80 day
term
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-14
COMMITTEE WILL
ASSIST ARMY men
Illinois Convention of G.. A. r.
For 1915 Will Be Invited
to Moline.

At a meeting Friday OF the Greater
Moline committee of the local Com
mercial club. it was decided to back
the proposed action of the Grand
Army of the Republic in inviting the
annual state encampment of the G. A.
r. to this city in 1915. This year the
encampment is held at Nation, Ill,
and about 1000 are expected to at
tend.
The committee stated that the mem
bers would be glad to push the work
of getting the encampment here next
year and raising the necessary funds
for the purpose of entertainment, etc.
The bid for holding the encampment
here in 1915. will be made at the meet
ing of/the veterans in Mattoon-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-14
PETIT AND ARTHUR
BRISBANE ARE ON BILL

The Moline Commercial club has
secured as speakers for its big grid
iron banquet on Tuesday. March II,
two eminent speakers. Judge Aledor
Petit of Chicago and Arthur Brisbane
of New York Judge Petit has gained
fame throughout the country as a
humorist and by his work on the
municipal bench in Chicago. Mr..
Brisbane is a noted editorial writer
for the Hearst syndicate, and both
speakers will doubtless convey a pleas
ant message to the business men in at
tendance at the gridiron banquet