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Evening star., 1914-04-15
SAYS THE DISTRICT
SHALL OWN ROADS
Bill for Municipal Control of
Street Railways Gets
Favorable Report.
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE
RECOMMENDS ENACTMENT
Measure Also Indorsed by the Com
mlssioners-Provisions to
Be Debated.

favorable report Representative
frosser's bill providing for municipal
ownership of street railways in the
District of Columbia yss made today
by n subcommittee of the House Dis
| trict committee. composed of Repre-
senfatives CrOsser. O'Leary. German.
Reed. WalIin and I<iester. The bill is
now in shape to be discussed in the full
District committee which will meet to-
morrow.
Approving in its entirety the bill of
Representative Crosser of Ohio provid-
ing for municipal ownership and opera
tion of street railways in the District
of Columbia, the Commissioners today
sent to Congress long report urging
favorable action on the measure.
The recommendation of the District
heads was not unexpected, as Commits
sioner Newman at a recent meeting of
the Park View Citizens Association
came out in favor of municipal owner
ship of public utilities, and Commits
soner Siddons at the same time in
directly committed himself to this
policy. Their statements were made in
the presence of Representative Crosser,
who also addressed the meeting.
In their report to Congress the Com
missioners admit that they consider
| effective regulation of public utilities
practically an impossibility.
No amount of regulation by public
authorities, accomplished only after the
laws delays are over they say, will
end the irrepressible conflict that neees-
sarily arises when the avarice of man
is set against a public duty that is laid
tn
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TOLLS EXEMPTION
TRUST AID, He SAYS
Oscar S. StrauSc Declares
American People Will Not Re-
Celve Any Advantage.
CITES NATIONS STAND
FOR JUSTICE AND RIGHT
Hardly Time to Forsake High Pur-
poses. He Tells Members of
Senate Committee.

Oscar 5. Straus. former ambassador to
Turkey and Secretary OF Commerce and
Labor in the Roosevelt administration,
today urged strongly upon the inter
oceanic canals committee of the Senate
the need and justice of repeating the ex-
emption of the American coastwise yes
sells from the payment of tolls through
the Panama canal.
He told the committee that opinion
was widely divided in this country re-
garding the construction Of The Hay :
Pauncefote treaty.
is it good policy for us. merely be
cause We have the power in our hands, to
take advantage of what the opponents
even of the repeal bill must admit is a
disputed construction of the treaty.
asked Mr.. Straus. Does any one be-
lieve that by subsidizing TO the extent of
exemption from tolls through the Pan
anna canal the monopoly known as the
coastwise shipping the people at large
will receive any benefit from it? The
history OF that monopoly in the past
does not justify our expecting any such
generosity from its hands
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Eleven Ships in Reserve Fleet.

The Kansas is the only other battle
ship Of the active fleet now lying at
League Island, although there are
eleven ships of the reserve feet tied
up at it's docks the Alabama. Wis
consn. Maine. Illinois. Missouri Idaho.
Iowa. Indiana. Massachusetts kear-
sarge and Kentucky. The Kansas could
be got ready for sea in forty-eight
hours. according to a statement made
today by Capt w. s Benson COM
nsndant of the League Island yard.
Capt Albert P. Niblack. commanding
the Michigan, on which the correspondent
of The Star sails this afternoon. expects
to report to Rear Admiral Badger. COM
manding the Atlantic fleet. at Newport
News tomorrow. His instructions were
received at J:35 PM yesterday, and con-
sisted of the following laconic dispatch:
Badger tells Michigan to report to him
at once at Newport News" In answer
TO the report that the Michigan must coal
Capt. Niblack got another message equal
~ without frills. 1t said:
FIN her up Immediately. Sail at once"
So the officers OF the Michigan break
tasted and lunched today in overalls and
jumpers. They are humming little songs
and whistinS little tunes as they move
about, and they are a grimy-1ooking lot
az gentlemen. but. one admiring spec
tator on the League Island dock re-
marked today:
They certainly do look like business"
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WEATHER.

Cloudy and unsettled tonight;
Thursday generally fair: moderate
to fresh shifting winds.
FULL REPORT ON PAGE EIGHTEEN.
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Annitional Gburrb Rems

! Christ Is the Field of Human Need"
will be the general subject of a spe-
cial series of Sunday evening sermons
which Rev. DR.. W. R. Wedderspoon
plans to preach in. Foundry NJ. E.
Church. The Unshakable Things" is
the special topic which the pastor has
chosen for the sermon of tomorrow
evening.
Speaking on the subject THE Signs
of the Times: on the Battle of Arma-
geddon,' John E. Briggs, pastor of the
Fifth Baptist Church, plans to review
there tomorrow evening the European
war in the light of Scripture and his
tory.
| In Concordia Church Monday evening
! mass meeting is to be held in the
collection will be devoted to the wild
ows and orphans Of Germans who have
died in the war. special program
has been arranged.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
| the First Baptist Church opened its
season Sunday night with an enthI
attendance was large and a number
| of testimonies were given. Mr.. Elgfn
Smith led the meeting. Mr.. William
A. Dayton. the society's new president
| members on to new work and greater
! efficiency in Christian Endeavor ef-
| fort.
| Information received from the regis
| tration committee of the Cooperative
Epworth League Institute of the NJ. E.
Church and the NJ. E. Church South
Washington and vicinity will send be-
tween 1000 and 1900 delegates to the
institute.
Final plans will be made at a meet
be held Wednesday evening. at Foundry
NJ. E. Church, instead of Wesley Chap
Ell. as in the past.
! In arranging the programs for the
institute, the officers in charge have
drawn almost exclusively on local ma
terial, the only speakers from other
cities being DR.. Ferris of Mount Yer
Guyer Kelly, Epworth League second
vice president for the Baltimore con-
ference, who resides in Baltimore.
With DR.. A. c. Christie. president OF
the Washington District Epworth
League. and Rev. G. Ellis Williams OF
Falls Church. va. as the principal pa !
league opened it's season of 1914-15
lSunday evening.
According to President Ralph Will
lliamson, who is also musical director
for the large Anacostia chorus. the
chapter now has 200 senior members
and the junior league numbers about
1880.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures Of the event was visit from the
officers and members of Trinity and
Eldebrooke chapters to Anacostia
Chapter, under leadership of their re-
spective presidents. Charles X. Hoover
and c. Wendell Shoemaker.
About 500 persons were present and
! among them the following District
Epworth League officers: DR.. Christie,
president; Messrs. Robert D. Bur
bank, Samuel D. Boss and Francis C..
Tarr, first, second and fourth vice
presidents; Mr. William E. Truman, re-
cording secretary; Mr.. Ashby jump
corresponding secretary. and Miss
| Maud c. Fowler, junior league super
| intendent.
Rev. G. Leroy White. pastor Of Ana
costa Church, outlined the work which
| the league expects to accomplish dur
| ing the winter laying. especial en-
phasis on the work which is being done
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FINDS BABY AT FRONT DOOR.
Miss Crowley of 1896 Riggs Street
Turns Infant Over to Police.

Cries emerging from a bundle in the
vestibule Of the home of Miss Cath
crime Crowley, 1926 Riggs street north
west, when she went to the front door
last night shortly before 10 o'clock,
attracted her attention and an exami-
nation of the package disclosed it con-
tanned a siX-months-old male infant.
The bundle containing the infant was
taken into the house by Miss Crowley.
who notified the police of her find. The
infant was later sent to the Founding
Hospital. The child was we'll dressed
and well supplied with clothing. while
In the bundle was also bottle of milk
The police learned that about an hour
previous to the finding of the infant a
woman had taken the same child and
bundle to the Founding Hospital and
wanted to leave it. She was informed
there that it would be necessary for
the board of children's guardians to
commit the child to the institution 1t
Is believed the mother or person who
then had the child strolled around for
some time and decided finally to aban-
don it.
An effort is being made by the police
| to locate the mother or person who
left the child in the vestibule Of the
Riggs street fSouse.
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garet lindsay: Jack O. Lanterns. Mas
tiers Thornton Fisher. Elmer Taylor.
Charles Hagan, Walter Tilghman.
Misses Helen King. Dorothy Hopkins,
wisle: recitation, Master Dorsey Kelly:
herald, Master Wiley Gaffeld: Prince
Fushimi. Zane Kelly: guards, Robert
Schroeder, Norman Dreamer. Truman
Weitzel. Dorsey Kelly. Harry Robey.
Mason Wallace, Raymond Gicker:
solo. The Jap Doll" Miss Dorothy
Latimer: recitation, Miss Beatrice
Elizabeth Clugg. and Master Mason
Wallace, assisted by Violet Shaffer,
Naomi Connick, Eric Garfield, Martea
Lee. George Weitzel. William Latimer.
Lee; recitation, Miss Florence Conner:
"A Magnolia Maid,' Miss Dorothy
Hopkins: recitation, Miss Naomi Con-
nick: closing of first part. song Love
prince and chorus.
The second part included the return
of the prince with an ensemble by the
chorus: The Heart of Red, BED
ter Charles Hagan; recitation. Miss
Florence Sansbury: recitation. Master
Norman Creamer: song, When There's
No Light at ALL" Master Edwin Trus-
helm; doll drill. Martha Hagan. Pearl
| Taylor, Florence Sansbury. Elizabeth
Lindsay. Dorothy Latimer Ruth
Thorne. Martha Lee. Marion Frisbie:
, Mary Estep, Mildred Kendrick. Anna
Hagan. Elsie Frisbie: scarf dance. by
the princesseS: song. The Glow
Worm Miss Helen King; japanese
Love Song. Miss Margaret Roome:
Three Little Maids" song by three Of
! the girls; solo. Miss Beulah Shipley:
finale, Meet Me Where the Lanterns
| Glow" entire company Miss Elsie
Frisbie and Miss Lena Weigle acted as
pianists.
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PEACE TREATIES RATIFIED.
Senate Approves Pacts With France
Great Britain and Spain.

Peace commission treaties with
Great Britain. France and Spain were
ratified by the Senate yesterday, MAX
ing twenty-five in the series negotiat-
ed by the State Department which have
been approved by this government. A
similar treaty with China was favor
ably reported by the committee on for
eign relations, but action was de-
ferred by request of several senators
who wish to discuss 1t thoroughly in
view of the situation in the far east
involving Germany and Japan at
Kiaochow.
No opposition developed to the agree
ments with Great Britain. France and
Spain. The treaties provide for in
vestigation for a year before resort
to arms in all international disputes
which cannot be settled by ordinary
resources of diplomacy. The theory is
that years reflection would serve te
allay bitterness which might precipi-
tate war.
The Chinese treaty will be called uI
again next week.
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husband will be pardoned that when the
parole board met at Leavenworth this
week Hockin on her plea refused to
apply for parole. although very ill. be
cause she felt sure he would receive his
freedom by order of the President when
the papers in the case have been brought
to his attention.
Mrs Hocllin believes that the action
Of her husband in sparng the govern
ment trouble and expense by not ap-
pealing his case as all the others did
nor seeking clemency when four others
were granted it on the petition of Or
ganized labor will help her application
at this time. She says she has had as
surances from all over the country that
the people are looking for my husband
to be pardoned. not through sympathy
for me. but as a matter OF justice
Evening star., 1914-09-26
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. September a6.-The
John Walter Smith and David ]. Lewis
Democratic Club was organized here
yesterday with a large membership and
the following officers: President. Bowie
F. Waters: secretary. OthO H. w. Tai
bott; treasurer, j. Dawson Williams;
executive committee, Philip D. Laird.
William NJ. Candy, Frederick a. Allnutt.
Preston 3. Ray, E. Dorsey King and
Robert 3. Peter.
The club will, it is announced, CO.
operate with the democratic state CEN
trail committee for the county in look
ing after the registration, getting out
the party vote and promoting, generally
the candidacy of Senator Smith and
Representative Lewis for reelection.
Court Dismisses Petition.
Judges Urner and Worthington, in the
circuit court at Frederick, have dis
missed the petition of the state roads
commission asking that owners of en-
gines with cleats on the wheels be pro-
hibited from running such engines on
the state roads of Frederick county. the
court held that unless substantial
harmful effect resulted to prohibit the
use of such engines would be ineuuita-
Bile. A number of arrests for running
engines with cleated wheels on the state
roads of this county have recently been
made. and are scheduled for trial at the
November term of court
Fair Premiums Scaled,
At a meeting of the directors of the
Montgomery County Agricultural So.
ciety here yesterday afternoon, Treas.
urer John j. Higgins reported that the
receipts from the fair recently held We're
insufficient by about $500 to pay the ex.
penses of the society for the year, and
to meet the deficit it was decided te
pay only IS per cent of the premium
| money awarded at the fair.
Evening star., 1914-09-26
CAPT. BROOKE NO LONGER
IN SERVICE OF DISTRICT
Leaves Post of Assistant Engineer
Commissioner for Duty in the
Philippines.

With the closing of the District
building at noon today for the last
Saturday half-holiday of the season,
the municipality lost the services of
Capt. Mark Brooke, assistant engineer
commissioner since June Is, 1910. He
will leave Monday for San Francisco
and expects to sail October ) for the
Philippines, where he has been ordered
for duty by the War Department.
officials and employees of the engineer
department and members of every
branch of the local government be-
sieged the Office of Capt. Brooke this
morning to wish the young officer a
safe voyage and success in his new
work
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can't tell, what city it. was because
nearly every we'll conducted metropolis
matter-of-fact person, and. when he
saw strange man .als. slip INTO tS.IeFaal Frank
with a huge armful of Franks clothes
he Immediately set upon the intruder
from the rear. upset him and then sat
on him, yelling for help and pummeling
the poor man at the same time.
Frank Lord popped out from his room
and said in. an amazed voice:
why. George, what are you doing?"
Nothing. except save you about a
million dollars worth OF clothes this
fellow was stealing"
'He is not stealing them. George" !"
said Frank. in a mild voice that be-
trayed traces of deep sarcasm, "he il
merely taking them to press and clean.
He is my man. you know.
Whereupon Mr.. Brown arose, apollo
gized to the man, slipped him a little
green paper currency: and went away
publicity campaign managers have ar
rived-and against Wallets in general
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&
MRS. HERBERT s. HoCkIN.

Hockin sold the home and moved to
Kansas City, that she might be near
him. She says he has aged fast since
he was put in prison, and that for sew
eral months he has been very i'll of
maiarial fever: that anxiety for his
health has added to the strain on her
during which she has worked unremit-
tingly for his pardon.
In filing her petition for pardon with
the Department of Justice Mrs. Hockin
also placed on record d statement by
William ]. Burns setting forth the part
that Hockin took in the arrest and
bringing to justice of the McNamaras
and fixing the responsibility for the Los
Angeles Times explosion. Her petition
quotes from the court record in Indian
apolis to prove the part Hockin had in
assisting the government to break up
the dynamite war against employment
of non-union labor. She calls attention
10 the fact that he did not appeal his
case. nor did he go on the stand and
teStifN cainSt ora Y ized Labor.
Evening star., 1914-09-26
General and Personal.

| Tables were turned in the police
court today when. David Marshall. col
ored, was arraigned to answer a charge
of assaulting William Lightfoot. col
ored. The court fined Lightfoot s5 for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct
ana acquitted Marshall.
| Owing to the illness of Rev. c. F.
Hannigan, rector of st. JOseph's Cath
olic Church, there will be no services
tomorrow evening at the Young Mems
Sodality Lyceum.
Beginning tomorrow the Epworth
League of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South will hold services at 1880
o'clock in the evening, and the regular
evening services in the church will be
I held at 7:45 o'clock.
verdict for the defendants was given
in the corporation court today in the
case of the Imperial Curtain Company
against J. NJ. Duncan and others.
The newly appointed health commit
tee of the city council will hold meet
ing Monday night and organize by the
election of q chairman.
meeting of the Old Dominion Boat
Club will be held Monday night in
the rooms of the chamber of COM
merce.
| J. Fred Birrell announces that he
Will be candidate to succeed himself
in the state legislature, representing
this city and county, subject to the
primary next June.
Evening star., 1914-09-26
in Anacostia to rid that section of
liquor establishments.

in Anacostia to rid that section of
liquor establishments.
* x :. *
The Epworth League at Hamline NJ
E. Church is to have for its speaker
tomorrow evening Mr.. W. G. Thomas.
who will address the league on the
topic industrial Slavery in the Light
of Two Standards"
Hamline Chapter gathered its men,
bers for an old-fashioned corn roast
last evening. Mr.. Harry Havens. presi-
dent of Hamline. reports that his chap
ter will send about forty delegates to
the Epworth League institute October
5, and Z.
At Foundry NJ. f. Church the Ep-
worth League will hold its first regu-
lar devotional meeting of the season
with Mr.. H. L. Buell. as the speaker.
At the meeting Sunday. which was
the league opening, the president, Ir-
vine L. Miller, and the first vice presi-
dent, c. p. Lewis, addressed the mem
ing season. Members of Foundry
Chapter are busy arranging for the
Epworth League institute which will
be held in their church.
The pupils of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church Sunday School of Anacostia
gave an entertainment Thursday night
| in the parish hall of the church. on v
street near 18th street southeast, un-
der the direction of Mrs. Edward Fris-
bic and Miss Effie Burr, entitled THE
the inclement weather the hall was
! well filled and the work of the chill
dren was applauded.
| The play was in two parts and the
! scenes were in a japanese garden.
The scenery depicting this garden was
regarded as worthy of much COM
| mendation.
The program of part one follows:
Misses Mary Estep. Edith Welsh, Mil
dred Kendrick. Marguerite Sansbury
Florence Shaw. Annie Thorne, Beulah
Shipley, Margaret Roome, Elsie Acton
Willie Thorne: recitation, Miss Mar
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Hockin's Aid Admitted.

Mrs. Hockin says that she is encour-
aged to expect a pardon because even
United States Attorney Miller. the prose-
cntor. has assured her that Hockin was
Of very material assistance to the gov
ernment in the prosecution of their
case. So confident has she been that he1
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mrs. HOCK|N'S APPEAL
FOR HUSBANDS PARDON
Wife of Convicted Dynamiter Hopes
for His Release From
- Prison.
Plea to Be Submitted to President
-. Wilson Through the Depart
ment of Justice.

Appeal for the pardon of Herbert S
Hockir one of the six labor officials
sentenced to long terms of imprison-
nlent OIL charges of conspiracy in the
famous dyn2miting cases, is expected
to come before President Wilson early
next week.
This appeal. carried to the White
House through the Department of jus
tiGe is TO climax the persistent effort
for more than Il year and = half by
the Young wife of Mr.. Hockin, who
has for several days been in Wash
ington quietly working for the pardon
of her husband
When located at a hotel here she
admitted she expects to get her appeal
before The President early next week
and is confident of the restoration of
her husband to freedom. Il have pre-
ssnted my plea for justice to almost
every official connected with the case.
she said. "and they have almost to
man. even those who most bitterly
prosecuted the case. encouraged me to
believe that my appeal would be sue
cessmui. I Lave been given every as
Surance that there would be no public
crnSure- If my husband is released, be-
cause ii has been shown. and is a
matter OF record in the office of the
Attorney General that Mr.. Hockin was
OF valuable service to the government
IN clearing UP the case.
Evening star., 1914-09-26
Citizens Tender Testimonial.

A delegation from the Rhode Island
Avenue Suburban Citizens Associa ton,
composed of Bristow Adams, president
c. S. lockwood, vice president; w. G.
Lieuallen, C. L. Mendel, J. L. Tobin, c.
S. Symon and A. $. Henderson, called
upon the captain and presented a testi-
moniaI of the associations apprecia-
ton of the services he has rendered the
District The testimonial was bound
in red morocco with etchings of oak
leaves and laurels signifying strength
and achievement.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Every keen visioned man can see it. The
armies Of Europe fighting for military power
have combined to make America the worlds
great commercial power. During the fiscal year
ending June 3o 191 the Units United States imported @
item for our own manufacturers to supply this
year. In addition, our mills must double their
exports to make up for the goods Europe cannot
supply The figures are dazzling-the- profits
stupendous.
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Burns Supports Fer Plea.

Mrs. Hockin is supported in her plea
hy William !. Burns. who worked up
the evidence in the dynamite cases.
Herbert $. Hockin was secretary
treasurer of the International Associa-
tion of Structural Ironworkefs. and it
Was he VINO first gave Mr.. Burns the
tip that led to the conviction of the
Mcnamara brothers Six officials of
theta organization were sentenced,
five of them to six years in the peni-
tentiary. and the president to seven
years. Hockin will. January l, have
served two years in Leavenworth
prison.
His home at the time of his convic-
tion was in Indianapolis. Ind, but when
he was sentenced to Leavenworth Mrs.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

A severe hailstorm was experienced
around Pedlar Mills, Amherst county, Va,
and a number of farmers lost their entire
tobacco crop.