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Evening star., 1914-04-17
DISCUSS SNOW REMOVAL.
Officials of Various Cities Hold Con.
ference at PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, April 17.-Problems
connected with the removal of snow from
city streets We're discussed here today at
a conference of local and visiting officials.
The program included papers on various
angles OF the subject by j. T Fether-
stone street-cleanng commissioner Of
New York. J. G. HAYES, director of pub
lie works scranton. Louis Is. Rourke.
commissioner of public works, Boston
William H Connell chief of the bureau
of highways. and James II Robinson,
superintendent of police of this city.
Other speakers on the program includ-
ed DIR. Marie d. Equi. Portland. Ore.
Martin Schreiber of the Public Service
Railway Company of New Jersey and
Morris Sherrerd of Newark. \. j.
Capt Mark Brooke of the Engineer
Commissioner office Washington, has
been selected as chairman of commit
tee on resolutions to present a statement
containing suggestions for the removal of
snow quickly and cheaply.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
TO BAR EVICTED TENANTS.
$4,000 in Chicago Will Be Barred
From Moving May /.

CHICAGO, April 17-More than so 600
persons in Chicago will be unable TO
move May l. the annual spring moving
day in this city. because of the unwilling
ness of landlords to receive them as ten
ants. according to a statement today by
an official of the landlords information
and protective bureau.
From 10000 to 1000 persons are evic.-
ed every year for n-payment of their
rent" said the official. More than 50 900
persons have been sued by their land
lords We keep the names of such ten
ants on our books. Other lists are OBJ
tanned by working with real estate men
and with neighbors of undesirable ten
ants. This information is given 10 land
lords for their protection"
Evening star., 1914-04-17
PROBING BOSTON FIRE.
Drastic Amendments to Building
Laws Proposed in Legislature.

BOSTON, April 17.-Ten witnesses
were summoned to appear at the inquest
begun today by Deputy Chief Neal of
the state police into the fire in the Mel
win apartment house last Tuesday, which
cost eight lives. Those called upon for
evidence included the janitor. occupants
of adjoining houses. firemen and tele-
phone employees.
Members of the Legislature will seek
the passage of drastic amendments to
the present building laws, in an effort
to reduce the fire hazard in the metro
politan district.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
CAPT. BYRNES IS SINKING.
Wife and Children of III Police
Officer Called to Bedside.

Police Capt. Michael Byrnes. who has
been sick since early in January. and
whose case was before the police retiring
board Wednesday afternoon. was much
worse this afternoon. His condition so
greatly alarmed his family that his wife
and children We're summoned to his bed
side. 1t is thought he cannot live much
longer and his death is expected at any
moment
Evening star., 1914-04-17
SUFFRAGE POSTER
GIRLS ARE ACTIVE
Busy About City FASTING UP
Notices of Pageant Parade
Here May g.

Suffrage bill poster girls We're busy
about the city today pastins mp huge
.isht-sheet notices of their pageant pa
rade here May ., In natty duck suits
they started out. but owing 10 the fact
;aat they are no, adept wielders of the
long handled brush and that the paste
lad All annoying tendency to spatter and
he posters 70 slap about in the light
wind. they returned TO Congressional
, a:on Headquarters somewhat the worse
tor Wear. but happy and proud of success
~ taeir new efforts.
Curious men who stood around trying
10 jolly us. and one dear old man who
really tried to help us hindered and an
.oyed us more than the wind and the
dripping paste, said Miss Mary Brennan.
ItnSI..r .rirI IL, Chief
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Construction Company Convicted.

HUDSON FALLS. y. Y. April IL. The
Hudson Valley Construction Company
of Troy, which erected buildings at Great
Meadow prison, was convicted of grand
larceny in the second degree ny a jury
which reported at $40 o'clock this morn
ing. Justice Borst will pass sentence
April -. The jury WIS out since early
yesterday afternoon.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
GREAT LAKES OPEN AGAIN.
But Few Ships Take Advantage Of
Inauguration of Season.

CHICAGO, April 1.-THE 1914 naviga
tion season on the great lakes was open
ed officially yesterday when the govern
ment weather bureau stations along the
lakes resumed the storm signal service
for the benefit of shipping. But few
steamers were reported to have taken
advantage of the early opening.
The Straits of Mackinac were reported
to be still clogged with ice. The ice
was said to be soft and it was believed
it would be gone within two or three
DAYS
Evening star., 1914-04-17
SOME TENSION OVER
ELECTION Of MOTHERS
Anonymous Circular Indicates Con-
test Will Be Closest
in Years.

That the annual election of the District
Congress Of Mothers next Tuesday Will
be the most closely contested in years Is
the belief of several members of the or
ganization. At the present time. it is
admitted, some friction is felt. but hope
has been expressed that no serious dif-
ferences will arise. The tensity of feel
ing was heightened by the fact that
many members of the organization re-
ceived anonymous communications urs
ing them to vote for certain named
workers. AS a matter of fact some OF
those named declared they are not can
ddates for office Several candidates
are out for the presidency, as Mrs. a. A,
Birney. who has held the position for
many years. says she will not run for
il again.
The anonymous circular read as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1914-04-17

By.s o'clock this morning the poster
brigade had left Congressional Union
ions of the city. In all about 1000
posters and window cards We're put out
today.
Secretary McAdoo Willing.
Another cabinet officer has notified the
Congressional Union that he has no OBJ
lection to woman employees of his depart
ulent taking part in suffrage demon
stration. Secretary McAdoo expresses his
views thus:
II beg to advise you that ! know of no
reason why employees of the Treasury De-
Dartment should not join. in their individ-
ual capacity. parade either for or OPP
posed to woman suffrage. provided they
can be spared from their duties. This is
matter which rests with the individual,
md as long Is they do not appear in any
official capacity as government employees
! regard the question as a private one.
holly beyond my province of interfer-
eace'
The newest organization of suffrage
workers in the District the Washington
WOman's Suffrage Council Will hold its
rst meeting at s O'Clock Saturday even
ing in the rooms of the Chamber of Com
'rterce. 18th and + streets northwest
Mrs Antoinette Funk Of the congress
s.ona' committee will speak on the Shaf-
roth-Palmer suffrage amendment
Early Reformer in Georgia.
Mrs ". Fl. FELTON, OF Gainesville Ga,
was an interesting visitor at the rooms of
he congressional committee of the Ma
tional Suffrage Association recently.
Mrs. FELTON, is nearly eighty years old.
Her husband served in Congress more
than quarter of a century ago. Mrs.
elton is here to attend a meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Feltons sister Mrs Mary l.. Nc
Tendon, is president of the woman s1f-
rage association of Georgia
Il was one of the women who started
the fight against the woman convict
camps where women were held in a con-
dition worse than slavery" said Mrs
FELTON,. Il also started the movement
for taking little boys out of peniten-
tiaries. We now have reform schools for
those children. and there has been a
S-eat improvement in the condition of the
woman convicts"
Seek to Enlist Clergymen.
Suffrage workers at Congressional
Union yesterday sent out notices of the
suffrage day celebration to Washington
ciergymen. requesting that they preach
suffrage sermons May 3 Their request
was thus worded:
SunraSists are going to have a nation
wide demonstration May 2, terminating
in procession here In Washington May
o. We feel that the ministers will be
only too glad to take this opportunity to
preach a suffrage sermon. This principle
is fundamentally religious one and
ought to be supported by the church"
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Text of Circular.

TO Members of the Mothers Congress
1t is proposed to nominate the fol-
lowing for the officers of the District
Parent Teachers Association for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. P. p.
CIaxton vice presidents. Mrs. L. a.
kebler Mrs. ]. y. Culbertson. Mrs. 7.
E. Rhoades, Mrs. ]. H. Branson and
Miss Timlow: recording secretary, Mrs.
Mary Gale Davis; corresponding secre-
tary. Mrs. Earl; treasurer. Mrs. L. Cam
eron; director. Mrs. Sara James; auditor
Mrs Alfred 3. Mullet
An members are urged to be present
Apri. II to voice their preferences in re
lation to officers. and in order TO cast
a full vote for those who are to lead
during the coming year
Executive Committees Statement.
4 meeting of the executive committee
was called and the following communi-
cation, on official paper. and signed by
the recording secretary. Mrs. Sarah X.
Lamb, was sent out to the several
members:
The following resolution was decided
upon at the last executive meeting of the
District Congress of Mothers, each mem
ber to receive a copy:
Resolved, That this executive stand
for a fair, honorable election by ballot;
That we deprecate any attempt to in
fiuence votes of members of the con-
gress, either by voice OF circular letter:
That with humble reliance upon God
with Christian love and charity toward
all. we pledge ourselves anew to sustain
the high ideals of the congress.
Evening star., 1914-04-17
ISSUES jim CROW" CALL.
Dr.. Washington Names Days for
Concerted Plea to Railways.

NEW YORK, April i7.-Dr. Booker T.
Washington. principal of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute, has is
sued a call to the negro people of the
United States asking them to set aside
Sunday. June !. and Monday. June S. as
special days on which to protest to rail-
roads against discrimination on account
of color in the matter of providing pas
senger accommodations
He has asked that the churches, secret
societies. business leagues. women S
clubs and other agencies organize and
send on those days representatives to
the officials of the various lines that
have provided poorer accommodations
for the negro race than for whites.
Negro ministers throughout the coun-
try have been urged to give widespread
notice in the churches to the setting
aside of these days for the purpose
named
Evening star., 1914-04-17
Pasted Them Up Straight.

You bet We got them up straight said
Mrs. Mary X. Claggett. aid to Miss Bren-
nan, "lf any one thinks We cant do a
good job at bilposting just send them
TO the very first board We tackled at
Maryland avenue and 1st street.
And after we had been working for
while we found that after You get
onto the knack it's great fun. if only
the camera men hadn't chased US
around"
By.9 o'clock this morning the poster
brigade had left Congressional Union
headquarters and scattered to all sec
lions of the city. In all about 1000
posters and window cards were put out
todaT
Evening star., 1914-04-17

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Evening star., 1914-04-17
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Evening star., 1914-04-17

Harry George and a young woman
were injured In an automobile accident
on the national turnpike. near Hagers
town. Md. George lost control of the
car.
Evening star., 1914-04-17

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The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
merton CRICKETERS
LEAVE FOR ENGLAND
Main Line Team viii Play Club and
Country House Elevens Near.
London.
ARE A STRONG AGGREGATION

A cricket team representing the Mer-
ion C. c. at Haverford. sailed from New
York on the American liner Philadelphia
this morning for a months tour Of
England. Fifteen men are In the party,
headed by John L. Evans, who will cap
tain the eleven on the field, and J. Henry
commissioner, who will act as business
manager.
A schedule Of ten games with some Of
the strongest clubs and country house
teams around London has been ar
ranged The caliber OF these elevens Is
higher than the school and college teams
played by the Haverford team on its
tour that is just closing and Is about
on a par with that of the Incogniti and
other similar teams that have made
trips to this country. II the Merton ag-
gregation shows unexpected strength In
its first two or three games, the elevens
they meet later will be considerably
strengthened so as to make the matches
as interesting as possible.
During their trip the Merton players
will be in London a good part of the
time, as all their games are close by.
While there they will be the guests Of
the Incogndu eleven, the members Of
which are SO pleasantly remembered by
cricket enthusiasts as q result OF their
several visits here. The Philadelphians
will be entertained at the hadsome
Public Schools Club. a sort of university
club for the members Of the big Eng
lish public schools.
Country House Cricket" though one of
the most popular forms of summer
amusement is an unknown quantity in
this country. Some wealthy enthusiast
collects twelve or fifteen friends, all
cricketers, and invites them to his house
for. month or 50. Regular schedules
are made out and series of games played
with similar aggresations from other
country houses. with school and college
and even with the strong country elevens.
The eleven Of Lionel Robinson, which
Merton will play at Attelborough, Nor
folk, in the last match Of their tour
august 2, 26 and I'D Is about the strong
est OF the English country-house teams
Mr.. Robinson's place is so large that he
will. be able to have the Merton plavers
as his guests as weIl Is his own men and
have room for a few other friends be-
sides.
The Merton team Is strong ana evenly
balanced and Is capable Of making It in
teresting for any team on its schedule
There are some really brilliant batsunen
and some that are above the average both
offensively and defensively, In fact pran
ticaIly every man on the team Is capable
Of making stand at a critical moment
Capt Evans and Christy Morris, who has
been IN England for month with the
Haverford College eleven, are first-clasS
men both at bat and In the field, while
Gordon Bottomley, s. Mimin, w. N.
Morice and the Lee brothers. Lsthrop and
Alden. are daneerous at all tines.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26

ball season. This year it found the Maps
with a standing OF twenty-five games won
and forty-six lost for . percentage OF
81
II Falkenberg had been with them sad
those sixteen games had been wO-. IN
stead Of being thrown away by miser-
able pitching and inconsistent. feature
less playing, the standing OF the Maps
on July would have been forty-one games
won and thirty-one lost, for a percentage
Of .5s9. This would have put them just
behind the league-leading AthIetics-and
with a fine chance for worlds series hon
orS
When a club is down In the race the
turnstiles feel the effect The attensance
at most OF the games in Cleveland this
year has been the smallest in the history
Of big league baseball in the Ohio city.
1t IS reported that on many DAYS the
paid attendance had fallen below the 90
mark. and that one day II reached only
10. AS a road attraction they are no
better.
What different story might have been
written had Somers offered Falkenberg q
boost Of $500. or even S1.Oc0. over his
1913 salary-a boost that he seemed to
have earned.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
Freddie Welsh Will Not Battle
Willie Richie Within One Year
English Lightweight Champion World Will Find Some Way Sestep
Fight Caforua-Has Extensive Vaudeville
Engagement in British Isles. -

Meanwhile Abe AtteIl. former feather
weight champion, is Fostering Welsh.
The one-time boxing wizard Is In Eng
land, drumming up public interest In a
night between Welsh and himself. Some
how Atteu assembled one thousand
iron men, and he Is ready to post the
entire wad II Welsh will agree to fight
him twenty rounds with the champion
ship. at stake.
Attell and Welsh fought fifteen rounds
at Vernon, Cal. on November IS, 1908.
Jim Jeffries, who refereed the contest.
awarded the decision to Welsh at the
termination Of the fifteen rounds. Attell
has contended right along that Welsh
outweighed him many pounds. and that
this advantage enabled the Briton TO win.
Attell has been passive from ring activ-
ity for Just 4 year. and has taken on suf-
fcent flesh to make him a legitimate
lightweight.
A statement made public by Mrs. Fred
die Welsh before she sailed to see her
spouse win the championship is quite
likely to get the new lightweight boss In
lukewArm water over in England. Fred
die is not the most popular fighter in
King Georges domain, and with this lat
est slur his little prestige will probably
wane some more. Freddie's wife declares
that when her hubby won the title they
citizens of these glorious United States.
and live here permanently. When the
Britons learn that Welsh is to forsake
them and take his title to America, they
will be so incensed at losing their first
title-holder in years that they will re-
fuse to have anything further to do with
him.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26

Can any one imagine what would hap
pen IL some umpire tried to rule OUT
Chick Gandil after he had taken only
two swipes at the ball?
THE greatest excitement develops" de-
clares our English expert" when only
two or three men remain not out, for
then hard hitting and quick dashes to
the home base become a necessity"
Our expert" tosses bouquets at one OF
the English players named F. Moore who
made five hits for four each in the first
inning" In other words, Mr.. Moore
seems TO have poked out four circuit
smashes.
II he did. well go our expert in one
stanza, one father in the bouquet idea
Well have a hot-house at Mr.. Moore.
He's got IL coming II he did really exc
cute these FIVE home runs.
Continuing in his description, our Tex
pert assures the populace that:
Smart fielding and accurate returns to
the various basemen are important feat
ures, but as the ball Is nearly always in
the air the necessity for a we'll cut and
rolled field docs not arise"
Judging from the number OF runs
made, 1t would be safe to assume that
the ball was nearly always in the air, ''
and, no doubt, last seen when disappear
ing over the fence, In case they used
fences in that game.
"An attractive feature Of the game"
we are told, SIS that there Is no waste
of time. As each batsnan makes HIS
stroke and reaches first, second. or home
base, as the case may be. the next bat
ter is ready to do his bowling"
Refreshments, in the form Of tea. were
served Throughout the contest
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26

New York, July 25.-Freddie Welsh. the
latest thing in champions, has virtually
retired from the ring for q year. While
the new lightweight champion has made
no announcement to this effect in as
many words, the welshman has intimat-
ed as much. It Is Freddie's intention to
discard the fighting mitts and keep the
ring resin OF his shoes for the remainder
of the current year at least.
It, took Welsh something like eight
years to get a whack at the champion
ship. He waited in line for almost .
to name his own price, he intends to
reap the full fruits Of the harvest
Harry Pollok, whose publicity campaign
was SO cleverly engineered that Ritchie
was inveigled into fighting Welsh In the
enemy's country, Is sponsor for the state
ment that Welsh will make an extended
tour of England. France, and the CONT
nent before he returns to the United
States and starts seriously considering
an opponent
Booked for Vaudeville.
Pollok already has booked his cham
pionship charge to appear at every music
hall Of note in the British Isles. Welsh
will start the junket just as soon as he
RECEIVERS from the idolatries heaped upon
him by his countrymen. 1t is expected
that Freddie will spend the greater part
of three months in traversing the music
hall circuit; then he will hop over to
France and show the uninitisted that
tantalizing left jab that poked its way to
championship.
All Of which brings US to our own Mr..
Ritchie. Poor Billy is still laboring un-
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
LOCAL GOLFERS WIN
AT MONTEREY Club
Justice Chamberlin and Hon. F. B.
Hargrave Capture Exciting l8Hole
Event on Pennsylvania Links.
THE TOURNAMENT HAS CLOSED
.ial to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald
Monterey, Pa, July 25-The big event
Of the season on the links OF the Mon
terey Country Club was the foursome
eighteen-hole match played yesterday, in
which Justin Morrill, Chamberlin, a
prominent attorney OF Washington, D. c..
and Hon. F. B. Hargraye vanquished
Capt. James Peters and James T. Hughes
one up.
At the end Of the first nine holes the
gallery" was willing to concede the
match TO Capt. Peters and Mr.. Hughes,
who were two up. This impression was
strengthened when Mr.. Chamberlin and
Mr.. Hargrave lost a hole at the beginning
OF the second round. making them three
down.
Mr. Chamberlin. who had been strong
on tee shots, but of on approaches and
putting. suddenly found his game and as
Capt. Peters had hard luck in the rough
and a ditch, came with a rush, winning
three consecutive holes and equalizing
the score On the next hole Mr.. Cham
berlin was on the green in two and sur
prised the onlookers by holing a twenty
seven foot putt. This shot, taken In con-
nection with Mr.. Hsrgrave's uniformly
excellent play, especially in the first
round, decided the match.
After the play lunch was enjoyed at
Mr. Chamberlin's summer home.
The Monterey Country Clubs tourna-
ment came to a close Saturday. July Is,
James T. Hughes, formerly mayor of
Latrobe, Pa. winning in Class A; Charles
Wheeler, president of the Washington
ID. c. Steel and Armament Company,
taking first honors in Class B.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
PROTEST VICTORY WIN.

Sporting Editor Herald: The Victor A.
c. played the Yankee A. c.. on the lat
ter's home diamond last Wednesday. The
Yankees fairly walked away with the
game, the score being Il to in their ia
vor at the end of the eighth, but when
the Victor A. c. came to bat at the be-
ginning Of the ninth they put nine runs
over the plate Then they protested
about the Victors putting down runs
without earning them. The manager Of
the Yankees put the score in The Herald
as II to 3 and down on the Monument
Lot he said II was Il to IL. Both OF these
are wrong, as the right score was L to
L. Another thing I would like to know
is, How did the Yankee A. c. get the
championship Of the District whene they
have not won one game this season.
Thanking you IL you publish this. 1 am.
yours, V. O'BRIEN,
Manager Victor A. c.