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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-06
AVIATOR FLIES
In The CLOUDS

De Lloyd thompson, the ava
tor who is touring America wilt ,
Barney Oldfield, made two of the
prettiest flights ever seen in Ia
coma, during the intermission be-
tween the lnter-City and POtlateh
races at the Speedway yesterday
afternoon.
In the second flight Thompson
attained lofty altitude and dis
appeared behind cloud. He
swung into view again, circled the
cloud, and then darted into II
again.
A few minutes later the bird
man performed half-dozen loop
the-loops in quick succession, per.
formed his tumble-bug drop, and
landed safely in the center of the
field.
The flight was made in the face
of brisk west wind.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-24

morgue at. 642 N. Clark. A thousand
grief-stricken relatives of excursion
lists crowded around the building.
The pavement caVed in and many
were injured.
Registration quarters were estab-
lished at 215 N. Clark. The boat
Roosevelt and a commission house
were used as temporary mOrgues.
Here pitiful, heaTtrending scenes
were enacted as relatives came. to
look over the bodies.
The St. Joseph & Chicago Steam
ship Co. is said to be the real owner
of the Eastland.
Annie Pirapia, 1902 Kirkland Stu
and May Hates, 1882 w. Huron ST.,
who got on the Theodore Roosevelt
instead of the Eastland by mistake,
say they saw at least 20 children I'M
der 8 years, floating in water after
the boat went over.
About 1000 people got on roof of
CoUgel Bros, $50 S. Water, to watch.
Building began to shake. Rushed
crowd off. Fifteen saved women in
building at the time rushed to street.
Police rushed crowd back at La Sale
and Water, fearing building would
fall in and drop people into river.
A policeman carried a 2-year-oId
baby off the boat Thought she was
dead. Worked pulmOtor and revived
her. Unidentified.
There are IS Pulrotors in Chicago.
Commonwealth Edison employees say
if there had been 80 they could have
saved 200 more of the first rescued.
Member of crew of Str. Petoskey
dived for a woman. He did not come
up again.
1000
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-24
DISASTER NEWS

} DISASTER NEWS
Deputy Commissioner Henry Burk-
hardt ordered the Wells and Clark
street bridges cleared to prevent
them going down under the weight
of thousands who rushed on them
when the accident happened.
Peter Norwich took his violin with
him when he jumped. Gave it to
woman in water Both rescued.
Caspar LaIind, 3718 Odgen av.,
saved wife and daughter, Cecilia. Son,
Caspar, drowned
Joe Conrad cIambered through
portfolio with baby in arms. Didn't
know whose. Gave it to woman to
hold. Baby disappeared.
Students from U. S. Naval Reserve
school, Lake Bluff, came with ap-
paratus to drag for bodies.
Small fire started in hold. Soon
eXtingUished.
Roy KIoeppin, 17t6 Dayton, jumped
from other excursion boat Roosevelt,
rescued q and pulled out Is dead.
Only 2 were men.
States Atty Hoyne got on the
ground personally this morning to
investigate. Instead Of waiting for
the report of a coroner's jury he will
present the facts first hand to the
grand jury and get quick action if
there is any criminal liability.
DR.. Thos. Carter, city ambulance
surgeon, after conference with Drs.
Springer and Henry Rhinehart, cor
Ouer's physicians who were out on
the boat checking bodies as they
came through, estimate that 1900
lost their lives.
Vim. DoderIein, for Is years first
mate on an ocean liner, saw the boat
loading. Experience taught me that
it was overloaded" he said. 81
rushed to the captain and told him
so. He laughed at me-" Doderlein
works at 112 S. Water St.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25

Panama waterway may be for us.
1t is probabls the United States on
the ground Of its national interests
would prohibit the building of ar
other interoceanic canal on the 18TH
mus, and it is the same principle
that japan has induced China to
recognize in the articles negotiated
at Peking. japan may not be seek
ing to establish a hegemony in the
Orient any more than the United
States is determined to control the
affairs Of the nations in this hemis-
phere. The Monroe Doctrine has
as its basic idea the preservation of
the United States, and in the alb
sence of proof to the contrary the
preservation of Japan may be con-
sidered to be the underlying motive
of Tokyo's most recent activities.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
A MOSQUITO CAMPAIGN.

Baltimore has set aside $4,000 OF
municipal funds for a fight to rid
the place of mosquitoes. The Bay
City is something of mosquito en-
porium, by virtue of its location;
and to free it from the attention of
the little pests would not only in
crease the ordinary comfort of sum-
mer living, but would safeguard
against diseases that are now known
to be carried by the insects.
Kidding a big city like Baltimore
Of mosquitoes would have been es-
teemed a few years ago hopeless
task; today it is recognized as per-
fectly feasible. Colonel Gorgas, of
Canal Zone sanitation fame, has been
engaged as consulting expert, and
has promised Mayor Preston, after
a survey of the situation, that the
thing can be done. 1t may not be
very heroic performance, but it
would be difficult to imagine a serv-
ice for which a municipal executive
would be longer or more gratefully
remembered.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Today.

Lecture. Our Common Birds under aus
pices OF Wanderlusters. lecture hall. Pub
lie Library, p. m.
Supper dance. red room. New willard.
Rehearsal Home Club Chorus, II Jackson
place northwest. I;S9 to gp. m.
the Home" DR.. William {. Woodward. un-
der auspices of Associated Charieties.
Rauscher's. II q. m.
Musical comedy. "On 10 Frisco" Tech Play
srs' Club. at Mckinley Manual Training
Lecture. "The Spanish West Indies" Miss
Mary Erna Ferguson. Spanish School OF
Washington. y. m.
Lecture, "Nematodes. Their Relations to
Mankind and to Agriculture" n. 4. Cobb,
auditorium Of New National Musem, 4:45
Smoker Washington Alumni Chapter to tho
Georgetown active chapter OF the Delta
Chi Fraternity, University Club. p. m.
Popenoe. auditorium. Y. NJ. c. A.. p. m.
Masonic-The New Jerusalem. No. 8; Geo. c.
Whiting. No. %: Temple -Noyes, No. 80:
William F. Hunt No. l6. Eastern Star.
knights OF Pythias-Harmony. No. 81.
Woodmen of the world-Deputies.
knights OF Colurnbus-keane Council.
National Unon-Bancroft Council. Dahlgren
Council.
Socialist Party-Young Peoples Socialist
League dance. Perpetual Building Associa-
tion Hall. Eleventh and = streets north
west.
Banquet Telephone Society of the District.
New Ebbitt. p. m.
benefit OF the Confederate Memorial Home.
1922 Vermont avenue northwest. $50 D. m.
Meeting. Study Club OF the Drama League,
chldren's room, Public Library. p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS.

Pensions for mothers will be the
public policy of New York State,
under a measure which some days
ago passed the State senate and
which yesterday carried the assem-
bly, by vote of 129 to 8. The pitt
full little minority protested to the
last that the measure would make
pauperism; which is a variation OF
the argument always urged against
every measure for social betterment:
that if society does anything for peo-
pie, they will quit trying to do it
for themselves. 1t is an excellent
argument; it was when it was en-
ployed against the homestead law
in this country, against child labor
laws, against public schools, against
improving the conditions of the en-
shaved miners in England two gen.
erations AGO, against municipal
housing enterprises wherever they
have been undertaken, against pen
sions for volunteer soldiers and for
various classes of public or corpor-
ate employees.
An excellent argument, that is,
aside from the trifling detail that it
is entirely untrue and unwarranted.
The New York law, which the gov
ernor will sign without delay, Gre
ates child welfare boards by coun-
ties, with power to pension widowed
mothers who are deemed proper per-
sons to care for their children. The
pension may not exceed the cost of
maintaining the children in institu-
tions. If the mother is not consid-
cred a proper person, then the chill
dren shall be sent to an institution.
All experience has proved that
children are better cared for in the
home than elsewhere. Putting them
in institutions is what tends to pau
perize them; not keeping them ir
their homes. There is no danger OF
pauperizing motherhood by helping
it to discharge better the sacred dut!
to which it is SO splendidly devoted
Not so much can be said always Of
fatherhood; the record of fathers de-
serting families would in too many
cases tell another story. Perhaps il
is the willingness of SO many fathers
to avoid "pauperization" by desert
ing their families that convinces the
employers of the "pauperizing" ar
gument that only the men ought te
be allowed to vote!
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
SAYS Poor Husbands Are Really the
White Slaves of the Country.

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Mrs. Karl +. Kellcrman. in The Times
of March %, said: Legally New 4oFS
married women are slaves"
Are they any more slaves than tfso
man who cannot dispose of his real es-
tate without his wife'S consent? He 10
held for all her bills and support and
has to pay alimony. which is taxation
without representation" He may DO
sent to Jail for non-support OF worth
less wife, No one thinks of forcing a
woman back to keep her part of the
marriage contract If she deserts, nor
does she have to pay any penalty Even
il she is in the wrong no damages can
be collected against her though she may
have money.
If we are going into the slavery ques-
ton. l believe you will find in both law
and practice man is bound with the
stronger chains. If We are going 10
break all of womans bonds it is time
to start breaking some or all of mano
bonds, too. | believe in give and take"
but II the women want no obligations
in service or finance. l do not feel they
are justified in demanding 80 much OF
man. The women are starting this
rumpus and l believe they have the
most to lose when all the bonds are
broken. But a large number are selfish.
narrow minded, and badly spoiled, and
no one seems to think any injustice
can be done the poor man, who Is the
real white slave" The American man
unselfishly spends more on his wife 3
on himself. while with all other cres-
lures of Gods kingdom the male of tho
specie is the most Gorgeously attircd,
/. e., the peacock. lion. etc.
"A CHAMPION FOR MAN"
Washington, d. c., March %, 1915.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
ON HISTORY'S HIGHWAY.

Alexander of Macedon, while he
was still busy with the conquest of
this world and before he sighed for
other worlds to conquer, crossed the
Hellespont with an army of about
$4,000 to $4,000 men, and brought
up at the tomb of that other illus
trous warrior Of antiquity, Achilles,
There, according to Plutarch, Alex
ander offered a libation, and his
warriors danced naked round the
tomb.
This was in 334 B. C. Centuries
earlier the great Achilles had been
translated to the Happy Isles. Cen
turnes later the hero's tomb is in the
path of another invading force. 1t
is being saluted with the boom and
thunder of 15-inch guns as the
dreadnaughts try to force the OAR
danelles. Should the allied forces
be successful in their attempt, they
like Alexander, might we'll pause q
moment to offer a libation al
Achilles tomb.
Let it become the tradition thai
great empires shall be ushered into
existence or be blotted out with Q
tribute to him. The boom of guns
alone he does not understand
Doubtless he did sense the presence
there above his grave of an Alex.
ander, standing for all that he hac
stood. Surely he would sense the
presence of some man still create,
than either, a hero who had forced
the Dardanelles in the twentieth
century, and by that act, perhaps
had done what 100000 deadlockee
warriors could not do.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Maubeuge,

Antwerp, Maubeuge, Namur,
Przemysl, and as may yet be taught
at several other places in this war,
is that the army in the field is the
real thing in war, and the only thing
on which final reliance can be placed.
If the enemy's artillery gets its
range and is ready to destroy it, the
mobile army may retire; the fortress
of cement and nickeled-steel turrets
cannot. Przemysl stood for putting
altogether too many eggs in one
basket. So does every other great
fortress on which large reliance is
placed as a means of defense.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Sees Value of Publicity For Worthy
institutions In Times Mail Bag.

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
To show the value of publicity ana
the popularity Of the Mail Bag column:
Not long ago, writer told Of visit
to the Animal Rescue League quarters
at 1855 Ohio avenue. which gave me
nv first intimation that there was such
an institution. Taking a poor sick cat
that was menacing the neighborhood, l,
too. visited the place. The woman in
charge told me that as a result Of that
Mail Bag article, she had received SO
many calls that she could not keep
was especially pleased to learn of
the valuable work in city improvement
the League has already accomplished.
Although not wear old. 1t has col
nroves its unsfullness as a civic factor
IN removing from the streets many dis
tressing sights and curtailing their in
;ncreaSe MRS. B. r.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Allies Show Plenty Of "Pep' and
Exchange Friendly Shots
With German Troops.
SKY ROCKETS LIGHT SKIES
Polish RevoIutionist Drinks His
Champagne Punch Out OF
Metal Helmet.
= By PHIL RAIDER.

Copyright 1915 by the United Press)
LONDON, March 1.-New York's New
Year Eve celebration was probably as
wild and as noisy as ever.
But 1t couldn't have been a marker
to ours in the trenches. only wonder
that New York didn't hear us.
We spent the entire day Of December
81 in getting ready for our midnight
celebration. We intended to give the
Germans a fusilladc that they wouldn't
forget. During the Christmas Day truce
We had met most of the Germans In
the trenches across the way from us
and they had told us that even then
they were getting ready for their New
Year Eve celebration.
Victor Chapman, the Harvard man
from New York. Eugene Jacobs, the
Pawtucket butcher, and myself, talked
about the rackets that would usher ir
the new year in New York. San Fran
cisco, my home town. and Pawtucket
and we did everything we could to gin
ger up the men of a dozen nationalitief
who were members Of the Foreign
Legion.
Had Plenty of "Pep."
But, in fact. they didn't need much
girgering up. There were men who re-
membered New Year Eve celebrations
in Athens, Lisbon. Madrid, and in fact
every capital of the world. SO our prep
arations were carried out without stin,
Of labor or expense in our "Sunker
City
BY evening we had huge piles OF night
| lights, ready to fire. They were Ameri
can made; just ordinary skyrockets
Each man had 100 extra cartridges anc
there were piles of cartridges ready
| beside our four machine guns.
Our artillery, far behind our lines
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Tomorrow.

Celebration, Bismarck Day. Concordia Luth-
Gs1rs ecsm ch"sfS v,.t Fl to- to- the Vatican" Former
President William H. Taft before National
Geographic Society, auditorium of New
SAFETY First meeting Church OF the Retor-
Lecture. Caesar and Pompsy's Thsater." S.
Meeting. Columbia Debating Society. OF
George Washington University. New Ma
Meeting and lunch, Credit Mems Association.
s% fs?s $Ss' sS:S :s 1sssfS Ks IL ~ and Fifth
1sERr Pft Of corner my stone tone y Of women's Mem
oriai Building. Seventeenth street north
Lecture tss "S %Tke Prevention of Disease. of the
Lungs, DR.. Charles A. pfendsE ,, befere
NStlonal ns1isS Assofa1i0s Ssl o. ot neep "e
Sunday school conference All Souls Church.
Subscription dance. large ball room. NsS
coneert. Mattat'' Friday q ~ Morning Club. ball s~
Meetins sisnsn sunshine M Society. parlor EsssisA
Paternity it dance. small ball room. Raleigh. I
Dance Home Club "a jackson place north
| musical comedy. or "on to Frisco" Tech Play,
ers' Club, Mckinley Manual Training
ss,Mso' school Gcmm.rc, SP; m in India" Henry D
fSsScG, BsHeF aSditoriSm GH@%sTGe n N. A. sp. rn
| Masonlc-St Johns, No. IL Capitol No. IL
| ROYAL Arch Masons; Takoma, NO. u; Ca
| thedral, No II. St. Johns Lodge. No. Is
| odd FeiIows-Central. No. l. Metropolis
| No 16; Phoenix No. IS; Dorcas No. 4
| Martha Washington No. 8, Rebekahs.
Knights of PythiasZsyraeusians; No: 10
S% P%ahsn SIS Sister. rs
Sons OF Veterans-Georse II. Thomas Camp
orIDr tIU Of Of Jonadabs-Ptoneer Council.
| Woodmen of the World-Georgetown No. 10
| National Union-East Washington Council
] Mckinley Council
Socialist Party-Locsl central.
Dance. Delta Phi Delta Fraternity e.,
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Has Plan For Efficiency Ratings In
Government Service.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
I have just read The Times editorial
of March 22, entitled Real Efficiency
Work." Theoretically, it seems easy to
rate efficiency; practically, it is difficult,
on account OF the great variety of tho
work done by people who must be COM
pared with one another.
l have devised the following de-
scrlped and illustrated plan, which 1
submit FOR the consideration of those
seeking practical working solution of
the problem AS far as I know, this
plan has not been considered by the
mead OF any Government department.
In order to carry out the intention Of
the law, 1t is necessary to make per-
centage markings that will show the
exact relative value to the Government
| of every clerk in the classified service
OF each bureau. The ratings" should
cover four subjects of equal value, to
| wit:
/. Relative value of the class of work
(position) to the Government thereafter
| referred to as position rating'). This
rating remains the same as to all per-
| sons on the same class of work. In or
| der to increase his efficiency rating un-
der this head, the clerk must change
| his work. The other ratings are per-
| sonal and vary according to the indi-
vidual.
2. Quantity Of the product, consid-
| ering it's volume and incidentally the
industry and speed of the worker Chere-
| after referred to as "quantity'D.
3. Quality Of the product, considering
| thoroughness, accuracy, and all kinds
of excellence thereafter referred to as
"quality').
4. Conduct. considering punctuality.
orderly habits, sobriety, attention to
duty and obedience to the rules.
SAMPLE RATING (Maximum Mark 1000.
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
JAPAN'S MONROEISM.

Four demands made upon China
by japan have been granted, and
while there is a suggestion of would
be overlordship in some of them,
they really do not menace the re-
public's sovereignty nor threaten the
country's integrity.
The first article provides that
Japan's approval shall be secured
before loan is made with a third
power involving the pledging of
local taxes in South Manchuria. This
is not as serious an arrangement as
the Platt amendment, by which the
United States restricts Cuba's con-
tractual powers.
Another article requires that
Japan's consent shall be obtained
whenever permission is granted to a
subject of third power to build a
railway, or when loan is made with
a third power for the building of a
railway in South Manchuria. This
is an application of the principle
preached by President Wilson in his
Mobile speech when he denounced
foreign concessions in Latin-Ameri-
can countries and declared the
United States ought to be the first
to take part in their emancipation
from the subordination which has
been inevitable to foreign enter
prise"
If the Chinese government ir
South Manchuria employs advisers
or instructors for political, financial
or military purposes the japanese
government must first be consulted
This arrangement is purposed tt
safeguard Japan's political, CONNER
cial, and military interests in Por
Arthur and Korea, as we'll as hel
sphere of influence in Manchuria.
America would not be warranted
in making objection to the three ar
ticles described, which are chief O
those signed. The fourth mereI,
transfers the Kirin- Changchun rail
way to Japanese control for a tern
of ninety-nine years. The Japanes
national safety might not have re
quired these concessions from Chin
any more than the safety of tn
United States required the building
of the Panama canal; but at som
future time, nobody knows how Ions
they may be necessary, just as tn
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
THE ARMY'S THE THING.

In the Franco-German war four
decades ago the French learned at
Metz and Belfort the lesson that in
this present war has been taught at
Antwerp and at Przemysl. The Rus
SLAMS learned that lesson at Port
Arthur. 1t is the lesson that when a
military position is allowed to de-
pend on the security of great forti-
fed place, it is a mighty dangerous
position.
1t took some thousands of years
and the invention of various new
kinds of fighting machinery, to make
the human race, in it's fighting
moods, understand the utilities of a
hole in the ground. But those utili-
ties are at last recognized, and they
have made a migratory fortification
displace the immovable one. The
trench can be crowded forward or
backward, spread out on the fanks;
can be abandoned if necessary with
out an overwhelming disaster; but
the permanent fortification lends it.
self to none of these purposes.
Belfort was never taken by the
Germans during the Franco German
war; but if that war had continued
long enough it would have been
taken. 1t merely served as a prison
in which to shut up a big French
army and vast quantity of war ma
terial that was sorely needed else
where, while the Germans spread
over northern France, captured
French armies, and at length be.
leagured Paris and took it. Paris
was a splendidly fortified city, fol
that day, but it could not hold out
In the Far East the Russians basec
their Manchurian power on the be-
lief that Port Arthur was impreg
nable; but it was not. Nothing is
Gibraltar has been captured severa
times in it's warlike history, and ye
Gibraltar still stands as the synonym
of impregnability.
| Przemysl was the citadel of Aus
; trian power in eastern Galicia. 1t
too, was supposed to be impregnable
but nothing can withstand the at
tacks of hunger and exhaustion.
Przemysl had never been made
key to the Galician situation, tn
great army which was first neutra
lized and then captured there nigh
have been of very real use il
the defense of Austro- German terri
, tory. The substance of the Who'll
! matter, as has been taught at Liege
The Washington times., 1915-03-25
Plan to Kill Birds Is Mean and Con-
temptible.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
It was with much satisfaction that
read in the Mail Bag" column of your
paper a letter which Stands up for
our little brown friends-the sparrows.
The manner in which, as recently
stated, they are to be put to death-or
worse. manned, frightened. and struck
down from their roosting places-is too
contemplate and mean for expression,
and reflects precious little credit upon
the person who originated the idea OF
doing away with these little birds by
the noble use of fireworks! How very
brave and safe and sane!
heartily indorse the sentiments OF
"A Friend of the Birds" and am glad.
indeed. to know that there are those
who will speak for the sparrows as
we'll as for the other little fcathered
creatures.
ONE WHO LOVES BIRDS AND
ANIMALS.
WASHINGTON, March %.