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The Washington times., 1915-10-14
SLIPS DOWN FLUE OF
SYNAGOGUE IN DAzE
In Evening Clothes, Bronx Youth
Is Pulled From His Captivity
In Unusual Place.

NEW YORK. Oct. H-In the cold
gray dawn OF yesterday morn. as the
poets would say. David r. Harlow. son
Of most estimabie family. was seen to
scale the high brick chimney rising from
the roof OF the fremont Tabernacle. a
Jewish synagogue. in the Bronx. The
bicycle rider In the street who OBJ
served him was astonished to see the
young man, In evening clothes. descend
the interior of the chimney after he
had reached the top. .... ..
Believing him a gentleman burglar"
In the guise Of a man Of wealth. the
bicycle rider hastily summoned Police
man Finnegan. The policeman called
several fremen from 4 nearby hook
la adder.
F1remen went to the roof Of the syna-
gogue and saw the plain evidence that
man had descended the fue. They
'hol!ered" down. but there was no re-
ply.
BY that time policemen were breaking
In q rear door. In their search they
FOUND no burglar. but as they were
leaving the basement they saw the hand
Of a man protrudinE from an opening In
the chimney that extended to the roof
From this they discovered there was a
man firmly wedged at the bottom OF the
fluc.
After considerable work a derrick was
rixged on the roof of the synagogue by
1remen and policemen. and a rope with a
loop knot was lowered. They called
down the chimney for the man there tc
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
TWO.SCORE CHANGES
N INTERIOR BUREAU
Secretary Lane Announces
Many Switches In Personnel
In Interior Department.

secretary Of the Interior Lane today
announced nearly two-score changes IN
personnel Of his department. They are:
frobationary appointments-Miss Dora
y. McCauley. of Minnesota, q clerk at
WOO In the Indian Office: John Ander-
son, Missouri. and f. Kyle Disney Ten
nessee, as laborers, at $40, and Merritt
w. Abel and John r. Guthridge. OF tho
District. as messenger boys at $40 IN
the Patent Office: Miss Ethel NJ. Dykes.
under clerk at s1.o20 In thee Geological
survey: James NJ. barley. Of the Dis
trict, messenger boy. at $3.50 In the
Reclamation service: Albert p. Sachs.
New York. Junior physical chemist. to
be stationed in Pittsburg at $500 In the
Bureau OF Mines: James L. Lauritson,
California. under clerk at S720.
Re!nstatements-Fran J. b. Simon
ton OF the District. as messenger boy. at
$3.50 In the General Land Office. Tenn
porary appointments authorized by the
GiTii Service CSmmissions n,1es- C.; c;
Zoo duty N San Francisco. CALI. and
man, at s72O duty I'm Pittsburgh. In the
Bureau of Mines.
Extension OF temporary appointments
authorized by Civil Service Commits
sion Miss Hannah J. Hanway. Of the
District, under clerk at 50 per day In the
Reclamation Service: Clifford l.. Steph-
ems, Pennsylvania, as messenger boy at
*24O in the Bureau OF Mines.
Promotions-Dan N. Greene. New
York law examiner ut 81 500 to clerk
at Sl,sO0, William C. Black. Pennsyl-
vania, clerk at s1.400 to law examiner
Mt $1,000; George II. Malone. of the
District. clerk $1,000 to sl.400: Guy
HoIsopple. Pennsylvania. copyist 5000
to c<rk at 81 200: Louis Lawych, New
York: assistant messenger at $720 to
copyist at 5000: Samson II. Brent, Of
the District. laborer at $500 at as
tistant sis, meascnger at s72o in the
Within the department.
Edward T. Dillon. OF the District.
messC niger boy at $3.50. from the Ro-
clamation Service to the General
Land Office, To other departments
John S. Sherman. Indiana. clerk At
$1,000 to the Department Of Labor
from the Pension office: Jasper r.
Snow. Kansas. classified laborer at
$40. to the Government Printing Of
Zee from the Patent Office.
California. and Aubrey II. Bond. Ore
Gon. transit men at 800 per month
In the General Land Office; Horace
X. Lockwood, Ohio. clerk at 81 200 In
the Pension Offce: Nathan Comstock.
Wisconsin. first assistant examiner at
81. 400. ard Miss Gertrude G. Condron.
OF the District, copyist at 5000. of the
Patent OffCe. Percival NJ. Foge. Penn
sylvania, engineer at $1,000 in the
California. assistant chemist at s2.1e0.
and Matthew H. Curley. Massachu-
setts. electrician at $3.50 in the
Bureau of Mines.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
HusbandleSS Girls
Needed in Alaska
Great Territory With Golden
Future Sadly'in Need OF
More of Fair Sex.

SEATTLE, Oct. I4-There Is no such
matrimonial market In the country as
there Is In Alaska. Publicity Is being
given the situation by an army officer
wife from Fort Liscum. who decries the
fact that so many of the best men OF
the country are living in bachelorhood
in the Territory.
'I never saw such an active matri-
monial market" she says. as there Is
In Alaska And I cannot say too posi-
lively that the Alaska men are the
equal Of any in the world. They have
TO be fine men physically and morally
to overcome the hardships of the new
and wild country"
The new railroad camp built by the
Government at Anchorage Is made up OF
young men. True. they are OF all ma
tionalities, but there are hundreds of
fine, strong American young Fellows
who will decide to make Alaska their
future home.
The busy mining city and capital OF
| the Territory. juneau. possesses more
single men than married. and there Is
| also the same scarcity Of young women
| Wrangell. Skagway. Seward and Valdez
are other coast towns whose population
consists largely of the boarding class
| of young fellows.
Some Of these days young women
| from the States will wake up to the
| fact that some OF these young men are
| former schoolmates. and that they are
dwelling in a country with golden
| future When they do wake up there
| is going to be an Influx into Alaska "i
thousands OF girls of marriageable age
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
INCOME TAX FOUGHT
Il. IN NSUPREME COURT
ConstitutionaIity Of Law A.
tackled Through Five Cases,
As Arguments Begin.

The big battle over the income tax
law began today. Attorneys. argued In
Supreme Court five cases Involving the
laws constitutionality.
Depending on the legal fight Ii pres
ent revenue Of ss2,Oo0.ooo. and. II the
effort to Increase It succeeds In the
coming Congress, a much larger fu-
ture revenue.
A special point of attack was the
provision under which an exemption up
TO 50 200 IL allowed. The appellants
charge determination In classifying
taxpayers. H.
come tax law specified that there sha'l
ben an exemption ZIP to 5000 OF income
and a GRADUATED percentage wh,cn n. I'M.
poses the heavi s. tax upon tn largest
Incomes" declared Solicitor Generai
J. w. Davis today. Shows clearly that
the intention In passing the law was 10
touch lightly the classes with small IN
comes and to bear more heavily upon
the classes with large incomes.
money by taxation. 1t should not pear
down oppressively or unjustly on any
one class. This is a cardinal principa!
OF tpxn,,on. Society especially shouin
not through taxation injure Its weak
est members-those with small IN
cones-least able to bear taxes TIE
personal property and the real prop
crtv taxes have. II has been ha:d
fallen heaviest in proportion on tts
persons with little property. Iheir
assets are easily found by the tax as
SCISSOR: the assets of the weather
classes are far more difficult to reach
"Income taxation tends to shirt me
burden upward"
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Hospital Orderly
Killed by Patient
Bride Sees Her Husbands Muir
derer Escape Over Fence
With Knife in Hand.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Lillian
Cavanaugh, recently married to John
Cavanaugh, an orderly OF the Poly
clinic Hospital. saw from the kitchen
window of her home at 363 West
Fiftieth street. yesterday afternoon.
an old. bare-headed man climb over a
fence into her rear yard and wipe the
blood from a penknife with which. as
she later learned. he had just killed
her husband.
An hour before. the old man. Joseph
William Nicholson. of 315 West Thir-
ty-fifth street, while peddling soap
at a garage at 2lS West Sixty-ffth
street. fell down stairs and cut his
forehead over his right eye. At the
Polytechnic annex a little later DR.. Pool
stitched the wound. The patient was
drunk and violent. DR.. Pool called
Cavanaugh to conduct Nicholson to a
room.
Cavanaugh left the patient lying on
a cot. Ten minutes layer the cry Of a
maid on the floor above was hear1.
Cavanaugh and DR.. Pool ran up and
found Nicholson in the room Of one Of
the maids. They forced him down
stairs. He resisted. DR.. Pool. after
telling Cavanaugh to tie Nicholson to
the cot. left the room. A moment later
the physician heard ;Cavanaugh cry
naugh staggered from the rest room
and died in DR.. Pools arms within
two minutes. He was stabbed in the
heart.
Meanwhile the patient. minus his
hat. escaped through the maids room
upstairs to the Cavanaugh yard next
door, where the orderly's wife saw
him. and into the basement home OF
Mrs. Elsie Delcourt, at 1855 West Fif-
ticth street. There he asked Mrs. Del
court for hat and grumbled. They
tried to kill me. but I killed them"
Then he strolled over to the garage
across the street from the hospital
and asked the dryer OF the ambulance
which had brought him to the hospi
tai for 10 cents. The chauffeur rec.
ognized him and gave the alarm. Mich
olson slipped out and the police haG
not found him up to a late hour las,
night.
Mrs, Cavanaugh collapsed when toll
OF her husbands death.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
BUSINESS MEN BAR
EX.CONV|CT'S HELP
Nobody Wants Man With a
"Record," Says Prison Asso.
citation Investigator.

NEW YORK, Oct H.-Finding q job
for the man just out of prison Is a dis
couraging task. In the experience Of a
representative Of the Prison Association
of New York. who has undertaken the
mission for the past few months. No
body wants the man with a record.
he has discovered. The reasons given
are as varied as the kinds OF work he
tried to get for the men.
Tho manager of one Of the largest
employment bureaus said he had re-
ceived within recent months more than
5000 applications from capable workers.
for only a portion Of whom work was
found, work being given to those who
had the highest references and stand
In an especially large cigar business
In New York all EMPLOYEES are bonded
on previous records. The employment
manager was asked II his house would
offer work to discharged prisoners. pro-
viding the bonding company were will
ing to trust them upon sound recon,
mendations. The manager regretted
that he was not free to assume respon-
sibility at this time.
Store Ban On Ex-Convicts.
In one OF the largest department
stores of the city the employment man.
ager stated frankly that his company
would not even consider the employ
ment Of released prisoners.
In another great dry, goods house with
a small army OF employees the employ
ment manager personally would trust
the right men, but In the case OF his
company there were underlying obtec-
tions, among which was the fact that
IL the convict record were made known
to older employees later some would
most strongly object.
In the case Of well-known insur-
ance company. the company is acting
| as trustee for other people, and be
iieves that it cannot act in way that
might be right for the individual
| employer.
and rewest hotels In the city has &C.
cepted a man who Is shortly to be dis
charged from prison. His history VIII
Working On Quarter Time.
A manufacturer OF metal wares
stated that the hard times compelled
his company to lay employees. and
that a number Of those left are en-
gagged only on quarter time.
| A pharmacy has a waiting list OF
applicants, and a blank form must be
filled out. giving history. references
and experience.
| A manufacturer Of antique" furni'
trre employees only artisans. 1t Is i'm
possible in this branch Of business fol
an unframed man to be used.
| Encouraging is the fact that in an
other manufacturing establishment
known for its liberal attitude towart
| released prisoners, ten released in
mates are employed. and more will b,
given an opportunity.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Prize Hen to Be
Given a Banquet
Theater Will Follow Celebration Of
Three Hundredth Egg Laid
in 345 DAYS.

WILMINGTON. Del. Oct. IA novel
theater party and dinner in honor of
a hen will be given In Philadelphia to-
morrow evening. The hen is Lady Egg
lantine, q white leghorn, and the host
will be her owner, A. A. Christian.
The hen has just won the egg-laying
competition against all Corners at the
Delaware College experiment farm.
Last Monday she laid her 3Ooth esq
In 345 days, thereby establishing a rec-
ord. =.
Persons connected with the egg-lay-
ing competition and with Christian 9
farm at Greensboro. Md. where Lady
Byzantine was Matched. will be his
guests at the dinner. Afterward the
party Will see moving pictures showing
the hen and her surroundings In the
competition.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14

seize the rope or pass the loop about his
shoulders. After many trials the man
got the rope under his shoulders and
was hoisted by a wind!ass arrange
Inent about ffty feet up through the
fue and out on the roof. while crowd
Of several thousand persons watched.
yet quite dazed.
II was at a late dinner with friends
last night" he said. "and don't rernem-
Der starting home. How ! got to the roof
of the synagogue or why i went down
the chimney is a mystery to me-"
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Vatican Uses War Funds
Intended for Propaganda

ROME, Oct. H.-Mgr. Gedlach, the
papal chamberlain. who Is Of Austrian
nationality. and has been confined to
the Vatican since Italy and Austria
went to war, has betrayed the expen-
ses Of extensive improvements In the
Vatican gardens. The cost OF the i'm
provements amounted to $4,000.
1t was at first said the money had
been offered to the Pope by an anony-
nous donor. but It now turns out that
Mgr. Gerlach supplied the funds from
money intended for Austro- German
propaganda at the Vatican.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Too Late to Classify.

LONG BEACH. Cal. Oct. 4.-B. NJ.
Lake railroad, Is an automobile owner
who nclincs his ears to the purr of the
motor.
While driving here today Scott no.
ticed peculiar sound emanating from
beneath the hood. 1t worried him. He
turned into a garargc and told the me-
chanic to looR for the trouble. The me-
chanic opened the hood. out stepped an
angry Maltese cat
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Woman Says Thief Sends
Pawn Tickets to Her

, NEW YORK, Oct. N.-Mrs. Henry
Coleman went to Police Lieutenant
Maher In the East Twenty second sta
ton and asked II there was any way In
which she could get the name and ad-
dress Of a thief who had been paying
article each time.
The thief first took her coat. she said.
and sent her the pawnticket by mail.
Her quilt went next, and a second ticket
came to her. When q third ticket was
exchanged for her blanket. II grew tire
some. The tickets aggregated only n. 25.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Kaiser on Serb Front,
Says Copenhagen Rumor

LONDON. Oct. 14.-That the Kaiser
Is already on the Serbian front has
been repeatedly rumored, but verifica-
ton is still lacking today.
A Copenhagen dispatch says the
Kaiser arrived yesterday at Field Mar
shall Won Mackensen's headG uarters on
the Serbian front, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the London
Daily News.
The Kaiser's arrival Is taken In Ger
many as proof that General Won Mac
kensen Is absolutely confident Of an
early and decisive victory
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Women and Children Are
Carried Down Ladders

CHICAGO. Oct. IA dozen families
were driven to the streets scantiiy clad
and four buildings were destroyed by
an early morning nre In West Chicago
avenue today.
A score OF women and children were
carried TO safety down extension lad
ders. Policeman Tom O'Hara prevented
an explosion that might have meant
death to many by fighting his way
through flames to roll a huge tank or
Rasoiene from burning building. He
was badly, but not seriously, burned
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Turks Capture Allies
Airmen Near Elarich

BERLIN (via sayville virslcss), Oct.
N,-An allies aeroplane was shot
down by the Turks. east Of Elarich on
October 10. and the airmen were cap
tured, said an official message from
Constantinople today.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Ford Cash Balance in
Banks Is SAB, ,788, ISL

DETROIT. Mich, Oct. H.-Chances
are they'll be able to meet the pay
roll next Saturday at the Ford Motor
Company plant here. The annual state
ment of the company. Issued today.
showed cash balance In banks of
$3. ,SS. l5l.23 and a surplus OF $59. .15, 20. g.
The one big item OF liability listed
in the report was s15.O0O,0O0, held in
reserve for profit-sharing payments to
purchasers OF Ford cars.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Want Big Arsenal.

DAVENPORT. Iowa. Oct. 4.-Over
eighty Congressman from Iowa. Illinois.
Missouri. Minnesota. and Wisconsin. the
guests TODAY OF Davenport. Moline, and
Rock Island commercial bodies. are in
specting the Rock Island arsenal with a
view to considering the plan of making
1t the greatest war munition plant in
the. country. Backers OF the project say
1t Is safe from attack from a foreign
foe. The occasion is the Middle West
Conference on Preparedness.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
DrydOck For Boston.

BOSTON. Oct. IA contract for the
construction of a S3,00O. 900 dry dock at
this port has been signed. Objections
announced by Governor Walsh to the
original wording OF the contract were
met by amendments.
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Germans Busy in Albania.

ROME, Oct. 4.-Austrian and German
agents arc trying to induce the Aiban-
iGns to attack Serbia, according to Bari
advices today Prince William of Wied.
for a short time King of Albania, IL
with the Germans on the Serbian from
tier, Il u stated
The Washington times., 1915-10-14
Pianos

New, discontinued styles, slightly used,
returned from rent and taken in trade will be
found in these quotations, and every PIANO
is in frst-class condition and thoroughly guar
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

Plan Humane Sunday In May.
The American Humane association.
a federation OF societies and individu-
ais for the prevention Of cruelty. re-
quests clergymen Of all denominations
throughout the country to observe
Sunday, May 90. as Humane Sunday.
calling attention to the need for pro-
lection for suffering and helpless chill
dren. and also for unfortunate ami
mails.
DR.. VIM. o. Stillman. president of
the association. Albany, N. Y, will
send literature to all persons interest
ed in the work of humane societies.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30
Spoiled the Lecture.

Spotteo the cectuFe.
An amusing incident happened re-
Gently in school in the north of Eng
land. The master was lecturing his
class Of boys on smoking and the
evils attending 1t. 4
Suddenly he saw grin overspread-
ing the faces of his scholars. and on
inquiring the cause an innocent-look-
ing cherub yelled out:
Please sir, yer pipes sticking out
of yer pocket"
The smoking lecture was abruptly
brougt to close.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

Some folks couldn't keep up appear
ances IL they went in the aeroplane
business.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

YOUR OWN DRCGGIsT WILL TELL you
Try Murins Bye Rsmedx for lea. WseH. Wstery
i,S.s iyss Io noa ooH5or WnsS Sor book Of The Hye
81 raaf Free. Murine kyo Remedy Co., Chicago
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

A married mans idea of leisure is
the few seconds rest he gets while
his wife is hunting up something else
for him to do.
Most of us could start brass band
If the hot air were music.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30
Its Nature.

II heard the musical was tame"
"Yes; rather a sing-song affair. =
American.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30
Prohibited.

Prohibited.
Post Ohice Clerk-You can't mail
those coins in letter. You ought to
know that.
Stranger-Well, what am going to
do? You've got sign outside that
says Post No Bills"
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

Makes the laundress happy-that's Rec
Cross Bag. Blue. Makes beautiful, .cleal
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

Time and tide wait for no man. but
are more obliging.
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

No Use.
Don't you want to grow up and be
a man, Jimmie?"
Whats the use. All the other boys
will be growed up, too. and it'll be
just as hard to lick 'em as ever
The Keota news., 1915-04-30

Important 70 Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, . safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and SEQ that II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22

again, but he turned over and over
and over and end for end and failed to
make a go of it. He suddenly made
a discovery.
other pounding in he chuckIed as he
reached for his hammer. 81 don't
claim to be the smartest man in Amer
lea, but If I can't put two joints of
He couldn't. The hammering had
not improved them. He took two 9TH
er joints, but they were just as obsti
nate. All of a sudden Mr.. Bowser got
mad and jumped for the ak, but his
feet slipped in the SCOT and he went
down and saw millions of stars as the
back of his head whacked the cement.
Some one shall suffer for this!"
he said as he finally sat up; and he
was on the point of going upstairs and
bringing Mrs. Bowser's perfidious con-
duct home to her when the resolution
came to have one more trial. Only an
hour before he had read in his news
paper the saying: What man has
done can be done again." and he pick
ed up all joints, stood them on end
in row and surveyed them in a
critical way. None were missing. The
end of each and every joint had been
made to fit into another. All he had
to do was to exercise patience and
press and squeeze and tap with the
hammer. Mr.. Bowser pressed. He
also squeezed. He likewise tapped.
He was just on the point of success
when the joints fell apart and banged
around over his feet and rolled away.
With a wild war-whoop he grabbed
the AK and began to pound and batter
and destroy, but as he raised the
weapon for a fell swoop it hit the
ceiling and rebounded on his head and
Mr.. Bowser knew no more for ten
minutes. Then he realized that Mrs.
Bowser and the cook were bending
over him with camphor, brandy, por-
ous-plasters, Jamaica ginger, am
monia, porous-sticking salve, and in q
PARKWAY voice he heard the cook say
ing: