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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-09
Citizens COMMITTEE
D|sAGREEs WITH DABNEY
Would Leave Selection of Post Office
Location to Washington
Officials.
SAY SITE IS NOT SUITABLE
Land Adjoining Present building,
Offered to Government for $780,
900, "Through Civic Pride" Is Now
Quoted ut S44O,O0O.

Taking issue with William L. Dab
ncy, business manager OF the Chamber
of Commerce, committee Of citizens
of which l.. o. Miller is chairman. In
"A statement issued yesterday argue
that In case Of disagreement among
the people the selection OF site Oh
new post Office should be left to inc
Post Office ana Treasury Departments
The statement itcrates what has ,beeh
said bcfore-that the government Of :
nciais know the Richmond necds anu
Sympathies and that they are sgHi'-
thct!c. whereas another administrator
may he Indifferent in the matter.
II Is denied that Postmastcr-Gcnerai
Burlcson said that unless the present
post-ofiice Is enlarged terminal STA
tons will be established at the diitcr-
cnt railroad dcpots. The correct state
mcnt is IL is asserted. that Mr.. Buric-
son said that before the officials VIII
recommend the expenditure Of another
dollar on the present post -oilicc build
ing they will recommend the establish
mcnt of terminals at railroad d.Dots.
The two statements attributed to the
Postmaster General are contradictory.
1t is also asserted that in the bill
approprinting $4,000 for the purchase
of the property adjoining the post
Office on the east a proviso was in
ecrtcd leaving to the Secretary of the
Treasury TO determine whether some
other property might not be more
suitable
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DEPARTMENT. OPPOSED TO
ENHANCING. OLD H,IJDING

1T VIII he recalled that when the
recent addition was made To Tho oId
building, II was not done until several
years elapsed after the appropriation
had becn made. The delay was occa-
stoned because the judgment Of tho cx-
pcrtS in tho department at WASHING
ton and tho local postmaster were on
posed to tho expenditure. as they he
hevcd ii would never furnish adequate
postal facilities for this city. The
order 10 do the work was not issued
until there was n change OF adminis-
tration, and then the order was issued
by Mr.. Cortclyou over the protests OF
those best informed as to our needs and
OF the inadequacy OF the scheme Tho
Judgment of these latter has been
confirmed by the resulting conditions
within three years after the addition
was made.
When tho bill appropriating $780,
900 for the purchase of the property
at Main and Eleventh Streets was
passed, II contained this proviso: I'm
less the Secretary OF the Treasury
round some other site more eligible and
better suited for a post-oflicc. This
property at Main and Eleventh Streets
was then offered to the government at
the sum of 100000, and the gentlemen
VINO made the offer said that it was
only done through sense OF civic
prldc; that the plans for n twenty-two-
story. Office building had been drawn,
contracts let. and some tenants secured
ana mat unless the offer was accented
with great promptness this skyscraper
YOU'D go up at once. We now find no
efort 10 erect this building. and. on
the contrary, the price for this lot has
dropped to $4,000. Was this an effort
TO hold up the United States govern
mcnt,. or has property in the heart of
our business section really dropped
IS per cent?
RATHER RENT THAN ENLARGE
PRESENT FEDERAL nUIIDINC
The post office and treasury an
!horities have said time and time again
chat they could not and would not
recommend the enlargement of tho
present building; that rather than do
This they would contract for and lease
building, or buildings. elsewhere
This requires no Congressional action.
md Will moan the indefinite POSTPONE.
hent OF permanent, modern post
bfice In Richmond
1T Is now evident that Richmond
nay have two Federal buildings; one
II them n modern post office, with ade-
luate facilities for present ana future
leeds; the old post office to be used for
he Federal courts: tho revenue SER
lice. and tho constantly expanding
lumber OF Federal employees for whom
Pho government la now renting offices
butsida. This 1s apparent to at least
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-09
AS TO TERMINAL.
STATIONS At DEpOTS

The most startling statement in
Mr.. DabneE's interview is the one in
which he Expresses tho position OF
the Postmastcr-G General to be that un.
less the present post-oi'ice is enlarged
he VIII recommend that terminal sta
tons be established at the different
railroad depots. leaving the presen
building without improvements of any
kind The correct statement OF the
postal and treasury authorities is this:
that before they will recommend the
expenditure of another dollar on the
present post-onicc building, thcy' win
recommend the establishment OF ter
minals ut the railroad depots /; Will
be seen that there is quite difference
IN these two statements. although Nix
hahncy does not seem to recognize the
fact
For many years IT has been adj
mlttcd 10y those N the best position
70 know that the hygicnlc conditions
und"r which many cmployccs are
forced TO work in III" present post
Office have hccn the cause of illness
and defective cycsight among them
Experts on sanitation have examined
tho promises, ana unhcsli,tinply say
mat tho conditions Hrc q very real
menace to the health of the employees
and that the position OF the building
under the side az hill prccludcs the
possibility Of improved conditions in
this respect. II is also an admitted
Tact amongst those even slightly posted
that by reason or There being ONLY q
front entrance TO the present most
One" mat the proper and expeditions
handling Of tho mail IS seriously in
teriered with. This condition also can
not be corrected on account q. tho
ig.ys
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TEXT OF STATEMENT
IN REPLY TO MIR. DABNEY

The statement follows:
1--WE have carefully read the article
in The Times Dispatch %: sunday in
regard to the proposed and sadly need
ed additional post-ofiicc abilities in
Richmond. The statements reported
In that article are credited 10 Mr. Dab
ney business manager OF the Chamber
OF Commerce, rather than TO the prcSi-
dent. the officer from whom the public
would naturally expect any statements
claiming to reflect the judgment and
policy OF an organization like the
Chamber OF Commerce.
AT ;his point II Is we'll To state
that there are more than 800
members OF the Chamber OF Com
mercc who do not sympathize with the
attitude OF Mr. Dabncy, AS expressed
IN this interview. In fact. there are
that many members OF the Chamber
OF Commerce who are expressed adj
vocates OF the plan to let the question
Of increased pcst-onice facilities in IN.
city OF Richmond be submitted to the
Judgment OF the post office and treas
ury officials.
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Chorus
GRADUATION AT E. NJ. c. S.

Graduating exercises of the East Maine
Conference Seminary We're held June
10Th, when diplomas were presented to
26 graduates. The parts were: Regi-
maid Jocylen, salutatory; Carleton Smart,
grafton; Eleanor Bragdon, essay; Gladys
Babcock, essay; Sumner K. Bragdon,
GRAFTON; Marion Stubs, essay; Alta Bish-
OPP, class ode; Rachael Ripley, valedic-
tory.
The other graduates are Jennie Bow
den. Catherine Brown, Grace Calkin,
Philip Dalrymple, Paul Decourcy, Rus
sell Foster, Harriet Hunter, Wayne
Hussey, Jean Maddocks, William Ma
deau, Burton Packard, Sadie Partridge,
Clifton Richards. Carlton Smart, Fern
Smith, Hildred Smith, Madeline Spencer,
Elsie Sugden and Raymond Whitmore
The c. O. Montgomery gold watch
prizes for speaking were awarded to
Carleton Smart of Waxfeld and Gladys
Babcock of Rowland
The principals cup for class excellence
was awarded to 1915.
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when they can gain their chief
end security against another war with

militancy when they can gain their chief
end-security against another war with
out it.
eff great league for arbitration were
formed and the entente should come
bodily into it the result would be such a
union as the world needs. The entente
has nine nations as members, of which
five are large and four small. These
greater nations are nearly enough equal
to make it possible to preserve balance
of power between them. As there are
four small States in the membership the
league is a democratic commonwealth,
from which small nations now outside
the circle would have nothing to fear.
We may therefore select the entente as
the best illustration of protective as
ISOLATION that would be an available nu-
cleus for league of peace. The alliance
might also serve as such nucleus, but it
is dominated by one State and has for this
reason less of the quality of an inter-
national and democratic union. Till the
hatreds ard suspicious engendered by the
present war shall have subsidized it is not
likely that both the ertente and the alli-
ance can be easily brought into single
league. In the end they should be so
united, and such union would change
on still grander scale the face of the
f. lropean world -
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SEVEN STATES TO VOTE ON SUI.
FRAGE.
Four to Decide This Year and Three in 1916

Four to Decide This Year and Three in 1916.
Equal suffrage and other legislation af-
fecting women figured prominently this
year In the discussions of a large MAORI
ty of the State Legislatures. The ses-
slons OF most of them have now come to
close and summary of their activities
discloses that the question of woman suf-
frage came up for elaboration in %
States and that divorce laws, mothers
pensions, women police, minimum wage,
eugenic marriage or other subjects relat-
ing to women were considered in %
States.
The Legislatures of seven States
adopted resolutions whereby a Constitu-
tional amendment giving women equal
suffrage rights with men will be submit
ted to the people at the Fall elections
either this or next year. They are
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania in 1915; Iowa, South
Dakota and West Virginia in 1916.
California adopted resolution declar-
ing that woman suffrage in that State
had been an unqualified success. Ala
bama adjourned session to begin July 7.
In II States woman suffrage measures
met defeat Connecticut, Delaware.
Florida, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico,
North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Texas and Vermont.
Pensions for mothers came up for con-
sideration in IS States. In 8, Kansas,
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
York, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyom-
ing, legislation for this purpose was en-
acted for the first time. In two, Texas
and West Virginia, mothers pension
measures were killed. In the rest the
present laws were amended or amplified.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, North
Carolina, Nevada and West Virginia act
ed on divorce laws.
The Senate of Indiana passed eugenic
marriage measure, but it was defeated
in the house. Legislation to promote
healthy marriages and check the social
evil was enacted in Vermont.
Labor laws for women were enacted in
Kansas, Maine Massachusetts and Wy
oming. Maine wrote into her statutes
a 4-hours-a-week law for women and
boys under 16 working in mills, factories
and laundrles. 1t stipulates that such
employees shall not work more than nine
hours day unless for the sole purpose
OF permitting shorter schedule for one
day in the week.
Massachusetts legis!ated to prohibit
the working of women and children over
time for the purpose of making up for
the time lost on legal holiday. Wyom-
ing enacted for her working women an
eight-hour day; and both maximum hour
and minimum wage laws for women were
passed by Kansas. A bill providing for
minimum wage for women in Michigan
was killed in committee.
An attempt in California to enact a
law to forbid women to shake dice for
money or prizes was defeated. So was
bill providing for women Jurors.
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Children CRY
FOR FlETCHER'S
G q 8 TORIA
THE REBEKAH CONVENTION IN
CASTINE.

CAsTINE, June II. The convention of
Rebekah lodges of District No. 19, was
held in Castine at Emerson hall on Tues
day night. 1t was great success in
spite of the very bad rainstorm, there
being over fifty delegates from the towns
of Brooks, Unity, Searsport, Monroe and
Belfast. At o'clock bountiful and
delicious supper was served in the BAN
quet hall. After the supper work was
exemplified by Aurora Lodge of Belfast.
After the comforting of the degrees
the meeting was in the hands of District
Deputy Sister Fairbanks of Monroe. The
regular business of the district was tran
sacted and reports of the lodges read
The report from Unity certainly deserv IS
MENTION. as the work they have done
during the year has been very satisfac-
tory. They have conferred the degrees
on 81 members during the past year,
given literally to the children's home
fund, and had % representatives at the
convention. After the business was dis
posed of, the meeting was closed and an
illustrated poem on Castine, written by
Sister Nellie Perkins of the Castine
lodge, was recited by Sister Una Carew
This brought out five very pretty tab
leauX.
The address of welcome was given by
Sister Helen Vogell, responded to by Sis
ter Twitchell of Unity lodge. After the
entertainment all were invited to the
banquet hall, where ice cream and cake
were served. On account of the weather
the visitors We're obliged to stay until
morning, but merry time was enjoyed
by them, however, as they enjoyed dane
inp until an early hour
The supper was prepared by the Cas-
tine lodge, the following committee hav-
ing it in charge: Sisters Lettie Perkins,
Jennie Sawyer, Nellie Coombs, Kate
Davenport, Stacey Lelley, Sarah Weeks
and Anna Morey. The entertainment
was in charge Of Sisters Carew, Helen
Vogell and Nellie Perkins. The hall was
very prettily decorated for the occasion,
the work being done by Sisters Una
Carew and Agnes Perkins.
At this meeting, the grand master,
Sister Fairbanks Of Kingman, was pres.
ent and her visit was greatly enjoyed.
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GRADUATION at HAMPDEN ACADEMY

The graduation exercises of Hampden
Academy took place last Thursday night
in Town Hall, with the following pro-
gram:
Music, Academy Chorus
Salutatory, Helen Rowe Johonnett
Glass History, Josephine Mabele Jackson
Essay. Mary Bryant Laurance
MUSIC, Chorus
Presentation of Gifts, Madge Couillard
Address to Undergraduates,
Owen Joseph Toussaint
Our Preparedness for War.
Erwin George SWEET
MUSIC, Chorus
Class Prophecy, Ethel Augusta Rawley
Glass Will, Myron Llndley Whitcomb
valedlctory, Dorothea Isma Henry
Violin Solo, Owen Toussaint
Presentation of Diplomas
Music, America, Chorus
CLASS ROLL.
Dorothea Isma Henry, Helen Rowe
Johonnett, Josephine Mabelle jackson,
Ethel Augusta Rawiey, Myron Lindley
Whitcomb, Madge Couillard, Mildred
Couillard, Owen Joseph Toussaint, Ruth
Anna Philbrick, Mary Bryant Laurance,
Esther Mabelle Miller, Erwin George
SWEET, Doris Christene Ware, Archie
John Goodell.
Friday night there was reception and
ball with music by Puilen's orchestra.
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PITTSFIELD PERSONALS.

DR.. E. C. Bryant OF Augusta passed
the weekend with Pittsfield relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Q. Frost of Belfast
are IN town this week the guests of
friends.
Miss Marion L. Estes, who will gradu-
ate from M. c. |. today, will leave Mon
day, June 81, in company with her moth
er, Mrs. Howard Estes, and brother,
Prince Estes, for an extended visit with
relatives in Flaxville, Montana, where
Mrs. Estes daughter, Mrs. Florence
Pooler, and sons, Daniel, and Howard
Estes, have been located for several
years. -Pittsfield Advertiser,
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JOnn Bates Clark of Columbia,

John Bates Clark of Columbia Univer-
sity declared the demand for such
league is universal, but that the opinion
prevails that only weak league is pos
sible and that prospect of securing even
that is doubtful.
1.-The entire movement has. in many
minds, the color of Utopianism," Mr..
Clark said. GIN view of this | wish to
express the audacious opinion that some
thing having the characteristics of a
league of peace is rapidly evolving, that
it is highly effective and will have ample
force at its command, that at the close
of the war it will probably need only a
minor medication to enable it to prevent
for an indefinite time recurrence of a
great war on the continent of Europe.
ut is not necessary to. create wholly
new league. The entente and alliance
are in full vigor and each was formed for
apacifc purpose the protection Of mem
bers from attack. At present they are
pacifists militant, but they will drop the
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Down East Romance.
d Eainess Repaid After More Than
so Years.

E.alness Repaid After More Than
so Years.
|aa Mass, June II. George W.
T. Of Waterville, Me, a retired
/ cam. 10 this village yesterday.
/ three hours he had bought a
Ian rom Cutler Wilson, inside of
s,rgg- he had engaged E. H. Col
II Milford as an architect to draw
|m 7lj0 bungalow to be built on
4 lad arranged for Miss Helen
Kim now of Providence, r. l., to
F. ulngalow with her house
Bnsal, who is a live wire, insist
"a l- ans must be advanced to
|h5p-nt stage by Friday, even if
|r.5rct had to work overtime. To-
h g-nt i'm to Milford to go over
ant tonight he was back in town,
ss1 j1t again.
BYsat is the agent for Theodore
En-, rev of San Francisco, and
|Misul5 gitt-which will either be
or else by a life lease
Bis Billings, is the sequel to a ro-
bot more than so years ago.
/ Umsnce has no love interest, but
sghbarIiness of Down East people,
Indebtedness that dWelt inside
|rs. If reticence characteristic of
|JT E1gIanders, a simple story of
|fess that has never, in half a CEN
|Mke5 even for recognition.
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The pride of justice, the sensibilty to
good will and the activity of Mr.. Bry-
ant backing the gratitude of Mr.. Will
liams, all make upa charming New Eng
land pastoral.
All these people are old, MIR. Wilson
is 81, Miss Billings is 80, and the other
characters in the story are hardly less.
But every one of them has keen set of
the feelings that make one proud OF be-
ing Yankee.
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League To Enforce Peace.
An American Branch Formed. President
Lowell Of Harvard Urges Force Against

An American Branch Formed. President
Lowell Of Harvard Urges Force Against
Wars.
PHILADELPHIA, June II. Within his
toric Independence hall, today-the an
niversary of the battle Of Bunker Hill
there was formed an organization whose
object it will be to promote the creation
of league of nations with view to pre-
venting wars or at least to lessen the
possibilities of armed conflicts. The
name adopted by the organization, after
some debate, was League to Enforce
Peace. American Branch"
Former President Taft, who presided
over the conference for a part of the
time, was elected permanent president,
and, in addition, a long list of representa-
tive American citizens was named as
permanent vice presidents. A perman-
ent executive committee was selected,
with instructions to take all measures
necessary to promote the objects of the
league.
The conference was not an assemblage
of what one participant termed "pure
peace" men, but gathering of those
to bring about peace, even though they
1--WE are here to enforce peace, other
wise we have no business here at all, Z"
exclaimed Pres. A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard University. "When you fight
a forest fire you fight it with back fire.
We have here means to discourage war
and thatmeans is the threat to use force"
After this speech the report of the
committee was adopted.
no hot %Lo
United States join league of nations
binding the signatories to the following:
1-All justiciable questions arising
between the signatory powers not settled
by negotiation shall, subject to the limi-
tations of treaties, be submitted to a
judicial tribunal for hearing and judg-
Iuent both upon the merits and upon any
issue as to its jurisdiction of the cues
ton.
''2-All other questions arising be-
tween the signatories and not settled by,
negotiations shall be submitted to coun-
Gil of Cancellation for hearing, considera-
ton and recommendation.
''3-The signatory powers shall Joint
ly use forthwith both their economic and
military forces against any one of their
number that goes to war or commits acts
of hostility against another of the sigma
tories before any question arising shall
be submitted as provided in the forego-
ing.
"4-Conferences between the signatory
powers shall be held from time to time
to formul tie and codify rules Of interna-
tional law which, unless some signatory
shall signify its dissent within stated
period, shall thereafter govern in the de-
cisions of the judicial tribunal mention
toned in Article ].
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Nsgays Old Friends for Aid.

wages Ut seamstresses a genera
" |sf- not large. But these two
lla1ale5 10 help young Williams to
4 Ih-.r aid he went through COL
I ae struck out into the world
'"1 account.
-a4 Many adventures, but he made
'a5 He was in the West, in
wy .- accumulated money fast
-a-s IL earn more. In the end he
'gll-- 10 be a millionaire. Today
"a 10 own home on Riverside
|. N7w York, and another one in
|i sg all the years he kept in touch
~. NJ Bryant. And always, as the
|ruehts of the last few months
a. %O"n, ne kept a lively memory
|'saIltude for the benefits received
Eeloyhood.
|4 4. health broke down and he
california to live. And then he
W repay, as far as he could, the
~'lpS shown to him many years
..S Mr.. Bryant, as his agent,
~, wv out his benefactresses and to
,S,lef anything could be done to
~. ITEM happy.
sVF7nFd that Miss Billings had just
H. W. move from Providence to Med
T4 her sisters husband lives.
D'oH offered to take her into
.iis but she preferred her in
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Iais Dates Back Half Century.

lss than % years ago, in Oakland,
little village just outside Water
|isre was an orphan boy named
|re Williams. In the town Of
|Tiie, just beginning to become
lls1t, lived George W. Bryant. He
tit little boy his first job, and
:ass those days has Theodore
Fms lost touch with him.
| To- town also dwelt family named
Is There were five or six chill
| md Glowing the custom in that
+ community each went to work as
| &1e Or she was able to earn any,
|bt the sisters, Helen Louetta and
|aa5ar sister, went into the local
E:atP. A thirdasister married Cut
I3oa Of Midway, Mass, whom she
N the Massachusetts town. She
me- died, as has the second sister.
ail survivor of that generation is
f III Billings.
EE aldher second sister became in
/ 'd IN Iheod ore Williams. He seems
E's been younger than either of
and there is not the slightest
Tor the supposition that there
|'oVs story involved.
/ bow or why the two Billings girls
Ehneip young Williams is buried
1encence of the New Highlander,
most Atficult crust in the world
r. winch to break. But help him
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NOTICE..

Guaranteed work In Chiropody, ManIcur
ng and ShampooIng. Also Facial Work
Full line Of all kinds Of Hair Work at my
parIors over Shiro's Store, Phoenix Row.
32tf MISS EVE HOLMES.
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women for the presentation of the pie,
after he had examined the various arti-
cles contained within it, and after he
had tweaked the blue ribbon around the
neck of the white rabbit, he and his es-
cort proceeded to make the rounds of the
Exposition.