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The Washington times., 1915-09-05
HOLMES CONRAD DIES
At VIRGINIA HOME
Veteran Lawyer Was Solicitor
General in Second Cleveland
Term.

News OF the death Of Major Holmes
Conrad. for many years a conspicuous
figure in the legal and official life OF
the National Capital. reached here to-
day. his death having occurred late
yesterday afternoon at his home IN
Winchester. Va.
Major Conrad was In his seventy
sixth year, having been born In VIM
chester on January 81. ls4o. He was
Solicitor General for the State Depart
ment during the second Cleveland Ad-
ministration, and was for many years
an authority on constitutional Jaw.
His last appearance in court was In
this city last April, when he addressed
the United States Supreme Court on
behalf of the Virginia bondholders, who
were seeking settlement OF the Vir-
ginia- West Virginia State debt contro-
yersy. On account of his feeble con-
dition. the court allowed him to address
II while seated in chair, but his
spirit overcame his physical weakness,
and he sprang to his feet during Wig
orous attack and concluded his argu-
ment standing.
Major Conrad served in the Virginia
cavalry during the civil war, and was
noted for his spectacular capture Of Sir
Percy Wyndham. an Englishman nght-
ing with the Union forces.
In addition to his wife. who was Miss
Georgie Bryan. three sons and three
daughters survive him. The children
are. Capt Bryan Conrad, Y. 8. A;
Holmes conGnd %Gndsd 1 " Mrs
Edward Hamlin, of Boston. and Misses
Carter and Augusta Conrad. both OF
Washington.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
AID IN CITY PLANNING

American cities have grown up
haphazard and heller -skelter and
become about the worst organized
municipalities in the world, in a
physical sense. Only recently has
there been serious consideration or
even realization of the possibilities
of proper city planning.
In most cases cities are organized
under charters that do not confer on
them necessary powers to adjust
their physical conditions to proper
plans. 1t is necessary, before Amer
lean cities can follow out the ideals
that have been extensively adopted
in European, and especially Ger
man, cities, that they shall be given
adequate powers; and manifestly
these powers must be broad. for
every city has its own peculiar set
of problems.
The committee on cities Of the
New York constitutional convention
has drafted and favors a provision
under which the legislature is au-
thorized to delegate to municipali-
ties "the right to create, fix, and
regulate areas or districts for pri-
vate residences, for the location of
trades and industries and for the
protection or improvement of par
ticular localities, and to limit and
regulate the height. dimensions,
kinds, and uses of buildings, by dis
tricts or otherwise"
Enactment of that measure is
very important; yet its usefulness
would be much restricted unless
there should 60 along with it gen.
erous grant of power over fiscal af-
fairs and business policies of cities.
The town, for example, that wants
to own and perhaps to manage it's
municipal public service facilities
has need of higher debt limit than
the town which does not invest in
such facilities.
American cities generally are ef-
fectually estopped from that kind of
enterprise by reason of fixed and in
elastic limitations on their debts,
which make no account of the fact
that a debt may represent a profit
able investment and be the testi-
mony that the community possesses
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
THE PEDESTRIAN AND THE
SPEED LIMIT

Some of the letter writer's to Tht
Times do not realize that tn,
papers campaign for a revision o1
the automobile speed laws is also ar
effort to insure greater protection
to the pedestrian.
The Times is not trying to pro-
cure greater license for the auto
mobilist in the use of the streets
1t is advocating laws which require
the motorist to be careful, but which
require also the pedestrian to CO.
operate with him in making the
streets safe.
If there is any one class in a com.
munity for whom extreme care
should be exercised by vehicle driv,
|, ers it is the school children. Yet
the Superintendent of Schools, in ar
interview, makes clear that the
children will be safer under a regu.
lation requiring careful driving
rather than driving to conform with
any particular speed limit.
A motorist can observe all the
regulations of Congress regarding
speed and still drive in reckless and
careless fashion. A law requiring
him to drive carefully, at a rea.
sonsble speed, increases his respon.
sibility.
Likewise the letter writer's over.
look the fact that pedestrians owe
certain obligations to the community
in using the streets. No one any
longer insists on the right of a per.
son on foot to cross street car lines
at will.
AS The Times already pointed
out, pedestrians are "car wise
They know the tracks are there, and
they watch out for the cars. By
some strange mental twist these
same pedestrians, on streets where
there is an even heavier automobile
than street car traffic, pay little at
tention to the automobiles.
whether one wishes the automo.
biles might be eliminated or not
does not enter into the question. The
street cars are there to stay. Nc
one questions their rights to the
street. The automobiles are here tc
stay. Yet there is too general i'm
preston that the automobilist has
no rights at all.
A law requiring safe and reason.
able driving would make the motor,
ist responsible for his end of the
bargain. A law regulating pedes,
trians on certain congested streets
and crowded corners would helE
make the pedestrian responsible fol
his own safety.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
ROOSEVELT STARTS
FOR CANADA W|LDS
Colonel and Dr.. Alexander Lam.
bert of for Northern Quebec
to Hunt and Fish.

NEW YORK. Sept. 5.-For the first
time since he started on that South
American trip. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
Is off on vacation. The Connecticut
River Special. which left here late yes
terday. Is taking him in the direction
of the Canadian wilderness. where he
will bury himself for a month with his
old friend and physician, DR.. Alexander
Lambert.
The colonel was as pleased as a boy
over that vacation. He presented him
self at the Grand Central almost an
hour before the train for the North
was ready TO steam out, 80 great were
his anticipations. He stepped briskly
into the station. with a couple OF por-
ters behind him. carrying two suitcases
and great leather case containing
fishing tackle.
The Connecticut River Special was
not made up at that time. for the Colo
mel had beaten every one to the JOB.
A crowd of travellers waiting for the
Albany train recognized him, and soon
there was n fair-sized throng around
him. Two uniformed officials extricated
him from this situation by passing"
him through the gate leading to the
train yard. There wasn't a seat or
colonel was provided with a little desk
such as the baggage agents use In
railroad terminals.
Reads For Half Hour.
For half an hour the Colonel stood,
unconcerned. behind the desk. reading
one Of the three volumes he had
brought with him to while away the
time on a train In this scholarly pre-
a reporter. who approached to learn his
plans for the Canadian trip.
The Colonel said he was going to the
Tornalee Club. In the northern part Of
into the office of his publishers. the
Metropolitan Magazine, shortly after
noon yesterday. and had a short confer
ence with the editors. Others private
business kept him engaged almost until
train time.
1t will be after half-past one this
afternoon before the Colonel reaches
Quebec. He will journey by train and
automobile to the camp. where he Will
meet DR.. Lambert; This is not the first
time that Colonel Roosevelt and DR..
Lambert have hiked off together into
the wilds to hunt and fish. The ply
sician, who has attended the Roosevelt
family fan for many years. has proved an
petitions.
Declines All Invitations.
Colonel Roosevelt II going to devote
HlInselI StIlCtlN 10 NdCdtlnB. ne Will
divorce himself absolutely from politics
and business for four straight xeeks.
An invitation extended to him recently
by the directors Of the Toronto Ma
tional Exhibition to make a speech in
the Canadian capital might have drawn
him into a discussion OF international
questions and for that reason he has
declined to be present Any other en-
gagements calculated to interfere with
the stern business Of pleasure-seekinR
in the woods have been cancelled in the
sa me way.
Not since May. 1914. when he re-
turned from South America. has
Colonel Roosevelt laid aside his busi-
ness affairs to use his rifle and rod for
any length Of time. He Is confident,
though. that he will get back into his
old form as a hunter.
The Colonel. intent upon vacation
Joys barred all questions Of a political
nature. He had no comment to make
upon public matters.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05

scores are being borne to hospitals
helpless, gibbering idiots.
The human factor in war does
not count for SO much. If a siege
gun could kill hundreds of the en-.
emy and only render four or five Of
its operators insane it might be
profitable business. But if every
one near it became incapscitated
the gun might have to- be aban-
doned. In this case these guns
would become terrible, grim jugger-
nauts, rending and destroying those
who brought them into play.
This is only one of the multitude
,of sidelights raised by the present
struggle where problems never be-
fore thought of have arisen on ac-
count of the unequaled magnitude
of the slaughter and the enormity
of the agencies of destruction.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
LAFAYETTE DAY, TOO

Patriotic Americans who revere
their country's traditions and glory
in the achievements of its early
leaders will be eager on Monday to
heed the urging that Labor Day be
made also the occasion for observ-
ance of General La Fayette's birth
day. He was born September 6. A
volunteer committee, headed by N.Y.
ron T. Herrick and including Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph H.
Choate, George w. Wickersham, and
other eminent men. has issued call
to Americans to take this opportu-
nifty to pay tribute to the memory
of the man whose aid in the Revo-
luton was a factor in the victory
of the colonials.
Convinced of the justice of Amer
ica's desperate struggle for liberty.
La Fayette equipped at his own ex-
pense a vessel, in which he sailed
for this country with aid. Through
his efforts the sympathy of France
was intensified and the fight for
independence given material encour-
agement.
La Fayette fought here with
heroic valor, entering heart and
soul into the American cause. His
later career in the French revolu-
ton was a continuation of noble ef-
forts in the cause of human free
dom. His services on two CONT
nents for American liberty always
have been treasured by patriotic
Americans. Those whose apprecia-
ton of our country's early struggles
is sincere will need no urging to
pay tribute on Monday to the mem
ory of the great Frenchman.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
LYCOPERSICUM ESCULENTUM

Justices Herbert, McInerney, and
Moss, sitting in the court of special
sessions in Brooklyn, ruled that the
tomato is fruit, and therefore can
be sold on Sunday. A learned work
on botany is cited as authority.
The point has been moot for many
years. Other courts have ruled dif-
ferently. Says Webster's Interna-
tional Dictionary:
1t has been held by the courts
that all those which. like potatoes,
tuce, tomatoes. etc. are eaten
whether cooked or raw during the
principal part Of meal are TO be
regarded as vegetables. while those
used only for dessert are fruits.
But how about rhubarb? Who
eats rhubarb except as a dessert :?
Yet who would call it a fruit? And
as to the tomato, while in the East
it commonly appears as salad, in
other parts it is eaten raw with
sugar, like peaches or bananas.
The International Encyclopedias
classes 'the tomato as Vegetable,
thus:
1t Is considered one OF the most
wholesome and important OF gar
den vegeta bles.
The tomato, Lycopersicum Escu-
lentum, is of the natural order of
Solanacee. The eggplant is Solanum
Melongena, and the potato Solanum
Tuberosum. The eggplant, by the
way, is defined in the same encyclo-
pedia as "a fruit generally much
used as a vegetable"
There you are. Perhaps the court
read all this, found itself in doubt,
and acted upon the maxim that it is
better that a thousand guilty ones
escape than that. one innocent
suffer.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
Gets Large Sea Horse
In the Tidal Basin

A sea horse. with head and neck sug-
gestive OF an Arabian stallion and a
wing-like pair Of fins that call to mind
the tabled Pegasus. was taken from
the tidal basin late yesterday by w. o.
Pollard. brakeman on the P. B. and
w. railroad. and local fishermen are
hoping whole livery stable may be
found In the same waters.
This particular sea horse is nearly
five inches long. and is in possession
of John J. Maxwell, 3O4 Seventh street
southwest, who has preserved 1t in al
cohol for the enlightenment Of poster
ity. This peculiar marine animal usu-
ally attains length of about four
inches. and is mostly head and neck,
the body dwindling away to small
prehensile tail which the horse" curis
about twigs or seaweed when 1t wants
to stand hitched.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
LLOYD.0EORuH'. VICTORY

Ma David Lloyd George, who had
time to organize the fiscal system
Of Britain and get it in shape to
stand the strain of the world wsi
before he was discovered to be the
only man capable of managing also
the munitions business, seems the
biggest Englishman in sight.
In general way everybody has
great confidence in Mr.. Asquith and
Sir Edward Grey; but their duties
are rather fixed, stereotyped and
obvious. The man of all men in
the British administration who must
be relied upon to deal with entirely
new conditions is the Welsh genius
who went from the board of trade
to the excheGuer, then to the min
istry of munitions.
Mr.. Lloyd George was by COM
mon consent sent to settle the
Welsh coal strike. and he did. 1t
refused to stay settled, and now it
develops, on second appeal to him,
that the award made at first was
not executed in good faith, and the
men did not get all the concessions
that had been destined to their part.
Mr.. Lloyd George, looking into. the
situation and discovering this, or
ders that the awards shall be re-
vised and enforced properly, which
they will be. Thereupon the miners
60 back to work.
The minister of munitions has
pretty nearly made himself the one
indispensable citizen of England.
Half the people, and pretty nearly
everybody who was "anybody," was
supposed to make business of
hating him down to the wars be-
ginning. But things have changed.
The man whom Everybody" sought
means to break down and retire is
now credited more than any other
with saving the country.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
Baltimore Maccabees
Will Be Guests Here

The District Of Columbia members
Of the Woman's Benefit Association
Of the MaccRbees arc preparing to
entertain the Baltimore Maccabees
during the nrst week in December
The Washington and Baltimore lodges
are competing for loving cup as
a prize for procuring the most mem
bers between September I and Decem-
her I. and the cup will be awarded
here.
The annual election OF officers OF
the District lodges will be held the
first meeting this month. and the In
stallation of officers will take place
the first meeting In October.
The association has established q
fund for hospital service to prevent
members of the order from becoming Z
objects OF public charity. Each mem
ber contributes to the fund monthly.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
ThE KEY TO PErROoRAD

10 the retention Of Riga, tn.
great Russian port on the gulf Of
tne same name, the Russian genera
stan is rallying its available re-
sources with an energy which con.
fronts German strategy and force
with a no mean problem. This de.
termined resistance is the outcome
OF q keen realization that the DOS.
session of Riga, coupled with the
progress achieved by Austro- Ger.
man armies further south, would
place Germany on the straight road
to the capital of the Russian empire
50 long as an effective Russian
army holds out at Riga a German
ADVANCE upon Petrograd is virtually
impossible because Of the danger of
a flank attack upon the invaders
which might work an incalculable
reverse to them. Once having seized
Riga and established themselves,
the Germans would be in q position
70 advance their lines rapidly in the
direction of the capital. South of
Riga the military problem has been
largely solved. With such impor-
tant junction points as Warsaw,
Bielostok and Brest- -Litovsk in their
hands, the German commanders
need not fear, for the present at
least, any diversion that might lead
10 their confusion. The only danger
OF Russian counter-offensive is Of
Tered by the continued resistance of
the last Baltic port of any conse-
quence upon which the Russians are
still maintaining their hold.
10 be sure, even the loss of Petro-
grad would not be irreparable to the
Russians. But the friends of Russia
regard the prospect of the fall of
Riga with lively apprehension as
a moral factor of international con-
sequence. They are> waiting with
unconcealed anxiety upon the out
come Of the fighting on the Dvina,
which the Germans apparently are
about to cross at point forty miles
southeast of Riga, and to see
whether the German strateeists
will respond to the popular cry IN
Berlin, "On to Petrograd!"
AS for the Russians themselves
the loss of their capital would have
only comparatively slight senti-
mental significance. A nation which
is capable of razing its own country
level as it retreats, a nation which
has furnished to the world the epic
Of the burning Of Moscow to con-
found a victorious enemy and turn
his triumph into a bitter disaster,
may be counted upon to treat even
the fall of its main seat of govern
ment as matter of no decisive
import.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
Weeks Summary For
Your ScrdpbOOk

SUNDAY, Aug 2s-Ausro armies resume offensive in
Gaca and the ZoaLipa river piercing Russian
Berlin dispatches pophesy victory for Dr. Behmann-ol
backed by Kaiser in fight against Won Tp modRca-
ion of submarine policy German avators driven Paris
region by French amen Greece sends sharp protest Turkey
against prosecutions Asia Minor Bulgaria
position unless satisfactory by other
kan states Japan avoids Russian alliance calling aid
Europe Dardaneles
MONDAY Aug 3OTwo hundred thousand Austo German troops
massed Roumanian frontier Vienna announces CON-
ete breakdown Of leome Russian line in Galca and capture
of 10000 Russians Welsh miners hold for original de-
mands French fleet raids German munion bases
TUESDAY, Aug 3iGreat Britain gives United
States that German Austrian goods
March 2, mostly the docks Rotterdam. will be
leased for shipment this country Ausro Germans advance
5OOme front in theaer capturing Lpsk in Poland
French do heavy damage German trenches Verdun
Italians close Predil Pass Austrian Of supplies for
troops the upper Isonzo.
WEDNESDAY, Sept Berln hints that Uboat destroyer Of Ara
bic has been lost Germans demand Of Roumana immediate
passage Of munitions for Turkey British submarine shells
Gaaa bridge Constannople Pegoud French aviator, who
first ooped the loop killed Russians Austrian drive
the Stripa river momentariy
THURSDAY Sept 2Ambassador Bersto conveys State
Department Germanys promise that liners will be sunk
without warning and without safety of the lives Of noncombat
Arrest of James F. j. Archibald American magazine
writer by British police said support Of completely Of
German officials in unneua the United States Lon
hears Germany has organized propaganda looking toward
peace Germany that 100000 Russians have been
killed and wounded and 100000 captured since May Auso
capture and lombard Grodno. French repus
by Germans with asphyxiating gas in Vosges.
Sterling exchange New York drops 45o closing 455
Berlin says 10000 British killed in making landing at
Anafarta.
FRIDAY Sept Gibbons presents message from Pope
Benedict President Wilson Washington thinks Germany
Papa plan bring about peace and approved The
German press headed by Won Revenlow, Germany will
peace until Great Britain has been beaten and strip
ped naval supremacy One Berlin that Won Tr
oooI;c,
driven from Brody Galca Greece agrees cond
tionaly, to Serbian concessions to Bulgaria.
SATURDAY, Sept 4-Archduke Ferdinand Austrian commander
Poland Polish 'front.' giving report that Austrian
army in this will transferred the Serbian front.
Rome eyacuating Roveeto blocking
to Trent Grodno advance toward Riga
British troops Hill 10 of hill in face of
saughtering FIRE, but have give up ground gained
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
BIO GUNS AND INSANITY

Military experts blithely predict
ed the development of big guns and
terrific explosives to the nth degree
The present gigantic apparatus used
by the Germans in sieges, they as,
serted, formed only the beginning
of this development.
These prophets, as technicians
are apt to do, reckoned without the
human factor. To be at all usefuI
these great guns must have some
one to fire them. But DR.. C. Burns
Craig, q physician, just returned
from the firing line, reports that
the noise of these guns is driving
men to insanity by the thousands
The effect of their terrific explo,
sions is to rupture the nerve
trunks and the nerve centers" he re-
ports. Men behind them by the
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
Horse Neighs CleW.

ROONTON, N. j.. Sept. 5.-Mrs. Ara
mtnta DOland. IF Boston. and her two
sons were riding at Malaparadis, near
Whippany. when Passing a stable they
heard familiar neigh. Last Wednes-
day night horse they had owned for
eighteen years was stolen from their
barn.
Going to the stable, they found the
horse, which had recognized the hoof-
beats OF Its Did mate which Mrs Doland
was driving on a road more than at
yards from the stable.
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
TRAINING CAMPS FOR THE
WOMEN FOLKS

Women are playing an important
part in the European war. They are
doing everything but the fighting.
Occasionally they do that.
If this country went to war
women would be called upon to
serve in the same way. That has
to be admitted whether one likes the
idea or not. 1t did happen in the
civil war. Women of the West still
tell of the way they went into the
fields, and into the timberland. and
kept the farms running until their
husbands came home, and when the
husbands did not come back many
kept right on doing their work.
In view of this possibility the
suggestion, advanced through the
Navy League by Mrs. Mafy Logan
Tucker, for woman's camp, along
the lines of the business mems
camps, is worth considering. The
camp would not be military, but it
would take up first aid work, it
would teach signaling, telegraphy,
and the use of small arms.
Many women would find such
training of great value whether
this country ever went to war or
not. The things to be taught are
the things women wish to know,
The teaching of the use of small
arms, particularly, would be valu-
able. The discipline, and the camp
life routine, would be of benefit. The
entire project deserves to be tried
out.