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Evening star., 1915-04-23
Southeast First Point Attacked,

Activities Of the clean IN forces this
week have been ccntercd in the SOC
tions of the city living south of Penn
sNlrania avenue Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday tho c1can-up army attacked
Southeast Washington. where the dirt
WAS made to fly under the vigorous
offensive directed nv members of tho
clean city committee of which W II
Richardson is chairman. Yesterday the
clean-up forces invaded the Southwest
section. whore the warfare against dirt
of all kinds IS continuing TODAY and to-
morrow
Monday morning the c1ean-up army
is 10 move against the Northwest sec
t1on. and Thursday Northeast Washing
ton IS to be invaded. The campaign is
to come to an end MAY l. when reports
Of the work accomplished are to be
made to those at the head of the move
mcnt.
Evening star., 1915-04-23
DR.. WOODWARD'S VIEW
OF SPRING CLEANUP
An Actual Preventive Of Disease, He
States, in Discussing Santa
tion Measures.

The municipal cleanup is the ounce
pound of cure" said Ipr. William {.
w oodVard, District health officer dis
cussing the benefits to tho community
in general of the cleanup campaign
Sanitation of tn" city by the re-
moval and proper disposal of the win
tors accommodations of trash. dirt and
nth of all kinds is an actual preventive
of sickness and disease. continued Dr.
Woodward. "Of this there can be no
question. Practically every one Of the
so-cailcd summer ailments has its ori-
gin of dirt of some kind or other Most
Of these diseases arc borne by tlies and
other insects. The flies arc bred and
hatch in dirt of the hlthicst kind
Disease Breeders Abolished,
Nv hen the accumulatiors in whIch
the flies breed are removed and when
such matter is kept from accommodating
the breeding pla ccs Of the flies is ahol-
ishcd, ana tho insects arc kept from
increasing. It is by no means out Of
reason to say that the absolute pre-
vention Of accumulate Of such mat
ter serves for breeding places for
flies. might in = few years result IN the
elimination Of II" common house ny as
= factor in tho spread of disease If
flies cannot hatch they cannot exist.
tina is certain: aud if the material -
stable manure. dccayinS animal and
vegetable matter and the like-In
which they breed is absent, they GER
tainly cannot hatch.
Estimates Value of ..Warfare
1T sounds like dream, but it is a
fact that five years of unremittinR
warfare against dirt and fiith-fve
wears of ceaseless vigilance against the
accumulation of such filth--might rea-
sonably be expected to make flies so
scarce that they would become curiosi
ties.
1T is well enough to shout swat the
fly during the summer, but it is a great
deal better to swat the fy's breeding
place before summer arrives
Evening star., 1915-04-23
NO SALARY PAYMENT
TO RECESS APPO|NTEE
Ruling Applies to Filling of vacan-
cies Which Existed During
Senate Session.

The controller of the Treasury, George
l.. Downey, has written an opinion in the
case of W A. Shelton, given a recess ap-
pontneut by President Wilson AS United
States marshal for the western district of
Missouri, which probably will govern the
course of government disbursing officers
in similar cases, and may result in Of
ficaIs so appointed under certain condi-
tions finding themselves serving without
pay.
Mr. Shelton was appointed by the
President March 10, after Congress ad-
journed, and after previous nominee had
been rejected by the Senate to fill Il
vacancy first existing February 6.
Shelton wrote the controller inquiring
whether he could pay himself voucher
for salary from March 25 to March 81
Evening star., 1915-04-23
ASKS PUPILS Be KEPT
OFF PRIVATE LAWNS
Clean City Committee Official Writes
to Superintendent of Schools
Seeking Further Aid.

The following letter from Mrs Charl-
ton NJ. Clark, financial secretary of the
clean city committee addressed to Er
nest J.. Thurston. superintendent Of
schools of the District of Columbia.
asking that efforts be made in the
public schools of the District to OBJ
tain the cooperation of the pupils in
making Washington a city beautiful.
is self explanatory:
las member of the clean city COM
mittee ! wish to thank YOU for the
effective cooperation of yourself and
SubordinateS with our committee in
making Washington 4 clean city.
Under Your direction the thousands
Of our school children have been mob
ilfzed in our war against dirt and have
also been encouraged to plant ard cul
tivate flowers in school and home gar
deus.
"NaN ! suggest the desra bIity Of
further enlisting the services of this
army of youthful warriors in our cam
paign for the city beautifulr
Evening star., 1915-04-23

last. and the controller, whose word is
final in matters touching disbursements,
has replied in the negative.
The opinion is based on a section of
the Revised Statutes forbiddng payments
of salary pending confirmation to any per-
son appointed during Senate recess to
NIL vacancy. If the vacancy existed
while the Senate was in session, and was
to be filled by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate The controller
points out that confirmation at a subse-
quent Senate session authorizes payment
OF the salary from the date of the ap-
pointment.
Evening star., 1915-04-23
ENGLAND INVASION
TRIED BY GERMANS

LIVERPOOL. April 23.-F. r Jane.
the naval writer. during the course OF
a lecture here Wednesday night said:
1T is not generally known that the
Germans tried to land an expedition
ary force in England. and that the
British navy forced them to go back
to their harbor again. We were once
very near to an invasion, although
never a word of it appeared in the
newspapers.
Evening star., 1915-04-23
Note Done in Yellow.
Older French Generals Retired,

PARIS, April 23.-Twenty-nine more
French generals have been placed either
on the reserve or retired lists to make
way for younger or more active men.
The official journal contains names of
eleven generals of division and eight
cen generals of brigade who have beer
relieved from active service.
Evening star., 1915-04-23
COUNTERFEIT U. S. NOTES
WOVEN INTO BATH TOWEL
Remarkable Implications Which
Come Into the Possession of Sc
cret Service Officers.

Even The callous staff of secret serv-
tricks of the counterfeiting trade, were
shocked into show of surprise yester-
day when Acting Chief Moran strolled
into the office with what proved to be
two four foot long counterfeits tucked un-
der one arm. The counterfeits are du-
dollar United States note with the num-
erals, portraits and lettering woven in
to the texture of an ordinary bath towel
The workma nship was extraordinarily
good, in the Judgment of Mr.. Moran, and
its precision made him believe the work
was done by machine.
Note Done in Yellow.
One note was done in the yellow famil-
lar to the happy possessors of ten dol
lar gold notes and the other, the five, in
dark brown No attempt was made to
reproduce the backs. Mr.. Moran ex-
pressed the opinion that the work vas
done somewhere outside the United
states because most people in this
country know IhH il is against the law
to make anything resembling. money lie
is anxious to discover who made the
towels. not for the purpose Of prosecut-
ton. but to have their ma nufacttlrs
stopped.
The two in his possession came from
Director Ralph of the bureau Of en-
craving and printing, where the nation S
paper money is made. Mr.. Ralph got
them from an cmploNe.
Evening star., 1915-08-01

friends there-or, rather, had. 1t was
Mrs. Ravenna, an Englishwoman mar
ried to an Italian who settled there years
and years ago. And she died while was
there-poor dear Margaret But this is
all a bore to you."
1t was, but couldn't say so. I made
the inevitable contradiction, lit a ciga-
rette, by special permission, and resigned
myself to my duty. 1 didn't see that it de-
manded attention on my part, if l could
only manage to look attentive. So | let
my mind wander off toward Hahn and the
"next stopping place." while Miss Siddis
babbled gently on at my side.
l gathered that she was giving me
the family history of the Ravennas-
why the original Ravenna had come. to
Banda and settled there; why his wife had
married him; how he had died; how she
had followed him. There was somebody
called Schultz in the story, also Schultz's
wife. | remembered that Gore had told
me the Schultz woman was on board.
knew exactly what she was like. All
middle-class German women are the same
woman, and rather thought l had seen
her as came on deck-a fat gray cotton
back, below an area of barren neck lead
ing to small plot of scraped-up hair.
She didn't seem to be the sort of person
one wanted very passionately to hear
about. l smoked, and looked blankly at
Miss Siddis, letting my imagination run
before me to the mysterious land of New
Guinea, now so near.
Then L woke to attention with jump.
What was Miss Siddis saying?
"As for mourning, of course no one in
Evening star., 1915-08-01

do who are uncertain of their charms, and
said gently that knew all about those
matters, no doubt, but she was just
stupid little thing who had to ask every
thing she wanted to know. 1t seemed to
me that the remark was rather a clever
one-supposing that she had summed me
up as a man with more worldly keenness
than Vincent Gore was possessed Of. l
knew then, and know now, that had not
tenth part of his brains; but for mere
commonplace sharpness 1 was easily his
master.
"VOU don't know my name," she said
am Miss Siddis-Mabel Siddis
You've never heard of memo one ever
has. I'm nobody. I'm just little gov
erness going back to my work in Herberts-
hohe. They wanted an English governess,
and l saw the advertisement in Sydney.
can't afford to take holidays in Australia
or Singapore, so came down as far as
Banda, because l have kind English
Evening star., 1915-08-01

n FOUND her on the boat-deck. She
was reading, and did not hear my
approach, so was able to get good
Il look at her before she saw me. l
should not have thought her to be so old
as Gore had said; but she was certainly
not far from forty, and she could never,
vt any age, have been pretty. She was
smallish, and her figure Was there, or
was there not, anything wrong with it?
thought not, at second glance. Her
ct were small, but fiat and ill shod.
er hands, roughened by exposure with
1t gloves, were what the palmists call
eatulate."
She looked up as came nearer. saw
On that she had a-was it a squint?
o, after all, it was not. Her smile was
le one thing about which there could be
doubt: it was undeniably false. On
Re whole, did not like her.
She spoke at once.
'Oh, you are Mr.. Corbet-I saw your
me in the purser's list. It's so nice to
We couple of Englishmen on board
.ong all these foreigners. And then,
'ich a celebrity as MIR. Vincent Gore!"
IER voice did not match her person; it
was soft and pleasant misft voice
lat should have belonged to a pretty
oman. Apretty woman, however, would
have had that carneying manner.
Her hair was of no particular color.
IT dress, as far as 1 can describe it,
emed to be something squashy, with
rs and bobs about it. By force of con-
ast, it brought to my mind something
ely different-the green floating robe,
Evening star., 1915-08-01

fresh and soft as a leaf, worn by the dread
of the mountain woods. pulled myself
together and took seat near the lady
from Banda. After all, she had come
from the island inhabited by the Dread !;
she might even be able to tell me some
thing about her.
The lady looked at me over the top
of her novel. saw her eyes now. They
were grayish, small, and very keen, and
they seemed to be adding me up with con-
siderable acuteness. There was no famil-
iarity in her address. should have Won
dered if Red Bob had not been dreaming,
if had not seen the unmistakable marks
of terror produced by the lady's atten-
tions to him only half an hour before.
AS for what she said, it was simply the
inevitable British comment on the weather.
She informed me that it was a fine day.
/, in my turn, informed her that the fine
days thereabouts averaged some three
hundred a year. She smiled slightly
one-sided smile, as have noticed women
Evening star., 1915-08-01
illustration by Harvey T. Dunn

Paul corbe twenty-five clerk his fathers Liverpool factory has
far East He hears that Vincent Gore the famous explorer board bound for
ref but young C0be his heart fights valet
Gore amused M by by the boys and accepts the situation
friends The ship touches at Banda island corbet
with and beautiful white apparently the island When
he
bared for the remainder
German officer board challenge a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-14
CREDITS RESERVE BANKS.
IInmIiu Relieves Cnur'rN Faced
Certain Rpul>ruptc-

CHrcAGo, Feb. Is Through ;ho Fed.
eral Reserve banks the United states
turned the tide Of what looked Ike rcr-
tain national bankruptcy. a,rprdms
to Char'e, $ Ham'in. % governor of tic
Reserve Board. who spoke here tonight
before tho chicago Ernl Estate Board
at the L1 Sallc Hotel
"TNc most onuuus condition 300 the
history OF our country" said Mr. Hon-
I'm, recently confronted MS The roudi-
ton was 4 elimination ~ On, steady
expectation Of our god uuprcyedcnt-
eddy high rates for toreigu exchange,
derangrment Of our export trade by the
war, constantly increasing balances
against Us on current international COM
mcrc'al transactions p.l'Lg up of re
serves by MANY banks throughout the
country and finally the boarding 81
gold by both individuals and banks
AS a result Of the opening OF The
Federal Reserve system confidence
quickly took tho place q uncertainty
and little gold had to be- shipped ont
OF the country. shortly our increasing
exports replaced gold. foreign exchange
fcll to tn. importing point and our
country became e creditor instead Of a
debtor on current commercial CN-
changes"
He emphasized that although only
small part 81 tine |I.u1u. 400 CO. on
fund was actually used. D. acted as q
powerful incentive to restoration Of
confidence
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d"u pray LOT an "'ucI ptII"''''"s we
continuance ol any Ness or NtSSt,S
are'nH IN operation mere 'ne "o' 10
cN'S'US service 'Ie'rN refer I" ''E
N',S"t "r NeSse's' 49,,
Nhe" we 'oNS'u'r INC P'""'"'' uIl-
n'htl's 10 ne met nv IN" common car
Flel ~ tNSluoihE particular shipments
ana the easy way W. "hl'h ,ht terms
"I ne stature rou'u ne evan u,pe,
SUI" - '"'S'' u''l"H W. ar ''i w "U'u
thil the WoIuS SP'ilu'" service el'I
10 IN" vessel or N's7'F op'r'''u.
IT. 'I"H.'.h inc decision SAYS
TIRE '', p'''Iu'S 'h'' Jul 't''N us
TOO when ~" commission grants %" "N-
tension OF Inn" during No..n ih' N'r-
vice "F water may continue J." ne "I'I-
ated n'No'd july j. W. l'' rates
schedules ana pract.'s or Such water
carrier sniH he uIed WIN the inter-
state commerce COMMISSION ana Sha'
Toe SUBJECT &" inc act L" regulate com
m'r'e ana hi amendments th"ret" IN
the same manner ana to the same eN-
tent as is the railroad or other COM
mon carrier controlling su'h water car
rier or Interested iu any manner IN
It's operation
This language De- d"hnit' ana IN
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ARRESTED AT MOTHERS GRAVE
Charged u, Her Father with Theft
Of Dead Womnn's Trunk.

~ have never heard of such a thing as
this m civilized community" was the
comment Of Magistrate Voorhees, In the
Gates avenue court Brooklyn. yester-
day In tho case of Mrs. May Herman, 20,
Of 23S Ninth avenue Manhattan. who
was arrested on Friday while attending
the Intermeut Of her mother in Holy
Cross Cemetery. The complainant was
her father, John J. Reilly of 264 Albany
avenue.
Warrant OFFICER Blancv Of the Gates
avenue court, who made the arrest. said
that Reilly paid s. for coach for him
so thar his daughter might be arrested
a. the funeral Reilly accused his
daughter Of taking a trunk and it's con
tents which belonged TO her mother
from tho house at as Pacific street
whore the death occurred on Tuesday.
Mrs Herman admitted that she took
the trunk containing linen. clothing and
some trinkets which belonged to her
mother. believing that she and her three
sisters had first choice to everything
I'm II.
Reilly said that he had given his
daughter permission to open the trunk
and take out some papers, hut he
,lought II against his rights to take the
trunk with her. He told the Magistrate
he was sorry things turned out as they
did and withdrew the charge.
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BOOM! EXPLOSION NEARLY
SPOILS GRTDTRON DINNER
Bryan Resignation Rumor Tries to Commit Suicide, but
Fails-New Franks on Famous Clubs
Thrtieth Birthday.

WAsHiNGroN. Feb. i3-The Gridiron
Club celebrated its thirtieth anniversary
with dinner at the New Willard to-
night which was as fun of fun as any
that the club has given in its long record
OF merrymaltIng
President Wilson did moi attend be-
cause of his decision after Mrs. Will
sons death to accept no social invita-
lions this winter. hut Vice President
Marshall. Secretary Bryan, most of the
other Cabinet members, senators and
Congressman and the usually large mum
her ~ well known business and profess
sional men from all parts of the country
were present
Tho diners were hardly seated when
they we're startled by an explosion. Ex-
cited inquiries developed tho fact that
the Bran resignation rumor had just
tried to comm, suicide outside tho ban
quot hall hut had failed The rumor
itself. q bcdragglcd old man with long
gray WHISPERS limped into the hail a
moment later and was promptly OK
PEELED much to the dissatisfaction of
Secretary Bryan himself
hut that was only the FIRST appearance
of the rumor He kept bohbing up at
intervals all through the dinnor and
each time was promptly chased out,
with q sign OF dislpproNal from Nj
Bryan
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FRATERNITY MEN WIN
SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES
Effort Being Made TO Remove
Antagonism to Greek
Eerter Societies.

Greek letter societies have been car
rying on successful scholarship cam
paign 70 demonstrate that attacks on
college secret societies are not justified.
II has been charged that these secret
societies interfere with college studies
and hamper the students in acquiring
an education.
To prove that fraternity men could
he leaders In scholarship as we'll as in
other undergraduate activities, Col.
James ". Curtis, president of the Delta
Tau Delta fraternity in this city, stirred
up the ffty-nine chapters of the or
ganization from Maine to California 70
attain higher efficiency in scholarship.
The results are now showing In the IN
creased number Of scholarships being
won ny members OF the secret societies.
Prizes are being offered for high at
tainment IN student work by the fra
ternity mon.
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TO BUILD HOSPITAL IN CHINA.
BeneHt at Mrs. John ,. Astor's In
Aid OF women's Department.

The Wednesday morning Bible class
has undertaken 70 build and equip the
woman's wing Of the Church General
Hospital al WI Chang, China, and for
the benefit of this work a musicale Is
to he given at the home Of Mrs. John
Jacob Astor. $40 Fifth avenue, on Thurs
day, February %. at $40 o'clock. FRITZ
Krcislcr will play. The committee in
charge are Mrs. Nathaniel Bowdtch
Potter. chairman: Mrs Orme Wilson
secretary: Mrs Oliver lsclin, treasurer
Mrs. John Jacob Aston. Mrs Francis
G. Bishop. Mrs. Lewis lselin, Mrs. Mar
tina McCook. Mrs John T Pratt, Mrs.
John S. Rogers and Mrs. Joseph Il
Stevens Tickets are SIS and may he
obtained from Mrs. John T. Pratt. II
East SiNty-frst street. or from any mem
Der of the committee.
Although the needs In the rest Of
the world are so tremendous said Mrs
Potter yesterday. 1--WE have rcspors.-
bilitv toward China. We are the only
nation who can assist at the present
time, as England and Germany have
had to withdraw much Of their support
and some Of the German hospitals have
been closed The Church General Hos
ptal will he the first Of its kind IN
china.
Or. Macwillle. head Of the hospital.
Is on his way to this country and IL
expected in lis city next week The
plans for the general hospital are now
being drawn by firm of Boston archi-
teCtF"
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and thirdly and lastly regard your
question as insulting. I appeal for pro-
lection"
when Mr.. Bryan was brought before
the bar he was asked where he was on
or about the 4th of March 1897
at Lincoln, Neb.," was the reply
Now tell the court where you wsFs
on the 4th Of March, 1907
AT Lincoln, Neb."
How was the weather al that timer
Twas bitter cold"
Common People--Let's get down to
more recent history. Where we're you
OH March T. 1918?
Bryan was in the White House.
Common People--The White House.
Mr.. Bryan? Pray. what were you do
ing there?
Bryan was eating luncheon with
the President Of the United States.
Common People - What was the
weather on that day.
Bryan-'Twas beautiful, balmy day.
full of hope and promise: the birds
tw-ittercd in the treetops and every cloud
had a silver lining at the ratio of
SIXTEEN
CJudge pounds with gaveD -Conlne
yourself to facts, Mr. Bryan.
Another stunt which created much
amusement was entitled Mother De-
with two crying children which the Re
pubicans had left on her doorstep
shin Subsidy and philtppines--while
another kid, Speaking Bill. came in
yelling because naughty boys had been
throwing stones at him Tariff, In
creased Tax, Currency and Trade Conn
mission were -four other children Of
Mother democracy who added 10 the
general uproar.
Presently all the children were
quoted, when Cousin Willie came In
with - rabbit which he had shot over
in virginia, followed by game war
den. who arrested him
There was great rumpus outside and
Mother Democracy said II was that
horrid Filibuster family next door.
Then In came the Fllibuster children.
Burton Filibuster. Gallinger Filibuster,
Root Flihuster and Ledge Flibuster.
each armed with toy swords. popguus
and other implements OF torture for the
ship bin
Ex-senator Chauncey NJ Depew
whose presence recalled the early days
Of zee club. was reminded Of the ancient
stories he had imposed on diners IN
days zone by.
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GOULD GEMS HELD FOR CHARGE
Parts JcweIry Firms Answer 20
suit for HccoVery.

Carriers the Paris jewellers, hled an
answer In the Supreme Court yesterday
To the suit Of Mrs. Katherine Clemmons
Gould To recover the value Of icwelry
which she alleges she left with the flrm
to be reset in the summer of 1906. The
defendants admit that they have the
iewelry, hut allege that the property was
left 10 be altered and that after this had
cen done at a cost OF s21,092 Mrs. Gould
failed TO pay for the work and take the
Jewelry.
The defendants assert that under the
French law they are entitled to retain
The jcwelry until their charges have been
paid.
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Li,crnc, Test NppIicG.

The guests had hardly finished laugh
ing at the expense 81 Mr.. Bryan when
members Of the club assembled and pro
cecded to toast Edgar e. Snyder into
office as President He WAS subjected
TO l'teraCy test
4 CcW minutes later the diners we're
surprised 10y the appearance In the
diuly lighted banquet hall Of ten red
devils leading an old man with side
board whiskers. in black frock coat
and a plug hat. a young woman and
colorcd brother The three were the
proposed prohibition amendment to the
Constitution. the suffrage amendment
and the present Fifteenth Amendment,
the last complaining that although he
had been adopted he had been neglected
At signal from the president the
three were thrown on what looked Ike
rcd hot Eridirous and ErIlled with ques-
tious FOR ten minutes II turned out
that they vcre newly elected candidates