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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
CHARGED IN TWO INDICTMENTS
Mansell T. Mills Pleads Not Guilty
to Secreting and Embezzlement.

Mansell F. Mills, former clerk in the
registry division of the city post office,
pleaded not guilty today when ar
raigned before Chief Justice Coving-
ton. in Criminal Division l of the District
Supreme Court. Mills is charged in two
indictments with secrctinS and en-
bezzling packages of money in transit
between national banks through the
mail. one package is said to have
contained $1,000 and the other package
1000
Attorneys F. s. Swindell and Levi II.
David for the accused secured leave
of the court to withdraw the plea with
in ten days and demur or move to
Quash the Indictment
Mills is under bail of $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Probing Neutrality Question.

NEW YORK, February 27.-Charges
that the Hamburg American line had at
to use the Norwegian steamships
Fran and Sommerstad as auxiliaries to
the German navy were made in docu-
ments submitted to the federal grand jury,
which has begun here an investigation in
tended to cover all alleged violations OF
American neutrality and customs laws
regarding which European governments
have complained since the war began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
SOUTHERNERS DINE TONIGHT.
Last Gathering Socially and Official.
" of Society for the, Season.


The last gathering of southerners of
Washington socially and officially this
season is to be held tonight at the
New Willard Hotel, when the Southern
Society OF Washington holds it's an
lual banquet
The committee on banquet, of which
Col. Neyle Colquitt is chairman, an
nounces that the dinner is not con-
fined to members of the society or to
southerners
Members of the cabinet, United States
Supreme Court, senators, representa-
tives and others prominent in official
and social life have made .reserva-
tions. The Secretary of the Navy will
act as POSTMASTER and ten-minute adj
dresses will be made by the Secretary
Of State. the Attorney General, the as
sfstant secretary Of war, eX-Gov. 10
\ eph W. Folk and Representatives j.
Thomas Helm and John II. Small.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
EDISON MAKES APPEAL
FOR HOSPITAL PROJECT
Writes Chairman Smith Urging
Congress Not to Drop Appro-
priation for Work.

John Joy Edison. president Of the board
of charities. yesterday sent to Senator
John Walter Smith, chairman of the con-
ference committee Of the Senate and
House on the District appropriation bill,
an appeal to Congress to replace in the
bill the item for the proposed new Gal
linger Hospital. which was stricken out
in the House.
The Senate had placed in the bill pro-
vision for s150.000 for beginning work
on the new hospital and u limit of cost
of 100000. The limit of cost was raised
by the conferees to $1,000, 900 When
the conference report was made to the
House that body struck out the entire
provision.
Edison Gives Six Reasons
The new hospital is to be a municipal
hospital. and in his letter Mr.. Edison
gives six reasons why the appropria ton
should be made now. They are as fol-
lows:
THE present uildings Of the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital are pro-
nounced by all who visit them as unfit
for hospital puro poses.
The buildings afford aceommoda-
tions for $50 patients and yet as many
as PSI patients have been crowded into
these quarters.
1T has been suggested that the wings
erected for a workhouse could be con-
verified into additional accommodations
The alterations would cost about $780,
600. 1t is Reasonable to assume that
when completed the suggestion of a
converted prison could scarcely be re-
moved from the minds of our unfor-
tunate sick and friendless poor
Site an Unhealthy One.
1T is well known th1 the site of the
Washington Asylum Hospital exposes
the inmates to malarial diseases and
is otherwise undesirable, and hence
renders the expenditure of money for
additional buildings there extremely
unwiSe.
1T has been stated that the private
hospitals in this city are amply equip
ped to take care of the sick poor, but
the fact is that the Washington Asy-
lum Hospital only cares for such pa
tients as are not wanted in other insti-
tutionS.
I'm addition it may be stated that
to accommodate 120 patients. There
are now 1870 inmates. and we have a
waiting list of fifteen patients who
should be in the hospital.
This serious situation. which has been
pointed out repeatedly. is growing worse
from year to year; there are today 80
patients in urgent need of decent hos
pfta1 facilities, and human nifty demands
the erection Of proper shelter for at least
800 patients Such Il building should be
planned with view To making future
additions as the exigencies may demand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
death ENDS ILLNESS
OF MAI. GEN. HAYWOOD
Former Commandant of Marine
Corps Had Notable Record
of Service.

Maj. Gen. Charles Haywood. who va
commandment of the United State
Marine Corps from 1891 until his retire
ment for age in October. 1908, died in
his apartments at the Portner yesterday
afternoon at the age of seventy-fiye
years His health had been failing for
several months. and his death was not
unexpected.
His wife was his constant companion
to the last. Funeral services will be
held at the Portner Monday morninG
at 10 o'clock. Burial will be private In
the Arlington national cemetery.
Rank Created for Him.
The rank of major general in the
Marine Corps was created by Congress
in July. 1902. for the special benefit of
Gen. Haywood in recognition of his
services in the Union navy during tn.
civil war. 4 native of waterville. Me.
he was appointed to second lieutenant in
the Marine Corps in 1858. and was a
captain when the war broke out. He
! was attached to the wooden frigate
Cumberland during several engagements
on the Atlantic coast, and fired the last
gun on that vessel just before she was
sunk by the Confederate ironclad Merri-
mac in Chesapeake bay. He took part
also in the battle of Hatteras Inlet and
In the capture of Forts Clark and Hat
teras. He was on the Hartford in the
battle Of Mobile Bay. and also at the
capture of Forts Gaines. Morgan and
Powell, and assisted in the capture Of
the ram Tennessee and the steamers
major and lieutenant colonel FOR dis
tinguished gallantry in the presence Of
the enemy
OF No
Following the war he served on va
rious warships on foreign cruises ard
at various shore stations. and com
! manded battalions of marines employed
in putting down labor riots at tSaten
Island. n. y, and at Reading. Pa. He
was commended by name by Gen. Han
cock OF the army for his services OIL
| those occasions. In 1885 he organized
sent to the Isthmus of Panama to open
transit and protect American life and
property.
During his twelve years administra-
ton of the office of commandant the
Marine Corps was reorganized and In
creased from an organization OF 2.1la
officers and men to one OF 1910 ohtcers
and men. The service OF its personnel
was extended to twenty-nine posts
throughout the United States. on board
ship and to the overseas stations in the
far east. \ system OF training and
target practice was established and
opportunities We're given the enlisted
, men to obtain commissions. The frs:
modern quarters were built for the
corps. and, in fact II was transformed
from. a comparatively Little known
, branch of the service modern
fighting unit that has since proved Its
! worth to the nation in many tight
places in all parts OF the world.
After his retirement in 1909 Gen. Hey
wood made a tour Of Europe. and since
that time had lived in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Monaghan May Dock Tomorrow.

NEW YORK, February 27-The Allan
line steamship Monaghan. which sent
out a wireless call yesterday for help
because she was leaking badly 400
miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, is
heading for Halifax under her own
power and should reach there tomor-
row. local agents OF the line, announced
here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Swearing On. Not Off.

From the Boston Transcript
Made any rev resolutions Tor 1919
Yes. to limit myself to two cigars a
day.
..How many have YOU been smoking!
None.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Ambiguous.
e Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Allow often do your house
maids dust?
Mrs (Which. fan the furniture or
skip out"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
A Fish All Right.

From, The Boston Transcript
Inquirer-Does one Fish i've III TINS
building:
Janitor-Yessah. Dere's MI Salmon
OF de second flo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
THREE APPROPRIATION
BILLS PASS IN SENATE
Navy, Diplomatic and Fertilization
Measures Garry Total of
$162, 100000.

The Senate passed the navy appro-
priation bill practically as reported
from the Senate naval affairs commit
tee late yesterday afternoon. 1t carries
s152.0O0,000. approximately. and pro-
vides for two new battleships and
twenty-one submarines.
Senator Smoot of Utah precipitated a
war debate by offering his amendment
for fifty seagoing submarines and
twenty-five for coast defense.
After long discussion Senator
Shoots amendment was stricken out
without a vote on point of order
made by Senator Swanson. The Sen
ate then agreed to the committee sub
marine amendment, authorizing Ave
seagoing and sixteen coast defense
submarines. The House bill carried
only one seagoing and eleven coast de-
Tense boats,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27

Ills Fiancee-Tcli me. count, why do
you always kiss my left hand?
The Count-You are left-handed. arc
you mott
His Fiancee-Yes.
The Count-Then that is re hand with
which you sign re checks. 10 II mott
Puck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Still a Nomad.

From the Boston Transcript
'FNhy did your wife leave YOU"
Force of habit, l guess. She was ::
cook before / married her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
N|NETY-0NE ARE ADDED.
TO ROLLS OF Y. ". c. A.
Flve-Hundred Mark Expected to Be
Passed When Campaign
Ends Tonight.

Adding ninety-one more members to
the rolls today. the teams in the MEM
bership campaign of the Young Woman's
Christian Association increased the num-
Der of new members brought in during
the campaign to 4S9. 1t is expected that
the five-hundred mark will be well passed
when the last applications are brought
in this evening and the campaign
formally brought to a close
Great enthusiasm is being shown in the
meeting scheduled for this evening The
"aeroplanes'' still remain in the lead, hav-
ing brought in 1927 members, as against
1872 for the Automobiles but it is be
lleved possible that the automobiles
may have number held in reserve, and
that the contest may even now be close
one.
Today's Reports of Leaders.
Reports today as made by the various
leaders were as follows:
Aeroplanes Division A. Miss Susap r.
Cults, commodore. 81; division B. Mrs.
Fannie MacAllister, commodore, Is: di-
vision c. Miss Estelle Foster. con,mo-
dore, a.
tomobiles-Division \, Mrs T. II.
Mitchell, general, 4: division 4, Miss
y,
Miss Ida Johnson, general, IL.
Addresses are to feature the program
this evening. Musical numbers are
also to furnish a portion of the enter
talnment. Announcement of the work
ers who have brought in, as individu-
ais, the greatest numbers is to be made
at this time.
Later Benefits Expected.
That the results of the campaign will
be far-reaching was the belief en-
pressed by officials of the association
today. Many members will come In
later as result of the work started
at this time, it is thought.
Last night all of the teams were at
the association rooms to welcome Wis
TORS During the two weeks of the
campaign hundreds of persons have
visited the association headquarters.
14th and G streets northwest. and
learned of the work being done there
for the women of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Two Other Bills Passed.

The Notifications appropriation bill.
carrying $6,000.000, was called up i'm
mediately following the naval bill and
passed without amendment just as 1t
came from the House
The diplomatic appropriations bill,
carrying $4.200,000, approximately, was
passed by the Senate last evening. The
Senate added about $25O.000 to the
House bill. A paragraph calling upon
the President to collect from Cuba
S6.500,00O, the expense Of the American
army of pacification in 1909. was strfck-
en- out on a point of order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Underfoot.

From the Florida Times Union
Some men could be sized up in tw o
words: Human doormats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
FOUR YEAR SENTENCE
IS GIVEN HENRY GREEN
Embezzlement of Postal Telegraph
Company Funds Ascribed to
Race Betting.

Henry Green, formerly cashier OF
the Postal Telegraph Company. plead
ed guilty today to an indictment charg-
ing the embezzlement of about $4,000
of the companys funds during the
four years i'll which he was in it's employ.
Green was arraigned before Chief JUS
tice Covington in Criminal Division
of the District Supreme Court, and was
sentenced to serve four years in the
penitentiary.
The young man told an amazing story
to the chief justice. declaring that he
had been inveigled into using the COM
'pany's money to spend on horse races
which he said had been represented to
him as fixed
Several handbook men harassed him by
visits to the companys offices, he assert
ed. where they pictured to him in glow
ing colors the sure things which they had
He took the cOmpany's money and in
trusted it to the men, he declared. Green
said he was unable to tell how much
money he had SO taken.
Restitution Amounts to $1,000.
Green has made clean breast" of
his embezzlement, and returned to the
company as much as $4,000, which in
Guided all his savings during the four
years he had worked for the company.
He is also understood to have furnished
the Department of Justice with the names
OF the men who had persuaded him to
bet on the races. After sentence Green
was taken before the grand jury and
told his story, and gave that body the
names of the men who, he claims, OBJ
tanned the money.
Discloses the Scheme
One of the schemes which Green told
the court the men outlined to him was
that they knew the horse on which
he was to bet would be equipped with
an electric saddle and that all the
jockey had to do was to press the but
ton and the horse would go out and
win. Green says he sent some friends
to the track one day to watcn the horse
tnat had been '-seIecteu" to win, and
and declares they reported the morse
nad been pulled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
jackson Received 100000.

L. A. jackson, general counsel for
the Rock Island from 1902 to 1910, also
told the commission he had been asked
to resign by Mr.. Reid and had no
knowledge why. He said he received
100000 for past services and all mat
tiers of things
c. II. Warren. assistant to President
Leeds of the Rock Island during 1902
o.. said he had left the company be-
cause Mr.. Leeds had not devoted suffi-
cient attention to questions relating
to management of the road.
Z. j. Moore, a Philadelphia banker,
also testified.
Representative Green testified he did
not know David Lamar. and had dis
cussed the resolution with no one. 1t
was offered, he said. entirely upon his
own motion and upon personal knowl-
edge of the conditions of the tracks
and equipment of the Rock Island in
Iowa after the holding company had
obtained control of the system. The
lines and equipment had steadily de-
Perforated under that management, he
asserted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
FAILURE TO GAIN VOTE
is BLAMED ON WOMEN
Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby Speaks Be
fore the Federal Suffrage
Association.

Women were blamed because they
have not secured the ballot for them
selves by Mrs. Clara BewicS Colby, sec
rotary of the Federal Suffrage Asso-
citation, at the annual meeting of that
organization last night. Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, honorary president of the
association, contributed "reminiscences
of the early campaigns for the fran
chise. These were the features of the
annual meeting III the auditorium oil
the Public Library last night.
Officers of the association elected for
the ensuing year are the Rev. Olympia
Brown, president; Clara Bewick Colby.
corresponding secretary: Mrs. Charles
Morton and Mrs. b. II. Ransom. vice
presidents; Martha Mitchell Hoyt and
Mary MacCartee, recording secretaries;
Anna Harmon, assistant treasurer; DR..
Elnora G.. Folkman and Mrs. H. X.
Prosser. auditors.
Plea for the Ballot.
Mrs. Colby held that woman as the
ethical leader of the world generally
and of man specifically, should have
demanded her right of franchise She
argued that woman could not fulfill
I her mission as leadey of the stronger
sex by staying home to rock the era
die, because man refused to stay in
, the cradle" She said that inasmucl
as man had gained all his rights
| through the sacrifice Of woman it was
outrageous that he should be lined III
against her when woman stepped for
ward to demand her freedom in the
| form of the franchise.
what Women Have Done to Make
Washington and This Country was the
theme of the address by Mrs Lockwood
| Discussing the part she has taken in
the interests of wonien's suffrage, Mrs
Lock God said
when ! first started 10 speak. i'll
| favor of votes for our sex 1t was even
| worse than a ship nowadays trying to
escape the blockade on the other side
i The trouble was l couldn't escape it
and consequently had to stand the bonn
baniment of my critics.
Addresses also were made by the Rev
OLYMPIA Brown of Racine, Wis, presi-
dent OF the association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
ROCK ISLAND CASE
| HEARINGS NEAR END
TESTIMONY Before |. c. c. May
Be Finished Before Night.
Ogden Mills Heard.

Hearings in the interstate commerce
commission investigation of the financial
affairs of the Rock Island railroad sys-
of financiers headed by Daniel G. Reid
William b. Leeds and w. H. Moore were
resumed today with some prospect that
the taking of testimony would be finished
before night.
Chief Counsel Joseph w. Folk for the
commission announced he expected to call
only three more witnesses for the govern
ment, while counsel for the two Rock
Island holding companies said he would
lave only five witnesses
Among the governments witnesses to-
day was Ogden Mills, a director of the
Rock Island at the time the Leeds Reid
group acquired control
James speyer on Stand.
James Speyer, head of the New York
banking house of Speyer 2: Co, made a
voluntary statement before the inter-
state commerce commission today of
his firms dealings wi the Rock
Island system during the period of its
history under investigation. The firm
never had occupied the position of ifs
cal agent for the railroad. he said. but.
acting as principal, had bought and
resold between 1904 and 1912 securi-
ties of the Rock Island Railway Com
pany itself of some $170,409. 900, face
value.
The total profit on those transactions
for his firm. Mr. Speyer said. was
S1.43S,743. or s. of l per cent. Not
all of the firms transactions in Rock
Island securities had resulted in prof
its, Mr.. Speyer added.
Ogden Mills. director of the Rock
Island Railway Company and of the
New Jersey holding company, said he
had no personal knowledge of the va
rious payments in stock or bonds in
addition to salary made to various Of
ficers of the Rock Island system. In
several instances he did not know of
them until they were mentioned dur
ing the present hearing.
In opening testimony for the rail-
road counsel called W. J. Wilgus, an
engineer who recently made a report
on the condition of the Toledo. St.
Louis and. Western railroad. nearly
100000 in the securities of which Is
carried among the assets of the Rock
Island system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
HAVE FAITH IN HEAD
OF CHINESE REPUBLIC
Friends of President Believe He Will
Guide the Country Through Its
Troubles, Says Lecturer.
DIR. Frank ]. Goodnow. President of
Johns Hopkins University, Speaks
Before Geographic Society.

The Chinese Republic was the sub
ject of lecture by DR.. Frank ]. Good
now, president of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and legal adviser to the Chinese
government during 191S-1914. before
members of the National Geographic
Society at New Masonic Temple last
night. With other interesting state
ments. DIR. Goodnow told his hearers
that it was the opinion of the friends
of the president of China that he
would be able to guide the young re-
public through the sea of troubles
which the great war has added TO those
of reforming thousands of years of
conservatism. There is. at least. he ex-
planned, great opportunity before the
Chinese statesman.
A peculiar geography. Dr.. Goodnow
said, has done much to make the Celes-
tial people peculiar people. The ell
mate is arid during the winter, while
the big rains come together with the
hot weather in July. The great rivers
of China flow east from sources high
up in the mountains, and are subject 10
periodical foundations like those which
occur in the valley of the Nile. The
bringing down and the spreading OF
the sit by the river floods have had the
tendency to maintain the fertility OF
the fields in the face of the heavy oe-
mands which are made upon them.
These conditions, the lecturer said,
make possible very intensive agr1cui-
ture, and have had some determining
mart in making the Chinese primarily
an agricultural people.
Depend Largely on Vegetables.
Chinese civilization is a civilization
based almost solely upon products of
the vegetable kingdom, Dr. Goodnow
continued The Chinese use mineral
and animal products sparingly, and
they even resort to vegetable wastes
for fuel where coal fields are near, and
so their houses are mostly cold In win
ter One of DIR. Goodnow's Chinese
friends. the. lecturer said, offered the
following comment on China's fuel Gus
toms:
You Europeans live in your houses.
We live in our clothes. II it gets cold
we put on another suit If it gets still
colder we put on still other suits
DIR. Goodnow told of one physicians
experience who wanted to examine
Chinese in severe winter weather and
had to wait until his patient took off
fourteen suits OF clothes before lie
could get to the skin.
Because the Chinese are strictly agrl-
cultural and because for thousands of
years they have been accustomed to
getting all that they need from their
small plots of land. they lack in the
spirit of cooperation which is neces-
sary to modern life AS understood in
the west, DIR. Goodnow said; they are
not able to bring that high degree of
social cooperation which is required
in a society which successfully ex-
PLOTS minerals. which through thou
sands of stockholders and large BUSH
ness organizations develops its iron
and coal.
Ethical System in China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
Admit Sudden designations.

While admitting that their resigna-
tons from official positions with the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-
way Company were sudden, former Of
fcials of the road in teStifying before
the interstate commerce commission in
quiry into the financial operations of
the system yesterday could give no
reason for them.
J.. Il. Loree, chairman of the exec
utive committees of the road. and of the
Frisco system for ten months in 1904.
testified yesterday that he had been
guaranteed 100000 by MIR. Leeds when
he left the presidency of the Baltimore
and Ohio to take the new positions.
This was in addition to the annual sal
AIRY of $4,000 he received from the
Rock Island, and a similar sum from
the Frisco. AT the end of ten months
Mr.. Reid asked him to resign, the Wit
ness said, saying that the directors
faced the necessity of sustaining his
actions and losing the services of sew
eral other officials, or of parting with
his services. Mr.. Loree said he re-
signed on the spot and in settlement on
his agreement with Mr.. Leeds received
$3.50, 900 in Rock Island railway bonds.
Asked what explanation Mr. Reid had
made of his request, the witness said
he didn't know what was in Mi.
Reds mind