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Evening star., 1915-03-07
SPECIAL TRAIN TO CARRY
FLORISTS TO CONVENTION
GUIDE Brings Back From Chicago De-
tails of Plans for San Fran
cisco Meeting.

Arrangements for special train
which is to carry florists of this civ
Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York and
o'her eastern cities to the annual con-
vention of the Society of America n
FLORISTS and Ornamental Horticulture
lists in San Francisco in August were
made at meeting of the executive
committee of the organization in Chi
cago Monday and Tuesday last The
meeting was attended by William f..
Guide, Washington representative of
the society and a former president of
the organization. Mr.. GUIDE returned to
Washington yesterday afternoon.
While in Chicago Mr.. GUIDE also at
tended meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the International Telegraph
Delivery Association, of which he is
also Washington representative. This
all sections of the world, who exchange
orders for flowers by means of tele-
graph.
Mr.. GUIDE stated yesterday that at the
same time the Society of American
Florists and Ornamental Horticultur-
lists meet in San Francisco eighteen
allied florists organizations also are
to hold their annual conventions there.
Mr.. GUIDE believes definite plans for the
memorial to be erected in this city to
the late William Robertson Smith, su-
perintendent for many years of the
National Botanic Garden, probably will
be agreed upon at that time. He re-
ports that the majority of the florists
interested in the proposed memorial
are of the opinion it should be in the
form of an educational garden rather
than a statue or monument.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
LINENS NOW ARE NEEDED.
Red Cross Asks Donations of Sheets
and Pillowcases.

Based on reliable reports from abroad.
the American Red Cross announces the
special need of donations of sheets and
pillowcases for single beds and of towels
for use in the hospitals of Europe Sup
plies of this kind must be absolutely
new. They should be addressed to Amer
lean Red Cross, Bush Terminal, No 10.
Brooklyn, n. Y, with the boxes marked
distinctly as to contents.
On the French line steamer Chicago,
out of New York, the American Red Cross
is sending an unusually large shipment
OF hospital supplies to the American
relef clearing house in Paris The ship
meht consists Of 354 boxes, cases or bales.
and includes $4,000 pounds of absorbent
cotton, 1000 pounds of chloroform, sew
eral thousand pounds of bandages, and
thousands of yards of sauze, also several
barrels of iodine.
The Atlantic transport line steamer
Samiand, which is scheduled to leave New
ork tomorrow, will carry ninety-seven
large boxes of medical and surgical sup
PheS for the British Red Cross, consigned
to Sir William Garstin, chief of the stores
department of that organization.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
CITIZENS WILL CONFER.
Plans to Be Laid for Hearings on
D. C. Fiscal Relations.

Conferences between Henry B. F.
Mcfarland, chairman of the executive
committee of the committee of one
hundred. and the heads of other civic
organizations of the District of Col
umbia will be held this week to per-
feet plans for hearings before the joint
committee of Congress which is to in
yestigate the fiscal relations between
the District and the United States.
Pursuant to the action of the execu-
tive committee of the committee of
one hundred suggesting cooperation
in presenting the facts to the joint
committee of Congress, Mr.. Macfar-
land, chairman of the executive COM
mittee, conferred yesterday with Ed
win c. Brandenburg, president of the
Board of Trade. p I. Moran, president
of the Chamber of Commerce and Ed
ward F. Colladay, president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations, and
was assured by them all that they
heartily concurrcd in the suggestion
and would be glad to do all in their
power to carry il out
Contrary to expectation. Speaker
Clark did not make an appointment
last night of the House members of the
joint committee.
Evening star., 1915-03-07

Belgrade, the Serbian capital. is in
charge of DR.. Edward w. Ryan. whose
force is in charge of all of the large
hospitals there.
A cable dispatch received at Red Cross
headquarters from the American minister
at bucharest through the State Depart
ment, says:
SERBIAN prime minister and minister
OF foreign affairs informs me that Ameri-
can Red Cross mission, direction DR..
Ryan. stayed in Belgrade, and has taken
under It's protection the general military
hospital, the general civic hospital and
the following Serbian doctors: Zavadjil.
personnel and druggists that were in the
hospital"
Buildings Are Crowded.
Nine. Grouitch, wife of the under sec
retary for foreign affairs of Serbia, who
was Miss Mabel Dunlop of Clarksburg,
w. Va. and who has assisted the Ameri-
can Red Cross in placing its hospital
units in Serbia, writes:
Every available building in all the
towns near the front has been con-
verted into hospital and still wound
ed must sleep sometimes on floors in
corridors or sheds. Often wounds can
only be dressed every third or fourth
day for want of bandages and gauze.
surgeons are working eighteen hours a
day; nurses and local committees are
exhausted from the strain.
please continue sending chloroform,
handage alcohol. iodoform. etc. There
is great need also of surgical instru-
ments. sterilizing instruments, N-ray
equipment. anti-typhoid serum, cloth
ing for refugees-in fact. for every
thing. The misery in the devastated
portions of the country (Serbia) is as
great as it is in Belgium"
Evening star., 1915-03-07
LEASES IN MANCHUR|A
ARE CONCEDED BY CHINA
Japan to Control Railway and Two
Ports for Period of Ninety
Nine Years.

PEkING, March 6.-At the conference
held today between Japanese diplomats
and statesmen of China, the Chinese
republic conceded an extension for
period of ninety-nine years OF the
present Japanese railroad system in
Manchuria.
The conference at which this COZ
clusion was reached was one OF
series inaugurated some two monehs
ago. Immediately following the Japa-
nese occupation of kiaochow, the for-
mer German concession in Shantung
province. At these conferences Japan
has been discussing the various de-
mands made by her upon the Chinese
republic.
Contention Made by China.
China has been contending for the
retention of a clause permitting her to
repurchase the South Manchuria rail-
road at the expiration of a period OF
thirty-six years from the date of the
original lease of this line to Russia, but
it now appears that her efforts have
been fruitless. The Chinese authorities
are reluctant to grant to Japan the re-
quests she is insisting on concerning
land ownership and trading rights In
China.
This, because of the condition of extra
territoriality which accompanied the
presence of all foreigners in emma
will extend Japans legal jurisdiction
throughout south Manchuria and east
ern Mongolia. The Chinese are fear
full that Russia, if these concessions
are granted, will subsequently insist
that similar privileges be accorded her
Extension of Port Leases.
At the China-Japanese meeting held
in Peking March China extended to
Japan for period of ninety-nine years
the leases of the ports Of Dalny and
Port Arthur The railroads of Man
churia came under the administration
of Japan as a result of her victory in
the Russo-Japanese war.
Evening star., 1915-03-07

wounded and since the beginning OF the
war a total of 10000 injured had
passed through the town.
German aeroplanes are frequent Wis
itors. according to Mr.. Andrew. who
writes that one of the bombs dropped
by them took of the side OF the am
bulance he was driving.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Extension of Port Leases.
Mistake in Scene of Raid.

The raid conducted by Sergt. Greene
of the third precinct Friday afternoon.
in which Lacey Branch, colored. was
arrested on a charge of making
handbook on the races, occurred at
1906 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
and not at 1905 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, as stated in The Star OF
YESTERDAY.
Evening star., 1915-03-07

Fire in he memorial building adjoin-
ing the city hall of Lowell, Mass, yes
terday caused a property loss OF $500
900. and destroyed some valuable civil
war relics. including the flag carried
by the 6th Massachusetts Regiment
when 1t was attacked by a mob in
baltimore, April 10. 1861. and the uni
forms OF two members Of the regiment
who were killed during the rioting.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
FORMER QUARTERS HELD
FOR UNCLE Joe Cannon
Strong-Arm Force at Capitol De-
fends Old Room for Distin-
guished ulinoisan.

When Uncle Joe" Cannon returns to |
congress he is going to find that his old |
room has been furnished for him as
nearly as possible as it was when he
LETT 1t at the close Of the Sixty-second
Congress. He has virtual possession of
the old room at the northwest corner
OF the House wing Of the Capitol, for
oy a strong combination and conspir-
acy in which democrats Joined with
republicans the famous old room has
oeen saved for him. and tho furnishing
process Is now going on L. White
Husoey, Uncle Joe's former secretary.
yesterday received the keys Of the room
and Immediately took possession, with
smile on his face that was worth a
dollar a minute to contemplate.
Serene E. Payne Last Occupant,
1t is the room that the late Serene
E. Payne occupied during the session
Just closed up to the time of his death.
1t now develops that for weeks there
has been strong-arm force at work
to keep out every possible applicant
for the room other than its rightful
owner. Uncle Joe" Cannon. Speaker
Clark it appears, had conspired with
Republican Leader Mann to keep the
room empty rather than let any one
else have it. Jerry South, clerk Of the
House, was in on the deal; 30 was
South Trimble. chief clerk. So were
all the other employees.
Representative Billy" RodenburR.
one of the former Illinois delegation
who will return to the next House.
went to see Jerry South a few days
ago:
Say" he said, "I have an idea. why
not give Uncle Joe his old room?"
We'll, l guess I'd like to see
any one else try to get it," returned
Jerry South.
Others Back the Demand.
Representative McAndrews of Ilh-
nois also had the same idea. and Rep
resentatfve Mckenzie and half a dozen
other Illinois members. They all found
to their surprise that the combination
in favor of the deal had attended to
every detail. even down to getting the
former Speakers favorite couch.
Yesterday morning L. White Busbey
went to the Capitol and saw Repre-
sentative Mann, Speaker Clark and
others. He got the keys to the room
and went right away to the old place
And it won't be surprising, he says,
II Uncle Joe himself, when he hears
about the old room, would come to
Washington to get the wall paper ac-
customed to the smell of cigars.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
100000 WOUNDED, RE SAYS.
A. Piatt Andrew Has Marrow Es.
cape While Working in France.

GLOUCESTER. Mass. March "a
letter received here today from A. Piatt
Andrew, former assistant secretary Of
the Treasury. who Is doing hospita,
and ambulance work at Dunkirk.
France. says that there are now eoo.-
900 wounded in the hospitals in that
country.
On January %, when tho letter was
written. Mr.. Andrew said there were
then in Dunkirk from 1900 to is. 900
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Value of Oxygen Helmets.

The oxygen helmets worn by the
trained rescuers. which permitted them
to penetrate parts Of the mine filled
with poisonous gases where no other
human being could go, are undoubted-
ly responsible for the saving of the
miners. The bureaus men, always in
advance of the volunteers, restored
the ventilation in the mine. thus per-
mitting the volunteers to advance.
presumably the entombed men had
protected themselves from the deadly
gases by the erection of temporary
doors. Then. when trained rescuers
reached them, the way out of the mine
restored to normal conditions as the
rescuers proceeded.
Il am today wiring to the rescuers
my heartfelt appreciation of their
heroic efforts in saving these lives. 1
am told that the American Mine Safety
Association has already started a
movement to award to each rescuer
one of its gold medals"
Evening star., 1915-03-07
REPORT OF INCREASE
IN FEDERAL REVENUE
Customary Spring Import Business.
Brings Additional Receipts, Re-
ducing Treasury Deficit.

Government revenues have begun to
show slight increase. due largely to the
usual spring import business with conse-
quent enlarged receipts from customs.
The Treasury deficit. which a few weeks
ago, was in the neighborhood of s85, O00,-
900, has fallen to about sS0,o00,0oO, and
in the next few months there may be
further reduction.
Although Treasury officials are loath to
make any predictions when such unusual
conditions prevail, the experience of
years has taught them to figure on in
creased receipts from customs from
about March l until the end of the fiscal
year in June.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Approves Court Martial Findings

Maj. Cent Wood. U. S. A, commanding
thc Department of the East, has ap-
proved the findings of court-mar-
tial at Fort Munrce. Va, which con-
victed First Lieut.. John r. Jemison,
Coast Artillery Corps. of conduct to
the pre1udlce OF good order and mill
tary discipline and sentenced him to
be reprimanded.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
JUNIORS BEST SENIORS
IN LAW SCHOOL DEBATE
Georgetown University Students
Discuss Compulsory Arbitra-
tion by Government.

Compulsory arbitration by the govern
ment was laid to rest last night when
the junior class of the Georgetown Law
School, opposing it, defeated the seniors
in debate at the law school auditorium.
The individual prize of s25 for the best
presentation of argument was awarded
to Bernard S. Brady. a junior. The de-
cision of the judges was unanimous.
r. H. Andrus. senior. led off for the
affirmative. It was his contention that
the United States government was en-
titled. under the Constitution, to adopt
such laws as are necessary to adjust the
differences between capital and labor. He
maintained that the United States owed
it to the people of the country to step
in before the engineer obeying the or
der to strike. steps down from his seat
by the wheel of the engine.
Presents the Other Side.
George Helford. opening for the ju-
niors, made the declaration that labor
unions and capitalistic organizations
were working for peace, not strife. and
that the introduction Of the govern
ment in the role of compulsory arbltra-
tor would simply mix things up with
out getting either party anywhere. He
added that there was no real cause for
alarm In New Zealand. Australia,
France and other nations which had
adopted government arbitration it has
fallen absolutely fiat. said Mr.. Helford
Joseph r. Gibson of Kentucky took
UP the argument for the affirmative. He
referred to the blood that had been
spilled in industrial warfare, and as
serted that the Constitution of the
United States was established for the
promotion of tranquility. He took oc-
casion to point out that if a law was
passed permitting compulsory federal
arbitration the requirements of the
Constitution-"due process of law
would be satisfied.
1t was Mr. Gibson's opinion that men
swayed by heated passions and hot
blood" could not reach a calm and just
decision The government, represent
ing the people, who are vitally inter
ested in these questions, must ac-
complsh this.
Concluding Arguments.
Bernard Brady. the last speaker for
the negative, argued that the words
.'compulsory' and "arbitration" were
contradictory, since no arbitration was
an arbitration unless both parties will
ingly sought the decision of a third
party The causes of the differences
between capital and labor could not
be removed by the decision of a gov
ernment board, he declared
The three Judges were DR.. w. c.
Woodward. chairman; Charles E. Roach
of the faculty and A. B. Mustain of
the graduate class.
Another debate will be held March 20
Evening star., 1915-03-07
is PROUD OF BRAVE men
WHO SAVED FORTY LIVES
Tribute by Secretary Lane to Res
cuers Of Miners Entombed at
Layland, w. Va.

Tribute to the bureau of mines res
cuers for saving forty men from death
in the mine at Layland, w. Va, is
paid by Secretary Lane of the Interior
Department in 2 statement made pub
lie last night.
out of the gloom of such a catas-
trophe." said Secretary Lane, "involv-
ing. as it appeared from the earlier
dispatches. more than one hundred hu-
man lives, the saving of forty-two men
comes almost as benediction. l am
proud of the brave fellows from the
bureau of mines who have been work
ing heroically for several days to
bring about this consummation. 1 am
equally proud of their associates who
bad been trained in modern rescue
methods by our men. For years it had
been demonstrated that the old meth
DDS of rescue work not only did not
save lives. but even cost the lives of
many brave volunteers
Evening star., 1915-03-07
First Aid.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Boarding House Mistress-I shall
have to raise your board. Mr. Blinks.
Blinks-Gee. I'm glad; it's more than
I can do.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Fog.

rOW JHusf. ~ ~
Talk about London fog" said a
Yankee just returning from England.
why, ! found that they even had fog
horns in the elevators at my hotely'
Evening star., 1915-03-07
May Be Obliterated.

If the increase is sufficient to keep the
present deficit at a standstill, the income
tax may possibly wipe it out entirely.
The time for making income tax returns
has expired. but it will be weeks before
the Treasury officials are able to esti-
mate how the tax is to act as a revenue
producer this year.
Secretary McAdoo has estima ted that
about $S0.000.000 would be received from
this source, but conditions have changed
materially since his estimate was made.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Others Back the Demand.

To Cure n Cold In One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets
Druggists refund money II 1t fails to cure. q. W.
GROVES signature Is on each box. 2Sc.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Will Be Centers for Politics.

Therefore. there will be reunions of
the different regiments of each corps
going on all the time, which will be
of interest to all members of the corps,
since next to mans own regiment he
wants to see the survivors of the regi-
ments with which his was associated
during the war. These corps headquar-
ters will also be centers for the forma-
tion of parties to visit the battlefields
and make other excursions to the
places in and about the city. In this
way it is confidently expected that no
man will GO away from Washington
disappointed in meeting the men of
all others whom he wants to meet, and
whom he will in many instances meet
for the last time in life. 1t will be A
great event in his life to have this
meeting and few days association
in the capital of the nation fifty years
after the close of the war"
Evening star., 1915-03-07
WILL SEEK TO PREVENT
C. A. R. DISAPPOINTMENT
Veterans to Be Enabled to Meet
Their Comrades in
Civil War.

The committee which is to arrange
for the reunions of the various corps
to be held during the national G. A. r.
encampment in this city next fall held
its initial meeting at the Office of Col.
John McElroy, it's chairman, yesterday
afternoon. Chairmen of the subcommit-
details of the various corps reunions
were announced as follows:
J. NJ Saltzberger. Wilson Cavalry
Corps; Capt Thomas Mckee, Sth Corps;
S. E. Faunce, 22d Corps; c. f. Royce.
Navy Corps: S. r. Stratton. Gath Corps;
George H Slabaugh, 18th Corps; H. A.
Johnson, Sd Corps; c. V. Pettys, 9Th
Corps; o. H. Oldroyd. 18th Corps; J. w.
Stone, 4th Corps; Col. II. l.. Dean, 18th
Corps; F. L. Young. 10th Corps, and
Hazard Wheeler, 9th Corps.
H. H Mckee. H. A. Johnson and
George ii. Slabaugh were named a
committee to arrange for grounds
where the various reunions are to be
held
Will Prevent Disappointments.
In speak king of the work to be under
taken by the committee Col McElroy
said:
THE reunions committee of the COM
ing national encampment will seek to
obviate one of the great disappolnt-
ments at veteran gatherings. that OF
being unable to meet the comrades
whom the veteran most desires to see.
Since the war the members OF the va
rious regiments have scattered all over
the country, and one object or every
comrade in attending Il national en-
campment is to meet as many as pos
Sible of his old reg giment and brigade.
If he does not do this he is bitterly dis
appointed. This was one great grief at
Gettysburg. Usually in cities where
reunions are held at different times in
SchoolhouSeS and elsewhere. These
places are difficult for the visiting vet
eran to find, and he may forget the
day and the hour of the reunion.
Method of Procedure
The plan by which it is hoped to
avoid all this will be worked out by
the reunions committee. A large tent
will be secured for each of the thirty
different corps, and these will have a
large and conspicuous corps badge.
The tents will be pitched together, and
Immediately upon the arrival of the
veteran in the city and his securing
quarters he will go to the camp and
find the headquarters of his corps.
"A committee will be in attendance
there to give him information about
his regiment. The survivors of the
various regiments will be invited to
send in notices of their reunions. and
hours will be assigned for these re-
unions in the headquarters tent and in
other tents that will be pitched for
that purpose.
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Results of Emergency Tax.

SO far the emergency tax law has
failed to live up to expectations and the
Post Office Department is running behind
its usual business. Calculations made at
the direction of Mr.. McAdoo, however, of
revenue and expenditures have differed
widely at different times.
The question of issuing Panama canal
bonds has not been decided, but it is un-
derstood that if there is deficit, Mr.
McAdoo will not hesitate to use his au-
thority to put out such an ISSUE
Evening star., 1915-03-07
Concluding Arguments.

Phone Your Want Ad to The Star.
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which she was riding with another
man. Discharged.
Frank Il. Cottinghan1, mail carrier,
arrested for stealing from letters.
Held on $1,000 bonds.
7. F. Murphy of census dept, to
begin census of manufacturers.
Government, represented by Dist
Atty Clyne, to compel Metropolitan
e." Co. to remove it's bridge near
Van Buren st.
John Fitzmaurice, Peru, Ind, posed
as Mayor HaTTison's sec'y and f1eeced
Texas farmer of $50 in card game.
Arrested.
William Faeder, Pitsburg, charged
with annoying actress behind scenes
in GarTiek theateT, fined $40 by
judge.
L. Harry Freeman, packer and song
writer, celebrated birthday. Age un-
known to friends.
Sugar advanced 1ac pound in last
few days. GRADUATED sells at 5.73
cents pound wholesale. Poor crops
in Cuba is report. ~
NO POlSOu -IOuUu III SLOHldCH VI
Henry Mueller, 2611 Magnolia av.,
according to report of coroner's
chemist. Mueller died suddenly of
heart hisease.
Horse drawing wagon of oliVet
Monument Co. ran away. Jumped
into rear platform of Irving Park
blvd. car. No one hurt.
William Sweeney. and Leslie Me-
Donald, arrested with others in raid
on rOoming house at 68S N. Clark,
fined 500. 8 others in Bridewell
hospital suffering from morphine
poison. Dope fends.
Two negroes held up e. G. Morris,
ticket agent Of Kildare station of Gar.
field a.. Got 81. Morris offered
them his watch and money. Refused
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