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The Washington times., 1915-09-23
HUNT FOR BlASTER;;
CHARGE

NEW YORK. Sept. 2S.-search for
August Newxanotte, foreman In charge
Of blasting operations. is being made
today in an attempt to ix the blame for
the collapse OF subway construction
work In Seventh avenue yesterday.
which resulted In eight deaths.
A charge of homicide will be made
the foundation for his arrest the police
say.
Newzanotte, an Austrian, known by
his companions as August Midnight
who gave the signal for the blast. Is
missing.
Investigations by the coroner's office.
the district attorneys office, the public
service commission, the State industrial
commission, the police department. tho
fire department and the grand jury un-
der Judge Mulqueen OF the court Of gen.
eral sessions were started in an effort
to AK the responsibility. Definite re-
suits are not looked for by any of these
authorities until the wreckage is COM
pletely removed from the pit and until
August Midnight has been found.
Four Questions.
The principal questions to be solved
by the investigations are these:
/. Was the collapse OF the tempor-
ary street surface due to an exces-
sive charge of dynamite set off un-
der the direction Of Midnight or was
1t due to defective snoring?
2. Does the responsibility for the
fact that the street car got within
the danger zone lie with the con-
tractors faSman or with the motor
man Of the car?
3. Is there danger Of a similar ac-
cident under any one of the many
parts OF the new subway system
which are covered by practically tho
same style of temporary roofing?
I. Why did Midnight run away?
So far as the damage to life and
property Is concerned. the responsibility
lies first with the contracting company.
This was admitted yesterday by It's
general superintendent Of construction.
E. A. Little. Responsibility for faulty
construction lies nrst with the contrac-
tors and second with the public service
commission Of the First district under
whose inspection the subway WORT Is
done.
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Orders Are Issued To
Mounted Escort For
Encampment of q. A. R

Members Of the citizens mounted es-
cort to the g A. r. parade were noti-
fed today by NJ. c. Hazen. chairman OF
the committee on arrangements, to as
seemble on the morning Of the parade,
September q. on Twelfth street north:
west. between r and G streets. at
A. m.
4 The preferred dress 10 silk hat, frocls
coat dark trousers. black shoes. and
yellow gloves. As an alternative mem
bers may wear black derby hats. dark
clothes. black shoes. and yellow gloves
No other attire than these two will be
permitted.
The escort now numbers zoo. and 1t 1.
expected the number will be increased
to 800 by the hrst Of next week.
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MANY ASSOCIATIONS
OPENING QUARTERS.
FOR ENcAMPMENT
Prominent Veterans Reach City
on Every Train to Take ea5a|
In Celebration.

Headquarters ovf . number Of State
departments Of the G. A. r. have been
established in hotels here and many
ether branches Of the veterans or
ganixation will do likewise before Sat-
urday. Today It was announced that
the following State delegations mad
opened their uarters:
New Oxford Hotel.
Arkansas. Kentucky. Oklahoma, Ala
bama. Georgia. Florida.
Hotel Harrington.
Connecticut w. r. c., Maryland q.
A. r.
Shoreham Hotel. ..
National headuaraters Sons OF vet
Hamilton Hotel.
South Dakot @. A. r., kentucky w.
r. {.
Missouri.
Meade Post. No. ?, Of Philadelphia
Raleigh Hotel.
q. A. R. National Headquarters-Iowa
e. A. R. and an W. r; G.; ,;S Mas:schnsstt. Iss,a:
New York, q. A. r. and W. r. G..
Pennsylvania.; New Jersey; Missouri
w. r. C.; Vermont: Ohio, 6. A. R. and
w: r: e. Indiana, W. r. c; North Da'
New Ebbitt.
Illinois; Pennsylvania, w.R.C.: Rhode
Island: Oregon. q. A. r. and W. r. C.
Headquarters; Colorado and wyoming
war.
Hotel harrington.
Maryland, w. r. c.; Maryland. G.
A. r..
Willard.
National headquarters Of the Daugh.
ters o. Veterans.
Prominent Arrivals.
Among the prominent arrivals today
were Col E. X. Russ. commander OF
the Department Of Louisiana and Mis-
jutant general of the Ex-Prisoners OF
War Association. Colonel Russ has la.
bored FOR years to bring the Blue and
eanSdsss nr nor in the es South H
the G. A.. r. Colonel Walker Is an
alderman In Pittsburgh, and Is gener.
ally conceded to be the life and spirit
Of the ex-prisoners' organization.
tion from the North and West brough,
some veterans to Washington for the
reunion next week. In some cases
there We're as many many as fty
were only two or three.
1t is estimated that there are about
1000 veterans already here, and the blue
uniforms. wide black G.. A. r. hats. ant
badges are much in evidence on tho
streets and at the various place Of In
terest throughout the city.
To Open Sunday.
The registration committee. composed
Of Sons of Veterans and high schoo
cadets, will open its headquarters ir
Camp Matthew q. Emery Saturday
morning. The committee Is compose
Of DR.. H. A. johnson, chairman: 8. f
Faunce. ". A. Straight, Major F. 8
Hodgson, and F.. J. Young. The com
mittee realizes that the first thing &
veteran wants to know when III
reaches the encampment city Is 'Wher'
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in 81 and '657" and arrangements have
been perfected whereby these COM
rades" can be brought together.
Although II was announced severa!
days ago that a delegation On. OF ststs sexsrai a.
Washington would arrive here yester-
day afternoon. II was learned TODAY
from s, p Hesee; District ct gss,ssns,esr gps,s ns,s
se' road. that i, Change had been made
and that the Washingtonians would
o'clock on the red. white and blue
seSsas. Ses-ns & ana Several hum
which will be in two sections and CON
sist of at least twenty cars, VIII 1,i, He
nois. and Indiana.
Other Delegations Coming.
Other delegations from all over the
)oAMtiy are expected Saturday night
|oRd continuing until "Wednesday, the
day how many veterans were expect
ed al the encampment Col. John Nc
Elroy, editor Of the National Tribune,
SifiSisi Hc srsahn shs o, dr,eIea he estimate. BUT
from the. latest Information he had
received he believed the number
would exceed that by 10000.
Every hotel and many OF the board i
Ing houses have reserved all their
quarters for visiting veterans. Al!
the hotel auditoriums and most OF
the halls and public meeting places.
including several churches. have been
various organizations which will as
It was offcially announced today
that because Of the non arrival OF
the portable gr>>astand which was
to have been used for the human rag.
, this feature has been called off, A
small srandstand will be erected at
the south end of the Treasury for the
use Of the general public. Because
Of the Central Labor Unions recent
decision to boycott the stands on ac-
count Of their alleged construction by
out Of town union labor. a sign
was displayed on the Treasury stand
today reading as follows: This stand
is being built exclusively by union
labor employed by a local builder
Contributions Received.
Col r. N. Harper. chairman Of the
finance committee. today acknowledged
receipt Of the folloWine contributions:
Weyeth. SO: the Shoemaker Company.
SIS. and Corporal Tanner. s.. Chairman
Harper expressed disappointment over
the non-receipt Of report on the pro-
the benefit of the finance committee.
and seemed chagrined over the failure
Of contributors to redeem their pledges.
Colonel Harper said the expenditures
had been gauged according to donations
pledged. and that S1.400 promised had
not been paid.
Meetings Of the entertainment commit
tee and committee on historic sites will
be held tomorrow to complete final de-
tails.
The Pension office has been elaborate
ly decorated for the encampment. the
big rotunda Of the structure having been
festooned and bedecked with countless
large banners. and the fountain orna-
mented with potted plants. The decora-
ton was completed today. and the gem
eral design Of ornamentation ELECTED
much favorable comment. The Pension
Office. like all other public buildings
in the citv. will blaze with light each
night during encampment week.
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More Stores to Close
In Honor of Veterans

Charles J. Columbus. secretary Of the
Retail Merchants Association. has an
nounced that the following additional
houses have advised the association
that they would be closed from 10 to
1890 Wednesday in honor Of the @. A.
R. veterans:
The Louvre. Kings Palace, r. p. An
born & Co.
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covery Of the body of DIR. Edmund +.
Woods. Of Janesvilie. Wls one of the
two American Arabic victims.
The widow wired the department to
have Consul Frost take charge Of the
body, and stated interment would
probably be In England.
The Washington times., 1915-09-23
Buffaloes End Treating.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. sept. B.-rreat-
Ing In the lodge rooms Of the Benevolent
rule adopted at the annual convention
OF the supreme lodge here today.
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Body of American Victim
Of Arabic Sinking Found

A cable received today at the State
Department from Anne. e.tcanl Consu
Frost at Queenstown, r;portipg the re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03
SEES In EXERCISE
AID TO LONG LIFE
Equitable Expert Tells Doc
tors of Causes of Growing
Death Rate.
WANTS STATE ACTION

Elmer Ellsworth Rlttenhouse. conser-
walton commissioner OF the Equitable LIE
Assurance Society. delivered an address
before the Medical Society OF the County
OF New York at the Academy of Medl-
cine. II West Forty-third street, last
terest OF common humanity and of the
future OF the race the State should as.
sist In disseminating information that
would reduce the great American NOR
tally from diseases OF the heart kid
ncys, blood vessels and other organs
The problem Is national one. lie
said. and II II Is right for the State 20
recognize and check an unusual dram
on public finances 1t should recognize
the heavy drain upon our national Vital.
ity and Join In an effort to check It. The
subject OF his address was Increasing
Mortality From American Life Strain. :
Mr. Rittenhouse said that In 1914
this country lost 10000 of It's people
from organic diseases who would now
he alive II the death rate Of 1850 from
this cause had still prevailed. II the
present death rate In England and
Wales had prevailed In the United
states last year, he said this country
would have saved approximately no.
OOO lives.
The causes suggested for the early
breaking down Of vital organs. as in
dicated by the records. he continued.
include alcohol, tobacco and the Irug
habit, the alleged increase in the dis
ease OF vice and the melting pot lroc-
css." the assimilation OF foreign pcc-ls
OF the working class.
Mr.. Rlttenhouse said there were far
more men and women deteriorating from
lack OF physical exdtclse than from an
excess OF IL.
Incorporate and improper eating,
he added, are two important Influences
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COL. COCKTAILS PROMISES TO HAVE
CANAL ENTIRELY CLEARED BY JUNE
Has Huge New Dredges and
Fluid Which Turns Loose
Earth to Rock.

Of twenty-eight feet, say save a lump or
two. The dredges remove the humps
and then the whole 1000 feet OF the
slide front is dragged
THE waiting ships are held on either
side Of the slide until noon, and then
they are permitted to pass in the order
the officials designate. II may be neces-
sary to hold certain steamer for an
extra day. but 40 far they are all get
ting through pretty regularly. At 4
+. VI. passae Is suspended for the day
and night Dredging Is Mt once resumed
and continues without remission.
Everything Is working well. The
locks operate without "A hitch. The fake
has eighty-five feet of water. The trees
that looked so melancholy as the rising
water gained on them have nearly all
disappeared. our first trouble there was
from floating islands In certain
places as the waters rose they dragged
up from the bottom growths OF inter-
woven shrubs which attracted vagrant
logs aud trees. and these. becoming the
sport of the winds. drlfted hither and
thither. with a fresh vegetation spring
ing cheerfully up on them
1--WE dealt summarily with them, push
ing them to the spillway. and over
they went. OF course they do not reap
pear. We have had some water lettuce
and water hyacinths, but they have
given no trouble. Some marsh land has
formed. but generally Il may he said
that we have fine sheet OF water there
Many visitors OF short memory say
how clever 1t was OF us to take advan-
tage Of the fine lake we found so nearly
across the isthmus.
THE spillway, which was tho cause
OF so much critical misgiving. has stood
the test and the pressure magnihcently.
There was one small seepage that at
the highest stage OF the water discharged
about as much az would pass through a
two inch pipe. but when the lake lowered
a few feet even that disappeared one
thing about 1t IL to have Wis
itors standing on the spillway and ask
ing 'Wherc Ia II. anyway"
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To Change Mud to Rock.

"A matter OF the highest interest in
this connection developed during my
visit to Washington The Standard
Commission has developed method
of treating earths which changes the
quality of their particles tn some re-
spects by a process resembling inCcu.a-
ton. They think 1t quite possible to
treat the sliding soils of the canal re-
gion so that they shall lose their slip
periness and remain In stu like any
self-respecting rock The method is to
pier or bore the earth to a certain
depth and at certain distances apart
and pour in the proper solution In
sufficient quantity. II perneates the
surrounding material. In this way
strong. sofia Saa!; may nc created.
have sent for "A number OF barrels of the
earth. on which the Standard Commits
sion will experiment. We must try
every reasonable remedy.
I'VE nre kept busy with the shipping
going through. and that retards us a
bit. but We are managing TO delay
the ships on their passage but a very
little. We aim just now to keep a
thirty foot channel 100 feet wide, and
our working schedule Is based on doing
that. The dredges work nearest the
bank on the Cucurracha side all the
and toward 10 o'clock the sur
veyor goes through and sounds for depth
and Jumps that H. for masses on
the bottom, missed perhaps by the
dredGes. He may report clear depth
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tho nine miles OF the Cuiebra cut is
there any sign OF movement. have
bought additional and powerful dredRes
and shall use all that | can crowd into
the space until the prism is wholly
cleared and the fun width OF the 500
feet channel is available to Its full depth
OF 40 feet We have already removed
nearly 100000 cubic yards OF material.
The report that the bottom Of the
canal In rising on account Of pressure
on the bank is. believe, wholly un-
founded The filling up over spaces al
ready dredged is, am convinced. wholly
due to the fact that this particular soil
when exposed to water saturation turns
into fluid mud and moves across the
canal bottom under the pressure OF the
descending, pushing earth behind.
This fairly defines the amount OF
work to be done It Is my Intention to
keep up the dredging until a bay il
formed on the Gold hin side that will
absorb any future slips on that side.
The question of slides as a whole
must he dealt with in that way. namely,
AZ they may occ ur. II would be dosir-
able. no doubt to 30 widen the banks
above the prism for the whole nine
miles that there would be no possibility
or an interruption of the traffic from
Collapsing banks. but the practical diff
Guilty would he TO tell where To begin.
II Is well to recall THAI probably nowhere
on the earths surface Is there in the
same space the same variety OF rocks
and earths mixed up In such n way as In
the hills through which we have run the
Culebra cut. In most places the rock
wall Is solid, but close by may be a weak
spot People have smiled AZ the canal
engineers phrase OF the angle OF reposc
but II IL really that which determines
safety at each point where there has
been giving way. and In no two places
Will II be alike. Another factor is that
some Of the rocks actually harden when
exposed TO water while some Of the
earths-as In the stun coming down At
Gold Hill-take up water and become
fluid mud at once
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Dinner to Dr. and Mrs. G. u. Hall.

Friends OF DR.. and Mrs, Charles H.
Hall OF Coney Island gave them a sur
prise dinner at Stauch's on Monday
evening in celebration OF their fifth we'd
ding anniversary Those present in
cluded DIR. and Mrs. II. NJ. Greenwald
DIR. VI. II. Jones. DR.. +. Van Wart. Dr.
o. Kahn. Mr.. and Mrs william Davis
Mr.. and Mrs. Masse, Mrs Rose Bah
Mrs. Slayer Miss Perrin. Miss Esther
Greenwald, Mr.. and Mrs. Dreher and
Mr.. Hawkes..
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Force of wind and Wave Abates
mt SeRbriEht.

STARLIGHT, y. j., Feb. 2.-Seabright
was swept again by wind and wave
last night and this morning. but toward
evening the force of the storm abated
somewhat Almost all the land north
Of here. as far as the Highlands, Is
under water, the waves rushing over to
the Shrewsbury
During the storm the $50 foot pier
built last spring to protect the fisher
mems homes, was torn apart and swept
to sea. Two ilshermen's homes were
also turned over by the waves.
No trains have run into the town all
day. The freight house is expected to
fall down under the pounding OF the
surf
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that are weakening the resisting power

that are weakening the resisting power
OF vital organs TO the strain of life.
He said that prosperity during the
last forty years had placed an enor-
nous number OF thrifty people in the
physically inactive class. and that fac
tories were filled with workers watch
ing or feeding machines with only trl-
fling muscular EFFORT. This change. he
said. has not only reached the office and
the home, but even the farm, where
the farmer rides sulky plough and his
cows are MIXED by electricity.
Other lectures were given by Ludla
A. De Vilbis and James j. Harrar.
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ALL TRAFFIC TIED UP.
Nearly 100 Miles OF Connecticut
Trolley Lines ParaIyzed.

new LONDON, Conn Feb 1.-The
S,'et storm last night paralyzed traffic
IN eastern Connecticut. Nearly one
hundred miles OF trolley line between
Ne,tral Village and Webster. Mass.
"nu between Danielson and Providence
wore ued up all OF to-day A big
t truck passenger trolley car
Jumped me rails in Montauk avenue
carly to-day, crashed through a bridge
railing and hung SUSPENDED over The
New Haven railroad tracks, ANY feet
below.
me barge Annie was lowed into this
.droor by the tug Muriel to-day. The
"nnie and another barge, Marion Chan
rel' were abandoned by the ocean tug
rhu' Jones yesterday OF Montauk
io'hI when the towboat broke her
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Cloudy Again To-day, but Sun VIII
shine Tomorrow

The local weather man said last
night that he suspected tle worst of the
winters weather IL over. This day,
according to the national fOrecaster, will
resemble yesterday In being cloudy
There will be fresh north to northwest
winds.
The highest temperature yesterday
was 30, just after midnight, and the
lowest was 22, at IL clock last night.
The big disturbance was driven yester-
day from the Ohio Valley 10 the south
ward by two high pressurcs to the
nortn and northwest OF Il. and its en-
ergy was much diminished. Its centre
was In Virginia last night The local
prophets look for rise in temperature
to-day.
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shaft. The Marion Chappel made New
port without aid.
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METROPOLITANo pERl
AMUsEMENTs.

Tonight at s. Euryanthc. Hemnsi. ober
Scnbach. Well. Middleton. Cond TOscanini
Thurs. Mat. lD. WaIkuere. Kurt, Gadsk
MAtzenaucr; Berger, Braun, Ruy sdAel. G. Hertz
Thurs. ats Double Bill st time. L'OracoIo.
kliacci. Destinn; Canlso Didur Cond Polocco
Fri. at \. Nine. Sans-Gene. Farrar; Marti-
NELL. Amato, Althouse, Segurola. Cd. Toscanini
Sat. at IS, LOhengrin. Gadski. Ober: Urlus
Wei. Witherspoon. Middleton. Cond. Hertz
Sat. ~ H. l75c to 81. HaenseI a. GreteI. Schu-
mann, hatfield Rclss, Goritz c. ,Hageman Cav
Rusticana. Dcstinn; BOtta, Tegani Con Polacco
Mon. ats, HuRuenOts. Dcstinn, Hempel CART
son; Carus0, Scott. Braun, Rother. Con. Polacco
We'd. ats. Nine. Sans-Gene. Farrar: MnrtI-
NELL Amato, Althouse, SegurolA. Con. Toscanini
HARTMAN PIANO USED.
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Sails To-day to Attack Slides
in Culebra Cut With
New Methods.
ny JOSEPH 7. G. CLARKE,

Col. Goethals sails for Panama to-day
with a promise to have the canal cleaned
up by June. In an exclusive interview
obtained for THE SUN yesterday he made
light OF the slides along the nine mile
Culebra cut and said that there Is little
cause for apprehension respecting future
mishaps.
While in Washington he made arrange
ments with the Standard Commission
for tests of solidifylng fluid. newly dis
covered. which is designed to turn soft
earth into rock. II Is planned. II the
tests prove favorable, TO inject this fluid
into the threatening banks along the
Culebra cut and thus to turn them from
so much soft earth into solid walls
The slides, II they continue. Col Goe-
that's says. must he dealt with as they
occur. New and more powerful dredges
than have heretofore been used have
been ordered and will soon be digging
up the sides of Gold Hill which slipped
into the Culcbra cut and reduced It's
depth from 40 to 80 feet.
Col Cocktails. sitting in an office look
ing out on the snowclad Battery Park.
looked maybe a trine older than in the
heyday OF his fine supremacy In the
making of the canal but there was the
erect, manly figure and the quiet. cheer
full smile OF THE Colonel himself
At his courteous invitation had
called to talk to him. or rather to hear
him talk. about the bothersome slides"
Since my visit to the canal two years
ago the matter OF the slides" had been
In my mind as an ever threatening
danger to its navigation when the waters
should be let in and the canal open to
traffic. At that time the great Cucur-
racha slide near the Pacific side OF tho
nine mile Culebra cut was filling the
whole canal excavation for half a mile
with coarse red earth intermingled With
rocks and trees that had come down
from the hill above.
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4 Minister TO siam ut Last.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.--President Will
son to-day selected William II. Horne
brook Of Albany, Ore, as Minister To
Siam.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-03-01
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