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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
Entertained at Breakfast.

Miss Florence Wilfong. of Opekiska,
entertained at a breakfast Saturday
morning at her home, complimentary
10 Mrs. E. L. Lively and Mrs. Buckley
recent brides. The party left this city
at 7:10 and returned at one o'clock.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
DAILROAD
IN -: BRIEFS

Mr.. G. B. Obey. who has been super
intendent OF the Monongahela railroad.
has been appointed genera! superin-
tendent OF the Monensane!s Railway
Company. which was formed recently
by the consolidation OF the Mouonga-
hela and the Buckhannon and North
ern companies. Mr. Obey first enter
ed the service Of the Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie in the year 1889 as q. tram
dispatcher, from which position he
was promoted to chief dispatcher in
the year 1899 From chief dispatcher
he was appointed two years later to
superintendent OF the Youghiogheny
and Monongahela Divisions Of the
same road. with headquarters at Pitts
burgh. He left the services Of the
p. & L. E. in 1905 to become superin-
tendent of the Monongahela Railroad,
with offices at Brownsville. Pa, which
position he held at the time Of his
appointment.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
students and Teacher.

In each classroom there is one real
student-the solitary, upright figure
by the side OF the blackboard, while
40 or so little beings on the benehel
are the true teachers.-Brttish Re
view.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
Sad.

There Is hackwork and hack.
work." said the literary man. Think
OF what I get for mine and what the
hackman gets" Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12

In the July issue OF the Railway Age
Gazette the total operating revenue
and expenditures OF the railways Of
the United States for the month Of
May is published. The figures show
ing the Baltimore and Ohio earnings
are in particular encouraging TO the
company. The Baltimore and Ohio
railroad operates 1856 miles OF track
in the United States. The total
amount OF money expended for the
operation OF trains over this line was
S5,162, SOL The amount Of revenue
taken in on passenger traffic and
freight was $S,276.206 The tax accru-
ais for this month reach $278.135.
Compared with the same month last
year this shows an increase of $1,2SS,-
lS9. There is nothing in this showing
10 prove that the company is suffer
ing any from the hard times, although
the company was forced to cut down
expenses during that month. The bu-
reau that handles the efficiency regu.
lations OF the company, however. must
have the cuts in the freight depart
ments in order to make an increase in
revenue. There were A railroads that
showed q deficit for May compared
with May OF last year. The B. & O..
make the best showing of any OF the
roads excepting perhaps the New
York Central lines. Figures for this
road are not obtainable.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
Guests Of Parents.

Mr.. Cecil C. Rice. OF Pittsburgh,
came up Saturday evening for few
days visit with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. o. Rice. of Guffey street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12
MarshmaIIow Toast.

A number of young folks Of this
ward enjoyed marshmallow toast on
Saturday evening near Vermont ave
nue..
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EAST SIDE
= NEWS =

Mrs. Tenant Very Ill.
Mrs. Tenant Is seriously Ill at
her home on Raymond street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-12

No. The French had
sustained a severe defeat
the erstwAlle gallant officers
were detected and sad.
headquarters was In . stats
of inactIon. I stood gazing
upon this sight through the
window OF a Belgian omcer's
'hoqse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
ROSTAND CALLS ON ALL
GREEKS TO ENTER WAR
Achilles Mourns Says Poet, to See Nation Doing
the Goose Step Professors Fitting Plato with
Classes While Uhlans Firt with Venus

Rostsnd then reproaches the Greeks
for remaining silent at Prussian ef-
forts to make them swans of Eurotas
and march TO the goose step OF Pots
dam; at the sight of German profess
sors putting their big golden spectacles
on the nose of Plato; at the prospect
of a yellow Uhlan flirting with the di-
vinity of Venus; at the view OF the
helmet Of Minerva, surmounted by
Prussian point; at the spectacle OF
images Of sandal wings being attached
TO the heels Of General Won Liman de
Sanders's boots; at Wolff Agency COM
munications replacing the narratives Of
Herodotus, and the Prussian fife play
ing notes on the Hellenic flute. How
can. Helas, should Byzance fall, be alb
sent from the fete?
The bird Of propitious omen has al
ready thrice snapped its beak, says
Rostand, and the gods are yet the gods
and Homer is their prophet. The grand
old blind man to-day exhorts them.
Homer is their true and safest guide,
and the surest rudder is their own
patriotic inspiration, which is made Of
the trunk of the laurel tree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
635 MORE BRITISH
OFFICERS FALLEN

London, March 20.-Another list of
forty-five officers, including officers Of
Indian regiments, who were killed at
Neuve ChapellN and st. Eloi was given
out to-day These additions to the
casualties bring the total OF killed in
these two battles up TO 24O.
The same list adds seventy-nine
names to the wounded, making the to-
tai of officers wounded t95.
Since the beginning of the war the
British army on the Continent has lost
1,543 officers killed and 1885 wounded,
while 705 have been reported Missing.
This gives total officers casualty list
of 508l men.
The British War Office gives out
officers casualty lists periodically.
The last one was issued yesterday. It
was for a total of twenty days, and
showed 149 officers killed and 2O4
wounded in this time. These figures
added to those of previous lists give
the totals for the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
PRETTIEST VASSAR GIRL
Brunette Type of Beauty
Wins Prize for First Time.

Poughkeepsie. ~ Y. March 20.-Miss
Julia Anita Parker, of Hyde Park, was
voted the prettiest girl in the sopho-
more class of Vassr Colleage to-day,
when she was chosen as the grand
marshal of the bevy of twenty-six girls
who will carry the daisy chain at COM
mencement exercises June 8. Miss
Parker is tall and athletic, has dark
hair and brown eyes and an olive COM
plexion.
This is the first time that the bru-
nette type of beauty has been favored
in selecting grand marshal.
The twenty-four chosen 10 carry the
daisy chain are Madeline Hunt, Brook
line. Mass; Eloise Cummings, Pitts
burgh; Katharine MacAfee. Chicago;
Margaret Hackney, Johnstown; Marion
Serrie. Lockport; Philina Marshall,
Philadelphia; Jane Lyday, Detroit;
Anne Goodenow, Jamaica Plain, Mass;
Anne Gardner, Mount Vernon; Anna
belle McEldowney, Pittsburgh; jose
phine Tailor. Englewood, y. j.; Dorothy
Danforth, ST. Louis; Dorothy Smith
Waikiki; katharine Tilt, Chicago;
Dorothy Carter. Huntington. Long ISL
and; Doris Drummer, Hamburg; Helen
Moore. Princeton. y. j.; Margaret Buff
FUN. East Hampton, Mass; Anne smith
Memphis, Tenn; Laura Stilson, Cort-
land; Dorothy Copenhaver. Washing
ton; Rachel Beyner, Savannah; Alice
MacIlray, Tarrytown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
Three Ont, All Out, Is Finale
of Closing Tale of Hoffman
One Woman In Death of Noted Old Hosiery Tha
Housed Many Prominent Persons Within
the Last Half Century.

some "reminiscences Of the place. 81
guess / have no sentiment about old
hotels"
Frank Bodwell. the clerk, an efficient
looking young man, who worked up to
the final moments Of the Astor House
and the Hotel Albemarle, suggested
Thomas +. Green as the person who
knew more about the Hoffman House
than anybody else. Mr.. Green was
found.
81 don't know much about the hotel, y
Mr.. Green said. deacon Hoffman, n
churchman, started the place about
fifty years ago. Then Cassius Reid
took it over. After him came Ed
Stokes, who took in a man named Pol
ly. Polly lost lot Of money. A man
named Carrigsn was the next owner.
He left the hotel to his two sisters.
About three years ago Ritchey ac-
quired it.
.The Hoffman House would have got
along all right IL it hadn't been for the
Albemarle. Both places were combined
in the sale. Everybody loved the Hoff-
man."
History Of Hotel Retold.
An old man strolled in to the bar.
His name is George Empie, but he very
seldom hears it all. He is called the
Mayor of Madison Square," Hoffman
House George" and "Pickwick." When
he learned what the conversation was
running on he said to a friend:
"How long have | been here?"
"SiXty-four years." he was answered.
Violating no confidence, he has not
been there sixtyfour years. He and
tom" Green are two of the retiring
features of the hotel. Each has been
Continued on page 4, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
LINER, IN CRASH,
HURLS 4 TO SEA
West India Craft Hits
Barges-Rescues Men
Dashed Overheard.

While outbound last night for West
Indian ports the steamship Nickerie,
of the Royal Dutch West India Mail
Line, crashed into the rear barge of a
pair that was being towed tandem
fashion by tug. She hit the barge
amidships with her sharp bow, hurling
four bargemen into the water. The
Nickerie backed away promptly, low
cred a lifeboat, and within few min
utes the four were picked up and
taken aboard the tug, which had cast
off her lines aRd put back to the
barge.
Apart from the chill of exposure the
mon were not injured. Dry clothing
was proyided for them, and later, when
the tug Strengthened out her tow and
proceeded with it to a dock IN Brook-
ivn. the men resumed their places on
their barge, which had not been serl-
ously damaged.
The Nickerie was proceeding outward
at about nine knots, when she came
suddenly upon the barges, their prox-
imity being discovered too late for her
10 veer off and avoid them. When the
crash came the Dutch skipper ordered
his wireless operator 10 send out
call for help, and the United States de-
stroyer McDougal responded to her as
sistance at full speed.
Meanwhile the Nickerie's boat had
picked up the bargemen. The liner S
bow was damaged near the waterline.
and her master decided to anchor OF
Quarantine until he could ascertain the
seriousness of the blow. 1t was SAID
that he would remain until careful
survey is made, and if repairs are not
necessary he will proceed on his way
TO Hayti. ,.
Observers on shore, on learning OF
the collision. were at a loss to explain
how il happened. The tug, with her
two barges. was observed steamlng out
the Narrows, displaying the lights from
her mast. The Nickerie, 1t was thought
had an abundance of room to pass
but hit, it is said, by giving way 10
a small, unidentified steamship passing
into port. ,o - 81,
Az soon as the liners "S o S" was
sounded help came from several tugs
living off Morse's Drydock, IN South
Brooklyn, and three power boats from
Tompkinsville and Stapleton sped out
When they arrived, however, the oarge1
men had been rescued and put aboard
the TUG that had had the barges IN tow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
fBy Gable to The Tribune ]

Paris, March 20.-Edmond Rostand,
following up the movement for a ma
tional revival OF Greece and after read
ing descriptions of the last aspect of
the naval action, during which Forts
Chanak, Kalessi and Kalid Bahr were
silenced at a sacrifice OF three allied
battlesh.ps, sunk not far from the site
OF ancient Troy and the tomb Of
Achilles, has just composed an ode to
the Greeks, which will appear in to-
morrow's "Figaro." Translated into
modern Greek, it will shortly be pub
lished in Athens.
After a playful allusion to the guns
of the battleship Agamemnon having
awakened Achilles. who now emerges
from his tomb. just as in bygone ages
ne came forth from his tent. Rostand's
ode in ffty-six lines of AleXandrine
verse evokes the spirit of Achilles turn
ing male with sorrow at not seeing
among the warships attacking the Oar
danelles a single Greek sailor or war
rior.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21

A middle-sged woman went to the
desk Of the Hoffman House at 6 o'clock
last evening, turned In her room key,
and, slipping her bag from her wrist,
said 70 the clerk:
please take care of this until to-
morrow. BY the way, this is the last
hotel I'm going to permit to close over
my head. It's the fourth. am cured"
Mrs. c. r. Scarborough certainly is
cured. She'll sign q testimonial. She
lived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel until
that inn was boarded up for the auc-
tioneer; she was one OF the last guests
to depart from the Victoria; she can
give you the dying words of the Abe
marie.
Mrs. Scarborough was one of the
last three persons on the Hoffman fir
ing line. F. E. Conover, a builder, and
James F. Mack. lawyer, remained
until Daniel P. Ritchey, proprietor, Of
fcially pronounced the hotel dead.
The auction services will be per-
formed on Thursday. By an accident it
was learned that the bar will remain
open for about two weeks.
Mr.. Ritchey has closed more hotels
than any one man has ever opened. He
stands in the same relation to the hotel
business that Joe Cain does TO anamc
theatrical enterprises. They draw up
the will when he approaches.
"I'm hardened" he said TO The Trib-
une reporter who asked him to dish up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
Prosecutor Admits Chief Witness Name Not Osborne
but Declares Man of Mystery Is Not Man
of Fiction.
of Fiction

in some way had got out Of touch with
the authorities.
It was intimated that Osborne would
be produced at the federal attorneys
office at p. m, but Mr.. MARSHALL
waited until after that timo and he did
not appear. Samuel Hershenstein, AS
sistant United States Attorney, who is
working on the case, waited in his
office until well along in the evening
with the apparent expectation that
"Oliver" Osborne would appear there,
but he watt IN vain.
A strange man walked into the outer
Office of the federal District Attorney
late in the afternoon, but left without
seeing Mr.. Marshall or any of his as
sistants. In answer TO questions from
reporters he evaded his identity. When
described later TO members of Mr.. Mar
shalps staff. and to James W. Osborne,
they declared that it must have been
their witness. Mr. Osborne became
highly excited and called up Mr.. Hersh-
enstein on the telephone and "bowled
him out" because the stranger had been
permitted to leave the office so un-
tremendously.
United States District Attorney Mer-
shall as good as admitted yesterday
that "Oliver Osborne" was not the right
name of the witness, and that he was a
New York man instead of living in
Boston, as was announced in the Dis
trict Attorneys office Friday.
Osborne Not His Name.
Mr.. Marshall admitted that he had
not seen or talked with the witness
osborne" but he insisted, however,
that he was a man in fact and no. in
fiction. He said:
This man Oliver Osborne is not a
dummy or myth. He will be pro-
duced at the proper time. The letter
he brought to Mr.. Osborne is undoubt-
Continued on page 4, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
WOMAN BURGLAR
IN JAIL AS A NAN
Mingled Months with Other
Prisoners Without Secret
Being Discovered.
rBy telegraph to The Trlbunc. ]

Sutton, W. Va, March 2O.-Arrested
last November on charge of burglary
after a chase and a desperate resist,
ance, first giving the name of Frank
Morris. of Oklahoma, and later that OF
"Frank" A. Dawson, Of Clarkst urg, and
sharing his" cell since that time with
Robert Stewart. arrested in connection
with the same burglary, prisoner here
has created a sensation by disclosing
her sex as feminine.
Dawson" who appeared to be a
youth of tender years, sent note TO
Jailer liver when her case was to be
lied and informed him she was a
Ms Frank C.. Dawson, of Clarksburg.
and that she has a mother, brother
and a young child living in that city.
Mrs. Dawson has associated with all
the other prisoners in the corridors
without her secret being discovered,
and even Stewart was not aware of her
sex he saws
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
SPRING OFFICIALLY DUE
Ought To Be Here This Morn
ing: Weather Man Not Sure.

Stand in front of your chronometer
this morning! A chronometer is the
kind OF timekeeper that keeps time
with the greatest possible accuracy.
II you think your watch is that kind,
stand in front Of that. It must be
that kind. or you will be wrong for the
rest of the year, for just the moment
the clock says "10:5l," spring begins.
Then, and not until then. are you en-
titled to have spring fever. Feel your
pulse at 1852 and see il you have
got it.
There is nothing in the weather
signs, the weather man said yesterday,
10 indicate that it is spring. Weather
has been running along so pretty
much on a dead level this year that
there isn't much of anything By which
10 tell the seasons. One way 20 tell
the season is TO say, merry spring
is here" II you say it, Berry sprlg
tibe is here" that's a sign that this
season Of the year is just about now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21

Considerable Of the mysterious and
the intangible was injected yesterday
into the case of Miss Rae Tanner, the
diminutive millinery forewoman, who
brought suit against James W. Os-
borne, former Assistant District Attor-
ney, for $4,000 for breach of promise.
The complications began to set IN
when "Oliver" Osborne, the man whose
statement that he was the original
Dear Oliver" referred to in Miss Tan
zer's letters, formed the basis of the
charge of using the mails to defraud
made against the girl by Mr.. Osborne,
failed to appear at her arraignment
before United States Commissioner
Houghton.
The prisoner was brought from the
jail at the Greenwich Street police
station, where she spent the night, be-
fore Commissioner Houghton and held
in $4,000 bail for further examination
Wednesday at 2:30 p. m.
An adjournment was granted on the
request of Assistant United States At
torney Wood, who declared that the
government desired a few days in
which TO assemble it's evidence in the
case. Counsel for the Tanzer girl in
sisted upon an immediate hearing, with
out avail. Neither James W. Osborne
nor the prosecutions chief witness,
"0liver" Osborne, was present.
Vain Wait for o. Osborne
Despite the assertions of United
States District Attorney Marshall that
the witness, o. Osborne, was available
there were strong indications in the
Office of the federal attorney later in
the day that Osborne was wanted, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
EX-SENATOR BURTON SAILS
Will Try to Improve Relations
with South America.

Ex-senator Burton, Of Ohio, sailed
Yesterday on the United Fruit steam
ship Metapan for Colon, on tour Of
South America, to last four months.
He will lecture at several universities
in BBrazil, Chill and Argentine, and
will try to promote closer relations be-
tween the republics of South America
and the United States. He will proceed
down the West Coast, his first stop
after Colon being Lima, Perun.
Before sailing Mr.. Burton was
greeted on board ship by Joseph H..
Choate, John Bassett Moore and Will
lam Nelson Cromwell
Captain n. Z. Pendleton, ship
broker. missed the Metapan. and after
sending a wireless to the captain pur-
sued her in tug. The Metapan
awaited him at Quarantine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
upeNS POL ROGER IN DUEL
nv ~ Blood, Not Champagne,
s1owed on Field Of Honor.

'un' March 2O.-A duel with
,s' s' Resulting from n dispute about
H. ss'iH"ss, was fought yesterday
~' Ohapron. Prefect of the Depart
Rag. o, the Marne, and Maurice Pol
of nay mayor Of Epernay, in the park
arm s ion was wounded in the left
Ter Ia Roger in the right wrist. af-
long and furious encounter Tho
ssiss refused to be reconciled.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
WIRELESS COTTON DEAL
Swedish Firm Pays $4,000,
600 Cash for $4,000 Bales.
tBy telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Denver, Col, March 2o.-A deal IN
volving s4,oOO.oOO in spot cash and 92,-
600 bales of American cotton has just
been closed by +. W. Center, of this
city. The cotton will be shipped from
New Orleans TO the Lindeloef Com
pany. of Gothenberg, Sweden.
This morning Mr.. Center receelved
a wireless message from Sweden tell
ing him that his proposition was ac-
cepted. The Swedish company assumes
all the risk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-01-07

days after service ON him or his So
licitor of a copy of said Bill and in
default thereof said Bill be taken as
confessed by said defendant, Joseph
III. Drexler.
And it is further ordered that the
Complainant cause copy of this or
der 20 be published in the Alma Rec
ord, "A newspaper published, printed
and circulating in said County, and
that such publication be commenced
within twenty days from the date of
this order, and that publication be
continued therein once in each week
for six successive weeks, or that the
said Complainant cause copy of this
order to be personally served on said
Defendant, Joseph III. Drexler, at least
twenty days before the time above
prescribed for his appearance.
KELLEY S. SEARL,
Circuit Judge.
Countersigned:
X. E. HUGHES, Register in Chan
Gerry.
o. G. FUTILE, Solicitor for Com
plainant. Business Address, Itha-
ca, Michigan. 1875
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-01-07
Dr.. Wing

can extract your teeth with
out any pain whatever and
positively no bad after effects.
There is absolutely no danger
of catching cold in the gums,
where this method is used.
No cocaine, ,nloroform, gas or
harmful drugs of any kind.
DR.. Wing guarantees all tis fill
ings, gold and porcelain crowns
and bridge.work to give satisfac-
ton. - .,,rr,,a O.
Fifteen years experience has
taught him how this work should
be done.
Kindness and thoroughness the
key note of this office.
Permanently located over Alma
State Savings Bank.
Note-From now to Xmas is usually
a dentist dullest season, after Xmas
we will be rushed with work, why
not have your work done now?
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-01-07

lumber can construct one Of these
carts. The wheels used may be plow
wheels or other small wheels. In con-
structing the cart the capacity should
be considered. 1t should be borne In
mind that loose silage weighs about
1914 pounds the cubic foot.
When considerable outside feeding is
done a swing track is oftentimes used
In the west. This makes IL possible
to distribute feed in radius of con-
siderable circle. Some farmers use "A
stationary track. Where twin silos are
used and 1t is necessary TO carry feed
TO any distance a u shaped chute in
clining downward toward the wagon
and occupying the space between the
silos is used. The sides OF this chute
are angular like Y. but there is II
fat bottom.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-01-07

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of
Gratiot. In the Circuit Court for
the County of Gratiot, in Chancery.
Edna Drexler, Complainant, VS.. Jo-
seph II. Drexler, Defendant.
At a regular session of said court
held in the Court House, in the village
of Ithaca, in said County, on the 26th
day of December, A. ID. 1914:
Present-The Hon. Kelly S. Scarf,
Circuit Judge.
In this cause it appearing by aft
davit on file that the defendant, Joseph
II. Drexler, is not resident of this
state. but is a resident of Hill City in
the State Of Minnesota;
On motion of o. G.. futile, solicitor
for Complainant, it is ordered that the
Of said defendant, Joseph
II. Drexler, be entered in this cause
within four months from the date of
this order and that in case of his APP
pearance that he cause his answer to
the Bill of Complaint to be filed and
a copy thereof served upon the solic-
itor for complainant within fifteen