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The Washington herald., 1915-04-04

WON
on the eastern battle front in
the European war by the sos
~ centimeter guns Of the Aus
TRAN army. These guns rank next to
the tremendous death dealing ~ cent?
meter guns Of the German army and
might be compared with the IL inch
guns Of the navy. but are much moro
effective.
British experts in comparing the Ar
tillery Of the Germans and the allies
agree that the present European strife
has transformed big gun practice. They
emphasize the use Of the howitzer, for
merly a bombardment weapon for man
killing purposes. and also in the open
field. which hitherto was unknown
Frank admission Is made that the
Austro- German forces have larger
howitzers, but 1t also is claimed that
in light and heavy artillery the allies
are as we'll provided. Doubt is express
ed as to a sufficient supply of IL inch
howitzers by the Austro-G German forces.
OF the AZ centimeter howitzer one
writer says that there is little doubt as
to its existence but questions II there
are more than two pieces of this large
caliber weapon in the field. II they were
used at all, he believes it was at the
siege Of Liege.
Speaking of the change IN artillery
practice forced by the present war,
Colonel A. NJ. Murray. late of the Royal
artillery, says:
The gun is a long range, high We
Iocity man killing weapon. The high
er its velocity and fiatter its trajectory
the longer its range and the greater its
man killing capacity before the enemy
can approach within infantry distance.
The howitzer. as distinct from the
gun, Is a short range weapon designed
originally to throw a heavy. high ex-
pIosiye shell with low velocity and high
trajectory.
"The howitzer was originally con-
ceived for bombarding purposes and
for the destruction Of material. but re-
Gently it's use has been extended for
man killing purposes. and field how
itsers, light and heavy. are now pro-
ytded with shrapnel a. well AZ high ex-
plosive shells. When not wanted for
howitxsr purposes they can now b
used - guns for fighting in the open.
.As the howitxer shrapnel shell
reaches its target with a low velocity.
in order to increase its man killing ef-
feet. the shell has q high driving charge
inside II amounting to as much a.
three quarters Of pound or more.
This driving charge increases the We
lucity Of the bullets whom they have
The Washington herald., 1915-04-04

Of roses and with many rosarians In
terested In the creation OF new varieties
from year to year and the importation
Of varieties. the creation OF rosaraAns
In foreign lands, Portland II now city
where more than 2s,o0o.o00 rose lowers
are grown each year. This figure 10
very conservative. and some rosarians
assert that IL the rose flowers IN bloom
from May until September. ana often
throughout the winter months. were
counted the annual display would Be not
far from $1,000. 600 flowers
The produet3ea g 5o0O = rutdA1o
The Washington herald., 1915-04-04

when Portland or q Portisnder talks
roses he seldom talks varieties. With
him It is the Portland rose. and the
slogan adopted for the 1915 festival IL
The Whole World Knows the Portland
Rose
City Identification IL q question that
is being given much thought and atten-
ton by the leading cities Of the United
States. For the last eight years Port
land has continually beautiied the
streets In the residence districts By the
setting out Of rosebushes. With q CHI
mate admirably adaptsd 70 the growing
The Washington herald., 1915-04-04
NE HUNDRED miles Of 70.

~ NE HUNDRED miles Of roses
of wondrous beauty floral
display that would reach
from Portland. Ore, to the
Pacific ocean, along the shore line Of
the mighty Columbia rivera floral
display alone that would prove . world
wide attraction,
This is just the very thing Portland.
long famed as the Rose City. Will ac-
complish this year through the city
beautiful committee Of the Rose Fes-
tiv1l association.
4aruand has long taihsa ressa and
The Washington herald., 1915-04-04


Association
OF 7--Ths
The Washington herald., 1915-04-04
War Shows Effectiveness of Big Guns

aEAT execution has been done
on the eastern battle front in
the European war by the sos
centimeter guns OF tho Aus
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NJ
sured the clown that he was TOO proud

sured the clown that he was too proud
| to fight"
The best little group of funmakers
was mustered into a rube band ny
Bill" Leahy. They were all members
of law, 1912. and kept the action lively.
, In this group were Charles Farrell.
William E. Leahy. Charles A. Smith,
John F. McCarron, F. D. Davldson'
Harry J. Gerrity, j. 2. sN,9a M9Ean, ! Roher, hort
S. Regar. Wilson F. McCray. Harry c.
Cox. Frank l. Brown. J. S. Stephens.
John F. McHale, Leo ]. Dougherty,
Another busy group, wearing lively
TO- Gartner. P. Connor, J. S. G. Cal
lagher. J. J. McConville. c. Piozet. c.
f. Carver, W. j. Lynch. j. F Deeds. H
Brewster. A. Gonzales Lamas and J. A.
Purcell
Delta Theta Phi sent in we'll drilled
marching group. which included H. l..
Grace, F. D. Geisler. w. E. Loveley. H.
f. Rickard, H. S. Shaw. 6. A. F. Tiffin,
NJ. F. Cronin, A. K. McRae, jr.; b. A
Clark. NJ. L. Babbitt, ]. E. Babbitt, J. E
Fitzgibbon, J. ]. McConville and H. T.
Carter
The parade was ably managed, by
William A. Schlobohm. with Judge NJ. NJ
Doyle as hard-working assistant
Game of Really Base Ball.
The proposed farce" ball game be-
tween has beens" from the medical
and Jaw schools proved a misnomer for
some of the old stars actually came
back and played the style of long ago
Bunny Larkin covered first base as
well as he ever did He had the reach.
and was picking up all sorts Of short
throws. Charlie Martell caught in mid
season form and whipped several down
to second base with surprising accu-
racy. His best play of the day was
when he caught Tug Furey out while
he was sliding for home in the third
inning. Tom" Cantwell put up a good
exhibition at shortstop and Finele had
whole lot of fun on the mound. al
lowing the Medicos but three hits
There were many amusing features,
such as a marvellous left-hand catch in
right field by Conrad Reid-with both
his eyes tightly closed-.whereby he
his clown uniform. lived up to the part
when, lacking a glove. he used his
megaphone to catch hot one in cen
ter field. and the ball got so tightly
runs went across the plate before he
could extricate 1t
.nra.: The ,,slc aIl-round clever playing Of
OF the contest. and he played better
game than he ever did when playing
regularly in his student days.
The game lasted six innings. Law
won. to 2. There were but two err
rors, a wild throw to first by Furey
and fielding error by Dugan Law
got hits and Medical 3.
The batting order was: Medical
Larkin, first base; Devlin. second base;
Dugan. shortstop: Gibson. third base;
Owens. center field; Marteil, catcher
Chick Healey left field: Keane, right
field: Lowe. pitcher. Law-Furey,
catcher: Finele. pitcher; Cantwell
shortstop: Collihower. second base:
''Inky" Davis. third base; Rice first
base, Toomey, left field Reid, right
field: Abbatichio center held
John D. OReilly, physical Instructor.
was umpire. with Lawrence Murray as
his assistant Charlie Cox. graduate
manager Of athletics, was official scorer
Evening star., 1915-06-15

The other officers elected are: First
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30cieK
Continued from Eighth PaEe)

that institution when he graduated
from Central High School two years
Mr.. and Mrs George H Demonet an
nounce the marriage of their daughter.
Miss Inez Mischon Demonet. and AS
sistant Surgeon Cecil S. OBrien, l. ).
n. of indianapolis. Ind.
The marriage. which was performed
at the parsonage of the Asquith Street
Rev. DR.. James NJ Wallace. April 81.
was hastened owing to DR.. ORrlen' S
orders to report to the Asiatic station
where his bride will join him SHORTY.
Mrs. o. Brien was a medal scholar a,
the Corcoran School of Art this WIN
ter.
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Will Consider Traction Proposal.

meeting OF the committee on pub
lie transportation of the Board o.
Trade has been called for AIS O'Clock
Frday afternoon 10 consider the apnii-
cation of t1le Washin ston Railway ana
Elective Company for the permission
of the public utilities cop1mission to
discontiuye the through service to tie
heart Of the city or the Tenleytown
and Rockville line after s O'Clock t.
the evening.
Evening star., 1915-06-15

Quesada.
Emanuel Robinson and Irene NJ. F.
Turner.
Richard Bunce and Adelia E. Peyton
Guy E. Williams Of Newport News.
Va. and Dorothy Milby of Church
View. Va.
Vincent F. Dooley OF Sioux Fails. 3
D. and Ultima A Robinson OF this
city.
Northern Proctor and Hattie swan.
Alexander Segar, jr., Of Wide water
Va, and Dora Jones of Guinea. va
Frederick l.. Ball and Lillian v
Moran. both of Ashburn, Va.
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Births,Reported.

The following births have been re-
ported to the health department during
the past twenty-four hours:
Charles L. and Anna NJ. Watts. girl.
Clifford H. and Arabelle Stearns.
girl.
Max and Jennie Sheks. boy.
Samuel A and Mary S,ebbins. girl.
Paul c. and Elizabeth A. Scott. girl.
Arthur n and Irene E. Murphy. girl.
Robert A. and Mary G. Jonscher,
girl
Evening star., 1915-06-15

Angus D and Margaret Hayes. girl
Walter NJ and Eliza beth V. Guy, girl.
Harry 1. and Marion y. Goodwin. boy
Fred and Mary Della, girl.
Clark A and Marion Briggs. girl.
Richard S. and Eta r Buiger. boy.
Nathaniel and Agnes Young. boy.
William and Catherine Hutchinson.
boy.
Evening star., 1915-06-15
Mrs. B. L. Robbins Heads CHAPTER

Mrs. Bertha l.. Robbins was elected
regent of Judge Lind Chapter. d. A. R..
at meeting held yesterday afternoon
at the New Ehhitt. Other officers were
chosen. a 5 follows Mrs. Mabel l.. Seide-
mann. vice regent: Mrs. Mary L. Emery,
recording secretary; Miss Helen NJ.
Evening star., 1915-06-15
DEGREES ARE GIVEN
TO 400 GRADUATES
Commencement Exercises of
Georgetown University Held
This Afternoon.
ADDRESS TO STUDENTS
BY HENRY S. B0UTELl
Announcement Made of the Plans for
Preparatory School and New
Science Course.

Purchase Of a site for country pre-
paratory school for Georgetown Cnl-
vers!ty, which is to he opened within
one wear from September, and the in
sttturion of new science course start
ing next fall. are announcements OF
the 1oSth commencement exercises at
GEORGETOWN University eliminating to-
day in the comforting of degrees on
400 graduates from the four schools.
This afternoon the graduating eAer-
cises are being held, with the Rev Al
phonsus j. Donlon. the first alumnus OF
Georgetown ever to become president
Of the institution. presenting the dl-
plomas
Honorary degrees are being confer
red, as follows:
Doctor of laws-Surseon General VIII
liam Crawford Gorgas. L. S. A. for his
achievements as sanitation expert Tor
the Panama Canal Zone: Cashmere
Dessaules, A. B. As, the second oldest
graduate of the institution, recently
appointed senator by the governor gem
eral Of Canada. and Eugene $. Ives,
A B. rs, A NJ. IS and Ph, d. SO.
Doctor OF philosophy-Nelson Hume
and Martin Conboy. LII. B. IS, LII. NJ.
Evening star., 1915-06-15

Drake, corresponding secretary. Miss
Sarah P. Grogan, trea surer; Miss kath-
rNn "a. Noel registrar. and Mrs. Pricelie
Lebanon Slaughter, historian
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued
to the following:
Richard A. Ennis and Cora l. Clocker.
julius Masterson and Rose DAVIS.
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minister to the Netherlands, said, /

minister to the Netherlands, said, In
part:
see before me the vanguard of a
great army. that is renewed eternally,
that never disbands, the immortal
army of the youth of great nation
And l feel as the veteran feels who
watches from his shattered ranks the
on-coming Of the unbroken battalions
of fresh recruits. On behalf of the
veterans, I welcome you to the ranks of
militant citizenship.
Your thoughts today are on the fu-
ture and its triumphs. You are not all
gong to be doctors, lawyers. dentists,
bankers. nor farmers; but all of vou
are going to be citizens, and we vet
Grams expect that you will be good cit
izens SO 1t is proper in this hour,
which marks the end Of your years of
study and the beginning of your years
OF work. to consider what this citizen
ship is and why / think that a good
citizen is a fighting citizen"
He reminded them of the evolution
that citizenship has passed through al
times that try mems souls. when even
strong men are losing faith, we cannot
ma inspiration hope and courage in
the belief that there will be developed
stlll broader citizenship. growing out
OF more exalted ideals of the destiny
of the race, an international citizen
ship"
Mr.. Boutell reminded the graduates
that today is the tooth anniversary of
the granting of Magma Charta. and -ou
always will ber with satisfaction
that your gradua tion fell on that day"
he added. And I know Of no better
celebration than tracing down to our
own times the development and spread
OF those principles of liberty that were
formulated in the great charter"
The history of democracy in Eng
land and the United States is tho rec
ord Of the gradual removal Of the bar
riers to citizenship. and tho reduction
OF the qualifications OF electors and
public officers, he said
Inequalities Develop Rapidly.
I'VE often speak with unrefecting
enthusiasm OF the Declaration of Inds-
pendence. as ff the ideal of citizenship
reached its full development in the
great American charter. But our fore-
fathers. who asserted that all mon
are created equal demonstrated plain
ly their firm belief that Inequalities
develop very rapidly Immediately after
creation. To ascertain how great these
inequalities were we have only to con
suit those well nigh forgotten but in
tensely and Illuminating documents
the constitutions adopted by the thtr-
teen original states cotemporaneous
with the Declaration of Independence
ut took nearly seven centuries and
the best intelligence of England and
the United States to develop from the
ideal OF citizenship represented by the
1iber homo of Magma Charta the ideal
of citizenship represented in the Con-
stitution Of the United States by any
person
Let US consider for a few moments
the present tendency in the evolution
of popular government, and note a
Continued on Eleventh Page)
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BY ARTHUR E. MCFARLAND
illustration by Henry Raleigh

and classify the CHASTITY data of the night
before as if for a hospital record. A pad
and pencil lay on his dressing-table, and,
as he went to and fro, from time to time
he made a jotting. Who had killed
Mrs. Fisher? In the end his pad showed
roughly this:
(A) Facts apparently applicable, and GRIM
indl IN the ordinary sense.
l. Body found by Judge Bishop, self, and
Others at about 5:15, in Mrs. Fishers private
SUITE near swimming-pool. Death had
taken place some two hours previously.
2. Italian maid, Maddalina- prison rec
Ord-had already fed
3. English butler, Jimmy-also prison
recOrd-shOws great nervousness, and fees
after admitting self and Bishop to reception
room.
4. Blank paper had been substituted for
genuine notes in bank envelOp left by Mrs.
Fisher for young vikings.
S. Some one was attempting to break into
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small wall safe, in Mrs. Fishers rooms con-
tanning pearls, even after Judge and self had
begun to attempt to gain entrance to same
rooms. The Electric Protection Company
had an alarm at the very time we were trying
to force the door.
OBJ Facts apparently tnerplicable, and on
the surface, more than natural.
l. All doors of Mrs. Fishers private suite
locked on inside-no access by windows
and last doors were locked from inside, even
as Judge touched their handles to open
them.
2. Following this thrice-repeated sound
of rapping or knocking heard from within,
and a voice crying in great spiritual agony:
ooh, my God, my God!" Voice extremely
deep and broken. Same rapping or knock
ing also heard an hour earlier by Willings)
3. Cause of death not apparent-bruises
and markings on arms and throat, and tenn
pie crushed in-weapOn, if any, gone.
A. Though murderer (?) was still plainly
in rooms on arrival of Judge Bishop and self,
and all doors and windows were locked, upon
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StdlmeHC, we VIII pay @oUU.
The Characters:
JUDGE BISHOP, Mrs. Fishers lawyer
DocToR LANEHAM, her physician.
Miss DAPHNE HOPE, lawyer in
Judges Office.
Mr.. WALTER VIKINGS, a settlem
worker and friend of Miss Hope.
MCGLoYNE, Chief of Detectives.
DR.. LANEHAM and Judge Bishop,
ing to Mrs. Fishers apartment togeth
are admitted by Jimmy, her Cockr
butler. Mrs. Fisher, rich and ben
olently inclined, has a fancy for Civ
ex-convicts a chance in her service; a
both Jimmy and Maddalina, the II
ian maid, are known to have "done tim
Jimmy goes to announce them, but,
instead of returning, packs grip
and mysteriously fees the house.
The two men are left alone in the
gathering darkness of the big living
room: they grow restless, and finally,
calling Mrs. Fishers name and re-
ceiving no response, seek to force
an entrance into her private suite.
They reach the first door, and in
stantly, as their fingers touch it, the
lock is turned on the inside. They
try second door, with the same
result, and third. Obviously some
one is inside, but who? They hear
footsteps, accompanied by an I'M
canny knocking on the woodwork.
And voice, as il in utter agony,
crying "My God, my God!' Hall
boys and neighbors rush in; they
burst down the door. Not a sound
is heard, but, lying beside the SWIM
ming-pool which she had built into
the apartment, is the dead body of
Mrs. Fisher. No one is in the apart
ment, yet there is no way in which
any one could have escaped from it,
Every door is bolted; every window
locked.
Mrs. Fisher was known to have
certain azure pearls of great value
in her rooms. Was it for these
she was murdered? lfso, how was the
murder committed, and by whom?
DR.. Laneham agrees, with the help
of Miss Hope and young Vikings, to
take up the ease One of the scien-
tific theories on which he proceeds
is the discovery Of Professor Zancray
that in every murder case the close
friends of the victim invariably "hold
out some information. He explains
the theory to Judge Bishop, Miss
Hope, and Vikings; and the look
on their faces-the famous "Zancray
look '-betrays the fact that each one
of them is holding out something.
But each protests that what he is
holding out is unimportant.
Meanwhile, Jimmy is missing;
Maddalina is missing; McGloyne,
the Chief of Detectives, has made no
progress except to suspect Vikings,
who had called at Mrs. Fishers apart
ment that afternoon. And Dr. Lane
ham discovered nothing except
murder note" lying on Mrs. Fishers
desk and u few charred bits of
paper in one of the Fisher fireplaces.
Who, then, murdered Mrs. Fisher?
TT was characteristic of Laneham
that before he slept that night he
had already arranged, so far as
was humanity possible, to free him
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our entrance he had disappeared. and as yet
all attempts to discover his method of escape
have been unavailing.
And then, as final note, he had written:
For the present, disregard all the seemingly
supernatural absolutely. Begin by making
every attempt to find Jimmy, the butler
RY the time he had finished his memo
- randum sounds below told him that
Miss Hope and Vikings, his two special
Deputies had arrived. He heard ia
cobs, his man, and Mrs. Nelson, his
installing them. Number
800 was big, we'll appointed house.
There was no good reason why they
should not be at least physically at ease
He met them on the stairs, and led
them over side by side and sat them down
On the big leather window-seat.
well, you're here. And you've for
given me that Zancray stuff"
ii guess So" said D. Hope.
III knew you would. And how do your
settlement people take it that you're
going to leave them and move up
here with me?"
"They knew it was better for us
to leave-for while, at least. And
then, they know you, too"
"Thank you. And the pater?"
@He's in Japan somewhere" Miss
Hope replied. @They all are. And
they won't hear of it for another
month"
(which, l should say, is just as
WE'LL"
Both of the young people looked
very quiet and businesslike. The
girl, deep-breasted, supple, free of
limb, was almost the larger But
Willings' big round glasses were ac-
companied by any amount of clean,
tanned sinew; and, with the humor
in his face, there was all the pluck
and spirit needed.
"The first thing said the Doctor,
speaking first to him, dis. how far
are we to let the lady 60 in this?'
"Why," she asked, 4what do you
mean?"
Simply this. Part, at least, OF
what's ahead is likely to be the old
business of bad men in this city of
adventures. And, after all, you are
woman, you know
3Now, Doctor, listen" One thing
ID. Hope possessed was a faculty for
looking straight at people and speak
ing in the same way. And she spoke
so now. al settled all that forever
the first week l was down in Hudson
Street, when got into one of those
West Side gang fights we have down
there. didn't know what it was at
first. All saw was young fellow
come bursting out of crowd. |
thought he was wearing big red
neck-tie. But it wasn't neck-tie.
And two others were after him, and
more behind, yelling at them to
make it job. He ran into a
store-a delicatessen shop. OF course,
like any girl if she lets herself, l
began telling myself that | must get
away-that mustn't even dream of
interfering. And then l thought:
Yes, and isn't that just exactly why
we've always been an inferior sex
and we have been! And if could
do anything at all, even the littlest
thing"
an tell the rest said Vikings.
"When came along, l found her
standing i'm the door of that delicat-
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row was Mrs. Fisher murdered,
II and by whom? For the first
correct solution of this mystery,
IL u. submitted in accordanca with
Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-22
SChilling's
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CAREER OF ARIZONA PIONEER
 HUNTER IS ENDED
Patsy Rogers Who First Came to This State in 1855 Dies in Pi- Oneer Home at Age of 93.

PRESCOTT Dec 21.-Long before Arizona was on the mao of the nation and while it was only che abode of the Apache Patsy Rogers, who died at the Pioneers Home yesterday entered what is now known as the Verde cal ley to ply bis vocation of hunter and trapper.
 Rogers was a member of the histori- cal party which included the celebrat- ed Kit Carson, and the intrepid path finder. Captain Joe Walker of Walker expedition fame, which body later came to Prescott and blazed the way as the first American organization to set foot on Yavapai soil in 1861
 Mir Rogers and his companions SC cured the Verde country from end to end for game and were employed by the Hudson Bay Company, for this particular line of hazardous work In recent years Rogers reviewed the ef- forts of the party with somewhat of an aversion toward dealing in any thing of a spectacular character in facing privations as well as dangers, and brushed aside his thrilling expert ence by simply saying: We took long chance for big money, and won out" Before serious illness ov- ercame this pilgrim of the Hassayam- pas he told of having arrived at Fort Mohave, on the Colorado river in 1885 with mule pack from St. Louis This military post was the only white mans haven west of the Rio Grande. as far as San Berdarnino and in pioneer cir cles it was regarded as the best half way house on this earth"
 Tn later years, Rogers entered other Western fields. but over thirty-fve years ago retraced bis steps to Arizo na, still in harness and attaining a fame as without a peer in knowledge If wild beasts and as a successful hunter Seventy years in the open shattered a rugged frame, and to add to his declining health were several wounds that undermined a vigorou. body The bullet of the Indian hit its mark Rogers was aged over ninety three years, and was born in Maine where he stated, he received his first schooling" in hunting and trapping He walked every foot of the way from the Kennebec to the Mississippi and he treked every inch from St. Louis to Fort Mohave on the Western pill grimage in punching his pack of faith full mules.
 His earthly career ending is a sad chapter in another good pioneer going over the last trail to his reward. Tn, body was taken to Ruhner's and will be laid away today by his brother Has sayampers.