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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
POLICE TAKE CENSUS.
Begin Their Biennial Task Of Enum.
Grating the Residents.

Washington's police department this
morning began its biennial task of as
certaining how many residents there
are in the National Capital The census
this year will be moro elaborate than
any ever taken, particularly with re-
spect to classification of ages. About
ten classifications have been arranged
for, whereas in previous enumerations
only five sets of ages have been given.
The broader classification is to enable
the health department to undertake i'm
portant mortality studies 1t is ex-
pected that at least q week will be re-
ouired for taking tho census. The last
census gave population of 353,297 in
habitants.
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ADMIRAL LITTLE CHARGED
THCARELESS METHODS
Inspection of Construction of Sub
marine K-2 Called in Question
Before Naval Court.

BOSTON. November Rear Admiral
William N. Little. retired, pleaded not
guilty before a naval court-martial to-
day to charges of neglect and careless
methods while on duty as an inspec-
ton officer during the construction of
submarine K-2 at the Fore River Ship
building company's yard at Quincy. two
years ago.
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske was
president of the court martial, an6S
Lieut.. Commander Alfred w. Johnson,
as judge advocate, opened the proceed
ings by reading the list of charges
Commander James L. Latimer repre-
scented Rear Admiral Little.
Lieut.. Radford Moses, the first wit
spection officers at Fore river during
the building of the k-2 and subse-
quently was her commanding officer
He said he directed the attention OF
Lieut.. Childs, another inspection officer
at the yard, to certain defects In the
battery cells.
The voltage. he said. ran low after
each discharge and he found lead drops
in seventeen cells he examined. He
testified that he did not report the de-
fects to Rear Admiral Little, but talk
ed the matter over with him. The
contractors, Lieut.. Moses stated, OBJ
iected to making any change in the
battery cells.
Commander Latimer, counsel for
Rear Admiral Little, raised the point
that tho condition of the cells did not
constitute a defect in workmanship on
the submarine, but was due to con-
struction by their makers, New York
firm, which, he said, had been required
by specifications to furnish them.
The court went into executive ses-
sion to discuss this point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
ENTENTE ALLIES AGREED
ON PROGRAM IN BALKANS
Gen. Joffre's Visit to London Report
ed Due to Near-Eastern
Situation.

LONDON, November 1.-Gen. Joffre.
the French commander-in-chief, con-
cluded his visit to England and re-
turned to France Saturday night.
The Times asserts that Gen. Joffre's
visit to London primarily concerned a
discussion Of the problems connected
with the Balkan situation, and that in
that respect he did valuable work
A complete and definite understand
ing, both as to the broad outlines of
the military policy and details. says the
Times, was reached, the precise char
acter of which. of course, remains a
secret.
"It may be said, however" the paper
continues, that the British and French
governments are working in full ac-
cord. and are now agreed upon the main
principles of their joint policy in the
Balkans and the necessity of giving
rapid help to the gallant Serbian army,
which will be kept constantly in the
forefront"
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SUFFRAG|STS CLOSE
BATTLEFOR BALLOT

CONTINUED from First Page.)
succeeding November election, and If ap-
proved it would become effective; if dis
approved it would be nullified.
The third amendment. that for classi-
fication for taxation, authorizes the legls-
lature to pass acts under which property
may be divided into classes for purposes
of taxation At present. all real and per-
sonal property is subject to the same rate
of taxation.
The proposed amendment would di-
vide property into classes which would
be subject to specific rates of taxation
one rate on land, another on build
ings, etc.
Parole and Indeterminate Sentence.
The proposed parole and indetermin-
a.e sentence amendment would remove
all question about the constitutionality
of the practice now in vogue in this
state of using the parole and indeter-
inmate sentence in cases Of persons
convicted of crime.
In addition to passing upon the pro-
posed amendments. the voters will reg
lister their choice for governor. con-
troller of the state treasury, attorney
general, house of delegates, clerk of
the circuit court, states attorney,
judges of the orphans court, register
of wills, county commissioners from
third and fourth collection districts,
sheriff and county surveyor.
The polls will be at the usual places
and will be open from s o'clock am.
until pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
NEW LOW COTTON RECORDS.
Heavy and General Selling South
Carries Prices Off 81. so Per Bale.

NEW YORK, November 1.-Heavy and
general selling by the south carried
prices in the local cotton market off
fully $3.50 a bale today and made new
low records for the present decline.
During the first hour January sold as
low as 1872 and March 1916, repre-
senting drop of 81 to 81 points under
the close OF Saturday. Most of the
pressure after the opening came from
the south, due doubtless to splendid
weather and larger crop prospects,. Ca
bles were very weak.
Toward noon covering orders rallied
the market half dozen points. but il
maintained a feverish undertone and
was easily affected by selling orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
new OFFER TO GREECE
Is REPORTED BY BERLIN
Tender by England of Sporades Is
lands Said to Have Been
Rejected.

BERLIN. November l, by wireless to
Sayvilie, y. Y--The Overseas News
Agency has given out the following
publication:
According to an Athens dispatch to
the Frankfurter Zeitung, Great Brit
ain offered Greece, for her participation
in the war on the side of the allies, not
only Cyprus out also the Dodekanesos
Islands and south Albania. Great Brit
entered the war. the evacuation of the
Aegean Islands actually occupied by
the British after the conclusion of
peace. and the payment Of sufficient
damages for their temporary occupa-
ton. Prime Minister Zaimis declined
the offer. ernphatically repeating the
statement that the people and army Of
Greece want TO remain neutral.
"A telegram 20 the Cologne Gazette
from Sofia says that the French and
British military authorities in Saloniki
are showing increasing zeal to obtain
supervision Of the mails and telegraphs,
= that this paterual care for the in
is OF small neutral states provokes
eminent in Greece"
The Dodekanesos Islands are in the
aegean sea. off the coast of Asia Minor,
and enjoy autonomy under Turkish SUI
zerainty. They include Scarpainto,
Rhodes. Stampalia, Neros, Nicaria, Cos
and Kaloymnos. The archipelago is
known better under the name OF Spo-
rades, or Scattered Islands. They once
belonged to Greece.
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ENFORCING ANTI-DRUG LAW
Seven Hundred Persons Convicted
for Violations in New York.

NEW YORK. November 1.-Seven hun
dred persons have been convicted this
year of violating the new law against
the indiscriminate sale of habit-form-
ing drugs, the district attorney an
nounced today. Thousands of persons
addicted to the use of drugs have been
committed to hospitals, and many have
reformed after arrest.
Owing to the activity of the authori-
ties in enforcing the law, the price of
some of the drugs most commonly
used, when sold on the street, has in
creased 1000 per cent.
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SUCCESSES ARE DIVIDED
IN WESTERN BATTLES
Germans Capture Important Hill and
French Take Salient
Trench.

PARIS, November 1, ESQ p.m.-Fight-
ing continued last night in the vicinity
of Butte de TaNlre without any ma
terial change in the relative positions
of the combatants, according to the
announcement given out this after
noon by the French war office. The
French troops took 100 more prisoners
German troops in important masses
made a thoroughly organized attack
Saturday night along a front of nearly
five miles in the Champagne district
and were subjected to a serious check
with heavy losses.
Germans Hold Tahure.
1t is asserted that the assaulting
forces were hurled back along the
entire front of the attack, extending
from the vicinity of hill No. 1875 to the
position of La Courtine," except that
of Butte de Tahure.
Large numbers of dead were left by
the Germans upon the battlefield. The
infantry engaged in the assault were
chiefly troops recently transferred
from the Russian front, according to
the French official statement.
French Capture Salient.
BERLIN. November /, by wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.-The storming of
height No. 1872" northwest of Tahure.
in the Champagne district, and the cap
ture Of LOO meters (about 1900 yards)
of French trenches northeast of Neu-
vile and south of Souchez, in the Artois
region, Is announced by German head
quarters.
More than 1 .400 prisoners were taken
and four machine guns captured. The
of French of salient trench north of
lie MesniI, in the Champagne, is ad-
mitted.
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FIGHTING IN BLACK SEA.
Turkish Submarine Reported to Have
Torpedoed a Russian Battleship.

PARIS, November. IA dispatch to
the Havas Agency from Bucharest
dated Saturday says:
"It is announced that the cruisers
Goeben and Breslau, flying the German
flag. and two Turkish torpedo boats ar
rived at Varna yesterday. A subma-
rine, which arrived at Varna in parts,
is to be assembled at the Varna ar
senal."
BERLIN, November 1, by wireless to
Savyille.-"A Turkish submarine at
tackled a Russian fleet in the western
part of the Black sea, and torpedoed a
battleship of the Panteleimon type"
a Turkish official statement under date
of October 81 declares. according to an
announcement by the Overseas News
Agency.
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OBSERVE SAINTS DAY.
Parisians Visit Cemeteries Bearing
Wreaths for Soldiers Graves.

PARIS, November 1, $40 a.m.-All
Saints and All Souls days will be OBJ
served in Paris and throughout France
today and tomorrow by pilgrimages of
wreath bearing throngs of mourners
to the cemeteries, in most of which
are buried soldiers who have fallen on
the field of battle.
Some Of the memorial services were
held yesterday, including pilgrimages
to the cemeteries on the Marine battle
ground, the grave of Paul Deroulede,
the poet, at st. Cloud, and to the mon
ument erected at Pere Lachaise ceme-
tery to the III French writer's who
have been killed in the war.
At Havre the cemeteries were visited
by a procession composed OF Belgian
ministers. the Havre city council and
British sympathizers.
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OIL STEAMER STRANDED.
Craft Owned by Standard Oil Bound
for Copenhagen.

KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands. Novem-
Der I, lis p.m.--Th- American tank
steamer Llama. with cargo of oil,
stranded yesterday morning on Skae
Skerries, Syestray Firth. Holes were
pierced in all but two of her tanks.
TWenty-Seven members of the crew
were landed The remainder, with the
captain, are standing by the vessel.
Another steamer is in attendance.
The Llama, owned by the Standard
oil Company, is one of the German
steamers placed under American reg
istry at the outbreak of the war. She
formerly was named Brilliant. Her
gross tonnage is $3.50 She sailed from
New York October IA for Copenhagen.
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Reserve Opened to Entry.

DODGE CITY, Kan. November l.
The last Of the national forest reserve
in Kansas, tract embracing $4,000
acres in Finney, Kearney. Hamilton
and Haskell counties, along the south
hank of the Arkansas river. was opened
~ entry today at the United States
land office here. The land up to the
present has been used only for grazing
purposes. 1t is to be parceled out in
s2O-acre tracts, estimated to be worth
from 81 to Sc an acre. Three years are
required in which to prove ownership
on the claims.
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Bryan's Proposed European Trip.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. November l.
William J. Bryan. when shown a Paris
dispatch today to the effect that he
would visit Norway in November, said
he was not sure that he would go to
Europe at this time. mo arrange
ments for the trip have been complet-
ed" said Mr.. Bryan, and the matter Is
undecided"
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REPORTS YACHT ECLIPSE.
British Sea Captain Saw Boat on
Which Germans ESCAPED.

NORFOLK. Va. November Capt.
P. Trouse of the British tank steamer
Trinculo, from Sabine Pass. Tex, to
England, here today for bunker coal,
today reported that October IL he saw
the yacht Eclipse. on which six Ger
man officers of the informed cruiser
Kronprinz Wilhelm escaped from Nor
folk. October TO-
He said the Eclipse was 800 miles off
the Virginia capes bound east, with
engine working and all sails set.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
DAMAGE SUIT RULING
BY APPELLATE COURT

The District Court of Appeals. in an
opinion by Mr.. Justice Robb today, re-
versed the District Supreme Court, which
had rendered Judgment in favor of the
District of Columbia in Il suit brought
by Jacob Scheuch to recover for injuries
suffered when the horse he Was driving
crashed through the covering of a coal
vault in the public alley in The rear Of
Ford's Theater, on 10th street, in which
building President Lincoln was as
sass mated. The lower court held that as
the building was under the jurisdiction
of the superintendent of public buildings
and grounds the District could not be held
liable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
|DENY BROWNE CHARGES
CAN Be SUBSTANT|ATED
District Officials Say There Is No
Proof Assessment on Glover's
Property Was Ordered Reduced.

District building officials are author
! ity today for saying that proof will be
offered to the joint select committee of
Congress, now inquiring into the fiscal
| relations between the United States
and the District of Columbia, that Her
| bert j. Brownies charge that Assessor
Richards ordered reduction of c. c.
Glover's property cannot be substan-
tiated. Mr.. Brownies statement to the
joint select committee was to the effect
that if Samuel T. Kalbfus, former men,
Der of the board of assistant assessors,
would tell to the committee what he
had told to friends of Mr.. Browne. it
could be shown that Mr.. Glover had
twenty minute talk with Mr.. Richards
in the hall of the District building, and
that a reduction in assessment was
Immediately ordered.
Mr.. Browne also spoke OF erasures
and substitutions on the assessment
books used in recording the 19l1-l9l2
assessment; and this charge will be de-
MED, it is understood at the District
building today.
inquiry today developed the fact that
officials of the District government be-
lieve that If Mr.. Kalbfus made any
statement approximating Mr.. Brownies
charge, it was made to another former
employee of the assessors office, after
the two men had left the service of the
District government Neither Mr.. kalb-
fus nor the other former employe could
be found today to make statements on
this point.
1t was said at the District building.
however. that Mr.. Kalbfus had stated
to Mr.. Richards that he (Rfchards)
had done more than any one else 10
raise assessments in the District of
Columbia on certain pieces of prop
erty."
Erasures Only in Field Books.
The charge of making an erasure in
the records of the 1911-1912 assess
ment will be met with the statement
that the erasures and corrections are
in the field books and that the assess
ment figures in the officially signed
assessment books have never been
changed. An inspection of those fig
ures produced by the assessors clerks
today failed to reveal any corrections
except an obvious correction of the
size of a certain parcel of land belong
ing to C. c. Glover. the correction be-
ing fraction of an acre in piece
of land between ten and eleven acres
in size.
There are corrections all through the
field books used by the board Of assistant
assessors in jotting down tentative ideas
as to land values, 1t was explained today
These field books are kept in the District
building but are not the volumes which
contain the official assessment figures.
The assessors Office will be prepared
to present to the joint select commit
tee, if desired, the official assessment
books of the 1911-1912 assessment,
signed by the assistant assessors and
the assessor. 1t will be declared that
no erasures have been made on the
official assessment records and that
any erasure would be plainly visible.
Erasures and corrections in the field
books are not considered to be of any
moment, as they are used almost in
manner which practically makes them
memorandum books
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01
THREE KILLED BY ENGINE.
Fatal Accident in Yards at Jack.
son, Ky.

JACKSON. KY. November Three
nersons were killed and one seriously. If
not fatally. injured in the Louisville and
Nashville railroad yards here late last
night, when they stepped from the main
track to avoid passenger engine back
ing up and jumped in front Of yard
engine going in the opposite direction.
The dead-Clark Vaughn, twenty-five
wears old, of Quicksand: Mason Pugh,
eighteen, from Magoffin county; Emily
Lunce, forty-five. of this city. Miss
Celia Easter. eighteen years old, Of Jack
son, is injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-01

that the first division of Turkish re-
servists which has been engaged on the
GallipoIi peninsula has left for Bull
garian Thrace.
The Bulgarian government mas
called to the colors all exempts OF the
classes from 1895 to 1904.
Operations in Serbia are developing
as expected. The present plan OF the
Germans and Bulgarians Is to cut OH
toward the south the line of retreat
of the main Serbian army OF the nortn-
The object of Serbian headquarters is
to conduct the retreat IN good order
TO the army's new lines of defenses. 1t
is believed In Greek m litary circles
that while the position Of the Serbian
army Is difficult it is not desperate
The retaking of Veles, Serbia, by Bull
garian troops has been officially con-
firmed, according to a Havas dispatch
from Athens filed yesterday.
Serbian Army Isolated.
ROME. October 81, via Paris. Novem-
Der Col. C. Acourt Repington. mill
tary correspondent of the London
Times, declared in an interview given
of Serbia is desperate. With her army
completely isolated he said Its only
chance of safety is to retire to the
-Adriatic coast outside its own terri
tory. Once there Italy could supply
either military help or provide provi-
sions and munitions.
The expedition of the allies from Sa-
loniki cannot arrive in time to save
Serbia, Col. Repington asserted. while
tho Austro-Germans can be in Constan-
tinople within a week. He believes,
however that whatever happens In the
orient the eventual exhaustion of Ger
many and Austria will enable the allies
to win.
No Longer an Obstacle.
AMSTERDAM. via London. November 1.
The Beriiner Tagehlatt, in a weekly re-
view of the war. claims that Serbia al
ready has been virtually removed as an
obstacle in the path of the central
powers, since the junction of the Aus
tro-German and Bulgarian forces has
opened and secured the route from
Berlin and Vienna to Constantinople.
Whatever may still happen In the
Balkans, which are divided by diver
gent interests, says the Tageblatt,
I'VE can await future events with GER
tain tranquility. The way to Asia
Minor and beyond no longer is barred
to US. We must ask our
selves whether England and the other
powers interested in oriental questions
are still longing for further proofs of
German
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CORONER PROBES DEATH
OF MISS LOUISE ROBERTS
Begins Inquest at Morgue Into
Fatality at Cordova Apart
ment House.
Other Occupants Made Ill by Poison
Gus Gases for Disinfectant,
It Is Said.

In an effort to determine definitely
the cause and responsibility for the
death of Miss Louise Roberts, twenty
three years old, who died early yester
day morning in the apartment of Mrs
w. D. Baldwin at the Cordova, Goth
street and Florida avenue, where a
disinfectant which is said to have emit
ted hydrocyanic gas was used in rooms
in the basement, Coroner hewitt this
afternoon began inquest at the
morSue. A number of witnesses were
summoned to tell OF the conditions eX-
listing in the apartment house before
and after the death of Miss Roberts.
When Mrs. Baldwin, who slept in n
room adjoining that in which her guest
was sleeping, was awakened she was
SO i'll that she sought Miss Roberts as
ststance. She was surprised to find her
guest also ILL., and a hurried call for
| assistance brought several physicians.
DIR. Ira w. Dennison, who was first to
respond, gave first aid to Miss Roberts
and Mrs. Baldwin and then set out to
look after other persons in the build
ing who had been affected by the pol
Sonous fumes, and while looking after
the several patients he was made sick.
He WAS able to remain and look after
the other sick ones, however, and 1T
was not until he was assured that the
others were in no danger that he re-
turned home.
Coroner Conducts Examination.
Coroner hewitt reached the apartment
shortly after Miss Roberts died. and
remained until long after o'clock in
the morning, making as complete an
Investigation as possible. Persons con-
nected with the company that did the
| disinfecting appeared, explained the
method used. and told of the poisonous
vapor caused by mixing the several
ingredients.
| Detective O'Dea conferred with the
coroner at the Cordova yesterday morn
ing, and discussed the affair with a
number of persons who later were sum-
moned to appear at the inquest as wit
neSSes. An autopsy was made on the
body of Miss Roberts yesterday morn
ing by DIR. w. B. Carr, deputy coroner,
and DR.. Lester Neuman, bacteriologist
at Emergency Hospital, made blood
tests
Occupants of apartments at the Cor
dova who were summoned as witnesses
at the inquest include Mrs. Baldwin,
Mrs. c. S. Boston. Frank s. Roberts, DR..
Robert +. Mason. DR.. I. W. Kite. u. S.
N, and Joseph Clark, the colored jani-
tor. 1t was said that Mrs. Baldwin
probably would be unable to appear on
account of illness.
Other witnesses include Samuel II.
Cunningham, Charles II. Popenoe. Maj
D. c. Howard. surgeon. United States
Army; DIR. Ira w. Dennison, DR. A. NJ.
Whaley and L. S. Fristoe. Mr.. Popenoe
is en- assistant In the bureau of ento-
mology, Department of Agriculture,
and is familiar with the various disin-
fectants in use. and. 1t is stated. he
probably will be asked to tell Of how
the hydrocyanic gas was formed in
the apartment.
Funeral services for Miss Roberts
are to be held Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock at St. Margaret's Episco-
pal Church. Interment is to be at Ar
lington National cemetery.
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News Briefs.

Hugh NJ Phillips. a policeman of Dali
las, Tex. dropped dead in Baltimore of
heart disease. He came to Baltimore
to see Leon NJ. easier. a youth who dis
appeared from his homo In Dallas sew
eral months ago.
Mrs. Margaret Otto. seventy-three,
dropped dead on the street near her
home in Baltimore. Though she fell
tification was not made till after the
body had been taken to . hospital
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FRENCH SUBMARINE SUNK
BY ARTILLERY OF TURKS

BERLIN, November /, by wireless to
Sayvilie, y. Y.-The French submarine
Turquoise has been sunk by Turkish
artillery fire, according to an official
statement issued by the Turkish war
office under date of October 81 as given
out by the Overseas News Agency to-
day. Her entire crew, comprising two
officers and twenty-four men, were
made prisoners.
The French submarine Turquoise was
craft of 3s6 tons displacement, 1874
| feet long, twelve feet beam and was
equipped with six torpedo tubes. Her
speed above water was twelve knots,
while she was capable of making eight
knots submerged. She was built in 1908
at Toulon.