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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
ARMY-NAVY.
Army Orders.

Maj Theodore b. Hacker. Quarter
master Corps. will proceed to Lynch
burg. Va. pertaining to the inspec-
ton of escort wagons now in the
course of manufacture.
Leave of absence for one month is
granted Capt. George NJ. HolIey, '24th
Infantry.
Capt Fred f. Buchan. Quartermaster
Corps. will proceed to st. Louis, Mo.
for duty.
Capt John A. Berry. Quartermaster
Corps, will proceed to the coast de-
lenses of Puget sound for duty.
Leave of absence for two months on
surgeons certificate OF disability is
granted Second Lieut.. Gilbert L. Cook.
9th Infantry.
Col Guy Carleton. cavalry. is relieved
from duty as inspector, Western De
partment. and will proceed to Manila.
p. L., for duty.
Private John NJ. Toppins. Hospital
Corps, Walter Reed General Hospital
will be sent to the Letterman General
Hospital. Preside of San Francisco,
Cal. for duty.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas B. Dugan. 9Th Cav
airy. has been promoted to be colonel
of the 9th Cavalry and Maj. :. r. H.
Tompkins, 5th Cavalry, to be lieuten-
ant colonel of the 9TH Cavalry.
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Says Regulation Is Failure.

IF our lpw-speed limit accomplish
ed anything tits supposed to 90 in the
way of making our streets safer-if it
eliminated the joy-rider ana the speed
maniac-there might be sor.s grounds
for defending and maintaining it. But
II does not: the joy-rider still joy-rides,
irrespective of the regulations. and the
drink or speed crazy fool still careens
doEn the highways In defiance OF them.
why 1t should be necessary for our
city, with its wide streets and ave-
nucs and Its almost suburban traffic, to
have code so voluminous and so mi
mute in detail as to require an encyclo-
pedia and a table of Iogarithms for it's
translation, while in New York, with
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CALIFORNIA G. o. P. CAUCUS.
Effort Being Made to Send Unin
structed Delegation.

san FRANCISCO. February 2s.-A
group of republicans from all over CAL
ifornia met here today three hours be-
Tore the executive committee of the re-
publican state central committee was
called to meet and agreed to select
ana support a list of delegates to the
republican national convention AT chit
caso June Z. The announced purpose
OF the gathering was TO bring to-
tether all former elements of the
republican party and thus to insure a
republican victory in the approaching
presidential election"
The delegates to the national conyen-
ton. IL was declared, should go un-
pledged.
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WELCOME TO U. S. ENVOY.
Greetings to Ambassador Morgen-
than by New York City Committee.

NEW YORK, February 2s.-Undcr the
auspices of a committee appointed by
the mayor. citizens of New York par
tcipated today in meeting OF well
come TO Henry MorGenthau. United
skates ambassador to Turkey. who re-
centiy Returned on leave of absence
from ConStah;inople. The meeting was
held at the College Of the City of New
York.
Cleveland H. Dodge presided. and
Mayor Mitchell Bishon Greer or tho
Protestant Episcopal Church. Oscar :
Sifaus. Rabbi Wise. DIR. John H. Fin
ley and Sidney T.. Mezes, president of
me college. were on the program to
speak.
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Orders to NAVY Ships.

The battleship Kentucky has bern
assigned to duty with the Atlanta re-
serve fleet. 1t has been stationed in
Mexican " aters. and is now on her way
to New Orleans. After the Mardi Gras
celebration it will proceed to Philadel-
phia for reserve duty.
The sunboat Marietta. in Haitian wa
ters. has been ordered to Vera Cruz.
Mexico. to replace the Kentucky
The destroyer Worden has bee,
ordered from Pensacola to Mobile for
the Mardi Gras celebration.
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reau was abolished and .old Mrs
Eaton ] was sorry. said Mrs. Rowe
she was in vindictive mood and
replied: Mayor Thompson has to take
care of me- AT one time she said that
she had done more work for the mas or
han | had. and she enumerated the
work she did for the mayor
Rumors that the city council would
be asked by several aldermen to abol-
ish the department of public welfare
were carrent today
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CHICKENS DO COME HOME.
Wiser, However. to Head Stolen
Ones in Another Direction.

ROCKVILLE, Md. February %.
On charges of stealing chick
ems from Arthur Thompson, a
huckster. Samuel Linton and
John Atkins. young negroes,
were arrested yesterday by Dep
uty Sheriff ODER Daley.
1t is claimed that the boys took
the fowls from ThompSon's hen
merry and half an hour later at
tempted to sell them to Thomp-
son. Mrs. Thompson, however,
recognized the chickens, the au-
thorities say. and the arrest of
the boys followed.
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Suggestions Offered.

Mr. Wood also offers suggestions de-
signed to relieve the congestion grow
ing out of the parking of vehicles on
the public streets.
AS a starter he says. 81 would sus-
gest that the alleys leading to the
center of each block be widened and
the interior space, where it is not al,
ready built upon. be cleared of ola
fences, outhouses, ash heaps and trash
piles. and made into an open square
curbed. paved and surrounded by
sidewalk. SO that car traffic for the
block could be driven off the main
streets and eventually most of it enter
the buildings and stores through the
rear entrance.
."Gradually new type of building
with two fronts. and more light ana
air and better conditions. permitting
of intensive development OF business
through the arcade plan. would take
the place of the present structures
and do away with the unSightly ana
insanitary conditions which offend the
eye and the senses i'll the center OF
nearly every block.
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electric power development: combining the
navigable rivers to their channels by
means of levees. and the prevention of de-
forestation and soil erosion.
The recommendations will be submitted
to the President in time to have them
enacted into law at the present session
and to substitute them for the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill 1t is probable
that the President will submit a special
message on the subject.
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Admits Difficulties and Cost.

II am aware that this plan involves
difficulties and cost, neccssitatcs the
taking of private property for pubic
uses and trouble and expense in work.
ing out questions of benefits and dam
ages. etc, but admitting all that. it rs
better than the decentralization of present
conditions. which are getting worse all
the time
TT would not be necessary to plan any
great upheaval or enormous expenditure
at one time. The interior of few blocks
could be cleared. in the most congested
districts. as far as permitted by the
permanent improvements. and interior
lines can he laid down there and else
where. like exterior building lines. to
which all future construction in the
block shall conform. thereby gradually
and imperceptibly changing the condi-
tions and solving the problem.
Little by little. business and other af
fairs would shape themselves to the new
conditions and eventually both the pub
lie and the individuals concerned would
profit by tne change, and our city would
be more than ever a model for other
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French Tragedian Gravely III.

PARIS, February 26.-Jean Mounet
Sully. the trage,lian of the Coincide
Franchise. is gravely i'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

\ centrifugal pump invented IN Eng
land is said to handle, unscreened sew
age of consistency that would choke
any other type of pump.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

Records show that only Il per cent
Of applicants for enlistment in the
United States Navy are accepted.
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the present conditions. and will cost
us less money, both collectively and
individually"
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Efforts to Bring Armor-PIate
Measure Before Senate
Cause Complication.
MYERS BILL SUGGESTED
AS SHIELDS BILL RIDER
Senator Shields Said to Be Strongly
Opposed Senator Norris Makes
Lobby Charge.

Water power Legislation. which has
had the right of way in the Senate for
several weeks. promises to continue be-
fore that body for some time. The
Shields dam site bill. providing for wa
ter power grants on navigable streams
to private interests. is still under con-
sideration and is the subject of attack
by the conservationists. On the heels
of this measure will come the Myers
water power bill. which provides for
the leasing of government lands for
the development of water power.
While the democratic steering COM
mittee has determined that the Till
man bill for Il government armor plate
factory shall follow the Shields bill in
the Senate. friends of the Myers bill
have objected on the ground that it
would save much time to have the
Myers bill considered Immediately
after the Shields bill has been dis
dred and much of the argument which
has been had on the Shields bill will
apply also to the Myers bill.
May Be Offered as Rider.
If the steering committee cannot see
its way clear to giving the Myers bill
the right of way, the Myers bill may
be offered as a rider" to the Shields
bill. in order to get it before the Senate
as soon as possible.
Senator Shields is understood to be
strongly opposed to such procedure.
Ut is feared that opponents of the
Shields measure and opponents of the
~
hyphonated bill should the attempt be
made to join them.
In an attack on the Shields bill Sen
ator Norris of Nebraska yesterday de-
clared the bill was being championed
by the strongest lobby that ever came
to Washington.
They are repI esentatives of the wa
terpower trust" he said. which has it's
general headquarters in Wall street."
Senator Poindexter Opposes.
Senator Poindexter of Washington
also addressed the Senate in opposition
to the Shields bill.
Another opponent of the Shields bill.
as it is now framed. Senator Husting
of Wisconsin, has prepared a bill which
he will offer as a substitute Under it
Congress would retain control over the
construction of dams on navigabIe
anu coHlf1llSSlOn, composed
the Secretaries of War, Interior and
Agriculture, would regulate the use of
power. The substitute is said to satisfy
conservationists who. under the lead
of Clifford Pinchot. have objected to
some features of the pending measure.
Limit of Thirty Years.
A limit of thirty years would be set
on power licenses by the Husting bill,
but the commission could grant two
renewals for. ten years each At the
expiration of license the United
States would take over the property
upon payment of price fixed by the
commission A charge of not less than
10 cents per theoretical horsepower is
provided.
The bill also empowers the federal
govfrnment to take possession of any
Improvement which becomes part of a
combination or conspiracy to restrain
the output or distribution of power, and
TO seize in time of necessity all power
plants for the manufacture of nitrates
and explosives.
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COMMISSION MAY RULE
WATERWAYS AND POWER
Cabinet Members and Senators to
Suggest Project to President.
Expect Special Message.

waterways commission plan for leal-
ing with the questions of waterway inn
provement and water power problems has
been decided upon and will be recon-
mended to the President as the result of
a conference yesterday between cabinet
officers and a committee of senators. The
conferees were Secretaries Lane. Houston
and Redfield. and Senators Newlands,
Broussard and Ransdell. They were
named by the President and former Sec
rotary Garrison
1t is possible the agreements reached by
the commission of officials will be pre-
scented to Congress and may form a so
luton of the row over the rivers and har
borS bill.
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its millions of people. its many thou
sands of cars, its narrow streets and a
traffic congestion like a circus parade
on Pennsylvania avenue, has only Il
little card, with a few simple sugges-
tons and rules and a few diagrams. is
not clear to the analytical mind.
Should Copy After Neighbors.
1t would seem that we could to
advantage copy what some of our
neighbors are doing. With a teemins
population and traffic in comparison
with which ours is like that on
country road. they have not found it
necessary to clog their regulations
with minutia of detail. nor their
courts with cases involving only the
petty infractions of unreasonable limi-
tations. created by unwisdom. instead
of by the necessities of the public. and
ending as in our case with a travesty
on justice and contempt for that which
should be respected.
In the line of regulation we are
badly in need of Il revision downward
in quantity and upward in quality. and
Il change along reasonable lines will
make lot of us happier. and the rest
of us just as happy we are under
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CHICAGO WELFARE HEAD
DENIES EATON CHARGES
Mrs. Louise Osborne Rowe Testifies
in Split-Salary Case Before
Civil Service Board.

. CHICAGO, February o6.-Denial that
Mrs. Page Waller Eaton, former head
of the bureau OF social surveys, had
been compelled to contribute part of
her salary as city employe to the re-
lief of a relative of. Mayor Thompson
was made today by Mrs. Louise Osborne
Rowe. head of the city department OF
public welfare, and the person to whom
Mrs. Eaton testified she had made the
alleged payments.
Mrs. Rowe's denial was made from tho
witness chair before the civil service
commission. where Mrs. Eaton had
made the charges in two days Of ques-
tioninG and cross questioning
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Similar to Frear Plan.

\ waterways commission" similar to
that proposed by Representative Frear of
Wisconsin is contemplated by the plan.
Under the plan there would be created
a waterways commission consisting of
the President, the Secretaries of War. In
terror. Agriculture and Commerce, and the
chairman of the board of river regula-
ton. Chairmen of the interstate COM
merce commission and isthmian canal
commission are proposed member eX
officio. The commission would have di-
rection and control over all waterway
projects and expenditures.
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Said to Exonerate Mayor.

After leaving the witness stand today.
Mrs. Eaton was quoted as saying that
she had obtained information which
eNonerated Mayor Thompson from all
knowledge of the payments which she
said she had made to Mrs. Rowe for
the benefit of Mrs. Margaret E. Mivelaz.
the mayors sister-in-law.
Mrs. Rowe also told of attending "a
meeting of the council finance com
mittee and being informed that either
the bureau of employment or the bu
reau of social surveys of. the welfare
department was to be abolished.
Il was asked which ! would rather
lose. and ! replied neither. And then
said that Id rather lose the bureau
of surveys. but ! would hate to see
Mrs. EatonS bureau abolished"
Several days later the surveys bu-
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Duties Of Commission.

All features Of river and inland water
way regulation would be placed in the
commissions hands. including hydro
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You'll find we are consistently maintaining
reputation for special values at special prices We
are pledged to two things-quality and economy
and no matter to what heights prices rise-you
can rest entirely secure in the knowledge you
buying what is best-and paying less for it here
than elsewhere That's record in the past
our assurance for now-and our promise for the
future.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13
bvUAxAA AND PERSONAL
NEWTON-LENT

Aiss, Josephine L. Lent of "A Worth btreet and MT. Archibald G. Newton. formerly of Brightdh, England. but now f'thisf city, were married at St.. Johns Episcopal church Saturday. Rev. Stephen Fish Sherman, Jr., per- formed the ceremony at o'clock in the presence of Miss Lent's immediate family and a few intimate friends of the young couple. The bride wore an attractive travelling costume of grey silk and a velvet hat of the same bhade. MT. Newton is employed by the British government and has been in Bridgeport since the war began. The bride came here from Boston |, about three years ago. She attended Bridgeport high schooL>for a short time. / Both MT. and Mrs. Newton have formed numerous friendships in Bridgeport. They will reside at 15F Coleman street until MT. Newton's government recalls him, when he will sake his bride back to England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13
Summary
 OF THE War News

Instead of resting on the ground won in yesterdays great attack north of the Somme the French continued their thrust last night. capturing the village of BouchavesneS and a wooded area nearby.
 l. Bouchavesnes lies to the east of the Bapaume- Peronne road, cut in yester- days drive and its capture with adja- cent territory apparently clinched French possession of this main high way to Peronne from the north.
 Combles is now cut off from the south and in a dangerous salient, while General Foch is in a favorite po- sition for a stroke from the north of Peronne which seems seriously threat ened by the new advance of the French, one of the most important they have made in any single opera tion since the beginning of the Somme offensive.
 The British. who hold the lines northwest of Combles, are maintaining firm grip on Ginchy, but have as yet apparently made no attempt to gain further ground to the east
 In Macedonia the entente offensive is developing, notably along the west ern sector of the front. Athens an- nounced a joint advance by French and Serbian troops.
 The Zaimis cabinet in Greece is out of office with the acceptance of the res- ignations of it's members by King Constantine.
 From Bucharest comes official an- nouncement of a continued retreat of the Austrians before Rumanian pres- sure in Pennsylvania
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13
PAGE lIS NOMINATED FOR GOVERNORSHIP BY
 G. o. P. OF VERMONT

Burlington, Vt, Sept. 13-Returns from the first direct primary held yes terday in Vermont showed today that Carol s. Page, Republican. of Hyde Park, had been renominated for the United States Senate by 6, vote fifty per cent. greater than the aggregate vote of his two opponents, Governor Charles W. Gates and former Cover nor Allen M. Fletcher. With all but 5s of the 2s4 election precincts heard from, the vote was Page, 23,1S0: Fletcher, 8,030; Gates, 6,650.
 John E.. Weeks, of Middlebury, speaker of the House of Representa- lives. was believed to have wor the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. The same 226 districts gave him 13,327 to 13.033 boiled by Roger Hulburd, of HydS Park. The majority of the towns making any re- port are in sparsely settled regions and it was believed that the final figures on this part would not be known until the official canvas should be reported to the secretary of state.
 In the contest for Republican nomi. nation for state auditor. Benjamin Gates, former secretary of civil and military affs.rs, had a safe lead over deputy state treasurer. Thomas Cave. Jr The vote was: Gates, 13.343: Cave. 1850. l
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13
Elwood Again Choice
 of Fairfielders For
 Opposing Chas. Rowe

Fairfield, Sept. 13-The Democrats and Republicans of Fairfield held their caucuses Monday evening at the town hall. The Democrats went in to session at 7:30 and the Republi- cans at o'clock Both meetings were we'll attended. William Kin sella, Democratic candidate for town school committee, was nominated for the 18th year. Following are the Democratic nominees: Assessor, Herbert Smith; first selectman, H. R. Elwood; second selectman. William London; town treasurer, William O.. Burr; tax collector, to be named later by the town committees; board of re- lief, Hanford W. Lyons; constables. H. R. Elwood, Fred Volderauer. Hen ry Hawkins and John ,McGarry; grand jurors, Howard Gray, Edward J. Flanagan, Hanford W. Lyons and Fred B. Wakeman; registrar of births, marriages and deaths James Farrell; town auditor Fred B. Wakeman.
 The Republican candidates are: Assessors, Clarence H. Bradley; se- 1ectmen, Charles A. Rowe. Frederick A. Burr; town treasurer, Luin B. Switzer ;tax collector. Joseph l.. Flint; board of relief, F. E.. Northrop; con stables, George Larson, Leander He'd berg, Andfew F1gler and Arthur Bennett; grand jurors, James Cum rnings,/ John T. L. Hubbard. H. N. Wakeman and B. L. Tarlton; registrar of voters, Clifford s. Banks; town school committee, Simeon E. Pease; town auditor, Robert Hitchcock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13
GENERAL PERSHING

Brig. Gen. John Joseph Pershing, the officer chosen to lead the Ameri- can expedition into Mexico, was born inn Linn county, Mo-. fifty-six years ago today. Sept. 1S. 1860. He has been a soldier fort thirty years, hav- ing graduated from West Point in 1s86. They have been years of achievement and action, and he well deserved the reward he gained a de- cade ago when President Roosevelt promoted him to the rank of briga- dier-general, jumping him over the heads of S62 other officers-the rec ord jump in the United States army and, perhaps, in any army.
 Gen. Pershing's first experience of warfare came soon after his gradua- tion, when he was sent to New Mex ico and Arizona to fight Geronimo's Apaches. Later he fought the hostile Sioux in the Dakotas, Icommanding the Indian scouts. In 'the Spanish American war he was the commander of regiment of negro warriors, and won the praise of his superiors as one of the coolest and most daring of the American officers. Upon his return to the States he was sent to Washing ton to organize the Bureau of ,Insu- lar Affairs, of which he was the first chief. He then went to the Philip. pines, where he was given the diff cult job of subjugating the Moros. He returned from the Far East early in 1914 and was then sent to the Mexi- can border. His knowledge of the country and his recognized ability and bravery made him the logical choice for the command of the expe- dition into the wilds of northern Mex ico.
 A little more than a year ago Gen. Pershing suffered terrible and trag- ic loss in the death of his wife and three of their four children. Mrs. Pershing, who was a daughter of Sem ator Warren of Wyoming, and the children were sNffocated in a fire in their quarters att the Presidio at San Francisco. Warren, the youngest of the Pershing children, was quickly revived. but his mother and three lit- tie sisters were dead when rescuers reached them.
 Gen. Pershing is an advocate of un- iversal military service in the United States. He holds that no system bas- ed upon voluntary enlistment will provide enough soldiers if America should ever become involved in a great war. Every able-bodied youth. he declares, should receive military training, so as to be able to defend his country in time of need.