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Dspassnent Of the Intsrioe,
u. 8. Land 0dics at Montross. Color.ds,
Nay -. 1916.
Of Parli.. Co,oredo. Who. oa ysly .,
sw sss sM ~ s = - Rs.e. y IS k.:s :sd Il LSi' e
Meridian, has fled potics Of intsnsioa to make
comnutatioe homestead Proof. 20 establish
elaiD 70 the land above described. before Ernest
y. Noerse. u: 8. Connissiouer. et Gunnisou,
Colorado. on the eeh day Of July. 1916
Claimant names as witnssees:
Wn. c. McDrnough. Earl p Enyeart, August
G. Krsuser, Albert J. Heck, ali Of Pafiin, Colo
&C. SKINNER.
Register. +
First published June .. 1915.
Last published July. :. 1916.
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oners 8 J By fer h4rvsse H.ad

Kansas 10 short 1900 workers n
the harvsst held. The n6sd Is q
hadly felt. especially near Great Bend
that salarjes u from - y IS . day
besldes bcxrd ard lodginG. have beei
Offered Helpers and few have accepted
Evening star., 1916-09-07

Accept designations of the following
Lawrence Montgomery, laborer old
Central High School. and Oscar p. All
wine. caretaker Wheatley portables.
Discontinue the services of Addie
Henderson. caretaker, NJ Street port
ables, and of Charles Charles. care tai
err Park View portables.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
Asks for Reinstatement.

letter from ". Bruce Evans,
70 mer principal of the Armstrong
@lanGal Training School and former
assistant director OF night schools, was
rcad. asking for reinstatement. DIR.
Evans was dismissed about two years
ago, subsequently, carrying the case
to the courts. The letter was re-
fcrrcd 10 committee, several mem
hers of the board expressing the be-
lief that II anything could be done for
Or Evans il should be done.
The Drama League was granted per-
mission to hold rehearsals and give
number Of plays in tho Wilson Normal
school Permission was granted to
citizens in the vicinity Of the new Park
View school to the school for
hesrsals and for their celebration in
connection with the opening of the new
building. John 6. McGrath. president
Of the citizens association of Park
View, appeared before the board. He
was assured of the boards hearty CO.
operation.
An offer from the william B. Cushing
camp. No. 80. Sons of Veterans, U. s. A.,
1" present the Central High
school with large United states nag
was accepted.
Changes Approved.
rhe following changes were ap-
proved
Appointments.
.rrel Miller leborer. old Central
fIi2h school.
charlotte Lowe. caretaker. Wheatley
TA.t-bles
H. Cram. laborer. Brookiand
school
Harry Davis. night watchman. Nc
ltirlcy High school
" H. Robinson. laborer, Mckinley
High School.
T. =. Grinder. night watchman, Nc
klnley High School.
Alex Jenkins. iaborer. II Street High
). hool
q r. wilkerson. janitor. Congress
Heights School
=. w West, laborer. Webster School
TIE following as laborers at the
i,4n0ar High School: y. l.. Ware. T. f
Tey Tor. J. A. Bland. ir., William Cart
tight = B. Wooden. W. c. Wright
-. " Coates. e. O. cambridge, George
Conway
Mrs. u. v. Monroe. charwoman Dun
Mrs. \. =. Lewis, charwoman, Dun
- i;igh school.
Morgan Peyton. assistant engineer
,ms,rong High School.
J. J. Kirby. janitor. Webster School
{. +. Rabbit. electrician, new Gen.
trail High School
Louis Mortensen. assistant engineer.
new Central High School.
Philip Cook, laborer Force School
Elmer Winters, laborer, Garnet
School.
The following as laborers at the new
Central High School: b. p. Mcc1osky.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
Battleship Nevada Joins Fleet.

The battleship Nevada, one of the
most powerful of American warships,
has completed her final acceptance
trials ana joined the Atlantic fleet on
the southern drill grounds for target
practice. The Nevada has tonnage
of 1850 and carries ten fourteen inch
guns.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
Objects to Salary Increase.

When recommendation from Supt.
Thurs;on was read giving s. E. Kramer,
assistant superintendent in charge of
white schools, an increase of $500 in
salary. Fountain Peyton, one of the
colored members, objected.
Il believe the position of assistant
superintendent of colored schools is
bigger than the assistant superintend-
ent of white schools, and therefore
think this should go to Mr.. Bruce,
rather than Mr.. Kramer" said Mr.
I'cEtou.
This caused lengthy debate. during
which Mr.. Peyton said that If Con-
-rcss had meant for the white assist
a"t superintendent to get this increase
~ had nothing to say Nr. Thurston
Sp.aiaed he had based the recon-
mla@ation or the ground that the as
,t superintendent in charge of
r.itS schools IL the acting superin-
t-t 1T N the absence of the superin-
s-fs j. ni After much debate the recon-
o. ldttioH was approved.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
Plan May Be Made Permanent.

The opening of schools the first week
in October is likely to become perma-
rent arrangement. John B. Larner sug-
eested that Washington holds a unique
position and that all the necessary
work could be accomplished if the year
were begun regularly in October Supt.
f. L. Thurston agreed with this. A
committee, consisting of DR.. John Van
Schaick, jr., president of the board;
Supt Thurston and Mr.. Larner, was
appointed to take the matter under
adyisement.
a letter from the District Commis-
sioners urged that the positions OF
engineers at the new Central and Dun
bar high schools should be filled by
competitive examination, saying that
the equipment was costly, and that
great care should be selected in
choosing the men for these positions.
Supt Thurston, who had recommend
ed the promotion of men in the service,
said The men who have been pro-
NOTED to these positions are men of
long and reliable service in the school
system. They hold licenses as first
class engineers. We are not making
experiments in this Ernest H. Daniel,
vice president of the board, urged that
immediate action was necessary that
the opening of schools should not be
even further delayed.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
No Accident in Thirty Years.

Hugh F. McQueeny, superintendent of
ianitors. was called in and testified he
had perfect confidence in the men; that
the systems at the new plants would
be even easier to handle than those to
which they had been accustomed I'VE
haven't had an accident in the school
system for thirty years. he added.
Supt. Thurston and Mr.. Daniel ex-
planned that the schools were already
considering a method whereby all posi-
tions i'll the schools would be filled by
competitive examinations, but that it
was not practica BILE to hold such exam
nations at this time. They urged the
necessity for Immediate action. DR..
Van Schaick. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes
and Mrs. NJ. S. Gerry urged that con-
ferences with the District Commission
ers he held. but the majority finally
decided to appoint the men in the
service. In addition to the men going
10 the new schools a number of the
janitors receive an increase In salary,
as do many other employees, through
the recent appropriation bill.
Evening star., 1916-09-07
CAPITAL 'SSCHOOLS
OPEN|N OCTOBER
Delay Sanctioned by Board of
Education Owing to In
fantiIe Paralysis.

With q proposition to delay the open
'n:. of public schools until October :
ircause of the infantile paralysis
scure: suggestion from the District
Commissioners that positions of en-
cinecrs for the two new high schools
SHOULD he filed by competitive exam
ia:.tion rather than from the men in
the ranks. and discussion d s to whether
Congress intended 10 give an increase
Of $500 salary to the white OF colored
assistant superintendent, the meeting
Of the board of education al the Frank
I'm School yesterday afternoon was a
spirited one.
4 decision was reached that the pub
lie schools should not be opened until
October ?, but teachers will be subject
10 the call of the superintendent. and
in most instances probably will have
TO report about the same date as here
tofore This is deemed expedient In
order to bring back to she city any
who may be In districts where cases
of infantile paralysis exist and also
20 prevent any difficulties arising In
salary matters, which, it is thought.
might occur If they were not at work
on schedule time.
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Appropriations To
Ten Other Places

There Is always money to appropriate
for an !ncreaSe In the salaries of high
officials. Tor park improvements. street
improvement, for Lincoln Memorials.
and 9th hr suSh unnecessary beautifiers
of the city, hot when II comes to build
ing a decent place for some poor, miser-
able, sick soul to rest his head at the
Washington Asylum Hospital-why an
extra coz must be placed either In the
basement, the hall, or out on the porch
and the nurses can do their best to
make their day stretch sufficiently to
find time 10 awe the patient the needed
attention.
Plans and Specifications have been
prepared for a municipal hospital and
year after year no appropriation has
been made; meanwhile the old buildings
are deteriorating to such q Ga;sIge tbuc
they are almost unfit Cor use OF any
sort.
Washington needs Il new municipal
hospital. She needs 1t more than any
on enc of' the extremely cold and
windy mornings recently ] made a nil
grimagc to the present haspitel. 1t was
quite y pilgrimage too. FOR the hospi-
tai is located on the Eastern bra nch OF
the Potomac river and long distance
from the car lines over muddy. rough
roads. There ere no streets paved O1lt
SO far. When ] saw what went to ma kc
up the hospital that is 10 Washington
what the Bellevue Hospital Is to New
York, / could not believe my eyes.
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and poorly equipped. and at the other
was the kitchen. The food is not pre-
pared here, but is brought here from
the general kitchen located at a dis
lance OF several hundred feet. The food
must be brought to the wards In tin
carriers and. as far as Is possible. 1t is
reheated In the ward kitchen. The only
faciilty for this work Is q two-burner
gas stove.
The dinner trays were being pre-
pared while / was there and for the
sunday dinner the patients had a bowl
or hot soup which had been reheated
on the gas burner. piece OF roast
meat, two potatoes boiled with the
skins on and a portion OF gelatine. The
meat and gravy were cold because they
had been brought so far and there was
no way to warm them There was bare
IN room for the two walters TO move
about as they prepared the trays and
Iyet In addition to using the kitchen for
this purpose, quantities of clothes be-
longing to the patients were stuffed In
there.
After leaving this building I crossed
long porch and visited the colored
women's ward. | might add here that
these long porches | mention are not
screened in. There Is no appropriation
for that but just the same they are
used In the summer time and the NJ
TENTS must battle with the flies as best
| they can.
! conditions prevailed as in the Colore ]
mems From here l went through the
white men's ward, and then throuy II
tho white women's. and to and from
each II was necessary to 20 long 1is-
lance out IF doors. Think of the time
ara energy wasted by the doctors and
| nurses!
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Makes Herself As
Useful As Possible

Because she is bright and cheerful
despite her miseries. and because she
makes herself useful. she is allowed
fer IncVrables or TO the Home for TIE
Aged and Intirm. where the patients
20 whose cure Is either impossible or
whose chances for taking care of them
selves on account Of age or intirnity
are doubtful
The story OF this woman is this: She
Was pretty and socially prominent
girl in Washington about fifty years
ago, and she met "a young man from the
| South. They fell in love, were mar
ried, and went to his Southern home
to live. All went well. They made
friends and were happy. Among .hese
friends was woman who became the
chum of the wife. Somehow it all
changed. The man e!oped with the
wife's chum. and then with a broken
and embittcred heart and a broken
faith, she went from bad TO worse,
and finally landed in the Washington
Asylum Hospital many years ago suf-
| fering with n terrible disease. Time
went on. and the disease became worse.
One day. twenty years later, new
patient was brought into the hospital,
and tins woman whom We may call
| Ann for convenience sake, was help
| ing make ready for her. She was so
| absorbed In her duties that she pa i'd
| little attention to the appearance of
= the patient. Her one thought was try
\ ing to do something for this piece OF
| human fiotsam and jetsam which had
drifted her way on the ocean OF life.
This patient had come in, much as she
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Many Pitiable
Cases In Ward

In the psycopathlc ward are such pitt
able cases. There is a poor old colored
woman In there who dresses dolls all
the time. Then there is a man there
who was arrested for attempting to
leave suspicious looking package at
the package was opened IL contained IA
box OF sand and a card saying IL was
something the President. needed. Then.
too, this same man writes notes to Miss
Margaret Wilson begging her to marry
him. He is suffering from dope. and
can he cured.
Sitting at the table, the picture bf
gloom and dispair, was a youngser. the
son of prominent parents. This boy has
been Wild. and as a last resort he las
been placed mere where he is being
treated for acute alcoholism. At mis-
tender age. too. for he is in his very
early twenties. =
lid eyed colored women md white
women, either mental suspects or suf-
fering fSoTn alcoholism or dope, were all
together IN one ward; and each one has
stand why they are detained. and tr-
sist that much injustice il being done
them by not allowing them to go free.
But what can be done for them?
One patient Of this sort. who improved
| and was dismissed, returned within a
few days full to the brim of drink.
After so long again he was "cured" and
given position with small salary in
very first opportunity he helped himself
| to the alcohol in the laboratory. which
was keut for the preservation of speci-
mems. He was Sin again"
And so IL goes with these patients.
They are OF all sorts, ages. and color.
Struggling with them and trying to save
| those who can be and making what Is
left of their life a little brighter and
| more comfortable are the officers and
nurses OF the institutio Louis +. link
han Is the superintendent, w. G. LadI
the visiting physician and surgeon. Dr.
| James II. Allen IL the resident physi-
clan. and Miss Louise NJ. Stacey is the
SUPERINTENDENT. of the nurses ana the
training school.
Visitors are welcomed to the hospital
and religious services and entertain
ments Of various kind are held for the
patients who are we'll enough to ehioy
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Full of People
Who Are Poorly Equipped

In all these wards 1t was the same
thing. They were so full OF people aud
81 poorly equipped. l could not hclp
but think OF the awful danger and loss
OF life 10 the patients should FIRE
start in one OF the buildings. They are
SO old and entirely of wood, and all
connected by these wooden porches.
They would burn like SO much finder.
The ncNt building L went through
contained the psychopathic wards
This Is an old brock building. and FAR
better than the others in many ways,
Int the lack vi fresh air was 80 great
tnat ono OF the members OF my marty
! tainted before we had been In there ten
minutes. Imagine what 1t must be to u
nurse III That place, nucn less pa
TENT The rsychopathic ward is the
, largest unit in the hospital department.
No ward In any Washington hospital
has more c:iactng demands made upon
IT, The |p.cndid work done here has
attracted attention and favorable COM
! nent beyond the confineS OF the Dis
| trlct
! But the building, with Its poor light
and ventilation, It's lack OF social rooms
| and sun porches, and its other llmta-
tions. makes It difficult for the accom-
plishmcnt Of its purpose. Not only The
observation and treatment OF hundreds
OF menta. suspects-many of them Yio-
lent-but also the care ana treatment
| of many acute alcoholic and dope vic-
tins are the demands upon these wards.
During the last year $50 mental sus-
poets and 49, cases OF acute alcoholism
and many dope hends We're treated IN
these wards. With the present tacili-
ties the white and the ColOrcd Cana A.,
| classes OF them cannot be segregated
They must all cat in the snNe room
and II goes without saving that lhGrt
should be none but mental cases treat cd
In the psycopsthic wards. The hua.
dreds OF alcoholics now rec Owed the"s
should be treated in an inebriate asy.
lum.
II rather goes against the groin (,
see a mental suspect eating and Twin,
alongside Of u criminal dope, and on tn
ether hand why should the poor fellow
who took ono too many drinks risk hi
life with mental detectives? Then. too
the white and colored women are al
placed in the same ward regardless o
| conditions
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WHAT IS URIC ACID?
THE CAUSE OF BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM LUMBAGO,
=. GRAVEL AND SUDDEN DEATH.

Ever since the discovery OF uric acid
IN the blood by SCheGlt in HE and
the bad effect it had upon the body,
scientists and physicians have striven
to rid the tissues and the blood OF this
poison. Because OF its ovcrabNndance
in the system, Il causes bacliache,
rains mere and there, rheumatism,
govt, gravel. NEURALGIA, and sciatica.
II was DR.. Pierce who discovered n
new agent, called "Anuric." which
win throw out and completely ersdi-
cate this uric acid from the system.
"Anuric" is thirty-Hcven 'Imcs more
Potent than lith!a and conseVu emily
you need no longer fear muscular OF
PARTICULAR rheumatism, or govt or
many other diseases which are de
pendent on an accumulation OF uric
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Hundreds of Visits
Made By Staff Members

During the last year more than
twenty -onc hundred visits were made
to the hospital by the thirty odd mem
bers OF the attending stan.
Aside from the fact that the location
OF the hospital Is rather out of the way,
It Is one OF the best features o. the
place. The view down the river IL in
spring and the large tract OF land used
by the hospital and Jail buildings could
probably be put to no better use That
section of the city is building up and
before long undoubtedly car lire will
be extended nearer the institution.
At present the location is a hardship
on the nurses and doctors and others
ton OF the city which has been the
gCcnc Of numerous cutting and shoot
ing affairs and whose inhabitants arc
not of the best grade Of society. Tho
grounds about the hospitals are kept IN
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tary, and the heating system IL anti
quated to saw the least.
The more deplorable fact however, IL
the wholly Insufficient accommodations
for patients, and this Is the reason for
the overCrowling of wards and OF even
housing the overflow In insanitary base
ment rooms unfit for such use. Wards
capable Of caring for about 10 pa
tients were during the last winter
obliged TO accommodate 263 patients al
one time. which meant 30 per cent more
patients than should have been. 1t was
a hardship on the nurses. orderlies. and
interneB.
The name o. the hospital Is untortu-
nate, too. IL Is called the Washington
Asylum Hospital and Jail. The hospital
Jail, but there the connection with the
iaiI ceases. The large majority OF the
patients treated IN the hospital - made
up OF the poor of the city, and the over
flow from the free wards in the other
hospitals, .--
Tke hospital Is in q sense an insane
asylum, The name Washington Asylum
cd stigma on tho large number Of
unfortunates who arc sent to tht
surgical treatment, The patients fee
il, and their friends feel It;
One OF the important features OF
the hospital is the Nwcll-organizec
training school for nurses II
has an excellent teaching force
the visiting and consulting star, The
classes % patients, too. are OF sucf
variety ~ 10 broaden the training o.
the nurses. More nurses are needed, bul
the pregent home for the nurses IL too
small to accommodate more, Th'
peIintendent of nurses, six graduate
nursel, and tMenty-scTCn pupils,
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acid within the BODY. Send to Dr..
Pierce. of the Invelids' Hotel and Sur-
gical Institute, Buffalo, n, Y, for I
Pamphlet on "Auuric," and send 10
cents for a trial package of "Anuric
Tablets.
If you feel that tired. worn out feel
ing, backache, neuralgia, or II your
sleep IL dtsturbe by toe frequent uri
marion. 30 to your best drug store and
ask for Doctor Fierce's Anuric Tab"
let's
Doctor Piercc's reputation Is back
Of this medicine, and YOU know that
his pheasant Pellets" for the liver
and his "FaNorite Prescription fol
the ills NJ women have had a SPLENDID
AdVL.
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to carve,

now here he Is a public care at the
Washington Asylum Hospital. Time
has been long since his prosperous days.
and the friends of those times have
faded away until here he Is. Just
awaiting his call His brain is good.
but on account Of his wrecked body he
can do nothing to make money but
carve wood.
For time he was unable to do that.
hut by constant effort. quite as much
mental as physical. this man has
learned to use several fingers, and all
day long lie carves and caTves and
carves. and tries TO forget that there IL
anything in life but making beautifui
things OF carved wood.
The mans face shows refinement.
and his work shows that he possesses
wonderful artistic taste. When ! saw
him he was completing 4 very beautiful
ease for clock which he hoped "a
sell. He Is grateful for pieces OF wood
to carve, and more grateful to those
| who will buy his finished work.
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During the last year 3,1O3 patients
were treated in the Washington Asylum
Hospital, No other hospital In Wash
ington has cared for so many, The hos
pital has record of fifty-four births
IN its maternity ward, The highest
population In the hospital for any one
day was 2G3. and tho general average
war laS. It Is truly remarkable tina I
this could have been accomplished with
the Inadequate facilities. The floors arc
old and rough. the plumbing is insanI-
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"UNCLE ARTHUR" longest resi-
dent in 1.-THE Old Plantation" the
colored ward.

carrying 4 tray in the psycopathic ward.
She has been in the hospital for many
years.
She Is suffering from the disease
which is a living death. and in its
rayages have gone her entire nose, one
eye and most of her face Numerous
experimental operations have been
made IN an effort to replace the lost
members, but to no avail. In the early
days Of her hospital career. one OF
her fingers was grated 10 her face In
an effort 10 replace the nose. but her
condition was too bad for II to meet
with success. and now all hope OF help
ing her is gone. and she just stays
- ND