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GREAT FALLS PLAN
UP IN THE HUOSE
Representative Frear Criti-
cises Course of Engineer
Officers of the Army.
INSISTS LOCAL PROJECT
SHOULD HAVE ATTENTION
Contrasts Report With Urgency of
Recommendation for Mussel
Shoals Improvement.

Representative Frear of Wisconsin
delivered an attack on the general r1V-
ers and harbors bill yesterday after
noon in the House of Representatives,
in advance of the introduction of the
bill, in which he declared that the prof.
ect to harness Great Falls so as to
provide cheaper light, power and heat,
as well as an increased water supply
for Washington, is being held up use
lessly. He criticised the engineer de-
partment of the United States Army,
asserting that the Great Falls project
is being held up while at the same
time the engineers are urging the gov
eminent to spend millions of dollars
.'fn the far off back woods of northern
Alabama" He had reference to the
Mussel shoals Improvement project in
that state. which has been the cause of
many hard fights in Congress. He
char acterized the Great Falls project
as one of the most worthy before Con-
sress and said that the Mussel shoals
project has no merit at all.
The people of Washington Mr..
Frear said, ''whatever sins of omission
or commission may exist, have not re-
ceived pennies from the government
where Mississippi, levee land owners
other wastefu1 projects make the local
issue insignificant by comparison. We
constantly chase rabbits that have no
legal protectors, while we dodge gray
wolves which infeSt waterway, public
building, navy and army bills.
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"KLEoPATHE" IS PRESENTED.
Massenet's Opera Given for First
Time in America at Chicago.

CHICAGO. January 11.-Massenet's
opera 'Neopatre" was presented for
the nrst time in America last night at
the Auditorium by the Chicago Opera
Company. with Maria Kousnezon sing
ing tho title role. MARCEL Maguenat
took the part OF Marc Antoine and
Marcia Van Dresser that of Octavie.
The opera was well received.
The parts of Kleopatre and Marc An
tome were created in Europe two years
|ago by Nine Kousnezof and NJ. Ma
guenat, when the opera was given its
first staging at Monte Carlo after the
death of Massenet.
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- Sought by National Capital.

"One of the greatest privileges ac-
corded man is the right to breathe
without paying tribute to some monop-
oily. Another is the right to free water
to drink, and still another is the right
to have municipal control of public
utilities for public use. That privilege
is sought by so-called wicked Wash
inetonians. who believe in the govern
ment paying half of the taxes in this
capital, yet we have them in chancery
so that relief must come from Con-
gresS."
Mr.. Frear criticised Gen. Kingman,
chief of engineers of the army, for not
recommending that appropriations be
raade for the Great Falls project, and
went on to say:
NO intelligent man questions the
need of an additional water, power
and light supply for Washington. of
which Congress is the board of alder
men. and all experts agree that this
water supply should come from the
Potomac river. 1t is proposed to con-
denim the Great Falls of the Potomac
owned since 1899 by private corpora
tions, its present owner being the
Great<Falls Power Company, which is
an fn+-ctive corporation of Virg mia, and
q majority of whose stock is held by
the Washington Railway. and Electric
Company. This company also controls
the Potomac Electric Power Company,
which in turn does the public lighting
Of Washington.
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Munroe Smell. eighty. engaged since
1865 in Baltimore in the insurance bus
mess, died at his home in that city OF
heart disease and the infirmities of age.
He was the son Of Melville and Har-
riet Smell, born in Ware, Mass, Novem-
Der II. 1885, and graduated from Yale
in 1860.
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Recommended for Future.

However. in his annual report this
year the then District engineer officer
reported that on account of the installa-
tion of meters. and other measures
taken to reduce consumption per capita.
IL would appear that the work SO far
as the increase OF the water supply was
concerned need not commence before
1920, and that experience may then
show 1t safe to postpone commence
ment for several years more.
The economies of the development
have been questioned in some quarters.
The estimate-ef cost cited above con-
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Touches Alabama Project.


These corporations are supposed to
be affiliated with the General Electric
Company, which7in turn is understood
to- own the Alabama Water Power
Company, which wants Immediately
100000, recommended in 1914 by
Gen. Kingman, for the development of
Muscle shoals down in Alabama.
1T has been proposed that Congress
take over the Great Falls real estate.
water, water rights and the falls, by an
act containing provision that the
Great Falls Power Company may sue
in the Court of Claims for damages.
While this course would be opposed by
those who have sat on their rights for
three-quarters of a century, including
the General Electric Company, it would
result in preventing extravagant dam
ages, estimated by Gen. kingman at
doublesor triple the actuaf values at
Muscle shoals, for which, however. he
recommended that the government
should pay s1.750, ,0O0o. The Great Falls
rights ought to be secured for less
than 100000.
Bearing in mind that the Grea,
Falls project is needed primarily for
drinking water for great municipal
ity, while the Muscle shoals project
demands an slS.700,000 government gift
for waterpower for an Alabama power
company, l desire briefly to present
some engineering facts that are siguifi-
cant.
1T is admitted by Gen. Kingn1an that
$500 tons of commerce annually does
not justify an expenditure by the gov
ernment of s10.325,000 more for navi-
cation, in addition to $4,000 already
spent among the sandhills of Alabama
but the army engineers recommend the
expenditure Immediately because there
are forests and agricultural resources
that when fully exploited will add
greatly to the general prosperitY.'
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No Demand for Power.

Gle shoals project showed that no pres
ent demand for power exists at Muscle
shoals. 1t is prospective.
THE government has spent S3,200.00o
at Muscle shoals and has developed a
commerce of $500 tons annually, one
half of which is fertilizer.
Against protests, Gen. kingman fur
ther recommends that the government
give private power company at Mus
Gle shoals, Immediately, the sum of ST.
$50. 900 for fiowage rights
1T is further recommended that SS,-
675, 900 more be given, for $500 tons Of
commerce, in aid of navigation, for
the use of the same company, TO be paid
by the government within fye years. in
addition to sS,325, 900 more to be loaned
for power development, or the grand
total of sls. 900, in addition to So
100000 already expended.
Gen. Kingman states specifically
there is not enough commerce to JUS
tify such an enormous expenditure up-
til the forests and agricultural re-
sources have been fully exploited. The
hearings further showed that no pres
ent demand exists for Muscle shoals
power
Now. look on the other side of the
picture. Attention is invited to &C let
ter written by Gen. kingman to the
Secretary Of War about september 49,
1915, in relation to the Potomac Falls
water supply and the municipal own
ership project in connection thereWlth
He says therein.
This project proposes the combina-
tion OF power development and an in
crease of the water supply OF Washing
ton at an estimated cost of Sl5,o2l 900.
1T was the view at the time, and
until recently, that work for increasing
the water supply should be commenced
in the near future.
Evening star., 1916-01-11
New Hotel Burns; Loss, $3.50, ,0oo.

SAULT STE MARIE, Ont, January
1f-The new International Hotel was
burned tonight, causing a loss esti-
mated at s250,000. The guests escaped
injury One fremen fell forty feet
from ladder and was badly hurt.
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thousands. had taken with them such
hand grcnades as souvenirs OF the
war.
After two years OF hard fighting
much had bees gained a great work
WIS before rs. We were grateful that
AIs,ria's intention TO war on Us in the
a'i,Smn of 1913 had been frustrated
hy San Giuliano and G.ol!tt!. We
thought Of no new struggle and had
lu cause to see in Francis Ferdinand
ana his Czech wife new foes of the
Slavic cause. We desired an honor
able understanding with Austria-Hun-
gary. closer commercial bonds with
Germany. already We had ordered in
the latter country 10000, 900 marks
worth ~ railway material-when, ike
q thundcrhul;. anne the u,timatum.
You know how deeply retrograd
and London had humiliatcd us. You
Yourself had found 81 your dauch-
ters stl That ! humhlrd myself too
much 10y granting eleveu-twelfths Of
what had been demanded Of me and
had left the last twelfth To the good
Will Of the great Powers.
"trucl necessity, father But wtthal
We had a right to count upon assist
ance, first Of all from Russia. after
Nicholas's telegram We were left
alone.
In the third and fourth year Of
war \ peasant nation Of scarcely
1000. ooh heads. The great victory over
I'"ti"r"h's army, Putnik's master
stroke, was more than We could have
hoped for. The number " prisoners,
the more than abundant booty and he
certainty of a period of r. 'ul~ratlOn-
these things made rs hirathe easier.
Not for long. In tho wake of the
war came terrible epidemiCs, True,
also many remedial supplies, and the
tokens of friendship from foreign
lands, All allies and the Americans
sent rs money, medicines. clothes,
foodstuffs. AGRICULTURAL implements
seeds, machines, weapons. guns and
munitions, automobiles. aeroplanes
surgeons. nurses, technicians.
"Rut VT only had 220, 900 able men
md with these we had to guard "A front
such as France guards with six times
as many soldiers in the west. To
weaken our lines still further in order
To reliev" the Russians by an attack
on the Banat or Syrmia; such a sug-
gcstiun Putnik's soldier conscience
was forced to reject, His rejection
caused had blood abroad.
Among us also had blood was made
by the fact that England had stakcd
everything on the Bulgarian card:
that sh" wanted tn eXtort Macedonia
from us, kavala from the Greeks.
"A Balkan alliance against Bulgaria
could have been brought about. The
! intention, howNvcr, Of ag]grandiziny
bulgaria "A bound 10 anger not onl\
you ana my self but Bucharest aut
Athens as well!
since January we knew. mo- soiel,
from the notes Of NJ, Ncnizclos. wha,
was coming overlooking of u sol
by Austro-German troops and Rul.
garia's swinging over to the enemy's
side.
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Alas, London remained mistaken
in her trust in Sofia. IL this trust
fails so w were told. then you will
have, on the strength Of your treaties,
Greece and Ruman!a as allies
The ancient enemy. for whom Ser
hian blood had two years before con
uuered Adrianople. now Joined hands
with two great Powers and swept down
upon III. We were exhausted 10y three
wars. epidemics and misery.
"Wavering t.midity on our part AZ
this juncture would have outraged our
ancestors even in their graves, would
have deprived us Of the brother love
Of your mountain falcons.
But no one wavered. You have
rcad the last speeches which the
Skupshtina heard in Nish" In their
somhre determination to pay the most
painful sacrifices. their sober readiness
for death, these speeches were we'll
worthy of an Achilles. Of n Dante.
'l'"urfold superiority coming from
,Arr" sides with all the giant machines
of destruction rolls into and over u
poor country. Every able bodied old
man, every used to work in the
field and the tenderest youths take to
arms. From the sickrpom. from
prayer at the grave Of the Kara
Georgev!ch I hurry 10 the front, crawl
as In the previous winter-into the
trench, emaciated. worn out. rheumatic
cripple that l am. In mud and steam, |
use my rife, charge on the enemy am
unable. however. to fire my men 10
victorious storm as once AZ Rudnik.
MY army melted away. the triple
onrush OF the foe was too powerful;
We were forced 10 retreat. For every
inch OF our sacred soil We fought as il
for a pawn Of honor. In vain. The
enemy needed more time than he had
calculated: hut the destructive onrush
Of his masses could not he stemmed,
I'VE remained alone. And many a
hand formed fist and rose in scorn
against the Q%uadruplc Entente. which
let us bleed to death, We have cause
for complaint, Well into the last
weeks of November We had been told
hundreds OF times, that the Franco
British army will quickly fight its way
through from Salonica to ioin ours: a
Russian army will come down through
Rumania, an ItNiian force from Al
hania.
Nothing came.
And the fact that ltaly's greed for
Daimatia and other Slav territory was
fed by the Entente remains, for ue
for both Serbian kingdoms, a danger
Nevertheless | have always warned
against nursing grudIes against gu,
allies, Where would We be IL they had
not protected ~ in August. 1918, and
| again in August, 1914? What would
become Of Ms now II they turned theil
backs on us? Our land Is overrun by
the enemy, Il belongings destroyed
or carried away. and from the same
Kossovo Plain where 526 years age
Sultan Baja2et dcfealed our Klns
l.azar and ON the day NJ the holy st
| Nitus destroyed the realm OF the grea,
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and. II necessary. to surrender even
his crown to Michael. who had de-
livered the soil OF Serbia from the
ignom!ny OF the Turkish yoke.
In the Dupa Pass. al Antivar. ana AT
DulcignO he had defeated tho Otto
man army. He had NJ last satisfied
the longing of his people for access
to the sea. And in -. Petersburg he
had Outshone the radiance of the
house of O~bcenovich. then paling I'M
der Milan.
All this in twenty years. Could not
this same Nicholas achieve much
more? Could ne not bring about the
unifcation NJ the Serbs. Of which he
dreamed as "A youth?
Thus this bold and stately ruler rose
In the legend Of the southern Slavs
In be the haloed hero of those hunger
ing for greatness sweeping into the in
finite. and Nicholas understood wei
how To establish himself In the ma
tional confidence.
Nicholas strovt "a cop tn" Illus
,rious example of his g~reatuncle, the
second Peter Pctrovitch Njegosh. In
the Paris of the Second Empire he had
caught glimpses of the literary trade:
with his patriotic zeal. a tuneful verse,
an effective stanza could not help but
find applause. He dared II: his song
greets the sea yer which there nut.
ters now at las, In the morning wind
the red standard with the white cross.
greets the mountains Yer whose
crests led the IA to the future Of
"A Greater Serbia, He proceeded Ia
"a. bf, snnVt. n national $50, a,,l a.
national drama. Hero. poet and fox.
Was IT not worthy OF high praise
that he conquered the firmly locked
heart of Alexander H., who loudly
proclaimed him his best mot, AS too
literal. distorting translators have put
IL. his "unique"o friend? Was II not
exceedingly clever OF him To represent
himself wholly as the creature and
grateful admirer of Russia, since
Milan Obrenovich had turned to Aus
trials Andrassy?
Milena. the daughter Of the impov-
erished Peter Vukotitch. bore him six
children. Such blessing must bear in
terest 70 thu father. to the fatherlani.
Princess Zorka was married to the
Serbian heir apparent. Peter Kara
G%eorgevlch. Militia to the Russian
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaievitch,
Stana at first to George Duke of
Leuchtenberg. then to the Grand Duke
Nicholas Nikolaievitch, Helena even to
the Italian Crown Prince Victor
Emmanuel; Prince Mirko fetched his
better half from the House of Obre-
novich. and only Danilo. the heir APP
parent. had TO content himself with the
lustreless betrothal to Princess Jutta
Of Meck.enburg-Strelitz.
Nicholas held strong trumps In his
game: Russia. the Slavic sentiment
and ltaly's support. Should one dag
the throne of Alexander Obrenovlrl,
i've offered HIM, certainly no Power
would object.
None" Here Is where Nicholas
made a miscalculatiOn in his pro.
gramme. Austria-H Hungary had had
! too much anger and bother with the
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cicnt forces, stem the tide that is
flooding the land refugee. torn and
tortured in body and soul. Peter
stands before Nicholas. Says Peter:
The misery of our brethren eats
INTO my heart. Was il a crime that
| took the crown from the hands OF
the officers who had had the courage
20 ~ink the dagger into the mated
shame of a luuat.c and "A court hur-
lu;" That an p~hrcuovich. deep III
dcht to Austria, feeding on the favor
~ Vienna, was succeeded by an in-
dependent dynasty conscious of !ts
NIL to freedom
Il wanted rest md peace; a gov
Ornamental system, the advantages OF
which my study of western countries,
in the years Of my exile. had taught
me. My people wanted an outlet 20
the seas. Vet this surely not inn
modest desire was beyond TN" reach
of realization; "A thousand !ntriguos
lay in it's way,
"That this desire mlscarricd, that
in the empire Of the Emperor and
King who from his proud castle gov
erns more Serbs than both of us. yoll
and l.. together, Wild hotheads and
scattcrnrains. worked for IA quick, Al
forcihlc uniticatiun of all those belong
ing 10 the same ace, that even
within our own borders righteous
scorn drove young blood into the
wh,rl: We're these things our faults"
elias the world not always, in al
zones witnessed aS~sassinations. suc-
rosSful and Not, ana rcb.llions. vie
torious and not. wherever parts of one
nation demonstrated against complel,
dissolution. complete racial extinction
demonstrated because II was shaken
by the storm of yearning for unity.
Was it our fault. our crime, that in an
Austrian police. two Austrians tone
of whom was allowed to visit in Bel
grade only on the strength of good
testimonials from AUSTRIAN murdered
the Archdukc, heir apparent of Aus.
tria?
"If that was our fault, our guilt
then StauifaCher was responsible fol
Wilhelm Tells deed, Victor Emmanuc
FOR Oherdink's plan. There was ne
thread-not the thinnest- that coult
connect IN" |assassins with the sober
men Of my Government who workct
for their country, leading but q
shadow of existence, so scarce wa,
| everything.
"A weapon used by the ~assassins
came from a workshop In Serbia.
That proves nothing, for hundreds
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ex%crtions in France and Gallipoli. The
Gurkhas especially have always beer
favorites among British soldiers. and
Australians serving alongside Of them
in Ga.lipoli have written TO me that
they will forget the gallantry
and devotion Of thcir Indian comrades.
The two groups have EVE before
really come together upon absolutely
equal terms.
There have been assurances Of
loyalty and offers Of service from all
classes In India.
Much of India. IL must be remem-
bered. is not British. but consists OF
States remaining under the rule Of In
dian po%tentates. Without exception
these Indian rulers. although under no
compulsion to do SO. have offered to the
empire everything which ii has been
within their power to ofer. The Ma
haraja Sindhia Of Gwalior, the ruler Of
one Of the largest Hindu States. wired
to the Viceroy:
1.-The resources Of my state are at
YOUR disposal. In this offer I include
Of course that Of my person
He would have made good his offer
Of personal service by himself Joining
the expeditionary force had not III
health prevented.
THE premier %potentate Of India, the
Nizam Of Hyderabad. is a prince Of
Southern India and n recognized leader
Of the Mohammedans. In the first
da, $. before Il was known that the
Turks had Joined Germany. he gave
f400. 900. or 5000. 900 IN American
money. t the cause Of the empire for
expenditure in any way deemed wise
by the British Government.
Later. when the Turks published
their reasons for deciding to join in
the conflict and declared the struggle
to he n holy war in which it was the
duty Of all Mohnmmedars to particle
pate. the Nizam published a counter
declaration. denying this and saying
that no religious issues were involved.
lie has maintained this position with
out a sign Of wavering. ! need not
dwell on the Significance OF this fact.
Il believe the Indians, az a whole.
TO he well Informed as to the real is
sues involved. Many NJ the leaders
and not a few Of the rank and file OF
the Indian population speak and read
English. The Nizam knows English
very well. as does the Maharaja sind
h!a OF Gwalior.
The Begun of Bhopal is a highly
educated Mohammedan lady and very
competen,ly rules over an importan;
territory. She has been in England
and has written her own life in Eng
lish. She thoroughly understands in.
~ternat!onal affairs in a very broad
sense.
she replidlates The Turkish action
in joining Germany and. in a long ad-
dress. very widely issued. declares with
truth that the Young Turks are no,
Mohammedans Il; all. bu; infdels. and
calls the Turkish Government tn.
mere catspaw ~ Germany. a~llcnatel
ny intrigue from its own hes: interests
II those Of tho religion which I; pro-
fesses.
II might run through tn. list OF In.
dits most important ruling person.
ages and have much the same stor,
"a tell of every one OF them. The cases
TO hich I have referred are typical
II I exceptional. They indicate the in
huence which is at work upon the
Indian population. II has had en-
actly the effect which might have beer
expected.
So much for the native States. In
which are resident seventy millions
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BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.
IA double string Of iron con.

TT "a double string of iron con-
nected the lower Danube with
i the AJriat!c the Serbian army,
forced 10 retrea. by n powerful
superiority Of invaders, would have
found II less Difficult, to save itself by
reaching a territory within easy reach
of willing aid from Rome.
ii was nearly eight years ago that
lialy, through Signor Ti;toni. sug-
ges,ed the construction of the Danube
Adriatic railway. But hardly had
French bankers shrewdlS obtained
Turkeys permission to begin the en-
terprise when Albania was shaken by
terrific fighting which made engineer
ing work impossible. Then came the
first and second Balkan wars. and AL
hania was made Independent from
Turkey: whereupon the Ambassadors
conference at London resolved that the
railway should be international and
neutral.
Only--it was not constructed
So the poor Serbian Warriors, pushed
steadily back by the armies of two
great Powers and the bulgarian forces,
were forced to climb steep mountains
and to leave guns, ammunition and
supplies behind in order to preserve
for their fatherland an army-the
trunk OF an army.
And their King would have been
happy II he could have crawled into
refuge In the little land OF his father
in-law. That his fate should ever hinge
upon the will Of Nicholas. ruler Of the
Montenegrins. Peter Kara Georgevich
grandson Of the Black GeOrge) had
certainly neve dreamed ince he was
fetched from Geneva TO be King at
Belgrade.
on the twenty-seventh day OF No
vembcr. 1850. the M%ontenegrins made
their triumphant entry into the Adri-
attic seaport to Dulcigno. opened to
them by the Turks. Where once
B~yzantium, then Venice and for the
subsequent three centuries the Sultan
reigned there now sparkled over the
red field upon which M~ontenegro's
double eagle spreads It's silvery wings,
the golden cross In the sunlight. tho
golden crown OF the free Christian
Prince.
And as for Nicholas At 80 he had
occupied his throne for twenty years
but still his countrymen idolized him
as n youthful hero. He" they SAID
will sure'y lead us out Of poverty
and pressure; he can n day be to
the T'zrua Cora what in the four
teenth century stephen Dushan. the
Car Of all Serbs and Greeks, was to
the south Slavic hope" For had he
not already achieved much?
In Paris az a mere boy, a student
of the science OF war. he had won the
fancy Of Louis Napoleon, which proved
Of value 10 him when as n youth OF
~ he aided the uprising engineered
by tho iierzegovinian locksmith Lucas
WukalOvitch, lie had made possible
the alliance of the two Serbian States
by deciding to place his army and
himself uIder the command Of Michael
| Obrsnovich. the bold Serbian ruler