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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
THE WASHINGTON TINES FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8; 1916

TO this inquiry because Of the bearing Il
WIN have on conditions in all parts Of
the country. t. -
Adoption by both houses last night Of
the conference report on the revenue bill
and the conference report on the de-
nciency appropriation bill paved the way
FOR adjournment today.
This morning, the closing hours of the
Senate and House were given over to
clearing up odds and ends OF legisla-
ton and to crowding into the Record
large amount OF political matter.
In fact, the session drew to close
with politics rather than legislation in
the ascendant. with a Presidential and
congressional election only two months
ahead. political feeling In at high
pitch and political speech making SER
we'd to clog up the Record In both
houses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
Kitchen, 4 Pieces

The kitchen outfit includes Famous Polar, Alaska
made Fully Guaranteed Family Size Refrigerator Large
Kitchen Table and two Kitchen Chairs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08

and delivery charges have climbed as
well. The price OF feeding horses he 9
gone up. Oats last year were n and "a
cents; now 1t is 81 to 80 cents a bushei.
hay has Jumped. within the year. from
~ cents to q and % cents. Coal has
gone from A.a TO $3.50.
Baltimore Wages Lower.
In Baltimore. where scent bread al
ready impends, one baker stated, the
bakers do not employ union labor. Here
the bakers and drivers are organised.
The bakers here. he said. receives min
imum OF $3.50 week and the drivers An
$ls minimum. and they can earn more
on their commissions.
lie gave the Baltimore wage scale for
bakers as sl6 and s7. and many Of them
wholesale drivers here. he said get a
~ per cent commission: in Baltimore
tney get per cent. The commission FOR
retail drivers here is Is per cent. this
Lewis Holmes, OF Holmes a Son. said:
IT material costs more than 2 cents
per 'oaf. the baker, who sells II wholesale
at cents. IL passing the danger mark,
AZ the present time the overhead and
delivery. charges alone per loaf we fg-
ure at ABOUT cents. This does not take
into account the ingredients. so you see
there Is no profit In selling bread at the
present prices OF materials
Another thing which Ii not taken into
account In this calculation Is the return
!oaves. which must be sold as stale
bread at 2h cents per loaf"
Supply of Flour Limited.
Bakers said that It has been impossi-
BILE to buy much flour ahead. Hereto
fore they have been able to buy ahead
for delivery ut specified times.
For the past few months they have
been able to buy only small quantities
to be shipped Immediately.
The prospects Of higher priced bread
for Washington II present quotations on
flour continue cannot be overlooked. one
baker said.
The strange thing about bread sell
ing" he commented. is that folk pay
higher prices for meats and potatoes
when the demand makes II necessary.
But they seem to expect scent bread
and loaves Of the same size, no matter
what the prices of the Ingredients
Practically all the big bakery man.
ayers stated today there had been no
talk Of higher prices for bread yet. They
said they had been ''stalling along''
hoping for relief In lower prices for
-four. but that the present prospect for
a reduction Is DINNER.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
POSLAM
Clears tho Slfiss
Heals Eczema

Trust to Poslam the important task
Of Graduating your eczema, pimples,
rash or any surface disorder and max.
ing your skin clear again. It's healing
help is available handily, safely, mex
pensively. Itching stops, angry skin
cools and feels so good that you should
b able to soon forget the affection.
AT ALL DRUGGISTS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
Colleagues Honor
Warren BickfOrd
Give Veteran Treasury Employe
Watch and Chain - Resigns
After so Years Service.

Warren Bick ford. who resigned from
the Treasury Department today, after
fifty years OF continuous service, was
presented with a gold watch and chain
and diamond studded Masonic watch
charm by his associates this after
noon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
What the Four r loom &C oloniap Outfit In
Bedroom, 6 Pieces

The bedroom is furnished in mahogany, six pieces in
GLIDING Colonial MahoganytniSh Dresser, Chfonier and
Toilet Table, with genuine French plate mirrors Massive ,
inch Post Guaranteed Lacquer Brass Bed and Mahogany
finish Chair and Rocker Every piece is well made and
perfectly matched.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
THE WEATHER REPORT.

Forecast for District of Columbia.
Maryland and Observation-Disclosures
ers today: tomorrow fair and cooler;
moderate south shifting to west winds,
with squalls.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
Living Room, S Pieces

The living room in either fumed oak early English
five pieces including Large Armchair Rocker, Seee and
Side Chair with the best imitation black leather seats anu
Heavy Library Table with drawer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08
DEATHS
(Too Late To Classify

(Too Late To Cldsstfy.)
sMrrH-Entered into rest. September s. at
1880 a. m, ANNIE r. SMITH. beloved
wife Of the late William II. Smith.
Funeral services will he held from her
late residence Monday at p. m. Friends
and relatives invited to attend Interment
at Conversational CAmstery. %
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-08

TIDE TABLES.
a.. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High tides. -. 4:19 q. M, height -
$3.50 p. m. height rs
Low tides. ...l1:lI a. m, height 0.l
11:3l p. m.. height 90
Sun AND MOON TABLES.
Sun rose. AZ a. m. Sun sets. $40 p. M
Noon rises.4:3 pm. Moon sets.l:+0 q. m
Light automobile lamps at I p. m.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
WORKING FOR PRO BONO PUBL1co"

IT HERE places public veal
above private welfare and that John NJ Fulton of Reno
assistant general freight and for the Southern
Pacific company the only general officer of that corporation
that everpoessed that
Coils Huntington that magnate stated that his road
Nevada "smply bridge desert" 1t somewhat
like the remark made by railway king of early days. who
disgustedy exclaimed "The public be damned"
Thank fortune whoever be responsible there
railway depots of the the referred The railroads
standing in with the people and through Mr. Fulton
exceptionally through his efforts that Southern Pacific
company decided many miles Of its abandoned right Of after
the cutoff had been built the various counties Nevada through
which passed order that they might have highways of uniform
grade and easy curvature
Mr. Fulton good offices appealed higher
to make it for auto travel this state realizing
he that this would deduct from the passenger earnings his
company He working bono pubco and his company
hasn't lost anything few fares for his actions have brought
the people and the corporation very closely together.
And Friend Fulton in another role Nevada
benefaco placing his employer in second consideration He
confes with the Bonanza with reference forage plant that
might be experimental with southern Nevada for purpose
securing winter feed for livestock ignorance good
purpoulnes this suggested him the planting of
aflerla. This shrub that sends down deep and
makes the surface thus merely seeking from
the depths but conserving the surface Mr. Fulton
up the matter and will report the Bonanza readers
Now mark this point WELL the Southern Pacific company
great through transporting beef cattle and sheep Cali
ornia autumn when the alfalfa short is this
It the forage plant suggested what be claimed for
then this transfer California the fall spring
will thereby cutting the Southern Pacific off considerable
But Mr. Fulton realizes and his company realizes
the people of Nevada should realize through building
good roads for autos and establishing system of winter feeding
here population increased and huge industry
in the long the Southern Pacific company will
gamer by the transaction Mr. Fulton only broad
but long.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
REVISION OF MINING LAWS

HE American Mining congress-
which in Hotel La Sale, Chicago November 13th will
ndeavor definitely formulate the long sought for and long fought
for revision Of the mining laws of the country.
Dr. Foster Of Illinois committee mines
and mining will be in attendance will report
progress made this subject by giving the objections
raised to of the contemplated changes his
what can be passed through both houses of congress
The battle has been long and hard Mining
congress has record Of that marks great power
remedial good in the mining field east and
The first appeal made by the American Mining congress for
bureau Of mines backed by less than oneweh of the
Of the house Of representatives But May &c. 1870 bill
signed by the president and February 2 1913 amended bill
was signed covering particularly the western situation
Since that time the efforts of the Mining congress
been directed part adequate appropriations
Of the bureau And this struggle has been
whole extremely satisfactory.
The greatest work of the American Mining congress is however
along the lines of planning legislation provides greater safety
for the lives of the engaged coal and metal mining
The result of legislation initiated by the Mining congress
has reduced by nearly oneh the killed per million
tons coal produced Acting the impulse
by this the American Mining big organza
tons of the country have almost without exception introduced
the splendid Safety First efforts which have been productive
Of good results everywhere
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
WINTER CARELETTERNO.1

Storage Batteries will freeze
Freezing serious runaon to your hat
terry Surely to avoidt this
As of the Service Stations we are
especially equipped give attention and
during the winter you of your battery
worries. charges small
We would appreciate advising you regarding winter
battery
Tonopah Electric & Tire Co.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
80 EAST AND WEST, BUT ALSO 60 DOWN

CIMPLY because the lode hardheaded Cal Brougr
- calls it. and scientific people give learned
cut off about six hundred feet below Gaping
in mines of Tonopah by dacite
that this marked the depth of possible enrichment Brady
theorized in this and he incline
thousand level of the Belmont additional sixty feet of vertical
depth and dollar stock sxtupd in value The dacte
merely intrusion and beneath bearing
found The Belmont today seeenng its heads from the 400
level the Bonanza informed Acting Superintendent Moore tells
this paper that he enrichnng his shipments from the deep
of the Rescue The Victor the other day. which couple
Of hundred feet below the 1540 has commercial
the shaft Other mines going great depth in the
The Aa will be about 1900 feet gets under
the Umata shaft No. there is real scientific practical
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
MEETING THE HEAD WAITER.
Cruising the Velvet Sea In Fashion
able Restaurant.

Cruising the Velvet Sea In Fashion
able Restaurant.
"How many, pleasef" inquiries the
head waiter fatuously.
After you've done some chain light
ming arithmetic, which he must ad-
mire. you say two or three or
more, as the case may be. Now that
the head waiter knows How many,
pleaseY the serious problem arises
upon which white linen island to To-
cate your party. He surveys the room
He frowns slightly and purses up his
lips. Baffied, be hesitates. At this
juncture If there is woman in the
party she declares positively that she
wants to 'sit over there!' For some
unknown reason this suggestion Is al
ways frowned down by the head
waiter.
Once upon a time woman Is said
to have been allowed to sit at the
table she picked out, but doubtless
this is pretty fiction.
The head waiter tries to fit you to
a center table. As there are plenty
of coy ones around the sides Of the
room, you turn down this selection OF
his, and then he grudgingly precedes
your party to side table, but not the
side of the room that you prefer
to sit on. However, by this time you
are tired of your cruise over the vel
vet sea with everybody staring at
you, so after you've fused about who
is to sit next to whom you are settled
at last, and every ones face relaxes.-
Helena Smith-Dayton in Cartoons Mag
azine.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
MURRAY FER WILSON!

Unless fraud should be palpable for the election
~ presidency would be only expensive but would
great along other lines The majority for Mr. Wilson
Iappeas be decisive Let him have the old chair he
and buy him better he asks The rich enough
Eastern bankers complain that they much gold
good which may that they faced with the dire
possibility of being compelled lower interest
the chair and it is uncomfortable build him of the
watchu waiting plank and decorate it with of
hundreds of Americans who have been ruthesy slain
and of the and babies who have murdered by
boats Uphoser it with his and ultimate Then put
censorship and prize court proceedings in his pipe and him
smoke comfort Meanwhile arrange his reports
the absolute lack of after the
illuminated with pictures Of and family reunions
at Ellis island Yes make comfortable for the benign old
pedagogue.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
JUST THINK, A WOMAN CONGRESSMAN

WOMAN has been elected to the congress of the United States
This marks the beginning of epoch She recognized
being qualified she would have been chosen St
something to say about keeping silent in the congregation
but St Paul has been gathered his fathers couple of
Thousand years The world do coored
rreevanty and unsentifcaly stated moving
equality OF rights Women in particulars inferior
both physically and mentally having less
cranum but they his inferior rather quantity quality
and the emancipation Of the will in eliminating the
physical differentiation while the Judgment cerebrum
cerebeum medua obongaa whatever machinery people
have in their heads will be given for expansion Really the
Bonanza has no intent ppan this writer
voted worked oed and mod suffrage two years
but he realizes the ways and is ready to expae
any time the penance may be imposed
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11

Try small adlet in the Bonanza.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11
BIG TURKEY SHOOT

A. Shelly, who conducted such a
successful turkey shoot last season,
will come to Tonopah again this
Thanksgiving with 500 of the biggest
and latest turkeys that ever hit the
town. Vail Pittman is barred from
winning over thirty in one day.
ADV. Nett
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11

After the first Monday in January supreme court
OF the State OF Nevada should be asked constitution
atty of the tariff peanuts
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-11-11

for believing that dispositions Of Tonopah to great
depths the ratio of gold improves depth
attained is the best favor of the primary enrichment
theory either aaske encountered in the
boes before the Bonanza will be believer deep mining
in this district
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19
Preparedness Is Tagging.

1t is unfortunate for the administration that
at time when the Mexican situation promised
to give greatly needed impetus to preparedness
legislation it should be unable to present a solid
and united front to Congress; that it should be
necessary for the chairman of the Committee on
Military Affairs at this late day to explain, in
answer to a question by a member of the House
that the Hay army bill has the unqualified in
dorsement of the President. 1t will require Re
publican votes in the House to pass an army bill
and if the party in power is divided and appears
rresolute and vacillating it can hardly expect to
command them.
Secretary Garrison's resignation, caused BY a
difference with the President on army legislation.
came at a most inopportune time, and his sue
cessor's criticism of the Hay bill, before he had
been in office week, certainly has not improved
the situation Congress has been in session more
than three months, and if there was urgent need
OF preparedness legislation when it convened tina,
need is doubly Urgent now, in view of the Mexican
Developments.
Much Of this legislation ought now to be on
the statute books, but instead almost nothing has
been accomplished. A ringing expression from
the President, leaving no doubt as to where the
administration stands, would clear the atmos-
phere and accelerate the movement of the law
making machinery.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19
A Debt that Should Be Paid.

In appropriating the Districts revenues for its
support, under the plan of making I'D the
dchcit, whatever it may amount to, by contri-
button from the Federal Treasury, Congress it is
to be hoped will make provision for the discharge
OF the debt which the people of Washington owe
to the incapacitated and retired members of the
police and fire departments Repeatedly attention
has been called to the fact that the pension fund.
established for the benefit of these faithful SER
wants of the city whose work is finished is made
quate to meet the just demands made upon it.
and that for years these rol-of-honor men, many
of them in needy circumstances, have been the
creditors of the District.
Nobody has disputed the justice of the
claim, and the taxpayers have always been not only
willing but eager that the revenues thew contribute
should be used in part for paying it. There has
in fact been an unchanging sentiment on the
part OF the citizens in favor of paying arrears in
full and including the amount of the pension roll
in the annual estimates of the amounts required
for the support of the two departments Relief
there is fair ground from which an appropria-
ton OF this character be assaed There is
nothing about it in the nature of grab, only
the payment OF what is honestly due a worthy
and needy body of men for services rendered.
With the new system of appropriations-soing
be overlooked. 1t ought not to be difficult to
muster in Congress enough friends OF the veterans
to see that justice is done them
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-19
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER
Special Correspondent Of The Warrington Herald
tcopyriEbt. lsI5 Newspaper syndicate,

Merida, Yucatan. March il.-Life il
Yucatan is wrapped up in henequer
fiber. Everybody thinks. talks and act
heneauen. Wherever you go In the coun
try there is henequen TO the right o.
you and henequen to the left of YOU.
Their whole existence down here i.
based on heneauen.
Let me explain to the INITIATED tha
heneauen. or sisal grass. is produced from
a plant closely resembling the centur.
plant. the botanical name of which !.
Agave Americana. 1t has long. thick
green leaves. much like the plant for
merly known as the Spanish bayonet
These leaves are a solid mass OF tough
little fibers like threads which run theii
whole length and are covered and helC
together by leathery green skin.
All that is necessary to do to prepare
the henequen for market is to SCRAP,
the skin of the leaves, squeeze the fiber.
inside so the fiber is extracted and hans
the green fiber on a rail in the sun. In
two or three hours it Is dry and read,
TO be baled up and sent to market.
stsal and Manila.
1t is the hemp from which all the cord.
age, rope and binder twines are made
Nowhere else in the world Is II grown
except in the Philippines. AS we have tc
II Is very necessary product. The Phil.
ippine fiber Is known In the trade a.
manila hemp. 1t has real name. which
Is abaca, while neneauen is eeneraIy
known as sisal. This name OF sisal is
derived from the fact OF its having for.
merly been shipped from a port of thai
name, Tor the same reason that abaca
10 known as manila,
The best and highest priced binde,
ppaH n 81 tIa
seauentiy brings usually about two cents
pound more in the market than does
Inc s'sal However. there is such a de-
mand and necessity for both kinds o.
hemp that they can hardly be REGARDED
as rival crops
Not only is henequen growing to be
the chief industry of Yucatan, but # con-
stitutes seven-eighths of the total exports
oi the country. Three-fourths of the
entire population is engaged in and obtain
a livlihood from the sisal industry. The
other exports are chicle-a gum from
the zapota tree from which chewing gum
Is made, although you never see any
one chewing gum in Yucatan AMI they
would probably consider il a very queer
thing TO do-mahogany, dye woods and
hides.
The zapota tree bears a delicious fruit
that Is about the size of a tennis bali
ana mas a skin like a dried-up potato.
You cut 1t open and find IT filled with
n graduated pulp of the consistency of
a ripe pear that has peculiarly sweet
and delicious flavor
Wood Lasts Like Steel
The wood of the zapota tree is ex-
tremely hard. believe it is the hardest
wood known, even more durable than
lignum vitae. It's so hard you can;
drive a nail in 1t and it is difficult to
work. 1t soon turns the edge of any tool
used on it. Also it does not rot in water
and will endure for unknown centuries
when used in buildings l have examined
zapota beams in temples OF the ruined