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Evening star., 1916-08-08
NOTES OF THE CAMP.

| For the second time since the organi-
zation was mobilized for federal serv-
| ice fire call was sounded in the Signal
Corps camp yesterday evening. A fire
in the roof of Mex" house near the
camp was responsible. Less than a
bucketful of water was needed to ex-
| tinsuish the blaze, but the Signal Corps
men had as much fun as if the whole
structure had burned.
Private Boone discovered the fire and
spread the alarm. Bugler Welsh
| running toward the spot from all di-
.rections. Corp. White was in the act
! Of shaving. in readiness for his nightly
/ stroll in the plaza, when the alarm
was sounded, and he responded with
one side of his face covered with lath-
er. Private Boone, who was the first
to reach the shacks, burned his hand
slightly while fighting the flames. Ev-
erybOdy was having lots of fun until
some unthinking person came along
with bucket of water and spoiled it
all.
The fire department" was on its way
home again when some one brough t
| out camera. Here was an opportu-
nifty not to be overlooked. EWery man
that could get a footing climbed onto
the roof Of that poor little Mex shack
and assumed Il heroic attitude until the
exposure was made.
While the Signal Corps company was
encamped at Camp Ordway, Va, it had
its first experience with the ire call
when some one dropped a cigarette on
the bed of Lieut.. McLennan and start
ed blaze that destroyed his mosquito
netting and damaged his blankets.
Field Hospital men We're busily en-
gagged today in building a semi per
manent kitchen for their camp. The
building is to measure sixteen by TWEEN
ty feet. and when it is completed the
construction of mess hall for the men
is to be started.
Lieut. Sawtene of the Field Hospital
has a pet tarantula. He keeps it in a
pastehoard box in his tent, and each
day has a lot of fun with 1t. When
visitors come around he holds 1T on his
hand without fear.
Iieut Sawtelle caught the tarantula
the other day near his tent He soon
had the crawling thing in captivity. He
put it in the box and made a bed for
it out of cotton wool. Being believ-
er in safety first" he saturated the
cotton with chloroform. Doe Saw
telle says the only good Indian IS a
dead one.
The Signal Corps camp is becoming
the RENDEZVOUS for the music lovers of
the community. Hardly day passes
but what some member of the ed
| brings his mandolin or guitar to Join
with the District boys in music feast.
/ ! imon.: the players of stringed lnstrh-
ments in the Signal Corps outfit are
Sergts. Johnson and Bauskett and Pri-
vate Borden
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mates Corp. Church rode up to Bfsbee
this Afternoon on the trolley car. He re-
turned an hour or so later with his
hand bound up in his handkerchief. He
informed his campmates that the car
on which he was riding had collided
with an automobile and he had cut his
little finger. Church reported to~Capt-
Terry and then went over to the Field
Hospital for treatment. 1t developed
that while painful his injury was not
serious.
Church had very little to say about
his accident. and the real story of the
affair probably would never have be-
come known if it had not been for a
visit made to the camp this evening by
an eyewitness of the collision. He re-
ported that the street car and automo-
bile had come together with loud
crash. and that the latter had been
turned on its side. spilling its occupants
right and left. They included a chauf-
feur and three women. In helping eX-
tricate one of the women Corp. Church
cut his hand
Evening star., 1916-08-08
like color, he presents an appearance that
is soldierly, to say the least.
Wide Variety Of colors.

But catch Corp. Borchardt early In the
morning when he is dressing at a mile-a-
minute rate in hope of beating his tent
mate, TOP Sergt. Johnson, to the wash
basin and soap. The chances are he Is
wearing an undershirt that presents
every shade of blue from the deepest
ultra marine to the faintest "Alice blue.
Certain portions of it look as if 1t had
been used in target practice for hand
grenade throwers, and that bottles OF
grenades. The man who wrote that verse
about 1.-The sea, the sea. the open sea,
should have seen that shirt.
The case of Sergt. Tiller, master or
horse" of the Signal Corps Company, Or
to be more exact, the shirt of said ser
geant, presents another interesting study
in color The company has become divided
half of the command says its color is
cerise, while the other half declare that
ecru best describes it.
One man in the company who has an
artistic soul says that it reminds him
of western sunset, and no one dis
putes the western" phase of his asser-
ton.
Purple, the color of nobility, pre-
dominates in the under clothing of
Corp. McCracken, saddler of the COM
pany. No prince of royal birth ever
had robes that were more purple. but
the purple in McCracken's case comes
in spots.
No secret is made of the fact that
Privates Detweiler and Warmker are
has run riot in the camp. Both have
pleaded guilty to the charge, and are
willing to take the consequences.
This is how it all happened:
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4 Connecting Parkway RluAder.

To the Editor of Tie Star:
A recent item in The Star stated that
the work of acquiring the necessary
land for the connecting parkway be-
tween Rock Creek and Potomac parks
was about to be begun, and great sat
isfaction was expressed by all who are
Interested in the heautifca tion of
Washington that this project, so long
urged and SO long delayed, was at last
to be gotten under way
Such rejoicing might have been some
what modified, however were 1t gen
orally known that the original plan
for this work. which was specified by
Congress as the basis upon which the
Improvement should be made. has been
so emaSculated by the present PARK
wav commission that it is but shadow
of its former self. This is particularly
true of the section lying on both sides
of the Connecticut Avenue bridge Here
the plan which received the approFai
Of Congress- provided for Wlaenih
out of the park to take in the hign
ground on both sides OF the creek,
thereby providing n beautiful scenic
setting for the bridge itself ana pre-
serving for all time the magnihcent
view up and down the valley from TINS
point, a view which has scarcely airy
counterpart in any city in the world
The commission, in its wisdom. how
ever, has reduced the parkway here to
an insignificant trick1e along the bed
of the stream-this on the all too
familiar plea of eeoaomy, and the fact
that a row of small two-story houses
mas been built on one edge Of the area
TO he acquired, comprising scarcely i
per cent of the entire tract.
While bemoanine the shortsighted-
ness of Congress in falling to acquire
the Dean and Patt erson tracts for pub
lie parks it would be well for citizens
TO bear in mind that a magnificent
stretch of uark land of even more i'm
portance in the plans for the beautit-
cation of Washington, is about to he
lost to the CITY. not through the fault
Of Congress but through the parsimony
and lack of foresiSht of those charged
with carrying out its viii.
ROBERT +. BROWN.
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DIED..
BROOKS.

BROOKS. Passed away Monday. Au-
gust Z, 1915. at 4:Se pm MINNIE
Brooks and devoted mother of Bula.
Joseph and Vernon and devoted sister
of Cora L. West.
Funeral will take place Thursday. Au-
gust 10, at 9 o'clock. from Davis un-
dertaking parlors, 2053 Georgia ave-
pDa 9s
CARTER. On Sunday. August s. 1916,
at 1886 noon, at her residence. 1909
29th street northwest. SARAH CAR
TER, widow of Andrew Carter.
mother of Hattie c. Jackson, John and
Andrew Carter; devoted sister OF
Mary E. Rhodes.
Funeral from Mount Zion NJ. Z. Church,
29th street between Dumbarton ave-
nue. and o street northwest, on we'd
nesday. August 9. at pm. Relatives
and friends invited. lnterment at
Mount Zion cemetery.
GARRETT. on Monday. August Z. 1915
at $40 am, at her residence, 93b "a
street northwest. ROSA c. GARRETT
(nee Kraus).
Funeral from her late residence We'd
nesday, August 9. at 2 pm. Inter
ment at Congressional cemetery
Friends and relatives invited.
HARRIS Departed this life Sunday.
August 6, 1916, at 10 o'clock pm.
ALICE LOUISE. beloved daughter or
Alonzo and Sadie Harris.
Funeral services Wednesday. August 3
at Q O'clock at Deanwood NJ L.
Church. Relatives and friends invited
to attend.
HELMICK. On Tuesday. August s, 1916.
at $50 am, at his residence, 3lO2 n
street northwest, WILLIAM j. Hell
MICK. beloved husband of Helen 1.
Helmick (nee Dix.
Notice of funeral hereafter
HOvEY. On Wednesday. June 2S. 1916.
at Pasadena. Cal. HARRIET F., wife
of the late Gen. Charles E. Hovey.
Funeral services will be held at the
northwest, Wednesday, August 3, at 2
pm. Friends are invited. 1nterment
at Arlington. Private. 3"
Atlantic City, N. j., ISAAC BAGGOTT
JONES, in his seventy-eighth year.
Funeral services at his late residence.
2032 P street northwest, on Wednes-
day, August 9, at 10 am. Relatives
and friends invited to attend. Inter-
ment private.
KING. On Tuesday, August s, 1916. at
her residence, 634 Park road north
west. FANNIE widow of John King.
kULLE. Suddenly, on August Z, 1915,
at Hampstead, l.. l., HENRY KULLE,
aged fifty years.
Funeral from the residence of his sis
ter, Mrs. c. w. Magill, III street
southwest. Notice of interment later
LUCAS. Departed this life Sunday
morning. August 6. 1916, at o'clock.
JOHN WILLIAM LUCAS. beloved son
of Z. J. Lucas and Mary S. Lucas, in
the forty-eighth year of his age.
Member of New Jerusalem Lodge. No.
g. F. A A. NJ. He leaves brother,
three sisters and a host of friends.
Funeral from his late residence, 921 X
street southeast, Tuesday, August s,
at 3 o'clock. Interment at Congress
sional cemetery. s
MILLS. On Sunday, August 6. 1916. at
his residence. Topeka. Kan, CHARLES
ALLEN MILLS, husband of Clema
Lynn Mills and brother of William A.
Mills. 81
MILOVICH. On Tuesday. August 8,
1916, LUKE J., infant son of Luke j.
and Margaret B. Milovich (nee Kip
linger), aged twenty-five months
Interment at st. Johns cemetery,
Forest Glen, Md. Funeral private. g
Evening star., 1916-08-08
Picnic Talk BY Senatorial Opponents

Representative David ]. Lewis of
Cumberland, Md, and DR.. Joseph of
France. of Port Deposit. Md, respect
lively. democratic and republican candi-
dates for the United States Senate from
Maryland in the coming elections, have
arranged to deliver addresses tomorrow
afternoon. at a picnic to be held at
Rarnesville. Md, for the benefit of st.
Mary's Catholic Church. Rev. George
B. Harrington. rector of the church, an
nounced today that the picnic, which
is an annual event, is expected to draw
large numbers of residents of Mont
gomery county.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
CAN USE UNSPENT FUNDS.
Money Left Over After Bringing
Refugees Back From Europe.

Controller Warwick of the Treasury
has ruled that the government may
use the unspent portion of the s2,750,
200 appropriated by Congress at the
beginning of the European war to bring
American refugees home in payment
of protest fees in connection with suits
against those who have failed to return
the money lent by the government for
this purpose.
Between s3GO,000 and 100000 of the
funds remain unspent. About ~ per
cent of those who secured loans have
paid them.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
Horace Dulin Under Surgeons Knife

T. c. Dulin returned today from
Portland. Me-. where he was called sew
eral weeks ago by the illness of his
son, Horace Dulin, who was operated
on for appendicitis. Horace will be con-
fined. in the hospital at Portland, for
several weeks before being sufficiently re-
covered to return to Washington.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
COLOR RUNS RIOT
AT WARREN CAMP
Men Disport Underwear
Showing RambowIike and
Other Effects.
CORPORAL CHURCH WINS
PLACE ON THE'HER0 ROLL
Signal Corps Members Battle
Flames, and Then Pose for
Their Pictures.
BY j. CROSBY MCCARTHY.
Staff Correspondent OF The Star


DISTRICT NATIONAL GUARD CAMP,
WARREN, Ariz, August 3.-Story-boo
Indians, who daub themselves up with
paint fill themselves up with ''firewater'
and then HE themselves to a well beaten
warpath would be made green with jeal-
ousy if they could come to life long
enough to visit the camp of Company A,
Signal Corps. o. NJ. D. c., Warren. Ariz..
U. s. A, almost any morning, when mem
bers of that command are running about
from tent to tent in "dishaoille." Never
during their three or four hundred pages
of life did any of these sto-y-book Indians
ever behold such a riot of color.
Take the case of Corp. Borchardt, for
instance. At all times this soldier is the
very soul of dignity. He has responsible
position, that of company clerk, and he
is not given to frivolity. Attired in his
olive drab trousers and wooden shirt of
Evening star., 1916-08-08
CARD OF THANKS.

KEISTER. We desire to express to
our friends our sincere appreciation
for the sympathy shown during the
illness and death of our baby.
MILTON.
HARRY AND VIRGIE kEISTER.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
Mishaps at the Laundry.

Detweiler and Warmker have estab-
lished laundry in the camp. and they
spend all their spare time over wash
uniforms of their camp mates at SO
much per garment, and are making
good money at it. Rumor has it that
they contemplate buying mining stock
with their surplus cash.
Detweiler and Warmker guarantee
their patrons that all washing which is
handled by them is thoroughly boiled
and scrubbed
In washing Corp. Borchardt's clothes
the other day these "washerwomen'
inadvertently dropped an absolutely
fast color and guaranteed not to run
Evening star., 1916-08-08
STRIVE TO CHECK TAX ON
INTANGIBLE PROPERTY
Business, Civic and Other D. C. Or
ganizations Arrayed Against
the Plan.

Determined efforts to defeat the pro-
vision of the District appropriation
bill which would impose a tax of four
tenths of per cent on moneys deposit
ed in local banks, and on other forms
of Intangible" property, are being
made by many business, civic ana
other organizations of the District of
Columbia.
The Central Labor Union. meeting
last night in Typographical Temple,
adopted a resolution introduced by
John B. Colpoys protesting against the
Droposed tax. The resolution, as adopt
ed, characterized the tax as -pernicious
and entirely unnecessary for the main
tanance of the District" and criticised
Congress for including the proposed
new tax in the appropriation bill with
out giving residents of the District
opportunity to be heard on the ques-
ton.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the District Bankers Association
Yesterday afternoon the committee that
was named to use its best efforts to IN
duce the House to cut out Of the appro-
priation bill the 4-10 per cent Intangible
PROPERTY tax was continued. The eXecu-
tive committee also drafted letter,
comics of which are to he mailed to every
member of Congress Thursday 1t was
shown that the proposed tax, should it
become effective, would mean an impost
of 40 cents per share on every share OF
stock with a market value OF Slo0 and
Sd Der bond on every bond with market
value of 81 900.
Evening star., 1916-08-08

Three Chinese girls who recently
arrived at Vancouver are the first
woman stowaways to land in Canada.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
Campaign to Be Planned.

At meeting of the Washington Real
Estate Association to be held at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon in the offices OF
George Y Worthington, in the Woodward
building. plans are to be formulated and
a course of action mapped out for cam
paign in opposition to the proposed 4-1O
per cent tax on intangible property
The associations executive committee
met Yesterday to consider what action
should be taken in this matter, but it was
decided the question is sufficiently i'm
portant to make it advisable that the en-
tire membership of the organization, or as
much thereof as possible, should take part
in discussion and aid in formulating plans
for opposing the proposed tax.
Evening star., 1916-08-08

be an end to the cxtravagant and
shameful misuse of public money in
river and harbor and public building
appropriations by executive veto if
necessary.
Moderate Tariff.
Somewhere between the extortion-
ate duties demanded by the ultra
protectionists and those advocated by
revenue only advocates lies a safe and
sane middle ground, just to both pro-
ducer and consumer. This ground can
mission free from partisan control and
bias, composed of specialists, with
substantial tenure for it's members and
it's maintenance, and clothed with
power to obtain information concern
ing any and every schedule, to be laid
before Congress and the country with
such recommendation as in it's judg-
ment viii conducc to the welfare of
American Industries and labor without
imposing unfair burdens hpon the
people.
with the return of peace to Europe
the struggle for the mastery will be
intense. If new markets are to be ac-
Quired. or even old ones retained, re-
c!procal trade relations must be es-
ia bli shed. We cannot continue forever
to sell where we do not buy. Reciproc-
ity-the reciprocity of James G. Blaine
ard of William Mckinley-will give us
the power to retain the markets we
row have and to acquire others.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
GIRL SEES PHOTOGRAPH;
WRITES TO SOLDIER BOY
Private Hiltner Once Lived Here;
Correspondent, Now Here.
From Sunny South.

From Staff Correspondent.
WARREN, Ariz., August 3.-Soldier
boys along the border who permit them
selves to be photographed and later
| find their likenesses reproduced in
newspapers had better look out. This
is leap year and "alIs fair in love and
war"
You can't always sometimes tell,
| is the way Private Howard Hiltner,
Company NJ. 22d United States Infan-
try, sums up the situation. Hiltner is
stationed here in Warren. where eight
companies of his regiment are camped
close by the Signal Corps and Field Hos
pital units of the District National
Guard.
Hiltner Gets in Picture.
About three weeks ago Hiltner and
several other members of his company
were on guard at the water tanks on
the mountain side above Warren that
hold the water supply for the commu-
nifty A representative of The Star who
accompanied the District troops to the
border climbed up the mountain to
, take a photograph of the surrounding
country To give it a warlike touch he
asked Hiltner to take position beside
one of the tanks SO that he was SHOWN
in the foreground of the picture. A
| bird s-eye view of Warren was SHOWN
| in the background.
| week or so later this photograph
was published in The Star and. with 1T,
the information that Hiltner formerly
| lived in the National Capital, where he
! was employed by the Capital Traction
Company.
Letter From Lonely Girl.
| Yesterday Hiltner obtained the fol-
lowing letter way out here in Arizona:
Dear Friend:
mo doubt when you read this you
will think the writer is a fit subject
for an insane asylum. But it is just
this way:
81 am alone up in this town. 1 am
| from the sunny south. South Carolina.
| And reading the news l found a pic
ture of a fine-looking fellow, and he
| did look so lonesome thought of writ
| ing this right away. Then l said ne
might be married, and then maybe ne
would say some things which would
| not look nice in print.
But today / just feel so blue and
was looking in my writing box when
| l found your picture again. SO forgive
me if I have done wrong in writing
| y ~
| receiving reply to this.
| ut is so very hot here. l know it
must be dreadful on the border. Hope
| you are not working too hard and that
| you are enjoying good health and
| being good. / will send you the picture
which 1 cut from the paper. 1 am your
| unknown friend"
Then There's Postscript.
| Then follow the signature and ad-
dress of the young woman and below
them this postscript:
| by the way, you are from this
| town? 1 like it quite well, as much
| as I have seen of it.
| You can see by this picture how
! lonesome you look. Most any girl
would take a chance on receiving an
answer, in fact. a number already
have remarked about your good looks.
! but I did not tell them that 1 did not
| know. as it would be too bold, so l
| kept my secret to myself.
! please return picture"
The picture referred to in the letter
| is a clipping from The Evening Star
/ showing a reproduction of Hiltner's
| photograph and the view beyond.
Evening star., 1916-08-08
Prohibition as Preparedness.

In brief while many millions of
men, drilled into high efficiency and
disciplined into abstinence and sobri-
ETY.. will re-enter the industrial life of
Europe. Burdened with taxes and con-
fronted with desperate necessity the
nations there will make superhuman
effort to regain the markets they have
lost.
IF. in competition with this new.
effective and insistent force, we are to
retain industrial and commercial
mastery we ourselves must attain to
high-even the highest-efficiency. AS
4 nation we must be at our best in
physical condition and mental attain
n1cnt. Human machinery of Bessemer
steel will be needed. Burned-out
jheetiron won't do While the traffic
in alcohol survives the nation cannot
be at it's best. A people whose drink
bill aggregates every year more than
$2,00o,000.000 cannot hope for that.
Woman Suffrage.
woman would have long since been
enfranchised by federal action but for
the well known fact that her enfran-
chiscment would have dealt a death
blow to the traffic in alcohol Its
wrong to her mas Deen ana is so grave
and deep as to impel her to strike
fatal blows when armed with the
ballot.
There should be living wage for
all who toll; working day not to
exceed eight hours. with one day of
rest in seven; compensation for in
dustrial accidents, minimum wage
laws, prohibition of child labor. adop-
ton of safety appliances. establish
ment of sanitary conditions of labor;
decency, comfort and health in the
employment of women; retirement of
superannuated and disabled employees
of the civil service; arbitration of the
differences between capital and labor;
just division Of the wealth which labor
and capital jointly produce; conserva-
ton of the natural resources Of the
country, and an efficient social policy
based on the welfare of the nation as
a whole. While the trade in rum ex-
Evening star., 1916-08-08
HANLY DECLARES
"DRY" PRINCIPLES

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1916-08-08

lists there can be established no ef-
fective program of social justice. no
real conservation OF men and women
or of the humanities.
Il am opposed to the republican pol
icy of ship subsidies and .the demo-
cratic program of government owner
ship of ships. The constructive
measures suggested in your platform.
independent of subsidies and of federal
ownership. will, if put into effect. go
far toward restoring our flag to the
seas and our ships to ,he ports of the
world.
Evening star., 1916-08-08

Solid Oak Table;
i2-iHch top. expand
ing To 6 feet. Chairs
with cane seats and
boxed frame.
Fourth Floor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-12-01
RESERVE BOARD WARNING.
If Loans Withheld, War Stops, Is
Opinion in WASHINGTON.

Washington, Nov. 28.-The state
ment issued by the Federal Reserve
Board warning against investment in
foreign loans of an unsecured charac-
ter will have a far-reaching effect, in
the opinion of financial observers in
Washington. They said the state
ment was a master stroke in many
ways, and that its ultimate influence
is bound to be for the best interests
of the nation. BY the statement the
board not only acted toward what
must finally be an earlier conclusion
of peace in Europe, but it also acted
to strengthen and make impregnahle
the financial position of the United
States, these observers said.
1t was pointed out hat the allied
nations, which are principally affected
by the statement, still have plenty of
gold left in reserve and that they
have been carefully and painstakingly
boarding this supply for business
credits after the war. AS long as the
7llied nations are permitted to keep
their gold supply practically un-
ouched and borrow from the United
States with practically no security
they have been under no obligation
to hurry the end of the war.