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The Washington times., 1917-02-05
CRITERION QUARTET COMING,

The Rubinstein Club will present at
its second concert of the season on the
evening OF February Z, in the ball.
room of the Raleigh, the Criterion
Quartet, Of New York, assisted by
Felix Garziglia, pianist, and Claude
Robson, accOmpanist. The presence
of Horatio Rench in the quartet brings
back former Washington singer who
was most popular here and has gained
an enviable reputation in New York.
Mr.. Rench will sing, among his solos,
Parted" by TOsti. The other mem
bers Of this male quartet will be heard
in solos, and the concerted numbers
will be Twilight" by Buck, 1.-The Mu-
sical Trust" by Hadley, Sunset" by
Vanderwater, and selections of
Dvorak, Protheroe, Gibson, and Rob-
inson.
The Washington times., 1917-02-05
THE WASHINGTON TINES MONDAY FEBRUARY s. 1917.

for Washington racketers within the
next few weeks, according to plans
of the Department of Fairgrounds of
the District.
The concrete cover of the Reno
Reservoir, in TenIeytown, is being
converted into tennis courts a roller
skating rink. There will be four
The Washington times., 1917-02-05

courts of full size and a high iron and
wire baekstop at each end. Permits
will be issued by the Department of
Fairgrounds for the use of the courts.
Arc lights will enable players to play
at night.
The work is now being done at an
expense of S400. 1t Is proposed to
The Washington times., 1917-02-05
SUES MEET rHIs AETERNooN.

meeting OF the District Suffrage
Federation will be held at 4;30 this
afternoon at the headquarters Of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, 1926 Rhode Island
avenue.
The Washington times., 1917-02-05
CONCRETE TENNIS COURTS

innovation to Be Tried by District
Within Few Weeks.
Fast tennis all day and part of the
night all year around will be possible
The herald., 1917-03-08
PLOTS TO ADOPT OWN BABY
Falls Through When Police
Take a Hand.

Cleveland.-MiSs Mildred F. Blake,
eighteen, left belated Christmas pres
ent on the doorstep of the home of
Robert Nye, twenty-five, with whom
she has been keeping company for six
months. 1t was a newborn baby boy.
The present was not a surprise to
Nye In fact. he had told Miss Blake
to leave the boy at his home. But the
plans of the couple to get married and
then adopt the girls baby were
knocked in the head by the police.
Miss Blake was arrested on a charge
of abandoning a minor child. Nye was
charged with falsely reporting to the
police that "a child of unknown origin
was found on his porch.
The father Of the baby was arrested
several months ago and his case is
pending. The girl said she didn't want
anything to do with him, but wanted to
marry Nye. If the law will allow, the
wedding will take place.
The herald., 1917-03-08
ROSE FROM RANKS.
RAILRoAD PRESIDENTS TRAV-
ELED THE LONG ROUTE.
Few Who Are at the Head Of Lines
Today Had Anything but Their
Ability and Determination to
Help Them.

An interesting and profitable half
hour can be spent by taking railroad
guidebOok and who's Who in Ameri-
ca" and looking up the names of the
railroads. These biographies are, nee
essarily, of the sketchiest sort; yet
one does not have to OvertaX his i'm
agination TO read between these pro-
sale lines the unpenned struggles and
the unsung victories that were en-
tailed in rising from the crowded
slough of mediocrity:
Charles II. Markham, president Of
the Illinois Central railroad, began his
railroad service as section laborer
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe.
George p. Harris, chairman of the
board of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, started his life career
as an office boy with the Hannibal and
st. Joseph railroad, now one of the
subsidiaries of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy.
Mr.. Edward T. Stotesbury, chairman
of the board of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad. head of Drexel,
Morgan & Co., of Philadelphia, men,
Der of the firm of j. p. Morgan & Co.
Of New York, and president or direc-
tor of forty-odd corporations and rail-
roads, started working as a clerk for
the wholesale grocery firm of Rutter
| & Patterson of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Marvin Hughitt, chairman of
the board of the Chicago and North
western railroad, started as a stenog,
rapher.
Mr.. Alfred II. Smith, president of
| the New York Central railroad, was
once a messenger boy in the service
of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad, now a subsidiary of
the Central. His predecessor, Presi'
dent William c. Brown, started his
railroad career working with a section
| gang when he was sixteen.
Frank Trumbull, chairman of the
board of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad and of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, started as a clerk
in the comptroller's Office of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas when he was
sixteen.
William II. Williams, chairman OF
the board of the Wabash railroad, was
clerk at sixteen with the Pennsyl
vania.
Samuel Rea, president of the Penn
sylvania railroad; Howard Elliott
president of the New Haven, and Ben
jamin F. Bush, president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad and now its re
ceiver-all rose to their present posi-
tons from the humble one of rodman
The Worlds Work.
The herald., 1917-03-08
EUROPE GETS IOWA RAILROAD
Tracks, Cars and Bridges Shipped az
Old Junk, but II Is to Be 4
Used Again. 4

Bought as junk some weeks ago, the
passenger equipment of the Chicago.
Anamosa and Northern railroad have
been resOld by the owners, the Sonken.
Galamba Iron and Metal company of
Kansas City. And all that is left of
the railroad will be shipped to England,
where it will be used again. Announce
ment of the sale and disposition of the
property was made in New York yes
terday by Herman Sonken, president
of the Sonken- Galamba compny.
Sale of the road to the Kansas City
junkdealers for $4,000 was confirmed
by the United States court. Louis G.
Galamba, treasurer of the firm, said
the price received for the property was
more than twice the sum paid for Ii.
The road is in Iowa and is SO miles
long. In the equipment were six freight
cars, two combination passenger
coaches and three locomotives. Six
steel bridges were included in the sale.
Mr.. Sonken said the unprecedented
Ugh prices for old iron probably would
result in the sale of the Iowa Short
line, which his firm owns, in the same
manner and for the same purpose as
the Chicago, AnamOsa and Northern.
The Short line was bought as waste
material" several months ago.-Kan-
sas City Times.
The herald., 1917-03-08
SLEEPS WITH DEAD SISTER
Stirred for Six Days and
Nights"

Gorham, Me.-After DR.. George F..
Gear, medical examiner, and Harley
Day, q selectman, had forced their
way into the old Warren home here,
the other day, they found that Miss
Sabra Warren, seventy years old, had
slept for six nights with the dead body
of her sister, Miss Julia Warren, who
was sixty-five years old.
In the room with the aged woman
and the body were a dozen cats and q
flock of hens. Miss Warren would not
admit that her sister was dead.
"She has not stirred for six days
and nights" she told the medical ex-
aminer. "but it's none of your bust
ness"
The women. who had at least $1,000
in Gorham banks, had lived alone many
years and rarely permitted anyone to
enter their home.
The herald., 1917-03-08
TRAMP PROVES TO BE WOMAN
After Being Arrested One Of Two Ho-
boes Is Shown to Be Wife Of
Other.
Observation-Disclosures

Townsville, DEMONSTRATION Of
two supposed hOboes, who had been
arrested and placed In the barracks
here, revealed that one of the pair be-
longed to the gentler sex.
Upon being arrested the pair gave
their names as Mat Smith and Bill
Searey, but when Bill was found to be
a woman they confessed to being Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Bessent Of Jackson
vile, Fla.
They said they were on their way
to Milwaukee, Wis, and as they did
not have funds sufficient to pay their
way there they decided to tramp it,
the wife being unwilling to be sep
arated from her husband. She felt
that she could make the trip better
and easier in the guise of man.
The herald., 1917-03-08
PAPOOSES GET
RIDE De Luxe
Squaws Use Railway Car for Day
Nursery While They Do Their
Trading.
COACH is PICKED UP
Much Weeping, Much Distress and Try
ing Times for Frantic Railroad
officials-Papoose Special Puffs
Back Bringing Happiness.

Great Falls, Mont.-AnOther yarn
comes out of the wild and careless
West 1t has to do with treSpasSing,
kidnapping and violation of all the in
terStatc commerce regulations regard
ing free transportation. Ii has u
happy ending, however.
Ten squawS gathered together their
labOrS of Il month in headwOrk, moe
caSinS, baskets and those things that
Indian women make so well. and start
ed To Great Falls, Mont, the nearest
town. Where the squaw goes, there
goes The pupOOse, and ten little brown
babies were strung over the backs OF
the Indian women.
Part of the journey Of the squaws
led along the Chicago, Milwaukee x st.
Paul railway tracks and as they
reached the freight yards they noticed
an empty coach on n siding. The chan
nelS of commerce are not as free to the
trader who has an infant strapped 10
its back, and the SQuaws were anxious
to sell all of their wares in order TO
ldhc DdCOl Ioul anu wi
meal, and perhaps little tobacco.
Thought 1t Was There to Stay.
To them the moving house of the
railroad seemed as immOvable as
though it had been built upon rock in
stead Of upon steel, and they deposited
the papOoses upon the red plush seats
and glided on toward the markets of
trade.
After n time, the Indian women, hav-
ing sold their wares. returned to the
railroad yards. But the coach was
gone. The babies were gone. There
was much weeping. There was much
distress.
The ten squaws ran to the railway
station, crying for their babies. They
were told that the coach had been sent
to Lewistown to meet the through
train for Chicago.
Ten expoStulating Indian women in
Dictated in II measure to c. L. Whiting
division superintendent, the value OF
The herald., 1917-03-08

took it home. Masters performed one
of the scientific wonders of the age by
getting the fish to live out of water.
BY keeping a constant temperature
and removing u millimeter of water
each day from HOratiOS pool in the
back yard of the Masters home, the
man was able to get the sucker to
breathe the atmosphere. The fish was
kept in a cage until the arrival of
cooler weather, when he was taken
into the kitchen.
While cavorting about the room n
few nights ago HOratiO found bucket
of water. He heard the call of the
wild and Topped into the bucket.
where he was found next morning by
Masters, drowned.
The herald., 1917-03-08
NEW DISCOVERY MEANS MUCH
Improvement in Rails Removes Cause
of Disastrous Railroad Accidents
in the Last Few Years.

There were only % miles of railway
track in this country in 1890, COM
posed principally Of strap-irOn rails.
laid upon wooden or stone stringers,
which had only increased to ISIS miles
in 1910, as the Superstructurc of the
track had not yet taken a general typi-
cal form in its evolution.
The mills for rolling the iron Trail
section in the United States were COM
menced in 1914, and by 1850 9.021 miles
of track of iron rails had been laid, and
30,62S miles in 1860. Wrought iron was
the only available material for rails,
and as the best contained from / to
~ per cent of Stag, it was
neither sound nor homogeneous.
Large pieces of iron became detached
from the head, often after one
or two months service, when the driv-
to 10000 pounds and the speeds of the
express trains were scheduled % to
| 30 miles an hour The breaking of
iron Trails in winter and spring was
| large and the expense was heavy for
renewals. The officials. owing to the
rapid failure of the iron rails, were
in doubt as to what remedy could be
applied except going into bankruptcy.
Recently the reason for the flaws In
steel rails has been ascertained and a
remedy discovered. 1t removes Sc
rious element of danger and will save
the railroad companies thousands Of
| dollars annually.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Small Spark Plug Gap Best.

The spark plug gap should be small,
as it is difficult for spark to jump
through gasoline vapOr under high
compression. We adjust vibrators to
give q spark that will jump one-fourth
in the air so that ii will be able to
jump one-thirty-secondi inch in the cyl
inder. An auxiliary gap outside the
cylinder adds very little to the resist
ance of the circuit, whereas an in
crease in the size OF the spark gap
would stop ignition entirely.
The herald., 1917-03-08
He Had Felt II.

Singleton-Did you ever feel that
YOU were an insignificant atom in the
great plan of the unlverse-that you
were really unnecessary, so to speak?
Wedderly-You bet l have-and l
never felt 1t more strongly than 1 did
last night when got home and found
nv wife discussing the fashions with
q couple of her woman friends.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Eiuht Hours on a Railroad.

The New York World publishes the
following dispatch from Pittsburgh:
"The Pennsylvania railroad is exper-
imenting with short freight trains on
the Monongahela division in order to
find out how an eight-hour day will
work. So far. by cutting a mile train
or a half-mile train in two, enough
time has been saved, the officials say,
to indicate that runs may be made in
eight hours, thus avoiding overtime.
The herald., 1917-03-08
PET SUCKER BROWNS
IN WATER BUCKET
Lived in Canary Cage So Long
Contact With Liquid
Proved Undoing.

Oakland. Cal-All Oakland regrets
the death Of HOratio Il famous sucker
of the fish species, which detied all
natural laws and was able To live out
of water for Il considerable period. \
death. due entirely To his own care
leSsneSS. Here's the story complete:
:. II. Masters one day found the fish
Hopping in the mud In the Oakland
estuary, put it in can Of water and
The herald., 1917-03-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LIFE RACE WITH WOLVES

Standish, Mich.-Three trap
pers, Charles Leonard, George
Weston and Bert Parker,
reached here the other day from
q hunting trip in the Lake SUI
periOr region and told Of race
for their lives with wolf pack
while returning from their traps.
The men were on skates three
miles from. the nearest cabin
when the wolves appeared.
One of the trappers fired his
rife when the pack approached
them, and the wolves quickly
tore one Of their wounded men,
bers to pieces, giving the hunt
ers time for a start.
Several times when the
wolves were nearly on them
this was repeated, the men said,
until they finally reached the
cabin.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Are Railroads Practical?

This Is a foolish question to ask
today, yet less than a hundred years
ago q school board in a central state
refused the use Of the schOolrOom for
a debate on this question. The rea-
son given was-"GOd never designed
that his creatures should travel at the
frightful speed of - miles an hour
by steam"
The herald., 1917-03-08
In After Years,

Husband (angrily)-Oh, you think
you know it all, but you were only an
ignorant woman when l married you
Wife (calmly)-Yes, that's right.
Husband-Oh. you admit it, do you?
Wife-Certalnly The mere fact that
I married you at all proves the truth
fulness of your assertion.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Sheriff Blew Out the Gas.

Elizabeth, n. John w. Davis,
sheriff of Ocenee county, S. c., and
w. c. Foster, superintendent of pris-
ons there, were found dead in a hotel
here the other morning from the eff
fects of inhaling Illuminating gas. The
men had come to Elizabeth to get a
negro accused Of murder. 1t Is be-
lteved that they blew out the gas In
their room when they retired.
The herald., 1917-03-08
The One Difference.

Bishop Sanford Olmsted of Denver
is noted for his somewhat caustic wit.
A lady said to Bishop Olmsted at
a luncheon:
AS for these sacred concerts, So
called, 1 could never see, bishop,
wherein a sacred concert differed from
an ordinary concert"
"Oh my dear madam" said Bishop
Olmsted in shocked voice, "there Is
a distinct difference. A sacred con.
cert Is always given on Sunday"
The herald., 1917-03-08

In harmony with q legislative act
recently passed, a Georgia law school
has opened its doors to women.
Up to the middle of December Can
ada had enrolled 3S1, 43S men for the
great war.
The Southern society of New York
city has pledged an annual prize of
$500, to be given TO the best literary
production of q Southerner.
Brushes that have a reservoir con-
trolled by valve TO feed polish to the
bristles have been invented for pol
ishing either stoves or shoes.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Tryina to Smooth 1, Over.

Judge-YOu are accused of assault
ing your husband.
Defendant admit hitting him.
your honor, but the weapon ! used
proves that 1 did it more In sorrow
than in anger.
Judge-What did you hit him With
Defendant-A sad iron, your honor
The herald., 1917-03-08
Happy But Hungry.

Thirty or forty miles down the line,
the coach was stopped, and an engine
was ordered to bring 1t back with all
dispatch. The squaws waited anx-
iOusly.
An hour later, as the papoose special
came putting into Great Falls, the In
dian women rushed in:O the coach.
There were the babies, cooling and
happy-but hungry. They had had
their first train ride and in a private
car at that.
An informal papoose repast was or
dered, and after that the babies were
strung over the shoulders of their
mothers. Division Superintendent
Whiting wiped his perspiring brow as
he waved farewell to the railroads
guests.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Passengers In British Lines.

Although British railroads rank
fourth among the nations in regard to-
mileage, they carry more passengers
every year than are carried in any 9th
er country.
The herald., 1917-03-08

The Heating child-labor act win
reach 10000 children, but there are
1.S5OOOO children In the United States
who cannot be touched by federal leg.
iSlation.
The herald., 1917-03-08
SCRAPS

u s'Stria needs manufactured
- Il, i. has been invented to
u 4 s sasntitles of eggs rapidly.
MA : ~ now sells at
us',.s'e I slsl2 for a metric ton N,
= -, 'ates is capturing much
~ { e, Instrument trade for.
~ ssnce and Germany.
Nj sss, eOuse on the coasts
q s sotes Is at Cape Hat.
The herald., 1917-03-08
Bow Eleven, an Expert cakemaker.

Bolton. Conn.-Harry Massey, age
eleven, is claimed to be the best cake
maker for his age in the state. He
started in making cakes when he was
ten, and has become so skillful he aow
does all the cake-making for his tam.
lily.
The herald., 1917-03-08
True.

Children should be seeG and not
heard"
''True. and in that respect know 6
lot of fools who haven't grown up.'
The herald., 1917-03-08

ten cute Indian babies, and the wires
became warm Immediately. The train
men who made up the Lewistown cars
had not noticed their infant passen.
The herald., 1917-03-08

Mirrors hanging outside Of the Dutch
houses enable the residents seated In
ode to see the doings Of the street In
front.
The herald., 1917-03-08

I no other fountain sculpture anywhere
stand original American art-has been
Calder New York October
Rkhss University square, Indianapolis 1t is gift to his city by
oepew The subject the unique Youth
he figures of eight children outward and
~ central basin Ii pedestal the
oasin is the heroic figure naiad directing the
-. suOas This figure the group.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
MANY NEGLECT THEIR EYES
May Be Conscious of Strain but Go
Right on Doing Things That
Make 1t Worse.

"a great many men who are well
enough informed on other topics do not
know the first principles Of how to
conserve their eyesight," DR.. Eugene
l.. Fisk is quoted in Worlds Work.
"They may be conscious Of eye strain
and yet unconsciously so right on do
ing many things to increase that
strain. Things such as these-read-
ing a newspaper on the jiggly street
car, working with light directly be-
hind them or directly in their faces,
reading or working in too bright glare
or in a dim or 1lickering illumination.
They do not realize that they might
well limit their allowance of moving
pictures. They do not know the harm
in too brilliant desk light. They buy
worthless patent nostrums for the eye
and have positive dread about adopt
ing glasses. The price they pay for
all this often is extremely dear. 1t
ranges from constant physical discom'
fort to loss of sight"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
Arras Before the War.

Tapestries are no longer woven in
Arras, but the city was a thriving in-
dustrial community at the outbreak OF
the war, its chief articles of manufac-
ture being hosiery, ironware. oil prod
ucts, beet sugar and agricultural i'm
plements.
In the Petite place and the Grand
place Arras boasts some curious archi-
tectural relics of the period of Spanish
occupation in the seventeenth century
houses of hewn stone whose upper
stories project beyond the foundation
walls and are supported by pillars
which form arcades over the side
walks. Beneath the streets are huge
cellars or magazines which were orig
lnally quarries. The Hotel de Vile
is an interesting sixteenth century
building with a belfry 245 feet high,
in which hangs a great nine-ton bell
called "Joyeuse."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
Drank With Care.

A gentleman happened to go into a
seaside hotel to dine the other night.
The hotel was rather full, so he was
given vacant place at table already
occupied. 1t did not take him long to
become acquainted, and he chatted
away merrily, in spite of the fact that
he only drank water.
Seated opposite to him was an old
gentleman whose face betokened him
to be heavy whisky drinker. He ap-
peared to be particularly struck with
the "water drinker," and when oppOr-
tunlty occurred he whispered across
the table.
"You know, my doctor says water
is an excellent thing, and l should
drink a lot of it."
"Then do your" asked the other.
"Oh, yes" said the old 'un. Theny
nervously looking around, he added:
I'm the night! In the night T"-San
Francisco Newsletter.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
HeIp straIuhten the WorId.

The world Is topsy-turvy today, but
normal and permanent equilibrium
must and will be restored in time. II
is going to be big task to accomplish
this. Whether this restoration be
what It should be, the new order of
things will affect every country In the
world, every nation, this nation; every
individual, you. 1t is incumbent upon
you to he a factor, an influence, in the
right result, no matter whether as hu-
man values are rated you are small or
great. And the time to begin is now,
now, now; for the way is long, the prob
lens ahead are almost insuperable, and
the world is in sorry need of the com,
bined thought and wisdom of all.-The
Three Partners.