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Evening star., 1917-09-16
Wonders of Coal Shown
i'm a Mws@wmn Exhibit

colliery plant. reproducing in detail a
colliery of the Pittsburgh Coal Com
pany and a section of the Pittsburgh
coal seam. the underground working
spectators may see the plans and op-
erations. In connection with both
models coke plants may be seen.
In glass casee as big as the show
window of a store is a block Of coal.
Beneath it Is q mass of coke derived
from that kind of coal, and about it
are glass containers holding the vari-
Gus things or by-products that are re-
covered in transforming coal into coke.
Among these are coal tar. light oil,
containing per cent of tar; heavy oil.
containing II per cent Of tar. and pitch
containing so per cent of tar.
There is benzol, by redistilling which
benzine. Nylol and toluol are obtained.
the last two being used in the prepara-
tion of number of dyes and the last
one being used in making military high
explosives.
From the benzine the chemists obtain
aniline, and thus benzine Is the parent
substance of the numerous aniline dyes.
of many artificial perfumes and of vari-
duratol and pyro. Around the block of
coal are other things derived from 1t.
such as ammonia, ammonium sulphate.
ammonium nitrate. ammonium carbon
ate and ammonium chloride. Some of
the important things derived from the
coal tar. obtained in cooking" the coal.
are carbolic acid. naphtha. na aphthaline.
indigo. pyridin. cyanogen and creosote.
The coke industry of the United
States consumes annually in the prep
sration Of metallurgical fuel more than
6o,000,o00 tons of bituminous coal, and
in the United States. until recent years.
and more especially before the present
war, very little attention was given to
the recovery of tho coal-coke products,
coke being usually made in the SO call
ed "beehive" ovens. whore the by-prod-
ncts were not recovered. Much Ameri-
can coke is now being made In by
product ovens" Materials worth many
millions of dollars year. and which
heretofore have been wasted by Ameri-
can coke makers and imported. princi-
pallY iron, Germany. are now being re-
covered. The supremacy of Germany in
tho dye industry was because of the
scientific utilization of coal tar.
Coke 10 obtained by strongly heating
coal out of contact with the air. until
the volatile constituents of the coal are
driven of. 1t bears the same rela tion
to coal that charcoal does to wood
Evening star., 1917-09-16
OUT-OF-DOORS STAlRWAYS
in THE CITY

1HE Meridisn Hill Park staircase
though not yet open to the pub
lic adds another to the stair
q ways which the government
has built for the adornment of the
capital and the convenience of the
people The Meridian Hill stairway is
built through the high cement retain
ing wall on the west side of the park
and enables pedestrians easily to over
come the difference in level between
18th street in its climb from Florida
avenue north and the summit of the
park.
Meridian Hill. or Meridian Park,
takes its name from the fact that the
meridional line of the District of Co
lumbia crosses it. Before the original
survey of the District this tract was
called Peters Hill, it being part of
the farm Of Robert Peter OF George
site of Washington.
After the exterior lines of the new
federal territory had been run. An
drew Ellicott. the surveyor. ran a
through the middle Of the new ten
mile square. He began this Line at
the hrst boundary stone OF the Dis
trict. which was set up on Jones
point. a mile below the steamboat
wharves of Alexandria.
This center line. beginning at the
south stone of the new territory. ex
tended through the site of the White
House, north along the center of 18th
street. across Peters Hill and onward
to the intersection of the outer di-
agonal lines of the District at its north
apex, one mile west from Silver Spring.
On top of Peters Hill Maj Ellicott
set a stone marking the meridian
After that Peters Hill came to be
called Meridian Hill. Commodore
David Porter acquired a tract of land
on the heights north of the boundary
and built a house on the line of 18th
street. near the brow of the hill and
south of the site of the standpipe
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Lleial C4rrsspondencs

NEW YORK, September II. 1917,
~, HrNA, the peaceful. the suppos-
III edly Indifferent. enters the war.
A - This 10 ascribsd by various peo-
= PIE to various causes. but that
the inscrutabls yellow men. IL their
Swh traditions be believed. yearn for
Xorid democracy is not enlarged upon.
z II those who attribute China's very
Sseent declaration OF war to psycho1-
euy. Japan or = certain brand of jingo-
Ism would drop in some afternoon on
e1ty Hall Square, in New York city.
when Col Tien Tow Liu is drilling his
CAiness regiment for overseas service
with the United States they might be
hstonished. II they talked with MIN
they would be. and they would come
hway with kesner hopes for world de-
moeraey and peace.
This young man. long a student at
Columbia University. and now serving
Ms adopted alma mater as discipline
ran Of her reserve ofncers training
camp. has organized a part of what
Chinese Americans proudly term the
'1ibsrty army" This Is regiment
cempessd of three battalions. with
headquarters in New York, Chicago and
San Francisco. Petitions are now be-
fore President Wilson seeking an op-
portunity for this concrete evidence of
Chinese loyalty to American principles
further to reveal itself in actual service
1t Is 4 fascinating picture. this drill
ing of celestials In City Hall Square
Even the resident New Yorker, sur
fsitsd with amazing things. stops to
look and listen. There is always a Gu
rlous crowd watching the operations.
Those who are close by can hear Col.
Liu's crisp commands. but they do not
understand them. His men do. And
that Is one reason why he 10 there, why
business OF an old nation famous for
its love of peace: many of these eager
Mongols In America cannot sumciently
understand its language to take mill
tary training Of our ofhcers-
In letter to the President the young
commander gave the credit for the idea
to numbers of his countrymen who were
eager to serve their young foster
mother ''on behalf Of this great democ-
racy." He stated that they requested
him to organize them into a military
body to be trained under his direction
ana 70 be offered the American govern
ueat for active duty in the emergency
Various Chinsss-American organiza-
Hons Of which the drilling men are
liaHes and enthusiastically appointed
him ~ active head of all Chinese
American military movements and
eemmandsr Of any forces it would be
Doymitted them to recruit
The unit 10 being made up of not
enly the Chinese residents of the
Unitsd States. who are anxious to aid
theif own country in showing her graft
tude toward their elder sister republic.
but also the American-born Chinese.
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Chinese Regiments to Fight for Uncle Sam

is keen when battles are fought for
freedom.
The revolutionary forces were hght-
ing to throw OF the CALLING yoke OF
which spasmodically taxed the people.
and, according to one writer In Q
recent magazine article. as one instance
Of Its whims. used such tax money to
build floating marble palace foI
royalty's use. The unconscious humor
In this was that the old dowager had
pressed her people for money to develop
the nations navy. The young scion
Of military family which has hoped
the dream for all the world.
And he Is thoroughly convinced that
this is possible. The Chinese govern
ment has great confidence in him and
his dreams. for it sent him to the United
States to make a thorough study of
political economy from our viewpoint.
Before coming here he was many times
a student. Aside from his military
study and experience. and the usual
the liberty army was studying In
Yale College. in China, and was con-
stant reader of things ancient and
modern
However. he really claims Japan as
the home of his scholarship. He spent
many years in the Land Of the Rising
Sun, and he is atill a young man; so
that his mental training must have be-
gun when he was toddler in tiny
kimono.
whore men from Canton plot against men
from the imperial city of PekinG, and
survivors of the old regime from all parts
of the empire stsalthily fight the demo-
rising the proper spirit of war. which is
more than the petty war provincial chiefs
wage against each other.
There has been more or less training for
modern warfare in China during the last
several years Troops are being trained
says an Englishman who has spent many
Ieisurely years watching the country from
close range. land the bugle call Is heard
in Tientsin as well as in the heart of the
empire at Hankow. And in the south it is
also making itself familiar to ears which
not long since knew only the sound Of tho
gong and the drum.
With eyes in the back Of their heads the
the beginning of this instruction in up-to-
date methods Of warfare. Perhaps they
saw in the Chinese what more and more
military men OF other nations are now
from the orient are to be credited. Per-
haps these mon who drill in the streets Of
our greatest city, that they may fight for
home ever dreamed Of. belong to a race
whose faded glories shall rise in another
direction.
A race of extremes. Of scholars and
coolies. of small farmers who know only
their tiny rice fields and pirates who know
only their easily evading houseboata. the
Chinese, according to Col. Men Tow Liu,
are looking toward the ideals of the west
ern world. desiring to take part and place
In its struggles.
He admits that the Chinese, whether in
America or on Asiatic shores. are not
"hghting animals But he and tho Eng
Evening star., 1917-09-16
A Hero.
L ORD NoRTHcLIFFE

II ORD NORTHCLIFFE said at an
Ad Overseas Club dinner in New York;
The French soldier wears gold
stripes on his sleeve-one stripe for
each six months of service at the
front.
well, q middle-aged Frenchman told
me one day that he was not entitled to
his stripes. inasmuch as his post, while
technically At the front, was not a dar-
Eerous one. and so he was going to cut
them of his sleeve.
mo. no" said i. Don't do so. Don't
dream Of doing So The man in these
days who declines an unmerited deco
ration 10 hero. and as such IL enti-
tied to all the stripes his sleeve wifi
hold"
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even in the most remote provinces, IL
1t were not for the mandarins. When
reverses came in the war with Japan.
not SO long ago the mandarins believed
failure was due to the partial use of
rifles and modern arms. Hand grenades
are in common use, junks defending
a fishing net tightly about seven feet
from the deck. the rebound causing the
Krenades to fall overheard before they
explode
The native instructors. for the most
part learned their drill from Germans.
Capt. Reitzenstsin was employed after
the Japanese war was over to drill
many thousands of troops. There were
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Still Unripe.

ment' to the food control bill. a
congressman said to a correspondent:
The country won't be ripe for that
bone dry amendment till we've got rid
of all the Bjones type.
"Bjones. his ticket stuck in his hat
band, rushed into a Broad street sta
tion saloon Just before the train start
ed for the Saturday to- Monday Atlantic
City excursion.
"'Got any Of that new patent whiskey
that won't make you drunk he asked
Sure said the bartender.
well, said BJonss. gimme a quart
of the other kind"
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lumbia University to use him as dis
ciplinarian for some of it's own volun-
teers, Is much pleased that some Of his
humble countrymen. become trained
nghting mon under European or Japa-
nese training, now receive as much as
$50 a month. In letter to President
Americans drilling determinedly in the
maze of Manhattan be given the nor
NAL allowance" which American pri
vate soldiers receive.
That the kings of San Franciscos 3
Chinatown before the ca rthQuake are
eager to cooperate with young Tien
Tow Liu, are eager to send their
American sons to night for
the most patnstaking student of things
racial and economic. Warner M. Van
Nordsn. a tea merchant of New York
city, with his Offices at Wall and South
of land near Columbia University for
tho purpose OF recruiting and drilling
the men who are coming in now from
the exotic atmosphere of 'Frisco's
young China within n-her-borders.
This is giving an impetus toward
recruiting New York Cinnamon. and
now that there shall be enough room
for more than handful of men at
to send to young Liu. tho nephew of
Gen. Hwang Hsing. the fighter for
democracy In tho land of Confucius.
These eager recruits. willing and ST.
lent as they are by nature. must think
of what their fathers have told them
of entrance into the army on tho far
ther shore of the Pacific; There has
been for some time In China an insti-
service examinations. in connection
with entrance into military service.
Theoretically. If no more. the entrants
OF all degrees must pass series of
tfnp%o >1ok In M yfuA to
army matters.
Those who aspire to the least de-
gree above the rank of privates must
answer hoary questions as to what
wrote of water lilies and plum bios
SONS, when China was "Cathay." laid
down as life's PHILOSOPHERS. On the
other hand, muscle. archery. swords
bodily strength and a quick eve. really
count most in these examinations for
standing in the army of China"
The fathers and uncles of some of
these Chinese in training in the shadow
Of one of our great universities may
have used spears to protect themselves
against the soldiers of a neighboring
province. Even the savage pike of the
time Of Cromwell Is in use among some
of the southern Chinese. The trident.
also. is used. Swords and daggers are
distinguished" reports one authority.
"A sword. a kim. is two-edged; a dag
ger has only one edge. Daggers may
be in pairs. A Chinese dagger would
be called a sword by us. At an earlier
period only officers carried swords, the
soldiers using daggers.
There would be more innovations.
more leaning toward modern weapons.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

thirty-ive other German teaeheea.
Krupp guns were imported by China
several years before this. 1t 10 claimed
by one authority. Yuan Shi Kai. first
viceroy. then president of the new re-
public. was granted. while vicsroy. &.
000, 900 taels a year to train . new army
of 100000 men under Japanese ofIicasa,
What was done with this money 10 not
reported.
All of which, promising or not to the
western mind. evolves in the heart Of
Col. Tten Tow Liu, student. economist.
soldier and democrat. the hope that his
regiment may take
its stand somewhere in France" for
freedoms sake and that Of progress.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
The Ex-BacheIor.

EORGE ADE said at a wedding
VI breakfast in Chicago:
II met the other day an old bachelor
who had recently got married. logging
him in the ribs with my elbow. I said
with a chuclle:
mo more sock-darning now. hey.
what. old man?
The ex-bachelor nodded gravely.
mo, indeed. George" he said. I've
had no time for sock darning since I
took the maintenance of q wife on my
hands. Anyhow. you know. straw's as
good as socks any day. Jerry Simpson
taught me that. and, by gosh. it's q.
mighty useful thing for an ex-bachelori
to know.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

IN HOUGH the destruction of militar-
ism depends upon the men of to-
q day. it is upon the children who
are the men OF tomorrow. that the burden
OF the reconstruction of the nations must
fall. Among the first of the educational
institutions of the country to endeavor
to teach children the serious nature OF
the conflict is the Public Library of Wash
ington. Through the children's room a
number of boys and girls in the city are
being made to realize that this war is
not a pageant but an actual thing. I'M
mediately after the closing of the public
schools this work was begun at the
library.
On various mornings of the week lit
tie group may be found in one of the
rooms Of the children's department, busily
Evening star., 1917-09-16
A Pertinent Question.

e ENATOR SMITH of Georgia said at
~ an Atlanta luncheon:
German militarism set out to over
run the world. Before the disastsrs
that have befallen it. however. German,
militarism must now be feeling a good
deal like Cal Clay.
Calhoun Clay of Paint Rock was fieh-
ing for tarpon in Florida and ne hooked
such a big one that it pulled him over
board. -.
las Cal went over the side Of the boa It.
and tore through the water in the
tarpon's wake, he said:
"'What ah want ter know is dis-is "
dis niggah a-hshin,' or is dis fsh :
a-niggerin p"
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The German Language.

ssTHE German language" said fers
u msr Ambassador Gerard At -
Washington luncheon. 'is probably tina
most complicated modern tongue extant :,
Take German adjective alone. g
Why, q German adjective has a. many
forms as an English verb. -
II once heard q young student off,
German declare In San FrAnc40oo:
It'd rather decline two drinks than
one GeEmea AdtsetivA'"
Evening star., 1917-09-16

lish traveller quoted previously say that
the yellow mon are brave: that they
that the raw material is there TO turn out
good soIdiera
Defend US from our dsfsnders." IL a
Chimes saying that has come down
and relates to the attempts of moro or
less prominent officials gathering hordes
OF vicious illiterates together to defend
som. some soraid ambition. The tenn sol
elastic one In tho land Of the dragon.
Ihoss whom the law recognized as pro-
fesdonAl soldiers have had. from time
This il among the privates, a loose Jacket
with loose trousers of blue cotton cloth
shoes and a conical bamboo hat. The
circle Of a contracting color in front and
back. embroidered with certain Chinese
The pay Is small, insufficient for
support. and they are forced to engage
in civil employment or private work
in order to provide the necessaries of
life. though in the expenditure of the
empire is put the sum of zl,soo. 900
taels for the pay Of 500, 900 infantry
at the rate Of taels a month, and H.
$4,000 taels for the pay of 242, 900 cav
airy at taeis month"; says the au-
thor of Things Chinese" writing dur
ing the last days of the monarchy.
This is quoted here because things
sists on having US believe. and he
wants America to realize that the old
barbaric methods of warfare in his
native land are dropping out. while
graft. which SO often robbed the poor
infantryman Of his miserable wage
He il an earnest man. this student of
political economy living within the bor-
ders of the United States. absorbing
ways and customs pleasing to him and
doing his bit to bring China and the
United States closer together He is
sure that certain characteristics which
the men he Is training In tho rudiments
groundwork for xood soidtsrS' % wbsre .re
ever found.
Intelligence and capacity for re-
membering facts. daring unto reck-
lessness and. nevertheless. GOODNESS and
oountrymen. my soldiers and friends
here in New York have. without doubt"
ne says They can go through vast
fatigue in tropical places whore white
prejudices. They do not become in
toxicated. They are practically i'm
muns from indammatory diseases and
tuberculosis 10 rare among them. Many
OF them can live on less food than any
other race. Rice, salt pork. hsh and a
bit OF vegetable are all they ever re-
auire. whether fighting or tending their
tiny helda along the innumerable rivers
Of China"
Tho unit of the army, such az it has
been for hundreds of years in China, is
4 "ying." This Is a battalion of 500
infantry or $50 cavalry. They have had
no commissariat. no medical stan. and
the suffering from wounds and disease
has been. up to the present. something
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Poor Pickings.

TN an address on Energy" John d.
Rockefeller, jr.. said:
II have no faith in that proverb
about all things coming to him that
waits.
My experience proves that the only
things that come 70 me man VINO Taits
else
Evening star., 1917-09-16

plain travelling expeditions have taken
him several times around the W orld. into
many unusual corners, and led him to
all the foreign courts. He has firm
friends in the suites of nearly every
king. prince and oriental potentate on
the map. He has the entire of practi-
cally every club in the world, and is
well known In the theatrical circles
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Soldier of Fortune Joins Air Service

While in Japan a few years ago he as
sisted at the debut of the first Japanese
prima donna to sing on the oriental
stage, where women had been taboo.
Capt. Rice is a private at Mineola
now. showing them what he knows
about flying. and standing ready to
learn what they can teach him. But he
won't be a private long.
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indescribable. Under foreign methods
Of instruction-particul japanese
at the present time-one hopeful sign
is seen. Col. Liu's uncle and those who
fght with him for modern China and
better living for the common man
have had much influence in raising the
pay of the native soldier and making
his calling more respectable.
x
The young colonel. whose military
experience makes it expedient for Co
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the Flowery kingdom may become when
trained for the war game.
Col. Liu. a nephew of Gen. Hwang
Hsing. was adJutant general on his
uncle's STAFF while the latter was COM
mander-i chief of the revolutionary
forces in China, in 1911. When Hwang
Hsing became secretary of war of tho
Chinese republic young Tien Tow Liu
was 4 stan oficer. His interest in war
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Reviews of New Books

WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING. BY
Rupert Hughes. author of 'Wha,
VIII People Say?" etc. Illustrat tions
by James Montgomery Flagg. New
York: Harper & Bros.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

Also they can save their parents money
by being willing to do without unpsees.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

to the 1899 just
plain folks out of every 10000,
one picks up this new novel
not so very zestfully-thinking
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-13
Germantown

Miss Elizabeth Childs Steel will entertain
at bridge on Monday. April 23, in no, or of
Miss Electa Griffith. whose marriage to Mr..
Richard Campbell Hughes will take place
on Saturday evening, April 2S, in the SUM
init Presbyterian Church. Germantown
The guests at the card party will include
Miss Claire NJ. Vele. Mrs. Henry G. Ritter,
Sd. Miss Minerva Headley, Miss Anita Me-
gargee. Miss Roberta Clark of Baltimore (;
Mrs Dayton Larzelere, Mrs. Arthur Hagar.
Mrs James Hunsburger, Miss Ruth Powell
Mrs. John Huber, Jr, Mrs. Swithin Chand-
ler Mrs. Harold Paine, Miss Margaret Keel
ing. Mrs, Ninton Stahl Miss Mary PEBBLES.
Mrs, Fred Lineaweaver, Hiss Mildred Tiers.
Mrs. Edward Hessenbruch, Miss Eleanor
Meacham and Miss Althea Rose.
Owing to Illness. Miss Esther deb Robins.
Of Iiansberry street. Germantown, has post
poned the dance which was to be given for
her today by her parents