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The Washington times., 1917-05-17
RED BLOOD AFEATURE
IN ALL-STORY WEEKLY
Finish Of Two Gripping Serials
Found in Last Number.

Patriotism. adventure, mystery, and
romance abound within the pages oi
this weeks An-Story Weekly. The
reader of this interesting magazine
Is not allowed to become entirely abb
sorbed in its gripping fiction, for
from time to time he comes upon
patriotic poetry or epigrams, and the
American flag is presented to remind
him of his native land.
Red Blood" a five-part story by
Dolores Bacon and William Dawes
starts in this weeks number. This
new serial is ''virile. vivid, vast" and
has q most remarkable plot which
will, doubtless, hold the interest OF
readers to the last word OF the mar.
rative.
The final installment OF ~The
Squeeze Wheel is found in this mum
Der, and everybody who has read
this fascinating serial will be bound
to get the end of the story. Lady
fingers" another serial masterpiece,
Is brought one installment nearer its
Rnxiously awaited conclusion, while
the third part of The Man in Even
ing Clothes" Is also presented. THE
Sequel,P the novelette, which has
been running In the All-Story Week
ly. is concluded in this number.
Among the delightful and enter
tanning short stories is a droll con-
tribution entitled "Old Kid Oppor-
tunity," by Samuel G. Camp, and
disappointment" a different story.
from the pen Of Ashmed Abdullah.
Ten poetic contributions from we'll
known authors also compete with
fiction stories by H. Keith Trask,
Suzanne Buck, knight Dundy, and
Jean Bruce for the readers favor.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
Now For Action

A good Quaker once encouraged an
assailant' who was indulging in bip-
ingsgate with the remark: That's
right, friend, let the bad stuff out Of
thee"
The Senate, having spent some four
hours yesterday in executive session
in letting off the accumulated vol
ume of criticism against the news
papers for hurrying them up, against
the people who do not understand the
Importance of preserving Senatorial
dignity at all hazards, at the Admin
istration for its manifest desire to
see the war measures passed, and the
Council of National Defense for ex-
ceeding its powers, should now be
able to get down to business. The
mountain duly labored and produced
a diminutive mouse, in the form Of
an amendment requiring the Council
of National Defense to obey the laws.
But, seriously, this is no time for
insisting on Senatorial prerogatives.
1t is true that the Senate feels that
the creator is above any Of its crea-
lures, and, as it helps TO pass legis-
lation making new offices and then
has its say concerning the men to fill
these offices, it feels that no man Sc
lected for an important task can
possibly know more than Senator.
It feels the contempt Of the creator
for the creature whenever it INDUCES
in criticism of "some little bureau
chief" The big business men, on the
other hand, who have patriotically
proffered their services to the Gov
ernment and form the Council Of Ma
tional Defense and its advisory
boards and working committees are
naturally impatient at being ham
D red by restrictions which the Sen
ate thinks are necessary to safeguard
its own powers. They wonder that
it takes days of debate to decide
questions on which any educated
man, not having his constituents in
mind, could express his opinion in
five minutes, which an ordinary
board of directors could pass upon
in a half hour. There must be pa
thence here on both sides. The Sen
ate has heard from the press and
from the people that needless delay
will not be tolerated, and it will yet
find a way to suppress the Senatorial
proclivity of talking ad libitum. The
executive session is not a bad idea,
in itself, for, while its proceedings
are always duly reported in the
newspapers, the speeches made can
not be sent out to ones constituents,
and talking for buncombe is largely
eliminated.
It is a great task on which the
United States has entered, one in
which useless delay is hampering and
may be fatal. The signs that the
Senate begins to appreciate this fact
in attempting to defend its habits of
procrastination are welcome to the
American people.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
Interesting Events Of Importsnes
Scheduled for Today.

Graduating exercises. class OF 1911, Garfield
Memorial Hospital, Training Schools for
Nurses. D. m
Illustrated lecture. zone Century Of Modern
Arts In Belgium" by Prof. Victor Horta
auditorium United States National Museum
and reception TO American Fedsration q
Military driiI Of Young Mems Hebrew Aa.,-
ciation. Convention Hall. T:50 D. m
Dance by the A. and p. Managers Associn-
ton. Old Masonic Temple, Ninth and y
streets porthwest. ?. m
Meeting OF committee Of District Of coium-
blA A. A. A. Club and theater managers,
RiEgs building
Boz party and social evening, Ahaves Zion
Society. 12O6 Sixth street northwest D. m
Masonic-Naval Lodge. No. A. Hiram Lndgs
Singleton. No. %. Adoniram Council No =
Royal and Select Masters: Ascension Day
services. Christ Church. Thirty-frst and b
streets. Georgetown. knights Tsmplar com
uianderies: Robert de Bruce Council
Knights Kodash. Scottish Rite: Esther
Chapter. No. 5. Order OF the Eastern Sear
Odd Feliows-ColuTnbia Ledge No. 10 ard
Phoenix. No. 3: Columbian Encampment,
No. 10.
Rebekahs-Friendship Lodge. No. 8.
knights Of Pythias-Franklln Lodgs No Z
Woodnen OF the World-Oak Camp, Ninth
and F streets northwest.
National Union-Natioual. No. -.
Fogmal opening headquarters public comfort
committee. Navy League. 1n4 H street
northwest. p. m
Ascension Day exercises and laying Of cor
nerStone OF Whitby Hall. National Caths-
dral School for Girls. D. m.
Commencement exercises Of Madison Hall.
$40 D. m.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
The Old Cat.

The Old Cat.
Ny memory goes a-wandering
Amid the long ago
When, as a child. joyed to swing
Where summer breezes blow;
The swingers took q turn about,
And every lad would cry:
Don't stop the swing-don't push me
out
Let the cat dieT'
As life wears on we feel the same,
We men who once were boys;
All, how we hate to quit the game,
And cling unto its joys!
When younger comrades restless
grow,
And show 1t in their eye,
We want to say. as long ago:
Let the cat dte!"
And so think when at the end
Time claims his final due,
We shall not greet him as friend;
His face rejoice to view,
fear, for one, that shall grieve
To see his scythe-will sigh,
The swing of life how loath to leave:
Let the cat diei"
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

, stlnted praise to the haunting melo-
dies Of the Five Songs Of Lawrence
Hope" which, perhaps, represent the
best Of Mr.. BurIeigh's works.
Those compositions for which he
Is best known include. besides Deep
River" the setting OF Walt Whitman's
Ethiopia Saluting the colors," The
Grey Wolf" The soldier,"T and
Jean"
Regarding ''The Soldier" A. wal
ter Kramer, in Musical America" !"
wrote: "I think this Burleigh set
Nting OF Rupert Brooke's inspired
art products OF the great war"
No Stranger To Toll.
The creative achievements Of Mr..
Bprleigh have been intensified in a
life OF routine musical toll by which
the composer has earned his daily
bread.
It has been many years since he
braved the cold to crafty his love
for good music-years OF toll and
hardship, during which he has fought
against great handicaps.
II was in Erie, Pa, back in the
early eighties that Burleigh made his
great resolve to gain a musical educa-
tlon. BY his determination to achieve
and his willingness to make any sac
rifiCes he gradually pushed his way
Up the ladder Of success and fame.
First he was a. stenographer, and
later, in 1892, at twenty-slx, went to
New York, where he won a scholar
ship In the National Conservatory OF
Music. In 1894 he became soloist at
ST. Georges Church, New York.
From this time on his upward path
became easier. and there was an in
creasing demand for him to sing in
concerts and musicales In New York
and elsewhere. The achievements OF
last year, which won Mr.. Burleigh the
Spingarn Medal, are but the mature
fruitage Of long life OF consecrated
labor.
N0tables on COmmittee.
The committee Of award which sin
gled out BurIeigh for this honor in
eludes Bishop John Hurst, of Balti-
more: former President William How
ard Taft, John Hope, president or
Morehouse College. Atlanta: DR..
James II. billiard, director OF the
Slater and Jeannes funds, and Oswald
Garrison Willard. OF the New York
Evening Post. The medal Is Of gold
and was donated by DR.. Joel z. Spin
garn, chairman of the board OF direc-
tors Of the National Association for
the Advancement Of colored People.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
Torpedoed

Senator Poindexter unconsciously
furnished an example yesterday OF
the impossibility Of conducting a war
bv advice of Congress. He was in
Weighing against the Navy Depart
ment for its failure to accomplish
anything with the feet, especially in
the way Of hunting down the subma-
rines, when Senator Underwood,
holding aloft a copy of The Times,
read from the headlines this:
United States destroyers now
fighting U-boats with allied warships
in the North Sea. Flotilla flying
United States flag active in hostile
waters"
Whereupon Senator Poindexter
hoated helplessly into port, having
thus been neatly torpedoed.
We again recommend Admiral
Sigsbee's working motto: 1T is bet
ter to know than to think
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
FOUR HORSES BURNED.

Four valuable draft horses. prop
erty OF the Atwen Ice Company, were
last night burned to death in the
fire which ragged in the stables OF The
company in Congress alley, to th'
rear Of 1922 Thirty-first street north
west. Several wagons were badly
damaged by the fire. Damage to prop
ertY was estimated at $1,000.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Dance auspices Parents League Of thlrd
division. for benefit Of Wilson Normal
School. Community Center.
Annual dinner. District Commandery. Naval
and Military Order Of Spanish American
War. Army and Navy Club. D. m
Presentation OF Booth Tarkington's The
Man From Home" by Central High School
Dramatic Association. auditorium new
Central High School. SIS D. m
Masonic-Columbia Lodge, No. 3 and Leb-
anon. No. Z. Grand Chapter. School Of In
struction, Royal Arch: Columbia Com
mandery. No. .. knights Tsmplar: Albert
Pike .Consistory. Scottish Rite. Martha
Chapter. No. 4. and East Gate, No. i, Or
der OF the Eastern S,ar.
Odd Fellows-Central Lod ge. No. l. and Ne
tropolis, No. Is; Magenenu Encampment.
No. 4.
Rebekahs-Miriam Lodge. No 6.
Knights Of Pythias-Syracusians Lodge. No.
To- Rathbone Temple. No. 8. Pythian SIS
ters.
Elks-Clam feast and dance
Illustrated lecture on Yosemite Valley BE-
fore Kiwanis Club. sri street northwest.
s D. m
Meeting Of Federal watchmen's Union.
Moose Hall. Seventh and C streets north
west. so .. m
Clam feast and dance for benefit OF Boston
reunion committee. Eiks' Club 9is II street
northwest. S:3n-is y. m.
Presentation OF ''Ingomar'' for fund for en-
tertaining United Confederate Veterans.
Castro Theater.
Evening OF reading from Shakespeare, board
Of directors rooms. Y. NJ. c. As D. m.
Concert by United States Soldiers Homa
Band. band stand. D. m
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
SNOW HEARING JUNE ~,

Justice Stafford, sitting In the
Equity division OF the District Su-
preme Court, today fxed June IL as
the date for hearing the case IN which
Mrs. Adds II. Snow Is suing her
seventy-three-year-old husband. Ches-
ter a. Snow. fer absolute di-
ing was issued on the petition OF the
defendant, who said bis son. Chester
a. Snow. jr.. was a material witness
and wanted to leave soon to fight
In France.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
u.RoAr vIcrIM,s KIN HERE.

Mrs. Eardly Branwel Reece, for
merly Miss Julia Swindell, OF Balti-
more, lost her life with forty-nve other
passengers Of the steamer Abosso,
which was torpedoed by a submarine
off the coast of ireland April -. Mrs.
Reece was returning from Africa
with her husband when they perish
ed. Mrs. Reece was a sister OF Mrs.
George H. Wilson, 81 West Irving
street. Chevy Chase.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
Amusements Today.

Belasco-'-so.e 90 Leagues Under the Sea,
2:i5 and SO D. m.
New National-''Intoleranee." D. m. ana Q
=. m
PoIrs-Nsw Pou Players IN ~Ths New Hsn-
rietta." e-I5 and S.is D. m
B. =. Keith's-Vaudevflle. and SIS D. n.
Gayety-Burlesque. s:i5 and Sis D. m.
Losw's CoIumbla-Photoplays. 1o:30 .. N. -
II p. m.
strand-Photoplays II a. N. to II D m
Garden-Photoplays. II a m 70 II N
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

c. B. H. says, referring to the lines
Of Mr.. Dixon Merritt quoted the other
day, For heavens sake give US the
rest of this. 1t sounds too good to De
true" The lines quoted were:
"A heluUd bird Is the Pelican:
His bedk holds more than his bell
con- :"
Mr.. Merritt is president OF the
American Press Humorists, who will
hold a convention in New York in
June.
We do not recall the rest Of the
poem. but we are making an effort to
get Mr.. Merritt himself to recite II at
the ceremonies attending the unveiI-
ing Of the Chestnut Tree in City Hall
Park the second day Of the conven-
tion.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Bethmann-Hollweg declares that We
have ''the primitive inteIlectuality Of a
colonial nation" Doubtless he will soon
complain that we fight in primitive fash
ion.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

A Communication From Archy.
for some weeks said
mehitabel the cat continuing the
story OF her life
lived in that bar room and
though the society was
not what had
been used to yet 1
cannot say that 1t was
not interesting three
times q day in
addition to scraps from
the free lunch
and an occasional mouse
1 was given a saucer
full OF beer sometimes !
was given more and
when I was feeling
frolicsome IL was the custom
for the patrons to gather
round and watch me
chase my tail until
I would suddenly fall
asleep at that time
they gave me the
nickname Of pussy cafe but
one day 1 left the
place in the pocket
Of q big fur
overcoat worn by
a gentleman w1o was
carrying 80 much that I thought
a little extra burden would
not be noticed he cot
into a taxi cab
which soon afterwards
pulled up in front Of
q swell residence
and wandered up the
steps well said his
wife meeting him in the
hallway you are here
at last but where Is my
mother whom sent you to
the train to meet
could this be she asked
the ladys husband
pulling me out OF his
coat pocket by the neck and
holding me up with a
dazed expression on his face
II could not said his
wife with a look OF
scorn methitabels life
story will be continued
before long archy
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

o. B. s. writes US: What / don't
know about gardening and what you
don't know about Germany and the
German people, and the Kaiser, would
fill a moderate size Carnekie Library. -
We know enough about the Kaiser,
and about gardening. so that we would
love to plant him in a little plot of
his own.
DON MARQUIS.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Those sixty ColumbI students who
are ready to go to Jail rather than to
war point the moral that there is some
difference in character between a con-
yict and a conscrtpt.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
Don Marquis
Column

We are going away for three weeks,
beginning today. In our absence the
harp and the harpoon will be welded
and the horn will be blown-by Mr..
Gilbert Gabriel.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

When the German chancellor declared
that the U-Boats speak for themselves
he doubtless meant that they spoke Ger
man and not a civilized language.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

I'd forgive the German menace,
could eyen love the Kaiser,
II the fr1ulein at our switchbord
Would stop calling supervisor"
L. A. MONZERT
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

B. De Casseres, the free verse poet,
kas been writing some rhymed verse
lately, and is very much discouraged
because 1t has made a hit. "Rhyme,"
says Ben, rhyme and the, world
rhymes with you; think and you think
alone"
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Russia should. however. avoid ex-
changing the Romanofs for the Hohen-
EollernS.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Mr.. Robert P. Utter is professor OF
English at Amherst College, l. d. NJ
Aptronymic Scout No. 113S. tells us.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

potash and Propaganda" says q
headline.
To which we shout without a mo-
ment's hesitation, Perlmutter and
Censorship.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.

A certain undertaken begins his
advertisement with the line: For
YOUR benefit :" Which should
make US stop and think.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

AVera9e temperatnro Tor tnl1 dlt1 -uI -
last . years, s..
HIGH TIDES Low TIDt-.
l.21 q m: height az fi.g7 = m; height a.
sUN AND NOON TABLES
Sun rose t.55 q. m. Moon rises es2s D. n
Sun sets 7:1S D. m. Moon sets as q. n
Light automobile lamps AZ 1:5 .. M
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
: observattons At United States weather Bu-
reau stations. taken At =. m. today. sovunty-
afth meridian tin6ss
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

Aptronymic Scout No. 5631 reports
that Mr.. Carman is a freight agent.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

LINES.
] would not turn the page
OF the book OF Life again:
When one has walked along a path
In the brief House of Men
One need not tread its dusty way
Another time to know its play
JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17
LINES

Archie Poole owns a billiard an6
pool room, says r. c. P.
The Washington times., 1917-05-17

LOCAL TElTPERATUREs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-13
Missouri Carmen
Usher Out 600
Strike Breakers
Police and Workmen Escort
Newcomers Out Of
Kansas City

KANSAS CITY,Mo., Aug. 12.-Depor-
tation of six hundred strike-breakers,
accomplished in orderly fashion early
to-day by sympsthizers OF striking
streetcar employees. under the super
vision of the police, left the transpor-
tation system of the two Kansas cities
still tied up, while conference commit
tees endeavored to find a solution for
the situation. Mayor George Edwards,
of Kansas City, Mo-, announced that an
amicable settlement was in sight. The
men demand recognition of the union
and reinstatement of discharged en-
ployes.
The strike breakers lasted just one
day here. a day filled with terror for
them, besieged as they were in the
Kansas City Street Railway Company's
barns by sympathizers Of the strikers.
When the newcomers finally were
terded into a train, some of them said
they had eaten nothing except sand
witch since their arrival, so effective
had been the barrage Of bricks ana
stones which the besiegers poured into
the barns. Hunger contributed mate
rally to quell any spirit of resistanc"
the men might have had.
Absence of extended disorder in con-
nection with the actual deportation
drew from Thomas Flahive, chief of po-
lice. statement praising the conduct
of the men on strike. The police were
called to the barns by the strikers when
it appeared that excitement might lead
their friends to excuses. The strike
breakers, cowed by the day-long demon
stration against them, volunteered to
leave the city, and Flahive, calling on
the crowd to cooperate, obtained cor
raj of linked arms, within which the
strike breakers marched through the
city to the Union Station.
Late tonight it was reported the
special train on which the men left
the city had been sidetracked sixteen
miles from Kansas City and that their
leaders were urging them to return.
During the deportation four street
cars were burned in other parts of the
city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-13

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The rescue
Of eleven Mexican women and children
by an unnamed American warship from
a barren island off the Mexican coast,
announced to-day by the Navy Depart
ment, brings to light tale of prlva-
tion suffering and death that rivals the
widest stories of action.
The report of the commanding officer
of the ship. which apparently was hunt
ing possible German submarine bases
near Mexico, details in graphic style the
struggle for existence made by the
eleven survivors of large colony that
formerly lived on the island during a
three years period in which communi-
cation with the outside world was cut off.
Not man was left on the island OF
the eleven, only three were grown
women, while the rest were small chill
dren. Scurvy had ravaged the popu-
lation of the island until. in May 1915,
all the men who were left set out in
n small boat TO reach the mainland.
No word was ever heard from them,
and it was presumed that they died at
sea.
Since that time the women kept up
the struggle for existence by them
selves, subsisting entirely on an uncer-
tain cocoanut crop. fish, eggs and wild
fowls. The survivors were Sonora
Alicia De Arnaud, aged twenty-nine.
widow of the former commandant of
the island, her four children, her maid,
three orphans of Mexican soldiers and
Tirza Random, aged twenty-five. and
her infant daughter.
"On July l6, 1917" the report of the
commanding officer of the American ship
reads, "this vessel cruising in pursu-
ancc to orders issued by the commander,
patrol force. Pacific feet, visited Clip
perton Island. The landing party found
the women and children. subjects of
Mexico, destitute. They begged to be
taken away from the island.
Victims Taken on Board
after careful consideration of the
circumstances, | decided that dictates
Of humanity required me to bring them
to Salina Cruz, and accordingly took
them on board as passengers" says the
report.
The pitiful story, as | was able to
gather it through rather Indifferent in
terpreters. is as follows:
"a phosphate company obtained a
concession from the then Mexican gov
eminent to work the guano deposits on
Clipperton Island and established a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-13
4 Children Burned
To Death in Home
Three Others Badly Injured
When Two Families Are
Trapped in Cottage

KEYPoRT, N. j., Aug. 12.-Four
children were burned to death early
this morning in fire which destroyed
a cottage on Lloyd Road, about a mile
from here, occupied by the families of
Charles Esola and Angelo Roselle, of
Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn.
Three of those who lost their lives
were the children of Esola. The two
other Esola children and their mother
are in Monmouth Memorial Hospital,
Long Branch. They are suffering from
burns and injuries sustained when they
Jumped from second story windows.
Mary Roselle, three years old, lost her
life. Her father and sister Annie es-
capped by jumping.
Esola had rushed to the well at the
first alarm. He twirled the crank so
vigorously that the chain broke, and he
HI dn't filed his first bucket when the
f emen arrived.
Mrs. Roselle awakened in the midst
of a nightmare in which she was sur
rounded by flames. 1t was several
seconds before she could convince her
self that she really was awake. The
pungent odor of smoke aroused her
to realization that the flames were real.
She aroused the others. Flames
were roaring up the narrow staircase
and they sought the windows. Esola
was the first to jump, thinking that he
might be able to break the fall Of
the others. Annie Roselle. eleven
years old, was the first to appear and
make the leap.
Her nightgown was in flames, and it
was then that Esola sought in vain to
draw water from the well. The others
who succeeded in saving themselves
were likewise ablaze, and extinguished
the flames only by rolling in the dew
laden grass.
After waiting in vain for the rest of
his own family to appear at win
dow, Esola abandoned his useless task
at the well and strove to enter the
house. The fire drove him back.
He and Roselle are partners in a
trucking business, and married sis
tiers. Ordinarily, both spend week ends
at the cottage. On Saturday Roselle
was not able to go.