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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-09
"CHRISTMAS GOOD CHEER"
BAGS FOR U. S. SOLDIERS
Church of the Covenant Collection
Depot for the District of
Columbia.

A number Of enthusiastic woman
workers under the leadership Of Mrs
W. C. Pollock, are busy today in the
chapel building of the Church Of the
Covenant. Connecticut avenue and \
street northwest, packing and urepa r
ing Christmas Good Cheer bags that
are TO go to American soldiers in
france. This church has taken the lead
IN the movement and asked the coop
Grafton of other churches both Of q g
own and of other denominations. which
Is being cordIany given
Last week the church women, SOW,
Zoo OF these bags to the Red Cross for
tFahsmlsslon to France Christ Episco-
PAL Church sent in 1917 of them Ia CT
frloay, today the West Street Preshy
terlan Church contributed sixty: the
ran Ihurch Presbyterian Church sent
IN fourteen and the Mt. Pleasant Con
gregational Church ten.
Mrs. Pollock announces that all hags
" they are to be received in time. mus
De al the Church of the Covenant M
Ffld4y morning next and homes f,r
tHe netp OF as many local churches a 9
possible. Contributions of money will
also provide bags. and should he re-.
Neo as soon as possible, as the time
The bags contain the FOLLOWING
ticies: Writing pads, enyelopes and
penciis' playing cards, khaki handler.
cnie1s, soap boxes and soan shna
Strings, pocket Testaments, drjnkine
Cups, salety pins, chewing gum nd
candy, pipes. tobacco and even ian,s
hAIps ana tin whistles. Not ali these
raia are IN every bag. but each con
bags themselves are of gavIv co,orae
chintz- coloret
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Fatally Wounded Wife.

Edward Macdonald May "a, 1911, shot
and fatally wounded his wife, Mrs. Ger
trude Macdonald. on the fifth floor of
the Colorado building. 14th and G.
streets. where she had consulted her at
torney. She died at Emergency Hospi-
ttal two hours after the shooting. and
her husband. vino came here from Hud-
Son, n Y, was arrested in the build
ing just after the shooting by Crossing
Policeman Dreamer.
Macdonald wore q brown corduroy suit
and gray cap. the reformatory uniform,
when he went away. Mansell +. Mills. his
companion. also wore the uniform. AS a
clerk in the city post office at the time
OF his arrest, February i, 1915. Mills
was highly esteemed and had many
friends. In addition to his employment
in the post office he practiced as a patent
attorney.
The police feel that the fugitives OBJ
tanned changes of wearing apparel
shortly after they left the reformatory
and expect to find the discarded gar
ments hidden in woods or an Clubhouse
near Lorton.
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FIRE ANNIVERSARY sARDoNIC,
Chief of Chicago Prevention Bureau
1 Driven From Home by Place

CHICAGO, October 9.-The forty-sixth
anniversary of the great Chicago fire
turned up in a sardonic mood today.
In the first place. John G. Mcdonald.
chief of the bureau of fire prevention.
whose slogan is that an ounce of pre-
yention is worth ton of water. was
driven from his home by a fire In the
basement.
The second instance concerned Cor
oner Peter Hoffman. Mr.. Hoffman, de-
termined that his visits to his own
home should never be in an official
capacity, installed a safety device in
the chimney of his residence. The de-
vice, however, turned back the coal gas
and when the coroner was awakened he
found his wife. three children and a
maid unconscious from the fumes He
threw open the windows and called a
physician. None will suffer serious
consequences.
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LOCAL DONATIONS FOR
WAR LIBRARY FUND
But Less Than Half of $4,000,
Washington's Allotment, Has Been
Secured So Far.

tons allotment toward the one million
dollar library fund, to buy books for
soldiers and sailors, has been secured.
the local campaign committee an
nounced today.
The cash receipts of the local fund
are Ss,311.5o There are outstanding
unpaid pledges totaling s1,101. so that
the total fund paid in, or in sight, will
be $9.412.5O.
Contributions of SO and more re-
ceived today We're: Irving O. Ball.
$40; benjamin w. Guy, $50; Anna Nj.
kingan. s25; Miss Julia c. Lathrop.
SO; Church of the Epiphany Through
DR.. r. II. Mckim), S32.oo; Rev. DR..
McKim, SO and Mrs. r. II. Mckim, $25.
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Districts CoIored Quota
Is Expected to Be Sent to
Meade Cant0nment S0or

The colored quota Of the District OF
Columbia for the first National Army
is to be sent to Camp Meade soon, II
was definitely learned today. Colored
recruits from Maryland and Pennsyl.
wanna also will be concentrated at the
Admiral. Md, cantonment Generally
the colored men selected for service will
be sent to camps In their own states
where such exist and in other cases to
the nearest encampment in other states.
They are to brigaded and maintained
in separate organizations.
Army officers have left here with
commissions to be presented to suc-
cessful candidates at the negro Of
ticers' training camp at Des Moines.
Iowa. who are completing four
months course Of instruction. The new
officers will be assigned to negro units
in the Regulars. National Guard and
National Army as needed. and II is
probable that none will hold higher
rank for the present than company
commander.
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CAMP MEADE MEN
TAKING ADAY OFF
Rain Makes SIush of Streets
and Roads and Drills
Are Cancelled.
BASE BALL OUTFITS ARRIVE

By Staff Correspondent
CAMP MEADE, Md. October "a
drizzling rain that turned Camp Meade
streets and roads into lanes of slush
Cancelled all drills today, and the men
put in their time in squadrooms writing
letters. reading magazines and singing
In Company 3 barracks rehearsal was
held for the show to be given tonight
in the Y. NJ. G. \. building adjoining
the block.
Complete base ball outfits for the
three District companies have been re-
ceived. the outfits including bats. balls
catcher's mitt. mask and pad, and
gloves for intielders and outfielders. The
outfits, which were bought out of the
Clark Griffith bat and ball fund have
been delayed somewhere, but were all
the more welcomed when they did ar
rive
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Schedule for Theaters.

Assignments for speakers at theaters
today are as follows
keith's. 2:3o o'clock. Calvin Brown: s. 80
Leslie NJ Shaw. Belasco. 9 o'clock John
L. Weaver: National, O'Clock, Calvin
Brown: Polls. 8 O'Clock, George c. .Jor-
dan; Apollo. $50 O'Clock. Claude \ Ben
nett; Avenue Grand $50 O'Clock, Francis
N. savage; Casino, $50 O'Clock, Joshua
Evans. jr.: Cosmos, 9:15 o'clock, Charles
W. Darr: Crandalrs, $50 O'Clock. Dr. J.
Newton Baker; Garden, $50 o'clock, S. J.
Henry; Palace. $40 O'Clock. r G. Ram
kin: Savoy. S:1a o'clock, W w MILAN
Penn Gardens, $3.50 O'Clock. William Nc
Neir: Strand, $50 O'Clock. C. F. Nesbit;
Washington. ESQ O'Clock, ]. B. Torbert,
and Regent, $50 o'clock, j. B. Torbert'
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RAIN CAUSES HUGE
DEMAND FOR COAL
Washington Faces More Seri-
GUS Shortage Than
in Past.
DEALERS REFUSE ORDERS

Washington today faced an even
more serious shortage of coal than has
existed for the past few weeks.
One of the largest dealers in the city
said he was now able to I'LL about )
per cent of the needs of old customers.
New ones are not even being consld-
cred. Even in the orders filed, he stat
ed, his firm is not able to give many
customers the kind OF coal they want,
but for the most part buyers are glad
to take what they can get.
Another dealer said he had been able
to keep his trade going until the pres
ent time by delivering a ton at u time.
but that he had not enough to continue
this policy for the rest of the week
He said he had been promised ship
-
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Holes Clicked With Bodies.

More striking than all the rest were
mans lay in great numbers over this
ground, which had not yet been cleared
Al many places groups of Germans had
been killed as they fought together.
and they rested as they fell. Shell holes
at some places were choked with bodies.
The village of Zonnebeke is but a
memory. Some shattered walls remain
of the big church, and in very few
places there are marks of other public
buildings. but the village as whole
has disappeared. The railway station
of the fpres-Roulers line, where for
days the British and Germans hattled
fiercely at close quarters. is gone and
there remains only a small concrete re-
doubt about which the Germans made
their last stand.
The YFres-Roulers railway. which
for so long was under British gun fire
and is now being hammered by the Ger
mans, is nothing but broken mound
of earth. The rails have been twisted
into knots and hurled here and there
All the highways here and on other
aged severely. They are pitted here
and there will shell holes. 4 thousand
yards in front of Zounebeke was Brood
seinde ridge and the village with its
famous crossroads where many Ger
mans We're killed recently by The Brit
ish artillery fire. The British line is
over the crest of this ridge on the east
ern side. Broodseinde has gone the
same way as Zonnebeke. Reute, Craven
stafel Passchendaele and many other
hamletS
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Reading Matter Plentiful.

The men of Company C have rugged
up book and magazine racks in the
mess hall of their barracks, and the
racks are well filled with reading mat
ter. most of which bears the l-cent
stamp, showing that it was sent to
Camp Meade by somebody who has time
for occasional thoughts for the selected
men.
Results. of the liberty loan campaign
being conducted here showed this
morning that subscriptions amounting
to more than s12S,000 have been re-
ceived from officers and men here. The
campaign has not Yet been started
among the District men.
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Stand on District Offices.

Il do not know that there are any
useless offices in the District of Column
bia, but if there are any l shall insist
upon their abolition, and ask that the
money which may be paid in useless
salaries if there are any such, be turn
ed to the permanent improvement of
the city.
Neither do know. nor suspect, that
there has been or that there is now any
system of graft in the District. How
ever, if 1 find that any employee of the
District is or has been guilty of graft. l
shall not only demand his removal from
office. but a restoration of all that he
may have taken wrongfully. In this
connection l may say that l regard de-
liberate wastefulness almost as repre-
hensive as footing the treasury by lar
ceny. All of the money taken from the
people in the way of taxation shc n |
rebound to their benefit in the way Of
improvements; and all that is given by
the United States toward its upbuilding
and Identification should be as honestly
and economically expended as Congress
would desire it to be.
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Taxes in the District.

after some study of the question l
have reached the conclusion that resi-
dents of the District of Columbia are
paying az great if not a greater per
capita tax than is paid by the residents
of any other city in the Union of COM
parable size; and I shall oppose the
levying of a greater tax. at least until
well ascertained necessity warrants it.
"Whatever tax is gathered should be
judciously spent toward building up
and identifying the National Capital.
Il shall enter timely protest against
laying asphalt payements until all the
necessary underground wires and pipes
have been laid. This thing of first paw
ing the street and then afterward, from
time to time tearing them up to lay
wires and pipes is not only uselessly
expensive, but both disfigures and
damages the pavements which already
have been laid.
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Vessel Reported a Total Ioss

PORT HURON. Mich. October o
reports received here today from
South bay. Manitoulin Island, said that
the steamer Graham. which went
ashore there, will probably be total
loss. No casualties were reported. The
vessel, owned by the Montreal Transi,
Company, was loaded with grain and
II Is understood that che broke in two
h8ter gyoundin9s
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Weather Causes Big Demand.

Telephones of coal dealers were hum
ming throughout the day. The combi-
nation of chilly and rainy weather
brought demands from householders
for coal far beyond the ability of deal
ers to deliver.
Persons just coming to Washington,
those who have moved from apart
ments to houses and others who have
had no previous occasion to become
regular customers" found it extremely
difficult to get coal.
Many orders which are taken even
from old customers. are taken with the
understanding that no delivery time is
promised. The situation was Iurther
complicated by the inability OF the
dealers to get men to put the coal in
cellars. Persons who offer to get this
done have the advantage in obtaining
deliveries
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Dealer Swamped With Orders.

While l am talking to you l can see
seven people at the counter here beg
ging US to sell them coal, and all we
have for them is soft coal or pea COAL"
said one of the largest coal dealers
when called up this afternoon I'm ad-
dition to the callers, I believe we have
had fifteen hundred telephone calls to-
day.
The situation is worse than we ever
saw it here Often right after big snow
storms we have had big rush of or
ders. but it was never as bad as this
What orders we are getting are
being delayed from ten days to two
weeks, because we have no men to
put the coal in the cellars. 1t used to
be that the school boys would do this
work to make little extra money, but
they seem to have stopped it,
Another dealer said he received ten
carloads of egg coal this week. but that
it was taken over by the government
leaving him with nothing but pea coal.
He said he did not know where the
government wanted to use it. but I'M
derstood it was rushed to one of the
cantonments.
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Two Oaths Administered.

Daniel J. Donovan, secretary to the
board of Commissioners, then admins
tered the oath of office to Mr.. Gar
diner. following which the new official
was sworn in as a member of the utili
ties commission by John r. Young, clerk
of the District Supreme Court.
Upon the conclusion of these formali-
ties. Mr.. Gardiner delivered his inau-
gural address. After his address, Mr.
Gardiner stood in receiving line and
was presented to the rank and file OF
the District building personnel.
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Searched Much Territory.

Thinking it possible that the fugi-
tivcs we're still hiding in nearby Nir-
gina awaiting an opportunity to board
a train. detectives. and reformatory
guards covered much of the territory
along the line of the railroad between
Lorton and the river. and some of the
Searchers went south along the rail-
road,
BoN cars on sdings were searched.
vacant houses and barns examined and
inquiries made at scores of ia rmhouses.
Il is thought possible that the escape
was the result of we'll prepared plans
IN which assistance from the outside
vas given.
It is thought that the men We're
taken from near the reformatory IN
an automobile that was Awaiting them.
Detectives said there are so many ma
chimes on tho road in Virginia at prac-
ticalIy all hours that the presence
of one near the reformatory GROUNDS
would have attracted no particular at
ttntIOp,
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general strategy of positions remains
the same.
To take Laibach would mean the es-
Establishment of an Italian line stretch.
ing fifty miles from the Italian bound
airy to Laibach. cutting off from Aus
tria, Crotia, which already has express
ed ambitions of independence. separat-
ing Hungary. which has made plain it's
expectation of a separate state after
peace is declared, and also would leave
Bosnia. Serbia part Of Dalmatia and
possibly Montenegro without Austrian
and Though only fifteen miles of the
proposed line is now held by Italy, it is
pointed out that this stretch includes
the most preCipitous and difficult posi-
tons along the route.
positions to the east cannot be fortified
as have the positions of Austria to the
west of this line through military activity
OF lorty years. Bohemia. too, it is stated,
already Is clamoring for independence
and such move would divest her of di-
rect Austrian aid. After such an achieve
ment the pressure from Macedonia and
Albania could begin with assurance of
success. is the Italian claim. For all these
reasons 1t is asserted that the allied adj
vantage gained by aiding the Italian plan
not only would be military, but moral, and
serve the diplomatic aims of the allies in
encouraging the breaking up of the Prus-
sian dominion.
What the Italians Need.
1-aly still holds that she has the man
power for these plans, including t.
heavy forces she recently has sent .
cooperate in the Bulgarian offensive.
but that she must have coal and iron
and other supplies from the allies.
These Great Britain cannot give her
Therefore, they must come from the
United States. She can buy them here
and has done SO to a marked extent.
but she must have tonnage to convey
M 10
turning to the United States, and all
though the figures are being withheld.
1t IS known that she has obtained a
number of vessels. But the proportion
tins country can now furnish, it is
claimed, is negligible compared to her
needs II she would prosecute the ex-
ceedingly difficult campaign outlined.
Possibility of a diversion of some OF
the tonnage now being employed in
continental shipments is one of the
points she will urge upon the allied
military conference. Wherefore both
military and diplomatic officials here
are awaiting with keenest interest the
outcome of Italy's presentations of her
plans at the forthcoming conference
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Winter Campaign in Alps Begins

GENEVA, October 9.-Heavy snow
falls and severe cold are reported from
the Italian Alps frontier. Skis and
sledges already have made their ap-
pearances and the winter campaign has
begun.
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were reported fighting about Mango
lare, some 1900 yards beyond tneii
original front lines. At $3.50 O'Clock they
had taken several hundred prisoners.
Country Desolate Waste.
prosperous farming country before
the war, the region east OF fpres. Is
now a desolate waste of large and deep
shell craters. 1t has been the scene Of
much bitter and sang4linary lighting.
and the artillery fire has done Its work.
Few sectors of the western front have
been laid waste as has this one. Farm
buildings and villages have been swept
away by the shells. But n few pieces
of wall mark where buildings once
stood. Grass and other green things
have disappeared in the turning up OF
the earth by the innumerable exploding
shells.
From Tpres out across the Westhoek
bridge ami over the site of what once
was Zonnebeke. from which the Ger
mans were pushed Thursday, the scene
of demolition recalls the days of the
battle of the Somme. The unprece-
dented havoc wrought on the Somme
front hardly surpassed that which eX-
lists along the YpreS front.
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Coal Traffic Manager Dies.

PHILADELPHIA, October 9.-Robert
H. Large, coal traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania railroad. and prominent
socially. died today following an op-
Grafton performed three days ago. Mr.
Large was forty-two years old.
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Grateful to Newspapers.

"The newspapers of the District have
said many complimentary things abont
me and l am truly frateful to them for
this.
IAN of the ability and energy that
possess shall be conferred in an effort to
thank the President for my appointment
in good works rather than by words. No
less effort shall be made to show the
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Welcome Loan Speakers.

Employees of Woodward and Lothrop
were addressed in two divisions this
morning by A. E. Seymour. He was en-
Enthusiastically greeted by the employees.
many of whom showed their first liberty
loan buttons.
Eugene E. Thompson received a cor
dial welcome at the hands of the en-
ployes of the Office of the auditor Of the
Post ONCE. where he was remembered
for effective work in connection with
the first campaign.
This afternoon the teachers and off,
Gals of the colored schools will be ad-
dressed by Corcoran Thorn, vice presi-
dent of the American Security and Trust
COMPANY
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DUTY to Take Oath Now.

1T had been my purpose not to take
nv oath Of Office until about the 18th
of the month, but when | found that
the estimates were now being made UP
for the expenditure of fifteen millions
of dollars for improvements in the
District of Columbia, and that those
estimates had to be completed and sub
mitted by the 18th of October, | felt
that it was my duty to take my oath
of office now and consider and examine
as best l could within the short period
left to do so those estimates with a
view of giving my assistance to nv
fellow Commissioners in this yery diff
ticult and important work
my Appointment has come from the
President in most complimentary wav
The people of this District have received
it most heartily.
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BIG SHIFT ORDERED
IN NATIONAL ARMY
National Guard Ranks to Be
Filled and Cantonments
Reorganized.
CAMP MEADE is AFFECTED

Redistribution OF the forces in Ma
tional Army cantonments in the south,
middle west and east was ordered to-
day by the War Department in order
to fill up three National Guard di-
visions in southern states to war
strength and to provide for the Or
ganzation of an additional National
Army division, composed of colored troops.
troops.
The National Guard divisions to be
filed up are the 30th. 31st and 39th.
all composed of troops from the far
southern states. Drafted men from the
National Army cantonments at Camp
jackson, Columbia, s. c.; Camp Gordon.
Atlanta, Ga, and Camp Pike. Little
Rock, Ark, will be transferred to fill
the gaps The remaining men at the
three camps viii be consolidated at
Camp Jackson, to compose one National
Army division.
Eastern States Division.
Surplus white men of the drafted Army
from Camp Devens. at Aver. Mass. Camp
Upton, at Yaphank, \. y; Camp Dix,
at Wrightstown. n. J.: Camp Meade. at
Annapolis Junction, Md, and Camp Lee.
at Petersburg, Va. will be modified at
Camp Gordon to form a Supplementary
National Army division composed en-
tirely of men from the far eastern states
At Camp Pike. after the consolidation
of the southern drafted men, surplus
white men from Camp Sherman. Chill
iicothe, Ohio; Camp Custer Battle
Creek. Mich: Camp Grant Rockford.
Ill; Camp Taylor. Louisville, Ky; Camp
Dodge, Des Moines. Iowa; Camp Fun
ston. Fort Riley, Kan, and Camp
Travis, San Antonio. Tex, will be mob
ilized to form supplemental middle
western division of the National Army.
Camp Lewis, at American Lake. WASH
ington, is the only one of the sixteen
National Army cantonments not al
fected by the order.
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Continued from First Fage)
supplies, not only for the District of
Columbia. but for the United States. If
there be any such l shall endeavor to
uncover them and see that they are
prosecuted for getting money or any
lenses. IS