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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
FUNERAL Of Mr.. DANCE
TO Be THIS AFTERNOON
service win BE In IaurcJ-S Street
Church at ; o'C1ock-Was Mem
her of Several Orders.

The funeral OF Thomas J Dance
assistant manager of the Richmond
branch Of American Typofounders
Company, whose death occurred We'd
nesday night at his home. 1900 En-
/ slow Avenue, Highland Park. will he
conducted at 3 O'Clock this afternoon
from Laurel Street Methodist Church.
of which he was for years mcmb Der
lnterment will be In Hollywood Gene
terry.
Mr.. Dance vas born sixty years ago
IN Chesterfield County, For forty
nine years he had been Identified
with the type and paper business in
/ Richmond, having entered the employ
OF II. l. Pelouzc & Son. typefound-
/ nrs. He continued with the firm and
/ its successor branch of the Ameri-
can Type Founders Company, until
his death. He was assistant manager
! of the Richmond branch during re-
cent years, and up till a few hours
+ before his death he was about his
duties in hecompanys place of bust
/ ness
Mr. Dance was member OF a
number Of fraternal orders. anon Z
them the Masons. odd Fellows. Junior
{ order of United American Mechanics,
knights Of Pythias Tribe of Ben Hur,
and Sons and Daughters of Liberty,
and these will be represented a the
, funeral services this afternoon
He was chief Of the fire depart
! ment at Highland Park when the
community had volunteer organiza-
ton. As member Of LAUREL Street
| church. Mr.. Dance was active, having
I been AT different times member of the
/ fhurch's board of stewards and su-
I perintendent of its Sunday School
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
kRERGfl MATTER
STILL HANGS FIRE

The resolution before the Ord
nance Committee. asking that r l..
krenFel, VINO was injured several
years ago While on Tie police force
and which injury rendered him unfit
for further service. be placed again
on the police force, was not acted
upon last night by the committee,
but was placed on the table. Another
/ hearing of the case will be had in a
few days.
The Ordinance Committee rccom-
mended an ordinance last night
granting permission to the Virginia
Conference OF Seventh Day AdVentists
To alter frame building, az North
Sixth Street. TO be used by them for
holding services.
The ordinance asking that the
police force be increased by three wo-
men, was sent 10 the Mayor for his
recommendation, as he is now the
head of the Police Department. The
request of the Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railway Company.
asking permission to extend their shed
at Elba station nifty feet to an alley
between Grace and Broad Streets, was
turned over to the building inspector
for his recommendation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
EVERYBODY SEEING
DAVIS THESE DAYS
Police Department Kept ON jump
Following Clues Given BY ENcit-
able Persons.

huiholS 20 the ellect thH' t''Jah
Jaws. the "ie-mnfdefer' Was seen
"aiklhE ~ various parts OF the CIV,
al, throhFh EA'hihond YESTERDAY ana
poliee headq4artefS was Kept ioSN
tns"eFIhE inc inquiries OF excited
''t!@eIs. captain McMahoh' chle1 OF
te ,,eS' sent several men our 10
,p.lom up INC cues 'e'ePhonei ln'o
~" oiii'e, nut hoth'Hg Souli ne f"ah"
." ne MISSING man.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
RESERVE BANKS SAY
| BUSINESS STILL FINE
Peace Talk and Car shortage Has
LATHE Effect To stop
Trade.

washington, Jan. 4.-Peace talk
and the car shortage apparently are
| recorded as influential factors in the
nations commercial life during the
past month in reports of general bus
mess conditions from Federal reserve
agents made public today by the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
Business activity shows little
diminution, the boards summary
states. and in the East, South and
Middle West the record volume of
business remains at it's high level
Reports from the districts show:
Richmond-Trade, agricultural and
other reports indicate a continuance
in the full tide of prosperity, with
occasional conservative notes of
warning in anticipation of a read
justment to more normal conditions.
Administrations have not ma
terially changed. There is an abund-
ance of money in this section and q
feeling of confidence that the pros
porous times are to continue.
Observation-Disclosures are enjoying a
holiday business almost unprecedent-
ed in volume and Notwithstanding
the prices of merchandise, which are
much higher than those Of past years,
buying is unusually heavy.
Now York-Advices from a large
number Of firms and corporations
show that trade and industry in gen.
eral have continued active and prac-
tically unchanged. Notwithstanding
developments in the war situation,
disturbance In money rates and un-
settled stock markets.
Chicago-All authorities report a
continuation in the large volume of
business There Is no marked evil
dence of recession due to peace ru-
mors.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
TOM LAWSON WILL
TELL Of LEAK" MONDAY
hnlts Trip to Europe On Teiegraphic
Request of House Rules
Committee.

Washington, Jan. AFTER starting
q near panic among leaders OF the.
hous" OF Representatives.. Thomas W
Lawson tonight cancelled trip to
Europe and agreed TO come to Wash
inston Monday to tell the House Rules
Committee what he knows about the
government leak which precipitated
the peace panic in Wall Street Law
son viii be witness before The
House Rules Committee which VIII
hold a public hearing on a resolution
authorizing an Investigation OF the
Teak" charges
The Rules Committee. under orders
from the House. met today and planned
preliminary bearings on the investiga-
ton resolution of Representative
Woods, of Indiana. tomorrow
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
HEAVY LOSS Of LIFE
WHEN WERh|A SINKS
British Transport Sent Down. Garry.
ing $50 To Their Dc
;Ts Struction-
MACIN BRIDGEHEAp FALLs
Won Mackcnsen Gathers in More Rus
Ss SLAMS. But Siays Make Vigorous
Counter-Thrust I'm tho Carpath-
ians.

London. Jan. i.--Morc than $50
lives were lost when the British
Transport Ivrrnia, OF f4,2sS tons.
was sunk by torpedo in the
Mediterranean on New Years
Day.
An admiralty statement issued
late tonight said that thirty three
of the crew and 100 men are miss
ing. An earlier statement WAS a.
follows:
The ivernia was sunk 10y a Subma
rine in the Mediterranean on january
l during bad weather and while car
fying troops. Al present four mill
tary officers and lac men are missing
The casualties among the Ivernia'
officers and crew are not yet definitely
known, but hopes are entertained that
the only officers of the ship missing
are tho surgeon and chief engineer =
Before the war the Ivernia was in
the Cunard Lines Mediterranean
service, both from New York and
Boston She was used as "a transport
in the Gallipoli expedition and more
recently in transporting troops to
Saloniki
Four other vessels have been sunk
N the last twenty -four hours, in
Guiding three neutrals They are the
San I,eandro. Spanish, 1915 tons,
Dimitrios Goulandris, Greek. 3.I44
tons. ANtrlola lnnanpu. Greek. and the
Leon. French, Gs3 tons
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05

Of drunken passengers on the late
night cars. The companies acted in
unison and served notice that no
person under the influence Of liquor
would henceforth he allowed on board.
This notice W s duly posted go that
drinking men were adequately warned.
Came Saturday night and the evil
gence Of the effects OF alcohol began
to appear at the railroad and police
stations. Close to 800 men, according
10 the city papers, were so intoxicated
they were refused passage on the cars
and were taken care OF by the police.
Some of them were found carrying
children's toys which they were In
tending to take home for Christmas.
Did that look as if they deliberately
got drunk and rIsked tho chance OF
getting home? one man who lived
in town miles away was so anxious
70 get home and So unconscious Of
what he was doing that he started,
it is supposed, to walk. The next
day his dead body was found in va
cant held-an example of the drug
effect of alcohol overthrowing a mans
sclf-contro1. reason and Judgment.
The third point the alcohol defender
should he made to see Is his respon-
sibility in continuing the widespread
injury. Every drlnEer ana every
drink he takes. but especially every
drink he invites another to take, helps
TO rivet the drinking custom. Where
as. every avowed abstainer. every re-
fUsal to conform to the drinking Gus
tom. which is responsible for the alco-
hol problem, helps to solve 1t.
These are strong appeals and the
more we see of the hearts of the
people Of every rank and class, the
more reason we have to believe that
if they are presented kindly. intelh-
gently and earnestly, they will awaken
the right response. Some will remain
selfish and untouched by sympathy for
their fellows, but the spirit of gem
crosby, now so often misapplied in
promoting drink, can be found in most
normal people. If rightly appealed to,
and turned into constituencies and
self denial for the sake of o. hers
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
FATHER Of SPEAKER
HOUSTON IS DEAD
Rev. Rutherford r. Houston, For
Many Years In Presbyterian Min
istry. Dies mt Home of Daughter.

The Rev. Rutherford Roland Hous-
ton, father Of Speaker Harry X.
Houston. of the House OF Delegates,
died last night at S:16 O'Clock at the
residence of his son-in law, DR.. w. A.
| Picker, 40 Hawthorne Avenue, Gin
| ter Park DIR. Houston was in his
eightieth year.
Or. Houston was born In Smyrna,
Turkey. in 1895, while his parents
w~re missionaries 20 Greece. His
mother died there and was buried in
Alexandria. Egypt. when Or. Hous-
ton was four years old his father
I brought him to Virginia. and in later
years he graduated from the Washing
ton and Lee University and the Union
Theological Seminary
After completing his study for the
ministry DR.. Houston was for twenty
years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Fincastle. va He was later
in charge of the Presbyterian Church
at Newcastle. Several years ago he
retired from his religious labors and
lived quietly on his farm in Botetourt
County. In tho carly part OF the win
ter he took up his residence with his
daughter. Mrs. w. A. Picker, in Gin
ter Park.
DR.. Houston is survived by nine
daughters~-Mrs. w. NJ Miller, of Ar
vonia; Mrs. W, A Picker, of Ginter
Park; Mrs. II. c. Patterson. a mis-
sionary TO China; Mrs n +. Spea-
sard. OF Newcastle: Mrs s. q. Hin
of North Carolina: Mrs Rover Brock
enhorough. OF Iowa, and Misses Stella.
olive and Janet Houston~-and one
son. Harry r. Houston, of Hampton.
The funeral will take place Satur-
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from the
residence in Ginter Park, and the
burial will he made in Riversiew. 1t
Is expected that students Of the Union
Theological Seminary will act as pail
bearers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
.PROTtCIOGRAPH MEN
BEGIN MEETING TODAY
Have Annual Convention at Muir
phy's-One OF sixteen.

One of sixteen district conventions
to be held today and tomorrow in six
teen of the important cities of the
country will begin this morning in
Murphy's Hotel assembly room. when
the sales force OF the Todd Protecto-
graph Company in this district meets
for the discussion of matters of pc
culiar interest to their company and
their organization. There Will be
about twenty-five statesmen in attend
ance, and most of them arrived last
night.
The discussions will be directed by
C. w. Lockwood. sales manager for
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
LIQUOR FOUND IN
TRUNKS AT STATION

Police yesterday discovered ia
quarts of liquor IN three trunks at
the Main-Street Station. when the
spirits were seen to ooZe from the
trunks while they were in the baggage
room of the station. According to
the checks on the trunks they were
AcOnsigned to Norfolk from Washing
ton.
IS Onicers j. A.. Waters and NJ r.
Rrown telephoned for the wagon and
the liquor was taken TO the First Po-
1tAe Station. 1t Is presumed that no
owners OF the trunks will not call for
Atlsen. and that they have already gone
N0N TO Norfolk
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05

Clifton Forge. Va, Jan. AIRS
Laura V. Haynes, wife of Mr.. w. r.
Haynes, died late Tuesday afternoon
in her home on Rose Street, after an
extended illness with a complication
of troubles. on account of her de-
clining health, the. demise of Mrs
Haynes was not altogether unexpect-
ed
The funeral will take place at . 80
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the
Presbyterian Church. of which the de-
ceased was consistent member, and
the services will be conducted by
Rev. l., II. Paul the pastor Following
the services at the church the inter.
ment will be made in Crown Hill
Cemetery.
Mrs. Haynes was before marriage
Miss Laura Gale, and her home was
in stanton, but for the better part
of her married life she resided In
Clifton Forge. and at the time of her
passing away was in her forty-ffth
year
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05

Harrisonburg. Va, Jan. 4-Under
circumstances unusually pathetic,
Luther C. Hall, a former student OF
Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, Day
ton. died Saturday night at Rocking
ham Memorial Hospital, where he
had been under treatment for several
days with tumor OF the brain.
Mr.. Hall, who left the institute last
June. arrived in Dayton on Decem-
Der 16 to spend the holidays with
friends Ill upon his arrival. he be-
came worse and was removed to the
hospital in helpless condition. A
brother. G. H. Hall, who was at the
institute with him last year, was call
ed to Harrisonburg, arriving at the
hospital Saturday night Just ten min
utes after his brother had died.
Luther c. Hall was one of the
brightest and most popular students
at the institute last year. Since
September he had been successful
teacher in North Carolina. Since
childhood he had been a sufferer from
periodical headaches.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
SANS RUSSIANS HAVE
WITHDRAWN WITHOUT LOSS

london. Jan. 4--tienera Frederick
b. Maurice. chief director Of military
operations at the British war once,
stated today that the Russians aC-
cording to latest adVices from the Ku-
manian front, abandoned the Do
brudja without loss,
one thousand prisoners were taken
rS Field Marshal Won 5faCkgnserT' x
Dobrudja forces in capture OF the
YjMla The German war Office am
nounces. The statement adds
The Dobrudja Is thus cleared OF
the enemy. except for the narrow
strip oil land leading toward Galat2.
where Russian rear guards aye STA
aaa!uts ming themselves
The Fetroerad war office officially
admits that the Russians have begun
o Withdraw towards Eraita"
These reverSes in the pobrudia.
which seriously threaten The loft
some hat offset by a successful coun-
. ter-offensjve launched by the Musco-
. eites IN the CarpathIans
1t was the frs! successful counter
thrust in weeks SIX hundred prison
ers three cannon. sixteen machine
! gums and war material we're captured.
The Russians, according TO the Pet
rograd report. broke through tia
Z Teuton positions ON tne he.ghts south
of Betochu Mountain
From Berlin comes the official AID
mission that the Russians. "succc eded
in gaining a footin. in our most adj
z Sanced position"
Upon the great battle in the center
in which possession If the fortified
sereth line between Focsani and Ga
iatz is the prize this Russian success
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
BOYS IN LIQUOR CASE
HELD FOR GRAND JURY

w L. Riddell and j \. Johnson,
charged with transporting ardent
spirits In a motor car, were yesterday
given a hearing before Justice Maui
rice, of the Southside court. and held
for the Chesterfield County grand jury
on 1000 bond each. 1t Is believed
the bonds Will he supplied this morn
ing. In the meantime they are locked
up in the Third Police Station.
The two boys were arrested We'd
nesday afternoon on the Petersburg
Turnpike when they were discovered
with two automobiles loaded with
whiskey, said to have been brought
from Washington, its destination being
HopeweH. Guy T. Horner. of the De-
partment of Prohibition, appeared
against the boys yesterday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05

this district, who comes here from the
factory at Rochester, N. Y. T. J. Carr,
Richmond representative, has charge
of the arrangements for the meeting.
which will continue through Saturday
afternoon.
The district represented in the Rich-
mond meeting is made up of the ter
ritory embraced in Maryland. the Dis
trict of Columbia. Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina. Repre-.
sentatives now here are from WASH
ington. Baltimore. Norfolk. Raleigh.
New Bern, Charlotte and Columbia.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
SOUTHERN CONSIDERS
BIG MORTGAGE TO-DAY

Stockholders Of the Southern Rail-
way Company will meet in general ses-
sion in the offices OF the company in
the Times Dispatch building at 10
O'Clock this morning for the purpose
of considering and acting upon the
proposed creation Of mortgage, to
be known as the funding and improve
ment mortgage, and the issue and sale
OF gold bonds thereby secured, limited
in amount to 100000 at any time
outstanding, Other business regularly
brought before the stockholders will
be transacted
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
A POPULAR DElUS|0N
AMONG Drinkers
tBy Emma H. Transcau In National
Daity)

Hands up, all who have an answer
ready for the alcohol defender who
says. "If | enjoy my glass of beer or
wine and can use it nationally. why
should | give 1t up because few
weak minded persons drink too
much?"
one can marshal a long array of
single reasons, but here is one OF suffi-
Client magnitude to contain them all.
AT a medical meeting devoted to a
consideration of inebriety and meth
DDS of preventing it the chief speaker
prefaced hts remarks with this state
ment: THE problem of inebriety Is so
broad that 1t has to be studied from
It's social. political and economic stand
point. as well as Its medical aspects"
No one can deny the truth of this
| statement. and in it Is the answer to
the man who contends for his legal
and moral right to drink.
1t shows in the first place the error
OF the assumption that only few
drinkers take so much that they show
the effects, If they were only few
we should have no alcohol problem
any more than we have a gas asphyx-
iaton problem because few persons
every year commit suicide by inhaling
gas
The drinker who excuses his indul-
genCe with the deiuSlOn tnat Onfy
comparatively few persons are in
jured by alcohol must be made to
see that SO many are injured that so
ciety as a whole suffers from the ef-
fects, while the medical profession
not only OF this country but of the
whole civilized world where the use
of alcohol has become common. are
devoting time at their meetings and
space In their journals to considera
ton of the care and treatment OF
drunkards, the prevention of drunk
enness and the deterioration of the
race through the drunkard's children.
One difficulty is to get the drink de-
fender to listen to the evidence of the
widespread harm caused by drink and
to prevent his treating it with skep-
ticism when he does hear it, For
this reason II must be presented to
him in concrete evidence and with
the names of the medical and other
sources whose testimony cannot be
questioned. To be. able TO do this Is a
necessary part OF the temperance
workers qualifications.
/ In the second place the drink de-
fender should be made to understand
why drink and drunkenness are SO in
separable-the drug effect of the al
cohol. Here is an illustrations:
The railroads and elevated system
engaged in passenger traffic in and
around Boston were importuned to
save the sober people the annoyance
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
TARRIES WITH WINE.
Burglar Samples Prelate's Private
Stock and its Effect Is Troublesome.

Burglar Samples Prclate's Private
stock and its Effect Is Troublesome.
Milwaukee. Wis. Jan. Am aged
archbishop attired in his princely pa
1amas, In hot pursuit Of a burglar who
mad tempered too long and too often
with the prelates wine cellar, were
the central characters in a near trag-
edy Just discovered by the police
Archbishop NJ mer. hampered
with the load of years. was able to
drive off the thug who had started to
rife the office of the archdiocese, only
because the thief had entered the
archepiscopal residence during the day
and hid in the wine cellar.
While waiting for night and the
time set for his rifiing on the church
diEnitaryis home he opened wine.
The result was that when he started
to go through the house he woke the
archbishop. who leaped from his bed
and gave chase. The burglar tussled
with the archbishop, then fed, leaping
through heavy plate glass window
on the first floor.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
!. 8. FORBES TRANSFERS
i HOLDINGS TO CORPORATION

w 3. Forbes yesterday transferred
TO the w. s. Forbes Company. Inc.
of which he is the principal owner,
Ali the properties now occupied by
Mhe concern. The deeds nied in the
.hancery Court show the following
Hist Of lots conveyed: Property
%fronting twenty-one feet on Tenth
Street between Byrd and Canal
8treets: property at the southwest
#c0rner of Tenth and Canal Streets;
Zen lots fronting on BYRD Street, three
lots on Ninth Street, and two pieces
Nof property on the Hermitage Road
The total value on which the tax was
NA1A r 1ilk.ao0-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05

of the former central committee. in
troduced his resolution favoring pro-
hibltion in State, nation and Dis
trict of Columbia. d. Q. Morrow.
chairman. waited a reasonable length
of time and then declared the mo-
ton lost for. want of second.
The proposal. therefore, did not
reach the point of discussion in COM
rOjtrea
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
Funeral OF George w. Stephenson.

Winchester. Va. Jan. 4.-The
funeral of the late George w.
Stephenson. the well-konwn sexton of
Christ Church. who died suddenly
while attending to some work In the
basement of that edifice on Sunday
night. took place from John Mann
Methodist Church, of which he was a
trustee and local preacher, at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. the pastor, Rev. c. E.
Queen, officiating.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-05
FEAR OF BRYAN INFLUENCE
Success of Suffrage Depends on Over.
coming Hospitality of the Vets.

coming Hospitality of the Vets.
Milwaukee, Wis. Jan. 4.-By with.
drawing an acceptance to speak in
Wisconsin at the opening of the latest
campaign to give the State Women's
Suffrage. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan
has relieved the Wisconsin suffrage
leaders from a dilemma which threat
ened to wreck the suffrage ship be-
fore 1t was launched.
The result will be that William Jen-
nings Bryan will open the dry CAM
paign in Wisconsin January %. His
wife will not be in the State for the
women's rally Januarys17. without
the knowledge of the suffrage women,
MIR. Bryan had consented to be the
sponsor for the dry campaign. The
only chance of suffrage in Wisconsin
is thought to be In overcoming the
hostility of the vets.