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The Washington herald., 1917-07-12
b. r. Notwithstanding.

Two stellar attractions. representing
1eiy different spheres, Ida Brooks
liiunt. Alfred de Mandy and company,
and winston's Water Lions and Div
ing Nymphs. will headline an unusual
ly brilliant array of melody and mirth
at B. F. Keith's Theater next week.
Ida Brooks Hunt and Alfred de Man
.by. With George Halperin at the
piano will present a Fantasy of
Melodies" The Winston aquatic novel
present fair divers and their finny
rivals who duplicated the feats of the
feminine contestants.
The extra added feature comprises
Billee Montgomery, formerly of Mont
gomery and Moore. and George Perry.
late of Perry and White, as Two
Bachelors of Art"
other numbers OF high repute are
Ivan Bankorf and Lola Girhe in
series Of original dance delights;
Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin,
of so Long, Lefty" in "A 1911 Song
oIogy;" Nelson Waring announced rs
"A Man and a Piano." Duffy and
Daisy in fun and frolicS awheel and
in Arabian somersaulting; Sylvia
LOYAL and "Pierrot" and the seventy
pigeons; the pipe organ recitaIs and
the Hearst-Pathe news pictorial.
Cosmos-"SenatorS Francis Murphy.
Less patrons OF high-class vaudeville
will be able the latter half OF this
week. beginning today, to hear at the
Cosmos Theater. for the first time at
popular vaudeville prices, Senator
Francis Murphy. a celebrity of the
big circuits. and the monologues that
II g.
rical world. Lovers Of fine music will
probably find in the repertoire Of Ze-
Iaya. a master pianist, who also ranks
high in profession. something not
often heard except in the big concert
or musicale. Richard La Sale. a stock
actor of note, will present Hilliard
Booths now famous little playlet.
Room sos;" the Baraban-Mathey
Trio. a singing and dancing number
OF real class: Victor Burns and Miriam
Quinn, THE Unframed Nurse" an
amusing travesty; Montrose and Al
len, a clever singing novelty. and the
The Washington herald., 1917-07-12
Promised Theater Attractions

Three Royals. an imposing exhibition
Of feats of endurance and strength.
Peggy Hyland. the English actress,
will be the picture star in The Six
teenth Wife," Charlie Chaplin will
furnish the film comedy. THE Count.
and the war section OF the Hearst
Pathe news pictorial will picture the
arrival of Gen. Pershing and his STAFF
in France.
Sunday performances will start at
3 p. m. and present all the foregoing
attractions of the vaudeville bill.
Ioew'. CoIumbla-Mary Plckford.
What is described as the first of the
intimate war photoplays will be dis
closed to Washington theateFgOers
next Sunday at Loew's Columbia
Theater. 1t is The Little American.
a film story that pictures Mary Pick
ford in the title role and which was
given a private showing last Sunday
before Washington officials. represen-
tatives of the press and members of
the House and Senate.
For purposes of the story the author
of the photoplay has confined his film
play to episodes rather than a gen.
eraI pictorial study OF war. This very
fact gives the new patriotic screen Of
fering qualities OF realism and force
full appeal to the imagination of
American theatergOers which have
been lacking in former pictorial war
stories. One of the important epi-
sodes. however, depicts the torpedoing
of the ocean liner selected by the
Washington girl for her trip to
France The photoplay was written
h.y mt 10 nd Inn afl
under the direction of Cecil B. De-
Mile.
Moore's Garden-EarIe williams.
Earle Williams heads the bill at
Moore's Garden Theater next Sun
day. Monday and Tuesday, in a stir
ring detective romance. The Mael-
strom." A wealthy young clubman
while out walking one day Is sud-
denly confronted by a woman who
thrusts a bundle into his hand and
quickly vanishes in the fog. Seek
ing adventure, the young man at
tempts to deliver the package to
an address written upon it. 1t
takes him to a sombre house with
drawn shades. Hardly Is he inside
the house of mystery when the
package is grabbed from his grasp
and he is felled by a blow on his
head. When he recovers conscious
ness he finds that a safe in the room
has<been rified. and on the floor the
body of an aged man. murdered.
The old man is a mystery that he
sets out to solve.
The piece is full of many thrilling
and dramatic scenes and Mr.. Will
liams ably interprets the role of
the young clubman.
Moore's Strnnd-Bessie BRrriscale.
At Moore's Strand Theater next
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday the
popular film star, Bessie Barriscale,
will be pictured in a delightful tale
OF the mountain folk. entitled "Bawbs
O. Blue Ridge" The story depicts
a romance of ,he Virginia mountains.
in which a writer from Yankee land
wins the heart of the mountain maid
after some quaint adventures in the
world of romance.
On Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
The Washington herald., 1917-07-12

once. one within the other, pipe has
been patented.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Real Estate Transfers.

WOoDRIDGE-Mary E. Butterworth to Fred
erick A. Linger and Daisy l.. johnson, lot 8.
block Is; So
SECOND STREET SOUTHEAST between and
streets-Rose Il. Coleman to United
- States of America, part original lot G and
az original lots and s, square 30;
STREET SOUTHEAST between Sd and 4th
streels-Simon Bube ct ux to United states
ei S America, lots 81 to Al and 10. square so1 :
THIRD STREET SOUTHEAST between NJ and
in;tli, s.rests.F s,s,. Frank San Felipo ct 1 nx to
Imiteu states OF America. part lot ~. square
THIRD STREET SOUTHEAST between NJ and
Lnited ,d states of America. part original
No lots 1e. Il and r. sqEaTe 10; s. $50 ,.a,
STREET NoRTHwEST-Daniel Dinneen
ct . ux to John B. sehroth, part original lot
NO. 41a G STREET soUTHEAsT-Ro Wolff
TO TO Robert Q; Wolff, jr, lot % and part lot
FOURTH STREET SOUTHEAST between I. and
streets-Frederck S. Young ct al to
No fsederiGk go M BTmer lot 20 square SEQ; $40
rieharty y ct al, trustees. 10 Resale B. Me
Fafs lGt SasE ri sag1Gs AZ
uortsr y and pr q square ~ s7os $500 =, 70
$40.
TRINIDAD-Ida NJ. Meyers to Fannie NJ
half interest in lots 81 to "a, block q: $40.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE TERRACE-Jesse $.
Dakin to Alfred G. Hagerty, lot 40. square
1T47 81.
PETERS MILL SEAT-John b. Schroth ct ux.
to Daniel and Harriet NJ. Dinneen. lot
and part lot s. square 2721; $40.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE TERRACE-Alfred G.
Hagerty ct nx. to Erwin T. and Jessie $.
Dakin. lot 40, square 1147: 81.
LIE DRoIT PARK Edward P. Harper and Ger
h"cs ,Tnde Il & s,S WeHb to Harry A Kite lot si
NO. 1 Iooi 4ih i STREET soUTHEAsT-Georg R.
kendrck ct ux. to Frederick =. and Katie
Zuschnitt. lot 30. square 799 $40.
SHERWOOD-Clara A. Marden ct al. TO ID. 7.
and A. Il. West lot so, square 4292; S66.2s
MOUNT PLEAS4ANT-Edgar c: Gilbert ct TX
to Jossie j Freeman. lot 202. block 4: $40
No. 4o2 FRANKLIN STREET NORTHWEST
Rebecca J. Gray. trustee to Daniel l.
no. Dos + STREET NORTHWEST Charlotte f.
Bates TO Florence d. McAulife. lot H.
l. STREET SOUTHEAST between Sd and 4tt
Evening star., 1917-03-08
DARCY's PERSONAL PLEA FAILS
Gov. Whitman Refuses to Reconsider
Prohibition of Bout.

ALBANY, n. Y, March S-A personal
plea by Les Darcy, the Australian boxer.
that Gov. Whitman reconsider his de-
cision not to permit the fighter to ap-
pear in the ring in New York state be-
cause he had evaded military duty in
his own country, was refused by the
executive today.
The fighter came to Albany with Hugh
Grant Browne, a boxing bout promoter.
and Fred A. Wenck, chairman of the
state athletic commission. Darcy and
Browne went Immediately to the execu-
tive mansion for the conference.
After the conference, which took
place IN the executive mansion. the gov
ernor announced he had learned moth
ing which could induce him to change
his position. This, he said, was fully
outlined in his statement directing the
state athletic commission to prohibit
the Darcy Dillon bout.
In the statement the governor said he
had been informed that Darcy was a
runaway from his own country, 'tha
in disguise and under an alias he left
his native land because he was afraid
to fight in the cause for which his fell
low -countrymen are sacrificing theiI
lives" and that The prefers to give a
brutal exhibition at some personal risk
for a purse of $4,000.
Darcy told me- the governor sait
today, that he had tried to enlist about
three years ago. but was not permitted
to because he was too young, that he
had not tried to enlist recently. ant
that he became twenty-one years of age
after he left Australia. What he tol6
me merely confirms my belief that he is
in this country eyading military serv'
ice He asked permission to participate
in at least one bout here SO it could be
demonstrated that he would not be .
party to brutal exhibition | de
clined to grant his request"
Evening star., 1917-03-08
TO BE HONORED AT MACON.
Late Hugh V. Washington to Have
Memorial Public Library.

The memory of Hugh Vernon
Washington companion of the Order
of Washington here. is TO be honored
in his home city of Macon, Ga, by
the erection of the Washington Public
Library. according to announcement
Just made here by DR.. Joseph G. B.
Bulloch, chancellor general.
Mrs. Ellen Washington Bellamy
sister of Mr.. Washington. according to
DIR. Bulloch. has just decided to the city
of Macon a lot valued at $4,000 and
deposited in the hands of the library
trustees $4,000 to erect the library
Mrs. Bellamy has for years been in
terested in the D. A. R.. and several
wears ago made large donation to
the work of Memorial Continental Hall
Besides his connection with the
Evening star., 1917-03-08
PASTOR AND FLOCK REJOICE.
Given Extension of Time to Free
Church From Debt.

In celebration of the fact that Nc
kinley Memorial Church. 4th and /
streets northwest. was saved from
being sold under the hammer. a thanks
meeting was held at Tenth Street
Baptist Church last night. called to-
gether by the Mount Bethel Baptist
Ministers Alliance, of which DR.. Alex
ander Wilbanks is president They
marched to Mckinley Memorial Church
singing in limitation of the Children
of Israel around the walls of Jericho.
\ reunion of friends and members OF
the church is to be held tomorrow
night.
The church was to have been sold at
auction under a deed of trust of $4,000
The pastor. S. G. Lamkins. was given
an extension of time in which to free
the church from this debt.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
ARMY ORDERS.

Veterinarian John L. Van Cleave. quar-
termaster Corps. will report at OF. n'ss'
Tex, for examination with vie" "
! his appointment in the veterinary cerpS
of the army.
| Leave of absence for three months on
| surgeons certificate of disability, Is grant
! ed Cant Leo p. Quinn, Sth Field Artil-
| lery.
| The resigna ton of First Lieut.. thris'o
! pher A. Dunnigan. Sd F1eio
! Pennsylvania National Guard is accep'eu
by the President
Sergt and Assistant Leader Johh >:
Tnrnin. United States Military Academ!
pond is nlaced upon the retired list l
West Point, n. Y, and Will repair " MS
home. II
First Serst. Jesse Brown. Company n
goth Infantry. Eagle Pass. IeN.; Is ue
/ tailed TO duty at Harvard
Cambridge. Mass. ro,
A hoard of officers to consist OF Col
| Tracy c. Dickson retired; Maj. Edwin T.
cole retired; Capt. Harry e. Barnes
| Coast Artillery Corps. and Capt freu-
/ erick r. Downing. Corps of Engineers, -
snDointed to meet at the MASSACHUSETTS,
! Institute of Technology. tampriuse;
| Mass. March u. 1917. to formulate anu ma
! recommend cou--es of lnstrucllo,' ~ .2'
| coast artillery. engineer signal ana ora
,o,,,e 1nits of the reserve officers train
Reeimental Sergt Maj. William DEF,
| Raining retired is detailed 10 GUY a.
| the State University of Iowa, Iowa ciIs.
| can't. Karl F. Baldwin. Coast Arlliiery
| Corps upon being relieved from ms pre-
/ ent duties will report at the coast ue-
fenses of the Potomac for duty --
First Sergt. Thomas F. Wirth, company
f 37th Infantry Fort Sam Houston rex.
| is detailed to duty at the lnlversit9 OF
| Nebraska, Lincoln. Neb. ~.
| Capt. Townsend F. Dodd junior MN,
| tarv aviator. Signal Corps. is renewed
| from duty at Columbus, n. M ana VIII
| nroceed TO San Antonio. Tex. for duty.
| cant Fitzhugh Lee at Fort sam Hous-
| ton. Tex will join the Ith Cavalry.
Leave of absence for one month on sur
geou's certificate of disability IS granted
! First Lieut.. Harry w. Stovai, coast Ar
| tilery Corps. ~
| Mai Benjamin u. Foulois, junior mill ,
| tary aviator Signal Corps, is renewed
! from duty in the Southern Department
! and will repair to this city and report 10
| the chief signal officer of the army for
! duty in his office.
/ First Lieut.. Luther 7. Buchanan, Jr..
! Medical Reserve Corps. is relieved from
further duty at the Army Medical School
and will proceed to his home.
/ Charles a. Pfefter and Joseph K. Francis.
/ Medical Officers Reserve Corps. will re-
port at the Army Medical School, this
city, for the required course of instruc-
| tion.
India has prohibited the importation
Evening star., 1917-03-08
ALL-AMERICAN D. C. DESIRED.
Gutenberg Made Chairman of New
Chamber of Commerce Committee.

President y. Leftwich Sinclair of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce this
afternoon named members of the
characterization committee author
lied at meeting of the board OF
directors of the organization yesterday
afternoon. This committee is to work
to make the District of Columbia AL
American"
Louis Gutenberg was named as chair
man. Other members are: William +
Guide. Joseph Berberich. Merritt o
Chance, Clarence p. King, Edward B
Dean. \. \. Benavente Macias. Soterios
Nicholson. Lyman Zirkn and NJ. ]
FalNey. Chairman Gutenberg this after
noon called a meeting of the commit
tee for / = m. Monday.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Shad and Herring in the Bay.

Shad and herring are making their
appearance in Chesapeake bay, and it
is only a question of a week or two
before they will be in the river The
first catches of the season to be made
by fishermen of Matthews county, Va,
were made last week, when W. NJ. Jar
Wis caught roe shad and 400 herring.
and about the same number We're
taken from the nets of B. l.. Dallis
From nets in the Chesapeake near the
mouth of the Kappa ahannock river
fished by Mason Bros. of 1rvington, Va,
about 200 herring and several shad
were taken last week. Some few her
ring have also been caught by the nets
in the mouth of the Potomac, but they
are very few so far.
Evening star., 1917-03-08

fining the choice to the one person who
happened to stand highest. The Post
master General said that Congress had
had the opportunity of legislating to
that effect, but did not do SO.
In the discomfort voiced by members
after the conference some of them com
planned that the order would take out
of political life some of the most active
supporters of the representatives IN
Congress.
A majority of the republicans joined
with democrats recently in rejecting a
proposition for putting all postmasters
under the civil service. when an amend
mcnt to that effect was offered to an
apuropriation bill in the House. al
though Republican Leader Mann and a
few others favored it.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
DEMOCRATS ANGRY
OVER P. 0. Project
Placing of Postmasters in the
Civil Service Means Loss
of Patronage.
PROTEST TO Mr.. BURLESON

Many democratic members of Con-
gress were angry today over the an
nounced intention of the administra-
ton to extend the merit system to all
postmaSters of the first. second and
third classes. after April. !. by eXecu-
tive order of the President. They de-
clared the effect would be to place in
office many republicans. and some said
the purpose was to draw republican
support for administration measures
in the next House. whose political COM
pleNlon is so uncertain. Postmaster r
General Burleson explained. however.
that the move was prompted by rea-
sons of economy and efficiency.
Postmasters now in office Will serve
out the fouT-yeaT term for which they
are appointed. but after April l the
President viii fill each vacancy by
appointment of the man making the
highest grade in examinations which
are vet to be arranged
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Building Permits.

Building permits issued today to the fol
lowing:
b. II. Gruver. to build eight dwellings AT
300 TO 314 Rhode Island avenue northeast
architect. C. T. Santmyers; builder, b. H
Gruver: estimated cost, 500. 900.
G.. w. Monogue, to build dwelling at 1ilt
U street northwest: architect. A. X. Clark
builders, Levy & Brown; estimated cost, "a 900
Boss & Phelps, to repair dwelling Mt 3eOt
Mckinley street northwest; estimated cost. 5000
1. V. Wrenn. to repair dwelling at ia 10th
street northeast; estimated cost, $500.
George Stall, to erect garage in the rear OF
1919 North Capitol street northwest; estimated
cost $50
Evening star., 1917-03-08

streetsHMinnie NJ. Aylor and Matte L.
Jones to Benjamin @. and Rosa l.. Carneai'
part lot IA. square 800; $40.
NO. 1341 O STREET NORTHWEST-George Y.
worthington and George Y. Worthington.
Jr to John R. Hawkins lot 66. square 24O;
SO.
NEWPORT PLACE NORTHWEST between 2lst
and ood streets-F Walter Brandenburg,
substituted trustee. to John E. Clokey. com
mittee of estate Of Thomas S. Clokey. lot
210, square SO; $500.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Kitchin Led Fight.

Other members of the House recalled
today that when the post office bill was
UP in the House, Representative Kitchin
the ma jority leader. took a most active
par in he fight 10 beat the section placing
the three higher grades of postmasters in
the civil service.
y still more radical plan, however is
proposed by Representative Van Dyke
OF Minnesota. former post office clerk
who has already done considera BILE
work on the post office committee He
said today he would introduce a bill
covering his idea on the opening day of
the next session. In general il out
lines system of promotions whereby
a smart clerk will be able to rise to
the highest ranks in the service. After
serving as a postal clerk he may be
transferred to the railway mail service
After a total of twenty years of serv-
ice he will be eligible for appointment
as postmaster or assistant postmas ster
Representatives Rainey of Illinois,
Carter. Oklahoma: Harrison. Miss /;
Wilson and Aswell, La; Ninson, Ga:
tar!in and Glass. Va. Dixon, Ind.
Rouse. Johnson. Kincheloe and SherIey
Ky, Decker. Mo; Gray. Ala. and Sims OF
Tenn were in a group of democrats
who called on the Postmaster General
and who were told bout thu. plan
Democratic Leader Kitchin of the
House delayed his departure for North
Carolina to go to the Post Office De-
partment to register his protest.
Most of the congressman who saw
Mr.. Burleson went on the latters in
vitatior TO discuss the new plan for
systematiZing postal accounting by
establishing central auditing post
Offices in county or district groups
This subject was oVershadowed, how
ever. when the news Of the civil service
order was broken.
One southern member asked if the
Postmaster General had called them
there TO ask their views or to tell
them what had been done. Il am tell
ing you " hat is going to happen" he
replied. The Postmaster General is
quoted as having told them that it was
too late to protest. as the order had
heen determined upon and would be
carried out. lie intimated that he was
not the author of it, but that it Was
q measure of efficiency and economy.
Another member suggested that the
order would put many republicans il
office. as many of the more active as
sistaut poStmaSters are republicans re.
tanned by the democratic poStmaster
and stili another wanted to know what
would happen if the one man certified
from the examination were negro
The Postmaster General. according tC
those present. replied that the exam.
nations would have to take place au6
there would be no special privilege tt
any one"
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Heavy Mail Not Expected.

NEW YORK, March s.-The steam
ship Australplain, sailing from New
York on or about March Is, will carry
the first mails between the United
States and the Pitcairn Island. dot
in the Pacific ocean midway between
Panama and New Zealand. Since only
Evening star., 1917-03-08

Order of Washington. Mr.. Washington
was deeply interested in the Society of
Colonial Wars and other patriotic or
ganizations. He was at one time
governor of the Society of Colonial
Wars in Georgia.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Examinations to Determine.

Nominations will be sent to the Sem
ate as in the past. but in making Sc
lectionS the President Will he guided
by the results of examinations.
Whether the civil service commission.
under which fourth class postmasters
are now named, will conduct the ex-
amuat!ons has not been determined.
The Presidents forthcoming order
viii provide for n form of modified
civil service classification under which
all vacancies. whether caused by resig-
nation, removal or death. Will be filled
lN cOmpetitiNe examination.
Evening star., 1917-03-08
Obstructive Rider Planned.

There was talk at the Capitol today
that when the post office appropriation
bill is considered at the next regular
. session an attempt is likely to be made
TO put on a rider to provide that no
part of the money appropriated in the
bill shall be used for payment of post
masters appointed under such Condi-
tions. There We're suggestions that
when the top man certified by the civil
service examiners is nominated to the
Senate the representative in whose dis
trict the post office is located may, if
the nomination is Objectionable to him.
bring enough pressure to bear in the
Senate to reject the nomination and so
bring about another examination to
reach a satisfactory man.
Champ Clark was quite free in dis
cussins the entire proposition today:
There isn't any member of the House
who gets any benefit from patronage.
Any of them will tell you that. If you
have to choose between friends, all you
do is to make lot of enemies. But at
the same time, a member of Congress
knows the situation in his own district
better than any one else, and a heap bet
ter than fellows in the Post Office De-
partment here at Washington.
THE history of the post Office thing is
this When Taft ordered 1000 fourth
class postmasters placed under the civil
service. any one with bit of sense
could see it was political move. Taft
knew Wilson was going to be elected
Now, then. when Wilson came in, if he
had said 1 know this was nothing but
a political move, and I'm not going 10
stand for il, he might have nullified
that order but that wasn't done.
They kept certifying three names to
the fellow who was interested in il. and
il seemed certain that out of the three
at least one of them would be demo =
crat. But along came the Burleson
ukase which said the man highest on
the list of the civil service must be
chosen. and TO my mind that raised
more Cain in politics than anything
else. and ii is one of the main reasons
why the next House is so close. Peo-
pie in democratic district want a
democrat in Office as postmaster."
Evening star., 1917-03-08

\ western democrat asked why the
order. If issued at all. should not pro-
vide for certifying the three highest
in the examination as eligible to post
nlaSterShips, done when the
fourth class postmasteTS We're blank
eted into civil service. instead of con-
Evening star., 1917-03-08

one of the Pitcairn Islanders has Wis
tied the United States since the place
was colonized in 1889 the postal au-
thorities do not anticipate a heavy
mail service.
Evening star., 1917-03-08

India has prohibited the importatio
of sulphur matches.