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The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
jews OF Washington
OBSERVING PASSOVER
Eight-Day Feast Commentaries Lib
Grafton of Israel.

Jews In Washington ushered in the
Passover, the Feast of the Pesach'
with particular happiness at $50 O'Clock
last night because the cycle of world
events has brought since its last
observance a liberation from bondage
second only in Importance to that o;
the delivery by Moses from the oppres.
sion OF Pharaoh.
1t was over $500 years ago that Moses
led the children Of Israel to liberty and
within the last year Russia. the land o!
the oppressed Jew, has glen similar
religious freedom and liberty.
With this situation the Jews of Wash
ington entered into the eight-day celebra-
ton of the Passover with enthusias sn
last night. Services were held in the
Eighth, Street Synagogue, and similia,
services, confined to the ritual. were
held at Adas Israel Synagogue BY
Rabbis Grossman and Shenerman and
at Ahov Sholom Synagogue, Fifth anc
i streets northwest, by Rabbi Abram-
son.
Today services will be held at the
synagogucs at 10 a. m. While the cele-
bration Of the Passover lasts for one
week. the principal celebration Is or
the first and last day. The feast lasts
seven days for reform Hebrews and
eight days for the orthodox.
The Passover Is a fixed day in the
Jewish calendar and it is merely 6
coincidence that the Christian world was
observing a day of sorrow while the
Hebraic populace was having one of JOY
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WILL CONTINUE MOTOR
CARNIVAL'S EXHIBITS
Unofficial Extension VIII Keep Models
on View Another Week

The motor carnival, the spring dIspIav
or fashions In motor cars at the various
showrooms. officially closes late this
evening
The special display Of motor cars of
cut-open chasis, and motors that many
OF the Washington dealers brought here
from the New York show. will be kent
IN many cases. over the coming week.
Some dealers are Just receiving relayed
shipments of cars and so, in reality, there
Will be unusual displays at practically
all the showrooms for another week.
The carnival attracted large throngs,
despite the war excitement and incle-
ment weather.
I'VE feel that the display Of cars was
one Of the most creditable Washington
ever has had" said Joseph M. Stoddard.
president of the Automobile Association
"and the increasing number Of visitors to
the showrooms was certainly proof of
this"
The Cook & stoddard Co. has on dis
play a Cadillac cut-open chassis that was
In the New York show. and a large line
Of Cadillac cars.
An Oldsmobile, made in 1902. and that
has been in service in Washington the
entire Is years since then, was discovered
by the Pollock Car Corporation, and is
on display at their showrooms at 1O1S
Connecticut avenue. The car is owned
by William Felger, Of WASHINGTON.
c. Walter Hoover, manager of the
Combs Motor Co., has on display a
Chalmers roadster, a Chalmers ffve-pas-
senger touring car and a Chalmers con-
vertible Sedan, and a National seven
passenger touring car and National four
passenger roadster of the Cloverleaf
type, with double cowl effect.
The newest Marmon and Scripps-Booth
cars are on display at the T. ". T. Mo-
tors Corporation, at Dupont circle and
Connecticut avenue.
The Semmes Motor Co. has full lines
Of Hudson and Dodge cars and also a
Dodge cut-open chassis and a Hudson
super-six motor.
At the Harper-overland showrooms
there was much interest in the WHY'S
Knight and Overland Country Club cars.
D. B. Gish has on display, at his show
rooms in NJ street, the new Hupmobile
Sedan and the new 1917 five-passenger
Haynes.
The Trew Motor Co. is showing a full
line of REQ cars.
The Henderson-Rowe Company Is show
ing the new, Allen. Kissel Kar, and Cole
eight cars.
The Ungerer Motor Company is show
ing the new Premier and velie cars
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JOBS ARE WAITING
FOR CAR STRIKERS
Railway Officials Will Take Them Back
Up to Midnight Tuesday.

The Washington Railway and Electric
Company last night offered the striking
carmen their jobs back II they will ap-
ply for them before midnight, Tuesday.
April TO-
The Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
ridiculed the offer. declaring that it does
not recognize any of the demands for
which they have been fighting and which
have been granted by the Capital Trac-
tion Company.
The company is advertising this morn
ing that all conductors and motormen on
strike who wish to be reinstated and re-
tain their standing as to pay, due to the
number of years Of service, must report
to duty before next Tuesday night
The company further sets forth that
the men will be allowed to pick sched-
uled runs dating from the time they re-
port for reinstatement, but declares that
there are only a small number Of these
runs open since those who have re-
mained in the service and those who
have returned to work, aside from the
large number Of new men, have been
permanently assigned to runs"
As a further inducement to return, the
company announces that trainmen will
not be required to return to the same
division on which they formerly worked
If the chances for regular runs are bet
ter on some other division.
The company issues the warning that
II striking employees will not return to
work within the specified time they will
lose their rights of seniority and can only
return at the rate of pay of new en-
ployes.
Union leaders last night declared that
such a proposition meant nothing to
them and that 1t was further evidence
that President Clarence p. King and
the company are trying to subject us to a
condition of slavery"
Renewed efforts to secure through the
District Commissioners a settlement of
the strike were made yesterday by the
striking employees of the company.
In answer to a letter from a commit
tee Of strikers. in which the Commits
sioners are asked to take further steps
to end the strike, the Commissioners re-
piled that in view of the fact that all
the efforts exerted by them to prevent
and later arbitrate the strike had been
rejected by the company. no success in
further proceedings could be hoped for
Nevertheless. the Commissioners are
willing to act further.
The Hughes resolution will be reported
faVorably to the Senate, 1t was said
yesterday. This measure asks that the
Senate committee communicate with
Secretary of Labor Wilson and II, in his
opinion. the strike was OF sufficient i'm
portance to warrant an appropriation for
investigation, the committee would then
report the matter to the District Com
mittee. which would ascertain the facts,
and II they were imperative would be
reported for adoption.
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WEATHER UNCERTAIN
FOR EASTER SUNDAY
Depends on Whether Storm Raging
Passes Off to East.

Whether milady will parade in her new
Easter bonnet and finery tomorrow all
depends on a little shaded spot on the
weather map that's moving east
Washingtonians are about as much con-
cerned as TO what weather will prevail
tomorrow as they were about atmospheric
conditions on inauguration day, but its
Just an even break whether there is to be
rain on Easter or IL the sun is to filter
down through an overcast sky to glorify
the fashion parade.
Now. II the little spot moves this way
it will probably reach here late tonight
and stay with US over Sunday with the
accompanying result that there will be
as many tears of sorrow and regret as
there will be large rain drops.
On the other hand. and spring tends to-
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Cross, told women Of America what Is
most needed in Red Cross work, and Mrs
William Cummings Story. president of
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. pledged the support OF her organ
ization to the work OF the American Red
Cross DR.. Ryan Deveraux. of Washing
ton, told the audience how the men Of
America who were not physically At for
the trenches could serve their country
in the ambulance service and in other
Red Cross work.
The report of the finance committee.
which failed to make public the total
amount of the fund subscribed to date.
was followed by talk on Red Cross
work by Eliot Wadsworth. vice president
of the central committee of the American
Red Cross
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
AMERICAN VICTIMS LAND
AFTER U-BOAT SINKING

Intense suffering for four days in an
open boat before they found land at Fer
rol was the portion Of three Americans in
the crew of the Portuguese bark Argo'
sunk without warning by German sub
marine March "a. said cable from Con-
sui General Lowrie, at Lisbon. yesterday
The sailing vessel was laying to in a
gale when ihe U-boat sheIled her. Eleven
of the crew. including the Americans.
took to a lifeboat. but the submarine gave
no assistance. Four other Americans
were rescued by British hospital ship.
The Argo was bound from New Orleans
TO London with a general cargo.
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ward optimism, the spot may move a.
rectly eastward and the only things that
will be harmed In consequence will be the
Easter creations in Newfoundland and
Nova Scotia.
Then there's another mite on the
weather microscope, but the weather
bureau dismissed that yesterday with a
clear conscience. II was a pesly low
area or something OF the sort that hung
over the Mississippi river. but Il finally
got started and will arrive before Eas-
ter perhaps this morning.
But with equal assurance comes the
prediction that the weather will be part
ly overcast and cool and probably unset.
tied tomorrow night The fresh west
winds are to diminish. So take your
choice. and choose your raiment accord.
ingly, but wisely.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
GIRLS! WOMEN!
TAKE CASCARETS
IF CONST|PATED
They Liven Your Liver and Bowels
and Clear Your
Complexion.
Don't Stay Headachy. Bilious with
Breath Bad and Stomach
Sour.
Get a 10-cent box now.

Tonight sure! Take Cascarets and
enjoy the incest. gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever experienced.
Cascarets will liven your liver and
clean your thirty feet of bowels with
out gripping. You will wake up feeling
grand. Your head will be clear.
breath right, tongue clean, stomach
sweet. eyes bright, step elastic and
complexion rosy-they're wonderful.
Get a 10-cent box now at any drug
store. Mothers can safely give a
whole Cascaret to children any time
when cross. feverish. bilious. tongue
coated or constipated-they are harm
less.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
ARREST MEXICAN PLoTTERs.

Ell Paso. Tex, April 6.-Gen. Murguia,
Carranza commander at Juarez, this aft
ernoon received orders to arrest two Car
rama officers now in FL Paso. suspected
OF completely in plot to overthrow Gen.
Carranza and supplant him with Gen.
Obregon. The two officers were said to
be soliciting funds to aid the revolt. The
CarranZa officials are awaiting the re-
turn of the officers to the Mexican side.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
FIND RADIO IN MOUNTAINS,

Portland. Greg, April "a wireless
plant fully equipped and capable OF send
ing messages 500 miles, was discovered
by government Secret Service officials
near the base of Mount Hood in the Cas-
cade Mountains of Oregon today. Evil
IDENTIFY the proposed raid had become
known. the plant being abandoned. No
arrests were made.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
HARVARD HALTs ATHLETICS,

Cambridge, Mass. April 6-FollowinG
the receipt OF Information that Congress
had passed the resolution for war with
Germany. Dean La Baron r. Briggs.
chairman Of the Harvard athletic COM
mittee, today cancelled all athletic con-
tests that have been scheduled by HAr-
ward teams for the future.
The Washington herald., 1917-04-07
APPEAL OF RED CROSS
finds Quick RESPONSE
Third of 100000 Asked Subscribed
in Half-Hour at Meeting.

Within less than 30 minutes, Washing
tonians subscribed approximately 1850. 900
to the Districts Red Cross fund Of $780,
600, last night.
At a great mass meeting held at Con-
tinental Memorial Hall, hundreds Of
donors heard appeals from the President
Of the United States, from the heads Of
the War and Navy Departments, from
the head of the American Red Cross and
ether notables. Then. when Henry B. F.
Macfarland, chairman of the finance COM
mittee, rose to make his report. he was
showered with verbal subscriptions called
from every part OF the audience.
Rough estimates of the sum contributed
there was not an official total given
out-placed the sum contributed last
night somewhere between SIS 900 and SSO.-
been pledged to Miss Mable Boardman.
active head of the Red Cross, before the
, meeting opened.
Indications were that SIS, 900 had been
contributed up to yesterday and with an
additional $4,000 the fund, 1t Is believed.
now lacks but $500 OF the full amount
1t was the opinion Of members OF the
finance committee that the entire amount
will be subscribed within less than a
week.
Sensational Scenes.
| The subscriptions were sensational In
their number and in the amount con-
| tributed. Donors interrupted each other
| in their effort to call out the amounts
! they wished to give. Some had to wait
while others contributed. 1t looked like
a sale of Bethlehem Steel common at so
per cent of for cash.
At the beginning, however, Admiral n.
E. Mason opened the meeting and intro
duced the presiding officer, Commissioner
oliver p. Newman. of the District. The
| Rev. Roland Cotton Smith read a prayer
Secretary of War Baker read an appeal
from the President, who was unable to
attend, and in his own behalf the Secre-
| tary recounted the history Of war and Of
nursing and the care of the wounded from
earliest history up to the present time
He outlined how modern nursing was saw
| ing 30 per cent of soldiers wounded in
battle.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels told of
the value of the Red Cross to the nation,
| but his speech was more largely an ap-
probation of the President for his stand
| in the present war. Three great peace
| loving Presidents have staged all of
| Americas wars in recent years-Lncoin,
Mckinley and Woodrow Wilson, and 1t
| is the providence of God that your leader
| today has been slow to lead you into war
until such time as the ruthless murder
| of American citizens made submission
longer impossible
Miss Mabel Boardman, of the Red
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population was in the parks and open
streets An hour or so before this
time the illumination of the sky,
caused by the outpOUring OF melted
stone in the new vents, was first
noted II il not impossible that n
slumping of the earth's crust under
the city itself resulted from the re-
lease Of pressure after a large guam
tity OF lava had run OF. A vertical
as well as a horizontal movement oc-
CURED at this time and in the ground
cracks are said to have opeBed and
closed.
Our cross section OF the volcano
may aid in an understanding of some
of the phenomena connected with
the eruption. Just south OF the vol
cano is the Vale de la Hamacos, with
Santa Tecla on its upper end and San
Salvador toward its lower end. On
the northern side is a broad plain.
averaging more than a thousand feet
lower than the above mentioned val
ley. in which lie the towns OF NeJapa,
Quezaltepeque and Sitio del Nino.
This lower northern base has
doubtless permitted steam erosion
on the northern side OF San Salvador
volcano to proceed at a more rapid
pace than was possible on the south
ern side. As a natural consequence
the walls OF the volcano have become
thinner and weaker on this long
northern slope. In the present erup-
tion, as well as in the earlier one OF
the seventeenth century. the assures
opened on this theoretically weaker
side near a protuberance called
Jabali.
Blame Laid On Lake.
Among the common people there
is the widest possible divergence in
explaining the why and wherefore
of the earthquake and the volcanic
Outpouring. Some look upon It as
punishment from God because of the
Infractions OF religious law. But
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was put out OF commission. At the
( first heavy shock the lighting cur
rents were shut OF to prevent confia.
grafton and the city continued in
darkness for a week The streets are
now lighteE as well as many build
ings. while the telephones have been
reinstalled in the principal business
houses
The poor OF the city have not been
provided with adequate shelter. and
thousands are drenched with every
rain. II does not seem possible that
this state OF affairs can contiue much
longer without serious results. San
Salvador itself has lost. temporarily,
at least, about 10000 in population,
and the return OF these after the dan
ger has passed will make more diff
cult the problems OF housing and
feeding.
'Outside OF San Salvador the heav-
lest damage was felt in Armenia and
after that Quezaltepique and Santa
Tecla. Crops, especially coffee, suf-
fered heavily on and near the volcano
as a result Of a rain OF acid at the
time OF the first eruption.
The total loss Of life in the earth
quake probably did not exceed fifty,
NNN ~ "a eAAN llAdLlOn on LnlS point
has not been given out Had the
shock occurred a few hours later the
story would have been a different one
Cause OF Catastrophe.
Now for a brief consideration Of
the causes OF this catastrophe. Ono
peculiar fact is to be noted in con.
nection with the opening shocks OF
June Z
The first strong quake. occurring
at $3.50 p. m. was the one recorded
most widely. but it was not the one
that did the great damage in the city
OF San Salvador.
This quake was plainly felt
through a large part OF Central
America and was written on the
scrolls Of delicate seismeters in the
United States. II appears to have
been coIncident with the opening of
the new vents. and IL WAS clearly re-
sponsible Tor the destruction wrought
In Armenia, QuezaItepequs and the
other towns north and west OF the
volcano. Two other shocks followed
at intervals OF ten minutes
The greater part OF the destruc-
ton in the capital was occasIoned by
a shock at 9:O5. when nearly all the
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more common Is the traditional ak.
PLANTATION OF a secret connection be
tween Lake Ilopsngo and the voIca.
rms tradition appears to have
connected the Lake OF Ilopango with
the volcano lzaleo. but traditions are
mobile ana can be shifted 10 suit the
case in hand. When the level on tbo
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XsEEsrSsrT~-Ie NS<E@IeNsA
Sectional View of San Salvador VOL
csno, Showing What Happened
and How.

crossed. They extend In n line down
the mountain and are in all prob
ability located along a fissure.
According to some persons these
vents are not entirely new. An earlier
flow apparently had its source neai
by. The new craters are close TO a
HIM known as Jabali. but whether or
not this l. a volcanic cone / am not
able to say. The higher vent appears
to De well under tn bottom OF the old
crater
The old crater OF San Salvador
volcano began to show signs OF &C
tivity only after the lava had flowed
out from the new fissure. II is now
giving off a vast quantity Of steam
that rolls upward like cumulus
cIoud. The rim OF the old crater
stands about 1000 feet above the city
and the ride TO IT Is one OF much in
terest The green valley, beyond
which lies the beautiful lake OF lilo
pango. spreads itself out like a map
as the trail winds higher and higher
through ruined and leafIess planta-
tions OF coffee.
On Edge of Crater.
"A last short climb and you stand
on the edge or a crater over mile
in diameter and a thousand feet In
depth. Formerly a green lake hlled
the bottom OF the crater and green
trees and shrubs chung % the steep
walls. Now the brown leaves are
siIvered over with volcanic dust and
only three pools OF violently agitated
water remain near the Old-time mar
gin OF the lake.
For days the lake boiled furious
ly, with a fountain In the middle,
then a black mass OF cinders ana
lava was seen to force itself spas
medically above the water. Now in
the dusty center OF the dried-up lake
bed opens an orifice like the mouth
OF a great tube, and a black geyser
Of cinders shoots upward at inter
walls.
The black geyser is a pulsating
spray OF cinders and slabs of lava
When this black geyser he's FORCED
itself to the height OF perhaps 400
feet II falls again into the tube. while
the superheated vapors that aEitate
the fountain develop majestic ally into
clouds and rise in a column Tar above
the rim of the crater.
In this survey OF things as they
are a word or two might be given
of the damage wrought in build
ings. Perhaps 80 per cent OF the
habitations OF San Salvador were
either shaken down completely or
rendered UNIT for habitation.
These are constructed in accord
ance with a local system known as
and are, in effect. OF
adobe REINFORCED with a lattice OF
poles and cane Tho quake shook out
the adobe from the mesh and the
weakened by decay and
he eating Of termites, collapsed. The
,oofs are Of heavy red tile and put an
Unsafe burden on walls 81 this sort.
Modern Buildings Damaged.
Public edifces Of heavy Reinforced
concrete came through IN fair condi-
ion, but systems OF cement c0nstruc-
ion with little iron, Jared badly. In
particular. hollow cement block con-
,tructIon seems III fitted for earth
luake conditions unless the blocks
an be interIocked. Construction Of
lumber and sheet iron came through
he test better than the native ones
II baJareque.
Water mains were broken In every
street in the city and electric wiring
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a result OF the heavy rains that fell
on the superheated crust, but In
many places one still sees clearly the
transflxed current where ripples.
eddies, cascades and foaming cres's
are petrifed. Through sulphurous
breathing holes the internal heat
Still rises and will doubtless con-
tinue to slope
Walls Thirty Feet High.
a ravine Is hIled brim .ull. and
long arms run out in separate
streams from the main mass. The
walls OF the flow are thirt feet or
more in height and are sharply
drawn.
The lava appears TO have caused no
confiagration, and even trees com
pleteIy surrounded by II are unburn-
ed in several instances In one place.
well within the waste OF lava.
observed a giant Cieba around the
brink OF which the slabs have piled
UP like ice above a bridge pier.
THE vents from which the lava
issued are not especially spectacu-
lar. They are great holes surrounded
with slabs OF lava too hot to be
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great intensity that exists north into
Guatemala and south into Nicaragua
The capital Of this republic has been
destroyed three times in the last hun
dred years: namely, April 10, 1889,
March 10, 1873, and June I. 1917. The
wealth q the country comes from the
its volcanos"
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lake rises the volcano bursts forth
Cautiously enough the lake was IL
self the scene OF considerable activ-
ity In 1ST0-SO when some new island
eratsrs appeared in II. At that time
the other VOLCANOES were not affected
and at the present time there are no
signs OF activity In Lake Ilopahgo.
salvador is in a volcanic belt Of