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The Washington times., 1918-02-03

had been, and for two or three
days we endured the situation.
Then we felt that we had to know
what he was doing. So, the third
morning, my husband followed
him."
"He followed. him." Dicks
mother continued, Ito a little
house on the edge of our town.
Dick went up to the door, rang
the bell, and went in. My hus-
band made some inquiries and
learned that the house was occu-
pied by the town clerk, a widower
named Watson, who lived there
aIDne with his fourteen-year-old
daughter.
Lasted Five Years.
"He learned, too, that our boy
came there every morning and
spent the whole day with that
little girl. Sometimes the two
children went fishing, or took long
walks. Sometimes they sat on
the piazza all afternoon and
talked. Always Dick helped the
girl with her work around the
house. Our boy never left, it
seems, until the clerk sent him
home at night, to dinner. My
husband saw Mr.. Watson that
afternoon and got the whole
story"
Dicks mother stopped again.
and sighed.
at was a terrific attack of
The Washington times., 1918-02-03


Mr.. Callahan has some good men
helping him. Look at the. list of
aides-in-chief:
WILLIAM E. SHANNON, vice
director.
MILTON E. ALLIES, chairman,
District No. 1.
JOSEPH BERBERICH, chairman.
District No. 4.
SI0NER LOUIS
BR0WNL0W, at large.
WILLIAM KNOWLES COOPER,
at large.
JOHN DoLPH, chairman, insur-
ance mems committee.
So Pc RI NDENT E. L.
THURSTON, chairman, school COM
mittee. .
E. d. HATHAWAY, chairman,
fraternal organizations committee.
A rather insipid tribute has been
paid in the public prints to MRS.
FRANK HIGHT, as camp mother"
for the boys at cold and dreary
Camp Belvoir. Watch this column
for a day or two until | can get up
steam and I'll tell you a simple
story Of Mrs. Nights ability to carry
sunshine that will melt the ice of
the average Washington sidewalk.
and that's a real boast.
Two letters on the ice matter.
One from CHARLES W. MER-
RILL, head of the division Of chemi-
Gals of the Food Administration.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03
Do the Dead Ever Come Back?
Can Spirit Without Body Make Itself Knownf Ella
Wheeler Wilcox Says Yes. We Don't Know.

There are fifteen hundred million human beings on this
earth.
In hundred and twenty years not Of them viii be
here Where will they have gone? What becomes Of the
power in the fifteen hundred million human engines when
the body wears out and goes back into the ground?
What is there the other side Of this big black figure
that we call death?
What help the mother whose child death has taken?
What can help the father whose promising boy has gone
and made the world horribly empty?
ONLY FAITH belief Taught in childhood, acquired
later feeling certainty that the thing we long for we
shall have-that behind deaths black robe bright light
shines forever. --.- 49,.
We publish two poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the
first written inst after the death Of her husband the other
one year later
This is the first poem, written in 1915:
You Promised Me.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03
Do the Dead Ever Come Back!

Continued from First Column.)
create and then believe the theory condition that brings
happiness with it.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

~For a long time" writes John B.,
when he was a clerk in the Treas
ury Department, he lived in a room
at 237 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, and boarded there, although he
often ate on the street. /. E.. he
bought q meal wherever he wodld
be and could get it.
81 remember him very well He
always rode with the driver on the
street cars, and found more pleasure
on the dash board than inside the
car"
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

! don't know, but it behooves the
authorities to cut some Of this river
ice, because there win be a shortage
this coming summer as sure as you
are a foot high.
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

telling me that the Hoover outfit Is
urging EVERYBODY to cut natu-
raj ice.
The other from a modest person
signing "Resder" asking whether
the old reservoir at Wisconsin ave
nut and R street could be used as =
storehouse for ice.
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Wan Whitman,s Hone.

Fine work. Here's an answer
from a dear old friend, JOHN B.
MCCARTHY. He tells Us where
Walt Whitman lived when he was
here:
The Washington times., 1918-02-03

en- holy Of waiting, wahngin the
& and on eTeeds Highland listening in the dark
1ss o ev Te1p MaE aud sound,
Join have sent.
r. SudaAo; s~ssS- So do lean and bark
,1 ST t,,., ., 1,,.I. r.. aus Night in, day out
NOM raOrsJ Nor will let my starved and eager
That was mighty pronis. that
But time You promised me-sOme day,
whenever vi discussed the topic way
You promised me that were such word - -
things possible So many eyes have sesn-so many
oa vo On S's send Ii Bs U1H A'i n
Now listening with Paul oss Cornelius H'''' '8'''"-
bated breath '| %R talked ,.,, 1,,a.
A YTom.s Sn % S1 never sSe o daSs your
Through all the years. the wonder 80 wv ,''
full great years .s,- And upon the of
Did you oego your word and shake Gods
However trivial It's purpOf'' Asking Angels,
Surely habit of a loyal mind ., with centuries
Surely that yours Oh beloved and to show
cause it laid aside To made in SOL
body had died ennn faith
made 20 ns ''-" ''O--' And rend the veil between
many So many ears have heard-sO many
Whyl such fOrgeauness would be eyes nave seen
crime why not mine own
Against love- faith and hope the do not seek alone
not
Read the second poem, written one year LATER when
Mrs Wilcox had become convinced that death does NOT
separate where the chain of affection is strong enough
pO6GeSS believes
thought and love reach beyond the grave-that
those departed come back.
TriumphuS.
At last last the message! Def Oh Beloved Through
months, like
dawn that tells the night know might have reached
RAMA .,ay here
su CT - - L., -. a, Had blurred trail by
= ~ 9 storms Of tears;
And yet, how could how could
The Silence that me helm il d.ayf
with disrnsy, Now you have found a way to
So dumb Triumphant low Gods spheres
I sit Seem very and very
and you 1 near
And radiant my lonely path
r. - =, The light cast So
ttOt O"' "Oius VI 'H"ANIui"oNS clear
stand victorious
today goal
With open 1 once
You live you met! You was blind;
heard my call And aloud suffering
And answered in soul:
The proof "Pray without ceasing-seek and
satisfies the o me- all We find.
The hosts Of earth henceoh Though
stand aloof church condemn
Till recantedmy reply Your dead dwell
this commune with them"
oEs call dead has EHo
= You that read this second poem may say, II don't
believe it.
If the spirit could talk without body hear without
ears Divine Wisdom would not make bodies waste time
feeding them.
1.-THE body is TO the spirit what the chsel and hammer
to the sculptor The spirit that leaves body must find
another before it goes with its work
Perhaps you are reht. Perhaps Ella Wheeler Wilcox
isight ~
The important thing for happiness is that each should
~ Continued in LastCo lumn)
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Held on Homicide Charge

Walter A. Hughes, nineteen years
old, seaman on the torpedoed Presi
dent Lincoln, was held without bail
yesterday in the Harlem court on. a
charge of homicide in connection with
the death of August Kimmel, organist
for fifteen years at the Church of the
Incarnation and manager of P. G..
Mehlin & Son, Fifth Avenue piano
concern.
Kmmel was found dying with his
skull fractured on the sidewalk near
his home, at IS East Eighty-seventh
Street, at 1 o'clock yesterday morning
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital,
where he died three hours later
Detective Donovan, of the East
Eighty-c eighth Street station, learned
that a sailor had been seen in fight
with man near where KimmeI was
found. Hughes was arrested and ad-
mitted that he had struck Kimmel, but
said the organist had followed him for
several blocks and made an insulting
remark to him. He did not think the
man was seriously injured, and so con-
tinued on his way to his home, at 1l6
East NinetV-SecOnd Street
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Hintze High Handed
AS Minister to China
Acts There Give Hints to Foes
of What to Expect From
Foreign Office
(By Cable to The Courrie1. des Etats- Unis)

by Cable to the Courier des Etats-Umis)
PARIS, July 14.-The Temps" tells
how Won Kuehlmann's successor, Herr
Won Hintze, conceived his rights and
duties as German Minister in Peking
One of his agents travelled in China
with identification papers stolen from a
Swedish consul. Other agents cstab-
lished munition depots under the pre-
text OF founding commercial ware
houses. The German legation had
bought in Mukden Chinese news
paper, and great propaganda was
carried on in President Yuan Shi- kai's
encourage.
Things were carried on so far that
the Chinese government finally sent a
protest to Won Hintze, accusing him of
disturbing the country by acts against
the most elementary international pro-
prety,' the paper continues. "Von
Hintze will most likely employ in Will
helmstrassc the methods that shocked
the Chinese. The appointment of no
other man was more calculated to
arouse Immediately the attention of the
Allied governments. His former stay in
Mexico should make the United States
watchful. His enterprises in the Far
Bast must have left some instructive
traces IN the hands of the Japanese
German diplomacy is hcnceforth ir-
trusted TO man who Will leave no
corner Of the world at rest, and will
become engrossed with the problems
questions Of Mitteieuropa. Nothing
can more clearly complete the soli-
darity uniting all free nations before
common enemy, nothing can more
lmperiously show the urgency Of quick
action in Siberia"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Jersey Boys "Strafe" Huns
One Reports 8 Americans Bet
far Than E0 "He;r;es"

ORANGE, N. j., July 14.-~The gal
liant part played by the boys
from Essex County, N. j., in the
United States marines, in stemming
the German drive on Paris during June
is told in a letter received from Ed
gar w. Quinby, son of Frank E.
Quinby, assistant treasurer of the
Howard Savings Institution, of Newark,
and who resides in East Orange.
Quinby, who is nineteen years old,
was wounded so severely during the
drive that he will not be able to do
any more front line fighting. He is a
former student of the East Orange
High School. The young man, in a
letter dated June 81, tells of his COM
pany being ordered to dugouts within
120 yards of the Germans, where, with
machine guns and rifles, they held the
line, and, as Quinby says, "We gave
them h"
Referring to the Huns as armed
beasts, but declaring that they arc
yellow" the young man expressed a
belief that eight Americans could
capture fifty Heinies. A bit of amuse-
ment was added to the letter when he
instructed his father to tell the dentist
never again to give him gas unless he
is looking for a fight. Quinby was
wounded in the leg, and also suffered
from gas
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
City Called dead"
BY Vice Raiders,
Who Arrest 40 Men

After a tour Of Manhattan from
Harlem to Washington Square early
yesterday morning, Assistant District
Attorney James E. Smith declared that
he had never seen the borough so
dead" During his trip he visited
pool parlors, tea rooms and restau-
rants. He found them deserted of "un-
desirables," but here and there he ran
across men who failed 20 have their
classification cards. Ten were handed
summonses to produce them at the
District Attorneys office this morning
Before starting on his tour Mr.
Smith, late Saturday night, paid
visit to a saloon at 772 Eighth Avenue.
There he confscated two German flags.
which were hid behind the American
colors in the rear of the cafe. One
of them bore the inscription "New York
Central Schuetzen Corps. Presented by
the ladies, May 25, 1881" The ban
ners and report of the seizure, Mr.
Smith stated, would be turned over
to the government.
Armed With a warrant for the arrest
of Joseph Gordon, negro, who had
been indicted by the grand jury for
keeping and maintaining disorderly
house, Mr.. Smith led raiding party
to a house in West One Hundred and
Thirty-fourth Street. There he ar
rested Gordon and thirty occupants
Gordon week ago had inspector
Ryan summoned to the Washington
Heights Court charging him with op-
preston. After several hearings before
Magistrate Brough Ryan was held IN
$500 bail for Special Sessions.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Aviator Flies Under
East River Bridoe.
Captain Boyriven Celebrate,
Bastille Day With Sensa.
tional Exhibition

The unprecedented feat Of dfv;n,
under all four East River bridges in
battleplane going 100 miles an hour
was performed yesterday by Captain
A. J. Boyriven og the French aviation
section, as part of the aerial celeb,s-
tion of Bastille Day.
Capt. Boyriven flew over from Hazel.
hurst Field early in the morning to
make sure that there would be no
boats on the river to interfere with
his plans. He circled about Cover
nor's Island at q considerable height
then started up the East River.
With the speed of d rocket, he
swooped down at steep angle for the
Brooklyn Bridge. and passed under the
structure. While early spectators
cheered the French flyer released 10
the breeze an enormous French flag
attached to the under side of his ma.
chine.
In the matter Of few minutes, Can.
tain Boyriven looped under the Man
haitian, Williamsburg and greensboro
bridges, turned in wide arc, and
headed for the starting point at Hemp
stead, L. 1.
In the afternoon. Captain Boyrven
and Lieutenant Davidson of the Ameri-
can aviation section, started out at
the head of two squadrons of French
and American airmen. They had
passed in battle formation over sew
eral Long Island towns and were head
ing for Manhattan, there to give the
feature exhibition of the day, when
they were overtaken by a thunder
storm and had to go back to Hemp
stead
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Soldier Speeds Auto
To Save Mans Eve

Speeding in an auto 1875 miles in 150
minutes from Lakehurst, N. j., to Belle
vue Hospital was the record established
yesterday by Private Walter Hosely,
of Battery 5, I'd Battalion, New Jersey
Heavy Field Artillery. to save the left
eye of Richard Chartrand, of 872 East
162d Street. A piece of glass had
pierced the eye when Chartrand ran
his car into tree near Lakehurst.
Chartrand, after the accident, was
taken to the cantonment at Lakehurst,
where Major Sherman, after dressing
the wound, advised his immediate re-
moval to Bellevue. Hosely was as
signed to drive the car. The machine
left at 3:55 p. M, and reached Belle
vue at 6:20 p. in. Th>re were many
hold-ups by the police en- route because
Of the great speed. but the car Was al
lowed to proceed after explanations.
Chartrand, on arrival at the hospital
was placed on the operating table
Everything possible is being done to
save the sight. He is twenty-one years
old and was on his way to visit his
father at Lakehurst. where he is en-
gagged in government work.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Enemy Suspected
In Ship Collisions
Two British Vessels Sunk OFF
the Coast of South
America

BUENOS AYRES, July 1.-two Brit
ish steamships have been sunk in near
by waters as the result of collisions.
The British steamship Clan Robertson,
Of 1896 tons gross. collided yesterday
with another British steamship and
sank in the River Plate.
A dispatch from Montevideo reports
the sinking of the British steamship
Induna, of 4,426 tons gross, off the
Brazilian coast, between the Rio Grande
and Coronilla, after collision with
an Italian steamship.
The newspapers are demanding that
the government investigate the fire.
quent collisions between Entente Allied
mercantile vessels in the River Plate
while in charge Of pilots whose names
would indicate enemy origin. The sink
ing of the Clan Robertson was the
third collision in the last six weeks, af-
fecting six vessels of Entente Allied
registration or loaded with supplies
intended for the Allies.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Germany Too Kind to
Americans, Says Paper
Cologne Gazette'' Denies Ruth
less Liquidation of u. S.
PROPERTY There

AMSTERDAM, July 14.-Formal de-
nial is made by the "Cologne Gazette
Of statements attributed to Lee Brad
ley, counsel for the American Gus
todian for Foreign Property, regarding
the ruthless liquidation of American
property in Germany. The newspaper
says:
at is crying shame the way enemy
aliens are permitted to go freely about
their lucrative businesses here, not only
those who personally profess good will
toward us, but those who brazenly
faunt the administration.
"President Wilson meanwhile is
pocketing good German money. Yet
people in America shed crocodile tears
over the sad fate Of their compatriots
here"
The COLOGNE Gazette" calls on the
government to "havc this matter placed
in proper light both here and in
American"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15

centTge he chose, either giving bond
for the difference in taxes or paying
the difference to the Treasury Depart
ment, where it could be held in a trust
tund. in either event the proper amor
tizatlon to be determined according to
the facts disclosed after the end of the
war. when appropriate adjustments
might be made.
The second suggestion is that the al
lowance Tor amortization might be
wholly in the taxpayers discretion. with
the important condition that when he
had chosen the rate he would have to
keep to it in subsequent years, and
when he had charged off 100 per cent
of the original cost the plant would be-
come the property Of the United States
government, with an option in the
original owner to purchase it back unon
paying appropriate taxes.
Both of these laws are intended to
safeguard the interests of the govern
ment and at the same time to provide
assurance that capital invested in war
plahts VIII not IN effect be taken by
taxation.
Economy Bonds
AS another subject for discussion the
committee put forward ECONOMY
bends" An extra income tax. saw of
III per cent, would be imposed, with
privilege in the taxpayer to avoid
this additional tax by buying three or
tour times its amount in ECONOMY
bends" These bonds would be regis
tered and non-transferable until after
the war, would be ineligible for redis-
count at reserve banks, etc. The whole
purpose of the plan for Economy
bonds" would be to induce actual and
unacceptable savings for relatively
large investments, the inducement
coming in the opportunity to avoid
heavy tax.
The chambers special committee is
composed of John " Farwell, chair
man, Chicago; Edward A. Filene, Bos-
ton; P. W. Goebel, Kansas City; John
H. Gray, Minneapolis; Edmund D. HUI
bert, Chicago; Stoddard Jess, Los
Angeles; Hugh Mex Landon, Indian
apolis; J. Lawrence Laughlin, Chicago;
Robert F.. Maddox. Atlanta; J. x. Orr,
Atlanta; John T. Scott, Houston, Tex;
Oliver M. w. Sprague, Cambridge,
Mass; Jesse Isidor Strauss, New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
20 Hurt i'm Crash
OF Hartford Trolleys

HARTFORD, Conn, July 14.-In a
afternoon twenty persons were in
jured, four so seriously that they were
taken to hospitals. The most seriously
hurt, was Mrs. Anson S. Hopkins, sixty,
of 24O Collins Street, mother of Dr.
Valeria Parker, formerly of Green
wich, widely known for her social hy-
giene and suffrage activities.
The brakes on a Ssson Avenue car
failed to operate properly as the car
was descending the hill west of Union
Station, and the car smashed into a
standing Ashley Street car which was
discharging passengers at the station.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Six Cholera Cases on
Ship From Petrograd

STOCKHOLM, July 14-Six cases of
what the medical board pronounces to
be Asiatc cholera are on board the
Swedish steamship Angermanland,
which arrived from Petrograd July Ii.
Members of the ships company say
cholera is epidemic and has spread
widely in Petrograd. When the vessel
sailed July 8, they add, rioting was in
progress in Petrograd and machine
guns had been used in several quarters
of the city.
The Finnish Senate, according to a
telegram from Helsingfors, has closed
the frontier between Finland and Rus
sia owing to the prevalence of cholera
at Petrograd
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Oil Company Sues u. S.

NEWARK, July 14.-Tme American Oil
Export Company, Inc, which was
ousted from Port Newark Termina, hv
the Quartermaster's Department. is de-.
handing $55o,ooo damages from tho
government The company had n fftv
year lease on four acres of ground
which was taken over by the govern.
ment. Its rental was $3.50 year for
each acre.
At hearing before the War De-
partment Board of Appraisers experts
testlfied that the company's lease was
valued at 100000. A lumber comnanv
occupying adjoining property settled
with the government for $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Negroes Oppose Lynching

Resolutions condemning race preju-
dice and lynching were adopted by a
meeting of one thousand negroes held
Yesterday afternoon under the auspices
of the National United Civic League
at the Palace Casino, 135th Street and
Madison Avenue. Nominations for the
state Assembly and Congress were also
made
. Among those nominated were DR..
Reverdy c; Ransom, for Representa-
tive from the 2lst District, and John c.
Hawklns for the state Assembly from
thc 2oth District. Edward A. Johnson,
the present Assembyman from tbc
10th Assembly District. was renom,-
mated.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
1,700 Stars in College Flag
Nine New York University
Men Dead so Far in War

Chancellor Elmer +. Brown of New
York University yesterday issued a
report compiled for the university au-
thorities which shows that more than
LOO members of the faculty. council
alumni and student body OF the insti-
tuition now are actively engaged in war
service. nearly all in the army or navy
The university also is entitled to
nine gold stars on its service flag for
those who left the institution and died
in action or in accidents on aero train
ing fields. These include Corporal Ar
thur CTex) Baker, of Temple, Tex;
Lieutenant Wilmer Bodenstab, of Yon-
kers; Lieutenant Gerald Carroll, an
aviator killed IN Texas: Lieutenant
Walter Johnson, another aviation Off
Ger KILLED in Texas; Howell Gassert,
William Lloyd Martin. Russell Y.
Meyer and Dillon FRANKIE.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Settlement to Give Concerts

The University Settlement. at 1s4
E'dridge Street, has announced series
Of open-ar concerts to be held on the
roof of the settlement building bec;n
n'ng tomorrow evening. They will be
heid each tuesday evening. and the
programmes VIII be carried out by a
numper OF artsts, among whom viii
be Lyme Rothman, pianisfc: Sieefr;ad
Philip, basso. Jane Smith and Holm
Gor,gllano, violinists, and Sophie Win
field, soprano. " '"-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Romans Send Casket
OF Gold to Poincare

PARIS, July 14.-Romeo Gallenea-
Stuart, Italian Minister of Propaganda.
arrived in Paris to-day from Rome and
presented TO President Poincare and
Marshal Jotfre golden casket contain
iEg more than 100000 signatures san,
by the people of Rome to express the;r
friendship for France and their faith
in Entente Allied victory. ''''
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Cause of Hay Fever
Wiped Out by War

CHICAGO, July lathe war
has caused a decline in hay fever,
according to an announcement
made to-day by the Chicago De-
partment Of Health.
1t was explained that hay
fever is spread by weeds and
that the cultivation of war gar
dens has almost eliminated
weeds, thus bringing much relief
to sufferers from the disease.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Uruguayan Minister
To Visit United States

NJ MONTEVIDEo, Uruguay, July a.
DR.. Baltasar Brun, the Uruguayan For
eign Minister, at the head of a specja,
MISSION, is to make visit OF courtesy
10 the United States. The minister viii
iake With him a testimonial signed by
1000 Uruguayan students to American
students
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Clear Skies Are Ahead
No Rain for Forty Days or Old
Legend Is Disproved
st. Swithin's Day. if thou dos+ p,

St. Swithin's Day. if thou dost rain.
For forty days it will remain
st. Swithins Day. if thou be fair,
For forty days twill rain ma mair.
And when the bells of Trinity rang
the midnight hour last night the stars
were shining brightly, indicating that
to-day, St. Swithin's Day, would be
fair, insuring, according to tradition,
forty days of sunshine.