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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13
OFFICIAL.
Board Of Aldermen.

At regular meeting OF the Board
Of Aldermen held Tuesday, Feb
ruary u, 1918, there were present:
T. F. Marbury, esq, President, and
I >Tcssrs Robinson, Harrison, Wilkins,
4 .nderson, Ballenger,
Mr.. Robinson nominated Mr.. Bd,-
2 niger, esq, for clerk pro TEN ami
.e was elected by the following vote:
j anderson, Robinson, Harrison, Wiz
ms, and Mr.. President, Ayes ..
I!!Noes D.
' Mr.. wilkins introduced a resoill-
ton for the city to loan 10 Virginia
Shipbailding c.. broken stone which
was passed by unanimous vote.
Mr.. Wilkins introduced = resc!a-
ton empowering the Committee on
Streets ana Finance to employ Ia
Dor for city work at the best avail
able wages possible.
4 communication from the Cham
Der Of Commerce protesting against
the increase price CT gas was Te-
ceivcd.
The following was received from
the Common Council and their &C
ton concurred in by the following
vote: Mcssrs. Anderson, Robinson,
Harrison, Wilkins. Ballengcr and AIr.
President, Ayes 6. Noes None.
Ordinance regulating the speed of
vehicles over that portion Of Hun
ing Creek Bridge lying within the
Corporate Limits was passed by the
following vote: MIR. Anderson, Robin
SON, Harrison. wilkins, Ballenger ard
eMr. President, Aye, G. Noes 0.
! An ordinance fixing the price Of
gas was read the second and third
time and lost by the following vote.
Noes, 5, Ayes l.
Petition from sundry citizens for
a sewer on the square bounded By
Wilkes, Lee, Gibbon and Fairfax
was referred to Committee on Streets
and Finance.
Mr.. Desmond appeared and III
vited the board to join the Common
Council in joint session for the cleo.
ton Of Chief Engineer of the FIRE
departmen
Petition from school board notify
ing council Of the resignation Of mir.
Carroll Pierce as member from
the third ward.
Petition from the Street Cleaning
department for an increase in their
wages referred 20 Committee on
Streets and Finance.
w. W. BALLENGER, Esq,
Clerk Pro TEN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13

Messrs. Matter, Ruben, Armstrong,
Desmond, Pohl, Ballenger, LAWYER,
Devers, Wattles, Kaufman and Mr'
Smith. (Late).
An ordinance regulating the speed
Of horses, automobiles, etc., on Hunt
ing Creek Bridge within the city
limits, was recommended by the COM
mittee on Streets and read the sec
ond and third time and passed, Ayes
i. Noes, 0.
Upon recommendation Of the COM
mittee on Streets permission was
granted Mr.. Julian D. Knight 20
construct building on the Colross lot
\ resolution appropratlng S3Ou %
renew flooring and coat with asphalt
and fine stone on that portion OF
Hurting Creek bridge within the
city limits was recommended by the
Committee on Streets ana passed.
Ayes Il. Noes 0.
An>act to regulate and f.: tie p"ce
Of gas was recommended by the JOIN:
committee on Light and Finance ana
read the second and third times AID
passed, Ayes. Messrs. Matter, Ruben
Armstrong, Kaufman, Wattles, Des-
mond, Pohl, Burke, Ballinger, Law
Ter and Devers-l1. Noes, 0. :,
The resignation Of Mr.. Carroll
Pierce, school trustee from the third
ward was received from the clerk
of the City School Board and &C
copied
a petition for sewer in square
bounded by Wilkes, Lee, Gibbon and
Fairfax streets was referred to the
Joint committee on Streets and Fin
ance.
A petition from the employees Of
the street cleaning department 1or
an increase Of wages to 20 cents per
hour was referred to Joint Commit
tee on Streets and Finance.
The following was received from
the Board of Aldermen and their
action concurred in:
A communication from the Presi-
dent Of the Chamber Of Commerce
objecting to on advance in the price
Of gas, also
A resolution authorizing the loan
of broken stone to the Virginia Ship
Building Corporation, Ayes II. Noes,
none.
Also a resolution allowing the COM
mittee on Streets and Finance to Az
wages of men and teams on city
work, Ayes, II. Noes, 0.
Also a petition from the Alexan-
dria County Lighting Company 20
erect poles on Franklin street and
Patrick street.
Upon motion the Board Of Alder
men convened in joint session to
elect n Chief Of the Fire Department.
Mr.. Desmond nominated Mr. Ken
meth W. Ogden and he was unanl-
mously elected. Eighteen members
voting. It was understood that the
joint session will convene at the
next regular meeting TO fill vacan.
cies on the City School Board.
The joint session then dissolved
and the board adjourned.
II. r. BURKE vice, president.
Teste: Daniel r. stansbury, Clerk,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13
REGULATIONS FOR LICENSE.
Tentative Plan OF State Board of Ed
acatim il Approved by Superris"

Tentative Plan Of State Board of Ed
aeatiGn il Approved by Superris-
Urs.
The tentative plan OF the State
Beard OF Education concerning Che
reduction of certificates, the making
Of regulations which viii not affect
any creaits already made by teach
e,,s and clearly defined requirements
ras Monday approved by the Board
Of Supervisors. The plan provides;
rs follows:
The method Of certiGcating teach !
crs is changed in orEer to simplify
the plan and make the standards
more definite. Teachers who have;
tlleady secured some form of certlfi-'
cate or who have completed in part
courses formerly required are al
ed that the State Board of Ecu-
cation will not pass retroactive
measures which win nullify or lessen
the credit Of the work they have
slreasy done. Certificates Formerly
issued will be honored for the term
:tipulated OH the certificates and
co-ascs partially completed will be
properly credited toward the appro-
Hrie.te new certificate.
Certificates now outstanding AM
valid need not be sent to the De-
D2,tnlent Of Public instruction Ion
conversion into new certificates. Ger
tificates for renewal should be sent
to the department between April l
end September 10 o. the year III
which the certificate expires.
"A table of equivalents is append
cd to this certificate, from which the
teacher may ascertain the standard
o: certificates now held rs compared
to new certificates. School officers
are particularly requested to coy
suit this table Of equivalents in order
to understand the grade Of the old
certificates.
"For the purpose Of improving the
quality OF teaching AMI to develop
real profession cf teaching,
school boards are urged to base their
salaries on the efficiency, experience
ard certificate Of the teacher"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13
NAMED ON TARIFF BOARD.

Thomas w. Page Of University Of
Virginia Nominated to Succeed
Daniel c. Roper.
Thomas W. Page Of Virginia has
been nominated by President Wilson
TO be q member Of the United States
tariff board.
Page now holds the chair Of go
non1ics at the University Of Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13
Common Council.

At regular meeting of the Con-
mon Council Of the City of Alexan-
dria, Va, held February 18th, 1913,
there were present:
II. r Burke, vice president and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13

He succeeds. to the place on the tar
ifF commission resigned by Daniel c.
Roper when the latter became inter-
nal revenue commissioner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-13
COAL DELIVERIES
To Our Customers:

We are being seriously handicapped in the op-
grafton of our coal business account Of not being
be to get enough teams to supply the demand during
this severe weather. having hired al teams available.
and we must ask our customers to bear with us dur
ing this emergency and request suburban and out
)ftovn customers as far as possible. to provide for
heir own drayage We regret this situation, which
is entirely beyond our control
w. A. Smoot & Company, Inc.
Jan. 80. 1918.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
w EST ERN.

Six hundred thousand bushels of
wheat have been commandeered from
Colorado by the government.
The white bean crop of California,
amounting to approximately 30,000,0O0
pounds, has been commandeered by
the United States army.
H. B. (Ham) Clark, one of the foun-
ders of the United Press Association,
died suddenly of heart disease at his
home in Chula Vista, Cal.
A referendum upon the development
of water power and the enactment of
federal legislation to bring it about is
being submitted to 985 commercial or
ganizations which compose the Cham
lber of Commerce of the United States.
Internment until the end of the war
and perhaps the firing squad is faced
by four soldiers of the Ninety-first
division, who are under arrest at
Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash, charged
with plotting to kill their officers and
deliver their comrades to the Ger
mans as soon as they went into action
in France.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
WASHINGTON.

BY proclamation, President Wilson
fixed the 1918 wheat price on basis
OF 1920 at Chicago.
One million three hundred thousand
service rifles are now available for the
United States army, according to an
announcement made by Secretary
Baker.
Movement of 74,206 select service
men-66,O23 white and 8,183 negroes
to various camps, began Saturday and
continued five days.
Every municipal bond issue of $780,
600 or more hereafter will be passed
on by the Federal Reserve Boards
capital issues committee before being
floated.
With a settlement of differences
with the Brotherhood of Carpenters in
prospect, Shipping Board officials are
hopeful that the shipbuilding program
will meet with few further delays due
to labor troubles.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
SPORT.

A requiem mass was said for Terry
McGovern at the Church of st. John
the Evangelist, Brooklyn, New York.
.Interment was made in Holy Cross
cemetery.
he first team of the Denver Y. M.
A. won the annual state volleyball
tournament at Pueblo, taking the hon
ors for the fourth consecutive year
over large field of strong contend
ers. The Grand Junction team fin
ished second and Pueblo and Colorado
Springs tied for third place.
J. S. Elmer of Eau Claire, Wis, went
into second place in the individual
event at the annual tournament of the
American Bowling Congress at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, with a score Of 663, just
seventeen pins behind G. Wagner of
Newark, N. j., who has been leading
for the last several days.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
The Fighting Spirit.

A man at the front who starts out
to take it seriously will be in the mad
house in less than month, says re-
cent writer in Harper's Magazine. But
the light-hearted ones, escaping Min
MES and Lizzies, may go on indefinite
ly. The successful soldier of the
trenches never loses an opportunity for
happiness. He often develops into a
more care-free, merry lad than he was
at school ten years before. This light
heart in the midst Of danger and trib-
ulation is our last invincible defense.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
GEN ERAL.

A civilian flying instructor and two
cadets at the United States aviation
training school at Park Field, near
Memphis, Tenn, were killed in COL
lision between two airplanes.
With farmers holding their wheat
for hoped-for increase in the govern
ment price, government requisitiOn of
one-third of their output and an un-
limited demand, Minneapolis millers
are expectant of a marked scarcity Of
white flour in the near future.
The sinking Of the Spanish steamer
Mar Caspio makes the third such oc-
currence in less than four weeks. On
Jan. % German submarine sunk the
Spanish steamer Giralda and Feb. IS
the Spanish steamer Ceferino was de-
stroyed by a U-boat. On Feb. 10 the
Italian steamship Duca Di Geneva was
sunk within Spanish territorial waters.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has enlisted the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea in thrift stamp and savings GER
tificate drive throughout the country
by means Of which it is believed at
least 100000 Of the stamps and GER
tificates will be sold.
Incensed at the arrest by soldiers
and removal from the reservation of
seven draft evaders, sQuaws on the
Goshute Indian reservation went on
the warpath after the soldiers left
| TO
and threatening to kill Jim Clover In.
dian interpreter, left in charge, threat
ening to burn the agency property and
melting the old bucks to acts of vio-
lance and revenge.
Residents of the district known as
Back of the Yards" spend $4,500,000
year for drink, according to testi-
mony given at Chicago in the stock
yards wage arbitration by Elbert Bee
man, in charge of employees welfare
work for Wilson and Company. The
section embraces 125 square blocks of
tenements occupied almost exclusive
ly by foreign-born 'laborers, 40 per
cent of whom are employed in the
packing house industries.
Gunwomen, some 200 or 300 of them,
infest the shady lurking places Of Chi
cago Acting Chief A1cock gave that
startling news. AS fast as captured
by the police, these women will be
turned over to the federal government
for severe punishment or taken be-
fore tho va0rancv cOurt
The crack Red Cross liner Florizel,
from st. Johns, N. F., for New York
by way Of Halifax, with 14O persons
aboard, including 78 passengers, piled
up on the lodges near Cape Race dur
ing a blizzard Sunday, and it is be-
1ieved that all on board were lost.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02

sisters. If q woman is borne down
by the weakness and sufferings Of wom-
ankind, she should be helped by a
herbal tonic made with glycerin
which has had such uniform success
during the past half century. She
should be Vel1, instead Of sick and
suffering; healthy and rigorous, in
stead of worn-out and weak; bright
eyes, clear skin, rosy cheeks-you
wouldn't think it was the same wom-
an, and it's all due TO the use Of
few bottles of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. All druggists. Tab
let's or liquid. Tablets, 60c.
What this medicine has done for
thousands Of delicate women, it will
do for you. If you're over-worked
and debilitated, it will build you up
If you're borne down with the chronic
aches. pains and weaknesses peculiar
to your sex, it relieves and cures. It
regulates and promotes the proper
functions of womanhood. This old
and tried Prescription of DR.. Pierce's
invigorates the system, purifies the
blood, improves digestion, and restores
health, flesh and strength. Consult the
specialist at DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Ho-
tel, Buffalo, N. Y, for free confidential
medical advice or for free book ON
WOmen'S diSeaSes.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
FOREIGN.

Sir Henry Blake died at his resi-
dence, Myrtle Grove, Youghal, County
Cork, Ireland.
The Spanish steamer Mar-Carpio
has been sunk by submarine on her
way to New York with cargo of
cork.
The Greek admiralty has authorized
the employment of woman seaplane
pilot, Miss Demise Kalimeri, who Is
the daughter of one of the government
airplane engineers.
An important center of German
espionage has been discovered, the
Paris Figaro reports, at st. Etienne,
capital of the department of Loire, in
the heart of the industrial district of
France.
The British government has in
structed it's agent at Kiev to make the
declaration that Great Britain will not
recognize any peace in the east which
involves Poland, without a previous
consultation with Poland.
Egyptian crops estimates are of the
most satisfactory character. Rice is
21 per cent above normal. and the
yield of wheat and barley will be we'll
above the average. In every case the
area under cultivation is larger than
ever before.
A telegraph exchange dispatch from
Petrograd, dated Saturday. says: "The
American and Japanese embassies and
the Chinese, Siamese and Brazilian le-
cations are leaving Petrograd for
Vyatka, or Vologda. If necessary they
will go to Vladivostok."
The former Austrian steamer Lucia,
equipped with a new "nonsinka BILE"
system, sailed from Gulf port with a
cargo. The steamer is equipped with
more than 10000 air and water-tight
cells, which the inventor claims will
keep the vessel afloat even should she
be torpedoed.
Governor General Harrison has
signed law authorizing the flotation
in the United States of a 100000
bond issue. The money will be used
to finance the construction of the tor
pedo boat Rizal and one submarine to
be given by the Philippines to help
America in the war.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union NEWS service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

The Turkish army in the Caucasus
has begun an offensive.
Just two hours after the armistice
ended German troops entered Dv1nsk.
A successful raid was carried out
by Scottish troops in the neighborhood
of Monchy-Le-Preux.
A German attack at Four de Paris,
in the Argonne, has been repulsed
with losses by the French.
A regiment of Esthonian troops
has gone over to the Germans, the
Berlin war office announces.
The main committee of the Reich
stag adopted the peace treaty be-
tween Germany and the Ukraine.
French troops raided the German
positions north of the Ailette river
and in the Champagne. Prisoners and
war material were brought back by
the French.
The German navy has invested Re-
val, the great Russian naval base on
the Gulf of Finland. The Russian
navy is reported as demobilized and
demoralized
Germany's peace terms have been
accepted by Nikolai Lenine, the Boil
shevik premier, and Leon Trotzky, for
eign minister, acting for the central
executive committee of the soviets.
British airmen on the western
front continue their bombing raids and
in air fighting on Thursday accounted
for nine German airplanes, a London
official statement on aerial activities
says.
Russian troops are evacuating
Pskoff, $50 miles southwest of Petro-
grad, and are also reported fleeing
from the city of Polotsk. In the cap
ture of Minsk the Germans gained
1900 guns and 5000 prisoners.
The Germans again have tried to
outgun the Americans in their sector
northwest of Toul. AS on several for
mer occasions, the Americans retail
ated with such fierceness and accu-
ralcy of aim that the enemy desisted.
The Turkish forces dislodged by the
British by the capture of Jericho, in
Palestine, have retired to the north
and east the war office announces.
Possession of Jericho is an important
step toward establishing touch be-
tween the British and their Arab al
lies.
On the battle fronts nowhere has
there been an engagement of great
dimensions, according to Mondays re-
ports. On the line in France there
have been several patrol encounters,
with the French the aggressors
against the Germans, of greater than
usual violence. The artillery activity
all along the front continues violent
on isolated sectors.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
Fix 1918 Wheat Price at Sc. 20.

ington.-President Wilson, to
head off agitation among the farmers
for legislation increasing the price of
the 1918 wheat crop to $3.50 or $2.75
a bushel, issued a proclamation Satur-
day stipulating a government guaran-
teed price for the principal primary
markets, which is in effect a continu-
alton of the 1917 price of 1920 a BUSH
ell at Chicago. The prices in the proc
lamation vary from $500 at Spokane,
Wash, to 1928 at New York.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
Forty-four Survivors from FIorizeI.

st. Johns, N. F., Feb. 26.-Boat
crews from the Newfoundland steam
er Prospero, Drawing the breakers
which are battering the wreck of the
Red Cross liner Florizel on the ledges
north of Cape Race yesterday took off
forty-four survivors, all that were left
alive of the ships company of 1856.
The death list stands at ninety-two.
Of the rescued, seventeen are passen-
gers. Only two of the twelve women
on board, and none of the four chill
dren were saved.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02

LuSlduO WOA1cA are IAN
ing up the work Of men
resolutely, and have
shown their ability to do
almost all kinds Of work.
When it becomes neces-
sary women will show
their worth in countless
shops, stores, factories
and offices. No one hears
them complain Of their
hard work. These are
the days when American
men have cause to re-
spect, love and honor
their mothers, wives and
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
No Liqht on the Subject.

"Who is the author of the saying,
Meeting the devil before day?' asks
correspondent of the Adams Enter
prise, and the editor replies:
Dunno. Sometimes we are under
the impression that we said it ourself,
after we had successfully lodged a
well-aimed kerosene lamp on a 3 a. m.
stairway.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
AMERICANS RAID GERMAN LINE
Twenty-Five Huns Slain With No Loss
to u. S. Forces.


With the American Army in France,
Feb. 26-An American patrol in the
Chemin Des Danes sector, in conjunc-
tion with a French patrol, penetrated
few hundred yards into the German
lines and captured two German Off
GERS, twenty men and one machine
gun. There were no American casu-
alties.
Paris.-The Belgian official state
ment reads: -Four German attempts
during the night of Feb. 1928 to ap-
proach our advance posts at various
points on the front were checked by
our barrage fire, machine guns and
grenades. Artillery activity on both
sides was general along the front,
most intense in the region of Dixmude,
where we effectually silenced several
batteries by our destructive fire. Our
aviators have carried out number Of
flights and engaged in several aerial
combats."
n 1-I- e L - r
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
HERTL|NC WANTS
WORLD CONCLAvE
FOUR PRINCIPLES OF PRESIDENT
WILSON CALLED KEY TO END
THE WAR.
MONARCHY FOR RUSSIA
GEN. BRUKEVITCH is NEW SLAV
COMMANDER-RUSSIA AC-
cEPTS PEACE PACT.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Amsterdam, Feb. 26.-Speaking be-
fore the reichstag, the imperial Ger
man chancellor, Count Won Hertling,
made this declarations:
Il can fundamentally agree with the
four principles, which in President
Wilson's view must be applied in a
mutual exchange of views, and thus
declare with President Wilson that a
general peace can be discussed on
such basis.
"Only one reserve need be made in
this connection: These principles
must not only be proposed by the Pres
ident of the United States, but also
must actually be recognized by all
states and peoples.
'But this goal has not yet been
reached. There is still no court of
arbitration established by all the ma
tions for the preservation of peace in
the name of justice.
Unfortunately, however, there is no
trace of similar statements on the part
of the leading powers of the entente.
England's war aims are still thorough
ly imperialistic and she wants to i'm
pose on the world peace according
to England's good pleasure.
"If, therefore, proposal came from
the opposing side, for example, from
IN oh
not adopt an antagonistic attitude,
even though the discussion at first
might only be unbinding.
meanwhile, I readily admit that
President Wilson's message of Feb. II
constitutes perhaps a small step to-
ward mutual rapprochement.'
Count Won Hertling, the German i'm
perial chancellor, announced in the
reichstag that the Russian government
had accepted the German peace cOndi-
tions and he added that the conclusion
of peace must ensue shortly.
London, Feb. 26.-Germany plans to
restore the monarchy in Russia, ac-
cording to telegram dated Friday in
Petrograd to the Morning Post. It
says the grand duke of Hesse has
been appointed the commander in the
Riga section of the German front.
"His sister," the dispatch adds, "the
former Empress Alexandria, as the
guardian of her son, the former czare-
witch, is the favorite German candi-
date for the throne. The for
mer emperor will not accept the
throne from German hands.
The Bolsheviki have provided a
form of government which the Rus
SLAMS alone understand-pure despot-
ism. They have paved the way for
the return of the monarchy"
General Brukevitch has been ap-
pointed successor to Ensign KrylenkO,
as commander-in-chief of the Russian
armies, according to Berlin dispatch
forwarded from Amsterdam by the
central news agency General Bruke-
witch, according to the message, has
been proclaimed dictator and has or
dered the Russian troops to fight to
the last. He was formerly chief of
staff to Ensign KrylenkO.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02

Don't be misled. Ask for Red Cross
Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white clothes.
At all good grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02
The VARIETY.

"That bride is a peach"
$50 she is, but she's got lemon"
"Well, that's a fine sort Of pair"
The Benson signal., 1918-03-02

Some of the heaven-made matches
got their tips in the other place.