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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
NAVAL OFFICERS
HIT IN PAY BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Republicans Eliminate Raise For
Them, AS Originally Provided
In Measure-Leaders Depend
ing On Senators To Restore
Missing Links
CIVILIAN TUTORS
ARE TAKEN CARE OF

Commissioned officers OF the navy
who have been led to believe they were
going to get an increase in pay were
struck by the Republican steering
committees wave of economy yester-
day. The House, through a special
rule ordered by the steering commit
tee, shut off debate and in 20 minutes
adopted a Naval Pay bill which pro-
vided increases for enlisted men and
warrant officers and excluded commits
stoned officers from consideration.
Four months ago, it was pointed out
by Representative Garner, of Texas,
the Naval Pay bill was sent to commit
held. Finally, Representative Kelly,
of Michigan, reported bill which pro-
vided for increases in paw TO commits
stoned officers, warrant officers and
enlisted men. Then the Republican
steering committee got busy, struck
from the bill the provisions for in
creases for commissioned officers and
ordered the bill reported to. the House
under a rule for 20 minutes of debate.
Said To BE Counting On Senate
At the. same time word went from
the Republicans in the House 10 the
commissioned officers that "the Senate
would replace the provisions for in
creases in pay to commissioned officers
and the House would agree to Senate
amendments" it was reported
Provisions in the bill inserted by
Representative AIudd, Of Maryland,
were permitted to remain. They pro-
vide for Increases for 107 civilian in
structors at the Naval Academy and 70
members of the Naval Academy band.
the increases in each instance being
about 30 per cent. Mr. Mudd had con-
stant trouble in keeping these pro-
visions in the bill and was repeatedly
called on the carpet by the economists
Under the measure an annual bonus
Of $3.50 would be given to commission
ed officers and of $240 to warrant Off
GERS, while the monthly base pay of
other enlisted men would be fixed as
follows:
Chief petty officers, Sl26; acting
chief petty officers, s99; petty officers,
first class, $S4; second class. $72; third
class, $50; non-rated men, first class.
$54. second class. $4S; third class, $S3;
firemen. first class. $50; second class,
$54; third class, $4S: cabin stewards
and cooks, $S4; wardroom and steer
age cooks and stewards SEQ; mess at
tendants. first class, $42; second
class, S36; third class. $33.
Because of the shortage of naval
officers, Congress was asked yester-
day by Secretary Daniels TO defer
for one year from next July the com
pulsory retirement of rear-admirals,
captains and commanders who have
reached the age limit barring their
further promotion. The compulsory
retirement law was passed in 1915,
to be effective next July
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
ANNE ARUNDEL NOT
ON THIS WEEKS LIST

Motor Vehicle Commissioner, E.
Austin Baughman has published his
list OF offenders against automobile
regulations for the week ending jan
uary "a
Anne Arundel County is not in
cluded in the list of offenses Fines
were imposed for the week in Bal
timore City amounting to $307 and
in the counties, s167, a total of $474
for the week
The same old offenses such as
operating without license; fictitious
markers; standing without lights:
not giving right OF way; reckless
driving. and other offenses, are listed
this week as usual
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
LIMIT TO NUMBER
OF HOUSE EMPLOYEES

Attorney-General Alexander Arm
strong has given an opinion to Speaker
Tydings, of the House of Delegates.
that he was not authorized By law to
go beyond the list of employees for
whom provision has been made in the
budget without an act passed by both
houses and approved by the Governor.
The opinion grew out OF the difficulty
found in securing competent stenog-
raphers at SIS per diem. 1t was thought
possible that part of the appropria-
tion for doorkeepers and other minor
employees could be diverted to add to
the pay of stenographers. Dir. Arm
strong has ruled against this PROPOSE
.tion. relief being possible only through
legislation.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
PATIENT RESTLESS
ALL THROUGH NIGHT

Although he passed a restless night,
according to attendants at the Emer-
gency Hospital, there is no alarmine
change in the condition of Charl
Jefferson, As years old. a painter vic
tim OF the Eastport tragedy Of late
Tuesday night. when he was sho
through the left lung by his daughter,
Miss Ruth Jefferson. IS years old. af-
ter he had threatened her life. as well
as that OF his wife while his general
condition Is regarded as desperate,
owing to the nature of the wound, 1t is
believed he has a fighting chance to
recover. The chief fear entertained
by the attending physicians is hemor-
RACES that might set in at any time
under the circumstances.
Mrs. jefferson, wife of the injured
man, has visited him frequently at the
hospital, and so have several Of his
children, but none but members of
the family are permitted to see him
Miss Ruth Jefferson, the daughter who
fred the shot. having armed herself
after her father. in raving spell, de-
clared his intention of killing his wife
and then himself. and also threatened
to kill her, remains at the family home,
No lit Third street, Eastport. She
still is suffering severe nervousness,
though calmer than on the day follow
ing the tragic affair.
Sheriff Thomas S. Dove and his
depbties, acting in accordance with in
strtlctions Of States Attorney James
NJ. Munroe, have been making thor
ough investigation of the circum-
stances leading up to the tragedy, and
have secured the versions of members
of the family who were witnesses to
the shooting. No formal action has,
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
SEVENTY FLU" CASES ~
REPORTED AT MEADE

Ten more soldiers were stricken
with influenza at Camp Meade yes
terday, making the total number suf-
fering from the malady at the cam
tonment 20.
Col Ernest l.. Ruffner. camp sur
geon. said he had no fear of an cpl
demic, as all the cases were mild and
none OF the patients had contracted
pneumonia There have been no
deaths from the disease.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
SPECIAL SERMONS ON
THE LORDS PRAYER

The first of a series of special ser
mons by the Rev Emmetta r. Spencer,
pastor of Maryland Aven ie Methodist
Episcopal Church, with ,-.The Lords
Prayer" as the general theme. VIII be
preached in the church al the o'clock
services tomorrow night The subject
of the initial sermon viii De '-'The Uni
yersal PRAYER.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
IvIGATION IN BAY
|coNPLETELY BLOCKED

are pa ing through
~ combination VI miserable con-
l., { weather today because OF
. ha prevailed Tor nearly
g wees Conditions under
s ppH are not as danger
e.'erlay when every thor-
t.Are .n 'hr c.'y had q CLASSY Gov
/ q This however SoIteheu
rite ias nsh' ~ Inc result OF
i @5 en'eioped lhe 'i'y ana the
,s# ieI throughout me night 30
Nrar, were forced 10 "ade
Iga pools oI wafer. anu az the
ame wa'th their STEP as the ice
I Il were slippery IN many
! Chesapeake and Potomac Iele-
b Company is having trouble with
Iae. d. result OF the sleet storm.
'Ara of The company 5 trunk
between the city ana Baltlnore
\ '''' - "a. -,
,,s-ruptel
!. sf hsrbor is completely ice
so8 has been for two weeks.
|, ks bcou mo movements of YES
4. ,en dsvs. nor Is the Rochester
s,ts steamer able to make her
A.., rims be,,use or The gorged
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
MAYORS SON FAILS;
DISLOCATES SHOULDER

While drilling with tie Corps of
Cadets at st. Johns Col }ege yester-
day. Allan Levy, son Off Mayor and
Mrs. John J. Levy. fell md his left
shoulder was disiocateds The young
man was removed to the Yesidence of
his parents on Madison street. He
is reported today as resting comfort
ably.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
Marriage Licenses

FROCK- -BFAN--David Frocl5, 26,
Baltimore; Ethel Bean, q, Stoney
Run, A. A. Co. Applicant, Harry c.
Pumphrey
PETTEBONE- -BOTLER - John +.
Pettel one, q, ST. Margaret's, A. A.
Co.; Mary E. Boteler. IS. Annapolis.
Applicant, John E. Pettebone.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
LT.-COM. BRERETON TO
INSTRUCT IN ORDNANCE

Lieutenant-C Commander William D.
Brereton. Jr., lately in command of
the L. s. torpedo boa. destroyer
Meade, has been ordered ITO duty at
the Naval Academy and will be as
signed as an instructor in the de-
partment of ordnance Aieat-Com.
Brereton is son of MI. and Mrs.
W. d Brereton. Of Murrt4y Hill.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
Ladies Meeting
Monday Night

All ladies interested in the welfare
of the Independent Sire Company. are
requested to meet at the Company's
quarters MONDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT
O'CLOCK, to arrange for a bazar,
JOHN NJ. Taylor,
i26 Chairman.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
NO ARREST SEEMS
To Be LIKELY IN
TRAGEDY NOW

But If Jefferson. Victim Of East
port Shooting, Should Sue
curnb, Formal Action Will Be
Taken BY County Police Of
ficials
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
AT THE -
5htp'a 3ntt
TEA ROOM

Just arrived a fresh consignment
from Boston of Paige & Shaw's de-
licious bon-hons.
Also several varieties of home
made candy. II.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-24
STORM
/ PLAYING HAVOC
ALL OVER STATE

|,olitans Experience Another
[r.,,-y And Siushy Day But
1 .5.ions Under Foot Not So
f. As Yestcrday-Rain And
ko.c RAN
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'..,..l.tsd press ...l Dis, $,
s,..sss Of late news ,s al
P''''.' md abroad are pub
''''., @.s.d in The Capital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Preferred to Work

cpd rather work." he said when
he was asked for an explanation of
his strange conduct.
Was it because of a savage desire
to expiate his lack of confidence in
himself, desire to mortify his spirit
for what he considered his failure,
that he did this, or was there some
deeper reason, some more vital hurt
that has not yet been disclosed, that
caused him to see drudgery as an
antidote?
1t is difficult to say. A mans
mind is q strange piece of machin~
cry, and sometimes plays odd tricks
on him. Samuel Johnson himself
was not free of the devil Of self
doubt, and it is recorded in one of
his biographies that the master of
letters was not 80 sure at times
that mental collapse and failure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
The Dog Refuge

In West Fifty third Street, not
Tar from where the physician lived
after coming to New York to become
dishwasher, is a sanctuary for
ANIMALS, where DR.. Campbell kept
two Of his dogs. This place itself is
deserving of a few paragraphs. 1t
Is run by an old German, the store
itself being below the level of the
sidewalk. Several signs, partly OBJ
scured by dust and the effects of
weather, are to be seen above the
entrance. They set forth that
canaries are for sale there, that dogs
are clipped within and that a general
hosplce is offered to animals whose
owners have no other place in which
to keep them.
Dingy and quaint past all belief is
the place, and the uproar of the ami
mai sounds that burst forth with
the opening of the door was deafen-
ing enough to drown even the crash
ana clatter of the elevated trains
passing directly overhead.
into this crowded space Of kennels
and cages came a woman to inquire
about the dogs the physician-dish-
washer had left. This was several
Gays after DR.. Campbell's widow had
Yielded all claims to the body and it
mad been shipped back to cousin in
pittsburgh, to be buried in the fam
lly plot in that city.
His Friends, the Dogs
The old German led the way out
Oh the store into a runway at the
rear, where the two St. Bernards
owned by the physician were housed
IN boxlike cribs. The huge beasts
paved eagerly at the bars when the
visitors arrived. 1t was about the
aour when their owner was wont to
Dflng them the food he collected in
tne restaurant where he found such
humble employment.
lie was little-crazy, wasn't
ne!" inquired the woman when the
aeeper had explained the pathetic
aoelity with which the onetime ply
s'c1an had daily visited his pets. 1t
seems that Of the S18 week he
earned ut his job Of dishwashing he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
To the City to Hide

They come from everywhere. 1t
seems that when a mans self-respect
begins to give way and he finds him.
self confronted by the grinning
specter of self-doubt he generally
heads for the big cities in which to
hide himself. There, in the general
medley, he hopes to conceal himself,
an ambition in which he very fire.
quently succeeds, because in the
crowded places failures are too COM
mon to attract attention.
Shabby, unkempt, uncared for and
lonely, they are like the outcast at
Christmas time who shivers miser-
ably while staring through the win
dow at the feast.
But the little baffled man Of the
Fifty-sixth Street apartment house
was somewhat different from most
Of these.
1t seems that beneath that snowy
thatch had been a brain, a real one,
and because Of this the Big Burg
paused long enough in its affairs to
pay him the tribute of a moments
consideration and sympathy. He had
been q failure, it appeared, only in
the sense that he had elected to join
the fellowship Of failures But be-
fore that, from all reports, he had
been a genius.
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can Apologize Little Man"

"He was little man, with an apol-
ogetic cough" said Conroy several
days after the body of the physician
had been shipped to Pittsburgh. Gle
was pleasant enough, but although l
knew him very we'll for three years
and saw him either when walking
home or while going about the house,
he never asked me about my bust
ress and | never asked him much
about his.
II guess, though, that he must
have had pretty bad jolt some time
or other, because of the way he
let himself go. He shaved only
o"ce week, and this, of course,
didn't help his looks any. I'd see
him every once in a while with a
paper package under his arm, and
in this, | learned, were some bones
and meat he had collected at the
restaurant for his dogs.
"On account of his appearance
got the impression that Mrs. Hunt
ing would have been just as well
pleased if he had found another
room when we moved into the West
Eifty-siXth Street place, but he was
such nice old fellow, and paid his
rent so promptly and was so little
trouble about the place that she
didn't have the heart to let him know
how she felt.
ION account Of the rent being
higher at the Fifty-sixth Street place
Mrs. Hunting was compelled to ask
DR.. Campbell more for his room than
he paid at the place in West Forty
ninth Street, but he said, when she
mentioned it to him, that he'd be able
to pay it all right, and so he stayed
as ne had before"
Daughter Called Frequently
DR.. Campbell, as disclosed by the
investigation after his death, was
extremely fond of his stepdaughter,
Eleanor Campbell Cochran, singer,
who recently married James Wat
kins, chief Of police Of Youngstown,
Ohio. with whom she was on her
hOnevn,oon in Canada VIXEN tro yl-r-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

sician died. This daughter, a tall
handsome blonde, frequently called
on Dr.. Campbell when he was living
in the West Forty-ninth Street
house, but Conroy said he never saw
Mrs. Campbell.
"The daughter would call, some
times, as often as two or three times
a week." said Conroy at used to
tickle the old fellow, l think. But /
never saw Mrs. Campbell, and
don't think she ever came. The
daughter is a very handsome woman,
and was always fashionably dressed.
The old fellow talked about her a
lot, and once he was very much ex-
cited over the fact that she was to
sing in opera. Afterward, when we
asked him about this, he said she
had decided to remain in vaudeville"
DR.. Campbell frequently received
letters, also, from the daughter, but
was never known to receive one from
his wife.
Several weeks before he died
even the letters from his daughter
stopped coming said Conroy, "and
all that came after that were some
medical circulars and pamphlets
about dogs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Success Cast Aside

Respected and successful, an au,
thority in the practice of medicine,
surrounded by friends and family,
something had snapped within him,
and in the days when it Is the Gus
tom among men to seek relaxation
and comfort as the fruits of en-
deavor he had suddenly thrown
everything aside and sought OBJ
scurity and forgetfulness in the
most mental of occupations.
What was this thing that hap
pened to DR.. Harry E. Campbell,
formerly of Pittsburgh, who came to
New York and became a dishwash-
er, and whose days ended thus shah
billy in the apartment house in West
Fiftv-sixth Stree+3
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
ELEANOR CAMPBELL COCHRAN q singer moav Mrs.
IL James Watkins, aUhose musical education her
father, Dr. Campbell, av5shed large Sums

thing DR.. Campbell was either I'M
willing or unable to do.
But as to the causes that had in
duced him to leave Pittsburgh he
never said anything at all, and for
an explanation as to this the inves-
tigators were thrown back on such
fragmentary evidence as they were
able to gather from friends and on
such of his actions as might have a
bearing on his strange conduct.
That there was tragedy there, all
who inquired into the case agreed.
The fact that he, man of high medi-
cal attachments and skill, forsook
an honorable calling to seek oblivion
in the scullery of a restaurant was
in itself prima facie evidence; but
on top Of this was the curious de-
ception practiced by the physician
on his Pittsburgh relatives and
friends by leading them to believe
that he was prosperous, and living
happily with his wife, neither of
which was true; his reticence as to
all matters having relation to his
one time prominence; his isolated
manner of living; his sudden and to-
tally unnatural disregard for per-
sonal appearances; his hungry devo-
ton to the dogs upon which he
lavished all his affection and dearly
earned savings, and his eXtraordi-
nary ability to endure a life which
to most persons Of his finely sensi-
tired character would have been be-
yond sufferance.
Was Not Eccentric
In going back over all this, the
questions "Why did he do it? What
happened" occur and recur like
blows on the heart, but there is one
thing upon which all his New York
acquaintance agree, and that is that
he was neither Eccentric" nor
"crazy."
The German who kept his dogs
talked to him every day for months
and saw no traces of abnormality,
but only terribly -at-the- heel,
pathetically thin and quiet little man
who was inordinately fond of the
animals, and who spent hours of his
leisure time fondling them and talk
ing to them in the kennels in the
areaway where they were kept. In
referring to him the German de-
scribed him as a pheasant man." a
mice person to talk to-" an "agree-
able old fellow who knew a lot of
things, especially about dogs" but
never as one who was eccentric or
mentally unbalanced in the slightest
degree.
Another sidelight as to DR.. Camp
BELLS character, and perhaps the
tragedy that lay behind his astonish-
ing transformation, was provided by
Jack Conroy, a fellow ledger in the
rooming house conducted by Mrs,
Hunting. Like the physician, Con-
roy had lived in the Hunting house
for years, and knew the physician
as we'll as any one in the city. Con-
roy, being employed as a linotype
operator by a morning newspaper,
works at night, and met the recluse
almost daily when coming home.
DR.. Campbell's hours at the res
taurant were from o'clock in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
W. supposed By friends IN Pittsburqh to be- ar;tE him
Aere lie Vas believed By them to be paccg medicine and
to be prosperous

man who died a dishwasher, but al
though all expressed shocked sur
prise over the surprising fate that
had overtaken their old friend, only
one, DR.. Robinson, ventured to sug-
gest an explanation for it.
II think" said DR.. Robinson, slow.
ly, che must have lost faith-lost
faith in himself, that is"
Was that it? And if it was, was
that why he sought to abase himself
so abjectly in the kitchen of New
York restaurant at work which
would have shrivcled up the soul of
many men much less sensitive to i'm
pressions than he was?
ScsilEery Tasks
Consider for moment the kind of
work DR.. Campbell, after leaving
Pittsburgh, elected to do.
The scullery of big restaurant is,
as every ore will realize upon mo-
ment's reflection, busy place for
dishwasher. The restaurant in
which DR.. Campbell found employ
ment is one of the modern eating
places Of the city, but the system,
nevertheless, is much the same as
everywhere.
One stands at long counter, and
as the never-ending stream Of dishes
comes through during the rush hours
it is necessary to separate the rem
nants of meats from the vegetable
matter before lowering the plates
into the wire basket flooded with hot
water. But sometimes even hot
water won't remove all the stains,
and then the job must be tackled
with the hands.
Hour after hour this once promi-
nent physician and expert diagnos-
tician in human ills stood at his
task, the while at his elbow
rose an ever new pile Of accumu
lated table implements for his eff
forts. From 5 in the evening until
z IN the morning he stood there.
with intervals of idle periods, Of
course, and time off for his meals,
and when he was told that he was
entitled to one day off a week he
merely shook his head and said he
did not want it. The fact that he
received no pay for the extra days
work made no difference to him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

paid $40 a week for the care Of the
dogs.
The keeper looked at the woman
and shook his head.
"He liked them," he explained.
Gle liked dogs"
eyes, but wasn't he little, er-
OFF," persisted the woman.
"He was kind man." said the
keeper. Gle was an old man who
came every day to see his dogs. He
paid me regularly for keeping them.
He was always very prompt. Maybe
now that he is dead his wife,
"Hasn't she been here?"
mo Nor at the place he lived at,
either"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
A Genius, Friends Said

CDR. Campbell was a genius" said
Dr.. W. J. Schreck, of the steel city,
an old friend, who had been close
to him in his days of usefulness and
prosperity. "He long held the repu-
tation of being one Of the best dag
nosticians in Pittsburgh, and was
considered one of the most promi-
nent physicians in this city"
"He was a good fellow and first
rate DOCTOR" said DR.. George S. Rob-
inson, of Philadelphia, who had been
a fellow inferno, with DR.. Campbell
in the Philadelphia hospital and had
kept track Of him for several years
after.
Other p1,ygiciRns added their words
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

evening until 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, and he usually started for home
at about the time Conroy finished his
work at his machine and was ready
to leave.