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Evening star., 1920-07-11
KINGSTON HAS BIG PLANS.
Will Borrow SIS, 900 to Make
Port Strictly First Glass.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, June 80 (Cor-
respondence Of the Associated Press).
Tho Jamaica government is plan
ming to borrow in London $4,000. 900
in order to make the port of Kingston
a first class one by deepening the
channel to the piers and other i'm
provements.
It is proposed also to extend the
railway to the wharves. to construct
additional piers. erect big dry dock
and wireless station, and establish
an oil and coaling depot for ships.
One purpose of this program is to
make Kingston q port of call for
vessels passing through the Panama
canal. Members Of the Legislature
assert that Kingston should be as
well equipped as Cristobal. the At
laHtio entrance to the Panama canal.
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SPECIAL TAXES THIS MONTH =
WILL YIELD IMMENSE SUMS

alley means SO a year in the public
treasury, and the federal tax on shoot
ing galleries is $40 year. Riding
academies and passenger AUTOMOBILES
operated for hire pay taxes that vary
with the amount of business done.
Pleasure boats are taxed according 70
their length and weight. the smaliesS'
tax being $40.
Other special taxes that reach Z
considerable figure and which are
collectible in July are those on
wholesale and retail liquor dealers
licensed under the Volstead act. to-
hacco manufa cturers, manufacturers
of oleomargarine and adulterateo
butter. and manufacturers and deal
ers in filled cheese.
Collections of these taxes, couples
with the very considerable work IN
connection with the task OF coliectine
the capital stock taxes due with the
beginning of the new fiscal year.
make the month of July the busiest
on the calendar for the bureau OF in-
ternaI revenue, and the funds of the
Treasury are swelled in consequences.
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Cossacks seemed about to agree TO.
| The news was stupefying. sent Tor
krassnov.
Have you permitted red sailors to
| enter the palace?" I demanded:
Krassnov began a long explanation,
informing me that he was In toucn
with everything that was going on,
that the meeting was OF no importance
and that it was very advantageous TO US.
While they talk" he said. the
| will arrive and we can assume dlf-
ferent tone" .s5s -@.
AS for, giving me up. he assured
me that he would never listen to it.
That was my last interview with
him. He departed, as he said. to
! try to hasten the arrival of the re-
| inforcements. but in view OF what
happened I am sure that he wanted
to be out of the way before the
| events which followed. He had at
| least that much shame.
His nervousness, his restless glance,
| his strange smile, left me no doubt.
| 1t was evident that the putting of a
price on my head was not so dis
| tasteful to him as he had pretended.
After his departure told my two
aids, who had remained faithful,
| just what suspected. What was to
| be done? We had taken no thought
| of our personal safety, and 1t was
| impossible to get out Of the palace,
| constructed by Paul the First in the
! form of "a Quadrilateral: with only
| one entrance. This, of course. was
! guarded by the red soldiers and SAIL
ors since the arrival of Dibenko's
party and the complete detection of
| the CosSacks.
/, our lives as dearly as possible, If it
came to that, an old employe Of the
| palace entered my quarters,
| I'm the discharge of my duties"
he said, Il have learned of an under
ground passage which leads to the
park outside. and tonight l will show
| it to you If the worst comes"
| grasped his hand. I could say
nothing.
"Do not be seen here" said one OF
death as well as the spelling Of your
plan"
| Treachery OF the Cossacks.
The old man slipped out of the
room noiselessly. just in time. The
same half-witted fellow who had
brought me the i'll news of the morn
ing entered unannounced and stood
| leering at me.
| "The Cossacks have sold you" he
said. '"rhey are going back to their
barracks. The sailors will take you
tonight, or before, il you try to go
away" And he leered out of the
| room.
| do not know whether he was sent
to tell US or whether he took some
| fiendish pleasure in carrying bad
news and thus spoiled their plans.
! Scarcely had this weird messenger
left. than the old map. who had told
us of the passage. returned. With
him were several others. Without
stopping for second we rushed from
the apartments, locking the doors be-
hind us.
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year a public ferry, was ordered to
CROSS the Potomac from Hunting
Creek warehouse on the land of Hugh
West, in the county Of Prince VIII
liam, Va, to Fraziers Point. in Mary
land. Hunting Creek warehouse stood
Frazier's Point was that which we
call Shepherds Point or Shepherds g
Landing. The Home for the INDECENT
is on the fiat lands near Shepherds.
The name Of the institution is Blue
Plains and that name has become
familiar to newspaper readers. In
the old records large tract of land
opposite Alexandria appears under
the name of Blue Plains and some
times as Belle Plains. About 1710
Blue Plains or Belle Plains was
bought by the Rev. John Frazier. who
was the first minister called to the
Episcopal parish of Piscataway. in
Maryland. The first church in that
parish, and which is still standing and
| in use, was brick church at the head
south of Blue Plains. In the Church
Militant, the official organ of the
Bishop Of Washington, of the issue of
February. 1898, there was an article
by the Rev. r. T. Kerfoot on THE
Parish of Piscataway. or Ye Old Broad
long the rector of that church and its
offspring. ST. Barnabas Church. wrote
THE Rev. John Frazier was the
first incumbent of the Piscataway
parish" June 20, 1710, this day the
Rev. John Frazier presented to the
| which was approved:
| By the Hon. Edward Lloyd, ESQ.,
| President of the Council Of Maryland.
To the Gentlemen Of Piscataway Parish, Greet.
ing:
| Whereas am directed by the Rt. Rev and
| the Rt. Hon. the Bishop of London. Diocesan
OF this Province, to place the Rev. John
Fragier, an orthodox minister Of the Church
Of England. in some cure or parish within the
| province, do hereby appoint him the said
| Frazier, to be and to oficiate minister OF
rector Of and within the parish Of Piscataway
In Prince Georges county: and therefore ! dc
hereby require and direct you to receive him
| as such. and to pay unto him the forty pounds
| Of tobacco according to law.
Given under my hand and seal at the
| town and port of Annapolis, this the 14th day
| of March, in the 9Th of our Sovereign Lady
Anne, Queen Of Great Britain and Defender OF
EDWARD LLOYD.
Mr.. Kerfoot continued: Early in
his rectorship Mr.. Frazier had pur-
chased an estate called Belle Plains
opposite Alexandria, upon a point to
the north of where Oxon run empties
into the Potomac. Formerly it had
been the residence of Mr.. John Baptist
Kirby, an ancestor of a large family
Of that name in the old parish still
He died in 1742 and it is said that
his body rests beneath the chancel
of the Broad Creek Church His
great family Bible Is now in DOS.
session of the Addison family of Bal.
timore. Mr., Frazier's will is recorded
| IN the registrar Of Wills Office in An
napolis."
That explains the long forgotten
| pl2ce-nQna 2ia
| there was an act establishing a nuhlic
! ferry from the land of Hugh West in
Fa1rfax county to Frazier's Point
or Addison's Landing. This intro.
duces US to the old Potomac ferry
called successfully Addison's ferry
6errys ferry and Fox's ferry. And we
would begin at that ferry next Sun.
! day.. -----,-s-.--
Evening star., 1920-07-11

Synopsis Of First Installment: Spurred
on By growing disorders in Petrograd and
hoping to hasten the arrival Of reinforce
ments which had been promised, Kerensky
and two devoted aids left the Russian
capital In automobiles, one Of which bore
an American nag. Having succeeded in
running past the barriers and the red
guards, the party reached GatchIns with
out having been able to get into COM
munication with the government troops.
While talking to the commandant at
Gatchina. Kerensky's suspicious were
aroused and he suddenly changed his plans,
a called back his car which was going for
gasoline, and rushed out Of the city. Later
he learned that the commandant at
CATCHING had orders from red headquart-
ers to arrest him..
Evening star., 1920-07-11
FROM LAST SUN
DAYS STAR.
BY ALEXANDER KERENSKY.

" HE car in which I had SO sud
denly left the quarters of the
commandant at Gatchina passed
the red barriers before the SEN
tries had time to realize what was hap
pening, but the English car following
with one of my aids was held up for
more than an hour by mobs in the
streets.
Finally it succeeded in passing one
of the barriers, but the troops there
fired on it. Two volleys went wild.
and another struck the chauffeur in
the hand. AS for my aid, he was
obliged to abandon the auto and Nee
as fast as his legs would carry him,
pursued by the bo1sheviki.
All this we learned later. At the
time our one thought was to reach
Louga- There was nothing to be
learned there and we started full
speed for Pskov. All during the trip
we counted the minutes in terrible
anxiety. Would our store OF gasoline
get us there? Would our tires hold
At each jolt our hearts were in our
throats.
At Pskov learned that the forces
were demoralized. Part of the town
was already under the direction of a
bolshevik committee which already
had in its hands a telegram ordering
my arrest. Gen. Tcheremisov, the
commandant, informed me that he
could not guarantee my safety IL
did not depart at once. He also told
me that he had countermanded his
previous order for the dispatch OF
troops to Petrograd, but that the
Sd Corps. composed Of Cossacks, had
: had already departed.
These were desperate straits for
the provisional government. but was
absolutely worn out and must snatch
q few moments sleep before starting
back for Petrograd. 1 do not know
how long had dozed when there was
. knocking on my door.
WOsd Battle at Gatchina.
1t was Gen. Krassnov. who was in
, command of the Sd Corps. Briefly
he told me that he had received a
counter order from Tcheremissov annul-
ing the first order to march on Petro-
grad, but that hearing i was in Pskoy
he wanted to be certain that 1t was au-
thentic. This was my first good news
The Sd Corps of Cossacks had beer
depleted until it consisted of not more
than about 400 men and Q few guns. But
at least this was something. and de-
AQite the threats Of the infantry, which
Evening star., 1920-07-11
. nredictsd. The unexpected didn't

"A s:;s:s :: .s',s s' s.
- paign expense account Of two
refusals to run and one collect tele-
gram to the deceased Car OF NUS
sia, the San Francisco CONFUSION oe-
cided to give Cox the cookies on cir
cumstantial evidence.
1t required "A ballots to convict. ana mo,
hunger and a fat hotel bill II wouIo
have been voting yet. Next time the
delegates are going to take along
change of collars and not be nufrieu
through with the nomination A.
An Ohio man has been aimed d. ~ snr
White House! Washington is so near
the Mason-Dixon line that the inhaoi-
tants thereof don't know wnetner
thew are northerners or soutnerners' s.
but Just the same an Ohtoan IS goins
TO enjoy the southern cooking ana tne
northern exposure-the voters cam
change that. The nominating is the
rrayy-after that the voters gailop
1p to the poles and indict victim oy
ear without even consulting I n Q
music All Germany lost was the war
and all the voters do is elect-tne
delegates tell 'em who. a.
McAdoo was a good loser. AT tne
end of the obsequies he said. All l
needed to win was some votes"
William Jennings Bryan had the
nomination cinched until they started
balloting. When he made his plea Tor
a dry plank the mob cheered him in
seven different languages and pink.
When they voted on his plank he was
cheered also. only you spell IT
i-e-e-r.ed. The "ch" is hard as In
cider.
Just before the clinic went into the
4lth fit, Mr.. Palmer announced that
-
in the bleachers responded. sweet and
low: you've been out from the be-
Einningv The ambulance made a
quick run to the hospital. It's
tougher to make gentlemen out of
conventioners than 1t Is to make lem
onade out of raspberries and that's
one recipe they didn't enbalm In the
Frisco platform.
Outside Of nominating presiden-
tial aspirant and disappointing some
others, they didn't accomplish much
at San Francisco. From a republican
Evening star., 1920-07-11

equal value-that Of the provisional
government and that of the bolshe-
viks. They argued by means of the
threat of an immediate strike unless
an armistice should be declared with
out delay looking toward discussions
which would lead to mutual con-
cessions.
During the evening Of the 30th of
October deputation from the
Evening star., 1920-07-11

vigkel came to me with an ultimatum
declaring that they could not spill
blood in the streets of the capital
and that all the socialist parties, in
cluding the bolsheviks. had declared
in favor of the cessation Of the fratri-
cidal war; that upon the initiative of
the Vigkel these parties had already
begun to discuss the conditions of the
armistice. and that the Vigkel was
absolutely impartial and neutral, in
virtue of which it proposed to me.
Evening star., 1920-07-11
NOT TAKING 1T TOO SERIOUSLY
Some Angles of the Passing Show That May Have
Escabed the G1oon,s and Grouches.
BY KIRK MILLER

the gentlemen's agreement expired
and Daniels threw his support to Ad-
miraI Sims. Bryan, not to be stymied.
voted for himself in the fourth. To
prove that the delegates were groggy
toward the last lap, they began vot-
ing for squirrels. Ring Lardner got
a half OF one per cent of a vote and
Irv Cobb got one and one-half. Other
tree spaniels who were called but
never chosen were "Skeets" Watson,
Annette Kellermann, Captain Kidd and
Evening star., 1920-07-11

standpoint the thing was kind Of n
fivver. Up to the final poll the whole
affair was a total blimp from the
G. o. p. snailseye. From the first bal
lot when Bryan conceded that he was
defeated, to the last, when the world
conceded 1t with him, the Frisco fra
cas- was a f1asco carried into the last
dimension, according to the view of
the opposition. 1t was a neck-and-
neck race among Palmer, Cox and
McAdoo from the outset. Three
legged races have been tossed OF be-
fore in the history Of mankind and
democrats, but that was the first
three-necked race ever staged where
the moving picture hounds could tell
the world.
Daniels and Bryan each got one vote
up through the. third epidemic. then
Evening star., 1920-07-11

HE internal revenue bureau Is
especially busy this month in
collecting various special taxes
that will yield several hum
dred million dollars. Stock and bond
brokers must pay from $50 to $3.50 a
year, according to the amount of
buesiness they do. Pawnbrokers are
subject to a tax of 800 year. Ship
brokers, who conduct negotiations be-
tween shippers and shipowners. are
taxed $50 a year, and customhouse
brokers pay similar amount.
Theaters must pay special tax in
addition to that levied on the pur-
amount ranging from $50 to 5000. A
circus pays Uncle Sam a tax OF 800
a year, and even the dime museum
and the curio hall must come across
chasers of theater tickets. the
to the tune of SIS or more annually.
Every pool table and every bowling
Evening star., 1920-07-11
JAPANESE WARSHIP RANKS
HIGH WITH U. S. CRAFT
Recently Launched Mutsu Closely
Comparable With Newest Ameri-
can Ship, Maryland. a

YOKOSUKA, Japan. June 20 (Cor-s
respondence of the Associated Presa).
The Japanese battleship Mutsu, res
Gently launched here, is closely COM.
narable with the newest American
tattleship. the Maryland. launched at
Newport News in March. Both war
ships, however. are consideraniyF
smaller and less speedy than the
great British battleship cruiser HOOD.
launched on the Clyde in August,
1918. The Hood. on the other hand.
is armed with fifteen-inch guns IN
her main battery, while the Mutsu ann
the Maryland will have an equal
number of sixteen-inch rifles. sFss
The Hood continues to be the lark-.
est warship afioat, a distinction she
will hold until the Massachusetts
class of dreadnaughts comes into United
States Navy service in 1921-22. -
A comparison of tonnage, length
speed and guns of the three great
ships shows: 4s5
Mutsu. Hood. Marylapds
Tonnage ....... 80, 800 4l.2O0 So $50
Length ....... 66l IT. $50 It. ga fI.s
Designed speed. esh knots 81 knots q k.eoE
Main battery. 8 l2-in. 8 16-in. aSVe
Evening star., 1920-07-11
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

- ERMAN government officials
have met with the premiers
j of allied nations at Spa. Ger
Evening star., 1920-07-11

Outside Of nominating q presiden-
tial aspirant and Disappointing some
others, they didn't accomplish much
at San Francisco. From a republican
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09
COX DRAWS LEAGUE ISSUE SHARPLY

ARDTNG against the League Nations Cox for it. J Harding would separate peace with Germany Cox that separate infamy would surely be folly Harding would the % nations who have joined the League and offer them kind of league which he calls association He does not what kind of assoca this would that to do this would be madness attempt to play international boss
 be doubt about the issue. The candidates anything that the platforms made misty The Dem platform not foggy but the Republican platform it touches the League of Nations.
 Throughout his speech acceptance Cox clear deflne firm He knows where he intends to He is willing to tell others. His views show gratifying consciousness that the well being of country rests other considerations tariff Indeed Hardngs speech in negative in disappearance this fetish from American po tica discussion, flor he hardly mentions it.
 speaks of diminished taxation of the necessity that brought cultivation, of the need for dwellings for the people to live n of criminal punish proeer and of other matters to be accomplished for the comfort of the people.
 clearly that disaster to the world, IS serious than disaster to village and he makes the duty duty for the consideration of the American people, world well of the United States.
 They proof their larger citizenship since they right remember the awful consequences of that plague which inflicted untold suffering millions and 5OOOOO of the flower of American youth
 Progress arrays against reaction Who wants the first wi Cox.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09
LOCAL GUARDSMEN
 OFF TO NIANTIC

Bridgeport boys who are in the Fourth Infantry left for camp today. This is the first time since the war that soldiers from this city have gone to the state camp at Mantle
 Commanded by Col. Louis J. Her. man, who succeeded Col. Stephen P Cronan, recently resigned, the follow ing companies composed the Bridge port delegation: Company A, Lieut.. John Lund, commanding; Company 5, Lieut. Albert Montrose, command ing; Company c, Lieut.. James J. Ratchford, commanding; Company D, Capt. Russell Glenn, commanding; Machine Gun company, Capt. Henry Allgrun, commanding; Ambulance company, Capt. David J. Wasson commanding; Supply company, Capt Leonard Asheim, commanding. Major G. Skiff Ford. regiental surgeon. and Regimental Chaplain William Horace Day also accompanied the party.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09
SOKOLOWSKY SLAIN
 BECAUSE HE WAS SPY
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 tory they will present it as a mur- der, the influence by government wreckers in the international labor world.
 They have obtained evidence of the character of the detective work of SokoIowsky, first as a member of the Black Hundred,' the company which ernment circles, later of the work. carried on in England by him in ferreting out the same N1nilistic group which was working in London in 1917. They have found how he extended his detective work to Can ada in 1918 and spoiled I. W. W. plains in Toronto and other Canadian cities for wrecking government prop erty by the wholesale in the Dom1n- lcn. They have later learned how completely he worked out his plans for breaking up the radical labor fac tion in the industrial disturbances in Connecticut, notably in Bridgeport and Waterbury. The bombing of under this radical faction when So- kolowsky accom- plished the feat of bringing the guilty leaders to jus t1ce and protecting the rights of abor to preserve law and order in great strikes, Sokolowsky worked in the closest of relationship with Ira Ornburn, head of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, and Ornburn had full faith in the murdered secret service man.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09
TRIED TO BEAT
 JITNEY- -S25 FINE

Andrew Pov1oski of 275 Berkshire avenue will pay his fare the next time he rides on a jitney if he was at all impressed by the swift action handed out to him by Judge Bart lett in the City court this morning. and Fred Golsky of Berkshire avenue will know the next time that it doesn't pay to interfere with an officer when he seeks to make an arrest. The former was fined s25 and costs and
 latter paid $10 and costs when they were arraigned in the City court this morning.
 Andrew boarded a Barnum avenue jitney yesterday and when he had travelled his distance sought to get off the machine without paying his fare. Whereupon the jitney driver called a cop. Andrew thought he was Q, little bit better than Patrolman Clancy and sought to hang one on his nose with the result that Officer Clan cy beaned him on the head with his billy and sent him up to the Elmer gency hospital where Dr. CoyIe treated him for scalp wounds. Golsky butt ed in and attempted to aid Povloski and was taken to the Second Precinct station and locked up. Judge Bart lett offered them no sympathy in the court this morning and warned them against resisting an officer hereafter
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-09
THEsWONDER OF RADIUM
" HE DAILY NEWS tells that 26 patio

HE DAILY NEWS patients being U treated wit millgrams of radium which B. Lashar has provided memorial to his mother recently Measured by first cost radiu the most material in modern medicine measured by ultimate cost about the cheapest
 century three generations allowed. MT Lashars radum will last if it is properly cared during years which the time of 9 generations of The cost of this radium $2OOOO but the age daily cost during of thirteen centuries will be about four cents day.
 Multudes will have occasion to be grateful to the founder radium about the only thing that efficiently and frequently to if the maay taken enough The radum constantly emits emanaton which but is lqufes diseased cells and enables their absorption by the blood.
 milgrams s tenth of a gram, about one hundred and eightieth of avordupois therefore is wenyeighth of the atoms British scientist has said if the energy which of radium releases 1900 released instantly it would blow the British fleet British channel and lay it the peak of Mt Blanc
 There is rule for this formuae. The work done by moving body equal to onehaf the product of the square the velocity. From the hundred mligams Bridgeport particles will be projected for thirteen at the rate of than 10000 miles second Fortunately everybody these particles of matter which might the tip pen kne will not disassocate instant completely doing 6SOOOO horse would evolved would be most unpleasant for people the neighborhood.
 Lashar will have promoted another useful purpose if young people to learn about adm and it's Here material which has changed the of science It vstas of lmitles extent The hundred millgrams of radum than They material evidence tending in the this universe founded spirit that all things whatever the product of vast intellect the mind omniscent Creator No od regard him. educated unless he knows the science that has grown invesga-