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The Washington times., 1921-02-24
CIVIL BILL DUE
TODAY
House Expected to Vote on 63
Separate Amendments
Within 48 Hours.

= Numerous appropriations Affecting
the District are contained In the
conference report on the sundry
civil supply bill which is scheduled
to come up in the House for final
passage either late today or tomor-
row.
AGREE ON ID. G. ITEMS.
While the House will have to vote
on sixty-three separate amendmen nts
on which the conferees were unable
to agree, the conference report
shows the two houses agreed upon
the following items OF special i'm
portance to the District:
The conferees accepted the House
anie ndment which appropriates S38O,-
900 for remodelling public buildings,
and accepted the Senate proposal
which increases from s25. 900 to $50, 900
the Imitation on expenditures In any
one building.
The report provides that the ap-
preparation for Columbia Hospital and
Lying-ip Asylum shall be paid sixty
per cent out OF the revenues OF the
District. and forty per cent out of the
Treasury.
II reduces from $4,000. 900 to sI.soo.-
600 the appropriation for the en-
ployes' compensation fund. and re-
duces from $4,000 to 100000 the ap-
propriation for continued expenses
for the employees compensation com
mittee.
ROCK CREEK PARK PROVISION.
Provides that the appropriation for
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
Committee shall be paid on the sixty
forty basis.
Appropriates sl25.000 as proposed
by the House instead OF 3l33,OOO for
general expenses OF the geological
Park.
Strikes out an appropriation for the
maintenance of a memorial fountain
in Dupont Circle; appropriates $780,
900 instead OF S150.000 for continuing
the construction OF rejecting pool
in West Potomac Park.
Provides that the appropriations
for Georgetown bridge shall be paid
on a sixty-forty basis.
Increases from 100000 to 800, 900, as
proposed by the Senate a sum for the
support of the Columbia Institution
for the Deaf.
sIs,OOO,OOO FOR VETERANS.
Appropriates $4,000 as proposed by
/ the House instead OF S5O,OOo Tor
salaries for the Housing Corporation.
Directs the heads of executive de-
partments and independent establish
ments of the Government to issue
report regularly with respect TO
| smokin in buildings under their con-
| troll.
Reduces the appropriation Tor
salaries to the employees compehsa-
ton commission from $l24'o4o TO
Sl02, $50.
Appropriates s363,o0O for additional
work to the Lincoln Memorial and IN
creases the limit of cost to S2,0o'ooo.
Appropriates $4,000 for recon
structing the fence around the Bo-
tanic Gardens.
Appropriates $4,000 for additions
to the Home Economics Building OF
Howard University.
Appropriates $lS.6oO,oO0 for ad-
ditional hospital facilities for war
Risk patients and the Federal board
lCC Vocational Education ana Tor
Spanish War Veterans. Philippine
linsurrection, and the Boxer rebellion
suffering from tuberculosis.
The Washington times., 1921-02-24

she pleaded for a room for her hus-
band, because OF his condition.
She said she exhibited cards and
letters for Identification, but was
tcld there's the door and beyond
that the gutter. and you may take
your choice"
They went to the Belvedere. where
they obtained accommodations. Her
husband died September 80 follow
ing.
Sergt. Rene Perraud. of the French
embassy, accompanied Nine. Coquelet
to Baltimore and testified for her.
The Washington times., 1921-02-24
Trinidad Citizens to Meet.

Trinidad Citizens Association Will
meet tonight at the Manual Training
school. Eighth and Eye streets north
cast at s o'clock.
The Washington times., 1921-02-24
Groom Steals Bride
Back From Eate Dad
On Hunch of Seeress

Love laughs at obstacIes-even at such difficult one
as wealthy irate parent who carries his opposition to
the extent of snachng bride away from her husband OF
five hours and spiriting her to another city.
The Washington times., 1921-02-24
Elected From Hotel,
She Says; Loses Suit
Baltimore Jury Refuses Re-
dress TO Widow Of French
War Hero.

There's the door and beyond that
the gutter. and you may take your
choice"
This was the order that she and
her invalid husband received from
the management OF the Hotel Cas-
well. In Baltimore. on the night OF
June IL, 1919. when they asked for
accommodations, Nine. Henriette
Coquelet of 1909 N street northwest.
told a Baltimore jury yesterday in
bringing suit for $4,000 damages for
alleged humiliation and disgrace
against the Caswell Hotel Company
and the Union Hotel Company, of
Baltimore.
VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT.
After celebrating for a short time
the jury rendered a verdict in favor
of the defendant
Her husband. she said, who was con-
nected with the French embassy,
was wounded and shell shocked dur
ing the war. He was in French
uniform and wore a number of deco
rations when they visited Baltimore
on June I2, 1919.
my husband was ILL.," Nine. CO.
quelet said. "and after going to a
picture show we went into the Cas-
well Hotel for some refreshment
My husband became worse. We con-
cluded TO remain all night.
According to Nine. Coquelet. she
and her husband were greatly hI-
inflated in the presence OF guests
and employees OF the hotel She said
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then to have a perfect epidemic Of
wrecks.
The boss turned the material trou-
BILE over to Mr.. Van Britt and devoted
himself pretty strictly to the public
side OF things. Everywhere, and on
every occaslon-at dinners at the diff
ferent chambers OF commerce. and
public b%nnquets given to this, that, or
the other visiting blg-wig-he was al
ways ready to get on his feet and tell
the people that the true prosperity of
the country carried with II the pros
perIty OF the railroads; that the two
things were one and inseparable; and
that, when 1t came right down TO basic
facts, the railroads were really a part
Of the progress machinery of the
try at large ana should be regarded.
not as alien taX-collectors. but as con-
tributors to the general prosperity and
welfare.
BY this time, also, Red Tower Con-
solidated was beginning TO find out
what u meant TO have active COM
petition. The c. s. & w. people were
hammering their new plants Into work
ing shape, and they were getting the
patronage. both of the producers and
consumers, hand over fist. Track facll-
tiles and yard service were granted
freely and while no discrimination
was permitted as against the Red
Tower people, the friendly attitude Of
the road counted for something, as 1t
was bound to.
During those few prediction weeks
the New York end of us seemed to
have petered u completely. We heard
nothing more from President Dunton.
worse than an occasional wire COM
plant about the number of wrecks
we were having, though the stock
was still going down, point by point,
and, so far Is n nan up a tree could
see, We were making no attempt to
show net earnings-were turning all
our money into betterments as fast as
It came In. | knew that couldn't 20
on. without "a furry of some sort, the
New Workers would never be able to
break even, TO say nothing OF b profit,
and ] looked every day for n howl
that would tear things straight up the
back.
While all these threads were weav-
Ing along, I'm sorry to say that l
hadn't yet drummed up the courage
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I knew there was only n window
In the majors den room. and that
was nearly opposite the screened door
way. SO | ducked back into the
dining room and took a stand where
/ could see the one window through
the ~door-curtaln network of bamboo
beads. / was so excited that | caught
only snatches Of what Mrs. Sheila was
saying to the boss, but the bits that
l heard were q good deal TO the point.
"No, / mean IL, Graham II is as
I told you at first there Is no
standing room for either Of us on
that ground and you must not
come here again when you know that
/ am alone. -. No, Jimmie isn't
enoughl"
| wrenched the half-working ear
sense aside and jammed 1t into my
eyes, concentrating hard on the win
dow at which | expected every second
TO see n mans face. If the man was
n murderer, l thought l could beat
him to IT.
The suspense didn't last very long.
A hand came up first TO push the
window vines aside. II was a white
hand. long and slender, more Ike a
woman's than n mans. Then against
the glass | saw the face, and 1t gave
me such a turn that ! thought l must
be going batty.
Instead of the ugly mug of n OF
Clanahan's gunner, the haggard face
framed In the window sash was a face
that | had seen once-and only once
before; on a certain Sunday night In
the Billiard when the loose-lipped
mouth belonging to 1t had been bah
bling drunken curses at the night
clerk. The man at the window was
the ~dissipated young rounder who had
been pointed out as the nephew OF
President Dunton.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-26
CHAPTER X
The Man at the Window

OF course. the first thing l did, the
morning after that adventure In the
o a yard, was TO tell the boss all
about 1t, and | was Just foxy enough
to do 1t when MIR, Ripley was present.
MIR. Norcross didn't say much and,
for that matter, neither did the law
yer, though he did ask the boss a
question or two about the real facts
in the Midland right-of-way squabble.
But noticed, after that, that cur
man Tarbell was continually turning
up at all sorts OF times, and in all
sorts of odd places, so l took 1t that
Ripley had given him his tip, and
that he was sort Of safeguarding Mr..
Norcross on the quiet. though | am
sure the boss didn't know anything
about that part of 1.-THE was such a
square fighter himself that he prob
ably wouldn't have stood for II If he
had.
Meanwhile, things grew warmer and
warmer IN the tussle we were making
TO pull the old Short Line out of the
mud warmer In a number Of ways,
because, In addition TO the fight for
the public confidence. we began just
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-26

to tell the boss the truth about Mrs.
Sheila. He kept oil going to the
majors every chance he had, and
Maisle Ann was making life miserable
for me because | hadn't told him
calling me a coward and everything
under the sun, ! told her TO tell him
herself, and she rctorted that | knew
she couldn't: that II was my job and
nobody else's, We fused over II a
lot and because | most always con
trlved some excuse to chase out to the
kendrick house at the boss heels
merely TO help Tarbell keep cases on
him-there were plenty OF chances for
the fussing.
II was on M OF these chasing trips
TO "Kenwoodp that the roof fell In.
The major had gone out somewhere
10 the theater, | guess-taking his wife
and Maisie Ann, and the boss and
Mrs. Sheila were sitting together In
the majors den, with a little coal
blaze In the basket CRATE because the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-26

your administration a failure, II won't
hesitate to get rid Of you In the easiest
way that offers"
There was silence In the majors
den for a minute or so. and then the
boss said:
AS usual. you know more than you
are willing to tell me"
Perhaps not" was the prompt an
swer. perhaps I am only the on
looker-who can usually see things
rather better than the persons actual
ly involved. Hitherto I have urged
you to be bold. and then again to be
bold. Now l am begging you TO be
prudent"
'ln what way7"
Careful for yourself. For example:
yon walked out here this evening f;
don't do that any more. Come In a
falkland don't come alone"
! couldn't see his frown of disagree
mont. but | knew well enough 1t was
there.
There spoke the woman In yon."
he said. IF | should show the white
feather that way, they'd have some ex-
cuse for potting me-"
There was a silence agoin. and I
got up quietly and crossed the dining
room to the big recessed window where
| stood looking out into the darkness
Of the ~tree-shaded lawn. II was pretty
evident that Mrs. Sheila knew n heap
more than she was telling the boss,
just ms he had said. and ! couldn't
help wondering how she came oknow
1t. What she said about the increased
number of wrecks looked like a pointer.
Was she in touch with the enemy in
some way7
Then my mind went back in a flash
to what Maisie Ann had told me. Was
the husband who ought TO be dead, and
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CHAPTER discontinued.

IL was up to me TO move again.
Henckel was striking matches and
holding them SO that Clnnahan could
look under the cars, and | could feel.
la anticipation. the shock Of q bullet
from the big gun In the divekeeper's
fat fist as ! crawled cautiously out
on h far side. Creeping along be-
hind the string OF Goa! cars | came
presently to the great gantry crane
used for unloading the fuel. II was n
huge travelling machine. straddling the
tracks and u good part OF the yard.
and the clam-shell grab-bucket was
down, resting ON its two lips ON the
ground.
At first | thought OF climbing to the
framework of the crane and trying TO
hide OF the big bridge beam. Then
! saw that the two halves of the clam
shell bucket were slightly open, just
wide enough 10 let me squeeze in
III they were looking for Il full-slzed
man-Tarbell, for instance, who was
ns husky AS a farm-hand-they'd never
think OF that crack In the bucket; and
In another second had wriggled
through the V-shaped opening ard was
sitting bumped up In one of the halves
Of the clam-shell.
That was a mighty good guess.
When Hatch came back with his gun.
they combed that coal yard with n
iine-tooth comb, using a lantern that
Hatch had gotten from somewhere and
missing no hole or corne where a
man might hide. a v and excepting
only the n ] had pre-empted.
As II happened, the search wound
up finally under the crane with the
three standing so near that l could
have reached out OF the crack between
the bucket halves and touched them.
"Der tuyfel has gone init himself
Offer der fence, yesY" puffed Henckel.
And then: "vot for ISIS he shoot Off
dem pistols. ennahow?'
Clanahan confessed, | suppose be-
cause he knew he would have to, sooner
or later.
ut was n hold-up," he growled. 9TH
warrants gone out nv my pocket"
Hatch's comment on this was fairly
blood-curdling In Its profanity.
'Then it's up TO you TO get him some
other way, you laundering son of II
theft" ne ragged. 81 don't care what
you do, but if you don't make this
country too hot TO hold him. it's GO
ing to get too hot to hold you !" And
what more he was going TO say, |
don't know, for Mt that moment n be-
lated police patrol began pounding ut
the gates on the town side and want
ing to know what all the shooting was
about.
1t was after they had all gone away,
leaving the big coal yard In silence
and darkness, that I got mine, good
and hard. Sitting all punched up In
the grab-bucket and waiting for my
chance TO climb out and make n get
away, the common sense reaction came
and saw what | had done. With the
best Intentions In the world, in trying
10 kill off the chance offered to the
enemy by the Oregon warrant and
the trumped-up charge Of murder, I
had merely saved the boss an arrest
and a possible legal tangle and had
put him In peril of his life.
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wasn't, mixed NJ In 1t in any way?
Could II be possible that he was one
OF those who were in the fight on the
other side, and that she was still keep
ing in touch with him?
Pretty soon / heard the murmur of
their voices again, but now l was so
far away from the bamboo-screened
door that l couldn't hear what they
were saying. l wished they would
break II off so the boss could go. 1t
was getting late, and there had been
enough said to make me wish we
were both safely back In the hotel.
It's that way sometimes, you know, in
spite of all you car do. You hear a
talk. and you can't help reading be-
tween the lines. ] knew, as well as
| knew that / was alive, that Mrs.
Sheila meant more than she had said /:
perhaps more than she had dared to
say.
IL was while l was standing there
In the big window that l saw the man
on the lawn. At first | thought 1t was
Tarbell, who was never very far out
OF reach when the boss was running
loose. But the next minute / saw |
was mistaken. The man under the
trees had on a long travelling coat
that came nearly to his heels, and his
cap vas the kind that has two visors,
one In front and the other behind.
Realizing that it wasn't Tarbell, l
stood perfectly still. The house was
lighted with gas, and the dlning-room
chandelier had been turned down, so
there was a chance that the skulker
under the trees wouldn't see me stand
ing In the corner Of the box window.
To make 1t surer, / edged away until
the curtain hid me. l was just in time.
The man had crept out OF his hiding
place and was coming up to the win
dow on the outside. As he passed
through the dim beam of light thrown
by the turned-down chandelier. l saw
that he had a pistol in his hand, or a
weapon OF some kind; anyway, I
caught the CLINT Of the gas-light on
dull steel.
That stirred me up good and plenty.
/ still had the gun l had taken out Of
Fred Mays drawer; l had carried it
ever since the night when II had
mighty nearly got me killed of in the
Red Tower coal yard. ] fished 1t out
and made ready, thinking, of course.
that the skulker must certainly be one
of Clanahan's gunner. l still had
that idea when / felt, rather than saw,
that the man was pulling himself up
to the window so that he could take
n look into the dining room.
The look satisfied him, apparently.
for the next second | heard him drop
among the bushes; and when I stood
up and looked out again l could Just
make him u going around toward
the back of the house. l knew the
house like a book, and without making
any noise about it ! slipped through
the buffers pantry and got a look
out OF n rear window. My mar was
there. and he was working his way
sort OF blindly around to the den side
Of the place.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-26
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.

synopss-Gpham Norcross; railroad manaser, and his secretary Jimmy
IN her small cousin. Mdsie Ann Unseen. hey witness n peculiar train hold
up in which q special car Is carried on. NorcrOss recognizes the car al that
OF John Chadwick. financial magnat. whom he vas 10 meet at Portal City
lie and Dyids rcscrcC Chadwick The Iater offers Noruumst thu MANAGEMENT
Of the Pioneer Short Line which is In the hands Of EASTERN spectators. headed
by breckenridge Dunton. president OF he line Noucross learning that Shena
Nacrae Is stopping At Portal city. accepts D0dds overhears conversation be-
tween Rufus Hatch and Gustave Henckel Portal City nuancers in which
hey admit completely in Chadwcks kidnapping, their object being to keep
Chadwick from attending n meeting Of directors to reorganize the Pioneer
Short Line, which would ieopardize their interests To curb the monopoly con
tuned hy Hatch and HenckeL the Red Tower corporation Nopross forms the
citizens Storage and Warehouse company He begins to nantes a deep
interest in shela Macae Dodds N.i's. that Shena Is married. but living
par % her husband Norcross 59cs tTt know this The Boss disappears;
report has II that he has resigned "9 t'7N east Jimmy turns Sedth. suspects
he ms been kidnapped md effects ms rI .We Nnrcross resumes control Of the
Pioneer short Line. refusing to give Dacet osDsmGke. whom Dunton hGs sent
Tower peoples spying on Norcross. TO a coal yard, where he oyerhesrs a plot
TO arrest the Boss OF a murder charge. lie illustrates IL and thereby drives
his enemies to more desperate measures.
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Howard collingwood, New
York"

CTo BE c~oNrINpsn)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-20

you today" the President barely whis-
pered "But I iu.i want you - Know
that if there is anything ! chn q" :" get
ngiow flame 10 the soul that rs dehied
the light. God helping me, ! mean - 90
IT, I would like 10 make all Amefica
realize what this great work means ana
10 do It's utmost 10 help those who can
not Soc I would like Ia make yon
understand by my voice how deeply
Council Charles ~ colebufu. lispri
etta Loclsman Charles Murray, iicl"n
Hill Murray and Robert J Wilson.
pythias Whcatey civic Aasoc iati"n---
Mrs Edna Chippey Hal. Mra. Rachel
Givona Mira. fslniira IialI, Mrs. i@ey
I,ioe and Mrs. Alice Dunbar EciF"n
National Association for tho Ad
vancenent of Coiored Peurlo--Dr If.
y Arnett. Barrett .Iaeksnu. Miss Fsliza
beth w. Tyicr Mrs. Enua Syk"e aud
William H. Webb
Norman D Scott Post 40. s. hueri
can Legion Woslcy Taylor T. ~.
Gleauor. farnca ff Scw"iI and Or ..
y Smith.
Federation IF Colored Woneu'a ciuhR
Mrs Elaucbc " stnhhe Mr. NJ s..
Bcddv. Miss Nietorm Mafhets. Mrs
burnside Anderson aud Misa Mar"
Jones
Dsiasare %eprp civic L"aguo-L. \.
Ee8diue. s e. Nruett n. =. stphhs
Mrs Conwol Eautou and =. H. Ia"rE.
Young Mems Progressive Ileague--
ltoward = 6:ibbH IN Iohn 81 NTorf.
Robert n Eavard ttthm r Chlppov
and fam.s RoIe- fr
The executive committee enupi l#ea.
Clatenee ! Pqle. chairman Leon ~
RYAN. ecrrt,rY Cbarlos Warner Frank
9 Hughes I. 4 DcElnis Wilton !
lteeau. tausca y stroud Nix Chrenee
Nisq f9a r lIayee Nra fnlia ell.
= Froim william q eorey Mics My
4 Moran ura T. = Morrow SIR t
/ y Warmer 81 Nj eileen = T"ri.
bridc f1e-ou,h Mrs Charles Tnpkie ".
Iff I.anding. j 4 g3ehatd4on NieH Nary
i e Detaes larrE & IahaG Hre Il
/ Z. seffle ohariee II Cal.hura oi"rs1
Ipr q v srtb eoIored Nt4 Afs.
dunbar N.laan. eaiored Mrs Itinnrle
c,Iorod pr Iofp II Avora oo.ar.l
" stulba. color.d ~ : 3 Stubs
and " BiaRt soior.d
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-20
VENEZUELA UNVEILS
STATUE OF WASN'T NGTOh

Caracas. April 20.--Venezuela ycster-
day celebrated the Anniversary Of the
final campaign Of 1921. during which
Simon Bolivar defeated the Spanish
royalists and established the indepen-
dance OF this country. In commenma-
tion of the event the statue of George
Washington. which was recently trans
ferrcd from the position II held for many
years to new and beautiful site i'm
Washington Park was unveiled.
General Gomez. president Of
Venezuela aud commander chief Of
The army. came here from Maracnibo
especially 10 lay a floral wreath at the
base Of The statue He was accom-
ranied by the ministers of war aud navy
and numerous staff
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-20
HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS.
ChiIdren's Bureau Has Given Valuable
Aid 10 Little Ones.


The little girl in the picture on this
page wanted a mother and a daddy
like other little girls She wanted some
one 10 love as well as 10 love her. The
Childrcns Bureau found them for her.
The bureau has placed Al children
during the past year. Some were board
cd and some were legally adopted.
Among them was poor, sick little
Dorothy Her mother died when she
WAS born. and her father a week later.
Dorothy had 10 go TO a hospital and be
cared for. Then an aunt, with a large
family of her own. offered 70 keep her
until q home could be found for her.
Before long a woman, who had no
children Of her own, but who loved
them dearly. applied for pretty
baby" She saw Dorothy with her big
blue eyes looking out of IIer little pinch
I'd face. not pretty but sick and sad
She needs mother. and ] will be glad
70 see if l can make her live and smile
a, ms she said Slowly. with many
set backs, Dorothy gained At Christ
mas the Children 5 Bureau received q
picture of a fat. jolly baby and a letter
saying. Dorothy was legally adopted
last week. and We are 50 glad she is
our own baby now
So many times the Children's Bureau
is asked. What do you dO?" that it
has offered TO speak before any group Of
interested people Its workers can tell
many stories Of children that are more
thrilling than movie scenarios. The
Bureau has been asked TO speak before
the Board Of Managers Of the Girls
Industrial School, the WOmcns' Dinner
Of Grace Church, several Italian lodges,
the Consumers League, the Washington
Heights Century club Current Events
Classes and others. Any group inter
ested TO hear about the work may OBJ
tain speaker by telephoning the Chill
dren's Bureau, 4SOS