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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Will Soon Decide Fate
Of Child Labor Laws

Washington, Feb. l9-The SEN
ate judiciary committee was ex-
pected to decide this week
whether the proposed constitu-
tional amendment on child labor
is to have a chance for life at
this session of congress.
Stiff opposition has kept the
amendment bottled in committee
several weeks. A meeting today
was believed likely TO result in d
showdown. IN which event favor.
able report to the senate seemed
likely. as there are enough votes
in committee to force such ac.
ton. If the committee does no.
report the amendment, Senator
Mccormick, H., will try to have
the senate tske the matter out
of the committees hands.
The time is now so short, haw.
ever. that little hope is enter
tanned of getting the amendment
submitted to the legislatures
which are now in session in man!
states.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Subsidy Held Up
By Its Opponents
Would Pass Senate if
Vote Was Allowed
Today

Washington, Feb. l9-The cru
cial hour in the filibuster against
the administrations ship subsidy
bill drew near today, as admins
tration leaders got ready to take
off the velvet glove and use the
mailed fist on the bills oppon-
ents.
Senator Jones plan of trying
to placatc everybody and thus
insure in the end unobstructe6
consideration of the subsidy bill
has been admitted by party lead
ers to have failed, and, after one
more effort today to line up sene-
tors by kindness, they will switch
to rough and tumble tactis "
the filtbustering group shows ne
signs of relenting.
The situation today was this
A majority of the senate prepar-
ed to vote for the passage of the
subsidy bill, if it was allowed
to come to vote. The bill woulC
pass with a margin of four tC
six votes if it were voted on to-
day.
But its opponents, including
Democrats and Republicans, sale
they would never permit the vote
! A great many of the Democrats
who originally supported the fill
buster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Chicago, Feb, 19.-Failing to
out-woo the "other man" Ray
rond c. Donahue of Buffalo, ap-
pealed to the law today to save
his home.
Mrs. Grace Donahue and the
"other man" Robert W. Hellone,
travelling auditor, were ar
raigned in court and charged
with a statutory offense, They
were arrested in an apartment
here.
Donahue told police when he
discovered his wife's infatuation
for Hellone, he entered into a sec
ca6 eourtship. "in order to beat
the other fellow at his own game
"Hellone was introduced to my
wife by my brother two years
age" he said. ave were happy
at the time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
THREE HELD IN
WH|SKEI CASES
One Had Mash and Two
Had Half Pint
On Them

Three persons were held for
the action of the grand jury in
the police court today for alleged
violations of the state prohibition
law.
James Mcdonald, arrested by
Policemen Magner and Trigger,
the officers testified had quaint
:ty of mash and they also found
copper container. He was
held in $500 bond for his appear
ances.
Walter Adams, seventeen years
old, of 211 Franklin street, had
half pint of corn liquor when
arrested by Policemen Hayden
He was held under bond in the
sum of $500 for his appearance
before the grand jury.
Walter Page, colored, arrested
by Policemen Magner and Trig-
ger, while at house had a half
pint of liquor. He also was held
in $500 bond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Dublin, Feb. 19.-Renewed
civil warfare marked the end
of the Free States amnesty
offer today.
Fighting between National
troops and Irregulars occur
red, and the rebel campaign of
arson and bombing was resum-
ed.
Extraordinary activity on the
part of Free State troops was
believed to presage a drive
against the insurgents.
In North Kerry, rebel lead
er Pierce asked and obtained
extension of the amnesty in
enable him to gather seat
his district until Tuesday to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Gets Tanning For
Stealing Watches
James Bole, Colored, Re-
ceives Whipping at
Hands of Police

Corporal punishment today
was meted out to James Bole,
colored, sixteen years old, be-
cause he admitted when he was
arranged in the police court his
guilt to the larceny of two gold
watches from the winter quarters
of a carnival company here. He
had pawned one of the time
pieces and had sold the other.
The lad had been with the COM
pany only 2 weeks. Justice Duvall
asked him if he would rather go
good tanning" to be admins
to a reform school or take a
tered by one of the policemen.
The boy said he did not know
whereupon the court decided for
him The lad left thoroughly re-
pentant after the whipping was
administered
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Guerilla War Marks End
OF Amnesty In Ireland
Homes of Members of Dial and Senate Victims of
Bombs and Fire-Troops Clash
Prisoners Are Taken

tered bandits for surrender.
The home of Alexander Nc
Cabe. member of the Dali. was
blown up by land mine. The
country home of Senator Leni-
han was destroyed by fire.
COmmandant Dennis Lacey of
the irregular forces was slain
in a clash in Tipperary, in
which another free slater and
four nationalists were injured.
Twelve irrcgulars were taken
prisoner.
Free Staters were hopeful
the offer had effect a schism
in the ranks of the irregulars.
announcing this was indicated
in letters of Mary MacSwlney
to Eamonn DeValers. cOnfiscat-
ed by the government in which
Miss MacSwiney denounced the
former "president's" policies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
:" = = = = = =
Ducks Might
Be "Stewed"

!. Four flocks of wild ducks
:. were seen this morning eros
= sing over the city, bound
!. northward. Older citizens
X consider this a sure sign of
: warmer weather, the predic-
= tion of the weather man to
= the contrary notwithstand-
:. ing.
!. While some think the ducks
:. were going northward deli
i. berately, believing warmer
= weather is to come shortly,
!. most AleXandrians believe
= these birds had run across
:. an illicit still some place
= south of here and, in drunk
!. en- festivities, had lost all
: sense of direction or, per-
:. haps had looked at the COM
= pass "bottom- -side-up."
:. =. + =. !. :. :. :. !. !. !. !. !.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Think Blast at HelPs Gate
Is Indirect
Cause
REFUSED RESCUE
Madmen Act Like Horses
When Attendants Try
to Take Them From
Building.

New York. Feb. 19--Charred
ruins of the west wing of the
Manhattan state hospital where
% insane patients and three at
tendants who gave their lives in
vain efforts TO save their charg-
es. perished by fire yesterday.
were searched today by investi-
gators seeking to fix blame for
the tragedy.
Six inquiries were under wa
into the blaze which swept the
top floor of the Wards Island
asylum and trapped the helpless
ly insane victims and the mer
who gave their lives in line of
duty.
Initial blame for the tragedy
was unohicially attributed to blast
ing at Hells Gate, some distance
away, which may have dislodged
electrical connections in the hos
pital and caused crossed wiring
from which the fire is believed to
have resulted.
Starting in the ceiling of the
fourth ward where the manacia'
and suicidal patients were kept
the fire ate its way downward
early yesterday morning, Will
attendants rallied to the call and
sought to get out the mad men
most of whom became completely
incapable of self help as the fire
grew. 1t was like trying to get
frightened horses out of a burn
ing barn. Patients given unnat-
ural strength by terror, plunged
about in the ward which Wa,
rapidly choking up with smoke
while red flames seeped through
cracks in the ceiling.
EARLY breakfast" was the ca
that brought many from taen
cells. Nurses and attendants sue
ceeded in getting out 100 pa
tients from other parts of the
hospital not immediately threat
ened.
I'm the fourth ward however, tn,
flames had gained too much head
way and while attendants still
struggled with insane patient:
who refused to be saved a huge
water tank that had been on t.
roof crashed through the fir
weakened ceiling, blocked the en-
trance to the burning wing an,
all but two of those within per
iShed.
Acting Mayor Murray Hubert
the fire department, state hospit
al commissioner Haviland, Cap
tain Arthur Carey of the sui
eide SQUAD, Attorney Genera
Carl Sherman and Chief Medica
Examiner Norris began separat
inquiries into the disaster.
Inadequacy of fire apparatu
on the island was admitted b
officials.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
% Madmen and Three Attendants
Perish Tn New York Asylum Fire
France Sends Additional Troops
Into Rhine Valley; Disarm Police
Turks Want War as Allied WarShips Ride at An
cbor in Smvrna-Fighting in Ruhr is
Reported-3 French Killed

Washington, Feb. 19-France
is sending additional troops into
the Ruhr, to put down German
resistance and sabotage, the
French Embassy announced to-
day.
Reinforcements include French
Colonial regiment, this being the
first admission that colonial
troops were being employed in the
Ruhr operations.
Colonel Dumont, French Mill
tary Attache, in making this an
nouncement today, declared that
these additional troops Will ag-
gregate about 5000.
This makes total of 1881
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
All of Schools to Now
Operate on Full
Time
II CLASS ROOMS
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
Grades Being Taught
In Jefferson School
Miss Dickert, Principal

jefferson school, Just erected by
the city. was opened this morn
inc for studies with seven hund
red and fourteen pupils in at
tendance. The foregoing number
is practically all that can be
handled without overcrowding this
school.
The grades taught in this
building are the fifth. sixth anC
seventh. There are five seventh
grades; six sixth grades and sis
fifth grades.
Miss Eddie Diclert is princi
pal and Mrs. Cora Kelly is vie
principal. There are seventeen
class rooms and a basement. The
school is we'll heated and wei
lighted and is modern in every
respect. Both boys and girls art
being taught in this building
With the opening of the new
school today it will place all o
the public schools on full tim'
basis and no more will the pub
| lie schools be overcrowded. FOR th'
present, at least.
Among the teachers who ar
assigned to this building are tn
| following; Miss Taylor, Mis-
Florence, Miss Payne, Mrs. Cloe
Mrs. Cora Kelly, Miss Annie Be
attic, Mrs. Springman, Miss Alb
ramson, Miss Burkett, Mrs. My
ers, Mrs. Hayden, Miss Lick
ford, Miss TAFT, Miss Leila Beet
tie, Miss st. Clair, Miss Ander
son and Miss O'Neal.
The new school adjoins tn
Alexandria High School and
on the west side OF West street
facing the center of Queen st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
King Street Decorated
For Thursdays Big
Demonstration
STORES AND HOUSES
Other Decorations to fol-
low-Foreign War Vet
erans to March With
Fort Myer Men.

Decorators today are buslIy
engaged in the task of putting
up the street decorations and the
city is now in festive garb foi
the big military and civic par
ade which will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock
sharp.
The street decorators got busy
early this morning and by noon
most of the ten squares on tina;
tkoroughfare had been com
reted.
There are twelve decorations to
each square, fan shaped bunting
and flags being attached to the
guy wires of the poles of the
electric railway company, two be-
ing to each pole and on three
poles on each side there are
American flags known as the
mill down giving that street a
holiday dress.
Six squares on Washington
street from Prince to Wythe
streets, also are to be decorated
and the headquarters of the
Washington Birthday AssocIa-
ton were decorated early this
morning as was also police head
quarters.
The city hall building, the fire
engine houses and the grand
stand also will be decorated
The committee work is being
done by the Copeland Company
of Washington and the commit
tee in charge of the decorations
of which Thomas Chauncey is
chairman. announces they viii
give what assistance they can tC
private persons desiring then
places decorated.
The work of decorating stand fol
the committee will be completed
tomorrow ard then the work Of
! decorating stores and private
residences will be begun. II j:
expected that practically every
house along the line of marcf
will be decorated for this event
? The committee of arrangement.
I for the parade will hold a meet
ing at s o'clock tonight in tn,
rooms Of the chamber of com
merce at which time most of thr
plans for the parade will be com
/ pleted.
Everything points to a big an,
successful parade. Chief of Stat
K. W. Ogden today was notified
that among the troops from For
Myer will be a number of tn,
veterans who recently returned
from overseas to that fort.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Fractions Prisoners i,
Sanity to be Tested

Franklin Green, colored, sixty
two years old, who bit Sergt'
Campbelrs coat yesterday after
noon and clawed him before he
was finally taken, was held for a
lunacy commission, The officers
coot was torn into shredS before
he overcame his prisoner and ii
was necessary for the officer to
tap Green over the head six
times before she was Subdued
Green had a dangerous looking
knife. He. told the court people
were bothering him and calling
him hobo"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
COULDN'T KEEP HER LOVE,
MAN SEEKS AID OF COURT

Last October she left me and
went to Cleveland, but l followed
her and persuaded her to return
to me.
Then hid my dislike of Hell
lone and did everything I could
think to win back her love.
i thought I was winning, but
about three weeks ago she left
ME again. l traced her trunks
and found them together here"
Mrs. Donahue charged her hus-
band with beating her and de-
clared that she would rather go
to jail for the rest of her life
then return TO life of horror
Donahue appealed to Hellone
through the bras of hsi cell.
III you get out of tbs, wll;;r
If you get cut Of this, viii you
lleave my wife alone?' .,.
mo" Hellone shouted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
Body of Henry Burgeman
Discovered After House
Is Destroyed
LIVED AT LORT0N
Went to Sleep Smoking
Cigarette 1t Is Thought
Funeral This After
noon.

Henry Burgenan, about forty
FIVE years old, was burned to
death shortly before ! o'clock
Sunday morning in his home at
Lorton, Fairfax county, when his
house, a small one-story frame
affair, was destroyed by fire. The
fire originated in the kitchen and
it is believed that Burgeman, who
had been lying on couch, went
to sleep while smoking a cigarette
and the fire from this ignited his
clothes, causing the blaze. How
ever. the exact cause will never
be known, for it was l2:4O o'clock
Sunday morning when ]. Sidney
Wiley and a companion, who
were neighbors, discovered
tie house afire and Immediately
went to the scene. When they ar
rived the roof of the house was
caving in and they stood silently
around, being unable to render
any assistance. The blaze was
SO hot they could not go closer
than twenty feet to the burning
house.
The party remained until the
f;re burned itself out and then 1t
was discovered that Burgeman
had been trapped in the fire. The
chaYr@l body was fonnd in the
room that he had used for { kit
chen.
The deceased was a widower
and had been employed recently
as a laborer at Fort Humph-
reys. He is survived by three
sisters. His funeral took place
this afternoon from Pohick Epls-
ccpal Church and services were
conducted by the chaplain at TT.
Humphreys, and burial was IN
Pohick cemetery.
Burgeman was web known IN
Alexandria. He was born IN Ger
MANY and came to this country
at the age of twelve.
He was prepared for Cornell IN
one of the best "prep" schools in
tbc north and was student IN
the engineering school at Cornell
University through two years at
the end of which time he was
married. His school career then
tended, and the marriage lsoon
proved a dismal failure. Since
this time, it may be said, the Wis.
tim of the fire was a Child OF
Destiny" following always the
call of the "silent voices" and
guided by the invisible hand"
His story, so often recited as
the school boys of Alexandria as
they lcitered on the winter after
Moons runs like some Wild crea-
ton of Imagination. How he had
wondered the world over in
search of his lost happiness and
/ his wild stories of adventures in
many places made him popular
among the boys.
In his death "fnis' is written
en- one of the most dramatic true
stories of a really romantic life
For several years past ne has
/ lived at Lorton, working at some
times and living his aimless life
at others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
THE SHRINKING LEGACY

New York, Feb. 19.-When
j X Grueber, of Brooklyn will
ed $4,000 marks to his sister IN
Germany, that was about $4,000
and real money. When he died
the other day however, the be.
,oust was worth practically 80
cents in current exchange. 1t
would cost more than the present
value to send the beduest shroad.
Regina, Sasks-Ths wheas pro:
duetion in this province' in. 1928
was $50, 900 900 bushels. - ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
SPARKS SET FIRE TO ROOF

Sparks from the chimney of the
residence of Mrs. Ethel Peake,
905 Prince street, shortly after II
O'Clock this morning set fire to
the shingle roof. Chemicals were
used in subduing the blaze. The
damage was small. The house is
owned by Miss Mary Field,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Dalhausen, Feb. 10 - Three
Frenchmen were killed and more
than 80, including a number of
women and children are reported
injured when i've coupled en-
gines were sent crashing into the
rear of a French engineers train
between Weitmar and Dalhausen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Essen. Feb. l9-Fighting be-
tween French soldiers and Ger
man policemen in different parts
of the Ruhr was reported today
and the situation seemed to be
drifting towards guerella war. A
German policeman shot and wound
ed French soldier at Gelsenkir-
chen. the latter returning the
fire. wounding the policeman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Victoria, s. C:-Nsncouver Is
land produced SSO,Ooo,0OO feet Of
lumber in 1922.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

Constantinople, Feb. 19-Turk
ish nationalists sentiment favor
ing war is reported high at An,
cura where the Ottoman Assem-.
bly, today was to receive the re-
port of Ismet Pasha on the Lau-
same conference.
The Turkish foreign minister
left Tor the Capitol carrying q
note from Great Britain urging
that the Kemalists sign the peace
treaty Ismet rejected at the Lau-
same conference. While Isnet ex-
pressed optimism just before de-
parting that the outcome would
bt peace many of the assembly
gathered at Angora were report.
ed to represent districts which
favored hostilities to concessions
Allied warships still rode al
anchor in Smyrna harbor under
guns of Turk forts along thc
hills.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19

d Daniel willard, President Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road. although recognized as he
ing one of the best railway ex-
Continued on page six) -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
WEATHER

For this section--MOstly cloudy
and warmer tonight and Tuesday
becoming unsettled in north
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-19
troops and non-commissioned of.
ficers, and 2,081 officers.

Paris, Feb. 19-Having secured
an increase in wages represent
ing a compromise between their
demands and the offer of opera
tors. French miners who struck
Friday, returned to work today.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-04-19
LOGAN COUNTY LEADS COLO.
RADIO IN WHEAT PRODUCTION

Logan again ranked first among
Colorado counties In the value Of it1
wheat crop In 1922, the total farm
Falue Of the entire production being
S2,485,640, according to compilations
made by Howard d. Sullivan, statisti-
Ian Of the State Immigration Depart
nent, and w. w. Putnam, agriculture
ttatisticlan Of the United States Bu-
,eau Of Agricultural Economies, and
based upon reports Of county asses-
tors. Washington county ranked nrst
h acreage of wheat, but the average
Production per acre was slightly b.
ow that In Logan county, and the to
jal valuation Of Washington countys
rop Is placed at $2,423,2S3. Yuma
bounty Is third, with total wheat
production valued at $2,84O,944. Weld
bounty holds fourth rank, with wheat
|rop valued at $2.241,239. The acre
(ge Of wheat In this county is much
below that In the other three counties.
ut the average yield per acre is con
derably higher for the reason that
uch spring wheat is raised under ir-
CATION In Weld county, while there
very little wheat grown under Irri-
alton In the other three counter
AIMED.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-04-19
Railway Seismographs.

An indication Of the swift progress
OF the Japanese mind In practical sci.
ence Is Afforded by Doctor Onori's re-
port on the measurement of the yibra.
tions OF railway cars by means Of sells
mographs. The primary purpose Of
the seismograph Is to measure the %.
citations Of earthquakes. japanese
engineers use 1t for determining the
proper balance of4ocomotlves and the
state Of the permanent way Of rail.
ways. Many practical advantages in
the saving Of fuel and the detection
OF faults In construction have thus re.
suited.