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> axtefgsion 'of thj trunk water mains to Congress Heights and Twining City <656,a and lor the extension ot trunk water n to Settling (645,100). The water service system is being ex* tended to the suburban sections as the funds of the water department will pernltt Prevention of Water Waste. Notable results were obtained during the year in decreasing the waste of wa* ter. The mean total rate of consumption fSr the year was 50,200,000 gallons, against 61,200,000 gallons for the preceding year and 64,500,000 in the year 1906. This reduced rate is traceable to the stoppage of underground leaks, the increased use of water meters, and careful house inspection to discover and prevent leaky tiktures. The underground leaks found and rewttf?**wi ifuptsiw (ha 1'aqr uscrAMtod A.JCU j/?ll tVt UMI IUB H?V J W0P* v,w?, 190 gallons per day. with a saving at the rate charged for water, 4 cents per thousand gallons, of 903,000. Water Meters. One thousand three hundred and twenty-five water meters were Installed by the water department in private residences during the year and 43 were instaPed in municipal buildings. Seventythree water meters were installed by private individuals in establishments other than private residences, making the total number of water meters installed during the year 1.447. Eighty-six water meters were discontinued. The total number of water meters now in use is 13,040. The total number of water services is 03.472. The percentage of water services metered Is 25. The average cost of installing water meters by the District of Columbia is 415.07 each, of which 98 is the cost of the meter and $7.07 the cost of installation. The average annua] cost per meter for repairs is 19 cents. The rate charged for water on metered service is 3 cents per 100 cubic feet, with a minimum rate to all consumers of $4.30 per annum. The average annua' payment for private residences where meters were instal'ed by the District of Co'umbia Is $1.76. Water rent bills are delivered to householders annually at the minimum rate of $4.30 per annum, which allows the hse of 13,ti00 cubic feet, or 112,200 gallons of water, and if on actual measurement the water is found to have been used in excess of this rate, a bill is rendered for such excess. On the water services which arc not metered, water for domestic purposes is chareed for according to stories and frontage. For premises of two stories, with a front width of 16 feet or less, the minimum rate is $4.30 per annum; for each additional front foot or fractiop thereof 30 cents is charged. For each additiona' story, one-third of the charges as computed above is added. For business premises, not metered, rates vary from $1 to $25 per annum. Where the rate is in excess of $25. a meter is required to be installed at the expense of the consumer. Water Bevenues. During the year 2,811 additional buildings were connected with the public water system. The revenues for the year were $600,184.36. This sum is an increase over the revenues of the previous year of $27,431.62. These revenues are made up from assessments levied for water mains, water rents, sales of water-tap and stopcock boxes, charges for water for building purposes, and sale of old material. Water is furnished free of charge to orphan asylums, hospitals, schools, and charitable institutions, under authority of law to the extent of 13,846,600 gallons. Improved Transportation. Tl'UVtfn fli$? last turn von ra a nnrrtnria - tlons have been provided for the purchase of motor vehicles for inspection and motor trucks for transportation in the sewer and water departments, and in the surveyors office, and the office of construction and repair of county roads. The added efficiency given to these offices by reason of this modern method of transportation fully Justifies the increase of the number of such vehicles, both in these offices and In other branches of the Servian. Future Improvement Plan Is Urged Upon Congress In their last annual report the Com"mttstoners called attention to the fact that In preparing their estimates they were limited by law to a figure double the amount. of the estimated revenues. They stated that they found this method Of preparing the estimates was sufficient to meet all current needs in accordance with reasonable standards of efficiency, hut would not adequately provide for carrying out large projects of permanent improvement. They also stated that in order to carry on such projects by means of appropriations from year to year, a definite method of financing them would have to be provided, and at the same time provision would have to be made for paying off the indebtedness of the District, and it was their intention to draft legislation designed to cover these points. In rursuance of this intention a bill was drafted by the Commissioners and introduced in Congress as House bill No. 13.474 and Senate bill No. 3260. These bills are now 'pending. The Commissioners recommend the passage of this measure, and in support <>f this recommendation Invite attention to their arguments presented before the House and Senate committees on the District of Columbia. These arguments have been printed as public documents. Very respectfully, ^ Cl'NO II. RUDOL.PII, JOHN A. JOHNSTON. WILLIAM V. JirDSON. Commissioners of the District of Columbia. OBJECT TO MME. CURIE. Discoverer of Radium May Be Barred From French Academy. Vw?Irh CorrsspondeiKe of Tbe Pt?r. PARIS, November 24, 1910. Th* members of the institute arc much concerned as to whether Mme. Curie, the cd-discoverer of radium, shall be admitted as a member of the Academy of Science. The rules say that no woman is eligible for membership, but there is a strong foellng that Mme. Curie should he elected to the vacancy caused by the teeth of her distinguished husband. At present a majority of the members object to this course on the ground that it would introduce an element of "femininiem." LONDON FAVORS 1915 FAIR. Exhibition to Show What Empire Can Manufacture. , I'.irelgB Cor?ipogdeiK? of Tbc Smr. LONDON, November 23, 1010. A scheme has been set on foot for the holding of a large Imperial exhibition in I,ondon in 1915, the alms and objects of which are more especially to show what can be produced and manufactured within the empire. The originator of the scheme is Capt. Sir Pieter C. Van B. .Stewart-Bam. until recently senior meml?er for #ape Town in the Cape parliament. and he has succeeded in getting together an influential temporary committee. ' The year 1915 is selected because it is hoped that a colonial conference will be held in that year, because the Prince of Wales will be celebrating his twenty.flrst birthday, and. further, because it will be the seven hundredth anniversary of the signing of Magna Charter. Men of all political parties will take part in the work, and it is hoped that all parts of . the empire will be able to compete in a friendly way 'to show exactly what can ho produced and manufactured by them. In this way the empire as a whole will bo able to see exactly what its manufacturing and producing powers are. s A Christmas Love Story. Justin Huntly McCarthy, one of the best 'star? writers known to magazines, supplies a dainty little Christmas love story, wM"h he "Three and a Christmas Ytoto." The three are a woman and two men, both rivals for the lady's hand. It is a Christmas tree that settles the romantic controversy, and it is a pretty tele. Igx>k for it in the Sunday Mugazlne of The Sunday Star. TOTAL OF $748,4 HEEDED FOf c ? _r ? oecreiary 01 iuc i n?u for Fiscal Year 30, 1 RIGID ECONOMY PRA THE DEPAI Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh c today sent to Congress the estimates of p appropriations for the conduct of the government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1012. Usually the book of esti- t mates is ready by the Friday or Saturday d preceding the convening of Congress, but ' this year President Taft ordered some re- t ductions made at the last moment, and, s in consequence, the document was not jjj completed until late ^yesterday and was n sent to the Capitol when Congress con- ? vened today. t] The grand total of the estimates for 1 1912 is 1748,414,800.81. The estimates for g I the current year were 9743.067,197.21, and ^ ; the appropriations made at the last pes- h sion of Congress, including deficiencies, * permanent annual appropriations and a ! d \ trifle over ten millions for the thirteenth a a census, and about the same amount of y estimated deficiency in the postal .revg L'lIUCS. WCIC fOW|?VTi?v*??w. I Summary of the Estimates. Of the $748,414,860.81 which it is esti- s mated it will take to run the government f during the next fiscal year the War De- * partment asks $205,257,515.81, or $7,047,S 755.25 less than its current appropriation; c the Interior Department $180,151,875, or J $27,061,642.87 less than it has at its dls- t posal this year; the Treasury Depart- $ ment $141,599,996.60, or $3,056,506.14 moro | than its current appropriation; the Navy I Department $128,942,158.24. or $7,119,181.87 ? less than its current appropriation; the s Aricultural Department $19,681,066, an In- J crease of $1,709,355.85; Commerce and La- a bor $16,276,970, a decrease of $8,871,602.58; ? the District of Columbia $13,602,785.90, an 0 increase of $1,812,572.10; the legislative * $13,426,805.73, a decrease over the current n year of $588,889.13; the executive $908,170, ? an increase of $17,420; the State Depart- v ment $4,875,576.41, a decrease of $605,- ? 481.36; the Post Office Department proper ^ $1,697,490. a decrease of $413,345.07; and the Department of Justice $10,063,576, a decrease of - $603,766.74. $< No Deficit in Post Office Department. c< For the first time in many years no de- ? flciency Is estimated for in the postal ^ revenues, indicating that Postmaster Gen- 01 era! Hitchcock is confident that at last c' the service is on a paying basis. ^ The estimate for the payment of all a pensions in 1912 is mote than ^wo mil- cl lions less than the current appropriation, oi The item of "miscellaneous,'' under which c{ head $106,486,853.01 was appropriated at jj the last session, is figured at thirty-four aj millions less this year. di In fact, there is hardly a page of the r< book of estimates that doesn't offer e\i- # dence of the lavish use of the pruning J knife. President Taft told his cabinet 4 members that they simpiy must Keep e down expenditures, and they took him e: at his word. c Grand Total Diminished. Unless Congress increases largely the estimates of the various departments, a the grand total of appropriations for the ? session will be smaller than for several years and may drop under a billion dollars. This is what the President,^ Chairman Tawney of the House appropriations I committee and other Congress leaders, e alarmed at the ever lengthening expense li bills of the government, are aiming for. to They think that if the tendency to ex- f trav&gance can be. checked right now, i e the annual appropriations by Congress!* will hereafter show only a normal i I growth. i ? : c Some Principal Items. jj There are no particularly striking fea- o tures in this year's estimates. Among the a items are: Increase in the navy, $LS.?94,- ? til*. in<-tuding?$12,$40.428 for construction p and steam machinery and armor and e armament in the proposed building pro? ~ gram for 1^12, and $3,000,000 for armor c on vessels already authorized. For hulls r and outfits of vessels and steam maehln ery of vessels heretofore authorized, * $0,031,780 is asked; for submarines and c torpedo boats and subsurface destroyers, < $800,834. ? An estimate of $531,000 is made on ac- J count of two fleet colliers already au- t i thorized, and It is poiutcd out that in or- t der to construct a collier on the Pacific 1 coast in a government yard Congress J must increase the limit of cost of the ( second collier from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. ? t Depots for Coal for Warships. < m A lump appropriation of $1,000,000 is asked to enable the Secretary of the Navy to establish at such places as he may deem necessary' suitable depots lor coal and other fuel for the supply of warships. The estimate for naval barracks and quarters in the Philippines is $600,000, in place of the present appropriation of $375,000. and $5,000 is estimated for 1 wireless experiments in the Philippines with a view to a system having relation to the army, navy, Philippine government and the commercial community. I FVpr dummy guns and mortars for in- t structlon of the coast artillery $300,000 is a asked. For a torpedo station "near the ? Pacific coast" $25,000 is asked, in addition <, to ^he $145,000 appropriated for this year. I t Public Works Provided For. t There are many items of appropriations a needed for public works of various kinds 8 aggregating $28,848,300 civil, and $04,419,- \ 050 under War Department. 4 1 The largest amounts are $1,000,000 for 1 continuing the erection of the post of- * flee building at Denver. Col.; $150,000 for ] a site and continuation of appraisers' * building at Boston, Mass.; 1550,000 for r continuing Sew Orleans post office and | courthouse construction; 9190,006 for ? Oklahoma city post office completion; ( $350,000 for completing reconstruction of j Richmond (Va.) post office and court- t house; $1,253,906 for a site and comple- i tlon of erection of a building for the bu- A reau of #ngravlng and printing at Wash- ' Ington. D. C.; $200,000 for completing a < post office at York, Pa.; $1,500,000 ] for commencing the erection of a post j office building in Washington, D. C., \ and $500,000 ror commencing erection of , buildings foe the State, Justice and Commerce and Labor departments in this < city; $350,000 for building two revenue < [14,860.81 t GOVERNMENT ry Submits Estimates Ending June 912. CTICED IN EACH OF ITMENTS. utter*, for which <150,two was approbated previously. Isthmian Canal Defense. ? For the defense of the Isthmian canal he estimates ask $7,000,000, to be Immeiately available, and ask authority for 19,546.843 in all for this fortification reject, with a view to completion within hree years. This work will Include ites, emplacements, guns, carriages, earchlights, camps and posts, and is ased on the joint board of army and avy officers' report. The estimates aiso arry $2,000,000, immeuiateiy available, or creation of naval establishments in he Canal Zone as a necessaiy part of he defense of the Isthmian canal. For examinations, surveys and continencles of rivers and harbors for which here may be no special appropriation 100,000 is asked. The total rivers and j arbors estimates for the work during I he next fiscal year aggregate $22,627,301. rhich is a reduction of $1,763,0W) hy irection Of Secretary Dickinson, and is gainst $41,339,113 appropriated for the ame purpose during the current fiscal ear. For Ellis Island immigration stalon. New York, $?60,200 Is asked altoether. Library of Congress. General administration: Increase in alary of librarian from $6,000 to $7,500 equested; one additional clerk, at $1,200. )rder and accession: Assistant in charge >f publications, at $1,500; one junior mesenger at $360. Binding: Assistant in harge. increRRe e\t tiim ? - ? ? - ? ? v? y*vv. UWUIII5 CCl V1VC. >0 assistants at $GOO each. Periodicals: ncrease of $500 to chief of division. 1,00iments: Assistant's salary increased 100; additional assistant at $1,200. Maps nd charts: Assistant's sa.ary increase , 100. Music: One assistant at $000. *rints: Chief of division's salary* inreased $1,000; assistant's salary itv reased $100. Smithsonian deposit: Asistant's sa.ary increased $100. Law Library: Additional stenographer and typewriter at $900. Copyrights: Three clerks t $2,000 each, in place of chief clerk nd chief of bookkeeping division, $2,0^0; hief of application division $2,0.4) and ne clerk at $1,800; additional clerk at 1,000; additional clerk at $4S0. DistrilUtlon, an increase of $11,000. Care and naintenance: Increase of $100 to captain f police; an increase of $180 each to sixeen policemen; increase of seven charwomen at $210 each; increase of two killed laborers at $720 each. Fuel, Ights, etc.: An increase from $32,500 to 37,300. Executive. Civil service commission?An increase of 500 in the salary of the president of the ommission, and of $1,000 each for the < ther two commissioners; an increase of : 500 to the chief examiner; an increase f $500 for the secretary; one assistant ' liief examiner and chief of division in eu of one chief of division, an increase : C $250; one examiner created and clerk < t $840 dropped; one additional clerk of < lass 3 and one clerk at $840 dropped; 1 ne additional clerk of class 2 and one 1 lerk at $840 dropped; one additional < lerk of class 1 and one clerk at $840 * ropped; one additional clerlf at $1,000 1 nd? one clerk at $840 dropped; one ad- < itional laborer at $000; two district sec- < itaries at $2,400 each (an increase of J00>, in lieu of one district secretary at : 2,200; two additional district secretaries 1 t $1,800 each, and two clerks at $720 ropped; employment of expert examinrs not in the federal service, $5,u00; Xaminers for Held duty, $12,000; an inrease of $1,000 In contingent expenses. state jvepartment. Secretary's office?Additional messenger t $840; additional assistant messenger at 720; one clerk of class 1. Treasury Department. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: ncrease of $1,000 asked. Customs diviion: Increase of $300 each asked for five aw clerks. Appointments and surety ionds division: Increase of $1,000 asked or chief of division; Increase of $730 for ssistant chief; increase of $730 for law .nd bond clerk; one examiner at $2,500. joans and currency division: Custodian f paper. $2,230. Supervising architect's iffice: Additional clerk of class two; inrease of $21?? each to four inspectors; ricrease of *2>H> to one inspector. Office f auditor for Treasury: iieputy auditor X $2,3n0, not estimated for; additional lerk of class one; a decrease of three lerks at $1,000. Auditor for War De artment: Deputy auditor at $2,500, not stiinated for; $200 additional to clerk as llsbursing clerk, not estimated for. Audlor of Navy Department: Additional clerk >f class 4; additional clerk of class 2: two nessengers at $8P> each; one messenger it $720. Auditor for Post Office Departnent: Assistant and chief clerk, in piaee >f two deputy auditors at $2,500 each (In rcase of $1,000); Increase of $300 to law :lerk; expert accountant's salary incroas d $500; four chiefs of divisions, a deTease of four, and Increase of salary !250 each; four assistant chiefs of illviilons at $2,000; four principal bookkeepers at $2,000. Office of Treasurer of Jnited States: Three additional clerks of !|ass t; two additional clerks at $1,000; ?igbt ffexpert -counters at $700 each. Office >f the register: Twelve counters at $720 ?ach, not estimated for. Oflice of conroller: Three counters at $700 each, not fsttmated for; additional clerk of class 4; seven additional expert counters at $840. Commissioner of internal revenue: Fourth isslstant chemist at $1,200, not estimated 'or; four clerks at $2,000 in lieu of four ;lerks at $000; one additional clerk of :lass 1. Bureau of engraving and printng: Director's salary increased $500: adiitional clerk at $l,00t?; two additional lerks at $000: four additional clerks at (840; seven additional clerks at $780- two lelpers at $720. a decrease of one. Miscelaneous: Adding machines, $18,570. War Department. Secretary's ofBce?Additional clerk at ;l,000 and one at $720 dropped; carpener's salary increased $200; two additional isslstant messengers at $000 each, in lieu >f one at $480 and two at $360; increase if $70 each to two laborers; Increase of ~0 to one elevator man; Increase of $300 o clerk to chief clerk; increase of $500 o disbursing clerk; increase of $250 to ippolntment clerk; increase of $250 to luperlntendent of buildings; one addiional clerk at $1,000 and one at $7:20 Iropped; increase of $300 to chief car>enter; two. assistant messengers at $600 tach. In place of one at $460 and two at tf?0. Judge advocate general?Increase of !230 to chief clerk and solicitor. Quarternaster general?One architectural draftsnan's salary increased $20u; increase of 1500 to supervising engineer; an increase tf $400 each to two civil engineers; in rease of $200 to heating and ventilating engineer; Increase of $400 to electrical enfiner; additional electrical and mechancal engineer; assistant marine engineer it $1,800# increase of $400 to heating and rentllating engineer. Commissary general -Increase of two clerks o# class three: iddltlonal clerk of class two. Chief or sngineers?Increase of $400 to chief clerk. Fhibllc buildings and grounds?Increase of 1600 to assistant engineer; increase of $600 ,n appropriation for bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen: uniforms for watchmen $2,800. Offlce of supenintendsnt of buildings?Increase of $400 to > it rK )f class three: fuel, lights, etc., freight ' \ elevator, $2,000; repairing floors of cor- tl ridors, $5,000. < tl - r tt Navy Department. <3 Secretary's offloe: Appointment clerk, j* In lieu of clerk class 4, 99.000; clerk of j, class 4, In lieu of clerk class 2; clerk oi $; f lass 3 in lieu of clerk cla6s 2; clerk of b of $100 to telegraph operator. Judge ad vocate general's office: Chief clerk and & law clerk, $2,250. Bureau of navigation: 8i Chief clerk at $2,500, in lieu of clerk at (x $2,000 omitted; two chiefs of diviskn at ,j $2,000 in lieu of two copyists at $820; ? four additional clerks of class 1 in lieu p of three clerks at $1,100, and one copyist g at $840; two additional copyists at $000 j> each. Office of naval inteillg nee: One |] laborer at $660. Bureau of equipment: ? at $840; two additional copyists at $ 00 increase of $500 to chief clerk. Hydrographic office: Increase of $100 to nautical expert; increase of $300 to nautical expert; two clerks at $1,000 in lieu of d: two copyists at $900; copyist at $0OJ in $; lieu of copyist at $840; two copyists at ? $840 in lieu of two at $730; increase of 7' {300 to chief plate printer; increase of " 200 to two plate printers; incr ase of 8100 to three p ate printers; increase of d $100 to apprentice plate printer; increase $ of $130 to apprentice plate printers; in- a crease of $200 to lithographer; Htho- * graphic printing press, $4,000, and fold- T ing machine, $700. Naval Observatory: 81 Storeman at $780 in lieu cf laborer at $000; library attendant at $780 In lieu of j* laborer at $000; filar micrometer for tele- " scope, $2,500. Bureau of steam engineer- ^ ing: Additional finance clerk at $2,000; V head file clerk, $1,400; three stenogra- ? pliers at $1,000; copyist at $840; messen- ? ger at $480; laborer for blue print room, $480. Bureau of construction and repair: Increase of $500 to chief e'erk. Bureau a of ordnance: Increase of $500 to chief v clerk; additional clerk of class 4. Bureau of meedicine and surgery: Increase of $50n to chief clerk. Bureau of yards and docks: Increase of $500 to chief clerk: additional clerk of class 1. Contingent expenses: Steel file cases, $5,000. Interior Department. Secretary's office?Increase of $1,000 to chief clerk. Library?Increase of $1,500 asked. Rent of buildings?Increase of $6,500 asked. Indian office?Additional to V second assistant commissioner, $250. Pen- P sion office?Twenty-five additional copy- si 1sts at $900 each. Patent office?Three J* assistant chiefs of division at $1,800 lr each; two additional messengers at $840; five messenger boys at $360 each; in- " crease defense of suits fund, $250. Bureau " of education?Increase to chief clerk, 1 $500; specialist in school administration, r* $3,000; specialist in industrial education, 01 $3,000; specialist in education for housekeeping, $3,000; specialist in school architecture, $3,000; specialist in rural education SL-t 0(10: snecialist in school hygiene, i? $3,000; specialist in accounting arid sta*- 1" tistics, $3,000; specialist in commercial education, $3,000; specialist in secondary ^ education, $3,000; specialist in the wider gi uses of the school plant, $3,000; addition- ^ al to editor, $400; three additional clerks p of class 3; three of class 2; four of class one; seven additional clerks at $1,000 " each; two copyists at $900 each; two IJ messengers at $840; assistant messenger $< at $720. ? r< Post Office Department. 0( P Postmaster General's office: Editor at $2,400; one additional clerk of class four; ai painter at $900; five additional charwomen t' at $240. First assistant's office: Increase of $500 to chief clerk. Second assistant's office: Increase of $500 to chief clerk. Third assistant's office: Increase of $500 to chief clerk. Fourth assistant's office: sj Increase of $500 to chief clerk. k Department of Agriculture. Ti Secretary's office: Increase of $200 to b telephone operator; three additional p clerks of class three; increase of four ti of class two; eight of class one; one 01 at $1,000; one at $900; increase of $400 ^ to chief engineer, who shall be captain fc of the watch; one additional fireman at ft $720; four additional elevator conductors nn at $720; two electrician s he?pers at $000 s< each; one additional plumber s helper at d; fHOO; six additional watchmon at |73o; a< one janitor- at $000; three charwomen at a< $240; increase of $8,000 for emergency oi employment. Weatner bureau: increase $' of $500 to chief clerk; one additional $] clerk of class four; one additional clerk of class three; one additional clerk of bi class two; two additional clerks of class one; one additional clerk at $1,000; in- _ crease of $300 to Hthrographer; four ad- v d It ion al skilled mechanics at $1,200 each; one additional skilled mechanic at $l,OcO; ? additional fireman'' and steamtitter at * 1840; additional fireman at $720; two additional messengers at $720; ten new messengers at $480. Bureau of animal inuus- F< try: Increase of $500 to chief clerk; increase of $250 to editor; two additional elerks of class three; two additional of class two. Bureau of p.ant industry: Increase of $120 to executive clerk: assist- ti( ant pomologst at $1,800. Bureau of chem- a( istry: Increase of $200 to chief clerk; ad- .. ditlonal clerK of class four; one of class two; seven of class one. Bureau of ento- et mology: Increase of $500 to entomologist. P? Bureau of biological survey: increase of SI,500 to blolog.st; one clerk of class three; two additional of class one; in- . crease of $200 to photographer. 10 Division of accounts and disburse- ** tnents: Increase of $750 to disbursing n; clerk; increase of $230 to assistant chief; *< increase of $230 to cashier; increase of tc ?-uu 10 supervising owRneeper; mree an- st ditlonal clerks of clans three; six of class gi two; live at J900; messenger at $720; dlvl- m slon of pubiicatloons: Increase of $1,0:) to \i editor; one additional assistant editor; in- al crease of $200 to three assistant editors; si increase of $200 to assistant in charge of at indexing; incre&se of $100 to photograph- p? er; increase of $100 each to two drafts- si men; increase of $60 to assistant photog- cl raplier; increase of $100 to foreman of n< miscellaneous distributions; two clerks of bi class one. Bureau of statistics: Increase la of $1,000 to statistician; increase of $200 tl to chief clerk; one clerk of class one; one at $1,000: four at $000 and live at $810 each. library: Additional clerk of class three. Experiment station office: Increase of $.'>00 to director: increase of $200 to a chief clerk; $200 to proofreader. Office of pub>le roads: Increase of $1,000 to director: $200 to chief clerk; one clerk class three; one at $1,020; one laborer at F< $720; additional laborer at $600. % Commerce and Labor. N Office of secretary; Additional assistant secretary at $5,000: additional clerk of s, class three; one of class two; one of class T one; two telephone operators .at $720 each; messenger to secretary, $1,000; three copy- jt Ists at $900 each; messenger at $480; clerk w of class three; one of class two, one at $000. Bureau of lighthouse: Assistant en- * glneer at $3,060; another at $2,100- Bureau of standards: Increase of $1,000 to director; associate chemist at $2,000; ad- t ditional physicist at $2,500; one at $2,300; one at $2,000; one at $1,800 and one at y' $1,60Q; one assistant chemist at $1,800; two assistant physicists at $1,400 each; two J 'abora ory assistants at $1,200 each; two at $1,000 each; two at $000 each; three aids at $720 each; three at $60o each; K three laboratory apprentices at $540 each; two at $480 each; clerk of class two; one at $1,000; telephone operator at $720; Fl m Anlin niolflfl Qf 11.000: skilled lahnrer Atl II1CV11?II?VM<> ?- -V?W V __ ___ _ $840; two at 1720 each; increase of $700 to superintendent of mechanical plant; $200 increase to glass blower; repairs, an In- n crease of $1,000. c? Foreign Intercourse. tc Salaries of ambassadors and ministers; ? Minister to Dominican Republic, Instead of consul general, $10,000; additional for w charge d'affaires ad interim, $10,000. *Con- S< tingent expenses, foreign missions: An IB increase is asked from $325,000 to $375,- tl 000. Transportation of diplomatic and si consular officers: Increase asked from ** $30,000 to $50,000. International boundary 8( commission: An Increase is asked from I? $25,000 to $50,000. Boundary between Alaska and Canada: An increase for surveys from $100,000 to $200,000. United States court for China: Additional for court expenses. $1,000. Investigation of claims of American citizens and for losses S in Samoa in 1800, $750. Arbitration of outstanding claims between the United States and Great Britain, $50,000 is asked r Ninth international conference of the Red Cross in Washington in 1012, $20 000 International conference to promote uniform legislation, concerning letters of ? exchange. $9,000. Salaries of consular assistants: Five additional assistants, at ? $1,000 each. ' m Military Establishment. ^ Signal service: Wireless system in Philippine Island, $5,000. Clerks, etc., at d< headquarters and posts: Two additional at v $1,000 ??aeh; two at $1,400; two at $1,200; tt tiree at $1,000. Equipment of Ceaat Arillery: Dummy guns and mortars, etc., 100,000. Engineer equipment of troops: tanst ruction of pontoon sheds at Wash* lgton barracks, $13,000. New batteries >r ships of the navy: Breech mechanims, $200,000; replacing mark 6 guns, 200,000; landing guns, $200,000; advance < ase outfit, $600,000. Bureau of equip* ' tent: Hydrographic surveys, $123,000. favy Yard, New York: To complete dry ock No. 4, $1,100,000; halyards and cap* tans for dock, $42,300; crane track. $43.X); supply pipes, $15,000; paving around ock, $24,000; condenser system, $45,000; 1 rater-front improvements. $100,000; re- 1 airs to buildings, $20,000; paving and rading. $20,000; railroad equipment. ?,000; yard dispensary. $4,.TOO?a total of , 1.300,000, as compared with an appro- ? riation of $716,000 for the current year. Naval Establishment. Navy yard, Washington: New founry and equipment to cost $300,000, and ( 100,000 is asked; new floors for shops, 25,000; dredging, $5,000; railroad *acks, $2,000; to continue paving, ] 2,500; machinery, etc., for new founry, $50,000; repairs to navy yards, 800.000. an increase of $100,000: In ian Head proving grounds, rebuilding 'haff, $10,000. Naval magazine. Newark harbor (Iona Island), extension of ea wall, $5,000; one shell house, $2o,00. Naval Academy, completion of ] oiler house, $50,000. Marino Corps, ofee of commandant, increase or $400 to hief clerk; increase of $200 to clerk, ifffce of paymaster, increase of $200 to hief clerk: office of adjutant, increase f $200 to chief clerk; office of quarteri aster, increase of $400 to chief clerk. Increase of the navy: Construction nd machinery, $6,090,000; armor and rmament tof domestic manufacture for essels authorized, $6,750,428. Indian Affairs. Irrigation on Indian reservations, 630,000. Fortifications. Land defense, $180,000. In District of Columbia. Buildings and grounds in and around >'ashington?Improvements: Lodge in otomac Park, $5,000; Increase to uperintendent of Capitol, $1,000; mainmance of Executive Mansion grounds, lcreased from $4,000 to $5,000. Repairs, Interior Department, increase of om $20,000 to $30,00o; repairs, old Post flice building, $8,000; new roof on patit office, $12,000; elevator in old Post fllce building, $7,500; repairs to pension Bee, $20,000. Commerce and Labor. ? Repairs at lighthouse depot, Staten Is* .nd, $40,000; lighting Norfolk harbor, 30,000; Governors Island light station, ew York, $60,000; floating dry dock at ( sneral lighthouse depot, Staten Island, 1 15,000; White Stone Point light station, i otomac,river, $20,000; immigrant staiion, 1 Ills Island; complete extension <of Main ' iland on the north, $55,000; ice plant, 1 15,000; toilet and drinking fountains, $5,- ! )0; rewiring of main building, $12,600; ) !construction or heaung apparatus, eoo,)0; roof for main building, $36,000; resire to engine room, $8,500; power house nprovements, $3,200; concrete sea wall round the islands at a cost of not more lan $787,170 and $150,000 Is asked; other nprovements, $33,500. Miscellaneous. Printing office: Increase of $250 to injector of paper and materials. Zoologist Park: New aviary building, $80,000; sadjustment of boundaries and the acuiring of land, $40,000. Bureau of mines: ook. $2,000. Coast and geodetic survey: 'or additional assistants at $2,400 each; venty-three aids at $1,000 each, in place f thirteen at $900 each, and ten at $720 ich; two clerks at $1,980 each; two addlonal at $1,000 each; four additional at 100 each; one at $800, omitted; one at 100, omitted; two additional draughtsien at $2,000 each; two at $900. omitted; >ven electrotype re at $1,200 each, ropped; one additional at $1,000; two iditlonal watchmen at $730 each; two iditional at $550 each; two at $365 each, nitted. Bureau of fisheries; Increase of 100 to deputy commissioner; increase of ,00 to chief clerk. Tho estimates for the District of Columa will be found elsewhere in The Star. A USES DISPLEASURE D7 ROME. > . . i oung Christian Democrats Triumph 1 in Hodena Congress. < >reign Correspondence of The Star. MILAN, Novemberr 23, 1010. ! * ' * *? TA-11 a Auouiei crisis lit iiauan cuiuuiiasm is beerr reached. The twentieth naonal Catholic congress closed at Modena fter five days' spirited discussion, in hich the modernist tendency, represent1 by the young christian democratic irty, triumphed all along the line. In consequence of the great victory of . le progressive Catholic forces at Bo- s gna in 1908. under the presidency of tat outspoken democrat, the late Cardial Svampa, the Vatican forthwith disilved their organization and has \eied the reassembly of the congress for :ven years past. Recently Pope Plus X ive permission for tne holding of the lodena congfess for the purpose of reewlng the state of the Catholic fortes fter the long series of instructions isled during his pontificate regarding the ttitude to be followed on social and >lit!cal questions. The result has caused ich grave displeasure in Romo that the crlcai organs announce that his holi?ss will publish a note of censure fordding future congresses of the Catholic Jty, as he has done already those, of ic clergy. ITALIAN MAYOR STABBED. attacked by Ex-Convict on Steps of zr.ii iVWtt OWI. 1 s wisfn Correspondence of The Star. MILAN. November 1910. The Marquis de Lle^l, the mayor of a eapolltan town, was stabbed in the reast with a dagger while mounting thei tops of the town hall a few days ago. he marquis fell to t.he ground uneon Ioup, but was quickly carried by passig workmen into an adjacent house, here he lies hi a dangerous condition, [la assassin, a ferocious Ca.morrist exanvict named Mariano Vitale, was arreted during his flight. The attuck on the new mayor is stated > have been an act of vengeance on the art of discomfited secret societies. ARIS POLICE TOLD OF MURDER. [an Sending the Information Has Disappeared. i>reign Correspondence of The Star. PARIS. November 25, 1910. Another myster'ous murder has been immltted in a hotel here. The police re* jived a letter stating that if they went ? a certain hotel' they would find the aroness d'Amdrlcourt dead in bed. The itter was signed- by Capt. Meynier, who as formerly in the French army. He lid that he himself web about to coinLit suicide. The police vlBited the hotel and found le baroness dead. She had not been lot. and as there were no injuries on the t)dy, It is supposed that she was polinoil Thoro is nO trace of the mlcelnw /11CU. * ? ? -..w IIUU1IIQ tan. He was known to be a friend of le baroness. DENOUNCED BY BISHOP. 1 tirred by Proposed Imposition of 1 Military Service on Novices. I oreiyn Correspondence of The Star. a MARDID, November 25, 1910. v The Bishop of Madrid declares that the 1 jvernment proposal to apply the law of f bligatory military service to the semlarlsts and notices of the religious orders , one of the most anti-Catholic measures | , er attempted in Europe. < The authorities at Barcelona have or* < ered the demolition of the fortifications 1 'hlch the Jesuits erected around the con- 1 eut of (heir order after the events la t \e summer of UtOO. 1 GERMAN NAVY BASE Submarine Headquarters May Be Moved From Kiel. HOME OF SECOND FLEET Scheme Permits of Floating Bock and Repair Station. SEVERED FROM OPEN SEA Basin Protected From Invasion Except by Experienced Pilots?Capt. Schubart as Critic. fc. roreign Correspondence of TSe Star. BERLIN. November 26, 1910. The news that the headquarters of the lerman submarine flotilla are to bt ransferred from Kiel, in the Baltic sea, Lo Brunsbuttel, in the North sea, the second naval base and the home of the second squadron, indicates that the developments there are fast approaching completion. Brunsbuttel is regarded as the greatest component part of the scheme for the North sea base. On this second base 17,500,000 will be spent. Situated on an estuary of the Elbe southward of the western entrance of the Kiel canal and twenty-three miles from the open sea, it will provide an anchorage harbor thirty-seven feet deep for the largest warships. The scheme permits of a floating dock, 1 torpedo basin and repairing shops, and th? idea Is to extend the site of the canal ?s' far as Jvudensee. With the completion of Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel the German navy will have a combined oase, with Brenierhaven and Cuxhaven serving as connecting links. The base is severed from the open sea by channels which are difficult of navigation except to allots familiar with the waterways, giving access to the Bms,? Weser and Elbe sstuaries. Great Naval Port. Wilhelmshaven is now one of the greatest naval ports in the world. Besides the dock extension and the new lock the iccotamodatlon for torpedo flotillas is being extended. With dreadnoughts at Wilhelmshaven the present units, as they are displaced, will fall back into the reserve fleet, which will in all probabilitybe stationed at Kiel. In addition to the work completed and in course of completion at Wllhelmshaven and Brunsbuttei the Island of Borkum, which protects the Ems estuary, will be the headquarters of at least one battery of an artillery regiment. Two other batteries will be station at Emden. At the advance part of the base?the Island of Helgoland-^?rovision has been made for greater barrack accommodation and an increase in the artillery establishment. In the scheme of defense, which has been devised to meet the possibility of Invasion, the Schieswig coast has not been forgotten. Night operations without lights have demonstrated the practicability of an entire Infantry regiment with wagons and horses being transported twelve and a half miles and landed safely on the Island of Sylt. Under the same conditions field artillery, with howitzers and full war equipment, wat iiso landed. To complete the German iefensive base on the North sea. and to ;uard against the possibility of a hostile andlng, a naval station may ultimately ce established in the Island of Sylt. The dea Is constantly being mooted. German naval experts claim that it would be Lhe final stage of the program of coast lefenqe. Army Budget Inadequate. It is stated in the liberal newspapers ;hat the sum demanded in the new estinates to defray the cost of increasing :he strength of the German army !b alogether inadequate, and that the governTl?lt is kppnine- thf nhnlo nlan ircrot jntil after the general election. The ^orwaTts. the .socialist organ, has work?'J out from details given in a summary published In the Norddeutsche Allgemeln. Seitung the number of officers and men jy which the war minister now proposeh :o increase the army. It says that 107 nachine-gun companies means 107 cap-1 ains, 321 lieutenants, 107 serg.-ant majors, he same number of vice sergeant najors, 1,400 non-commissioned officers ind about 8,000 ?ien The new foot artillery regiment requires forty-six officers. 210 non-commlsdoned officers and 1,010 men. The new notor-car battalion will presumably require an additional ninety-six officers, 12U ion-commissioned officers and 207 men. rhe two new airship battalions will require thirty-eight officers, 12d non-comnlssioned officers and 526 men. The peace footing of the army is thus, tdds the Vorwarts, to be increased by ibout 020 officers and about 11,500 men, uid the extra cost entailed cannot posdbly be covered by 82,000.000 asked fo . n the estimates. What the war minlstei jvidently Intends to do, it declares, is to .ake a number of officers and men fron. ?xisting companies and till up their placer lext year after the elections. Questions Value of Fleet. C'apt. Hartwlg Schubart, an officer lr he German army, is the author of a atniphlct, entitled "The Relation Between he Economic Position and Military Strength of a State," in which he qucsions the value to Germany of a fighting leot. Complaints, says the writer, are fre luently heard In Germany that the eoun ry no longer occupies the position which die won for herself in 1870, Some would ind in England and English policy the eason for the supposed decadence, while ltliers?the author quotes Gen. Kcini? irescribe as tho remedy an increase of lational feeling and national pride. 'These people," Capt, Schubart says 'are, in my opinion, on the right track; >ut I would express It differently and iay that we have deliberately provided turselves with a weak point?our battle leet." Germany's national feeling, he foes on, is no weaker than of old; the levelopment of her trade interests in ah lrectlons has. indeed, .compelled lier t( nuke her voice heard In Internationa: luestions more loudly than before. "But," ie says, "when we display on all occarlons tills almost nervous love of peace, vhen we allowed ourselves during the Morocco affair to receive one veiled ultinatum after another from France, to ,h oak. Dlorv,r, R*..li - A . 1 a - -- -? 4 wiiuui zjicuioi iv na>ci ncaiuiica IO S 1)G in open ultimatum, my logical faculty ells me that we must have a weak point lomewliere, and I find the cause of our llfhdence la the consideration that at he moment any war would be synony. nous with the destruction of our battle leet. That our fleet in the event of war vould do its duty down to the last, man ind would give the mighty sea power, Cngland, plenty to do, no one doubts, but vith the relative strength of the navies is it is today our fleet must go to the >ottom." Capt. Schubart considers coast defenses tacked by an army superior to a lighting leet as a method of securing the shores if Germany against a hostile descent. 9 ' Tourists Flocking to. Cairo. 'orelgn Correspondence of The Stsr. CAIRO, November 10, 1910. The annual influx of tourists from Surope and America has Just commenced, md if the advance bookings with the teamship and at the hotels may be taken is an Indication, Egypt is growing in popilarity with the traveling publio. The bookings trom America are above the iverage. but the principal increase Is from England. After an illness of twelve weeks :rom infantile paralysis Vera Ritchie, dghteen months old. daughter of }*orge W. Ritchie, died Sunday at dount Clinton. Rockingham county, fa. This is the fourth case reported .his year in the county and the first Natality. PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC HAVING ITS TROUBLE Discontent in the Army Cause of Uneasiness to the Provisional Government. I Foreign Correspondence of The &t?r. LdSBON, November 28. 1910. The Portuguese republic is already in difficulties, and the confusion among Its ministries is considerable. The only person unaffected by the state of affairs is Qenhor Brags, the provisional president, who is far too much of a philosopher to do anything in the matter of statecraft but devise futile laws, such as the establ'shment of divorce by mutual consent, which has been decreed within the last few days. The government is mightily afrsid of the army, and, having amsted several generals and a great number of officers for plotting against the republic, does not know what to do with them. The truth of the matter is that the soldiers of all ranks are disappointed at not getting the prise money which they were promised for their support of the revolutionary movement, for the excell nt reason that there is no money to make prizes of. or. rather, no prises out of which to make money. May Invite Sing Back. They therefore argue that a military government is the only government likely to reward them for their services. It is certain that many officers of high rank are for inviting the king back again on condition that he gives an undertaking, to be countersigned, as it were, by Great Britain and Spain, to maintain the constitution in all circumstances. The proletariat, having had its little fling of "gunpowder, treason and plot." has looked in vain for springs of milk and honey. The shopkeeping class of the 'big towns realises that it has all to lose and nothing to gain by the suppression of court pomps and royal pageantry. and is horrified by the reports that many rich families have declared it their intention to keep up a state of quasi-mourning, and, if not actually to leave the country, at any rate to keep their houses shut for some time to come. The aristoccracy naturally wants an aristocratic system, as, of course, does the church, and, for the matter of that, the army, although it scarcely knowts its own mind yet. The chances of Manuel coming back are pretty strong, although the queen will not come with him. GOLD-BRICK GAME INANEWGUSE Too Confiding Passenger on an English Train Robbed of a Considerable Sum. Foreign Correspondence of The Star. LONDON, November 23, 1010. A novel confidence trick, by which a Scottish passenger has been robbed of a considerable sum, has been reported to the London and Northwestern railway police. The victim, who was on his way to Glasgow, took his seat in a first-class carriage of the 11:50 p.m. express from Euston Square, and secured a compartment to himself. A few minutes before the train started, however, two well dressed men, one carrying a sealed box, which he guarded carefully, jumped into the compartment and began a conversation. "We have to be very careful that we are not followed by thieves, for we are In the diamond trade," said one of the newcomers, pointing to the oblong box, which had been placed on the seat between them, and he added, in a whisper, "There are diamonds in this package, and you know what London is!" Confidence being thus established, it was an easy stgp for the two guardians of the box to ask their fellow-traveler to look after the precious package for a few moments, while they went to the bookstall. The couple then jumped out, leaving the sealed box in the care of the'r newfound friend, but a minute later one of them hurried back, and, looking through the window, cried impatiently, "They can't change a two-hundred-andflfty-dollar not/? at this station. Can you ?" A genuine-looking two-hundred-and-flf* ty-dollar note was held out. and the unsuspicious occupant of the carriage began to hunt through his pockets to oblige the diamond merchants, whose valuables he held. He was not able to make up the whole $2du, but gave the man on the platform all :he gold and small notes he had and, with many thanks, the other hurried away. A minute later the whistle blew, but, to the surprise of the obliging traveler, both his fellow passengers missed the train. It was then he had his first suspicions, but comforted himself with a glance at the box of diamonds left in his custody. In order to get his mind at Vest, however, he opened the package, and was astonished to find the case of "diamonds" consisted of a block of firewood, neatly packed with cotton wool. SAVED NEGRO FROM LYNCHING. Virginia Sheriff Hid With His Prisoner in the Woods. PKTERSBURC, Va . DecemberSheriff A. B. Shackleton of LunOTburg county and his deputy have arrived with Walter Freeman, a n<?gro, who is accused of committing an assault,, that carries a death penalty, on an eight-year-old white girl, the daughter of a prominent itizen of Lunenburg county. The alleged crime occurred November if), and Freeman has been at large ever ince. A day- or two ago lie was arrested ana committed 10 tno county jail of Lunenburg Saturday a mob made an effort to break into the county jail to lynch Freeman, but the sheriff had spirited the prisoner away. Sheriff Shackleton, his deputy and the prisoner spent all of Saturday in the woods in order to avoid the mob, which was in hot pursuit. Freeman is about eighteen years of age. NO ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION Firing of Ballet Into Anti-Saloon Headquarters an Accident. LYNCHBURG, Ya , December 6.?T. J. Burns. & well known electrical contractor, late yesterday afternoon cleared up the mystery surrounding the bullet which was fired into the office of the AntiSaloon League Sunday afternoon, and which would have killed Rev. J. D. McAlister had he been at his desk. Burns said he was repairing a revolver and the cartridge was accidentally discharged. He paid no attention to the matter, for he did not dream until yea- i terday afternoon that the bullet had passed through the door. As soon as he I ascertained the ball had gone into the \ but .ding across the alley he notified the I maIIaa and AYnlainAti hnnr tlia thlna* i f ?#i*w - "? * ?*? na?ji" 1 pened. At llrst friends of Dr. McAlister feared : some one had tried to assassinate him, but tills theory soon gave way to an accl- , dental theory, which now turns out to be correct. , Sidney Phillips, foreman of brick- ] layers working on the Baltimore and i Ohio station at Grafton, \V. Va.. is dead i twenty feet. He was slaty years of ^ age and had a family. j C0UNTRYBST1RRE0 Protest Against Catling Cheaper Wines Champagne. \ GROWERS ARE UP IN ARMS Wut law PuMd by Oeroaawat to Stoy the Frasdo. HONOR FOR "FIERRX LOTI" Novelist Is Mads Commander sf Legion of Honor? Hotel-Koepinar School Or^ma Foreign Correspandeare of The PARIS, November Jfl, 19IA. The agitation in the wine-growing district of Champagne against the fraudulent description of wine frtnn other districts as champagne ha? reached a crisis. An angry body of "vignerons" held a demonstration at Epernay a fen* weeks ago to demand that measures be taken at once by tire government to prevent the importation of wine grown in other districts, to be subsequently labeled and sold as the product af Champagne. The agitation has spread throughout the Marne valley, especially in those districts where the cheaper qualities of wine are produced, and has culminated in the suggestion of a general strike against taxes. On Monday last a consignment of forty casks of wine from Touralne reached th? station of Pamery, consigned to a dealet suspected of practicing the substitution Objected to. As soon as the news ?pren<J a crowd numbering 1.&00 invaded the station protesting that the "tin de fraude * should not he delivered. They had already broached four casks and had broken the windows of the offending consignees before the subprefect and the officials of their own federation could induce them to desist from further violence by the promise that the remaining casks shoutd be detained. a-? D-i.-J a UVU WVB A>?MUIU* This week Premier BrUnd received deputation of wine growers from the department of the 8aone-et-Loire. Cote d'Or Ain and Yonne, and discussed with them the distress prevailing in those departments, owing to the total failure of the wine crop, and the measures necessary to cope with it. So grave Is the situation that a number of the smaller vineyard proprietors, who possess no other source of income, are face to face with irretrievable ruin unless prompt steps are taken for their relief. M. Briand explained that for more than a month the ministry* of agriculture had been studying the facts with a view to preparing measures of relief. The result of Its deliberations will be laid before the ministerial council and will be Introduced in the chamber with the least possible delay. The minister of finance later received the senators and deputies for the Marne department and discussed with them the agitation against the fraudulent substitution of wines in the Champagne district. The members of the deputation announced their Intention of moving an amendment to the finance bill dealing with the subject. Oapt. Vlaud. better known by his pseudonym "Pierre Loti." the novelist end member of the Academle Francaise. has been raised to the grade of commander of the Legion of Honor. The collar, which Is the badge of the commandership, was conferred on him on board the cruiser Pa trie by Vice Admiral de Jonquteres. At the luncheon which followed the ceremony. Admiral de Jonquleres proposed the health of the new commander, prefacing his remarks-by ?n Invocation In the latiruage Of -Tahiti, which, he said, had already b)feh "addressed to M. Lotl by voices more gentle and more musical, though not nigra friendly. To Curtail Speocheo. Two hundred new members In the chamber of deputies are up In arm* against the sea of eloquence among their elders. Their chief reason seems to t>? mat mey nave not yet got in a won! edgeways since the day they were returned. and not one of them has yet succeeded in firing off his maiden speed' One of them, therefore, proposed a time limit for speeches, such as exists in some parliaments of the old world. He is generous enough, however, six times moro so, indeed, than the framers of rules at some labor congresses. He proposes to allow, not ten, but a maximum of sixty minutes to every speaker each day. This seems a fairly wide margin. Bull, it might prove irksome restraint upon some members. The first hotel-keeping school in France has been opened with fifteen pupils. Schools of the kind have long flourished in Germany, Austria, and. of course. Switzerland. The curriculum covers the entlro business of hotel keeping, from bottle washing to hygiene and modcr i languages. For some unexplained reason the capital of Normandy, Caen. 1ms almost th* monopoly for the printing of inscription* upon ribbons tor funeral wreaths. Wh> this should be so nobody knows, but thalt is so is a fact, and in the same wh> the little town of Nantes has almost a monopoly for the manufacture of communion dresses for boys and girls *n<l wedding garbs for brides. The other da* a ribbon printer In Caen received order to print, the words. "Rest in IVace. A i Revolr," upon a large black ribbon In letters of flue silver. The order came b Inttas onrl Vt dltm ft?r ff? PPPAftt i? I lUVin anu in V IIV^I D (VAIX I ?.V | ? -Ills customer telegraphed: "Plesee add 'In Heaven' If there Is room." The curtomor was a Wt surprised when he received the ribbon to find this Inscription on it in letters of fine silver: "Rest in Peace. Au revoir In heaven If there is robin." POSTAL CAKD SOUKDS AHUM. Colored Boy Sent to Mail It Picks Oat Wrong Box. A fire alarm sounded from box KIT, at 14th street and Spring road, yesterday afternoon. There was a rush over the snow-covered streets by the lire department to the locality of the box. Xo Are was visible to the naked eye, however, and the firemen turned thei. attention to the alarm box which had summoned them. Sticking in the box was a postal cardnot a Black Hand message to tha restrict government?but just a plain, ordinary postal card with a little Information on it designated for some friend of the writer down in old Virginia. "Can you beat it?" said one of the firemen. "And the postal's not so warm. e? all KHJah Washington was the individual guilty of mistaking the fire alarm bo\ for a post office mall box, and when he was arrested by the police soon aftei the mistake he told all about his trouble. He said he was seventeen years old, that he had come to the city from the coudtry only about a? week ago to live In Cedar lane with his sister. His sister, said Elijah, sent him out to mall the postal card and he just naturally thought he was to put it In "that there box." The postal cord was addressed to Miss lat llnda Tallard, Alexandria, Va., R. F. D. No. 1. Elijah, who is a colored boy, will !? -ompelled to appear la the PoUce C'ou t tomorrow morning and tell the judge all ibout the mistake. Recently in Detroit. Mich., where the [>ost boxes and the Are alarm boxes are sainted the same color, an absent-mind*)] nan did the same trick which KUJah Washington so nonchalantly performed yesterday afternoon.