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THE WASHINGTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 14, 1915.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL It, 191".
A Line o' Cheer Each Day o' the Year.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
First rrl'.tlnjj of an original poem, written Sally
for The Washington Herald.
THE FRIENDLY ROAD.
Whatever vour place, and whatever your load,
If heavv or licht be the burden you bear.
We're all of us plodding tlic self-same road
Thro' vallcvb of love, and o'er hillocks of care.
1 he slicddcrs of tears and the singers of song,
The rich and the pauper with naught for his own,
All travel the highway that runneth along
From Nothingness on the to the vast unknown.
So here's to the road and the life that is there
And here'-' to our fellows we meet on the va.
Who holds fast to Friendliness finds the way fair,
hatccr the t;oaI of the uttermost dav.
icoprntfit. 1SI3.)
'1 lus is "The Daj," if you sjy it in American.
Huerta in the United States.
Victoriano Huerta, the Indian, strongest ruler
of Mexico since Diaz, arrived in Xew York from
Europe on Monday, just when affairs in the re
public, from which he was practically driven be
cause of the aid extended to his enemies by the
gov eminent of the United States, are in the most
chaotic condition that has existed since Madero
was slain. Fighting is incessant, human life and
property never have been less secure, and as a
result hundreds of Americans are preparing to flee
the country. Worst of all, there is no indication
of a change; the situation presents no hope of a
i solution of the problems that have confronted the
administration in Washington since the day it
assumed control of the government. Conditions
are infinitely worse than when Huerta was in un
recognized control in Mexico City. It can easily
be imagined that President Wilson and his ad-
Iviscrs hac often wished that Huerta were back
in power. If they had permitted him to stay,
doubtless they would have, accorded him recogni
tion, with the accompanying responsibility.
Xow he is here, in New York, and his plans,
whatever they arc, may bring him to Washington.
I'm ate business explains his presence in this
country, according to his own statement, but al
ready he is overwhelmed with visitors and corre
spondence, and he makes no concealment of the
fact that he is deeply interested in Mexico, con
cerning which troubled country he is to make a
public statement on Friday. Can it be that the
exiled Huerta returns with a plan for the pacifica
tion of Mexico; that the man to punish and crush
whom a fleet was sent, may after all help this
government to overcome the difficulties that have
so long beset it? Huerta even now may summon
powerful influences in Mexico and in this coun
try, and his services arc not to be despised.
It must be said for the administi.ition that
since it took control it has been fairly well repre
sented by its officials before the law courts of the
District of Columbia
his story "The Man Who Forgot." In this title
he suggests another satire on modern tendencies
to forget that the world is old, that this govern
ment is not a mere stripling, and that we still
measure the present and future by the experiences
of the past. We have been so busy with our ,own
affairs that we have accepted many "reformers"
on their own self-glorification, just as we take
patent medicines that arc advertised to cure all
the ills of the body. There are a lot of people
whose memories are even less than five years old
in all matters except their own private business.
and they fall victims to the fakir who assumes to
possess the wisdom of the ages, just as did the
good people in this story who imitated those who
participated in the Roman holidays at the Coliseum
where the tickets to the performances were fur
nished without cost to swell the multitude and
demonstrate by numbers that the public approved
the contests in the arena between the hated Chris
tians and the savage lions.
The author of this novel has, with the exag
gerated picture of church people performing like
a Paris mob, but with expenses paid, and his sug
gestive title pointed a moral against hysteria and
short memories in government affairs. Many
readers may overlook the moral, but it is there.
LINCOLN AND BOOTH
The Inner Story of the Great Tragedy
of Fifty Years Ago
By WINFIELD M. THOMPSON.
The President Shot Down
A man who drove a horse from Orinond Beach,
I la., to Jersey City, in pav incut of an election bet,
died on the street in the latter city as the result
of his exertions. The winnci has probably been
cured of making freak election bets.
And now it is the commander of the Kroiiprmz
W'llhclm who is in a hurry to have his vessel re
paired in a United States port so that he may re
suijic his sea raiding. The work can't be done
anj too soon to suit the commanders of the allies'
warships.
It is like straining at a gnat and swallowing a
vholc herd of camels to get excited over the Ger-
ian Ambassador's criticism of the neutrality of
' i government and complacently accept 1'ic
nking of the Fryc. the killing of Thrashir, and
he rcfustl to spare American lives and property.
The self-assumed role of the Comptroller of
?!ie Currency of guardian and protector of women
-.erking investments in industrial securities, and
I is suggestion that they are not competent to
aiiagr their own financial affairs, would be likely
, i iur hi"i from public office in a woman suffrage
'i ' r Supreme Court of the United States has
i Med the Wisconsin statute of 191 1 providing
1 it when four or more passenger trains were run
ach vvav daily by a railroad at least two should
be stopped at every postoffice village of joo in
habitants along the road. W hat Wisconsin really
needs is a jitney bus line.
The District's inspector of plumbing has issued
a warning to householders against the use of gas
heaters of .1 dangerous type, which he believes
arc responsible for many deaths attributed to
e m-es other than carbon monoxide poisoning. It
would stcm that the proper remedy would be a
law r regulation against the sale or installation
t appliances that arc a menace to life.
1 hi the lirst lime since the most celebrated and
11 iiiiirntous American political quarrel, three vcars
ago, fonurr f't'sidrnt Taft and former President
Roosevelt sho hands vesterday, vvhrn they met
a pnllbeareis I ndcr the circumstances perhaps
tin meeting anil the handshake could not have
been avoided, but is it not quite reasonable to
lirlicve that this incident at the bier of a mutual
trieiid mav lead tn a truce between these dis
tinguished 11111 nans. ecn 11 the old intimate
friendship is never restored'
I lie cniinlrv will applaud Picsident Wilson's
course 111 givifc up his, trip to Panama and San
1 raiiLisco 111 milci that he may keep in close per
sonal touch with international affairs. The great
need of his services 111 connection with our for
eign relations is general! recognircd, but the sug
gestion that he remains m Washington in thci
expectancv that his services may be needed as
peacemaker in 1 uropr will inspire but little hope,
so long as military operations and preparations
continue on the present tremendous scale.
And now the honeymoon in Sing Sing seems
to be over. Warden Osborne's moving picture
entertainments, knitting bees, athletic contests,
high feasts and golden rule brotherhood are re
ported to have resulted in convicts abusing their
liberties and threatening revolt. Surveillance by
the dictaphone method is said to have replaced
the honor system. Warden Osborne is not the
only man to discover that he cannot make rules
that will change human nature, though he has
been a long time about it.
Chicago's new mayor is going to give the city
plenty of playgrounds, tennis courts, and ball
fields. "Take the children out of the alleys and
ash barrels, into the pla grounds and that is what
I call a practical reform, which will get wonderful
results," he says. The major's plan is truly re
freshing, 111 striking contratt to the fail that has
become fashionable in the last few year of hating
u committee visit the slums, inspect thrin and take
topioiii testimony on why the residents are not
healthy, happy and prosperous, which Is later the
subject of a voluminous report which nobody pays
any attention to.
Remember, and Avoid Hysteria.
A Million Dollar Mob is not the title of a.story
of W ashington life that has just been published,
but it might be without violence to the plot. Fic
tion writers often bonow historic settings, and in
this story the author seems to have borrowed
from the French Revolution, and the dramatic
power of the Pans mobs. The Washington writer,
however, modcrmcs the picture. Instead of a
mob gathered from the slums of the city which
breed poverty, discontent and revolution, this
W ashington mob is gathered from all parts of the
country, where peace, prosperity and patriotism
abound, and sO.ooo revolutionists come to the Cap
ital in special trains with Pullman cars, the whole
expense met by the money kings of Wall street a
sort of Revolution de Luxe.
It is a daring plot to have an unknown leader
of an agitation, adopt the rule that money counts,
call upon money kings, and, in a few hours, re
ceive a million dollars to finance a plan to intimi
date Congress with a mob of 50,000, whose ex
penses arc paid from Wall street. Of course, the
author docs not use the word "mob," but calls
his demonstration an outpouring of the good peo
ple of the land to rescue Congress from the in
terests, but whose outpouring is suggested by an
agitator and paid for by the interests. So were
the mobs of Paris described by their defenders,
when they rescued the King, took him back to
Paris and cut off his head. But we must allow
dramatic as well as poetic license, and our Wash
ington demonstration is kept free from offensive
terms, but described as led by an agitator whom
nobody knows, followed by bishops, ministers,
church members, women and children, singing
hvmns but breathing threats against the Congress
that has failed to recognize the demand of the
good people of the land. These people coming
from peaceful homes, crowd all the avenues of
approach to the Capitol and mass on the cast;
front, to convince Congress that Representative
Blank represents "the people" when he moves to
discharge the committee and pass the bill, and as
the Representatives look in terror upon the great
assemblage of Christians, they vote "aye" with
practical unanimity. Why fear' Is it a mob, or
is representative government a failure?
James Madison, in his notes on the Constitu
tional Convention, says that it was the reports
ot such scenes in France that persuaded the con
vention to provide that the scat of the national
government should be not in a great city, but in a
district over which Congress should have absolute
control. It was the memory of such events that
caused Congress to deny Coxcy's army the right
to set foot on the Capitol Grounds twenty years
ago, and more recently to refuse even a referen
dum to the residents of Washington on legisla
tion which concerns them and them alone.
Hut here comes an author from Virginia, steep
ed in the history and traditions of that old Com
monwealth and the great Virginians who helped
to create a nation, and with a hero born in Vir
ginia who has forgotten his name, his parents, his
whole past, and who, at the age of thirty, has a
nicmorv . 'lv five vcars old, makes him the leader
of church people, the agent of the money kings,
who have given him a million dollars to finance a
demonstration against the Congress of the United
States, which bears a striking resemblance to the
historic pictures of the French mobs that behead
ed Louis I and Marie Antoinette. The new
drama set on the old historic French stage is so
darmg that it will cause many people to open their
eyes and wonder whether they arc reading mod
ern American fiction or old French-Jjistory, andlif
it would be possible to overturn the constitutional
government of the United States by hysteria as
the government of France was overturned by the
Paris mobs. Only a sense of humor can appre
ciate the satire on some of the modern interpre
tations of the right of petition, where extremes
meet and "the great unknown" can command a
million dollars from the money kings, and gather
from all corners of the country 50,000 people, who,
with all expenses paid, combine a free holiday ex
cursion with the right of petition, and succeed in
intimidating their Representatives, each of whom
is supposed to represent more than 300,000 Ameri
can citizens.
Taken seriously as a suggestion of what may
some day happen in Washington, this story would
be sacrilegious, an insult to the churches and their
ministers, as well as to the Representatives In
Congress, who arc represented as surrendering to
a mob of 50,000, or one-twentieth of I per cent, of
the citizens who elected them to represent the
interest of the whole people. It would place the
churches that hate anarchy and love order In a
class with those who are ever ready to join the
molt and cry out against the government, ami it
would make the Congresi pusillanimous body of
men with the spinal column of the ingle worm.
It was, no doubt, for this reason lite author r
Juttd the (hie MA Million D4to UiH $mi hM4
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II.
(Concluded from eslerday.)
MEANWHILE, the Ogres, continued to draw
on the life blood of the people. Even the
price on milk was raised, the milk that sustained
the lives of babes, the hope
of the race.
Through this exaction alone
millions perished.
It was seeing the babes
languish and die around them
that finally caused the multi
tude to rise in fury. As they
could do nothing with the
Ogres themselves they were
determined to kill the men
who had created the Ogres,
the Napoleon of Organizers
and the others in his class.
It looked as if the horrors of the French Revo
lution were about to be repeated. Drained of their
blood, the people longed for blood.
A great army gathered. They raised the ban
ners of war. Angry speakers incited them to vio
lence. They listened eagerly, like all people hear
ing their own opinions.
In the tumult no speaker could be heard. But
they were all saying the same thing and every one
knew what that was.
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Presently, however, from beneath the shrill
crrcs, came a fjuict voice. It was so different from
the others, so much e'earer, so free from bitter
ness that the people grew curious.
The other speakers stopped. They looked
around to discover the owner of the voice.
He was a homely little man in a rusty frock
coat and with big spectacles over his eyes.
Sonic of the taller men lifted him on their
shoulders so that every one might sec him.
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Lincoln bat behlml tin ilmperv and (I.ik at ihc riKht of the box Tlie plio
tocrripl. was- taken thortl altci the aiaHilnfttion and shuws- the decorations
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"My friends," he began, "I know exactly how
vou feel. I sympathize. 1 know there arc many i
among you whose stomachs arc empty. And I
know bow foolish it is to argue with empty
stomachs. I don't wish to argue. I merely wish'
to make a little suggestion about the way vou may
secure what jou need and what you ought to
have."
He was rather adroit. He didn't begin by an
tagonizing them. He knew that such a method
would destroy his chance of being heard at all.
lie succeeded in stimulating their curiosity.
"Go on!" they cried impatiently. "Tell us first
how to get food."
At this point the man made a blunder. It came
near wrecking his chance of being heard. "These
Ogres that surround us," he said, "are not our
enemies. They arc our friends."
The multitude burst into a roar of derision and
rage. For a moment it looked as if they might
tear the man to pieces
But there was something about the calm, steady
gaze from those big glasses that caused the ex
citement to subside.
The people waited for the little man to say
something more ridiculous. Then they would
punish.
"These Ogres," he went on, becoming some
what excited, "are really you and me. It's our
life blood that has made them; our needs. They
represent the folly of humankind. We think of
tl.cm as our enemies because we are our own
enemies. Don't ou see?" he cried helplessly,
staring through his goggles and perceiving with
anguish that he had not made his meaning plain.
There were manv cries of resentment, such as
"He's crazy," and "Throw him out."
But some of the people insisted that he should
be given another chance. A few even ventured to
exclaim: "He right. He's telling us the truth."
"My friends," the old man resumed, evidently
determined to make one more effort to convey his
idea, "the whole trouble is due to our own folly.
We believed in competition. Wc made competi
tion our god. Now competition was. thc denial
of our brotherhood, the refusal of recognize our
dependence on one another. It created a wasteful
and disorganized world. And the rich men saw
our folly. They saw that the world was ready
to pay an enormous price for organization. It was
suffering for order. Well, those men have given
it to us. They have done for us what we should
have done for ourselves. Isn't the price vyorth
while? Isn't it just punishment for the sin of
competition that denied brotherhood and our de
pendence on one another? Now let those rich
men keep what they have and let us accept the
lesson they have given us. After all, they are
men like ourselves. Only they are wiser than we
have been. God directed them in mysterious ways
to be our scourge and our guide. Suppose we
try to do as they have done. Suppose we go back
for a year and live as brothers, working together,
no for the good of one. but for the good of all,
accepting the wonderful blessings of God that
come from organization and co-operation. Then
we shall escape the horrors of a revolution, the
fearful destruction of the things we need for our
sustenance and the anguish of the women and
children who are dear to us."
The people looked at one another. In groupa
thev talked excitedly over the strange suggestion.
Some of the men, the husbands and fathers,
and most of the women, were in favor of trying
the experiment.
Others were bitterly opposea, me exciiauic
vntmtr frllnwt.
Vhen the argument was at its height and the
i.nilmrnl in f.itnr nf a trial was nlainlv cailling.
nine one looked un and exclaimed: "Oh. see the
In the last afternoon of his lif.' Lin
coln rode out in the VVhitu lloum- mr
rlaue with liii wi!i The wiathcr was
lonennir, with heavy tiouds, a misty
wind, and occasional shower, but the
President's mood was in contrast to its
gloominess.
He talked to the Rood woman at his
side of their futme, in a hnpp, hope
ful ve.n. speaking :ib if all the cares
and perils of their iars of stress unit
war were behind them.
"Mary," he said, "wo have had a hard
time since we came, to Washington, but
the war is over and, with Ood s blcsslnc.
wo, may hope for four years of peace
and happiness. Then wo wi'I ko back to
Illinois and pa-s the rest of our lives In
nulet. I will open .1 law oflii in ispriiv
lleld or Chlcaso, and at least do enough
to help give us a livelihood"
His mind reverted In a tender, remi
niscent way to his rally das as a. law
yer. He spoko of the, brown cottage that
was their home, of hii old oilice. of his
Kreen bapr. of the courtroom and of his
experienees when riding the circuit. He
seemed like a boy out of school In his
Jovous spirit he was already back amonK"
his old friends, in the courts and among
the homely scenes of his beloved Illi
nois. When the drive was over tho Presi
dent's time was taken with callers Two
friends from Illinois camo in and found
him reading from ono of his favorite hu
morous authors ("Petroleum V Xasby").
Bchuvier Colfax. Speaker of the House,
called on tho eve of departure for Cali
fornia, and to him tho Prcident in
trusted a message of cheer to the miners
of Colorado.
When dinner time came the President
was so much absorbed in lus book that
several calls wen needful to get him to
come to tho dining-room. He knew that
a theater pirty had been arranged for
that evening, but he hid no dfire to go
He was too happy to wish then the di
version afforded by a play, though he
was fond of the theater
Inrty Planned for r.rniit.
Tho theater pirty that was to bring
Lincoln within the assassin's reach had
been planm d as an honor to flen. Orant.
who. his work in tho war done, had ar
rived in Washington the day before
from City Point. Va,, with his wife, who
had been with him in the closing weeks
at Petersburg.
But the C!en. and Mrs. flrant were
anxious to keep on and see their daugh
ter, who was in school at Hurlington.
K. J., and on Oen. Grant explaining tills
to the President, Lincoln bad indulgent
ly excused them from the engagement
that had been made for them At : that
afternoon Grant hud j-aid farewell fot
ever to his great chief, and before night
fall lie boarded a train for Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, the managers of Ford's
Theater had advertised that the resi
dent would witness that evening's per
formance at their house of "Our Ameri
can Cousin" to be given for tho benelit
of Laura Koene.
Rattier than disappoint the theater peo
ple and public, -Lincoln had decided to
attend the theater without Gen. Grant.
To makeup a party, Mrs. Lincolij then
Invited a young couple of the official
circle. Miss Clara It. Harrl, daughter
of Senator Ira Harris, ot New York,
and her fiance, JI.iJ. Henry It. Rath
bone. Tho theater management on receiving
an order for the President's box (No. 7,
on the balcony level, on the right of the
house), had prepared It for the evening.
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horizon.
Majority Leader Brown, of tho New York as.
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too long for a woman or a minor to work In u
tannm-i but Jmt think what a howl would up
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portrait of Washington in its front, and
draping the box witli flaps.
Thcte preparations were In progress
wlun John Wilkes South called at the
theater, ns he had done on many dai
in the preceding month", to get his mail.
He received a long letter, and fit on
the theater Fteps to read it. smiling as
bo read Then lie sauntered away to
ward Pennsylvania avenue, apparently
as cure-free, and certainly as Jaunty as
usual.
In that visit to the theater Booth
learned that tho victim for whom lie had
waited long was that night to be given
into his hand-j. and he lo-st no time in
putting into train Ills matured plans for I
Ids foul deed. I
Preparation for Crime.
Booth's pieparation for his crime fitted .
so well Into his dally habits and ahunts,
and were carried out with such cunning
dissembling, that his familiars at the
theati r saw no reason to suspect him.
It had been his cuitom to ride to the
theater on horse-bick. and keep his horse
In an alley behind the building. Here,
when forming his eRrller plan of kid
napping Lincoln, which he. discarded In
March, he kept a horse, in "a little stable
hired for the purpose. That horse had
been sold, but on April II Booth hired
another, a little bay mare, at a livery
stable. In the afternoon he showed the
paces of this, animal to a saloonkcepins
friend.
Tho work in the theater of preparins
the Presiili nt'b box was not watched by
Booth. Ho knew tho house ?o well that,
he need not study it now. When the!
workmen had gone, at supper time, it'
seems, most probable, the assassin!
slipped through the darkened theater!
to tho President's box. No one saw him
there, but a hole was bored in the panil'
eif the box door, and a bar was fitted
behind the door opening from the bal- '
cony on the little corridor at the back'
ot the box. With one end of the bar
in a hole dug in the plaster of the wall,
and the other pressed against the side
of a panel, the door could not be opened
from without
These tilings done, and the bar taken
down and stood in a dark iccess behind
tho door. Booth left tho theater
That evening at S o'clock. In a loom
In a second-rate hotel. Booth met three
men. They were membeis of the band
he had trained In his kidnaping plan.
Ono was Lewis Powell, alias Pavne. Him
Booth assigned to assassinate Secretary
of State William if. Seward at his home
Another. Georgo A. Atzeroldt. was told
off to kill Vice President Andrew John
son at his hotel. The third was David
L. llerold. who may have been ordered
to attack Secretary of War Stanton, but
whose chief duty was to meet Booth
after the assassination of Lincoln and
guido him through Kasttrn Maryland to
the lower Potomac.
The night's work thus laid out. Booth
rode to I'ord's Theater to wait the
coming of the President.
The Minotliii; of Lincoln.
The President was late in reaching the
theater. As he entered tho box. the
action of tho play ceased, the audience
rose and cheered and tho orchestra
plaed "Hall to the Chief."
Lincoln took his seat In a rocking chair
at the left of the box, from the door,
Mrs. Lincoln sat i next to him. and the
joung couple on a sofa at her right.
All were soon absorbed in tho play.
The President's larty was accompanied
by one guard from the White House, for
whom a chair had been placed In the
little corridor at the back of the box.
but the man wished to see the plav. and
leaving his post took a seat among the
audience, at some distance from flic
outer door of the box.
Booth, who was not at the theater
when Lincoln arrived, left his hers- at
the stage door lietneen 9 and 90. and
passed through the house. Several limes
letween D Sii and 10 he passed In and
out of the front entrance. Jesting once
witli tho doorkeeper, and nxaln cnnent
Inn to an Introduction to some of the
man's country friends.
At 10 19 the assassin posset! In for thill
last time. Ills keen eye notice,! an
hl earlier visits tho abnencn of the
President ituard from hla pout ll
rath to hi victim was not obstructed,
and tint tlm lm tint! set tn strike, when
Hie tne would ba dear of all but one
Person was near
Pasalnc tlonn Hi side Main Inward I ho
box, Booth leaned eaall) asalml the.
Hull, hi fare directed In I lie Male, but
Ilia alert ) rovatfly studying I lie an.
dnrt.
Hevernl nie w hint there, bill none
ftw him anflli np'it the doer tit I he III
le nistl'lnr Miliul Hi I'rraldviil a Ui,
ami i Into It Milledlf behind Mm,
Tit Ur was ea.lly H h t ,
slm Ihnnur) lh hole In n Dinar
iliwr shaited ll' aatasalii thai all four ur
th NfH III the sS 1t pieeei.d,
MeifthVs ail ltlfrti In Ihe ll.
morn laatt lh nWhe.M IMll niM
Ut M "K4.M MM tit
A gala event or last evening was the
dance given by the members of Wash
ington Camp, No. Ki"., Sons of Confeder
ate Veterans. In the ballroom of the
Cairo. The guests, who included many
representatives of the Southern con
tingent In the Capital, were received by
-Mrs. Maudo Howell Smith. Mrs. a. i.
Howard. Mrs. W. T. BaKgett. Mrs.
Jerry C. South. Mrs. George S. Coving
ton. Miss Nellie Howard. Miss Margaret
Trimble, Miss Nell Rose Daggett. Mr.
Charles II Keel and Mr. Roy I Price.
Miss Nellie Claire Howard acted as
sponsor for tho evening und Miss Mar
garet Trimble was maid of honor. Misa
Nell Rose Raggett was chairman of the
youpg ladles' committee, which included
Miss Clara La Toilette, Miss Mclcena
La Toilette. Miss Hazel Cox, Miss Slvla
Metealf. Miss Sarah Hickliug. Miss
Carol n Houston, Miss Gladn Pugh.
MI'S Mary Pugh, Miss Elizabeth Cren
shaw, Mis Anno Crenshaw, Misses
Graff. Miss Krancls Saunders, Miss Net
tle Norwood, Mis Dorothy Dennett,
Miss Alice Theobold, Miss Grace Roper.
Miss Muy Roper. Miss Julia Carter, Miss
Elizabeth Ratliff. Miss Ruth Simpson.
Miss Virginia Richardson. Miss Kathe
rlne 1-issltcr. Miss Amy Winston, of
Raleigh. N. C : Miss Susie Keel, Mls
Pansie Wilson, Miss Carlotta Qulrollo.
Miss Grace Reed. Mrs. K. L. Strawn.
Miss Pearl Garrison. Miss Catherine
Grover. Miss Elizabeth Tavlor. Mis JlHe
Timber! iko Hoge, Miss Edna II. Robin
son. Miss Margurette Terrett. Miss
Josephine Tomlin. Miss Mae Chew, Miss
Harriet Fltts. Miss Holland Kitts. Miss
Isabel Murphy. Miss Dorothy Denham.
Mlfs Mary Boone. Miss Isabel Lucy and
Miss Jean Campbell.
A bufTct supper was served at mid
night. Mrs. E. T. Brown, of Atlanta. Is the
guest of Miss Margaret Wilson at the
White House for u few das.
Mrs. J O. Richardson, wife of Com-
mandei Richardson, I". S. N.. was host
ess at bridge eslerday In honor of her
sister, Miss Ixiulso Flnet, of Paris. Tex.,
who i.s her house guest. Mrs. Adelbcrt
Althouse and Mrs. Edward Campbell
were at the tea table.
Mrs. Norman t'nderwood entertained
at brldgo esterday afternoon. Mrs
James A. liavard. mother of Mrs. Un
derwood, and Mrs Richard Heath pre
sided at the tea tabic.
Mrs. Edward J. Dorn. wife of Capt.
Dorn, U. S. N.. was hostess at tea yes
terday afternoon in honor of her sister.
Mrs. John T. Faure, of New vork, and
Miss Eleanor Halpln, of New York, who
are her house guests. Assisting Mrs.
Dorn were Mrs. Ecrward W. Eberle. Mrs.
John Van Rensselaer Hon. Mrs. Chester
Wells, Mrs. George I. Colv ocoresses,
Mrs Percv, Miss Ruth Wilson, Miss
Helen Kimmell, Miss Emma Washington,
and Mis Ellen rillebrown
Mrs J. Himllton Iewls has returned
to tho hhoreham after a visit to Chi
cago Miss Dorothy Wetli. daughter of Col.
and Mrs. Wcth. who went to Phila
delphia to attend the marriage of Miss
Phoebe Adams and Air. George J. Hard
ing, and has since been the guest of
Mrs. Maxwell Wctlt, returned to Wash
ington estc-rda.
Mrs. W. Thompson Bureh will entertain
at bridge in honor of the Congressional
l nlon for Woman Suffrage on the after
noon of April T at the Raleigh Hotel.
Mrs. Lindley M. Garrison, who has
been In New York for the last few das,
will return to Washington this morning.
Among the prominent people who en
tertained guests at the Monday evening
supper-dance at the New Willard wen
Mrs. Samuel Graham, who chaperoned a
party of young people, guests of her
daughter. Miss Mary Graham, and Miss
Elizabeth HHrdlng. among whom were
W. P. G. Harding. Miss Calllo Hoke
Smith, Miss Maxwell Church, Miss Has
brouck. Miss Murphy Mrs. J. Willard
Ragsdale. William Flather. William Cor
coran. Robert Stead. Andrew Wile.
Franklin Ellis, Robert Patterson. Doug
las Hlllycr and Lnian Pratt.
Mrs. Archibald Grace and Miss Edith
Gracie had several guests with them,
and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wlllett. Miss
Christine Waggaman and Mr. Benjamin
Crampton and Mr. Edward Davis were
in another party. Others entertaining
guests were Ml. F. L. Ford. Mr. and
Mrs E. C. Tower. Mr. Bach. Mr. W. r.
Austin. Mr and Mrs-. Ashton G. Clapham,
Mrs William irt Dixon. Mr. C. A.
Divis. Mr Claude Bennett. Mr. and Mrs
Horace Wcstcott and Mr. and Mrs. Bo
Sweeney.
Mr. Huntington Wilson, former Assist
ant Secretary of State, is spending sev
eral ilava in Washington and Is stopplnR
at tho Shorermm.
Mr Clement A. 1" Flagler, wife of
Col riaglei. entertained at a luncheon
of twelve covers, followed by bridge,
cstcrdav. In honor of Mrs. Hunsaker,
wife of Lieut. Irvin I. Hunsaker. of Fort
Oglethoriic, w!io is her house guest.
Roses of different colors formed the
table decorations.
The marriage of Miss Esther Slater,
of Boston, and Mr. H Sumner Welles,
of New- York, will take place at 10
o'clock this mornlntr in the Episcopal
Chur-h of the Reconciliation at Web
ster. Mass.. where so many genera
tions of Slater have been married and
given in marriane. The cereraon will
be performed by the Rev Endieott
Peabody. of Groton. and will h. -nn-
! nessed by a small number of relatives
anu inenas wno will make the trip
from Boston In a special train A
large reception, at which many mem
bers of the fashionable world "of Bos
ton will be present, will follow at the
I home of Mrs Horatio Slater, mother
i of the bridcv In Beacon street.
I The marriage of Miss Almcda Barr.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester A
Barr. and Mr. Frank Atherton Howard,
of Chicago, will take place this after
noon nt 4.30 o'clock In the apartment
ot me bride's parents in the Wom- ,
lng. and will be followed by a large
reception.
Miss L.vdia Clark will be maid of
honor and the bride's two little nieies.
Miss May Leo Alexander and Miss
Virginia Star Myers, v-ill be the
flower girls.
.Mr. and Mrs. William Star Mers. of
Princeton, and Mr. and .Mrs. Herbert
Lee Alexander, of Martlnsburg. are .
among the guests of Mr and Mrs Barr
until after the wedding.
I -Mr and Mrs Paul Fuller, of New
iork Clt. are making a return visit
and arc Maing at the New Willard.
Mr and Mrs Charles R. Crane, of
Woods Hole, have arrived at the Shore
ham, where th.y have been Joined by '
Mr. and .Mrs. n. T. Crane, third, of Chi
cago, and .Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Will
lams, ,,f Chicago.
Lieut Herbert A. Dargue, Coast Artll
liry Corps. l S A.. Is in the city on '
business He arrived at the Ebbitt cs- "
terday evening.
Among those lunching at the Shore
ham eslerday wcro the Secretary
of Commerce. Mr. Redrield. Mr.
John Barrett. Mr. Justice McReynoIds.
Mr. de Beaufort, of the Netherlands Le
gation; .Mr. Vouros. charge d'affaires of
Gieece; Mr. Henry Corbin. Miss Helen
Seiulre. Mrs. Brltton Browne, Mrs. Evans
Browne, Miss Mary Browne. Miss Marlon
Trumbull. Mrs. S. C. Neale. Mrs. Charles t
Fairfax. Mrs. Kearney Kerr. Mrs. J. S.
Blair, and Prince Hohcnlohc. of tho Aug-
Irian Embassy.
Mrs. Charles C. Ie and licr son.
Charles Lee. jr.. have arrived in Wash
ington and are spending some time at the
Shoreham.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Whitticr. of Bos
ton, have arrived at the shoreham for
a short stay.
MaJ. J. P. Allen. U. S. A., retired, and
Mrs. Allen, of Hartford. Conn, arrived
in Washington yesterday morning for
a brief stay. They arc at the Kbbitt
Miss Barbara Dixon. Master Palmer '
Dixon, and Miss K. E. Pierce, of New
York, arrived in Washington to spend
a few days and arc guests at the
Hotel Powhatan. Mrs. Dixon Is a guest '
of Mrs. George P. Eustes at 1T1T I
street during their sta).
Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Hde. of
Simeon. Va.. have arrived in Washing
ton and arc at the Shoreham for some'
time.
Mrs Ethel Quinton Mason and Miss
Cornelia Sage, well-known members o
Buffalo society, arrived nt the Willard
eslerday to pass some time.
Hon. John Lind. special envoy of
President Wilson to Mexico, has ar
rived at the New- Willard for a Slav
of an indefinite length.
Mr R M Winthrop. of Boston, has ar
rived in Washington and is at the Shore
ham. "Agnetiltuie Economics" was the sub
ject eliscussed esterda at the get-together
luncheon of the Mtimni Associa
tion of Cornell 1 niversitv, held in the
Ebbitt. William M. Chandler. '73. U G.
Lodge, Vj. and J S Cates. 'iG. sHke on
the subJecL George Hurnap. '10. acted
as toastmaster Among other3 present
were William E. Humphrev. jr. '10. II
It. Co. V.. W C. Ballantvnc. 'l: W.
Wallace. ', Ernest Kill. '. Theodore
I Kelly, '17. who was a guest. IF W
Ctaslee. '10. C E. Mitchell. 'Ii. S. M.
Thomson. 'It. and II. It Cates. 1J.
Mr. and Mrs. K E. Ilurlei. of Chicago,
.ire at the Shoreham
The class of VJK of the I'liuersity of
America will hold a banMUct this evening
In the Ebbitt Mr James G Kelly, presi
dent of te class, will act as toastmas
ter. Mr George P. Blewett. Mr. Thomas
E. Stone, Mr Don John-on and Mr.
Eugene A. Lv ni h are scheduled to de
liver speei hes. Other oWcers of tht
class are Mr. William J. t'ouehlin, vn-
president. Mr Geoige A. Kchoe. sei re.
tnr : Mr. Joseph J O'Learv. treasurr.
Mr. Paul Fltzpatriek. historian, and Mi
Thonns E. Stone, student council repre
sentative. The committee in harce of
arrangements Includes Mr. Edward I
Malion, chairman. Mr. mrhiril J Iaa
naugh. and Mr J Robert Lie
Washingtonians at the Wolrott Hotel
Now ork Cit. include Mr II L Pi r-
covnvi r.T pv.k hvk.
ing to a close. Vvaves of laughter passed
over tho house as Booth stood thero for
an Instant and drew- from his pocket a
revolver.
Then softly opening the box door he
knew its lock was out of order and
that the door would open to his tourh
the assassin stepped nolsely upon the
carpet behind the President's chair The
actor on the stage finished a funnv line
a line ending with the word iirvn
trap "
It was tho last word Lincoln ever
heard spoken.
In another Instant Booth aimed at his
victim's head and fired. The sound of
his loud, cliar voice, uttering the words
"Sic Semper Tyrannla." mingled with
and outlasted the brief, sharp report of
the pistol
The Saaaaaln'a tUeape.
At the shot Lincoln's head drooped
forward and to one aide. Tim aasaaaln
dropped Ida smoking weapon and. draw
ing from Ita sheath a long knife, ad
vanced tn the front of the Ixix
MuJ llitthbone attempted to strike htm
down, but Booth thruM at hint savagely
Willi the knife naidiliic the arm he
railed n Ruard
Then aellltur Die front of Ilia hi Hi
aaaaialn vnultetl oVrr the edue. Ihoiuli
relalnliur hla hold In break Ida tail Tin
lielshl Has mImhiI blue frrl ,s Ida
feat cleMtml the tail "He nt Ills aiilts
irtialt Hi" flame uf Sldllall'ir l-Ht
Hall, fsiialil In !! ilrapril Mas and
rausail III III In I'lUh fpioaid and slllaa
Ilia sta hMll rVtl (Ml III I'll fieil
ami IIism mi all fMi. As M I'll rr
An In III Mdln-e taw Ida ImmiIii(
M Iih knife In lil (IsM hM
Hool ll'S e( l asS I'tnaMI Mil lit
an liistanl h up M a Ml. rlslh
htm. l M Meedlnf, SI'PSei at
lha MMil et l I ami , lf
lisl aaaaVP --- aU kaaatt taMai tMa
pas a-a-si aajfsRfsj aaas sBBa sspmwsi
him the ,is.im stroili- aeioss the stige
as lie had oMen lifoie trod the boirds
in mimic traced ikiss. d into the wing-,
struck aside a must-Ian who aecideni-il-ly
barred his way. and gained the back
door of tho theater
His liors" was theie. held In a balf
wlttnl lad and with a curs,- and a kok
to him. Booth swung himself nuickl
Into the saddle and r.n ra idl )
from the scene of hi rime
Lincoln's Wound lleelareil 1'nlnl.
In the theater excitement now followed
the stupefaction Into wlmh the wl"
aitlon of the . rlnie bid thrown at tors
und audience alike Men ruahed .pnn
the slah'e. and into the alle to "nd tie
asaaseln Bone others iMiiitnlisi n the
l.arrnl door to toe I'renidi nt'a I A
turn, on i limbed up Ihe faie of Ihe box.
and Into it
The slil k.n I'realdeni n U.I "'!
II,.. floor and u Ida ! il""
In the lap l l.llira Kertie III !' Wood
ataliilinc Iur dies, anmeofia nwi.l liU
rlntliliiK ami wiila-ht i ""1 '' '
found at la. I In Ihe bed. an t" "l
aide, and was i,drkly ! I" U1 ''i
M fl'l llHHIlll If "''" '
tallied lo lb ll !. " the
aursrotia fwliade H fl !
muted to the lieareal ! T"
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